Good morning, Sam. I love it when you and Matt team up to resurrect a piece of old iron. I sat in my dad's lap in 1965 in a 22b loading eucs. One of my earliest and fondest memories. I went on to a career as a crane operator and retired last year. Please keep vids like this coming.
Isn't Sam about the happiest most cheerful guy you have ever seen he always has a large smile on his face even when things don't go to plan. He is so knowledgeable of this old stuff we have so few left anymore to work on this old equipment bless him.
2:32 Hello, this is the lockpicking lawyer, and today we have a very heavily rusted Master Lock Model 19. We are going to open it with a bit of soda can...
Would like to see that shovel restored with a new military paint job on it to preserve the metal so it can be used or viewed for 40 + more years . Awesome video
Greatly enjoyed this one Sam. It struck me that this machine is a great example of commercialism replacing common sense. When you said those clutch wheels(?) were all the same size it just made so much sense, particularly thinking about carrying parts for field repairs . Nowadays the manufactures seem to go out of their way to over complicate things no doubt to feed their own spare parts market. Thank you for sharing. 👍
My Grand father operated a steam shovel in a coal mine, I turned out to be a mechanic and operated numerous types of heavy equipment through my lifetime. 74 yo now, good to see ya'll resurrect old equipment.
Takes me back to my childhood when i watched the new town sewer system get installed(early 60's..the company had a 22B and 19B both in backhoe configuration)....and every hole, foundation, trench dug for the next 5 years....G6 Allis-Chalmers dozers, Case backhoes.... 😢
Keeping these historical pieces in working order is an amazing thing, and your detailed explanation is awesome. Great job and keep up the great work guys.
Wow! What a find! I was blown away when it fired right up. Mechanically it seems in great shape, just some cosmetic issues. I love the old cable-driven machinery so much more than the hydraulic stuff.
Sam is this the shovel that Chris buys ,pretty soon Chris will have enough antique machinery to have his own show with Sam's tweaking on the drag line and shovel they are work ready Chris is one hell of a operator once he gets into the rhythm of it ,he'll be as smooth as Sam ,it's really enjoyable to see these guys take such a interest in preserving and saving this old equipment from the cutting torch so future generations can see how things were done back on the day
Incredible effort! Watching the resurrection of this antique cable shovel is truly inspiring. It's amazing to see such dedication to preserving history! 💪
Enjoy it when you and Matt work together to rescue these beauties. Doesn't the grease on the stick get contaminated with dirt?,how do you prevent damage from it
Yeah, I wondered about all that grease on the stick and how it would attract dust. I wonder if there's enough room to affix nylon shims inside the saddle that would act as a low-friction surface and achieve the same thing.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi Hi there, There are cast iron wear plates (adjusted by shims ) on the inside of the saddle block, which surrounds the dipper stick on the top and sides and it is supported on the shipper drum - a big roller - from underneath. The grease is a cut-back bitumen compound which lubricates and protects the stick and the cables. Anyone who has ever put the stuff on knows how tenaciously it sticks - to hands, coats and anything you, or it, comes into contact with !
Old iron-love that stuff . Was an oiler when I started out in the 70’s on Bucyrus Eries ( 61B , 54B , 88B , 38B ) in Florida . I think the company I worked for had 14 draglines running at the time . Lots of memories of all the different equipment I had operated the last 48 years . Thank and keep putting out these videos .
When I was a kid a long time ago I wanted a toy Steam shovel. Not enough money was the word! What a remarkable find! Pristine condition! I can see it awakening the imagination's of kids at farm shows. I don't know if you do that sort of thing but you said it in the beginning, sure is sweet!
Another beautiful old girl saved from the scrap yard. I worked in construction in Ireland over 30 years ago and most of the older cranes were Bucyrus Erie and they looked very similar.
Sam, I moved over from Matt's channel, I grew up in Oxford Michigan which at the time was the gravel pit capital of the world, now most of the gravel pits are neighborhoods...this military machine looks in pretty good shape!!
That was the subject of my first test at FT. Belvoir. My team of 5 were faced with a stripped down, detracked B-E 22. We had to get it running, operating and moved within 4-hours. BINGO!
In the 1970's I worked in a quarry group's regional workshops, in the UK and one of our departments used to overhaul these as we called them "Navvies " , I spent many happy hours on the wash bay, steam cleaning grease inches thick off the clutch components and gear wheels. Best of luck !
