I’m 68 years old. When I was a young boy, my Dad bought an old D7 and rebuilt the engine. The blade was cable driven. She was old, but very strong. Dad cleared a lot of our land with it and built several small ponds. Good memories! Thanks for sharing.
I am just a few years younger, 64 and have a similar story. I love the old D7.. a classic simple rugged machine which is relatively easy to maintain and will operate reliably for years. It is a shame that machines like this are no longer made. Now all the heavy equipment I see is chocked full of electronics that only makes them more complicated and usually more expensive.
Hi ray, i remember myfather also salvaging a used cat in the mid sixties and subbing a chrysler gas engine in it and riding in it with him to clear roads through land butnot much else about it. I watch this and it's almost hypnotic,
@@johnpalmer5131 That’s true John, But, they can do a-helluva lot more and, are far far more, Powerful. I know. I’ve did the homework in comparing model. At the end of the day, I do believe it boils down to what we like. I much prefer new equipment. New pickups. New cars. Old cars have never done anything for me. No I don’t do the old restored car shows. You can have it. And I’m 64. I know my dad always said this. “Lots of folks talk about the good old days. I lived them. Many things about them, flat-out-stunk. Riding in the back, in a rumble seat all bundled up. Still freezing to death. I’ll take this shiny new Ford F-150 4x4 my boys bought me any day. And when the cold Montana wind blew we froze if we got away from the wood cooking stove or away from the firewood burning iron beast in the living room or the one in each bedroom. And we made the ones we had. Ones today are 100% more efficient folks! Chinking the walls when the wind blew through on my families old log house.” And he said a-lot more. So many things back then did not, I repeat, Did not last long. Like so many people today flat out lie. And say they did. They didn’t. And farm equipment back then, and like this was far more DANGEROUS TO OPERATE. If you went to our old grange hall here in NW Montana on dance night, back in the 60s / 70s up through the 80s, you could and would have seen so many, old timers missing fingers, hands etc because of equipment. “Back-In-The-Day.”
I have been watching Andrew for several years now. Someone posted a link that we should check him out and I did. He was just doing small things back then. boy has he moved up in a few short years. Thanks Andrew for sharing you life with us over the years. Keep it going and I can't wait to see you repairing that cat. I laughed so hard when the car rolled down the hill and the dog ran over!! The look on its face was just priceless.
That drone footage of you dozing the hillside is seriously next level. Nobody else on youtube does it like you, Andrew. Really high quality stuff, as always.
@@lutomson3496 I don't even understand how all that works with the drones but it's pretty damn cool they can do all that because it adds so much to his and others videos.
@@Military-Museum-LP I'm not sure there's anything he's not good or great at.pretty amazing guy and if he's not a genius he rewriting the meaning of it.
I love how the equipment keeps getting bigger. I look forward to the 10yr progression when the video pops up in my feed of “I bought a used Bagger 293, lets use it to level this mountain in 10mins” Lol, I love this channel, always good entertainment, and fun content
I love the fact that Andrew loves to save older equipment! The old stuff just works whenever you need it to! People have pushed dirt and rocks for years and never needed a computer to do it. This new 💩 they sell gets used for a week and some sensor gets tripped and only the selling company can fix it! What a racket!
Absolutely. One of his vids, he paid like $1400 for a controller for a skid steer, where the computer was all potted so you couldn't work on it. I can guarantee there's plenty of people who could build a similar controller using an Arduino and some relays and sensors.
The piece you found goes under the Idler yoke, the 2 round pieces push the springs up. You are missing an air cleaner cover I front of your right foot is a decompression lever, When cranking you should have oil and fuel pressure before you turn the compression on. Turn the pony motor off by shutting off the gas, the gas drains down to the crankcase, change the oil to save pony. Youcan flip the cutting edge and lower the end bits Its a good machine it will move alot of dirt Good Luck Bill V
On the older cats the air cleaner looks like it’s missing a cover but the filter has a rubber lip that seals on the inside of the filter housing. So the filter is it’s self the cover. Jpaydirt has a good explanation of the filter typed here at 36:40 ua-cam.com/video/774g0_piBzk/v-deo.html
Andrew, The piece that fell off is the one that supports in-place the cushions of the idler wheel. There are four cylindrical (4 inches ) rubbers that have a spring inside. That goes inside the idler fork. Hope it helps, greetings from Bolivia. You can find any parts that you need at CTP parts store. Oh and another thing you don’t need to open the track chain to replace that Grease track tensioner seal. 👍🏻👍🏻
I love how he just rolls the car off the side of the hill then just says “well, guess I need to make a guardrail here” classic Andrew Camatra right there….. lol great video
Andrew, just a heads up, there is a de accelerator pedal by your right foot. So when you pull the throttle lever back, leave it there, full throttle. Then use your de accelerator pedal to control, your throttle. That way when you are pushing dirt it’s always full throttle. Love what you do
like a jake brake sorta ran d-7 d-8 us army d-7 had the rops (roll bar) with 1/2 perforated metal scabbed onto it to keep debris like tree limbs from hitting you went we were clearing woods definitely i nice find not ever cheap to fix but looks like it's ready to go to work as is
Im 57 and i got my mom who is 90 watching your videos Andrew for the past 3 years!!...mom loves Cody and watching you and thinks your a handsome young man!! We always look forward to your videos👍👍just thought i would share this as i dont leave comments very often have a great day!!
Andrew, once the pressure and heat from the pup/pony engine is "good to go", shut off the gas and let the pup/pony run dry. If you leave gas in the carb bowl, the float and needle will open and close, from being bounced around thus, getting gas to leak in the cylinder and end-up in the small engine sump (Oil dilution). I hope it helps.
Nice find Andrew. I used to run one of those way back when. I believe there is a lever on the bottom right of the dash that operates the compression release for the big engine. Switching that over to the right will release the compression. As you already know, pulling the lever on the left will engage the pony motor and allow you a little time to bring oil and fuel pressure up. Then, cracking the throttle and kicking the compression lever over to the left will bring the big engine to life! Good luck with the old girl!
yea it runs but that's about all i can say for it look's like it was raised from the dead from some scrap pile i want Andrew to get rich and buy one of those fancy new dozer what are they I'm guessing about $143.000 ? this antique needs a funeral in the steel mill
I was an operating engineer local 12 for 30 years only ran one dozen with a pony motor and actually saw a drop cable doze that hauled around to job sites for a Tax write off it never was used
@@stevenherrold5955 Andrew has plenty of money, thus his growing collection of antique iron, but he has stated many times that he hates electronics and refuses to buy anything that has them.
