Andrew Camarata torched off the old rusty bolts from the excavator bucket of the 1985 Komatsu PC20 excavator while replacing the excavator bucket teeth, track rollers, and the metal tracks with the rubber tracks.
Andrew your a class guy for helping your friends. I am sure it meant a lot to him to have the machine repairs. Hope the kindness comes back to you man. I am sure it will.
Brings back memories of my own early days as a do-it-all excavator--I remember switching the teeth orientation top-to-bottom and realizing they would work either way. It is always a great feeling to successfully upgrade the equipment. Envy your shop set-up. Great videos.
I couldn’t exist without a torch. They eliminate so much grinding. I just love your dogs. I have two Boxer Females and they keep me laughing all the time.
Very cool! My dad and I did the same to a Komatsu PC02 years ago (minus the rubber tracks). We tightened the pins, changed a few grease zerks, changed out a couple rollers, and added the thumb. In fact, it looks like the same thumb! Your friend should get lots of use out of that machine.
You know that feeling of removing a splinter from your thumb?.. i get the same feeling when i watch these videos, these videos are actually motivating me to, todo more stuff my self!.
about gloves and a long sleeve shirt would be good as I am a old welder / boilermaker I did a lot of welding without one or the other and now I am paying the price having a few sums and bombs coming up on my arms and I have had to get one or two cut out SO GET THE GLOVES AND LONG SLEEVES OUT ANDREW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
19:52 Thats amazing. These guys accually bend their backs to move stuff laying in the way. My coworkers does´nt do that. And they are freaking payed to do so.
What a difference in noise level between the two different types of tracks. Sure enjoyed this video, and thank you for sharing. God Bless from Phoenix.
Great video Andrew, I can honestly say those were the most spent set of tracks I have ever seen.The last owner ran that thing into the ground. You guys did a great job on fixing the old girl up and I'm sure it has a few thousand hours left in it now.Nice to have a few guys there to help I'm sure, keep the vids coming and I'm looking forward to the bridge episode as I may need to build one with my buddy in Idaho if a get a piece of property I'm looking at.
I live in Idaho too and have built several bridges. Do yourself a favor and go buy a junk semi flatbed trailer for cheap and use that for your bridge and if you want one wider than that you buy 2 and weld them together side by side! i've built several bridges for less than $2,000 doing this an if the tires are decent you can sell them and recoup a lot of your money back!
Andrew, if you are taking requests, can you please make a video on welding. A detailed "how to", techniques, what not to do, some basic starter kits one can buy, etc. I am sure there are other subscribers who would like to learn welding, or be better educated atleast on welding.
Girlfriend looked amazingly bored :-D When running the new tracks on - try inserting small pieces of wood to "stretch" the belt on. The wood will compress instead of breaking something, but this allows the track to align without metal tools and the risk of being close.
You're probably right Andrew, I was just making a small joke. Normally when pins and bushes are that bad, they are well beyond any possibility of repair!
seeing you stall out that angle grinder reminds me of when I was a young nipper and didn't listen to my grandpa. he would always say if your stalling the grinder out it will bite you not the metal one day and he was right had a disc bite and blow up almost took my face out and scrapped the side of my leg up good. after that day I had a new found respect for the death wheel. just saying look out for yourself with them things
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Being a heavy equipment mechanic, those sprockets are toast, should have done the whole undercarriage and checked the life left on the front idler. Then the whole deal will last for many hard years.
