Merry Christmas everyone! It appears UA-cam is having a bad day again, the video finished uploading hours ago and still hasn't finished processing the HD version. I hope its done by the time you read this!
I’m viewer 35,391 this morning. In Cajun country, I don’t even bother going to auctions, the people going to them know “exactly” what everything is worth and not a penny more. Once a unit is purchased, they flip them. I can’t compete with this environment, nor do I have funds to do so with.
Water Tank suggestion: stick it next to the container shed and throw some eaves and downspouts to fill it, then get a small pump, hose reel, and nozzle to have a little emergency fire fighting kit
My idea!!! it would give you water for power/steam washing for free... well as long as it would last! just need a good screen system and that tin roof would feed it really well!
That Terex DID look pretty interesting, but man, "unique" and "uncommon" are great - right up to the moment when you need parts. Learned that, the hard way. Twice, since I'm extra stupid.
I once got one hell of a deal on a 4400 Ford backhoe ...when I went to get parts for it nothing was exactly right ....finally called the Ford tractor plant in Pennsylvania...talked to a guy and he had me looking all over it for bon existent numbers ...but everything seemed to have foil tags all over it with embossed numbers ... Come to find out....I had a prototype that escaped the factory ....and Ford wanted it back ...just told them to write the check and come get it....That never happened
It's amazing how much Matt knows about so many aspects of all the mechanics of this equipment, especially considering how young he is. He must've grown up on these things.
@@DieselCreek I appreciate the fact that you admit when you don’t know what you’re doing. Buuut, you ask questions and know who and where to get information to “Git ‘er Done”. Love your channel and content.
My company makes those 1yrd blocks from left over mix, the only rebar in the whole deal is usually just the hook. Be careful around these blocks, left over mix isn’t always 100% good.
The idea of re-joining those blocks with epoxied re-bar sounds good in theory, but you would have to drill all the ( 4.) holes exactly in the right position and parallel to each other..
Matt, I enjoyed the video. A couple of quick comments on the clear plastic tote (water tank) 1. A shop vac with a PVC extension pipe should make quick work of the paper trash in the tank. 2. Clear plastic tanks are not good for long term water storage. The sunlight passes through it and the water quickly grows algae - a stinky mess - probably why there are deposits on the walls of this tank. 3. If you are going to collect rainwater, I strongly recommend a black plastic (green plastic works OK) tank to prevent algae from growing in the tank (we have 3 larger black / green tanks). Another problem is freezing and cracking the tank in the winter. Freezing is not much of a problem here at 4,800 Ft in southern Arizona - we did freeze and crack a brass ball valve during a cold snap. We insulate the valves every winter.
As a certified adhesive anchoring inspector, you can epoxy those pieces together, just make sure you get good embedment depth and clean the holes prior to attempting to epoxy it(insert a brush full depth and an air wand to the bottom of the hole). And since it's cold where you are, make sure the epoxy will set up in the temperature (set-22/xp e.t.c shouldn't be used below 50° f and many others have low temperature limits). Also, make sure to give the epoxy sufficient time to set (some epoxies take up to 7 days)
@@DieselCreek That's about the size of it. Smelly, filthy, ugly...but dang does it make a decent driveway. I'm just guessing since I'd have to win the lotto to pave mine, but a guy can dream. Although I did the asphalt millings and that worked out better than I could have imagined.
A great $5 dollar rain catchment tank. Just needs a round stand to set on wrapped with insulation and plumbing run to it from the roof with leaf screens and dirt clean out traps.😉👍
It turns out I don't like fixing things, my real hobby is collecting projects... I've been being pretty good at avoiding projects lately, but I'm sure it won't last. PS, I had a deuce. It was big and clunky and semi-useless, but I loved it. I'm holding out for an M1078 now... Good luck getting the deuce!!
Have friends with a well drilling business....those deuces are fantastic to put a well rigg on .. I'm in Michigan and the ground can tend to get a bit muddy and swampy here
@@DieselCreek Merry festivus to you and yours 17k for a blown motor lift? We need an intervention.... somebody s getting in the moonshine in the yard!! 5k at the most
Big idea for the Water tank - Make a water catchment system for your workshop area - and use the tank to store that water for use in fire prevention potential.. you have a lot of old machines, that have lots of oil / fuel/etc spread around - plus all those dry leaves during fall.. Would not hurt to have some form of homemade firefighting gear with that tank as the basis for water.. Though generally its best to use the big Black tanks to help prevent algae growth.. - could also set it up for being able to have a hot shower/wash basin even.. just to clean up a bit better before driving home dirty - or like cleaning up before you eat lunch..
