What would you do in the cab while the machine was running on its own?
@tjlazer79 Жыл бұрын
Look for a new job, because that's the point of automation. Not to make an operator's job easier, but to engineer him out of the picture, so you don't have to pay for an operator for every machine. You could have one guy on site looking over a fleet of machines, and only hopping in one when there is a problem.
@jimbeam2705 Жыл бұрын
@@tjlazer79 Exactly, and people keep praising modern technology . I'm glad that I'm retired.
@blakejordan1855 Жыл бұрын
@@jimbeam2705 @tjlazer I see y’all don’t like the new tech but what makes y’all both so against it? If y’all have been following buildwitt for a while now you’d see the industry has a huge ppl problem. It seems that Cat is trying to make it easier to hire ppl by making it easier to operate. I understand it can make a operator “lazy” but would you rather no operators if these ppl have never had the chance to get into equipment? Plz share you’re opinion
@notreallyjuicyjohn3214 Жыл бұрын
Play a game
@tjlazer79 Жыл бұрын
@@blakejordan1855 I have nothing against the tech. It's just my experience that when companies go this far with automation its usually to engineer the operator out of the picture so they can increase profit. It's like what they are trying to do with trucking, with autonomous trucks.
@kristopher87 Жыл бұрын
People need to realize it still takes an operator to make the best of this technology. And the ones who say otherwise are sticks in the mud. You can’t just hit the automatics and it will magically put things to grade if you have massive fills and cuts, you still need to get things close to grade before the automatics can be utilized.
@liamo5448 Жыл бұрын
It's only a matter of years till things will be fully automatic, in alot of underground mines alot of the machines run fully auto with an operator above ground monitoring it
@AaronWitt Жыл бұрын
yep... autos and tech is nothing more than a tool. If you embrace it, you can do some neat stuff
@BC-iz8gt Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@dillonbolsinger9780Ай бұрын
Gps is just a tool to check grade the only time u need it heavy is when your finishing operators rely to heavy on it way too much
@TheBenghaziRabbit Жыл бұрын
between this and the drone stuff you showed in the shorts, massive things coming for the industry.
@jimbeam2705 Жыл бұрын
As an old time heavy equipment operator, GPS makes operators useless without it. I knew operators that could fine grade by touch ,feel and movement , they had a built in a ($$) level. That's all lost with GPS. I never had the gift but was still good running what I did run.
@MrThatARMAguy Жыл бұрын
Outdated way of thinking. Gps makes good operators great, and great operators amazing. It doesn’t make bad operators good. You still have to know what you’re doing
@adamgretzinger963 Жыл бұрын
As much as I hated where I worked I am absolutely thankful I started my dozer experience on a wore out 1960s d8 and later on my favorite dozer a wide track high sprocket d5 from the early 2000s neither of them had gps. You absolutely should start without gps you need to generate the feeling and understanding of the feel of the machine. When you're cutting to much or not enough you absolutely can feel in your seat when you begin to cut to much or little and this is a fundamental of dozer operation even with gps someone who doesn't understand this feeling will suck and have terrible efficiency generally being a waste of fuel and air.
@jimbeam2705 Жыл бұрын
@@MrThatARMAguy Hi 🤡, I've ran heavy equipment for over 45 years. How about you?
@jimbeam2705 Жыл бұрын
@@adamgretzinger963 LOL, you move the bulk and fine tune with GPS . You don't need to be great with GPS.
@adamgretzinger963 Жыл бұрын
@@jimbeam2705 no shit what I was getting at you need to understand the feeling of the machine cutting properly so you are not a waste of fuel or in this case a waste of my air.
@andrewgratton7556 Жыл бұрын
Another thing with the box blades is you need to have the machine arms bottomed out and the wheels should always be on the ground so the autos can work the blade freely. Also make sure the continuous flow is locked in.
@KevinCoop1 Жыл бұрын
Before I retired from a large electrical contractor, we used 3D CAD and incorporated it into Trimble Total station. We could pinpoint conduit stub-ups within 1/8th of an inch up to 1500’ away from the station. Thousands of them on some projects. Our projects were completely coordinated with HVAC, plumbing, sprinkler, and any other trade that was in the 3D world. Reduced re-do’s enormously.
@blueman5924 Жыл бұрын
Interesting technology. I imagine someday, on nearby planet, a fleet of these will be mining the surface autonomously. And yes, some of them could possibly have BuildWitt stickers on them.
@greymarket6834 Жыл бұрын
total stations were just starting to be a thing when i was in school. and this exact thing was still a concept on a white board
@liamo5448 Жыл бұрын
I'm a geo-spatial surveying student in ireland, the technical name for a total station is a theodolite (measures angles and distances), modern total stations have been around since the 1970s/1980s but theodolite have been around hundreds of years
@domforte2966 Жыл бұрын
6:38 this was a perfect opportunity to put a skeleton in the ghost dozer
@Dirtymacked Жыл бұрын
GPS doesn’t mean the machine operates autonomously. It means it has a built in surveyor/grade checker. The machine still needs operated, the GPS just makes it much more efficient and helps prevent unnecessary work from being done
@liamo5448 Жыл бұрын
@@Dirtymacked I know in alot of European countries, its still illegal to not have an operator in a machine with machine control, only a matter of time till they start changing legislation
@AaronWitt Жыл бұрын
hahahahaha
@TheGaggenau Жыл бұрын
Another tec thats new in America but has been a standard for at least ten years in europe.
