Rambro screaming at the sawblade... Awesome. Was a weird moment years and years back when I realised "Angry Ram guy" and "Washing Machine power" guy were one and the same.
He'd trip even harder about Marty taking all of us along for the ride. Thousands of us--from everywhere across the world--watching a ghost's tractor work again. Neato.
My dad was a huge Allis-Chalmers guy. Used to run a modified 190 on the local tractor pull circuit back in the 1980s. When I was in highschool, he ripped a D12 out of a field and completely restored it to "parade" quality. I mowed my church yard with that tractor for many years, such a workhorse of a tractor. He passed away 6 years ago and I miss him working on tractors, so these videos you've done on tractors, specifically this Allis, have brought back some great memories for me!
@@richardbarnhill4794 They sure do and it's channels such as this and people like yourself with real tangible skills handed down that keep the knowledge alive. Love you both.
My dad owned a small family sawmill (now in my brothers ownership) in Scotland and he once told me of an elderly farmer he was visiting one day. He was cutting firewood and my dad offered to cut the whole pile for free for him to save him the hassle..... "No thanks Charlie" he said, "I get 2 heats out of this pile, one cutting it and one burning it!" So it seems the same humour is universal.
@@willtricks9432 Was that at the Red Squirrel campsite? I have a few (excellent) beers and a bite to eat in the Clachaig any time we are in the area. Going to Invercoe campsite in the summer so shall be in there again, very friendly bar round the back👍🏻👍🏻
@@WeeShoeyDugless It was right next to pub the but don't remember if it had a name. We were there to walk and climb with a few beers after. Cooked over a fire of wood from the copse on a bit of sheet steel we found. There was still snow on the tops and it was totally cloudless day and moonless at night so we got a tan in the day and the Milkyway was so bright at night that the reflection from the snow lit the whole valley and cast no shadow, never needed to use a torch. I have not managed to get back since, it's a long way from Milton Keynes. Cheers
True, but my modern tractor will work more acres of ground in one year than that B could cover in a decade. Modern productivity comes with modern problems, but we've got billions more mouths to feed now compared to when that Allis was new.
Modern junk won't run in 40 years from now due to all of those fragile computers and electronics being used in an abusive environment as well as rarely stored inside,plus there's the planned obsolescence as well as the engineered in failure period... Nope only the pre 90s stuff will still be viable,and able to work on in another 40 years as the manufacturers make them further impossible to work on without stupidly expensive specialty tools...
Great job as always! For what it's worth... I'm a physical therapist and once had an older patient who years earlier lost his right hand---clean amputation mid forearm---from, you guessed it, an accident with a rocking bed saw. He told me the lesson he learned was to always keep both hands on the rocker side, and set up a container for the cut ends to fall into.
The man that first said that didn't cut much wood. It is more like four or five times. Cutting, hauling, stacking and all that goes with it provides lots of warmth.
Obviously the kids won't be allowed anywhere near that blade when you're cutting up firewood. On the safety subject; one of my mates, [back in the 80s] did exactly what you avoided, when the fumes in a petrol tank popped, and blew rust flakes into both his eyes. No permanent damage, but he had both eyes fully bandaged, for a few days, after the hospital gave them a clean out. Lucky boy!
I was surprised that you restored the little old fella all the way back to cut off saw in working order. Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your adventures Marty! I so enjoy everyone :)
We used this method whenever our HUMMVs were used in a parade. We didn't use diesel though and it bugs the sh*t out of me that I can't remember what we used.
Marty you must have read my mind! I was just thinking "That saw blade looks bloody lethal!" when you said you were going to fabricate a guard for it. I breathed a huge sigh of relief then, I can tell you!
I miss that Angry Ram. @13:55 would make Dr Dolittle proud lol. That is one of the most terrifying saws I've ever seen. Thanks for another awesome video.
Here in the states we have a product called Caswell Tank Seal. Simply an ‘in tank’ epoxy sealer. Takes a day to dry after pouring it in and rolling around in the tank. Hardens like glass. I’m sure you folks have something similar. Consider it if you plan to keep that tractor and it begins to leak again. Cheers from upstate New York.
I've had mixed success with that sealer. Great on a VW beetle tank. Terrible on a Datsun 510 tank. I would have used JBweld on the bung, but you had a great win there so that's cool.
I think all 'pour in' liquid sealers would have struggled with this one, given the 3-4mm crack where it was leaking. Definitely needed something to bridge the gap before using those.
Lots of old machines like that didn't have drains for final drives ,gear cases, etc. It's always good to take a suction gun and pull out as much old oil as possible and check for metal or water contamination . I remember there was always a suction gun hanging in my grandfathers garage next to the glass jars in the wire basket.🍻
@@enginecrzy I'm always torn between overhauling everything and leaving it the f*ck alone if it's working. It's like that angel/devil on your shoulder thing.
