How to build a $2 million tractor

Caterpillar workers hand-build the 229,000-pound D11 tractor in Peoria, Illinois.

[@zeller200]

My Dad was on the original build team and help build some of the first D11"s. He built up the engine then he and his partner installed the engine. His partner hooked the engine up to the tractor. CAT took the build team to see the engines being built, they also got to go to the proving ground and run a D11. My Dad retired from the D11Build Team and CAT with 38years, He started work at CAT at the age of 19. Being on the built team at the beginning was very special.

[@jeffreyholtz7723]

Has your dad hear any talk within the company of building a D12.

[@zeller200]

@@jeffreyholtz7723 At the time my dad worked on the D11 it was rated at 770hp there was talk of raising it to 1000hp. No talk of a D12 that I can remember.

[@antonmursid3505]

Antonmursid 🇮🇩🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@johnabuick]

I've run D11's from the seat and remotely. These are bullet proof seriously hard working machines. Fuck anybody who thinks Komatsu is better.

[@kellypenrod8863]

johnabuick No, maybe not better, BUT for damn sure BIGGER!!! 575A super dozer!!!!!👷

[@PATTONSFOLLOWER]

As a field mechanic, so true. Cat destroys komatsuck on reliability

[@genehall8895]

No, anyone who thinks Kamatsu is better, or even in the same league, has obviously never owned or operated a Caterpillar Dozer, or any piece of mining equipment. Some people get suckered into buying, what appears to be a good deal. They soon learn you get what you pay for. Check out the amount of repeat customers that Caterpillar has compared to Kamatsu.

[@interstategar]

I've picked up delivered CAT parts to many plants and warehouses for Just In Time inventory. I've also bought a sold their stock many times and always made a profit. Its a great company.

[@bill45colt]

in the machinery business, this is a tractor. Its made to pull or push things. Go to the dealer who sells these and he will call them tractors also. Its only a bulldozer when you put the blade on. I was Cat salesman, before you go to telling me what I know.

[@Parents_of_Twins]

@Dr Moriarty So very true. People would rather swallow whatever BS is told to them then spend 5 minutes verifying whether it is truth or lie.

[@desertmulehunter]

Bill, deal with your insecurity and then your anger issues. You are way to easy!

[@muralikrishnajayan7828]

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[@knight-ot3ji]

bill45colt either way they know from the start this machine is being made in to a bulldozer so who cares not like it matters even 1%

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

So are "big rigs".

[@Jackpot82073]

Toured that plant in '96. The D11 had its own assembly line. Took about 1.5 days to build one at around $1 million.

[@ColJochen]

I am simply amazed at what humans can build nowadays. If the money is there..somebody will build it. It's mind boggling at the complexity of some projects..like the F-22 Raptor for example, or the B2...massive construction machines, modern main battle tanks, space stations. If people 2000 years ago could see this stuff..they would think we were gods.

[@heavyweapons5749]

Idk why but i love the sound of the metal tracks when it is driving.

[@philipperiopel1911]

me too.Make's me think of those WWII movies of military tanks.

[@billl605]

klonk klonk klonk

[@philipperiopel1911]

@@johnnyrango6462 Exactly! like a King Tiger!!!

[@russellking9762]

@@philipperiopel1911 me too ...i wonder what they would sound like running over a line of child molesters and a good few of our self serving politicians...you would have a chart topping hit..!

[@Gavin84w]

Caterpillar don,t call them a bulldozer, they call them a track type tractor.

[@albertofurukawa617]

Carterpillar reacondicionamiento maquinas de mas de 50 años eso les salva la vida

[@RememberTheSlapFilms]

"Ohh look! - and there are the seats!" "Uh, yes, they're the modules that go in the tractors. " "You mean seats." "Uh...yeah...the seats..."

[@doublegrant6015]

That's not what she said word for word, quit sugar coating it

[@crispincurtis8585]

Seated control module 😁👍 lol

[@cbboggs6459]

For the CNN crowd, welcome to the real world. Without these machines there would be no roads, no computer building and house to live in. I could go on but I think us smart folks get it.

[@peterjackson4863]

It is not a bull dozer until it is fitted whit the blade and rippers

[@stereopolice]

0:48 caught ya.

[@stereopolice]

tom jones Checking out the goods.

