600-Ton Liebherr Excavator in Australian Mine

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10 ай бұрын

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My first time seeing a large Liebherr excavator at work!
Last spring, we toured the Liebherr mining excavator factory in Colmar, France. It was a treat, but we didn’t see any production digging. I had to wait for that…
Fast-forward to this year, when we toured mines in Australia’s Bowen Basin. Known for its high-quality steel-making coal, the Bowen Basin is home to some of the biggest mining operations in the world.
Started by Mark Ackroyd in 1997 with a D8 dozer, National Group has one of Australia’s largest mining equipment fleets for hire.
National specializes in renting and maintaining machines for mining operations. On this site specifically, they maintain a large fleet of Komatsu trucks, Cat dozers and graders, and this Liebherr 996B excavator.
To learn more about National Group, check out their website here:
www.nationalgroup.co/

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@daveinOZ 10 ай бұрын

How big is Australia you ask? A road trip from Sydney to Perth is about the same distance as a road trip from New York to Los Angeles. OZ is a big place with small population and great people..

@stefenosthepom2649 10 ай бұрын

Thanks mate Oz is a great place...

@jetpackadventures1202 10 ай бұрын

you got it big bold and frieidly

@nils1953 10 ай бұрын

But only road trip distance, air travel distance is almost 25% shorter for Sydney to Perth.

@daneenmurf1043 10 ай бұрын

Did you hear the one about the Australian satnav instruction " keep straight ahead for three days "

@jetpackadventures1202 10 ай бұрын

@@daneenmurf1043 thats actually pretty funny haaa

@vincentgrinn2665 10 ай бұрын

the snorkel seems far less silly when you realise most snorkels are made for dust, not water whole lotta dust in a mine too

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

yeah I didn't know that until the end of the trip haha

@tristenklein225 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for giving us a video of their typical service trucks. They are very simplistic compared to what’s used here in states, but then again they are not moving from job site to job site. 👍👍

@benfairhall5331 10 ай бұрын

Look it all depends what your role is those National blokes would most likely be embedded in a crew in the mine hence not having crazy service vehicles utes that go from site to site are more well equipped but not too crazy most of the big gear required to do your job will be supplied by the mine your offering your services too.

@cristofleonhardt 10 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable to watch! Great aerial shots!

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

thanks for watching!

@grahamvukman9756 10 ай бұрын

Love the vintage era editing killer stuff keep it up.

@AndyFromBeaverton 10 ай бұрын

1:25 Down South even the motor graders are freaking huge!

@carlhenderson4332 10 ай бұрын

The leiberr 9800 is a much bigger digger.

@UncleManuel 10 ай бұрын

Aaron was like "I really dig this!" 😁😁😁

@robertheuston6351 10 ай бұрын

Never got to move any of the big diggers when I worked for National heavy haulage. But did a number of 830’s.

@J_DeLeon69 10 ай бұрын

Anyone else notice how much higher quality the videos have been getting recently?

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

we've got a lot of improvements on the way

@brendanwilson8977 10 ай бұрын

@Aaron Witt If your still in Australia, come on down to Hunter Valley operations. You will love it 😀

@prairieskywoodworks7 10 ай бұрын

Love it Arron

@darylmeikle4019 10 ай бұрын

I believe the mine in the video is Lake Lindsay Capcol which is near Middlemount in Central Queensland and owned by Anglo American. And the digger in the video normally come as a shovel and not a digger. As the digger has the cab on the other side. The Leiberr 9800 is the next size digger up from the model shown in the video and it’s a beast . They also run Cat 793 D Cats at this mine and have two draglines as well.

@gwmcnichol 10 ай бұрын

All 996s have the cab on that side regardless if it’s a shovel or excavator and the majority of the 996s, 9600s, and 9800s are sold as excavators.

@benfairhall5331 10 ай бұрын

If people want shovels in Australia your more likely to find a electric to be honest last pit I was at had one hyd shovel out of a fleet of about 20 996s and it ended up being converted to a digger anyway

@gwmcnichol 10 ай бұрын

@@benfairhall5331 what mine was that? 20 996s there?

