Triggered a memory of 30 years ago in the Auckland war museum up on the hill. A display of a captured Japanize Zero fighter. The museum staff removed the ropes around the plane to allow an elderly Japanize man to board the plane and sit in behind the controls. He had flown Zero's in war in 1945, and was shaken from his reentering the plane These old machines remind us of the joys of peace and the costs of war for both sides.
Great vid Marty mike and browny were stoked , awesome to see team at rem did such a great job for them what a great rebuild ,and browny doing the trials such a great vid on old school machines,and browny with his famous roly he is clever bugger ,cheers , shaneo nelson 👍
My Dad was a Army mechanic from 42 to 46..went to Australia then New Guinea and finally to the Philippines... my guess is he worked on a few of these but they were a lot newer then ..RIP Dad. seeing these old guys reminded me of him.
I thought of my father as well. Even in his 90s with prostate cancer drugs he still had the strong forearms of somebody who worked hard all his life...
I am forever stunned at the industrial creativity and capacity of the US in the 40's. Where else on earth could someone say "we need dinky toy sized road grading equipment we can stick in a DC-3 sized airplane. To build airports in the middle of nowhere. And then someone goes off and does it overnite and it works like a charm. Kudos to the restoration team for a really worthwhile project. Its a reminder of just how much effort it took to win the war in the Pacific. Brilliant job.
So unreal to see it running when you look at the state of it in the beginning , the old engine for it certainly was well used up . Nice restoration guys , its a credit to you all.
The black and white segment was a nice touch in your filming and editing. These gentlemen are certainly to be admired and congratulated for their knowledge, ability and perseverance.
I'm sure that y'all already know this,but when I asked my great uncle,my grandfather's brother who was a seebee in ww2 he informed me that everything,including the radiator,and hoses and lines was painted od green and the seats were usually covered with od green canvas material,not vinyl or rubber.. No black radiator flues and fins, no black seats,hoses,or anything... Even the knobs and handles were painted od green.. and only the gauges and lenses weren't . He'll argue with ya and break out the photos,which are black n white as his proof..😂 He's a great guy with a super sharp mind and sight even though his time's getting short at almost 100 years of wonderfulness... Enlisted at 17 in 1942 and wouldn't go back and change a thing he says..
Bless you and your great uncle. Those photos will soon be gone, digitize them. Men who built a great and civil society when they returned, must have been amazed and saddened by it all since.
@@sandsparWell they went and killed a bunch of fellow white Europeans and fought on the side of communist china and Russia so maybe they fought the wrong people, or shouldn’t have been involved.
Love they way he drives straight out the shed with the scraper and rips up the good surface in the yard. Reminds me of little boys with their tonka toys. LOL
My great uncle watched this video when I showed it to him and wants y'all to know he thinks that it's beautiful even though it brought back some tough memories for him and said thank you; Marty,Mike,Browny,and the boys at REM sirs..
No idea how this channel popped into my YT (probably the Tank Museum, Aussie Tank, Mr Hewes stuff etc!) but very glad to be acquainted with Marty T’s Channel. This one is particularly good.
My father was in WWII in China. Burma & India as a Airborne Combat Engineer (879th) and worked with this type of equipment building airfields and roads. Thanks for sharing I enjoyed see the equipment that my father used
Browny is an amazing fella. What a mechanic. It purrs like a kitten. Considering what he started with, that's probably the best refurbishment that I've ever seen. The old-timey looking footage actually looked like it was from the 40s. That was a great video Marty. Thanks!
What a awesome library these old boys are. There knowledge is invaluable. Marty, your in good company and so fortunate that these chaps were so generous with their time. The passion came through and was awesome to watch.
Great video. I enjoy watching the craftsmanship of men who have accumulated knowledge thru a lifetime of working on equipment and who take great pride in the final product. Respect from Tennessee USA to all of you
Marty, you and your friends are absolutely the best! To take the time over a year to record this and then let us all see it. Allowing the gentlemen to explain what they are doing and what we are even looking at. The machining shop letting you in to record and explain what they are doing to help the project along. The garage doors in the background behind the white Chevy were beautiful. Your channel, in my humble opinion, has brought our countrymen closer together. Watching these videos really makes me want to get over there even more to visit. To meet all of you and listen to your stories would be amazing. I know it could never happen, but maybe instead you could interview them. Well anyway just couldn’t let this video go without a comment. Thank you very much to your friends and you. Cheers!
