Really enjoying the amount of uploads on this channel this week. Thank you for taking the extra time to provide us with this kind of content. Very eager to see the end result of this project. Best of luck, mate!
I've watched the digger start a few times now, it makes me laugh every time :-), old machines built to last are always more fun than modern stuff, my 2CV is 42 years old and a complete joy to drive and to work on, really enjoying what you do Kris, we'll be booking a tour soon if we may.
Also I really hope I get to be part of rolling the buggers down the hill because that's going to be great fun (in a brutally hard work kind of way!) :P
You're going to get all excited and do it before I can get to you, aren't you?! >< Ah well, I'm sure you'll find something for me to do. I'm genuinely both scared and enthralled by your digger haha! Has he got a name?
my back is a bit fragile so i might wait a few days. but i have some other smaller jobs to do.......he does have a name, its Mr Digger :D very creative right?
I remember watching your earlier videos as you pounded tires with a sledgehammer, thinking you were building a fort in the woods and now look at you! Well done, buddy! I just admire your resilience and and craftsmanship so much. Makes me wish I could run across "the pond" and help you.
" Steam Punk " construction She Lives ! .... that brought some memories back , when in winter trying to get the old mixer started ( starting handle ) now the battle with pipe heavy stuff to move around hey Kris.
I make sure it’s warm out when you uncoil that pipe. Otherwise it will be a nightmare to handle. I have a lot of respect for you. Taking on a project of building multiple buildings on by yourself must be very overwhelming. Great work
surprisingly the whole thing used about 5-7L of diesel looks way worse than it is, and it only smokes like that for about 20 seconds. then it clears up a bit.
For cold starts on an old digger like that my dad used to light a couple of sheets of newspaper and allow the air intake to suck in the flame, started those babies right up it did!
Someone suggested using burning paper on the inlet manifold. I used to do a similar trick to start the Perkins engine in my old LandRover. Take off the pipe to the air intake and use a small burning rag dipped in diesel. Let it crank and breath in the flames for 5 sec. Then withdraw the flames, so it could get some air, and touch the throttle. Worked even in the coldest winters. Though you should have seen the looks I got in Tesco's car park! Don't use that easystart spray. It decokes the bores and you lose compression.
At idle, the alternator on your car is basically doing nothing. It'll be at 14v, but piss-all for current is flowing. If you want to add energy you have to give it some revs. And, not much point unless the batteries on Mr. Digger are dead. Just hook it up to one of them, leave a stick on the gas pedal to hold it to a medium rev, and then try starting the diesel. If it has energy to start, it's good, if not, 10 minutes on idle isn't going to do anything. If it's cold, diesels are just going to chug like that until the block is warm enough to not thermally snuffing out the ignition no matter what you do. I agree with the other guy about adding a tiny 24v (or 30v) solar panel to the roof and directly tying it to the battery. Energy will just trickle in and keep it topped up, nothing else fancy needed.
I've started old diesels with a burning rolled up newspaper held down the air intake while shorting across the solenoid terminals with a screwdriver before now. Not for the fainthearted, but it worked when there was no alternative.
Frankvidi it doesn’t do anything.... the starter motor must’ve been knackered, and the newspaper does nothing useful either..... what a useless comment
Shorting across the terminal is the only way to spin the starter when you are on your own and your f***ing arms are a couple of feet too short to reach the key start. It's not my comment that was useless, just your ability to understand why it was necessary that is useless. Incidentally bridging a solenoid would do nothing to solve a knackered starter motor.
Watched all of the videos about the house and hydro elektric. To get rid of the sand, just take the Water out of the stream, build a little pool and take the Water from the top, so sand and debris could sattle down. And man, impressiv Work!
the problem with that is i would loose some head and loos some power. so what i need is a tank that is pressure rated. that way the sand can separate without loosing pressure.
Man, you are pumping these videos out! I for one am very appreciative of them. So much extra work and effort goes into framing, filming, editing, and uploading videos. Good on ya, mate!
every video! nothing about my videos are offensive but yet every one gets flagged untill i request a manual revue, loose at least 10,000 views on each video.
Cant believe you own a bloody digger ! Just a suggestion, maybe get a 24v solar panel on the roof of the digger so you can just forget about the batteries knowing they will be fully charged. Also you could put a silicone heat pad on the oil sump and leave it on for a hour or so before starting it to help it warm up a bit faster, getting a bit OTT though.
