GIANT KOMATSU EXCAVATOR PC5500

[aTMabelle842]

its ok

[OMBIC]

wow, to meny stuped comments, iv never done this work, but the only stuped thing i saw was he was digging at heys footing......

[GamerHQElite]

This ones are pathectic... they have fucking skyscraper ones over ere in aus

[Con977]

How much does the bucket lift in one go

[Njugglesvatn]

Blimey, it filled that dump truck in three passes!!.

[sertox12345]

KOMATSU suck o yea they eat dogs for lunch yea dog y would you buy this trash y not a cat much better than this trash

[Jacob2Israel]

i want that truck : )

[Nomasain]

Want to impress me? Sneak up an unsuspected bystander with that machine, and try to pick pocket his wallet.

[MercenaryAK]

that excavator is huge...must be powered by God

[MoggValld]

Is there a kitchen in there?

[5tristanvm]

wot a monster! love it :D

[yamy82xl]

OMG its a metal king kong

[ceternyum]

El camion es un cat 785C me parece?

[MrWayneguitars]

Would this be a good machine for landscaping?

[dancehallreggae]

looks like alberta in canada

[monsterpark87]

geil

[1macaron]

talk about a shit floor, poor truckies

[1macaron]

talk about a shit floor , thats bad poor truckies

[1macaron]

talk about a shit floor , thats bad poor truckies

[shortthrow50]

Does it use standard excavator joystick controls?

[lexichronicle2]

honk honk

[Adonik]

Thats....big

[mindslidejp]

でかい～かっこいい

[AmeJorge]

BRUTAL :)

[ZFMN]

you should say SUPER HUGE EXCAVATOR!!

[louthleviathan]

some job. She runs like a mouse chewing paper. You could fry and egg on those rams!

[MrBobbob69]

It looks like a wharehouse on tracks!

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[gondrongsekale]

suwe tnn :p~

[Drunkenher0]

I want a go!

[deimos2k6]

wow



[SlipKoRn0108]

I'm just wondering how they do to transfer it from one place to another?!

[MARCOMROMANIA]

@SlipKoRn0108 From one job site to another? Never happens. From one bench to another, either on their tracks, or if distance is big they use a special device with wheels and a dump truck

[INFLTTR]

@MARCOMROMANIA they also take it apart and transport it around in trucks

[cannabis29]

@MARCOMROMANIA im just wondering can you pull a ramp and track them up like a smaller machine on to a bench for loading...or is it too hard on the tracks?

[MARCOMROMANIA]

@cannabis29 NEVER:)))) YOU NEED TO IMAGINE THIS MONSTER FOR EXAMPLE IS JUST AROUND 550 TONNES:)))

[cannabis29]

@MARCOMROMANIA how do ya get it up on a bench?im going to try for a job on a face shovel is there much of a diffrence driving one than a hoe with ive driven for years?thank for the reply

[MARCOMROMANIA]

@cannabis29 it is easy, being so big, you do not need to get on a bench, you are already on a bench. check the height of the bench, almost allways is exactly the depth of the excavation posibilities of the excavator

[shvexc]

@cannabis29 Yes no worries. Probably not quite as steep as small ones but they can still do most things.

[trucker006302]

@SlipKoRn0108 Have helped moved Several large cranes and such, pieces by piece

[Valemountstone]

@SlipKoRn0108

they take it apart.



[sr230399]

@SlipKoRn0108 As there's not truck /lorry to transport its whole body in usual streets, they might dismantle it in parts just as they normally do with giants crawling cranes.

[nakedchicksrock]

@SlipKoRn0108 You buy the piece of equipment they bring it in on low boys in pieces assemble it on site and thats it sell it with the property. it would cost more to movie it then it cost to purchase it, you got labor of disassemble and reassemble and then price of permits the states gives you. to move the pc800 that the company i work for owns its like 5 grand and thats about a quarter of the size of that thing

[MrJonnyb1234]

@SlipKoRn0108 its called a carry all



[kamelari]

ohh man im sure they´re wasting lots of fuel

[simamerth]

ｉｔ’ｓ　huge;｀;:ﾞ;｀(;T;ж;T; )！

[MrSoccernugget]

@simamerth

thats what she said

[Hoyt2012]

wonder how much these cost

[snafuva]

Take a look att Komatsu 5500 Baldur there you have the giant at Sea in Australia!!!

