Vintage Bulldozer forgotten for a decade.. Will it start??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- I heard about an old Bristol 25 dozer sitting in a shed in a remote part of the Marlborough Sounds for the past decade so I went to investigate.
The machine was no longer used by the owner so I paid $500 for it and I will go back there soon, give them a quad bike and try to get some of the other old machines running for them.
Thanks Reece from Supercheap Auto for supplying the toolkit used in this vid-
ToolPRO 198pc Tool kit -
AUS - bit.ly/2kR3xoP
NZ - bit.ly/2kmT7go
Thanks Dan for your help holding the cam on this project - / worldslayer85
Watched one of these "will it start?" videos from the US. The yank never shut up with his loud voice. Kiwis and Aussies are such a refreshing change.
Americans can only blab out oh my goooood, this is insane,.A american baby is born the first words it says after looking around is "this is rediculous! looks at the doctor and exclaims ,are you for real?
I don't know if you'll like other types of "will it run" style videos but I find Junkyard Digs to be very informative with his and not very loud for an American.
Junkyard digs, mustie1,watchweswork,and a bunch of other ones are very good information videos and aren't loud at all.
Quite rude, hostile and ignorant aren't you? 👍
Also Diesel Creek, but he's got a range of stuff not just will it start type videos.
You had me at Vintage Bulldozer! Yep, I'll buy it. Those things are awesome. I have no use for one, but I would get a load of dirt deliverd and play on it. This is what men do for enjoyment!!!!
rockin' the whistler blackomb sweater...nice
Ahh the subtle sounds of metal tracks.. wonderful old machine
Always great to watch and everything he attempts is always done at the best ability 🇮🇪.
I just love this guy... these have to be the most relaxing videos on TH-cam! I can't wait to see what he pulls out of the woods or a barn next!
Love your channel man you are very intelligent and know what your doing. Glad to see these antique heavy duty machines come back to life. It's crazy how good condition most of them are and how everything still functions for the most part. Cars and trucks of the same age require so much more.
Well done for finding and saving another piece of our industrial heritage...
Sweet little dozer. It's great to see some old machinery given life and a job again. Thanx for sharing Marty!
the simple approach ...keeps reminding me of my Grand Dad... your special attention to oil and lub ...he would enjoy....he use to say ...the life of an engine ...is the changing of oil
Man, I just love vintage "will it start" videos. You captured my subscription with the Excavator.
Thanks for the videos.
Great viewing ,thanx
Also love your dedication of greasing, most people well and truly overlook it or cant be bothered
SO TRUE. I LIKE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE VS. CORRECTIVE! ✌️👍🌞
Genuinely makes me so happy
I am glad to see that there people prepared to put time, money, and energy into giving new life to old machinery.
So is the begining of your constrution company you have a digger and a dozer lol.
Nice find i am sure we will see more of the dozer.
@@rufushowe3885 that is for the lawn care part of the constrution company lol.
Scruffy 61 Now, he needs a dependable dog, like Levi, to travel with him. Angry Ram is not very cuddly. He’s only friendly when being fed.
@@Poppi2006 lol.
@Joshua Dowling by no means am i knocking him at all i would love nothing more than to see things go good in any endeavor he does.
Lovley, those old machines really are built so well and so straightforward to maintain. I bet you get years of work and satisfaction from owning it, for the price of a weeks hire of a new one.
I NOTICE THAT A LOT OF THE MACHINES YOU FIND THAT ARE NOT RUNNING IS DUE TO NEGLECT OF THE PREVIOUS OWNERS. I WAS ALWAYS TOLD THAT IF YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR STUFF, YOUR STUFF WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. ANOTHER MARTY SPECIAL! 🌞✌️👍
Hiiii Marty my friend !!! yeeeeesssss just need to clean the windshield and inflate the air-bags !!
All the best my friend a new success BRAVOOOOooooo!!!
I enjoy watching you bring these old treasures back to life after sitting idle for a long time ! Great Work ! Keep doing your TH-cam videos .
