Vintage Cat D4 Clearing Gorse on a Steep Hillside -Testing the new Clutch
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- Опубліковано 27 гру 2022
- We replaced the Clutch on my mate's Caterpillar D4 7U after it started slipping - • Fixing a broken clutch... Lets give it a test run.
Check out Northwest Pacific hillbilly's restoration of a similar d4 dozer - • Caterpillar D4-7U Rebuild
My other channel (Angry Ram) - • What happens when you ...
A few years ago when visiting the South Island I observed sheep grazing inside fenced paddocks on the side of near vertical hillscapes. I knew then I was in the land of adventurous, make do, tough folks and that insight made me very respectful in the pubs in the afternoons. You 2 buggers seem to be able to tackle anything to repair (obviously successful) then go and flog the tripe out of the machine to make sure the repair holds! Terrific videologs which let your jobs, hands, wrenching and drone work tell the whole story. Thankyou for taking the effort to share and I eagerly await further postings. From another 'make do' rural South Australian.
Awesome to see the old iron still putting in the hours.
For that kind of work, I think some heavy screen from a screening plant would be an idea to prevent the operator from catching a stray branch…
Thats a real good idea, looks like one those small trees he's backin up on could tip up a punch him outa his seat.
Or a full cab..:)
Pretty successful repair I would say and seeing how that D4 is being thrown around with considerable skill and nerve makes me wonder how many man years have accumulated clearing land in NZ just like that! - thanks again for sharing
To the uninitiated like myself of what a dozer is capable of, a few of those side slips moments definitely fell under the "couldn't drive a hat pin up my ass with a sledgehammer..."
Your driver is a fearless bugger! That old girl is waltzing like Matilda!
What a nice feeling that must be to have the machine responding like it should. Probably better than it has in years.
Awesome beautiful weather for pushing scrubs and moving Mother Earth. Glad they clutch job put this machine back to work strong. Well done
heck of a slope to test your work on but the proof's in the pudding. great job Marty. seasons greetings from the uk
Before you got your hands on it, the saying was "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Proof, in this case is the same meaning as proving an artillery piece - ie. testing it.
"Merry Christmas" is the word you were seeking for
@@erik_dk842 No it wasn't. I can tell you're from the USA because you've added a unneeded preposition at the end of the sentence. I'm not objecting to the ending of a sentence with a preposition, which is a silly rule, anyway. The verb "seeking" does not require a "for". Omit it and the sense is just as clear.
@@nicolek4076
And we can tell you're a woke left footer with gobshyte such as "seasons greetings"
@@nicolek4076 You guessed wrong, and I didn't answer you, but Terry, who used the "offended on behalf of others"-term "seasons greetings".
After WW2 an enterprising couple of guys brought half track Bren gun carriers and converted then into rotary slashers for the barberry hedges, up to 20m thick. You can see the actual machines and watch the footage on video at the Te Whiti museum in Taranaki.
These pioneering guys were awesome. Marty, you’re following in their footsteps with your constant innovation and educative videos. Good onya!
Here's a link to the "Universal Carrier" aka "Bren Gun Carrier" modified as a rotary cutter for hedgerows...
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I remember the video when you picked this small dozer up Marty!!
In NZ now, sure is a beautiful country. Would love to come see Nelson, but unfortunately were staying on the North Island. Really enjoy the channel and thanks for the content.
Excellent clutch work guys. To bad the Victorian English did not know how destructive gorse was going to be the New Zealand environment. We have it in Canada along with purple loosestrife, english sparrow, starlings and many other purposely imported pests from England.
@BreatheScotland without entering into race pointing, the invasive species mentioned, during the Victorian era were brought in by immigrants from the United Kingdom. Either by nostalgia for the old country or to deal with pests (cane toad in Australia) without knowledge or sensitivity to indigenous species.
@BreatheScotland How do you like white medicine?
@BreatheScotland here's a emo man dress 😆
My pakeha ancestors brought this stuff to Aotearoa, not the people from ohhhh Britannia.
@@SpaceMulva yes the medicines 💊 👏 were invaluable in fighting of the sexual transmitted infections. Thank God the pakeha saved them from that.
Human global migration is part of evolution and denial and the rewriting of history is the baggage we bought with us.
@BreatheScotland Ya, they should have stopped those white settler vikings after they saw what a cesspool they made out of scotland!
Good job Marty
My favourite channel. Fantastic dozer work.. Been in Oz for a holiday (40 years). Due back in NZ next year. Can't wait!!
You've got some magic hands there Marty, you always get the old girls purring!
D4 knows the drill “go hard or go home “
Looks like she's working like a brand new machine. Great work guys, keeping old equipment in the field saves from the new junk they build having to be bought. That's top work in my book. 👍
Nice wee unit. Good to see the fruits of your labour Marty. 👏👏
Looks like a happy and productive D-4! Great job guys!
I can tell how steep that is!! Never looks it on camera 🎥 channel finally getting the recognition it deserves!! Now just find another David brown so I can watch u bring it back to life, you wife won’t mind 😅😂😊
Hell, he has her driving the tractors now!
