The BIGGEST CAT Dealer Down Under | Hastings Deering

Автокөліктер мен көлік құралдары

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
    @TheMNrailfan227Ай бұрын

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

  • @jamesshepherd9398
    @jamesshepherd939811 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

    @Ktmfan450

    3 ай бұрын

    Are you blind? That's SupercarBlondie

  • @MPed98
    @MPed9811 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

    @kenhofer8063

    11 ай бұрын

    Shits not holy

  • @generalgreen77

    @generalgreen77

    9 ай бұрын

    Macktown cracktown

  • @blueman5924
    @blueman592411 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

    @compositestands4240

    10 ай бұрын

    All of the stands, or the white ones?

  • @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632
    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus463211 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

  • @mhaskard6517
    @mhaskard651710 ай бұрын

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

  • @broke_boii
    @broke_boii8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Mrleppy
    @Mrleppy10 ай бұрын

    Thanks Aaron, for saying the town correct

  • @oldschooldude3500
    @oldschooldude350011 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
    @user-tu8fw4bg6u11 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'

  • @sexygirlove20
    @sexygirlove2010 ай бұрын

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

  • @dylanwren2836
    @dylanwren283611 ай бұрын

    As usual great video Aaron.

  • @walter9724
    @walter972411 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

  • @jakec2313
    @jakec231311 ай бұрын

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

  • @WE-R-SLICK
    @WE-R-SLICK10 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

  • @carlmarr2984
    @carlmarr298411 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

  • @Civilimagery
    @Civilimagery11 ай бұрын

    Quality Content

  • @greggardiner9066
    @greggardiner906610 ай бұрын

    Great video Aaron easy listening 😊😊

  • @heavymachinery2843
    @heavymachinery284311 ай бұрын

    Awesome 👍👍

  • @user-su8rs3uv5i
    @user-su8rs3uv5i11 ай бұрын

    Nice video, love it

  • @lesliegrayson1722
    @lesliegrayson172210 ай бұрын

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

  • @murdercom998
    @murdercom9985 ай бұрын

    Thats so cool they are a Cat and Deer dealer

  • @kristopher87
    @kristopher8711 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

    @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

    @blakealexbale

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @ryangroff9205

    @ryangroff9205

    11 ай бұрын

    What did he have to remove I forgot

  • @deth3021

    @deth3021

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @superhacker101

    @superhacker101

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @mitchhifi9192
    @mitchhifi919210 ай бұрын

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

  • @johnynaegle6297
    @johnynaegle62972 ай бұрын

    Gotta love big iron!!!!

  • @i.u.o.e8326
    @i.u.o.e832611 ай бұрын

    What are the build specs on the blond

  • @Bobdabuulder
    @Bobdabuulder11 ай бұрын

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

  • @kenhofer8063

    @kenhofer8063

    11 ай бұрын

    Greed on every side ruins everything

  • @tristenklein5940

    @tristenklein5940

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @tristenklein5940

    @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

    @Bobdabuulder

    11 ай бұрын

    @@tristenklein5940 and greed

  • @OCPYT___
    @OCPYT___11 ай бұрын

    Round 2 how good

  • @zaryadnik
    @zaryadnik11 күн бұрын

    Nice

  • @31wowow
    @31wowow11 ай бұрын

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

  • @nicholasbergvik2910
    @nicholasbergvik291011 ай бұрын

    Amazing Machines Welcome To Sweden;)

  • @donstravelsandrants.
    @donstravelsandrants.11 ай бұрын

    Amazing machines.😲👍😊🇮🇪

  • @timpratten2258
    @timpratten225811 ай бұрын

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

  • @6Six6Six6Bruh

    @6Six6Six6Bruh

    7 ай бұрын

    Could stand to have more

  • @williamhoward8319
    @williamhoward831911 ай бұрын

    our 6 trucks were shiped in parts and assembled on sight

  • @teabola
    @teabola11 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

    @nickhutt6264

    8 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

    @an1017

    8 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.

  • @skinnyj2560
    @skinnyj256011 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

    @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

    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@skinnyj2560you already did mate. im your boss

  • @FekDindad-xy9vz

    @FekDindad-xy9vz

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @lukea9873
    @lukea987310 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

  • @FekDindad-xy9vz
    @FekDindad-xy9vz11 ай бұрын

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

  • @paulsapper
    @paulsapper8 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

  • @dplant8961
    @dplant896111 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

    @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

    @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

    @joshiepoo4

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @dplant8961

    @dplant8961

    10 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

    @thomasreid8681

    10 ай бұрын

    onya planty

  • @lucmarchand617
    @lucmarchand61711 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

  • @colestevens6042
    @colestevens604210 ай бұрын

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

  • @thomasreid8681

    @thomasreid8681

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @dpelchen75
    @dpelchen7510 ай бұрын

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

  • @lachlanmcintyre5748
    @lachlanmcintyre574811 ай бұрын

    I work here!

  • @conradward2945
    @conradward294511 ай бұрын

    Mackay!

