Your abandoned excavator video was the first video of yours’ I ever saw. I have been hooked on your videos ever since. I have watched most of them, some many times over. I have subscribed to your channel and never miss a new video.
It's nice that you have a built in gravel source to just rake down the hill and use! I'm putting in a gravel drive way on our new property. 5 1/2 acres but am building a 25 foot wide drive on a 575 foot easement to get to it. Taking down trees, installing drainage tiles and levelling the up and down hills. Before finishing I'm trenching to install water line from road to barn about 600 feet.... All my fill and gravel has to be trucked in....
You keep working that road Marty, and you'll need white lines shortly mate.. Good fix on the bucket mate, all the best to Jeanine and the kids. Take care, stay safe.
I love that you rescue machines because you have a job for them and put them back to work. A lot of RUclips it’s about the rescue abit of a messing with them about and never see it again. It makes me smile seeing the old hitachi still getting a days work after all this time. Fancy doing a short video on your favourite rescue and favourite machine to use
Awesome Job Marty That's the same excavator you brought out of the bush years ago when I first started watching you I've watched all of your videos since as well as watching your children grow ,you have some set of skills from machining to welding and electrical you are amazing to watch .educational and entertaining .
Nice bit of welding to extend the life of that bucket Marty, great to see. I'm sure you've got your ear to the ground for a replacement bucket if one is around but, it might also be worth listening out for a Ripper Tooth for breaking out heavier rock. A tooth could also be used for hooking out bigger trees. It's just an alternative thought that might help preserve the existing bucket for a few more years. Thanks for sharing your amazing life out there.
The Marty T channel is the only RUclips channel where I've hit the notification bell. I don't know anything about excavators, tractors etc but I find Marty's demeanor very pleasant and his videos are relaxing to watch. I think now I've seen every video in his library. Always a pleasure mate. Greetings from a fellow Kiwi in Thailand.
Hi. Should really drill the ends of the crack out prior to welding up. Stops the underlying crack from trying to propagate further. All the best from Ireland ☘️
Short but definitely interesting episode of Marty fixing the bucket on his excavator. Definitely a pleasure to see it pop up in my feed on a Friday night. Thanks Marty.
You trick us by us thinking you just tossing the rock down the cliff but you throwing it on the lower road!!! Great Job in many ways, tricking us was just one!!!!
Marty, you are a metalsmith, arc welder and excellent mechanic. You have all old equipment, but you keep em' running! Tks. for the video. Keep those videos comin'!
onya Marty! when I was a kid I read a book about a guy who rescued a small bulldozer that fell through the ice. Then you came into my life rescuing the Hitachi from the forest, one of my favourite moments. Love your work!
Honey "The land at the top of the mountain is cheap and has a great view.....I will just need a few machines to keep the road open/" Same conversation heard all over the world! Great old machine.
I just want to jump on my soap box a little here, been watching your videos now for the last 6 months or so, as a northlander currently residing overseas, I’m supportive of , work, your educational videos and your lifestyle. As a northlander, I was surprised at the size of a lot of the native trees on your block, kauri , kanuka, Manuka etc . But my bleet is and I think from a few of your comments you might be in agreeable on . ie wilding pines and pine plantations in general in Aotearoa. I understand why you and lots of others planted their blocks in pine, we did it the north in the 80s and 90s but native bush was clear felled to plant pine especially the large forestry companies. Guardians of the land like lifestyle block owners, animal farmers just planted pines on poor grass producing land like sidings and hills. So getting back to you Marty T , I read your viewers comments all the time , and repeatedly your getting comments on how beautiful the arieal views of your block are, I like you see it differently, I see mature pine, full of pollen dropping acidic pine needles on preventing native tree regeneration. But I see your district and regional councils are helping out with native plant regeneration and wilding pine extermination. The one thing I am envious of between your land and mine is that you the chorus of the birds. Oh yeah forgot your an animal lover, how does feral goats wandering your bush blocks go down with you. Yeah all animals have there place but goats , like opossums, feral cats , dogs have no place in our bush. Just a little note to help with your conscience I now you have a smoker , goat like mutton when smoked is known as poor man’s ham . Better results when cold smoked over a longer period. Good luck
Oh yeah forgot about stoats and weasels just a note to our foreign viewers we don’t have predators like foxes or birds of prey, so when you see Marty’s chickens picking and scratching grubbs and bugs we in New Zealand call them free range chickens because they range free no concerns about predators
Amazing to see that beast of a machine at work, I remember you getting it, so good to see it hard at work again, what an amazing legacy you are making on that land with all this landscaping, thanks for sharing Marty it’s lovely to watch from a street in London.
