Glad I found your video. I used to run an old 1951 Ohio Locomotive crane in a steel yard in the mid 70's. The Bucyrus Erie was a competitor of Ohio. We scrapped out one of the last running steam locomotive wrecker cranes on the west coast. We had tried to sell it but nobody would or could afford her. We fired it up with auxiliary air to check out the systems before putting her under the torch.
@@RustyRescues Yes it is, we did manage to sell a couple wood sided Cabooses. I also got to run an old RD 8 cable blade cat. Those machines really tested an operators skill.
That old girl still runs as smooth as peanut butter good for you for rescuing her from the shredder we need more guys like you! Keep that old iron running and God bless!😀🇨🇦👍👎👉👈🏗🪝👆👇🤌👌
Thank you vary much for the video and your hard work. I’m 65 years old and as a kid I remember these machines, it literally brought to tears to hear you fire it up and get it moving.a lot of memories about those machines crawling on them after the workers gone home for the day and smell the grease and oil in them .Thats what they used all over town to dig holes. They have a vary distinct sound of the flathead 6 cylinder engine in them. The house I live in the basement was dug out by one of those.machines. I new by the sound the construction of a new house was starting in my neighborhood when I heard one of these, thanks again.
Joel, thanks so much for the kind words and positive feed back. Nick and I have collectively rescued 4 of these shovels now, it's been very rewarding and we have no regrets. They'll be more videos soon of the 1937 Bay City we recently rescued.
Brings back fond memories, and reminders of my arthritic pain from my days running a 70 ft boom with a magnet in a big industrial recycle yard in Newark, N.J. It broke my heart to see hundreds of the old 40s/50s locomotives cut up for scrap iron that I would load into trailers in the yard. Those were the same engines that pulled box, and flat cars, and cabooses that I hopped on as a kid for a day of adventure where I grew up. Would occaisionally find a hobo in an appliance box camping in the woods, and talk for hours about his travels. This was in the 50s, and my mom never knew where I went when I went out in the morning. As long as I came home in time for supper. Then in the 70s, when I had to watch the Loco's get cut up, it brought back fond memories, along with sadness thinking how relevant, and purposeful they were then, only to be relegated to the scrap heap not that long later. I'm in my 70s now, and see parallels between man, and machines once proud, strong, and productive , marginalized by progress, and regressive age. I was strong, tough, and undeterred by adversity in my time. I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm good once, as I ever was!
Bill, it brings me great sadness as well. Ya' can't save them all, but there's a few of us out there doing what we can when we're not working for the man. That sounds like a pretty amazing childhood, I can only imagine some of the stories you heard from the vagrants, I bet they were fascinating. Different times then, progress is such a conflicted word...
I’m 73 from the Detroit, Michigan area. My grandfather began his excavation company digging Michigan style basements with a team of horses and a scoop that was pulled behind the horse much like a plow. The horse was lead in a short circle and the dirt was dumped along side the hole, which in effect raised the surrounding grade. The basements were very shallow with little head room. He never liked horses, so my grandmother had to feed and groom them. They lived in Lincoln Park and their stable was across the street from the house. Finally he bought the first steam shovel in S.E. Michigan. Probably a Bucyrus Erie, not sure. The trucks used to haul dirt away had chain drive axles. From there a Fordson that would only swing 45 degrees each way. It was Loraine’s and Northwest’s after that. During summer break from high school, I drove the service truck around to fuel up the machines and grease. I was also the grade man for my grandfather on basement jobs that included the sewer leads. He was a pioneer in this field and lived a good life. Just saying.
Terri, I love comments like this. I collect and restore antique tractors, and equally enjoy hearing stories like this from older generations than myself. It's hard to believe how far we've come in such a short period of time, people these days truly don't appreciate or understand it. I've seen the drag scoops you speak of, they were used behind tractors in early days as well. Slow but effective. I'm intrigued by his ownership of a Fordson shovel. I have a pretty large collection of Fordson equipment, and actually own a Fordson quarter turn cable shovel. I've not yet rescued it from the woods where it sits, but will most certainly get video of it when I do. Do you still have any of your dad's equipment? Is this what you ended up doing for a living as well?
Tador Machines sorry for the delay in responding. After 4 years of college and tour of duty in Nam, I went back to work with my dad. My uncle had died and so my dad was sole owner of the company. 15 years later, dad had health issues and wanted out. Instead of taking things over, I went to work for a local contractor ( site developer) that wanted to get big fast. He was younger and hadn’t seen a recession. After 20 years he managed to overextend and lost everything. I worked as a hands on foreman and was in charge of 3 underground utilities crews. We had 12 627 Cat scrapers and several D8 dozers, to give you some idea of his involvement. We had 130 employees and built 12 million dollar jobs. When he went out, I retired at 65. I have pictures of my grandfather on his fordson installing sewer in Detroit. They loaded a mining style car on rails along side the trench and would roll the car back to dump the spoils over the laid pipe. Clay pipe with oakum and cement joints. They used this method of backfill when digging between houses as the picture shows. I would include pictures, but I winter in Florida and do not have access to them. A side comment: my grandfather worked running his shovel until he started falling off of it. My dad finally forced him to retire. He was built like a bull from years of pushing and pulling levers. Not like today’s machines. Today’s operators would not know how to handle even changing a top cable. Back then you designed, stacked, and built each job, and was mechanic if something broke. I’m long winded hear, but wanted to say I enjoy seeing that someone appreciates the equipment of years gone by. They look great.
