I’m SO excited in seeing X231 getting picked back up again for another run! I’m trying to remember, I’m pretty sure it was this series you were making about the time I had found your channel, I don’t think it’s how I found your channel though. I remember sitting at lunch in school always glued to my phone watching you do this because it was so neat to watch all the intensive work it needed done! I’ll admit, I was bummed to see it get sidelined for 5J1113 but the D2 was still an as enjoyable project to watch! Anyways, long and the short of it: I’m excited for X231, lol!
Wow, I don't realize how long I've been following your channel. Back when you were doing all the cool old Iron walk around videos. So many cool projects too. Thank you, for all the high end entertainment. Watching your channel was and is a great way to learn new things.
I’m an early Ford tractor man and I have 9N52, the 52nd Ford N tractor ever built sitting outside awaiting restoration. While it’s an early regular production tractor, Ford was making small changes on the fly during the first year of production. The oil fill pipe was in a different location on the first few dozen tractors, the shift lever was chromed, the bolt arrangement in the governor was different, etc.. It’s hard enough to do an accurate restoration when a tractor was one of a small early production group much less what you face with a one of a kind! I’ll be following every video of your restoration efforts. Good luck and Godspeed!
X231 is the reason I started watching in the first place!!!! Toby ! But really enjoyed the D 2 build and have been waiting on diving back into x231 😊😊😊😊😊 Good to see you diving in again 👍
BTW if you ever need to re-create the texture of a casting, I like to use a needle scaler and lean on it a bit, it'll give you that nice fresh cast iron look in a few minutes. Even if the repaired area was previously ground smooth. Way to make repairs invisible.
I look forward to this series and learning about the machine. I personally believe it can’t be emphasized enough how you said you were burned out, doing work that didn’t meet your standards, and so you knew to take a break so you could reset your mind. I hope this series is at least as successful as 5J1113 for you.
The 5J series was fantastic, and I would happily watch Toby restore a toaster, but X231 is why I came to the channel. Glad to see her back in progress.
"I just know it has a soul that wants to be a new Kia" absolutely made my day. I am very excited to see this project again! I hope it doesn't fight you as bad this time! Also I would be very interested to hear more about the 'scandals' in that factory X253 picture. In fact I would enjoy listening to any stories you know about the history and historic figures surrounding the equipment industry!
I’m excited to see the progress on this. Prototype tractors are hard to find and having one and bringing it back is a big piece of history saved. I hope you keep on it and finish it
How long have I waited for this day. X231 is the holy grail of tractor creation. All moline tractors can trace their creation to X231. And I must say, after watching hours and hours of your meticulous work, you are the right person to bring X231 back to life. I can’t wait for more videos.
My favorite part was your detailed breakdown of the differences as we went step by step through the rebuild. I can't tell you how much I appreciated the effort you put into showing both an X-231 part and a production part so we could understand the thought/ failures/ development of each and every part. Thanks for bringing it back 👍
So exciting! I didn't want to keep nagging you about X231 but I'm thankful you decided to finally pick it back up. I remember your old videos every step was just a ton of fabrication and setup and research and I completely understand how you got burnt out. Hopefully with all the support of everyone here it will be an exciting journey for us all with lots of discussion along the way.
All I can say is.....ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME......lol. I've waited a long time for the continuation of this project but I get it when you say you were burnt out.i for one will be sticking around for this👍
Very happy you're back on X231! I just rewatched some of the videos and it looks like so much hard work is already done... the line boring setup blew my mind again, when I saw it first time I knew I'll stick with the channel for a while.
I can't imagine the level of burnt out you had on this project! I am excited to seeing it surface again. X231 was a random suggested video on TH-cam for me when you were installing the bull gears. Havent missed an episode since.
Just out of curiosity, can you remember what it cost to get that rear end housing repaired. I can't remember if you mentioned it in a previous video. I always found it strange that you would use that pitted piece of stock for your new shift fork, but I figured you had a plan for how to clean it up. I guess I never realized how burnt out you were with working on this tractor, thank goodness the Swamp Angel came along when she did. Speaking of the Swamp Angel, DANG she looks sexy sitting there in the background! That is one mean looking machine! LOVE IT
@@squatch253 WOW, that's really reasonable considering what they had to do, and the quality of work they did. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was almost double the price now.
