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An updated attempt at explaining who I am, why I travel so much, and what BuildWitt does. Thank you to everyone who follows along!

A regular reminder for those who work around live traffic… NEVER get comfortable and assume drivers will do as they should. The best way to avoid traffic-related injuries and fatalities is by minimizing work around traffic. But it’s still a must, so good traffic control, crash trucks, and law enforcement are always the play.

The tip of the spear at firstquantumminerals Kansanshi… The electric Hitachi 5600 front shovel, with a 30 cubic meter (40 cubic yard) bucket. One of these brutes is a big deal, but we caught six of these shovels munching through African copper-bearing ore day and night. Electric is always the preferred power source for large earthmovers when available, as it’s the most cost-effective option. And thanks to Zambia’s abundant water and hydropower, all they have to do here is plug them in. Onboard electric motors drive the hydraulic pumps, which power the machine conventionally from there.

Why? Steel mills produce slag, which is mostly limestone mixed with melted iron. The liquid slag cools into large chunks that must be broken to separate the iron from the limestone for recycling. But the nature of the material doesn’t allow for traditional methods, like hydraulic hammers. So why not drop an 18-tonne steel ball onto it repeatedly? One of the cooler jobs I’ve seen out and about! @harscoenvironmental

Steel mill spec 992… Probably the only time I’ll ever see such a big machine with forks and a quick coupler. They need such a large machine to pick up enormous pieces of cooled slag at this particular mill. Within steel mills, everything is hot and heavy. This machine can also perform hot work, featuring ballistic windows, additional guarding, and steel-braided hoses. @zeppelin_equipment_nl @harscoenvironmental

@wallask12 is the SEAL Team 6 of backhoe operators.

Building in the middle of Manhattan ain’t for everyone… It’s one of the toughest environments to build in that I’ve visited. Everything is hard… Even something as simple as getting material is far more expensive. — Check out our latest YouTube video on this project if you haven’t already! The engineering is incredible. They’re raising the entire existing park 8-10’ by importing one million tons of material from the river to form an enormous flood barrier.

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@aertssengroup’s new Daddy Grizzly 2.0, based on a Hitachi EX2000, by @firmaluyckx in Belgium. Built for complex marine construction projects, she’s now in Asia for her first assignment. — It was my first time visiting Luyckx, and I was amazed at their engineering and thoughtfulness. Started in the 1950s by a Belgian farmer, the children of the founder, the two in the photo, run the company today. Being an equipment dealer and manufacturer, there’s nothing they can’t do, from amphibious excavators to monsters like the Daddy Grizzly… — Above all else, their love for what they do is infectious, happily hosting me and others on a Sunday to see what they build!!

If you’re wondering how much water flows through a 36” trunk main, here’s your answer, thanks to @abc7la… A 110 pipe burst on Sunset Blvd, flooding the area before they could shut it off. The line was scheduled for replacement in 2031… Not much else matters without clean water!

If you’re wondering how much water flows through a 36” trunk main, here’s a visual, thanks to @abc7la, showing the aftermath of this week’s main break on Sunset Blvd. The line was 110 years old and was scheduled for replacement in 2031… Most people don’t realize how old much of our infrastructure is, yet we’ll increasingly find out like this as the years drag on. Not much else matters when you’re lacking clean water!

The infamous Carrara marble mines in Italy. — What I didn’t expect were the views… Most mines start at around 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) in the Apuan Alps and can safely rise above 1,500 meters (4,900 feet). It was funny to run to the beach in the morning, then watch big machines wrestle blocks of marble high in the mountains in the afternoon. — The marble supposedly began as the remains of ancient sea creatures, forming thick limestone beds. Then, tens of millions of years ago, the African and Eurasian plates collided, forming the pure calcium carbonate marble and the Alps at the same time. — And now, thanks to thousands of years of mining, the unmistakable white stone is found in every corner of the globe.