When he said it hasn't started in 40 years, my mind automatically thinks the 50's or 60's. Then I realized 1980 was over 40 years ago.
Same here and then I realized I’m 39 and got sad. Hahaha
Then I remember the radio saying let’s play some oldies and 90s music came on. COME ON! Haha.
@@lokatwhaticando lol, just turned 40 here bro I remember listening to oldies from the 50's and 60's back in the 90's, now the 90's are oldies? Holy shit!
I like that in USA old machines give a new life, in Russia where I live old machines go to scrap.
In Russia old machine do not go to scrap, whey working to last breathe.
Инными словами их ебут до последнего, пока не развалится окончательно
These videos are the best! There's something to be said about the diesels of our past, there as tough if not tougher than the old people watching these videos, it's satisfying to see the old dinosaur brought back to life.
I can’t get enough revival videos! You popped up as a suggestion when I was watching Diesel Creek. I regret nothing. Thank you and looking forward to more. I’m a logger and loved the hydro ax start
Back in the 60's my uncle had one on his orange grove in Ft. Pierce Florida to build a irrigation canal around a 40 acre grove he started from scratch.
How can anyone not like a saved dragline start up after so many years. Bravo to all of you... Thumbs Up!
Thanks for taking the time to watch and make the comment. I truly appreciate it! Have a good day.
Excellent work guys!! Thank you for these great will-it-start videos, I'm loving them!!
I'm enjoying learning along with you guys. I hope others do to
That goo in the fuel filter looked almost like oil. I bet that hasn't ever been changed since it was new...probably the factory filter😄 Wow, that's amazing it fires up. Diesels seems to be very robust, except for the the fuel system. That seems to be their Achilles heel. I really enjoy these will it start videos. I hope y'all find another one. Thanks Hank!
From the early 70's to the late 90's, I worked in a scrap yard using drag lines, not with buckets, but with magnets. 1020 Unit, and 1220 Unit, a small Bantam on wheels instead of tracks, and a HUGE 405 Koehring. Brings back a lot of memories, both good and bad working with these machines. Thanks for the video so I could show my kids what one of these monsters looked and sounded like....
Once again you guys are a success 👍 I love watching this old equipment come back to life. ☮️
Enjoyed this video with the three Amigos, Hank. I was surprised that y'all got it to start after it had been dormant for forty years. Great job!!!
So very well done guys!
Just found your channel and will keep looking at what you do, I well remember watching as a kid a very similar unit to this working near where I lived digging a river bed out, it was a Ruston Bucyrus rig and I found it awesome even at five years old or so,. Great video, thank you. Keep up the great work!
I love these guys because they take the time to fix old machines and they put a lot of effort into their work.
Congrats guys on getting this old relic running. Great episode Hank, Brandle and Tommy.💖👍😨💥👀🍻
Man that plume of smoke made it too cool! Keep up the great Will it Start Series!
That was a good one! Those fuel filters are incredible. I wonder if they were running it on used oil or something.
I've got plenty of those old type wrenches in my dad's garage, they came from his dads garage. Also, he used to run one of those old dragline diggers, to dig sand out of the river barges to put on dry land. He also was the first on to help pave the tinkers garden square in brodhead, WISCONSIN.
That would be so rewarding to play around with old abandoned equipment and getting them started. I bought an old 60’s Allis and Chalmers grader and it sat in the bush for 20 years. Took it home and got it started. That was a lot of fun.
great job, I didn't think she was going to start when Brandle hit the starter, but I was super excited when it roared to life
I really appreciate y'all sharing this crazy content with everyone I especially enjoy the little side stories about past experiences please don't edit out personal stories it makes for very interesting stuff. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida
Love your videos, nice watching Larry, Curly and Moe.
He has a really good sense of humor and so down to earth I can just really sit and watch these videos all day keep up the awesome work💪
Actually drag lines are hugely efficient. Google search "drag lining coal." Massive but not as big as the German lignite beasts (K5?). Great way to clear out a pond of this type. Interesting design.
Brilliant video. Love the ‘will it start’ videos. Really enjoyed watching it. Thanks for doing it 👍
Thanks Paul. Hope you enjoy our other videos while we search for other will it start episodes 👍
Good job. Congratulations on getting it started. Have a great day.
At 8:13, I'm guessing that fill cap is for oil for the injector pump. It's not uncommon for older diesels to have an injector pump lubricated with engine oil. There's usually a drain plug to drain the pump casing, fuel and water will sometimes accumulate inside it.
Oh, and 16k hours on a CAT engine isn't a shock. I've run CAT wheel loaders with over 40k hours on them.