Wow, the thing IS mint! All the labels everywhere, all works- beautiful. It really started as if nothing happened, this might be the most easy will it start in YT history. So nice it wasn´t vandalized. The military was obviously very serious about the engine oil: 3 mentions in close proximity. This is a keeper! If it ever was that easy: Simply open a valve and the oil change is done! The more I write the more nice details I find. Please clean it up, save the house. This is a once in a lifetime nice condition, I love it! If I ever make it across to Y´all I must run this. Some people want to visit Disneyland or Graceland- I wanna burn some diesel in Old Iron City. Make some sweet memories.
Sam, the power connector is for a slave cable, military version of jumper cables, which is rated at 24V 200Amp if I remember correctly. It's a standard connection across all equip, although that one is the older two pin design. Newer ones have a centre conductor with a second ring conductor around the outside. There is also a short adaptor that fits between the old and new types. Ref the size/shape of the house. It will most likely be due to a specific loading gauge as dictated as part of the procurement process. This is so that it could be loaded/transported on all relevant military transport types, road/rail/sea and possibly even air.
ive seen so many people bring old equipment back from the graveyard. but never show how they are used. thank you for the show at the end. was very entertaining. Especially watching him struggle with the drag-line. that had me rollin. thanks for that.
I've seen solid gray BE shovels. I've seen "red" and "yellow" BE shovels. This is the first solid "yellow" (Or is it Army green?) BE shovel I've seen. My grandfather had a gray BE shovel at his quarry and replaced it with a "red" and "yellow" 22-B sometime around 1963. As a 5-6 year-old kid, I watch his operator load Euclid dump trucks. He was so smooth it looked like a ballet. My dream as a 6-year-old was to operate that shovel when I got old enough. But my grandfather sold his quarry to his brothers before I got old enough. Running a 22-B is still on my bucket list.
I could tell from Criss's video that he was head over heals with it bro and the work you did on his dragline. Always good to see you and Matt get something old back running again then put back to work. That D7 is still right purdy thanks to Clinton and Kevin. Safe travels. Ken.
The difference between a construction piece that's sat around on jobsites with owners who eventually don't care and one that's sat in a military base forever before someone who obviously cared about it bought it and locked it up . The air pressure guages for the drives and the trailer axles would give you a real hood idea of what you had on em . It's a little bit of a learning curve , but once you know what air pressure in the bags correlates to what weight on the axles you'll be able to know exactly where you stand on your weights . I hauled steel for years and we used them for lift axles , drive axles etc .
My first thought when you showed that machine was: how are you going to fit all the challenges into a one hour video? That was almost too easy. It even left you a little play time.
I'm really impressed with how well that cable shovel runs and operates. I'm amazed that it actually has working gauges and lights, and doesn't have all the glass beat out of it!! It's kind of a trick getting them to balance and drop the bucket where you want, but once you get the hang of it, you can probably outperform a full hydraulic trackhoe for digging and moving dirt. The dragline is even more of a challenge to get it to go where you want. I've seen guys that can run them like they have a 3rd arm, and make it look simple!😄 Looks like both units have a lot of good years left in them for jobs around the property.😉👍👍
Great , I saw you playing with it with Chris on Letsdig18. It's great that you guys are keeping those old ladies running for the future. Back in the early eighties I was an apprentice (5 years back then) and for three months I babysat a dragline that was clearing irrigation ponds , a terrible job , filling diesel checking oil and greasing then just lying around catching fish drinking beer when I had the money and having barbeques ....