[@jopete681]

He was looking😁

[@dontbeled]

He wouldn't be a guy if he didn't. Good to see a guy who isn't afraid to get "caught".

[@rolandcyr7863]

What is a D11 for? Are you kidding me? Why don't you ask what color is it painted? "Dope!

[@wailnshred]

A bulldozer is a crawler tractor!

[@miniclip83]

ive been to this plant bout an 1hr away from me its very interesting to build them

[@Mylitla]

It's the Caterpillar employees calling the unit a tractor - repeatedly. I guess since Cat makes the thing, Cat gets to decide what its called.

[@ding9633]

They go by the definition of the word tractor

[@rp1645]

Very interesting. It least see my stock at work, very nice video thank you so much.

[@dariansoennichsen5751]

This is Building SS, I worked in LL, very cool.

[@jerryjdawgsworldarnold]

they get some of their engines from south America...they have a plant down there...and we have shipped a bunch of cat stuff (including D-11s)...they ship minus the blade attached

[@martijnjonkers2179]

Good story

[@brianmclesggy]

2:05 P&H crane in caterpillar factory!

[@MrSigDan]

Holy shit with the TRACTOR comments. A dozer is the blade attached to the front not the unit pushing it. Go on Cats website and Dozers are listed under "Wait for It" Track Type Tractors OOOOOHHHHHHHH Burn. And I think they would know seeing as how they pretty much invented tracks. Remember a track loader is a tractor with a loader on it, a dozer is a tractor with a dozer blade on it.

[@999across]

+donchavross IIRC the first tracked vehicle were invented by some English guy in the early to mid 1800's. Of Course, there could have been multiple people working on similar ideas & only one person is viewed as the actual "creator." And John Froelich an American from Iowa is credited & viewed as the inventor of the first gas powered tractor.

[@MrSigDan]

Caterpillar is actually named after the drive system of their tractors (tracks), they said it looked like a caterpillar moving across the ground.

[@stuartsprigg8914]

still call it a dozer lol

[@lucienwurster7015]

220

[@turningpoint6643]

@Geo Thomas 40+ years in open pit mining and the only time or two I've ever heard that bulldozer term used was from a brand new rookie. To an operator it's either a cat or dozer no matter what brand it might be.

[@donktheclown]

0:16 what does a d-11 do? Anything it wants !!

[@fryinpang1910]

thanks great vid..now im gonna make one in my backyard this weekend..lol

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

we need several of these for our mining operations in the congo.. doc johnny sicily

[@tpbforlife3323]

U guys hiring always wanted to work over there

[@ianmoone2359]

Sheet man, only $2mil ea? I’ll take a dozen! 😂😂

[@xpertthief9]

yes it's a tractor it has tracks now can you guys let the experts call it what it is.

[@tomjones4318]

The first thing I ever saw from cnn that wasn't fake garbage.

[@Z4Zander]

If Cat wanna call it a tractor it is their choice.Lord knows they have been making them long enough.

[@ding9633]

Wikipedia has a decent definition

[@wailkhatib2135]

هذه هي الشركات العملاقة الضخمة شركات تستحق إسمها

[@Parents_of_Twins]

Could they have found someone who understood how the machine works? Seriously it picks up big big big dirt. I'm sure the guy is a good engineer but he should have practiced for the interview because statements like that make him sounds pretty um stupid.

[@maxscott3349]

They probably told him to dumb it down for people. You know, CNN viewers.

[@b2dmastersniper]

Look at who he is talking to, about the only thing she understood was engine and driver seat. He had to be basic.

[@Africanfrogs]

Always that one racist hater.

[@maxscott3349]

Yeah, you, who assumed that we're being hard on him because he's black.

[@Africanfrogs]

He did a fine job and answered the questions. Than gonna go make a dumb comment telling him he looks stupid, completely unnecessary and only makes you guys look like the stupid ones.

[@nedalhachmi297]

Tkanks guys , really it's high technology . 👍

[@shiddy.]

a very cool job to have - impressive that it's hand built

[@donvalharris9819]

I love these awesome machines

[@ghall1964]

The D 11 was not a $2,000,000 machine. My family purchased several ,of the D 11 R series for $1300,000 each , and if I'm not mistaken , this is even an older N series. I don't know where they get these prices from!!?? I'm not even sure if the new ,2019 D 11 T or T2 series is quite,$2,000 000 yet.

