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The BIGGEST CAT Dealer Down Under | Hastings Deering

Aaron Witt
2024 ж. 21 Мам.
154 644 Рет қаралды
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In this episode, we went into the heart of Australia's Bowen Basin, where coal is king, and the machines that extract it are nothing short of colossal.
We were at Hastings Deering, the largest Caterpillar dealer in Australia, to get a firsthand look at the behemoths that make the mining around the area possible.
From the shops that build and care for the machines to the meticulous process of assembling them, Hasting's pulled back the curtain on what it takes to keep the coal flowing down under.
Stay dirty, everybody!
#construction #mining #heavyequipment
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction and Arrival at Hastings Deering
0:53 - First Look at the Machines
1:36 - Exploring the "Smaller" Bay
2:06 - The Disassembly and Reassembly Process
2:38 - Inside the Track Shop
3:51 - Understanding the Idler Rebuild Process
4:19 - The Efficiency of Track Presses
5:00 - Observing a Rebuild in Progress
6:29 - Inside a 796 AC Electric Drive Caterpillar
7:17 - The Process of Preparing Dozers for Work
10:09 - Assembling Components of Machines
12:02 - The Importance of Rollover Protection Structure
13:35 - The Use of Scheduling Software in Rebuilds
14:32 - Bucyrus 8750 Dragline Scale Model
15:36 - The Welding Process for Truck Beds
16:54 - Day One Wrap Up

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  • 11:59 Nice shake hands with danger reference, we gotta praise the goat of safety videos

    @TheMNrailfan227@TheMNrailfan2272 күн бұрын

  • Holy shit didn’t think I’d see my hometown on this channel! Awesome love your videos 👍🏼 mining is massive for our town

    @MPed98@MPed9810 ай бұрын

    • Shits not holy

      @kenhofer8063@kenhofer806310 ай бұрын

    • Macktown cracktown

      @generalgreen77@generalgreen778 ай бұрын

  • Pretty standard here in Australia to have at least one female standing around with the gloves attached to the belt doing literally fuck all. Gotta be inclusive.

    @jamesshepherd9398@jamesshepherd93989 ай бұрын

    • Are you blind? That's SupercarBlondie

      @Ktmfan450@Ktmfan4502 ай бұрын

  • My uncle was CFO for over 30 years at Hastings Deering 70's, 80's and 90's at Lidcombe.

    @mhaskard6517@mhaskard65179 ай бұрын

  • No way that’s my workshop. So cool seeing it featured here

    @broke_boii@broke_boii6 ай бұрын

  • thanks for coming to Australia Aaron. I was wondering when you was going to get here. . wish i would have know. would have been nice a auto Graf an pic with you and your team. great bunch of people

    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus463210 ай бұрын

  • I can’t get over how small the jackstands look that support the massive haul truck framework. Like balancing a grain of rice on the tip of a pin. Cool process ! 👍🤙

    @blueman5924@blueman592410 ай бұрын

    • All of the stands, or the white ones?

      @compositestands4240@compositestands42409 ай бұрын

  • Thanks Aaron, for saying the town correct

    @Mrleppy@Mrleppy9 ай бұрын

  • Love the old safety video shake hands with danger they showed the clip of. It's a old classic that's awesome and funny.

    @oldschooldude3500@oldschooldude350010 ай бұрын

  • As usual great video Aaron.

    @dylanwren2836@dylanwren283610 ай бұрын

  • perfect weather in mackay once again....... its nice to see my town on you tube

    @sexygirlove20@sexygirlove209 ай бұрын

  • Really interesting ... I worked at 'Blackwater' back in the day, driving the 660's tractor/scrapers with huge hungry boards, before D11's and grading the hall-roads with a Cat14... how times have changed.. Love your channel and the bonus is; I can understand all you say... Onya Mate. Onya - is Oz slang = 'good on you'

    @user-tu8fw4bg6u@user-tu8fw4bg6u10 ай бұрын

  • Welcome to my back yard. I live in mackay and i grew up here and i'm the fourth generation here. While im not based here as i have a sugar cane farm further norrh, i do have rental houses in mackay and thats whybim here today, inspecting my rentals making sure they are not getting trashed. I dont use big bulldozers but i do use cat lifting cranes and smaller bob cats. Beinh in trapoical north queensland now is the best time of the year before the summer heat gets here

    @walter9724@walter972410 ай бұрын

  • Hahaha how awesome is that, I work in the rail terminal across from Hastings 🙌🏼

    @jakec2313@jakec231310 ай бұрын

  • Great video Aaron easy listening 😊😊

    @greggardiner9066@greggardiner90669 ай бұрын

  • Watching this vid before work in Peoria IL rn, if only CAT stayed here😣

    @Bobdabuulder@Bobdabuulder10 ай бұрын

    • Greed on every side ruins everything

      @kenhofer8063@kenhofer806310 ай бұрын

    • @@kenhofer8063No it’s called Logistics and Economic Feasibility, Development and assembly on multi billion dollar investments.

