As an American, everything I know about New Zealand is from Lord of the Rings and this channel. So I'm assuming that your entire country consists of fantastic landscapes where magical creatures guard abandoned earthmoving equipment.
I've got some Marino wool from there! wow it looks so nice, -30c weather here the last week, dreaming of tropical Heavy equipment revives that are this easy.
I used to operate its big brother the 7B. Great machine but a bastard when its bogged as you need two pairs of hands to get it out because there are no foot pedals for the tracks. When you've got the hydraulic pump sorted which might just need filters, i would pull the boom in to its shortest position and move the stick to its power position, tearout force will be massive. To get the Boom cylinders out, stretch the arm out at full reach with the bucket crowded in, knock the boom pins out, start the machine and pull the stick in. The Boom will go up leaving the cylinders behind. Great find.
How that started, ran done all that work and didn't blow a coolant, fuel or hydraulic hose is beyond belief. Great job boys a pleasure to watch the bones being dug up and walking again..
Sometimes these things just want to live... Also helps that a lot of the hoses are concealed pretty well from the elements, and it looks to be either relatively low hour or had very good care in it's past.
I really cannot explain how & why watching 2 dudes troubleshoot an old piece of machine is SOOOO friggin entertaining… Can’t say but man, I’m just locked on that screen the whole 28:39 minutes! As usual : very interesting. Thanks!
Gorgeous machine Marty. Your mate did well on that. Reckon it won't take heaps to get it into being a reliable price of equipment. JCB's have good reps and a long history. God that boom looks HUGE compared to the body in terms of reach. Love the style. Looks like something Matchbox woulda made for me to play with when was young (maybe they did!). I wish we had more JCB here in Canada. Way to help your mate out Marty. Nice to see you both excited!
I have JCB JS240 in Australia. My only issue is that they seem to rust pretty quick. The stop solenoid arm broke on my friends snd not long after mine broke too so this was issue too. Other than that, mine going strong.
They say, on really still nights in NZ, you can hear abandoned equipment creeping closer to Marty in the hope he will find them. (which we all know, eventually, he will)
Marty is like the (not very) dark lord in his tower, all the lost machines are drawn to him. All their thought is bent on it. They are one, the machines, and Marty. Once they are reunited he will have dominion over all the dirt roads in the land.
The styling on 70's plant is fookin lovely, my old gaffa still uses his power slide although it doesn't power slide anymore as it cracked so he welded the slide up.
I just watched an American version of your videos. The Americans always seem to want to be loud and obnoxious but Marty, you could teach them something. You commentary is just as you see it, quiet and factual.. There is a fishing show on Australian television and when these guys hook something they go loud and obnoxious, maybe to add sound and excitement to their broadcast but I was taught when you go fishing you be as quiet as possible. Keep up your commentary and you programs .. I really enjoy them.
Yes,yes! Everyone loves New Zealand but I enjoy Marty’s wide variety of projects and the length to which he will go to accomplish his goals. And my favorite thing is he never uses foul language!✌️
A missed bad ground has been the demise of many a good machine. Good catch on that. I've seen lights, gauges, switches act confused where the ground is gone or partial. What a great find.
iv driven one few years back.1975,on site the windows got smashed in first,your lucky to have glass,was frezzing in winter,winters were more cold back in them days,the heater in it was rubbish.bravo marty..
That machine looks great for its age . I posted your video on the JCB company page . I have worked on 5 C's , but not a 6 . Sounds like you got air in the hydraulics or a pump worn /valve issue. That is a bloody good find there .
I was going to say the same sort of thing. My guess would be water in the hydraulic system. It's been sitting for so long water would have found its way in or could be low even know they said it's got hydraulic oil doesn't mean it's enough
If it has condensed water in the hydraulic oil, it will soon turn to a milky fluid, as the pump mixes it up quickly. This should evaporate after an 8 hour day when the temperature of the oil in the tank gets hot.. My bet when I heard the pump noise ( possible cavitation.?) was that the oil level was low, or the suction filter is blocked. For what you paid for it, it is a bargain. Even if you spend lots on re-bushing the pins, it will still be a bargain. btw... Aren't you in the same country as Cutting Edge Engineering, they could help a lot.