Glad to see X231 back in the spotlight! Are there many other Minneapolis Moline prototype tractors around? I know many manufacturers destroyed theirs when done with them. The old photographs and story behind x231 are very interesting to me.
YES! I am very happy to finally see you get back to this project. I enjoyed the D2 build and look forwarded to more on that but this is the project I started viewing your channel on. I hope you complete it at some point, but I am hooked now and will watch you and your dad, what ever you are working on. You have a way of making even producing maple syrup interesting. I suspect you could even make narrating paint drying interesting.
What I love about your channel are the back stories. As Joeph E indicates, it'd be great to hear about the corporate intrigue and American Greed that went on back then. BTW - my mom was at MM in the 50s. I wish she was still around to ask about those days.
A man true to his word! Looking forward to continuation of X231. I needn't repeat what has already been submitted, so I offer a big thank you for your willingness to continue the project.
THRILLED to see X231 again! That was actually the project that got me to following and eventually subbing to your channel, because it was such an interesting project for an old farm kid like myself.
I am absolutely exstatic about you taking this up again. I love your work. In a day and age when details are something people don't want to be confused with (grrr..🥵) it is so refreshing on your channel details are literally enshrined as THE relevant and germane issues of the discussion. Your detective work, your hard exhausting literal physical hands on in this day and age are so admirable. I can say at 71 as well Senior did a great job of planting the enduring seeds of quality. workmanship and genuine comment to excellence in you Squatch! Bravo bring it this little tractor needs to move and work again. I am 100% CONFIDENT it is in the hands of a man that can and will have the tenacity to make that happen!!👍
Squatch253 say, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (from The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation)
Hello Toby. I started following your channel only a few days after the first video of 1113, and I took a quick look at your previous projects, and I was very impressed with your ideas and the way you dealt with problems. I was one of the people who were excited about project 1113, but I couldn't wait for it to finish, hoping that you would pick the M.M project again. I'm very excited and can confidently say that if you filmed a bean soup making, I'll follow along. I have never driven a tractor in my life but I am enjoying every moment here. Keep it coming.
Good to see x231 getting a dust off and taken out to test the water see what interest there is, count me in, I followed it up to the stage it’s at so it will be good to get the screen time back on it and hopefully you get the reception it deserves to carry on the rebuild. Hard as it may seem trying to grow the Channel and bring in new interest , you just focus on your own passions and where you want to go with it, I think you will find the people that respect your work ethic and attention to detail follow your Chanel for your passion and focus on whatever you decide to work on. If you were rebuilding a toilet cistern I sure most of us that follow you regularly would all be exited to see the rebuild. ;-) good luck
Very happy that this series is back. I watched every part of it with my dad who grew up farming with Molines, and he’ll be happy too when I let him know!
I've missed this series ever since it got put on the back burner. Can't wait to see the new progress. Much as I enjoyed 5J1113, I had to agree with you that this restoration is really the better story because of the tractor being one of a kind. I would really love the hear the stories of the men in the picture you showed. That would make an incredibly interesting episode.
I'm hoping you have renewed motivation and enthusiasm once you start to make progress on X231. Really curious to see how you will machine the braze repairs to the front pedestal. Hang in there and we will be here absorbing every episode.
Sooo glad to see X231 again, I was following this rebuild when 1113 turned up, I stayed for that and got totally hooked on it to the extent that I felt sad when it was complete, I look forward to the cab rebuild and with X231 as well then this all too exciting.
YAY!!! I'm so happy to see you return to this project. I was really disappointed when you stopped, especially because you put so much work into it. I know you stopped when the viewership for this particular project declined but I think coming after your last project you will have a healthy viewership. Again, thank you for bringing this back!
I started your channel with the Super M, since I have one of my own. The X231 is what hooked me. So happy to see you get back to it. I might have to rewatch the series a third time.
