My grandpa was an apple farmer and he used to have a bunch of D2's - the orchard models. Most were 3U's but he had a couple of 4U's. He also had a couple of International TD 6's. When the ground was really wet, these were really the only tractors capable of traversing it back in the day. Grandpa used to collect tractors like you do!
You already need an addition on the new shed! That is how it always seems to go. No empty space lasts long. No flat surface stays empty for me. Thanks for sharing.
My family calls it the "Space Paradox". You accumulate more stuff, requiring more space, however once you gain the needed space, you fill it with more stuff, and the cycle repeats.
Never bored. Never loose interest. Every video a Master Class in some kind of tractor or equipment service, rebuild, repair or refurbishment. Don't change anything Squatch it is perfect!!
Compared to most other Cat pony motors that a person sees on you tube, yours run better than 95% of the other ones! Even with the low speed issues. The diesel sure sounds good!
Hey Squatch! Anyway you could please send a shout out to my dad for his bday on Nov 16th? He will be 75 and loves your channel! He watches each video about 30 times :) all good if not. His name is Geoff Parkin and we are in Australia and love seeing all the meticulous work you and Senior do. All the best! cheers, Jamila
If there would not be people like you. Most of us would start these things wrong or let them neglect to the point where it's a one way ticked to the scrapper. I ran into the same issues that you described. People ramming the pinion gear in by force and grinding off all the teeth. Also letting the pinion run without oil is a sure death sentence. Very glad you took this topic up. PS: glad you got all the machines in the shed for the winter. Major progress.
Squatch: Thank you for addressing my question so thoroughly. I certainly appreciate the benefit of having a starting engine to preheat the main engine and bring up the oil pressure; also that you have a much longer time to get the main engine started with a gas starter engine than with an often weak starting battery. Short answer-- the pony isn't an afterthought and the pinion drive system shouldn't need more service than any other of the pony motor's systems.
Tongue in cheek - the poor unwanted sister in the form of the rock crusher has been sentenced to another winter in the cold. Apart from that aside, you are most fortunate to have completed this work in time for the winter.
I love it when a plan comes together. Well done! You made great use of the good weather season. There's only two seasons in Minnesota; Winter, and road construction.
Thanks for the video Toby! All the machines look right at home in the red shed. We had our first taste of winter earlier this week here in Cape Breton Nova Scotia, and I just finished packing away next winters wood just in time. Cheers
Great to see the Caterpillar content again! Hate to think about the snow and cold already, seems like it was just Spring, although here in Northern Indiana we have had a very nice fall! Thanks for the video 👍🏼👍🏼
Long term thought… Will a D2 with the wooden cab fit under your loft? Oh never mind, there’s a good high clearance end spot near your passage door. You guys think of everything! And quick work on that pony engine (seemed quick to us anyway). I love those little engines.
@squatch253 does the front-end or the rear end raise up from the torque when starting to move either forward or back and does that effect the clearance under the loft? I have watched how semi trucks raise up when they start moving. I am sure you calculated that in your design as well planned as the red shed seems to be but the question came to my mind. glad you have new storage to use as you need to.
1:19 early on i learnt my lesson the hard way, that you ALWAYS, clean the tank and passages after a carb rebuild. I was so chuffed with myself too. I'd rebuilt a carb all by myself. The next day, it was all clogged up again. My uncle laughed his derriere at me and probably smirked all the way through the rebuild fully aware of the mistake i was making.
toby, i didn’t follow for quite some time. what a pretty little museum you built yourself there! really love how all machines have their places nice and dry. keep ‘em alive!
A couple of things that may help you and your viewers: Plug And Cap Set: I bought the CAT cap set and it covers most things. Harbor Freight has a silicone plug and cap set (Part Number 70792). The plugs are more like stoppers and since the plugs and caps are made of silicone, they are more flexible than the CAT plastic set. Good to have both. 300 Lumen LED Work Light: You were using the Hockey LED light (from Harbor Freight). That led light is rather dim and the batteries do not last long since they are AAA’s. Menards sells a LED “stick” which is brighter (300 lumens) and the batteries last longer since they are AA’s. They are cheap ($3.00 each or $6.00 per pair plus batteries). I still use a rechargeable light but it is nice to have replaceable battery lights (for when the power goes out and cannot recharge lights and phones).