      @tristenklein5940@tristenklein594010 ай бұрын

    • @@kenhofer8063If the radical extreme left politicians didn’t shutdown mining, oil and gas in the US and now with their War on Fossil Fuels you would see more heavy duty mining equipment being built in the US. The greediest entities in every country is and always has been GOVERNMENT especially the US Government who build nothing design nothing engineer nothing but more GOVERNMENT for further power and control over the people! As of today the US government is the largest employer in the world, 3 million people and growing who do nothing but create a burden on those who actually Build Engineer Manufacture Distribute products and services which contribute to the economic growth of the country.

      @tristenklein5940@tristenklein594010 ай бұрын

    • @@tristenklein5940 and greed

      @Bobdabuulder@Bobdabuulder10 ай бұрын

  • Pretty sad they had to re upload this video and censor some things even tho they weren’t even at a mine site. And just in the dealer yard

    @kristopher87@kristopher8710 ай бұрын

    • Welcome to the world of mining, where they’d rather watch their industry die than educate and inform the public of what they do, maybe because they have something to hide.

      @AHomelessDorito@AHomelessDorito10 ай бұрын

    • Would’ve been some cockhead safety manager having a whinge for sure 😂

      @blakealexbale@blakealexbale10 ай бұрын

    • What did he have to remove I forgot

      @ryangroff9205@ryangroff920510 ай бұрын

    • Looks like they may have gotten in trouble with osha over the video. 15:40

      @deth3021@deth302110 ай бұрын

    • @@karen7366 you havent been at a hastings site, place is safty mental

      @superhacker101@superhacker10110 ай бұрын

  • Back in the 70's I saw a D-10 fall over aa 100ft high wall at a gold mine in northern Nevada landing on it's top and the roll over bar held it up the driver had a heart attack before driving off the wall we rolled it back on it's tracks check the fluids started it up and drove it out of the pit it was back to work two day later after the shop went over it

    @carlmarr2984@carlmarr298410 ай бұрын

  • Bro if yourr still in oz you should go do tour of caterpillar factory in airport west in Melbourne, it's massive and been there since I was a kid, would be great to see the day to day operations inside since it's mega high security you can never catch glimpse of what's going on inside , Cheers 👍👍 for the vids great work

    @WE-R-SLICK@WE-R-SLICK9 ай бұрын

  • Quality Content

    @Civilimagery@Civilimagery10 ай бұрын

  • Nice video, love it

    @user-su8rs3uv5i@user-su8rs3uv5i10 ай бұрын

  • Thats so cool they are a Cat and Deer dealer

    @murdercom998@murdercom9984 ай бұрын

  • Awesome 👍👍

    @heavymachinery2843@heavymachinery284310 ай бұрын

  • Mackay lovely place... they mostly sell parts, I think that work shop is near by..

    @lesliegrayson1722@lesliegrayson17229 ай бұрын

  • What are the build specs on the blond

    @i.u.o.e8326@i.u.o.e832610 ай бұрын

  • Gotta love big iron!!!!

    @johnynaegle6297@johnynaegle629726 күн бұрын

  • As soon as I saw the blurred logos I thought hmm? It’s blurred but still looks somewhat familiar and turns out it’s none other than company mentioned. Massive company here in Australia and runs just about most of the mines when it comes to the heavy equipment side of things including the one I work for

    @skinnyj2560@skinnyj256010 ай бұрын

    • Unfortunately I can’t post anything about the mine because it’s against my contract to do so but it’s an awesome job

      @skinnyj2560@skinnyj256010 ай бұрын

    • ​@@skinnyj2560you already did mate. im your boss

      @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus463210 ай бұрын

    • Qcoal don't run most of the Heavy equipment . Or was there another blurred logo?

