Fixing Up a Broken Down 1970's Skid Steer 

It never ceases to amaze me the determination and skill you have to accomplish nearly anything mechanical. Like a real man with experience and knowledge can do nearly any task. Great job....Pete

We have pure sand in northern Michigan and love our lilac bushes.

What a fine Addition to the fleet. Not to mention newer ones are an arm and a leg

It is probably already somewhere in the comments but you need to relocate the fuel pump much lower and closer to whatever the fitting on the tank is. That type of electric fuel pump is not designed to lift fuel that distance which is why you had such a hard time getting it to prime.

Nice change up show!

I'm not trying to sound like a preacher but you should get chains and binders when moving heavy equipment like the skid steer straps of a tendency to stretch and especially if you have to do an emergency stop. Just telling you for your own safety

I hope all that hard work gets you a minty reward around the fire pit that's how it goes around my house its a give an take I give she takes 😮

Joe, when loading your skid park it directly over the axles of your trailer. It’ll stop your truck springs from squatting being over stressed or damaged. Your truck will handle better also with the load distributed evenly on the trailer. Great vid!

❤Kind looks like a honey do list.

I love hard work...I can watch it all day 😉

When you get new tires, have them put a blend of antifreeze and water in them and it’ll help a lot with the bounciness and it’ll make going up the hills a lot easier … if you decide to go with rubber tracks, they make a solid and or a semi solid tire to go with the tracks that would also help in the winter time for plowing your driveway .

Magnolia bushes grow well in sand and do pretty decently in colder climates.

Word of advice. When drilling steel, slow speed heavy feed... push hard and use slow speed on drill. Start with a small drill bit and then step up and it will go faster than drilling with the end size first. Also be careful digging around tge foundation. If the ground slopes towards your basement it can lead to water in the basement.. ask me how i know.. lol. Looking good.

your a jack of all trades nice another gr8 video

Might be time to upgrade that impact gun.

With a little TLC it will be a great machine for you and definitely help you out with lots of landscaping

Can't believe that thing fired up after sitting all winter.😎👍

I am now retired and living in Santa Fe NM. In the early 1990's I was Vice President of Engineering of Monroe Truck Equipment in Monroe WI. It brought a smile to my face spotting the MTE sticker on your loader light....small world. That Vinnie sure has endless energy....and he is quick.

When u load and unload u should put a couple pieces of wood on the tail on both sides of the beaver tail trailer to fill the distance between the ground and frame of trailer. It don’t have to fit tight but just slid under between the trailer and ground so the trailer doesn’t go up in the front and your ramps won’t want to kick out either!!! Ther YA GO,…!! So congrats,.. you learned something new today!!

Great video, entertaining (although limited Vinny time), and informative. IMHO someone needs a John Deere or New Holland (Racine WI?) tractor sponsorship. The joys of home ownership, more land = more projects. Conscious of water run-off

Snowing now..... Goodbye warm weather.

,,,JUST A BIT OF FINE TUNING NEEDED...LOL...GOOD ONE, KEEP SAFE..

I like how the hovercraft is just chilling in the field lol, time to fix it up brother

Bud, you been on a battery spree lately! Dang near need to open your own Batteries+ franchise 😂

My back is crying watching this 😢

Don't apologise, your right this was just as fun as the normal videos.👍

You should consider placing bottle jacks under the rear of the trailer when loading and unloading the machine.

Cut the fenders off and buy the steel treads for it. You will never get stuck. You can see them on Diesel Creek. Since you are a youtube you can probably contact Matt. I remember him saying the treads are $1500. Put those on and you will have a mini dozer.

watup vintage been watching for a few years

6:54 an old loader on tires, a floor jack in the dirt holding it up, a trailer probably too small for it, and a freaking hovercraft all in the same shot. Love to see it lol

I would recommend arborvitae for your rock beds. You can get small ones that only grow up to 36" in diameter. I have them in woodchip beds next to the concrete driveway, still thriving after five years.

I suggest cactus or potatoes. Looks good

fill them tires to about 60-80psi if they aren't to weather checked. That will help with the bouncing around. Looks good!

Babe get out of the house I broke the gas line 😁 nice work fella

Nice change of pace video. Good job, got it humming and started landscaping the gardens at Chateau de Webb 🐶Vinny says "Let me help you fertilize"

Love the content brotha, when drilling into metal I've learned the slower you drill the better

I love the landscaping/house projects when you put stuff to work that you fixed, please post an update would love to see this finished!