X231 got me into this channel. I remember though, that it seemed like every step was just a fight the whole way. Hard to enjoy a resto when it just kicks your butt every time you touch it.
I've been watching your channel for a looong time and remember all the things you did with this machine. Your's is my first YT membership channel from today. Thank you for putting out great videos on the things you work on and letting us into your workshop and your life. Kudos and cheers to snowy Minnesota!
Honestly, you do such a good job of presenting your restorations, I'd watch even it was an old clock or sewing machine you were working on. Looking forward to this one.
An X 253 video was one of the first videos I watched. X231 showed me your attention to detail. I look forward to watching the progress you can make. I will most likely never ow or work on a tractor in my life. For me it's pure learning. I know very little and am learning each time.
Working on the prototype MM was the first thing I saw on your channel. I am thrilled to see the project start up again. One of a kind is something that never can be replaced. Thanks for starting back on it.
I remember when I fist came to this channel and you where building the new shift fork for X231. For me the process of replication is interesting. X231 is one of a kind machine and this is not something where you should hurry. Take one step at a time. Very happy to see X231 given quality time on this channel.
This is awesome, Squatch! I look forward to your work on the MM prototype X231 over the next few weeks. Have you given a backstory as to how you located the X231 and did you know what you had when you saved it? Not only are you a talented tractor restorer, but you are quite the historian. Thanks buddy! 🇺🇲🚜👍
@@squatch253 hahaha was just gonna leave a comment , that I seem to remember an account of how it wound up in the field , thanks now I know I wasn’t just imagining 👍🤪 🤷♂️🤔 not to mention a vid when you informed everyone it was going in the corner for a while 😆 just to lazy to run through the archive to verify my memory 🤷♂️ .. ✌️🤙
X231 sat under a tarp by the door until you finally moved it out of the way to build the 5J1113. The 5J build was incredible and your attention to detail is meticulous. You did post a video back in the day about having to step away from the x231 but I did not realize how close it had pushed you to the scrap pile. From the comments you can see that there are alot of x231 fans. Do what you can and step away when you need. It will make the project better in the long run.
I started watching while you were working on this and was initially disappointed when you went to the d2, although that restoration grew on me and became one of the videos I looked forward to the most. I can't say enough how excited I am to see 231 is back, hopefully until the end. Good luck and I look forward to it
I’m not a farm tractor guy but I wasn’t a crawler guy until you snagged my interest. I’m in it for the machine work. Thanks for all the fun hours so far. Steve
I’m so glad X231 is making it back, I started watching your channel because of the work on the tractor. I have enjoyed watching the D-2 project as well. So thank you!
X231 is what drew me to the channel in the beginning. I have since watched the rest of your content from the early days along with the Swamp Angel build. So glad to see you back on X231 again.
I found your channel after the #5J113 series had started, so I apologize if this has already been answered. Have you been out to that MM engineer's brother's farm where #X231 and #x253 were rescued from? Either to search for lost parts (e.g. prototype 3-point), or to see what other prototypes might be hiding in the weeds? Not suggesting that you need to rescue them yourself, but just documenting the resting places to fill in the history of any of those machines would help with missing puzzle pieces in the history of those machines.
Toby, I don't comment on video's too often, however, this is worth the comment. Extremely happy to see this project back on your work table. It is what brought me to your channel and I have been pleased ever since. Thank you Sir! Mark
Yay, X231 is back. This is the tractor that won me over as a viewer. The logical thought you put into the repairs and component replacements was as good as it can get. No, it will not be a 100 percent restoration but with what was there to start with and what was and is available for replacement parts you would have made the engineers in the R and D department proud with your choices.
Yay! It's the MM again!!! Yipeeee!!!! Dude, you should be honored. Been turning wrenches and welding for my whole life, 55 yrs old now, and you showed me some new tricks on that MM.
glad to see you back on x231 again..... 5J1113 was interesting, but it was the experimentals that brought me to your channel... and it is good to see you back on x231... been waiting a long time...
This is the project I started following you on, and I've been wondering what happened to it. But the D2 has been rather distracting... hopefully you can get the cab on it some day!