Oh Boy as you love to say a two for with Matt not surprising given the subject matter. I hate to be redundant but that is one cool Tractor you got there I drove one for a couple of years minus the Kitty Cat and could have drove it the rest of my life as far as I was concerned. WOW! What a totally kewl machine right out of the chute
On modern day machines you need roughly 3000 hours to be considered a seasoned operator and ready to seek jobs, however on these" boy to man converters" i'd estimate you need more like 5000-10000 hours to be a seasoned operator. And if i'm not mistaken, the first ever hydraulic shovel was invented and built here in Sweden, by the company Åkerman. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
That is wonderful 👍 on getting it started Going through the OILERS job of all LUBE spots. Showing what cluth and BIG brake shoes do and especially on the steer cluch operations 😊 the foot and big throw on levers, hard days work on arms and feet for operator 😊 that dragline can not be beat for pulling out washed gravel out of pond, for clean rock usage 😊 its a lossing art form for this generation to understand that old iron can be SAVED and still operating just as it did in days past. Thank you so much for getting it started and making it workable again This old iron would be going to wreaking yards, so glad you saved her 😊❤
The shortboom and stick machine that you have brought back seems to work quite nice, the other machine that operates only on winches and cables seems to be just a game of chance to get a job done...unbelievable that they used things like that for getting big projects done... Thanks a lot for this XL video that features Matt also, great job! 👍👍👍
Oh wow! This really brings back memories. In the 80s, my dad and I ran a 22B as a line-skidder (not as a digger) in our logging business in Montana. We didn’t have a bucket on it, just a long boom that ran two lines - one we used to pull the log drags up the mountain, the other was a static highline used to return the log drag line back down the hill. We had been using a homemade jammer. The jammer worked fine but it only had one line. The 22B really took it to the next step for us. Yeah, it was old but it was a workhorse!
It’s amazing how much of the old stuff the brick yards are still running like Bowerston brick in Hanover and Bowerston. I’m surprised you found it. I still haul loads out of both these places to freedom way all the time.
Air pressure gauges for the suspension are really nice, once you know where your gauge reads when legal they'll be a big help. You'll know if you're far enough off of legal for it to be a concern.
Shes a beauty! I love it
I’m glad you’re happy with it!
Don’t think she could have turned out any better.
Sam ur a walking book of knowledge my friend , you n Chris’s channel are top of the list 👌🏻🤘🏼🤘🏼
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There is nothing better on YT than a Scrappy and Matt collaboration.
Good morning, Sam. I love it when you and Matt team up to resurrect a piece of old iron. I sat in my dad's lap in 1965 in a 22b loading eucs. One of my earliest and fondest memories. I went on to a career as a crane operator and retired last year. Please keep vids like this coming.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing
What a beauty, glass and gages intact, runs like a top, no bees nests…that’s a good machine
For sure it’s a good one
@@ScrappyIndustries Rare find but it will be used now.
Always a pleasure when we have a Sam and Matt Video
Isn't Sam about the happiest most cheerful guy you have ever seen he always has a large smile on his face even when things don't go to plan. He is so knowledgeable of this old stuff we have so few left anymore to work on this old equipment bless him.
His Grandpap taught him well
Sam AND Matt AND Chris… what a trifecta! 👍
My late father was on the board of directors of Cummins Engine Company.
Two grown men, playing in the dirt... as a male, father of two boys, I do not expect less.. *grin* keep up the great work.
Big boys playing in the sand box, looks like fun
2:32 Hello, this is the lockpicking lawyer, and today we have a very heavily rusted Master Lock Model 19. We are going to open it with a bit of soda can...
They didn't watch that episode so the result was wacking it with a crowbar 😄
@@Frank-Thoresen Hey it's a master lock that will usually work. Whap it with something itt'l pop open!
@@TestECull At least it kept the door closed for a couple of decades 😄
@@Frank-Thoresen That was more the rust and dust though.
.... and a toothbrush....
These are real men at work and play. Nothing makes this ol boy feel better about the work force of America.
Sam and Matt, the "Old Iron" brothers👍 Have a great weekend Sam
Would like to see that shovel restored with a new military paint job on it to preserve the metal so it can be used or viewed for 40 + more years . Awesome video
Matt, back in the 70’s (cough cough) my boss always told me, He who dies with the most toys wins. Never regret buying ANOTHER cool toy lol.
Chris has probably got the single best operationally and cosmetically restored D7G in the country right now.
Greatly enjoyed this one Sam. It struck me that this machine is a great example of commercialism replacing common sense. When you said those clutch wheels(?) were all the same size it just made so much sense, particularly thinking about carrying parts for field repairs . Nowadays the manufactures seem to go out of their way to over complicate things no doubt to feed their own spare parts market. Thank you for sharing. 👍
That old girl is nice enough to put some new paint on! What a find!!!
My Grand father operated a steam shovel in a coal mine, I turned out to be a mechanic and operated numerous types of heavy equipment through my lifetime. 74 yo now, good to see ya'll resurrect old equipment.