Full throttle on the skid. Stops bucking. Keep practicing. You’ll be fine. Juniper on the side.

put some air in those tires and im thinking mayby some of that bounce will go away and higher rpm will get some of that jerking out of it,,,,great video,,,,

nice dog i miss my dog but that is life

Really nice place. Only the best for Mr. Vinny.

Your videos are always amazing. Keep up the good work

Looks great for the year

I like this style video! Great work!

Great video 👍 . Out of All the U Tube channel's yours is by far my favorite. keep up the good work and be safe, can't wait for the next video, l work on the same things it's just nice to see others doing the same. 👍

I’ve ran a bunch of skid steers and fixed one up on my channel, but I’m my opinion those smaller gas skid steers aren’t really good for much except for working on a farm scooping manure and stuff, they are just to twitchy and don’t have the weight like a bobcat or tracked skid loader

Good job Mr. Patience perseverance progress :}

Your house is amazing bud👌

Glad to see this video wasn’t titled, “That time I took out my natural gas line with the skid steer.” 😊

I think it is jerking when moving forward because either the hydraulic fluid is low or the filter is plugged. Those are the easiest to fix if the pump isn't bad. I would suggest steel treads that fit over the tires and in winter you will not get stuck. I think they will fit just fine the way your machine is right now.

You have a wonderful home and property and earned it. You have a nice family too dog and all living the great life you blessed and very lucky. It be cool if you started doing more landscaping videos this summer and working in the garden I be growing all kinds of fruits and veggies out there.

Just a thought, I just bought a few different types of blueberries they hedge really nice and give you fruit. Not sure if they'd live through your brutal winter though. Edible shrubbery is an awesome thing to have.

I’ve used skid steers with wheels and tracks. The wheel’d ones are so bouncy and tippy, I hatred them. Tracks made it usable for me, at least yours doesn’t have foot controls.

Hey man I did landscaping for years and there is no easy way to lay down a couple ton of blocks. You have the right idea with the skid steer but you also need a land leveling laser. Which will show you how much up or down you need to dig to give your bricks a level appearance. Sometimes I had to actually start below the grass line. FYI the largest block/paver I was involved with was 20 ton all hand work.

Great project, a break from atv and bikes

Removing incandescent bulbs and retrofitting with led lights or new lights are a wise choice for any piece of equipment. Easier on battery and charging system and allows the addition of much more lighting . I prefer the 6K or higher light color. Nice addition looks good

finally caught up, also love the editing it looks so good

I would put one or 2 butterfly bushes in there. They can get big but you could keep them trimmed. It attracts a lot of wildlife. Butterflys hummingbirds

Really hope you gonna build a jump on your text track on new property and smoothen it all out before you sell it. Enjoy your vids alott. All the best. South africa

Get a trail camera up watching the entrance to that property u got trespassers stealing your fuel

Cool! Kinda like a Diesel Creek episode but more interesting.

Joe just a heads up it looks like there was lug nuts behind those wheel studs and the rim wasn’t able to sit flush with the centering hub???? This might put more stress on the wheel studs just a heads up if you ever swap out all 4 tires for your own safety. Keep up the good work Joe.

Dude u dont have to apologize for not having a bike or atv,...that was way cool to see you fix the skid steer man. How many people can say they've done that???? I wish you lived near me in Pennsylvania i have a kubota lawn tractor with a carb that has a froze up throttle lever on it. Ive tried blaster for 3 days straight and it wont touch it. Any advice man?

Great video!

Bruh knows how to fix every damn thing!

please fix the hovercraft :D

The honey do list is important as well the women make a house look nice.

Joe ....go with some roses for that type of soil!! Mix with peat moss.

Please treat it to some decent and identical tires, the different traction and threads will make it much more difficult to operate and could screw up the transmission

I used to move equipment like this on a daily basis. You have way too much tongue weight there. You want the center of mass of the skid steer just forward of the front axle. That would be the back tire of the skid steer between the tires of the trailer and the front tire of the skid steer just in front of the trailer tires, if that makes sense.

I would have just cut the grass out and cut a bed edge instead of stone and add mulch because it holds the moisture for plants. The fabric will hold the grass and weeds off for a while but eventually they’ll poke through and you’ll be digging through fabric and stone to get them out. Also you could Barry the gutter down spout and connect a 4” pvc pipe to it

that going look nice and you should use that dirt for your motocross track I can not wait to it going be beautiful

That lil skid works well.

you cant run a skid steer half idle.. your supposed to run those machines full out or they dont run right.