The proto Moline was when I first saw your channel. Hard to believe that I have watching this long. Keep up the excellent work and I'm looking forward to resuming work on your rare tractor.
Glad to see X231 back again. I was going to suggest either this one or old Krackle, the 2 cyl. RD-6 as a new direction bit got distracted away from the comments section and just never got it sent. Either way, I'll be glad to see new content.
Im excited to see X231 back. Was honestly a bit peeved when it was shelved in favor of Swamp Angel but ha e come to lovve 1113. Would love to see the whole vrawler inventory out side by side when the weatger improves.
I remember when you were working on that prototype Minneapolis Moline so that means I've been with the dozer build since you dragged it home from Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Hi Squatch, I had asked you about a year ago what happened to your crawler tractor, you responded that it had been completed. Which confused me at the time. I did not want to pester you so I did not pursue the question. This the tractor I was referring to! I am thrilled to see you start work on it again! Personally I think you should have been a professor at a technical college. You are so thorough with your work and you explain everything so that a person such as myself can understand. I cannot wait to watch X231 be reborn! Thank you so much!
I come across your TH-cam channel when you were a month from quit working on that and you picked up 11 13 and I've been watching you TH-cam channel since and recently I have been trying to figure out what you called this project and I was hoping you would get back on it soon you have answered my questions cannot wait to see this tractor done
Sure looking forward to this project Toby watch every one of your videos one advantage of being retired have more time to watch U Tube regards Les from New Zealand
About time, I've been waiting for years. I enjoyed the Cat stuff, but restoring a one off prototype is more important than restoring 1 of many. My personal opinion. I do love you over the top details. Keep up the great work!
Very interested in picking up where you left off. I watched the series to the end. I was working on a MM Cocksutt at the time and was working on the powershift. I got it all fixed up! Had to build up and make new spines on the pto. Parts are rare.
Wow, my father had an Oliver Track Loader all his life. We did a lot of landscaping with it, dug out cellar holes with it and dug out cellars for mills in the mill yard. A really handy piece of equipment.
11:40 I discovered your channel when you were working on this shift fork and have watched every episode since…so looking forward to watching this build!!
Please do a video about the back story of how you found the tractors and the goings on in the picture at the Moline factory. I think that would be very interesting.
I’m SO excited in seeing X231 getting picked back up again for another run! I’m trying to remember, I’m pretty sure it was this series you were making about the time I had found your channel, I don’t think it’s how I found your channel though. I remember sitting at lunch in school always glued to my phone watching you do this because it was so neat to watch all the intensive work it needed done! I’ll admit, I was bummed to see it get sidelined for 5J1113 but the D2 was still an as enjoyable project to watch! Anyways, long and the short of it: I’m excited for X231, lol!
Wow, I don't realize how long I've been following your channel. Back when you were doing all the cool old Iron walk around videos. So many cool projects too. Thank you, for all the high end entertainment. Watching your channel was and is a great way to learn new things.
I’m an early Ford tractor man and I have 9N52, the 52nd Ford N tractor ever built sitting outside awaiting restoration. While it’s an early regular production tractor, Ford was making small changes on the fly during the first year of production. The oil fill pipe was in a different location on the first few dozen tractors, the shift lever was chromed, the bolt arrangement in the governor was different, etc.. It’s hard enough to do an accurate restoration when a tractor was one of a small early production group much less what you face with a one of a kind! I’ll be following every video of your restoration efforts. Good luck and Godspeed!
X231 is the reason I started watching in the first place!!!!
Toby ! But really enjoyed the D 2 build and have been waiting on diving back into x231 😊😊😊😊😊
Good to see you diving in again 👍
BTW if you ever need to re-create the texture of a casting, I like to use a needle scaler and lean on it a bit, it'll give you that nice fresh cast iron look in a few minutes. Even if the repaired area was previously ground smooth. Way to make repairs invisible.
I think X231 is where I subscribed to your channel. Glad to see the series start back up!
The work so that the "Book Shelf" can Live again begins!
Glad to see that you are working on this again.
