Touring Australia's Biggest Caterpillar Dealer!

[@AussieBronco]

Thanks for Visiting us.. Westrac Newcastle loved having you

[@AaronWitt]

legends!!!

[@owenskelly7039]

You guys should take over Auspost

[@McGoodyTV]

@@owenskelly7039fr

[@lukeellem3064]

It was a pleasure giving you the run down of rebuilds. Thanks for visiting !

[@AaronWitt]

Thanks for having us love what you guys do!!

[@WesTracCat]

Thanks for visiting our NSW head office at Tomago. It was a pleasure having you and the BuildWitt team - apologies for the double evacuation. Safety first, right? ^CG

[@ProudPapaw88]

Great video, Aaron. Thanks for taking us along with you. You are number one with explaining the company and what they are about. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!!

[@taylorschils1694]

Not every day you see a Cat dealer normally stock mining equipment like that 24 motor grader in the yard. But I got to say, Australia has really cool ways of doing things including how they mine. Westrac is probably one of the biggest Caterpillar dealers in the world if I'm not mistaken. Thank you for showing this Aaron.

[@SmashingBricksAU]

The market here in Australia is a bit odd, customers will quite literally buy what is int he lot, you need some 150-ton trucks, no worries we got that.....🤣

[@dan_2846]

There are quite a few big mines within a few hour radius of Tomago (where this Cat dealer is) so availability is everything. As an Aussie I would love to see a U.S Cat dealer to compare, super interesting.

[@pbwmanagement]

I could be wrong but I believe Finning is the biggest Cat dealer

[@elangovanramalingam9084]

I just visited Australia to see my son.i never knew Australia has such a big customer for cat. I am a Indian government certified heavy equipment graduate Engineer and almost 40 years of experience in Mechanical of iron ore handling personally drove all the equipment from scrapper to grader and ened up managing the fleet in managerial position.nice to see videos and it brings nostalgic feeilng

[@lukereynolds9907]

Send bobs

[@spudatbattleaxe]

I work at one of the dealerships in the US. Very cool to see how another dealership does things!! Definitely have a lot of questions of some of the processes they use compared to the way we do it. Thanks for the video!

[@Machines.In.Action]

The scale of that Caterpillar dealership is mind-blowing. Thanks for giving us an inside look at how these massive machines are maintained and sold. Truly fascinating! 💪

[@gav7507]

The one in Perth is bigger as most of the mines are over this way. This companies head office is in WA too.

[@Jipper1984]

"I dont know what I'm talking about, but im here, there not" LMAO:)

[@jeffcanfixit]

AMAZING!! Great vid Aaron. I'm floored by the parts robots, great innovation by Westrac. You guys bring the best info!! THANKS 👍👍

[@AaronWitt]

thanks for giving it a watch Jeff!

[@WesTracCat]

Thanks for the kind words Jeff. We love our robots ^CG

[@flipa6184]

You would be asleep on the floor if you had to go there and get parts and wait for them to be picked. Unbelievably slow

[@flynnbojo]

Fun fact the 2 fire drills you did weren't for nothing about 1 week after this a bushfire came through the site we managed to stop it on the road across was a bit hairy tho

[@simmoshomeworkshop]

Nice! Did my apprenticeship through WesTrac, and still with them years later today, excellent opportunity for young Aussies to get a trade, experience on Cat equipment, and a good start in the industry.

[@peejay1981]

I've driven past there a few times before, great to see inside it!

[@davidanalyst671]

those robots were incredible. I have seen those little overhead crate moving robots in amazon and like food delivery services, but I never thought they would be great for gaskets, screws, and other small stuff for equipment. Thats incredible.

[@ptminiaturasportugal]

your team does a fantastic job, congratulaions on your passion best regards from PORTUGAL

[@johnnymurff4137]

Awesome video awesome, your taking every day people who will never be there and showing them. That's got to be a of oool operation. Looking at those huge machines is fun. All the way from Florida

[@ronaldpiper4812]

My smiles. From Peoria,il. Drove truck many years. Loads from morton,il the main world parts that supply world. Or tell maker what to make after selling from storages. Special COOL!