@@tetedur377 Once I get started I can't stop. I enjoy fixing up and painting as much as I enjoy having old equipment and running it. Oh yea and a nice frosty one while I am doing it.🍻
That tractor reminds me "the man that cuts wood for firewood " from my childhood . The tractor was a little bigger and the blade was about 1 meter in diameter it was cutting branches up to 30cm in diameter . It's stills scare me 50 years later . Thank you for sharing and bringing back good old remembrances . Cheers from Belgium .
Great to see the old machines getting repaired and put back into their original usage as the grand old workhorses they were built for . excellent work Marty . keep saving the older classic machines . made to be the everlasting reliable machines . not like today's machines that more than likely won't even last a decade . top man Marty . keep saving them . . from Northern GB . .
As an American, OSHA always comes to mind per safety. Just as I thought about how OSHA would respond to that, angry ram showed up. Quite a good laugh at that. Perfect comedic timing.
Hi Marty, I work in Health and Safety in the Workplace and I just want to tell you that if ................................................ Sod it, keep fixing things. All the best from Ireland!
Great job sir when I was just a kid my grandpaw had a 1950 farm all cub tractor I rode with my grandpaw on the drawbar many going out the fields to work his tractor great memory’s to take to the grave
Allis-Chalmers saw mill. Great episode Marty. And for what it's worth, I've gained confidence over time watching you and I'm now changing the fluids and blades on my own rider and push lawnmowers in preparation of the spring. I used to send them out.
I grew up in rural western Canada we called those “ Rocking cradle Buzz saws” they were used to do just what you used it for cleaning up slash piles , us youngsters dragged the stuff to the men who were running the saw we were not allowed too close as it would kick out small branches from time to time. Thanks for the video!
There's a lot to admire about your lifestyle Marty. Your work ethic is admirable too, I'm a lazy bastard. I'm always envious of folk who have a lot of get up and go, all my get up and go, got up and went a long time ago, lol.
I love those machines for cutting firewood, they're so quiet and relaxing to use. Also a spinning wheel of death, but that just keeps you awake while doing a repetitive task.
Love the channel from across the ditch in Sydney. I cannot believe how a saw like this made on the most simple of all principles is still better for what it was built to do than its modern counterparts. Probably the original blade too!
Thanks Marty ,brings back my childhood memories from the 60s .My father would cut up old Totara battens and posts with a saw like that ,the belt was probably 3x as long and he used Golden Syrup to stop it from slipping off the pulleys. That Totara wood would throw out the sparks something crazy out of our open fire even with a spark guard ,we used to watch our b/w tv with the smell of burning carpet . God i miss those days!!
My mother pitched a fit when she found out my grandad had me cutting firewood with one of those saws. That’s where I learned it’s easier to seek forgiveness than to receive permission. That was 46 years ago and I’ve cut many cords with it since then with no mishaps.
I think my first reaction when the blade started up was the same as the ram's. 😱 I had a shop teacher in school with two fingers missing. His advice with saws was always "Make sure you tighten the bolt on the blade." I'd say that advice definitely applies here. But seriously, keep up the good work. Must be a lot of satisfaction getting work out of a good old machine like that.
Dream machine. I had no idea what the attachment was until you had it 80% done. As a man that puts up 6 cords of wood a year... Lovely machine. Remember chain saws did not exist when this tractor and attachment was made. My God the work that thing saved.
Just a couple of points, our "buzz saw" had a great whacking flywheel on the off end and we always ran it with two people so that no body parts straddled the blade.
My Dad had two of these tractors when I was a kid in the late 60's. Dad had a walk behind slip bucket to move dirt. The back wheels were in very bad shape due to rust holes. They were small and light weight but Dad liked them. Thanks for the video. I love the buzz saw. I am glad that you were able to get it running without to much work.
Yes, it's surprising what personalities they have and how curious they are. My wife got some bantams 4-5 years ago and they really are little characters, they always follow people around the garden and eagerly stand by whilst we are weeding or digging ready to get any bugs.
Great to see this video Marty. The saw you got working in exactly how my father and our neighbour's cut the fire wood to heat our homes in the 50'a and 60'a in Saskatchewan, Canada. Great memories for sure. The only differences were we used a John Deere AR tractor and there were no hearing or eye protection in those days. Thanks a million!
Growing up in Canada, I saw a lot of saws like this on tractors. My neighbor referred to it as the spinning wheel of death. "Anything that touches that spinning blade gets cut, if you wanted it to, or not."
25:09 had me backing away from the screen 😅. My 75 yo neighbor used to process about 20 cords a year with his "buzz saw". Something unsettlingly sinister about the way this machine would unquestioningly carry out its duties.
Mate, your vintage museum is the best. Not glistening showpieces under artificial light, but diesel soaked workhorses doing the jobs they were designed for, decades later. A credit to both the original engineers, and to your careful restorations. Top tier content.
