I grew up in a dump truck. My Pop & me would make multiple trips from rock crusher to job site, miles & miles. You live on the best road building material Ive ever seen & Ive seen a bunch. Its so handy, no dump truck needed.
The A70? dozer engine seems to have lots of low end torque so no need to rev it excessively while working. What a great machine that Bristol dozer!! I really like these fix-it videos and the way you go about doing the repairs.
that hitachi looks like fun to use. the bristol has a nice low heavy smart design to put all its weight on a level behind the blade. it can really push! truly beautiful country. my wife and i dream of a back country life in nz. thank you
This so cool that you take obsolete (in the modern world) and putting them to work. I don't know.... but I bet both bulldozer and excavator are smiling.
Just the work you have done with the excavator, it’s worth making all the repairs to it! Maybe clean the trees hanging over the road so the grader isn’t hitting them! Looks great Marty!
shows no matter how old the equipment, it can still be used for what it was designed for and although they may not have all the bells and whistles of the newer equipment they will still do the job
Just watching those two old and abused machines doing what they were made to do brought a smile to my face. You should be really proud of yourself Marty. The Hitti is making less slop noise than a lot of much newer machines and the Bristol is a happy little bugger = ) Thank you !
Reminds me of my ancient UH061 12 tonne Hitachi. Huge travel in the operating levers. I like that quick hitch bucket change. Mine takes about 15 min for 2 people.
Marty seems to be more about making a road be he could use a piling machine here to really stabilise that area with some corrugated metal sheet piles 😂
@@WhiskeyGulf71 He has that grader now, and we know how graders produce corrugations. They don't do that wobble board thing when grading construction sites, so I assume it is a deliberate setting they use for drainage. They are a pain to drive over, but not so bad if you can do 80kph or more. The Australian 'Outback Truckers' show demonstrates how nasty corrugations are. They shake the load loose and make bits fall off, and must be murder for the truck and driver. When you think of the hundreds of Ks they do every day, you have to feel for them.
Not only is he a dam genius at getting stuff running that has Ben left behind for a hundred years ,he is a good operator ,some people can do everything and anything ,not me ,but I can appreciate people that can I’m not a hater
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I really like that pick on your excavator. I think I'll might make something like that for my backhoe. Where I live it's nothing but boulders, and that thing would come in handy. Love the ol' dozer. Cheers from Canada.
I started watching your channel with the abandoned digger video, and I haven't missed one since, it's so great to see the progress, and nice to see you getting great use out of all the machines you have repaired! Keep it up, these videos make me so happy.
Love the views of your little slice of the world, gorgeous views! I just got all 7 cylinders on my backhoe rebuilt and got them all back in, hydraulics can be a pain but when it works it makes life so much easier! (Especially on your back!!)
Viewers who don't live in New Zealand might not know how often our roads and tracks suffer wash outs. Even main tourist routes like Te Anau to Milford Sound, or Queenstown to Glenorchy suffer regular wash outs. If you have ever done Doubtful Sound via the Wilmot Pass, you might know that road is in a continuous state of repair. That's what six metres of rain each year can do. That 21 kilometre track is the most expensive road per kilometre ever built in New Zealand. (I heard that stat before they rebuilt SH1 after the Kaikoura earthquake, which might have changed things. So drainage is essential if you want your unsealed roads. I don't know exactly what part of the top of the South Island Marty lives, but I suspect he'll have upwards of 3 metres of rain per year.
Marty T your land is absolutely beautiful, I watch the channel just to see the landscape. Has me wanting to pay a visit to your territory (NZ) right? Well I wouldn’t hold it against you if you didn’t tell anyone where your spot is , it’s perfect just as it is . Well just keep the videos coming so the rest of the world that’s stuck in traffic if we get out of quarantine alive makes a man re-think his priorities to include an old digger and some dirt on the top of a mountain . Doesn’t take long to sort that out !
