Season 3

When Jet Girl lands at the airport near the factory, she remembers how she was assembled there. All the parts have to come together and be carefully inspected and tested at each position before the plane moves forward along the line. Does it look like a plane yet?

Railways in the mountains have to be specially built, and the railway was built more than a hundred years ago. The tracks wind up steep inclines, cling to the sides of cliffs and look down into deep canyons. What a sight!

What happens to a car you don't want anymore? It goes to the wrecking yard, then to the scrap yard and finally to the steel mill where it's recycled into different products. Every new car has steel from old cars in it. That's what recycling is all about.

Pipelines carrying oil, gas and other petroleum products are buried underground all over the world. Big excavators dig deep trenches hundreds of kilometres long so that strong Bulldozers can lay the pipe gently into the ground. They work together as a team to get the job done, quickly and safely.

'Slab Hauler' is a big red machine with six huge tires and he guides us around a steel mill, after showing us how he can use his strong pincers to pick up slabs of hot steel and transport them to the slab yards and into the rolling mills. Since he moves around the mill so much, he knows all the machines that work there. He introduces us to 'Dozer' who grooms the hills of crushed coal and 'Scraper', the bottom loading vehicle that transports the coal to the coke

Ever wonder how a newspaper is made? Charlie the printing press is three stories high and as long as a city block! He prints the newspaper, folds it and sends it to customers by truck. He relies on the help of a team of robots! The machines at the newspaper plant know what teamwork is all about!

Tow trucks are a special type of machine because they help other machines get out of trouble. Giant tow trucks specialize in helping big transport trucks, oil trucks and earth-moving machines. It also takes a lot of skill and know-how to load an excavator and move it to a construction site. Watch a flat-bed truck pick up an excavator for delivery to a job.

Ever wonder how fruits and vegetables are harvested? Watch how Harvester gathers the plants in a field of tomatoes. Clipper works with Grape Harvester to ripen and gather grapes in the vineyard. Then the plants are delivered to a factory where they are turned into your favourite foods!

When the job calls for lifting big and heavy objects onto an area where a regular crane can?t reach, like the middle of the roof of a giant warehouse or factory, an AIR CRANE does the job. A Sikorsky helicopter named Gipsy Lady has twin jet engines and very long rotors to manage the heavy weight of the transformers and air conditioning units she flies up and onto the centre of the factory roof.

How do you think earth-moving machines learn to do their jobs? They go to school! It's not easy for Backhoe to dig a tidy trench, and Bulldozer has a difficult time buillding an earth ramp. The Graders, Front-End Loaders and Excavators all need special instructions to do their jobs. And watch out for the Mini-Dozers - they have a good time learning their jobs. Even machines have fun at school.

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The Spirit of Vancouver Island, a BCFerries ferry, shows the audience what happens at the dock, the controls of the ship, and other things on the ship.