I've never in my life seen an engine start that easily. That goat screamed at exactly the same time that I did. My guard would be a 10 foot high razor wire fence all round the tractor with no gate but I'm a bit of a nervous type. I'd guess that type of saw is why I used to see so many old farmers walking around with the top half of their head missing. Oh the good old days. Thanks for the video!
You cracked me up with the screaming ram clip spliced in just as the open blade test was making me nervous. Still having a chuckle over it. Great editing there! I admire and appreciate your skilled work and greatly enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Great job on the little B! I sold my 38 B, only because I had trouble getting on, with old age and bum legs. I put a 12 volt alternator in 2 of my Allis tractors and run 12 volts. Neither had a magneto, so I had to change coils, but the starters work fine for a LONG time on 12 volts. I ran the CA as my lawn mower for 10 years, and never had a problem with the starter, and the WD45 has had the change for 25 years or more, but doesn't get used much anymore. As long as the tractor is tuned up good, it only takes a couple seconds on the starter to be running. I know some who have drilled a hole in the final drive pan, and brazed a fitting in for a drain.
When was quite young we'd travel to the family farm to help with harvest. My grandfather's silo feller and threshing machine were both run off the flat belt. Because of the nature of the beast you couldn't start the tractor with the very large heavy belt on the drive pulley. Grandpa would pick up that belt and get it on the spinning pulley. Crazy stuff. After WW2 my father bought a new Allis "C". He kept that tractor until into his 80s. Thanks!😊
So happy to see you back mate great video as always thanks again for sharing your talent with us hope you and your family and your friends are all doing well.
Love all of it! those belt clips are mini versions of what we use in mining conveyors. Spinning blade of (wood) death, what a beast and so functional.. perfect!
Thank you for making my old heart smile. You have assured me that with some TLC, there can be life in the old dog yet. A most informative video once again. Your videos are thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you
Brass soldering, and/or tinning is a solid option for repairing a rusted fuel tank. Hard to do when they already put on a bunch of gunk on it dough. Your homemade surface coating really brings out the patina in the old machines. Looks great!
And I was so looking forward to some old school sheet metal hammer forming on some old pine in his backyard... Maybe it will be in his long awaited upholstery/lacquer video... 😁😁😁
That blade looks like it was brand new, obviously the labels had gone but the teeth looked really good. What a find so simple really and who needs a chainsaw, especially when you've got a tractor unit as the power source. And obviously the tractor God, giving an old boy the love and care that he deserves. 👍
My mum and dad have a picture of me in 1969 on an Alice in a field that was near our holiday caravan in Harlech Wales. Apparently I insisted on sitting on it every day. It never moved so I wonder if its still the all these years later. Love your content mate.
Well done, Marty. I think this was probably one of my favorite of your videos so far. I would build a shed, even an open-sided one, just to keep the rain off the equipment, but it's perfect the way it is.
We had an old belt driven saw table on our farm when I was growing up, but just seen the parts prior to assembly, I couldn't for the life of me envisage how yours was going to work. Now I know. What a simple and very easy tool to use! Perhaps it isn't the safest, but it is definitely fast and seems to create far less sawdust than a chainsaw would. It also seems to be quieter than a chainsaw (battery operated chainsaws excluded). Impressive!
The farm where I spent my childhood summer holidays had a homebrew table saw with the same style of belt but driven by a ginormous 7.5 kW three-phase motor. Their concrete mixer was also a sight to behold. I suspect it might have been designed for using one motor to drive multiple machines depending on what you needed, way back when electric motors were properly expensive. The motor sat on a metal plate with a piece of steel tubing extending out from one corner. That slid into a tube on the machine, making the base and motor pivot on a horizontal axis. The weight of that contraption was designed to put tension on a V belt. That wasn't enough though, so they used some baling twine and tied all sorts of scrap metal to the opposite corner of the base to keep the belt tensioned 🙂
Not only is he a very good mechanic who skillfully shows how to get machines running again and how to maintain them, he also shows how to protect your hearing and eyes. Not everyone who watches RUclips has experience in such things and learns that a broken eye or hearing cannot be repaired. That's what I really like about his episodes, alongside his skill.
The chickens.... They're always the antagonist. 😅. Trying to get to the tools. I feel like a belt tensioner or something may be in order after watching that belt sag under load.
MARTY T, IF YOU ever need parts for the magneto It looks to be a Fairbanks -Morse ,John-deere & Harley-davidson both used those Mags on their motors ,thought you might like to know ...MISSOURI PAUL We really enjoy watching you bring these old machine back to life ! 👍🤗🌞🇺🇸👍
A superb machine with multiple practical uses, puts most equivalent modern stuff to shame, and a superb mechanic doesn't get much better, thank you for sharing you're knowledge and skills.
