Aaron Witt

Building Las Vegas’ $80 MILLION Formula One Track! #formula1 #race #paving

Houston sleeps. The Catalina works. We hopped a crew boat at 6:30 a.m. to spend a day aboard a dredge that never stops, with meals, a captain who lives aboard for three weeks straight, and a crane that only pauses for shift changes. #meals #texas #houston #hookem

One of the few places worldwide where you can ship an ultra class truck Cat 798 whole

A visit to the Erzberg Iron Mine in Austria! Originally captured by @agrarerwin on IG. — The operation produces 3 million tons of iron ore annually and offers tours to the general public, ferrying everyone around in a modified Komatsu 785 haul truck. — Tours are on Thursdays from May to October. They show the old underground tunnels and then transport everyone through the pit to see the modern operations. Neat!!

Climb aboard one of the world’s largest mining loaders—the Caterpillar 994K! — Mining operations often choose loaders over shovels due to their flexibility. A rubber tire machine can move faster, allowing it to clean up, dig different faces, and get out of the way of blasting. — It has over 1,700 horsepower, can lift 60 tons, and can hold up to 1,500 gallons of diesel.

How does a 70-year-old tree become the perfectly cut 2x4 you find at your local hardware store? We traveled to Oregon to follow the entire process, from harvesting massive trees on steep mountainsides to transforming them into lumber used to build homes across the country. — We spent the day with Hopkins Logging Company and Hampton Lumber to see how it’s done. From powerful forestry machines and cable yarders to automated saws that cut logs into dozens of boards in seconds, turning a tree into lumber takes some incredible equipment, engineering, and skilled workers. — Full video LIVE NOW!

NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO! How does a 70-year-old tree become the perfectly cut lumber you find at your local hardware store? A huge thank you to Hampton Lumber, Hopkins Logging Company, and Peterson Cat for making this adventure possible and showing us the people and machines behind the lumber industry!

Since we went swamping around in the Everglades, it’s only appropriate to share @qualityenterprisesusa doing swamp stuff a while back on their portion of this massive project. Swampy. #swamp #machine #construction #florida

I’ve watched the 2002 video of Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium 100 times, yet it only gets more impressive. — @orourkewrecking held the overall demolition contract, with @dhgriffincompanies supporting the explosive demolition. — They used 1,275 pounds of explosive charges placed in 4,500 holes. — The engineering and math on something like this are eye-watering… Each charge has specific timing and placement to bring the structure down in such a controlled manner! — If only they did cool stuff like this nowadays…

A tale as old as time… Man has too many drinks at the local pub, gets angry, steals a nearby bulldozer, and ransacks the place. My guess is that he was late to work the following morning. @swpolice #late #work #Drinking

Since I went under this bridge twice this week, I felt it was only appropriate to share this amazing time-lapse footage from @mk_timelapse showing the Hong Kong Sky Bridge installation by @mammoetglobal. They prefabricated it off-site to minimize disruption to air traffic!

Ideal winter temperature is safely below freezing to keep haul roads looking like concrete highways.

Long track frames aren’t uncommon, as they provide dozers with better balance and traction. I’ve even seen much longer frames on forest fire dozers, which help them better climb steep slopes. — But in this case, the machine’s grading for agriculture. My guess is that they extended the frame like this to give the machine far lower ground pressure without compromising traction. The lower ground pressure is key here to prevent over-compacting the soil, affecting drainage and plant growth. — D8 XXXLT from @excavationalainlemay on Instagram!

@irontrailnomad showing what it takes to set a 300’ tower by helicopter. Few jobs out there require 100% concentration. I’d say this is one of them!!

Handicap accessible excavator? No problem for @marcolaurini @lauriniofficinemeccaniche!

Cutie pulling out a boat at Ward Beach in New Zealand… First time I’ve seen a dozer do such a thing, but I guess an old D6 with pyramid pads does the trick nicely! 📹: @brookee_ellizabeth on Instagram.

Because she’s a dozer op, which is what these haul to reduce undercarriage wear around mine sites… Obviously. #dozer #mom

So hear me out… (Found within the bowels of the internet)

It’s not dramatic, but stopping that much weight at such a distance is WILD. Mining truck manufacturers design their trucks this way for added safety. All the driver has to do is slam the brakes. #mining #construction #brakes #test #driving