Can you come over to the UK and show our roadworkers about cambers, they think everything should be flat. The problem with that is the water doesn't run off properly, so we get an abundance of pot holes. Nice digger work. 👍
ALWAYS, the first video of the day when you post. Looks like maybe some firewood? Idk if you use pine trees or not or if those even are pine trees. The digger is my favorite machine you have, second after the wood mill.
you had better add a counter-weight to the back mate, that's some welding rod that's had over the years... the best place i took my kids when they were little was to diggerland, [UK] where they can play on excavators all day, "come on dad, its time to go home, the man wants to put his tractors away...
Hey Marty, excellent video as always! I have a suggestion, try finding a ripper tooth (or build one, would make for excellent content generator! 😁) for the Hitachi. It will save the bucket and help you with ripping through rocky terrain.
Back in the day when I worked in a steel plant in the USA, the welders had a purple dye that they would put over the weld and then wipe as much as they could off. Then they would apply a white chalky spray paint over the top of it and the purple dye would leak through and show up because it had went down into any crack. It was a great way to check welds for cracks if you were worried about them. I don't know what the products were called though.
At least that rather nasty ground makes decent road base/building material, especially as you've got the equipment to deal with it. Good to see your understanding that the frequent maintenance approach is by far the best option - Too often I see instances where new tracks have to be made (no more material to work with due to erosion), leaving nasty scars of old eroded roads, because of a lack of maintenance, often also as a result of lack of whoop-de-doos/berms (raised sections that divert the flow or water before it builds up too much speed/eroding force/ditches or culverts.
Good to see you using stick welding to repair your bucket as Mig is not a structurally sound weld and will not take the punishment a bucket gets. When doing a three or more pass cap do the first pass along your bottom edge and the next pass on your top edge and then do a pass down the middle to stop the welding cracking, this is called a split pass 🏴👍🏻
Another awesome vid 👍don’t know about dumping that nice rock over the edge but I guess u have an endless supply 😅that quickhitch had been intentionally cut off and modified to fit that digger 😎
👍👌👏 This great channel is not far away from hitting half a million ! subscribers (definitely well deserved of course!). It's a shame that youpipe doesn't honour such a great milestone. I simply can't imagine the reason behind this.
Some pretty nice trees you took out. Are you going to turn them into lumber later? I like watching you run the mill. A person doesn’t need the fanciest mill to make lumber. I like what you use. 😊
MartyT doing anything….! I am gonna watch. Doesn’t matter what he is doing. It’s gonna be really cool and I am gonna learn a lot of skills that have been lost to time. I have never not fully enjoyed watching an MT video.
Wow stick welding! That’s how I first learned to weld in the late 1960’s as a teenager and over the years got quite proficient in my 70’s now still have a stick welder but most of what I do now is MIG or TIG but for big stuff there is nothing like a hot pass stick weld on heavy material to get a full penetration weld !
We have a similar property when it comes to topography in South of France/ Pyrenees, but our soil is just clay and boulders. Man I’m jealous of that gravel/shale that you have there! We pay the weight of that in gold here to fix logroads…
Are you sure the eyes were broken on the bucket? It looks like it was converted from another type of attachment system like a quick change coupler. That would explain why both sides are identical.
Marty has medieval attitude, reuse it all, even the rebar on the side of the road. Nothing is to be left unused. An attitude more of us could learn to use.
Good to see the Hitachi hard at work again. It still amazes me how you rescued it from the forest and got it functioning. Hope you get plenty more out of her, especially after all the work you did on those rams!
@@MartyT that is a great idea to do that to make sure you don't have to redo it again for a while one other question ❓ did you use wire or stick welding on this trac hoe bucket
Your abandoned excavator video was the first video of yours’ I ever saw. I have been hooked on your videos ever since. I have watched most of them, some many times over. I have subscribed to your channel and never miss a new video.
Completely addicted to Marty’s videos 🫶🏻
That was my first video of his too. Got hooked after
Exactly the same for me!
Exactly!
yours' ???....
Holy wow
This man is not only a wiz with repairing machinery, he can also operate it for purpose like that's his main job. You're truly an inspiration, Marty.
Agreed! Maybe leave a little bit for the rest of us though...
It's nice that you have a built in gravel source to just rake down the hill and use! I'm putting in a gravel drive way on our new property. 5 1/2 acres but am building a 25 foot wide drive on a 575 foot easement to get to it. Taking down trees, installing drainage tiles and levelling the up and down hills. Before finishing I'm trenching to install water line from road to barn about 600 feet.... All my fill and gravel has to be trucked in....
Great seeing that old Hitachi still earning it's keep.
