385C L Powerstripe On Bench - Outside View

A couple people wanted a video from outside the machine so here you are! This is the very last of the bench, I'm cutting my way backwards off the slope which is why I'm on a bit of an angle.

[@TudaTenTv]

I never knew excavators could be so entertaining until I stumbled upon your channel, thank you!

[@vantagetes]

Glad you enjoy the videos

[@ecroplans]

very sharp footage, excellent angle, nice to look at. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheHairybaz]

hey advantage i just love watchin yr vids spiriited comments on them all make laugh so much and you writing half a page to defend yersel just brightens up my day so much, keep it up planty

[@glens1690]

Remember to keep your unit clean! Another brilliant vid.

[@airberlin333]

man i admire you soo much i am trucker in germany and in a few month i apply for an job in an big demolition company that i can work together with excavators. Enjoy this great job...

[@videos995]

The quality of picture and sound on this video is one of the highest I have seen on youtube, Content is also interesting

[@Heavytruckphotos]

Amazing video!! Great operating skills at the end...!

[@CATMUSCLE]

All that bench work and no counter weight scratches...NICE!! You run a clean machine mate, credit to ya....=D

[@heinousoperator]

man, just reading all of your posts and replies, you sound just like me, spotless cab, experienced, videos and whatnot, you obviously have a passion for this stuff as I do Great work man.

[@PriestmanCub]

Nice veiw of the CAT machine at work and a good veiw of the rest of the site.

[@drumbasher]

Great job man, I love all your videos so far. I've always wondered what kind of weird or odd things do you guys find in all that dirt. What's the strangest thing you've ever dug up?

[@Constructionqueen41]

Great angle!

[@vantagetes]

C is the model generation (A, B, C, D etc) and the L stands for the Long carriage option (there is a long and short set of tracks available). Powerstripe is just a paint and decal scheme they changed to in the later build years. Black cylinders and hand rails and the orange stripe by the model number.

[@ThePilbaraPrince]

Awesome video Love it!

[@vantagetes]

Yes, a very nice automatic grease setup with a manual lube button in the cab. Works great!

[@kolesar32187]

ur a smooth opperator, nice vid dudebro

[@lue1975lue]

great vid, great view

[@sebofo]

Really good videos - Thanks. Impressive.

[@vantagetes]

You should have seen our WAM job last year. We had over 100 pieces on one site. 2x 385s, 850, 375 and a 345 plus trucks, 657s, a fleet of 651s, a fleet of 631s, plus D10s all over the place, 3x 16H graders, a couple water buffs and packers etc.

[@CATMUSCLE]

Ouch!! Look forward to the next edition...=D

[@vantagetes]

@harryps3 Just you, they lined up with the bucket first then turned under bucket to get square with slope and get as close as possible without lifting one side of the truck up.

[@JanneHultgren]

Awesome vid:)

[@Gasteraner]

Indeed- nice maschines and super operators- professionals of course! Your cat is looking very new, nice, wide tracks and no scratches. Automatic greasing , i guess- right ? Take care

[@vantagetes]

@541olsoj1 It's a GP setup I forget exactly which stick it is but 4.4m (14'5") sounds right

[@vantagetes]

It's around somewhere, I agree those MEs look like tanks.

[@vantagetes]

@TheHairybaz Why thank you, we are here to entertain.

[@vantagetes]

Pulling the last piece of bench and loading trucks, what does it look like?

[@magnoferreira407]

kra seus videos são muito bons!!!!! 385 é nota dez....

[@hitachizaxis200]

GREAT VIDEO ! ! you should do more veiws like this.

[@vantagetes]

@arielleneful Why yes, I am a real operator. Part of that is knowing where the machines center of gravity is. With the travel motors up hill, the boom and stick, plus weight of full bucket the only direction that machine could tip is up the slope. That is unless I went to full boom up and stopped rapidly. You can roll a machine on flat ground if you don't understand it's limits. No danger here!

[@vantagetes]

@anewbeggining21 Well since you ideally want to 3 or 4 pass a truck a larger class excavator would be better, but we mix trucks a lot (769s ant 740s) so the 385 works great for us.

[@Connykol]

The first truck seems to be struggling a bit in the mud. Rely like to Se the work you are doing in your vids because some are a lot different from the methods used here. And the comments lol we Work in allot steeper angels some times. Keep them coming ;)

[@vantagetes]

We have a street/cub/sidewalk crew that has a couple 613 paddleboat scrapers if that counts =p Or our 320CR with a wrist for cutting the liner key in the ponds. Other than that we have one 330 and one 350 JD, everything else is big.

