I grew up on a wheat farm in the 1950's, spent endless hours watching my dad fix stuff. Seeing your kids there with you makes me very happy. Thanks Marty. At 70 they too may remember these happy hours with you.
Yep, as a kid i hung around my Dad onboard his trawler back in the 1970s. So much oil removed & replaced from multiple engines down in the guts of that big steel boat... filters changed, then the entire hydraulics systems & out on the deck the winches needed greasing & all the steel cable pulleys .... I remember it all so clearly & probably where i 1st learned my skillset i use still today... Great video Marty!
A lot of these old machines... all that most of them need, is some love and attention periodically. Yeah, this one needed a a few parts, but anybody could have put in a few hours of effort and gotten results. Marty does it, AND captures the whole thing on video, to share with us viewers. You sure make it look easy, Marty.
Most importantly, every part on these old ones can probably be refurbished or rebuilt with basic tooling & skills, meaning they could possibly run forever, especially if you keep up the service and lubrication. For the new machines...hell no.
Of course that’s where the opportunity arises for those with the skill and determination to do the fix. Probably not to many ways for many men to acquire an $80,000 to $250,000 dollar machine.
You make troubleshooting and repairing look so easy. I am not only impressed with your ability to diagnose and improve these machines, but also quite impressed with your storytelling and editing abilities. It's so satisfying seeing these things restored! Keep it up!
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It amazes me how people abuse machines like this. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Glad to see you're treating it well! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for another valuable, informative video, Marty! Funny how some 8 minute videos feel like an hour's slog, meanwhile this 30+ minute show went in a blink. Great work shooting & editing!
I have two Michigan loaders about the size of this one and they are a real game-changer. Simple maintenance will keep them running for decades now that they’re no longer being flogged in a full-time work environment. They can’t be beat for firewood work and believe me, your back will thank you. As I so often say, “Hydraulics is your friend “. I don’t know if that’s grammatically correct but I don’t care. And good on ya for teaching the little ones. My old pappy did the same with me when I was a wee one. He always used to say “Be of good cheer”. I try. 😬
30:55 Amigo Marty, te tomó 3 horas engrasar y reparar cada punto, pero hiciste un gran trabajo y ahora tu máquina está mucho mejor y tu más tranquilo por mucho tiempo. También me gusta aprender sobre grandes máquinas (no importa sin son usadas o antiguas) Felicitaciones desde Argentina 🇦🇷
@@charlesangell_bulmtl it’s not a solenoid per se. It more of a valve. When the heating coil varms up. There is a thermal expansion / or contraction that mechanically opens the valve. Somewhat similar to a thermostat in the engine.
Thanks for the video, Marty. You’ve inspired me to poke into machines, understand them, repair them and they live on. The camera work must be laborious but it results in the high quality of your videos.
Thermostart ! the height of sophistication !! just remember the slow match start, light the pellet, screw the holder in,try to start machine, remove holder,to find out pellet must have gone out almost immediately ! repeat for an hour. Machine starts finally, runs out of fuel in ten minutes !!
This is a prime example of why I enjoy watching your channel. There are a lot of videos of people trying to resurrect old machines that have been abandoned but it usually involves just getting it running with a lot of hooting and hollering and little else. You, on the other hand spend the time and expense of putting everything that had been neglected back in good working order. Good on ya.
All those old machines would last a really long time if maintenance would have been completed. They were built well compared to today's modern plastic throw away machines. Great work!
A loader like this cost a pretty penny. You would think that the owner would take better care of their investment rather than just driving it into the ground.
