12 Ton Grader part 4- Replacing the broken drive-chain and back to work.
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- I bought this 12 ton, 6 wheel grader for scrap metal value a few months ago. When I got it home I found it had a broken drive chain and it needed a lot of maintenance and repairs.
I installed a new chain and spent a few weeks fixing it up, It runs pretty sweet now. Time to grade my driveway..
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"Bit More Choke, that would've started" (5:33) Been watching a while now and if your now following along you just might miss the best chuckles of the entire series! Awesome Mate, keep it up. :)
Recycling at its best! First an abandoned excavator. Then an abandoned dozer. Then an old grader....All restored to working order. Every man's dream to operate heavy earth-moving equipment!! It's a pleasure to watch someone with the skills bring it all back to life!
My mechanical apprenticeship from 16-28 years old was on farm machinery, we did all sorts, then moved onto Land Rover products and now self employed and 52. When at home, I watch you on a dinnertime ( in Yorkshire mid-day food time or lunch to some people) because they are half hour long and you WILL always learn something from watching / working with other people, before going back outside to your own work.
Today, at 5.36 i learnt that a mouth full of sandwich can fly 3 feet and hit the PC screen, slide down and land on your desk.
" Every day a school day "
Thank you.
MHVPS 😂
@@coolkiwi79 Had to google that! Haha.
"Ma(i)n high voltage Power supply " indeed😁
My Brits friend Mary once told me that she always gets a kick out of these signs that Little Villages put up here in Germany. Reading "Gute Fahrt" , - which translates roughly into " God speed". I guess she is right! Now I can't UNsee it as well😂
Mustie1 doesn’t hold a candle to Marty. Marty your passion alone is infectious and will service your needs forever.
"A bit more choke and that would have started" That's a new one. I laughed my arse off, I'm definitely using that one now!
So true....Oh that make me LMAO!!
Laughed so hard I damn near threw up!
Wouldn't have started to much shit in the carby.
I did the same not heard that one but I'm going to use it
Too good Marty
From this 59 y.o. hill-billy from Maryland USA: I'm pretty sure I will be saying "That'tll do me!" when working on things and its "good enough" Love this channel. It reminds me of Vise Grip Garage, but with old heavy equipment instead of cars.
All you need is a steamroller to compact the road!! Enjoyable your work. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
You are a mighty man with the grease gun…I always say that you never know how many grease points are on a machine until you own it
From a 54 year old Georgia (usa) hillbilly, I thoroughly enjoy each and every video, Marty. Keep up the good work!
58 year old fellow Georgia hillbilly. 😁
54 year old fellow Georgia hillbilly. 😁
55 year old Scot and I enjoy the videos to
Pennsylvania hillbilly right here and I too love every video he makes . Just calm and gets stuff fixed
I feel left out, I’m 19 and thoroughly enjoy the videos
Marty, you are a stud when it comes to these old machines!!!
Always baffles me when simple maintenance is not done to a piece of equipment that probably cost a small fortune (quite) some time ago. Same for the excavator. Awesome job, superb video, stunning landscape!
Marty your ingenuity is ingenious! Love your work man. It's enough to give lesser men inferiority complex!
That is going to be one of the smoothest, clear and accessible driveways in the region when you get done accumulating equipment.
Lol. yeah all the way to the highway
Next up, a bed of crushed rock, compacted with a steam roller.
Great one you had me on the floor for a while!!
From a 67 year old woman that loves old machinery you are an awesome young man keep it up!
New tires & paint she will be a beauty. I can not explain the satisfaction I receive from watching you analyze and repair. Nice work. 👍🏻
maybe some glass/durable plastic for the windscreen to help avoid being impaled by trees
You buying the tires?
You have a nice voice to listen too. I am enjoying your channel. Love the hood ornament on the road grader❤❤
Dang...would not like to drive off your road...you have some fairly stout mountains where you live!
Ahhhh. A Friday night in America watching a man from New Zealand change the filters and fluids on his grader and then testing out his handiwork on his driveway.
