I Bought a 1949 Northwest 25 Dragline and WE BROUGHT IT HOME!
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- PLEASE SUBSCRIBE :) August 6, 2021. This is going to be one of many videos coming out on this machine! In this video, my friend Mike (UnitCrane514 on TH-cam) and I get the crane on a trailer and bring it home! Sorry for the abrupt ending to the video, but there will be more content to follow! It's been a busy year and I will have more time to upload during the winter.
You have one hell of a lot more faith than I, standing there on the cable drum while moving that thing..........
It makes me feel good knowin yall saved that machine from goin to the scrap yard!
Couldn’t let it get cut up! More to come on this machine soon so please like and subscribe!
That was a long day my hands we raw from yanking on those levers and my elbow was bashed good from the steering levers but it was fun getting it safe from scrap
My dad welded a piece of tube across the top of the swing lever to make it easier to push and pull. Those things had a tendency to swing when you were walking them and I saw what you did tying it down. Made lots of mods to it including Koehring tracks and bigger bucket plus an international engine, then a 4v71 which made us change the gears to slow it down a bit.
Northwest power💪
Another one saved, nice old machine being out to works again, good paint job and sevice, good for another 68 years....well done for rescuing her....
The gunk and grease you washed off is what has been preserving the machine.
I agree!
As a kid, I would watch those old timers run these things cleaning ditches and river in our irrigation district. They made it look so easy. I eventually got into the excavating business when I grew up.
Congrats on your acquisition. She’s a real dandy.
My dad was a dragline operator all his life
He bought a Sargent Dragline from Iowa Machine works back in the 40s
Wore it out several times
It was a 1/4 yard machine
D318 cat with pony motor
I never got to learn how to run it
Cuz he was ready to retire and the draglines were being replaced with track hoes
Sure do miss watching him operate it
I operated Units, American and little giant when I was in the military with the hook, drag line and clam shell.
The American 795 with a Cat D342 engine was the best machine ever made.
Knuckle buster controls….
I really love the old school equipment.
In many ways they are still better than new stuff.
This is awesome thank you for keeping it from scrap yard cant wait for more
More to come!
Those D318 Caterpillars are dang good engines!
That brings back memories for me. Right after high school, I was an "Oiler" on an old NW#6, dragline, for a couple months. The company was from Iron Mountain UP MI. The old operator was "Tony". He was sort of an old strong headed man, but could really throw the "Muck". Those old NW's were dubbed, "Man Killers".
Sir, Great rescue! I enjoyed your video and look forward to viewing the full restoration of this old girl.
Thanks for sharing.
The old boys made it look so easy ! But they were used to hard work . In my early 20’s I ran a Aden’s whirlybird or WWII crane for export timber, it operated on the same principle as the dragline but used a 10 ton spreader bar and 16’ diameter grapples that opened & closed using clutches and loading up the whip line . A main load line with a 12 part line would hoist the load and. Slowly lowering the grapples while gently letting of the clutch break . Get it in the wrong order and you could have a mess at multiple levels … mainly in your shorts and greasing was a all day job ! Finds memories and a few terrifying one looking back nearly 40 yrs now.
I like watching these guys younger it must be something form a lost civilization or archeological find relative to today’s equipment
Best dragline ever
Good evening
I was a Northwest crane repair company out of Novi Michigan
Thank you for saving that machine
Enjoy
Thanks EDWARD MARTIN
I just purchased a north west 190D. Are you available for hire?
Take your time, adjust all the Drums and linkage, that’ll change everything about it’s operation. I always found the 25 to be quick and productive. Enjoy your work and lever time. Wish I was young again. Thanks for the great video and memories.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Yes at this point in time the brakes and clutches have since been re-lined and adjusted. The bucket it came with is a 3/4 yard Page. More to come soon in future videos!
Nice find I had a NW 41 30T once you get the clutches adjusted properly all you will need is your finger tip to pull and they will snap right over center lock in and you will feel like you are running a new machine
glad to see there are people like your self saving a dragline
Seems to be in pretty good shape.
I just rescued the same unit in northern Michigan, we now use it for loading logs.
When I was in high school a neighbor used his dragline to dig a pond deeper that was on my family's farm. This past summer I drove one of the trucks on a dredging project that had two large draglines moving material and loading trucks. Be careful around those cables. The cranes on that job this summer had a cable brake failure once and one cable snap. The operator inside said he thought he was a goner when numerous feet of cable came falling down within feet of where he sits
Nice vintage machine. Seems to be working reasonably well out of the gate. Enjoyed watching the video and good luck on the restoration.
Luv the old skool Draglines!
One of these machines that looks an awful lot like yours, just ended up off of the edge of the road and in a field in Silverwood, MI this year. I saw a couple of fellas working on it a few weeks ago and as last week, it didn't appear to be moved. I don't know anything about this machine, and that is why I did an Internet search and found your video. If I see it being worked on again, I will stop to learn more about it.
Your machine has a tubular fairlead, which was an option for that model, link-belt used them as well.
New subscriber.
From watching a chanel with a guy rebuilding starting engines, aka pony motor, he said to turn the fuel off to shut the motor down so gasoline doesn't drain past the float needle with all of the bouncing of the machine. The gas would got into the crankcase, thin the oil and drastically decrease the life of the motor.
You lucky Dog ! that is such a Unique & classic Crane, beautiful.
Thank you! Stay tuned for more!
That guy was testing the waters by saying are you going to scrap it.....if you would of said yes I bet he would have shot a dollar number at you and then he would of sold it on for a big profit....