Not to take anything away from todays plug and bolt repairman, I would think you would need to go far and wide to find any with the talent of these old boys well done!
Would have this machine been built in Scotland? Clark is an engineering company that builds forestry equipment to this day. It's a really great video to watch. Love to see such specialised workshops operating.
Thank you for preserving this one. So many service vehicles like this one end up forgotten to time. I love it when someone takes an interest in a vehicle like this one.
Excellent. Wow what a treasure thank you for documenting and sharing. Thank you to the owner of the Excavation Company for supporting this awesome historical project & not to forget the lead mechanic & helpers
Great to see this restoration progressing. When I joined plant squadron in 1974 we still had a cat D7T with CCU control, manual box and pony start. It had reputedly been bought back from Italy at the end of the war. I often wondered what happened to it.
Your work is amazing to watch. You all have done yeoman's work to get that dozer running. Your attention to detail is astounding. I found your video because I have two Waukesha Model FCs that I run in my two P&H welders (1966 and 1971 vintage). Those little engines are bad-ass!
Glad to see you have the boys back on your channel. Good for you. I would like to think I will be out in the shed at his young age. Pretty fit grand-dad! Amazing work. The fab shop should do a channel. Cutting edge is very good as you said. About the bigger dozers getting more views - I’m not sure. These boys should have a huge tank of evapo-rust. Drop those parts all in for a good long soak. Surprising how things come apart and get rejuvenated. The laser rust machines are amazing and amazingly expensive. I’m sure there will be consumer level units soon enough. Great video and say hi to the boys from Nova Scotia please and thanks. Stay safe. PS Brownie rocked the dozer scrapper combo. The only thing missing was the dart hanging off his bottom lip. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Thanks again
I am happy to see that there are young mechanics who are interested and learn from the old ones to still have the knowledge to repair and maintain these old machines. Nowadays, it is the era of electronics and computers to find faults, few young mechanics still know how to solve a problem by ear without a computer. Magnificent restoration and that in just 1 year, great job. 👍
Well done Marty. I think we pushed to get this fixed. It’s a very important piece of history. Both for the US & us. What you can do if you work together. Not apart from each other. I hope people appreciate what’s going on here. Well done for taking an interest. & recording it. Cheers Marty
That piece of equipment is a brilliant piece. I could use that on my ranch for sure. Surely a company should make a scraper of that size and make a profit. Those boys work as fast as I do these days. Perfect. Bless them for doing as they did. Thanks so much for the documentary on their progress.
everyone has gone to box scrapers now for smaller jobs. I was thinking the same thing though. You can still get a pull behind grader but you need a 2nd person to run it.
@0:14 we had one of those chev trucks out in Puponga circa 1968-9. sold it to young bloke, who seized it, and it rotted away in a paddock to nothing. As for this little gem of a dozer, well done to all involved, what an absolutely brilliant project. I think Mr Mechanic enjoyed driving that around his yard more than he is letting on. Thanks for putting that out Marty, well worth the watch.
About 8 years ago, there was one of them at the Zagray Farm Show in Colchester, CT, USA. It had been restored and the guy was driving it around. I talked with him for a while. It was so tiny compared to the D-8s we had when I was a combat engineer. I haven't seen it since. Good Luck, Rick
Thanks to You Marty for recording this Dozer and to Your Mates for the hard work they put into the restoration and for saving a piece of WW 2 History. This one is right up alley. I've seen WW 2 footage of 5 of these little dozers with scrapers in a kind of formation scraping a new runway on some island in the So. Pacific. They aren't very fast but sure are effective.
That is so cool thanks for saving a part of historical equipment that was a lot of work and everyone involved should be so proud I know I’m very impressed and grateful to everyone that worked hard to save the old girl and give her a new chance at life that will be a lot easier on it then when it was first put in service for sure thanks again for showing this to us all
GREAT Restoration, Guys! You should be proud of yourselves! And thanks for having my Great Uncles poem up, too! Yes - I'm a relative of Lt-Col John MacCrae!
It never occurred to me , even though im ex RAF , that there would have been times in wwii where runways needed to be built/repaired in a hurry. So it makes sense that light weight plant equipment would have been developed. Thanks , I've learnt something new.
