Thank goodness for tariffs. Hopefully more jobs will return to America.

Rutger D7

You can slow the video down or stop it anytime you want.

If you have to ask you can't afford it. I'm told by my boss there that they have a varying range from 250k to 1.5 mil.

The Company I work For ,We are Catapillers #1 Customer.....

This is Auxiliary Engine you need to look for Main Engine propulion MAK or MAN B&W for ex MAK 9M43 or VM43C in same Company line so search for Germany - Kiel, MaK Motoren GmbH & Co. also Caterpillar Motoren since 97'

thanks

hmmmm I import Mahle Clevite aluminium pistons for Caterpillar 3500 series diesel engines in Lahore Pakistan. I also rebuilt these engines in own service workshop and offer Mahle Clevite engine parts for all CAT engines as OEM. I don't know why Mahle do not offer me CAT 3500 steel piston likewise CAT part number 314-5005 and 299-5204

Hey man ! Don't ask the impossible : this is a corporate film or so it seems. They didn't put on live sound either : too noisy for the shareholders !…

Most people get bored with that kind of stuff pretty fast, but as a motor head I'd like to see the uncut version.

The heavy crane operators are trained to never lift a load over anyone. Also, everyone is trained to never walk under a load. The smaller cranes are set up so most loads cannot be lifted higher than the engine itself, which is normally sitting on the ground (3500 series). With the bigger 3600 series engines the cranes *can* lift higher, but the teams working on them are much smaller, and everyone is VERY careful and aware of what is going on. Its a team environment. Very safe. I worked there for about 2 years before a layoff in 2008.

Mitch Thompson It is not only in cranes. On your head never dropped a wrench or scrap from a colleague?

The whole process is designed so that no one ever works above another person. Mostly we worked beside others, or if we were making a component, we worked on that at a station designed to build that specific part (like an intake manifold assembly, or a cylinder head), while someone else is installing ones that are already finished. See @1:40 The one place where heavy loads are overhead others is in 3500 paint / prep. I was crane operator for a time here and its probably one of the more dangerous jobs. See @3:25 As operator, you have to be aware of the load, as well as others who may be working near it. Its much more likely to have a crush injury from moving an engine horizontally vs having a part fall on you. There was one time I lifted a 70 ton generator set. It was about one foot off the ground. During movement, I bumped it into another generator set. The 1/2" thick steel 'brackets' just barely touched and it left a dent the size of a nickel. The whole load was travelling less than 5 inches per second. Also, if the crane isn't centered properly over the engine being lifted, the engine has a tendency to want to "slide" across the floor a bit unpredictably. When I'd notice that, I'd quickly drop (lower quickly) the load and recenter the crane.

Hard hat wouldn't help much if one those behemoths fell on top of you!!!

Nils VN these guys make about $26 an hour. They arent complaining

stanley kwiecinski mostly hire thru temp agency. If they can't make it thru first 90 days or so without missing work they aren't hired full time. That pretty much weeds em out

stanley kwiecinski LOL love it

people actually have to work this is why

Nope. Still made in Lafayette Indiana

Still made in Lafayette Indiana today. I work there and the plant is busier than it has ever been

Looked like the Pilsbury Doe Belly.