I'm totally impressed with your knowledge and figuring out what wrong and fixing it. I wish I was a younger man and could learn this stuff from a master mechanic like yourself. Keep up the great work and sharing it also.
As usual finally called it quits in the shop a few minutes ago (midnight) and warmed up supper and watching you work on anything! Why this is relaxing I have no clue. LOL. Thank You!
I feel the same way. You have the feeling of fixing something while doing nothing. It is a great feeling and you learn skills that can bleed over to other problems.
Hey guy. Have really gotten into watching your videos. As I told you, I did field service in KFalls 40 yrs ago. Left with full intentions of moving back after a few years. Life had other plans. Your videos bring back fond memories of the area. Used to do a lot of work on running Y and skillet handle ranches. Don't remember the names of some of the others but worked all over, Chiloquin, Merriil, bly, yreka, dorris, grass valley, keno, dairy, sprague river. These are just a few of the areas that come to mind immediately. Pretty hard work but the scenery was beautiful. I like the mix of repairs and the scenery. Add a little more of the surroundings if possible.
My father had several TD 15 dozers over the years. The B and C series were some the best balanced machines. I used to do a lot of fine grading with them. Great machine, I wish they were still made. They were simple.
I learned to keep the shop manual in the truck with cows around. They will try to read the manual & blow cow snot all over it. Yep - they like to scratch themselves on your open truck door too. You be careful our there Warren.
Old memories I learned to run a dozer with TD 15. A little bit new it had hydrostatic drive. It was dang good machine. Real en joyed the video. Thanks for sharing.
ONE STEP FARTHER !!!! This is a very common problem for many different make models and manu's of Trucks and equipment of this very common type shifter. It "IS ' the first failure to occur with age and use. 1. The ball on the end of the lever wares and gets a diminished circumference, as well as gets a cam affect on the pivot ball and spring , then forces the the lever out and up from the shift slots, then this allows the ball to slip past the slot and out of place. 2. The slot openings width wares and adds to this as well as the fork width on the sliding gear wares. It is a collective problem due to ware. 3. MY cure for years is to weld or braze the ball on the lever tip ( build up) to a larger diameter and longer length by about 3/16- 1/4". do not change the flat side (fore -aft) dimensions just the ball face width and length. Then take a grinder to the shift top and start hand fitting the side play between the lever tip and the fork slot "if needed" , do not shorten unless needed. I have never had this issue of slip past the shift forks again. I.E. better than factory !!!
My grandfather ran an International Dealership up until the Case merger, he always talked about what a sad day it was when Case took over and shut all the little dealers down.
Don't feel lonesome--Case did the same to their OWN small dealers, many of whom had been loyal purveryors of Case for decades. All the corporate bean-counters cared about was volume, forgot about customer relations.
@@timber750 yea sorry but that's capitalism for ya. The fact that peoe think capitalism is any less evil then socialism is almost more depressing then the fact people see those two as the only options
@William Underwood socialism is based on the "collective" theoretically, while capitalism is closely tied to individualism which is based on the individual, which leads to narcism and disconnection between peoples. That's in theory, capitalism (or whatever you call in in the US) is basically just state sponsored usary. It's an entire system based on compound interest and the enslavement it causes. Ideally there would be a system based on the family, which is the actual category of nature.
lol, good story conversation while filming, that comes naturally and well needed. Someone hears you, just tell them your talking to the dogs, that's true! Great fix, master Mechanic.
I appreciate your videos even more, now. I bought an old IH 125c loader & this dozer is a lot like it. Similar story - it belonged to a guy who was friends with the local IH dealer (way back when...) and bought the machine new. Mine needs a little fine tuning as it doesn't start up quite so quick - a bit cold natured (has the shorty can of ether mounted under the hood). I hope to never need to do this repair but I thank you for videoing this 'just in case'. Your videos are like a service manual - we hope we don't need it... but we'd be screwed for sure without it! Now take a day off and go fishing.
Great job on a older priece of equipment . I have some old Massey Harris tractors I use around the yard . These older tractors are simple to work on .Enjoy you videos Take Care
That's a neat old machine there. Busier than a one armed paper hanger trying to run the sumbitch, but I bet she'd still lay down a solid 8 hours workin just fine.
