Hey Andrew. Just wanted to say thanks for making these videos. I imagine a lot of time and effort goes into filming and editing, but many people here (including myself) really enjoy watching them. Thanks!
70 Years old, Jesus I can't face lying on the cold ground in winter to change the starter in my 65 GMC pickup. So I watch a few Andrew videos ... Starter changed! Thanks Andrew!
Hi Andrew! I really need you to know this. You are such an inspiration for me; I have fibromyalgia, and the constant pain and fatigue makes for some very nonproductive days. But since I’ve been watching your videos and how you handle adversity, and just push right on through to get your tasks done, with a smooth attitude, I apply what I’ve witnessed you do to my daily chores around my farm. When I get mad at firewood that I’m stacking and ready to curse the whole stack out, I suddenly say, “remember how Andrew handles things.” Then I take a deep breath, stretch, and get back to work. I don’t know Andrew, every time I see you it seems that I know you from childhood. So anywho, thank you for sharing part of your daily schedule!
@ganymedeIV4 "I can fix anything, probably with whatever is laying around' type guy" That's pretty much me, and I enjoy Mcgivering out and working with my hands. How long has your friend been doing it?
You also do a good job in your context, and you are a very generous person, Andrew is a genius on how he expresses himself in the most different things, including fixing a cell phone and arranging a ten-wheeled truck. Congratulations to both.
It should, I have seen them lose hydraulic lines and even get up through the floor board and go right through the gear shifter making it so you can change gears. And sticks sticking up behind the dozer when you drive in reverse are a big problem.
If I were the homeowner I'd keep the original driveway too, Andtew did good work with the dozer but it is still enough of a slope to give you trouble in the winter
Exactly my thought and nothing better than having a circular entrance and exit, especially that one is good for left turn and the other for snowy, slippery days.
They may have to, here in Australia, your official address is the driveway, if you make a new one, well, good luck! So he may need it for USPS deliveries
It just amazes me what you do with older equipment, when it breaks down you don't mad, you fix it and go. You have great work ethics. You always take the extra time to make sure the job will turn out the way you want. Keep up the great work and I look forward to watch your videos
The videos and content is great. But what keeps me coming back and watching more and more videos now is you. Your outlook and perseverance to drive through each situation no matter what come ur way is inspiring honestly. Love the work keep it up bud
Cool man, once again you got it done. I noticed your trailer ramps take a beating from the D-4. We save old mudflaps (or random pieces of rubber) and use those to lay over the ramps. It also helps with cold and wet slippery steel surfaces. Nice work!
To anyone who hasn’t seen the dozer starter replacement video, I highly recommend it. You’ll never see someone use a skid steer to change a starter on a dozer. I think this is precisely why we love you man👍🏻🇺🇸🤘🏻
Of all the videos I watch on RU-vid, and I watch a lot, you have the best background music of all. I love the diversity. Metal, Techno, Accoustic, Mellow, Intense. Never annoying or boring, Excellent choices!
Great video, good to see a young Entrepreneur making it. Your videos, highlight all the hard work it takes to run a business, as an example one video of yours showed you repairing your tractor on a day off!!!!
Another top job mate! You have inspired me to put a bid in on some site preparation , about $30k worth of work. Owner covering materials costs. If we hit rock then additional costs to be determined. I’ve already got a JCB 3CX Backhoe, Toyota 8SDK backhoe, needing to push a road through, replace a culvert over a small stream, dig and install a septic and leech drains, and prepare house pad/water tank pad and battery utility shed, and run a water main 500mtr along the road. I’m looking to slap $3k on a dodge tipper, to bring materials to site, and tail dump gravel on the roadway. You’ve covered everything I’m looking to do, and with work I’ve already done on my own 15 acre site I reckon I am up for it. Firstly... thanks Andrew. You rock Secondly, after your thoughts on whether an excavator or bulldozer would be the next machine to look at, I reckon about $10k would be max budget, thoughts on what to get next? Thanks again mate, keen for any feedback you can offer :-)
Well I'm not Andrew but if you want my $0.02, an excavator is the best direction. It's a night and day difference between a tractor loader backhoe. After that, get a mid size bobcat. That being said, if you get a good deal on them then you may as well buy it. That includes a dozer even if you don't have the other stuff.
Yeah my bobcat is a decent sized 8SDK, and my Backhoe is a JCB 3CX 4WD turbo diesel, pretty solid machine, excavator would be faster for trenching water, but there’s lots of tough ground out this way, making a small excavator pretty useless, probably need 15-20T with rock breaking to do better than the Backhoe, it’d be different if it was sandy or wet clays. I’ve not used a dozer myself, but everyone I’m talking to says shit like “ahh yeah a dozer would make that dam bigger piece of piss” I’m figuring the Backhoe can break shit up, the bobcat can do finishing work and load up the tipper to move dirt around faster than bucket by bucket, then what next.