Hood ornament is spot on. Nice. Valdosta Ga. USA.
Oh, an old Leyland 401 Engine. My granddad built these things at the British Leyland plant in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He worked at the plant before Leyland took it over when the British motor industry was nationalised after WWII. He first worked on the Leyland Engine line from 1953 until his retirement in 1977. I grew up in Coventry, a city that had 16 different car manufacturers, Rolls Royce Engines, Armstrong, Massey Ferguson, Standard, CAT and some smaller parts companies.
I remember as a kid, my granddad appeared to live in his garage at the front of their house, he was always in there. He always had at least two engines in bits and a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. When he died, the parts we found in the back and along the roof storage, well, some of them were from before WWII. Still pristine and in their original boxes. He taught all the grandsons how to strip an engine, fabricate the parts and even use some hose sheets to make up perished pipes.
Hey! Thanks for sharing! Thats interesting!
Now all you need is an old roller and your driveway will look like a highway, Great video Marty.
So I'm 54 years old now and both my parents grew up on cotton farms in south Texas, El Campo and Blessing, TX area. Both sides of the family grew up having to fix/maintain their own combines, tractors and other heavy equipment and although I wasn't a part of that era, my Dad passed a lot of his knowledge on down to me for which I will be forever grateful. I have nowhere the skills you do but can appreciate each and every step you take in your functional restorations. Love your videos mate! New sub and like from Tulsa, OK USA. As many others have stated, I'll be using the "little more choke" comment at my first opportunity.
Love vids where old iron gets way neglected maintenance. Can just hear that old Grader saying "Thank you for the service, oil, and grease Marty!! I didn't want to be melted down and turned into a Toyota!"
76 Toyotas lol
You are incredible. I can't tell you how satisfying it is for a cheapskate like me to see old iron put back into service. That's why the vehicles I drive are all around 30 years old.
It must be handy to have the knowledge to take a machine others consider as scrap and rebuild it to a fully working machine again.A very impressive video showing this guys degree of intelligence and skill.
Dude..... That's awesome!! Now the driveway can be maintained sooo much easier. Awesomeness!!
I really enjoy how calm your voice is.
Yes me too, Marty rarely loose's his cool . top bloke
Hey Marty, good to hear that your grader is keeping tradition with the noisy gear box and drive line just like the DB"s
Haha yeah it is noisier than I would like, something is worn out, I try not to think about it too much
A new sub from up in the Waikato here, I am 66 and first time I have heard that reference to your passing of wind. Have watched a few of your awesome videos and still a few to catch up on. Stay safe down your way bro
Passing of wind, I thought I heard it too lol. But haven't found reference yet
the best part is getting your own road after all those hard work!
Your videos rock. Very entertaining, and encouraging as well. Nice to see others who like to save and fix old stuff!
Your are a very hard worker. Great to see someone do everything necessary to get these machines working.
You are giving it a good service which it hasn't had for a long, long time. I bet she's pleased..!
Talking about the missus again, eh?
@@chriswills9530 ...
What I appreciate is the routine maintenance that was done before you did any grading. Most TH-cam channels, get the vehicle/machine running and then say they're done. I cringe when I see someone start up an engine that's been sitting for God knows how long with cruddy oil and antifreeze. All that does is destroy the bearings. BTW hello from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clear Perspex cover.... that sir is bloody genius 👍🏽
Until you stand on it getting out of the cab. I'm guessing it'll only be on there for a few more engine hours though.
@@RangieNZ It wont break standing on it.
Like your show keep it up Like all your videos especially the ones on your boats I have 3 my self
Well done ! Marty you’ve done a fantastic job on this old grader hope to see it operating in future videos !! Cheers
I love watching greased nipples being serviced. Great videos.
Marty's first mini-series. I love it! He'll have the best driveway on both islands after this past year.
Marty is the Mustie of heavy equipment. Very knowlegable and easy to listen to. Thumbs up Marty !