@benfairhall5331 10 ай бұрын

@@gwmcnichol mt Arthur coal nsw they have moved to hitachis now and Liebherr but it would easy have 20 dig units

@craigalchin272 2 ай бұрын

Haha tell us you don’t know what your taking about 😂😂😂🤡

@lance4394 10 ай бұрын

Hey Aaron, pls try and tell us the size of digger buckets and how many yards the haul trucks hold. These are huge but we relate to say this bucket is 105 yds or 5 semi trucks in the USA

@speedmachine69 10 ай бұрын

Point of fact, Aussie only slightly smaller than USA, 7,682,300million square KM with America at 9,833,517... Oz is fegging big.... mostly uninhabitable, covered in snakes, spiders and with sharks or crocodiles in the wet bits but it's on the large side....

@emomitev2 10 ай бұрын

Nice!

@muhammadarslan7197 10 ай бұрын

Arron good work love it

@williamjones6053 10 ай бұрын

Modern engineering is amazing

@timpratten2258 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos. I just wish they were a bit longer.

@sharkylal 10 ай бұрын

No under 10 mins is preferred for normal KZfaq videos

@TheTruckMachinery 5 ай бұрын

hallo Australia , i like this video ❤

@SergioClaudio 10 ай бұрын

That Land Cruiser ❤

@ecksdog 10 ай бұрын

I’d love a Land Cruiser truck or troop carrier in USA

@robertheuston6351 10 ай бұрын

Soooooo overrated as a vehicle, and wayyyyyy overpriced.

@robertheuston6351 10 ай бұрын

@@anthonyj7989 I live here in Aus. Land cruisers are gutless buckets of sh*t like the Hilux. FYI at a previous job I transported them to and from mine sites for servicing, so I got a fair idea of what I’m talking about.

@Hotmix25-wo8dy 10 ай бұрын

Wow amazing

@muhammadarslan7197 10 ай бұрын

Arron good job

@castrain1419 10 ай бұрын

Please dont do maps like that, some will actually believe that crap.

@Buzylivin 10 ай бұрын

How did you like Capcoal?

@jimbeam2705 10 ай бұрын

Nice video.

@sinfulhappiness 10 ай бұрын

I drive a JCB 77-52D Teletruk around daily. A JCB 520-50 for 10 years before that. These scales of opporations baffle my perspective so much. 🤣

@93jummy 10 ай бұрын

I used to work in this mine, would've been cool if they showed off the draglines to you

@brendanwilson8977 10 ай бұрын

Even a big shovel would have been good to showcase. If this mine has one.

@93jummy 10 ай бұрын

@@brendanwilson8977 has a P&H 4100 electric rope shovel. 120 tonne pass. And the drag lines move about 200 tonne a bucket

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

yeah unfortunately the real big gear was off limits for this one. Gotta play the game

@kalej801 10 ай бұрын

@brendanwilson8977 yeah we've got a 4100xpb shovel here along with a handful of other diggers

@GroundsMunkey 10 ай бұрын

Went back to pause the map..... WOW! 'Merica really is BIG!

@mrtjbiga1784 10 ай бұрын

It's takes two and a half days just to drive across Texas. East to west

@peternewman958 10 ай бұрын

That map is not correct we have cattle stations here in Australia as big as some USA States

@benhart16 10 ай бұрын

It’s so big, North America fits inside the USA 😅🤣

@robertheuston6351 10 ай бұрын

@@mrtjbiga17844-5 days Sydney to Perth in a road train.

@brownwarrior6867 10 ай бұрын

I flew to the States in a DC 10 when serving in the Armed Forces ,it took 9 hours to reach Dulles Airport (near Washington DC) from Brize Norton ,we than flew to Fort Lewis in Washinton Tacoma on the West Coast and this took a further 7/8 Hours. Obviously there are other factors involved like Airspeed and Celing Height etc but I was shocked at the size of the Country. If that wasn’t impressive enough Fort Lewis- McChord at that time had a PX on it that dwarfed any Supermarket I’ve been in the U.K. ,had more people in or on it than our entire armed forces had in active service at the time and had an 8 lane interstate that dissected it.