Beautiful scenery on the way to pick up the dozer... you live in a beautiful country...and you got the dozer home.....looking forward to seeing what you do with it
Enjoyed it. Thanks for taking me along.
Another good one Mate , lets see
More of that little Dozer !
Loyal fan in Nashville , Tennessee
I'm a fan in Nashville too.
@Stimpy&Ren true 😅
22 hp according to Tractordata. Hard to see how you could get very far with that.
The best I've seen so far has to be the Hitachi Excavator in the forest. I am impressed. Good find and better yet, the work to get her running, walked out and the rebuild on the pins and getting it to 80% functioning. Good on ya... all the way from California's High Desert, USA! GOOD JOB!
Marty, you find the best deals.
I enjoy your calmness.
Even when you nearly took out the garage. ;)
This is great for watching n relaxing. Your approach, execution and attitude is so relaxing and comforting. Nice work Marty👍
I can tell that you really enjoy what you do. By sharing your adventures with us, joy is brought to many thousands more. Thank you very much for sharing. The only thing that could be better would be if I lived next door and you would ring us up and say, come on mate, let’s go pick up an abandoned...........
Give this man any engine.. no matter how old.. he is going to run it perfect.. 👌👌
Marty you are really good at what your do cause you could have a machine that's been sitting for decades and be like" alright today we are gonna get this 1926 ford model t running its been sitting for 40 years but i have faith"
Back in the early 90's I was living in Washington state. Several friends had picked up old dozers from the early 50's that the blades only went up and down. They were too heavy to haul around and with those one way blades you could buy them for around $800.00 to $1,000.00 They were real handy to have and most ran good. Several friends dozed off house pads with them and leveled driveways. This film which I enjoyed brought back some good memories, thanks!
Another great video, Marty 👍. To the commenters who are worried about the tracks squeaking. This tractor is from before sealed and lubricated track chains were invented, so the pins and bushes run ‘dry’. When you can’t hear them squeaking, thats a cause for concern because that means mud, clay or rock dust has gotten in and is creating excessive wear.
You make it look easy
Getting it going
And getting it home
Fun to watch
I am always amazed at what you accomplish with some of this old, abandoned equipment. Thanks for the video.
Heck yes! $500.00! And running...good investment 👌
I love watching you rescue "vintage" machines. You do a great job. Sounds like it needs to be lubed. 🤔 lol
Great stuff Marty T! That old Austin sounded sweet even without a muffler. Thought you were going to go right through the shed there for a moment! Keep up the good work, really enjoy this type of content.
I am from Germany, -so I got the automatic Translation put on if the sound got too difficult to catch... Every time a motor starts or machine is running, it quotes : *"Applause"* or *"Music"* . Which is exactly mho 😂😂😂.
Nice little Dozer. I’d call her Doozie😏🤓
Hey Marty, you are building a nice collection of old machines!
I enjoy watching you resurrect these old machines
You can really find the old classic plant marty . Excellent job , personally I would be in my element finding and bringing the old decent machines back to life . I love a challenge to see them all back to working , clean , well maintained condition . Keep up the excellent work . Nz seems to have a lot of classics around everything from cars, lorries , plant , bikes . Judging from what ive seen on the tube . A restorers dream is nz .
Marty is a one man Army... I just subscribe!
Love the views you show while driving very nice looking county side
I`d say that sweet old girl was tired of being a Barn Princess; started right up & wanted a ride to her new home !
My Uncle used to own 'baby' dozer back in the 80's. I was designed to air dropped onto Pacific islands during WWII. All I remember of it is that it was built in 1944 . That thing was really cool
Those things were cool
Love this, my father bought and old 1960's mini backhoe like 15 years ago, hydraulic drive tracks and I think it's an 18 hp Onan engine. Still no idea what brand it is. It has a custom weighted blade and no hood lol. As small as it is it's still like 6000 pounds. Every friggin time he used it he blew a hydraulic line. After replacing them all he was able to dig up his well and septic tank for service. This is exactly the kind of shit my father would do until recently. (now he's too old to do this).
Cool machine. I was surprised the carb didn't need to be rebuilt. Thank you for sharing, great video.