  • @rogerbrandt6678
    @rogerbrandt667811 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

    @FekDindad-xy9vz

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @DeejayManii

    @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.

  • @snaggo6666
    @snaggo666611 ай бұрын

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

  • @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632

    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632

    11 ай бұрын

    nope

  • @blakejordan1855
    @blakejordan185511 ай бұрын

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

  • @urcousinfromboston9052
    @urcousinfromboston905211 ай бұрын

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

  • @martinriggs2957
    @martinriggs295711 ай бұрын

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

  • @aptiq6578
    @aptiq657810 ай бұрын

    Haha those new dozers come to the site I work at

  • @lukashartley2756
    @lukashartley275611 ай бұрын

    This is where I’m from

  • @jascollinscork
    @jascollinscork11 ай бұрын

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

  • @MarkLynskey
    @MarkLynskey11 ай бұрын

    didnt you post this video last week?

  • @Driveover23

    @Driveover23

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @chilledburrito
    @chilledburrito11 ай бұрын

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

  • @kizzjd9578

    @kizzjd9578

    11 ай бұрын

    When

  • @MynameisGeoff82
    @MynameisGeoff8211 ай бұрын

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

  • @tandemwings4733
    @tandemwings47335 күн бұрын

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

  • @HILLBILLY.556
    @HILLBILLY.5565 ай бұрын

    U.S.A. That’s right!

  • @cristianesteban5551
    @cristianesteban555111 ай бұрын

    Would’ve thought westrac was bigger

  • @AU_4591
    @AU_459111 ай бұрын

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

  • @sebmorrell
    @sebmorrell10 ай бұрын

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

  • @MrDutchboy14
    @MrDutchboy1411 ай бұрын

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

  • @BigJaseNZ
    @BigJaseNZ10 ай бұрын

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

  • @tunerfun1990
    @tunerfun199011 ай бұрын

    i would have thought westrac is bigger

  • @benmac940

    @benmac940

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @tunerfun1990

    @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

    @FekDindad-xy9vz

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@tunerfun1990bigger shed?

  • @mrdiealot1

    @mrdiealot1

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @thekrizzo93
    @thekrizzo9310 ай бұрын

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

  • @dancaulfield1008
    @dancaulfield100811 ай бұрын

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

  • @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632
    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus463211 ай бұрын

    we talk tonage not pounds buddy were not flipping pommy

  • @OhioPalmTrees
    @OhioPalmTrees11 ай бұрын

    DEJA vu?

  • @rubengalindez7448
    @rubengalindez744811 ай бұрын

    Sudtitulos en spanish 🤔

  • @JMSFilm
    @JMSFilm11 ай бұрын

    Reposted and removed content?

  • @lemoneleven2179
    @lemoneleven217911 ай бұрын

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

  • @jzz20highwaydancer
    @jzz20highwaydancer11 ай бұрын

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

  • @torquesnhorses4986

    @torquesnhorses4986

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @jzz20highwaydancer

    @jzz20highwaydancer

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @navaho5430
    @navaho543011 ай бұрын

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

  • @pyromaniac354

    @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

    @oskardax4241

    11 ай бұрын

    You ever been in a mine? Nothing runs smoothly

  • @FekDindad-xy9vz

    @FekDindad-xy9vz

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @6Six6Six6Bruh

    @6Six6Six6Bruh

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @carl_h
    @carl_h11 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

    @lukeparsons583

    11 ай бұрын

    Relax simp

  • @the-marker-nate-ah
    @the-marker-nate-ah11 ай бұрын

    Fuck us Aussies sound weird on video 😅

  • @davidanalyst671
    @davidanalyst67111 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.

  • @collingalbraith4343
    @collingalbraith434311 ай бұрын

    My company makes the tracks for cat in Illinois

  • @bored2323
    @bored232310 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

    @wolftone4818

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @_Juke_
    @_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?

  • @murdomcdonald9670
    @murdomcdonald967011 ай бұрын

    Whos the chick?

  • @The_Aussie_Truckie
    @The_Aussie_Truckie11 ай бұрын

    Now your in Australia you need to see our road trains

  • @AxMar09
    @AxMar098 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

  • @sergioorozco9524
    @sergioorozco952411 ай бұрын

    Hi early 🎉

  • @dancaulfield1008
    @dancaulfield100811 ай бұрын

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

  • @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632

    @r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @dancaulfield1008

    @dancaulfield1008

    11 ай бұрын

    @@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632 Comment makes no sense

  • @td42williams77
    @td42williams7711 ай бұрын

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

  • @w_stanky

    @w_stanky

    10 ай бұрын

    LMAO..This is a joke right?

  • @td42williams77

    @td42williams77

    10 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

  • @MrMarkguth
    @MrMarkguth10 ай бұрын

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

  • @lobobumstead
    @lobobumstead5 ай бұрын

    Who is the lady

  • @AHomelessDorito
    @AHomelessDorito11 ай бұрын

    What’s Ashley’s @??👀😂

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