So here's my suggestion. Put the water tank on top of one of you containers, put a gutter on the shop roof and feed it to the tank. Then run a line so you can have running water. Now I have no idea how much weight a container roof can hold but you can figure that out. I suspect you would have great water pressure 10 ft up with 500 gal pushing it
Water weighs 8lbs per gallon. That would mean that you'd have 4000 lbs on a however many square foot area. You can get consistent pressure with a water pump and an expansion tank. You'd also have to be able to refill it if there's a drought or it just doesn't rain enough.
Pressure would be approx. 2 pounds for each vertical foot of water. Doesn't matter if the tank is 5 gallons or 1,000 gallons. In his area, Matt would need to be concerned about freezing. Love the channel!!
@@PlayscBricks??? Do you know how toilets work? It take 0 water pressure to flush a toilet. Now 4 psi to refill might be a little slow but Jim Miller says there's 2 psi per foot so if the tank is 10 feet off the ground that's 20 psi.... But that's what Jim Miller says not me
Use the plastic barriers to layout a GoKart track. The next time you see an old bus at auction buy it for the Cummins, drop it into a modified mower and BAM! You're welcome.
As we are heading in to 66 and throwing prawns on the bbq, from half way around the world, have a great Christmas and New Years, be at peace and stay safe
I love going to auctions too (live) …mainly for woodworking tools. It’s like a toy store. What’s great about your videos is instead of spending 8 hours in the cold and rain, waiting for your interest item to come up, you get to see it all in an hour. It also doesn’t cost us anything, and we don’t have to explain to our spouse that it’s a great deal and we really need it. Those barriers would be great as the “boards” around a hockey rink to stop pucks flying … 🇨🇦
At least in my experience, those concrete blocks are made of leftover, returned concrete. Not always the best quality concrete, with water cement ratios waaayy beyond spec. Be very careful and skeptical about the holding power of the cables or wires that you pick them up with. They don't go very far into the block and can pull out with no warning. A local contractor wanted to fly them with a tower crane from one place to another and fortunately asked a company, (Cemstone) representative. The rep said that they could just as long as there was nothing below it that they valued, as in life, property, etc. One cubic yard of concrete weighs about 4000 lbs, give or take. Those blocks are about three cubic feet shy of one yard.
They made those as well at the plant I worked. Some blocks where the worst quality. But I seen it happen that a full 13m3 load of high strength C60/75 came back at the end of the day and got poured into lego blocks.
Merry Christmas Matt. Thanks for all the great videos this year. Really helped me during lockdowns here in the UK. I wish you all the best for the new year 👍
I hauled a bunch of those concrete blocks for a store I worked for. The lady that was loading them used a wheel loader somewhere in size between your two. It had a chain draped over the bucket, and she could hook and unhook the blocks just by twisting the loader. It was the most impressive bit of heavy machine finesse I have ever seen personally.
I'm so glad you took the advice about not starting another project. And try to finish Christen or your heavy equipment haul setup. Or possibly getting your shop closed in.
@Diesel Creek you should really look out for a screener unit, a old jaw crusher and a tractor PTO powered whater pump you could wash a lot of gravel out of your namegiver - build a retention pond to recycle the muddy whater, to be honest you got all thats needed and more - then you can continue to build your highway to nowhere and other projects like the foundations for the shop you said you were gonna build with locally sourced ethically harvested bio fairtrade vegan stone - also would be really awesome to see the dragline crane work - if of course no enviromental entity gets all anally hurt by your dececration of nature... tbh id probalby help you restore whatever needs restoring just for the sake to finally have it done if i only was not living ~8 timezones away from you ...
Those mini skidsteers are great for sticking on the back of a work truck and using them as a work horse for dragging stuff around. Nice and compact, they slip into tight spaces but I can't think of a reason for matt to get it other than "I want it". I used to ride one in a plant nursery, moving compost and horse muck around. They are mini work horses and pretty fun to ride.
@@andrewstratton806 oh yeah definitely. But they wouldn't have fit where I was using them. While they aren't as good as their big brothers, they are still better than a bucket and spade
You need to get dirt perfect to bring his tile dozer out to put some drainage lines under and around your shop areas. Or failing that just dig up some soil and make your roads into mounds. And you can use the plastic barriers and tank as water storage off your shop.
Merry Christmas! Those dingos are pretty expensive new. They're basically built as heavy duty as a skid steer, just smaller. They have just as many attachments as skids, too. Handy as hell for landscapers, contractors, can tow with a 1/4 ton on a single axle. They get used like a self loading power wheelbarrow quite a bit. It doesn't surprise me they go for a lot, 10k is right on for a decent running machine. Smaller wheeled ones go maybe 2-3k cheaper. A guy in my town tows 2 on one trailer for putting irrigation lines in. One has a chainsaw style trencher, the other a bucket/power rake. I bet it's great efficient fast setup.