It’s so cool to see older equipment rescued and be able to put it back in service, it will probably out last a lot of the new stuff that is built today because of all the computers and stuff, I definitely give this a 😁😁👍👍. Cool
It seems like New Zealand is littered with old machinery that just needs a bit of know how to get going ! I couldn't believe you got it started after tightening a couple of connectors and throwing a pair of batteries on it and it was able to do half a days work after having some fresh oil and a bit of grease added !
I completely agree it's amazing how many pieces of big machinery are just lying around out in the jungle if that's what it's called in New Zealand. You're not dealing with a lot of surface area for these things to go missing
@@silasmarner7586 There is a *lot* of surface area. NZ is a young landmass that is being pushed up at the junction of tectonic plates. It is an active and relatively uneroded landscape. There is a lot of land that is perfectly fertile but is too rugged to even farm sheep. These well used diggers were being used to cut access tracks in order to develop rugged marginal land for agriculture. When they broke down it wasn’t worth the hassle of recovering them, and you couldn’t get a hauler anywhere near it anyway. There is a reason that NZers developed schemes like netting deer from helicopters, as vehicle access to round them up was impossible.
@@ian-c.01 It is truly mad stuff. Deer were introduced for hunting in the colonial days but subsequently became feral pests in predator free NZ. In the 2nd half of the 20th C, the international market for venison exploded so plans were made to get deer from the bush to market, preferably via farms. It was lucrative enough for helicopters to become the vehicle of choice. The footage is some of the wildest helicopter flying ever recorded. NZ is still a world leader in tranquilliser dart systems too, through a company called paxarms. If you need to sedate any kind of beast or biopsy a whale, they are the people to call.
I think there is air in the hydraulic system. I repair harvesters and forwarders and the same sound your machine is doing is when pump is getting air with oil. Try to change hydraulic fluid and change filters if you can get those. Usually I hear this sound when I change hydraulic pump and first minute or so its making same sound. Air Bubbles in the pump is same like if you will put sand in it. It would fuck up the pump so fast. But similar sound can do lot of others things and it might be also normal for this Machine. Hope you will figure it out. Sorry for my bag English and Cheers from Czech republic.
Another good recovery of a machine nearly pensioned off before its time. A great, relaxing, watch on a day when even opening my eyes felt like going for a marathon run.
This is an absolute classic, please look after her, I guess there are not many left, looks like 1960's? She is complete and survived very well. Loving this 😍
Another interesting find... Low on creature-comforts but it does have ac lol... We don't see many JCB excavators here in the US (compared to Cat, Deere, Komatsu, Case, etc.) though they're still around for the smaller stuff in decent numbers. Hauled a brand new little backhoe to a small railroad outfit in Texas a few years ago and it's the only JCB I've ever operated. The twin track controls look like they could be a potential workout when working with the arm but I guess it's not too much worse than the old dozers. Thanks for taking us along again.
This was a great video. Nothing like seeing an older machine brought back to life. It would be wonderful if you would do a follow up video on it. And if you did Marty, please let me know because I would like to watch it.
I really appreciate all the trouble you go to bring these videos to TH-cam Marty. Aside from the recording I’m sure you spend hours editing them too. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family. Cheers. 👍🧑🎄
Nice to see…brings back good memories for me as I used to work on and maintain a 6D amongst a host of other machines back in the 1970’s👍. The 6D was the most powerful excavator produced by JCB at that time.
Oh ! 6D I still have the scars on my knuckles from those (horrible) cable operated levers 😣 great machine though, moved muck, put in drainage, dug ditches, and cut roads with it in the late 70’s, the 6.354 dropped a valve, I peened over the damaged piston , recut valve seat, new valve, gasket and she ran for a few more years , you could change the bucket back to front too,
They also did a later model called the "Powerslide" where the top of the main boom could moved back and forth on a slide arrangement. Good old machine, looking forward to seeing you look at the hydraulics. The drain/fill plugs are BSPT (British standard pipe thread) they come in taper and parallel versions and are still readily available . HTH. Cheers.