Marty, I realize this is a few months old now and you may have changed a few things, but what I noticed was, the generator will need to be changed to 12V and the regulator or fit an alternator (easier). The coil will need to have a drop resistor fitted while running or replace with a 12V. lastly those groves inside the bearing housings that you so carefully cleaned of grease, should have felt and grease, (we used old felt carpet underlay) to stop the rubbish from getting in and keeping the grease from getting out ,,, it did help keep it clean == mostly!! looking forward to your next video
Marty just uses the 12VDC battery he swaps in to every machine he wants to use....just as a starter battery for this tractor. The generator isn't used to recharge the battery and the electrical system doesn't run anything else....as the engine doesn't need any battery at all. The few time Marty starts the tractor hardly take anything out of the battery...which he recharges between swaps anyway.
Hi Marty , I find it very hard. You can’t buy new one after 80 years LOL thanks once again for the great video. Always like to see you restoring and fixing up machinery. Keep up the good work. I didn’t see the managing director there today. Making sure you doing a good job Cliff from Australia
The Rambro scream made me lol!
Ha ha me too 😄
May Rambro's cry from the tasty grasses of the Elysian Fields serve as a modern warning label.
Best since one since he tried to fight the excavator!
@@draftinator I didn't see that one. Goats can be such a pain in the rear.
As a child I used to be petrified of those saws even at a safe distance of 100 yards😅
"Don't you sh%t on my tools!" Now there's a T-shirt Marty...
👍🏼 that would be worth wearing❗️😎
I'd buy one!
me too
Me too
Same here
Rambro screaming at the sawblade... Awesome.
Was a weird moment years and years back when I realised "Angry Ram guy" and "Washing Machine power" guy were one and the same.
I know, it took me a while to work that out too.
👍👌👏 Same here too.
Best regards, luck and health in particular.
Y'all didn't know the two were one and the same Marty?
Ditto...
@@Wil_Liam1 No. I found the videos totally separately.
The first owner of that machine would never have imagined that a dude from the future would be working on it in 2024. 🙂
What is more, his surname isn't McFly .....................
He'd trip even harder about Marty taking all of us along for the ride. Thousands of us--from everywhere across the world--watching a ghost's tractor work again. Neato.
My dad was a huge Allis-Chalmers guy. Used to run a modified 190 on the local tractor pull circuit back in the 1980s. When I was in highschool, he ripped a D12 out of a field and completely restored it to "parade" quality. I mowed my church yard with that tractor for many years, such a workhorse of a tractor. He passed away 6 years ago and I miss him working on tractors, so these videos you've done on tractors, specifically this Allis, have brought back some great memories for me!
Best comment I have read in years. Sounds like a legend, may he rest in peace.
@@NeonGenesisPlatinum appreciate it! He taught me a lot and one day I hope to do the same for my son. Channels like this keep the spirit alive for me!
@@richardbarnhill4794 They sure do and it's channels such as this and people like yourself with real tangible skills handed down that keep the knowledge alive. Love you both.
Here's to your Dad Richard 🚜
None of us know what's in store.
The scream right after spinning the Mad Max saw for the first time is maybe your best editing ever😂
i thought mad max when i saw it also.
As an old bushy said to me once, you’ll spend half your life cutting wood and the other half burning it. Love your work Marty T.
My dad owned a small family sawmill (now in my brothers ownership) in Scotland and he once told me of an elderly farmer he was visiting one day.
He was cutting firewood and my dad offered to cut the whole pile for free for him to save him the hassle.....
"No thanks Charlie" he said, "I get 2 heats out of this pile, one cutting it and one burning it!"
So it seems the same humour is universal.
@@WeeShoeyDugless I discovered the double warming effects of cutting and burning wood when I camped at the Clachaig inn, Glencoe back in 1982.
@@willtricks9432
Was that at the Red Squirrel campsite?
I have a few (excellent) beers and a bite to eat in the Clachaig any time we are in the area.
Going to Invercoe campsite in the summer so shall be in there again, very friendly bar round the back👍🏻👍🏻
@@WeeShoeyDugless It was right next to pub the but don't remember if it had a name. We were there to walk and climb with a few beers after. Cooked over a fire of wood from the copse on a bit of sheet steel we found. There was still snow on the tops and it was totally cloudless day and moonless at night so we got a tan in the day and the Milkyway was so bright at night that the reflection from the snow lit the whole valley and cast no shadow, never needed to use a torch. I have not managed to get back since, it's a long way from Milton Keynes. Cheers
Abraham Lincoln said "cut your own wood, it will warm you twice."
I have much more faith in that tractor working 80 years from now than anything brand new. Nice sympathetic repair and service.
True, but my modern tractor will work more acres of ground in one year than that B could cover in a decade. Modern productivity comes with modern problems, but we've got billions more mouths to feed now compared to when that Allis was new.
AMEN!