Interesting collection of items! If the water tank didn't come with a lid, it would be good to cover it to prevent rainwater accumulating enough to freeze and burst the tank.
That Terex dozer reminded me of a huge 8V-71 powered Terex wheel loader a big shopping center about a half hour away from my house uses for snow clearing. It's kind of overkill but I believe they got it real cheap from the nearby cement quarry.
Nice score on all those mafia blocks. Yes, they are handy for bins to put anything in. Split cord wood, wood mulch, pea stone, whatever. Merry Christmas from Connecticut.
Well , I do think that some of my fellow viewers are right , the jeep , the abandoned church , the autocar truck , Christine , etc. , etc. so much that'd be interesting to see finished . I always watch whatever is posted as you are an easy going host that makes the channel work well so , Merry Christmas and wishing you the best .
For the broken block. If you wet it down for a couple hours then brush in a slurry of concrete into both broken ends then bed a stiff mix and stand it on end it should be like new :p. Just got to the part where you were talking about dowelling. 4#15. One in each corner 6 inches from the edge. Embed 5 inches. Hilti Hit HY-200. Lining them up is hard so you could set them up so one is in the one side tight the other is loose... maybe each diagonal corner loose/tight in each half. In the looser hole drill to 12" and fill that with concrete paste instead. You could also fill the hole with epoxy if you are made of money. Epoxy doesnt like being upside down so have a plastic cap handy like the top of a pop bottle. Score it then stuff it in the hole after filling the hole with epoxy. Then the bar will smash through it. Yes there is a special split plug too. If the block is good and wet all the way through then brushing concrete paste onto each face before sticking together is a good repair. If the block is dry it will draw the water from the repair cement and prevent it from hydrating properly leaving a very poor bond. Personally I like the concrete binding idea. No bars to line up and the block had no bar when it was born anyway. Clean the interfaces. Leave them rough. Rougher the better. Let it sit for 14 days at least 28 preferred then kick it around and test it out. That would be a youtube "test" video nobody has done before :)
I remember back in the early 80s I was on a housing development site, they had 2 huge Terex dual engine dirt pan scrapers plus a dozer to help push, they cleared a lot of material pretty fast.
Yea, those barrier pieces / blocks are just the concrete remnants. When you don't use your full yardage from at truck, they go back to the plant and dump it into forms they have standing by. You paid for the full load of concrete and they get some free barriers to sell. Only rebar in it is the hook. (If they even have hook)
Thank you for the videos brother Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year Stop listening to the negative comments please Keep doing what you are doing k God bless take care Just saying
Gutter side of barn, put tank up on Connex, make you some water source for shop Merry Christmas to you and your wife! Enjoy the channel. Been a good year
Hell yeah keep doing the auction vids! Love checking out machinary even if you don't buy any of them. Merry Christmas to you Matt and Mrs Diva Creek. Oh can't forget Roscoe and Meatball! Happy Holidays y'all 🎄
As you found out, "bin blocks" or ecology blocks have no rebar other than the lifting bar. As long as you can get the necessary holes lined up for epoxy rebar it should easy to repair. Just get the holes bored in both sections, set the bars in one section and let set up. Then flip and connect the two pieces together. You also could likely use something like this to just glue them together with no rebar: PC Products 72561 PC-Concrete Two-Part Epoxy Adhesive Paste for Anchoring and Crack Repair
Ooh, working on that old pressure-plate at the end there, I'm excited to see that! Looks like those plastic barriers can be filled with water (or whatever) to weigh them down, bet you can find plenty of uses for them!
Have to add that the past auction is giving you good background on the going prices and what in general is coming up for auction sales. 1) Have to agree there is a perception on my part about a backlog of projects. However you have been doing well with videos for us viewers. And the videos are appreciated. 2) You mentioned that current access to your shop prohibits some future acquisitions in regards to transport. How about addressing overall improvements to both the shop and its access. Perhaps putting up more roofs for current equipment is a good goal. 3) Good that you did not throw money out there for another project. Spending money on current needs/projects is money well spent. Looking at what was acquired "now" somewhat addressed my anticipation of Christmas goodies. Thanks for all you do.
Don’t listen to those that say don’t buy anymore toys you don’t need that kind of negativity in your life. lol some of us thrive on it. all the best to you and yours for Christmas from Scotland
Auction prices seem very high. You have done quite well with machines that you just stumbled across so probably wise not to splash the cash unless you really want something!. Sometimes the best deals are the ones you dont make 🙂
Your plastic barriers fill them with cement or gravel and you have many good aggregate separators! use the solid concrete ones to use to push against when loading! Merry Christmas !
