Thanks Toby, the alfresco workbench is absolutely awesome. Wouldn't we all like an I-beam section like that! Keep it coming still loving the channel. All the best, regards Ian
My father was the Chief Engineer of the Sudanese Railway after the War ,his buddy ran the last steam locomotive to run in Canada.I rode the footplate for a short journey, quite a thrill for a 7 year old..never forget that whistle!
Small steps forward is a good bit of progress. I'm running out of small parts to do for the '27 John Deere... That means we are getting closer! (I hope). Can't wait to see that flywheel and clutch gleaming in its resurfaced and refurbished glory
IC locomotives! I come from a train family. My grandfather was the Superintendent of Motive Power for the Illinois Central and he retired the last steam engine from the IC. It's cool to see the pre-CN black-and-white still running.
You see lots of those units around here, they’re rarely ever used for “over the road” service but for yard switching and short local runs like this spur that feeds the ore docks, they still put in service every day. We also had a bunch of units like that at the BNSF yard in Superior, WI - some still wearing the old Burlington Northern green and black colors 👍
@@squatch253 I live next to what is now a spur line from Jackson, MS to the Nissan Plant in Canton. It used to be the main line to Memphis, but now the thru traffic (and Amtrak) is shifted over to the old Yazoo, and Mississippi Valley line thru the flatland in western MS. I see a bunch of Grand Trunk Western marked CN locomotives and occasionally some foreign power like UP and BNSF for whatever reason. They run GE while CNs are usually EMDs.
Hey Toby, I remember something that I saw being made at the machine shop in the Vo-Tech school I attended in the early 80s. The guy was making the backing strips for clamping the core of an old radiator with cast iron top and bottom. He had the originals and they were 3/16 thick. He was making the new ones out of 3/8 bar stock. He said that he had straightened the originals twice in 2 years and they were distorting and letting the gaskets leak during the summer when the radiator got hot. He said that his father had told him that he had fixed tractor radiators that way before with no failures.
That's actually the little one - we've got another out by the other shop about twice that size with a vise mounted to it too. They're really handy for doing just about any type of work on, heavy duty enough to hold welding projects as well as using for hammering sheet metal back in place - as will be seen in tomorrow's new upload ;-)
It's the same here in Ireland,,,All the old family run businesses that repaired rads,,AG clutches,,,and relined brakes are disappearing and retiring,,,Everything's once use and disposable ,,,Sad times across the western world..
Very cool tour Toby! That must be the taconite ore my son picks up in Duluth and then sails it to Lake Erie on his ship, what a coincidence to see the impressive 3 engine train taking it to the docks! Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoy watching your videos there Squatch,,,,,enjoy listening to your reasoning behind the decision's you make about work being done on the machines and such,,,,refreshing to say the least,,when much of what i hear is nonsense,,😡😡,,,,stay safe and warm,,,,,give your dad a hug and say hello for me,,he is a joy,,🇺🇸😍
Hey..... I enjoyed the headlight bracket wielding job.......looks like something I could have done, considering I've never wielded before....; i.e., "The bigger the glob the better the job!!" (smile)
That was cool to see the Illinois central locomotive on the train. I have a friend named blake who lives nearby and has caught a few rides on that line.
Both broken headlight mounts are a puzzle - almost as if they put a loader or corn picker on the front that required light removal but forgot to remove them one time.
I've witnessed redundant accessory brackets be removed with a big hammer when a stuck bolt is encountered, you never know what happens when tempers flare... This tractor isn't possessed, it's suffering PTSD...
My bet is that they fractured through vibration. Two hefty brackets, carrying identical masses, fracturing in the same place smacks of that. If you look at the prototype/production photos, the headlights are slightly different. That and the different sized grilles would be enough to move the resonant frequency far enough away that fracture was less likely.
Fatigue may have gotten them given the hours on that machine. My Sidney lathe had broken headstock shifters, but no apparent fall or crash damage. I could only figure it to be fatigue due to the insane hours that machine has run.