@@brianhoxworth3881 ha I just happen to have my spot of sand in the desert of south central Wa I’d trade it off in a Seattle second for something down under !
Another great vid Marty, especially the drone shots of the countryside in the first bit. Whoever is doing your photography is a pro - really interesting camera angles really show off our beautiful Kiwi bush to your overseas viewers as well as keeping the content interesting for us engineering fans. More please.
Your video perspectives are spectacular. You are also a good video editor. And of course the subject matter is always well presented and interesting. Good job! Thanks.
@@MartyT Not trying to start a dialogue but want to say your video's are the only ones I watch twice. For instance, first time I missed the huge mushroom when you drove the grader up.
Hard to believe the 70 year old Bristol performed so well. After the cooling system "field" repair, I was giving it a few small tasks before she would need another work over. She did well. You did well too, and you obviously plan out your projects and set the time, which is good practice and the way to go.
It is very interesting to follow your journey with your equipment and your wider roadways. It’s so different of what I is used to. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey. God bless you and your family.
Drone footage was stunning & i like the way your getting great use out of the old iron..you've earn't it after all the effort you put into each bit of iron.
MartyT your land looks so beautiful, want to see a video of your land from the bottom to your property, and the roads leading to your land, can you vlog one for us, loved your old machines in good condition to your need. hats off to your hard work
Great video Marty - excellent to see you really working those old repaired machines hard. Having snow-boarded the slopes around Queenstown in the 90's, and taken hire cars up similar steep slopes with hairpin bends, no guard rails and 3,000' sheer drops in snow and ice, I thought that was one of NZ's national sports (hairy hairpins) - you've made that curve too easy, it'll increase traffic to your property lol!
That's a beautiful part of the country you live in Marty. Looks just like where I am, on the edge of the English lake District, only you have about 1/100th the population density & a lot less government interference.
Thanks Marty for all these good upload. Very nice channel indeed. You seem very happy with your lifestyle coming all together and proving you right. I got myself an old backhoe JCB 3C for dirt cheap, the confinement helping me tyding her up. If all going right I sould be owning an old isolated farm and only working 28 hours/week I think that's the way to go. cheers from france
Found a dozer just like yours for sale but unable to do anything about it under the current situation. Hopefully we will get over this and I can go check it out.
That digger would be 10x more handy with a thumb, even one of those stationary pin-on ones It makes life heaps easier around stumps and logs you could even make one i reckon.
Only recently came across your channel. Got to say I love it as I'm a tinkerer myself only chainsaws and small engines at the moment. Whereabouts is your property as its what dreams are made of. Isolation at its best. Cheers
I am so glad for you that the slew motor is good. Those are no fun to rebuild. And, hopefully, the hydraulic pass through swivel for the final drive motors stays in good shape. Those cam really suck to remove. I've rebuilt quite a few of them. I work mainly on the Komatsu 200 series at the place I work. I happen to be a heavy equipment mechanic/welder/fabricator, and amateur machinist. It's nice to have the skills to fix just about anything, and to make parts and tools myself. Cheers from Southern Illinois, Midwest USA.
Yes the bolts holding the hyd motor to the planetary have rusty heads and are seized, so will be extra fun to remove if it gives out.. If you're ever in NZ feel free to pop in to give me a hand reconditioning it ;)
I can not believe the sound of that Bristol engine, sounds great. Beautiful part of the world you live in mate not like busy Sydney ;)... have a great weekend.
Well, the engine was designed for use in a middle order family car as well as the first postwar generation of London taxicabs. The mechanical refinement now the water pump has been repaired seems a little less improbable knowing this background
You don't get away with that mate - you've gone and bought something else and it's BIG - that is why we watched you widen the track!! Watch out for the next episode.......
Good to see the machines being put to work . Good job sorting the run off and the camber , raised height a bit on the bend . Well done Marty . Keep up the excellent work .
Marty, you are so luck to live in such a beautiful part of the country on the world, I keep forgetting what a great country sideside N.Z. has. Miss it. Keep up the good work.
