My father in law died a few years back, he worked for Hormel in the factory, but also ran heavy machinery like drag lines and dozers for 45 years. I remember talking to him one time when he said if he had a million dollars, he would buy an old D8 and a pile of dirt, and spend all day moving the pile from one end of the lot to the other. That is why videos like this, Matt, make me smiile.
Damn straight. I worked in the woods with a gentleman who had bought a D-7 cable dozer new in 1947. In the 1980s it still ran like an expensive watch. Wonderful machine.
Strange how we share the same favorites in machines, ANYTHING IH, Cub Cadets, old iron and now D8 cables. This was my first machine I ran by myself. One summer I worked filling in a sand pit. The pony motor was crank start and when I could get it running it scared the crap out of me sounding like it was turning 20,000 rpm’s! I learned to park it on a hill and bump start it. Takes allot of time to make a level cut. I was going up and down for weeks. Thank you Matt for reminding me of good times the summer I was 14.
@@DieselCreek Matt.... A question....this may sound...... immature of me but...with your love of machinery.... Have you ever thought about collecting the CONSTRUCTICONS IRL? could be a cool video series Just a suggestion... Good video As always LINK BELT GANG AUTOCAR GANG THANKS
What a great old hunk of iron. The first dozer I had anything to do with was an old Cat D8. Early 1970s, and I had been hired to plant trees on a coal strip mines in Virginia. Got “volunteered” to help change out a set of tracks, track adjusters and front idlers on the D8. Put some long hours in with a big sledge hammer… when I graduated from high school soon after this, I ended up working for a bunch of yrs on this same strip mines, first on a coal auger and then as an equipment operator. In the early 80s I ended up in the military… I stayed for the long tour (24 yrs and several combat deployments).. but I can still hear and smell the old equipment… keep up with what you’re doing..you are a hard working young man! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This brings back memories. I learned to operate an old cat D7 cable rig at age 16. The pony motor didn’t have a electric starter. It was turned over with a long crank that stuck out the front. If you killed the main motor with the blade up you couldn’t get the crank in to start the pony motor. I’ve had to walk off the mountain to get the old Ford tractor to move the Cat enough to get the crank in several times.. I worked all summer clearing trees off of 40 acres. I learned that running a bulldozer wasn’t what I wanted to do for the real of my life.
That was one of the better "will it run" videos I've seen in a while. You could see by the amount of stuff that came out the exhaust, that she's been sitting a while. What an absolute score and a can see a good few videos bringing the old girl back to her former glory.
Love the old dozers, they can sit for years, throw enough compression back in them with fuel, and boom. Love those old cat engines too. Nother good video matt, shooting for 1mill subs.
Me too! Especially seeing the first fire. LOVE to see all that smoke and think to myself "Sleepy Joe and the EPA can suck it with all there EV garbage!" Black Smoke Matters!
All things considered, her age, sitting for 15 years, and water in places it shouldn’t be, that engine sounds absolutely amazing. I didn’t doubt you guys would get it to run but I was expecting a lot more repairs to happen first. Good job on this one Matt.
Loved the video which brought memories back of my Cat D8H dozer when working on the Thai/Laos border in 1967 with the British army on road construction. Our pony/donkey engines were notoriously unreliable and on many occasion had to resort either hand crank start or to a pull/push start in gear on decompression and then kick the decompressor over. Although 56 years ago the noise of a Cat D8H starting is etched in my memory. Great you saved an old equipment.
Old CATS never die! They just wait for Matt to wake them up from a long, long slumber🤘 I doubt if the new machines would survive like this old girl has😊
theres only one thing more durable than an old cat ...... an even older cat!! and im not joking thoses beasts are full of holes leaking oil making strange sounds and still going after 50+ years of service :D
OLD CATS do die, when they get sunk in the Pacific Ocean.. My old work place, was trying to fill in a sink hole in the early 80s with an old cat dozer in West Vancouver BC, Canada, and the Cat slid into the sink hole, into about 60 ft of water, it took 4 cranes to haul it back out of the ocean.
