MATCHBOX Restoration M4 Major Pack Taylor Woodrow Ruston-Bucyrus Excavator 1959
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- What a magnificent model! - This miniature excavator is like nothing else that I have done. An amazing little toy that must have been a joy to receive back in 1959 when it came out. With multiple moving parts and tracked wheels I can imagine that it would have been a 'must have' in the sandpit out the back. I love it!
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Cracking result, Marty!
The Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company was founded in Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1880.
Bucyrus (bew-SY-rəs) Erie (later Bucyrus International) was a mining and excavation company that produced heavy plant equipment. It is now owned by Caterpillar.
In 1930, Bucyrus joined with Ruston & Hornsby in Lincoln, England to become Ruston-Bucyrus in England.
I have a Dinky or Corgi version of this which has thumbwheels to articulate the bucket and jib. It’s in a sorry state and needs restoration!
Bu-sigh-Rus. Nice work Marty
Never apologize for those monster mitts of yours, Marty. You earned 'em fair and square. No shame in it.
For sure! Best hands on the internet :)
Anyone who follows Marty’s channel knows that he is extremely competent at DIY (if DIY is the right word). There is always something that needs doing - even more so when you’ve not long moved into a new house.
I’d be more triggered if your hands were perfect - something would be wrong.
Strong hands capable of surgical precision.
yeah i got girly hands since i do computer restores but my grandma had rough hands with all the hard kitchen work she did.. its all good marty
Having some gnarly 2XL hands myself, I can relate! You have honest working man's hands. 😎👍
I am SO HAPPY you are back making videos Marty. I never forgot about you this whole time, always waiting and hoping that you were ok and that you would return. I deal with severe depression and there's not much that makes me smile and laugh anymore, but your videos always lift my spirits. Thank you for sharing your hobby with us. I knew you were a good soul on the unboxing video when you started crying. Take care Marty.
Another great video Marty, bollocks to anyone who says anything about your hands, good honest working mans hands
Interestingly, Taylor Woodrow was a home-building firm in England, and my late father (who died on Fathers' Day last year) was their Chief Architectural Draftsman before 1970 when we emigrated to Australia. So you have certainly attracted my attention and possibly caused me to start searching for this model.
Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd was an engineering company established in 1930 and jointly owned by Ruston & Hornsby based in Lincoln, England, and Bucyrus-Erie based in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the latter of which had operational control and into which the excavator manufacturing operation of Ruston & Hornsby was transferred. The Bucyrus Company proper, from which the Bucyrus component of the Ruston-Bucyrus name was created, was an American company founded in 1880, in Bucyrus, Ohio. (Source: Wikipedia).
For many years, my late father worked in civil engineering. A big treat, when I was a kid, was to go to work with him, at a weekend, or in the school holidays. Now, this was in the early 1970's, and, although safety rules were in place, they were nowhere near as rigorous as they are today - even if the nine year old me was painted dayglo orange and fitted with strobe lights, I wouldn't even be allowed on site nowadays. But then, it was muddy and fun. Dad was fully qualified to operate any of the machinery used, and I always knew, at some point, we'd watch a machine working, and he'd turn to me, with a smile on his face, and he'd say:
"D'ye fancy a go?"
My answer was always:
"Yes!"
That's how I came to opeate the dragline version of the 22-RB. I did drive a Priestman face shovel (Corgi made one), which looks very similar to this face shovel.
Dad let me drive loads of stuff, but always with the rule of:
"Don't tell your Mother."
I never did.
Lovely restoration of a model I have now got to seek out for myself.
Thank you, Marty.
Nice one. 👍👍👍
Hey Brian, my youth was very similar in the 70s and early 80s. I think that we probably had an innate sense of safety back then that the kids of today don't. Sure, I'd have a whale of a time exploring and doing things I probably shouldn't have, but was always careful and never had an accident. Weekends were always quiet on-site back then. When I got older he got me holiday jobs with the sub-contractors which is where I learned to operate JCBs and 360s. But when I left college I went into computing.
He never mentioned it, but I was always sure he was a little disappointed.
I loved those days and would give anything to go back and spend that time with him again.
Cheers ✌️
Great story, thanks for sharing! Westernkind is amazing all over the world!
Greetings from Canada, Marty. That is a beauty of a restoration. I happen to have two of these models and the rear decal is different on them. Where I live, there used to be a Bucyrus- Erie factory that made these shovels. Across the road was the Euclid factory that made the quarry trucks.
My dad worked for Taylor Woodrow in the UK in the 1960s/70s.
As did mine, between 1956 and 1970.