Dear Marty T. 👍👌👏 Well done again. You know, some people have a wheelbarrow, a shovel and a pickaxe (or is it crossaxe?). Some go bigger... a lot bigger! ;-) :-) Those rescued machines work really impressive! Congrats! Congrats also for having such a wonderful property. Something like this wouldn't be payable in Germany. Best regards, luck and health.
I think its great you are getting it done with the old gear. And doing it well I am keeping my old ihi excavator going just but it is too bloody useful, just this week jot a new track and was suprised how cheap they are Really enjoying watching you get these old machines, get them going then work them!
Unfortunately not...but over time our whole South island mountain range has been reduced by weathering and the resultant debris spread far and wide, especially in Canterbury... and the land is one large gravel pit hundreds of metres deep... which filters mountain rain water and channels it to the coast... available for wells to tap into....
Marty, you have an excavator, bulldozer, road grader, backhoe, and multiple tractors. I think we can all agree that your winning at life...
Haha.. I didn't have many toys in my sandpit as a child, I'm making up for it now
My 13 year old son runs double the equipment but a lot bigger😂🚜🔧⚙️🔩
@@kariryals1276 sure
@@kariryals1276 Who asked. Literally no cares except you
@@MartyT "many toys in my sandpit" sounds like an alternative description of someone dim, like "BR1GADIER is a sandwich short of a picnic!"
Man I love watching someone else do the work for a change !! 😁
I grew up in a dump truck. My Pop & me would make multiple trips from rock crusher to job site, miles & miles. You live on the best road building material Ive ever seen & Ive seen a bunch. Its so handy, no dump truck needed.
The A70? dozer engine seems to have lots of low end torque so no need to rev it excessively while working. What a great machine that Bristol dozer!! I really like these fix-it videos and the way you go about doing the repairs.
I’m living vicariously through you and your misfit toys. Thanks for the entertainment I love it.
that hitachi looks like fun to use. the bristol has a nice low heavy smart design to put all its weight on a level behind the blade.
it can really push!
truly beautiful country. my wife and i dream of a back country life in nz. thank you
You worked hard for toys,,,,it’s awesome watching you. ,,,,,enjoy.
Could watch you all day! Thanks!
I bet it feels so good to finally have the equipment, to fix all the things that have been bugging you for years.
Beautiful building stone just coming out of the ground, so many possibilities...
All this useful work done by scrapped vehicles. This guy needs a tv show.
That's really beautiful country there. It reminds me of the Cascade mountains here in Washington state.
I dont know why but as an engineer I find this guy fascinting.
Great work with oldies .
This so cool that you take obsolete (in the modern world) and putting them to work. I don't know.... but I bet both bulldozer and excavator are smiling.
Just the work you have done with the excavator, it’s worth making all the repairs to it! Maybe clean the trees hanging over the road so the grader isn’t hitting them! Looks great Marty!
shows no matter how old the equipment, it can still be used for what it was designed for and although they may not have all the bells and whistles of the newer equipment they will still do the job
Looks like you have a great place to live Marty, it is a bit similar to our remoteness in Snowdonia!
Just watching those two old and abused machines doing what they were made to do brought a smile to my face. You should be really proud of yourself Marty. The Hitti is making less slop noise than a lot of much newer machines and the Bristol is a happy little bugger = ) Thank you !
Reminds me of my ancient UH061 12 tonne Hitachi. Huge travel in the operating levers. I like that quick hitch bucket change. Mine takes about 15 min for 2 people.
Am I the only one that keeps waiting for him to show up with a tunnel boring machine or mining equipment?
"Well, who would have thought, I just found 500 Pounds of dry, useable TNT laying in the forest nearby"
Marty seems to be more about making a road be he could use a piling machine here to really stabilise that area with some corrugated metal sheet piles 😂
I've got a couple LHDs/scooptrams/boggers/whatever you want to call them, but they're in New Mexico!
