Abandoned digger gets some much needed maintenance- Thanks Supercheap Auto 

If Supercheap Auto and Gulf Western are watching - you rock! You now have a new customer (me). Cheers guys for your generosity.

77 litres hydrolic oil drained and you were sent 80 litres. Seems like someone at Supercheap Auto did some research for your excavator specs. Nice! 👍

I don't normally like super cheap but am coming around as they seem to be very supportive of independent video creators. Good work supercheap

Definitely talk with Hitachi. They will love this video. This is like the "hitachi works" vide of the year.

worked on this stuff for many years, the wear on the pins has nothing to do with the hardness and everything to do with the LACK of grease. Go with mild steel pins and proper grease, if you put hard pins in there you will bugger up the bushings as well as the pins. Look after the old girl and she will last years. good luck

Very interesting, my husband is Technician of Maintenance, he knows very well all gearboxes or motoreductor, sometime he works for Caterpillar, Case & Haulotte here in France ... I show him your video, he loved your maintenance, thank you.

Men in the wilderness working the machines are SOOOOOOO cool!

Great to see SCA donating to the cause. A good Brissy company. That old Isuzu is sounding good. I can see why you have 314k subscribers well 314001 now. Hope your making a buck out of it mate. A lot of work and time going into setting up the cams and then editing the final. Well done.

amazing that machine sat in forest doing nothing and you come a long and in a short time make it useful again. Congratulations you be awesome.

All the way from England, I've got a lot of admiration for SuperCheap for supporting homegrown machine operators and engineers! Good luck chaps.

Good on Supercheap and Gulf for stepping up to the plate.

Really worth saving these old machines, they make good work horses and unlike the modern stuff the operator can do all the maintainance.

On a side note, how nice of you to give those rams a fun toy.

"Hey check out these boys." I lost it. HAHA - you're the man Marty @11:05

@Marty T Just an opinion here, but I would leave mild steel pins in for the pivots. Pins are cheap and easy to change, bushings are more expensive, line boring worn out bores is way more expensive then pins. I know the work is done already, however just something to keep in mind for future endeavors. When a system is designed that will experience wear, it is common to design the system to wear at a central component that is easily repaired. Good work either way.

Nice to see you’re getting some support from business Marty.👍👍

Nice of super cheap to give you some stuff

Wow thanks Supercheap Auto! Very nice gift?♥️🙏🏻☀️🏄‍♂️

Good maintenance will make the ol girl last a long time ! Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍

Félicitations 👍👍👍👍👍👍 pour la remise en route de cette pelleteuse abandonné. Une belle affaire 👍👍👍👍

Nice job mate, didn't skip any steps and I am sure the old girl will appreciate the maintenance. Just always amazed at how if basic maintenance is done how much better things run and last longer. But so many can't be bothered and then just toss it aside. So, good on to you for doing the right thing!!

That rattle gun, if it's anything like their 18v ones, will last absolutely forever, one of the other guys at work has the 18v one and we've absolutely abused it for a year straight, we've even gotten the anvil housing up to around 160'c a few times and it still keeps on going, with no noticeable drop in performance over that time

Can't put my finger on what makes your videos special, but they're very enjoyable to watch. Thank you.

Nice JOB super cheap to give you ALL that stuff. WAY TO GO GUYS!!!!!

I wish I could find some sheep just like yours. They have the cutest most fearless character to them. I really love watching them whenever you show them in a video.

Pull the valve cover and adjust the valves, also replace the air filters and change the engine oil again

@Marty T I really love how you resurrect old / broken equipment and give it a new lease of life. It's inspiring to me and I learn a lot watching your channel. This Hitachi excavator was a fantastic effort - great job and thanks for sharing.

Nice score with the hydraulic oil, the cooling fluid and the tools. 👍

I used to operate a JCB JS130 with an Isuzu engine like the one in your Hitachi and it was a fantastic motor, never gave any problems and was fantastic on diesel would work hard for about 18hrs on a tank wish I could say that about the new one I'm on now

Your rescue of the digger came up in my recommendations for some reason. I watched the fascinating first startup and self-extraction from the forest. Then of course I had to keep watching, and the cats are getting awful hungry. I told them "Its addictive!" But they don't care. They told me to "Subscribe for gawd sake, were starving". So i did.

It a Hitachi, the well made digger! I have an EX50 URG, small digger for 17 years, bought it with 4400 hours, now 8900 hours, still runs great, did a lot of works when I was a home builder. I keep her as a reminder of such great job pal!. With quick coupler, I could switch among: fork, cement mixer, hammer, compactor and so on......

Good work Supercheap. Sounds like the man has a cold. Fun watch.

Great job. Blowing a bit of smoke, could probably stand an injector service at some point in the future. Love the updates. Cheers

When I saw your bucket pins Marty I thought of the rebuild services in NZ for that sort of thing. They can rebuild the pin diameter with welds and then re-turn on a lathe to the correct diameter, so no need for new ones. Not sure where you would find that service in the SIs, possibly Chch. There were several in Auckland a few years ago.