      @FekDindad-xy9vz@FekDindad-xy9vz10 ай бұрын

  • Round 2 how good

    @OCPYT___@OCPYT___10 ай бұрын

  • When it comes to tracks, are they doing an entire machines worth of tracks (two sides) in 30 hours, or one side in 30 hours? And are they disassembling the track chain completely or are they rebuilding with a brand new chain and hardware? I've never worked on something as big as a D11, but I've torn apart and rebuilt two sides of a Hitachi 1200-6 (M33 bolt) in ~30 hours total which was a massive job compared to the usual tracks that come across my bench.

    @teabola@teabola9 ай бұрын

    • It would be 30 hours a chain. The chains get totally stripped, inspected, repaired and rebuilt, Old grouser cut off and new grouser welded onto each grouser plate . (if they are reusable). Probably sounds like a lot of hours but there is a fair few links in a chain and a bit of a process vacuum testing and filling each pin with oil. Boring repetitive work, but cool to do once.

      @nickhutt6264@nickhutt62647 ай бұрын

    • It depends on the customer requirements and what's being replaced or rebuilt but typically for a full rebuild I would say 30 hours per track. Obviously you can do both tracks at the same time though. If you're just replacing the track shoes and hardware it can be done in less than 6 hours.

      @an1017@an10177 ай бұрын

  • Amazing machines.😲👍😊🇮🇪

    @donstravelsandrants.@donstravelsandrants.10 ай бұрын

  • What do you think of all of the safety equipment on our machines.

    @timpratten2258@timpratten225810 ай бұрын

    • Could stand to have more

      @6Six6Six6Bruh@6Six6Six6Bruh6 ай бұрын

  • Amazing Machines Welcome To Sweden;)

    @nicholasbergvik2910@nicholasbergvik291010 ай бұрын

  • You'd love cutting edge engineering on KZhead, he's a master at rebuilding and making parts to OEM or better spec for these large machines.

    @mitchhifi9192@mitchhifi91929 ай бұрын

  • Any idea what software they're using to schedule rebuilds? or one that's similar?

    @colestevens6042@colestevens60429 ай бұрын

    • Usually an ERP system like SAP, Oracle or Pronto. These are scheduled by mining companies themselves, not CAT.

      @thomasreid8681@thomasreid86819 ай бұрын

  • Why did the Colorado demo video get deleted a while back?

    @blakejordan1855@blakejordan185510 ай бұрын

  • oh hey you're in australia finally! did you come down to NSW?

    @snaggo6666@snaggo666610 ай бұрын

    • nope

      @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus463210 ай бұрын

  • Wish you wouldve said something you could’ve stayed at my place here down under. I love your videos Aaron and team!

    @31wowow@31wowow10 ай бұрын

  • our 6 trucks were shiped in parts and assembled on sight

    @williamhoward8319@williamhoward831910 ай бұрын

  • Had a Qcoal logo on it. You can still see the qcoal logo on the one behind

    @FekDindad-xy9vz@FekDindad-xy9vz10 ай бұрын

  • wow being from mackay this is a trip lol, ya this is the main industry in mackay, you get a job in the mines as a tradie its good money

    @lukea9873@lukea98739 ай бұрын

  • I’ve been in steel fabricaton for around 27 years, I’ve worked with engineers when they would design a part, they’d ask me if it could be made, I will guarantee you I could make that box just as strong but cost less than $60,000.00

    @rogerbrandt6678@rogerbrandt667810 ай бұрын

    • It doesn't cost 60k. That's just what they charge.

      @FekDindad-xy9vz@FekDindad-xy9vz9 ай бұрын

    • and that includes the fitting of your product to new dozers to be flipped and tested? you have no idea about engineering and specification costings.

      @DeejayManii@DeejayManii9 ай бұрын

  • Hey Aaron Love your videos and Linked In account but I think you will find that Westrac is the biggest dealer Down under mate I have been to both HDAL and Westrac many times and Westrac is a shed load bigger dealer

    @paulsapper@paulsapper7 ай бұрын

  • Hi, Aaron Witt. You might like to check the financial reviews for Hastings Deering and for Westrac to see if your claim of visiting the 'biggest' Cat dealer DowNunda is 'ackshully 'kee-wrecked' - or you might not, depending on your point of view. Last 'figgers' I saw had Westrac a 'mere' $300 million ahead of Hastings Deering. Other than that, a good video. Thank you. Just my 0.02. You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

    @dplant8961@dplant896110 ай бұрын

    • Grow up, people have different accents when they are from another part of the world. Or have you never been anywhere