I dont really want it to, it will just get full of idiotic comments and randomers who stumble across these videos and dont understand what he is trying to achieve. Rather that people who actively seek out these type of videos. Also makes it harder for him to see the useful comments as they are drowned out by thousands of other comments.
What make of digger is that? And was it on the land when you bought it? Looks like it would be very useful for a lot of your jobs if you could get it running right & save on plant hire costs. We have an old HYMAC 580C on the family farm, that's still running and in regular use, after about 50 years. Love your work by the way & wish I was doing it myself :)
Thats a danm cool project u got going but I don't envy you having to roll out all that pipe I've seen it done before it's tough stuff doesn't like to come unrolled
Amazing to watch this project. What pressure rating is the main header pipe? Am I right to assume it needs to be a higher rating than the 26 bar shown on your guage?
If you want to make that old girl start easier in the cold run a hose from the car tail pipe to the air intake ,leave some air space,work well on getting warm air into the motor to get it fired off.
Hi Kris Can UNPERFORATED LAND DRAINAGE pipe be used for this kind of job instead of mdpe pipe. I am planning to have a similar setup but those pipes are expensive.
I contacted the company and they suggested that I should use the twinwall one. Where did you get your one from? store.jdpipes.co.uk/110mm-twinwall-drainage/
Hi Kris, can i please ask where you bought the pipe from, i placed an order with a company this week but they don't have a mechanical lift on their vehicle so won't deliver, i would have thought this would have been a standard thing for them to have but not so, any help you can offer would be very much appreciated Take care john
I've seen EVERY video you have ever posted mate, but I think that's only the second time the green beast has been fired up. (Making the lake was the other one?) Maybe trade it in for a old tractor with forks perhaps? It would have made shifting that pipe easier & it will certainly make ploughing the vegetable patch a ten minute job in future. :-) I have images of your "hobbit garage/secret underground bunker" project being big enough to keep the car and a tractor out of the cold. ;-)
Gosh, there are people saying, that vw's pollute the air. You could run a golf from here on until eternity, and it would never produce as much pollution as that digger. Holy smokes and toledos
i put some in it, but the track still didnt have any power. i think i might need to take some stuff apart and investigate. im not exactly an expert on hydraulics though....
this thing is older them me by quite a long way .and it was -1 degrees. im surprised it started as well as it did. sometimes people make a fire under old machines like this just to get some heat in to them so they will start.
How would they work in sub zero weather? Or they only meant for a warmer climate? Diesels here all have some sort of pre-ignition, either glow plugs, or wicks, otherwise when its -40c they are useless. Also block heaters.
If you grab the head of an air compressor it gets pretty warm same for the head of the diesel it gets warm just turning it over but its slow also why it kind of started but was just chugging over till it developed enough heat to run properly
If you go find a really old tractor or any diesel i think sort of pre 50s even there, there wont be any glow systems maybe even later i really dont think it was until they used diesels in cars/4wd that they had glow plugs
Really enjoying the amount of uploads on this channel this week. Thank you for taking the extra time to provide us with this kind of content. Very eager to see the end result of this project. Best of luck, mate!
Thanks mate, its always nice to hear people are enjoying my work.
I love your backhoe. Nothing better than old school systems.
I've watched the digger start a few times now, it makes me laugh every time :-), old machines built to last are always more fun than modern stuff, my 2CV is 42 years old and a complete joy to drive and to work on, really enjoying what you do Kris, we'll be booking a tour soon if we may.
Your digger is hilarious! Compared to that snazzy little one we were driving the other day, it's like an awesome dinosaur! :D
Also I really hope I get to be part of rolling the buggers down the hill because that's going to be great fun (in a brutally hard work kind of way!) :P
Or you could be making babies
he is a big old beast. and he had to limp down the hill.....poor old dinosaur. cant wait to mess about unrolling it.
You're going to get all excited and do it before I can get to you, aren't you?! >< Ah well, I'm sure you'll find something for me to do.
I'm genuinely both scared and enthralled by your digger haha! Has he got a name?
my back is a bit fragile so i might wait a few days. but i have some other smaller jobs to do.......he does have a name, its Mr Digger :D very creative right?