Have to add one more comment. I think Dad and I definitely fell into the camp of not operating it properly at first. I was a little more familiar with bigger Pony Motors from our graders. All of them are very confusing when you're new to using them. They are also forgiving enough to work even if you do it improperly. Taking them all apart and putting them together gave us a very good understanding. 👍
I definitely see the advantage of a pony motor in cold climates where you live. Being able to warm the diesel up for a few minutes before the crank makes a lot of sense. Especially on units w/o glow plugs Even with plugs, the two small diesel tractors my dad had were tough to get going with electric start when it was under 50 degrees (though some of that was definitely our fault) Glad to see the snow! Smells like shop season
I love the concept of a pull start pony motor. No need for a battery that you have to remove in the winter and put on a trickle charger. It is not bad to start and will not only turn over the diesel as much as you need but also warm it up. Not all the designs of these is perfect by any means, but I think some of the old designs were great.
Squarch, I really am hooked on the CAT D2's but still cant wait to see the Minneapolis Moline prototype up and running. As usual you are entertaining, knowledgable and funtastic show host, keep up the great work and stay safe
Always great to listen to a running machine, quite the stable you have assembled. It's a hard choice what one i like more RD-6 or Swamp Angle, I'd have to say the RD-6 by just a slight hair but both are great. I've always preferred the worn used look over the fresh paint myself. Cheers from Canada!
Great work Toby! I recently completely rebuilt the carb on the pony on my D2 5U 6373 using a genuine Zenith TU Carb rebuild kit, however I found that the float bowl gasket must be a little thicker than the original causing the float to sit too high if set to the factory 1 and 1/8th of an inch. It consistently ran too lean (and sounded just like yours at idle) even with the idle screw and high-speed screw wound right in. It only came right when I removed the bowl and bent the float down to compensate for the thicker gasket. Hope this helps!
This weather always reminds me of the 'Legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. The Witch of November comes stealing in!! What a life out there on the great lakes must have been like on the great freighters, God only knows!
I put an electric starter on my D6-9U I went in the pinion clutch hole to do it, I know you like your starting motors but the electric has turned out good for me I use the tractor more because of it. I have a small machine shop and made my conversion, I still use the cat pinion and it works like it did originally and kicks out as the motor gains rpm.
Great to see a new video. I was just sitting here trying to figure how to get a D6 over to the new building. Post a video please if you get snow,, I will get us in the holiday mood. I m gonna go ride the D9g .
My only gripe about my pony start R john deere (I know it's not a cat) is the lack of a carb for the pony. The "mixing pot" (basically a single fuel screw in an intake elbow, no float, no bowl) is that you have to set the fuel mixture all the time. Outside air or engine temp changes, you have to change the mixture, or it'll either flood or be too lean to fire. Later ones at least gave you that control from the seat. Mines early so you have to reach under the hood...
I haven't had anything to do with those pony motors but I can see there advantage. Those indirect injection diesels are hard to cold start without heat or that contentious product in a spray can. A least the Caterpillar and International start on gas systems get the diesel system warmed up before trying to get it running. The Caterpillar system also gets oil pressure up before any strain is put on the engine so must help with the longevity of the engine. Also no matter what the temperature it will start where the ones converted to electric start will have trouble. With my 1957 HD6 I park it up if it is less than about 5 deg c because it's to hard to start, I'm actually surprised it starts easily at that temperature.
The bigger the barn the more space you have to fill .there never big enough. My uncle punched me in the arm because i shut the pony engine with the mag . After that i alwas shut the fuel off . I was 10 years old . He spent about an hour on me doing hands on operation with the crawler power off .
Couple quick Q. On advice from an old timer cat mechanic I always rotate the pony to just before the compression stroke before I yank on it. Have you heard of that? It seems to me you just thread on the rope where ever and pull. You mention briefly the little filter inside the float bowl. I have a couple where that's just gone and I use a in-line filter as I have not figured out what I could use to replace it.