A beautiful old girl, well worth saving and restoring. Reminds me of Mary Anne out of my favorite children's book "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" when I was little (who am I kidding, I still love the book many decades later 💖). Great work saving her. 😀
As a Brit kid just starting out in the UKs construction industry, I drove the British Ruston Bucyrus versions, I believe yours would have equated to the 10RB model. I went on to drive the 19RB and 22RBs, I was told the numbers related to the weight of the bare machine. My favourite was the 22RB working on a subway project in the 1960s mostly doing crane work with the standard boom. IE: Jib root and head. I had a 6 month spell loading tunnel spoil from a heap into muck away tipper trucks (US Dump Trucks) I did one day with it equipped with a face shovel, but then transferred below ground to drive a TBM tunnel boring machine and into the big money. When we changed direction while tracking, we called that Spragging. Later I worked for a mobile crane company driving 7ton and 15 ton Allen Grove truck mounted cranes, this time the numbers related to the lifting capacity with a short lib and max rope falls. Again UK and US designed machines, both had similar controls to the RBs clutches and foot brakes for the lift and drag ropes. Love to see this old girls rescued, so I wish you good luck and will follow your exploits. Well done so far.
@@daz9275 My uncle painted the gold coach lines on Vanden Plas cars, using a 10" long brush. All the RB owned by Chas Brand & Son were delivered painted grey with black undercarriage. A sign writer would then add the Companies name in the plant yard or construction site. No stick on signs in those days.
Just think about the work them old machines and operators did. They did things what wouldn't even be thought about today. Hats off the moxy and fortitude.
So cool. As a boy, my dad and my uncle would tinker with one mounted on an old 6X6. That and an old portable sawmill they never could get to cut straight lumber. Oh, the good ol' days. Best wishes.
Watching that ole thing move was like watching Frankenstein move for the first time. I wish I could find an old piece of equipmet like that and get in running again.
Steven Spaziani this gave me motivation to go up behind my place and try to salvage am old D-6 that has sat for 20 years. I know it ran before because he let me use it to clear a building site. When I was done he parked it and walked away. It has a gas pony motor and if I can get it going it might run. I’ll call in the morning to see if he wants me to bring it back to life
At 09:29 I saw the ""soak the tracks in used oil"" thing I was told about my "15-B shovel" before you try to move it . The old man was right about every thing he told me to do to it even buy a case of grease and lube the damn thing up,, walk it,, test every thing and grease it again !!! Mine has a UD-18 power unit,,Start on gas, run on diesel . Made a lot of cash with it in my gravel pit loading trucks . Still have it .
I'll have to watch the rest of these videos & I really hope they restore this shovel back to a thing of beauty, & show it off at an agricultural or farm show.
It's being tinkered on mechanically each year and is in fact being run at an annual ag / steam show. I believe this gets mentioned in the next segment, and there's also video of it digging. Cheers
There was a huge one sitting near the river bottom in Mesa Arizona. Freeway there now. I use to go visit it and poke around. Fascinating piece of machinery. I sorta felt sorry for it.
It amazes me how fast technology moved in the decade that followed this. I can see how being able to roll the bucket at the end of the dipper stick would make a real difference. Last year, I acquired a 1957 Sherman Power Digger, basically the second model of backhoe produced under license from Wain Roy. It was in "ran poorly a year ago" condition when I got it. I've got it back to running poorly, and I'm slowly sorting it out.
Just found. I see you have couple before this I will have to watch. Looks like you had he'll of a job in front of you to get this far. It might have been easier to just cut up for scrap. That would have been sading. Thank you for not doing!! I hope when you get farther down you might be able to put on show digging pond or ditch work with it. Wish you the best luck with her. Thank you for showing please don't stop now. You got her this far don't give up on her. Thank-you for all you have done!!
You'd be surprised at the condition some of the old machines were left in, I've found that the main thing is not to get in a hurry to get them going, you can screw up more than you can fix in while. Enjoyed the video.
In a previous video of this rescue, we counted the rings of the tree grown into it, and there were around 20. So we believe that it was at least 20 years.
I had a 10b down home. Replaced 271 with a 3. used as a lift crane. Had 3/8 drag bucket. Turn table was pretty worn but would swing ok. When the boom hoist winch drum busted up I eventually abandoned it . I'd say she been scrapped by now. It didn't have a cab.
I love stuff like this. There is something extremely satisfying about getting something that has worked hard, but left to die, back to life. I think a couple of gallons of WD40, on those tracks, especially the left one, then crawling it forward and backwards for 10 0r 20 minutes, would work wonders. I think straight oil, on the tracks might make it pick up and hold onto more grit, which might not be good, but the WD40 would evaporate sooner. Great video.
