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All kids love to play with construction toys, but have you ever wondered what it would be
like to play with the real thing?
The really big machines?
These are earth movers.
They can move a lot of dirt, but sometimes you need something even more powerful.
Watch this.
Check it out.
These machines kind of look like big dinosaurs eating old building parts to make way for
the new buildings.
They have to work really hard.
Hi kids, I'm construction foreman Dave.
Well, I'm not really a construction foreman, but the real construction workers told me
that I could pretend for a day so that you and I could learn about construction sites,
demolition sites, and how all this big equipment works.
Now let's see, he told me not to touch one of these.
Which one?
Let's see.
Oh!
I shouldn't have done that!
I'd actually'd love to see that.
Well, as you can see, construction sites are very noisy places to be.
They're also very dangerous.
That's why everybody here has to wear one of these.
It's a hard hat.
It keeps your head protected from flying objects and things.
I want you to look at this machine back there, the yellow one.
That is a loader.
And if you look close, you'll see that the device on the front is kind of like a big
claw.
It's used for bending and crunching up all the large pieces of metal and things that
you find here on this demolition site.
And then it's loaded into that high-sided dump truck over there, which hauls it away,
and then it's recycled.
A lot of times, if you're going to build something new, you've got to tear down what was there
before to make room for it.
We've come to a demolition site where they're tearing down an old shopping mall to make
room for a new shopping mall.
That big machine you see back there is one of the biggest excavators in the world.
And that big arm is used to knock the concrete apart.
On the end of it is a hydraulic hammer with huge force.
It's used to, bam, bam, bam, break the cement apart so it can be separated from the iron
and recycled.
Now, the water you see them spraying on the building is simply there to keep the dust
down.
This is another kind of an excavator that you see behind me.
But if you'll notice, on the end of the big arm, there's a special device called a cruncher.
And it's like a great big shark's jaw.
What it does is it bites down on the rocks and then crunches them into smaller pieces
so that they can be recycled.
I'm Jim Hayden, and I'm superintendent from the Penhall Company, which as superintendent,
I get to direct all this operation that you've been filming around here today.
When I was young, back when I was five or six years old, I was moving dirt around with
little play toys that I had.
I'm still doing it today.
It was fun then.
It's fun now.
So you could just be demolishing things all day long and tear them down, and then you
could turn right around and get in the other end of the business and build it all back
instead of tearing it down.
This machine is called a bulldozer, the mighty bulldozer.
Now, this particular bulldozer has wheels on it.
But as you'll see later on, most bulldozers have tracks just like a big army tank.
And bulldozers are used primarily for pushing dirt from one place to another or leveling
an area like this so that a building can be constructed later on.
We've come to a different kind of building site now.
This eventually will be a 26-story building, a very tall building.
With a building like that, you have to have a firm foundation.
It has to be securely hooked to the ground so that there's an earthquake or something
that it doesn't fall down and move.
The way they do that is by using this huge drill bit here to drill a deep hole in the
ground.
They then fill that with cement and steel and then anchor the building to it, and it
becomes very solid so that it won't fall over if there's an earthquake.
Well, you'll never guess what this is.
This is really the inside of one of the big cement beams or building blocks that will
hold up the building eventually.
What they do is they make a steel cage, and then they lower this in a frame and pour cement
on it.
The cement hardens, and because of the steel framework, it makes it much stronger so it
can hold up the building.
Oh, man.
This is one of the biggest pieces of equipment on a construction site.
It's a 225 ton crawler crane.
Now it's called a crawler because it's got these big huge tracks just like a big tank
only much larger that moves it around the site.
It's almost 15 stories high and it's used to pick up real heavy objects and move them
around the construction site.
Hi I'm Crane Operator Jim and I've got one of the best jobs on a construction site.
I get to pick these things up and move them around and get to play with this big equipment
and I get paid for doing this and it's fun.
This was the boom lever that makes the boom go up and down and makes the load come to
the crane or away from the crane.
Right now I'm bringing the boom up so I get my ball over the very center of the load.
This lever makes the load go up on the single line that we're using to pull these beams
with.
