The BIGGEST CAT Dealer Down Under

The BIGGEST CAT Dealer Down Under | Hastings Deering

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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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@TheMNrailfan227 Ай бұрын

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

@MPed98 11 ай бұрын

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

@kenhofer8063 11 ай бұрын

Shits not holy

@generalgreen77 9 ай бұрын

Macktown cracktown

@jamesshepherd9398 11 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.

@Ktmfan450 3 ай бұрын

Are you blind? That's SupercarBlondie

@blueman5924 11 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 ! 👍🤙

@compositestands4240 10 ай бұрын

All of the stands, or the white ones?

@mhaskard6517 11 ай бұрын

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

@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632 11 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

@broke_boii 8 ай бұрын

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

@Mrleppy 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Aaron, for saying the town correct

@oldschooldude3500 11 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.

@user-tu8fw4bg6u 11 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'

@dylanwren2836 11 ай бұрын

As usual great video Aaron.

@WE-R-SLICK 10 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

@walter9724 11 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

@sexygirlove20 10 ай бұрын

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

@Bobdabuulder 11 ай бұрын

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

@kenhofer8063 11 ай бұрын

Greed on every side ruins everything

@tristenklein5940 11 ай бұрын

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

@tristenklein5940 11 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.

@Bobdabuulder 11 ай бұрын

@@tristenklein5940 and greed

@carlmarr2984 11 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

@jakec2313 11 ай бұрын

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

@lesliegrayson1722 10 ай бұрын

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

@i.u.o.e8326 11 ай бұрын

What are the build specs on the blond

@Civilimagery 11 ай бұрын

Quality Content

@greggardiner9066 11 ай бұрын

Great video Aaron easy listening 😊😊

@heavymachinery2843 11 ай бұрын

Awesome 👍👍

@mitchhifi9192 10 ай бұрын

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

@johnynaegle6297 2 ай бұрын

Gotta love big iron!!!!

@murdercom998 6 ай бұрын

Thats so cool they are a Cat and Deer dealer

@user-su8rs3uv5i 11 ай бұрын

Nice video, love it

@kristopher87 11 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

@AHomelessDorito 11 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.

@blakealexbale 11 ай бұрын

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

@ryangroff9205 11 ай бұрын

What did he have to remove I forgot

@deth3021 11 ай бұрын

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

@superhacker101 11 ай бұрын

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

@31wowow 11 ай бұрын

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

@OCPYT___ 11 ай бұрын

Round 2 how good

@zaryadnik 20 күн бұрын

Nice

@timpratten2258 11 ай бұрын

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

@6Six6Six6Bruh 7 ай бұрын

Could stand to have more

@skinnyj2560 11 ай 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 11 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

@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632 11 ай бұрын

@@skinnyj2560you already did mate. im your boss

@FekDindad-xy9vz 11 ай бұрын

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

@teabola 11 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.

@nickhutt6264 9 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.

@an1017 9 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.

@nicholasbergvik2910 11 ай бұрын

Amazing Machines Welcome To Sweden;)

@donstravelsandrants. 11 ай бұрын

Amazing machines.😲👍😊🇮🇪

@colestevens6042 10 ай бұрын

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

@thomasreid8681 10 ай бұрын

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

@williamhoward8319 11 ай бұрын

our 6 trucks were shiped in parts and assembled on sight

@dplant8961 11 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.

@td42williams77 11 ай бұрын

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

@dplant8961 11 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.

@joshiepoo4 11 ай бұрын

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

@dplant8961 11 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.

@thomasreid8681 10 ай бұрын

onya planty

@FekDindad-xy9vz 11 ай бұрын

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

@snaggo6666 11 ай бұрын

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

@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632 11 ай бұрын

nope

@blakejordan1855 11 ай бұрын

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

@lukea9873 10 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

@lachlanmcintyre5748 11 ай бұрын

I work here!

@jascollinscork 11 ай бұрын

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

@dpelchen75 11 ай бұрын

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

@conradward2945 11 ай бұрын

Mackay!

@martinriggs2957 11 ай бұрын

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

@paulsapper 8 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

@rogerbrandt6678 11 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

@FekDindad-xy9vz 11 ай бұрын

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

@DeejayManii 10 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.

@aptiq6578 11 ай бұрын

Haha those new dozers come to the site I work at

@lucmarchand617 11 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

@MarkLynskey 11 ай бұрын

didnt you post this video last week?

@Driveover23 11 ай бұрын

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

@urcousinfromboston9052 11 ай бұрын

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

@lukashartley2756 11 ай бұрын

This is where I’m from

@tandemwings4733 13 күн бұрын

SIX HUNDRED hours of welding - Wowww..!!!

@chilledburrito 11 ай бұрын

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

@kizzjd9578 11 ай бұрын

When

@Mick_4591 11 ай бұрын

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

@HILLBILLY.556 5 ай бұрын

U.S.A. That’s right!

@MrDutchboy14 11 ай бұрын

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

@MynameisGeoff82 11 ай бұрын

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

@cristianesteban5551 11 ай бұрын

Would’ve thought westrac was bigger

@sebmorrell 10 ай бұрын

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

@dancaulfield1008 11 ай бұрын

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

@thekrizzo93 11 ай бұрын

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

@OhioPalmTrees 11 ай бұрын

DEJA vu?

@tunerfun1990 11 ай бұрын

i would have thought westrac is bigger

@benmac940 11 ай бұрын

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

@tunerfun1990 11 ай бұрын

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

@FekDindad-xy9vz 11 ай бұрын

@@tunerfun1990bigger shed?

@mrdiealot1 11 ай бұрын

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

@BigJaseNZ 11 ай бұрын

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

@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632 11 ай бұрын

we talk tonage not pounds buddy were not flipping pommy

@JMSFilm 11 ай бұрын

Reposted and removed content?

@lemoneleven2179 11 ай бұрын

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

@davidanalyst671 11 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.

@rubengalindez7448 11 ай бұрын

Sudtitulos en spanish 🤔

@the-marker-nate-ah 11 ай бұрын

Fuck us Aussies sound weird on video 😅

@carl_h 11 ай бұрын

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

@lukeparsons583 11 ай бұрын

Relax simp

@jzz20highwaydancer 11 ай бұрын

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

@torquesnhorses4986 11 ай бұрын

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

@jzz20highwaydancer 11 ай бұрын

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

@collingalbraith4343 11 ай бұрын

My company makes the tracks for cat in Illinois

@navaho5430 11 ай бұрын

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

@pyromaniac354 11 ай бұрын

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

@oskardax4241 11 ай бұрын

You ever been in a mine? Nothing runs smoothly

@FekDindad-xy9vz 11 ай бұрын

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

@6Six6Six6Bruh 7 ай бұрын

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

@_Juke_ 11 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?

@AxMar09 8 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

@murdomcdonald9670 11 ай бұрын

Whos the chick?

@bored2323 10 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

@wolftone4818 10 ай бұрын

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

@sergioorozco9524 11 ай бұрын

Hi early 🎉

@td42williams77 11 ай бұрын

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

@w_stanky 11 ай бұрын

LMAO..This is a joke right?

@td42williams77 11 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