Sitting 20+ years, Will this MASSIVE Wheel Loader Run and Drive home?!?! (Cummins Power!) 

I'd recommend buying Only if it drives then Paint Entire machine / clean it up & Sell for a Profit & put that towards something a little better, newer & smaller

@@jontrudell7529 Finishing the Autocar with the profit would be nice.

there is no such thing as a good price for it since fixing anything on it costs a fortune already

@@kirdot2011 that's NOT true

Buy that old machine matt you may not get another chance like and your getting for a fare price it may need some work but that will pay off with finished result

The Mich. I operated was a good 👍 peace of equipment but it was a Widowmaker but it paid my bills

@@jameskeene2294 Can You say more about You calling it widowmaker? Was the equipment dangerous in regular operation, or was the job dangerous?

@@MindBlowerWTF The early ones had the lift boom right next to the drivers seat.

@@johngnang6724 rear steer and arm chopper design.

That's a good feeling when you fire old engines and see that crap blow out

Its like your sick and your coughing all that crap out of your body

😂😂

So funny

Its a old pne

I hope he didn't buy it and someone else came along and got a good deal on it. This guy will steal breast milk from his mother and then take credit for it

Thanks 🤘🏼🤘🏼👍🏼

Beats watching “ cake wars” on tv..don’t it?Lol!

TV? That still exists?

@@Ihaveausernametoo I think yes, but I haven't had TV for 3 or 4 years now so I am not sure

Only crap on TV

the big question: would you buy one in that condition?

yes agreed!

quite intriguing,my life really isn't about 'money'

@@neilfleck2330 GN farts

Sure speak for the rest of us

He's made at least 15 grand off of this one video. He owns a big house with a large yard, as well as a huge piece of property, probably $200k in tools and equipment, and he's building a custom shop that will probably cost $200k plus. I think he's good to go. 😅

2nD

Easy to say until you start shelling money out to fix it. Repair and parts are very expensive and adds up quickly for construction equipment not like a automobile. You can really get screwed big time on used construction equipment especially if it’s been sitting for a long time or it’s a rental unit. Hoses and seals dry out, etc. The first thing you ask yourself especially on equipment like that is why was it parked and for how long.

@@100texan2 There is something to be said for heavy equipment sitting in your yard waiting to go do some important project. The guys that know what they are doing with these machines don't have projects to have one sitting in the yard.

I thought the same thing

Yup that's just being thrifty I do it all the time myself Why waste new oil the engine's gonna need a good Flash anyway...

I thought so, too.

I thought the same thing, I was actually thinking it would be nice to have some used oil for this situation. Then he comes out with some. Good idea if you're into finding stuff like this.

Years ago I worked for a company and they had a company mechanic and some contractor mechanics. The old hyster forklift engine went out and the company mechanic said " I just changed the oil in that thing" The old contract mechanic said " you're supposed to use new oil, not change it from one machine to the other" lol. The company guy lost his lid and was pissed off ha ha

Reading this from a seated position

It was coming out as I read this

You guys sit to pee? 😆

@@_Mav I knew someone would mention this lol. I'll admit, I've sat to piss and shit all in one sitting. Kill two birds with one stone my friend. What'd be weirder is, "You shit while standing?"

@@stephenochipa989 haha yeah I saw the opportunity and ran with it, someone had to 😇

back up son... little more... little more... ok, right there.

@@BeBopScraBoo It basically was like that if I remember correctly

Care to elaborate? Never seen liquid fill tires before

@@Joe-xq3zu extra ballast, very common on tractors bit less common on loaders

@@Joe-xq3zu lots of equipment has calcium filled tires for extra weight. They use liquid calcium so it won’t freeze at least in the north where it gets cold. Although I haven’t seen the two valve stem set up

@@Joe-xq3zu very common in farm tractors as well. Had to drain it out of my 1945 Allis Chalmers C tires when replaced.

@@Joe-xq3zuAlso you can get your tires foam filled making them solid rubber like I had my NEW HOLLALAND loader tires for no flats and weight

The manufacturers don't like their customers repairing their equipment so they make it as difficult as possible to repair. It's so much worse on modern equipment.

Clueless about the real engineering involved, there's always some uneducated Monday morning quarterhack whining about how the "engineer" screwed up on some insignificant detail like filter location on a 40 year old piece of equipment. Even though there's a thing called competition where each manufacturer is trying to provide the best piece of equipment at the lowest possible price,... yes they're all out to get the operators and mechanics because there's a big conspiracy to keep them from working on the equipment themselves. Same with computers and TV's and satelites,... the manufacturers don't want the purchasers to work on them themselves,.. so they make them smaller and smaller each year.

Didn't have troubles with sabatoge on the job site back then like happens now.

@@kruleworld I didn't call it a conspiracy, quite the opposite. Or at least in a collusive way. Competition (and government) drives product evolution. A. Regardless of what John Deere or any other manufacturer says, you can't be put in jail for working on your own equipment, but if you do and you screw it up while it's under warranty (and why would you want to work on it if it's under warranty,..miss out on free repair???) you'll void the warranty. They don't want to be responsible for the cost of repairing something the owner or his mechanic screwed up. B. It's not the manufacturer solely who makes them more difficult to work on, it's the government with all of the regulations on fuel efficiency, pollution,.... And of course new technology, new materials, new processes,.. computer driven engines and controls,.. make it more complicated to work on them. And China being a blatant thief of US intellectual property, I imagine that may play into it. All manufacturers deal with this. You see any manufacturers offering analog or the old mechanical gages these days? They're packing 10 lbs of sheet in 5 lb sheet bags.