Nice work, it's going to run so well you'll want to add racing stripes! I like to hear the birds in the background, nothing like them here at home.
Marty rightly named the "Diesel Doctor" and that is a compliment! He is amazing at fixing this old equipment up keeping it from the scrap yard.
Your a lucky guy to live in such a freaking beautiful country.
You can live there too, Joker. Just apply for permanent residence and move over there. I lived there temporarily, and I plan to return. The good thing is, there are no snakes, spiders (apart from the Redback) and crocodiles in New Zealand. You get into the forest in Australia and you risk your life...
Looking at the sheer amount of serious long term neglect I'm surprised that the previous owner could even be bothered to drive the bloody thing. This is a very satisfying video, thank you.
This content is pure gold. You are making the other TH-camrs look bad. The old girl is greased up, and ready to go!
You definitely have to watch Andrew Camarata his content is great and he built his own castle.
One of my favourite vids of yours
I still love that snail hood ornament.
We should call this grader, "Rusty Snail". : P
Fantastic work. Great to see a good old British plant alive and working.
Always a nice feeling having fresh oil in your machine, even if watching on the internet and not even my machine! :)
The 15 who didn't like this video have no idea what it takes to do what you do. Bravo young man. Great tenacity. That's what it takes to get stuff done on a ranch. Very enjoyable to watch.
Awesome. So Marty it takes an excavator, a bulldozer and a grader to keep you driveway open! That's off the grid. Great work on some cool machines.
Thats a lot of fluids to keep her running, You show how far a little preventive maintenance can saved you lots down the road, Great video thanks
I have seen so many over the years with the whole no service or even clean fuel and it still put in a days work. I am so proud of what you do to these neglected pieces. I suppose that now that you know she's a keeper and what, that a degreasing, a hottsy sounds bout right but elbow grease works. I like the fact that you warn a guy to back away as those silent killers are the worst, just need a greasy piece of paper to confirm what your thinking. I worked with a guy who's wife worked at a burrito joint and he must of ate her mistakes or something was seriously wrong with the guy. I seen him and just waved as that was a close as I could take. I really do see paint on this old tractor in the paint brush style as it would somewhat cover the mist and then a piece of window here and there as getting slapped with a wet branch is just not in the fun book. It takes most people who run them years to perfect that trade as it is a very unappreciated talent!! By the time they are really good at crowning and pulling ditchlines, they retire. One old guy who ran this one particular route had mostly single lane when he started but when he was through, two lanes with some wide turn outs. He was really good and then Our county maintenance fellow made him retire as he was in his seventies.
What a rambling mess of drivel.
If youre not on meth while you typed thar I’d be incredibly surprised
Thank you ! It is so refreshing to see someone take care and show love to old machines this is my Asmr. I do hope that wonderful grader brings you many years of a smooth road ! Kentucky U.S.A
I don't know why, but the voice of an Australian man narrating his labor is both educational and easy on the ears.
NZ
He's from New Zealand.
Replacing drive train and back to work. Waiting 24mins and I was assuming "back to work" meant you were gonna run it! Goodjob on the maintenance obviously needed it. Thanks for the videos.
Really like your videos, keep them coming, learn lots from each one, you've got a great attitude about fixing things
Your videos are always so calming and I always learn something
An easy way to keep track of your services is to write the date and hours on each filter housing. Regards Billy from S A
The ones he took off were dated as well.
I can't believe with all my time working at wrecking yards, on the farm with tractors and under the hood with buddies, that I never heard that one. I must work fast to instill it within my children." Honey, maybe tostadas for dinner tonight?" Thanks for living my dream of actually having a grader to make your dirt road so smooth you can ride home on a skateboard." Good form old boy, Good form!
"Classic gold" You can hear the ol girl giving a huge sigh of relief after that makeover.
You are truly a talented guy with a million-dollar pair of hands. I am always amazed at how you locate these odd and old parts and they come to you in the backwoods of NZ.
Remarkably good shape for it's obvious age and intensive use. You never finds trophies like this in Canada or the USA rust belt that haven't been destroyed by salt.