He has several multi million view videos, he's had recognition for years.
Watch the bulldozer keep sliding to the right as it's going through you'll be able to see how steep it is well for the most part just watch the bulldozer sliding they don't generally slide unless it's steep
Nice work on the clutch, so rewarding seeing it back at work👍
Marty, Looks like you fixed it for sure! Seems it will last him a long time!
Hope you and your lovely family Have a great year in 2023!
Nice to see the old machine working so well and doing a good job. I think the owner should bolt some heavy mesh onto the back before one of those trees pokes him in the neck when backing up. Also handy if you are winching and something lets go.
@Gordon Wedman Might be surprised to know how many men have been impaled & died from some of the smaller ones that came up through that little gap at the bottom of the seat support/tank.
Great video! Awesome Cat D4!! i Love seeing the older machines being taken care of. :)
Love seeing old machines doing what they were designed for and not as field or forest ornaments! 🤗
Watching this video makes me realise just how quickly a few dozers can clear jungle in Brazil, no wonder how they managed to cut 40% of the rainforest in less than 20 years.
Nice little Cat dozer, looks like you have the clutch issue resolved, thanks for the update sir.
Love that little dozer even thits small and old still moves dirt and still strong 💪
Looks like the new clutch works like a champ!
Always love your vids! Keep up the good stuff mate!
That was good job and a lot of work putting that new clutch in so good to have the dozers running
He seemed fearless on those slopes. Braver than me!
A belated Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 🎊Marty!! Thanks for the video on your beach house power conversion and this video of the D4 going to work 🤙🏼. We here in Hawaii deal with that gorse also and equipment operators use a brush rake to uproot the gorse so that it doesn’t grow again, maybe a brush rake build is on the list for your friends D4 or maybe you could build one for your machine 🤔😁🤙🏼ALOHA!!
Wow awesome.. Im loving it.. I cannot wait to use my frineds, tractor, Digger and dumper trucks in the spring and the cherry picker, But for now you keep me going and drooling with all the machinary.. 😍😍
The operator of the dozer is definitely a man on a mission.
Drifting in a 13ton dozer, love it!!! Happy Christmas and a merry new year
You are doing well Marty. It's amazing just how quickly you stack up the views. This video has only been up for 53 minutes and it has had 6.2K views. I was having a drink in Hamilton a few months back with a retired mechanic and we started yacking about you tube. He mentioned your channel, but it appears your audience is world wide. Happy New Year from the North Island.
The audience is worldwide for sure mate. Regards from Poland 😉
@@Kiera9977 and the UK😀
Ireland... 😁
From Nagaland, India
Florida man checking in
Great video Marty , all that hard work paid off the D4 is working really well, just goes to show you don't need big stuff to get the job done , that Gorse is nasty stuff 👍
Very relaxing video. I almost ‘dozed’ off, almost ….
Looks like it’s working fine Marty.👍👍
This is the crawler you guys resuscitated a few months back? AWESOME
No that was a d2, this is a D4 we replaced the clutch recently
What a great sight to see, that wee dozer doing what it's ment to be doing, great job on fixing the clutch guys 👊👊
I tend to work up down slopes if possible , then burn the windrows. It is safer, and does a better job. I start at the top, work my way down. Good to see the old girl working again. As usual Marty- good on you ;)
Yes that is the usual way to do it but he wanted the rubbish off to the side as he's parking a tiny home in there
Looks suspiciously like a new parking area for more machines. Nice.
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He's putting a tiny home in there, the gorse will be kept down and maybe turn the area into a garden
That's one year of growth on a old parking area lol
Good work on the clutch!
There is a certain amount of butt cheek seat cushion clenching when that dozer starts sliding sideways. My experience was loading a D-8 on a trailer and it slid off the side. Luckily it just stopped and I drove it off mostly on the right track.
We have a nasty little plant here we call Kudzu. It is a vine that chokes out everything and pulls down power lines. I watched an old guy clearing the stuff with a root rake on a D-4 pretty much like yours. He worked side hill and down hill both. The motor was modified to keep it from starving for oil. He would hook the winch to a stout tree and let it out as he went down and ran it in going up. The man was incredible to watch as his hands were always moving from one control to another.
Of all things he died during a Superbowl football (American) game cheering on his favorite team. Different type of excitement I guess.
As always I'm looking forward to your next video.
Cheers
Terry
Have heard of of Gorse bushes in stories I've read or seen , they're described as being exceedingly prickly .
Good job to the operator, somebody got skills.
He's done some hours on dozers
Thanks for the video it's nice to see the Bulldozer working .. you Guy's really did a Good job with the clutch
What a great machine! Good fix on that clutch👍
very good operator skills when clearing Steep Hillside and replacing the clutch works well
Have done a fair bit of that type of work with a 20 ton excavator and wide bucket, watching this makes me sure that is the way to go. Certainly seems that the clutch on this old Cat is fixed properly, as it is working well.
Yeah I feel much safer on an excavator doing this sort of work
You guys done a great job with the clutch.
Mate, she plows over land like old Colonial Britain did! No mercy.
