Picking Up the Treasures I bought at the Auction! 

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I’m viewer 35,391 this morning. In Cajun country, I don’t even bother going to auctions, the people going to them know “exactly” what everything is worth and not a penny more. Once a unit is purchased, they flip them. I can’t compete with this environment, nor do I have funds to do so with.

HD or not, a Diesel Creek video on Christmas Eve is a must watch for me! Merry Christmas Matt!

Water Tank suggestion: stick it next to the container shed and throw some eaves and downspouts to fill it, then get a small pump, hose reel, and nozzle to have a little emergency fire fighting kit

That Terex DID look pretty interesting, but man, "unique" and "uncommon" are great - right up to the moment when you need parts. Learned that, the hard way. Twice, since I'm extra stupid.

A great $5 dollar rain catchment tank. Just needs a round stand to set on wrapped with insulation and plumbing run to it from the roof with leaf screens and dirt clean out traps.😉👍

My company makes those 1yrd blocks from left over mix, the only rebar in the whole deal is usually just the hook. Be careful around these blocks, left over mix isn’t always 100% good.

As I'm living ( In Northen Europe) pretty similar weather conditions like you ( 3 months of bad skiing weather they call Summer) I suggest to use the water tank in your container garage , to wash your hands, face and any other tings needed locally. Put it up on the container roof and fill on spring and dray it before it getting on freezing temperatures. You can even paint it black or wrap into black plastic and if you put into direct sunlight you can get hot outdoor shower,. Very handy.

Always a good day when i see that diesel creek posted🤙

Thanks for all your vedio Matt... From a small island in the UK still watching your vedios in evenings and still as good as ever..!!

It turns out I don't like fixing things, my real hobby is collecting projects... I've been being pretty good at avoiding projects lately, but I'm sure it won't last. PS, I had a deuce. It was big and clunky and semi-useless, but I loved it. I'm holding out for an M1078 now... Good luck getting the deuce!!

14:15 listen to that turbo spin!

12:02 Rig Mats or ground protection mats go for about $300/panel new. We just did a video on our channel covering the costs and the pros and cons.

Yes. My problem also. To many projects un-done. Merry Christmas everyone.

So here's my suggestion. Put the water tank on top of one of you containers, put a gutter on the shop roof and feed it to the tank. Then run a line so you can have running water. Now I have no idea how much weight a container roof can hold but you can figure that out. I suspect you would have great water pressure 10 ft up with 500 gal pushing it

You need to get dirt perfect to bring his tile dozer out to put some drainage lines under and around your shop areas. Or failing that just dig up some soil and make your roads into mounds. And you can use the plastic barriers and tank as water storage off your shop.

merry christmas Diesel Creek thanks for the past year ive been watching your awesome videos

Put some isolation around that tank and use it as hot water storage for heating your new house at the farm with vacuum solar collectors :D

I can't wait until Christine drives over the camera at the intro. Merry Christmas Matt

Make a Hot tub out of the 5 dollar tank! Use hot-tub parts ( pump filter)from a pool supply company!

I feel your pain about high auction prices. For the last 2 years, I have been selling instead of buying. Not as much fun but the wife is happy

Reach out next time you need something looked at from the North East MD yard, I'm 20 mins away

At the risk of sounding like a tightwad I think you bought wisely at this auction. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Yea, those barrier pieces / blocks are just the concrete remnants. When you don't use your full yardage from at truck, they go back to the plant and dump it into forms they have standing by. You paid for the full load of concrete and they get some free barriers to sell. Only rebar in it is the hook. (If they even have hook)

Merry Christmas Matt and Eva! Also thanks for an awesome year of entertainment

I'm so glad you took the advice about not starting another project. And try to finish Christen or your heavy equipment haul setup. Or possibly getting your shop closed in.

Sometimes a man's ability to display self control is amazing in itself!!!!! Merry Christmas Buddy!!!

Those frozen ruts you was talking about makes GOOOD tire busters

Good morning and Merry Christmas to everybody and Happy New Year !!

It's amazing how much Matt knows about so many aspects of all the mechanics of this equipment, especially considering how young he is. He must've grown up on these things.

Good wins at the auction Matt - and a safe, healthy and relaxing holiday wish to you and yours from Canada’s southern coast in Windsor, ON.