This lever here makes the big go up and down but we're not using that today.
The lever over here in my left hand is the swing lever that makes the crane move back
and forth.
Now that's come out of the beam bed there so we'll move that over where the guys can
take the things off the end of it and write the numbers on it so we know where it goes
in the building.
Just like big Tinker toys they have a place that's already picked out where they have
to go in the building and they have to be numbered so they don't forget where they go.
Now that is a really big crane.
That's called a tower crane.
You've got to be a little careful on construction sites because it's pretty dangerous so you
have to be careful where you walk and stuff.
Mike how are you doing?
I'm pretty good Dave.
Mike is the crane operator and Mike is going to take us up there.
How high is this crane?
That's 240 feet high Dave.
That's pretty high isn't it?
Yes it is.
Well if you're ready I'm ready.
Let's go.
Where's that elevator?
There's no elevator on this crane Dave.
You'll be taking the ladder all the way to the top.
All the way to the top.
All the way.
What's the matter Dave?
Are you afraid of heights?
No I'm not afraid of heights.
Well then let's go up Dave.
I don't think I'm afraid of heights.
I think I can do it.
How high was that?
Oh man I'm not afraid of heights.
I'm not afraid of heights.
Come on Dave we're not even half way up yet.
I'm coming.
Oh boy.
I'm not afraid of heights.
Scares me to death.
I have no fear.
I can do this.
I can... I can...
Argh!
I can do this.
I know I can do this.
I'm not afraid of heights.
Oh, man.
I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid.
I'm not afraid.
Come on, Dave. We finally made it to the top.
That's quite a climb, isn't it? Oh, man. I'm not afraid of heights.
I'm not afraid of heights.
Hi, kids. We're up on the top of the tower crane now.
Let me show you how it works.
We have two levers here. Joysticks, almost like a video game.
The right-hand joystick. Push it to make the hook go down.
Pull to make the hook go up.
On the left-hand stick, we push left to make the crane swing left.
Push it right to make the crane swing right.
Pull the left lever in, and it makes the hook come towards me.
Push it out, and it makes the hook go out.
By doing all of these functions at one time, I can help the men on the ground.
Well, if you're like me, you've probably seen these big cranes at construction sites
and wondered, well, not only what it would be like to be up in the crane this high off the ground,
but what it would be like to be out on the end of the crane.
So I've talked Mike into giving me that experience.
This is an experience that few people ever have.
This is the basket that they use for maintenance on the crane.
So we're going to go out to the very end, and then he's going to turn it.
Wow. Let's go. Okay, Mike.
Wow.
Once on the ground, the construction crews are hard at work hammering, hauling, and welding.
Well, we've been at a construction site today, a very busy construction site,
and we've been talking to people, so I want to stop and talk to Tracy.
This is Tracy Yost. Tracy, what is your job here?
Well, Dave, I'm called an operating engineer, and I run this forklift right here.
This is a great-old forklift.
It's called a what? A great-old.
You see the name on the side there? Uh-huh. Great-old forklift.
And it's used for what?
Well, we use it to pick up anything that needs to be lifted high up so the men can get to it.
Okay. It can pick up about 8,000 pounds. That's a lot.
Listen, what's this? Well, this is my radio.
This is so I can talk to all the crews. All the crews?
And they can call me and tell me what they need.
Well, you know, I'm construction foreman today. Can I borrow that? Sure.
I'm going to just, uh... I can just talk to everybody. That's right.
Okay, guys, this is construction foreman Dave. You've been working too hard today.
It's time to shut down and go home. Is there a signal for that?
Shut down and go home.
Uh-oh, I... I did it again.
Dave, you have to remember you're not a real construction foreman.
Wow. Now, this is another totally awesome machine,
and we're about to visit another totally awesome construction site.
You know, before you can build one of those buildings, you got to have a road to get to it.
Now we're going to see how some of these machines are used in making roads and highways.
The first step in building a road is to cut a path for the road with a bulldozer.
Then the dirt has to be squished down until it's hard and flat.
Next, concrete is poured.
This big machine is used to spread it out and make it smooth.