[@chedda2871]

Hope you enjoyed your visit to the Hunter Valley, you should've come up Singleton way to some of the mines to visit, and you definitely should've checked out that new CAT drill behind you on the new build pad, they're a good bit of kit.

[@ElsieAldridge]

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You do not need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

[@llaughton69]

i have transported from Kalgoorlie to Westrac Tomago. That site is pretty big and the staff have always been good to deal with.

[@peejay1981]

Geez, that must be quite an adventure!

[@KennethBulwer]

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

[@TBird89]

Aza…did I hear you say g’day… about time… you are becoming an honorary Aussie now 👌🏻👍keep up the great content mate.

[@AaronWitt]

working on it mate

[@BKetch]

They take their Fire Drills pretty serious there. Where I work unless we smell fire we just keep working. Then when the fire turcks show up we think maybe we should leave the building.

[@travis1480]

Hey Aaron! Amazing video! Can you do more on the blast hole drills? As an Australian blast hole driller I’d love to see some more cat rigs!

[@AaronWitt]

we'll see what we can do!!

[@jascollinscork]

Outstanding Video Aaron and crew 👏🏻👏🏻😍 some size of a site!! What a busy spot 🤯🤯🤯 Also I think some dozer cabs come off for transport too 🤔

[@Str8UpL4zy]

Should come to Guildford Westrac in WA, heaps of 793s being built there ;)

[@AaronWitt]

we stopped by! It was wild how many of those trucks were out there

[@EveerleyClare]

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

[@ronaldpiper4812]

In use from main parts dealer add on the truck take from truck and even oil totes. Fun part of my life.

[@jz1340]

Consider taking your channel to CAT's Decatur, IL facility where the mining trucks are built. Also consider CAT's large bulldozer (D6 D7 D9 D10 D11)assembly facility Building SS in East Peoria, IL. D8s are assembled in Brazil where Brazil kicks back $25k for each D8 built.

[@gregj7916]

that's a decent backhander...

[@rohitnarayan3966]

Great video. Next time I’m down there I want to go see WesTrac

[@richardbause2453]

Alot of Cat Equipment is shipped by rail to the port of Baltimore. It's really neat to be at Horseshoe Curve in Altoona,Pennsylvania when demention train comes through with the big dozers. John Deer also send Alot of their Equipment that way. 20/30 flatcars of JD Green&Yellow.

[@ronblack7870]

deer is moving to mexico thanks to trumps great deal with mexico.

[@richardbause2453]

@@ronblack7870 Complaining of people coming "Across" the boarder taking jobs 🙄, Then turn around and send the "Jobs" Across the boarder "too stop" ✋ people from crossing the boarder. How does this make sense 🤔 ? Then stand there and state "I did a good job 👏 👍" keeping people out by giving jobs to the other country to keep them there. You have to stand there and shake your heads.

[@Michael-Youtube98]

Great video Aaron! Love seeing this kind of content from you and the CAT team. I've always loved the color contrast of the CAT yellow paint and the high-vis reflective tape. What tape do they use in particular?

[@utetopia1620]

You have a video from a year ago called "The biggest CAT dealer down under - Hastings Deering"... so is Westrac or Hastings Deering bigger?

[@lilpezzy7119]

They are pretty similar to the one in Brooklyn Park. We went on a field trip at school to it for a Construction class.

[@butchphillips873]

A more detailed look at the tool wall would have been good. Just to see what tools I don't have. Great to see Aaron Witt taem in Australia.

[@chrisg276]

It was great to meet you and show you around our facility at Tomago. Hopefully you learn how to say Centre properly one day... 😅

[@SuperSecretSquirell]

If you'd like to see the exact opposite of this dealership, come visit the dealership I work at lol. Built in the 70's and have had next to no updates/upgrades besides updating 2 of the hoists to electric.