My general procedure for rope-starting the D2/D4 ponies is 3 wraps around the flywheel, slight rotation to find the first compression stroke, then pull. I don't know if it makes much of a difference in how it starts, but I've found that I get a much smoother pull without that brief initial free-wheel followed by the sudden slam of compression. For the edge filter/sediment bowl issue, yeah those edge filter stacks are getting hard to find in good shape but one of my favorite work-arounds is to take a paper fuel filter element out of one of those in-line filters that you mentioned and fit it inside the sediment bowl, in place of the old edge filter stack. The 16:00 mark of the video in the following link shows how I do that sediment bowl filter modification - th-cam.com/video/7NREY6d5SYc/w-d-xo.html
@@squatch253 Thanks for the reply. Your channel is the OG of TH-cam CAT restorations. I have dozens of your videos downloaded and have watched/re-watched/re-winded and paused them more times than you can imagine. The detail you go into is very very much appreciated. Keep doing what your doing and know it really helps a lot us out there with our machines. We wouldn't be able to do this w/o you.
Hi Squatch, Listening to you and if buying a cat secondhand with a pony motor, properly the first question you ask the previous owner is how he started the Pony Motor to see if you would immediately purchase having to rebuild the Pony Motor and whole main motor engaging system you seem to say if they ignored the proper starting procedure. I always used to quiver and shake when I heard the crunching of gear teeth and listen to people engaging the main motor from the days when I was a Toddler as even then I knew that sound was not right.😭😞
Always a joy when I see a new video from you. Now that the snow is upon you (and, no pressure, I know you're a busy guy), any chance we'll see some more progress on X231?
I imagine there's a lot of people that have never had a good running working pony motor and therefore they don't care for them. I mess with vintage snowmobiles, much like senior. A lot of people malign the tillotson pumper type carburetors used on the '60s and early '70s machines, but often the problems lie elsewhere like leaking crankshaft seals, ignition system problems, etc. And then they monkey with the carburetor and make things worse. All my machines I go through and take care of all those issues, I run non-ethanol fuel and other than having to use a squirt of prime. If they've been sitting more than a few days or weeks, I can hop on any of them and I'm not afraid to go 40-50 mi by myself without problems. But if you try to take something that's worn out, been messed with and band aided by multiple hands, you aren't ever going to get something reliable that works right!
Senior knows those Tilliotson carbs very well, and cut his teeth rebuilding them when he worked for the local snowmobile dealer in the late 1960's. He's always had good luck with them after giving them the complete rebuilds they often need, but the one carburetor he never thought highly of was the old Wahlborough sometimes found on those 2-cycle engines - he's said that they had trouble built right into them lol ;-)
We don`t get that white stuff from the sky down here in N. Fla. much - its NOT winter down here yet. Nice update, move and Happy Halloween to your red shed occupant.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Hey I have a question/ suggestion.. wouldn't having the entire concrete floor being covered (just your main stretch only) of old conveyor belts connected together be a little bit easier? Sure your system works fine don't get me wrong, just thought that may be a simpler and feasible solution in due time.
Love watching your shows very educating And I really hate to ask but just what is a Rick Bork? Is he like the one brother in law that gets drunk at thanksgiving and tells everyone what he thinks of them or….?
Better hang on to that beer can. You never know when you might need it to sleeve a main bearing on a Caterpillar crankshaft some day. It's a proven method of repair on these machines.
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My grandpa was an apple farmer and he used to have a bunch of D2's - the orchard models. Most were 3U's but he had a couple of 4U's. He also had a couple of International TD 6's. When the ground was really wet, these were really the only tractors capable of traversing it back in the day. Grandpa used to collect tractors like you do!
Still have grandpa's tractors..??
@@johnborn1600 No longer. He passed away back in the late 80's and his equipment got sold.
You all definitely had more equipment than I realized. Love the new Cat museum.
Hey you gotta feed the nite watch man fallillin away to nothing beer is okay happy thanks giving and enjoy your new building ronrdzl
You already need an addition on the new shed! That is how it always seems to go. No empty space lasts long. No flat surface stays empty for me. Thanks for sharing.