Modern junk won't run in 40 years from now due to all of those fragile computers and electronics being used in an abusive environment as well as rarely stored inside,plus there's the planned obsolescence as well as the engineered in failure period... Nope only the pre 90s stuff will still be viable,and able to work on in another 40 years as the manufacturers make them further impossible to work on without stupidly expensive specialty tools...
When you got the grease gun out I could the old girl go arrrr
The whirling wheel of death accentuated with Rambro's scream. Perfect!! lol
I nicknamed a scrubcutter with a circular saw blade "The Quivering Meatwheel" after a Jack Kerouac poem.
I thought Rambo's scream was in celebration of it all working! LOL
That saw blade scares the shit out of me! I was wearing gloves and safety glasses just watching the video!☠️
Did ya roll up your sleeves too; I would have but I had a short sleeve t-shirt on.
Great job as always! For what it's worth... I'm a physical therapist and once had an older patient who years earlier lost his right hand---clean amputation mid forearm---from, you guessed it, an accident with a rocking bed saw. He told me the lesson he learned was to always keep both hands on the rocker side, and set up a container for the cut ends to fall into.
I agree with this method. It wouldn't take much for that glove to catch on the saw blade and get pulled in.
a container for limbs to fall into you might say....
@@cal6995 😳😲🤣
A limb saver ,so to speak
A MAN WHO CUTS HIS OWN WOOD WARMS HIMSELF TWICE
Or, the "heat" in the tools!
Hmm
The man that first said that didn't cut much wood. It is more like four or five times. Cutting, hauling, stacking and all that goes with it provides lots of warmth.
Good job Marty, a worthwhile restoration. You will make a fine prime minister one day, NZ needs your vision and pragmatism. Keep up the great work.
. . . . and a little Kiwi Engineering.
Don’t go into politics Marty. You are too honest to be a politician.
He'd be a crap Politrickster he's not greedy dishonest or selfish
@@garyholt4445👍🏼
Great idea. Let me know when the bumper stickers are ready to go. World wide support should be worth something.
Marty is an example of a man with common sense and skills who doesn't need flashy tools to fix, repair and build.
It's lovely to see machinery my age (80) doing a good day's work.
Obviously the kids won't be allowed anywhere near that blade when you're cutting up firewood.
On the safety subject; one of my mates, [back in the 80s] did exactly what you avoided, when the fumes in
a petrol tank popped, and blew rust flakes into both his eyes. No permanent damage, but he had both
eyes fully bandaged, for a few days, after the hospital gave them a clean out. Lucky boy!
😮
Are you still running same off grid stuff or have you replace it & what happened to that Suzuki 200 @@MartyT
@@RetroYamaha Yes the hydro turbine is still going strong, still got the little dr in the shed
I was surprised that you restored the little old fella all the way back to cut off saw in working order. Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your adventures Marty! I so enjoy everyone :)
25:18, nearly pee'd myself from laughter, cuz it was my exact thoughts about that blade spinning lol
I love it when the vehicles get the oil diesel spray they always come up great after. Maybe even better than a new pain job i reckon
We used this method whenever our HUMMVs were used in a parade. We didn't use diesel though and it bugs the sh*t out of me that I can't remember what we used.
I swear I got a whiff of petrol when you pulled that tank out! 😆
Marty you must have read my mind! I was just thinking "That saw blade looks bloody lethal!" when you said you were going to fabricate a guard for it. I breathed a huge sigh of relief then, I can tell you!
I cringed a bit when placing the Saw Blade on and the Engine was running, thinking what if,
I miss that Angry Ram. @13:55 would make Dr Dolittle proud lol. That is one of the most terrifying saws I've ever seen. Thanks for another awesome video.
Always a good watch when marty drops a video
That tractor is absolutely wonderful! I absolutely love the vintage machinery. Thank you for sharing from Arizona, 🇺🇸 😊 Thanks for thinking of safety!
Watching from Maryland, across the country from you.
Here in Utah, but originally from NZ.
Good to know americium’s watch us kiwis,, welcome
@@lukeduke3001 Would not miss his videos for the world.
Here in the states we have a product called Caswell Tank Seal. Simply an ‘in tank’ epoxy sealer. Takes a day to dry after pouring it in and rolling around in the tank. Hardens like glass. I’m sure you folks have something similar. Consider it if you plan to keep that tractor and it begins to leak again. Cheers from upstate New York.
I've had mixed success with that sealer. Great on a VW beetle tank. Terrible on a Datsun 510 tank. I would have used JBweld on the bung, but you had a great win there so that's cool.
Red cote is a good product too & can be re disolved or thinned with acetone. Iv'e used it a couple times on my vintage small engine stuff. ✌👍
POR-15 sell tank sealant kits here in NZ
I think all 'pour in' liquid sealers would have struggled with this one, given the 3-4mm crack where it was leaking. Definitely needed something to bridge the gap before using those.