@adambaker2876 Жыл бұрын
It’s funny to me how the construction industry has been slow, almost to the point of stubbornly refusing to accept gps and laser machine control yet those of us in the ag land levelling industry have been using automatic blade control since the 70’s. First with laserplane and now nearly all of us have switched to GPS
@averagejoe1943 Жыл бұрын
I’m dying laughing!!! You two clowns are hilarious! How do they let you run machines, and cameras? 🤣🤣🤣 lol the humor is great, and the info is good to…
@jamesburnette1850 Жыл бұрын
Ive been operating bulldozer over 20 years The whole steer assist with the bulldozer first of all seems unsafe,second whenever your grading around curb line and corners. A lot of times material will get under the front of your tracks throwing the whole gps reaction off. So I'll just continue to steer myself so I can rea act myself to recover from that. Just gonna be quicker in the course of the day
@jimbeam2705 Жыл бұрын
Please don't let the GPS SOY BOYS on here read your comment. They think that they are better than you and me because they have GPS. But just like fish out of water, they would be useless without it.
@evanstone2704 Жыл бұрын
Love that auto steer
@DanielIndomables Жыл бұрын
RockStructures 🔥🔥
@gatorwing6231 Жыл бұрын
What happens when the blade hits a giant buried boulder?🤨
@elibarker3337 Жыл бұрын
I would love to know where Eric got his jacket, that thing is pure drip.
@alexxxxx12341 Жыл бұрын
soooo short answer is its about 150k NZD worth of GPS // Machine Control on a skid steer..............
@slg7300 Жыл бұрын
Trimble test all their stuff out in a desert not on real sites. I operate all equipment but mainly in a 349f with Trimble earthworks and load rite scale. It's a ...OK... system . Sensors need some major updating to handle rock and ledge . Would also be great if sensors didnt half to he removed to hammer rock then they need to be calibrated. Updates should also be automatic
@chriskillZ321 Жыл бұрын
Are all of those big sites you visit Union Work ?
@robertandreoli9764 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video Aaron like the technology
@AaronWitt Жыл бұрын
thank you!
@notreallyjuicyjohn3214 Жыл бұрын
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@dcelectric6689 Жыл бұрын
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@raganusmc Жыл бұрын
Wow GPS has came a long way. I still operatorat the old school way with grade stakes and operatorating with my ass lmao
@boomerang379Ай бұрын
It blows my mind how long it has taken for the commercial construction industry to finally accept gps. We’ve been using gps blade control in the Ag land levelling business for about 14 years. Gps autosteer for longer than that. All I ever hear from construction guys is things like I don’t gps, grade stakes have always worked or gps makes lazy operators. Actually no gps makes good operators even better and it makes not so good operators good enough. There are still seat of the pants opportunities.
@haykellehiba1027 Жыл бұрын
Merci beaucoup 👍👍👍
@AndyFromBeaverton Жыл бұрын
2:45 That rhinoplasty looks good. About time you fixed that beak.
@ephraimteisi5582 Жыл бұрын
Where's the fun/art in those auto steers lol
@Dirtymacked Жыл бұрын
It’s called efficiency, productivity, and profitability. 3 kind of important things in construction….
@mitch1348 Жыл бұрын
4:39 😂
@LeapingBlackman Жыл бұрын
I challenge you as a certified forklift operator to run a machine better than me... I just wanna be in a video
@hishamnagi2055 Жыл бұрын
Where you working?
@notreallyjuicyjohn3214 Жыл бұрын
Los Vegas davada
@griffoutdoortv5882 Жыл бұрын
Pretty cool tech it’s just a shame we’re seeing the end of an era where you have to be an operator and spend your life honing the craft so becoming button pushers it’s probably good for the industry but it’s just a shame
@hishamnagi2055 Жыл бұрын
I need to work with you
@OfficialProcess Жыл бұрын
Hi i'm work in Komatsu Indonesia fabrication
@OfficialProcess Жыл бұрын
Mm2100 industry
@robertchapman549 Жыл бұрын
I want a sticker
@brownwarrior6867 Жыл бұрын
I Operate Machines this is simply an extended lunch break with kidney problems.
@willross4125 Жыл бұрын
Sort only
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@Nightsweeper Жыл бұрын
Takes the word Operator out of Heavy Equipment . Instead it’s replace with Run Heavy Equipment.
@Carbie975 Жыл бұрын
Wait are you just a city boy with a camera
@lowkeytalented2288 Жыл бұрын
Oh boy more things to go wrong and not work and slow you down, just get a good operator
@Dirtymacked Жыл бұрын
Does your mind still think as if we’re in the 70’s or 80’s? Ever learn how to adapt and/or learn? Or do you know it all?
@jimbeam2705 Жыл бұрын
@@Dirtymacked Hi 🤡, I bet that you don't even run heavy equipment. LOL 😂
@oomachiw111 Жыл бұрын
That isn't operating, basically a seat warmer nothing more.
@ericglasgow1616 Жыл бұрын
All this stuff dose is take job's from skilled workers
@halffast7799 Жыл бұрын
These electronics are great, until they're not.
@coreynunn4607 Жыл бұрын
Yeah sorry you just completely killed a sale with pulling your politics into it. To bad...
@Dirtymacked Жыл бұрын
Don’t be so sensitive and emotional bro. You’re likely the only person who caught feelings over that. Grow up and quit taking politics so seriously.
@AaronWitt Жыл бұрын
I don't even get what you're talking about sweetie
@jimbeam2705 Жыл бұрын
@@Dirtymacked Ah , a good democrat cheerleader you are. LOL 😂
@MPLSdunk Жыл бұрын
You politic guys are nuts. Calm down.
@coreynunn4607 Жыл бұрын
@@jimbeam2705 Actially i do not get into politics at all. So it is a long way from that. But nice try tho in gwtting a possible rise out of me. Of you want to know how I feel abou polchwck out George Carlins piece on politics.