[@kurlis]

that's a cool view

[@MichaelBouzakine]

Awesome!

[@vantagetes]

@MrTo44 What size and what are you doing with it?

[@wadeeb]

What do the designations of the model mean. ie C L and powerstripe ? thanks for the great video, good to know if I had to go back and operate equipment again that not everyone is a bonehead and there can be a lot of thought and technique to it

[@vantagetes]

@HomebrewCigarsmoker Well I've done 45 centimeters of cut coring streets while loading these trucks. The trucks show up on site paired with the hoe and you do whatever needs to be done with them. The trucks were driving on the bench then it was to be dozed but when it was time to do it the dozer wasn't available. I sat on angle to get my bucket on a lean so I could pull a nice slope without having to swing 180 to the trucks, does that help?

[@vantagetes]

@dozerman8114 Try reading the description mate. The only other way to reach the truck and the dirt is to make the truck fly or drive it backwards up the slope.

[@skizmog]

AWESOME. are you still on this machine? and it looks like you already got a cab light out lol why do you turn them on in the day?

[@vantagetes]

@HomebrewCigarsmoker I could show you a couple ways too, except I'm not cutting the bench, I'm cutting out the bench!

[@JimBruce42]

lol, the machine is spotless minus the windows i guess Great work man... too bad you had to give it up.

[@vantagetes]

@dozerman8114 That your an armchair operator? Congrats you know everything.

[@vantagetes]

Just don't boom up and stop quickly, (watch where you transfer your momentum) and keep your bucket low. No real issues. If you watch again I have hung my idlers over the edge so when the weight comes back I have a large surface area on the track to hold it. When I reach forward that's when the machine tips, but all the weight is forward so it's ok.

[@wadeeb]

what's the advantage to the L ? more stability ?

[@vantagetes]

@corsakias And what are we looking for?

[@thomaspolychroniou9265]

PERFECT

[@vantagetes]

Check out our video of the 755K track loader, I smoke the camera at the end.

[@vantagetes]

Well there ARE a couple little dings because when we float the machine the counterweight comes off and has to go paint down on the truck =/ You'll see in my next video.

[@NoS33dzMan]

How many hours on that bad boy?

[@vantagetes]

@julianowachs This is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

[@vantagetes]

@HomebrewCigarsmoker I don't see any tips I just see you saying you can tell me something I probably already know. Feel free to comment any way you like because I'm always down for seeing how other people do things.

[@mg1135]

Is it bad the truck at the start was firing out black smoke? from what i know it is anyways...

[@vantagetes]

@TheCory1969 25, started at 19.

[@vantagetes]

@gtprix99 Why thank you sir.

[@vantagetes]

It's round if you put it the other way and the DOT guys dont think you can chain it properly, so round end goes down and you chain over the flat.

[@JTFRACING13]

can you get a video of the 385c LME 8 yard bucket

[@fightthefarleft]

It would have taken a lot of time to level. Fixing the bench, and keeping the trucks waiting. I mean, if you can load like that then it's all fine! Don't listen to those "armchair operators". Been watching your videos, you seem to be a pretty good operator.

[@jorgefonseca9225]

nice vedeo i love escavators CAT 245L i use now you use a more new cheers mate

[@vantagetes]

No that just means that the engine got more fuel then it could burn. This happens when an engine is at low RPM and then loads up or accelerates. The fuel will increase first and then the turbo (powered by exhaust pressure) spins up forcing more air into the intake allowing the engine to burn clean again.

[@randymaylowski2485]

nice video of that :) and nice looking machine :)

[@vantagetes]

Yep...that's it buddy.

[@pauleyperrettefan117]

What are yall building?

[@vantagetes]

@TheDARJAMRAN Panasonic DMC-TS1

[@vantagetes]

Mine's always spotless, I have a bottle of armourall in the cab.

[@vantagetes]

I (Burnout) also run mainline hoe doing water/sewer. It also happens to be a 385...any questions?

[@dozerman8114]

I watched this again, And it proves my point.

[@ramegoce961]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@harryps3]

@vantagetes Wouldn't it be better if they could just turn then swing it back in one motion instead of going left then right then left. Like at 4:12 you have to move the bucket to compensate for the truck not lining up right.

[@sebofo]

You know, I think we can disregard that dude Jasons comments. I just clicked on his name, and got a list of videos where his comments are derogatory of just everyone and everything. Just one of those guys. Doesn't have any significance in this world.

[@AndrewHagler418]

where and what company is this

[@harryps3]

Is it me or do the truck drivers not line up with the bucket that well? Left then right then left.....

