Diggin' Rocks, Logging Miles, Cat D2 Maintenance, & More - Just a "Day In The Life" Episode!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2021
- Let's follow me around for a day and see what kind of trouble we can find...lol
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Your Kubota was setup for California where I live . That's were it all started. My 2021 3500 4x4 single rear wheel ram gets 20 mpg but when it rejens it gets 10 mpg
Cummins uses all 6 cylinders when it rejens.
Glad to see you also take time to maintain your body because new parts are hard to find.
Well, rock collection is proceeding as planed. It's amazing how many dinosaur egg you can produce just by moving some soil. D2 started with no problems,always a good sign. Nice video Toby.....
Canada called.....they want their rocks back!
You can have my share, trust me I have lots!
The day you get it all done and have nothing left is the day they lay you to rest.
I don't know about that. I think he'll have to do an oil change on Ol' Blue the day of his funeral!
On any farm there simply is no such thing as all the chores possible being done. Fresh paint on the buildings,check for dry rot and damage,all the bright ideas a fertile imagination can come up with,looking after the critters,improving the fields,full maintenance repair and rebuilds all farm equipment,getting all the canning done,all the bright ideas a farm wife can think of(God help us). And so on and so forth.
All anyone can do is the best they can.
We had rock garden on the farm growing up. After the horse had plowed we then used it to pull a sled, we loaded up the rocks. We didn’t have the size you have. Most were half gallon jar size or smaller. I’m guessing the ones you have were leftovers from Ice Age.
Another great video! That Kubota is very nice and useful around the field moving those rocks! You have some gems there! Great to see the d2 getting some tender loving care there too!👌😎👍nice job!
Super video Toby, that 'thumb' is worth it's weight for that work! Thanks for bringing us along!
I grew up in an old farmhouse in Michigan and they actually had dug a seller that had a dirt floor they built the foundation with the rocks and stones that came right off of the fields and put a two-story farmhouse on top of it
There's a helluva alot of those old farm houses in Mi, Wi, Mn and more built that way.
Like the rhythmic sound of hydraulics and metal clanking around
Love that Caterpillar sound in the morning. Kind of reminds me when I was a little ( er ) boy and all the pipe laying work was going on in and around our neighborhood.
We'd be awakened by the sound of those Pony Motors on the Cat. powered equipment then the rumble and squeal of the cable type excavators and shovels at work all day.
Ahhh,...childhood memorable joys!
The cackle of the iron mistress! That is so soothing! Thanks man! Still and awesome cat.
Good for you getting yourself right with all the exercise. Nice work on the maintenance, dang that was a lot of fast oil. I have an affinity with rock I must admit, we have a house outside of Yosemite, on a hill, it’s an A frame, 3 story, anyway it had all this cinder block I hated. I didn’t know anything about rocks and mortar....but I do now! I was a rockhound for the natural rock in the area and eventually managed to cover all the block and it sure looks good. It was an interesting experience I very much enjoyed, looks really good. Thanks for the episode
I don't know about those rocks you showed us from that unworked ground but those "big" rocks you showed were probably way less than half the size of some of the rocks piled up in the grove on the farm I grew up on. My dad said that my grandfather had dug those up. But I am using the term "dug" loosely as apparently what my grandfather used to get those rocks out of the ground with was dynamite. Apparently what he did was to use a regular hand shovel to dig down along side them until he could dig a small hole underneath them. Then stuff some amount of dynamite into that hole. Then put a fuse/detonator to it and run. From what I understand, farmers back in the day could get their hands on dynamite really easily.
I saw dynamite used once, when I was real young, to remove the stump of a GIGANTIC oak tree from the middle of a field, of which large tractors couldn't pull up, even after digging up around the roots. The dynamite was in a brown paper cylinder and looked like a sparkly gray grease. My dad and uncle planted the charge and ran about 60 to 80 yards away from it. The dynamite went BOOM about 20 seconds later and immediately after the boom everything seemed extra quiet. As I got ready to run toward where the stump had been but my dad grabbed me and said "Not yet!!" I was confused for a bit as to why and then chunks of wood started falling all over the place!
That was IMPRESSIVE!!! It left a HUGE hole! Not a trace of the stump in that hole. :-)
A new viewer here. Good video and editing. Love the little D2. Spent a lot of my youth running a 1936 D2 very similar. Fieldwork and pushing manure.
Love this D2, bright yellow in great shape.
Rocks…. I’m on a granite ledge in the Sierras. I can get your entire rock pile out of the ground in the fist 10ft of any project. Every time I see you working your property I get so jealous of the ground you get to work. Work this soil a little bit and it turns to flower. Let it sit through winter and you’re 1 notch lower on a Rockwell scale than brick. But, the view into the High Sierras is priceless. I used to live in spitting distance of Florin Tractor, now I’m about 50 miles due east.