It’s amazing what was accomplished with the D-7’s. I think if you look at old footage of the Alaskan pipeline you’d see many 7’s in operation. They’d hook 2-3 together and shove stuff nearly vertical off the side of mountains Then pull them back and do it again. Those operators must have had nuts of steel.
The piece of metal that was found is the idler slider pad. In order to reseal the track adjuster cylinder, the dozer frame and the track need to be removed. The idler can then be removed which will allow access to the adjuster cylinder. I can't wait to see how you are going to push out the track pin to break the track.
Andrew, thank you for this one. brings back memory's when they were building I-84 from exits 6 down to 1 State line and thru Brewster,Ny. My dad use to drive us over too the cliffs and watch them blow up the mountains and dig out the debris then bring in those dozers and steam shovels. Amazing what Cats, capability's were for that time.. I 84 and I684 only been built since 1958 to 1963 from Danbury thru Newburgh. A lot of blowing up went on. They took the dirt from most of the farm fields in and around Danbury and Brewster to use as the base.
I am perpetually amazed at the power and usability of these dozers. Andrew grading that rocky hill with ease, would have taken 30 men 6 months to complete just 100 years ago.
It’s even more impressive when you consider that the first D7 came out way back in 1939. We moved pretty fast from shovels and picks to heavy equipment.
100 years ago, it would all be cheap slave/prison labor, like the kind that say, “hot-tars the roof of the plate factory for a bucket of suds for a guy and his co-workers” ;) (I wonder if anyone gets the reference nod)
Love your content Andrew, as far as your winch goes, the filter you saw on the top is the suction screen filter for the system, the winch is mechanically driven by the pto but is controlled using a small low pressure hydraulic system(only around 220psi to run the foreword and reverse clutches). So on the right side of the winch should be your oil reservoir, hyster recommends either 10wt hydraulic oil or atf. There should be a small gear pump on the converter housing behind the engine that the suction hose and pressure hose goes to, hopefully this helps you start to get winch working. These old hyster winches are the best, hyster was bought out by allied winches and some parts are still available for some, that’s where I have picked up some parts for mine. Also there should be a pressure line filter under one of the covers on the left side of winch good luck 🍀👍🏻
Right on. Oil spec has updated to oil that uses a friction modifier that works better. And the winch is always running when the tractor is on so no oil probably didn’t help the winch. Good call Cumminschevy
Its amazing what some TLC does for a neglected machine. I love how you dive in to sort out anything you buy. When you have finished it wil be a fine work horse to add to the AC stable. Some of the comments about starting the main engine seem like they know what they are talking about.
It’s great to see Andrew buying stuff he needs for work around his place! It’s refreshing to see someone creating content that is meaningful and useful. Keep up the great work Andrew.
This was a great old-school style video. I particularly enjoy your own personal camera work and time lapse style of editing. So relaxing and satisfying to see the roadway take shape and get smoothed out. These kinds of videos are why I subscribed. To see you living the dream now tops it all off. Come on Cody, let's go roll the car off the cliff again!
My dad was a logger on the West Coast and had a D7E and a D7F, both great logging cats. The D7E should be a turbocharged 4 cylinder, then they switched to a normally aspirated 6 cylinder in the F model. Great to see one of the old girls still alive and working.
I love how the 3rd Gen has just gotten more and more beat up as time has gone on. And it’s not even normal wear and tear. The whole underbody of the cap is bent up. And then rolling the yota to top it off. Great video as always Andrew. Been a fan forever!
My Dad worked heavy maintenance for a road construction crew for years. He could pull these apart and put them back together with his eyes closed. Every time Andrew pulls out the HUGE wrenches it reminds me of him.
Pony motors have to have the fuel shut off then run out of gasoline once the main engine is started or the vibrations will overflow the pony carb and dilute the pony engine oil and destroy the splash lubed bearings costing you a boat load of money to rebuild the pony motor with almost impossible to find parts. They dont hold a lot of engine oil. A few seconds will save you thousands and months of downtime.
"fixing things" ... or not! (29:19) Maybe a guard rail along here... oh well, the left headlight needed replacing, anyway. It'll be easier with the bumper "removed"! 😜
Great to see how the pony motors have developed over the years - I go back to D4 of the 1950 vintage - that pony motor was a rope pull (no electrics) to start it - start the pony motor - let it run to warm itself up and also the radiator fluid ( the tractor had one cooling system for both the main deisel and pony motors) and manually engage it to the main motor ( which had its decompresion lever activated), have the pony motor turn over the deisel until oil pressure was built, close the deisel compression system, let the deisel turn over under compression until the compression and rad fluid had warmed up, open deisel throttle and keep the pony motor running until deisel fires which then throws the pony motor away from the deisel, turn the pony motor fuel off and let it starve to a stop. The new version seems so much simpler. Love the vid
Good description. I'd never seen a CAT started until this past September when an old farmer brought one on a trailer to the Sandwich, Illinois fair. Was part of the Old Engine Collectors. Took him a while to get the pony started, but did get the big engine going. I guess it was on a trailer because there was like a 10 KW generator attached to the machine for powering stuff.
The guardrail test was epic and totally unexpected! Way to go! Loved it! From what I understand, the D7 is basically bullet proof and I bet you will have thar winch working in no time!
Watching this guy feels like playing a simulation game. Starting with a shovel, buying better and better equipment but always run everything yourself. And meanwhile as a bonus build a better house. :) We need to see some quests. :) Great to watch.
Chalk up another new toy for Andrew. He’ll have it working better than new in no time. Amazing at the deals he finds and gets them to work well. Andrew is certainly an individual not afraid of work and willing to tackle repairing machines he has no experience working on, yet makes them better in the end. A very talented fellow. But we got to hand it to Cody for being the true boss. Just don’t let Andrew drive any Toyota vehicles. Otherwise they will end up at the bottom of a hill.😱
As old as this Cat is, it’s a workhorse and watching you test al the parts before you start tearing it down, great job and videos as usual! On to the next job if approved by Cody.👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Awesome , That ole D7 runs strong , expect nothing else from the old school genuine virgin iron of Old America . Super cool , Good buy . I love Dozers , They seem so Docile but powerful in every way , Reshape the earth with these Monsters .