Great content as always Matt I always look forward to seeing your next instalment of the diesel creak and as always you never let us down on content!!! I would like to wish you and all the viewers alike a very happy Christmas and a very prosperous new year. Keep up the great work and and I wish you and the family to stay safe and well this holiday season
Take the water tank and clean it really good and put it on top of the shop for water tower use around shop for washing hands or for pressure washer ! Put cutters up and use rain water too fill it up
Matt, Merry Christmas to you and your family, thanks for everything you do and show us all year long , let's see what this new year bring, so many machines so little time . How's meatballs doing .
Matt on the broken concrete block walls easy fix for you. Get the 2inch dowel repair they use for concrete road cuts with the 2-part epoxy glue for the dowels and run a bead between the 2 broken pieces. It will be just like new!!!!
Merry Christmas Matt! I've been to many auctions and I find the online transition very hard. You truly need to inspect things in person and have a decent idea what you're looking at!
Wonder if Eva is still in love with the Jeep..... Bet she would restore it herself with a little help... Love the videos Matt... thanks for making them
Matt, my buddy and I are working on getting his old 2.5 running.. planning to make a modular bed, with "drop in" kits like a firefighting rig, camper, etc...
I'm sooo glad you graded your yard. I can't stand when I go to a buddy's lot and they have the gravel and the truck but they don't feel like doing the work. So now you have to Slug it through his yard just to do him a favor. lol
Its all good finishing a project before you buy more stuff. You still need to look out for a great deal that could be the ultimate project. MERRY CHRISTMAS
Merry Christmas everyone! It appears UA-cam is having a bad day again, the video finished uploading hours ago and still hasn't finished processing the HD version. I hope its done by the time you read this!
Just came up as a notice for me, "but still not HD" LOL .. Merry Christmas to you and your family !
I'll have to wait a bit longer!
I had one a few weeks ago that took almost 10hrs for them to HD process.🤦♂️
Well not after reading this 21 seconds of you posting this comment. Merry Christmas!
Nope.. still 360p :P
Still no HD Mr Creek, but you know this from the dozens of other people that have mentioned it already :-D
I’m viewer 35,391 this morning.
In Cajun country, I don’t even bother going to auctions, the people going to them know “exactly” what everything is worth and not a penny more. Once a unit is purchased, they flip them. I can’t compete with this environment, nor do I have funds to do so with.
HD or not, a Diesel Creek video on Christmas Eve is a must watch for me! Merry Christmas Matt!
Amen to that bro I could say the same thing
Yeuss
Second that (even though 360p is stone age)
1440p for me, must be UA-cam being slow.
I don't judge a good video by the video quality of UA-cam its diesel creek! Long as I can make out what matt man is doing i like it
Water Tank suggestion: stick it next to the container shed and throw some eaves and downspouts to fill it, then get a small pump, hose reel, and nozzle to have a little emergency fire fighting kit
My idea!!! it would give you water for power/steam washing for free... well as long as it would last! just need a good screen system and that tin roof would feed it really well!
That Terex DID look pretty interesting, but man, "unique" and "uncommon" are great - right up to the moment when you need parts. Learned that, the hard way. Twice, since I'm extra stupid.
You couldn't have said that better! I've learned that lesson a couple of times myself.
For a second I thought you were talking about me. :) "Twice, since I'm extra stupid."
Worked for a bloke who bought 2 new D9 size Terex dozers, they sent him broke.
I once got one hell of a deal on a 4400 Ford backhoe ...when I went to get parts for it nothing was exactly right ....finally called the Ford tractor plant in Pennsylvania...talked to a guy and he had me looking all over it for bon existent numbers ...but everything seemed to have foil tags all over it with embossed numbers ...
Come to find out....I had a prototype that escaped the factory ....and Ford wanted it back ...just told them to write the check and come get it....That never happened
It's amazing how much Matt knows about so many aspects of all the mechanics of this equipment, especially considering how young he is. He must've grown up on these things.
Nope. Self taught. Started running stuff at 18.
@@DieselCreek
I appreciate the fact that you admit when you don’t know what you’re doing. Buuut, you ask questions and know who and where to get information to “Git ‘er Done”.
Love your channel and content.
My company makes those 1yrd blocks from left over mix, the only rebar in the whole deal is usually just the hook.
Be careful around these blocks, left over mix isn’t always 100% good.
we use them for holding our bulk salt/sand at work. dirt cheap in our area. salt eats them, cheaper then cinder block walls/poured concrete walls
Unless the mix is segregated it's fine. My old company However we put rebar in all the blocks
The idea of re-joining those blocks with epoxied re-bar sounds good in theory, but you would have to drill all the ( 4.) holes exactly in the right position and parallel to each other..