Small addition to this; the designation 'BSPT' is short for 'British Standard Pipe Taper', not thread. BSPT is probably the most common for water pipes, etc. (at least many places in Europe) to make a conical metal-on-metal seal with a bit of sealant only). This is important since, as you correctly point out, the other version is BSPP which is 'british standard pipe parallel'. The latter is quite commonly used in hydraulics, if they use face seals, bonded seals or something similar to seal off the thread/fitting. You can screw a male BSPT all the way into a female BSPP thread and a male BSPP partially into a BSPT female, both are wrong though. Commonly for both mismatches you don't want to stand next to the connection when it is fully pressurized!
Powerslide first appeared on the 805B, first ever 360 without a counterweight, JCB mounted the engine, a 6354 Perkins right at the back. Powerslide was revolutionary. I worked on the launch event at Rocester.
Someones clearly had a crack at it before they just didnt have the ol "marty" touch..... i just love your work An age old testament to the saying "They dont die they just go nanai"s (sleep) And you my man are the one to wake them up
Interesting how things can get confused in how something came to be abandoned, your mate got the story that it would crank and crank but not run but seems it was the other way round & it'd click and click, wouldn't crank but when you got that bolt tightened she was away like she wants to live. Love seeing you bring old dinosaurs like this back from the brink, specially when they come for less than scrap price even when you factor in transporting it home! Thanks for sharing, 73 from the UK
Marty, I really like the step-by-step measures you talk and walk us through, pertaining to anything you determine to repair or rebuild. I notice when you add any vehicle to your collection, it gets a thorough going thru. Please keep the vids coming. Greetings from Alabama USA. I'm one of your biggest fans, Bert.
Love your videos mate. Good old kiwi ingenuity. I've been a mechanic coming up 30 years. Definitely sounds like a stuck injector due to water ingress. Easiest way to trace is draw chalk lines on each port of exhaust manifold and then as engine is running the cylinder which isn't firing the chalk line will be left and the firing cylinders will burn off the chalk. It's a great way to test gliw plug operation also. Keep the videos coming marty!
Being a huge JCB fan in the UK it was great to see the 6D starting and running if only we had machines in that condition in this country for their age keep up the good work Marty we should export it back to the UK for myself
Pretty good old machine. JCB machines are very reliable and parts are generally available for all years and models. With a bit maintenance and a few repairs that machine will be around for many years to come. Thanks again for your time and videos. Have yourself a great day!
Great video. I remember back in the 1970's, Leyland Atlantean buses operating in Dublin produced that whine when the power steering was operated. The sharper the turn, the noisier the whine. Problem was caused by air in the hydraulic steering system. Seemingly it entered through worn shaft seals at the Hoburn-Eaton power steering pump which was attached to the outside of the engine block and was exposed to the air.
Thanks for the late Christmas present Marty. Great to watch. -22c here and the wood stove doing its duty. Hope we get a follow up, as this one appeared too easy (for your skill set) to get in operation.
i Love watching your videos. Love the way you do things and your attention to the details. Love how you bring back old machines/stuff back to life. Please keep up the Awesome work! GOD' Bless you and your family. Amen :)
Dug out of the bush, brought back to mechanical life nearly effortless, dug out pieces of her way on the go to be transported and did not blow a hose, pipe or seal ..... even the smokescreen thinned considerably over the work she did. Now that is a catch for sure, and a steal for that price, even with some more work to do to hydraulics and profound maintenance/rebuild. You could easily rake back in that money with one officially payed job taking a full tank of diesel.
Watching all your vids from across the world in the eastern US, I'm a mechanic myself and its great seeing all these interesting machines come to life. Keep it up M8.
Happy New Year! Wishing you and you wonderful family a Healthy and Happy New Year. Lol, a woman’s perspective… I really enjoyed watching you guys work on this equipment. I’ve worked around JCB equipment. Anyway, it’s really cool to see it back to work. The soil there is beautiful. You’ve got some really nice sandy soil, you can grown some great vegetables 🥗 🥦 🥕, also beautiful surroundings (from what I could see), sweet dog too. New Zealand is really beautiful as far as I’ve seen from your videos. Thanks for sharing! I always enjoy your videos.