Looks like the clutch is holding up great!
There's a mechanism I used to us on a pickup truck to clear brush. I laid a piece of cutting edge flat on the ground on a couple of vertical supports so that when I drove forward it would dig into the ground and ride just below the surface and sheer off the brush at the roots Something like that on a dozer would probably clear this gorse pretty well. Maybe something that hangs on the blade with a couple bolts to secure it and rides just below the blade edge allowing the soil to flow through between the flat cutting edge and the blade while sheering off the roots. The blade should just push away the upper parts of the plant.
It's called a cutter bar designed to cut the scrub off under the surface and uses less power .
@@systemsrenegade9888 I got the idea from the old "hula hoes" they sold in the US back in the 80's. I guess they're still around.
Its just fascinating to see a baby dozer just mowing down trees like that.
That operator is making that machine earn its keep. Obviously the clutch job went well. Watching it work on that hillside took my breath away a couple times. The camera never shows how steep the hills really are!
Two heckin videos on one day, huh? I'm not complaining. This is GREAT.
Thanks Marty clutch works great
Raised that CAT from the dead! Congratulations on the repair! Happy New Year, Marty!
Is Lazarus an appropriate name?
Looks to be working great
My gosh! I didn't know you could bulldoze treetops! WOW!
Tusen takk for videoen 👍🤗👍🇸🇯
Oh, that gorse is wonderful stuff, isn't it? [Tongue firmly planted in cheek!] Here in OZ nobody seems to know
what it is. Hell, even the possums aren't a nuisance, here.
Marty, you've got some balls operating on that edge like that. Every time you started to slide, I thought to myself that I would have jumped off the dozer! Great job!
That was my mate in the dozer, he's done plenty of hours in old cats clearing scrub.. You wouldn't catch me on a side slope riding over slippery saplings like that
@@MartyT worte aus der Ehemann und Vater
Man and machine in perfect harmony slide the slopes.
That's a nice size dozer Marty, suits the stuff you do really well and will be a great asset.
Great we dozers go anywhere remember seeing one working a face 45 degree angle when I was helping to build the matai dam Marty and he didn't have a rocks can lols fearless operator and did a great job to , cheers , shaneo, nelson, happy new year to you and your wife and your billy lids all the best keep those great vids coming along well done ,👍🍺
Awesome machine, its doing a great job.
I think some heavy mesh for the roll cage would be good, keep the ol stray tree out of the operators personal space haha.
That old Cat runs great. I was bummed the video was only 10 minutes.
Nice aerial shots.
Plowing through the woods on a dozer is fun I miss them days times on a cat d7
Hey Marty, Happy New Year! Oh wait, you're a day ahead of us here in central US!:) Thanks to the internet I can watch one of your videos before we catch up. Sort of like "Back to the Future". :) Hope you get back to the flood zone soon!
you have enough good film now to make a calendar , just shots of the
bush and your machinery that have been put back to work with some before
and after .
That gorse didn't even see it coming.
There's nothing quite like the feeling ( pucker factor) especially if its been a few years since you had it, of mozying along quietly getting the job done, and suddenly have everything screw sideways unexpectedly, or worse, jump sideways downhill as you also screw sideways due to a bit more drop than you expected, coupled with catching an edge on something a little more unforgiving than most of what you are pushing through.
Held up no worries good job ⛳
Very satisfying 👍
Seems to work quite well good old dozer well done
Looks to be functioning like a New One 👍
Looks like it's working great to me. 👍
Good little dozer
Very well said. Could not disagree with a single word mentioned in your video!!!
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Looks easy to fall away in that brush wow great job peace
What a Brilliant Work Horse the D4 is - Clutch worked well also - Great Repair ! Fantastic Drone Shots as well and Great Clearing Work ! We enjoyed the Video and many Cheers from us in Australia !!!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
nice work guys. That looked a bit like where you retrieved the TD from Marty. Happy New Year to you all.
For it's size it sure can handle what it is doing bro. Safe travels to you and ya mate.
despite the awesome videography I'll bet it is a lot steeper than it looks, YIKES! Most excellent test of the clutch.
what a great little machine!!
Looks as if the clutch is ok Marty 😉👌
Great work! That machine will back up the steep side of a PowerPole with some more iron on the cleats!
Turned out to be a rough and ready little mechanical bull 👌
Good work boys. Its to wet for gorse where I live but we have plenty of scotch broom and english ivy to clean up.
Impressive that an old machine like that can still do tons of quality work
Two in a day going for it Marty! Some sailing please! Could do with some sun and sea, it’s bloody freezing up here!
the soil looks great under the brush, you could get a few acers of pasture there!
Yes good looking soil.. one good thing about gorse it is nitrogen fixing
Gorse seed was originally imported to grow wind breaks around vegetable gardens. From the 1820s records, 1cwt of gorse seed was landed at the Kerikeri stone store and sold for the then vast sum of 1 guinea. A minister, doing the area a big favour, spread the seed as he rode his bicycle on his rounds. Marty would have a word or two for that chappie!
Merry Christmas and happy New Year