My thoughts exactly
You keep working that road Marty, and you'll need white lines shortly mate.. Good fix on the bucket mate, all the best to Jeanine and the kids.
Take care, stay safe.
Great Job Marty T! The work never ends! Better to prepare now...
I love that you rescue machines because you have a job for them and put them back to work. A lot of RUclips it’s about the rescue abit of a messing with them about and never see it again. It makes me smile seeing the old hitachi still getting a days work after all this time. Fancy doing a short video on your favourite rescue and favourite machine to use
Awesome Job Marty That's the same excavator you brought out of the bush years ago when I first started watching you I've watched all of your videos since as well as watching your children grow ,you have some set of skills from machining to welding and electrical you are amazing to watch .educational and entertaining .
Nice bit of welding to extend the life of that bucket Marty, great to see. I'm sure you've got your ear to the ground for a replacement bucket if one is around but, it might also be worth listening out for a Ripper Tooth for breaking out heavier rock. A tooth could also be used for hooking out bigger trees. It's just an alternative thought that might help preserve the existing bucket for a few more years. Thanks for sharing your amazing life out there.
Yes I do have a pick for it, usually I would put it on for rock like that but it was a 5 minute job so I didn't bother putting it on
The Marty T channel is the only RUclips channel where I've hit the notification bell. I don't know anything about excavators, tractors etc but I find Marty's demeanor very pleasant and his videos are relaxing to watch. I think now I've seen every video in his library. Always a pleasure mate. Greetings from a fellow Kiwi in Thailand.
IC Weld has a lot of videos on exactly this type of repairs. The guy is a wizard.
Hi. Should really drill the ends of the crack out prior to welding up. Stops the underlying crack from trying to propagate further. All the best from Ireland ☘️
Just seeing marty maintaining his property is the content I didn't sign up for, but damn do I love it so so so much
Short but definitely interesting episode of Marty fixing the bucket on his excavator.
Definitely a pleasure to see it pop up in my feed on a Friday night.
Thanks Marty.
You have such a cool property Marty, love the sounds, love pine forests!
won't be any pine forest once he's done with it lol
You trick us by us thinking you just tossing the rock down the cliff but you throwing it on the lower road!!! Great Job in many ways, tricking us was just one!!!!
I like the in-cab view. Don’t see enough of the operation of the controls on excavators.
same here. Always a great choice of shots.
Some of the very best content on RUclips. I get excited when you post anything. Thank you for sharing what you do!
I work on brand new hitachi excavators and its fun to see these older ones still going at it😀
Always finding a way to keep these machines functional. Thanks.
After a rough day at work, watching Marty fix something and throw some dirt around makes me feel better. 😁
Marty, you are a metalsmith, arc welder and excellent mechanic. You have all old equipment, but you keep em' running! Tks. for the video. Keep those videos comin'!
onya Marty! when I was a kid I read a book about a guy who rescued a small bulldozer that fell through the ice. Then you came into my life rescuing the Hitachi from the forest, one of my favourite moments. Love your work!
Bulldozer! By I believe Stephen meader. I loved that book, and others he wrote
It’s great to see you back mate and thanks again for sharing your experience with us all also hope you and your family and friends are all well too.
Honey "The land at the top of the mountain is cheap and has a great view.....I will just need a few machines to keep the road open/" Same conversation heard all over the world! Great old machine.
I just want to jump on my soap box a little here, been watching your videos now for the last 6 months or so, as a northlander currently residing overseas, I’m supportive of , work, your educational videos and your lifestyle. As a northlander, I was surprised at the size of a lot of the native trees on your block, kauri , kanuka, Manuka etc . But my bleet is and I think from a few of your comments you might be in agreeable on . ie wilding pines and pine plantations in general in Aotearoa. I understand why you and lots of others planted their blocks in pine, we did it the north in the 80s and 90s but native bush was clear felled to plant pine especially the large forestry companies. Guardians of the land like lifestyle block owners, animal farmers just planted pines on poor grass producing land like sidings and hills. So getting back to you Marty T , I read your viewers comments all the time , and repeatedly your getting comments on how beautiful the arieal views of your block are, I like you see it differently, I see mature pine, full of pollen dropping acidic pine needles on preventing native tree regeneration. But I see your district and regional councils are helping out with native plant regeneration and wilding pine extermination. The one thing I am envious of between your land and mine is that you the chorus of the birds. Oh yeah forgot your an animal lover, how does feral goats wandering your bush blocks go down with you. Yeah all animals have there place but goats , like opossums, feral cats , dogs have no place in our bush. Just a little note to help with your conscience I now you have a smoker , goat like mutton when smoked is known as poor man’s ham . Better results when cold smoked over a longer period. Good luck
Oh yeah forgot about stoats and weasels just a note to our foreign viewers we don’t have predators like foxes or birds of prey, so when you see Marty’s chickens picking and scratching grubbs and bugs we in New Zealand call them free range chickens because they range free no concerns about predators
Thanks!