Great to see this project again!! Stay safe!!
If you build it, I’ll watch it! Great channel!!
I’ve been anxiously waiting for this. Can’t wait.
Ahh and I’m all in to see an episode of the folks gathered around the MM crawler prototype.
Can’t wait to see it going again
I look forward to this series and learning about the machine.
I personally believe it can’t be emphasized enough how you said you were burned out, doing work that didn’t meet your standards, and so you knew to take a break so you could reset your mind.
I hope this series is at least as successful as 5J1113 for you.
A story about those suits and engineers would be great.😎👍
The 5J series was fantastic, and I would happily watch Toby restore a toaster, but X231 is why I came to the channel. Glad to see her back in progress.
"I just know it has a soul that wants to be a new Kia" absolutely made my day. I am very excited to see this project again! I hope it doesn't fight you as bad this time!
Also I would be very interested to hear more about the 'scandals' in that factory X253 picture. In fact I would enjoy listening to any stories you know about the history and historic figures surrounding the equipment industry!
I’m excited to see the progress on this. Prototype tractors are hard to find and having one and bringing it back is a big piece of history saved. I hope you keep on it and finish it
How long have I waited for this day. X231 is the holy grail of tractor creation. All moline tractors can trace their creation to X231. And I must say, after watching hours and hours of your meticulous work, you are the right person to bring X231 back to life. I can’t wait for more videos.
Hell yeah X231! This was the tractor that brought me to this channel, that would be awesome to see it picked back up and completed.
My favorite part was your detailed breakdown of the differences as we went step by step through the rebuild. I can't tell you how much I appreciated the effort you put into showing both an X-231 part and a production part so we could understand the thought/ failures/ development of each and every part. Thanks for bringing it back 👍
Agree 👍!
Ahhh, the line-boring video is the episode that I first saw, and remember. Then the Forkit episodes were great...
So exciting! I didn't want to keep nagging you about X231 but I'm thankful you decided to finally pick it back up. I remember your old videos every step was just a ton of fabrication and setup and research and I completely understand how you got burnt out. Hopefully with all the support of everyone here it will be an exciting journey for us all with lots of discussion along the way.
All I can say is.....ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME......lol. I've waited a long time for the continuation of this project but I get it when you say you were burnt out.i for one will be sticking around for this👍
When you started with 5J1113, this was one of the series I missed the most. I'm glad to see you're continuing with it.
Great to see X231 back, really enjoyed the analysis on the design process that they went through to build it.
Count me in X231 is what caught my eye over 4 years ago, anything Squatch works on, is a pleasure to watch.
Very happy you're back on X231! I just rewatched some of the videos and it looks like so much hard work is already done... the line boring setup blew my mind again, when I saw it first time I knew I'll stick with the channel for a while.
@@squatch253 Geterdone...
I can't imagine the level of burnt out you had on this project! I am excited to seeing it surface again. X231 was a random suggested video on TH-cam for me when you were installing the bull gears. Havent missed an episode since.
Same I think. Good thumbnail.
Just out of curiosity, can you remember what it cost to get that rear end housing repaired. I can't remember if you mentioned it in a previous video. I always found it strange that you would use that pitted piece of stock for your new shift fork, but I figured you had a plan for how to clean it up. I guess I never realized how burnt out you were with working on this tractor, thank goodness the Swamp Angel came along when she did. Speaking of the Swamp Angel, DANG she looks sexy sitting there in the background! That is one mean looking machine! LOVE IT
@@squatch253 WOW, that's really reasonable considering what they had to do, and the quality of work they did. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was almost double the price now.
Glad to see X231 back in the spotlight! Are there many other Minneapolis Moline prototype tractors around? I know many manufacturers destroyed theirs when done with them. The old photographs and story behind x231 are very interesting to me.
YES! I am very happy to finally see you get back to this project. I enjoyed the D2 build and look forwarded to more on that but this is the project I started viewing your channel on. I hope you complete it at some point, but I am hooked now and will watch you and your dad, what ever you are working on. You have a way of making even producing maple syrup interesting. I suspect you could even make narrating paint drying interesting.