Such great natural underlayment for a driveway and it is right there. That entire little hill that you cut down is perfect for creating a driveway with.
I don't believe that all of the sticks, logs, top soil, and other plant material that he left the road could be called "Ready Made Road Base Material!" I have never been able to compact 10 to 12" boulders either!
Mhammer1943 it’s gonna settle a little and then top it in 3 years with crusher run. It’s fine trust me. Couple soft spots might open up but a few buckets of #3 crushed stone binds it up
Nice job as always. That rock will make a good base. Yeah, it would be a lot better with that lower area raised up but comes down to money. If I was the owner with the skid steer I'd be having a lot of moving material around and filling that in. A much safer access which needed to be done and he has all that old material from the old driveway to use also. Thanks for sharing.
In 1993 I bought my first D4C it was a1991 model. It smoked excessively. I took it back to my local Cat dealer, I was told there was nothing wrong with the machine and that the D4C will smoke. It did not burn oil and was economical on fuel. I put about 5,000 hours on it and did no repairs on the engine. I did put wet tracks on, build up the grousers and replaced the steering clutches. Great machine. a friend has one and it smokes a lot. I bought a newer D4C, it has a 6cylider engine, it does not smoke and is much quieter. I am surprised yours did not smoke.
It was Improperly burned fuel. Sort of a dark brownish black. That engine was discontinued and replaced with a smaller cubic inch 6 cylinder that had more power and burns clean.
When I bought the machine it had a warranty. I had the machine back to Ziegler Cat a few times, they are very thorough in their repairs. It had all new filters, fluids and oil samples were taken. I also changed the air filter a few times. I just assumed all the 4 cylinder D4C's smoked, I guess I was wrong.
Nice work. I feel you pain with the battery situation. The two in my E350 7.3 van seemed to go flat, even with a battery maintainer on them. I think there was something wrong with the charger as it's really old... Good thing for the dump, pretty hard to start high compression engines like a diesel, most people don't have a clue. Happy Holidays my friend.
Think this is second time viewing this job. Can't understand why it never gets old. This channel is the most deeply satisfying thing I watch. 🤷🏻♂️👷🏻 Go figure...
@@AndrewCamarata Yes but unfortunately most dont realize this and I think there is going to be a whole generation of deaf people from headphones and earbuds.
Got a bit of magic about the dogs. Good thing Andrew has a bunch of neat toys. And, yes, he is a real pro with both the filming as well as doing the tough ground jobs. A real one man crew. Does it all. Thanks for sharing with us.
Once it gets surfaced with fine gravel it will be fine. But all vehicles should be 4x4 anyways. 2wd stuff is pointless. There are plenty of hills on the roads.
They are in upper New York i think, they know it snows a bunch and i bet since homwowner has his own skid steer , he can manage to keep drive clean in winter
@@AndrewCamarata in your neck of the woods, I agree. I was through your neck of the woods a few weeks back and it's some beautiful country, but there isn't a lick of flat ground anywhere!
Andrew busting out the Cat D4 ! SHIT IS GONNA GET DONE ! ! ! ! This man KNOWS how to get Things "DONE" ! NEVER COMPLAINS, NEVER SWEARS, JUST GOES AT IT 'TILL IT'S FINISHED, THEN OFF TO THE NEXT JOB ! ! !SUCH AMBITION ! EXCELLENT VIDEO EDITING SKILLS ,ALSO ! ! BEST "GO-GETTER " ON RU-vid BY FAR ! ! NOBODY COMES CLOSE TO A. C. IN TERMS OF VIDEO PRODUCTION ! ! ! !
The music @8:33; Sonic Mayhem - Quad Machine Andrew seems to like a couple different selections from Sonic Mayhem, a band known primarily for composing the soundtracks for the Quake video game series, 'Quad Machine' being featured on the Quake 2 soundtrack - one of the most iconic and nostalgic FPS's of all time, in-part thanks to the music.
My favorite RU-vid channel. I have gone back and watched every single one of his videos (from the beginning) and always leave a thumbs up in case I missed one. It's amazing to see how much more comfortable he is in front of the camera and how the filming/editing have improved over the years. I think Andrew is about my son's age.
True is it that difficult? 6900 views and 860 thumbs up. Does it take that much effort to sign in and give a like? Like people driving and too lazy to move their fingers an inch to use turn signal.... Go Andrew.
Nice job Andrew. You couldn’t haul in better base rock. That older D4 is a good cat. Keep up the maintenance like you normally do and it will last you a long time. Easy to work on and no ECM to put you in limp mode and shut-down.