@@RangieNZ You're right there, but it may arrest further decay from within - the tanks for those are $$$$- used!
Lots of old machines like that didn't have drains for final drives ,gear cases, etc. It's always good to take a suction gun and pull out as much old oil as possible and check for metal or water contamination . I remember there was always a suction gun hanging in my grandfathers garage next to the glass jars in the wire basket.🍻
I had ocd when he was doing that, my brain wanted to take the covers off & renew the gaskets....😁✌👍
We used to use old grease guns for that kind of thing, both taking it out and putting it back in.
@@enginecrzy I'm always torn between overhauling everything and leaving it the f*ck alone if it's working. It's like that angel/devil on your shoulder thing.
@@tetedur377 Once I get started I can't stop. I enjoy fixing up and painting as much as I enjoy having old equipment and running it. Oh yea and a nice frosty one while I am doing it.🍻
That tractor reminds me "the man that cuts wood for firewood " from my childhood . The tractor was a little bigger and the blade was about 1 meter in diameter it was cutting branches up to 30cm in diameter . It's stills scare me 50 years later . Thank you for sharing and bringing back good old remembrances . Cheers from Belgium .
Don't blame you for being scared. 1M blade. Thats f-ing lethal.
LEts go just finished an assignment and open youtube! perfect timing marty!!
It's amazing how much difference it makes to a machine to just keep it under cover.
Great to see the old machines getting repaired and put back into their original usage as the grand old workhorses they were built for . excellent work Marty . keep saving the older classic machines . made to be the everlasting reliable machines . not like today's machines that more than likely won't even last a decade . top man Marty . keep saving them . . from Northern GB . .
As an American, OSHA always comes to mind per safety. Just as I thought about how OSHA would respond to that, angry ram showed up. Quite a good laugh at that. Perfect comedic timing.
Hi Marty, I work in Health and Safety in the Workplace and I just want to tell you that if ................................................ Sod it, keep fixing things. All the best from Ireland!
I reckon ill get a chat from my H&S guy at work from just WATCHING this video, im sure he can feel it in his bones 😂😂
😂
This is the type of comment that makes this channel so good, along with Marty making it up as he goes along.
Great job sir when I was just a kid my grandpaw had a 1950 farm all cub tractor I rode with my grandpaw on the drawbar many going out the fields to work his tractor great memory’s to take to the grave
Allis-Chalmers saw mill. Great episode Marty. And for what it's worth, I've gained confidence over time watching you and I'm now changing the fluids and blades on my own rider and push lawnmowers in preparation of the spring. I used to send them out.
I grew up in rural western Canada we called those “ Rocking cradle Buzz saws” they were used to do just what you used it for cleaning up slash piles , us youngsters dragged the stuff to the men who were running the saw we were not allowed too close as it would kick out small branches from time to time. Thanks for the video!
There's a lot to admire about your lifestyle Marty. Your work ethic is admirable too, I'm a lazy bastard. I'm always envious of folk who have a lot of get up and go, all my get up and go, got up and went a long time ago, lol.
I love those machines for cutting firewood, they're so quiet and relaxing to use. Also a spinning wheel of death, but that just keeps you awake while doing a repetitive task.
Holy snapping duck shit! I flinched away from the screen when the disc of doom first got up to speed!
Love the channel from across the ditch in Sydney. I cannot believe how a saw like this made on the most simple of all principles is still better for what it was built to do than its modern counterparts. Probably the original blade too!
Thanks Marty ,brings back my childhood memories from the 60s .My father would cut up old Totara battens and posts with a saw like that ,the belt was probably 3x as long and he used Golden Syrup to stop it from slipping off the pulleys.
That Totara wood would throw out the sparks something crazy out of our open fire even with a spark guard ,we used to watch our b/w tv with the smell of burning carpet .
God i miss those days!!
Haha yes I have similar memories of our open fire
Nothing stickier than Golden Syrup.
My mother pitched a fit when she found out my grandad had me cutting firewood with one of those saws. That’s where I learned it’s easier to seek forgiveness than to receive permission. That was 46 years ago and I’ve cut many cords with it since then with no mishaps.
I think my first reaction when the blade started up was the same as the ram's. 😱 I had a shop teacher in school with two fingers missing. His advice with saws was always "Make sure you tighten the bolt on the blade." I'd say that advice definitely applies here. But seriously, keep up the good work. Must be a lot of satisfaction getting work out of a good old machine like that.
Haha I love it. I run belt joiners in by putting the end in my cordless drill.
Dream machine. I had no idea what the attachment was until you had it 80% done. As a man that puts up 6 cords of wood a year... Lovely machine. Remember chain saws did not exist when this tractor and attachment was made. My God the work that thing saved.
Just a couple of points, our "buzz saw" had a great whacking flywheel on the off end and we always ran it with two people so that no body parts straddled the blade.