No kidding. How come there aren’t at least 2 hydrolic lines and 20 pounds of useless plastic in the way. Lol 👍

What a minty F#@ken treat seeing you here bud!! Love your stuff 🤘🏼

Minty 👌🏻

THE MINTY FUCKIN PEG HIMSELF. I don't know why i get excited when i see shit like this.

At first glance i was like sweet! a detroit! 2nd glance....rats....

fancy seein you here

Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼

OR after 30 years of sitting some actual use will unveil all the issues. And as you heard, hydraulic hoses are VERY costly for this caliber of machine. So fixing a couple hoses and your 2-3 grand lighter. If you actually intend on using it, that's fine. I think selling it for some profit is the best idea here.

@@y4nnickschmitt It's bigger than any iron I've worked on recently. I've gotten accustomed to narrow-vein mining equipment where a new steering hose is $25 from the tractor dealership ten minutes up the road!

@@Porty1119 That's what I meant. Fixing this thing up for quick profit isn't as easy as doing the same on a skid steer or small excavator.

Not sure where he is getting g his hoses but I had one of these type loader donated for a few months to work on my motocross track and I promised to fix anything that broke while I was using it. Well I blew a hose one day and it was one of the loader lift hoses just like this and I had it made for $67 dollars here in Colorado Springs. This was 10 years ago but it can’t be that much more. I spent more on hydraulic fluid that the hose because by the time I realize the hose blew I pumped about 20-25 gallons of fluid out. That cost me close to $200 if I remember right. I ended up spending 3-4K on diesel fuel while it was here because that was when BO took office in 08 and diesel and gas skyrocketed to around $4 a gallon and I was even driving to the petroleum place to get red fuel.

Yeah not really, using starter fluid in Diesels is not Good.

even in present condition, i bet it would :)

@@asn413 I pulled one with a 1960's Diamond Reo on a drop deck float trailer back in the mid 1980's.

except in his case the more he works on it the more he earns in RU-vid money

Yep, looks like a money pit to me.

@@danhard8440 Win win

Yeah sitting in the field like that dead, it has zero value. All the parts are obsolete so none of them are going to bring any money, it's just scrap. I have the truck and trailer to move it and unless it was really close by I wouldn't take it for free, the scrap value wouldn't even cover my time

@@joecummings1260 we use those michigan loaders all the time at work and surprisingly the parts on that machine are not obsolete at all (except for the engine itself of which most all the parts to repair it are still readily available) in fact most of those parts are very much standardized. and those loaders are very much reliable and they still start when the new machines don't

😎haha yeah

Diesel Creek SUCKS!

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I thought exactly the same thing! Looked like he had some fun getting that going.

I'm just waiting to get him and Derrick from VGG together to revive something on video. I can see it now. You Tubers start old truck that had been parted out then crushed. They had a little difficulty putting some of "humpty dumptys" pieces back together but after a few "love taps with the old Tonya Harding" the beast roared to life and with the special mixture of coolant and Matt's dump truck oil, sat there and purred like a kitten.

Watch a YT of how to fix them while making a YT of fixing one. Kind of a cross promotion thing. It is just a matter of following instructions. Like repairing or building a computer.

I’m almost 31 and I learned how to operate and grade with a 1974 D8K. This was about 10 years ago. Most certainly do not come close now to what was on the market then. Crude but boringly reliable and gobs of pre emissions black ploom of smoke torque. I miss that machine. Sold of to somewhere in Nigeria. The real CAT dozers that made CAT a global force

It looked like it started breathing again.

Only if he can get it out

Marty T is an excellent channel - so chilled

Have to agree with that it already says its Matts for sure cause of that LOL

Belt squeals Matt's destin to own it

I thought the same thing 😂

I heard that and honestly thought instantly "well that must be a sign that he's gonna buy it" hahaha

If it didn't have a belt squeal he would have to pass on it...

Run one those back n 1976

Well done!

Hey hank didn't know u were here

Thanks bud 🤘🏼

If he was going to buy it he would have mentioned the price.

@@frenchonion4595 i like iron> I like tires> i like turtles

I know right

Yes 🙌

Yep git er standin tall and prowed again .a little spit and a ckeen grease rag she'll be great..

And a smoke!

Consooooooom

Who the hell gets up that early on a Saturday?

AlwaysBored daddy’s gotta work son

@@AlwaysBored123 if you sleep late on a Saturday you aren’t taking advantage of the day

Since he wants to sell it, it depends of the market prices I guess.

@@marcryvon Since the used equîpment price are skyrocketing due to the pandemic, he really could make some money from it.

I know that feeling

Kevin

Rust breather!

Rust

I am not sure, but I think you'll find that the second valve is actually for water filling. Between the tube and the tyre casing. Some of the old big tractor tyres had a certain amount of water in them for balance, weight and to reduce the amount of air required to fill them. It would also explain why the valve stem "appeared" to have no valve in the centre, and why you couldn't feed anything up past it. It's probably a one way valve type deal to stop the flow back out. If it was just air, it would be the same size fitting as the one you used to fill the air with.

Tires.

Tyres

@@timbur2711 Tires

Tyres

@@timbur2711 Tires.

All I thought when I heard that was “alternators charging, check!”

spoiler

@@ryanwemyss610 shit my bad man

@@ryanwemyss610 Maybe if it was mentioned in the title but not the comment section.