Kinda sounds like the Murphy engine that was in one I ran with a drag ling bucket on it. I'm 72 and ran a few. We kept pitch from fir trees to get the frictions to hold. About every winter we would rivet more linings on the frictions. Looks like the house lock still worked. It would of been a bear to keep it straight with the tracks. The sprockets look to be worn enough to make the tracks climb the sprockets. Best of luck with her, the house is in good shape, I wouldn't worry about "patina" on it as it doesn't make them pretty to me, a good scrub a dub is in high order
That Buda engine has a really nice bark to it. I've heard of a few tricks for friction, but never pine pitch; that's neat! Yes the house lock is working, we spent a lot of time freeing everything up and lubricating it before this day, though some of it is not in the videos. The sprockets aren't terrible, but the tracks were very loose. I've since freed up the adjusters and tightened them, but they're almost out of adjustment room. We work on it each year and try to fix things, improve it. It ran quite well at the steam show this year, I'll post video when I have time to edit it.
Nice job! Just brings out the 'little boy' in all of us...now daddies watching Thomas the Tank Engine & Cars with our kids! I noticed there wasn't any - or hardly any - smoke belching out the engine. (I haven't watched the previous episodes yet, so I don't know what prep you did on the engine, but whatever you did I thought she sounded pretty good!)
There used to be several shovels and draglines of this size sitting in NE Pa until about 2008, then all the coal companies started to clean up. Everything got scrapped and cut up, the old breakers got torn down, everything is gone now.
Yup! The one track jumped a tooth on the drive sprocket, and they only mesh one way, so it was causing the sprocket to climb the track pawl. I've since freed up the adjusters and tightened the tracks to stop this from happening.
My old heavy haul company I worked for got hired to move a American dragline that had been sitting for 15 years. It was easily several times bigger than this. We moved it on our 9 axle triple 16 cozad.
What a lump of excrement. Love it to bits , me and my father had one years ago and spent all our quality time repairing it , we called it Rusty Bucket , man this brings back some memories ours was just as bad as this one ! Rust in peace Ruston Bucyrus
I operated a 22B in Vietnam drove piles with the old girl. She got the job. The Viet coung put a charge under the track we had to straighten the pads at a blacksmith shop
Guys like you saving history like that deserve great accolades Great job It amazing how far BE went when you look at a 2570 dragline Sadly caterpillar now owe BE
I'm not aware of BE's being powered by an engine like that, but my knowledge on them is not expansive either. Many were powered by gasoline Buda engines, some with Caterpillar. Some Northwests could also have a small Detroit in them.
When I was a kid my mother wouldn't let even talk about going to school to learn how to operate heavy equipment. Sure would have been better then operating a desk for 43 years.
U just don't know how funny your comment is. I work for a road dept works and after getting hurt in Iraq I was urged to take a desk job in the offices.. What a friggin awful mistake... Ran out of there 2 years ago like a scalded cat over BS and never went back. I'm not qualified to operate a desk nor will I ever claim to be...
@@thekingsilverado9004 mine was by choice, really, for the most part. I've worn a lot of hats over the hears, been a large forklift operator, fabricator and mechanic for a concrete plant, and worked doing shift work as a machinist for many years before losing it all in the recession. At that point in time I had back problems from 11 hour days on the floor, and decided to go back to school. I never in a million years would consider myself a desk jocky, but my experience in the real world gives me a unique perspective at this career, and lord knows we need more hands on guys to bring some common sense into the office!
Bucyrus Erie's claim to fame was it supplied 77 of the 106 steam shovels used to dig the Panama Canal. In the history of the canal there's a picture of Teddy Roosevelt posing on one in 1906.
I hope you checked the oil, coolant and greased it a bit before you started it and operated it. The engine didn't even smoke when it was started. How is that possible? Where is it's new home?
@@anibalbabilonia1867 What I meant actually was that they make them a lot better now as far as operating them is concerned....I have 02 Manitowoc 4100 S2 VICONs 200 Ton D.O.M. 1975 and they are still working perfectly with all original parts except Track treads, Ropes etc which are all wearing parts like on other Cranes....but operational wise the Cranes of today are a dream to operate with all Hydraulic controls, ergonomic cabs, air conditioning, communication aids, digital L.M.S., hydraulically tilting cabs and so on......the old Manitowocs had no ergonomics whatsoever, no A/C systems, no tilting cabs you just stretch your head back to look out the top glass if it was clean otherwise you just stuck your head out the door to monitor high operational loads, L.M.S. systems were basic, your arms and legs were aching at the end of each day especially if you had a lot of travelling to do and so on....but I do agree with you that the new Cranes with all their solid state hydraulic systems and software etc will definitely not last as long which I have already proven on most large construction sites where our Manitowocs are favored over the new Kobelcos that were on site due to software and mecanical problems on the Kobelcos. Also all my operators can easily operate the Manitowocs AND the Electro/Hydro Cranes etc BUT the new operators who have trained solely on the Electro/Hydro operated Cranes can not operate the old mechanical cranes.
@@RustyRescues Back in the mines here one of the mine owners has a really ancient BucCyrus. I can hear the steam whistle certain weekends in the summers he takes clients customers back in the coal strippings gives em rides I heard, every now and then he carries on with the steam whistle. I only seen it from a distance and it ain't a little one either... He also has an ancient Mack dump truck a helper follows the shovel around with coal and wood on the thing... I think the guy is one of those rich kooks he also has a red Vette with a blower on it and he's like 71 years old...