I remember watching your earlier videos as you pounded tires with a sledgehammer, thinking you were building a fort in the woods and now look at you! Well done, buddy! I just admire your resilience and and craftsmanship so much. Makes me wish I could run across "the pond" and help you.
Thanks. i think quite a few people were thinking the same thing. it looked a bit mental in the early stages. Thanks for the comment.
Also, I just started binge watching your playlist. I like your work, man.
" Steam Punk " construction She Lives ! .... that brought some memories back , when in winter trying to get the old mixer started ( starting handle ) now the battle with pipe heavy stuff to move around hey Kris.
Watching that old beast start up was majestic.
I make sure it’s warm out when you uncoil that pipe. Otherwise it will be a nightmare to handle.
I have a lot of respect for you. Taking on a project of building multiple buildings on by yourself must be very overwhelming. Great work
that means waiting about 2 months.... i think i am just going to have to wrestle with it.
I'm glad I have good bass speakers. That start up sounded great.
Kris - love the videos and your approach to life! Also, all of your solar and hydro green approach just got offset by that one excavator start ;)
surprisingly the whole thing used about 5-7L of diesel looks way worse than it is, and it only smokes like that for about 20 seconds. then it clears up a bit.
I reckon he left that smokey bit in for dramatic effect >< It was freezing today, to be fair!
😂
Liking the regular uploads mate, can't wait to see the next phase
For cold starts on an old digger like that my dad used to light a couple of sheets of newspaper and allow the air intake to suck in the flame, started those babies right up it did!
Someone suggested using burning paper on the inlet manifold.
I used to do a similar trick to start the Perkins engine in my old LandRover. Take off the pipe to the air intake and use a small burning rag dipped in diesel. Let it crank and breath in the flames for 5 sec. Then withdraw the flames, so it could get some air, and touch the throttle. Worked even in the coldest winters.
Though you should have seen the looks I got in Tesco's car park!
Don't use that easystart spray. It decokes the bores and you lose compression.
Your old digger starting up is like the old class 37 diesel locomotive startups in cold weather
At idle, the alternator on your car is basically doing nothing. It'll be at 14v, but piss-all for current is flowing. If you want to add energy you have to give it some revs. And, not much point unless the batteries on Mr. Digger are dead. Just hook it up to one of them, leave a stick on the gas pedal to hold it to a medium rev, and then try starting the diesel. If it has energy to start, it's good, if not, 10 minutes on idle isn't going to do anything. If it's cold, diesels are just going to chug like that until the block is warm enough to not thermally snuffing out the ignition no matter what you do. I agree with the other guy about adding a tiny 24v (or 30v) solar panel to the roof and directly tying it to the battery. Energy will just trickle in and keep it topped up, nothing else fancy needed.
Something to be said for old machinery, properly built and will keep running with a bit of care
Funny, that power shovel was blowing smoke rings!
He was just showing off.
I've started old diesels with a burning rolled up newspaper held down the air intake while shorting across the solenoid terminals with a screwdriver before now. Not for the fainthearted, but it worked when there was no alternative.
Manly man skills
What does shorting the solenoid terminals do ? I thought that diesels didn't have spark plugs ? Thanks
Frankvidi it doesn’t do anything.... the starter motor must’ve been knackered, and the newspaper does nothing useful either..... what a useless comment
the news paper adds heat but shorting terminals is a useless thing to do lol
Shorting across the terminal is the only way to spin the starter when you are on your own and your f***ing arms are a couple of feet too short to reach the key start. It's not my comment that was useless, just your ability to understand why it was necessary that is useless.
Incidentally bridging a solenoid would do nothing to solve a knackered starter motor.
Watched all of the videos about the house and hydro elektric. To get rid of the sand, just take the Water out of the stream, build a little pool and take the Water from the top, so sand and debris could sattle down. And man, impressiv Work!
the problem with that is i would loose some head and loos some power. so what i need is a tank that is pressure rated. that way the sand can separate without loosing pressure.
Okay, Sounds like you know what you are doing. I dońt have a clue 😊
liking the regular uploads! Also that digger is a bit of a smokebomb isn't it hahaah
Environmentally friendly. Lol. In reality, they all smoke horribly in the cold until they get going. Just like starting a fire.
Smoking Hot digger so hot it blows smoke rings lol
Man, you are pumping these videos out! I for one am very appreciative of them. So much extra work and effort goes into framing, filming, editing, and uploading videos.