Always good to catch you getting to grip's with engine's Looking forward to seeing more of you in the new year Seasons greetings to you and your families , peace
Here in America, it'd be blown up, leakin hydraulic fluid from every possible place, glass busted out. Still be north of 10 thousand... "I know what I got".
A beautiful surprise when I started up my computer Marty , can`t beat another fix up of another machine even if it`s for one of your neighbours , cheers mate .
It's called a thermostart, a coil heats up a valve that allows fuel to drip onto the coil, the diesel then burns creating warm air to aid starting when cold, you could see the flame in some inlet manifolds if you took the air cleaner pipe off, it's not a great flame but it's there, when fitted and working they made a huge difference, from the days before glow plugs 😊.
Awesome! Another successful recovery :) There's a local excavator that I have been thinking about saving. It's from the late 60's. I talked to the owner of the property it's located on about 6 years ago, but I didn't have the money at the time. Now I DO have the money, but I can't get in contact with him. Very frustrating. But I will keep persevering! :)
As an American, everything I know about New Zealand is from Lord of the Rings and this channel. So I'm assuming that your entire country consists of fantastic landscapes where magical creatures guard abandoned earthmoving equipment.
That’s uncanny, you’re absolutely spot on.
You should probably watch some Flight of the Conchords to broaden your view of New Zealanders...
I've got some Marino wool from there! wow it looks so nice, -30c weather here the last week, dreaming of tropical Heavy equipment revives that are this easy.
Hahah!
correct .... come and have a look, you are welcome.
I used to operate its big brother the 7B. Great machine but a bastard when its bogged as you need two pairs of hands to get it out because there are no foot pedals for the tracks. When you've got the hydraulic pump sorted which might just need filters, i would pull the boom in to its shortest position and move the stick to its power position, tearout force will be massive. To get the Boom cylinders out, stretch the arm out at full reach with the bucket crowded in, knock the boom pins out, start the machine and pull the stick in. The Boom will go up leaving the cylinders behind. Great find.
Also known as the bouncy castle.
So they were those 2 brake levers beside the seat?
How that started, ran done all that work and didn't blow a coolant, fuel or hydraulic hose is beyond belief.
Great job boys a pleasure to watch the bones being dug up and walking again..
Sometimes these things just want to live... Also helps that a lot of the hoses are concealed pretty well from the elements, and it looks to be either relatively low hour or had very good care in it's past.
Operated one of these in the seventies. Here in England we called them rocking horses. Great videos keep them coming.
I really cannot explain how & why watching 2 dudes troubleshoot an old piece of machine is SOOOO friggin entertaining… Can’t say but man, I’m just locked on that screen the whole 28:39 minutes!
As usual : very interesting. Thanks!
Same here, beats TV these days.
A classic Marty T. operation. Thanks for this treat.
Gorgeous machine Marty. Your mate did well on that. Reckon it won't take heaps to get it into being a reliable price of equipment. JCB's have good reps and a long history. God that boom looks HUGE compared to the body in terms of reach. Love the style. Looks like something Matchbox woulda made for me to play with when was young (maybe they did!). I wish we had more JCB here in Canada. Way to help your mate out Marty. Nice to see you both excited!
It all went downhill after the 6D Travis , believe me 😅, they got left behind
Nice big Perkins too, I'm sure this chap will end up changing every bit of rubber but after that she'll be good for another 60 years!
I have a JCB in Canada. Its a small 8014 but its a good machine from 1999!
@@JunkyardJosh my dad has a JCB that’s likely around that age, it’s a 530B-4HL telescopic forklift
I have JCB JS240 in Australia. My only issue is that they seem to rust pretty quick. The stop solenoid arm broke on my friends snd not long after mine broke too so this was issue too. Other than that, mine going strong.
They say, on really still nights in NZ, you can hear abandoned equipment creeping closer to Marty in the hope he will find them. (which we all know, eventually, he will)
wasn't there a scene like that in the lord of the rings!?!
no wounder they did the hobbit mov over there!
✌😁
Marty is like the (not very) dark lord in his tower, all the lost machines are drawn to him. All their thought is bent on it. They are one, the machines, and Marty. Once they are reunited he will have dominion over all the dirt roads in the land.