[@joshclark1067]

Sounds familiar

[@UncleManuel]

So basically it's like Amazon - but with fewer books. 😁🤘

[@WesTracCat]

Confirming there are absolutely no books in those buckets ;) ^CG

[@charlesmullins3238]

I been by the Peoria plant and it’s huge….i figure you’ll prob be there before long…wish couple of the surface mines I worked on were still around here in eastern Ky…starfire coal and martiki aka addington bros owned were 2 big ones…coal Mac in West Virginia is anothern could warrant a buildwit vlog….you can see starfire on Coal Mining in Appalachia vid and the dragline and shovel I was around

[@andrewrees8749]

Awesome video great stuff

[@8todd8]

Epic content!!!

[@CatMeow24-qr7uo]

Dang that is one heck of a grader 😮

[@nasosnasos8054]

Price ?

[@angeloceruttinavarro3331]

Aaron You and your team are changing the way to talk big iron stuff. We Are U&M mining contractors, Brasil . Come to visit us and Brasilian mining . Be our guest!

[@justjord]

Dig dig dig digging have you seen the old JCBs film my friend

[@CausticLemons7]

Cool tool wall, bro.

[@jacktimms4730]

That was the best....I'm here their not...haha love it

[@SmashingBricksAU]

Mate when are you heading to a Komatsu dealer/OEM facility?

[@gregorymiller5774]

Trusts what I’m waiting for

[@Trueview_Media]

Ahh my hometown !!!

[@steveanderson4768]

You gotta admit either go big or stay home and these people know how to go big

[@blakeylake11]

What a place 👀

[@ml9867]

5:43 That's what she said!!!

[@user-jg6bf8bj2n]

Great video again! And good to see how different in scale our friends from westfälischen are….but guys..please help my. The sound when showing the tool wall….i know it but i don’t the f… get it right now. What is it?

[@rmartin2763]

Did you check the tool wall to see if they have the same problem as us in the United States with the 10mm always missing?

[@denistierney4642]

10mm and 9/16 spanners live In belly plates don't you know that??.

[@ChainsawFPV]

There was no "card" on the screen to click for that remote operators station.

[@chrishall8142]

Couldn’t imagine the fire drills at the Tesla factory .. how would they get anything done

[@Athenstrainman]

After 2 fire drills 😂. Sounds like Caterpillar

[@WesTracCat]

We're just too safe ^CG

[@Athenstrainman]

@WesTracCat I work at Caterpillar in Athens GA USA for 3 years. We've had 4 fire drills in a 6 hour span on one shift. 😆 🤣

[@SiboBushings]

Impressive 😮

[@Bassman420dB]

You should visit our main Liebherr factory :)

[@garethgrundy8087]

So pretty sure you said it takes 35 days to strip, refurbish and rebuild a used one and 6 weeks to build a brand new one from parts. You sure you got that right mate?

[@lukeellem3064]

Can confirm this is correct mate

[@Leslie-e5j]

What the HE double L is a smoother?

[@jonathanray83]

Heck Yeah PieRio Illinois

[@RivaAnna]

Lucifer was surprised at the amount of life at Death Valley.

[@Jackbakes98]

epic video brother 🔥what’s in canberra 👀 (other than myself)

[@jnic2003]

When is the fabick video coming?

[@TruckMechaAddicted]

Awesome

[@dan__________________]

One would think the parts would be getting cheaper with all of the automation.

[@jdfrth4119]

If they ever did mining in space. you could call them "space cats"

[@Diga784]

Huge Hoses and Shafts, AARON????

[@jacobbuckley8232]

I was born in Peoria. The home of Caterpillar

[@oinquizidordelatoscana4338]

Shoooow 👏👏👏

[@jimbeam2705]

Would have loved to know the cost off a rebuild on that engine in the dyno.

[@joshclark1067]

Depending on the size it’s around 125k with parts and labor

[@zig-y1v]

With all the AFA’s they have, there is little need for fire drills 😂

[@kyawwinhlaing9827]

Is enormous

[@Ford_Falcon]

Im aussie ordered cat boots direct buyfrom cat size 29cm says on box but really like 36cm when measured internally since near 10cm bigger vs what i needed my 1st and last order from cat well made boots though just seems factory stitched wrong size tag in them

[@ozlakota1]

Kerry stokes @7 west trac

[@outlawdingo3020]

So it's basically Amazon but in yellow 😂

[@mrlithium69]

This was so cool but the fire drills are lol

[@otmgi3865]

Big dozers go brrrr

[@michaelrojas5024]

What if the little bots put parts aside to make a bigger bot? I mean they have access to the parts 😅

[@JenniferAled]

He dreamed of leaving his law firm to open a portable dog wash.