Great machine! Another one saved! Now you know why old operators had arms on them like Popeye!
You want to use this on the open gears,Amazon has it.
Lubriplate L0152-000 Gear Shield Series Black ISO-9001 Registered Quality System, ISO-21469 Compliant 40+ cSt Multi-Purpose Open Gear Grease (Pack of 10)
Fantastic video you made there. I will be following😀
My God, She is beautiful 😍❤️
I’m happy your reviving the old girl. It’s mechanical. Slow. Decades before hydraulics. The country moved slower then so the 25 didn’t seem as slow as it did its work.
Don’t create false hopes of performance.... draglines did not make it to the moon. They were decades old when Armstrong was lucky enough to get to the moon and back, long after machines like yours paved the way for him to do so...
It is slow in some aspects but I'll put up any of our 20 northwest draglines against a comparable or even larger excavator doing cycle work and I know the dragline will put up more material than the newest excavator. There are very few machines capable of digging material out from under the water table as quick as a dragline. That's why gravel pits still use them and crane companies still make em. Long reach excavators are slow and have so small of a bucket it's like using a garden hand shovel to mine coal. A dredge depending on what type have lots of flaws especially the suction pump style, it doesn't pick up any stone or larger rock.
Lay your boom down on the ground to pull cable and hook up the jewelry and adjust your clutch bands
I ran one just about like that when I was 14 years old I'm now 72. once you get brakes and clutches adjusted there not to bad to operate not like hydraulic though there's a turret lock on there somewhere. We dug some pretty good sized lake with owers, bucket with holes works best and if possible pump pond dry first. They came reach and dump dirt much further than hyd , machines and capable of moving enormous amount of dirt just try not to turn dirt into soup! Good luck to you.
Very nice machine, should clean up and dig several Dozen tanks👍
OMG. Although illegal in most states, I love the squirrel knob on your steering wheel!
I have one on my Alice Chalmers tractor and wouldn’t be caught without it. L O L
Load the thing, will ya . !
Great save!
the only way i could like it more is if it was steam powered but its great thanks a bunch
Nice work nate! That lowboy was just about perfect and nice save. Another fellow SW, MI Guy here. Would love to have one on our Orchard Farm for digging out the Ditches for the waterways! I'd love to find a Bay city or Hein-Werner.
Thank you! I’m glad I was able to save it. The company who transported it did a great job and had the correct rig to do it. We’ve since done quite a bit of work to the dragline so stay tuned for more videos.
@@NatesPlaceMI Looking forward to more. These kinds of videos are a very hot topic on youtube the last 2 years.
I ran one of these things about 40 years ago. I remember well the bent drum shaft and worn out center pin bushing on that thing. The 305 Koehring was better machine and much easier to service and and work on as well.
Wow, I’d love to find something like that ! I’m an old BLH Lima guy.
They are not hard to run if you have a little eye-hand coordination.
Cool story. Nice camera
I broke in as a oiler on a 25NW that my Dad ran for Joe Vicini inc in Placerville ca for 30years
Cool old school...
Glad you got her. She looks to be in fairly good shape. Just happened on your channel. Subbed and will be watching.
Thank you for subscribing! There will be more coming soon on this rig in future videos. It is in great shape and not really rusty at all!
Do you need a parts book for the NW 25 ?
My dad used to own one just like that
I saw a drag line for free ,but transport was the killer ,they quoted me 5k for 100 miles ,the same with alot of equipment it's cheap but moving it ads up
Well done saving the old Girl It might be of interest to you check out Vintage Excavator Trust in Uk regards from an Old Plant Operator
Brand new to your channel so curious of what you did with that machine and interested in what your future is
There will be another video coming out on the crane soon. We have fixed it up quite a bit and we're excited to show all of that in the next video! The plan is to put it fully back into service at my landscape construction company for digging ponds and clamshell work
Short turns tear up the ground bad.
how much did that cost, I need one of those for my pond in central Texas
Was the crane repowered?? Most had Murphy Diesels.
It has a Cat D318 6cyl and we are currently in the middle of repowering it. Stay tuned for more!
What is the boom in the rig - 40'?. Base 15'? insert 10'? tip 15'? darnold
Yes it has a 40' boom!
Yes, CAREFULLY set the bucket down on the teeth then DRAG the bucket toward you.
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I think if you turn it into an excavator will be best
Not a great idea to walk under the boom, especially on one that has set up a long time. They have been known to fall on people, more often than we would think.
dont dig crossways of your tracks you can tip over
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You say miserable to run ..,,
It’s because your ignorant of the appropriate maintenance and operation of the machine. You on your way to learning. Whiners are the ones that get attention when the rest of the men are working.
Study up. Fix the miss in the motor. Adjust the main clutch.
Then get in with the hands on learning the machine will give you.
It’s tougher and... smarter than you cause those who made it are 2x ahead of you.
Get on with it and be appreciative your not digging it by hand.
swinger adjusted too tight
Use more fast forward in your videos please. Love it otherwise.
OMG you just went out and bought a rusted piece of crap machinery for no reason?? What in the @Diesel_Creek were you doing? lolz
I wouldn’t say “no reason”…. stay tuned for more
Don’t waste your money Rent an Excavator
Don’t be standing in front of the winches period after you unloaded it he stood there you never know what could happen when the machine is moving
I was the guy operating it. He was well out of the way of the draw works and there was no load on the lines. Unfortunately there was no other option but to have Nate ride on the fairlead, he was steering the machine with a pipewrench as it had steering issues at the time. Machine has been repaired since then and there is no reason to stand in the danger zone now.