Lol, right on
must be his massive magnetism
There's something about watching a digger work that doesn't get boring , even the dog
had a fun time . A good video to watch , again .
Waaaaa! You're making me homesick.
Hello from Tennessee... Your videos are among my favorite. I never miss watching when you post. Thank yoy
From one Marty to another. Staffordshires finest. Built just up the road from where I was born.
The styling on 70's plant is fookin lovely, my old gaffa still uses his power slide although it doesn't power slide anymore as it cracked so he welded the slide up.
I just watched an American version of your videos. The Americans always seem to want to be loud and obnoxious but Marty, you could teach them something. You commentary is just as you see it, quiet and factual.. There is a fishing show on Australian television and when these guys hook something they go loud and obnoxious, maybe to add sound and excitement to their broadcast but I was taught when you go fishing you be as quiet as possible. Keep up your commentary and you programs .. I really enjoy them.
As an American, I can confirm.
Yes,yes! Everyone loves New Zealand but I enjoy Marty’s wide variety of projects and the length to which he will go to accomplish his goals. And my favorite thing is he never uses foul language!✌️
The excavator revival vids are what got me here years ago. Lol. Keep em coming
A missed bad ground has been the demise of many a good machine. Good catch on that. I've seen lights, gauges, switches act confused where the ground is gone or partial. What a great find.
iv driven one few years back.1975,on site the windows got smashed in first,your lucky to have glass,was frezzing in winter,winters were more cold back in them days,the heater in it was rubbish.bravo marty..
Love how you save these old actually durable machines from eventually rusting beyond repair
Marty brings all the old toys to the yard 😁🤣
What a bargain!!!!😮😮😮
That machine is awesome!!!💯
It would be fantastic to see it restored!!
Cleaned up,fresh paint,put some new glass in....✔✔✔👍👍👍
Lol, Marty doesn't believe in paint. Just plasters it in a diesel mix..
What an absolute darling. Poking at the right place and she get all worked up!
That machine looks great for its age . I posted your video on the JCB company page . I have worked on 5 C's , but not a 6 . Sounds like you got air in the hydraulics or a pump worn /valve issue. That is a bloody good find there .
I was going to say the same sort of thing. My guess would be water in the hydraulic system. It's been sitting for so long water would have found its way in or could be low even know they said it's got hydraulic oil doesn't mean it's enough
If it has condensed water in the hydraulic oil, it will soon turn to a milky fluid, as the pump mixes it up quickly. This should evaporate after an 8 hour day when the temperature of the oil in the tank gets hot.. My bet when I heard the pump noise ( possible cavitation.?) was that the oil level was low, or the suction filter is blocked. For what you paid for it, it is a bargain. Even if you spend lots on re-bushing the pins, it will still be a bargain. btw... Aren't you in the same country as Cutting Edge Engineering, they could help a lot.
@@hiscifi2986 CEE is in Australia. New Zealand is close, but not that close...
@@hiscifi2986 CEE is in Australia.The distance from Australia to New Zealand is 4155 km or 2581 miles.
@@hiscifi2986 lol. I wouldn't worry about rebushing the pins.
It’s so cool to see older equipment rescued and be able to put it back in service, it will probably out last a lot of the new stuff that is built today because of all the computers and stuff, I definitely give this a 😁😁👍👍. Cool
Guy seems to be genuinely happy to have the JCB and is having the time of his life.
It seems like New Zealand is littered with old machinery that just needs a bit of know how to get going !
I couldn't believe you got it started after tightening a couple of connectors and throwing a pair of batteries on it and it was able to do half a days work after having some fresh oil and a bit of grease added !
I completely agree it's amazing how many pieces of big machinery are just lying around out in the jungle if that's what it's called in New Zealand. You're not dealing with a lot of surface area for these things to go missing
@@silasmarner7586 Out in the bush, that's what it's called here.
@@silasmarner7586 There is a *lot* of surface area. NZ is a young landmass that is being pushed up at the junction of tectonic plates. It is an active and relatively uneroded landscape. There is a lot of land that is perfectly fertile but is too rugged to even farm sheep. These well used diggers were being used to cut access tracks in order to develop rugged marginal land for agriculture. When they broke down it wasn’t worth the hassle of recovering them, and you couldn’t get a hauler anywhere near it anyway. There is a reason that NZers developed schemes like netting deer from helicopters, as vehicle access to round them up was impossible.