Haha. He's got to finish the grader 1st, then he's getting a crane! :)
@@WhiskeyGulf71 He has that grader now, and we know how graders produce corrugations. They don't do that wobble board thing when grading construction sites, so I assume it is a deliberate setting they use for drainage. They are a pain to drive over, but not so bad if you can do 80kph or more. The Australian 'Outback Truckers' show demonstrates how nasty corrugations are. They shake the load loose and make bits fall off, and must be murder for the truck and driver. When you think of the hundreds of Ks they do every day, you have to feel for them.
it's so relaxing watching this.
Love all of your old equipment it works well for you , you do a super job
Not only is he a dam genius at getting stuff running that has Ben left behind for a hundred years ,he is a good operator ,some people can do everything and anything ,not me ,but I can appreciate people that can I’m not a hater
I think I speak for most of your UA-cams what a great way to spend in lock down thank you Marty👍
Two great pieces of equipment.
You are a very skilled man and a gifted cameraman and filmmaker.
I always enjoy your videos.
13:22 I didn't appreciate how steep the grade was till that camera angle. I see your point now! Good job.
Thanks for the opportunity to get outdoors during this time of confinement!
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I really like that pick on your excavator. I think I'll might make something like that for my backhoe. Where I live it's nothing but boulders, and that thing would come in handy. Love the ol' dozer. Cheers from Canada.
Really great to see the old fixer uppers back to work. Thank you so much for sharing!
It has been so much fun watching you rescue the digger, fix it up and now put it to good use. Thanks for sharing these wonderful videos.
The old Bristol was the perfect tool for the job. Looks great!
It's like going to ask your grandfathers advise and he puts his newspaper down and says it's not a problem and dose it.
Good job as usual. Love the Bristol - she really can move a decent amount of dirt for an old girl!
It is awesome watching these old, previously abandoned machines work again. Well done Marty!
It's wonderful being master of all you survey and the virtual king of your own hill. I'm envious. It's beautiful country there.
You're on your way to reshaping the world and all with your trusty old dinosaur kit, bloody marvelous.
Very impressed with your production. Gentle and atmospheric.
I started watching your channel with the abandoned digger video, and I haven't missed one since, it's so great to see the progress, and nice to see you getting great use out of all the machines you have repaired! Keep it up, these videos make me so happy.
Those machines have payed for themselves ten fold love your work
You truly know how to operate those machines and and a atack plan and moving tons of earth with it all..
That was an absolutely stunning intro!
Your dozer is awesome too, it does some work!
Love the views of your little slice of the world, gorgeous views!
I just got all 7 cylinders on my backhoe rebuilt and got them all back in, hydraulics can be a pain but when it works it makes life so much easier! (Especially on your back!!)
That's a nice mountain you got there, lucky guy.
Viewers who don't live in New Zealand might not know how often our roads and tracks suffer wash outs. Even main tourist routes like Te Anau to Milford Sound, or Queenstown to Glenorchy suffer regular wash outs. If you have ever done Doubtful Sound via the Wilmot Pass, you might know that road is in a continuous state of repair. That's what six metres of rain each year can do. That 21 kilometre track is the most expensive road per kilometre ever built in New Zealand. (I heard that stat before they rebuilt SH1 after the Kaikoura earthquake, which might have changed things. So drainage is essential if you want your unsealed roads. I don't know exactly what part of the top of the South Island Marty lives, but I suspect he'll have upwards of 3 metres of rain per year.
That boggles my mind...average 12"/.3m of rain per year where I run my equipment. I live in a desert, but still!
We get 8" here. 12 inches would be like a rain forest.
Marty T your land is absolutely beautiful, I watch the channel just to see the landscape. Has me wanting to pay a visit to your territory (NZ) right? Well I wouldn’t hold it against you if you didn’t tell anyone where your spot is , it’s perfect just as it is . Well just keep the videos coming so the rest of the world that’s stuck in traffic if we get out of quarantine alive makes a man re-think his priorities to include an old digger and some dirt on the top of a mountain . Doesn’t take long to sort that out !
