1960’s Galion Road Grader back to work after being abandon for over a decade!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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The split view is so cool 16:17 @Diesel Creek
That pile covered a lot more than I thought it would. Nice work Matt.
Have you thought of excavating a ditch on the left of the road to help with that wet patch, possibly going in to the creek for drainage, maybe a colllab with letsdig18?
Great job on the driveway. Wish I had that kind of equipment. But I’m in town and got no where to keep it. That’s why I watch you.
Ole Christine. She makes a nice noise just ticking over. Good job!
Christine is earning her keep with the excellent work she is doing!! And not trying to kill you anymore!!
Every time I see a new video, I’m hoping to see the building start coming up. I can only imagine how excited you are about it lol.
Glad we get to see the driveway ‘finished’ and when you look back at the ‘Homestead from nothing’ playlist you can really see how far you’ve come. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
When you cut the grass on each side of your driveway all the way up through though it makes it look really nice
I just love watching you operate all the different machinery from heavy equipment to lawnmowers
I like the “cleaning up and organizing “ your area and seeing the transformation.
Always like to see you continuously improving what you have!
We all try and do that….
Great job!
I've been wanting to email Matt about coming out and cleaning the place up for him, lol. Glad its starting to look less like a junk yard.
Matt reminds me that what looks futile is something to take pride in once a modicum of elbow grease is applied!
YES!!! The curse is gone and Christine shined thru performing above and beyond her paint. The first phase of "DIESEL CREEK BOULEVARD" looks great! Curious how thick you were able to get the millings. Thanks for sharing Matt and looking forward to more videos.👍
Good job Matt. I think it`s about time you put some glass back in ol` Christine there.🙂
The drone work and the tunes playing while you were rolling out Christine was BADASS!!!!! When is the work going to begin on the new building??
Matt, thanks for all your videos, I really enjoy them. I'm Australian, so our terminology and methodology may differ. You don't seem to be grading a "crown" into your road, just grading it flat. A crown, even on the single lane will assist in water displacement/run off, not leaving water pooling on the surface causing damage. Sorry if I am telling you something you know. Keep up the good work. 😀
Al y all supposed to pull your ditches first and prevent diesel spil
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Matt, Awesome Job!
Once you are able to review the driveway performance in the rain, you may want to consider re-openning the drainage ditches on each side and possibly crown the driveway to improve drainage runoff so water doesn't sit and permeate your work creating soft spots or places for pot holes to develop.
I concur, need a slight crown to the center of the road for water run off and ditches to avoid potholes forming.
Great job!
@@kenb.6631 Crowning is a Must Do Matt. Else you will see a lot of pothole develop.
From the low view he gave us close to the end, the driveway looked crowned to me!!
I'm thinking Matt is WAY ahead of you !!
If I could only get my county to figure out the "Crowning of the Road" theorem!?!?! 😆 🤣 😂
glad to see you are finally able to reap the benefits of your "projects". Christine didnt kill you afterall, and the (not so) free compactor roller did an awesome job for you.
thank God for that but it cost a
lot
of the repairs it's worth after all
where is the bien from lol enjoyed I can imagine you glad for you
Finally you tamed the cursed beast called Christine lol I was quite impressed with her and what you've been doing on your property as well Matt 👍
Gailion glass really clean! Fun watching! Thanks!
Congratulations Matt! The Diesel Creek Interstate turned out very nice! I have made similar tracks here on our farm in the UK. As you graded it flat across the width, if that top coat settles out and you get some ponding on the road that wants to soak into the road sub-base, you might want to consider taking the grader back over it and put a bit of a camber on it so the middle is a slight high point and roll it as two strips that fall away from the centre line to help the road shed the rainfall to the sides. I noticed some wet areas beside the road. Here in the UK, we would also probably dig a shallow curved ditch / gulley each side to take the rain and lower the water table under the road to stop the sub base getting soft. Either way, it's a great road Matt! And it's very satisfying for us viewers to see you go from total forest to finished roadway. Looking forward to the new shop when it happens! All the best from Essex, UK.
I love seeing the place get cleaned up and I love what you’ve done with the road!!!!
If it was my road I would push the trees farther back from the road and put in some good ditches!!!
Matt, I’m no way mechanically inclined, but I’ve learned so much by watching your videos. I really enjoy watching and always look forward when you put out a new one. Btw, the driveway with the help of Christine turned out awesome!
Matt, I love your channel. You're a hard working Bob the Builder for adults!
That grader looks absolutely gorgeous - hope it runs as good as it looks!
it sure does from 6feet^^
@@majstealth the old stuff always better
@@rsprockets7846 i wouldnt say that per se, imagine he had a gps-guided grader
@@majstealth WATTS A NEW MINTY FRESH GRADER COST THESE DAZE???
@@rsprockets7846 gotta say ole cristine is square blading real nice first pass got milling chips on the moldboard so she got a bit of pushing power n yea she looks great
Great job Matt, it's good to see the older equipment being put to good use. There's nothing more satisfying than doing your own work on your own property, it's a learning curve and gives you a bit of experience for when you go doing work for someone else. Once again great job, and thanks for taking us on the journey with you 👏👏👏👏👏
Man what a difference in your property and road. Looks awesome Matt! I am looking forward to when your builders finally show up and begin your shop build. It is the same problem everywhere, they all have more work than they can do.. Thumbs UP for sure 👍. Have a great weekend everybody.