Absolutely thumbs UP!!👍👍 That Diesel Dozer Engine sounds awesome! Not even any exhaust smoke once she was up and running. I am on stand by for part two! 💯
I just love the look on your face whenever you get a prehistoric diesel engine going, hopefully another project we can follow the progress on your channel. Great stuff guys 👍🛠🔧🚜
My Mennonite neighbour here in eastern Ontario Canada years ago picked up a six ton Cat V8 power unit with an over center clutch and big belt pulley. He got it out of a scrap yard. It had sat there for years. Apparently it came out of a lumber mill. He messed with the pup (mounted on back pretty much in the bank of the V) until he got it going. A V4, if I remember correctly. No electric start luxury on the pup. No, it was a manual start. Not even recoil; grab the flywheel like an old John Deere two banger and spin it by hand. Stubborn, cantankerous little thing. It just _screamed_ when it ran. I always thought it was going to blow itself apart and stayed clear to the front or the back of it. I never stood beside it. If he got the pup going, big V8 started. It was pretty much a sure thing. Blow a little heat through it then roll it over. In just a few rolls that big V8 fired off no matter what the weather and shook the ground. What a machine. Incredible build quality. Made for the ages.
If you are going to use that cable unit, make sure you install guards on both sides of the operator's station. My grandfather used to grade fields with 2 of those old dozers and had a pan cutting edge catch on a boulder. The tension snapped a brand new wire rope and the cable whipped around and shattered his ankle so it was never even close to right for the rest of his life. They popped cables fairly often until he finally gave in and upfitted both dozers to hydraulics for the pans and the blades.
Matt, that was a pretty big smile when the engine fired up! It's great that you are saving these old iron machines. Thanks for the videos, they are very entertaining.
I'm so glad you share your heavy equipment adventures with us. I come from a long line of operating engineers. .y fondest memories of my father were when I was five years old and he had made a deal with somebody to get a old Bucyrus dragline running and pulled to the road and loaded up. I worked with him and sure enough she fired and was able to track the 1/2 mile to the road. I remember it so well cuz it was the first time I drove by myself. Dad put me in the truck, explained what to do and told me to meet him at the gate. This and many more adventures with heavy equipment color my childhood. At the ripe old age of 11 I even went to work for my dad running a international dozer building berms around a landfill. I'll always be grateful for what my dad tells did for me- he taught that being a man meant to work and running heavy equipment was honored.
Matt, So happy to see you smiling ear to 👂 ear to hear that old CAT 🐈 brought back to life a little TLC she'll be running like new. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for bringing us along 🙂
Matt, what I was watching here from my lounge chair in Queensland, Australia, was 4 young American men, good buddies, pouring over a piece of American built, iconic machinery, doing what mates should be doing on a weekend, combining their talents and skills, helping each other out with shared information, to bring this gorgeous bit of iron back to life. For one of your entry videos into 2023, well, the smile on your face just about equaled the experience I felt and it was just heartwarming to see…..well done to you all, can’t wait for part 2.
@@DieselCreek well it would seem there are about half a million who are glad that you are. Well done Matt, would love to come visit from Australia but I'm not risking the jab just to play on an old drag line, sorry mate. I reckon I could convince Mike Morgan to let us mill some lumber at his yard.
I bought a 2U D8 back in the 1990’s. One of the funniest projects I’ve ever had. Sold it (wish I still had it) and bought a 1982 Bucyrus Erie 300h excavator. I still have it, hasn’t been started in 15yrs.
When in the Army I ran an old D8-2U and 3 D8-9As. All older than this H model. The 2U the crank was down thru hood covering. The 9As just like this one. One of our 9As actually had batteries.