My family calls it the "Space Paradox". You accumulate more stuff, requiring more space, however once you gain the needed space, you fill it with more stuff, and the cycle repeats.
@jakeofalltrades298 yep. It's a never ending battle.
Hola cuanto vale un Cat. D 2 allá. Sin reparar.
The shed is awesome. The tractors look really good in there. Good job Squatch
Congrats on getting the last d2 in the red shed before the snow fell
Toby in lecturer mode or educating mode love it
Never bored. Never loose interest. Every video a Master Class in some kind of tractor or equipment service, rebuild, repair or refurbishment. Don't change anything Squatch it is perfect!!
Compared to most other Cat pony motors that a person sees on you tube, yours run better than 95% of the other ones! Even with the low speed issues. The diesel sure sounds good!
Thanks! Yes this D2 really runs and drives very well considering I really haven’t done much to it yet 👍
Hey Squatch! Anyway you could please send a shout out to my dad for his bday on Nov 16th? He will be 75 and loves your channel! He watches each video about 30 times :) all good if not. His name is Geoff Parkin and we are in Australia and love seeing all the meticulous work you and Senior do. All the best! cheers, Jamila
Filling up fast, but looks like you've got a good caretaker to hang around in the barn. The collection is looking great!
Squatch,
I truly enjoy your charter, demeaner and knowledge, By far my favorite U tube channel. Keep up the great work. Boe 👍👍
If there would not be people like you. Most of us would start these things wrong or let them neglect to the point where it's a one way ticked to the scrapper. I ran into the same issues that you described. People ramming the pinion gear in by force and grinding off all the teeth. Also letting the pinion run without oil is a sure death sentence. Very glad you took this topic up. PS: glad you got all the machines in the shed for the winter. Major progress.
Squatch:
Thank you for addressing my question so thoroughly. I certainly appreciate the benefit of having a starting engine to preheat the main engine and bring up the oil pressure; also that you have a much longer time to get the main engine started with a gas starter engine than with an often weak starting battery. Short answer-- the pony isn't an afterthought and the pinion drive system shouldn't need more service than any other of the pony motor's systems.
Tongue in cheek - the poor unwanted sister in the form of the rock crusher has been sentenced to another winter in the cold. Apart from that aside, you are most fortunate to have completed this work in time for the winter.
Well done! You timed your move perfectly. I know it's a great feeling to have everything organized and under cover. Congratulations!
Thanks for the update Toby! Glad everything got done in time. Can’t wait for the next video!
Winter janitor? Dangit! Skully stole my dream job! :)
I love the theatrics with Skully.
I sensed a little bit of the borkster when dealing with skully………..
Well since Rick completely abandoned the long form videos, somebody’s got to do it lol 👍
The red shed sure makes a nice setup for storage of the equipment.
I love it when a plan comes together. Well done! You made great use of the good weather season. There's only two seasons in Minnesota; Winter, and road construction.
Thanks for the video Toby! All the machines look right at home in the red shed. We had our first taste of winter earlier this week here in Cape Breton Nova Scotia, and I just finished packing away next winters wood just in time. Cheers
Great to see the Caterpillar content again! Hate to think about the snow and cold already, seems like it was just Spring, although here in Northern Indiana we have had a very nice fall! Thanks for the video 👍🏼👍🏼
Long term thought… Will a D2 with the wooden cab fit under your loft? Oh never mind, there’s a good high clearance end spot near your passage door. You guys think of everything!
And quick work on that pony engine (seemed quick to us anyway). I love those little engines.
Yep the D2 with wood cab will fit under the loft with about 4” to spare 👍
@squatch253 does the front-end or the rear end raise up from the torque when starting to move either forward or back and does that effect the clearance under the loft? I have watched how semi trucks raise up when they start moving. I am sure you calculated that in your design as well planned as the red shed seems to be but the question came to my mind. glad you have new storage to use as you need to.
I bet Skully is the best helper you've ever had!🤣
Well, he still beats Rick Bork 🤦🏻♂️😂😂👍
And you make no bones about it!