I can’t believe how good of shape she’s in. Runs like a champ. And operates so smooth and quickly. Chris got an amazing shovel.
Great video thanks Sam and Matt,happy Chris
Enjoyed the tech side of the machine. Nice that Chris has it. The 2 machines looked great working in tandem.
Takes me back to my childhood when i watched the new town sewer system get installed(early 60's..the company had a 22B and 19B both in backhoe configuration)....and every hole, foundation, trench dug for the next 5 years....G6 Allis-Chalmers dozers, Case backhoes.... 😢
My dad really enjoyed this video, he used to own two 22B draglines in the 70-80's
I love it when my favorite You Tubers collaborate. Well done S.I, D.C. and LD18.
Love that Ford
You got this one in the right hands when Chris said yes to it. Glad when some of the best YT’ers collaborate on these projects!
It was cool watching those two old machines working away just like it was yesterday they were shutdown.
Scrappy Industries and Diesel Creek Bonus that's GREAT 🙂😀😃👍
Always a treat to see both Sam and Matt in the same video. You have quite a good crew 😊
Keeping these historical pieces in working order is an amazing thing, and your detailed explanation is awesome. Great job and keep up the great work guys.
Wow! What a find! I was blown away when it fired right up. Mechanically it seems in great shape, just some cosmetic issues. I love the old cable-driven machinery so much more than the hydraulic stuff.
This video is my saturday gift. Thank you from north Britanny/ France
That rig is so nice it deserves a trip to CnC. Run it through Clint’s paint booth and let Kevin work his magic!
Sam is this the shovel that Chris buys ,pretty soon Chris will have enough antique machinery to have his own show with Sam's tweaking on the drag line and shovel they are work ready Chris is one hell of a operator once he gets into the rhythm of it ,he'll be as smooth as Sam ,it's really enjoyable to see these guys take such a interest in preserving and saving this old equipment from the cutting torch so future generations can see how things were done back on the day
Incredible effort! Watching the resurrection of this antique cable shovel is truly inspiring. It's amazing to see such dedication to preserving history! 💪
It will look awesome as a center piece in Matt's new living room
Enjoy it when you and Matt work together to rescue these beauties. Doesn't the grease on the stick get contaminated with dirt?,how do you prevent damage from it
Yeah, I wondered about all that grease on the stick and how it would attract dust. I wonder if there's enough room to affix nylon shims inside the saddle that would act as a low-friction surface and achieve the same thing.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi Hi there,
There are cast iron wear plates (adjusted by shims ) on the inside of the saddle block, which surrounds the dipper stick on the top and sides and it is supported on the shipper drum - a big roller - from underneath.
The grease is a cut-back bitumen compound which lubricates and protects the stick and the cables.
Anyone who has ever put the stuff on knows how tenaciously it sticks - to hands, coats and anything you, or it, comes into contact with !
@@steveallarton98 Thanks for the info! One of many things I've pondered regarding rope shovels and draglines.
Sam ... You can't fail getting this running Matt will sort it !!!
Old iron-love that stuff . Was an oiler when I started out in the 70’s on Bucyrus Eries ( 61B , 54B , 88B , 38B ) in Florida . I think the company I worked for had 14 draglines running at the time . Lots of memories of all the different equipment I had operated the last 48 years . Thank and keep putting out these videos .
Wow that’s very cool thanks for sharing!
I love how I started watching matt from letsdig18 and now i watch all three because of it
Only a few minutes and I'm loving the banter between Sam and Matt...
When I was a kid a long time ago I wanted a toy Steam shovel. Not enough money was the word! What a remarkable find! Pristine condition! I can see it awakening the imagination's of kids at farm shows. I don't know if you do that sort of thing but you said it in the beginning, sure is sweet!
It wouldn't be Sam and Matt without lost footage 😂😅😊
File management is my least favorite part of filming 😂😂
Another beautiful old girl saved from the scrap yard. I worked in construction in Ireland over 30 years ago and most of the older cranes were Bucyrus Erie and they looked very similar.
Sam, I moved over from Matt's channel, I grew up in Oxford Michigan which at the time was the gravel pit capital of the world, now most of the gravel pits are neighborhoods...this military machine looks in pretty good shape!!
Love that you guys are fixing up these old machines. Nice little dragline you have there.