@@gs1100ed Some people are just like that. Drives me bonkers. I work for a housing contractor and his son is one of my best friends. I've been going to school to become a diesel tech for a couple years now. This man has over 1 million dollars worth of assets in machines alone and I have to BEG him to let me grease them. He doesn't take care of any of them. I can't stand it. Dude even has an automatic grease gun, battery powered and everything. It would take no time at all to put a couple pumps of grease in your machine every morning
@@haydona1845 definitely bizarre behavior. I have rebuilt several engines and do most of my own work on my cars, trucks and motorcycles. I also drove 18 wheelers cross country for 20+ years. I am always gentle on the equipment, whether it’s mine or someone else’s. I kind of establish a bond with the vehicle after driving it or working on it. I’m a big advocate of preventative maintenance. Basically, repairing things BEFORE they break. I hate to be broke down on these of the road. Not saying my way is the best, but it Sounds like your boss has a screw loose.
@@gs1100ed same here man. I guess I sort of do develop a relationship with the machines as well be it as crazy as that may sound. I've always told my girlfriend that a car,truck,machine etc will tell you what it needs. Via vibration,noise,hesitation you name it. My boss doesn't understand any of that. He thinks I'm bullshitting h when I say something sounds weird or doesn't feel right. I work for him Part time and do school full time but what do I know right? It's pretty goofy
I love these videos. I just finished rebuilding an old snowblower a neighbor was tossing out. I was intending to buy a new one but this was better for many reasons. I definitely was inspired by Marty. Thank you! 😀👍
After watching this I have confidence that my constipation will resolve itself today. The only bad thing about replacing oil like that is that the seals that were relying on the sludge seem to give up the ghost. Best of luck to you and yours! PS: Missus, he used the good knife again, so I just want to give you a heads up about the food tasting like diesel for a while. You may want to restrict it's use to spicy and savory foods for the next week and watch out for the ones that have a bluish rainbow hue on top.
Just bought a rural property and a 1960 Ford tractor to help maintain it. Your videos on finding and getting old machinery back to work was the inspiration. Always interesting content and great to see you passing these lessons along to the kids.
Good to see a video from you, thanks so much. I always enjoy them. It amazes me how a little maintenance fixes so many things. It also amazes me how many don’t do a regular maintenance on their heavy equipment, it’s astonishing. Loved getting to see your whole family. I appreciate seeing your daughter getting to learn how it’s done. Your son is a smart one for sure and so very cute. And your wife out there as well. You have a beautiful family. Looking forward to your next videos. Take care. If you would please have close captioning on your videos I’d really appreciate it.
I loved your sons comment "when I get my tractor I'll use this wrench". I was thinking when he comes rolling down your driveway is some clapped out offering, how much trouble your going to be in with the misses when she faces the two of you collecting rust :D
`Collecting rust` ?! Sir, I will have you know that there are some misinformed and misguided souls out there whom would see that (part of) your comment as a blatant insult. I will also have you know, that I don`t see it as an insult. I know where you`re coming from. Possibly a poor choice of words, but we know what you meant, and that you meant well :D
That must have been the easiest rep job in the world. Just rock up to anywhere that runs machines and the conversation would be "need oil? "yep" "well, I sell it" done.
I love the assortment box of grease nipples. I have similar boxes of o-rings, jubilee clips, electrical connectors, fuses, etc. My mother buys these boxes for me for Christmas. People think she's mad for buying them for me, and I'm mad when they see the gleeful look on my face upon receipt, but I love them and they get used all the time. I'll need a new box of o-rings next year.
WoW. What a shady Seller! The former owner had done Everything to ruin this machine! And all started with a clogged up Radiator... What a mess! Marty T. Did a real good Job here. Thx for the upload. I Love this Channel. And Rambro
It was used in a wood yard. The boss probably made no one responsible for maintaining the machine...therefore no one did. As things broke temporary fixes were instituted...that then became permanent e.g. the thermostart replaced by sprays into the intake.
Yes I know where they got the idea of putting a fire in the intake. Over in India when they can't start their vegetable oil diesel pumps an old hack will promptly light a rag to get flames into the intake. Some so low on compression they would not start on straight ether which they don't have anyways.
One thing that is a given on these old machines is that the seats are always knackered . It would be nice to have a buddy that does reupholstering for fun and beer.