Dad with cat twenty was backing up and stuffed big stick into radiator. Dad took radiator from Cat grader that center was good. Took hand saw and cut it to correct size. Took damage radiator apart, unsoldered header plate from core and partly soldered in in place on new core. Took it to radiator shop to have them finish it. Its alot of work soldering every tube by hand where shop doesn't have too. Radiator shop was trying to hire Dad to build radiators for old equipment LOL.. I've done something close to that but radiator work sucks. For my 76 mustang II at the time no one had V8 radiators and I changed upper tank and header
Excellent video the previous owners must have used the front end as a bumper or the stop cushion instead of keeping the brakes working properly. Keep up the great videos
Those headlight brackets that broke off were probably a casualty of long long hours bouncing with the weight of all of the headlight assembly . The surround itself was OK because it had 2 bolts with washers to help distribute some of that , but the bends may have been a lesser quality metal and weakened by the shaping to begin with .
I sure wouldn’t want to get on your bad side Squatch I saw the way you grabbed that flywheel like it was made out of plastic maybe it’s an idea for future episodes “Squatch feets of Strength “ It worked pretty good for Kenny Patera and Tony Atlas!😀🇨🇦
I think you’re the first person I have ever seen use a saltus wrench. I can see them being handy at times. The grille repair would drive me crazy straightening all those bars.
I've noticed areas of land that have been vacant for years because of "contamination" have suddenly been funded for cleanup for "repurposing". Gee, that couldn't possibly be a long term imminent domain plan, could it? What a coincidence...
I suspect those headlight brackets wear cut off to simplify a specific daylight job and wear welded back on when needed for nighttime operations. It would have been faster than removing all the treaded fastener. In fact, it looks like something my grandfather would have done. He built a house, every water pipe was welded with short nipples welded on the end to install hose bibs and plumping fixtures.
Who are you using for a Rad shop now? I always used the same guy as you did, was pretty bummed out when he retired.....He did really good work. Lakehead clutch and brake does great work too...Thanks Toby.
Real-estate is valuable for now. I didn't realize cement was hazardous, but the local asphalt hot mix plant was subject to a super fund cleanup so i shouldn't be surprised. Thanks.
Sheetmetal work seems more fun than assembling the pesky transmission of X231. Lot of old school repair man are retiring and it's really hard to find someone who is dedicated to radiator or clutch repair work. I can think of two reasons why the light mounting brackets look this bad on X231. First something had to pull hard on the headlight like a branch. Number two would be excessive friction to do something being unbalanced aka vibration issues.
I do agree, it is becoming almost art, partly with the tech advances in rads being mostly plastic these days, and the great decline of the manual transmission. It will not be long before that art starts to become a lost art and then a lost forever art
Hi Tobie, it looks if this project have years to go to look like a tractor but after this episode it looks if it will looks like a tractor sooner as expected, well done
12:35 Multiple dies, likely. First they'd make a channel with the walls at 45... then they'd flip the part on its side and make the two features where the slats fit, with a spine in the U channel feature on the back of this part. 20 tonner press would probably suffice, maybe, but across the whole thing, so in actuality (and from a business savvy pov), likely bigger. Nowadays, it would be done in a single action on a plate die with two side features that would swing in as the larger U channel is formed and would press in the features for the slats. Or more advanced (and rarer) a rolling die. Which is only used when you have to spit out hundreds of kilometers of this kind of a rail and obligatory requirement is to have it out of steel (because they would 100% do it out of aluminium today - extruded). I've seen a rolling die once and it's impressive as machines go, basically each station further shapes the single strip of steel, slowly getting it to the final profile. MM would've lost their minds if such technology would've been available to them back then. :))
The rolling die method is how they’ve always made track plates/pads for machines that have undercarriage - large steel bars are fed in at one end and are rolled through a series of dies that progressively elongate and shape the bar until it has the desired profile. It then gets sheared off at the specified lengths, has all mounting holes punched out, and then heat treated. After heat treatment, they see one last impact from another large set of dies that take any possible warpage out and they’re done. Lots of investment to get all set up, but like you said if high volume is required, it’s the most efficient way 👍
I really enjoyed the local history and railroad portions of the video. How about touring us around the RR scene and other points of interest? The mine? Also, since you're such a stickler for originality, why source new headlight brackets? No doubt you could clean up the sloppy welds and bend them back to spec.