What I love about your channel are the back stories. As Joeph E indicates, it'd be great to hear about the corporate intrigue and American Greed that went on back then. BTW - my mom was at MM in the 50s. I wish she was still around to ask about those days.
A man true to his word! Looking forward to continuation of X231. I needn't repeat what has already been submitted, so I offer a big thank you for your willingness to continue the project.
THRILLED to see X231 again! That was actually the project that got me to following and eventually subbing to your channel, because it was such an interesting project for an old farm kid like myself.
I am absolutely exstatic about you taking this up again. I love your work. In a day and age when details are something people don't want to be confused with (grrr..🥵) it is so refreshing on your channel details are literally enshrined as THE relevant and germane issues of the discussion. Your detective work, your hard exhausting literal physical hands on in this day and age are so admirable. I can say at 71 as well Senior did a great job of planting the enduring seeds of quality. workmanship and genuine comment to excellence in you Squatch! Bravo bring it this little tractor needs to move and work again. I am 100% CONFIDENT it is in the hands of a man that can and will have the tenacity to make that happen!!👍
Squatch253 say, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (from The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation)
It's fantastic to see X231 again! I'm excited about seeing it come to life after having been "worked to death".
Hello Toby.
I started following your channel only a few days after the first video of 1113, and I took a quick look at your previous projects, and I was very impressed with your ideas and the way you dealt with problems.
I was one of the people who were excited about project 1113, but I couldn't wait for it to finish, hoping that you would pick the M.M project again.
I'm very excited and can confidently say that if you filmed a bean soup making, I'll follow along.
I have never driven a tractor in my life but I am enjoying every moment here.
Keep it coming.
Good to see x231 getting a dust off and taken out to test the water see what interest there is, count me in, I followed it up to the stage it’s at so it will be good to get the screen time back on it and hopefully you get the reception it deserves to carry on the rebuild. Hard as it may seem trying to grow the Channel and bring in new interest , you just focus on your own passions and where you want to go with it, I think you will find the people that respect your work ethic and attention to detail follow your Chanel for your passion and focus on whatever you decide to work on. If you were rebuilding a toilet cistern I sure most of us that follow you regularly would all be exited to see the rebuild. ;-) good luck
Very happy that this series is back. I watched every part of it with my dad who grew up farming with Molines, and he’ll be happy too when I let him know!
I've missed this series ever since it got put on the back burner. Can't wait to see the new progress. Much as I enjoyed 5J1113, I had to agree with you that this restoration is really the better story because of the tractor being one of a kind. I would really love the hear the stories of the men in the picture you showed. That would make an incredibly interesting episode.
Glad to see X231 come back around. Been waiting years to see her come back up front.
I'm hoping you have renewed motivation and enthusiasm once you start to make progress on X231. Really curious to see how you will machine the braze repairs to the front pedestal. Hang in there and we will be here absorbing every episode.
Sooo glad to see X231 again, I was following this rebuild when 1113 turned up, I stayed for that and got totally hooked on it to the extent that I felt sad when it was complete, I look forward to the cab rebuild and with X231 as well then this all too exciting.
YAY!!! I'm so happy to see you return to this project. I was really disappointed when you stopped, especially because you put so much work into it. I know you stopped when the viewership for this particular project declined but I think coming after your last project you will have a healthy viewership. Again, thank you for bringing this back!
I started your channel with the Super M, since I have one of my own. The X231 is what hooked me. So happy to see you get back to it. I might have to rewatch the series a third time.
X231 got me into this channel. I remember though, that it seemed like every step was just a fight the whole way. Hard to enjoy a resto when it just kicks your butt every time you touch it.
This was the series that brought me to this channel and it ended so abruptly. The D2 build was fantastic, but I am so glad the MM prototype is back.
I've been watching your channel for a looong time and remember all the things you did with this machine. Your's is my first YT membership channel from today.
Thank you for putting out great videos on the things you work on and letting us into your workshop and your life. Kudos and cheers to snowy Minnesota!