Meh...but that grader's lookin' pretty good, tho...
@@cattmann1405 ...you know that grader is in New Zealand, right ?
@@deeess4832 …..maybe.....yes....where I was going had nothing to do with it's location so what did I miss?....did I just insult all New Zealanders now?
Right even if it's doesn't see any salt just the winter and the constant freezing screws everything up I live in MN and it's almost impossible to find anything that say outside that's decent even if it was in a shed the clay has do much moisture in it it really doesn't matter that it was inside.
Back in the late 70's my dads job got one of these graders brand new, it came with another blade in the rear. A few years later I had to drive the graders like this including Champion grader from site to site for the foreman, his way of getting me my introduction to machine operation, Now operating Cat M12, Love graders.😍
Dear Marty T.
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic again and as always. Very well done. I could watch this for hours. There is this old saying: If you grease/lubricate well you speed/drive well! You, Sir, definitely greased very well! That good old machine needed and deserved your TLC for sure. Especially after so long not been maintenanced.
Hope that second Diesel filter will arrive soon. In my opinion respectively out of my experience you should flush out all fuel lines and especially the Diesel tank. I can hardly wait to watch the next part.
Thanks a lot for making teaching recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health.
I feel like this whole old machinery series is all just a monster driveway building series, great way to show off all your equipment and handy work. Next up we need to see a steam roller and then hey maybe even a conglomerate of asphalt machinery.
5.15 AM in South Australia.
Love these videos Marty, keep it up!
From an german guy. I absolutely enjoy watching your videos. Great job. Greetings from Bavaria
Sure like your videos Marty, that ol girl found a home with lots of love
I was going to say that we hadn't heard from you in ages but I realised that it only has been three weeks since your last video.... shows how much I look forward to them. anyway hope you are well and safe.
Luv' comin' back here to see you work your magic...so enjoyable! TRULY @ the top of your game! Piece of mind that your equipment is so well maintained. Wish I lived nearby so you could maintain my fleet!
35 years ago, I came up with "If I'd a pulled the choke, it might a started". I live in Tennessee, USA. Only thing I can figure is that great minds think alike. I too love to restore that which most people consider scrap. Really blowed my mind to hear you say that. Love yer vids and subscribed!
now that's some great work!...i bet that grader is so happy you bought it and brought it back to life. also, love that front gate, very cool.
you did a good job.hi from usa Kentucky
Your Neighborhood must LOVE all the Equipment you have! OH, the Possibilities!
Take care,
🤓 -Thomas
Port Orchard, Washington
(Just West of Seattle)
Like all of your video's I always give it a "like" before I view it. Never had a reason to doubt that. I enjoy all your content and during these difficult times look forward to new uploads. Really impressed with your ability to move this old kit back into a working tool. Thanks for all your hard work in what seems a most beautiful part of the World. Hope you and yours stay safe and well...
Thanks mate
The snail definitely makes sence especially after watching the machine work
Marty has so many ways of scraping his drive now, tractor with the rear blade, bulldozer with front blade, grader with center blade, how does he choose what to use? Fuel consumption, ease of use, overall fun, I'm sure it's the last, lol. Knowing Marty is off grid adds an entirely new element to these videos. The ''bit more choke'' comment had me checking to see if it was indeed a diesel or petrol engine.
"A bit more choke and that would have started" made me snort hot coffee out my nose. Still laughing...
I reckon fixing her up will be easier than learning to operate it well. Good channel Sir, thank you.
Here is a little trick i learned many years ago. When you need to assemble a housing or heavy cover or big wheels with bolts instead of stud, i would cut the head of two longer bolts with the same size and thread pitch and sharpen the and to a rounded point. I would then before assembly screw in my two modified bolts at 180deg apart and use them as guide for the housing, wheel,or heavy cover. This will aline me with the other holes to put bolts in. Once bolted i would remove my modified bolts and voila job done with less cursing LOL.Oh one more i would also bore a small hole (1/4in.) near the end of my modified bolts for easy instal and removal with a small punch.