I have been watching your videos for years. You are living the life. Thank you for all your knowledge
1:19 early on i learnt my lesson the hard way, that you ALWAYS, clean the tank and passages after a carb rebuild. I was so chuffed with myself too. I'd rebuilt a carb all by myself. The next day, it was all clogged up again. My uncle laughed his derriere at me and probably smirked all the way through the rebuild fully aware of the mistake i was making.
toby, i didn’t follow for quite some time. what a pretty little museum you built yourself there! really love how all machines have their places nice and dry. keep ‘em alive!
Hallo thank you for the intressting Video 👍👍
Ha, ha! Thanks for the follow up, Squatch!
A couple of things that may help you and your viewers:
Plug And Cap Set: I bought the CAT cap set and it covers most things. Harbor Freight has a silicone plug and cap set (Part Number 70792). The plugs are more like stoppers and since the plugs and caps are made of silicone, they are more flexible than the CAT plastic set. Good to have both.
300 Lumen LED Work Light: You were using the Hockey LED light (from Harbor Freight). That led light is rather dim and the batteries do not last long since they are AAA’s. Menards sells a LED “stick” which is brighter (300 lumens) and the batteries last longer since they are AA’s. They are cheap ($3.00 each or $6.00 per pair plus batteries). I still use a rechargeable light but it is nice to have replaceable battery lights (for when the power goes out and cannot recharge lights and phones).
Have to add one more comment. I think Dad and I definitely fell into the camp of not operating it properly at first. I was a little more familiar with bigger Pony Motors from our graders. All of them are very confusing when you're new to using them. They are also forgiving enough to work even if you do it improperly. Taking them all apart and putting them together gave us a very good understanding. 👍
I'd like to petition for Skully to become a regular guest
Thanks for the great content, Squatch! Been watching you for years
I definitely see the advantage of a pony motor in cold climates where you live. Being able to warm the diesel up for a few minutes before the crank makes a lot of sense. Especially on units w/o glow plugs
Even with plugs, the two small diesel tractors my dad had were tough to get going with electric start when it was under 50 degrees (though some of that was definitely our fault)
Glad to see the snow! Smells like shop season
Time to get senior's Nordic out for a rip! Great video, Skully is my new favorite character 🤣
Squatch, the D2 runs great. It’s nice to see most of your vintage equipment inside the red shed. I enjoyed your video thanks.
We learn something on every episode, thank you!
You are the knowledge base that covers all the bases 👍🏻🤔🤩😁
Sort of like the distributor on the 2N Ford. Timing is a pain, but when it's right it stays timed.
Tusen Takk.
What a great collection to have all in one place!
I love the concept of a pull start pony motor. No need for a battery that you have to remove in the winter and put on a trickle charger. It is not bad to start and will not only turn over the diesel as much as you need but also warm it up. Not all the designs of these is perfect by any means, but I think some of the old designs were great.
Glad the snow waited for you to finish your busy spring/summer/fall chores! The Red Shed looks good with all the CATs and Farmalls in it.
No snow here yet in New Brunswick,Canada.I just put my 1999 mustang convertible in storage yesterday for the winter.
Squarch, I really am hooked on the CAT D2's but still cant wait to see the Minneapolis Moline prototype up and running. As usual you are entertaining, knowledgable and funtastic show host, keep up the great work and stay safe
It is nice to see more running operating D2’s.
Always great to listen to a running machine, quite the stable you have assembled. It's a hard choice what one i like more RD-6 or Swamp Angle, I'd have to say the RD-6 by just a slight hair but both are great. I've always preferred the worn used look over the fresh paint myself.
Cheers from Canada!
We got rain and just a little sleet/snow out of that here in west central wi. Looked like the cities and north got snow though.
Good Video
Skully is gonna have to hang around the red shed!
😂 love the sidekick, Har DE Har Har. Really nice new shop. Nice collection of D2s. 😊
Great work Toby! I recently completely rebuilt the carb on the pony on my D2 5U 6373 using a genuine Zenith TU Carb rebuild kit, however I found that the float bowl gasket must be a little thicker than the original causing the float to sit too high if set to the factory 1 and 1/8th of an inch. It consistently ran too lean (and sounded just like yours at idle) even with the idle screw and high-speed screw wound right in. It only came right when I removed the bowl and bent the float down to compensate for the thicker gasket. Hope this helps!
