1950's Galion Road Grader sitting 10+ years! (Will it run and drive??)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Found this old Galion 503 motor grader for sale on Marketplace so me and a buddy went and picked it up. Its a little rough in some spots but I think its going to be an excellent machine for maintaining my super long driveway and maybe worth taking out to do some jobs with!
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Matt & Marty T, two peas in a pod. Love this rusty construction equipment revival.
Me 2
Big pod ... stretches all the way from W. Pa. to the northern island of NZ!
"This video brought to you by Life Insurance. Don't buy a Gallion grader without it!"
haha the wife called and upped my coverage after this
LMHO (Laughing My Head Off- the family friendly version)
Ha ha. Love seeing these old gem's come back to life.
@@DieselCreek man DC this type of vid and vids like it r worth 10k views..........early kid memories is a grader this type plowing 8 ft drifts of snow on street in late 50s
Especially if you use flames nearby.
You have shown most of my experiences with early International engines. Oddly easy to start after ages sitting(any motor that isn't seized). Frozen gearbox due to water ingress(Scout 80). Frozen clutch (Farmall 230 EVERY SPRING). Accidental start (CO 1800). Fuel economy (hahahaha). Looks like a great project, have fun!
That’s always frustrating when the camera cards stops working. You are definitely bring that old machine back, I think you will have a good machine when you get it all tuned up 👍
Thanks for posting!
Run you channel off of a iPhone 12 so many people love it the goonzsqaud have built there entire channel off of just a iPhone.
@@stevenplaskett7728 are you could use a Google pixel they're fantastic cameras aswell there as good as a proper camera and best of all you don't have to carry any extra batteries or cards around with you as the phone will last all day and has plenty of storage space.
Honestpy i like go-pro more than iphone, to me iphones have a lot of dead pixles
@@stevenplaskett7728 f call p o
“The beatings will continue until morale improves!”.
Matt all your videos are great and this is one of the best.
Thought you’d have big trouble getting it going since it was so exposed to the elements for so long.
nahh, a s long as they turn I can make em run!
The beatings will continue until morale improves, I mutter this every week, I hope to be my own boss like Matt someday
I loved the fence fix, had a real "you saw nothing" kinda feeling to it! ;)
Aside from a little yellow paint rubbed off on it you can’t even tell
Yeah, I was like “wait, did that thing just roll start itself in reverse??” 😂
I actually started laughing at that point😂
@@ussdiscovery6912 no shit ! I heard it fire up lmao , he better slow down before he kills himself
Just saw that part, extremely unexpected lol
The most amazing thing of it is, the intact glass. Had that thing been parked that long in our neck of the woods, it'd been swiss-cheesed with bullet holes.
Right!?? The good condition of the cab was like 80% of the reason I went to look at this thing
Glad she is being saved and not scrapped.
Yeap think even in just a 10 years new graders condition, let alone if was sitting that ten years under the elements after being used more than half a century... This thing might be old, loose from every imageable linkage and joint... but its still hundred times better and more reliable than anything pushed out in past ten years or in future that matter since i dont expect manufacturers chance their "modern" ways of consumerism. Personally i'm not consumer, i'm customer and i expect machine made to last, not these modern crap that is ready to wrecker if one computer board is fried.
Matt, me and you have something in common. I keep adding new projects without finishing one. I just purchased a road grader that has been parked for 65 years. Just about rusted solid. You’re a brave person for posting your outtakes as your video. Thanks for posting, John.
*Loses tons of footage* *Still puts out more coherent and informative video than most channels on youtube*
Thanks! I tried!
@@DieselCreek and you did amazing
I'm new to this channel,. and you are correct.
I haven’t laughed that much in a while when that thing started in reverse 😂
How many toys can a man have
Matt= hold my beer
You hav,nt made a bad vid yet , keep em coming ,cheers from Scotland
I fully expected that fence post to break when you straightened it ;)
Despite all your video woes, that was one of your best UA-cam's. Looking forward to seeing how you restore that beast.
There's just something special about bringing an old rusty piece of equipment back to life.
my favorite thing!
"That's what she said" 😘
Yes, it’s called financial ruin and a nervous breakdown sometimes accompanied by marital problems.