Wow thanks for that mate
Fine job on those repairs. I'm the same way about making it last as long as possible. Thanks again for taking the time to make your videos.
Outstanding and awesome as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along
Thanks marty form make a video showing the digger working its just so cool and nice to see it in action.
Enjoyed seeing you using the controls on the excavator. Thank you.
The old girl clearly had a hard life before she was abandoned & certainly appreciates your attentions.
Slava rusne. Smert bendere
Nice to see a bit of property maintenance Marty, thanks for the video.👍👍
Amazing to see that beast of a machine at work, I remember you getting it, so good to see it hard at work again, what an amazing legacy you are making on that land with all this landscaping, thanks for sharing Marty it’s lovely to watch from a street in London.
Great job. You make repairs outside in the driveway that others could not do in a full shop. Genius. Another great video.
Yeah that’s a kiwi thing
Can you come over to the UK and show our roadworkers about cambers, they think everything should be flat. The problem with that is the water doesn't run off properly, so we get an abundance of pot holes. Nice digger work. 👍
Marty is a mechanical marvel, truly inspirational.
I enjoy all your videos and find them very informative. If possible produce more because you are a master bush mechanic! Thank you 👍
Loved the camera placement below the excavator as seen in video ending. Smart idea. 👍👍👍
ALWAYS, the first video of the day when you post. Looks like maybe some firewood? Idk if you use pine trees or not or if those even are pine trees. The digger is my favorite machine you have, second after the wood mill.
Yes I can mill the bigger logs, the smaller ones will make good firewood
you had better add a counter-weight to the back mate, that's some welding rod that's had over the years...
the best place i took my kids when they were little was to diggerland, [UK] where they can play on excavators all day, "come on dad, its time to go home, the man wants to put his tractors away...
😂
theres a hole in the bucket........ Always great to see Marty's rescue projects living on to do real,useful work
Hey Marty, excellent video as always! I have a suggestion, try finding a ripper tooth (or build one, would make for excellent content generator! 😁) for the Hitachi. It will save the bucket and help you with ripping through rocky terrain.
Yes I do have a ripper, I didn't bother putting it on for this 5 minute job
Another Marty T bedtime story for old blokes. Thanks mate.
One good thing about the old girl is she on wide tracks, good balance and good solid foundation.
Yes she has a nice wide stance
It is always a cool watch when you post. Best of luck to you and yours, sir.
Back in the day when I worked in a steel plant in the USA, the welders had a purple dye that they would put over the weld and then wipe as much as they could off. Then they would apply a white chalky spray paint over the top of it and the purple dye would leak through and show up because it had went down into any crack. It was a great way to check welds for cracks if you were worried about them. I don't know what the products were called though.
Nice work, one thing about your country roads, if you dig out the steep side, there’s always a huge drop off the other to dump your excess gravel.😁
you are an amazing guy! and your stable of machines keeps getting bigger and better!
The only time I'm ever disappointed in a Marty T video is when it's not long enough.
Marty T, ur excavator sure does come in handy for cleaning-up the road.. road looks cool..
I sure do enjoy ALL your vids here in Mississippi USA !!!
👍💪🎯🇺🇸
At least that rather nasty ground makes decent road base/building material, especially as you've got the equipment to deal with it. Good to see your understanding that the frequent maintenance approach is by far the best option - Too often I see instances where new tracks have to be made (no more material to work with due to erosion), leaving nasty scars of old eroded roads, because of a lack of maintenance, often also as a result of lack of whoop-de-doos/berms (raised sections that divert the flow or water before it builds up too much speed/eroding force/ditches or culverts.
Good to see you using stick welding to repair your bucket as Mig is not a structurally sound weld and will not take the punishment a bucket gets. When doing a three or more pass cap do the first pass along your bottom edge and the next pass on your top edge and then do a pass down the middle to stop the welding cracking, this is called a split pass 🏴👍🏻
Another awesome vid 👍don’t know about dumping that nice rock over the edge but I guess u have an endless supply 😅that quickhitch had been intentionally cut off and modified to fit that digger 😎
I dumped the rock to the track below and spread it on the driveway
reminds me of some of the switchback roads we have in Wyoming in the mountains, but your Trail is way better
Good to see you again. We need a few more of your videos out here in video land.