Driveway turned out great. You did a good restoration on that grader by the way.
👍to Ole Christine and Matt to Nice Job
Nicely done...my only comment is when grading dirt roads "crown" the middle of it meaning to make the middle slightly higher than than sides to help with drainage. Christine ran great!
Lol you realize he built highways……
I was thinking the same but I have to believe Matt had his reasons for keeping it flat.
Almost like you were flying the drone when you were holding the camera and riding the bike. Good work, looks great.
I OFFICIALLY BOUGHT MY 1ST "CHRISTINE" T-SHIRT JUST NOW AFTER WATCHIN THE SERIES !!! DUDE I JUST HAD TO. ROCK ON MATT
Christine looks fantastic! Glad to see her earning her keep! BTW, I’d have been honored to come run the dump truck for you to help save time. I am a retired truck driver, ya know!!
I’m also retired mechanic and would love to come out and help and “play” at the shop build I can run all sorts of equipment
Matt keeps the glass on Christine so clean you cant even see it🙂
How would a truck driver save time in this scenario oh yeah they wouldn't because it's not like he he would be able to load another truck while you were driving nope he would be sitting there waiting for you to come back no time to save it all
You should paid a white centre line down that bad boy and charge a toll at either end! That looks nice ! Thanks for another great vid Matt
My dad used millings back in the 90’s on our driveway
Construction companies fab a "shoe" for their grader blades. It helps carry the load without losing material around the blade. You can also control the extent of your spill to each side with it. "Shoe" is a local term, but it's a steel plate added to the ends of grader blades to carry material forward rather than losing it as a ridge row.
21:32 Christine has a lot of experience and shares it with you!
If you have an asphalt plant nearby, they might give away some scraps of low bitumen aggregates. I dunno what it's called in english, but we usually purge the asphalt mixer with 2-3 tons of aggregates at the end of a days production, and since that builds up over time, we started giving it away, and farmers here love that stuff so much that now we actually sell it to them. You gotta lay it thick, like 6-10 inches, but that makes up your entire road corpus, top to bottom, no other aggregates required. I've seen roads made with it haul logging trucks all day every day for 10 years now without so much as a dent in them.
Enjoyed your one hand drone piloting. You, sir, are a multi talented individual.
Matt, agree with many that now is the time to do some drainage work before winter rains and or snow take away that great roadbed. As always great video.
Another evening of fun with Matt after the kids to to bed 😁
Looking good mate👍
Being that I work auto parts sales, seeing all those V-belts on the vibrating roller flopping so much reminds me of the training videos.
All you do is great Matt, I was wondering when the shop build starts. Keep is going..
Christine's finally earning her keep!
Midnight U.K. and watching…..yeh I don’t know why but enjoyed Thankyou.
I never noticed that your tail gate on your dump truck wasn't set up for spreading. But it all turned out great.
Hi Matt. Thanks for the videos you pur out. I found your Chanel because of Christine. I have a thing old farming and earthmoving equipment and especially graders. If I can id like to highly recommend you put a service pit in your new workshop. ( you probably have thought about this). Being a mechanic myself and what you work on, it would be a game changer. I have a mate that has semi's and when he built his shed ,he didn't put one in. And now wishers he had. Thanks again for your video. Keep up the good work. James
I see old Christine is being very great full to for you finding her, fixing and painting her! Great job Matt!!
I was going to say you need a belly dump them guys can lay it down for 500’ . But I see you do a damn good job laying it down with your dump.
Also if your going to stand like most do when operating a grader you should get a harness and hoke it up behind you so when you make a sudden stop Christine doesn’t run over you. It took one of our guys doing that that we installed them on our graders .
The Old Girl made her self proud. When is the shop going up?
Awesome driveway
Hey Matt,
I went back and re-watched this playlist, it was as good today as it was as you posted the weekly/monthly clips. I am in the market for a Galion 503 or Allis-Chalmers “D”…, they are thin as “hens teeth”…, at least ones in the condition yours “was”. Anything with a minimal amount of refurbishment is crazy money.
Watching you grade out your driveway, was “mesmerizing”…, somehow soothing to the eye…, hahaha.
Great video..!
Thank you sir.
P.S., the front tires on the grader are on backwards…., hahaha!
Ooooh, I see new shed bits!
Looks awesome for an operator that doesn’t know what he’s doing 😁👍👍
Motor graders are hard to learn. For not knowing what your were doing, you sure did a good job.
You need to get one of the old operators to show you how to use the grader to cut some ditches on your road and drain into the creek.
I remember them from my childhood
*- I knew Christine would be a great investment of time and money for you.*
*- Just like you crane and roller...they all will pay you great dividends over the years.*
*- I think the road liked being brought into being by you and Christine and the roller.*
I'm pretty sure I found your channel right around when you were cutting in this driveway. I remember you clearing some trees and getting stuck in a swampy mess at one point, which is now this really nice road. Needless to say, this has been awesome to see!