Ty guys for keeping this old iron history from rusting away god bless you sir loved doors to shop god bless you sir from retired operator ty again she's beautiful
Bravo! Just starting on my CA-1. The inspiration for these dozers came from the Forest Service in Portland Oregon. They designed what was designated as the trail tractor for pushing out Forest service trails
That is as significant a piece of WWII memorabilia as any restored Bren Gun Carrier, Jeep or Harvard. I am well impressed. The fact that it WORKS is chocolate icing on the cake. I want to see it one day. I want to see it WORKING one day. Congratulations and thanks to all involved. Lest we forget.
Wonderful cinematography and an excellent storyboard to the entire restoration. My utmost respect and thanks for the men who restored the tractor and earth mover. I am assuming that their father's and mother's were involved with the war effort in the South Pacific, as was my father in the ETO. I can't imagine landing on an island, in a war zone, and being asked to carve an airfield out of the jungle on a such a light machine, but our parents' generation did just that. Thank you so much, Marty, for capturing the restoration, and my sincerest thanks to the men who were involved in resurrecting this historic machine which could have just as easily been hauled to the breakers.
The best thing about this video is seeing them drop the blade and use the scraper.lovely restored but fit for use.keep up the good work and greetings from Ireland🇮🇪
Amazing little machine which I believe was built not far from where I grew up. I have only seen one other and it as inoperable. I never was aware that they had a winch, I couldn't catch the name of who made the scraper that you have. I believe that LaPlant-Choate made a scraper (can) for it. Never have seen one. Austin Western made a pull grader of which I have seen one. LeTourneau built what was suppose to be an air drop self-propelled scraper, of which I have seen a few. They had a cable blade and featured the only three drum cable control ever made by LeTourneau. According to a historian with LeTourneau, they were never intended as air dropped units as they were too heavy for the aircraft at the time. A great job on this one. I would have thought a bath in EvapoRust appropriate.
Some interesting bikes and even a Rolls Royce in the background there!!? What an amazing wee setup, you can see the jeep wheels and tyres and all sorts of other commonalities. Great to see just a single ram for the three actions of the apron, bowl and ejector. Lovely design.
Please thank him for allowing you to video all of that that was truly amazing and something that we need to be amazed by. They did so much with so little. Thanks
You New Zealanders are amazing people Marty, i admire you as i do the Aussies and your skills in restoring historical vehicles, great!! ... Greetings from The Netherlands.
Hi Marty. How good is it seeing a peace of history coming back to life. The men who used these machines provided a gift of freedom that should be remembered by all of us. Well done to all involved in this restoration project.
At 41:30 I’m about crying this is been such a long project and she looks and sounds great! Love the seat they made and it’s adorable! How much does she weigh? What type of fuel? I love the paint job! Okay I’ll watch the rest now. Love this so much! My favorite part is when he said he made some parts out of an old hand saw, and you panned to said saw… very cool! Second favorite part is the black and white old film touch your added 45:38
These guys deserve a metal for the work that would of been put into that resto. I'm sure at times they would thrown their hands in the air and wondered what the frig are we doing. Well done guys. And thanks Marty for recording the process and uploading to your utube channel. Great viewing.
What a fantastic project to bring the WW2 dozer/scraper back to life. Wonderful to see it scraping and pushing in the yard. I take my hat off to everyone that worked on the project. Great dedication required to complete it. Great video, thanks Marty.
Watch awesomeness in the making. Reading the comments is just amazing living history lesson too. Well done for preserving the history and legacy of the people who helped create this amazing nation.
Triggered a memory of 30 years ago in the Auckland war museum up on the hill. A display of a captured Japanize Zero fighter. The museum staff removed the ropes around the plane to allow an elderly Japanize man to board the plane and sit in behind the controls. He had flown Zero's in war in 1945, and was shaken from his reentering the plane These old machines remind us of the joys of peace and the costs of war for both sides.
Great vid Marty mike and browny were stoked , awesome to see team at rem did such a great job for them what a great rebuild ,and browny doing the trials such a great vid on old school machines,and browny with his famous roly he is clever bugger ,cheers , shaneo nelson 👍
Well said 🇬🇧
I think your airfield might take a while Marty !