@@harveylong5878 it’s like $150 a yard, the blocks go for like $100. For $50 more yeah, just do a wall
Equipment is bringing the money right now
I did buy a couple pipelayer dozers at that sale
I believe they sold offsite in WV
Always a good day when i see that diesel creek posted🤙
Matt, I enjoyed the video. A couple of quick comments on the clear plastic tote (water tank)
1. A shop vac with a PVC extension pipe should make quick work of the paper trash in the tank.
2. Clear plastic tanks are not good for long term water storage. The sunlight passes through it and the water quickly grows algae - a stinky mess - probably why there are deposits on the walls of this tank.
3. If you are going to collect rainwater, I strongly recommend a black plastic (green plastic works OK) tank to prevent algae from growing in the tank (we have 3 larger black / green tanks). Another problem is freezing and cracking the tank in the winter. Freezing is not much of a problem here at 4,800 Ft in southern Arizona - we did freeze and crack a brass ball valve during a cold snap. We insulate the valves every winter.
I can't wait until Christine drives over the camera at the intro. Merry Christmas Matt
As a certified adhesive anchoring inspector, you can epoxy those pieces together, just make sure you get good embedment depth and clean the holes prior to attempting to epoxy it(insert a brush full depth and an air wand to the bottom of the hole). And since it's cold where you are, make sure the epoxy will set up in the temperature (set-22/xp e.t.c shouldn't be used below 50° f and many others have low temperature limits). Also, make sure to give the epoxy sufficient time to set (some epoxies take up to 7 days)
Sometimes a man's ability to display self control is amazing in itself!!!!! Merry Christmas Buddy!!!
Reach out next time you need something looked at from the North East MD yard, I'm 20 mins away
was a good buy on the 120c I should have bought that !!!!!!!! and yes you should have bought big green 😜😃
Oh, I don't think so, pal. The only equipment you're looking for is a double drum roller. Or a paver. Either is acceptable. Merry Christmas!
@@pamike4873 eewww asphalt equipment 🤢🤮
@@DieselCreek That's about the size of it. Smelly, filthy, ugly...but dang does it make a decent driveway. I'm just guessing since I'd have to win the lotto to pave mine, but a guy can dream. Although I did the asphalt millings and that worked out better than I could have imagined.
@@pamike4873 yes I’ve got 100ton sitting at my place I need to put down
The quality is not great, but we remain loyal viewers. Happy Christmas to all of you from the Netherlands.
12:02 Rig Mats or ground protection mats go for about $300/panel new. We just did a video on our channel covering the costs and the pros and cons.
Yes. My problem also. To many projects un-done.
Merry Christmas everyone.
A great $5 dollar rain catchment tank. Just needs a round stand to set on wrapped with insulation and plumbing run to it from the roof with leaf screens and dirt clean out traps.😉👍
2b@ the auction guys and girls used it as a garbage bin.
Shows how they judge the merchandise.
You never make boring videos so keep them coming
It turns out I don't like fixing things, my real hobby is collecting projects... I've been being pretty good at avoiding projects lately, but I'm sure it won't last. PS, I had a deuce. It was big and clunky and semi-useless, but I loved it. I'm holding out for an M1078 now... Good luck getting the deuce!!
Have friends with a well drilling business....those deuces are fantastic to put a well rigg on .. I'm in Michigan and the ground can tend to get a bit muddy and swampy here
Thanks for all your vedio Matt... From a small island in the UK still watching your vedios in evenings and still as good as ever..!!
I feel your pain about high auction prices. For the last 2 years, I have been selling instead of buying. Not as much fun but the wife is happy
Keeping wife happy is a overall decent objective.
@@wfs000 happy wife, happy life
Make a Hot tub out of the 5 dollar tank! Use hot-tub parts ( pump filter)from a pool supply company!
merry christmas Diesel Creek
thanks for the past year ive been watching your awesome videos
Thanks, you too!
My favorite of your gifts you picked up was the $5 water tank! :) Merry Christmas
@@DieselCreek Merry festivus to you and yours
17k for a blown motor lift?
We need an intervention.... somebody s getting in the moonshine in the yard!!
5k at the most
Big idea for the Water tank - Make a water catchment system for your workshop area - and use the tank to store that water for use in fire prevention potential.. you have a lot of old machines, that have lots of oil / fuel/etc spread around - plus all those dry leaves during fall.. Would not hurt to have some form of homemade firefighting gear with that tank as the basis for water.. Though generally its best to use the big Black tanks to help prevent algae growth.. - could also set it up for being able to have a hot shower/wash basin even.. just to clean up a bit better before driving home dirty - or like cleaning up before you eat lunch..
So here's my suggestion. Put the water tank on top of one of you containers, put a gutter on the shop roof and feed it to the tank. Then run a line so you can have running water. Now I have no idea how much weight a container roof can hold but you can figure that out. I suspect you would have great water pressure 10 ft up with 500 gal pushing it
Water weighs 8lbs per gallon. That would mean that you'd have 4000 lbs on a however many square foot area. You can get consistent pressure with a water pump and an expansion tank. You'd also have to be able to refill it if there's a drought or it just doesn't rain enough.