"Christine" 🎬 must be the proper name for the old girl.
"Killer Christine!"
That's what I was thinking while watching lol...
@@greenearth2009 True🙂
for sure
Remember that old movie "Kill Dozer"? Well this is Kill Grader! 😂
I admire and applaud your dedication to restoring old iron. As a kid I remember the county DPW having a Galion grader. A lot of towns bought them for their public works department as they were relatively inexpensive compared with Caterpillar, Austin-Western, Huber and Adams. And a lot more reliable than Allis-Chalmers. They were reliable and easy to maintain, which was important because public works employees had all the gentle touch of a gorilla. Wishing you all the luck in the world in restoring. From watching this video I can see you’re going to need it.
“It’s not you, It’s me.” I’ve heard that before.
When my grandfather got back from WWI, he drove a grader for the highway department. That may very well be the machine he drove.
that would be something...
wait 1 or 2?
@@EslayerTM 1
This was made in the 50s, WWI ended 1918, I find it pretty unlikely.
@@the_hate_inside1085 duh ... it was a joke.
You apologise!!! You entertain, educate, assist massively in every way, and you are apologising. Constructive criticism is always helpful, but if it's not constructive and you don't like something, I'm sure those people have an off button. You are the man Matt
I would love to see you give this a somewhat of a restoration. Imagine how good this will look with some fresh paint! :D
Planning on it eventually here, another project that’s not exactly a priority
I just need to get it functioning, cosmetics come last
It's called: patina :)
Reminds me of the time I was working on my '64 Land Rover in the garage, setting the valves and using the hand crank to turn the engine, forgetting that I left the ignition switched on. Yes, it was in gear. Yes, it started. Yes, it nearly ran me over, pinning me against the wall before it stalled.
Were you okay after??😂😂😂😂
We had one of these where i worked back in the 1990s. The reason it started with just a little work is cuz it was built to last. Nice work!
That thing looks similar to the one Marty T brought back to life.
His was alot bigger i think*
this one is much smaller
@@85square i thought so
@@85square Yes, but same design, esp the rear drive...
Ow no,martys is much bigger and has a Diesel engine in it
Kudos to you guys for rescuing old iron,we call that "antique junk" rescue. Those kind of graders are a dime a dozen where I live in the south. Most end up in the local scrap yards.
Stocking up on projects is a good philosophy. Good stuff doesn't come up for sale every day, and if you get tired of one project, you can switch to another for a while. I have years worth of projects stock-piled up!
"Plagued with camera issues, machinery issues, dumb luck and stupidity..." Don't worry, it's what we call real life and it's the irony that makes us watch, laugh and applaud your resilience. Keep it up we have every empathy with you.. Even here in the UK. :-)
The old Galion may not have been the most cooperative, but your one-liners more than compensated, you were in top notch form (the Galion helped providing you good material) I cracked up when you said "The beatings will continue until morale improves"!
Sometimes that’s the way it feels
The pull start was the best part of my day, laughed so hard. Thank you!!!
It is very nice to see old machines have a second life, instead of becoming scrap metal. Good job saving that machine.
Rocks keep the sediment broken up in the bottom of the tank😁
I'm so glad you didn't get Hurt👍 but this was 1 if your best Funny is videos keep the good work up 👍
I found out, that I don’t need to like what you do, but I really like HOW you do things!
So this is nice to watch!
15:55 that is amazing trailer backing skill!
real time footage too! lol
10th try! 🤭
Backing is easy. Just follow the trailer.
Pure luck,Not intended but his brakes failed. LOL. Well everything else went wrong. Just saying ;)
That's why you use 1st gear. It usually is a couple hundred or even thousand times more torque required to turn the engine. 4th is basically 1 to 1 ratio with very little reduction.
Shadowsoul 2701
If you put it in reverse it acts like a brake, engine won't turn or run backwards !!!!! ♿ 🇺🇸
i hope he meant to say 1st gear
@@richardanderson5109 I'm not one to say that you are wrong....but I myself have seen lots of engine's turn over backwards when they are towed backwards in first gear for sure. Best thing is low gear or reverse.