Fun fact, mitsubishi tried to release a special edition evo in the USA called the zero fighter 😂
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Oh I remember the uproar that caused, shame they did not go with a family van called "Yamato's Revenge"
My Dad was a Army mechanic from 42 to 46..went to Australia then New Guinea and finally to the Philippines... my guess is he worked on a few of these but they were a lot newer then ..RIP Dad. seeing these old guys reminded me of him.
I thought of my father as well. Even in his 90s with prostate cancer drugs he still had the strong forearms of somebody who worked hard all his life...
You know I was thinking the same thing the army would have never done it that they should have put it back to original they ruined it half-ass in it
Was your dad attached to the 503rd Regimental Combat Team Airborne?
My dad was and had a similar journey across the Pacific.
I am forever stunned at the industrial creativity and capacity of the US in the 40's. Where else on earth could someone say "we need dinky toy sized road grading equipment we can stick in a DC-3 sized airplane. To build airports in the middle of nowhere. And then someone goes off and does it overnite and it works like a charm. Kudos to the restoration team for a really worthwhile project. Its a reminder of just how much effort it took to win the war in the Pacific. Brilliant job.
So unreal to see it running when you look at the state of it in the beginning , the old engine for it certainly was well used up . Nice restoration guys , its a credit to you all.
Amazing workmanship and patience. Thanks for preserving this marvelous piece of history.
A piece of ANZUS history that helped build airfields and roads during the war, thanks to the crew for doing such a great job!
Excellent video, so good to see it going again and able to do some work
The black and white segment was a nice touch in your filming and editing. These gentlemen are certainly to be admired and congratulated for their knowledge, ability and perseverance.
Yeah, it's nice he could include some original footage from the 40's, for the historical pespective.
@@herrakaarme Browny doesn't look like he's aged a day 🤣!
Other than the smartphone in the background XD
I'm sure that y'all already know this,but when I asked my great uncle,my grandfather's brother who was a seebee in ww2 he informed me that everything,including the radiator,and hoses and lines was painted od green and the seats were usually covered with od green canvas material,not vinyl or rubber.. No black radiator flues and fins, no black seats,hoses,or anything... Even the knobs and handles were painted od green.. and only the gauges and lenses weren't . He'll argue with ya and break out the photos,which are black n white as his proof..😂 He's a great guy with a super sharp mind and sight even though his time's getting short at almost 100 years of wonderfulness... Enlisted at 17 in 1942 and wouldn't go back and change a thing he says..
Bless you and your great uncle. Those photos will soon be gone, digitize them. Men who built a great and civil society when they returned, must have been amazed and saddened by it all since.
May god's grace bless you and your family 🙏🕊️🙏🕊️
@@sandsparWell they went and killed a bunch of fellow white Europeans and fought on the side of communist china and Russia so maybe they fought the wrong people, or shouldn’t have been involved.
There are pictures of all green ones online. Definitely a neat little machine!
Love how brownie has a smoke in his mouth next to the gentleman filling the fuel!
Makes me proud to be an American!!! So proud these men have brought this back to life! Would love to shake each and everyone of their hands!!!
To Marty and every one involved Just a VERY BIG thank you
Love they way he drives straight out the shed with the scraper and rips up the good surface in the yard. Reminds me of little boys with their tonka toys. LOL
I have pictures of my grandfather in France on that same little dozer. I never knew the story behind that until now. Thanks Marty that was awesome
My great uncle watched this video when I showed it to him and wants y'all to know he thinks that it's beautiful even though it brought back some tough memories for him and said thank you; Marty,Mike,Browny,and the boys at REM sirs..
No idea how this channel popped into my YT (probably the Tank Museum, Aussie Tank, Mr Hewes stuff etc!) but very glad to be acquainted with Marty T’s Channel. This one is particularly good.
My father was in WWII in China. Burma & India as a Airborne Combat Engineer (879th) and worked with this type of equipment building airfields and roads. Thanks for sharing I enjoyed see the equipment that my father used
Very hard to state how clever and skilled these old boys are.
Splendid work. You can tell he’s an operator. Goes straight at the nearest pile with that blade. Made me smile.
Marty, you are the master of the understatement when you said "That will keep you busy for awhile."