It’s been a long process!
I got my Christine Shirt a bit back,love it get a lot of compliments on the graphics I tell them where to get them, Thanks Matt fun video ✌️ Napa California
good video... nice split-screen... most better music for the listening pleasure...thanks
Great job Matt.
Nice job on the road Matt. Christine is starting to earn her keep. Look forward to your next project and seeing that shop go up.
🚧 Viva Christine,🚧 I like her a lot.💯
Nice drive on the drag strip!
When you started off square blading I thought it was going to end up with rock blown over the shoulders at the thickest part of every load but it must be wide enough for it to work here. If it were me, I'd start by angling the blade fairly sharp to the left and pulling the rock away from the right shoulder and leaving a window just outside the tires on the left side. Keep making passes like that sweeping the material from side to side until the window is fairly consistent. Then angle the blade back, maybe 20 or 30 degrees so material is falling out to the right shoulder as well as rolling the rest about 2/3 or 3/4 across the road without leaving a window by holding the trailing edge of the blade up a little to establish the crown on that half. Then on the last pass, angle the blade to the right 45 degrees or so and pull the rest of the material the rest of the way across the road, establishing the other half of the crown and covering the shoulder. A couple inches of crown goes a long way. Just make sure to keep your wheels off the windrow. Always try to leave it where you can straddle it with the front end and don't let the material roll under the back tires as it comes off the blade. If the crown doesn't turn out to your satisfaction, make another round and play with it. Keep up the great content!
Have to say this is one of my favorite channels now and man how that music matches just content! Can't wait just next one! 👍
Close and pin you tailgate, then use the chains to restrict how far the tailgate opens at the bottom. You’ll find it spreads much smoother. You remind me of my old man. He could figure out how to make anything run, then operate it. Great video
I'd love to see Cristine with her glass in place.
That is a whole lot better than the road to my house 👍
Great video! I always look forward to the next one!
If you are going to grade your road I guess it stands to reason that a Road Grader is a handy thing to have around.
Well done Matt, however why don't you really prepare those wet sides with a proper drain to avoid damages in the future? Sometimes it just seems that you doing stuff over your knee and because of that you keep spending time and money. Keep up the good work!
Fukin sweet…you lucky bastard
All your hard work of fixing up equipment is really paying off! Love the channel!
That looks awesome Matt!!
Great video Matt. Any update on the planned shop build?
Good spot for that canoe...
Wow, you just pointed out that I been watching this channel for quite a while. That grader is a real weapon Matt.
I had mine out for alittle bit today it's fun to run but I'm not very good with it yet lol it's hard to keep in your head that when you raise the blade you have to do both sides with both levers I so used to running the dozer and just raising and lower the blade with one lever it gets confusing lol definitely a fun machine to run though it's like a dragline once you get the hang of it your golden
Always great and so cool to see a grader that was so much work to get it back into shape now proving that she was worth all the heart ache!
Good job !
Love the Galion Matt I am looking for a grader myself but have a different idea of what I want.
Wish I could get some grindings for my driveway but lovely California has made it "hazardous waste." So they just pile it up in huge piles on the sides of the road and wont let anyone have it. And again you teased the dozer. Hoping you'll do a video on it soon.
Good job with the grader. For someone who hasn't operated one before that is a slick job. Always love the content on your channel.
Hey Matt weither or not you know what your doing, you sure have our road department beat. And yea I commented out loud lol. Thanks for the video and looking forward to the next. 👋👍
Great cinematography.Awesome work ethic.Nice to see Christine doing a fantastic job.Thanks for sharing and taking us along
I would have back dragged the piles first with fat aliss to save a few passes but that wouldn't have gave you as much seat time in the grader... It turned out dang good 👍
I have you and Christine to blame for the fact I'm taking on a school bus driver job. I'm retired but driving a bus will give me the cash flow for my own Crustine. 😆
It is great!!!
Great work Matt. It is all coming together for ya slowly but surely
Wow good job!
Nice work !
This is great , I have one just like it but mines the 8 series Grizzly silver back with wolf pack upgrade , it came with the twin track cougar aquatic attachment and makes loading millings a breeze , trouble is the shortened long wheelbase makes it tip over way too easy so I'm thinking of adding the rabbit spring levelling kit with the extra seagull self- centring height limit remote , expensive but worth it , you should look into it .
Right…..
as always nice work Matt.
Beautiful job with the grader. Keep up the good work
Nice work
I was wearing my Christine shirt when I went to visit my grandkids. My two year old grandson asked if that was a tractor on my back. My seven grandson and "no, it's a road grader". I said they were both wrong, it's Christine and if you don't treat her right she will try to kill you. They both rolled their eyes. I guess they know me too well lol.
Don't forget to leave 1½" to 2" of crown in the center lengthwise down the driveway so that gravity will automatically remove water from the surface ... standing water is the mortal enemy of any road surface as every tire that rolls through standing water will push small amounts of "fines" away with the water as it's splashed from under the tire. Hardened fines are the "binder" that holds the shape of the surface.
Grate job when is the building going up
Nice work bud! Keep it up. Here’s a comment for the bots!