@RangieNZ 10 ай бұрын

Cool machines. Not cool lying about the size of the countries tho..

@MachineryTechnologyMedia 9 ай бұрын

Are these machines safe during construction? Seeing how they work is magical but also very dangerous

@feelinghealingfrequences7179 10 ай бұрын

amazing business aaron! flying the world for free!

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

haha "free"

@markfordham2368 9 ай бұрын

Is there a reason it doesn’t sit on top of the cut?

@user-xs5jn3bl5q 10 ай бұрын

My American friend, brother, can you make more long-term videos of the Liebherr 9800 excavator in the coal mine you are in, brother, can you make more long-term videos of the 996 excavator?

@Pvosinc 10 ай бұрын

same size as usa with out alaska -

@unorec1983 6 ай бұрын

what were you blurring out on the digger

@CodeNameV13 10 ай бұрын

Come check out the super pit in Kalgoorlie.

@user-jc9wd4vr2g 10 ай бұрын

Go to Mexico next💯

@user-xs5jn3bl5q 10 ай бұрын

❤liebherr❤

@user-xs5jn3bl5q 10 ай бұрын

❤996❤

@shanedowley2397 10 ай бұрын

The breaks are called CRIB

@ytdweller23 10 ай бұрын

👍

@mariesonoma 10 ай бұрын

GI-normous, Glorious 😅

@griffoutdoortv5882 10 ай бұрын

honest question if their service trucks don't have cranes what do they do when they need a crane?

@allanharris4492 10 ай бұрын

When you have extra large toys you need big cranes and semi trucks to move the parts, Land Cruiser is just a tool box on wheels.

@xxbulletx 10 ай бұрын

I used to work on a mine site in Western Australia for Komatsu most breakdowns wouldn’t require a crane but on the occasion that you do need one most sites have franna pick and carry cranes available or for larger items they would get a crane company with slewing cranes

@griffoutdoortv5882 10 ай бұрын

@@xxbulletx makes sense thanks for the info! It is still funny to me you guys have the biggest trucks on the road with road trains but still drive what we consider tiny pickup trucks. Cultural differences I suppose if it works for you who am I to say your doing it wrong!

@93jummy 10 ай бұрын

They use the cruisers for most things, most mines will have a 4-5 tonne service truck for heavy jobs, most of the time if they can't sort out the problem from a cruiser they limp them or float to the workshop and fix there. Welding ect is usually a 3.5 tonne trailer behind a cruiser.

@richardx4456 8 ай бұрын

What was the dozer doing there near the digger?

@Billybob-vp7ze 7 ай бұрын

Leveling his bench and pushing ramp down for when the digger walks off for fuel

@jaswinderkaur-si9lw 10 ай бұрын

600 hundreds tons

@MrManuel1329 10 ай бұрын

Please keep this more rich and natrual looking color pallet for your videos. Wasnt a fan of the washed out pre production look of the other videos. When it looks natural like this its more engaging.

@cameron8678 10 ай бұрын

More dozer content!!!

@tonyburkhart888 10 ай бұрын

Why are most heavy equipment and mining videos seemingly from outside the U.S.? Are there just not that many large mining operations in-country anymore? Is there even an operational Liebherr 9800 in the U.S.?

@xInterval 10 ай бұрын

theres roughly 50 9800s in operation in the world and australia alone has 40 of them, theres a few in asia but im unsure if they make up the other 10 that exist. I know that in the US they seem to favor running big electric rope shovels so in turn they get hydraulic shovels to keep it consistent among their fleets along with they favor other brands like Cat, Hitachi and Komatsu over liebherr but they dont know what they are missing out on, having worked around 3 different brand 800 ton diggers on dozers now in australia. In Australia we have nicknamed 9800s the "Dump dozers worst nightmare", the liebherr will out perform both komatsu and hitachi 800 ton diggers by miles.