My Dad had two of these tractors when I was a kid in the late 60's. Dad had a walk behind slip bucket to move dirt. The back wheels were in very bad shape due to rust holes. They were small and light weight but Dad liked them. Thanks for the video. I love the buzz saw. I am glad that you were able to get it running without to much work.
Hi Marty, she is a little beauty, wish it were mine. Many thanks from Nr Liverpool UK.
Love the chooks do miss having them hanging around. 😊
Yes, it's surprising what personalities they have and how curious they are. My wife got some bantams 4-5 years ago and they really are little characters, they always follow people around the garden and eagerly stand by whilst we are weeding or digging ready to get any bugs.
Bit of golden syrup on the belt helps . We used to drip some on when we used belt drive for sheep dip. Neat little tractor
It'd improve the taste but I still think it'd be far too tough and chewy.
@@ferrumignis Tough as leather...
Great to see this video Marty. The saw you got working in exactly how my father and our neighbour's cut the fire wood to heat our homes in the 50'a and 60'a in Saskatchewan, Canada. Great memories for sure. The only differences were we used a John Deere AR tractor and there were no hearing or eye protection in those days. Thanks a million!
Growing up in Canada, I saw a lot of saws like this on tractors. My neighbor referred to it as the spinning wheel of death. "Anything that touches that spinning blade gets cut, if you wanted it to, or not."
Brings back memories of the old equipment on my uncle’s farm.
Great job Marty
Way to go Marty, you've brought another relic to life but wow it has so many safety features on the saw. BE CAREFUL.
25:09 had me backing away from the screen 😅. My 75 yo neighbor used to process about 20 cords a year with his "buzz saw". Something unsettlingly sinister about the way this machine would unquestioningly carry out its duties.
The first tractor I learned to drive was an AC D-17. It's really cool to see that saw attachment being brought back to life.
Most relaxing death wheel revival I've ever watched.
Greetings from northern Alabama. Thanks for another solid video!!
That Rambro scream perfectly summed up my feelings at that moment. Thanks for the laugh.
Marty, this configuration was designed by a genius. I so enjoy the process of the project and repair steps. Thanks for an excellent video.
Love watching the old girl get a clean up, makes it look 50 years younger, love the scream gad me chortling
Mate, your vintage museum is the best. Not glistening showpieces under artificial light, but diesel soaked workhorses doing the jobs they were designed for, decades later. A credit to both the original engineers, and to your careful restorations. Top tier content.
Excellent!! Can't beat a Marty T notification!
Way to go Marty, putting that tractor back to work. Enjoyed the video very much.
KC
Thanks for another ride in your time machine Marty.
What a great little Tractor! ✌👍
I've never in my life seen an engine start that easily. That goat screamed at exactly the same time that I did. My guard would be a 10 foot high razor wire fence all round the tractor with no gate but I'm a bit of a nervous type. I'd guess that type of saw is why I used to see so many old farmers walking around with the top half of their head missing. Oh the good old days. Thanks for the video!
You cracked me up with the screaming ram clip spliced in just as the open blade test was making me nervous. Still having a chuckle over it. Great editing there!
I admire and appreciate your skilled work and greatly enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Great job on the little B! I sold my 38 B, only because I had trouble getting on, with old age and bum legs.
I put a 12 volt alternator in 2 of my Allis tractors and run 12 volts. Neither had a magneto, so I had to change coils, but the starters work fine for a LONG time on 12 volts. I ran the CA as my lawn mower for 10 years, and never had a problem with the starter, and the WD45 has had the change for 25 years or more, but doesn't get used much anymore.
As long as the tractor is tuned up good, it only takes a couple seconds on the starter to be running.
I know some who have drilled a hole in the final drive pan, and brazed a fitting in for a drain.
When was quite young we'd travel to the family farm to help with harvest. My grandfather's silo feller and threshing machine were both run off the flat belt. Because of the nature of the beast you couldn't start the tractor with the very large heavy belt on the drive pulley. Grandpa would pick up that belt and get it on the spinning pulley. Crazy stuff. After WW2 my father bought a new Allis "C". He kept that tractor until into his 80s. Thanks!😊
Nice! You made that old beast earn its keep.
What a good score. Comes up a treat with the oil coating too.
That sawblade gives a whole new meaning to the term "death wheel"!
So happy to see you back mate great video as always thanks again for sharing your talent with us hope you and your family and your friends are all doing well.
Love all of it! those belt clips are mini versions of what we use in mining conveyors. Spinning blade of (wood) death, what a beast and so functional.. perfect!
Thank you for making my old heart smile. You have assured me that with some TLC, there can be life in the old dog yet. A most informative video once again. Your videos are thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you
G'day from Oregon, Marty. Sweet epoxy job on tank.
