The BIGGEST CAT Dealer Down Under | Hastings Deering

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

[MPed]

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

[r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus]

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

[TheMNrailfan]

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

[mhaskard]

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

[blueman]

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 ! 👍🤙

[broke_boii]

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

[oldschooldude]

Love the old safety video shake hands with danger they showed the clip of. It's a old classic that's awesome and funny.

[Mrleppy]

Thanks Aaron, for saying the town correct

[HTBuckley-my]

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'

[walter]

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

[WE-R-SLICK]

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

[jakec]

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

[carlmarr]

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

[lesliegrayson]

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

[murdercom]

Thats so cool they are a Cat and Deer dealer

[mitchhifi]

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

[Bobdabuulder]

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

[teabola]

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.

[kristopher]

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

[dpelchen]

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