The whispered "oh my god," had me dying lol. I had the same exact response when seeing the milky milk... Love seeing your fixer upper content with these old machines.
Taking a small path and turning it into an interstate Hwy the AC way ! Great to have a D7 dozer at each place . Happy for you , look forward to seeing the improvements at your other property too in 2022 !
Great video, you know if these machines were alive they would feel like an animal being adopted by a good home. Fresh fluids and some maintenance make for a happy machine.
I can’t tell you how happy I am with you stepping up and buying all these CAT products Andrew. You’ve always been a natural on dozers. I’ve seen you do things with your small dozer that are epic!
@@jeffg3042 wouldn’t you love to see a review of his stable of equipment, everything I reckon even Andrew would be surprised at what his got Doesn’t often sell much
The old old Cat not best the newer electronic ones $$$$$$$to fix.. I am selling off my new 2016 308e alot of issues DPF regen and CAT will not sell me scanner which can read new stuff. Only CAT ET which is limited. Komatsu and Case give owner all tech needed. CAT and Deere bad now. $975 just for CAT to come plug into and scan machine minimum. I went to CAT to get bushings for my 289 CTL " made in china"!!!! 🤔x
@@kennyirish5021 while that is true it would be nice to see an update video as there are pieces of equipment I saw in this video that don’t have there own video yet, unless videos for them in the works already lol. In any case this is another quality video from an awesome video creator. Keep up the great videos Andrew
Andrew you are like the Columbo. Perry Mason, Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolf (all great detectives and lawyers) put together with these old machines! You sleuth it out, solve the problem and make it good as new! The highest compliment I can pay you! You are the best! Thank you for quality educational and entertaining content. Oh and I thought your show of love and devotion to Levi was precious truly the heart of a kind man!
"i guess i could use better guard rails though" This man is really just throwing cars off his own cliffs directly at machinery in his own lot.... Legend
That winch drives off a pto shaft that comes form inside the rear-end case, You have to pull it off the machine to see it. The controls for it are operated by hyd oil you must have oil flow to the valve under the cover you had off to put the winch into gear and operate the brake. You are correct by saying it seems to have endless power, it will pull that cable apart in a blind of an eye. Also you will get a smoother shift if you use the pedal on the right foot rest to slow the engine down when changing gears. May keep ya from being ejected onto the hood someday.
Hysterical watching the white truck come down the new widened road. Even more funny what happens to the car. He may be a year older, but he is still the same Andrew we know and love.
I think I know why you're dozing that hill down and out further. I'm pretty excited to see what you do with that building, also looking forward to the small castle build at the mountain property. Keep em coming! #TeamAC
The old pony motor machines are something else. My dad had a D6 of a similar vintage, absolute beast of a machine. Pony motor was a little weak compared to yours, it would just barely turn the diesel over, but once either motor was started, it was a sound everyone appreciated for miles, whether they wanted to or not.
It would be nice to see the D7 fully restored and repainted and in full working order, it would make a great project and video too, I love Andrews fully hands on approach to owning and maintaining his equipment. keep those great videos coming at us young fella, and have a great day
pretty sure the fan blades will flip around on that model,. Flip them and you will get some heat during the winter. There should be an access hole in the side of the radiator cowl, just push the blades inwards and turn them. A 1" socket with a slit in it, mounted on a 1/2" extension works well
Andrew you’re a natural behind the controls of the D7. Running an older machine in that hard rock isn’t easy but you make it look like you’ve been doing it for 20 years
We had that same model on our ranch in SW Texas for about 30 years. Great dependable machine. The track tensioner shouldn't be to difficult to replace since you have the skills and other equipment to help you out. All we had was a old MF tractor with loader and a few come alongs. We did it in about a week working in the evenings.
That D7 has power! It's nice that you've got a couple of them now for your business. I look forward to watching you do the repairs on the newly acquired dozer. She'd look really great with new paint, too! 👍
@@AndrewCamarata will there be a "digging a hillside" video ? From up close, i only see freshly exposed rock, but i cant really tell how much material you have removed over last year with all your new toys, but im curious 😁👍
True yet I think that the chainsaw stereo install in the truck was one of the most memorable moments. Someone should make a video of the best and funniest moments of AC with his consent and permission of course. It would probably be a long video if not a series. Remember when he had to jump out of the crane when he lost his brakes on the hill? His friend Jesse Muller bought that from him. He also has a great channel and does lots of interesting cool builds and repairs. Check it out.
Well, several surprises from to day's video. When I saw the dozer coming in, at first I thought he was bringing it down off the mountain. But I realized that's a different dozer. I don't even remember what the other was like to know it was different, but it wasn't the same. Much like Andy on Farming, Fixing & Fabricating who tried to get us to believe his new Dodge was his old one with all the chrome blacked out! He too is from Upstate NY. I know of a mechanic that would be happy to help you out and I've seen videos of him tearing into "BAD's" a lot. (Big Ass Dozers). Warren from Western Truck and Tractor Repair has done quite a few dozer repairs, even a winch or two. Wasn't that guardrail test a little risky? A man gets a million subscribers and he sends vehicles into oblivion...hilarious!! Great video, Andrew!!
Terracing the mountain off to make much more useable area for you is rather clever indeed . Now we can make out the Camarata Bluffs better too . Now that you have a track haul vehicle , a cat heavy haul truck and a quarry front end loader you can really terrace off your mountain and build a nice road into your other property , Camp Camarata . Looking forward to your 2022 upcoming videos AC .
Andrew. I remember well the first time I saw the site of the castle. Amazed by the cliff and view. Now, more cliff. The colours, texture and scale of it. You are living a dream. And that big machine, she is handling the rock pretty well.
This old cat's dozer's are tough machines, my brother owned a 76 D6, i miss seeing that thing moving dirt. by The way great vídeo as always, greetings from brazil.
I worked in the machine shop at Hyster in Portland OR. During my time there i worked in the gear hobb department and machine the teeth on the big spur gears for those winches. I like to see that old equipment kept running.
Andrew, The piece you found goes under the Idler yoke, the 2 round pieces push the springs up. You are missing an air cleaner cover and in front of your right foot is a decompression lever, When cranking you should have oil and fuel pressure before you turn the compression on. Turn the pony motor off by shutting off the gas, the gas drains down to the crankcase, change the oil to save the pony. You can flip the cutting edge and lower the end bits.