@tristenklein225 10 ай бұрын

The Dems War on Energy using the green energy scam CC has shut down millions of acres on land including Mineral Resources. Their end goal is to force the people into public transportation and big cities where they can control the population and civil society.

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

we have some videos on mining in the US. America has a lot of copper, gold, iron, and some coal. But the go-to loading method in the states is by far rope shovel. There are very few Liebherr mining excavators in the US, and I don't believe any of them are bigger than 300-400 tons.

@Excavator_bulldozer_TV 10 ай бұрын

Cool

@UnknowableAbsolute 9 ай бұрын

Really ? 9800 is more reliable and productive than ex8000? @@xInterval

@user-xs5jn3bl5q 10 ай бұрын

❤9800❤

@matthewgeddings6835 10 ай бұрын

Dang them trucks have alot of power to be able to be fully loaded and still pick the front end of the truck up when he takes off

@ianbecket3202 10 ай бұрын

And I used to think a Cat 385 was a big hoe.. that sucker makes all the construction equipment I work with look puny

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

it's all relative!

@Excavator_bulldozer_TV 10 ай бұрын

Wow heavy equipment

@navaho5430 10 ай бұрын

I think your maps a little exaggerated cheers.

@turquoisecat761 10 ай бұрын

Yep it's supposed to be cheers.

@technux5382 3 ай бұрын

At least there is no insects there

@iskandardinata3363 Ай бұрын

How to apply work I am a welder

@hellofanvd2019 10 ай бұрын

Hello

@flynnanderson3736 10 ай бұрын

how manny hours on that bad boy

@kalej801 10 ай бұрын

It's getting up there with the hours lol

@DeanZimmerman-rt6gh 3 ай бұрын

❤🙏🏻🚜

@skperviz8197 10 ай бұрын

i live in bangladesh i am an excavator operator what do you need to do to get job here❤❤❤

@OneStepHomestead 10 ай бұрын

not all Americans use large service trucks...... my wife's grandfather ran a D11 for quite a few years with nothing more than a Lincoln Continental lol

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

hahaha

@hypercomms2001 10 ай бұрын

in 50 years... Mining on the Moon... will they have dump trucks as big as these??!!

@joevella644 10 ай бұрын

Small trucks for small economies 😂

@kellyblacklock7167 10 ай бұрын

Could you please lose the background music?😊

@kyleconger6544 9 ай бұрын

@dj_laundry_list 10 ай бұрын

This is great! Now if Australia would only stop using coal

@jimbeam2705 10 ай бұрын

You're on the wrong channel, democrat cheerleader.

@lindsaybrown7357 10 ай бұрын

Australia doesn't use that much coal. Most of what's dug up goes to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India and even Europe.

@93jummy 10 ай бұрын

What an idiot

@stefenosthepom2649 10 ай бұрын

Imbecile..

@damolux3388 10 ай бұрын

Yeah cool idea........now go and throw out anything you own or use that is made from steel! No coal = no steel.

@stephonbridgewater9290 10 ай бұрын

Toyota beats everything in mining . Period

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

yeah it's a shame we can't have them in the states

@alishahid1 4 ай бұрын

That video was all over the place. Just show the excavator. Everything else was not needed

@ypebanbung-michael8865 9 ай бұрын

why this annoying music has to be included, I don't get it

@MichaelHeinrich1 8 ай бұрын

Music? No. 👎🏻

@ARPost-kn2jl 10 ай бұрын

Stop fossil fuels

@stefenosthepom2649 10 ай бұрын

Ok let's live in a cave and be happy!

@ARPost-kn2jl 10 ай бұрын

@@stefenosthepom2649 people with that mindset should indeed

@AaronWitt 10 ай бұрын

this is all for steel... what's the structure of an EV made from? How about power lines? What about buildings? Waterlines?

@ARPost-kn2jl 10 ай бұрын

@@AaronWitt try thinking ahead. You managed it from horse to car. Be a big boy or step asside and be quit.

@kenhofer8063 10 ай бұрын

@@ARPost-kn2jl no such a thing as fossil fuel get your pea brain educationd