👍👌👏 This great channel is not far away from hitting half a million ! subscribers (definitely well deserved of course!). It's a shame that youpipe doesn't honour such a great milestone. I simply can't imagine the reason behind this.
I saw it was a Marty T Vid and hit the like before he finished his first sentence. Great stuff as always.
Great work
Tired Iron…. Taking a licking but keeps digging! Good job Marty!!! 👍
That is so nice! 👌🏼
Would be cool if you could attach a blade to it.
Some pretty nice trees you took out. Are you going to turn them into lumber later? I like watching you run the mill. A person doesn’t need the fanciest mill to make lumber. I like what you use. 😊
Yes ill pull out the bigger trees for the mill
Marty you are a man of many talents. Always enjoy seeing what you are up to… John
MartyT doing anything….! I am gonna watch. Doesn’t matter what he is doing. It’s gonna be really cool and I am gonna learn a lot of skills that have been lost to time. I have never not fully enjoyed watching an MT video.
Thanks for posting Marty
Wow stick welding! That’s how I first learned to weld in the late 1960’s as a teenager and over the years got quite proficient in my 70’s now still have a stick welder but most of what I do now is MIG or TIG but for big stuff there is nothing like a hot pass stick weld on heavy material to get a full penetration weld !
I'm sure it's sloppy but it seems to be working very well.
Another summer of free hot water for me thanks to your good solar hot water video. 🤙.
You remind me of Robinson Caruso, living in the middle of nowhere. Lucky you can turn your hand to any problem! 👍
Caruso would have sung better than Robinson Crusoe...darn voice to text...
Good effort Marty!
Nice job Mr. T!
Hope you are going to be making videos of it all Marty, looks like it's going to be an interesting video if you do.
Marty is the definition of Kiwi self-reliance!
a shale mountain that scrapes to gravel - perfect!
Sisyphus maintenance. :)
We have a similar property when it comes to topography in South of France/ Pyrenees, but our soil is just clay and boulders. Man I’m jealous of that gravel/shale that you have there! We pay the weight of that in gold here to fix logroads…
Marty, looks like there's a bit of slop in the bucket. Might be worthwhile seeing about the sleeve/bearing to get that tightened up?
Nice job Marty ,looks great…
We shall see what happens when the rain comes. I wish you well! Great welding.
Good video. you should look into getting a sawmill to turn those trees your knocking over into some good timber for your projects.
See Marty's other vids re his twin blade Datsun A12 powered sawmill....
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk Thanks I will check
You seam to always make anything work. Thank you for sharing 👌 😊
Are you sure the eyes were broken on the bucket? It looks like it was converted from another type of attachment system like a quick change coupler. That would explain why both sides are identical.
Possiblity
Love a MartyT video, as always though wish it was longer ☘️👍🏻
I'll make a longer vid about building the road once I've finished
Great news look forward to watching it 😊
Lookin good Marty! Nice job!
Do all the trees roots help or hurt the stability of the ground under the roads?
They tend to stabilize the ground but can be a nuisance, as the tree grows the roots make lumps it the road
@@MartyT ahh got ya
Excellent Video Marty T :) also glad fix road way so want wash out bad and take days clean up too!
Marty has medieval attitude, reuse it all, even the rebar on the side of the road. Nothing is to be left unused. An attitude more of us could learn to use.
Marty,
Your best logo.... "JOB DONE"
Good to see the Hitachi hard at work again. It still amazes me how you rescued it from the forest and got it functioning. Hope you get plenty more out of her, especially after all the work you did on those rams!
it's great how KIWIS can make something out of nothing and keep it going for years cheers 😊
Another great video bro that should see it for quite a while yet. Safe travels. Ken.
is there anything you struggle to do Marty ? Another great video.
I struggle to find time to relax with all these old machines to maintain 😂
Noice! Next thing you need is a rock-crusher. Turn all that coarse rock into nice, consistent gravel.
Marty have you ever made cribbing ? Using logs to support the road where you get washout. Fill with that hillside material.
Yes I do that with the root balls and durable timber, this pine timber rots within a few years so it wouldn't hold up long term.
Marty your a smooth operator ✌️
It's constant upkeep eh Mate !! From across the pond , Dirt Hawk Ya'll !! North East , Maryland , Keep up the Great Videos !!!!
Like the rebar crack prevention method. I will use that in the future.
Nice work 👍 hope it hold long 🤞
Good Job Buddy
Tom 😎
Griding the v groove is something I have seen other people do
Pretty standard practice to get good penetration
@@MartyT that is a great idea to do that to make sure you don't have to redo it again for a while one other question ❓ did you use wire or stick welding on this trac hoe bucket