The title states "will it start"? Certain to start once Marty has his hands on it- best wishes from retired digger driver in Sheffield UK
Always fun to watch you and these old machines. Thanks for letting us take a look.
Marty T does it again! Well done. Can’t wait to see you put it to good use.
I love it how you do so little, it may be hours, to get a machine running that has sat for so many years.
Great find and good luck with your restoration...know you can do it mate, patience, persistence and can do attitude.
You would find a gold mine here in America. These old machines are sitting everywhere.
Awesome, Would love to see a Video showing us all of your Old Machinery you've collected and brought back to life
After watching some of your videos, you have acquired some nice equipment for personal use. Although they would not stand up to hard big time use in a construction company, they are certainly good for the home owner, and will last a long time, with good maintenance. I really enjoy your videos, and greatly appreciate you taking the time to make them.
Marty, I gotta say you did give me hope on an old Skytrak 5030 lift that has not run in over five years. I had to flush all the fuel lines and injector lines and the fuel tank. I got her running but something was still sticking in the injector pump. I put a bottle of Marvel Mystery Oil in 5 gallons of diesel fuel and ran that for about ten minutes and that cleared up whatever was stuck. Now it runs better than when I bought it 13 years ago. I also found that brake cleaner shot into the injectors clean them out real nice.
The old 2.1/4 litre Austin engine was just about bulletproof. I had one in an old LD van that had done almost 300K miles and still ran sweet .Oil and filter change every 5k and regular plugs and points service was all it ever needed.
Marty T I started watching your Older videos cause I can'nt find others to watch. Take care.
lol the mag wheel nut socket as a spark plug socket ftw
Perfect fit ;)
@@MartyT i know! I have the same one lol
Brilliant - love to see how you fix her up in the coming months. Lovely little machine that. Best wishes Andy - West Sussex England
Just saw the same machine in Petersburgh NY USA, for sale $5000. Well done sir.
Great work as always and good to see you had a little help with this one, especially on the camera.
The way that I like to tell if it is a positive or negative ground is: 1 check the size of the battery cable clamps, in the USA the positive is larger than the negative. 2 on a gasoline engine, look for the + and - symbols on the coil. On negative ground, the positive will be toward the switch. The negative will be towards the distributor. If someone installed the coil the wrong way, it is extremely hard to get it started cold, won’t start hot. Usually they say, it will start after I release the starter, if the engine is still rolling over.
Good luck from north east Montana in USA. We had an IFYE or International Farm Youth Exchange student from Australia once. His daughter has been back to visit us 3 times I think.
The clamp size, larger on the positive is international. The problem that exists with old and much modified kit is some amateurs don't know and fit +ives to both cable , or even get them the wrong way around.
Collection of toys is growing. I love it! :D Make sure to film the work with their other machines.
I love these videos. It’s really neat to see you resurrect these machines from the dead! And the birds singing at the beginning when you started working on the bulldozer are absolutely beautiful. I don’t hear those in Dallas Texas.
Lol, I wouldn't say it was dead. It needed fresh fuel,a new battery and some lubricant.
A pleasure as always... 👍
Congratulations with your new bulldozer, looking amazing. Thank you for sharing your amazing story. God bless you and your family
hello Sir. Even needing a bit of work you have to be the luckiest Man I have ever seen. I have been watching for a bit now,Love your channel. Has always I Liked,Shared,Added to playlists. Keep the videos coming.All my best.
Great little find mate. You never know what you’ll find until you go looking.
Another handy machine added to the collection! Nicely done mate!
Haha that thing sounds like a tank from ww2 when it moves with all the squeaks
It could have aspired to be one considering it's nz, home of the Bob Semple
Thought the same ha
@@fenderOCG Nothing can stop a Big Bob.
I was thinking ww1 !
Sounded like equipment to me?
I like the way you paid attention to detail and just didnt go in there with a set of jump cables and see if it would work. You were very methodical and gave the old machine a nice freshen up before attempting to crank it. My dad would also put some oil the gas of an engine that had set for a while. He said it would help lubricate the upper cylinder and valve seats. It never hurts to properly lubricate things. Nice work! I enjoyed the video
Awesome! Be perfect for mountain jeep trails. Great video.