Watching this reminds me of when I was young clearing stumps with my grandfather to make new dairy pastures watching him run our D4 with a homemade root rake on it GOOD TIMES 👍👍!!
About to take delivery on a 1989 Liegherr PR 731C--basically a German/Swiss D6. Mercedes-Benz V-6 Diesel, 150 HP, 15 tons, Hydrostatic drive (back in an era when that was innovative). Can't wait to get back in the saddle!
No compaction? Driving a dozer over this is not enough. A CAT D4 is under 20k pounds and only has a ground pressure of 4-5 psi. That's actually less than a small walk-behind vibratory plate compactor. A small drive on roller type vibratory compactor will generate 3-4 times the compaction that dozer will (12-18 psi).
AndTheCorrectAnswerIs... was thinking same thing plus I would of reduce dug it build back up with decent stone compact it with a 1200 roller then tarmac it with edgings retaining the stone and tarmac 🤔
You would pump all the mud up into the grade the- finish dozer is what you want to use at this point in the grade.. then the next guy puts down some geo grid if he wants to spend the extra money -Then 1 1/2 tb stone and compact . That grade will last forever- 41 yrs operating engineer local 139 (Grading foreman)
Run over your foot with that D4 and you might decide that 4 to 5 psi is plenty of compaction for that base material. Also, the overall psi for the tracks doesnt take into account the force the individual grousers produce or the force when a single large stone is compacted deep into the road bed by half the weight of the dozer, which is several tons.
"I'm pretty sure it needs a battery". Yup. Here's a trick I've done for decades: on older equipment that will be idle for a while I disconnect the positive battery lead(or you can install a disconnect). Old equipment will almost always have a chaffed hot wire somewhere and will draw down even a good battery. Takes a couple of minutes and saves batteries and $$$. Best way is remove the battery and keep it on a trickle charger but that can be a pain in the butt at times.
A VERY GOOD SUGGESTION; A BATTERY CUTOFF,, have seen them on VOLVO & OTHER EQUIPMENT (LETSDIG18)... might be a good / extra measure to prevent theft & possible damage by vandels
I'll bet that cat dozer has a disconnect switch somewhere. However if the battery won't hold a charge, a switch is not going to help. Trickle charger is a great idea but you need to have power somewhere close. Don't they make a solar powered trickle charger?
Just ran across your videos today and haven't stopped watching them. I agree with James Joul and the rest. I"m subscribed and have a lot of catching up to do. Thanks
Ya i was thinking same thing. Seems customer just wanted it pushed thru for now. Homeowners with their own equipment seem to underestimate what its going to take to do it right. That culvert better come in sooner than later or homeowner will regret that water sloshing over his driveway.
@@wpog8453 Agree about the erosion part . Thinking mainly about water flow spilling over the top. Then ice in colder season would crack and break up road.
Love watching your videos. Very relaxing watching someone else work. I like that you don’t swear. And you fix some challenging problems. I also am a mr fixit. Keep up the good work.
I'm hoping the battery and connections just wanted a little TLC, and more frequent use to keep it happily charged. But, the truth is that flooded lead acid batteries don't last forever. Yeah, a solar maintainer isn't a bad idea for infrequently used machinery.
Where did the top soil and all the organic matter go?if you mixed it in the drive way base they will never have a good base.top soil and organics hold moisture.in the winter they freeze and expand,spring time you get frost boils.
Hi Andrew Just a small tip for you about starting engines with a flat battery, never put the jump leads on to the flat battery, put the red lead on to the flat battery and the black lead on to the engine as close to the starter as possible, then you will not be putting power in to the flat batteries, regards and keep up the good work, great channel, Peter.
Made a molehill out of that mountain!! That rock packs good!! And the homeowner gets to play with a skid steer!! Bet you'll be hauling some rock over there! Sweet job
Looks like it could have used a 18 or 24" culvert at the low point. And 54" full coverage compactor. Change the gradation of the donnicker size rock and compact or track slope. No way to build chokers and cut section with that material. But it's what the customer wants, or thinks they want. Get a sore back in that material for sure. LGP tracks in good shape. Not as wide as I'd expect. Good old rig. Thanks for the vid share. Enjoy all your content. Good man.
You’ve come along way operating that dozer. I was supposed it struggled initially with tipping the pile, your tracks are in great shape. Maybe a helpful video for all of us would be adding helper springs to your trailer ramps. Great video be safe.
In my career you never never dug holes buried stumps in driveways it's a no no what Andrew is doing is hurry up get the job done make the money and get the hell out of there so he don't have to worry about nothing he can go back later and make more money on the people
@Jakob IF that's the situation then it's yet another example of "The customer isn't always right". And who's he going to blame in a few years when he starts getting sinkholes in his driveway?