That was the subject of my first test at FT. Belvoir. My team of 5 were faced with a stripped down, detracked B-E 22. We had to get it running, operating and moved within 4-hours. BINGO!
Yay, Saturday lunchtime greetings from the UK South coast Scrappy!! 😊😊
Good Morning Sam..Have a great day..!
In the 1970's I worked in a quarry group's regional workshops, in the UK and one of our departments used to overhaul these as we called them "Navvies " , I spent many happy hours on the wash bay, steam cleaning grease inches thick off the clutch components and gear wheels. Best of luck !
Wow, the thing IS mint! All the labels everywhere, all works- beautiful. It really started as if nothing happened, this might be the most easy will it start in YT history. So nice it wasn´t vandalized. The military was obviously very serious about the engine oil: 3 mentions in close proximity.
This is a keeper! If it ever was that easy: Simply open a valve and the oil change is done! The more I write the more nice details I find.
Please clean it up, save the house. This is a once in a lifetime nice condition, I love it! If I ever make it across to Y´all I must run this.
Some people want to visit Disneyland or Graceland- I wanna burn some diesel in Old Iron City. Make some sweet memories.
Sam, the power connector is for a slave cable, military version of jumper cables, which is rated at 24V 200Amp if I remember correctly. It's a standard connection across all equip, although that one is the older two pin design. Newer ones have a centre conductor with a second ring conductor around the outside. There is also a short adaptor that fits between the old and new types. Ref the size/shape of the house. It will most likely be due to a specific loading gauge as dictated as part of the procurement process. This is so that it could be loaded/transported on all relevant military transport types, road/rail/sea and possibly even air.
That footage from 20:44 is amazing! Love that noise!! And that cable shovel………..what a beaut!!!! 😊
ive seen so many people bring old equipment back from the graveyard. but never show how they are used. thank you for the show at the end. was very entertaining. Especially watching him struggle with the drag-line. that had me rollin. thanks for that.
I've seen solid gray BE shovels. I've seen "red" and "yellow" BE shovels. This is the first solid "yellow" (Or is it Army green?) BE shovel I've seen. My grandfather had a gray BE shovel at his quarry and replaced it with a "red" and "yellow" 22-B sometime around 1963. As a 5-6 year-old kid, I watch his operator load Euclid dump trucks. He was so smooth it looked like a ballet. My dream as a 6-year-old was to operate that shovel when I got old enough. But my grandfather sold his quarry to his brothers before I got old enough. Running a 22-B is still on my bucket list.
Good job boys
If it can be fixed, I know you can fix it Sam, I’ve watched you get many pieces of equipment running, from being dead, lol👍👍😎😎🍮🍮❤️
❤ u and your team! We r surprised in the condition of the shovel.
I could tell from Criss's video that he was head over heals with it bro and the work you did on his dragline. Always good to see you and Matt get something old back running again then put back to work. That D7 is still right purdy thanks to Clinton and Kevin. Safe travels. Ken.
I've never seen such a meticulous job of expanded metal guardwork. They even put a guard around the exaust outlet! That is a really complete unit.
Cris , not a smooth on the drag line ,,,is he,lol thanks BigAl California
This is great... Saturday morning drinking my coffee... Watching Sam on another adventure!
That is sure a pretty truch love the style of the ford
The difference between a construction piece that's sat around on jobsites with owners who eventually don't care and one that's sat in a military base forever before someone who obviously cared about it bought it and locked it up . The air pressure guages for the drives and the trailer axles would give you a real hood idea of what you had on em . It's a little bit of a learning curve , but once you know what air pressure in the bags correlates to what weight on the axles you'll be able to know exactly where you stand on your weights . I hauled steel for years and we used them for lift axles , drive axles etc .
Hi guys watching for a while. It is great to see something that was built to last to keep running. This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.!!
I'm sure you can get it running if it's not stuck, you got your faithful side kick Matt with you
Nice work Sam!
My first thought when you showed that machine was: how are you going to fit all the challenges into a one hour video? That was almost too easy. It even left you a little play time.
Very interesting. Thanks for your efforts. Keep 'em comin'.