Unfortunately, nearly all railroad sites are subject to trespass laws and safety ordinances, so you rarely ever get close enough to them to be able to film anything. The Taconite mines are all the same way, with entrances closely monitored plus the actual mine site being a long distance from any nearby road or vantage point. Just to access most of these places when I was a BNSF employee, I still needed to show my TWIC card at checkpoints due to safety and security reasons.
Are you sending the old radiator core along to the new radiator guy so he has an adiquit pattern for both ends and lengths of the core I knew a fella who had to have all of the previous parts before making new. ones.
About 15 years ago i spent some time poking around the Atlas Cement plant site. If you knew the route, you could drive right in. Not much left, but what was there was fascinating.
Have a cabinet as well as an outdoor pot blaster. These grille panels would be a very tight fit inside the cabinet though, but yesterday I did end up bringing the pot blaster out and did all of the setup to get these panels blasted down to bare metal. Because of the work it takes to get that set up and put back away again, I only bring that out when I’ve really got a project that’s worth it 👍
He brought that up in an earlier video. They aren't doing it this year as they still have a surplus of syrup and with the early thaw from the crazy warm winter we are having if we suddenly get a freeze up and the trees had been tapped it could kill them. So this year the trees are being left to their own devices.
Do you plan to try to make up any differences in height with the new radiator from the facing of the top and bottoms to freshen them up? I don't know if a 1/4 in will matter, but I haven't seen all the other components that might have to interface.
The CN is actually just as well established in the Duluth/Superior area as BNSF and Union Pacific. And since the last big freight rail contract shake-up in 2017, the CN is now the primary freight hauler in that region 👍
Great video Out here in California the concrete coloring chemical called “lamp black” has made sites deemed hazardous Also, what did you get at the caterpillar dealership? D2 parts?
Quick question I am no body man but is that metal to thick for the hammer and dolly method of straightening. I'm just wondering what's the best way to straighten thick metal like that. I remember on 5j1113 with the top radiator shroud I wondered how you got the dent out of that thick metal could you demonstrate on the side panel please love the content
Because it’s so much work to get it all set up and then put it away again that I have to have a really good reason to invest that time and effort to sandblast something. That being said, I did end up sandblasting those grille panels yesterday because they had so many hard to reach areas for the wire brush.
That head light brackets, what make believe that these are just ZB carry overs? I went back and looked at the archive photo and really couldn't see them in the b/w photo via a phone screen. With the height change of the tractor, wouldn't the position on the headlights be lower on the screen?
When I look at the enlarged original photos of X231 they’re visible, but they’re painted the same color as the radiator side panels so they don’t show up very well. But they are the same brackets 👍
Interesting that the light brackets do not have any paint on them maybe it burned off when they welded it but I don't think so should be same color as tractor hope you can find some better ones if not make new or fix old ones I guess
Thanks for letting us ride to town with you and Senior and showing us the landmarks. We enjoyed it!
Your dedication to PPE for eyes, ears, and lungs is inspiring. Excellent roll model for myself and the younger crowd.
PS,buy good equipment!
Thanks Toby, the alfresco workbench is absolutely awesome. Wouldn't we all like an I-beam section like that! Keep it coming still loving the channel. All the best, regards Ian
My father was the Chief Engineer of the Sudanese Railway after the War ,his buddy ran the last steam locomotive to run in Canada.I rode the footplate for a short journey, quite a thrill for a 7 year old..never forget that whistle!
Small steps forward is a good bit of progress. I'm running out of small parts to do for the '27 John Deere... That means we are getting closer! (I hope). Can't wait to see that flywheel and clutch gleaming in its resurfaced and refurbished glory
Cool. Thanks for the ride along. 👍
IC locomotives! I come from a train family. My grandfather was the Superintendent of Motive Power for the Illinois Central and he retired the last steam engine from the IC. It's cool to see the pre-CN black-and-white still running.