@@ferky123 if it's empty, it's empty so what. If you watch the channel you know it Rais a lot there
About 0.4 psi per ft. 10' gives him 4 psi. Not even though to flush a toilet.
Pressure would be approx. 2 pounds for each vertical foot of water. Doesn't matter if the tank is 5 gallons or 1,000 gallons. In his area, Matt would need to be concerned about freezing. Love the channel!!
@@PlayscBricks??? Do you know how toilets work? It take 0 water pressure to flush a toilet. Now 4 psi to refill might be a little slow but Jim Miller says there's 2 psi per foot so if the tank is 10 feet off the ground that's 20 psi.... But that's what Jim Miller says not me
Use the plastic barriers to layout a GoKart track. The next time you see an old bus at auction buy it for the Cummins, drop it into a modified mower and BAM! You're welcome.
Merry Christmas Matt and Eva! Also thanks for an awesome year of entertainment
As we are heading in to 66 and throwing prawns on the bbq, from half way around the world, have a great Christmas and New Years, be at peace and stay safe
Good morning and Merry Christmas to everybody and Happy New Year !!
Same to you!
You could turn the tote into a rainwater collection system for your shed, and then use that water for the steam genny
Putting that crane on. Deuce and a half would be awesome too see. Thanks for another great video. Merry Christmas 🎄
A water tank always comes in handy. Belated seasons greetings!
I love going to auctions too (live) …mainly for woodworking tools. It’s like a toy store. What’s great about your videos is instead of spending 8 hours in the cold and rain, waiting for your interest item to come up, you get to see it all in an hour. It also doesn’t cost us anything, and we don’t have to explain to our spouse that it’s a great deal and we really need it.
Those barriers would be great as the “boards” around a hockey rink to stop pucks flying … 🇨🇦
Of course, Matt still has to explain it to His wife.
That water tank is a good buy, you will be able to grow all the mosquitos you could ever need.
At least in my experience, those concrete blocks are made of leftover, returned concrete. Not always the best quality concrete, with water cement ratios waaayy beyond spec. Be very careful and skeptical about the holding power of the cables or wires that you pick them up with. They don't go very far into the block and can pull out with no warning. A local contractor wanted to fly them with a tower crane from one place to another and fortunately asked a company, (Cemstone) representative. The rep said that they could just as long as there was nothing below it that they valued, as in life, property, etc. One cubic yard of concrete weighs about 4000 lbs, give or take. Those blocks are about three cubic feet shy of one yard.
Dirt perfect just weighed his at 3500.
They made those as well at the plant I worked. Some blocks where the worst quality. But I seen it happen that a full 13m3 load of high strength C60/75 came back at the end of the day and got poured into lego blocks.
The concrete companies around here sell the blocks for $30 each.
I agree with you on the 4x4, mechanical linkage all the way. An electronic switch is just something else to go wrong.
At the risk of sounding like a tightwad I think you bought wisely at this auction.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I agree with you, but my opinion of two stroke Detroit's is you would have to pay me to take it.
Put some isolation around that tank and use it as hot water storage for heating your new house at the farm with vacuum solar collectors :D
Merry Christmas Matt. Thanks for all the great videos this year. Really helped me during lockdowns here in the UK. I wish you all the best for the new year 👍
Merry Christmas to all in the USA 🇺🇸 from Great Britain 🇬🇧 and I hope you all have a brilliant New Year
I hauled a bunch of those concrete blocks for a store I worked for. The lady that was loading them used a wheel loader somewhere in size between your two. It had a chain draped over the bucket, and she could hook and unhook the blocks just by twisting the loader.
It was the most impressive bit of heavy machine finesse I have ever seen personally.
really impressive indeed, to some people, the machinery is just an extention of their limbs.
I'm so glad you took the advice about not starting
another project. And try
to finish Christen or your
heavy equipment haul
setup. Or possibly getting
your shop closed in.
@Diesel Creek you should really look out for a screener unit, a old jaw crusher and a tractor PTO powered whater pump
you could wash a lot of gravel out of your namegiver - build a retention pond to recycle the muddy whater, to be honest you got all thats needed and more - then you can continue to build your highway to nowhere and other projects like the foundations for the shop you said you were gonna build with locally sourced ethically harvested bio fairtrade vegan stone - also would be really awesome to see the dragline crane work - if of course no enviromental entity gets all anally hurt by your dececration of nature...
tbh id probalby help you restore whatever needs restoring just for the sake to finally have it done if i only was not living ~8 timezones away from you ...
Merry Christmas Matt & family plus everyone who views Diesel Creek... Love those intros....
