Will this Old Bulldozer START & DRIVE 2 Miles to Rescue NOT 1 but 3 BOGGED Tractors? 

Hey Bruce, when I was about 10 yrs old they straightened the road in front of our house. The hill, which was quite large, became the source of the crushed stone for the road base. A crushing plant was set up and the work began. They were using a D9 Cat for removing the overburden and then assisting the crushing operation. Every morning is hear the pony motor start up and then the big diesel. I'd sit on the edge to the hill side and watch the progress. One day the D9 operator stopped the machine and waved me over. He helped me up on the dozer and we made a couple passes moving material. 63 years later I still remember that experience well. Thanks for the great videos 😊

That grader would be a good fix Bruce, it looks a classic 👍

Definately need to see that grader move.

Thanks Bruce, good result, looking forward to the D8, my childhood centrefold, love a bit of pony motor action!😅.

Pulled those big tractors out like it was nothing! Amazing how much dirt came out of the filters, getting the even bigger dozer running will be awesome!

I love Australian content, to me there is nothing better than Aussie movies, locally designed and built cars & machinery and the like and to top it off us Aussies as a people. A lot of people do this will it start bizzo from around the world but you old mate are bloody legend. I cant get enough, no bullshit no lies no crap just the real thing , thanks old mate total respect

Love seeing the difference between your geography and ours here on the east coast of the US

Yes please Sir the grader film will be good as we know you, pure no fuss old school

Yes Bruce I would love to see you do a show on that Grader

Nice to see someone else using an anti back lash on the tow chains and straps. Get the grader running Bruce and I'm looking foreword to the 'man size dozer'.

Yeah.... get the grader going 😊

That is the first time that I have seen tyres used when using chains. Please tell me why & the advantages.

Hey up mate two videos for my Sunday morning excellent, always a fun day to be had on a deboging mission, like how you'd made a temporary health and safety screen on back of the dozer, please don't forget to send me the name of that fuel jigger i need to get one

Please make a movie of the grader.

That dozer just said "hold my beer, I got some playing to do".

Best video production on equipment repair on RU-vid! The cameraman and Bruce do a great job at editing and production.

Thanks again Bruce , brilliant viewing. Glad all went well there , thanks

G'day Bruce! True Blue Legend!

The best content on you tube Bruce.

Bring the grader back to life Bruce.

What a trooper. You're still in recovery but find the energy to go and help others. At least it was well worthwhile. Recovering three tractor rigs in one mission. All in all that must have been a full day's work. A very successful mission Bruce and being the gentleman you really are, you found the time to thank the cameraman and the farmers you were recovering for helping you. Let's face it it's not a situation where you could phone a recovery company to save the day. Don't know if you like a beer but you deserve freebies for life after this mission.

Another great, Bruce. You’ve pumped them out this week. Keep the stories coming. Most informative.

Nice job Bruce 👏. I wonder how the Moon Buggy would've gone with this debacle...

Great effort by all concerned, have been watching Diesel Creek who I suspect would love to see what you are up to, will continue to watch for your output.

Love to see the grader get a bit of attention. The old Chamberlain tractor still working is good to see. Thanks for sharing.

Hell yer I like the way you look after all those old machines

Hello Bruce and the cameraman great work on getting those tractors out of the wet area the bulldozer did the the job easily track's are much better on wet areas great work fella's and yes it will be awesome to see you get the grader started and running enjoyed watching thanks for sharing Bruce blessings to everyone

Dear Mr. Bruce. 👍👌👏 Very well done again (video and work). Oldies but definitely Goldies! This applies to Bruce and the bulldozer. 😁 ;-) Get 100% well soon, Sir! Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all involved people.

Lovely episode Bruce. Cheers from Sweden! Grader next, please! The tractor owners owe you a nice dinner, i think.

Grader, sounds like a plan . But you have got to look after your health first, particularly your eyes

Love the channel Bruce and yes I would love to see the old grader come back to life.

Get the old grater going Bruce ! Another great video as usual.

Glad to hear the eyes going ok mate 👍takes a while to get back to normal - no heavy stuff 👍

The grader would be a good one.

The Old Dozer did the Job... Another Top Video :)

For those viewers who aren't familiar with th phrase " mind your p's and q's " , the phrase dates back to the 1700s , maybe further . The pub/tavern owner would say this to the maids serving , and means pints and quarts . In others words keep track of how many ales were given to a customer . Cheers and 🍺🍺🍺🍺

Gday Bruce, the dozer is definitely coming in handy and goes to show that old machines still have the place, I wouldn’t mind seeing the grader come back to life to, great episode mate, cheers

Thank you Bruce; one of the best yet. Your cameraman/person is very, very good, as is the editing. Almost pro documentary level. It is wonderful to see old machinery prove its worth and this old Cat really showed its value. The build fidelity of machines from the late 50s thru 80s was pretty high, simple but durable.

