Building the WEALTHIEST Town in America

Welcome to day 6 of the BuildWitt Roadshow, where we joined Shay Stutsman of Stutsman-Gerbaz, Inc. to see what projects they've got going on around Aspen, CO.
Stutsman-Gerbaz won Contractor of the Year for good reason-everything they do is spectacular.
After sleeping in their parking lot, we checked out their electric conduit replacement project in downtown Aspen, their newest track loader, and finally, their road reconstruction project in Basalt.
All the fancy people couldn't get anywhere without the hard-working crews of Stutsman-Gerbaz!
For more info on Stutsman-Gerbaz: www.sgearthmoving.com/

[@rockkitty100]

I've never understood why bucket loaders are not more popular with smaller companies as they are so versatile for a single piece of equipment. Great video once again!! Thank you Aaron!!!

[@ProudPapaw88]

I think Aaron does a great job for the moving dirt industry. I really enjoy his videos. He can get shots and information that not everyone can get. Keep up the great work, Aaron. Thanks for sharing! Edit: plus he keeps us up on what’s new in machinery and the industry.

[@AaronWitt]

thank you!!

[@redmesa2975]

Stutsman Gerbaz ! They’ve been around for decades & have a great reputation. I deliver fuel to the gas station just past their yard. 2:55 the quick attack. By brother has an excavating company & bought one. The sales rep said Gerbaz had the first one on the Western Slope.

[@UncleManuel]

"I've never seen a pizza cutter in action." Poor Aaron, that is really unfortunate that he never has tasted pizza at home... 😁😜

[@landmarkcreations1183]

The pizza cutter is pretty cool. Never seen that attachment before

[@blueman5924]

ok, but I’m guessing the edges have to trimmed up before repaving because they are crushed and deformed. 🤷‍♂️ Some one on that town crew doesn’t like wet saws ?

[@sentient2016]

​@blueman5924 I'm guessing the fancy stores cried and instead of saw cutting at night they used that.

[@craiguglandrealty3705]

They stated the pizza cutter was used to reduce noise & vibration with the proximity of the high-end retail.

[@fuckyakient]

“we can’t talk about this project” … “so this is going to be a horse arena” 😂

[@dphellner]

Aaron - Dont be afraid of a 30 minute video

[@ProfessorNugget]

I wish this show was around when i was a kid wow you are 10x better and more interesting than any show ive seen

[@strangefruit8776]

The triple grouser machines are genius. It would be SOOO much nicer grading sub .1’.

[@dan__________________]

Why not just back-drag once at the end. If you already have 3d, it's almost no more work.

[@AaronWitt]

simple but effective

[@samvt]

​@@AaronWittawesome for finishing but extremely niche. I'm not sure the benefit is worth limiting its sloping and harsh condition abilities. Certainly a luxury for the contractor. Usually track marks roll out, and in that small of areas, a skid steer or box blade is going to touch up all the edges corners and tight spaces.

[@strangefruit8776]

@@dan__________________ there’s way more to it than that. Less compaction spreading topsoil, won’t tear up pavement, no need to touch a pad after it’s at grade, plenty of reasons.

[@dan__________________]

@@strangefruit8776 Not always.

[@rp1645]

Great job by contactor using the small CAT dozer for fine grading, with the custom front blade, and GPS grade control 😊❤😊 it can move material in tight spots a regular Grader can not.

[@zaccheus]

I would love if CTL, track loaders and skid steers all had the same basic control pattern. Seems like just about every operator gets started on a CTL or skid steer somewhere.

[@isaacrogers9857]

I do snowcats on Aspen mountain. If you ever find yourself out here in the winter come for a ride along

[@Cool_guyIdk]

Really cool vid!

[@ProfessorNugget]

Ur the man aaron love it bro keep workin

[@austint7533]

I think track loaders are definitely slept on

[@BuddhaBai]

Oilquick is so he can swap attatchments without having to jump out the cab to hock hydralic up. it does all underside of the tiltrotator. - A Swedish invention used here 40years back now. glad to see it other side of the pond.

[@ecksdog]

One could argue that the Cat 977 built America.

[@bradniesyto93]

Come to Michigan!! So many big machines on projects here in SE MI. There’s (3) 395’s on a water main project

[@wlkcr]

👍 Would like to see pictures/details of that!

[@LostPilotage]

I labored for 5 years(2003-2008) Spring/Summer, in SW MI, doing Watermain/Sewer/Storm. Dad made a whole career of it. Paid my way through college and Flight School. It was tough work but fun. Some of those guys I worked with are probably on the project you are referring to. Many are retired these days.

