D11s Play In Gravel Pit!! (Vlog 36) 

I love when people defeat the supply chain issue by showing self reliance. "Balls up kingfish"❗

This is what i woke up to every Saturday morning ever since i came across this Chanel very Informative and Entertaining should be a program on Tv Thanks Matt

That half finished job that became another half finished job look on your face was priceless. Quinesental hands on farmer.

The slack in the dozer track is very telling.

You have a cat D11 with a single shank ripper dancing on it's toes trying to rip I would say that is hard ground lol. Good job getting other things ready for work.

That's and ancient riverbed or lahar from an old volcanic event.

Love watching those big girls ( D11's) do work. Cool video 😎😎

Love watching those 11's work!

Hi Matt ... 😁"Brads a bit rattled so I'm going to take over for a while so he can unrattle" 😁.... thats just an excuse for you to have a play on a toy ... penalty for playing on toy .. weed the pea patch 😁 ... shoulda named the video "THE LONELY WINDMILL" .... enjoyed the battery box music too ... ☺👍

Good old tractors the 80 series chamberlains I have a 4280 nice old tractor they certainly don't make them like they used to

Matt, John Deere acquired Chamberlain in 1970, that was when they went from orange to yellow. Yellow is between orange and green on the colour spectrum but I don’t know if that had anything to do with the choice. John Deere had very little dealer presence in Australia till then and as Chamberlain had dealerships everywhere it was a good decision for JD. Your 4480 has long guards (an early one) and the batteries under the floor which is a much better place than under the seat where they were on the earlier ones. The under floor battery boxes could be retro-fitted, but if they are original I would say it was built about 1979. Being able to cook eggs on the ripper points would be handy sometimes I suppose. Jeff

Great job building the battery tray Matt

Loved your videos. Down to earth commentary. Thank you. Keep it going.

Hey Matt the old Chamberlain needs a bit of TLC . A job for a rainy day looks like it could use your talents to have a rewire 👍😜

Damn I enjoy your Vids Matt! Just came in from making up a drawbar for my little toy tractor and a ripper. Wanting to plant a row of hedges along the fence line to give us some privacy . With a few mods, some learning and some real ugly welds, it worked better than I hoped. Next I'll go fab up a wider blade to make the job a bit faster now the main part is broken up and make a trench for planting the shrubs. I thought the dry packed clay I have was a bit tough but nothing like in that gravel pit. Would not have imagined the friction could be so great as to get that ripper point so hot. There is some energy being imparted to get that amount of metal that warm. Great vid as always mate. The different things you show give one an appreciation for life on the land and the jumping around as you have put it makes for very interesting Vids. Don't change anything you are doing Matt, you have it spot on already.

Love watching your dozers❤👍

Hey Matty, I know how farmers love to keep all the machines over the years and was wondering if you could do a Vlog on all the old equipment you guys have around that your dad or grandad used to use. The old chamberlain of your dads was great to see. I live next to the ocean in southwest Victoria so stuff rusts away overnight down this way but up there it seems to live on. Love ya Vlogs and they way you explain things. Greats stuff Matt 👌👌

Loving the intro matt especially the drone fly over of tiny 1 an 2 pushing

A bad day for you would be a great day for me work wise. Don't be too hard on yourselves and keep up the good work. Great video!

Great vídeo.

You're breaking up conglomerate. It's where gold can be found and also is mined to make CONCRETE.

HAHA I would LOVE to know the story behind why that tap and die set says BRAD ONLY on it :D

You guys should be in gold country with that equipment.

Great video Matt

Awsome, thanks.

Awesome video mate 👍🏻

Howdy fellas, I work for an earthmoving contractor we have a D11 that is going through a ripper boot and shin in 3Hrs !! Have to change 3/4 a day

Hopefully you find gold, while you are out there scratching around.

Have u ever thought of putting counter weights on the ripper they make a huge difference when ripping hard material makes them a completely different machine

Was the windmill over a bore or a well? Tough digging for whoever sank that back in the day.

conglomerate gravel they call it. every time I've ever come across it its always as hard as buggery

I reckon the old windmill in the gravel pit would be feeling a bit nervous. 😬

Hi Matt another great video, I enjoy hearing the sounds in the background with the birds etc, I never really see any roo’s in your videos have they all been eaten?

G'day Matt great video mate

Well done on 20k subscribers!

Rock on ✌️👌❤️

That look's more like impact hammer on the Excavator work, D11 might be quicker, but why kill it.

Your channel popped up and I hit subscribe. Great content. How big is your farm?? Just curious, take care greeting from Michigan USA

Do you have long lead times for spare parts ? Or do you carry lots of spares ?

The law of unintended consequences.lol

At 1:47 I thought it was your dad talking 😂

What dozer is doing better in the ripping? Obviously both struggling but interested if the multi shank was any benefit vers single shank

So what does a D11 push. 20 m3 or two 10m3 tipper loads at a time? Wish i had good gravel like that.

You need to watch @cutting edge engineering for some machining pointers.

It's great stuff silcrete, single ripper is the go for breaking it up. I operate a D11 for a living and sometimes in the push we can be breaking up siltcrete for hours and hours on end. Any reason why you're not using full power ripping?

resistant ryegrass its everywhere :(

Those d11 barely look like there working. They need to be 100% wide open all day long.

Just found your channel Mate ... a "Texan" that used to be responsible for all the F-35 work done in Australia. Just a friendly comment ... truly meant to help not hurt ... when drilling out the ID of the Pulley, PLEASE use a lubricant of some type. Not just for longevity of the bit but what you've basically done by this operation is to anneal the bearing surface ... and that's not good ... she'll wear out much, much faster at that juncture. As to attempting to Rip that Sedimentary Rock Formation is a Fool's errand. Take a note on how Andrew did it ... bit more "Time" and money but in the end you come out ahead IMHO. Subscribed ~~~ great stuff !!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ADYVg8b52cE.html

Lol if you think that’s rough you wouldn’t last in blue rock