Operating Heavy Equipment With No Hands

Operating Heavy Equipment With No Hands | Trimble Dimensions

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We met up with Trimble Dimensions to see the differing types of automated technology used on machines at their semi-annual Las Vegas trade show! #construction #heavyequipment #dozer
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Eric learning to run a full-auto excavator
4:32 - Boats
6:24 - Driving with no hands
12:29 - Skid Steer
16:14 - Rough Grading
18:58 - Paving
20:38 - Subscribe!

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@AaronWitt Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheBenghaziRabbit Жыл бұрын

between this and the drone stuff you showed in the shorts, massive things coming for the industry.

@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

@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.

@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.

@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

@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.

@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

@robertandreoli9764 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video Aaron like the technology

@AaronWitt Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@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…

@TheGaggenau Жыл бұрын

Another tec thats new in America but has been a standard for at least ten years in europe.

@haykellehiba1027 Жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup 👍👍👍

@evanstone2704 Жыл бұрын

Love that auto steer

@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

@elibarker3337 Жыл бұрын

I would love to know where Eric got his jacket, that thing is pure drip.

@chriskillZ321 Жыл бұрын

Are all of those big sites you visit Union Work ?

@DanielIndomables Жыл бұрын

RockStructures 🔥🔥

@notreallyjuicyjohn3214 Жыл бұрын

I Love d6 next gens my fav

@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

@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.

@gatorwing6231 Жыл бұрын

What happens when the blade hits a giant buried boulder?🤨

@mitch1348 Жыл бұрын

4:39 😂

@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

@alexxxxx12341 Жыл бұрын

soooo short answer is its about 150k NZD worth of GPS // Machine Control on a skid steer..............

@hishamnagi2055 Жыл бұрын

Where you working?

@notreallyjuicyjohn3214 Жыл бұрын

Los Vegas davada

@dcelectric6689 Жыл бұрын

Cap 🧢 comeback 🧢 please come back

@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….

@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

@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

@OfficialProcess Жыл бұрын

Hi i'm work in Komatsu Indonesia fabrication

@OfficialProcess Жыл бұрын

Mm2100 industry

@AndyFromBeaverton Жыл бұрын

2:45 That rhinoplasty looks good. About time you fixed that beak.

@robertchapman549 Жыл бұрын

I want a sticker

@willross4125 Жыл бұрын

Sort only

@hishamnagi2055 Жыл бұрын

I need to work with you

@brownwarrior6867 Жыл бұрын

I Operate Machines this is simply an extended lunch break with kidney problems.

@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 😂

@Nightsweeper Жыл бұрын

Takes the word Operator out of Heavy Equipment . Instead it’s replace with Run Heavy Equipment.

@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

@grimessimpson5013 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video and thank you for breaking it down!! Despite the economic downturn, I'm so happy I have been earning $ 60,000 returns from my $9,000 investment every 21days.🏆

@Kevinscott262 Жыл бұрын

This must be an investment with Mr Barry Silbert

@kimberlydewing4074 Жыл бұрын

@Gavin Andresen He helped me recover what I lost trying to trade myself

@donaldmckenzie3804 Жыл бұрын

@Lidia Cristina I think I'm blessed because if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as expert Mr Barry Silbert I think he is the best broker I ever seen

@NancyGarcia-kb7rw Жыл бұрын

@@donaldmckenzie3804 Please how do I reach out to Mr Barry Silbert? Am from London

@donaldmckenzie3804 Жыл бұрын

@@NancyGarcia-kb7rw He's is always active on whats- app APK

@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.