This is also how you install engine sumps that you just put fresh silicon on.
Prevents it sliding around till you get the first bolts in
That method also works a treat for aligning transmissions, way better than fumbling around with bolts.
With all of the equipment you’ve gathered. A cordless grease gun would come in handy. I have a Milwaukee and It’s really been worth the investment
Great to see it up and running, perhaps some welded on "forestry style" branch deflectors?
Mount a chainsaw on it... lol
all you need is 6 tiers now and she will be good to go for few years of good work..good job brother.. find some work for this machine now.. be safe and see you on next video..!!
I have no use for a machine like that but I still want one after watching this. Great video!! keep em coming :)
For a first time driver youre a natural. Great fi ished surface on the lower pieces. Great to watch. All your hard work is bearinh good fruit Marty.
Hell yea man did a good job glad its back running the way it needs to be
Marty T - "our" version of Mustie1! The country style; very little that can't be fixed with some DIY tools, number 8 wire and some perseverance. Well done.
I have never heard that "choke joke" before. Classic.
I brought it with me to the US & have been spreading it around here for a while, still gets a good laugh.
Bahahaha, read some of the comments before I started watching. Had no idea what you meant. Lol, hilarious.
@@brent6454 Another one is "sounds like your timing's late Mate!"
You have done a good job, and know what you are doing. I have read several of the comments below, and don`t agree with many of them. The grader is old, and you would have to spend a fortune to get it back to almost new. For what you are using it for, and the amount of time you will be using it, what you have done so far will be good enough for it to last many years, and give you good service. It is not on a construction site being used eight to ten hours a day. So, I think it is good enough for what you are using it for.
Thats what I'm thinking too, I don't want to spend a fortune or all my spare time on it
I'm behind enemy lines in Calif. Love watching the show man I'm a mechanic by trade and I come home and watch you fix shit lol
Hello from a half of a world away, Pittsburgh pa. USA. I really enjoy your show. Nice job !
Never give it too much choke trust me you don't want it to "start"
Glen , What do you mean by 'Start ' That's a follow through .Difference between a fart and a crap is the fart and follow through and has lumps in it .
@Bubble O Bill LMFAO SMH and still LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Joker_68 ya all talking shit
@@Christopher.C123I'm guessing cause farts sound like little motors trying to run.
gee the conversation certainly went down hill after that "starter motor" moment
I think you have done awesome work on the old girl and I really appreciate these videos you make I look forward to each one you make on anything you work on
Its hard to convey the sense of satisfaction in reviving - or watching somebody else - an old or neglected bit of kit back to working order. Earth mover, car , bike, stationary engine, whatever. You either get it or you don't I reckon.
Thanks for giving an old piece of equipment lots of love, and a new life.....Love the video!!!!
There's something deeply satisfying about bringing an old girl back to fitness for work and those old Leyland diesels are awesome tough nuggety engines.
Time now to give her a wash, degrease and a coat of jam eh?
the old leylands were always a good old motor look after them and they serve you well
I always thought graders were really underpowered when you see the machinery they have to propel. A little dinky engine at the back.
@@briananthony4044 it's gearing doing the work.
II enjoy watching your expertise, I am a farmer in central Utah, USA.. I lived in NZ from 1972-74, I was 20-22 years old and if I win the Lotto (LOL) I will move back!! Great job on that nightmare of a grader. I would not want to tackle that job! LOL
“ Bit more choke and that would have started “ must just be a New Zealand thing judging by the comments 🤣
Aussie saying as well. ;)
@John Murphy me too 🤣
Freaking hilarious 😂
I would say.... thats gonna itch when it dries.
You don't want it running away on ya, though.
You have to have a good feeling being able to bring the old lady backup to what she was. She probably enjoyed the grease and oil change. Thanks for sharing.
TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL! Great deal! If you ever drive it through Washington state stop and do my driveway! hahaha