Nice Line up, Hard Work & Planning - Pay Off - - Never Done at a Squatch Shop- 🙂
Looks like we’re set for the winter.
Glad to see a new video this morning, I was just sitting here thinking how we could a D6 over to new building.
I like the details, they are interesting.
very envious, love it!
This weather always reminds me of the 'Legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. The Witch of November comes stealing in!! What a life out there on the great lakes must have been like on the great freighters, God only knows!
Excellent job , sounds good and thanks for the info ..!!! Stay safe and may God bless you and yours ....!!!
I put an electric starter on my D6-9U I went in the pinion clutch hole to do it, I know you like your starting motors but the electric has turned out good for me I use the tractor more because of it. I have a small machine shop and made my conversion, I still use the cat pinion and it works like it did originally and kicks out as the motor gains rpm.
Snow there. Was 96 here a few days ago. NE Texas. Finally got some rain past couple of days to break a 6 week drought.
That's pretty funny! Ha,ha,ha! My plan is to wake up in the morning after that you never know what might happen!!
Excellent video
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Great to see a new video. I was just sitting here trying to figure how to get a D6 over to the new building. Post a video please if you get snow,, I will get us in the holiday mood. I m gonna go ride the D9g .
My only gripe about my pony start R john deere (I know it's not a cat) is the lack of a carb for the pony. The "mixing pot" (basically a single fuel screw in an intake elbow, no float, no bowl) is that you have to set the fuel mixture all the time. Outside air or engine temp changes, you have to change the mixture, or it'll either flood or be too lean to fire. Later ones at least gave you that control from the seat. Mines early so you have to reach under the hood...
Hi Toby I'm feeling better that cold virus sucks it's not snowing here yet u keep it up there lol I watch every video
SWEET LOOKING COLLECTION BRO ! 👍💪
That Cotter-pin in your throttle rod must be driving you nuts :) .
I haven't had anything to do with those pony motors but I can see there advantage. Those indirect injection diesels are hard to cold start without heat or that contentious product in a spray can. A least the Caterpillar and International start on gas systems get the diesel system warmed up before trying to get it running. The Caterpillar system also gets oil pressure up before any strain is put on the engine so must help with the longevity of the engine. Also no matter what the temperature it will start where the ones converted to electric start will have trouble. With my 1957 HD6 I park it up if it is less than about 5 deg c because it's to hard to start, I'm actually surprised it starts easily at that temperature.
The bigger the barn the more space you have to fill .there never big enough. My uncle punched me in the arm because i shut the pony engine with the mag . After that i alwas shut the fuel off . I was 10 years old . He spent about an hour on me doing hands on operation with the crawler power off .
Stay warm, getting some firewood, and have a nice drink. :)
Crazy that the electric start is a motor big enough to start the deisel alone if it were a modern electric motor
Hey up mate super cool video and really good to see you've got stuff moved before winter
Hoping for more X231 material. I know you will finish the Preparation H project first but I can't wait for you to get back to that prototype Minnie.
What a good job!
Squatch sure likes playing with his cats
Couple quick Q. On advice from an old timer cat mechanic I always rotate the pony to just before the compression stroke before I yank on it. Have you heard of that? It seems to me you just thread on the rope where ever and pull. You mention briefly the little filter inside the float bowl. I have a couple where that's just gone and I use a in-line filter as I have not figured out what I could use to replace it.
My general procedure for rope-starting the D2/D4 ponies is 3 wraps around the flywheel, slight rotation to find the first compression stroke, then pull. I don't know if it makes much of a difference in how it starts, but I've found that I get a much smoother pull without that brief initial free-wheel followed by the sudden slam of compression. For the edge filter/sediment bowl issue, yeah those edge filter stacks are getting hard to find in good shape but one of my favorite work-arounds is to take a paper fuel filter element out of one of those in-line filters that you mentioned and fit it inside the sediment bowl, in place of the old edge filter stack. The 16:00 mark of the video in the following link shows how I do that sediment bowl filter modification - th-cam.com/video/7NREY6d5SYc/w-d-xo.html
@@squatch253 Thanks for the reply. Your channel is the OG of TH-cam CAT restorations. I have dozens of your videos downloaded and have watched/re-watched/re-winded and paused them more times than you can imagine. The detail you go into is very very much appreciated. Keep doing what your doing and know it really helps a lot us out there with our machines. We wouldn't be able to do this w/o you.
