Thanks for taking us to see Charlie. He's got to be as old as me with all that accumulated junk laying around. My stuff is smaller and mostly going to scrap metal and the dump.
I recall an old International Harvester combine harvester that sat in a barn for many years. No way was that machine to leave, other than on the bed of a trailer. One day, a couple of guys arrived, fiddled with it for a short time, got it started, and drove it away :-)
An old Gleaner sat along the highway inside a pole barn. Eventually, the posts rotted off and one of our smaller Ozark tornadoes passed by and flattened it onto the combine. A few years later the farmer died and the Gleaner sold “Ran when parked, As-Is”. My neighbor bought it for $150. He and his farmhand cleared the barn off of it, put in new batteries, aired up the tires and it started. After tinkering with it for an hour or so, they loaded it and pulled it to the farm. That was five years ago and he uses it every year to combine wheat, milo and beans out of a small rough field in the river bottom. A field that would tear up his big new machine. He says he has less than $1000 in it and wouldn’t sell it for under $10K! He also says, “Old iron can be replaced… but why?”
Fun with Charlie, always interesting to hear the back stories on his old equipment and to see them brought back life again. Thanks for the ride along sir.
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@ 5:40 you just make the parts! I worked for years as a machinist, making all kinds of parts. From a 2.5 inch long brass carburetor emulsion tube, to a 18,000 pound chuck of 4140, turned into a 12,000 lbs crankshaft for a big press. Ya just gotta find the right guy.
I have a 1970 Cat. 120 rigid frame grader I bought brand new, that runs like a champ! Not as powerful as newer models but still works for what I need it for! I use it for snow removal on our 11.2 mile road out to our homestead and all the roads between to our homestead neighbors after every snow storm. Plus grading out our potholes after the last snows are melted. Noisy as hell but gets the job done! Hard to get the parts up here in Alaska so we tool and die everything ourselves on all our heavy equipment items! It gives us something to do in the long winter months when our lodge closes up for the snow season.
Well I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who keeps unique stuff around most people will consider junk yeah it made me repair or it may be unrepairable but it's always good for parts
Love the old stuff. Sits for years and little to no electrical gremlins. And hey everybody knows with proper storage gas and diesel can stay fresh for up to a year. . . Or in an old machine outside for 10 years and still burn great! Again the old stuff is fun to watch come back to life.
Those Jumper boxes are handy as hell i have 2 of them the Napa ones are built by JNC i have the JNC versions. Ole Detroit sounds good. It was a wonder the rack wasnt stuck on it
And start they did - usually the motors do it's the other 'bits' that cause the problem. Love the greenery attire. Good to see Charlie working on the old graders Great job at Southern Homestead Transformation too.
Hey - both Graders are Running but need some Repairs and some TLC ! Good to see these older Machines still being used and NOT Scraped ! Many Cheers from us in Australia !!!!
After the 250, your grader is my favorite piece of equipment to watch run. I was so hoping that one of these would actually grade something. I guess at least he knows he still has good engines.
Love to see the toy yard most people consider to be junk but, when they crank right up they wonder what happened with the thought they considered to be junk. Lol! Junk never starts up in my opinion. Thanks for the video and look forward to seeing Charlie help make the road of concrete aggregate soon
I am just Speechless ! I cant get my Lawnmower to start from the Fall when i winterize to start in the spring But some How you ! Can get a FORGOTTEN FOR YEARS CHARLIES OLD GRADER to Start up in 3,09 Seconds ! With vines growing around it , Dang ! What did i miss ?
Love the 471. I never worked on one, however in the Navy I worked on 271s, 671s, slant 671s and 610s. If it turned over and it had fuel it would run. I also worked on a Timber Jack skider. I know it was a Detroit and I think it had was a 3 something. One day I came out of the woods with a jag of logs and found I couldn't shut it down. I put the blade against a tree and stalled it. The boss showed up and I told him what happened. He didn't believe so took out the trusty screw driver key and started it. Oddly enough it started, but he had to put against a tree and stall it. Long story short the rack was frozen. I went and got a new injector and a tool to set it. While I was at I got a filter. After installing the injector I pulled the can off the filter holder. The filter wasn't dirty because there wasn't one. I wonder if that had something to do with the injector freezing. A few days later he yelled at me and I left. I saved him at least $100.00 by him not having the dealer send some out and all he could was cuse me out. Not this was around 1974.
The VW Bug had a reputation for always starting, but there is nothing like a Detroit diesel to sit for years then start immediately on 15-year-old fuel.
That looks like A good candidate for fixing back up.& Repairing to put it back in use. If it's just something as simple as parts like those. Especially if you never checked any of that out on that machine yet at all either. From over the years of just setting in the woods. Like I see it has been doing to.