You 100% right I forgot about that. In few days on that baby you be getting muscles in them there arms running it, Trying dump like 6 to 7 trucks in a fill.
First time I got up on a TD15 I thought it was colossal. Later on I actually got to operate a TD25 for a few days, and now (decades later) own for farm use a Liebherr 731C, which is even bigger than that old TD15
When I was a kid I use to go up to my grandpas tractor repair shop during the summer. He usually had to go on service calls a lot so I went with him. His service truck is like a 1980-83 ford pickup with a manual transmission and he use to let me shift the gears. I sure felt like I was the shit for finally being able to shift a manual transmission.
The ol man is a TD engineering expert. Sad that as he's going into a nursing home the knowledge dies. You young blokes do alright though, better than me! Cheers
Hey there I remember in the late 60 I was a driver of a international btd6 commonly called a drot in the UK I left it in a field over the weekend when I came back to work on the Monday the cows in the field had licked it clean there was no grease around any of the nipples or joints it was as clean as new .Ps I remember adjusting the main clutch taking the floor plates of just like your doing undoing the lock nuts and using a prybar to turn the fly wheel and adjust the clutch by the way ass in the air all the blood rushing to you head I’m in my 70 now but still remember. John 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 the UK
Like you I did my time as a plant fitter and used to drive all the machines in the yard I ended up driving operatiall sorts ending up tower crane driving for some 30 years here in the 🇬🇧
When I was a kid my dad bought a TD6 with a problem for 700 bucks. Spent 600 getting it fixed. It was just a toy for our 30 acres but it was fun to play with. It had a Farmall M gas engine. Compression was so low dad started it on gas & switched over to kerosene which was cheaper at the time. At least that's what I remember, 50 years ago.
Hello Warren, this is my favourite vid of yours i used to do this kind of work years ago, mainly on D8H 68A Calling you a "mechanic" is an injustice, you are an Engineer
Warren. Keep up your videos. I love watching you work I myself did this years ago and loved every bit of it. Trucker from Mn. I'm going come out and see one day
Hello Warren. We worked on a B-100 Drott. That was a pig to work on. It was so tite to get at the gearbox, we had to take the engine out to sort the problem out. A lot of the smaller machines were bad to work on. Mini diggers are like that.
Love your videos Warren..If I run into a bolt I can't double but I take lineman pliers and bugger up the exposed threads just enough where the nut won't back off yet still able to remove again if needed..
Thanks for the video. They ha a TD 15 as the only piece of equipment at a Town landfill where I lived in NY. I just loved watching it. I later had a Cletrac and JD 450 B and still think about that TD 15.
I have several old horse drawn plow's, Deere, Oliver, McCormick, Avery, Etc., I restore and show them at shows. Most people don't know that most implement makers later on went into making farm tractors.
I never liked the old coffee can over the exhaust. I know myself well enough to know that I would eventually forget it, so when I bought an old backhoe a few years back, the first thing I did was get a tink-tink flapper for the stack.
Great video, my 1st, Subscribed........luv the authenticity of the content, “IH is better than AG Deere, dealing w/CA State B.S” just doesn’t get more REAL than that......FIVE STARS ⭐️
Don't you just love the 'sidewalk superintendants' trying to nose in and see what you're doing. LOL . Don't leave an open bottle of Thread Lock on the back work area or anyplace where cattle can get to it , they can smell the Saccharine that's in it and will grab it to eat thinking it's a tasty treat . - Learned the hard way .
001DesertRat Didn't know it had saccarine in it , now I know why they smell it and want to taste it, but then again they want to taste everything ,like some dogs.
WARREN, I’m new to the channel but I’m sure loving the stuff you’re a good Kogler just like me, put a kog in where it needs to be and stuff I do also I love it I love watching you, I’m learning nice I an looking for a 1955 Chevy car, old and sweaty I don’t need a motor I don’t need a rear end and I don’t need a fenders are for hood on the front I put all my stuff in there and they sell aftermarket parts and pieces preferably needs a title or paperwork to or four-door I don’t care 3000 5000 with the motor and everything in it old or sweaty are looking the better, you know yr exertions,thanks BigAl California.