I saw one of those that still had its steam engine in it up in Nederland, Colorado. It had been to the Panama Canal to dig and made it all the way back to Nederland, Colorado. Looked like this one in your video.
Clint try a hot oil bath tomorrow maybe some 20 weight then drink some really cheap thin grease top off your hydraulic reservoir too then call me in the mornin let me know how ya feel...
I use to drive a 22rb in a scrap yard it was a pig but I loved it, we cut it up in the end and replaced it with another one which is still working to this day
Not entirely; one of the drive sprockets jumped a tooth on the track pawls which was causing it to climb the pawl. I have since corrected this, freed the adjusters, and tightened the tracks.
Glad I found your video. I used to run an old 1951 Ohio Locomotive crane in a steel yard in the mid 70's. The Bucyrus Erie was a competitor of Ohio. We scrapped out one of the last running steam locomotive wrecker cranes on the west coast. We had tried to sell it but nobody would or could afford her. We fired it up with auxiliary air to check out the systems before putting her under the torch.
That's heartbreaking!
@@RustyRescues Yes it is, we did manage to sell a couple wood sided Cabooses. I also got to run an old RD 8 cable blade cat. Those machines really tested an operators skill.
That old girl still runs as smooth as peanut butter good for you for rescuing her from the shredder we need more guys like you! Keep that old iron running and God bless!😀🇨🇦👍👎👉👈🏗🪝👆👇🤌👌
Thank you vary much for the video and your hard work. I’m 65 years old and as a kid I remember these machines, it literally brought to tears to hear you fire it up and get it moving.a lot of memories about those machines crawling on them after the workers gone home for the day and smell the grease and oil in them .Thats what they used all over town to dig holes. They have a vary distinct sound of the flathead 6 cylinder engine in them. The house I live in the basement was dug out by one of those.machines. I new by the sound the construction of a new house was starting in my neighborhood when I heard one of these, thanks again.
Joel, thanks so much for the kind words and positive feed back. Nick and I have collectively rescued 4 of these shovels now, it's been very rewarding and we have no regrets. They'll be more videos soon of the 1937 Bay City we recently rescued.
Brings back fond memories, and reminders of my arthritic pain from my days running a 70 ft boom with a magnet in a big industrial recycle yard in Newark, N.J. It broke my heart to see hundreds of the old 40s/50s locomotives cut up for scrap iron that I would load into trailers in the yard. Those were the same engines that pulled box, and flat cars, and cabooses that I hopped on as a kid for a day of adventure where I grew up. Would occaisionally find a hobo in an appliance box camping in the woods, and talk for hours about his travels. This was in the 50s, and my mom never knew where I went when I went out in the morning. As long as I came home in time for supper. Then in the 70s, when I had to watch the Loco's get cut up, it brought back fond memories, along with sadness thinking how relevant, and purposeful they were then, only to be relegated to the scrap heap not that long later. I'm in my 70s now, and see parallels between man, and machines once proud, strong, and productive , marginalized by progress, and regressive age. I was strong, tough, and undeterred by adversity in my time. I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm good once, as I ever was!
Bill, it brings me great sadness as well. Ya' can't save them all, but there's a few of us out there doing what we can when we're not working for the man. That sounds like a pretty amazing childhood, I can only imagine some of the stories you heard from the vagrants, I bet they were fascinating. Different times then, progress is such a conflicted word...
I’m 73 from the Detroit, Michigan area. My grandfather began his excavation company digging Michigan style basements with a team of horses and a scoop that was pulled behind the horse much like a plow. The horse was lead in a short circle and the dirt was dumped along side the hole, which in effect raised the surrounding grade. The basements were very shallow with little head room. He never liked horses, so my grandmother had to feed and groom them. They lived in Lincoln Park and their stable was across the street from the house. Finally he bought the first steam shovel in S.E. Michigan. Probably a Bucyrus Erie, not sure. The trucks used to haul dirt away had chain drive axles. From there a Fordson that would only swing 45 degrees each way. It was Loraine’s and Northwest’s after that. During summer break from high school, I drove the service truck around to fuel up the machines and grease. I was also the grade man for my grandfather on basement jobs that included the sewer leads. He was a pioneer in this field and lived a good life. Just saying.
Terri, I love comments like this. I collect and restore antique tractors, and equally enjoy hearing stories like this from older generations than myself. It's hard to believe how far we've come in such a short period of time, people these days truly don't appreciate or understand it. I've seen the drag scoops you speak of, they were used behind tractors in early days as well. Slow but effective. I'm intrigued by his ownership of a Fordson shovel. I have a pretty large collection of Fordson equipment, and actually own a Fordson quarter turn cable shovel. I've not yet rescued it from the woods where it sits, but will most certainly get video of it when I do. Do you still have any of your dad's equipment? Is this what you ended up doing for a living as well?
