I know It’s a lot more work, but I’m happy you decided to be more active on your channel. Your videos are highly entertaining, and put together well. They are also of my favorite type of content.
Sam, I would love to see you and Matt go together and buy a CO2 cleaning blaster so you can easily clean things up more easily and then restore equipment like C&C Equipment does. Using old equipment is great but IMO (I know it is not worth anything) it would be nice to see them looking good as well.
You really scored with the deck crane. Matt must be jealous! One suggestion is to bite the bullet fold the jib and set it up double line. Not for the added capacity but the for the ease of moving things fractions of an inch when doing these kinds of jobs. But hey, I am just jealous of you new toy too!
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. There is not much that you cannot do. Also love the way you and Matt help each other out all the time.
I never knew Matt from Diesel Creek was so big until I started seeing him on this channel. Great video. Seems like several creators are now collaborating now. Just watched one last night with Matt and Clint from C&C Equipment. All 3 of yawl have great channels. Thanks for bringing us along.
TEREX Crane; we had a diesel engine in ours. Same annoying load management system. No manual booms or jibs. Used the double block all the time. Used as an air transportable crane for C-130 Engine and prop changes in the USCG. Great machine! Glad you found one.
Seems like you're a fellow Coast Guard Aviation Machinist Mate. AD3 1976 to 1980. Traverse City Airstation to Miami Airstation with 2 summers at Mobile for the summer cadet eval base support group. First flight mech in Grumman HU16e Albatross then off to Sikorski HH52a Seaguard C school. Some of my best years.
@@ronaldheit196 AE here. We all pitched in on engine changes. Always swapping generators, pulling cannon plugs in the horse collar, etc. ADs ran the show. 1980 to 2006 for me.
@n1dp . Looks like you were going in as I was going out. November 30th my last day in 80. Then wife hated Miami and to re-up I had to do 2 more in Miami because I transferred from Traverse City on an extension. Went back up to Michigan were we were from, got divorced 3 years later came back to Miami with my daughter. Been here since except 10 years in the Keys. I had a good friend up in TC who was a AE. Just can't remember his name. It'll pop in my head eventually. That was when I was in the Goat shop.
Great to see your dad AND Matt there helping you! since there have been times where you have helped Matt🙂Started watching your channel due to watching and following Matt. This Cat NO 12 just did NOT want to give up her engine!! gonna be intersting how you rebuild the engine and install it elsewhere..looking forward to future videos.
After watching another channels carry deck TEREX crane revival I fell in love with the style of it - so handy. I’m surprised that you don’t see more of them about. 😊
Great vid Sam, it was really good to hear Matt getting enthused about your Terex. It’s small and compact enough to use indoors but incredibly powerful and manourvreable for outdoor jobs too. IMHO it’s a far better and more versatile solution than putting up that bloody great big beam crane that Matts proposing.
I’m impressed with the Terex as far as load capability I’ve worked as a service technician on large stationary pumps and when we do new installs or component replacements I would talk to the guys running the equipment such as cranes I’ve seen larger cranes that had lower capacity
Ah yes, new home as a parts machine. Just like my childhood pets went to go live on a farm... Nice video! Crane is def earning its keep already, made that job a ton more viable.
You and your Dad are so awesome you both really know what you’re doing great job and video mate thanks for sharing it all the best to you guys and family. And your mate too
...I have noticed on some of the videos from this neck of the woods that some sliding parts and other things seem to suffer from lack of lubrication: both before and after use of the object involved. A splash of oil or grease here and there would do wonders with keeping the involved "geriatric" machinery going. Just an observation and a passing thought...love your channel and look forward to seeing what's next. 🙂
Sam, you really got that Terex carry deck crane dialed in. It will come in handy. I was trying to recall the detail of removing that control unit power shaft ( I have done a few of them) and that Pete with the 1693 came rolling in. Great content. Honest to goodness classic iron. I look forward to seeing the 4600 going in the crane .
It’s cool seeing Matt, your dad and you all working together on old equipment. What’s the story on the old international dump truck that was parked next to the grader?
Strange to see Diesel Creek Matt as a background actor. You can buy a remote control kit. Then you get remote controller, receiver, and then solenoids that usually just bolt on to the back of the hydraulic valve body, as a professional crane operator, having remote control for cranes are so, so, so useful...
On IH tractors they often use 3 sets of splines, 1 in the crankshaft to run the hydraulic pump. 2nd in the clutch disc for the transmission 3rd on a coaxial shaft on the pressure plate to run the IPTO independent power take off. If you use the tractor for a lot of mower work, when the clutch is shot, the short IPTO shaft is generally worn out as well.