Very cool they did an amazing job on the dozer and scraper very well done gentlemen thank you for sharing sir Marty
Browny is an amazing fella. What a mechanic. It purrs like a kitten. Considering what he started with, that's probably the best refurbishment that I've ever seen. The old-timey looking footage actually looked like it was from the 40s. That was a great video Marty. Thanks!
I could listen to Browny all day. Needs his own channel. 😅
That's how you stay young even when you are "old"..projects like that! Amazing work and thanks for taking us along and recording the progress Marty!
all the skill these guys have will go with them , lets see if a.i. can do this
and with so much humility .
Truly awesome! Did I see a Bradon MU2 winch on the back? The same as on the front of my 1950 Dodge Power Wagon!
What a awesome library these old boys are. There knowledge is invaluable. Marty, your in good company and so fortunate that these chaps were so generous with their time. The passion came through and was awesome to watch.
This is Great!! Love to see these old machines saved!!!!! Our History!!
Great work dear❤
Wonderful restoration of an unsung hero of the front line of WW2. These little guys made it so bigger equipment could be brought in.
Mike & Malc best bosses I've had. Great to see Mike still loving his old gear
The fact that the manual survived is a miracle wish I had a small dozer like that
Great video. I enjoy watching the craftsmanship of men who have accumulated knowledge thru a lifetime of working on equipment and who take great pride in the final product.
Respect from Tennessee USA to all of you
Marty, you and your friends are absolutely the best! To take the time over a year to record this and then let us all see it. Allowing the gentlemen to explain what they are doing and what we are even looking at. The machining shop letting you in to record and explain what they are doing to help the project along. The garage doors in the background behind the white Chevy were beautiful. Your channel, in my humble opinion, has brought our countrymen closer together. Watching these videos really makes me want to get over there even more to visit. To meet all of you and listen to your stories would be amazing. I know it could never happen, but maybe instead you could interview them. Well anyway just couldn’t let this video go without a comment. Thank you very much to your friends and you. Cheers!
love the work done and dedication to the task! well done Bravo!
Not to take anything away from todays plug and bolt repairman, I would think you would need to go far and wide to find any with the talent of these old boys well done!
Very impressive but the last part when you made it look like a 1940’s film that was a very nice touch.
Would have this machine been built in Scotland? Clark is an engineering company that builds forestry equipment to this day. It's a really great video to watch. Love to see such specialised workshops operating.
It was built by a company in the USA.
Whether they have/had/are an offshoot in Scotland would require a phone call????
A prime example of people with mind blowing skills and talent. Not to mention patience. Simply amazing.
Congratulations to all the fellas who worked on that equipment… such an awesome project!
Amazing! My Dad was sent to New Zealand in the USMC during the war. He had so many wonderful things to say about the people there.
Thanks for taking us all along on this journey.
Totally love seeing old machines coming back to life .
Kind regards from the UK
As a WW2 living historian I gotta commend you guys for beautiful job. So many forget that the basic tools were needed for everything.
The smiles say it all. Great work fellas!
Thank you for preserving this one. So many service vehicles like this one end up forgotten to time. I love it when someone takes an interest in a vehicle like this one.
Fantastic piece of equipment. A testament that simple is better because after 80yrs and 50 of those just sitting outside…it can be still made to work.
Excellent. Wow what a treasure thank you for documenting and sharing. Thank you to the owner of the Excavation Company for supporting this awesome historical project & not to forget the lead mechanic & helpers
The little dozer that could. Great restoration, capable machine for the size.
Great to see this restoration progressing. When I joined plant squadron in 1974 we still had a cat D7T with CCU control, manual box and pony start. It had reputedly been bought back from Italy at the end of the war. I often wondered what happened to it.
That is an awesome little dozer, love it. Thanks for sharing amazing work restoring it
Kiwi ingenuity and humour, a laugh a minute Marty and a great video, well done the entire team what a cracking effort.
That thing is a work of art. Tons and tons of money spent on that beast.
Your work is amazing to watch. You all have done yeoman's work to get that dozer running. Your attention to detail is astounding. I found your video because I have two Waukesha Model FCs that I run in my two P&H welders (1966 and 1971 vintage). Those little engines are bad-ass!