When the Marine Corps 11th Engineers packed up for Vietnam they wrote two of those TD's off as a combat loss and buried them in a river bottom. When they got to Nam there was two brand new ones waiting for them. I found them by mistake in 73 and was promptly told to bury them and forget about it.
International had many German immigrant machinists and engineers in Chicago. Precision was in their blood! Both y great Aunt and Uncle worked there! 1920-1940)
It's cool that the machine was bought new and is still working and on the same farm. Those TD series crawlers were pretty good, well engineered and well built. I like Cat, but it took them another 30 years before they had planetary steering that was as good as IH had back then! Besides, the bigger TD's had some cool factors - but they sure sound odd running on gasoline when they're first started!
Many years ago. I cant remember if it was TD 15 or TD 25? 25 I think. Don't allow nobody close to dozer even in idle that thing would spin around within 1 second on you. Get use to it. It was a fine good dozer, Steering was very fast. I always like the old IH equipment. Hard find them in good shape now. I like them IH Scouts better than Jeeps CJ's. Good old Scouts high dollar now.
This reminds me when a few years ago my cousin talked me into replacing the clutch on his 1951 Allis-Chalmers HD 15 bulldozer, he took the clutch to be rebuilt at a clutch shop, and I put it back in, after that we ran into parts problems, such as fuel filters and gaskets not available. It has a 6-71 Detroit in it, but the filters and housings were made by Allis-Chalmers, not Detroit.
great videos. you are truly a master of your craft. remind when i had my crane, but it was on a crappy 6.4. thanks for your time and posting such helpful vids..
For some reason I kept wanting to say "hold on let me do that.", but I would probably drop a bolt or socket down into the belly-pan, like I've done many a time. I've also left floor-plates, 1 inch ratchets, batterie chargers and water coolers on the tracks, and backed over them.
I agree with you 100% on IH ,I grew up on 66ś 86´s and 88´s not to mention the smaller IH´s.When IH sold the farm equipment to Tenneco,it devasted the red folks in Georgia.Many went green and have been ever since.John Deere has a monopoly now.
I've wanted to get an old crawler to mess with/work on/plus i need some equipment i can push some dirt and stuff around. I saw a 47 TD6 for sale, allegedly runs good. You said the TD series is pretty solid.
My friend gave me a TD 24 once. It didn't run, hasn't ran in decades, it was deep in the mountains, and it was going to take more than a one ton pickup with a gooseneck trailer to go get it. So, I kindly declined his TD 24.
I've seen some inept operators use the controls/levers on equipment as hand grips to get up into machines, and do damage, just like dislocating a shoulder- pull a shift fork, or even snap off a ball. There should be handles, but sometimes they're removed for some reason.
We used to have an old orangish red looking td11 that thing was a hoss now good tractors I'd like to see that D6 in that you were working on 54 years from now it'll probably be recycled and in a Toyota or whatever by then right video man nice simple fix Warren I grew up farming helping my dad he was a farmer in Sutter County then we moved over in YOLO County one of dad's old bosses Bob Stengel any had a nice Ranch up around reading can't remember exactly where but we used to go up there and hunt quite a bit anyway yep been around the AG part of it for years lots of fun memories out there
My father had a dog once who was 1/2 German Shepard and 1/2 Rhodesian Ridgeback, he was a really friendly dog during the day, but, at night you had better stay off my fathers place at night. He used to visit around the neighborhood at times and once got attacked by TWO pit-bulls and whipped both of them and sent them both howling away.
I'm wanting to get an old dozer for around the homestead, something to tinker with to learn on and to use for smaller projects. I saw a '56 TD-9 with the 4 cylinder diesel that starts on gas to get warmed up before you switch over to diesel. Do you know anything about these? Worth checking into and possibly buying? They're asking 1500, i know there's a lot of variables to consider, of course. I just want to know if these are good machines and if i'll be able to find most parts i need.
You tell that old rancher just be careful with that selector and he should be just fine.....I enjoyed the cloud cover the past few days as well...just a reminder to you and all mechanics with a service truck.....lock ALL your doors at night just had my 1 inch air gun and torque multiplier lifted out of my truck in my driveway.....iv been mad all day...probably some meth head going to sell both them for $100🤬🤬🤬