😊the first thing I thought of when I saw the Taylor Woodrow decal was my late Dad, he worked for them during the late 50’s early 60’s.
Great works as always, Marty.
For what it's worth, I've found that once one pair of scissors has mauled a bit of plastic bag without cutting it, even a nice pair has trouble cutting in the same spot. I always have to start a new cut somewhere else.
I love the attention and care you take to produce these videos where you film and explain everything as you go....good or bad. The secondary angles and scene shoots are so much more interesting than just looking at an overhead shot of the workbench. Must take you twice as long but really worthwhile. Keep it up
Thankyou for your feedback, I am pleased to hear that you appreciate the time taken to make these short videos!
Marty, we have a brick plant in Hanover, Ohio that still uses those types of shovels. The door opposite the cabin would give access to the winch system for the cables. The drivers cabin door would have slid back. Would love to send some pictures of one they restored.
Those are "working mans hands" as my father would say. 😄
Couldn’t help but think about Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel😊
I went to an American Truck Historical Society show, and on of the attendees had a 1950s-era truck with a lowboy trailer carrying an old steam shovel. He had painted up the whole combination to look like the truck, trailer and shovel from 'Mike Mulligan.' I took pictures, but this was 20-some years ago and they were taken on an analog camera which was still in my car when it was stolen. I'm sure there are photos of it online somewhere, though.
I love that story! I remember when Capt. Kangaroo would read it, and I made sure I read it to my kids as well.
“Computer virus spreads to humans” from “The World’s Only Reliable Newspaper”😂
I pronounce that one word as
"Byoo Sigh Russ."
🐨WE WANT KEVIN!🐨
I can see a skit where Kevin jumps into the excavator, scoops Marty up in the bucket and drops him somewhere unpleasant! 😅
Gotta be wary of those wee Drop Bears! 😂
I’ve got to ask… where did you get the mini Surgical grindstone from?
I tried searching the web and in typical web search fashion I got “how to grow mushrooms in 30days”😳
The Ruston-Bucyrus 22-RB is a 20 ton class tracked machine available as both a drag-line and front-bucket excavator. A variant was produced as a truck mounted crane. The drag-line and truck mounted versions had a skeleton boom. A video of a 22-RB working can be found at: th-cam.com/video/_2RXsOie6RM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XFF0-pvVC2YjZLvJ
As ever, great restoration fella.
Nice make over. I got lost & as you were drilling out the tap hole I habitually blew at my phone to remove the shavings. Remember when you took that big honking whiff off that Tony' s Cajun Seasoning?
"Loosing track" on a tracked vehicle. Nice pun!! I'm happy with that !!.
Marty, check out pegboard locks for your shop's pegboard. Pegitz is one brand, though I'm sure there are others. If you try them out, make sure you get the right size (I think they primarily come in 1/4 and 1/8 inch). They were a game changer for my pegboards.
That’s a beautiful model, Marty, a real eye candy. There is so much going on for such a small package haha
Regarding the access doors on the 22RB, the real McCoy has 2 at the back for the engine, 2 on port side for the pulley/winding mechanism and one on starboard, where the cabin window is, that slides inside like you’d see on a milk truck. The square shape that look like a window, that’s where the louvered engine vent should be.
marty, dieselcreek(here on youtube) have a real bucyrus excavater. in the back compartment was the clutches; engine, and cabledrums for the excavator. because it was a cable machine.
Hello Marty from S Wales UK and thank you for breathing new life into these models
LOL. The outtakes are always the best! Fine restoration.
Let's hope that wasn't chewing gum in that bucket, Marty 😮😂
Shocked to hear that with the new screw you had to go deeper than normal with no lubrication. 🤭
"...brute force and no lubrication". LOL.
Same here I use wiss scissors @ work they are great. That was an awsome make over.
Your spray booth headlines are always amusing, thank you for that. I've either seem or owned several models that you restore but I'm unfamiliar with this one. I'm a 1964 model myself and I certainly need to be restored. My paint is chipped an missing and I don't roll right. lol Hello from southeast Tennessee USA.
Haha! I'm a '57 model myself, and long past warranty. I could use a good restoration. 😅
What a challenge but as usual you managed it very well. Thank you and greetings from Germany
Hello from USA 🇺🇸. Good seeing you
Hey Marty, from USA, watched you for years, you got me into making custom Hot Wheels its a nice cheap hobby,
Nice project, well done. Thank You, wonderful seeing your videos.
Thank you Marty for another pleasant Saturday morning in New York City enjoying one of your relaxing videos to start my day. Always love your work.