[@stephensalt6229]

Yes ...my family buys them by the dozen...it works out cheaper...same as our mini private jet fleet..again by the dozen..cheaper... It really pisses our laborers off when we say we can't give them a raise to feed their family because we need the money for offshore accounts and another house in the Hamptons...can you imagine the audacity to ask for a raise when we've got shit to buy and a trip to Monaco...yeah we bought a few yachts there ....millions of dollars is not enough...we want more...and the laborers complain about there wages...we tell them to stop complaining or find another job ...we want more money...screw them.

[@ghall1964]

@@stephensalt6229 The funny thing about KZbin, is you never actually know who is talking. I could give you a history on my Father and his four brothers coal corporation, but I truly don't feel the need to. I can tell you what several very expensive things cost. Making assumptions sometimes does make you look like an ass. I'll tell you something else ,as well. Concerning your smart ass remarks concerning people who worked for them . My Dad and his brothers started from NOTHING! ZILCH! They have worked their way,or labored as you say , their w way ,into everything they have.

[@Direwolf56]

That's because they originally were tractors,. Put the blade on, and wahla, you have a bulldozer. I guess its both a tractor and bulldozer, since it can serve either purpose.

[@Moo01100]

It's called a tractor because it is a 'mobile machine with high ground traction'.

[@jeffjordan9285]

You should see the one about building a place. This is a great video

[@MrGetarealgun]

CAT Power! Blanchard Machinery Your South Carolina Caterpillar Dealer.

[@Freon420]

It's a BFD...not a BFT...it is deemed a Track Type Tractor; however; it's a Dozer.

[@gangesexcavating]

probably the worlds best dozer?

[@Str8dropWZ]

I put on oil pumps on the C15-18L engines in Seguin, Tx. :D

[@swampratt36]

id like to put my crawler in her unit .

[@sawmill123456]

I wish I had one in my backyard!

One of the very few videos CNN made that wasn't FAKE NEWS.

[@dracorpgroup]

>This reporter did not prepare herself for this interview. It was shallow. "Oh what is that a seat?" For the driver? Hey, lady, these are driverless tractors. The seat is for nostalgia. HA. Another thing: we build great stuff here in North America and we are free. In China, it is a wonder the workers do not have their shoes nailed to the factory floor, >There is a great book written by Studs Terkel called, if I remember correctly, "The Line" and was about assembly line workers pre WWII. We have come a long way. We make terrific products here. Made in the USA, Made in Canada, Made in Mexico means something. China sends us junk. They stole from the West. Their jets are copies of the F-22 and F-35 technology. Their aircraft carriers? Their jet engines are copies but cannot last like the USA or Canadian jets do. They bought a piece of junk aircraft carrier from Russia and copied it. It is no match the USA fleet. >Make no mistake about this: China is doing exactly what Japan did leading up to Pearl Harbour and look how that ended up. I am Canadian but I can say this: "Never, never, never underestimate the United States and its people!" >The Chinese government is spreading its reach for resources across Asia into Africa. That is what Japan tried pre WWII. As their Japanese foreign minister said after the Pearl attack, "I am afraid we have awakened a sleeping tiger" Boy was he ever right on that call. > During the years of the WWII there were 850,000 aircraft built by all combatants before the end of the war and half of those were built in the United States. That is only part of the story. Really, living next door here in Canada and reading about the USA I saw it as a remarkable and fascinating story. As a Canadian I can that I am proud to be a neighbour and that my country is an ally of the USA. We work great together. >There is one major problem in all this: wages are not keeping up with inflation. We are all building debt to keep up. Too much money is ending up in the top 1%. It is not healthy overall. >Please, thank you for reading. I just had to write this.

Another woman not the least bit interested in heavy equipment ,she did,nt even ask how much it weighs or how much power it makes

[@ahmedal305]

Great full company

[@СумеречныйхранительНавсегда]

Awesome Cool Video

[@jeffycump523]

I thought that was a big ice cream maker

[@FrostyCranmer]

1:50 "this is the most iMprensiVe ^^&&**( of the D11" !

[@kenmtb]

Cool stuff!

[@gangesexcavating]

amazing video!