Excellent video it's nice to see the iron mistress back out of storage for the season
Was born in northern Mn, as a kid my brothers n I loved playing on the rock piles at edges of the fields. So when your talking about the comments on the rocks, yeah, I agree - alot of people have no idea how much rock is up there. And to think way back when the area was settled by alot of Norwegian / Finns / other Scandinavians, this was AN IMPROVEMENT from their country!
You could build yourself such a nice rock wall with all those rocks
You went from a piece of equipment that uses DEF to the D2! lol One of our newer trucks - 2019 Freightliner M2 106 with a Cummins L9 will sound the electric horn when you drop it in gear if it needs to regen. What fun! Hope to see some videos at the show you are going to.
I grew up on the farm and been "playing farmer" working with Dad and for neighbors for the last 58 years. Never once had to pick up rocks out of the field. I did have to stop once a couple years ago to pick up half a cinder block that came out of the manure spreader 😁
If you go 3 miles East, there are or were lots of rocks in the low ground just a half mile from the Mississippi River that came from Wisconsin with the last glacier.
If I ever find one , I'd like to have a belt driven jaw crusher for busting up old concrete and I'd even let you borrow it if you wanted.😎
You are my favourite TH-cam creator. I can hardly wait to see 5J1113 in your field.
Grew up picking rocks and weeds every summer on the farm, hated them with a passion. We are close to the rocky mountains so we would get some massive rocks the size of a small car. We always thought they were useless and put them on the edge of the field, until one day the owner of a car dealership came to our house and made a deal with dad. We ended up trading about 2 dozen of those boulders for a brand new 1 ton gmc for the farm. Made picking rocks alot more enjoyable!!! I also got my first car that way as well.
I've picked up a few rocks in my day, my Grandparents picked rocks with a team of mules and a sled. Thanks for the update 🇺🇸
People like smoking them now
Great vlog o the day's work 💪 always good see the Iron Mistress struttin her stuff 💪💪👍
Thanks for sharing buddy take care and god bless
Good on you for running and staying healthy! I have to get back into it myself. Could run 10 miles in college, had kids and work changed and I gained 100lbs... not good.
Thanks Squatch253 for explaining the bit with how rocks behave in the deep freeze IN YOUR PART OF THE WORLD.
I was thinking, mistakenly, that you could use the rocks as building material.
Thanks also for taking us through the VERY IMPORTANTANT maintenance of a D2
Boulders left behind by the glaciers!
You could build a nice rock patio out of those pickers
Thank you for explaining about the rocks. We don't have frost heave around here, not do we have rocks like that. I figured that those were the reasons why you didn't use them for bedding material or sell them. (It would be gold around here because all we have is pavement or mud.)
It was a good day to pull a engine and deliver it. !! 😊👍🌎🌞
Good video!!
For years my dad picked 10 tons of rocks per acer off his farm land. Never a rock pile on his property once it was picked up it went in a truck and left. After 45 years of farming the property is pretty clean.
Thank you for the video.
"Wasting time on the D2" Hardly !! Labor of love !! 😍😍
I have several of those cardboard creepers. I always work on the ground. Can't beat them.
Well i have been watching all your videos for over a year now and am always amazed at the quality of your videos. just bought a Cat D8800 that used to power a sawmill which is what i plan on doing with it and the manuals are included i will let you know how it runs after we get the farm planted. it is early 1940's so the owner says.
@@squatch253 Thanks for the reply we should have it moved in a few weeks just trying to figure the lifting to get it loaded
You've been growing some good rocks there!
9:40 that seat transfer, mintyyyt
I just found some of your new videos. It has been a good day.
you should get a PTO driven jaw type rock crusher attachment for the tractor.... could make nice gravel out of the smaller ones, using the big ones for landscaping, or drill into the big ones and blast them to workable pieces , you got some granite and basalt rock there, would be great for road gravel, and as gravel it would be frost adequate roadbase
Great stuff. Love that D2
Shoulda bought a Case IH Farmall U series compact tractor, no DPF or DEF system to worry about! It would look good next to your old IH Farmalls.
Love the vlogs was great fun thanks
Nice shades on a cloudy day
Your rock pile is very beneficial to the use of your land, it can be a home to many invertebrates that attract birds which makes a pretty good verteliser...
These videos are very enjoyable. Thanks Toby.
Have you checked any of rocks for fossils? Now those can be worth 💵
I'm surprised a french ditch isn't an option to use your spare rocks, works really well in New England, as long as you are a couple feet below grade.. I will admit bedrock lives less than 10' below you in any particular spot
That's a impressive tractor backhoe
Wow, it looks like you're in my yard with all that rock! 😀
3:48 interesting shot, almost all the rocks/boulders in that shot are river rounded like ones. Hm...
Also, good to see the Iron Mistress out :) One day 1113 will join her too.
Time spent on maintenance is never wasted compared to the time spent on repair. Just think how much less work there would have been on 1113 if she had received the TLC that 7066 gets. I have worked with zerks but have never seen a button head grease fitting, so be sure to include video of that before you start pushing dirt. Yeah, a jaw crusher would be handy, but the cost, and especially the time to process rock piles would not pencil out compared to ordering up a few truckloads of gravel.