Will it run? The answer will always be yes.
Anything will run with enough work.
Hidden Oaks Homestead sent me over. Looking forward to seeing what you have going on.
you could make a receiver hitch vise for jobs like this. No need for a service truck.
Love these will it start videos hank!! Love watching you and your friends laughing and enjoying yourselves :)
Hank in all sincerity I want to say Thank You for wearing a shirt that says John 3:16 on it. The Greatest story ever told. You're a Great American. The video is Awesome too! Your friend Mark.
I admit that I scratched my head when I saw this jewel setting in some fellers back yard. Most will start as you proved but the killer is getting fuel to keep going on its own. I do believe that those filters you pulled must need some gasket of sorts as you'ns pointed out. That primer back in the day had a leather rag in it. The bolt was run through it and then kinda cupped in the hole to make a pusher out of it so if it didn't take all that much pressure to get fuel through then a fuel pump that could be hooked in line would be all you may need to get all the air out of the lines to the injectors. Once the air is out of all the lines then you just might win this.... running part. Getting those frictions to cooperate might just be another whole video. Plenty of "pitch" from a pine knot will get them to grab a little. Thats what we used on the old shovels and drag lines back from the day.... You men did outstanding and can be proud of your accomplishments towards making it run long enough to load itself into a scrap metal hauler or someone kind enough to allow it some life and be a museum piece.
Excellent program. God bless you. Edwin Brown from Quito Ecuador
I am old enough to actually remember watching these work! It's been sitting 40 years, but was already old then...I remember them as a little kid, would talk my Dad into either stopping so I could watch, or taking my Mom and little sister home, and bringing me back to watch a while! BTW I am 70.
The band that sings that song kryptonite is "3-DOORS DOWN if im not mistaken.
The rack in the pump may be stuck. I ran them and ain't dead yet. A 318 had a compression release. That'll kill it and the injection pump had a drain around the base of the pump especially for water separation, a sump. American made a fine rig. It can run again and I paid many a light bill slinging a drag bucket. Learned on a 22-B in the Army with a clam bucket feeding an asphalt plant. The ARVN's killed it and we finished the job with a 20 ton American truck crane with a flathead Ford industrial 6-cylinder gas job. Been in Units, P&H's, North Wests, Loraine, Lima's, Quick-ways and who knows what over the years plus a lot of everything that goes with them. A good life and the controls could be loosened up and it'd dig again. And a pony motor is just like an old Harley. If you could crank one you can crank the other. I ought to know. GBWYall!
@@HamiltonvilleFarm 50 years of driving and operating. The truth is stranger than facts.
These videos are awesome so I had to subscribe, I love learning about old machinery and watching it come back to life. I've got an old john deere that I take to tractor pulls that started out as a "will it start" after sitting in my great uncles side yard for many many years and now its a very popular piece at every pull because of its rusted dirty look lol
You got yer crescent, hammer and flat screwdriver??!!
Heyhey Hank I sure did not think that that one would run . But you guys proved me wrong. Good job.
Sorry I have been super busy with school so I haven't been able to watch much UA-cam 😥
Will Start Videos also keep them rolling and lots fun Hank :) and get lots intresting ones always too!
Awesome finds 👏
Equivalent hours mind you of running 1.8 years straight
Now for the important question, are you going to take the crane home with you??
Thanks guys love to see that thing drive out of there
Central California watching
Well ok then
Everytime and I mean everytime I watch someone use ether that long to keep a diesel running I absolutely cringe!!! That's NO good on cylinder walls, like that drag line. It's been sitting 40 years already with no sort of lubricant in those cylinders and then to use ether to fire all cylinders is just stripping them even more not to mention I was kinda waiting for an "ether lock" to see if ya could blow the head off! Ether burns so damn hot and clean just be cautious when using. Thank you for letting me post a PSA. Just kiddin, but seriously ether is so lethal when used like that on any engine let alone diesel's. I dont mean to sound like a dick just trying to help stop unnecessary engine damage.
I agree with using ether only when necessary,and not for a long time. On the other hand if anything could take you using ether on it well it would be some really old, robust diesel engine like that one they got their. My only advice would have been to maybe put some mystery oil down in where the spark plugs go to put alittle lubricant on those cylinder walls, and before trying to start it, I think I might have tried to see if I could turned it and got it loose, but to each is own it was awesome to watch reguardless, even if it would have locked up and blew the head.lol well as long as nobody got hurt, that is. Keep up the great content buddy.
Yes that was really bad running that long on starting fluid. You need to get it compleatly primed and it will fire right off.