I'm really impressed with how well that cable shovel runs and operates. I'm amazed that it actually has working gauges and lights, and doesn't have all the glass beat out of it!! It's kind of a trick getting them to balance and drop the bucket where you want, but once you get the hang of it, you can probably outperform a full hydraulic trackhoe for digging and moving dirt. The dragline is even more of a challenge to get it to go where you want. I've seen guys that can run them like they have a 3rd arm, and make it look simple!😄 Looks like both units have a lot of good years left in them for jobs around the property.😉👍👍
Great , I saw you playing with it with Chris on Letsdig18. It's great that you guys are keeping those old ladies running for the future.
Back in the early eighties I was an apprentice (5 years back then) and for three months I babysat a dragline that was clearing irrigation ponds , a terrible job , filling diesel checking oil and greasing then just lying around catching fish drinking beer when I had the money and having barbeques ....
Great to see Matt with you Sam good luck with it mate 👍
Between you and Matt that this is in incredible condition for the age.
Seeing this old equipment run again is simply spectacular, thank you gentlemen, great video! Steve B, Provo. Ut
Oh Boy as you love to say a two for with Matt not surprising given the subject matter.
I hate to be redundant but that is one cool Tractor you got there I drove one for a couple of years minus the Kitty Cat and could have drove it the rest of my life as far as I was concerned.
WOW! What a totally kewl machine right out of the chute
On modern day machines you need roughly 3000 hours to be considered a seasoned operator and ready to seek jobs, however on these" boy to man converters" i'd estimate you need more like 5000-10000 hours to be a seasoned operator.
And if i'm not mistaken, the first ever hydraulic shovel was invented and built here in Sweden, by the company Åkerman. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
What an awesome purchase!!! 😍 Congratulations. Take good care of her... greetings from Germany!
Really good video Sam . The Bucyrus /Eries are my favorite.
That is wonderful 👍 on getting it started
Going through the OILERS job of all LUBE spots. Showing what cluth and BIG brake shoes do and especially on the steer cluch operations 😊 the foot and big throw on levers, hard days work on arms and feet for operator 😊 that dragline can not be beat for pulling out washed gravel out of pond, for clean rock usage 😊 its a lossing art form for this generation to understand that old iron can be SAVED and still operating just as it did in days past. Thank you so much for getting it started and making it workable again
This old iron would be going to wreaking yards, so glad you saved her 😊❤
The shortboom and stick machine that you have brought back seems to work quite nice, the other machine that operates only on winches and cables seems to be just a game of chance to get a job done...unbelievable that they used things like that for getting big projects done...
Thanks a lot for this XL video that features Matt also, great job!
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Those machines were grand in their era! Now they seem slow. Good save on shovel!
Oh wow! This really brings back memories. In the 80s, my dad and I ran a 22B as a line-skidder (not as a digger) in our logging business in Montana. We didn’t have a bucket on it, just a long boom that ran two lines - one we used to pull the log drags up the mountain, the other was a static highline used to return the log drag line back down the hill. We had been using a homemade jammer. The jammer worked fine but it only had one line. The 22B really took it to the next step for us. Yeah, it was old but it was a workhorse!
You are a Legend in the Making Young Man
Big boys playing with big toys... love it..
Brilliant video Sam as usual.
What a find! Kindest regards🇨🇦🇨🇦
Has Chris gotten better with his cable machines ? It was fun watching the trial and error on the drag-line on his channel.
Love it when you and Matt get together I have a lot of laughs and enjoyment. Thank you✌️
Sam, she's a beautiful runner for sure. I love it.
Always love your videos and keep smiling😁😁
It’s amazing how much of the old stuff the brick yards are still running like Bowerston brick in Hanover and Bowerston. I’m surprised you found it. I still haul loads out of both these places to freedom way all the time.
That LT sounds awesome 👌
I’m still wondering what kind of oil it takes 😂. It’s cool to see how you found this machine after seeing it run on LD18’s page
Sammy, you are a hero among men. In this world today of throw away everything, you and Matt...keep saving that history when men REALLY were men.
An awesome find, Sam, and Chris is happy with his new toy.
Thank you 👍👍👍👍👍 I also follow Matt and Chris
You & Chris were making a big fat mess of his back garden!😂😅 great video
Air pressure gauges for the suspension are really nice, once you know where your gauge reads when legal they'll be a big help. You'll know if you're far enough off of legal for it to be a concern.
Sweet machine Sam. I want to see more on it.