You could turn the tote into a rainwater collection system for your shed, and then use that water for the steam genny

I love going to auctions too (live) …mainly for woodworking tools. It’s like a toy store. What’s great about your videos is instead of spending 8 hours in the cold and rain, waiting for your interest item to come up, you get to see it all in an hour. It also doesn’t cost us anything, and we don’t have to explain to our spouse that it’s a great deal and we really need it. Those barriers would be great as the “boards” around a hockey rink to stop pucks flying … 🇨🇦

Merry Christmas! Those dingos are pretty expensive new. They're basically built as heavy duty as a skid steer, just smaller. They have just as many attachments as skids, too. Handy as hell for landscapers, contractors, can tow with a 1/4 ton on a single axle. They get used like a self loading power wheelbarrow quite a bit. It doesn't surprise me they go for a lot, 10k is right on for a decent running machine. Smaller wheeled ones go maybe 2-3k cheaper. A guy in my town tows 2 on one trailer for putting irrigation lines in. One has a chainsaw style trencher, the other a bucket/power rake. I bet it's great efficient fast setup.

Those mini skidsteers are great for sticking on the back of a work truck and using them as a work horse for dragging stuff around. Nice and compact, they slip into tight spaces but I can't think of a reason for matt to get it other than "I want it". I used to ride one in a plant nursery, moving compost and horse muck around. They are mini work horses and pretty fun to ride.

So much for rebar, I see that that the block with the crack is not two. rats!! Loved watching you trying to hurd that small part of the block.

Putting that crane on. Deuce and a half would be awesome too see. Thanks for another great video. Merry Christmas 🎄

stake the plastic barriers in place as soil wall retainers./ sort of like cheap railroad tie retainer s for leveling off steep soil drops. Used 12 pallets of rail ties to raise a yard level by 12 ft on the downhill side.

Interesting collection of items! If the water tank didn't come with a lid, it would be good to cover it to prevent rainwater accumulating enough to freeze and burst the tank.

Run the water from the roof to the tank this spring and have water for the pressure washer.

Merry Christmas Matt. Thanks for all the great videos this year. Really helped me during lockdowns here in the UK. I wish you all the best for the new year 👍

Now you have the blocks, you can make yourself a nice mould/casing to make em yourself👍

Yippie! Matt has more toys to work on, keeping us Merry and bright! Allan in Myrtle Beach

I'm pretty sure you could glue those two pieces of concrete together just putting epoxy or maybe construction adhesive between the two of them. You can always reinforce them more afterwards by putting concrete anchors through them, or rods with epoxy like you mentioned.

I remember back in the early 80s I was on a housing development site, they had 2 huge Terex dual engine dirt pan scrapers plus a dozer to help push, they cleared a lot of material pretty fast.

Use the tank for water storage for a small off grid bathroom while your out there

I hauled a bunch of those concrete blocks for a store I worked for. The lady that was loading them used a wheel loader somewhere in size between your two. It had a chain draped over the bucket, and she could hook and unhook the blocks just by twisting the loader. It was the most impressive bit of heavy machine finesse I have ever seen personally.

Your plastic barriers fill them with cement or gravel and you have many good aggregate separators! use the solid concrete ones to use to push against when loading! Merry Christmas !

That Terex dozer reminded me of a huge 8V-71 powered Terex wheel loader a big shopping center about a half hour away from my house uses for snow clearing. It's kind of overkill but I believe they got it real cheap from the nearby cement quarry.

550 gallon water tank you can use as clean filtration unit set off of rain gutter run off.

Great video Matt, everyone loves a good auction.

A water tank always comes in handy. Belated seasons greetings!

@Diesel Creek you should really look out for a screener unit, a old jaw crusher and a tractor PTO powered whater pump you could wash a lot of gravel out of your namegiver - build a retention pond to recycle the muddy whater, to be honest you got all thats needed and more - then you can continue to build your highway to nowhere and other projects like the foundations for the shop you said you were gonna build with locally sourced ethically harvested bio fairtrade vegan stone - also would be really awesome to see the dragline crane work - if of course no enviromental entity gets all anally hurt by your dececration of nature... tbh id probalby help you restore whatever needs restoring just for the sake to finally have it done if i only was not living ~8 timezones away from you ...