You see lots of those units around here, they’re rarely ever used for “over the road” service but for yard switching and short local runs like this spur that feeds the ore docks, they still put in service every day. We also had a bunch of units like that at the BNSF yard in Superior, WI - some still wearing the old Burlington Northern green and black colors 👍
@@squatch253 I live next to what is now a spur line from Jackson, MS to the Nissan Plant in Canton. It used to be the main line to Memphis, but now the thru traffic (and Amtrak) is shifted over to the old Yazoo, and Mississippi Valley line thru the flatland in western MS. I see a bunch of Grand Trunk Western marked CN locomotives and occasionally some foreign power like UP and BNSF for whatever reason. They run GE while CNs are usually EMDs.
@@JasperFromMS the luthier I was briefly apprenticed to was a second generation IC man. If I recall, he was a superintendent in North Baton Rouge.
Seeing the ore train makes me think about the old DM&IR 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones, it astounds me how much tonnage those brutes could pull.
Hey Toby, I remember something that I saw being made at the machine shop in the Vo-Tech school I attended in the early 80s. The guy was making the backing strips for clamping the core of an old radiator with cast iron top and bottom. He had the originals and they were 3/16 thick. He was making the new ones out of 3/8 bar stock. He said that he had straightened the originals twice in 2 years and they were distorting and letting the gaskets leak during the summer when the radiator got hot. He said that his father had told him that he had fixed tractor radiators that way before with no failures.
That is a beast of a table!
That's actually the little one - we've got another out by the other shop about twice that size with a vise mounted to it too. They're really handy for doing just about any type of work on, heavy duty enough to hold welding projects as well as using for hammering sheet metal back in place - as will be seen in tomorrow's new upload ;-)
I like the ambulance chaser “Are You Injured “ advertisement over the door of the Caterpillar dealership. Lol!!!
👍👍impressive H beam work bench. I am putting that on my project list.
I'm so impressed with that bench that every time I see it, I think of how I need one. 😁
It's the same here in Ireland,,,All the old family run businesses that repaired rads,,AG clutches,,,and relined brakes are disappearing and retiring,,,Everything's once use and disposable ,,,Sad times across the western world..
Very cool tour Toby! That must be the taconite ore my son picks up in Duluth and then sails it to Lake Erie on his ship, what a coincidence to see the impressive 3 engine train taking it to the docks! Thanks for sharing!
Squatch ,
Thanks for the ride along. I've been up in that area a few times from the desert SW. Nice area. Nice work as always. Boe
Thanks for another episode. X231 is what got me hooked on the channel.
My dad worked for the Bessemer and Lake Erie RR in Greenville, PA. Good to see one of their locomotives still in use.
I really enjoy watching your videos there Squatch,,,,,enjoy listening to your reasoning behind the decision's you make about work being done on the machines and such,,,,refreshing to say the least,,when much of what i hear is nonsense,,😡😡,,,,stay safe and warm,,,,,give your dad a hug and say hello for me,,he is a joy,,🇺🇸😍
I like that work bench you have outside.
It's hard to steal or vandalize as well 😊
Hey..... I enjoyed the headlight bracket wielding job.......looks like something I could have done, considering I've never wielded before....; i.e., "The bigger the glob the better the job!!" (smile)
That sign next to the CAT dealership (7:40) immediately made me think: INJURED? _Shake your hands in danger_ 🎸🎶 😅
Enjoyed the ride on Highway 23. I used to deer hunt between Bruno and Kerrick just south of the Little
Willow River.
What a coincidence- we used to hunt just north of Little Willow in the same area, very near Hwy 23
Thanks for the video Toby! One small step towards Christine being a rolling chassis. Can’t wait for the next video!
Excellent video I did like to ride into town. Excellent video have an excellent day
That was cool to see the Illinois central locomotive on the train. I have a friend named blake who lives nearby and has caught a few rides on that line.
Both broken headlight mounts are a puzzle - almost as if they put a loader or corn picker on the front that required light removal but forgot to remove them one time.