It’s amazing that something so small like particles in a filter can stop such a huge machine! Thank you Marty, for showing us all how important it is to change filters, and lube our machines!
If those particles get past the filter, big troubles, the injection system has such fine tolerances very, very tiny particles cause mayhem and costs huge sums of money to repair. The small investment of filter replacement is worth its weight in gold. Even huge ship engines can be crippled by dirty fuel.
A modern machine with this much neglect would have failed spectacularly ages ago. The fact that this thing soldiered on for so long with such bad treatment is a testament to how well they used to make these things.
I would really hope he wouldn't. There's enough accidental droplets of oil and diesel seeping into the ground potentially poisoning soil and ground water. Just imagine if - without proper drainage and wastewater treatment - one would foam and pressure wash large mashinery up on his mountain... From a European perspective all those diy car wash videos from the US and elsewhere advertising chemicals with nano particles in them willy nilly just seem insane and are indicative of a lack of environmental protection laws and general awareness that this is something worth considering.
That`s not a glow plug. Glow plugs (also called glow pins) only glow inside the cylinders. They screw in to the head. What Marty showed is a Thermostart device. It heats an element, then fuel flows into the end, ignites, makes a flame, and heats up the intake manifold and the air inside it, so that when the engine begins cranking over, there`s some nice HOT air to drag into the cylinders to give them a fighting chance to then ignite the diesel. Once each cylinder has fired a few times, it creates its own heat to fire on each power stroke. The Thermostart is merely a forerunner to grid heaters that we have on modern diesel engines to help start them in cold weather.
You mentioned the tires being interchangeable with the grader to be a main motivation to buy this loader. Do you have plans to change some of them as a preventative measure or is this just in case? Also, have these tires been refurbished, seems like there's cracks where the new surface was vulcanized on to them long time ago.
I watch several "recovery" videos of these older machines, and it always surprises me how people can spend so much money on them and just neglect them to death. Simple routine servicing would save them a lot of money.
Leaving an expensive piece of farm equipment to rust away cause it needs some part or the other doesn’t make any sense. Especially if the owner still owes money on it. Even after it is paid off and starting to age but operates, there is still money to be made at auction or outright sale. Of course the equipment dealer is not going to give you a decent price, he is in the business of selling new machinery repairing your old equipment and charging as much as the public is willing to pay. My uncle had a massive dairy operation in the southwest United States. I spent many summers as a kid on his farm. He always bought used equipment. He was an amazing mechanic and a really hard worker. He had over 1500 milk cows. He also understood all facets of the dairy business including the Commodities business and the latest electronic equipment to keep his eye on his herd. He owned many hundreds of acres in three states. His life was working hard, no vacations. His five boys all went into the dairy business. A few of my cousins made a living off his dairy business. My uncle died a millionaire. His days started at 4,00 AM and ended around 10,00 PM. In my opinion he died of over work.
I enjoy your videos. You are a very talented mechanic but what is more enjoyable is your so matter of fact commentary. If you watch similar videos out of the USA, the commentary is loud and boisterous and explains nothing. Diesel creek is one contributor whose videos can be interesting but way too loud for my taste.
I have been following your videos with great interest. I appreciate your talent and ingenuity. I am surprised that you can still find part for this machines that are decades old. They were built to last and be serviced easily. At a time where we claim to be more friendly for the planet we should produce things that are made to last. Cheers. Chris.
It would be a good idea to always put some wheel chucks on the wheel of your heavy equipment's with small kids around, God bless and keep them safe, Amen! best to just tell them never ever play on them,
Those kids have no idea, yet, just how valuable this education is to them. Even if they never turn a wrench their little minds are growing broader and deeper every day. They’ll know things and have a perspective on life most of the other kids just won’t understand.
21:30 Thank you for teaching your kids while you work. Some of my best memories was handing tools and lighting jobs for my dad and uncles under some shade tree working on stuff. Id give ANYTHING to live that decade again.