@@nicbrownable "netting deer from helicopters" ? Blimey, I've not come across that before, I'm gonna have to look that up now !
@@ian-c.01 It is truly mad stuff. Deer were introduced for hunting in the colonial days but subsequently became feral pests in predator free NZ. In the 2nd half of the 20th C, the international market for venison exploded so plans were made to get deer from the bush to market, preferably via farms. It was lucrative enough for helicopters to become the vehicle of choice. The footage is some of the wildest helicopter flying ever recorded. NZ is still a world leader in tranquilliser dart systems too, through a company called paxarms. If you need to sedate any kind of beast or biopsy a whale, they are the people to call.
awesome, looks like a Perkins 6.354 six. Good solid honest hard working machine. perfect for our environment.
that old girl been sleeping for a while, its fantastic to see it running again welldone guys
I think there is air in the hydraulic system. I repair harvesters and forwarders and the same sound your machine is doing is when pump is getting air with oil. Try to change hydraulic fluid and change filters if you can get those. Usually I hear this sound when I change hydraulic pump and first minute or so its making same sound. Air Bubbles in the pump is same like if you will put sand in it. It would fuck up the pump so fast. But similar sound can do lot of others things and it might be also normal for this Machine. Hope you will figure it out. Sorry for my bag English and Cheers from Czech republic.
Another good recovery of a machine nearly pensioned off before its time. A great, relaxing, watch on a day when even opening my eyes felt like going for a marathon run.
This is an absolute classic, please look after her, I guess there are not many left, looks like 1960's? She is complete and survived very well. Loving this 😍
Another interesting find... Low on creature-comforts but it does have ac lol... We don't see many JCB excavators here in the US (compared to Cat, Deere, Komatsu, Case, etc.) though they're still around for the smaller stuff in decent numbers. Hauled a brand new little backhoe to a small railroad outfit in Texas a few years ago and it's the only JCB I've ever operated. The twin track controls look like they could be a potential workout when working with the arm but I guess it's not too much worse than the old dozers. Thanks for taking us along again.
Marty, your previous experience, your calm attitude makes those around you confident that it'll work out successfully . Thanks.
This was a great video. Nothing like seeing an older machine brought back to life. It would be wonderful if you would do a follow up video on it. And if you did Marty, please let me know because I would like to watch it.
Man, I don't know what it is, but the aesthetic design of that old girl just SCREAMS late 60's/early 70's.
And Marty is seen here sharing his magic and love for rusted antique machinery with a good mate! ❤️👍🏼 Thank you for sharing.
I really appreciate all the trouble you go to bring these videos to TH-cam Marty.
Aside from the recording I’m sure you spend hours editing them too.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family. Cheers. 👍🧑🎄
I'm not a Mechanic but what you do is so cool to watch you go through and fix them to running order is fantastic.
Nice to see…brings back good memories for me as I used to work on and maintain a 6D amongst a host of other machines back in the 1970’s👍. The 6D was the most powerful excavator produced by JCB at that time.
Oh ! 6D I still have the scars on my knuckles from those (horrible) cable operated levers 😣 great machine though, moved muck, put in drainage, dug ditches, and cut roads with it in the late 70’s, the 6.354 dropped a valve, I peened over the damaged piston , recut valve seat, new valve, gasket and she ran for a few more years , you could change the bucket back to front too,
..good to see old iron out of retirement and back to work,,,nice job..
As always a good watch Marty T. Thanks.
that's a bit a piece history right there. awesome find boys!!
Thats a superb find. Those vintage JCB excavators are very rare and highly sought after here in the UK.
Lol! That dog keeps on it's toes around you two! Marvellous video Marty! Thank you for sharing the crack with your mate and yourself. :)
Good to have friends to enjoy the work.
I love watchin these Marty, thank you! 😁
They also did a later model called the "Powerslide" where the top of the main boom could moved back and forth on a slide arrangement.
Good old machine, looking forward to seeing you look at the hydraulics.
The drain/fill plugs are BSPT (British standard pipe thread) they come in taper and parallel versions and are still readily available . HTH. Cheers.