We would love to see some grader action and thanks for sharing this thoroughly enjoyed watching it Mr Bruce:)

Take care of yourself, Bruce! Was awesome to see that old girl working, it's all good and well to get them to run, but to see them in action is so much better. Also, I thought you would know by now that asking if we want you to get the grader running comes under the title of 'Bloody stupid question!' Of course we do. Thanks for such wonderful content.

Bruce your the best , love your videos . Massachusetts USA

If you have air cleaners with a lot of dry dust in them, and you start up on a damp morning, the moisture will hit the dust and in seconds the dust turns into a kind of mud that chokes off the air badly. A lot of the shire councils, block off the high speed gears on their dozers, to stop people stuffing the tracks.

I hope the farmer brought you guys some nice beers. Not that 4X or Great Northern rubbish though :-)

Thanks for a fun adventure, Bruce! Would be excellent to see that Grader for sure.

Absolute legend!. Nuff said!. 🙂🍺

Love to see more of the grader

Your awesome mate ❤️

That grader would make a great video

Old cantankerous dozer for the win!

Yes please bruce . Get grader going mate ) 👍

In life there is a rule for all men…. He who has the most toys wins! 🤣 great video

If you could Bruce that would be great to see the old grader running and operating 🤙👌

Hell yeah Bruce what a title!

Always fascinating Bruce! Yes, Please do the grader too! 🙂

Yes please Bruce, get the grader going - regards markc

Great aussie videos as always what a legend mate

Nice work Bruce, Goes to show its all about ground pressure, not weight. 30T over 30 square feet of track is only 15 psi where the tractor is 5T on 3 square feet of tyre or 26 psi.

Nice, so methodical and steady. Took a real machine to extracate the others. Thanks for doing it! -From Idaho USA

Check hydraulic oil level when the rams/ pistons are in the up position. If you look at the dipstick while the hydraulics are in the lower position, It will give you a high reading. This is because the oil has been retracted from the hydraulic cylinders and back to sump. Which will raise level you are reading on the dipstick . I learned this from a 1969 Ford 3000 diesel tractors owners manual

The Allis-Chalmers grader would be interesting to see it up and running again, if you have the desire to have a go at it.

Best 45 minutes entertainment this week Bruce, great save, that old girl still has a lot of work left in her yet as do you. For sure mate, I would really love to see you kick the old grader in the pills and see if she’ll run. Your videos really are so down to earth and honest, just love them. Catch you next week Bruce, have a good one

Another great show. Yes, please, on doing a show on the grader. I've been on and worked farms and ranches for most of my 56 year's and love when they modify machine's because it's what they could afford. Those old guys are part engineer. I knew one that took a model A Ford and used the frame engine and transmission and used it to power a chopper mixer for pig feed. I last saw him run it in 1990. It fired right up. He since passed away. Old Shelby Cook has long since passed. I bet that old rig would still run if he was around.

Great video Bruce and team! Loved the tires put in the rigging of the straps and chains to prevent a dangerous situation!

With three tractors stuck you did a great job getting them out, but if I had that place I would go back to the mower that doesn't get stuck and bring in the sheep or goat's. :)

love ya vids Bruce, and HERE is another one

Take it easy? Lets go and Rescue 3 BOGGED Tractors! Great Video! Been a while since my dad showed me that method of siphoning fuel!

I enjoy watching ur videos 👍👍👍

Great video Bruce. Kudos to your team too.

Thanks again for the video Bruce. That's a big yes from me to get the grader going. Would be good to see it pushing a bit of dirt. Cheers Evo..

I have bogged my tractor several times. An old set of aluminium loading ramps are best things for getting under wheels and easy for tractor tyres get purchase on. Heaves itself out like an old hippo in a mud pond every time easy.

Awesome job Bruce 👍

Another great vid brucey. But those terminal cleaner u use i always end up with em there cheap n nasty they do there job but theyre junk

Great show! The camera work is really, really good, thanks 👍♥️

Thunderbird 'D' to the rescue! Didya ever watch the thunderbirds Bruce? About my favourite show back more than 50 years ago! Geez I'd still watch them even now given the opportunity! Actually, watching the dozer crawling through the trees sorta reminds me of the episodes where they had the 'huge' 'crablogger' machine, chopping down, grabbing trees with its mechanical arms & grippers, then feeding them into its own belly & grinding them up. Aah, the good old days, when we had a black & white Aussie made 'Healing' brand tv. What you could have mentioned while tightening the battery leads onto the dozer's batteries was that you tightened the +ve terminal up first with the -ve lead NOT connected to the battery yet. Doing it that way, even if your spanner (or whatever tool you're using to thighten the terminals onto the battery with) touches the chassis, you're not gonna get showers of sparks & arcs from shorting out the battery. After the +ve cable is tightened, it's safe to tighten the -ve cable connector to the battery with no fear of sparks & arcs this time either, because the -ve terminal is normally connected to the chassis anyway! The opposite, of course, applies for a +ve earthed vehicle. Just sayin! Watching the dozer driving to where you're gonna pull the bogged tractors out, at 2 or 3 km/h, gives an idea of how much 'grunt' that dozer has! MASSIVE grunt! It pulled those tractors out like nuthin Bruce! Barely even slowed it down at all! Just an awesome machine! And I like the idea of the straps threaded through the old tyres to keep them out of the mud! I'll join the others too by saying - "Yep, do a video on the 'fat alice' grader please!"