[@Mondoria]

It actually is a tractor instead of a bulldozer. It's proper name is a "track-type tractor", which is just a fancy name for a bulldozer.

[@LYEARTHMOVERS]

Hmmm really want one of these!!!

[@rosewhite---]

AOC will order this plant make electric D11Es when she becomes president

[@HDsrb]

Made in America by Americans FUCK YEAH!

[@bigmacboy876]

How much does the diesel engine cost?

[@IronKing79]

my guess, without the transmission, it should be around $200,000

[@victorcrowley8417]

the people who's manufacturing these beautiful piece of art are heros and they deserve all the attention and respect . we need more educative videos in this earth not stupid little famous parasites who absolutely gonna make us loose some important brain cells .

[@jamesbradley1695]

The best thing about the video is the hot babe reporter!

[@radarlove007]

And the people 2,000 years from the future will think, man those guys messed up the planet big time.

[@mikeday62]

Those overhead droppers look dangerous.

[@jerryjdawgsworldarnold]

Mike Day only if gravity wins

[@rustynugget2288]

they'll be on Mars looking at pictures of Earth on their iPhone 139,248s

[@susanstanionis1896]

who does final assembly?????

[@PatrickBaptist]

I was wondering how much those cost..........

[@PatrickBaptist]

LOL 5 years and 3 kids later here I am watching again LOL. Surprised I didn't mention how the lady was pretty much clueless.... Seat? Module. Seat?

[@Masseyman-f3p]

It is a fucking bulldozer. A tractor has a drawbar and\or a three point linkage. There are tracked tractors out there but this is NOT one of them ! period

[@Podus81]

Technically, this is a track type tractor. A bulldozer is an attachment

[@Masseyman-f3p]

Podus81 yeah but you can't plough a field or cut grass with it.

[@Z4Zander]

classicmasseyman No,just move the whole damn field over there.

[@Masseyman-f3p]

Z4Zander what do you mean ?

[@Z4Zander]

classicmasseyman It is what a D11R does.Moves a sh1t load of the planet from one place to another.

[@mojodixie2596]

Yep that’s not a tractor , that’s a BullDozer

[@samanli-tw3id]

A bulldozer is a tractor.

[@turtlemann14]

same difference until you add the blade

[@Meerkat218]

I believe you have that backwards, sir.

[@jayay35]

I challenge the man to say a sentence without using "A...A....A"

[@stephenking9789]

Wheres the passenger seat?

[@cvillefarmer]

the trainer or buddy seat?

[@bigredbosshog]

Wow! That reporter is fine as frog hair!

[@kikepalma2008]

Lo mismo quisiera saber!!!! Lo tuve que mirar dos veces para convercerme

[@ijustinw]

It makes me feel shit that I can't afford a tractor now :(

[@makkingchannel]

Bulldozer heavy equipment suitable for mining👍

[@brssgirl]

reporter is not the brightest spark?

[@russellking9762]

if this dropped onto your big toe...it would be fair to say your toe would be fossilsed into that floor...forget the egg slice or high pressure water cleaners to get it off..would i be right?

[@ColJochen]

Haha, the irony... Your probably right my friend!

[@ThePilotPenguin1]

its not a fucking tractor its a bulldozer a tractor is a peace of farm equipment and a bulldozer is what you just saw it really angers me to get these names wrong cause my dad works with tractors (the right one not a bulldozer)

[@rat4spd]

So you would say that all of the tracked "tractors" are not "tractors" then? I live 5 miles from where JD builds the 7,8, and 9 series.

[@ThePilotPenguin1]

rat4spd well if thats a "tractor" then whats a bulldozer hu a tractor is farm machine and thats a dozer

[@rat4spd]

A tractor-trailer, i.e. semi is not pulled then by a tractor? Call it what you will. I have no vested interest in your idiosyncrasies, but the definition is broad. Bulldozer is specific. Tractor is general. Bourbon is whiskey, Scotch is whisk(no e)y, Jack Daniels is (Tennessee)whiskey. But Scotch is not Boubon, and Bourbon is not Tennessee whiskey.