[ownerfate]

that is a beast. i wish i had 1...

[whygothic]

i wonder what's gonna happen to the huge beasties once the world runs out of petroleum. What will be the alternative fuel? Peanut oil?

[MARCOMROMANIA]

@whygothic they have already as alternative, the electric power. in places where it is high risk of fire, they do not use diesel engines, they use ONLY electric.

[whygothic]

@MARCOMROMANIA Thank you for the information, I was always wondering about it before...

[Bmxrandi]

Power that u can feel with 1 finger.. jesuz.. Extreme force

[MasterVela73]

how big is that bucket?

[mysza07081981]

oooooooooooooooo ale maszyny diganty

[TubeMebro]

oops . . I came . . HAHAHA

[dehempen]

Wat een prutser

[MarkusPea]

You can't argue teeth life at two different sites. Everything is material dependent. You can however argue teeth life if you're mining the same material at the same location and we've had good performance out of esco teeth but much better out of hardened cat original equipment. We don't have anything nearly as big as this 5500 but we're running some 365's and 385's and we can get nearly two weeks out of set in gravel and a month or more removing overburden during 16 hr days

[stip27]

what a efficient truck 2-3 scoops and u fill the tipper. 5 tipper loads and finish the day. bugger off home for a beer :D

[SteRS2009]

good to see there's so many brilliant excavator operators commenting, referring to it as a crane, making ridiculous claims about 24 hourly teeth changes...If you're that brilliant why don't you get a mate to video yourself (with a sticker showing your youtube username in the cab window) operating it...i'm betting half of these comments are from guys that have been nothing more than an ADT driver and know nothing about quarry excavators.

[stafy3282]

@SteRS2009 im not an operator im a fitter. and yes we get 24hrs out of a set of teeth. our first job every morning is fuel ups and G.E.T changeouts. oh and P.S i work in a mine not a piss weak quarry. big difference einstein!!!!!!

[jasonasl1]

DIG DEEP LOAD HIGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ozziairlegger]

@jasonasl1 ..Another digger operator..looking for oil in the floor...cant work to grade....

[MrRuebie]

so sweet :-D

[jamesandrew2000]

I run a gh563 with a reach around 180, been in the industry for 120 years. This skid mark operator knows nothing when it comes to feltching top layer pudding dirt.

[SVTblack03]

Cool vid man. The footage is real, the operators are human, and the creator of this vid took time to make it happen. Good job man and thanks for sharing this clip with all the grumpy old guys! "In my day we pulled rocks with mules! MULES kid. You don't know how good you got it!" Shut up it's almost time for pudding and a diaper crap. Hey Granpa....they're not steam powered anymore!

[nathan251181]

Im amazed at how there is always one eyed people in the mining industry. They are all big pieces of crap that break, they all have pros and cons. 6gunsouth is right to an extent, however 4100s and other ropies still have the disadvantage of not being versatile, ie, need a cable crew every time you have to move it, and it needs a pit that is designed to take them. Horses for courses is what it comes back to.

[monk3ypilot]

OH. MY. GOD. I cant believe how completely wrong theyre doing everything here, and how crap their machines are. I should know because I drove much bigger cranes than these in my completely imaginary job for over 40 years, even though Im only 12.

[animeonperseest]

haha! thumbs up

[corsakias]

we do it better/faster with a liebherr 974!!

[stafy3282]

@corsakias 974 get a real digger man. we have 2 R996's where im at one backo one shovel. now those things can dig some dirt. Tooth change outs every 24hrs, thats living the dream right there.....

[ozziairlegger]

@stafy3282 ..Fuck man..you need to put some steel..teeth on it then..get away from those plastic Chines bucket teeth.....never seen a bucket tooth wear out in 24 hrs..in my 28 yrs in the seat....even loading out maganize iron ore..and thats about as tough as it gets....in Aus

[stafy3282]

@ozziairlegger we just changed out G.E.T supplier. our new teeth are 10 kilos heavier than the old ones but they still only last 24hrs if we are lucky.