If you think about it, reverse gear mostly has a lower ratio than first gear.
Always a auto thumbs-up, Matt. We will let you know when you disappoint.
Central California Watching
GO Fres-yes!!!
Your luck is like mine sometimes, be smart, and when that doesn’t work, be quick !
This has been my favorite project so far. Once the paint got on it I was happy man.
That's a sweet deal just needs some love and a little paint.
Wow. That thing didn’t even make a whole revolution before it started
right?!?!
Only other vehicle I've seen do that is my diesel Mercedes... this thing is wild lol
@@benzlover55 My dozer starts that easily as well. Even in the cold
We enjoyed it Mat. All the trials and tribulations gave the video an edge over all the straight forward ones. Well done.
I showed this to my wife. She said: “I’m sorry sweetie .... but you can’t go out and play with him today.” Smart girl ......
“I’m just full of osha violations today”
Haha great one n
im still impressed about the osha song
My goodness who would get mad with you…that is their problem not yours…I thank you for any and all efforts
I thought at first you might have been at Wes's undisclosed family hoard. Also, why do one of those boring 'Will It Start?' videos? This was "Can It Stop??!"
Grader was built in my hometown, Galion Iron Works employed lot of men back in the day....
We owned a 503 with a diesel. Even in the mild California Bay Area climate where it can feel colder than it is it would take a while for the smoke to clear even after using the glow plugs . Ours had a more modern looking straight or push nose and ripper’s. I often drove it to nearby jobs and we also hauled it on a 1954 Single axle lacross tilt trailer that it barely fit on . We accomplished that by using heavy planks that kept the front wheels from hanging off the bed before the trailer would tilt and the front wheels were on the deck. Coming off we used metal skids that the blade sat on .
39:05 when something does from high pressure to low pressure it cools. Its just like when you drain your air compressor and it freezes the valve.
Venturi
@@MrChassmith Adiabatic cooling...
You weren’t kidding about the belt squeal😂
Hi:
Murphy's law caught up with you today big time.
When i was a kid in high school my guardian and I recovered an old abandoned pull type grader. That winter we put in the butler building and spent the winter stripping it down, rebuilding, painting it. come spring we had a ball I on the tractor Louis on the grader smoothing our gravel roads around not only his farm but were hired to smooth out a couple of farmers roads.
What agreat time for a kid.
I am sorry the bad stuff happened, but I enjoyed the return of the OSHA song. Excellent video!
Freakin' motor sounds good. First startup missed no biggie. I'm happy to see the motor runs. Amazeballs!
I like watching your videos because you restore old tractors one man's junk is another man's treasure keep up the videos
I bought one of these a few years back
Mine had a Detroit 471
I think it was the 500 model
It ran but then all the tubes started leaking
I patch them a couple times
But they just leak somewhere else
Paid 2000 for it
Sold it for 1000
I had a grands worth of fun with it though
i bought mine 5 years ago 118c for $500 with a 4-71 gm in fairly good nick
Changing them old split rim tyres is just going ti be a treat.
Shit happens son move on! All the best from England mate. When we going back to church too!
congrats mat... I can hear every safety Sally and her sister Karen crying ;)
My pet hates are the silly safety brigade... I'm all for saving life and limb but some of their safety kills the life out of living... If that makes sense🤣
Yesterday I watched the update on the church oh, I have heard you mention it in past videos but never did see any of the videos concerning it. I think you would rather be working on something you enjoy then the work involved in that church I believe you made the right call on that church. Like the song says, The Gambler you have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them. Your updated shows the last 6 months I'm going to have to start calling you The Gambler you do an awesome job with that fine line of knowing when to hold them and knowing when to fold them.
YAY Matt is back !!!!! Thankyou from the UK
Shaking hands with danger your awesome keep up the good work HayWire!!!
I'm hoping to learn a lot from this series. My dad died a few months ago and he had a landscaping and grading company years ago me and my siblings are trying to get it going again and there happens to be his old gallion motor grader sitting in the front yard at my parents home, I'd love to get it going again because he was so frustrated with it before he passed. Sorry for the long winded explanation. Good video sir.
They are simple machines. You can do it! Good luck!!