Marty, FAR OUT, This was completely an outstanding video!!! Thanks for letting us watch the work and the check-out. Regards, Bert
I really enjoy watching all your videos, it's amazing watching you get older equipment running that others might think are scrap.
Glad to see you have the boys back on your channel. Good for you. I would like to think I will be out in the shed at his young age. Pretty fit grand-dad! Amazing work. The fab shop should do a channel. Cutting edge is very good as you said. About the bigger dozers getting more views - I’m not sure. These boys should have a huge tank of evapo-rust. Drop those parts all in for a good long soak. Surprising how things come apart and get rejuvenated. The laser rust machines are amazing and amazingly expensive. I’m sure there will be consumer level units soon enough. Great video and say hi to the boys from Nova Scotia please and thanks. Stay safe. PS Brownie rocked the dozer scrapper combo. The only thing missing was the dart hanging off his bottom lip. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Thanks again
I am happy to see that there are young mechanics who are interested and learn from the old ones to still have the knowledge to repair and maintain these old machines. Nowadays, it is the era of electronics and computers to find faults, few young mechanics still know how to solve a problem by ear without a computer. Magnificent restoration and that in just 1 year, great job. 👍
Well done Marty. I think we pushed to get this fixed. It’s a very important piece of history. Both for the US & us. What you can do if you work together. Not apart from each other. I hope people appreciate what’s going on here. Well done for taking an interest. & recording it. Cheers Marty
That piece of equipment is a brilliant piece. I could use that on my ranch for sure. Surely a company should make a scraper of that size and make a profit. Those boys work as fast as I do these days. Perfect. Bless them for doing as they did. Thanks so much for the documentary on their progress.
everyone has gone to box scrapers now for smaller jobs. I was thinking the same thing though. You can still get a pull behind grader but you need a 2nd person to run it.
@0:14 we had one of those chev trucks out in Puponga circa 1968-9. sold it to young bloke, who seized it, and it rotted away in a paddock to nothing.
As for this little gem of a dozer, well done to all involved, what an absolutely brilliant project. I think Mr Mechanic enjoyed driving that around his yard more than he is letting on. Thanks for putting that out Marty, well worth the watch.
About 8 years ago, there was one of them at the Zagray Farm Show in Colchester, CT, USA. It had been restored and the guy was driving it around. I talked with him for a while. It was so tiny compared to the D-8s we had when I was a combat engineer. I haven't seen it since. Good Luck, Rick
Thanks to You Marty for recording this Dozer and to Your Mates for the hard work they put into the restoration and for saving a piece of WW 2 History. This one is right up alley. I've seen WW 2 footage of 5 of these little dozers with scrapers in a kind of formation scraping a new runway on some island in the So. Pacific. They aren't very fast but sure are effective.
That is so cool thanks for saving a part of historical equipment that was a lot of work and everyone involved should be so proud I know I’m very impressed and grateful to everyone that worked hard to save the old girl and give her a new chance at life that will be a lot easier on it then when it was first put in service for sure thanks again for showing this to us all
One of the humble unsung machines that helped to win the War. Amazing work by skilled and dedicated men. Superb!
A great restoration. One of the best channels to see some great line boring on some big equipment is The Cutting Edge Engineering channel.
^^ This.
Great job! Another piece of history saved from the junk yard!
hat off to the fine chaps the did all the work brilliant and thank for letting marty follow the biuld for use. cheers.
Thank-you all for preserving history
GREAT Restoration, Guys! You should be proud of yourselves! And thanks for having my Great Uncles poem up, too! Yes - I'm a relative of Lt-Col John MacCrae!
It never occurred to me , even though im ex RAF , that there would have been times in wwii where runways needed to be built/repaired in a hurry. So it makes sense that light weight plant equipment would have been developed. Thanks , I've learnt something new.
Ty guys for keeping this old iron history from rusting away god bless you sir loved doors to shop god bless you sir from retired operator ty again she's beautiful
Bravo! Just starting on my CA-1. The inspiration for these dozers came from the Forest Service in Portland Oregon. They designed what was designated as the trail tractor for pushing out Forest service trails
Just a good bunch of fellas bringing a little work horse back to life. Loved every minute of it!
Amazing restoration, and even more so to see the guys actually test all the equipment!
That turned great. Good job to your buddies.