[MKsalesdirect]

what a Gay horn!!!!!!

[red8023]

Im in the mass grading field, so we dont typically see an excavator that big, but we still use a 5130 and load 777 (100+ ton)trucks so we are up there in size, but I have always wanted to just load trucks for a day at an open pit operation like this and have a go with a big mother fucker like this one!

[Syrophrenikan]

i laugh at all the internet badasses posting "my cock is bigger than that thing!!!"

be realistic: it's an impressively massive machine. i only wish there was a "normal" sized car or truck in the frame for comparison.

[sjblessed425]

we have a pc3000 and it moves some rock and we have 2 pc2000s that we have pulling pad on top of the coal

[binzaesusu]

bellu aberu ma cantos metro qubos picata sa benna

[6GUNSOUTH]

Hahahahaha Komatsu should sell their equipment at a minimum of two at a time, one to shit on and one to cover it up with! We move 550,000 tons a 24hr period and we dont have time for dinky shit like that. Alright we do have one 33yd OK hydraulic. Wanna move some dirt get some 4100's. 5500Chris I been mining longer than you been alive... get off your high horse bookworm.

[5500Chris]

Calm down FUCKINROCKIT. The reason the boom cylinders are mounted upside down is mainly due to easier maintenance for example measuring cylinder drift (creeping) and easier to reseal the flange bushing. Secondly, you get extended chrome and seal life due to no dust build up on the scraper ring. Hose positioning is more ergonomical and as a result less friction is generated and thus less heat. You also get slighlty more power due to the barrel being approximately 2.5 times lighter than the rod.

[jed88yy]

thats not giant, thats a toy, you would be quicker with a hand shovel

[bpwilliams21]

how would you like to grease that mother 2wice a day...probably has auto greasers

[5500Chris]

Sure does, not one manual grease point, has 2 x grease systems - SLS (slew lubrication system) and CLS (central lubrication system) which use two different types of grease.

[LIQUORnWHORES]

I know it's just semantics, but hydraulic cylinders work on pressure, which is created when the flow of hydraulic fluid is restricted.

[Catalissia]

You are clearley the idiot, and who ever said they engineered the entire structure for the hoses? Get your facts right, who are you? Have you ever actually worked on these machines, because if you havnt I'm not even going to continue arguing. If only you knew who I was :) So mr KMG, why are they upside down? Tell the world.

[Catalissia]

And I'm right about the hose positioning, have a look at every large mining excavator, all the cylinders are "upside down" and the hoses go to the boom. With the smaller ones it doesnt matter because the distance from the cylinder to the boom is much smaller and insignificantand you dont have walkways either side of the superstructure to obstruct.

[Catalissia]

Your wrong. It wouldnt matter what orientation they were; to extend the cylinder the the oil is always acting on the piston side (larger area) not the rod side (smaller area). Think about it...

[Libelya]

spettacolare!

[UsedButNotUsedUP]

The reason the hydraulic cylinders are upside down, is so that the big end of the cylinder (the nut end), which has a larger surface area is on the lift side. This provide greater breakout force and greater lifting capacity.

[XCrankedvoltx23]

i was wondering where my pickup truck went

[Catalissia]

Seems a few people have wondered why the boom cylinders are "upside down" on the larger excavators.

The reason is simply down to the hydraulic hose positioning being in a more sensible and ergonomical place on the side of the boom to the top of the boom, rather than being down next to the X2 room and dangling in the way.

[happylad]

when you have a lot of muck to shift - you need a big muck shifter

[fueomar]

la mas grande que he visto es enorme

[operator2511]

la operacion es la misma a la de una excavadora mas pequeña cmo la 330 de caterpillar o una pc 300 de komatsu

[315DL]

That machine loaded that truck in like, 3 passes!

[BUTTERBEAN356]

Talking about the non Full Buckets and a Rookie Driver Damn Your stupid Thats just a 200 ton truck that they where Loading a 789C Hell that was a Right amount Load for that truck there just taking care of there Equipment and not trying to break them down by over loading them.

[thatdudejoe88]

@BUTTERBEAN356 I have read this comment three time through and I still cannot decipher the meaning of this gigantic run-on "sentence".