Hi Bruce, good to hear the surgery has gone well, just be carefull to let your eye recover fully. Love this video, it brought back a few memories. Back in 1963 when I was 15 and just started my apprenticeship, I was buying 1 spanner a week, and the very first one I got was 1/4 whit. It was a Britool and I've still got it🙂. I also like how you use tyres on the straps and chains for safety in case any of them break under load. The number of young guys I see today who have no idea of safety when towing or winching, I've seen both chains and cables break under heavy load and they've had enough energy to take someones head off. They can call me an old know-it-all fart if they want but, after a lifetime in engineering I've still got both eyes and all my fingers. Keep yourself well and thanks for your videos. A video of the Grader would be interesting.

Grader video would be great. My dad grew up operating TD35s and 40s. I grew up with D8s. Cable blade and rippers, pilot motor start. 6sp manual. Dams, fences, scrub pulling. We used 5th and 6th gears, but throttled down low, no torque but good for walking long runs. They would rattle and shake that bad in 6th at med rpm you struggled to stay on the machine, let alone if you hit a hole or rocked on a log, would catapult you into the cluch levers, and crack some ribs. We rotated tracks to wear the pins on both sides.

Bruce it was great fun watch ing good job well done cheers

Yeah, that's correct when it comes to reversing - we used to do it with our old CAT D5B in the New England. I know a few who did the same with D7G's & D9's too.

Haha that dozer idled those tractors out! Amazing traction

Hi Bruce, watching you blow out the air filters lit then the air filter ontop with the upper end blocked off, as the firework explodes it blows the dust-out, but, compressed air works I guess., i have seen on youtube some use an exploding firework

Great bog rescue & yes to a grader, Will it start, be safe and keep up the good work 🤠

Great work Bruce I love that old Alice 👌

Cheers Bruce glad your eye is getting there always enjoy your videos cheers .

Your a gem Bruce . Safety wasnt even a word when i did my time on tractors. Now i think of it all the time. It's not about me getting hurt, it's the others that you hurt. I'm so glad you thought about the job in a safe way. Regards,Tim.

Our Bruce on a Sunday afternoon ❤....

The old Fat Alice did an amazing job, I think she deserves some fresh fillers at the very least 😊

Nicely done Bruce! Definitely would like to see you tackle the grader next! Thank you to the cameraman for taking on the heavy load so you can heal! Take care of yourself!

Like to see you get back to those graders, thanks for this video, nice to see these ol' machines come back to life.

Very nice work sir. I grew up on a farm and know how bad a tractor can get stuck. A dozer could also get badly stuck, but is very strong and tracks is just great for grip.

Bruce, I'm old enough to remember when we used to turn the pins and bushings..seems folks don't do that anymore these days with all the Chinese aftermarket stuff floating around.

Why are the tires put on the pulling straps? Is it in case they snap the tires would keep them from whipping around?

I would love to have a old dozer like that would be perfect for building a motocross track or making trails through bush

good on ya bruce

Bruce, growing up here in Texas we had two Fiat Allis dozers, a 16B and an 11B. They were good machines and moved a Lot of dirt. I had to come back and edit this comment because it posted 20B instead of 16B. While I'm editing I'll add to my coment.. The 16B we bought out of Alaska thru an auction. When the dozer showed up, it had a complete brand new undercarriage under it including new rails and swamp pads. Apparently the auction company had a machinery service in Alaska install all the new workings and the machinery company installed it on the WRONG machine but it had already came all the way from Alaska to Texas..and we only paid $25,000 for the dozer at auction. The whole undercarriage was a bonus! I don't even think the auction fee paid for that mistake.

Clean these dirty air filters at TS 20:00 min by lighting a fire cracker, putting the air filter over it and - Boom - all the dust will be out! Tom 😎

What purpose do the tires on the tow straps/chains serve? Avoiding tangles?

I was concerned about the weight of the dozer on that soaked ground But it was fine and it pulled out the tractors like they were not even there Good one Bruce Good to hear your eye is on the mend 👍👍

That’s very smart using the tires to stop the chain if it snaps And yes do a will it run on the grader

Yeah have a go at that old grader

That Dozer is a just a grand old monster, the stories it could tell !