Tador Machines sorry for the delay in responding. After 4 years of college and tour of duty in Nam, I went back to work with my dad. My uncle had died and so my dad was sole owner of the company. 15 years later, dad had health issues and wanted out. Instead of taking things over, I went to work for a local contractor ( site developer) that wanted to get big fast. He was younger and hadn’t seen a recession. After 20 years he managed to overextend and lost everything. I worked as a hands on foreman and was in charge of 3 underground utilities crews. We had 12 627 Cat scrapers and several D8 dozers, to give you some idea of his involvement. We had 130 employees and built 12 million dollar jobs. When he went out, I retired at 65. I have pictures of my grandfather on his fordson installing sewer in Detroit. They loaded a mining style car on rails along side the trench and would roll the car back to dump the spoils over the laid pipe. Clay pipe with oakum and cement joints. They used this method of backfill when digging between houses as the picture shows. I would include pictures, but I winter in Florida and do not have access to them.
A side comment: my grandfather worked running his shovel until he started falling off of it. My dad finally forced him to retire. He was built like a bull from years of pushing and pulling levers. Not like today’s machines. Today’s operators would not know how to handle even changing a top cable. Back then you designed, stacked, and built each job, and was mechanic if something broke.
I’m long winded hear, but wanted to say I enjoy seeing that someone appreciates the equipment of years gone by. They look great.
Some tasks are simply worth the turmoil, the scrapes and scars. Y'all did it. Congratulations from thousands of admirers.
A beautiful old girl, well worth saving and restoring. Reminds me of Mary Anne out of my favorite children's book "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" when I was little (who am I kidding, I still love the book many decades later 💖). Great work saving her. 😀
Give my ex wife a call see if she reminds of any old equipment y'all want to restore maybe you'll even want to keep her for my sake..
Wow what a beast. I like how these old machines almost never want to give up. Thanks for sharing.
These are my new favorite videos ! Getting to see those old machines work is so cool! Thanks!
As a Brit kid just starting out in the UKs construction industry, I drove the British Ruston Bucyrus versions, I believe yours would have equated to the 10RB model. I went on to drive the 19RB and 22RBs, I was told the numbers related to the weight of the bare machine. My favourite was the 22RB working on a subway project in the 1960s mostly doing crane work with the standard boom. IE: Jib root and head. I had a 6 month spell loading tunnel spoil from a heap into muck away tipper trucks (US Dump Trucks) I did one day with it equipped with a face shovel, but then transferred below ground to drive a TBM tunnel boring machine and into the big money.
When we changed direction while tracking, we called that Spragging.
Later I worked for a mobile crane company driving 7ton and 15 ton Allen Grove truck mounted cranes, this time the numbers related to the lifting capacity with a short lib and max rope falls. Again UK and US designed machines, both had similar controls to the RBs clutches and foot brakes for the lift and drag ropes.
Love to see this old girls rescued, so I wish you good luck and will follow your exploits. Well done so far.
Used to see the 22RBs and similar down the brickyards around Fletton when I was a kid. Great to see machinery like this being rescued.
My grandad painted the livery for RB in Lincoln UK
@@daz9275 Now there's a nice thing to read :)
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My uncle painted the gold coach lines on Vanden Plas cars, using a 10" long brush.
All the RB owned by Chas Brand & Son were delivered painted grey with black undercarriage. A sign writer would then add the Companies name in the plant yard or construction site. No stick on signs in those days.
Great work getting her driven out on her own power. Cool to see some of these machines still around & not gone to scrap.
That engine sounds like it just left the factory, amazing that after all this years it even turned around, love it.
No smoke either.
What a sense of achievement you guys must have felt tracking that thing out of there, and such a wonderful exhaust note!
Just think about the work them old machines and operators did. They did things what wouldn't even be thought about today. Hats off the moxy and fortitude.
So cool. As a boy, my dad and my uncle would tinker with one mounted on an old 6X6. That and an old portable sawmill they never could get to cut straight lumber. Oh, the good ol' days. Best wishes.
You all did great work getting the old gal running
I am from Lincoln where these were made. Brings back memories.
I loved the old girl, she's not a quitter... thanks for showing.
Watching that ole thing move was like watching Frankenstein move for the first time. I wish I could find an old piece of equipmet like that and get in running again.
Steven Spaziani this gave me motivation to go up behind my place and try to salvage am old D-6 that has sat for 20 years. I know it ran before because he let me use it to clear a building site. When I was done he parked it and walked away. It has a gas pony motor and if I can get it going it might run. I’ll call in the morning to see if he wants me to bring it back to life
I’m going to look at 1 in the morning
You can have my ex wife dude... See what she does once ya git her running again...
@@daleboe8912 Any updates?
At 09:29 I saw the ""soak the tracks in used oil"" thing I was told about my "15-B shovel" before you try to move it . The old man was right about every thing he told me to do to it even buy a case of grease and lube the damn thing up,, walk it,, test every thing and grease it again !!! Mine has a UD-18 power unit,,Start on gas, run on diesel . Made a lot of cash with it in my gravel pit loading trucks . Still have it .
mike finley we had been lubing the joints with waste oil for a while before we moved it. Good advice!
Yep, if ya want machinery to keep operating, ya gotta keep up the maintenance
Use to work with an old Bucyrus Erie in 1980 Norway. Scandinavia .. £ove these machines .. Great to see this!!!!