[@ThePilotPenguin1]

rat4spd what do you me with our first point and i respect your opinion cause i also hate it when people don't respect my opinion so i will always respect other peoples opinion if they respect mine

[@rat4spd]

Sounds good. I've never called a sizer a tractor, but if Cat wants to call it one I can look past that. Hell, they can call it a spatula and I wouldn't care. Sent from my iPhone

[@lovetogokiev]

damn, working there would be a dream job

[@redrhino1911]

It is man it is

[@Direwolf56]

I figured out my mistake a long time ago. You're a bit late on the insult. And yes I have been in one, I've been around construction equipment since I was born.

[@tvdigi]

MADE IN U.S.A!!!!!!

[@jerryjdawgsworldarnold]

tvdigi assembled actually...

[@testy462]

jerry arnold almost all parts are USA made.

[@Fred-nz9dp]

Almost all small parts is from Modern Material Inc

[@valleyboy2099]

Stays in the usa lol

[@karljohnson7316]

Fred 707 actually all the castings for the really fussy parts are made in Germany just the shit work is done in Merica

[@markrigsby2425]

2 million, wow.

[@Teddy_Bass]

My ideal job

[@SD-yb5fx]

Where is her pocketbook at?

[@noahshideman2253]

Caterpillar Building SS assembly building East Peoria IL

[@94Gidge]

1:04 I have always said when canoeing a hose in the guts of one of these that they build the machine around them. Aparently I was right

[@johnabuick]

Oh yeah, I've also run a bunch of different Komatsu dozers too. All crap.

[@klinclan]

i have a D575A, 2 of them

[@makingithappen9722]

Why not let machines build Caterpillars? It would make them even better.

[@redrhino1911]

Because the reality of production environment of this magnitude is brutal on machinery and there will always have to be humans to fix the machines until AI gets so smart we will have bigger issues on our hands other than them takin our jobs- sincerely an ex-cat fabricator and repairman.

[@michaelovitch]

crappy title....for cnn

[@Flightstar]

2 million seems kinda steep for a machine that size

[@vevohoeyo]

videoclipits but you'd pay more than that for a bugatti car that earns you fukn not a dollar?? and this thing earns you serious money and it's almost 100tons of machinery. Get a life fast please

[@turningpoint6643]

@@vevohoeyo Try about 130 ton with rippers.

[@chuanist]

Hey 'bonehead': the Caterpillar employee in the video calls it a tractor.

[@nasirhackasim4759]

السلام علكوم كم سعرو مديل كم

[@killersammy1]

I'll take two

[@xvp40virus]

Only worth 10k and remove affirmative action and drop it to 5k, all it's worth.

[@Sojourning_]

I used maintain a Cat first run 10 in southern CA., later I had a first D-11, massive hand full of equipment both were massive compared to these current Cats. the 10 was scarped some years later. the D-11 I'm retired, one morning during start up, idling fine, after a half hour, the operator gives it more fuel, blows a engine oil filter seal out, I replace both filters, what we didn't know, couldn't hear it, feel it, nothing, it had thrown a rod, totally messed up my morning, the owner is there, the super asked me what was going on, I don't know as yet, we look it over, give the operator the OK, brings the engine up to speed rumbles way, maybe 50 feet there about, blows both engine oil filers out, a cloud of oil fills the air around the D-11. I dropped the OIL pan, 2 rods wrapped around the crank, that engine didn't miss a lick, acted ran like all holes firing, so said strip mining company said the engine was fresh, no idea what it cost, my boom truck had all it could do to to inch that engine out,, a few weeks later I'm putting the over haul engine back in, and of course, I'm thinking this better be good, or I'll get hell if it doesn't. It ran great. those were the days.

[@martinmracek6885]

What kind of job it has to do to pay its 2 mil price? jesus

[@nathanschmick9681]

It picks up big big dirt

[@edwardshepherd1276]

euclid t c12 of the 50 s would push more dirt

[@robertmccabe2993]

Thats unreal come on 2 mil for a tractor

[@randomguy3281]

A d11 bulldozer has 850 Horse power and weighs over 100 tones, it weighs more than 3 fully loaded 18 wheelers. They don't show it finished in this video with the blade on and all... it's gigantic, like not much smaller than an average house big. It's the largest bulldozer in current production the world. 2 Million is a drop in the bucket compared to the operational costs of running it for the next 40 years, and how much expensive the massive mountain moving operations that use these machines are.