      @td42williams77@td42williams7710 ай бұрын

    • Hello, @@td42williams77. Am I allowed to ask just what accents have to do with anything, either in the video or in my comment? All I did was point out that Westrac's figures were $300 million HIGHER than Hastings Deering's figures and you suddenly want to start ranting about 'accents'. I have done TWELVE trips to the U.S., including working over there for four years and one to 'Seff Efrica'. Happy now? I doubt it. Just my 0.02. You have a wonderful DELUSION. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

      @dplant8961@dplant896110 ай бұрын

    • Westrac might be ahead of HDAL, but Hastings also own and operate in PNG, NZ and New Cal…

      @joshiepoo4@joshiepoo49 ай бұрын

    • Hi, @joshiepoo4. Yep, true and Westrac operate in Western Australia and New South Wales but the figures that I saw were for gross revenue for each company, not just within either Qld or W. A.. Just my 0.02. You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

      @dplant8961@dplant89619 ай бұрын

    • onya planty

      @thomasreid8681@thomasreid86819 ай бұрын

  • Mackay!

    @conradward2945@conradward294510 ай бұрын

  • I work here!

    @lachlanmcintyre5748@lachlanmcintyre574810 ай бұрын

  • This is lots planning just orders and set-up.i work fort-McMurray on tar sand built road 797 and lots cat machine built road.this dealer must off wall set up all this machine send machine for mines.thanks video.calgary alberta canada

    @lucmarchand617@lucmarchand61710 ай бұрын

  • What about the CAT AT-AT in the shelving at 14:16!!

    @dpelchen75@dpelchen759 ай бұрын

  • Haha those new dozers come to the site I work at

    @aptiq6578@aptiq65789 ай бұрын

  • Aweosome CAT. Why build Cat not a bigger Dozer? Mines dont need bigger Machines?

    @martinriggs2957@martinriggs295710 ай бұрын

  • This is where I’m from

    @lukashartley2756@lukashartley275610 ай бұрын

  • come check out JR Vinagro again, big land clearing project on the highway going on!!

    @urcousinfromboston9052@urcousinfromboston905210 ай бұрын

  • didnt you post this video last week?

    @MarkLynskey@MarkLynskey10 ай бұрын

    • He did, I wonder what it was that had to be removed and reposted

      @Driveover23@Driveover2310 ай бұрын

  • LOL, my aunt would have been in the same place as you.

    @chilledburrito@chilledburrito10 ай бұрын

    • When

      @kizzjd9578@kizzjd957810 ай бұрын

  • U.S.A. That’s right!

    @HILLBILLY.556@HILLBILLY.5564 ай бұрын

  • Just wondering who Blondie is and whats her job walking around with you?

    @AU_4591@AU_45919 ай бұрын

  • Fkn FSI shit, love removing those and fitting a decent fire suppression 😂

    @MynameisGeoff82@MynameisGeoff8210 ай бұрын

  • couid be me but looks like he already used these excact shots in a other video ....

    @MrDutchboy14@MrDutchboy1410 ай бұрын

  • I’m pretty WesTrac is the biggest dealer in Australia.

    @sebmorrell@sebmorrell9 ай бұрын

  • Feel like I've seen this before 🤷🏼‍♂️ worth watching again anyways

    @jascollinscork@jascollinscork10 ай бұрын

  • Would’ve thought westrac was bigger

    @cristianesteban5551@cristianesteban555110 ай бұрын

  • I can't tell if half of what he is saying is censored or it's bad audio quality

    @dancaulfield1008@dancaulfield100810 ай бұрын

  • i would have thought westrac is bigger

    @tunerfun1990@tunerfun199010 ай бұрын

    • Bigger in what regard. I note he didn't specify in what way this one was bigger

      @benmac940@benmac9409 ай бұрын

    • @@benmac940 westrac sell more machines, employe more people so not sure how Hastings could be bigger in any other way….

      @tunerfun1990@tunerfun19909 ай бұрын

    • ​@@tunerfun1990bigger shed?

      @FekDindad-xy9vz@FekDindad-xy9vz9 ай бұрын

    • hasings is way bigger here in the qld mining sector then westrac (Mackay local and coal miner)

      @mrdiealot1@mrdiealot19 ай бұрын

  • DEJA vu?

    @OhioPalmTrees@OhioPalmTrees10 ай бұрын

  • 793 wasn't the biggest dump truck in that yard😮

    @thekrizzo93@thekrizzo939 ай бұрын

  • we talk tonage not pounds buddy were not flipping pommy

    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus463210 ай бұрын

  • Brother, drop a few hundred didgeridoos on a gimble. It will improve the quality of your production dramatically!