Great video! I owned two D7D's and a D7F and now have a D4C, D6D and a JD 450D LC. They are really good machines. Splitting the track to take out the master link, is some hard work, and then reassembled might not fit properly. I had the dealer reseal the track adjuster, they charged about $2,000 to do it. What I did next time, was cut a track link in half to split the track, took it to the dealership and had them install a splittable master link. The four bolts that hold on the track pad hold it on hold it together. I have never had one come loose. Many years later I rebuilt the track adjuster cylinder. It was about $50 for seals and only took a few hours to do the whole job. Definitely worth the price having the splittable links put on.
love it most when andrew buy a 'new' toy... a lick of paint and it will last a hundred years more in andrew's hand. looking forward to the 'restoring' the dozer.... please make it at least 2 hours... ill buy more mobile data just to watch it.
A couple things. I love how your spotter, Cody, trusts your D7 driving skills. And I also enjoyed how you amuse yourself after the job is done...and that was before the Toyota went over the cliff! 😀👍
You have a wonderful tractor there....every Cat collector loves a D7E. It should be a 48A series, introduced in 1961 and built until 1969. Powered by a 160HP D339 engine (a four cylinder version of the D342 engine a 6 cylinder big brother) used in the D8H and Ks, they turned 1200 RPM wide open! These were great tractors, Caterpillar built many, many of them so Milton will be able to get a good amount of the parts you will need, others can be sourced aftermarket.
@@buelowexcavating in northern canada when they took the sulfur out of the fuel it just burns to hot for those old slow turning engines killed the old cummins in our skidders as well
I guess we could use a better guardrail after the Toyota rolls off the side, that was unexpected and entertaining.
that was very unexpected, but i can't lie, i really enjoyed it.
It still ran!!!!!! 😂😂😂
And Im guessing most people will miss it since its at the end
Drive it like you stole it and..., roll it off a cliff. Why not?! LMFAO
I don't think it beats him taking chainsaw to his truck dash, but it's up there with his all time greatest scenes
Casually rolling that car off the hill and wasting no more than a minute of the video on it is why Andrew is iconic
And then saying he would add some boulders along the edge of the new road was just priceless!!
One video he ordered a Tesla Cyber Truck in like the last 30 seconds of the video and said nothing about it in the title haha
@@adkadk4476 which one tho
@@pandoxno3 The one that he was fixing his white dodge pickup
@@pandoxno3 this one ua-cam.com/video/l-Nu4bvOFjk/v-deo.html
I’m 68 years old. When I was a young boy, my Dad bought an old D7 and rebuilt the engine. The blade was cable driven. She was old, but very strong. Dad cleared a lot of our land with it and built several small ponds. Good memories! Thanks for sharing.
I am just a few years younger, 64 and have a similar story. I love the old D7.. a classic simple rugged machine which is relatively easy to maintain and will operate reliably for years. It is a shame that machines like this are no longer made. Now all the heavy equipment I see is chocked full of electronics that only makes them more complicated and usually more expensive.
Hi ray, i remember myfather also salvaging a used cat in the mid sixties and subbing a chrysler gas engine in it and riding in it with him to clear roads through land butnot much else about it. I watch this and it's almost hypnotic,
I just bought a early 50's D7. I gave 4k for it. Runs and drives.
@@johnpalmer5131 That’s true John, But, they can do a-helluva lot more and, are far far more, Powerful. I know. I’ve did the homework in comparing model. At the end of the day, I do believe it boils down to what we like. I much prefer new equipment. New pickups. New cars. Old cars have never done anything for me. No I don’t do the old restored car shows. You can have it. And I’m 64.
I know my dad always said this.
“Lots of folks talk about the good old days. I lived them. Many things about them, flat-out-stunk. Riding in the back, in a rumble seat all bundled up. Still freezing to death. I’ll take this shiny new Ford F-150 4x4 my boys bought me any day. And when the cold Montana wind blew we froze if we got away from the wood cooking stove or away from the firewood burning iron beast in the living room or the one in each bedroom. And we made the ones we had. Ones today are 100% more efficient folks! Chinking the walls when the wind blew through on my families old log house.”
And he said a-lot more. So many things back then did not, I repeat, Did not last long. Like so many people today flat out lie. And say they did. They didn’t.
And farm equipment back then, and like this was far more DANGEROUS TO OPERATE. If you went to our old grange hall here in NW Montana on dance night, back in the 60s / 70s up through the 80s, you could and would have seen so many, old timers missing fingers, hands etc because of equipment. “Back-In-The-Day.”
@@matthewerwin4677 nice
I have been watching Andrew for several years now. Someone posted a link that we should check him out and I did. He was just doing small things back then.
boy has he moved up in a few short years. Thanks Andrew for sharing you life with us over the years. Keep it going and I can't wait to see you repairing that cat.
I laughed so hard when the car rolled down the hill and the dog ran over!! The look on its face was just priceless.
Cody was probably thinking I’m sure glad I wasn’t in there when he let it go over the cliff!
@@Hoaxer51 Cody is one smart dog!!! Levi taught him well!!
I'm always amazed at these CATS! They've been idle for years if not decades and start and run. Amazing
That drone footage of you dozing the hillside is seriously next level. Nobody else on youtube does it like you, Andrew. Really high quality stuff, as always.
follow me function and away function on the DJI drone does that for you not the mini though
He’s always been very good with drones.
@@lutomson3496 I don't even understand how all that works with the drones but it's pretty damn cool they can do all that because it adds so much to his and others videos.
@@Military-Museum-LP I'm not sure there's anything he's not good or great at.pretty amazing guy and if he's not a genius he rewriting the meaning of it.
Not taking anything away from the video because I enjoy them too, however, the drone footage is super easy to do for a few hundred.
I love how the equipment keeps getting bigger. I look forward to the 10yr progression when the video pops up in my feed of “I bought a used Bagger 293, lets use it to level this mountain in 10mins” Lol, I love this channel, always good entertainment, and fun content
Maybe The Boring Company will sponsor his next video.
Would love to see bagger getting restored and used that would be an epic video series
With the quarry sized loader in mind this comment aged well.
I love the fact that Andrew loves to save older equipment! The old stuff just works whenever you need it to! People have pushed dirt and rocks for years and never needed a computer to do it. This new 💩 they sell gets used for a week and some sensor gets tripped and only the selling company can fix it! What a racket!