"Shaking hands with Danger " OSHA violations... lol that is exactly what i was thinking...lol..
Brings back memories of that haunted car movie "Christine" 💀💀💀 Terrifying!
Diesel Creek the Musical! Full of Action, Death and Dismemberment... Dodger Ebert call it “ The best edited Galion Grader Movie of the year”. The Western PA Podunk Publisher says “Next time it will make the front page for sure...wait who was it again?...”Don’t miss it !!!!
Finally observed someone more recklessly careless than myself, bro.
Just got around to watching this series, best laugh for ages with your dry wit and humour Matt .....You were right, there was nothing in the gearbox except Galions and Galions of water 🤣
As soon as that hose went, I could hear all the other parts saying 'change me, change me too'. Cheers
Man that oil case was as cold as my ex-wife's heart.
Don"t worry about what people think, they can get their own channels. keep doing what makes you happy ,young man !
"Don't drain oil around an open flame."
"It's ok, I'll just use the oil to put it back out again."
It would've taken an atom bomb to light that oil? on fire.
@@richardtruesdell8289 Indeed, as long as there are no crazy amounts of Diesel or Gasoline in there you are fine. with Gasoline you have to be careful about the vapors (Flashpoint between -45 °C and 10 °C or -49 °F and 50 °F), that is what I would consider the most dangerous option. Diesel, well the the Flash point also is only at 56 °C / 133 °F, but the actual ignition Point for both is around or just above 200 °C / 400 °F. Engine Oil? You may use that in an extinguisher or you really have to atomize it to ignite that easy. It sometimes is said engine oil cannot burn as it has no flash point, which is not exactly true. the problem with engine oil is, that it is a mixture of I don´t know what not, and from a certain temperature, substances might start to boil out. Those substances may burn. and this boiling off leaves a carbon residue, what we mostly call "burned oil residue2 in an engine.
looking at the chemical data, engine oil may have a flash point starting around 80 °C to 125 °C (or 176 °F to 257 °C) and depending if mineral or snythetic oil may boil somewhere between 120 °C and 160 °C (248 °F to 320 °F) it may actually ignite above 500 °C / 932 °C.
So to get it burning, you would have needed to heat the whole amount of oil and everything around up to almost 1000 °F. Not sure how long it will take a weed burner, or if it even may reach that temperature on a cold winter day.
@@alexanderkupke920 You can burn engine oil, My old shop and tons of other shops have waste oil furnaces. We literally poured the dirty oil from oil changes into the tank and itd burn it to heat the shop in the winter. Also diesel engines will burn engine oil and even antifreeze if it leaks into the cylinder, thats what causes a runaway diesel, well also leaky injectors. But as for lighting engine oil on fire with just a open flame yeah thats hard unless its mixed with gasoline, diesel, or even ethanol/methanol.
@@Lotek117 I am well aware of those waste oil furnaces, I think you can see some guys on UA-cam using them for forge work. But all of those I have seen, actually have a blower on the one side and a nozzle atomizing the fuel into the air stream. And I actually mentioned atomizing as a way to be able to ignite the stuff. I think those burners can actually burn any liquid that is flammable in some way. with high air flow they actually burn quite "cleanly" (well in terms of soot, I just gently ignore any byproducts from either mixed in substances or just temperature like nitric oxides or whatever may be in the oil that gets burned)
Another way getting that oil to burn easier may be a wicking material keeping enough heat to reach the actual flashpoint.
You want to put 'er in low gears, not high, if you want to use the engine as a brake. Remember, in 1st gear the engine turns a bunch to make the wheels turn a little. In 4th gear the engine turns a little to make the wheels turn a lot. Run that in reverse, push on those wheels in high gear and they have to turn the engine a little (easy). Push on the wheels in low gear and the engine has to turn a lot (hard). Keep the vids coming and stay safe!
That’s insane that it started when you were trying to move it what else could go wrong lol
Hi Rus Tackettt here waiting for the rest of the Galion Grader repair. Can't wait.
You will need to change the oil in the chain cases between the drive wheels.
Attention! OIL CHANGE required!
