Tony Beets swaps out an engine from one of his dozers in an effort to get it moving again so we can restart mining on his claim. Subscribe to Discovery Australia for more great clips: bit.ly/DiscoveryAustralia
@@coolHandLuke5150 The ones who realises the time needed for regular maintenance is much lower than the time needed for big repairs because no maintenance was done
I had the exactly the same thought - It’s expensive without scheduled maitenance. In the other hand it would be boring tv without if everything went smoothly 😄
I love how the broken one that was left sitting a year was looking nice and clean with slick wheels on the back and said 988B clearly on the front loader part and then the one they startup was rusted and beat to heck- and as she was driving away (in the alleged only working loader) the other with slick back wheels and clear 988B was still sitting there- lol talk about whoever dose continuity on that show missed that- lol
There was an episode i think in the season before this one where Parker buys a used fuel tender on an auction site and goes to collect it but comes back with a brand new tanker and no one mentions anything about it.
And who would simply forget a rather fine loader with a little engine problem for several years in the woods? And who would push-pull a loader for several miles with a dozer down the road, if he just could have pushed it onto the flat bed? When the D10 fits onto the flatbed, the loader will fit, too. And why wouldn't they bring a service truck to the loader and fix it in place (just some valves were stuck, which is the first and most common problem, if all hydraulic systems in the loader are not working fine.) instead of wasting time money and material on building this tow bar and hauling it to the site? All of it sounds a little bit too much like TV drama content.
Suggestion about production (after spotting the fake/replacement loader in the end); put Tony on a green screen set swearing a lot and do the rest of the show in CG.
Preventative maintenance... a little work now, to save a LOT of work later. I work for Cat in purchasing so it's really cool seeing all the machinery actually out in the field!
I'm a field service mechanic, and apparently they haven't heard of that😆 They towed it 6 miles so a mechanic a mechanic to look at the issue, whereas they drop an engine in just like it's nothing?!?!😆😆😆
@@carmineredd1198 no it's not. They get away with it because they lobby for politicians and lawmakers who in turn support and pass laws that allow them to subvert most taxes legally. Like it or not they aren't breaking the law on most cases and in cases where they are they pay a fine, nobody serves time and they continue unnoticed for awhile until it's time to pay their bribe again.
Tony Beets has that can-do attitude, nothing fades him he just does it…spoke too soon, the new engine has just died! But that won’t stop him, what he says goes! Love this chap, (man to man of course!)
I hear you. The mentality of prospectors is completely different. When gold gives you enough capital to buy a house every day, maintenance is an obstacle you can't stop for and that's really a shame because as much as that equipment makes you money, it needs to pay for itself first, and if there's no time or budget to keep it up, it's because you're regarding the operation as a series of events. One piece drops out, nothing makes money. They put thousands of hours on new equipment every season because stopping after 2 weeks to change the engine oil is a hindrance. They prove their mentality with math saying cost of basic maintenance, manpower, parts and repair become so costly because of down time for the whole facility and being where they are that it's cheaper to run that excavator into the ground and buy a new one next year
LOL, the dramatics of it all. 🤣 And as a 40 year heavy equipment Operator, I'm pretty sure that the equipment with the engine swap is a LOADER ..... NOT A DOZER.🙄 I ran a 988B back in 88 in a rock quarry.
takes a few moths to grow tobacco and then he has to harvest and cure it , maybe one day next year , unless its winston, then 5 years to get the perfect blend , marlboro just sweep the barn stables and add rotten cheese for that unique milky flavour
FAKE Reality TV. The loader she is driving at the end is a diferent loader, It does not have the model signage on the side, the lights stack on the cable is missing and it has a metal mess visor on the cab. Condition of the paint is completely different, also rear wheels are no longer bald.
Basically they swapped an engine on the field and it was a stuck valve the whole time. If they got the second guy the first time they would be done with the project.
The loader she got in at the end was a different loader. Idk if it was all faked. But she definitely wasn’t driving the loader they were pulling away. No speaker in the cab, inside door looks different, and the back tires aren’t bald.
So weird how it's edited.. 7:12 Clearly not the same loader he was just working on in the scene prior.. and the one he was working on is behind her.. probably he hadn't finished it but they needed a nice ending.
this is why you need to always find the root cause of the problem, before trying to fix something that dosnt actually need fixing. as if they didnt replace the engine, it would of still worked as it was non engine related issues
Um is no one going to point out that they never glow plugged it. First world problem I know but it is less stress on the starter, batteries, and a whole load of other stuff. :)
@@turbopumpen1031 yeah I have heard about that. I still don't understand how they don't know abought them or choose not to use them. When they are in Alaska and sometimes in Canada it can be extremely cold which means it is a massive benefit to use them.