You're not wrong the auction videos are great fun. Not coming from the USA I have never seen anything like them and would love to go. The only biggish auction I have ever been to was a large farm sale. I was looking for a new Ute. Not one thing sold cheap. People even bid past new price time all the auction fees were added. Like you the key is knowing rough pricing before or the auction fever can cause a world of hurt.

Can't beat a giant skeeter farm for 5 bucks! Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Use the plastic barriers to layout a GoKart track. The next time you see an old bus at auction buy it for the Cummins, drop it into a modified mower and BAM! You're welcome.

Thank you for the videos brother Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year Stop listening to the negative comments please Keep doing what you are doing k God bless take care Just saying

The big air tanks were made wonderful smokers

Ooh, working on that old pressure-plate at the end there, I'm excited to see that! Looks like those plastic barriers can be filled with water (or whatever) to weigh them down, bet you can find plenty of uses for them!

Equipment is bringing the money right now I did buy a couple pipelayer dozers at that sale I believe they sold offsite in WV

Merry Christmas Matt and your family. To bad everything went for a higher price than it was worth thanks for another vlog.

The plastic barrier could be used for stocking your supplies like if they can stack put in one area topsoil or courrageted pipe after some of that stone used for your shop base that plastic tank I use it for after cleaned put it in the area for your steam cleaning

Thank you so much for making these videos Matt! Merry Christmas to you and your amazing wife!

As we are heading in to 66 and throwing prawns on the bbq, from half way around the world, have a great Christmas and New Years, be at peace and stay safe

Hell yeah keep doing the auction vids! Love checking out machinary even if you don't buy any of them. Merry Christmas to you Matt and Mrs Diva Creek. Oh can't forget Roscoe and Meatball! Happy Holidays y'all 🎄

Seeing a trailer load of plastic Barriers gave me flashbacks of my first day at my current job. Hauling a load of 3 high 7' long orange barriers on a 32' trailer on a 6 hour trip. Worst part of it was I blew a turbo boot and where I stopped to fix it the DOT where inspecting lighter trucks and trailers. So after I fix the turbo boot, they call my over and my break away fails. So my boss sends someone 6 hours to fix me. I finally get to deliver my barriers but have to get a hotel room. That was a hell of a first day.

Auction prices seem very high. You have done quite well with machines that you just stumbled across so probably wise not to splash the cash unless you really want something!. Sometimes the best deals are the ones you dont make 🙂

Those air tanks would make super offset smoker grills - usually those are old propane tanks, but air tanks would be safer - no risk of big boom from fabrication sparks

Thank you Matt for taking the time to film what you do and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Torching a pressure plate? LOL

Yup I would of bought the water tote too. Build a big pressure washer and make that a holding tank. Sell the plastic barriers for a profit. I'm just as bad as you. Love my projects. Guy around me collects decent and a halfs

Matt, Merry Christmas to you and your family, thanks for everything you do and show us all year long , let's see what this new year bring, so many machines so little time . How's meatballs doing .

I was raised north of you in Sharon/ Kennerdale Pa. I live in NC now. I like tinkering with stuff like you do!! Merry Christmas!!

Great content as always Matt I always look forward to seeing your next instalment of the diesel creak and as always you never let us down on content!!! I would like to wish you and all the viewers alike a very happy Christmas and a very prosperous new year. Keep up the great work and and I wish you and the family to stay safe and well this holiday season

Thanks again Matt. Have a wonderful Christmas. If you need a lid for that tank check out turbo turf in Beaver falls.

Merry Christmas Matt. Love the videos. Here's to a proporous new year.

Matt, my buddy and I are working on getting his old 2.5 running.. planning to make a modular bed, with "drop in" kits like a firefighting rig, camper, etc...

Wesołych Świąt! Zdrowia, kasy i słodyczy grabarz życzy :)

well .. i was hopin for at least a d11 to keep up with camarata's cat 988 but... maybe next time ... great vid!! thanks for takin us along

was a good buy on the 120c I should have bought that !!!!!!!! and yes you should have bought big green 😜😃

Matt, thinking about the barriers. If you have a need! Could you stone an area to your size and then place 8 of the concrete barriers ( two in each corner). Set them to what ever wheel base you can get the most use out of. Pin them together and then stone a ramp at one end. Essentially making a raised work station? The machines would be about 4 ft. in the air giving you room to work on the undersides easier.