Those mini skidsteers are great for sticking on the back of a work truck and using them as a work horse for dragging stuff around. Nice and compact, they slip into tight spaces but I can't think of a reason for matt to get it other than "I want it".
I used to ride one in a plant nursery, moving compost and horse muck around. They are mini work horses and pretty fun to ride.
I think the asv 30 hp skid loaders are a better buy because you don't have to stand all the time and they are more powerful and lift way higher
@@andrewstratton806 oh yeah definitely. But they wouldn't have fit where I was using them.
While they aren't as good as their big brothers, they are still better than a bucket and spade
You need to get dirt perfect to bring his tile dozer out to put some drainage lines under and around your shop areas. Or failing that just dig up some soil and make your roads into mounds.
And you can use the plastic barriers and tank as water storage off your shop.
Yippie! Matt has more toys to work on, keeping us Merry and bright!
Allan in Myrtle Beach
Merry Christmas!
Those dingos are pretty expensive new. They're basically built as heavy duty as a skid steer, just smaller. They have just as many attachments as skids, too. Handy as hell for landscapers, contractors, can tow with a 1/4 ton on a single axle. They get used like a self loading power wheelbarrow quite a bit. It doesn't surprise me they go for a lot, 10k is right on for a decent running machine. Smaller wheeled ones go maybe 2-3k cheaper.
A guy in my town tows 2 on one trailer for putting irrigation lines in. One has a chainsaw style trencher, the other a bucket/power rake. I bet it's great efficient fast setup.
Can't beat a giant skeeter farm for 5 bucks! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Those frozen ruts you was talking about makes GOOOD tire busters
Good wins at the auction Matt - and a safe, healthy and relaxing holiday wish to you and yours from Canada’s southern coast in Windsor, ON.
Diesel Creek video on Christmas Eve is a must watch!
Interesting collection of items! If the water tank didn't come with a lid, it would be good to cover it to prevent rainwater accumulating enough to freeze and burst the tank.
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You'd just leave the bottom valve open ...
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So much for rebar, I see that that the block with the crack is not two. rats!! Loved watching you trying to hurd that small part of the block.
That Terex dozer reminded me of a huge 8V-71 powered Terex wheel loader a big shopping center about a half hour away from my house uses for snow clearing. It's kind of overkill but I believe they got it real cheap from the nearby cement quarry.
It's only overkill until that first freak snowstorm 🤣 Should that ever happen the city will probably want to borrow it!
Matt you can never have to many projects!!!! You have to buy the projects when you can.
Great video Matt, everyone loves a good auction.
Nice score on all those mafia blocks. Yes, they are handy for bins to put anything in. Split cord wood, wood mulch, pea stone, whatever. Merry Christmas from Connecticut.
Well , I do think that some of my fellow viewers are right , the jeep , the abandoned church , the autocar truck , Christine , etc. , etc. so much that'd be interesting to see finished . I always watch whatever is posted as you are an easy going host that makes the channel work well so , Merry Christmas and wishing you the best .
For the broken block. If you wet it down for a couple hours then brush in a slurry of concrete into both broken ends then bed a stiff mix and stand it on end it should be like new :p.
Just got to the part where you were talking about dowelling. 4#15. One in each corner 6 inches from the edge. Embed 5 inches. Hilti Hit HY-200.
Lining them up is hard so you could set them up so one is in the one side tight the other is loose... maybe each diagonal corner loose/tight in each half. In the looser hole drill to 12" and fill that with concrete paste instead. You could also fill the hole with epoxy if you are made of money.
Epoxy doesnt like being upside down so have a plastic cap handy like the top of a pop bottle. Score it then stuff it in the hole after filling the hole with epoxy. Then the bar will smash through it. Yes there is a special split plug too.
If the block is good and wet all the way through then brushing concrete paste onto each face before sticking together is a good repair. If the block is dry it will draw the water from the repair cement and prevent it from hydrating properly leaving a very poor bond.
Personally I like the concrete binding idea. No bars to line up and the block had no bar when it was born anyway. Clean the interfaces. Leave them rough. Rougher the better.
Let it sit for 14 days at least 28 preferred then kick it around and test it out. That would be a youtube "test" video nobody has done before :)
I remember back in the early 80s I was on a housing development site, they had 2 huge Terex dual engine dirt pan scrapers plus a dozer to help push, they cleared a lot of material pretty fast.
Yea, those barrier pieces / blocks are just the concrete remnants. When you don't use your full yardage from at truck, they go back to the plant and dump it into forms they have standing by. You paid for the full load of concrete and they get some free barriers to sell. Only rebar in it is the hook. (If they even have hook)
Thank you for the videos brother
Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year
Stop listening to the negative comments please
Keep doing what you are doing k
God bless take care
Just saying
Thanks for taking us along.
Merry Christmas Matt and your family. To bad everything went for a higher price than it was worth thanks for another vlog.