Your a shooting star buddy…not many people that could do what you do. Thanks for the vids

Nice update on the old girl. Fancy tools too 👍

Thank YOU Supercheap! :)

who else saw the recovery video 2 years ago and got exited when you saw he did an update

Those sheep/goats love that red bag,🐏 Great job on thar loader, give it the TLC it needs.

I would definitely buy from suppliers that choose to support people like yourself that's doing good work in rescuing this machine and opening up the forest trail. Not only that, your videos are educational, informative and entertaining and may help inspire others to take on challenges of their own. It's really interesting to see your work on this machine, thanks for posting these videos.

Can't argue with free, makes the much need maintenance a no lose proposition...good stuff my man.

I know it's just a machine but i can say she must be happy getting back to work and not forgotten.. Right on Mate for saving this beast.

Thank you for the update. Little by little you will get there. You were lucky with the gift from Super Cheap.

Excellent work on getting the digger sorted. Watching from Northern Ireland👍

This is a nice digger to add to your arsenal of equipment. Very nice indeed. Those new tools will come in handy as well.

Greetings from Kentucky. Enjoyed the update. Glad the old girl has a second life. Well done.

Who else wanted to take that bottom cover off, and hammer it back into original shape?

These videos about the Abandoned Digger are awesome! So cool to see old equipment revitalized! And it was free to top it off! Love the detail as to what was wrong when first getting going and how diagnosed issue.

Nice set of tools there bud,That Excavator in the shape it is in is worth 30K/40K easy here in the US 🇺🇸, you got one heck of a deal bud, a few minor fixes and a fresh coat of paint and you have a fine machine and for FREE .....the Goats were funny in the end 😂😆👍🏻

If my memory is correct, the pins from the factory were mild steel. Most of the aftermarket pins are mild steel, a smaller number have some hardening. Even mild steel is much harder and tougher than the bushing material. There is often lively internet debate whether pins should be of harden material. AliExpress have a lot of replacement parts for most Hitachi machines and they are very inexpensive compared to dealers and most of the easily available aftermarket parts. Those machines can run for decades more.

I love that you pulled this old girl out of the scrub after 16 years and with some new fluids and a few little jobs she's nearly as good as new

Way back when Supercheap auto first started their shop business (they were mail order before that) they were selling air tools and sockets very cheaply. I went along and bought a rattle gun,speed ratchet, air chisel,spray guns etc etc. 40 years later I am still using them every day at work. I don't know if the quality of the stuff they sell today is still the same but the sockets etc don't have one bit of wear on them and this is despite being used all the time. Which is a lot more than I could say for the few over priced items I bought from the sharks in the White and red trucks.

IT WILL LAST FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS - WE HOPE - WELL DONE ALL OF YOU !!!!

Very very nice of Super Cheap to give you some well needed supplies! Especially the tools for going into the woods! “The boys” were cool and need a couple more bags to play with- haha.

I work for a company designing heavy machinery. We select the pin material to be softer than the bushings in most cases since the bushing are ussually either more difficult to change and/or more expensive to change. Love the video by the way!

Great Deal Mate! SCA really came through for ya. I'm sure the old girl really appreciates the flush & new fluids and I'm sure you will put the nice new shiny tools to some fair dinkum work. Thanks for the updates.

Hey Marty. I live your calm demeanor in your videos. You obviously think and plan ahead before you film. Also love the way you work. Looking forward to watching more of your videos.

My take on pins and bushings, with wrist pins and rod bushings the wrist pins are very hard and the bushings are a bronze alloy,yet the pin wears and the bushing doesn’t. Any impurities in lubricant embeds itself in the softer of the two materials which is the bushing. The impurities embedded in the bushing then act as an abrasive on the pin hence wearing the pin, albeit hard, faster than the bushing. Take this as you may in regards to the pins and bushings on this machine, most importantly it is best to lube often even if it doesn’t appear to need it to push dirty grease out and replenish with fresh clean grease.

Very nice of SuperCheap - I will give them some business!

This excavator is in good hands with you & the tractor you picked up too, you seem like the type of person who likes to keep on top of your gear & look after them too.

I liked the Rams at the end. Nice to see equip. getting the attn. it needs. The later fix for the slop in the bucket pickup pins area was good too.

Thanks for the reminder. I got two or three ol girls in need of a flush before winter. Great job!

Envy how mechanically inclined you are, enjoy watching what you do.

The old hydraulic oil looks pretty good. I use old hydraulic oil as a wood preservative, like for fences and sheds, decks of utility trailers, etc.

If you want to get rid of the smoke, drop some clean ATF Trans fluid in the diesel tank. Has the benefit of cleaning the diesel pump also. Never had a problem doing this and it works, just might take a few goes.

That is a great old machine. Looks like the ring seal in the engine is a little worn, but that beast will live a long time anyways. Nice to give her some fresh good stuff. Looking forward to more vids of this old girl.