Good on ya, mate!
Thanks, and on top of that youtube keeps de monetising them! glad you are enjoying them.
Oh gawd not you too! Bloody TH-cam...
I'm getting taken off the partnership program altogether soon so I feel your pain.
every video! nothing about my videos are offensive but yet every one gets flagged untill i request a manual revue, loose at least 10,000 views on each video.
That's just shit... Your videos are informative build-porn! Nothing unfriendly to advertisers about that...
@@KrisHarbour what the actual "F" for?!?
One more huge step towards freedom! Blessings...
Best coldstart ever :)
Jaysus Ted, that diggers a monster.
the smoke rings coming from your rig looked really cool lol
Sweet the hydro plant be up and running soon.
lol the digger purring like a kitten, lol love it
digger needs a name...made me grin. reminded me of my dad's johnny popper. "turkey-turkey- turkey- turkey.." good times.
That excavator needs a bit of TLC
You should call that digger Gandalf because it blows the best smoke rings
I remember from watching the Goldrush show, that they mix the diesel with easier to ignite fuel. Depends if you want to wait or not - Blue
Check out 'run away diesels on youtube and that is why you do not want fuel booster inn diesel engines. ! ;-)
Cant believe you own a bloody digger !
Just a suggestion, maybe get a 24v solar panel on the roof of the digger so you can just forget about the batteries knowing they will be fully charged.
Also you could put a silicone heat pad on the oil sump and leave it on for a hour or so before starting it to help it warm up a bit faster, getting a bit OTT though.
good idea with the solar panel. i will keep a look out for one.
cant wait till your channel explodes! been here since part 4 of the roundhouse :)
I dont really want it to, it will just get full of idiotic comments and randomers who stumble across these videos and dont understand what he is trying to achieve. Rather that people who actively seek out these type of videos. Also makes it harder for him to see the useful comments as they are drowned out by thousands of other comments.
ratgreen he deserves all the possible yt money and increasing patreons too.. your comment is unfortunaly true too
Thats how my old tractor would start. A little bit of starter fluid in the ole intake would get her going a bit faster.
Quality digger 👊🏻
Older the better :)
Well you did fire it up
What make of digger is that? And was it on the land when you bought it? Looks like it would be very useful for a lot of your jobs if you could get it running right & save on plant hire costs. We have an old HYMAC 580C on the family farm, that's still running and in regular use, after about 50 years. Love your work by the way & wish I was doing it myself :)
Its an O and K, German made.
Nice eco friendly digger that Kris :-) Is Wales now covered in smog?
There goes last years savings on your Carbon footprint! Hehe!
I love your excavator. Kind of a throwback to a coal fired train no?
Thats a danm cool project u got going but I don't envy you having to roll out all that pipe I've seen it done before it's tough stuff doesn't like to come unrolled
its the first time for me but i can see just by looking at it that it is going to be a nightmare to unroll and even harder to pull in to the woods.
Amazing to watch this project. What pressure rating is the main header pipe? Am I right to assume it needs to be a higher rating than the 26 bar shown on your guage?
2:34 we get it you vape......
That old engine was hilarious.
Owning the Subaru makes sense now
Sounds like an old 1 piston comressed air start Southern Cross Generator hahaha 😂
Excellent old digger! What is it? An old JCB?
that's not rust on escavator.... it's patina ! :)
I used to have a girlfriend that started like her...
If you want to make that old girl start easier in the cold run a hose from the car tail pipe to the air intake ,leave some air space,work well on getting warm air into the motor to get it fired off.
Hooolee bud, she chooches just a little eh?
you get a good toke off the old girl. she is a skookum choocher.
friggin rights!
Hi Kris, where did you find the best place to purchase your MDPE pipe? great videos
"It will go in a minute, you'll see" I thought it was about to go bang
Thomas the tankengine gots nothing on that kinda smoke, geeez. :)
:O finally!
That digger just needs a coat of paint and it will be just like new.
she was running like a 2 cylinder john deere till she found all her cylinders!
Lol. Best cold start ever.
Nice.
Smoke screen feature - no extra charge...
The digger made me laugh as it was blowing smoking rings and also sounded like a old dumper truck when it started.
What voltage is it again ?
Hi Kris
Can UNPERFORATED LAND DRAINAGE pipe be used for this kind of job instead of mdpe pipe. I am planning to have a similar setup but those pipes are expensive.