Just found this ... awesome recovery! Thanks for sharing! Worthy of a Subscription.
I'll have to watch the rest of these videos & I really hope they restore this shovel back to a thing of beauty, & show it off at an agricultural or farm show.
It's being tinkered on mechanically each year and is in fact being run at an annual ag / steam show. I believe this gets mentioned in the next segment, and there's also video of it digging. Cheers
Cherish the old iron, no one else will
..great job my man
Thanks man
There was a huge one sitting near the river bottom in Mesa Arizona. Freeway there now. I use to go visit it and poke around. Fascinating piece of machinery. I sorta felt sorry for it.
Any chance you want to give cross streets? I'm in Tucson, I'd love to swin up there and take some photos of that old girl.
How cool is this? Bringing back this old machine. You don't need to spend much time on a shovel before you learn to appreciate something like this.
See something like this running under its own power just the fact that the engine runs the clutches work it's just amazing
I would never in 100 years think that thing could start up, this is way cool
It amazes me how fast technology moved in the decade that followed this. I can see how being able to roll the bucket at the end of the dipper stick would make a real difference.
Last year, I acquired a 1957 Sherman Power Digger, basically the second model of backhoe produced under license from Wain Roy. It was in "ran poorly a year ago" condition when I got it. I've got it back to running poorly, and I'm slowly sorting it out.
I worked for Bucyrus Erie...was one of those who built the muskie...but this machine goes back much before that...interesting video...thanks
Just found. I see you have couple before this I will have to watch. Looks like you had he'll of a job in front of you to get this far. It might have been easier to just cut up for scrap. That would have been sading. Thank you for not doing!! I hope when you get farther down you might be able to put on show digging pond or ditch work with it. Wish you the best luck with her. Thank you for showing please don't stop now. You got her this far don't give up on her. Thank-you for all you have done!!
You'd be surprised at the condition some of the old machines were left in, I've found that the main thing is not to get in a hurry to get them going, you can screw up more than you can fix in while. Enjoyed the video.
You're 100% right! Patience is key. Thanks for the positive feedback.
Wow look at that old sweetie, fantastic save, I wonder how many years she's been left there.? Excellent video.
In a previous video of this rescue, we counted the rings of the tree grown into it, and there were around 20. So we believe that it was at least 20 years.
This reminds me of the childrens' book, "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel". Even in the absense of steam.
Good to see a VERY OLD UNIT MOVING AGAIN. Good job sir
crazy you got that running. cant beat old iron..
I had a 10b down home. Replaced 271 with a 3. used as a lift crane. Had 3/8 drag bucket. Turn table was pretty worn but would swing ok. When the boom hoist winch drum busted up I eventually abandoned it . I'd say she been scrapped by now. It didn't have a cab.
I love stuff like this. There is something extremely satisfying about getting something that has worked hard, but left to die, back to life. I think a couple of gallons of WD40, on those tracks, especially the left one, then crawling it forward and backwards for 10 0r 20 minutes, would work wonders. I think straight oil, on the tracks might make it pick up and hold onto more grit, which might not be good, but the WD40 would evaporate sooner. Great video.
Like a big ole dinosaur! Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel! Read the book, its a fascinating account of man and machine.
@jdawgs place I was being a smart alec at first, but now that you mention it, what DID happen to the shovel and the boiler??
@jdawgs place Ahhhhh yes. Been about 50 years ago that I last saw the story on Capt Kangaroo
I still have my copy of the book read it a couple months ago lasted 30 plus years
I thought I was the only one that read that book threadbare as a kid.. I have a fresh new version waiting for my kids. Cheers!
Kinda sounds like the Murphy engine that was in one I ran with a drag ling bucket on it. I'm 72 and ran a few. We kept pitch from fir trees to get the frictions to hold. About every winter we would rivet more linings on the frictions. Looks like the house lock still worked. It would of been a bear to keep it straight with the tracks. The sprockets look to be worn enough to make the tracks climb the sprockets. Best of luck with her, the house is in good shape, I wouldn't worry about "patina" on it as it doesn't make them pretty to me, a good scrub a dub is in high order
That Buda engine has a really nice bark to it. I've heard of a few tricks for friction, but never pine pitch; that's neat! Yes the house lock is working, we spent a lot of time freeing everything up and lubricating it before this day, though some of it is not in the videos. The sprockets aren't terrible, but the tracks were very loose. I've since freed up the adjusters and tightened them, but they're almost out of adjustment room. We work on it each year and try to fix things, improve it. It ran quite well at the steam show this year, I'll post video when I have time to edit it.
I have a friend with an old BC10 drag line that was in use up till about 3 years ago when her father passed, I love the old BC"s
I'm also in Pa ..Clearfield Co.
Pa Hillbilly he’s probably the only guy that could run it
Nice job! Just brings out the 'little boy' in all of us...now daddies watching Thomas the Tank Engine & Cars with our kids! I noticed there wasn't any - or hardly any - smoke belching out the engine. (I haven't watched the previous episodes yet, so I don't know what prep you did on the engine, but whatever you did I thought she sounded pretty good!)
Glad she's moving and glad the music stopped, the Erie makes music of her own.