It’s in the north of the north island. Bay of Islands area. Really beautiful country.
@@DiHandley I disagree. this is the Marlborough sounds (top of the south Island) Marty admitted it before (the oysters give it away)
The land reminded me of the north western part of the United States. The dry, arid parts of Washington or Oregon.
@@brianhoxworth3881 ha I just happen to have my spot of sand in the desert of south central Wa I’d trade it off in a Seattle second for something down under !
That Bristol is brilliant. 70 years old and can still do the jobs it was designed for - just takes a bit longer than something more modern.
Another great vid Marty, especially the drone shots of the countryside in the first bit. Whoever is doing your photography is a pro - really interesting camera angles really show off our beautiful Kiwi bush to your overseas viewers as well as keeping the content interesting for us engineering fans. More please.
Your video perspectives are spectacular. You are also a good video editor. And of course the subject matter is always well presented and interesting. Good job! Thanks.
Thanks mate
@@MartyT Not trying to start a dialogue but want to say your video's are the only ones I watch twice. For instance, first time I missed the huge mushroom when you drove the grader up.
That little dozer sure comes in handy as to having excavator.
I could of watched you doing this and chatting about it for hours..
Hard to believe the 70 year old Bristol performed so well. After the cooling system "field" repair, I was giving it a few small tasks before she would need another work over. She did well.
You did well too, and you obviously plan out your projects and set the time, which is good practice and the way to go.
Perfect place for mountain biking:) lovely place to live. Thanks for your videos.
Beautiful piece of country you live in. Thanks for sharing.
what a difference it makes when you have the right tools for the job. great to see the Bristol being used! (Y)
So cool. I ran excavator for 12 years building logging roads here In BC. Retired now, but still enjoy watching a great operator in action!
It is very interesting to follow your journey with your equipment and your wider roadways. It’s so different of what I is used to. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey. God bless you and your family.
Wow, that is some spectacular looking country
Great dawn chorus you blessed with Marty.
Suddenly, when watching you crawl along with the Bristol Bulldozer, the snail hood ornament seems a tiny bit inappropriate for the road grader. 😁
Drone footage was stunning & i like the way your getting great use out of the old iron..you've earn't it after all the effort you put into each bit of iron.
Job well done beautiful country there love what you're doing
Another well done job with your wonderful old machines.
MartyT your land looks so beautiful, want to see a video of your land from the bottom to your property, and the roads leading to your land, can you vlog one for us, loved your old machines in good condition to your need. hats off to your hard work
Great video Marty - excellent to see you really working those old repaired machines hard. Having snow-boarded the slopes around Queenstown in the 90's, and taken hire cars up similar steep slopes with hairpin bends, no guard rails and 3,000' sheer drops in snow and ice, I thought that was one of NZ's national sports (hairy hairpins) - you've made that curve too easy, it'll increase traffic to your property lol!
Really like that little Bristol.... good to see it still going strong.
sweet drive now, trim it out after few rains with david brown whitey.
That's a beautiful part of the country you live in Marty. Looks just like where I am, on the edge of the English lake District, only you have about 1/100th the population density & a lot less government interference.
Thanks Marty for all these good upload. Very nice channel indeed. You seem very happy with your lifestyle coming all together and proving you right. I got myself an old backhoe JCB 3C for dirt cheap, the confinement helping me tyding her up. If all going right I sould be owning an old isolated farm and only working 28 hours/week I think that's the way to go. cheers from france
Found a dozer just like yours for sale but unable to do anything about it under the current situation. Hopefully we will get over this and I can go check it out.
You can't get it but then neither can anyone else at the moment so have patients and stay safe , will watch your vids when you post them 😀.
Looks great! Lots of hours and years still left in those old girls
Maybe dump some of the ditch material over the side just before you start the hairpin turn. Widen the area out a bit.