I've witnessed redundant accessory brackets be removed with a big hammer when a stuck bolt is encountered, you never know what happens when tempers flare... This tractor isn't possessed, it's suffering PTSD...
My bet is that they fractured through vibration. Two hefty brackets, carrying identical masses, fracturing in the same place smacks of that. If you look at the prototype/production photos, the headlights are slightly different. That and the different sized grilles would be enough to move the resonant frequency far enough away that fracture was less likely.
Fatigue may have gotten them given the hours on that machine. My Sidney lathe had broken headstock shifters, but no apparent fall or crash damage. I could only figure it to be fatigue due to the insane hours that machine has run.
Dad with cat twenty was backing up and stuffed big stick into radiator. Dad took radiator from Cat grader that center was good. Took hand saw and cut it to correct size. Took damage radiator apart, unsoldered header plate from core and partly soldered in in place on new core. Took it to radiator shop to have them finish it. Its alot of work soldering every tube by hand where shop doesn't have too. Radiator shop was trying to hire Dad to build radiators for old equipment LOL.. I've done something close to that but radiator work sucks. For my 76 mustang II at the time no one had V8 radiators and I changed upper tank and header
Sound like getting in to the radiator business may be a good choice
Thanks for the video it’s interesting to see a day out on the road now and again. 👍🏻 keep up the good work.
Thanks for the ride along! It sounded like the train had it's dynamic brakes engaged.
Another excellent adventure
Your landscape doesn't look much like mine here in Texas. What we do have in common is the tractors, Molines and Farmalls.
That's pretty country up there, Squatch!
Good episode Toby! Loved the road trip.
Excellent video the previous owners must have used the front end as a bumper or the stop cushion instead of keeping the brakes working properly. Keep up the great videos
Those headlight brackets that broke off were probably a casualty of long long hours bouncing with the weight of all of the headlight assembly . The surround itself was OK because it had 2 bolts with washers to help distribute some of that , but the bends may have been a lesser quality metal and weakened by the shaping to begin with .
That Center pice is very cool. I can’t imagine the dies they used to make it
Great video
Great episode. I always love a trip to the north shore.
I sure wouldn’t want to get on your bad side Squatch I saw the way you grabbed that flywheel like it was made out of plastic maybe it’s an idea for future episodes “Squatch feets of Strength “
It worked pretty good for Kenny Patera and Tony Atlas!😀🇨🇦
The ore cars were all converted to roller bearings, I did some of then back in the 70s.
Good Video
Is the large spanner another sacrifice to the mighty Christine
Old concrete plants are usually deemed superfund sites when they are as polluted as that one is
Hey that shitty welding on those brackets looks like MY work! 🤣 Thanks for the video, Squatch.
The yard with the Fordson tractor is my uncles house.
Good job, thanks
I think you’re the first person I have ever seen use a saltus wrench. I can see them being handy at times. The grille repair would drive me crazy straightening all those bars.
What is a saltus wrench?
@@billhartl6601 It’s an open end wrench on one side and the other side is kind of like a breaker bar/socket.
the old cement plant/ steel mill are now owed my amazon (new distribution center)
Excellent. Thanks for sharing this
I've noticed areas of land that have been vacant for years because of "contamination" have suddenly been funded for cleanup for "repurposing". Gee, that couldn't possibly be a long term imminent domain plan, could it? What a coincidence...
Thanks for another great video
Toby - nice De Walt Grinder
Thanks
I suspect those headlight brackets wear cut off to simplify a specific daylight job and wear welded back on when needed for nighttime operations. It would have been faster than removing all the treaded fastener. In fact, it looks like something my grandfather would have done. He built a house, every water pipe was welded with short nipples welded on the end to install hose bibs and plumping fixtures.
Are you going to have your rad core made taller for the material you milled off upper and lower tanks so your hood line is right
I enjoyed the video.
Those light brackets probably broke from vibration over the years, with the heavy light hanging on it it probably vibrated quite a bit.