No. Way to much fiction on the inside and way to weak to hold the pressure.
I contacted the company and they suggested that I should use the twinwall one. Where did you get your one from? store.jdpipes.co.uk/110mm-twinwall-drainage/
Please make longer videos.
I wanted to go up and kick it - like all old engineers used to do when a machine played up!
I wish you would be more informative about all your tools, toys and machines.. What model is your digger? :)
use a jump turn with one track working ticket holder
Wow! that is a lot of smoke coming from the old beast.
Hi Kris, can i please ask where you bought the pipe from, i placed an order with a company this week but they don't have a mechanical lift on their vehicle so won't deliver, i would have thought this would have been a standard thing for them to have but not so, any help you can offer would be very much appreciated
Take care
john
Was that digger made on scrap heap challenge by any chance lmao
it has been stripped right back. in its day it was really advanced! now it does not even have a key to start it
What make of digger priestman??
:Fires up the digger
: I get sunburn and then skin cancer from the hole created in the ozone layer
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shouldnt the smoke only come from the exhaust ????
sick smokerings😂
those pipes can shatter when dropping them in frosty weather on the ground
Looks pretty scary that machine!
I've seen EVERY video you have ever posted mate, but I think that's only the second time the green beast has been fired up. (Making the lake was the other one?) Maybe trade it in for a old tractor with forks perhaps? It would have made shifting that pipe easier & it will certainly make ploughing the vegetable patch a ten minute job in future. :-)
I have images of your "hobbit garage/secret underground bunker" project being big enough to keep the car and a tractor out of the cold. ;-)
Niel His plans for that are bloody massive! It's going to be completely AMAZING 😍
Hella exhaust leak there.
A spray bottle with a little gasoline will start a cold natured diesel quickly without having to wear out the starter and batteries..
Anyone see the smoke rings at 2:30
Then tensioner wheel is gone on the track
I bet the name of that beast is old bouncing betty!
Gosh, there are people saying, that vw's pollute the air. You could run a golf from here on until eternity, and it would never produce as much pollution as that digger. Holy smokes and toledos
The excavator could feature in Mad Max.
Idris the dragon
Omg talk about now you see me.
You just gassed ever mosquito within like ten square miles with that digger.
Holy shit, the smoke... :))))
The old girl started but I think she's got an exhaust leak boss.
Wow thats a cloud lol goold old diesels..
Sam Ba soon it will probably be electric XD
I hope you get some hydraulic oil for your other track, looks like the Beast might need a little maintenance. Lol
i put some in it, but the track still didnt have any power. i think i might need to take some stuff apart and investigate. im not exactly an expert on hydraulics though....
@@KrisHarbour sounds like you have a track motor on its way out
If you get (or have gotten) some deep gouges in the pipe get some self amalgamating tape on it before you bury it.
sounds like you only have one cylinder firing on start up..................
this thing is older them me by quite a long way .and it was -1 degrees. im surprised it started as well as it did. sometimes people make a fire under old machines like this just to get some heat in to them so they will start.
Wow, I think that might be the slowest I've ever heard an engine cycle.
Fuck me, no wonder the ozone layer is full of holes!
Excavator does better smoke tricks then most vapers can haha.
funny as lol still rolling the floor you have this eco-home solar power water power and so on then you start your digger smoke evey were clouds of it
Now we know why the UK is so foggy.
СЛАБО ЭКСКАВАТОР ПОКРАСИТЬ ?
Give your glow plugs more time to heat, 15-20 sec, start easier and less smoke.
mate, this thing has no ignition, i have to just rub two cables together that short the starter. no glow plug warming poshness.
old gear like that doesn't have glow plugs or any pre heat systems
How would they work in sub zero weather? Or they only meant for a warmer climate? Diesels here all have some sort of pre-ignition, either glow plugs, or wicks, otherwise when its -40c they are useless. Also block heaters.
If you grab the head of an air compressor it gets pretty warm same for the head of the diesel it gets warm just turning it over but its slow also why it kind of started but was just chugging over till it developed enough heat to run properly
If you go find a really old tractor or any diesel i think sort of pre 50s even there, there wont be any glow systems maybe even later i really dont think it was until they used diesels in cars/4wd that they had glow plugs
Most of that Smoke was merely Steam rising off a Cold Engine.