Yes please loose the music. We don't need entertaining.
That thing is beautiful, and sounds amazing. I'm jealous.
I ran BC 30 for years as a crane . I was the oldest so it was my baby. I’m 72
LOVE THIS SO GLAD that you saved her..
There used to be several shovels and draglines of this size sitting in NE Pa until about 2008, then all the coal companies started to clean up. Everything got scrapped and cut up, the old breakers got torn down, everything is gone now.
Thank you guys for saving the. Old machine that means a lot to me
What a tribute to a fantastic machine !!!
I know the tracks are worn but it looks like there binding up a bit I wonder if you tighten them up just a little bit might help
Yup! The one track jumped a tooth on the drive sprocket, and they only mesh one way, so it was causing the sprocket to climb the track pawl. I've since freed up the adjusters and tightened the tracks to stop this from happening.
My old heavy haul company I worked for got hired to move a American dragline that had been sitting for 15 years. It was easily several times bigger than this. We moved it on our 9 axle triple 16 cozad.
What a lump of excrement. Love it to bits , me and my father had one years ago and spent all our quality time repairing it , we called it Rusty Bucket , man this brings back some memories ours was just as bad as this one ! Rust in peace Ruston Bucyrus
Wondering what year it was built?
I remember one these on the side of the road for years when i was a kid. It sat there for a long time
What happened to it
@@michaelmcfarland3108 Rust termites ate it...
This brought back memories . Like why I learned to love hydraulics .
then you have to hate this machine coz not even one hydraulic in it !!!!
Inspiring!! i saved a Koehring 205 earlier this year,same size.Not sure what to do with it,but detroit 2 71 runs,nothing moves though.
I saw your Koehring rescue video! Been looking forward to more videos of it; Start getting that thing freed up, these things are a ton of fun to run!
Life on the other side.
Buy all your neighbors used motor oil and every tube of green grease Auto Zone has call me in the mornin I'll tell what to do with the stuff OK...
I operated a 22B in Vietnam drove piles with the old girl. She got the job. The Viet coung put a charge under the track we had to straighten the pads at a blacksmith shop
That's pretty interesting, would like to see that done!
Finally you got machine moving forward and back that's awesome video keep up the good work and bless you
Guys like you saving history like that deserve great accolades
Great job
It amazing how far BE went when you look at a 2570 dragline
Sadly caterpillar now owe BE
what size machine would it equate to now? maybe a 200?
Well, it's a 5/8 yard bucket, which is probably the best comparison.
There is one of these sitting out in the goldfields of WA. I think it has a 3 cylinder Gardiner motor in it. Would that be correct?
I'm not aware of BE's being powered by an engine like that, but my knowledge on them is not expansive either. Many were powered by gasoline Buda engines, some with Caterpillar. Some Northwests could also have a small Detroit in them.
Tador Machines I was wrong. It is a British shovel called a Rodin
@@johnfenn Ah gotcha, that'd explain the odd engine then!
When I was a kid my mother wouldn't let even talk about going to school to learn how to operate heavy equipment. Sure would have been better then operating a desk for 43 years.
Same. I operate a Lenovo by day to save these machines by night.
@Bill Williams LOL! Sounds like a good gig to me!!
U just don't know how funny your comment is. I work for a road dept works and after getting hurt in Iraq I was urged to take a desk job in the offices.. What a friggin awful mistake... Ran out of there 2 years ago like a scalded cat over BS and never went back. I'm not qualified to operate a desk nor will I ever claim to be...
@@RustyRescues U'r Comment and Marty Jeruzal.. U just don't know how funny to me that all is..
@@thekingsilverado9004 mine was by choice, really, for the most part. I've worn a lot of hats over the hears, been a large forklift operator, fabricator and mechanic for a concrete plant, and worked doing shift work as a machinist for many years before losing it all in the recession. At that point in time I had back problems from 11 hour days on the floor, and decided to go back to school. I never in a million years would consider myself a desk jocky, but my experience in the real world gives me a unique perspective at this career, and lord knows we need more hands on guys to bring some common sense into the office!
I live in Erie and have driven past the old factory a hundred times or more!
Fester Adams
Factory was in South Milwaukee Wisconsin. My Grandfather worked there.
Awesome video!!! Just friggin awesome. 😁👏👏👍👍 more history saved.
Did you change oil filters before start were curious.?.
Yes it was. All fluids were changed
Bucyrus Erie's claim to fame was it supplied 77 of the 106 steam shovels used to dig the Panama Canal. In the history of the canal there's a picture of Teddy Roosevelt posing on one in 1906.
@Bill Williams No rotor-tilt or any of that stuff, but powerful enough to lift a bunch of cars!
I hope you checked the oil, coolant and greased it a bit before you started it and operated it. The engine didn't even smoke when it was started. How is that possible? Where is it's new home?
Or course, see previous videos of this series. Part 5 shows its new home.
So cool to see this come to life
Olis kiva nähdä kun ajat tuon lavetille.
Great job!!! Resurrection at its finest. Please restore it to its original condition.
Loved the Tremors theme song
You can dig up Graboids with that. ,, Awesome video.