Moving. Day.
Thanks
Hi Squatch, Listening to you and if buying a cat secondhand with a pony motor, properly the first question you ask the previous owner is how he started the Pony Motor to see if you would immediately purchase having to rebuild the Pony Motor and whole main motor engaging system you seem to say if they ignored the proper starting procedure. I always used to quiver and shake when I heard the crunching of gear teeth and listen to people engaging the main motor from the days when I was a Toddler as even then I knew that sound was not right.😭😞
Always a joy when I see a new video from you. Now that the snow is upon you (and, no pressure, I know you're a busy guy), any chance we'll see some more progress on X231?
First we’ll get the Farmall H as far as we can until we have to wait for painting weather to return, and then it’ll be back to old X231 👍
Skully scenes were funny good job 👍😆🤪 ✌️🤙
Red Shed... should name it " The Cat House" maybe lol
Knowledge is priceless. I enjoy the content. Lastly, you need a bigger shed
Waited far too eagerly for this episode, but I don’t care. It was worth it. SKULLY!!!
So.... what's going on the loft in the red shed if all the Caterpillar parts are going in the shipping container?
Hoods, fenders, fuel tanks, grader tires (the ones you saw in the Cat Shack) and other bulky but not super heavy items 👍
Thanks Squatch 253... 18:13 @squatch253
I imagine there's a lot of people that have never had a good running working pony motor and therefore they don't care for them. I mess with vintage snowmobiles, much like senior. A lot of people malign the tillotson pumper type carburetors used on the '60s and early '70s machines, but often the problems lie elsewhere like leaking crankshaft seals, ignition system problems, etc. And then they monkey with the carburetor and make things worse. All my machines I go through and take care of all those issues, I run non-ethanol fuel and other than having to use a squirt of prime. If they've been sitting more than a few days or weeks, I can hop on any of them and I'm not afraid to go 40-50 mi by myself without problems. But if you try to take something that's worn out, been messed with and band aided by multiple hands, you aren't ever going to get something reliable that works right!
Senior knows those Tilliotson carbs very well, and cut his teeth rebuilding them when he worked for the local snowmobile dealer in the late 1960's. He's always had good luck with them after giving them the complete rebuilds they often need, but the one carburetor he never thought highly of was the old Wahlborough sometimes found on those 2-cycle engines - he's said that they had trouble built right into them lol ;-)
Been looking forward to this one
Excellent!
Judging by the collection now housed within, maybe the shed should have been Yellow 😂😂
As big as that shed is she filled right up.
We don`t get that white stuff from the sky down here in N. Fla. much - its NOT winter down here yet. Nice update, move and Happy Halloween to your red shed occupant.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Hey I have a question/ suggestion.. wouldn't having the entire concrete floor being covered (just your main stretch only) of old conveyor belts connected together be a little bit easier? Sure your system works fine don't get me wrong, just thought that may be a simpler and feasible solution in due time.
Minnesnowta earns its name again.
Sometimes GOOD help is hard to find 🤪🤪
Love watching your shows very educating And I really hate to ask but just what is a Rick Bork? Is he like the one brother in law that gets drunk at thanksgiving and tells everyone what he thinks of them or….?
Wouldn’t the growler d2 be a perfect candidate for the wood d2 cad since it has the flat backed seat and side fuel tank
Thanks love the videos
The flat backed seat and fender mounted fuel tank would both get in the way of the cab, it only fits with the seat-tank and open fenders 👍
Great show. I gave you your 643rd like. When the vid was over, you had 921 likes. That's crazy good to see. Take care.
Better hang on to that beer can. You never know when you might need it to sleeve a main bearing on a Caterpillar crankshaft some day. It's a proven method of repair on these machines.
Better watch out. Skully is about to Bork the Iron Mistress up.
Snow is here and the Cats are put away.. which means it's time for X231 business!!