Some of my favourite moments in your videos are the newspapers in the painting booth. 😅
They're not in print for 14 years btw
Don't get that computer virus, Marty!
That gunk in the bucket looks like Playdoh to me, but you are probably right Marty
I thought it might be chewed bubble gum.
So in South Africa, Britain, Australia, etc we all played with plasticine which is similar to play dough (though it’s oil based). Living in the US now I have never seen it here.
Very nice work. I can see Kevin at the controls.
I didn’t know they made excavators like these. Very nice.
I've had good luck with Wiss scissors, at work I cut alot of sheet plastic, and I use them 12 hours a day, I've had a pair that lasted 5 years. They even cut those metal bands used to band things together with. Get the titanium ones for best results
I have a cheap three-pack I got off Amazon, and they work great for card stock and styrene sheet, for my scale models. 👍
I have a cheap three-pack from Amazon that I use for cutting card stock and styrene sheet, for scale modeling. Works great. 👍
Hollow and thanks from 🇿🇦
Excellent job as usual.. Ps I've seen zombies with better looking hands than that. 😂😂😂😉😉
I felt you pain with the scissors and the sandwich bags. Couldn't agree more about the scissors..
Why would anyone care what his hands look like? If anything it shows he is a hard working man.
A working man takes care of all his tools, especially his hands.
I hope your hands are better soon. They are NOT offensive, I just hope you are well. By the way, nice job excavating the excavator! 😊
I spent 18 months putting the roof on HM Prison Brinsford near Wolverhampton Uk with the main contractor being Taylor Woodrow in the late 80’s.
Got the same model off ebay last year in pretty fair shape, minus the tracks which I printed in dark blue TPU on my 3d printer. It's absolutely beautiful sitting in my display in my shop. Like others have said: Bucyrus=either bew-sigh'-rus or buh-sigh'-rus.
It's pronounced Bu-cy-rus, not Buc -a-rus. This came with 2 different sized decals. Also different colored tread . Great to see another of your great videos.
I'm feeling you, Marty: Putting on decals is the worst, especially when they're either really big, really small, really old, really fiddly, or really rare and you don't have more. So, in short, always anxiety inducing for me.
I really like your result, though: I'm happy with that!
Ruston Bucyrus ( pronounced bu si rus) was based in the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire G.B.
Brilliant model, something very different to the usual cars and lorries and tricky to handle! But you did a great job. Search YT for an old UK TV program called Salvage Squad, they restore an RB10 and give loads of history on the machine.
Hi from Stockholm, Sweden! Glad to see your vids again Marty! Excellent as usual. 😀👍🏼
as a left handed person having to deal with not finding scissors, i find a sharp knife and chopping board wors great for opening things
Don’t throw the scissors away they can be sharpened. We’ve got a knife sharpener (wasn’t expensive) and a couple of strokes through that, the blades on my £1 shop scissors are razor sharp.
Brilliant job - as always. 👍
Beautiful Results on the Shovel, Mr. Marty! Take care of your hands as best as you can. My Thumbs are under attack by Ol' Arty. Big pain in the Keister. Take Care!
Excellent job, Marty. Thanks for showing what does not go well. I think (as others have said) it has a soft "c" like Mylie Cyrus. It's a lovely looking model. All the best, Mart in England.
Marty, on your vise jaws, get another set of L-channel aluminum strips and contact cement a piece of leather, 1/8" thick to each side. The leather will grip whatever you are holding in the vise and not mar it.
I think that you used all of your luck up when you were sent this model, donated. You lucky person you. I've never been able to obtain one but after this weeks show, I am determined to get my hands on one...or two. You need to do the Scammell with Crane Frauhauf prime mover now to transport it. Nice work Marty.
Oils from your hands can dirty the model when you are examining them after they are primed. They can lead to the issue you had while painting the russet color. Perhaps you should wear rubber gloves?
Great rebuild Marty. That one gave you some fits, Loved it. Weird how the paint curdled on the cab etc.
How is Kevin doing? Didn´t see him, so does he stick in the cement Platform in your Garden? Greetings from Germany.
For paper I like Fiskars scissors. For everything else I have a pair of electricians scissors/shears. They have serrations that hold the material and a nice cutout for cutting wire.
nicely done! Have you tried using micro set and micro sol on your decals? Sol softens they so they better take up the contours and mouldin lines and micro set makes the decal thin slightly to look more like the finish was painted on - great video BTW.
If you google and look at the real excavator, you can see, that all of the doors and hatches on the "shed" side were for access to engine and cable mechanisms. The driver entered the cabin from the opposite side. And the "window" towards the back on that side was indeed vents, as you suspected in the video.