Absolutely. One of his vids, he paid like $1400 for a controller for a skid steer, where the computer was all potted so you couldn't work on it. I can guarantee there's plenty of people who could build a similar controller using an Arduino and some relays and sensors.
@@IBWatchinUrVids you might be on to something there 👍
WELL SAID!!!!!
You know it's a badass piece of equipment when the motor needs another motor to start up🇺🇲🤘🏻
Also you have enough land and rock to start buying some used quarry equipment and playing around with making big rocks smaller rocks lol
That's how they all started on earlier Dozers, with a ponymotor.
To be fair, every bigger engine uses another motor to start it, but they are nowadays electrical.
....and the ponymotor does need a (electric) motor to start!! 😉🤣
@@Guust_Flater Earlier ones were crank start and most of the later ones had a crank for a back up starter in case of dead batteries.
Its great watching Cody on the time lapse just stood there with massive Dozer running about him knowing where to go and not
The piece you found goes under the Idler yoke, the 2 round pieces push the springs up.
You are missing an air cleaner cover
I front of your right foot is a decompression lever, When cranking you should have oil and fuel pressure before you turn the compression on.
Turn the pony motor off by shutting off the gas, the gas drains down to the crankcase, change the oil to save pony.
Youcan flip the cutting edge and lower the end bits
Its a good machine it will move alot of dirt
Good Luck
Bill V
You can't beat real information.
I was going to say the same thing, but figured I should check to see if another genius posted it first. Lol
On the older cats the air cleaner looks like it’s missing a cover but the filter has a rubber lip that seals on the inside of the filter housing. So the filter is it’s self the cover.
Jpaydirt has a good explanation of the filter typed here at 36:40
ua-cam.com/video/774g0_piBzk/v-deo.html
He ain't got time for all that. Good video though. Doc
Andrew, The piece that fell off is the one that supports in-place the cushions of the idler wheel. There are four cylindrical (4 inches ) rubbers that have a spring inside. That goes inside the idler fork. Hope it helps, greetings from Bolivia. You can find any parts that you need at CTP parts store. Oh and another thing you don’t need to open the track chain to replace that Grease track tensioner seal. 👍🏻👍🏻
You sure know your Catershitia all right!
Let shitt her road? 😳
Andy, Andy, Andy. We worry about you. You've got to get your old heavy equipment habit under control !
I love how he just rolls the car off the side of the hill then just says “well, guess I need to make a guardrail here” classic Andrew Camatra right there….. lol great video
Should have cut to you crawling out of that Toyota. I thought you were driving it!
Andrew, just a heads up, there is a de accelerator pedal by your right foot. So when you pull the throttle lever back, leave it there, full throttle. Then use your de accelerator pedal to control, your throttle. That way when you are pushing dirt it’s always full throttle. Love what you do
like a jake brake sorta ran d-7 d-8 us army d-7 had the rops (roll bar) with 1/2 perforated metal scabbed onto it to keep debris like tree limbs from hitting you went we were clearing woods definitely i nice find not ever cheap to fix but looks like it's ready to go to work as is
@@dangates3022 I was a wrecker operator in the Army. Had to recover a D7 that was buried over the tracks in sticky red clay. Sure was fun to get out.
@@shadymaint1 me too, drove an M62, 1957 international harvester, it had a 650ci straight 6 gas engine, i loved that wrecker..
Isn’t that just a feature on CAT dozers? I’ve ran a Deere 650 and it didn’t have that. Our d4 most certainly has that
Some Deere dozers have a decelerator, just depends on the dozer, some have a clutch pedal.
My first dozer at 10 was just like that. I rode on my uncles lap and pulled the steering Handles. Thx Grandad
I WAS 16 WHEN I DROVE A MINI DOZER LIKE THIS ON IN THE VIDEO
THERE WAS NO REBAR ON TOP
IT WAS OPEN
GEAR CONTROLLED LEVERS
When Andrew’s first words are,
“so this is what happened ”
you know it’s gonna be a gem! Thanks for taking us along brother!! Much appreciation! 🙏🤙🏼❤️
Im 57 and i got my mom who is 90 watching your videos Andrew for the past 3 years!!...mom loves Cody and watching you and thinks your a handsome young man!! We always look forward to your videos👍👍just thought i would share this as i dont leave comments very often have a great day!!
Andrew, once the pressure and heat from the pup/pony engine is "good to go", shut off the gas and let the pup/pony run dry. If you leave gas in the carb bowl, the float and needle will open and close, from being bounced around thus, getting gas to leak in the cylinder and end-up in the small engine sump (Oil dilution). I hope it helps.
Nice find Andrew. I used to run one of those way back when. I believe there is a lever on the bottom right of the dash that operates the compression release for the big engine. Switching that over to the right will release the compression. As you already know, pulling the lever on the left will engage the pony motor and allow you a little time to bring oil and fuel pressure up. Then, cracking the throttle and kicking the compression lever over to the left will bring the big engine to life! Good luck with the old girl!
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yea it runs but that's about all i can say for it look's like it was raised from the dead from some scrap pile
i want Andrew to get rich and buy one of those fancy new dozer what are they I'm guessing about $143.000 ?
this antique needs a funeral in the steel mill
I was an operating engineer local 12 for 30 years only ran one dozen with a pony motor and actually saw a drop cable doze that hauled around to job sites for a Tax write off it never was used
@@stevenherrold5955 Andrew has plenty of money, thus his growing collection of antique iron, but he has stated many times that he hates electronics and refuses to buy anything that has them.
It’s amazing what was accomplished with the D-7’s. I think if you look at old footage of the Alaskan pipeline you’d see many 7’s in operation. They’d hook 2-3 together and shove stuff nearly vertical off the side of mountains Then pull them back and do it again. Those operators must have had nuts of steel.
The piece of metal that was found is the idler slider pad. In order to reseal the track adjuster cylinder, the dozer frame and the track need to be removed. The idler can then be removed which will allow access to the adjuster cylinder. I can't wait to see how you are going to push out the track pin to break the track.
I believe that he did one on his other equipment, great information tho,👍👍
Pretty simple
@@dalejohns2758 It sure is if there is a shop with substantial tooling and cranes and lots of experience working on Cat machines.
@@chrisluttor2275 he has all that
@@dalejohns2758 No he doesn't.