Woohoo we are back into X231. How about the video on X253 scandal picture. Now to binge watch all of X231 playlist to get caught up again.
You said tractors that you use for work ! Didn't you mean for PLAY ? Lol
Enjoy watching here in S.C.
Honestly, you do such a good job of presenting your restorations, I'd watch even it was an old clock or sewing machine you were working on. Looking forward to this one.
An X 253 video was one of the first videos I watched. X231 showed me your attention to detail. I look forward to watching the progress you can make. I will most likely never ow or work on a tractor in my life. For me it's pure learning. I know very little and am learning each time.
Working on the prototype MM was the first thing I saw on your channel. I am thrilled to see the project start up again. One of a kind is something that never can be replaced. Thanks for starting back on it.
I remember when I fist came to this channel and you where building the new shift fork for X231. For me the process of replication is interesting. X231 is one of a kind machine and this is not something where you should hurry. Take one step at a time. Very happy to see X231 given quality time on this channel.
This is awesome, Squatch! I look forward to your work on the MM prototype X231 over the next few weeks. Have you given a backstory as to how you located the X231 and did you know what you had when you saved it? Not only are you a talented tractor restorer, but you are quite the historian. Thanks buddy! 🇺🇲🚜👍
@@squatch253 hahaha was just gonna leave a comment , that I seem to remember an account of how it wound up in the field , thanks now I know I wasn’t just imagining 👍🤪 🤷♂️🤔 not to mention a vid when you informed everyone it was going in the corner for a while 😆 just to lazy to run through the archive to verify my memory 🤷♂️ .. ✌️🤙
X231 sat under a tarp by the door until you finally moved it out of the way to build the 5J1113. The 5J build was incredible and your attention to detail is meticulous. You did post a video back in the day about having to step away from the x231 but I did not realize how close it had pushed you to the scrap pile. From the comments you can see that there are alot of x231 fans. Do what you can and step away when you need. It will make the project better in the long run.
Excellent video it's nice you get back on x231 project hopefully you can make a bunch of progress on it it's definitely one of a kind
I started watching while you were working on this and was initially disappointed when you went to the d2, although that restoration grew on me and became one of the videos I looked forward to the most. I can't say enough how excited I am to see 231 is back, hopefully until the end. Good luck and I look forward to it
I’m not a farm tractor guy but I wasn’t a crawler guy until you snagged my interest. I’m in it for the machine work. Thanks for all the fun hours so far. Steve
X231 is the series that brought me to your videos. I've watched all the D2 vids and re-watched many of them. Thanks for continually great content!
I have been patiently waiting for this episode! Now I’m also waiting for the episode where you brake down the back story’s on that picture.
Been waiting to see the return of this project.
I want to see you tell the story of those characters in that R&D photo! All the back stories!
I’m so glad X231 is making it back, I started watching your channel because of the work on the tractor. I have enjoyed watching the D-2 project as well. So thank you!
X231 is what drew me to the channel in the beginning. I have since watched the rest of your content from the early days along with the Swamp Angel build. So glad to see you back on X231 again.
What love a video about the history of the men in the photo and the prototype crawler!
4 Years??
No way.
Seems like it was just yesterday we were painting the inside of that housing.
GOOD TIMES!!!
I found your channel after the #5J113 series had started, so I apologize if this has already been answered. Have you been out to that MM engineer's brother's farm where #X231 and #x253 were rescued from? Either to search for lost parts (e.g. prototype 3-point), or to see what other prototypes might be hiding in the weeds? Not suggesting that you need to rescue them yourself, but just documenting the resting places to fill in the history of any of those machines would help with missing puzzle pieces in the history of those machines.
Toby, I don't comment on video's too often, however, this is worth the comment. Extremely happy to see this project back on your work table. It is what brought me to your channel and I have been pleased ever since. Thank you Sir! Mark
Yay, X231 is back. This is the tractor that won me over as a viewer. The logical thought you put into the repairs and component replacements was as good as it can get. No, it will not be a 100 percent restoration but with what was there to start with and what was and is available for replacement parts you would have made the engineers in the R and D department proud with your choices.
