How To Clean A Vee Ditch With A CAT 14G 

Really like the way you just let the motor do the work! Not reving it way up and tearing stuff apart? Sign of a true operator! Keep up the great work 👍

Life's a ditch! You make the grader work look so easy

Poke a hole in the end of the filter after you place it on the tote to drain, it'll let some air in and the filter will drain. Thanks for the professional grading demonstrations.

Go down to the local high school and see if someone in the shop class would like to organize/sweep floors! Might find yourself with a future HD mechanic!

You’re right about a full time parts guy. I can relate. When I worked for the railroad, the good thing is all the locomotives used the same filters. Made life easy as long as you kept enough on hand. Lube oil was in a tank with a pneumatic pump and a long hose. Typical top off was 50 gallons. Total lube oil 400 gallons. Never changed. Just top off and change filters.

The "9s" might be your favorite equipment Mr Paydirt, but I love watching that 14G work. I've got one of those Cat filter wrenches in my box, it's old, and no matter what, it will take any filter off. Thanks for the video Jeff...

It’s amazing what all you can do with a blade. I’ve never ran a grader but they are intriguing machines.

I've always thought that you are to are to graders what Frank Cunningham is to his backhoe. No one operates a grader like you Jeff. All that earth moving with the Jpaydirt humour to go with it. A great way to while away 23 minutes.

Great video Jeff alway enjoy watching you work dirt with the 14G. Looking forward to your next video stay safe Jeff

These ditch cutting vids are my favorite!

I had no idea a grader had so many adjustments available. That just moved it up on my list of cool shit. And about 80% of my list reads like your inventory list. The D9 being on top.

Wait ,your in charge ,and your the boss ,great job my man!

Not just all aeration where the filter oil goes there is a lot of drainback that occurs as well as there is no check valve between the pump and oil filter keeping it from getting siphoned back to the pan.

I had a cab over Pete I bought in 71 or 72 but it had that little 270 cat in it and the stick was marked the same way lived that set up

Amazing what a great operator can do with a grader my county department has a road grader and only one guy who knows how to use it and it seems like everytime they do my road one of the idiots is running it that day lol they came through two days ago and just destroyed it and it wasn’t needed I’m the only person on my road but they came and graded the dirt off ditch down it the day before it rained now it’s just mud on top of rock

Hello Jeff. Those straps are the best way of removing filters. Although we have one that has 3 prongs that you put on the bottom of the filter. Witch is very good in a tiet place. I think it's a Mac tool.

That would make a great setting for a Jpaydirt offshoot podcast....''Tales From Jeff's Warehouse''.....

Wait a minute! If Danny Boy supplies the totes. Then Danny must have access to damaged totes as well. Jake isn't getting any younger, and he's probably tired of packing oil in 5 gallon buckets. Griffy likes to ride on the forklift. So let's get this plan together. Call Danny and get a tote that has the upper half damaged. Cut it off so it'll either fit under the Super Dodge or the W900 or Petey's front axle. Well you get the picture. Enough capacity to hold an oil drain of the big iron. Yet it'll fit under the necessary axles. That's almost 45" x 45" catch all. Which will fit in between the Super Dodge front tires. Now Jake can go home, Jeff and Griffy can work together with the forklift. Scoop up the drain tote, tilt it over waste oil tote. Open the petcock, and go hide Milk Bones in the shop.

That strap wrench for filters was one of the first proper CAT tools I bought. works like a dream. The other one that is great is the CAT grease gun. You won't buy one like that today.

Go to a plumbing store and get two no hub hose clamp they are for PVC Pipe. They come in sizes from 1and 1/2 to 6 inch O.D. pipe should work.

Nice video Jeffrey you handle the 14g nicely.

GREAT 14G Video 👍 Picking up tips n tricks😁 First tip: run off Ol' Nag. LOL Got it. Dang hydraulics are nice and the ability to articulate wouldn't be bad either. V-ditching Ooff-ta I'll wait till the ground is less wet and the frost is gone out of the ground to practice. I'm going to have to move some pins and shift the moboard on the Ol' No.12 manually to get the proper angles... sounds fun. Thanks for the video

Ask your Cat dealer if they will loan you the tools to do that front seal, I have only seen a couple real early ones that didn't have the wear sleeve. The thing about the Cat tools is they're really low profile, which eliminates the need for removing alot of excess parts. The Distorter group is what you need for removal of the sleeve. Just my 2c... having done quite a few. Taker easy bud!

Nice video, like that handyman corner touch!

Awesome videos JPDIRT and I loved your videos are awesome and amazing.

Good job Jeff!! You are a great hand!!

Guess everyone has there way of grading ditches, myself I would of got down in the ditch right side put it in back slope and piled the material in the center of the ditch get out of ditch go back and articulate the right side of the machine and pull it all on top opposite of the fence side.what do you think.

Nice job 👍! Talk to the wife real nice!😄😄

You put dat thr airplanze engin earl in dat scrapur moters!!

nothing beats filters tightened by hercules himself

Jeff make a big tray fer the top of that...and then theres no mess really...I seen it on diesel creek's channel and he says it works great, he's up out of Pennsylvania, that of u haven't heard of him...but he's a really great guy....ok jeffer I'm out bed time...

Punch a hole in the bottom of the filter while it's draining and you'll get most of the oil out of it before you throw it away.

Since you put Red Green on your outro can we comment on the resemblance now?😆

I always called it a safety, been nice if the 950b,s and the the 36u d8 had that ,the 1nch n1/2 plug was murder

There is a RU-vid channel called Diesel Creek and he a pan/drain/funnel that is as big as the tote you are using for oil.

Nice, did all that without any special words, although there may have been a couple around the 20min mark. Dang people and their dang trees. You know what l mean.

Your a inventory specialist brother hahlol

How many inches of rain do you get in Idaho per year? We’ve been getting about 70 inches a year here in North Alabama the last couple years so I have to keep my ditches well maintained on my farm.

Great Vid👍👍👍👍

chaos in storage keeps things from growing legs

Don't you have a chain saw???

G series, what a machine!!

Too bad you don't have a backhoe to dig them out! LOL

Mr Paydirt I thought you passed the job of parts runner off to Mr Griffin. But then had to fire him because he kept burying the parts with his bones.😅😅😅😅🤣 And just think if you was to put a rookie out the cut that ditch he'd be lost looking at all the levers and knobs.😉😅😅😅🤣🤣

Mr. Anderson, have you ever seen the "channel lock" filter wrenches? I have 3 sizes from atv up to tractor hydraulic size......

My little 120g ain't big enough for that operation

Them 33,s only hold 5 or 6 gal folks it's not a huge engine

Just wondering why your not using your old ditch cleaner lol

No waste oil heater?

How many hours between oil changes?

Well Jeff. That saves a lot of time. When cleaning dikes out. That is easier than using a backhoe.

Do you use Lucas or any other type of oil additives?

I guess you need to hold ya mouth right when you do stuff like that bro. Great video too. Safe travels

LOW RPM'S may save fuel BUT hard on bearings..REAL HARD! same to hydrauli system.. Personally I would not buy this as a used machine!!

Stubborn jackass right in the way. He be horsing around. I like the high speed ditching, that was groovy.

V ditch ??? you old son!

You should lean your wheels you will get less drift just saying.your the operator