Andrew, thank you for this one. brings back memory's when they were building I-84 from exits 6 down to 1 State line and thru Brewster,Ny. My dad use to drive us over too the cliffs and watch them blow up the mountains and dig out the debris then bring in those dozers and steam shovels. Amazing what Cats, capability's were for that time.. I 84 and I684 only been built since 1958 to 1963 from Danbury thru Newburgh. A lot of blowing up went on. They took the dirt from most of the farm fields in and around Danbury and Brewster to use as the base.
I remember going with my grandfather walking along the railroad to watch all the construction of I-75 at SR 36 many years ago.
Buddy running to the cliff edge and checking out the crash was priceless. He's thinking, "Why the heck did you do that. He's absolutely GORGEOUS!
I am perpetually amazed at the power and usability of these dozers. Andrew grading that rocky hill with ease, would have taken 30 men 6 months to complete just 100 years ago.
Not only that, but we are able to watch it all on a tiny little device in the comfort of our own homes
6 Irish navvy's, a fortnight.
It’s even more impressive when you consider that the first D7 came out way back in 1939. We moved pretty fast from shovels and picks to heavy equipment.
@@jimallen9442 Haha nice
100 years ago, it would all be cheap slave/prison labor, like the kind that say, “hot-tars the roof of the plate factory for a bucket of suds for a guy and his co-workers” ;) (I wonder if anyone gets the reference nod)
Love your content Andrew, as far as your winch goes, the filter you saw on the top is the suction screen filter for the system, the winch is mechanically driven by the pto but is controlled using a small low pressure hydraulic system(only around 220psi to run the foreword and reverse clutches). So on the right side of the winch should be your oil reservoir, hyster recommends either 10wt hydraulic oil or atf. There should be a small gear pump on the converter housing behind the engine that the suction hose and pressure hose goes to, hopefully this helps you start to get winch working. These old hyster winches are the best, hyster was bought out by allied winches and some parts are still available for some, that’s where I have picked up some parts for mine. Also there should be a pressure line filter under one of the covers on the left side of winch good luck 🍀👍🏻
Who the heck are you? Sweet!
@@dickmeisterling3924wouldn't it be funny if he's totally making it all up and just escaped from Bellevue...
@@Samlol23_drrich die hard 3 lol
Right on.
Oil spec has updated to oil that uses a friction modifier that works better.
And the winch is always running when the tractor is on so no oil probably didn’t help the winch.
Good call Cumminschevy
@@thomsonequipmentdozerwinch good to know thanks👌🏻👍🏻
Its amazing what some TLC does for a neglected machine. I love how you dive in to sort out anything you buy. When you have finished it wil be a fine work horse to add to the AC stable. Some of the comments about starting the main engine seem like they know what they are talking about.
Just love watching you take old equipment and fixing it one step at a time and then getting good use out of it.
It’s great to see Andrew buying stuff he needs for work around his place! It’s refreshing to see someone creating content that is meaningful and useful. Keep up the great work Andrew.
This was a great old-school style video. I particularly enjoy your own personal camera work and time lapse style of editing. So relaxing and satisfying to see the roadway take shape and get smoothed out. These kinds of videos are why I subscribed. To see you living the dream now tops it all off. Come on Cody, let's go roll the car off the cliff again!
My dad was a logger on the West Coast and had a D7E and a D7F, both great logging cats. The D7E should be a turbocharged 4 cylinder, then they switched to a normally aspirated 6 cylinder in the F model. Great to see one of the old girls still alive and working.
I love how the 3rd Gen has just gotten more and more beat up as time has gone on. And it’s not even normal wear and tear. The whole underbody of the cap is bent up. And then rolling the yota to top it off. Great video as always Andrew. Been a fan forever!
My Dad worked heavy maintenance for a road construction crew for years. He could pull these apart and put them back together with his eyes closed. Every time Andrew pulls out the HUGE wrenches it reminds me of him.
I love watching your videos and how you fix the broken machines.
Pony motors have to have the fuel shut off then run out of gasoline once the main engine is started or the vibrations will overflow the pony carb and dilute the pony engine oil and destroy the splash lubed bearings costing you a boat load of money to rebuild the pony motor with almost impossible to find parts. They dont hold a lot of engine oil. A few seconds will save you thousands and months of downtime.
I'm glad you said that. hope he reads this. squash253 always talks about that important factor.
Bombing thru countryside on snowmobiles soon!
Always great to see Andrew fixing things.🏴
"fixing things" ... or not! (29:19) Maybe a guard rail along here... oh well, the left headlight needed replacing, anyway. It'll be easier with the bumper "removed"! 😜
Huge fan of when you get new equipment! Love the problem solving and making it work properly.
Great to see how the pony motors have developed over the years - I go back to D4 of the 1950 vintage - that pony motor was a rope pull (no electrics) to start it - start the pony motor - let it run to warm itself up and also the radiator fluid ( the tractor had one cooling system for both the main deisel and pony motors) and manually engage it to the main motor ( which had its decompresion lever activated), have the pony motor turn over the deisel until oil pressure was built, close the deisel compression system, let the deisel turn over under compression until the compression and rad fluid had warmed up, open deisel throttle and keep the pony motor running until deisel fires which then throws the pony motor away from the deisel, turn the pony motor fuel off and let it starve to a stop. The new version seems so much simpler. Love the vid
Good description. I'd never seen a CAT started until this past September when an old farmer brought one on a trailer to the Sandwich, Illinois fair. Was part of the Old Engine Collectors. Took him a while to get the pony started, but did get the big engine going. I guess it was on a trailer because there was like a 10 KW generator attached to the machine for powering stuff.
The pony motor on my fathers inherited D6 Cat from ww2 is a monster. pull cord is pretty awesome.
Edit: The steering seems much easier as well.
Thanks for the explanation. While complex in steps, simple for a pro to get it manually going.
The guardrail test was epic and totally unexpected! Way to go! Loved it! From what I understand, the D7 is basically bullet proof and I bet you will have thar winch working in no time!
Watching this guy feels like playing a simulation game. Starting with a shovel, buying better and better equipment but always run everything yourself. And meanwhile as a bonus build a better house. :) We need to see some quests. :) Great to watch.