Yay! It's the MM again!!! Yipeeee!!!! Dude, you should be honored. Been turning wrenches and welding for my whole life, 55 yrs old now, and you showed me some new tricks on that MM.
Top tier deadpan delivery of a toothsome joke
It's been hiding in the background the whole time. This series is before my time as a Squatch subscriber, so, onward I say! This should be fun.
glad to see you back on x231 again..... 5J1113 was interesting, but it was the experimentals that brought me to your channel... and it is good to see you back on x231... been waiting a long time...
This is the project I started following you on, and I've been wondering what happened to it. But the D2 has been rather distracting... hopefully you can get the cab on it some day!
The proto Moline was when I first saw your channel. Hard to believe that I have watching this long. Keep up the excellent work and I'm looking forward to resuming work on your rare tractor.
Glad to see X231 back again. I was going to suggest either this one or old Krackle, the 2 cyl. RD-6 as a new direction bit got distracted away from the comments section and just never got it sent. Either way, I'll be glad to see new content.
Im excited to see X231 back. Was honestly a bit peeved when it was shelved in favor of Swamp Angel but ha e come to lovve 1113. Would love to see the whole vrawler inventory out side by side when the weatger improves.
I remember when you were working on that prototype Minneapolis Moline so that means I've been with the dozer build since you dragged it home from Minneapolis-Saint Paul
I'm so glad ur finally getting back to x231!!! I missed her. What about the front bolster did it ever get repaired??
X231 is why I started watching your channel. I enjoyed the d2 but it's just another clatterpillar.
That tractor was the first video that I stumbled on and I have been a viewer every since. So glad to see it revived again!!
Early 1950s dad bought a new
R MM and drove it home 25 miles .
I found the recipt he paid $675.
So there
Hi Squatch, I had asked you about a year ago what happened to your crawler tractor, you responded that it had been completed. Which confused me at the time. I did not want to pester you so I did not pursue the question. This the tractor I was referring to! I am thrilled to see you start work on it again! Personally I think you should have been a professor at a technical college. You are so thorough with your work and you explain everything so that a person such as myself can understand. I cannot wait to watch X231 be reborn! Thank you so much!
I come across your TH-cam channel when you were a month from quit working on that and you picked up 11 13 and I've been watching you TH-cam channel since and recently I have been trying to figure out what you called this project and I was hoping you would get back on it soon you have answered my questions cannot wait to see this tractor done
Sure looking forward to this project Toby watch every one of your videos one advantage of being retired have more time to watch U Tube regards Les from New Zealand
About time, I've been waiting for years. I enjoyed the Cat stuff, but restoring a one off prototype is more important than restoring 1 of many. My personal opinion. I do love you over the top details. Keep up the great work!
Very interested in picking up where you left off. I watched the series to the end. I was working on a MM Cocksutt at the time and was working on the powershift. I got it all fixed up! Had to build up and make new spines on the pto. Parts are rare.
I found the 5J project first then the X231 and now we are back to the X231! Love em both. Go Squatch.
Wow, my father had an Oliver Track Loader all his life. We did a lot of landscaping with it, dug out cellar holes with it and dug out cellars for mills in the mill yard. A really handy piece of equipment.
Squatch, you said you could do an entire video on that photo alone, can you 🙏 👍🏴
11:40 I discovered your channel when you were working on this shift fork and have watched every episode since…so looking forward to watching this build!!
Looking forward to this one. Although, a revisit on x253 wouldn't be amiss either.
Don't know a thing about a Moline anything but this project looks like it will tax all your creative skills. Should be fun to watch.
Glad to see X231 coming back to the channel. Keep up the great work Squatch.
Please do a video about the back story of how you found the tractors and the goings on in the picture at the Moline factory. I think that would be very interesting.
I'm surprised that prototype got into private hands. Usually they are destroyed or in factory museums.
Looking so forward to this MM project. This is the first I have heard of it. Thank you and I will be there for every vidio.
🙂 Must have seen my last post... or read my mind... this project was what gave me an interest in your channel.. been here ever since.