Quality Control chickens 😂
The screaming goat was a nice touch, Marty 😊
Brass soldering, and/or tinning is a solid option for repairing a rusted fuel tank. Hard to do when they already put on a bunch of gunk on it dough. Your homemade surface coating really brings out the patina in the old machines. Looks great!
And I was so looking forward to some old school sheet metal hammer forming on some old pine in his backyard...
Maybe it will be in his long awaited upholstery/lacquer video... 😁😁😁
Another fascinating video using your skills to bring back to life this 80 year old beauty, thanks for sharing my friend.
A great little machine with a new lease on life.
No notes. A great episode.
Great to see you using that old tractor , good for another 80 years
That blade looks like it was brand new, obviously the labels had gone but the teeth looked really good. What a find so simple really and who needs a chainsaw, especially when you've got a tractor unit as the power source. And obviously the tractor God, giving an old boy the love and care that he deserves. 👍
My mum and dad have a picture of me in 1969 on an Alice in a field that was near our holiday caravan in Harlech Wales. Apparently I insisted on sitting on it every day. It never moved so I wonder if its still the all these years later. Love your content mate.
@24:55 i was back in Ravenholm!
Nice rescue and looks like a pretty nifty machine.
I haven't seen those belt joins since being a kid on the farm, we had an old Fendt driving a hammer mill and a big circular saw, good memories.
Well done, Marty. I think this was probably one of my favorite of your videos so far. I would build a shed, even an open-sided one, just to keep the rain off the equipment, but it's perfect the way it is.
We had an old belt driven saw table on our farm when I was growing up, but just seen the parts prior to assembly, I couldn't for the life of me envisage how yours was going to work. Now I know. What a simple and very easy tool to use! Perhaps it isn't the safest, but it is definitely fast and seems to create far less sawdust than a chainsaw would. It also seems to be quieter than a chainsaw (battery operated chainsaws excluded). Impressive!
The farm where I spent my childhood summer holidays had a homebrew table saw with the same style of belt but driven by a ginormous 7.5 kW three-phase motor. Their concrete mixer was also a sight to behold. I suspect it might have been designed for using one motor to drive multiple machines depending on what you needed, way back when electric motors were properly expensive. The motor sat on a metal plate with a piece of steel tubing extending out from one corner. That slid into a tube on the machine, making the base and motor pivot on a horizontal axis. The weight of that contraption was designed to put tension on a V belt. That wasn't enough though, so they used some baling twine and tied all sorts of scrap metal to the opposite corner of the base to keep the belt tensioned 🙂
Wow good on you Marty. Love this kind of Resurrection end content and content.
A new movie prop for an Max 16. Awesome.
Not only is he a very good mechanic who skillfully shows how to get machines running again and how to maintain them, he also shows how to protect your hearing and eyes. Not everyone who watches RUclips has experience in such things and learns that a broken eye or hearing cannot be repaired. That's what I really like about his episodes, alongside his skill.
Man, you have skills.
Well done!
Great new piece of equipment Marty, the way you look after your everything it will last forever!
I wish it another 80 years, it looks like it's in good hands.
The chickens.... They're always the antagonist. 😅. Trying to get to the tools.
I feel like a belt tensioner or something may be in order after watching that belt sag under load.
Grew up with an Allis WD and a front mounted buzz saw and no guards anywhere. I like the shielding from the wood cradle and over the blade!
MARTY T, IF YOU ever need parts for the magneto It looks to be a Fairbanks -Morse ,John-deere & Harley-davidson both used those Mags on their motors ,thought you might like to know ...MISSOURI PAUL We really enjoy watching you bring these old machine back to life ! 👍🤗🌞🇺🇸👍
A superb machine with multiple practical uses, puts most equivalent modern stuff to shame, and a superb mechanic doesn't get much better, thank you for sharing you're knowledge and skills.
Marty, I realize this is a few months old now and you may have changed a few things, but what I noticed was, the generator will need to be changed to 12V and the regulator or fit an alternator (easier). The coil will need to have a drop resistor fitted while running or replace with a 12V. lastly those groves inside the bearing housings that you so carefully cleaned of grease, should have felt and grease, (we used old felt carpet underlay) to stop the rubbish from getting in and keeping the grease from getting out ,,, it did help keep it clean == mostly!!
looking forward to your next video
Marty just uses the 12VDC battery he swaps in to every machine he wants to use....just as a starter battery for this tractor.
The generator isn't used to recharge the battery and the electrical system doesn't run anything else....as the engine doesn't need any battery at all.
The few time Marty starts the tractor hardly take anything out of the battery...which he recharges between swaps anyway.
Hi Marty , I find it very hard. You can’t buy new one after 80 years LOL thanks once again for the great video. Always like to see you restoring and fixing up machinery. Keep up the good work. I didn’t see the managing director there today. Making sure you doing a good job Cliff from Australia
I love that you bring back Old Tractors to working shape!