Gutter side of barn, put tank up on Connex, make you some water source for shop
Merry Christmas to you and your wife! Enjoy the channel. Been a good year
Hell yeah keep doing the auction vids! Love checking out machinary even if you don't buy any of them. Merry Christmas to you Matt and Mrs Diva Creek. Oh can't forget Roscoe and Meatball! Happy Holidays y'all 🎄
As you found out, "bin blocks" or ecology blocks have no rebar other than the lifting bar. As long as you can get the necessary holes lined up for epoxy rebar it should easy to repair. Just get the holes bored in both sections, set the bars in one section and let set up. Then flip and connect the two pieces together.
You also could likely use something like this to just glue them together with no rebar: PC Products 72561 PC-Concrete Two-Part Epoxy Adhesive Paste for Anchoring and Crack Repair
Ooh, working on that old pressure-plate at the end there, I'm excited to see that!
Looks like those plastic barriers can be filled with water (or whatever) to weigh them down, bet you can find plenty of uses for them!
"That ain't goin' nowhere!"
I love the funny parts in these.
Thank you Matt for taking the time to film what you do and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Torching a pressure plate? LOL
Have to add that the past auction is giving you good background on the going prices and what in general is coming up for auction sales.
1) Have to agree there is a perception on my part about a backlog of projects. However you have been doing well with videos for us viewers. And the videos are appreciated.
2) You mentioned that current access to your shop prohibits some future acquisitions in regards to transport.
How about addressing overall improvements to both the shop and its access. Perhaps putting up more roofs for current equipment is a good goal.
3) Good that you did not throw money out there for another project. Spending money on current needs/projects is money well spent.
Looking at what was acquired "now" somewhat addressed my anticipation of Christmas goodies. Thanks for all you do.
It would be a shame to leave the Galleon out in the weather once it is done.
Thank you so much for making these videos Matt! Merry Christmas to you and your amazing wife!
Thanks for the afternoon Matt.
Merry Christmas Matt. Love the videos. Here's to a proporous new year.
Don’t listen to those that say don’t buy anymore toys you don’t need that kind of negativity in your life. lol some of us thrive on it. all the best to you and yours for Christmas from Scotland
Auction prices seem very high. You have done quite well with machines that you just stumbled across so probably wise not to splash the cash unless you really want something!. Sometimes the best deals are the ones you dont make 🙂
Your plastic barriers fill them with cement or gravel and you have many good aggregate separators! use the solid concrete ones to use to push against when loading! Merry Christmas !
Great content as always Matt I always look forward to seeing your next instalment of the diesel creak and as always you never let us down on content!!! I would like to wish you and all the viewers alike a very happy Christmas and a very prosperous new year. Keep up the great work and and I wish you and the family to stay safe and well this holiday season
Take the water tank and clean it really good and put it on top of the shop for water tower use around shop for washing hands or for pressure washer ! Put cutters up and use rain water too fill it up
Matt, Merry Christmas to you and your family, thanks for everything you do and show us all year long , let's see what this new year bring, so many machines so little time . How's meatballs doing .
Merry Christmas, Matt! Those plastic barriers would help keep the road from flooding by redirecting the water away from the roadbed.
Wesołych Świąt! Zdrowia, kasy i słodyczy grabarz życzy :)
Matt on the broken concrete block walls easy fix for you. Get the 2inch dowel repair they use for concrete road cuts with the 2-part epoxy glue for the dowels and run a bead between the 2 broken pieces. It will be just like new!!!!
Merry Christmas Matt! I've been to many auctions and I find the online transition very hard. You truly need to inspect things in person and have a decent idea what you're looking at!
Now you have the blocks, you can make yourself a nice mould/casing to make em yourself👍
I think Ritchie Bros must be very happy to see you at their lot.
Wonder if Eva is still in love with the Jeep..... Bet she would restore it herself with a little help... Love the videos Matt... thanks for making them
Run the water from the roof to the tank this spring and have water for the pressure washer.
Wishing you "Compliments of the Season".
That water tank will be handy for many projects.
Matt, my buddy and I are working on getting his old 2.5 running.. planning to make a modular bed, with "drop in" kits like a firefighting rig, camper, etc...
What a present. A video from Diesel Creek on Christmas Eve how awesome
I'm sooo glad you graded your yard. I can't stand when I go to a buddy's lot and they have the gravel and the truck but they don't feel like doing the work. So now you have to Slug it through his yard just to do him a favor. lol
Use the tank for water storage for a small off grid bathroom while your out there
Its all good finishing a project before you buy more stuff.
You still need to look out for a great deal that could be the ultimate project.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
A new Diesel Creek video is all I wanted for Christmas! Yay!
and on the next A&E episode of hoarders is Matt from Diesel Creek lol