[@vantagetes]

Safety, you pick up lights coming at you in your mirrors faster than just a yellow machine. You'll have to wait for my latest video (it's just finishing processing) to find out =)

[@corsakias]

@vantagetes just see the fast shadow passing in the background in the 1:00-1:30

[@22tankr]

ok... maybe a 5130..lol...who needs a bench for those lil trucks anyway! I do enjoy your videos though.

[@powellvalley]

It's hard to determie scale on a video. How much bigger is that machine than a 345LME?

[@Jake25755]

bob tanner 40 more tons

[@texp87]

That Jason meida is good at running that mouth probably never has ran an excavator,he's one of those people that knows everything cause he lives in his moms basement watching KZbin all day telling everybody they suck when he most likely does not have a job.the guy in this video is a pretty darn good operator.

[@dirtking9329]

a great display of how not too load ... i prefer siitn nice n flat not on some crazy angle balancing on the edge of the seat

[@vantagetes]

@ConstructionCentral Scooping the camera would be a little too close ;) Go watch my "D10R saying hi!" video.

[@vantagetes]

Well didn't HAVE too... and that's enough out of you two about my front window. The wiper streaks it ONE day and I hear about it for a week =p Just for that I'm gonna hold on to your goodie package for a bit longer haha.

[@vantagetes]

GP boom and stick, mass bucket.

[@ROAMinstuie420]

J he runs a mini and 3 passes a wheelbarrow!

[@22tankr]

hell, ya think they would give you a 5230 for all that diggin ya gotta do!

[@vantagetes]

@xxHarveyMoonxx This is my cheap one too! I have some more coming up that are even better.

[@jozzie2000]

she's a sweetheart

[@drorange69a]

Why do you get so much hate on these videos? All you are doing is loading some dirt n that into a truck. How can someone find something to moan about on this? hahah Good videos man anyways :)

[@vantagetes]

Are you even watching the right video? Lots of dirt touching the shiny thing on the front, no dirt touching the shiny thing on the back. If you are referring to the mark that is courtesy of the mechanic and truck driver (not entirely sure which one) when they had it off the machine and on the ground ready for transportation. I usually help break down the machine and load it myself but I had to go to another job to replace someone when it happened.

[@vantagetes]

@HomebrewCigarsmoker Such as? You are making too many assumptions. I probably already debated over everything you can tell me on how I could load out this dirt in the video. You don't know why I'm digging the way I am, you don't know how much cut there is or where. You don't even know why I'm moving the dirt in the first place! I'll leave you with two things. First, if you think you have a better way to do it, leave a comment. Second if you think you can do it better..make a vid. I'll watch it!

[@vantagetes]

Well same size counterweight, just more weight in the stick and boom =p

[@howardb42006]

diggin' up the truth.,

[@Deere2154D]

Don't let Alex see this video. You're digging over the finals and that's a no no to a real operator.

[@vantagetes]

Pop quiz: which direction do the idlers face on steep slopes? (Hint: the answer is down hill)

[@Deere2154D]

vantagetes so you say never ever dig over finals unless it suits you. Unless this is klapstein

[@Deere2154D]

Besides that's flat not a hill

[@vantagetes]

Deere2154D that is defiantly not flat, might wanna watch again lol

[@Deere2154D]

vantagetes your ramp you were sitting on was 10% 15% high side. When you climb up it's 20-25% yea I would consider that flat. Those machines will handle 60-70%

[@jorgefonseca9225]

looks like around calgary zone

[@duramax78]

jorge fonseca there right behind my house in chestermere now....lol

[@vantagetes]

@JTFRACING13 I'll send you a link

[@vantagetes]

@specialks1953 If your lookin for me (Burnout) in a video... look for the orange fat guy. I wear orange safety shirts. Because I comply with ALL safety standards 110% of the time, when I feel like it.

[@00340800]

By the look of the material this job looks as though scrapers would have been the go???.

[@corsakias]

give an aattention in background and the fast moving shadow on dirt

[@terraincognitagaming]

@vantagetes Hes hallucinating.

[@345MEdigger]

word on the street is that you had to put camera outside of the cab cause your windows where dirty

[@dozerman8114]

You didn't have to dig assbackwards to impress. YOU should have stayed on top , and then set your spy cam...........

[@vantagetes]

1) subdivisions generally have residential streets 2) this is not a subdivision 3) we have done lots of water/sewer replacement as well as new installation. Big fucking deal it's still just a hole in the ground that you stick shit in.