It's OK seeing how much it will lift 14 ft from the base, you ought to try extending all the way out along the ground, and then trying to lift just one ton.... It's always reassuring to know when the thing will start to topple. We used to do tests with Fork Lift Trucks, to see how much uneven ground they could safely be used upon... it was only a couple of degrees, and we had to have safety measures in place to restrain the topple.
My hope is that the people who sold you that crane watch the channel and see what can happen with a little TLC. I'd still like to see how the electrical and hydraulic hookups work on the crane when it's rotating 360 degrees.
Since you seem to have ample space around, I definitely would not scrap that grader or any other piece of machinery. Just put it in purgatory as you call it. Two things will come of this. 20 to 30 yrs from now, scrap metal will be worth much more or you never know when a part of this grader will be needed by someone will to pay a hefty price or even yourself needing that special part and you end up having it in your backyard. Here in northern Canada, my very good friend had such a yard but mostly street vehicles. As a hobby, I rebuilt so many cars from used parts and sold them till one day the city reached our location. In the sale price my friend wisely bargained the cost and removal of everything metal plus the cost of the land, plus the business, plus his house. All told he made enough to retire at age 71 and travel around the world with his wife and spend winter in a new place in the south and of course the newer house that he bought. So all this blah blah to say: you have gold in your hands, just wait for it to cure to perfection.
Old boilermaker remembering fondly working off a carry deck. Mounted a Lincoln 250, a Quincy compressor and a couple of Knackk boxes and were golden fabbing and chucking main steam up into racks. Mondays we would load a hay wagon with maybe two dozen sched 80 randoms and load the front deck with pallets of fittings. Wouldn't see the boss until Thursday when he brought paychecks. Got drunk and divorced a couple times off that machine. I don't miss the drink or the ladies. I miss that old carry deck.
We had the "ole #1 motor grader" on display at our plant here in Decatur, IL. I don't know what they did with it when they moved the graders to Little Rock. I think it was still trapped in the stall in the original building in 2000.
Most impressive clip in this video was when that R44 managed to fly from one side of the frame to the other without crashing. You couldn't pay me enough to get in an R44.
To help with keeping your winch tight, extend the boom the length of your jib and extension. Boom down to put the ball on the ground and then retract the boom. You should never touch the winch without weight of the ball or load on it the the line....just a tip for ya.
Kinda sad seeing an old workhorse parted out but it happens sometimes. I'm sure Matt left because he couldn't handle watching it go off to be a parts machine. He loves old equipment like crazy.
Thanks, that was fun. I liked how stopped by and just started to help. Friends like that are hard to come by. Did ì see an International ton truck in your grave yard? I'm looking for something different to fix up. Basically a frame swap from a newer ton truck to keep the look but improve reliability and fuel efficiency. Thanks, Bob Ordewald, Staunton Va
Saturday morning. Got my coffee, got some scrappy. What else do you need. Wonder what Matt’s up to? I guess he got tired waiting for Western Penn Electric grifters to show up now he’s helping you.
One of these engines has been sitting in the industrial air compressor room of an old Alcoa aluminum factory, hooked to a lighting system backup generator since new. Shame its sitting there going to waste; it's likely to get scrapped someday for floor space. Has very few running hours on it and no longer used; fuel tank removed a few years ago for liability of leakage. Was only used to test its operation and run an emergency lighting circuit if electricity went off. Common practice before battery backup lighting was cheaply available, and plant had no windows; bomb proof WW2 design. I had to look up what it was originally used for by the model #, and it was used in early Cat Road graders. CAT D333 turbo diesel hooked to a 125 kva 3 phase generator. Whole power pack with radiator. It is located in Richmond Indiana, in case anyone wants to try and buy it. Could likely get it for free if you remove yourself and am a contractor thats self insured. The factory would rather have the floor space for more compressed air equipment. But does not want the liability of removal. Genset located a few feet from an overhead door, large enough to fit through and load onto a truck or trailer. They might let you use their ancient big forklift, that only maintenence is allowed to operate, due to it not having modern safety features. It might lift it, if it's going onto a low trailer. There is a portable aluminum dock back there too for loading onto the back of a straight truck or semi trailer. Electricians and millwrights are available 24/7 to disconnect the unit and would assist in any way they can.
Ur dad and matt said that the carry crane is gonna be very useful.. move it where u need it and after u put the remote kit on it, why did we wait so long ?!(and matt may rethink his shop crane project !) Use this in the shop, in the field, at the location of repair or even help topple a tree, and im sure sam that u'll even come up with a couple ATTACHMENTS(that u'll build, modify to make that crane MORE useful)!!
Yes that coller is spost to come off with the the motor, shame about the old 12 I have a lot of hours plowing snow in a 12 nukell buster. had a hole in the floor to piss out of.