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Chalk up another new toy for Andrew. He’ll have it working better than new in no time. Amazing at the deals he finds and gets them to work well. Andrew is certainly an individual not afraid of work and willing to tackle repairing machines he has no experience working on, yet makes them better in the end. A very talented fellow. But we got to hand it to Cody for being the true boss.
Just don’t let Andrew drive any Toyota vehicles. Otherwise they will end up at the bottom of a hill.😱
My Transmission on my Toyota Sienna went out at 160000 miles.
As old as this Cat is, it’s a workhorse and watching you test al the parts before you start tearing it down, great job and videos as usual! On to the next job if approved by Cody.👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Awesome , That ole D7 runs strong , expect nothing else from the old school genuine virgin iron of Old America . Super cool , Good buy . I love Dozers , They seem so Docile but powerful in every way , Reshape the earth with these Monsters .
The whispered "oh my god," had me dying lol. I had the same exact response when seeing the milky milk... Love seeing your fixer upper content with these old machines.
i watch for years , just amazing to see Andrew his way of life and doing things !
Taking a small path and turning it into an interstate Hwy the AC way ! Great to have a D7 dozer at each place . Happy for you , look forward to seeing the improvements at your other property too in 2022 !
Great video, you know if these machines were alive they would feel like an animal being adopted by a good home. Fresh fluids and some maintenance make for a happy machine.
Eventually, people in the future will point to where Andrew lives and say "There used to be mountains there".
😂
That is funny And true
yep.. mountains that came down on his head
@@involvedbystander66 what's your problem
Looking forward to the fixing up video. That little car was kinda nice but it was sacrificed in the name of comedy. Love it!
I can’t tell you how happy I am with you stepping up and buying all these CAT products Andrew. You’ve always been a natural on dozers. I’ve seen you do things with your small dozer that are epic!
@@jeffg3042 wouldn’t you love to see a review of his stable of equipment, everything
I reckon even Andrew would be surprised at what his got
Doesn’t often sell much
The old old Cat not best the newer electronic ones $$$$$$$to fix.. I am selling off my new 2016 308e alot of issues DPF regen and CAT will not sell me scanner which can read new stuff. Only CAT ET which is limited.
Komatsu and Case give owner all tech needed.
CAT and Deere bad now.
$975 just for CAT to come plug into and scan machine minimum.
I went to CAT to get bushings for my 289 CTL " made in china"!!!!
🤔x
I would love to see an equipment tour of all your machines
Yes, how good would that be.
just watch the many previous videos
@@kennyirish5021 while that is true it would be nice to see an update video as there are pieces of equipment I saw in this video that don’t have there own video yet, unless videos for them in the works already lol. In any case this is another quality video from an awesome video creator. Keep up the great videos Andrew
Andrew you are like the Columbo. Perry Mason, Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolf (all great detectives and lawyers) put together with these old machines! You sleuth it out, solve the problem and make it good as new! The highest compliment I can pay you! You are the best! Thank you for quality educational and entertaining content. Oh and I thought your show of love and devotion to Levi was precious truly the heart of a kind man!
"i guess i could use better guard rails though" This man is really just throwing cars off his own cliffs directly at machinery in his own lot.... Legend
That winch drives off a pto shaft that comes form inside the rear-end case, You have to pull it off the machine to see it. The controls for it are operated by hyd oil you must have oil flow to the valve under the cover you had off to put the winch into gear and operate the brake. You are correct by saying it seems to have endless power, it will pull that cable apart in a blind of an eye. Also you will get a smoother shift if you use the pedal on the right foot rest to slow the engine down when changing gears. May keep ya from being ejected onto the hood someday.
Thats what I thought and just posted a comment to the same effect
Hysterical watching the white truck come down the new widened road. Even more funny what happens to the car.
He may be a year older, but he is still the same Andrew we know and love.
Love these old machines, the 6's and 7's were some of the best machines ever made, just solid iron through and through.
The car and the hill. Classic Andrew, love it man!
always testing things.. lol
Poor Toyota!
That Toyota is a piece of junk, broke for no reason.
I think I know why you're dozing that hill down and out further. I'm pretty excited to see what you do with that building, also looking forward to the small castle build at the mountain property. Keep em coming!
#TeamAC
This guy is definitely living the life! Loving your videos Andrew :)
with no women
@@involvedbystander66 But he got plenty of old milf iron
just sends the car of the cliff what a legend
I was on several of these old d7s. E and F. Noicy but very tough. But all of them had a closed cab w. heater. Made all the difference.
I would love to see some more snow plowing videos, I really enjoy watching ur videos pal always makes my day
He usually does one really long snow plow video of the entire season when we get closer to spring.
yeah for sure
@@Spacecadet0730 yes ik but personally I would prefer more threw out the year.
@@etaled Maybe a few update videos through the winter and then at the end of the season do a long video like usual
@@NuggetGames1 u could of not said it any better
You never cease to amaze, and you never disappoint. I cant wait to see it completely restored. I know it's coming. Maybe in two more chapters...
If watching Andrew has taught me anything is ALWAYS watch til the last second. Great vid andy
29:19 Was not expecting that! Instant classic... "our toyota got messed up"
The old pony motor machines are something else. My dad had a D6 of a similar vintage, absolute beast of a machine. Pony motor was a little weak compared to yours, it would just barely turn the diesel over, but once either motor was started, it was a sound everyone appreciated for miles, whether they wanted to or not.
Man, those old Cats can run forever if you treat 'em right. Great video!
Just when you think you’ve watched a great video, Andrew rolls a car off a cliff and makes it even better . Bravo Andrew
I love when he sneaks something funny into the video and never see it coming. Neither did Cody!
It would be nice to see the D7 fully restored and repainted and in full working order, it would make a great project and video too, I love Andrews fully hands on approach to owning and maintaining his equipment. keep those great videos coming at us young fella, and have a great day
Watching the life you built for yourself is admirable. From watching your video to when you bought the pressure washer to now has been A fun journey.
pretty sure the fan blades will flip around on that model,. Flip them and you will get some heat during the winter. There should be an access hole in the side of the radiator cowl, just push the blades inwards and turn them. A 1" socket with a slit in it, mounted on a 1/2" extension works well
Andrew you’re a natural behind the controls of the D7. Running an older machine in that hard rock isn’t easy but you make it look like you’ve been doing it for 20 years
Thumbs up to see a video of a full restoration and paint job of this dozer.
Damn I love Andrews videos, he’s never stuck for content and it’s all good stuff.
