CAT 336E RIPPING OUT APPROACHES // Road Construction Job - CAT Excavator and CAT Bulldozer

In today's video we're seeing a Cat 336E ripping out approaches for a road reconstruction job. Shortly after this excavator pulls the approaches, the mill comes through and takes out the main roadway. You'll be seeing a cat excavator and cat bulldozer running.
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[@littlefinkle7757]

Pretty smooth operating! Does a good job keeping bucket flat. Haven't been on anything bigger than a 320 but ran one long enough to know that some things are actually easier on a larger machine. Thanks for the video vacation! 🇺🇸💪

[@DieselandIron]

Thanks for watching man!

[@ConstructionMachineryChannel]

Road construction is one of my favorites to watch, can't wait for the season to start up again.

[@DieselandIron]

I'm itching to get back into a seat. Hopefully we'll have something here in the next 3-4 weeks.

[@ConstructionMachineryChannel]

@@DieselandIron Your channel is growing fast, that's awesome! Well deserved.

[@DieselandIron]

@@ConstructionMachineryChannel thanks Allen! I really appreciate that. I was finally able to put together your video on base materials. It is posting Monday and I made sure to give you and Noah a shout out

[@akolmoses7677]

I like your tips please

[@DieselandIron]

Thanks for watching!

[@dannyseropian1837]

brutal

[@gibsonlandscapeconstructio7984]

Those a some expensive toys🤙love the footage especially the dozer🤙 Awesome video Bryan🤙

[@DieselandIron]

That was one of my favorite perks of working for the big dogs....nice shiny toys. Thanks for watching James!

[@dcboy112]

The company I worked for we were a sub for toebe on one of there jobs. They are good company

[@DieselandIron]

I've heard a lot of good things about them. Most of my old crew works for them now

[@Engine201]

Great video!

[@DieselandIron]

Thank you!

[@reaver357]

Those power lines got me a little nervous. Anyone that’s ever seen that nasty situation would be concerned too 🤣

[@DieselandIron]

The distance is deceiving. He had plenty of room to work safely. I hear you though, seeing what can happen is pretty unnerving.

[@diggermitch1]

why is the operator waisting swing time he could just as well swing to the right and yes im a excavator operator unless there is some overhead obstruction in the way that pervents him from swinging to the right just my 2 cents in

[@DieselandIron]

There are power lines just outside of the frame. Thanks for watching!

[@braydentilley4036]

Awesome to see how it gets done! I was thinking wouldn’t it be a lot nicer if that bucket had a claw on it so the operator could get bigger pieces of material?

[@mikecube3542]

When you have a large machine, it's more productive with just an open bucket. Especially with thin material. A thumb would mostly crumble everything and leave a mess to clean up.

[@braydentilley4036]

@@mikecube3542 that makes sense, learn something new everyday I guess

[@DieselandIron]

In theory, yes it would be easier. There are a couple reasons you don't see thumbs on a lot of dirt/road crews. The first, like Mike pointed out, is that larger machines are much more prone to just crumble the asphalt instead of actually grabbing it. The more powerful hydraulics on these big machines make it difficult to finesse the pieces. The second reason you don't see a lot of thumbs is because of how much extra weight they add to the end of the stick. You may only spend a week or two pulling asphalt on a job but the rest of the job is spent hogging material. Over the course of the entire job it is more efficient to not have a thumb in order to have a larger bucket and therefore a larger capacity for moving material.

[@braydentilley4036]

@@DieselandIron That makes sense! This is why I love this channel... I’ve learned more on this channel then anything else I’ve done (reading things, talking to people, etc.) keep it up brother... absolutely love this stuff!

[@DieselandIron]

@@braydentilley4036 thanks Brayden. I can't tell you how much I appreciate this compliment. Thanks for the support my man!

[@PRITAMMINING]

Awesome👍👍

[@DieselandIron]

Thanks for watching!

[@dannyboggie1]

Great video man

[@DieselandIron]

Thanks Dan, I appreciate it!

[@dirtworks7511]

He has a GPS cat behind him, why not pile up the asphalt and make the load timer quicker?

[@DieselandIron]

I can't answer that. There are several things this crew could've done different to speed up the process.

[@The250wtf]

Agreed!

[@Theonetwo48]

Wonder what’s the benefit to the added pads on the tracks

[@justincase7524]

Prevents the road or pavement from getting torn up by the steel grousers/steel tracks.

[@DieselandIron]

Like Justin responded, these are bolt on rubber pads that prevent the machine from tearing up existing asphalt/concrete as it tracks over it. In most circumstances each track pad will get a rubber pad but this company opted to only do every 4th or 5th pad.

[@Theonetwo48]

@@DieselandIron I figured that’s what they were used for. I couldn’t tell if they were steel or rubber

[@robbyrigoni2940]

Lol 336 looks to big for that

[@justincase7524]

Brian is this your job and you in the excavator?

[@DieselandIron]

Hey Justin! This was not a job I was working. This was a job site I stopped by this past year to record. Thanks for watching brother.

[@chrisdubeau8828]

And wen he does that look like he wants someone to hit the cat excavator did they teach you how to do it right not go out on coming traffic from Chris

[@DieselandIron]

He's not getting close to traffic. The lane he is swinging into is blocked off.

[@nicsanta1928]

Big sratch on the CAT logo and a camera🤦‍♂️

[@DieselandIron]

The beauty of the big companies. The operator has no idea how expensive the machine he's running actually is. Therefore....beat the piss out of it!

[@nicsanta1928]

@@DieselandIron Yup we have stickers in every machine that says « this machine pays your salary take care of it »

[@littlefinkle7757]

@@nicsanta1928 good idea!

[@boomphoenixkaboom5373]

I'm not trying to be that guy but he's swing on his blind side with a a lose load of asphalt dam near over top of traffic I'm sorry there is absolutely no reason for this other than his company is going to have an insurance claim now watch the haters hate on my comment but I'm not wrong

[@DieselandIron]

Under normal circumstances I would agree with you but he's actually safely away from traffic. The camera makes it look like he's right up against them but he has a full lane of clearance

[@boomphoenixkaboom5373]

@@DieselandIron okay but in this video there is no reason for him to be swing from his blind side what so ever other then being a newbie or a trash operator and you now I'm not wrong !! if u run equipment like that you don't need to be in the seat get out and let someone else do it

[@DieselandIron]

@@boomphoenixkaboom5373 I just rewatched the video. He had power lines off to the side that were just out of frame.