[@rp1645]

Thank you for showing the world 🌎 special Jobs in very NARROW confined city streets jobs. YES the replacement of underground power. It was probably directly buried ( no conduit) so you get corrosion ( courses power outages) I love the track Loaders. The old school (955 & 977s) the new girls have better wt. Disturbed under the Loader with the engine moved to Rear. I still loved the look of the older CAT Loaders. One of my favorite machines 😊❤😊. I was always interested in why CAT had dump of front bucket with Lever you pull to the rear instead of pushing forward for dump. The wheel loader CAT made you pushed the lever forward to dump, if it was TWO lever control. An interesting design feature for CAT equipment. My friend operated a bigger CAT track loader on the Alaska Pipeline Job in the 70's. He said wild animals would walk right up to his machine the wild Animal had never seen these strange big metal objects in the wild. Some of the Elk would RUB on his loader. The only big track loader I ever ran was an International Dresser (175) man the dirt just filled the bucket to the top. 😊 I did do a little work on a big sewer mainline job with the smaller brother to the (175) it was a (125) I helped with backfill on sewer. The machine running pea gravel to are big Bucyrus Erie (350) Was a CASE (850-B) it was a faster machine because of the transmission CASE built for their Track loader line. My main job on that mainline sewer was Hoe packing. The company had two hoe packs a old (680) CASE and a (190) Dynahoe. I loved the Dynahoe it was built bear stout. They switched me to digging side sewer stubs with the Dynahoe. I like the machine so much I bought a Dynahoe-190 in 2003 Have put hundreds of hours on her just around my property. It had close to 8000 hours on her when I got her. That old Detroit Diesel (353) just keeps screaming. I just keep the engine warm by plugging her in at night. And she fires right up.😊

[@ryanpeeples6998]

so cool

[@RobertLidstroem]

Im just curious as to what Aaron Witts background is? Did he like yellow machines when he was a kid? Has he held a shovel at any point? Has he actually worked in the earthmoving-business?

[@lemoneleven2179]

Lol cant you tell? Guy would get absolutely trashed if he ever actually spent a full hitch on any worksite doing real work😂

[@AaronWitt]

I started as a laborer on an Arizona pipe crew. Didn’t do it for a decade but definitely did it - if I still worked in the industry I couldn’t do what I do today

[@tjfaulkner7897]

He makes content and has a media company. He promotes trade work and puts a light on what it takes to keep the world moving. So when people in aspen or other areas see workers on the streets they might see this video and go wow they are improving our infrastructure not just getting in our way at the Gucci store. He is doing great work for our society.

[@rushhookhornadventures20]

Just watch his videos and look him and his company up and you will learn everything you need to know about his experience in the dirt construction/earth moving, piping, mining indistry

[@RamminRanch]

@@lemoneleven2179I’m detecting a massive amount of jealousy from someone who probably got his feelings hurt on a jobsite and now works at dollar general😂😂😂😂

[@tristenklein5940]

You’re witnessing the ingenuity of contractors today in order to stay competitive in not only a bad economy but also a market with very thin profit margins due to multiple factors especially with the governments War on the Energy sector and Small Businesses.

[@jimbeam2705]

Thats more like fun work with a excavator compared to loading endless trucks all day. Plus that operator is making the big money. We had track Cat loaders in the Seabees at the training school but i didn't see them used much anywhere else. We used mostly JD rubber tire loaders.

[@gregorygehrke1850]

Wish my city cared 1/2 as much about out infrastructure.

[@charlesschwab6771]

Hey Aaron, is that a Maine reed&reed company sticker on your hard hat?

[@AaronWitt]

Alabama Reed Contracting

[@muckfoot-4093]

they say their is no affordable housing for workers in Aspen. it's super rich people and super poor people. no in-between

[@BackwoodTexan]

Are there full videos?or are 8min all?

[@davegeorge7094]

I see a pyramid in CAT logo.

[@Hotrodhondaas]

How can I work with you?

[@jaycrosby84]

Aaron these need to be longer :(

[@braydengordon5001]

👍

[@HoboMRMc]

you became an advert

[@jamesbuck9284]

Aaron, these are really cool videos. But come on man, we know you have more footage than this! 8 min video is an atrocity!!! 20 min videos seem to be the sweet spot for these kind of videos. We know you have the footage! Set up some sweet time lapses, we dont even need voice over! Just show us the machines working!

[@user-pu5jg3de3o]

What does he pay for his gps dozer and track loader operators

[@mikethorntonr1]

The excavator pads on the dozer is pointless cause anytime we go to pave something graded by a dozer is not considered fine graded by any means it's rough grade no matter what and then they hire us with our grader to do fine grading or lay dense grade with a paver

[@stpOwner]

That dozer is definetly fine grading

[@sebastiaovalerojunior9540]

Trimble sucks. Expensive and not reliable

[@weirdasspunk]

Did i just see a dozer hand back drag? Hahaha oh no. Dont let the Internet operators see. 😅