Just touch the brakes to put pressure ON the clutch. My old Massey 135 clutch was stuck. Put it up against a big oak and then tried to push it over. The clutch finally slipped and broke loose. It was tricky getting close to the tree with engine running and in gear, but it worked.
Damn you need a beer after that.
Beer hell a pint of vodkas
I've had to light a flame under my own ass to get me going in the past.
😂
Don’t give my wife any ideas...
Those old IH SD 220/240/264's Will run forever.
Can't wait to see more of this! I've always wanted an old grader even though I have absolutely no use for one. Also imagine how cool that would look being pulled behind the Autocar!
You will see it one day!!
Can't say that im not amused with all of this, from camera issues to missing key points in the video, with technical and mechanical problems, boy howdy you sir have gained my upmost respect
That was still my most frustrating video to date. I was trying so hard to make a good video and a series of unfortunate events just kept making it more and more difficult
@@DieselCreek but you gave your best and made it till the end, wish I could have given you a hand or even a few bucks for parts but got my own problems here. Maybe one day tho
That reminds me to pick up some Chocolate fondant and watch the film, Christine. 🤔
I'm born and raised in Galion, many of the men in my family worked for Galion Iron Works - until it closed down. My stepdad worked in the paint shop. Equipment came in your choice of colors - Safety Yellow and Safety Orange. Every now and then you would see a car around town painted in one of those colors. The company put a stop to that. Love your video - best laugh I've had all week. Good on you for getting the ole gal up and running.
Always wondered where the name came from, drove 2 of them in
Australia, one had a Cummins the other a GM.
the highest gear has the least resistance to rolling .
Exactly what I was thinking. 1st would have been safer.
@@fast98gtp
Well,if you wanted to keep it from Rolling he should have put it in reverse, acts like a brake,engine will not run backwards !!!!!! ♿ 🇺🇸
That Galion is a gift that keeps on giving. Let's name it Christine.
Ex-girlfriend I assume?
@@Jeremiah90526 Nope. A certain red Plymouth Fury.
high gear is the easiest way to roll an engine push starting it that is why to bump start in a higher gear
About the clutch, just gain some speed and put the blade on the ground. This will work.
You know how to make things come back to life ! Incredible. So you DO KNOW what you are doing ! ! !
"She doesn't want to come down..."
Entire Fanbase: GET THE CRANE. GET THE CRANE!!! WE WANNA SEE THE CRANE!!!!
While the crane is rated to lift that much it’s really quite a chore to set up and lift something that size
Love it. This is probably my favorite grader design. Love the cab. First comment, but have been subscribed for some time. Great stuff!
My family owns a grading company we have an old cat 12 motor grader the clutch stuck on it we could get it unstuck we picked it up with a dozer and dropped it and it did not shake it enough and we parked it beside a tall oak tree and the wheels leaned against it and one night a thunder storm came and lightning hit the tree and it went through the motor grader and broke the clutch loose
you just want him to hang it with the crane.
I got a WWII surplus Minneapolis Moline tractor for $300 in 1983. It had a big 4 cylinder gas engine with up draft carburetor. When I screwed on the carburetor it got covered with ice on a hot day. I have never seen that before or since.... until this video.
bloke nearly runs over himself twice with a 60+ year old grader....subbed
I don’t count the second time i was safe in the machine lol
the things you gotta do for subs these days.
I can definitely relate to finishing a project before starting another.
You could'nt make this stuff up, I just spent almost the whole time laughing.
Slowly building his Tonka set!
I.H. 6 cyl reminded me of a '63 I.H. stepvan I owned 36 years ago. Pistons about 4'' wide flopping back and forth in wornout cylinders. Shimmed the rings and bearings with strips cut from steel cans, got it running. Used it 3 years. Memories.
Now THATS shade tree! And I love it
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Glad you were able to walk away from that one.
I can’t help but think about the fact that when it was new, it was probably hauled on a truck with a low bed trailer. Now it’s getting hauled behind a pickup just like a skid steer. Kinda crazy. Neat find for sure.
That thing is a death trap lol. The title should be will it run and drive and will I survive?
I am so jealous!!! I have looked for one of these for years. And it runs and operates, and has glass, you lucky duck you!