Bahaha
THAT MACHINE STILL MOVES??????? :O :D
I'm amazed. :)
Somehow my ex wife comes to mind when U said that...
Back when machines were built to last and made with pride.
Outstanding, very well done.
Boy! They sure dont make them like they used to that's for sure! Love watching stuff like this! Great job!😎👍
Anibal Babilonia. Yeah thats for sure that they dont make them like they used to....they make them a lot lot better nowadays.
@@michaelmacluskie6089 sure i agree with you! But will they last as long!?
@@anibalbabilonia1867 What I meant actually was that they make them a lot better now as far as operating them is concerned....I have 02 Manitowoc 4100 S2 VICONs 200 Ton D.O.M. 1975 and they are still working perfectly with all original parts except Track treads, Ropes etc which are all wearing parts like on other Cranes....but operational wise the Cranes of today are a dream to operate with all Hydraulic controls, ergonomic cabs, air conditioning, communication aids, digital L.M.S., hydraulically tilting cabs and so on......the old Manitowocs had no ergonomics whatsoever, no A/C systems, no tilting cabs you just stretch your head back to look out the top glass if it was clean otherwise you just stuck your head out the door to monitor high operational loads, L.M.S. systems were basic, your arms and legs were aching at the end of each day especially if you had a lot of travelling to do and so on....but I do agree with you that the new Cranes with all their solid state hydraulic systems and software etc will definitely not last as long which I have already proven on most large construction sites where our Manitowocs are favored over the new Kobelcos that were on site due to software and mecanical problems on the Kobelcos. Also all my operators can easily operate the Manitowocs AND the Electro/Hydro Cranes etc BUT the new operators who have trained solely on the Electro/Hydro operated Cranes can not operate the old mechanical cranes.
Whoever that was driving sure looked a lot like jerry reed!
Almost sounds like a high-compression motor, she sounds gnarly 🤤
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few holes in the exhaust pipe. :D
What make of engine is on this machine? British RBs had Ruston engines.
P.B. Blaster... Best rust penetrating oil on the planet! You need a bunch of it! Love your videos! 👍
Now let’s see if the new rigs can survive like this beast
Great rescue there
I saved a Priestman Wolf, Tiger and a Dutch build crane Hovers
Good man!
@@RustyRescues Back in the mines here one of the mine owners has a really ancient BucCyrus. I can hear the steam whistle certain weekends in the summers he takes clients customers back in the coal strippings gives em rides I heard, every now and then he carries on with the steam whistle. I only seen it from a distance and it ain't a little one either... He also has an ancient Mack dump truck a helper follows the shovel around with coal and wood on the thing... I think the guy is one of those rich kooks he also has a red Vette with a blower on it and he's like 71 years old...
I saw one of those that still had its steam engine in it up in Nederland, Colorado. It had been to the Panama Canal to dig and made it all the way back to Nederland, Colorado. Looked like this one in your video.
That's amazing, I hope someone saves it!
@@RustyRescues they did. It's on display behind the Nederland museum and they have an air pump to run it for demo
@@jukeboxhero1649 that's fantastic!!
@@jukeboxhero1649 I did a little research on this machine, that is VERY cool; thank you for sharing!
@@RustyRescues I got to see that machine move dirt in September 2010 in person. It was more than capable.
was there any black widows in it
I haven't heard that music track since Tremors 1 holy shit. And that bucket crane sounds awesome.
Taylor, just do you know that when you were backing up the left track was buckling really bad.
Yes, it had jumped a tooth on the drive sprocket due to being loose. I've since gotten it back on the right tooth, and tightened the tracks.
There’s one of these rotting away in a field not to far from me....... wish I could do something about it.
Theres two of em in someone's yard about two miles from me.
Property owner looks like the kinda guy that doesn't want visitors tho...😅
Com'on those cranes did not have steering clutches but a engage or disengage mechanism and a lock on the side you try to stop.
You are correct, but most operators still refer to them as steer clutches.
amazing, how old is this
Where"s the pail of used oil?
That thing moves better than I do and it’s nearly twice the age. Great job
Clint try a hot oil bath tomorrow maybe some 20 weight then drink some really cheap thin grease top off your hydraulic reservoir too then call me in the mornin let me know how ya feel...
I use to drive a 22rb in a scrap yard it was a pig but I loved it, we cut it up in the end and replaced it with another one which is still working to this day
This is way better than any dross you can find on the tv. Well done Sir.
Is that the music from the first Tremors movie?
Is it normal for it to drive in that weird bucking fashion? Just asking cause I dont know.
Not entirely; one of the drive sprockets jumped a tooth on the track pawls which was causing it to climb the pawl. I have since corrected this, freed the adjusters, and tightened the tracks.
Do you think that was why she got parked?
@@salty-9 hard to say really. I don't have much backstory on this machine, sadly.
Is it a Continental engine?
Buda HP-326
it should tram out by itself?
I know of a old Osgood that looks a lot like that it still runs it has a dodge or chrysler flat head inline 8 engine
That's very cool!
It lives!! Crawling out of its grave. 😘😜😇
I wish more people believed in saving older equipment
well at least the engine sounds like its got a lot of life in it
I came close to getting one of these more than once.