Give soo much joy to see you work, the kids watching you and learning! , and you managed to film it all the with such high quality !!! Thank you ! long time Fan!!
Great video. My dad just got a Hough 50 loader up in Carterton and the air filter is a metal mesh but was all blocked up. We are just struggling to find where we can get a replacement one in NZ. Cheers Ash
It's amazing how well the machine runs when all the tar is drained from oil sumps and final drives. I guess the previous owners figured that if they paint it, they solved the problem of those pesky maintenance issues of greasing and oiling that take up so much time, eh? Fantastic job on making the old Hough run smooth great video Marty thumbs up. Oh, I like the big spanner too!
My equipment usually comes to me in the same state of disrepair. But i do my best to keep em running. And i use my equipment hard. But i like the older machines easier to work on. Great video. Love em all watch em over and over.
Back in the early 60’s my father had a 1934 Rolls Royce which he renovated, as kids we were roped in to help, it always ran after his fix which I came to accept was the norm, I learnt 20 years later with my own attempts that this wasn’t a given.
Decent machine. A good addition to your fleet. It's amazing how people think they're saving money by not servicing their equipment. It always bites them in the end. Are you going to be adding a cab? If you tip the machine over, we'll Yuck! Thanks Bob Virginia USA
I was trying to remember how they were hooked up properly too - i had one on an old backhoe and i remember it being trouble - this video would have been handy 10 years ago 😁
I got the exact same machine, just with the full cab and albeit a bit better condition. I can see we even have the same style off pins for the bucket cylinder :D On both my H30B and a Takechi mini excavator I got I have the same thermostart system and on both of them the original system get gravity fed diesel from a small reservoir that the return line fills up to a certain level. So I am not sure the system is supposed to get pressurized diesel? But if it works, it works :) I used mine for snow plowing in the winter before I upgraded to a Volvo BM 6300 with a blower on it, but believe me, the thermostart doesn't work to good at -20C so a block heater is in order if you get down to those temperatures. I think new diesel nozzles would be beneficials also, the old ones are probably the same one it rolled of the factory line with back in the seventies. Or at least a good clean.
I also meant to put in my comment on that over the years and I’m 65 years old now. And over the years I’ve come across a man now and then that just has that gift. That touch me and able to figure things out when it comes to mechanical objects and get them up and running. I had 3, uncles that could do that and you also are obviously born with that gift. And it’s quite obvious that it has served you well. I wasn’t born with it. I’m not saying I can’t work on things I can. But I always need a senior mechanic and I am the type I take orders very very well. And in life we need both types of people.
The old saying,grease is cheaper than replacing the parts,a half cube bucket,for the price of her she’ll be we welcomed on your farm,jealous as always bro,happy days.
Disregard my comment on the first video about the "glow plug".... You knew how it worked, not that I had a doubt, but you kept calling it a glow plug and not intake heater. Cheers!
But shouldn’t you put a little tap before the glowplug ? I don’t know if the heat off the exhaust will let the diesel go true it if it’s hot enough 🤷🏼♂️
That glow plug has it's own valve that is normally closed. When 12VDC is applied to the thermostart the coil/element begins to heat up... when the heat reaches a certain point the valve opens automatically and lets diesel through which catches fire on the red glowing spring element. After the engine starts and 12VDC is switched off the flow of air in the intake rapidly cools the spring and the diesel fuel valve also shuts quickly... No tap needed unless something goes wrong... and the fuel has been through both those large filters before the electric pump so crud shouldn't get in....
What a major achievement! I almost felt your joy way over here in the northwest part of USA when that preheater started working. I run old equipment too, and it's a constant struggle to keep things going without a major expense.
Marty I have used CLR to clean radiators. Built a stand to hold them so they drain into a 5 gallon bucket and drop a cheap fountain pump in the bucket and run the hose to the top and let in circulate did this in a pinch and was amazed how well it worked.