The Rams are preparing for battle! Thanks for sharing...

I guess I'm a die-hard & hooked 'Marty T' viewer now....1st thing I look for daily on U-Tube is any new Marty T stuff to look @? The absolute BEST in U-Tube videography!

Awesome Supercheap ... helping out a well deserving Kiwi !!

This digger has found a good home. Thank you for posting, thumbs up.

Salute to those who supported this man! Especially those tools and other stuff

No idea why this has been in my recommendations and no idea why I’m on the second video of it, and no idea what you’re talking about but I’m enjoying it

I'm going to go through Super Cheap tools now, great that they supplied that stuff!

"looks like that bottom plates been dented" Understatement of the century there mate haha. Good stuff man!

I bet you could make some little trucks that clamp on the tracks of one of these with heavy tires and a trailer tongue to clamp on the opposite end that would allow you to just pull it as if you had a trailer under it without actually having one. You could probably just lift it up with the boom and attach the trucks then do the same with the trailer tongue.

Great to see you using only the best old oil drums to decant the hydraulic fluid into (Morris Oils of Shrewsbury UK 🇬🇧 my home). 🤪

good to see companies like super cheap getting behind channels like this well-done guys great to see the old machinery finally get some well deserved tlc

Thats awesome that they helped you out on that!!!!! Looking at their site now :)

The punching bag is a nice touch. Looking forward to the next maintenance video.

Good on Supercheap for sending all that stuff. Somebody there is thinking outside the box. Re the mild steel / hardened steel issue - no personal knowledge, but I'm guessing you won't be wearing either of them out with your likely level of use! If someone asked me my best guess, I would use hardened steel + lubrication.

Yeah well done super cheep and Marty

Those sheep are a trip, I've never seen a excavator without a front blade. It seems none of the ones you guys have over there don't have them.

Kinda surprised the hydraulic lines haven't sprung a leak. Easy enough to fix if you can make your own lines, and the cylinders could possibly use a good repacking just to be safe. Getting the rams fixed if they're badly pitted is a whole nother can of worms.

Nicely done fella. When I need you I will just transport you to my place and you can start working on my equipment. That is if my transporter is up and working. Have a great day too. VF

Marty I could watch you work all day and ive learned a lot from you.....thanks pal

Awesome on the free supplies and tools! Glad to see you making things right. I really like that you are actually going to make all new bucket pins but I'm not sure if it was the wrong kind of metal or a lack of daily greasing which is what should be done especially in the area of the bucket, to keep the dirt forced out all the time and stop from getting in there and start grinding away. A good operator will grease his machine every day, and the bucket is one of the easiest to get to as compared to upper boom cylinder pin. And I'm thinking the person that owned this nice little machine and left it out in the woods wouldn't have had to, if he had been a little more diligent on maintenance which makes me think that he probably was not greasing it every day. This allowed the constant exposure to dirt around the bucket allows the grease that is there to become mixed with the dirt and making a very abrasive substance that constantly wears with movement and very well may have been the culprit as to what wore the initial pins so badly. But I'm sure by the time you get all done with this machine someday you will have it in tip top shape. Keep up the good work and the videos. I'm going to be interested to see what all you do to repair this machine as well as all of the things you use it for. That you would not be able to do had you not acquired this machine for free!

Cool stuff. Love those sheep, smashing the bag. Hilarious.

Wonderful seeing the old girl getting some love after all that time abandoned ❤️

Love this video! I enjoy watching you bring things back from scrap to fully working machines!

Always good to see people keeping old stuff alive.

By the way fantastic program today excellent commentary,,, I always love to see a old machine brought back to life,, lots of active life in this machine that you have brought out of death's grip,, still has many thousands of hours left in this life,, going to be a good digger take care of her,,, she will service you well,, a bit of Grease fluids filters I see this machine lasting well into the next millennium,,,

Woohoo that tool kit is beautiful. Take care of it. Cheers for some great interesting content

Nice job, I bet it's running nice and smooth now. 😉👍👍👍🇺🇸

Wow! How awesome isn't to get so much tools oil and other stuff for FREE! 👍👍 Those relaxing super informative videos pays of fore you! CONGRATULATIONS 💥👍 Cheers from northern Sweden 🍻

Three cheers for Supercheap! That was quite a haul there Marty!

Im meant to be studying for an exam but here I am at 8am watching you changing fluids 🤣🤣🤣

Supercheap are an amazing mob, Collected quite a few bits from the ToolPro line including their 150mm buff/sander which has copped a flogging. Going to upgrade my ugga dugga gun from their budget green brand to a toolpro though because its end of life is near. Supercheap makes impulse buying so much more value lol

I admire those who take the time to do it right. Skills, mate. And thanks for a great parting shot! 😉

Nice job. Free digger and free tools and fluids. But a lot of work. 💪👍

I still have to pick up my hundy dollar tractor. Just got my foot cast off today lol. Love the updates Marty. Next is the Farmall Super A aye lol...👊👊🎯👍😉🥝🇳🇿