What team! Browny looked so proud when he drove it out of the shop and Mike had a smile from ear to ear. Good on ‘em! 👍👍
That is as significant a piece of WWII memorabilia as any restored Bren Gun Carrier, Jeep or Harvard. I am well impressed. The fact that it WORKS is chocolate icing on the cake. I want to see it one day. I want to see it WORKING one day. Congratulations and thanks to all involved. Lest we forget.
The old timey edit was a great addition to the video, great documentary video of this restoration! Thanks for showing us Marty!
Wonderful cinematography and an excellent storyboard to the entire restoration. My utmost respect and thanks for the men who restored the tractor and earth mover. I am assuming that their father's and mother's were involved with the war effort in the South Pacific, as was my father in the ETO. I can't imagine landing on an island, in a war zone, and being asked to carve an airfield out of the jungle on a such a light machine, but our parents' generation did just that. Thank you so much, Marty, for capturing the restoration, and my sincerest thanks to the men who were involved in resurrecting this historic machine which could have just as easily been hauled to the breakers.
the years of experience was evident in seeing that group of seasoned fellas at work. id enjoy riding shotgun with any of them for a day.
The best thing about this video is seeing them drop the blade and use the scraper.lovely restored but fit for use.keep up the good work and greetings from Ireland🇮🇪
Amazing little machine which I believe was built not far from where I grew up. I have only seen one other and it as inoperable. I never was aware that they had a winch, I couldn't catch the name of who made the scraper that you have. I believe that LaPlant-Choate made a scraper (can) for it. Never have seen one. Austin Western made a pull grader of which I have seen one. LeTourneau built what was suppose to be an air drop self-propelled scraper, of which I have seen a few. They had a cable blade and featured the only three drum cable control ever made by LeTourneau. According to a historian with LeTourneau, they were never intended as air dropped units as they were too heavy for the aircraft at the time.
A great job on this one. I would have thought a bath in EvapoRust appropriate.
Some interesting bikes and even a Rolls Royce in the background there!!? What an amazing wee setup, you can see the jeep wheels and tyres and all sorts of other commonalities. Great to see just a single ram for the three actions of the apron, bowl and ejector. Lovely design.
Incredible work!
Congratulations!
Please thank him for allowing you to video all of that that was truly amazing and something that we need to be amazed by. They did so much with so little. Thanks
You New Zealanders are amazing people Marty, i admire you as i do the Aussies and your skills in restoring historical vehicles, great!! ... Greetings from The Netherlands.
WOW! "The Boys" have done a mighty effort on the old girl. Thank you to all involved and a big thank you to you Marty for sharing it with us.👍
Hi Marty. How good is it seeing a peace of history coming back to life. The men who used these machines provided a gift of freedom that should be remembered by all of us. Well done to all involved in this restoration project.
Absolutely loved the no color black and white editing at the end 😊
Bunch of all time gc's...... absolutely brilliant.
At 41:30 I’m about crying this is been such a long project and she looks and sounds great! Love the seat they made and it’s adorable! How much does she weigh? What type of fuel? I love the paint job! Okay I’ll watch the rest now. Love this so much! My favorite part is when he said he made some parts out of an old hand saw, and you panned to said saw… very cool!
Second favorite part is the black and white old film touch your added 45:38
A good restauration ! Congratulations from Italy,
It is great to see these old machines not just running, but working again. Great job by all concerned. Thanks
These guys deserve a metal for the work that would of been put into that resto. I'm sure at times they would thrown their hands in the air and wondered what the frig are we doing.
Well done guys. And thanks Marty for recording the process and uploading to your utube channel. Great viewing.
What a fantastic project to bring the WW2 dozer/scraper back to life.
Wonderful to see it scraping and pushing in the yard.
I take my hat off to everyone that worked on the project. Great dedication required to complete it.
Great video, thanks Marty.
super cool! i have a WWII 1944 Clark Carloader forklift that was in army and airforce service. i use it all the time
Nice to see something like that preserved is just really too bad that the gearbox made so much noise after it was finished
Awesome to see this restored - you all are very cleaver and skillful
Nice Kuraki manual horizontal boring machine. Interesting shop and really stunning restoration. Thanks for another fascinating video.
Watch awesomeness in the making. Reading the comments is just amazing living history lesson too. Well done for preserving the history and legacy of the people who helped create this amazing nation.