Caterpillar's Biggest Scraper Working in California

Cat's massive 657G scraper working in California for LB3 Enterprises
#bulldozer #excavator #scraper

[randyminnick]

That's the smoothest and best push-Cat driver I've ever seen! The guy is good!

[kevinjasper]

Wow, The 657 makes the D8 look small, 😎

[kfstreich]

Is this what you do all day? Watch CAT videos?

[terrancefields]

This brings back so many happy memories of growing up in the fifties.

[tutekohe]

Cat 657, front engine 600hp, rear engine 450hp, bowl capacity 33 cubic metres. With the assistance of the D8t, it's loading it's 47t of clay in less than 30 seconds. That is real production.

[louiscecchini]

Nice, smooth pickup the scrapper. Nice touch

[salmanskippy]

Big projects. Big machines. Big California.

[Drottninggatan]

It's amazing how clean those engines are running.

[briankrzyzaniak]

D8 pushing a 657 > sort of like a mosquito on the rearend of an elephant

[waynerainey]

Clay... In California it's mostly decomp I spent a lot of time moving mountains and filling canyons for the ridiculous housing market. Had a really big job some years back in temecula where they moved one mountain to fill a similar size canyon to build houses and golf courses over both! the canyon was 7 miles from the hill, I push loaded scrapers and ripped up decomp for 6 months! I remember very little clay LOL

[splodinlogan]

Fourth day running a scraper today I got 164 loads in 637E

[ConstructionMachinesChannel]

The D8 looks small beside the 657. Cool project to be involved on. Super video 👍

[andresnavara]

Muy buenos operadores de maquinarias calidad. Amigos gracias

[bushwacker]

Jean Phillips would be proud of y'all 👍

[alastairsutherland]

As you can see the 657 isn’t getting a full load, two tractors ( 9’s or 10s ) tandem pushing is needed to achieve the optimum production, a valiant effort by the 8T operator though.

[reatonable]

Never operated a 657 but operated a 627 and a 651 and a 621 so I suppose the jump is about the same from a single to a twin only bigger, when the dozer was busy ripping I used to push load the singles with the 627, first time I started doing it every one said you can't do that but the boss agreed with me and I kept up with the singles.

[briangardiner]

Usually you don't use this small of a dozer to push with.
I am guessing it is near the end of the job and everything else has been shipped to another job.
Talk about a jack of all trades.
This D8T has a sloper attachment and a GPS antenna for checking grade.
I think that is what he was doing when he was using his dozer blade to push dirt with near the end.

[stephensmalldridge]

You don't really get the size of these 657s until you see how tiny that D8 looks pushing it
They better get a push plate welded on that blade though before it's beat to hell lol

[robertrrr]

Reminds me from when I used to work in California for a company called wood brothers.

[mitchellsavage]

I run a water truck for Marlins out of San Diego. Lb3 rents our trucks love my job