    @BigJaseNZ@BigJaseNZ9 ай бұрын

  • Reposted and removed content?

    @JMSFilm@JMSFilm10 ай бұрын

  • Sudtitulos en spanish 🤔

    @rubengalindez7448@rubengalindez744810 ай бұрын

  • I drive those d11s off and unload all the cat parts in brisbane.

    @jzz20highwaydancer@jzz20highwaydancer10 ай бұрын

    • That's not driving it, youre only moving it. Pushing loads of dirt is.

      @torquesnhorses4986@torquesnhorses498610 ай бұрын

    • @torquesnhorses4986 pretty hard to do that on the wharf. Do push around Steel when we load scrap into ships.

      @jzz20highwaydancer@jzz20highwaydancer10 ай бұрын

  • Fuck us Aussies sound weird on video 😅

    @the-marker-nate-ah@the-marker-nate-ah10 ай бұрын

  • It would be nice to figure out not only why the edited repost, but also why Ashley has no dialog on camera

    @carl_h@carl_h10 ай бұрын

    • Relax simp

      @lukeparsons583@lukeparsons58310 ай бұрын

  • It's funny how things work smoothly in mining almost (everwhere) but governments can't get anything right.

    @navaho5430@navaho543010 ай бұрын

    • private companies have to be efficient otherwise they will go bankrupt. governments just tax people more or government just print more money

      @pyromaniac354@pyromaniac35410 ай бұрын

    • You ever been in a mine? Nothing runs smoothly

      @oskardax4241@oskardax424110 ай бұрын

    • I can't tell with 1000% certainty you never even been near a mine.

      @FekDindad-xy9vz@FekDindad-xy9vz10 ай бұрын

    • @@pyromaniac354Nah private companies just know how to bullshit enough to make fools out of the proletariat

      @6Six6Six6Bruh@6Six6Six6Bruh6 ай бұрын

  • Your camera guy screwed up at 3:52 hes's obiviously focusing on the wrong person. We are getting a tour of the dealership, and they keep putting the camera on the wierd guy instead of the hottie.

    @davidanalyst671@davidanalyst67110 ай бұрын

  • Aron. if you dont know what ur talking about either get someone that does. or dont explain it at all lol

    @lemoneleven2179@lemoneleven217910 ай бұрын

  • It’s so weird how people are so into work tools .. it’s like a office person being into paper / paper products as a hobbie - very strange

    @bored2323@bored23239 ай бұрын

    • It’s bigger then a monster truck and an impressive feat of engineering not really

      @wolftone4818@wolftone48188 ай бұрын

  • Filming the Equipment, Just show More Detal of the Equipment and Around it, move around, no just showing you talking and talking to much Instead of doing more Details and Images of the Equipment Hopefully you can Address this Situation and !!! Thanks

    @AxMar09@AxMar097 ай бұрын

  • Why are so many videos mostly cat? Do you have a special deal or don't the others want to work with you?

    @_Juke_@_Juke_10 ай бұрын

  • Whos the chick?

    @murdomcdonald9670@murdomcdonald967010 ай бұрын

  • Hi early 🎉

    @sergioorozco9524@sergioorozco952410 ай бұрын

  • My company makes the tracks for cat in Illinois

    @collingalbraith4343@collingalbraith434310 ай бұрын

  • And they provide the absolute worst after sales service of all brands

    @td42williams77@td42williams7710 ай бұрын

    • LMAO..This is a joke right?

      @w_stanky@w_stanky9 ай бұрын

    • @w_stanky nope. We just sold our 4 Cat excavators so we don't have to deal with them. Out of a fleet of 24 machines they by far had the most down time. All Next Gen under 4500hrs

      @td42williams77@td42williams779 ай бұрын

  • Hastings is a facade , got some backward ways of doing things

    @MrMarkguth@MrMarkguth9 ай бұрын

  • Aaron, you should do a video about why all of these mining companies, who destroy our natural landscapes, keep so many secrets.

    @dancaulfield1008@dancaulfield100810 ай бұрын

    • dont think you like to go missing either hey . that's how bad it is

      @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus463210 ай бұрын

    • @@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632 Comment makes no sense

      @dancaulfield1008@dancaulfield100810 ай бұрын

  • Now your in Australia you need to see our road trains

    @The_Aussie_Truckie@The_Aussie_Truckie10 ай бұрын

  • Who is the lady

    @lobobumstead@lobobumstead4 ай бұрын

  • What’s Ashley’s @??👀😂

    @AHomelessDorito@AHomelessDorito10 ай бұрын
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