Who are you using for a Rad shop now? I always used the same guy as you did, was pretty bummed out when he retired.....He did really good work. Lakehead clutch and brake does great work too...Thanks Toby.
Going to try Borgen Radiator in Minneapolis. Glen from Hermantown Radiator worked with Ernie at Borgen Radiator on things from time to time.
Does the train go toot toot? Nope it goes to Duluth to Duluth!
Oh yeah this is the Midwest… you can tell by the ambulance chasing personal injury attorney billboards…
lol that guy has those same billiards up stretching at least 150 miles south of here, you see them every few miles all along Interstate 35 😂
Real-estate is valuable for now. I didn't realize cement was hazardous, but the local asphalt hot mix plant was subject to a super fund cleanup so i shouldn't be surprised. Thanks.
I wonder if they used silica sand in the cement and that is the hazard?
Radiator shops around here have disappeared as well.
Sheetmetal work seems more fun than assembling the pesky transmission of X231. Lot of old school repair man are retiring and it's really hard to find someone who is dedicated to radiator or clutch repair work. I can think of two reasons why the light mounting brackets look this bad on X231. First something had to pull hard on the headlight like a branch. Number two would be excessive friction to do something being unbalanced aka vibration issues.
Those lamp brackets were probably cut off. You are right, how did they get broken off without damage to t the grille
I do agree, it is becoming almost art, partly with the tech advances in rads being mostly plastic these days, and the great decline of the manual transmission. It will not be long before that art starts to become a lost art and then a lost forever art
Amazon is going to build on the old Atlas site.
12:05 That friction panel, wow.
The press brake operators in the crowd might know what I'm saying.
Yes, it could be shaped in a roller setup also.
Hands up all who googled Lakehead clutch & brake 🙂
Hi Tobie, it looks if this project have years to go to look like a tractor but after this episode it looks if it will looks like a tractor sooner as expected, well done
I believe that the headlight brackets were pie cut to aim in for plowing at night then were rewelded
I think you're overthinking it. 🤔
12:35 Multiple dies, likely. First they'd make a channel with the walls at 45... then they'd flip the part on its side and make the two features where the slats fit, with a spine in the U channel feature on the back of this part. 20 tonner press would probably suffice, maybe, but across the whole thing, so in actuality (and from a business savvy pov), likely bigger.
Nowadays, it would be done in a single action on a plate die with two side features that would swing in as the larger U channel is formed and would press in the features for the slats. Or more advanced (and rarer) a rolling die. Which is only used when you have to spit out hundreds of kilometers of this kind of a rail and obligatory requirement is to have it out of steel (because they would 100% do it out of aluminium today - extruded). I've seen a rolling die once and it's impressive as machines go, basically each station further shapes the single strip of steel, slowly getting it to the final profile. MM would've lost their minds if such technology would've been available to them back then. :))
The rolling die method is how they’ve always made track plates/pads for machines that have undercarriage - large steel bars are fed in at one end and are rolled through a series of dies that progressively elongate and shape the bar until it has the desired profile. It then gets sheared off at the specified lengths, has all mounting holes punched out, and then heat treated. After heat treatment, they see one last impact from another large set of dies that take any possible warpage out and they’re done. Lots of investment to get all set up, but like you said if high volume is required, it’s the most efficient way 👍
12:32 I'll bet that divider was bent on a roll bender?
I really enjoyed the local history and railroad portions of the video. How about touring us around the RR scene and other points of interest? The mine?
Also, since you're such a stickler for originality, why source new headlight brackets? No doubt you could clean up the sloppy welds and bend them back to spec.
Unfortunately, nearly all railroad sites are subject to trespass laws and safety ordinances, so you rarely ever get close enough to them to be able to film anything. The Taconite mines are all the same way, with entrances closely monitored plus the actual mine site being a long distance from any nearby road or vantage point. Just to access most of these places when I was a BNSF employee, I still needed to show my TWIC card at checkpoints due to safety and security reasons.
Are you sending the old radiator core along to the new radiator guy so he has an adiquit pattern for both ends and lengths of the core I knew a fella who had to have all of the previous parts before making new. ones.