Purge air from filter cap first, then from each individual pump bleeders, then each injection valve at head. You might try pressurising fuel tank to bleed
Thanks Hank and crew love all your videos I'm all the way from Australia 🇦🇺 and did what Hank said visited and subscribed to country life channel Awsome stuff keep it up
All the armchair arborists are gonna yell at you for not wearing a suit of armor while cutting with a chainsaw.
Nice job, It does start so all you all need to do is have someone stay in the engine bay and keep spraying starter fluid will you do your work with it. Just kidding. great job for sure. All my best.
Lol. Like the old guys that used to shovel coal in the locomotives. 😂
That was great to watch .on edge of my seat
Chances of this working; very high. You've got tommy and brandell working on it. The steady hand of experience and mechanical wizardry what could be better
The person who is reading this comment i wish you great success health love and happiness God bless everyone here Jesus loves you 💟💜💙❤
That's the kind of stuff I've been waiting to see a man good job keep up the good work
I need you guys to get that darn. I knew it you guys are always the best and I love it
You guys done a good job!
This was a great video and I am glad that you all got it to fire up and run some .Those old Cat engines are amazing.
I have a old ( probably around early 1960 model crane mounted on a General Motors truck ) that the cab of the crane is set up very much like that the drag line cab was . My crane has a Hercules motor in it and it had been running the last time about 1978 . And we had kept antifreeze in it and hydraulic oil in the motor block so that if we wanted to try to start it .
Till around 1999 to 2000 some sorry ass drained the radiator and stole the radiator out of it .It is sitting a long distance from where that we could see it, on the back side of my 200 acre farm. A coal company that had stripped the coal off of my farm in Lawrence County, Kentucky had just left it here, no longer wanted it . It was a pretty cool looking old piece of equipment, but it is really dilapidated now . Never did anything to it after someone took the radiator out of it .
I will catch you all later on more videos, cause I love to watch the stuff that you all do trying to get the old equipment started .
Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year for 2022 and be careful and stay safe and keep on making us more videos.
As always, Jeffrey !!!
By my house in the early 80s, on a sewer job, the poor guy was trying to put in his CAT 235 would SINK there was wet lands and a creek plus water came up through ground. The guy finally RENTED a DRAG LINE-BE- 30- B sitting on HUGE wood planks, he brought it in for back filling, Loader wheel and track just sunk. The POOR guy who lost his shorts on sewer job, just started digging with
Drag line to finish job. It was fun watching the old good operator run the Drag line.
great job guy's!
Muito legal essa,procura de máquinas abandonadas,o mais bonito velas funcionar
God bless you all. Love the king of king and the lord of lords. Grate video. 40 Yrs and she run off a little either. How sweet is that.
Hello from Minnesota. It purred.
I love the old tractors & equipment ! The old stuff were built well! Some Old injector pumps had their own oil... Prob what that first plug you spotted.. Throttle & shutoff levels, just Luxuries lol
I commented pretty much the same thing before I found your comment. I'm accustomed to old Deutz air-cooled diesels with a mechanical injector pump that has its own oil supply.
💥Yep, this one is going to do very well. Great video Hank! Million views coming up.
*Keep on tractoring!!* 👍
I live on the farm in Texas farmed all my life. I found one of those little wrenches when I was 6 Yrs old, carried one thru 3 Yrs in army and quit carrying one when I retired in 2006, wore out several. Still have the original🥺😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hank I love your T-shirt. I have fun watching your videos keep the fun coming my friend. Oh yes your first starts too.
That's big crane in the woods outside big heavy equipment needs everything new battery control's make good money bless you friend stay safe out there
Hey guys...God bless you ....I love this team...definitive the problem would be in the gas and air mixture....
DO IT HANK!
Awesome will it start Hank, I watch Countrylife, he has great content! Those old Cat engines always start right up!
Kryptonite was sung by 3 doors down. their music video was shot on my aircraft carrier when I was out to sea in the Gulf. Got to meet him and escort him around a couple sections of the ship it's pretty cool.
As i was watching you guys. I noticed that you said hold your mouth right. My dad used the expression when he was around. I also noticed your t shirt John 3-16. Thats awesome by the way my friend Hank. Im a big time believer myself of that big man upstairs. I think the odds are good you will get it started. Im not going anywhere. You will always have my support my friend. I have snapped half inch impact adapters before, big bolts and big socket wrenches but not battery terminals. Dont know my own strength either lol. That old gas engine saw was awesome to see. Thanks for sharing such an awesome video.
My grandpa sitting here with me watching said at Willow Run airport during WWII the government build building to build the B-24 Liberator. He said he operated this type of crane, he said it's the exact same thing!
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