If that's how he treated the tracks I think checking the undercarriage is probably going to find another thousand dollars worth of damage His view on equipment maint seems pretty clear. Do the greasing, oil change, lubrication, washing, the basic maintenances everyone should do. Then fix what breaks. He'll do some parts replacement when it like requires taking a part off to get to a broken one. But he's not the replace it before it breaks so it never breaks on you. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, both have merits. But it's pretty clear he comes down on the if it ain't broke don't fix it side of maint
Hallo Andrew ....ich freu mich immer wenn Du neue Videos auf RU-vid hinein stellst. Es ist ein Vergnügen Dir bei der Arbeit zuzusehen , bitte mach weiter so und lass uns an Deiner Arbeit teil haben die Du so grossartig machst Greetings from Austria...😉
Hello Andrew, I'm always happy when you put new videos on RU-vid. It is a pleasure to watch you at work, please keep up the good work and let us participate in your work that you are doing so well. Greetings from Austria
Robbie Showers ...vielen Dank für die Übersetzung , mein Englisch ist schon ein wenig eingerostet . Ich finde Andrew einfach toll ...wie so seine Arbeit macht und die tollen Videos , echt dr Hammer ...egal was er anfängt .
Hmmm... You can tell that guy doesn't lube his equipment enough and has no yellow paint at his house. I know you probably didn't charge him even a shop fee, but you should get a "neglect" fee out of him. So good to see any video with Levi in it, he was a special companion for sure.
Sure hope you charged your buddy, or at-least a good friend would offer to pay you. He stands to make some good money with that excavator! Don't forget Andrew your talent is worth a lot!!! That looks like a nice machine!
I think You should change the "sprockets" since you have new tracks. Otherwise you risk premature wear on the tracks. The teeths should be flat at the top.
BMW M3 S65B40 If you’re on a mini excavator I still say rubber is the way to go, if you’re working in a very sharp rock just take caution not to spin the tracks often when pushing material, if you’re on a larger machine definitely get metal tracks, if you find the metal tracks are getting destroyed prematurely you could try Steel
@@AndrewCamarata thanks Am going to b usin a 5ton and it is sharp rocks so if i understand correctly steel is more expensive but better for my type of project
You Andrew, made me used to see your well maintained equipment. No wonder your machines are up and ready to work. I refuse to comment the state of this excavator because I'd be cursing a lot.
Andrew, the easiest way to slacken your track tensioner on metal tracks is to insert a metal pin between the track chain and the sprocket and track backwards
@Mark Lance Not a shitty comment, actually if he cared he would have put them in another part of the house or something for a while until he was done welding and grinding. Animals are a part of the family and from the looks of it, family isn't too important to him.
It looked like your dogs were watching you weld, I always put my dogs in the house for welding, away from arc flash, sparks and hot slab. I hope they don't start bumping into things!
Andrew, please remove paint and rust before you weld, it sounds terrible to my ear when you mig-weld on that. Plus you will get pores in the weld that weakens it, quite a bit actually. If you stick weld that´s not that big of a deal, but the mig is pretty sensitive and do´nt like it unclean ;) Otherwise, fun to watch as always!
In Norway I have never seen an excavator with an thumb, after watching your videos it actually look like and nice thing to have sometimes. In Norway almost all excavators from 3000kg and up have an tiltrotator.
Same, this really bothers me as I am a worry about everyone and everything kind of person. It's a heavy load to carry but the way I am and can't help it. Love Andrew and his videos.
I've got the same Pc20-5 and was wondering how your friends machine has been doing since he put rubber tracks on instead of steel. I've got worn out tracks as well and want to replace with rubber myself. I had a thumb plumed off of the low pressure side (not sure why he went that way) and I've very happy with using it. really like watching your channel for the last few years to by the way.
I have the same machine, Great little machine, Can you show where you got the seal kit for the front idler and the part #, I would appreciate it, THANKS
I have watched and did this: Place excavator bucket in bed of truck and do the wheelie thing walking towards the truck and when the tracks are up onto the edge of the bed, swing around and walk it into bed of truck while pushing down on the arm so eskavator is level with truck and walks right into the bed. Then swing excavator over to the tailgate and pick it up and drop it on the pins so it can be locked. Sweet, no trailer to pull behind! Its even better if you can back the truck up to a embankment and do the reverse of loading except it isn't as steep. I've never seen track machines converted to rubber before so that was new to me... Practice makes perfect. I slid out of a dump truck once cause the driver got in a hurry and drove away before I was done and the machine came down hard and chipped my teeth in my mouth