Yes, that’s the plan 👍
@@squatch253 yeah we did the same with the Farmalls/McCormack Deering s F12 and F14 and the F20.
About 15 years ago i spent some time poking around the Atlas Cement plant site. If you knew the route, you could drive right in. Not much left, but what was there was fascinating.
I miss my home state. Minnesota is next to God's land.
If tha job sit is in Duluth it's going to be a Amazon warehouse
They’ve used the brackets to try and pull something and tore the ears off 😂
Wouldn’t surprise me lol 😂
I am with you I'd like to see the process of bending that piece between the grills.
Epic!
You need a blast cabnet for the surface clean ups.
Have a cabinet as well as an outdoor pot blaster. These grille panels would be a very tight fit inside the cabinet though, but yesterday I did end up bringing the pot blaster out and did all of the setup to get these panels blasted down to bare metal. Because of the work it takes to get that set up and put back away again, I only bring that out when I’ve really got a project that’s worth it 👍
Excellent Video. Are any of your ball caps straight billed ? When I was a lad, the coolest among us would round them out.
You guys going to syrup this year? Super weird weather. I see some guys around the cities with some buckets out.
We’re skipping it this year 👍
What a difference weatherwise from last year. Did Senior tap maple trees this year?
He brought that up in an earlier video. They aren't doing it this year as they still have a surplus of syrup and with the early thaw from the crazy warm winter we are having if we suddenly get a freeze up and the trees had been tapped it could kill them. So this year the trees are being left to their own devices.
Do you pick up hitchhikers
👍 I got my thumb up
Do you plan to try to make up any differences in height with the new radiator from the facing of the top and bottoms to freshen them up? I don't know if a 1/4 in will matter, but I haven't seen all the other components that might have to interface.
I would guess that the brackets may have broke due to vibration since there is so little damage to the grill
CN/canadian national railway
Is he lost😂😂
Nice tour. I don't think I could live where there is no trees/bush/forest nice country 😁
The CN is actually just as well established in the Duluth/Superior area as BNSF and Union Pacific. And since the last big freight rail contract shake-up in 2017, the CN is now the primary freight hauler in that region 👍
Quit slacking and get grinding!
Great video
Out here in California the concrete coloring chemical called “lamp black” has made sites deemed hazardous
Also, what did you get at the caterpillar dealership?
D2 parts?
Had a spare D2 track master pin on back order, it finally showed up so I picked it up while I was in town 👍
Quick question I am no body man but is that metal to thick for the hammer and dolly method of straightening. I'm just wondering what's the best way to straighten thick metal like that. I remember on 5j1113 with the top radiator shroud I wondered how you got the dent out of that thick metal could you demonstrate on the side panel please love the content
Yes, this is still hammer and dolly material 👍
How do you guys put up with the heavy traffic?😊
If I see more cars on the road than deer, cows, or farm tractors - then it’s way too busy for my liking out there lol 👍
Maybe the original operator was a prototype as well.
Hey up mate was wondering whey you didn't use the sand blaster, nice and interesting video
Because it’s so much work to get it all set up and then put it away again that I have to have a really good reason to invest that time and effort to sandblast something. That being said, I did end up sandblasting those grille panels yesterday because they had so many hard to reach areas for the wire brush.
@@squatch253 nice one ,that is what I expected you to say mate
That head light brackets, what make believe that these are just ZB carry overs?
I went back and looked at the archive photo and really couldn't see them in the b/w photo via a phone screen. With the height change of the tractor, wouldn't the position on the headlights be lower on the screen?
When I look at the enlarged original photos of X231 they’re visible, but they’re painted the same color as the radiator side panels so they don’t show up very well. But they are the same brackets 👍
make the new lights mounts
Interesting that the light brackets do not have any paint on them maybe it burned off when they welded it but I don't think so should be same color as tractor hope you can find some better ones if not make new or fix old ones I guess
Progress!
Personal question. Feel free to ignore, but is it just Squatch and Squatch Sr? Or are there other Squatch’s in the Squatch household.