Merry Christmas Matt! I've been to many auctions and I find the online transition very hard. You truly need to inspect things in person and have a decent idea what you're looking at!

If you need more of the barrier block, check with a local concrete company. I purchased mine for $60 a piece through my local supplier.

Nice score on all those mafia blocks. Yes, they are handy for bins to put anything in. Split cord wood, wood mulch, pea stone, whatever. Merry Christmas from Connecticut.

That water tank will be handy for many projects.

The quality is not great, but we remain loyal viewers. Happy Christmas to all of you from the Netherlands.

I'm sooo glad you graded your yard. I can't stand when I go to a buddy's lot and they have the gravel and the truck but they don't feel like doing the work. So now you have to Slug it through his yard just to do him a favor. lol

Auctions are always fun. Been going to them for years...

Thank you Mat for another wonderful inspiration videos ......Now at our shop ......it "Hum how would mat fix it 🤔" .....

For the broken block. If you wet it down for a couple hours then brush in a slurry of concrete into both broken ends then bed a stiff mix and stand it on end it should be like new :p. Just got to the part where you were talking about dowelling. 4#15. One in each corner 6 inches from the edge. Embed 5 inches. Hilti Hit HY-200. Lining them up is hard so you could set them up so one is in the one side tight the other is loose... maybe each diagonal corner loose/tight in each half. In the looser hole drill to 12" and fill that with concrete paste instead. You could also fill the hole with epoxy if you are made of money. Epoxy doesnt like being upside down so have a plastic cap handy like the top of a pop bottle. Score it then stuff it in the hole after filling the hole with epoxy. Then the bar will smash through it. Yes there is a special split plug too. If the block is good and wet all the way through then brushing concrete paste onto each face before sticking together is a good repair. If the block is dry it will draw the water from the repair cement and prevent it from hydrating properly leaving a very poor bond. Personally I like the concrete binding idea. No bars to line up and the block had no bar when it was born anyway. Clean the interfaces. Leave them rough. Rougher the better. Let it sit for 14 days at least 28 preferred then kick it around and test it out. That would be a youtube "test" video nobody has done before :)

Thanks for taking us along.

Use the $5 Barrell to store rainwater for jetwashing. Just a thought.

Good score Matt!! That tank would come in handy for having running water at your container shop. After you clean the tank it could be mounted on top of a container out of the way, hook it up to eavestrough, catch all the rain water. you can have gravity fed running water in the summer and fall months for a toilet provided you install a small septic tank or to use with a gas powered pressure washer to clean your equipment. Those jersey barriers would be great for retaining walls , raised garden beds , bolted together they can be used for concrete forming. With a bunch of barriers and some plastic sheeting, a guy could make a perfect skating rink with those, possibilities are endless.

Matt you can never have to many projects!!!! You have to buy the projects when you can.

Merry Christmas, Matt! Those plastic barriers would help keep the road from flooding by redirecting the water away from the roadbed.

Merry Christmas to all in the USA 🇺🇸 from Great Britain 🇬🇧 and I hope you all have a brilliant New Year

You never make boring videos so keep them coming

Have to add that the past auction is giving you good background on the going prices and what in general is coming up for auction sales. 1) Have to agree there is a perception on my part about a backlog of projects. However you have been doing well with videos for us viewers. And the videos are appreciated. 2) You mentioned that current access to your shop prohibits some future acquisitions in regards to transport. How about addressing overall improvements to both the shop and its access. Perhaps putting up more roofs for current equipment is a good goal. 3) Good that you did not throw money out there for another project. Spending money on current needs/projects is money well spent. Looking at what was acquired "now" somewhat addressed my anticipation of Christmas goodies. Thanks for all you do.

Gutter side of barn, put tank up on Connex, make you some water source for shop Merry Christmas to you and your wife! Enjoy the channel. Been a good year

I have sat on one of those Terex dozers... just leave it there and be happy you did! Just listening to the wreck will wear you out. There is a reason you don't seem them around.

Have you been conspiring with my wife? It's the same message she tells me daily, 'too many projects Andy you don't need anything else!'. 🤣. Gotta jump on those deals when you find them! Cheers, 👍😁