Great job keeping the sounds on during the time lapse stuff! nice touch
That digger would be 10x more handy with a thumb, even one of those stationary pin-on ones
It makes life heaps easier around stumps and logs you could even make one i reckon.
Wouldn't be too hard to fabricate one.
Only recently came across your channel. Got to say I love it as I'm a tinkerer myself only chainsaws and small engines at the moment. Whereabouts is your property as its what dreams are made of. Isolation at its best. Cheers
Marlborough Sounds, Nelson Province, top of the South Island, New Zealand.
I am so glad for you that the slew motor is good. Those are no fun to rebuild. And, hopefully, the hydraulic pass through swivel for the final drive motors stays in good shape. Those cam really suck to remove. I've rebuilt quite a few of them. I work mainly on the Komatsu 200 series at the place I work. I happen to be a heavy equipment mechanic/welder/fabricator, and amateur machinist. It's nice to have the skills to fix just about anything, and to make parts and tools myself. Cheers from Southern Illinois, Midwest USA.
Yes the bolts holding the hyd motor to the planetary have rusty heads and are seized, so will be extra fun to remove if it gives out.. If you're ever in NZ feel free to pop in to give me a hand reconditioning it ;)
I have to say the Bristol is my favourite of your acquired vehicles.
I can not believe the sound of that Bristol engine, sounds great. Beautiful part of the world you live in mate not like busy Sydney ;)... have a great weekend.
Petr Turcovsky You’re only a few hours flight away mate, pop over sometime!
@@_chipchip It's on the list mate :)
Well, the engine was designed for use in a middle order family car as well as the first postwar generation of London taxicabs. The mechanical refinement now the water pump has been repaired seems a little less improbable knowing this background
Nice work Marty, great to see all the gear in use!
Good little video. Not too many of us can use a dozer and excavator to landscape the driveway.
Cheers
Peter
great video show us more of you working these machines i love watching the work
You don't get away with that mate - you've gone and bought something else and it's BIG - that is why we watched you widen the track!! Watch out for the next episode.......
Fantastic - I watched it twice in a row.....that Chaimberlain is a lovely old thing....far more effective than one would think.
Good to see the machines being put to work . Good job sorting the run off and the camber , raised height a bit on the bend . Well done Marty . Keep up the excellent work .
I love watching your videos. Thanks Marty!
Nice work, Marty. 👍
Marty, you are so luck to live in such a beautiful part of the country on the world, I keep forgetting what a great country sideside N.Z. has. Miss it. Keep up the good work.
When I was eight I wanted to grow up and be Marty T. Now at 55 I want to retire and be Marty T. Keep up the good work!
Marty, you operate like a professional brother, looks great!
Dear Marty T.
👍👌👏 Well done again. You know, some people have a wheelbarrow, a shovel and a pickaxe (or is it crossaxe?). Some go bigger... a lot bigger! ;-) :-) Those rescued machines work really impressive! Congrats! Congrats also for having such a wonderful property. Something like this wouldn't be payable in Germany.
Best regards, luck and health.
Its like the hairpin at the Monaco G.P. The dozer really finished it off nicely.
Love watching the old Bristol working.
I think its great you are getting it done with the old gear. And doing it well
I am keeping my old ihi excavator going just but it is too bloody useful, just this week jot a new track and was suprised how cheap they are
Really enjoying watching you get these old machines, get them going then work them!
Your videos are just beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome Bristol you got there Marty
Is the whole county one big gravel pit? Wow!
Unfortunately not...but over time our whole South island mountain range has been reduced by weathering and the resultant debris spread far and wide, especially in Canterbury...
and the land is one large gravel pit hundreds of metres deep...
which filters mountain rain water and channels it to the coast...
available for wells to tap into....
Love the way you bring back to life that old equipment!!!
Great seeing both machines doing a great project.
Love the birds, I am a kiwi in the UK... lovely to hear