Hi Marty,
You have clearly caught the need for collecting old iron.
Nice little dozer. Some of the blade linkages look like they are a bit worn.
Your collection is growing.
The country looks very lush.
Regards Dennis.
Yes I have caught the bug.. I'm going to need a bigger shed
@@MartyT
Definitely!
I wouldn't have the first clue where to begin in getting an old girl like this running....but I'd love to do a project like this with someone who does know what they're doing. What a feeling of satisfaction you must get afterwards....
My favourite TH-cam channel (well, you and Primitive Technology)
Much respect for your skills in reviving old mechanical gems!
BTW That's a beautiful part of Aotearoa you're in by the look of it!)
Its great SuperCheap Auto is helping out with these videos. I might go in there for my next tool/oil purchase I reckon.
Love to see these Old machines got to go again well done mate
That's a cool looking lil baby dozer 😅 almost reminds me of a universal carrier or something.
The legend has returned, well done marty as usual...but don't leave me out in the cold new Zealand weather...
Wow, what a great deal ! I wish I could find one like that. Nice little dozer.
Nice find man! I found you by searching for Bristol crawlers.. as a kid my dad had a Bristol Taurus loading shovel and in the summer holidays I used to tag along and have a ride on it! I'd love one now!
no bad for a dozer with record 12 years on the dole well done bro!!
Can’t wait to see more videos of that dozer!
Nice job Marty. What a great little dozer. Reminds me I need to go thru my Bombardier J 5 before winter starts. Keep the videos coming, really enjoy watching!
Steven Semanko What is a J-5?
Hello from north east Montana.
Hello again. I didn't realize she was a petrol she must be a early model. There are still quite a few about here. There was different implements for them. They were a great little dozer.
Thank you. I'm a retired now. There were quite a few of those little dozers about when I was younger. We used to work with them on leveling Jobs and repairing farm roads.
Ahhhhhhhhhh Marty, I thought we would see it in action my friend. 😃
Great job so nice to see someone do it the right way meaning check plugs a little lube in the cylinders drain the fuel before trying to crank the engine over.
Excellent find ! Antique Iron, you've got to just love it.
That is a nice little crawler. I look forward to seeing it in future videos.
Finally equipment with a ownership title. Bravo!
Hello from Canada, wonderfully relaxing to watch and educational as well. I have a question regarding the battery- yeah, 2 years after the fact- and that is are the + & - battery posts a different size? Wouldn't that be a giveaway for your clamps? This presupposes the clamps are as they came from the factory and have never been replaced with "whatever works". Regardless your posts are worth watching and so you have another subscriber. Now back to the video. Came back to say bravo, that is a sweet little rig, looks ideal for local work and transportable, too. Congratulations on the newest addition to your equipment fleet, let's hope she provides years of service.
Just loving what your doing to save long forgotten earthmoving equipment. Looking forward to the next installment. Greetings from Woomera, South Australia. 👍👍🇦🇺
Love From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ❤
Tool set is awesome. Thanks Reece from Supercheap Auto!
Your workmanship is phenomenal getting what other people would call junk back to work again, and all so calm with that wonderful Kiwi countryside surroundings
Marty's slowly putting together all he needs to start a COUNTRY..
Mark my word's, soon he'll be digging up a Sherman Tank.
Great stuff as always Mate ;-)
Thanks for another great rescue video, the dozers another nice addition for the price and a bit of time. I'm thinking it's a good job I don't live in NZ or AU my buddy finds cheap tractors and machines all the time there to. There seems to be more supply than demand for what you guys pay, unlike here in Canada where most stuff makes way more money or guys won't sell it. I'd have 50 acres of iron for fairly cheap your side L.O.L. Take care
wow, real life Footrot Flats. All you need is the dog. Thumbs up from Aussie.
Nice work Marty, Keep up the videos and thanks for sharing part of your life with us. 👌
Aww the digger has a buddy now, great work mate 😀😀😀
Great job of strapping it to the trailer!