That kubota impressed me with the hydraulic power it has for a smaller machine
Kubota makes a bucket level indicator for the L series. Bobcat of Duluth threw one in when I purchased my L3301. Surprised the Olson boys didn't do the same!
They work well. When you worked the RR did you come in to the Fairlane?
Enjoy you content and senior also. I am on the iron range.
Definitely rewarding doing maintenance on old iron. Crazy how simple things were back then and how long they last with the most minimal effort in maintaining, Not like the new stuff we have now days.
Yep always more work than day light
Squatch, What does that silver rod do on the backhoe bucket? Does it lock it in place for transport? You always move it when you sit in the backhoe position.
I gotta jump on the jaw crusher band wagon! You’d be able to crush your own gravel for the road your making. Just a nice little set up like they had on display at Le Seure a couple three years ago! Also why use the 8N to grade the road? Wouldn’t the 212 make a nicer job of it haha?
Sounds better then a John deer nothing like a caterpillar
I was picking and moving rocks today also! L4701 with BH92
I must say that a reliable good running D2 might have be something I need to acquire someday just since they can be hauled with a normal pickup. My current mutt AC is too big to move around and is putting water in the oil so is parked until that is dealt with.
Easier to do oil changes on the old iron than on anything made today.
Use the 212 grader to set the level on your new road. its and excuse to play with the grader and keep it limber. plus it'd make a neat video.
Intersting,did not know you had a starter on your Mistress. thought you you were a crank guy.
Did not hear that on exercise with the virus, I did hear about a year ago that those who have done cardio exercised regularly had a lower chance of contraction and those that did were less likely to need ventilators or have breathing issues.
Probably the best ever maintained D2!
Great video
Keep up the personal matanance.....if you ain't got your health....you aint got nothing..thanks as always
Now you just need some convicts! 😄
I noted the kerr jar on your air filter. is that an actual cat part, or just your standard canning jar?
I also think those rocks would look awesome around that little pond you have at the house.
Kinda finding out where the retreating glaciers unloaded.
Rock picking is a yearly work when you live in area that has had glaciasion at some point in the past. Keeping yourself healthy is a must, you can not put a price tag on health.
You’ve got ten times more energy then I’ve got left in my tank for one day! Great vid but a question, that didn’t look like a Cat eng oil filter as they used to be yellow or have they changed?
what a Great D2 Dozer ....
goiing by what I see, you can rope start the pony engine in case of dead or missing battery? handy
Hello,
I've been watching your videos for a while now. I've got a D25U Cat that stopped running back in the woods. Ended up having it pulled out and threw track on one side. Curious if you had any pointers or could do a video on how to get the track back on. Haven't been able to find any videos covering that on you tube.
Isn't that D2 such a pretty lady, love that "Chuff chuff" before the engine stops, she's havin the last word!!
You could build a nice little dam there!
Rough terrain creeper.
Hi Squatch !
With such a big collection how often do you change the oil on your equipment ?
Like #652
Thanks for the video!
Life is a learning curve!
good video man good job keep up the good work
I noticed that you store the dozer in one of those canvas units. How happy are you with it? would you recommend one?
I'd hate to stick modern tillage implements into your ground
My ripper is a bednar 15 tyne digging 2ft down and itll bring everything up
If your keen on.rock picking bring your D2 to west Australia iv just pulled up some rocks that are prob 50% the size the kubota
Lucky I onky pull up about 6 a year
Have you ever rope started the pony motor? How hard a pull is it?
Being from south central ND those rocks are tiny lol
Another bountiful rock harvest I see! Do you have a blade for that D2?
plant the small rocks water them and they grow into boulders in time
Thinking about installing those "KMart" track chains...??
What size it that hex to take out drain plug for the engine.
I bet the Iron Mistress was eyeing those new track chains all the time you were working on her........
Curious, can that pony engine be pull started? Looks like a rope start pulley in front of the gear shift.
The Iron Mistress awakens from her winter slumber!
HI GUYS FROM VICTORIA AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 i wish i had that D2 😁 its just a little to far to get it here 👍👍👍👍 my brother had a cat 22 awhile ago
That ground with all the top soil removed. Looks good enough that you shouldn’t need fabric.
The D2 started pretty easily for sitting all winter!
What is all over the bottom of the exhaust manifold and almost looks like mud but then again the rest of the tractor don't have any mid anywhere else that looks like that
Build a long short fence with all that rock
I can only in my dreams imagine owning land acerage like you have.
Do you know anything about Dean Machine? In KC MO there was a CAT dealer that changed to a Dean Machine in the late 70s early 80s. I wondered if it was still CAT and just took on a dealer name, or Dean was a new company?
Your so lucky to own a D2, I've been looking at a D4 wide track. What should I spend on this un restored cat