These wires put grooves in the surface so cars won't slip when it rains.
In the old days, construction equipment looked a lot different from today.
Some were powered by steam.
Today, the equipment has gotten a lot bigger.
These are some of the biggest machines in the world.
The first one was built in 1929.
The second one was built in 1932.
The third one was built in 1934.
The fourth one was built in 1935.
These are some of the biggest machines in the world, built by Caterpillar.
I kind of like playing construction foreman even if I am just pretending for a day.
Look at this neat little rig they've given me to drive around the construction site.
Pretty neat, huh?
Well, now we have come to one of the biggest construction sites in the whole world.
This is the future site of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
This project is so big that it has been 10 years in the making.
Now as you can see, they still have a ways to go, but they'll be done soon and it's
going to be a museum.
You know how much fun museums are and how much you can learn there, so you'll want to
be sure and plan a trip here in the future.
So what do you say we check out the construction site and see how they start at the ground
and then the buildings reach for the sky?
Oh sorry.
On a multi-story building like this big museum here at the Getty Center where there's lots
of different stories, before the actual real elevators are installed the workers have to
have a way to get up and down to the top and to the different stories on the building. They
use this machine. It's called a man mover and it's kind of a temporary elevator. So if you're ready
let's go take a ride. How you doing? All the way to the top please. The only real difference
between this and a regular elevator is there aren't any walls. Of course you can see outside
of it and it moves a lot more jerky than a real elevator. It's kind of like a carnival ride. We're
almost to the top now. We're there. Come on. Thank you. Whoa! Well you've seen how they use
mostly cement on the lower portions of the building and the foundations but when you get
high in the air we're about 10 stories now. This is going to be part of the auditorium here at the
Getty Center Museum. They use big pieces of metal for strength and those are all bolted together as
you can see and then they use one of these. This is a welding torch to melt the metal and hook it
together just like glue. But the flame on this is so hot that it actually melts the steel. Now this
is not the kind of a job that you want to have if you're someone who doesn't like heights because
as you can see it can be a very dangerous place to be.
Wow! I can't believe that I was actually standing on one of those steel girders over there. You know
one thing about a construction site you really got to be pretty brave to work here and you know
you got to be pretty careful too because it's dangerous and you got to be pretty sure-footed
because you-whoa! Well as I was saying if you're gonna work on a construction site
you've got to be very very careful. Very careful.
Now that is a big machine. Wow! Hey! Excuse me, we have a job for you. A job for me? Yeah. Let's
remove that pile of dirt there. With a shovel? Yeah. I don't believe we've met. My name is Frank.
How do you do Frank? See I'm construction foreman Dave. I see, I see. We all have to start
somewhere and there you go. You want me to move this pile of dirt with this shovel? Seems to me
if I was gonna move a pile of dirt I'd be using one of those. Not a shovel. Shovel. I'm not-I'm
not-I'm construction foreman Dave. I am not moving a pile of dirt with a shovel. No way.
A mighty bulldozer. Let's force some dirt around.
What's next? All right, a backhoe.
Well I guess I handled that pretty well, huh? Heck, I guess you could say old construction
foreman Dave could just about handle any job on any construction site.
Oh geez, the loader.
Get me out of here. Get me out of here. Get me out of here. I don't-I don't want to drive the big-
Hey, hey, construction foreman Dave. Get me out of here. Wake up. You've been dreaming. Frank,
I was dreaming. Boy, I was dreaming. Yeah, and you still haven't moved this pile of dirt. Listen,
I'm sorry about that. You really have to be careful around these big machines. Yeah, you sure do.
You can hurt yourself. All right, I'll-I'll move the dirt. Do that. Thanks. Move the dirt. Move the
dirt with the shovel. No problem. No problem at all. I like the shovel. I like- Well, we've had lots
of fun learning about construction, construction sites, and how they use these big pieces of
equipment. But if you want to learn more, remember you can always learn more at your local library.
They've got books on everything. So until next time, this is construction foreman Dave saying,
if you're going to visit a construction site, always wear your hard hat. See you next time.
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