Just install a tube and send em’ out to get foam filled!! They have to set overnight (24hrs) laying flat on a pallet to cure in 70 degrees at your local tire place. Just call around to a tire service place that does foam fill in house. The tires look like good tread. The 7.50-15 is common for that. The plus to foam fill the tires the skid steer will get better traction because once all tires are filled they will be ALOT HEAVIER! Those bigger lug nuts you got are for foam filled tires because the are much larger “acorn style” lug nut to increase more contact in secureing the clamping force wheel to axle hub so they don’t crack the center out because most of those little skidders come w/a little acorn nut like a car and those provide less clamping contact and because of the side force when turning a skid steer and the weight will crack the centers. To b honest those wheels I see have 10 holes so u could be a universal wheel that fits two different lug style or it gives u a second chance in case u do tear up one set of wheel stud holes . GOOD LUCK!

I my skid steer loader bouncing is cause from high traction and not using the hyd.. evenly during turning. try it on pavement and then in sand. you will see on pavement your turning needs to be much more precises. also are their stater rebuilding shops you can send the hovercraft starter to for rebuilding. Another simple idea is torch or drill a hole in. the bucket for a trailer ball. great job like always!

Your priorities Really out of wack lol I would be building a full size mx track on that land. when that was done in the fall maybe some landscaping bs for the wife

2 vintage I got a question for you my 1989 polaris trail boss 250 is hard to start the only way it will start if I put my hand over the carb bought new carb and tried two used ones it has newer top end so compression shouldn't be a problem it runs great after it's running just super hard to start can't figure it out any help is appreciated

enjoyed this video

While you have that machine at home, put a light on the back. You dont see it now, but it will come in handy if your plowing snow or trying to load on the trailer later in the evening. Take a moment and make a bracket for the other light. There will be that time you will say I wish I had a light on the back.

Vinni'd probably have a great time chasing you around on that field you bought.

This Brand i never heard of but the Body and frame of the machine looks literally like a Erickson, Ford used them as well CL 20 - 40, or a CL340. Parts are common ish others hard to get. A lot of the older skid steers i.e 1970s used an oddball / rare tire size (nowadays) atleast. ours has 16.5 and are pricy!!!

good video! Excited to see if we get more outdoor home improvement videos!

Blueberry bushes 😊

If you could get it running you could have curled bucket to lift it off ground and then put a rachet strap around tire to squeeze it and blow it up right on machine

Great video. Need more like this one. Nice to watch one that isn’t just about working on bikes and atvs. Great job

Nice job joe will look good when all completed happy wife happy life mate lol take care to you all 👍🔧🔧🔧👌🔥❤️

Joe, when you gonna fix that hovercraft? It’s been sitting on the land forever 😂

Bouncing like you experienced is always caused by too low of an operating rpm. Just like a tractor performs best at the rated pto speed. You use your gears and hydraulic valves to moderate speed, not by engine rpm.

Take the lova rock out and use broken tempered glass . Way more modern looking . Get a camp cooking rack and kit and cook something good out on the patio fire .

It would be cool if you could trade up to a more modern skid steer, something with pilot controls. You would be way happier and more productive.

I know you're young, but you HAVE to lift with your legs and not your back. Keep your back straight up and down and crouch down and lift with your legs. Your back can handle it now but lifting heavy things with your back will catch up with you fast. Just my $.02 and keep up the great work! You'll be buying D8 dozers and fixing and reselling or renting them out in no time!

Good vid change from the same ol

I just noticed that you can’t add different attachments to it the machine. Paint it and sell it. Step up to one with more capabilities. You can afford it.

Content was just as good bud

Out of fuel and tires worn and off the bead -> neighbor has been randomly using it. Lol

Run it at a higher engine speed and fit a set of proper skid steer matched tyres and it will most likely behave better.

Hi Buddy . I like your hat . I've been trying to buy one , but none of them have the peak at the back . Are you a bit bothered that the Skid Steer was out of juice despite the fact that it ran until the tyre gave out . Do you think you have a leak ? (The cap thing is a joke ).

You can also get rubber tracks too.

2vintage, i didn't see u check the Hyd fluid, yes i agree, put the fuel pump down near the tank..