[@erikslagter3231]

this is why CAT parts cost a gazillion dollars

[@jamesshepherd9398]

Do you guys call Graders “smoothers”?

[@Bigsoot7393]

Australia doesn't no haha

[@ShaneSteel-om2cr]

I was fabricating dump truck bodies in Melbourne

[@peternewman958]

AARON WITT your so funny mate, but a history lesson ENGLAND was around before the USA, we speak and write ENGLISH . the USA bastardised the English language. Its COLOUR, CENTRE, etc I wont go on. We love you visiting AUSTRALIA just so you can improve your English language and pronunciation skills and impress your friends back in the USA with how well you now speak. From my experience Americans love Australians with our accent apparently we have an accent , I was told many times in the USA how ell I spoke. 😵‍💫😵‍💫🤪🤪🤪 Enjoy your visits and come often your videos are very interesting mate.

[@AaronWitt]

hahahaha

[@navahrnlaucke6194]

Yeah itll be there as long as its not TOLL Transport

[@jaenalabidin5549]

Alat berat nya super besar sekali kak

[@Landcruisercountry-u8v]

When ur travelling through CAT inventory can u find me a Hydraulic pump for a 16G grader...they want $26k to find one in international stock if available...doesnt help me with a machine sitting in the middle of nowhere ŵith a $5k recovery and no guarantee of a replacement pump.....at a reasonable price....

[@Bigsoot7393]

Where are you at?

[@amunderdog]

5,000 oil samples a week?

[@thelonewolf666]

where all staff are treated like sh!t

[@felipeflorentino1339]

Wooww😮😮😮

[@MonroeClement]

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

[@Robert-cu9bm]

Well that's a bit misleading about the jobs, they may not have gotten rid of anybody. However, they haven't hired new people to l for the extra workload. The only reason for robots is to make more money on not paying people.

[@Kenneth_James]

"same amount of people" oh shutup.

[@mattiaiori4053]

top top cat 😀😀😀

[@jeffcollins1097]

Pretty cool. Trying too hard to be funny though

[@craigmandall9420]

Subtitles for Aussies! Really?

[@ElNarros]

You know they are speaking English, no need for sub titles.

[@Surfmac8]

ahhhhhhjhh

[@GCALcontent]

Amazing, Westrac engage an American videographer when there are dozens of highly competent (& dare I say much better) local videographer & photographic talent locally.

[@AuthenticHD]

I’m here because of Aarons channel, I live on the other side of the world. Seems like more effective advertising to hire the guy with 350,000 subscribers

[@AaronWitt]

a missed opportunity on their part for sure!!

[@chevyon37s]

But those locals don’t have the same type or quality of audience and reach… Also are those photo/videographers knowledgeable about CAT equipment and have experiences with other CAT dealers across the world?

[@WesTracCat]

We're just jumping in here to confirm that we spend over $100k a year on local videographers and photographers from NSW and WA. We invited Aaron to our Tomago facility as a guest because he is a legend who makes engaging videos with a huge reach and global audience. ^CG

[@GCALcontent]

@@WesTracCat Huge reach to (measurably) achieve what exactly? I personally like Aaron's work ...however, one needs to understand the impact of anyones visual work with their audience and objectively measure the impact(s) of the viewership in terms of the positive & beneficial perceptions of mining in Australia against all the (unwarranted) political pressures facing the Australian mining industry. I'd respectfully suggest to Westrac there are better (local) alternatives in this regard given the current Australian mining political landscape than Aaron. No slight on his work or what he stands for ...however, in my capacity, it should be about "bang for your buck" and using specific visuals to make a "material beneficial difference"against all mining detractors (legislators, environmentalists, activists, protagonists, MP biases, etc etc) in these very unique times we live in. As someone who lives/works in the industry, happy to take the conversation offline to expand the conversation if so desired?