Hi Marty, as usual I like your videos. A small tip for you, use a sharp knife instead that always work.👍👍
You could try to get some hairdressers' scissors - they are generally sharp, and keep their edges. I have a pair I found in the road, about 30 years ago, and have never needed to sharpen them.
Marty, this was a real fun one. It has been a long time since I did a Matchbox and you motivated me to pull one out. It should be out soon. Your videos are always the highlight of my Saturdays!
Thankyou Paul for your support. Glad you liked it!
Love to see all the process and the struggles you have. never apologise, my hand shakes so much and eyes need magnification to see . To see some of these machines in real life try a channel called Diesel Creek and the cabin panels make sense. Not me just a channel i enjoy so hope you dont mind.
Your a good restorer but protect your fingers they look inflamed please do thanks for your content.
I discovered this channel doing a restoration of a matchbox mustang
From what I understand, the name is pronounced: "Byoo-sai-ruhs".
Ruston Bucyrus was one of the first major manufacturers of earth moving machinery. Many of their early machines were steam or diesel powered draglines for mining and dredging (rather than construction).
They were made famous through a series of advertisements drawn by illustrator William Heath Robinson (today the most famous of the Robinson brothers, although during their lifetime, Charles was the best known).
If you want to see the Ruston Bucyrus adverts, they can be found in the collection "The Gentle Art of Advertising" which has been republished multiple times.
I've always pronounced it byoo·sai·ruhs
That's how I pronounce it, too.
I lived in Bucyrus, OH for a short time -- less than a year in the mid-1970s. The company whose name was incorporated into this engineering firm was founded in Bucyrus (OH) in 1880.
What a challenge! It turned out great!
Bucyrus is pronounced Bew-si-rus
Thanks Mart. Going to go and look up some footage of this machine in action. Take care
Hi there were two versions one was a digger and one was used as a crane for demolition in 50s 60s I only saw one when I was a kid in thd 60s
@23:36 - is that a koala hair? What has Kevin been doing with your drill press?
Nice job once again! Thank you ethisch lovely video. 👍🏻
I get second-hand anxiety watching the application of the decals. Fantastic makeover even with the jinxes.
If you have milk bottles or jam jars, you can use these to sharpen scissors on them.
Where’s Kevin? After your presentation, he’s the star of the vid for me 😃
well thare like vid this tim say hay to ALL that thare juilly the cam guy and ALLLLLL THE PETS the one thing you can re sharpen the shears you threw a whay justy ues the drumel griding stones you must have some to nest vid
Twoje prace są genialne ale popatrz na prace mojego rodaka Paula Restorera....potrafi z niczego zrobić model nowy z pudełkiem włącznie, głównie są to machboxy ale też firmy dinky. Szczerze i bez złośliwości polecam jego kanał wiele można się nauczyć od was obu pozdrawiam
If I may, I would recommend my favourite brand of scissors, OLFA.
Another great video. Also love the world news… I miss Kevin. 😢
Hi Marty lovely job 😊 I know it as Bew cyrus not buccarus.
Thank you Marty. A new video from you is always a treat. Your hands are beautiful and something to be proud of. Genuine workingman's digits.
God, that was stressful. I felt for you Marty, but what a cracking model at the end. .
Another Saturday morning treat from you.
Beautiful result and nice diorama photos at the end. It amazes me that you can source replacement treads and decals for Matchbox vehicles that are now 60 years old. I'd have never thought it possible.
There are quite a few companies that produce spare parts and decals for Matchbox. Can be found on ebay, or a Google search. Great way to replace the parts or accessories, which were easily lost on some Matchbox models. My next project is a #43 pony trailer. Got a ramp to replace the missing one. I will have to fix the broken window with part of a CD case.
I knoe the feeling about models going wrong and jinxed
Great restoration on the excavator Marty , despite the trials and tribulations , theres always that one Jinxed model 😂😂 👍
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What a great restoration Marty! I really enjoy the construction equipment restorations but this is one of your best ones. Thanks for sharing this.
Poor work by the designers of those decals. It's not so hard to get those to be almost precisely the same as the original.
I'm so amazed that there are companies that make decals and replacement parts for these things. There can't be that many people ordering decals and rubber tracks for a 1959 Matchbox digger-perhaps only Marty? By the way, it's another great video. Thank you.
Always a pleasure to watch your Videos, greetings from Germany 😊
I always look forward to a MMM video! Thank you Marty!
My pleasure Mike!