That tool is nothing without a good operator, Andrew you make that machine work 😀
We had that same model on our ranch in SW Texas for about 30 years. Great dependable machine. The track tensioner shouldn't be to difficult to replace since you have the skills and other equipment to help you out. All we had was a old MF tractor with loader and a few come alongs. We did it in about a week working in the evenings.
That D7 has power! It's nice that you've got a couple of them now for your business. I look forward to watching you do the repairs on the newly acquired dozer. She'd look really great with new paint, too! 👍
haha! Sooo close to hitting the shed post! That was epic
Yes, should do more stuff with that car, still drives fine.
@@AndrewCamarata will there be a "digging a hillside" video ? From up close, i only see freshly exposed rock, but i cant really tell how much material you have removed over last year with all your new toys, but im curious 😁👍
Loved the video, the nonchalant rolling car off the edge just made it that much better!
@@AndrewCamarata That car is incredible then!!!!!!
I legit laughed my head off when you heaved the Yota off the hill, so utterly random and unexpected 🤪
True yet I think that the chainsaw stereo install in the truck was one of the most memorable moments. Someone should make a video of the best and funniest moments of AC with his consent and permission of course. It would probably be a long video if not a series. Remember when he had to jump out of the crane when he lost his brakes on the hill? His friend Jesse Muller bought that from him. He also has a great channel and does lots of interesting cool builds and repairs. Check it out.
Never a dull moment. Half-hour video of "I bought a dozer", and a car rolls down a cliff. Love it!
Awesome display of Dozer Power, glad I tuned in for some great entertainment!
Always excited seeing a new video coming from you
Well, several surprises from to day's video. When I saw the dozer coming in, at first I thought he was bringing it down off the mountain. But I realized that's a different dozer. I don't even remember what the other was like to know it was different, but it wasn't the same. Much like Andy on Farming, Fixing & Fabricating who tried to get us to believe his new Dodge was his old one with all the chrome blacked out! He too is from Upstate NY. I know of a mechanic that would be happy to help you out and I've seen videos of him tearing into "BAD's" a lot. (Big Ass Dozers). Warren from Western Truck and Tractor Repair has done quite a few dozer repairs, even a winch or two.
Wasn't that guardrail test a little risky? A man gets a million subscribers and he sends vehicles into oblivion...hilarious!! Great video, Andrew!!
Terracing the mountain off to make much more useable area for you is rather clever indeed . Now we can make out the Camarata Bluffs better too . Now that you have a track haul vehicle , a cat heavy haul truck and a quarry front end loader you can really terrace off your mountain and build a nice road into your other property , Camp Camarata . Looking forward to your 2022 upcoming videos AC .
Andrew. I remember well the first time I saw the site of the castle. Amazed by the cliff and view. Now, more cliff. The colours, texture and scale of it. You are living a dream. And that big machine, she is handling the rock pretty well.
Lol how calm he is when his car flys off is awesome! Andrew is cool man
The Toyota tumbling off the side was awesome! Made the highlight reel LOL
The Yaris shenanigan part had me laughing so hard my eyes are watery.
This old cat's dozer's are tough machines, my brother owned a 76 D6, i miss seeing that thing moving dirt. by The way great vídeo as always, greetings from brazil.
You sure have a nice place. Never at a shortage of things to do. Thanks for sharing your escapades.
Nice D 7 You about gave me a heart attack every time you went down down that drive I've with the dozer. Great purchase on your part
I worked in the machine shop at Hyster in Portland OR. During my time there i worked in the gear hobb department and machine the teeth on the big spur gears for those winches. I like to see that old equipment kept running.
Andrew, The piece you found goes under the Idler yoke, the 2 round pieces push the springs up.
You are missing an air cleaner cover
and in front of your right foot is a decompression lever, When cranking you should have oil and fuel pressure before you turn the compression on.
Turn the pony motor off by shutting off the gas, the gas drains down to the crankcase, change the oil to save the pony.
You can flip the cutting edge and lower the end bits.
Yes!! The POWER!!!! That road looks awesome, Andrew. Great video. Can't wait to see the video where you paint and fix this D7.
The car driving off the edge made my freaking day
Great video! I owned two D7D's and a D7F and now have a D4C, D6D and a JD 450D LC. They are really good machines. Splitting the track to take out the master link, is some hard work, and then reassembled might not fit properly. I had the dealer reseal the track adjuster, they charged about $2,000 to do it. What I did next time, was cut a track link in half to split the track, took it to the dealership and had them install a splittable master link. The four bolts that hold on the track pad hold it on hold it together. I have never had one come loose. Many years later I rebuilt the track adjuster cylinder. It was about $50 for seals and only took a few hours to do the whole job. Definitely worth the price having the splittable links put on.
love it most when andrew buy a 'new' toy... a lick of paint and it will last a hundred years more in andrew's hand. looking forward to the 'restoring' the dozer.... please make it at least 2 hours... ill buy more mobile data just to watch it.
A couple things. I love how your spotter, Cody, trusts your D7 driving skills. And I also enjoyed how you amuse yourself after the job is done...and that was before the Toyota went over the cliff! 😀👍
You have a wonderful tractor there....every Cat collector loves a D7E. It should be a 48A series, introduced in 1961 and built until 1969. Powered by a 160HP D339 engine (a four cylinder version of the D342 engine a 6 cylinder big brother) used in the D8H and Ks, they turned 1200 RPM wide open!
These were great tractors, Caterpillar built many, many of them so Milton will be able to get a good amount of the parts you will need, others can be sourced aftermarket.
we ran ours at 1480 rpm then they make power and seemed to last on the old fuel the new lighter fuel was their downfall
If you add a lubricant or power steering fluid to the fuel every time you fuel up, you should not have problems with the injector pump.
@@buelowexcavating we tried that for awhile it wasnt the pump that went fuel seemed to be to hot and took out cams and top end
@@gilbertolson6356 What caused the fuel to get hot?
@@buelowexcavating in northern canada when they took the sulfur out of the fuel it just burns to hot for those old slow turning engines killed the old cummins in our skidders as well
Lol I’ve never even been on a tractor or skid steer. But here I am watching a tank of dozer that Andrew picked up and has fun with.
Never forget for bachelor parties, it's cheaper to rent a skid steer for a day than a jet ski or snow mobile.
I can't tell you how happy that D7 is, that Andrew bought him!