Small addition to this; the designation 'BSPT' is short for 'British Standard Pipe Taper', not thread. BSPT is probably the most common for water pipes, etc. (at least many places in Europe) to make a conical metal-on-metal seal with a bit of sealant only). This is important since, as you correctly point out, the other version is BSPP which is 'british standard pipe parallel'. The latter is quite commonly used in hydraulics, if they use face seals, bonded seals or something similar to seal off the thread/fitting.
You can screw a male BSPT all the way into a female BSPP thread and a male BSPP partially into a BSPT female, both are wrong though. Commonly for both mismatches you don't want to stand next to the connection when it is fully pressurized!
Saw one of the power slides rusting away on the side of the road in Donegal, Ireland. Pity to see it rust away
Powerslide first appeared on the 805B, first ever 360 without a counterweight, JCB mounted the engine, a 6354 Perkins right at the back. Powerslide was revolutionary. I worked on the launch event at Rocester.
@@ronanmc2112 operated one in a quarry twenty years ago, was an old machine at that stage but still worked great
I'm always amazed of these old equipment. Sitting forgotten for years then give them some good old maintenance and keep on trucking.
It's amazing how many of these old machines just have minor problems and can so easily be brought back to life.
Someones clearly had a crack at it before they just didnt have the ol "marty" touch..... i just love your work
An age old testament to the saying
"They dont die they just go nanai"s (sleep)
And you my man are the one to wake them up
Interesting how things can get confused in how something came to be abandoned, your mate got the story that it would crank and crank but not run but seems it was the other way round & it'd click and click, wouldn't crank but when you got that bolt tightened she was away like she wants to live. Love seeing you bring old dinosaurs like this back from the brink, specially when they come for less than scrap price even when you factor in transporting it home! Thanks for sharing, 73 from the UK
What an amazing find and recovery!
A classic British machine and it is great to see yet another grand old work horse rescued from an ignoble end as scrap!
Glad to see you changing the fluids, mate. Nice video. Thanks for bringing us alone.
Marty, I really like the step-by-step measures you talk and walk us through, pertaining to anything you determine to repair or rebuild. I notice when you add any vehicle to your collection, it gets a thorough going thru. Please keep the vids coming. Greetings from Alabama USA. I'm one of your biggest fans, Bert.
Love your videos mate. Good old kiwi ingenuity. I've been a mechanic coming up 30 years. Definitely sounds like a stuck injector due to water ingress. Easiest way to trace is draw chalk lines on each port of exhaust manifold and then as engine is running the cylinder which isn't firing the chalk line will be left and the firing cylinders will burn off the chalk. It's a great way to test gliw plug operation also. Keep the videos coming marty!
the mechanical Necromancers strike again way cool guys cheers
Being a huge JCB fan in the UK it was great to see the 6D starting and running if only we had machines in that condition in this country for their age keep up the good work Marty we should export it back to the UK for myself
Amazing looking shape, very 'space age' look.
These are your best types of video!! Seeing that old beast move again after all those years!! Thumbs up mate
Beautiful old machine, great to see it being rescued and brought back into useful service.
Pretty good old machine. JCB machines are very reliable and parts are generally available for all years and models. With a bit maintenance and a few repairs that machine will be around for many years to come. Thanks again for your time and videos. Have yourself a great day!
Great video. I remember back in the 1970's, Leyland Atlantean buses operating in Dublin produced that whine when the power steering was operated. The sharper the turn, the noisier the whine. Problem was caused by air in the hydraulic steering system. Seemingly it entered through worn shaft seals at the Hoburn-Eaton power steering pump which was attached to the outside of the engine block and was exposed to the air.
Excellent video thanks for sharing 👍!
Thanks for the late Christmas present Marty. Great to watch. -22c here and the wood stove doing its duty. Hope we get a follow up, as this one appeared too easy (for your skill set) to get in operation.
Love the look of that classic machine! Very sleek.
Man, that's so Retro AF. Great machine for sure.