[MrThisIsMeToo]

@BUTTERBEAN356 "Damn Your stupid" Try "damn you are stupid" or "damn you're stupid". Thanks for playing please try again. PS your grammar and caps makes you look like a moron.

[10102020360304040]

very big, muito grande essa é a maior retroescavadeira que já vi ate hoje!!!!! sem comentarios!!!! adimiro muito mas so que eu nao itendo nada dessas maquinas

[phantomlimbs]

I was thinking to myself.... Not very full scoops. Then the rockie drives off after three buckets...

He didn't need to fill'r full. Nice~!~

[pup085]

looks like he's digging a hole to china

[hkssupra86]

oh shit big machines....

[blueslady77]

woooo!! this gives me a hard on!  i'm a male, and i get hard when i see big machines!!! oooooohhhhh! big machines! males & machines!!

morons

[fittasprak]

how heavy is this machine?:P:P

[djsocr810]

about 1.5million lb

[mihai06paul]

loool

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[VHMillsy]

There is no extra strain on the pistons either way. The only real difference is where the hydralic hoses are routed. The way this one has them, all the hoses are going in the same area. Might be easier to work on them/replace them.

If there is any strain on the pistons, other than trying to push them in, or pull them out. then they have done something wrong.

[xdodgeboyx]

no 5.5

[67tr876]

Cummins SSA12V159 2500 hp. @ 1800 rpm

[Catalissia]

Its actually a Komatsu SSA12V159, the Cummins version is a K1500. But never the less, both the same engine and both made by Cummins, just different color and name. Komatsu's version is yellow, Cummins is grey.

[hamz411]

easy!!..on his second bucket all his dirt is sitting up the front of his bucket and nothting at the back you can squeeze a few more tons there no probs hes gotta work his bucket like a loader would when it fulls its bucket''less passes over a truck means time and you know wot time means ahh!!...I operate a Hitachi 3600 loading 789's so I know wot Im on about cos Im all about the tons and a smooth loooking floor haha....next question

[acrazedmaniac]

ya, why are the boom cyl. 'upsidedown'?

on the bigger units

[Markmeblablabla]

I'd guess to say so the seals dont have water sitting on theme when it rains and less sun drying because u dont have to worry about theme being hit by rocks

[acrazedmaniac]

there is more force against the piston with out the rod being there...so....guess its needed more for pulling down???

[acrazedmaniac]

nope, still pushes apart....so why are they upside down???? seems like more damage to the rods this way...gota be a reason for it.....

[rotortilttt]

lol 10 ton in the bucket of a about 500 tonn macine would not be to impresive ;P

[hamz411]

If he fulls his bucket rite up he'd load his truck(s) alot quicker...looks like cream digging can't see why not...nice looking machine but komatsu gear over heats to easy...

[robby844]

each time his bucket is heaped.how can he possibly "fulls" it anymore?

[sarah19766]

10 Tons or more do you think, well i think it hold 50 to 60 tons of muck per bucket load to say it loaded that cat dumper in 3 passes!!!!

[supaky]

yea thats just totally massive. 1 bucket load of dirt alone could weight 10 tons or more...

[reefturkey]

WOW that thing can dig a swimming pool in 60 seconds!

[jww2124]

damn that thing is a beast

[wit778899]

What engine does it have?

[x054frcadnoh]

I feel so small I operate a pc 450.

ha ha ha

[x054frcadnoh]

I feel so small I operate a pc 450.

ha ha ha

[glyon2008]

i run a komatsu pc 3000, and i thought that was big!

[cowbubbles]

do you do this for komatsu

[VALENTINO7000]

that thing is huge.. how many tons does that shovel carry?

[1973miracle]

sounds like theres a relief going off , mite be time for a tune; looks like a new machine, do you know the serial number

[1973miracle]

whots the go with offside loading , big time wasting excercise , does KMG do the guards for the bucket cylinders rods

[metclubnathan]

Well he cant load the truck from the front he is digging from there. Where he has the truck backing in is the only logical place to have it.

[JonJon8236]

I operate a Terex 340 and I thought that was big! I would kill to run one of those!!!

[c23hevy]

they are wicket we have one at the mine where i work but the bucket operators in the opposite direction like a cable shovel but fun to operate