Marty, you are amazing at finding good used equipment
i Love watching your videos. Love the way you do things and your attention to the details. Love how you bring back old machines/stuff back to life. Please keep up the Awesome work! GOD' Bless you and your family. Amen :)
Nice Find….Merry Christmas
When your mate stuck his finger in the radiator I half expected him to lick his finger and go "she's almost done cookin"
Thank you for letting the world into your world.
Really cool find. I definitely has unique look to it. So long stick and short chassi.
Would love to see more.
Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing
Dug out of the bush, brought back to mechanical life nearly effortless, dug out pieces of her way on the go to be transported and did not blow a hose, pipe or seal ..... even the smokescreen thinned considerably over the work she did. Now that is a catch for sure, and a steal for that price, even with some more work to do to hydraulics and profound maintenance/rebuild. You could easily rake back in that money with one officially payed job taking a full tank of diesel.
She smokes like a trooper but seems to function well overall. A good buy I would say.
Watching all your vids from across the world in the eastern US, I'm a mechanic myself and its great seeing all these interesting machines come to life. Keep it up M8.
Spot on marty . Well done on getting an old bit of kit back to work . They dont make em like they used to !
Good Guys getting old treasure to work again !!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Good interesting film, thanks for sharing
My first though was "Where do you put the coal in?" 😁
Wood fired.
What a great looking machine. A proper retro design. Well done on getting it going and moving again.
Happy New Year! Wishing you and you wonderful family a Healthy and Happy New Year.
Lol, a woman’s perspective… I really enjoyed watching you guys work on this equipment. I’ve worked around JCB equipment. Anyway, it’s really cool to see it back to work.
The soil there is beautiful. You’ve got some really nice sandy soil, you can grown some great vegetables 🥗 🥦 🥕, also beautiful surroundings (from what I could see), sweet dog too. New Zealand is really beautiful as far as I’ve seen from your videos. Thanks for sharing! I always enjoy your videos.
I really enjoy the way you go about explaining everything you are meticulous keep on going with your presentation
Always good to catch you getting to grip's with engine's
Looking forward to seeing more of you in the new year
Seasons greetings to you and your families , peace
I love seeing these great old beasts brought back and put to work again. Great stuff
For a thousand bucks?! That's basically free! Scrap value is even more and she fired right up ready to go back to work! 😂
NZ Dollars too ! Doubt if the scrap value would cover the transport though.
Here in America, it'd be blown up, leakin hydraulic fluid from every possible place, glass busted out. Still be north of 10 thousand... "I know what I got".
It's an awesome deal.
@@osrr6422 Yeah bruh, it's nuts that he got if for 1000 NZ dollars!
@@osrr6422 Here in THE US the kiddies are spoiled and waste resources
Proverbs 29:18 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish...
Beautiful machine. Thank you for showing it!
Great video. I love the finds you guys come up with. It's awesome to see these machines resurrected!
A beautiful surprise when I started up my computer Marty , can`t beat another fix up of another machine even if it`s for one of your neighbours , cheers mate .
The cold start on the Perkins has a diesel feed onto a single glow plug, they drip badly and smoke 💨 like a bugger on startup and idling
Yeah it settled down hey ran quite clean after a while.
It's called a thermostart, a coil heats up a valve that allows fuel to drip onto the coil, the diesel then burns creating warm air to aid starting when cold, you could see the flame in some inlet manifolds if you took the air cleaner pipe off, it's not a great flame but it's there, when fitted and working they made a huge difference, from the days before glow plugs 😊.
After a stressful day at work I love to just chill out and watch your vids. Its great watching you get old machines working again.
another sweet deal...your friend is lucky to know you ...
We need more of these type videos. Love watching you diagnose and repair.
Great little machine it seemed to be in good shape👌especially after treatment from new owner and Rig Dr. Marty supervising👍😇.🗽🇺🇸
Awesome! Another successful recovery :) There's a local excavator that I have been thinking about saving. It's from the late 60's. I talked to the owner of the property it's located on about 6 years ago, but I didn't have the money at the time. Now I DO have the money, but I can't get in contact with him. Very frustrating. But I will keep persevering! :)
Any luck mate?
What a beast of a machine. Good find.
Drone shot was brilliant!
Great video, as always 👍.
Merry Christmas Marty and family. Look forward to more adventures and fixes in 2022. 😃