Absolutely LOVE the "will it start?" videos. I know nothing about equipment, mechanical stuff, or repair work. BUT, really enjoy Matt and am amazed at his skills and knowledge. The older and rustier the better, right? 😄😂😜❓❤👏👍😍
Matt, you could make a 4 hour video and I'd watch the whole thing. You're the only you tuber I'd take that much time for. You make them interesting and your excitement when something works always makes me grin. Good fortune to you and God bless you.
hi, we started an old TATRA 148 truck that stood for 25 years. I share your joy when it worked out for your dozer. I can imagine your joy. I look forward to more videos. At is doing well.👍👍👍
While the overall of this video is absolutely fantastic, the best takeaway is watching all these younger guys all over the D-8 like a cheap suit. While seeing it swarmed over by a bunch of old geezers (of which I are one), I am overjoyed to see these young guys having so much fun restoring this treasure of the past. If there are more of these whippersnappers, I feel better abut the future. My hat is off to all these guys and the rest of the whippersnappers out there who share Mat's passion. My hat's off to all you guys, here and watching this. Really.
Matt, you and your friends did a great job bringing that Cat back to life. It will be fun to see what you do with it when you get it home. Blessings to you.
There’s a little grin that Matt gets right when he realizes the old crusty rig he’s working on is gonna fire that I love to see and keeps me coming back for every video! What a great freakin channel this is.
"EPIC TEAM WORK" Matt! Another venerable piece of vintage (Not exactly ancient) piece of machinery saved. Totally worthy of rescue. After all a classic doesn't become a classic till it's old enough! That Cat definitely had nine lives. 😉.
Congratulations Matt! Glad to see the old girl brought back to life. Great to see everyone helping you out with your mission. Looking forward to part two and seeing this machine in more videos. 👍👍
Many years back I was based at the international telex center in New Zealand. We had a WW2 USA Cat generator set on sled with pony motor. Except ours didn’t have a starter motor, had to decompress and hand crank and hope it started, then used it to pre warm the diesel before starting it. So this brings back memories, thanks again for great video
Until they were all recently upgraded, lots of the smaller telephone central offices in Southwestern Pennsylvania still had 2-stroke Detroit Diesel generators from the late '40- early '50s. Before they were all scrapped, someone apparently took all of the cool stamped steel GENERAL MOTORS signs that were bolted vertically to the sides of the radiators, possibly selling them on eBay (though I can neither confirm nor deny this) :P
We have a 1950s Cat piston air compressor (with pony motor) up at the gold mine. It's a backup and peaking unit to supplement a Cummins genset and Gardner Denver electric compressor. We rescued it from a stripped-out millsite in New Mexico.
@@wes11bravo that makes sense. Ours was to recharge the telex batteries and provide power in the event of a failure. We had to run it up,every month to ensure it would start.
Glad to see you get this gem Matt! There’s nothing like operating an older Cat dozer. I used to run 1970’s era Cat D8 and D9 pushing pans, spreading overburden and blading roads for haul trucks. I can’t wait to see what plans you have for the old girl.
It never ceases to amaze me what you can bring back to life, what previously seemed fit only for a static museum display is brought back from the brink, and you make it look so easy too. An hour or two in the wash bay and she'll be near ready for work. Can't wait to see part two, 2023 is off to an awesome start!
Memory Lane! My Grandpa hired a man with a cable lift Cat 7 to do some clearing on the property. He let me ride and manipulate the controls a little. I was 6 and I was Hooked! Ten years later I went to work with one of my uncles when he needed help and it turned into my lifes work, 48 years later I still enjoy the work. Thanks for a Great video!
Great video thank you Matt! I'm in the process of recovering a D6 8U (also a cable blade) and watching you and your mates going through the inspection and resurrection of the pony motor was valuable. I've added a points file to my list of required tools. Also checking the injector pump oil bath - definitely don't want to risk an engine runaway! Looking forward to seeing part two of this adventure.
L S - are you guys rescuing your D6 from an old mine or someplace? It seems fairly common in the more remote areas of the USA for larger machines to spend their last working hours at a mine or quarry, etc. The operation ends and it's not worth it to haul the larger equipment back so it gets abandoned. Heavy D Sparks gets some of his machines that way.
@@wes11bravo Hi Wes. I'm in new south Wales, Australia. The dozer I'm working on is on a farm. It was hauled up there to build a road and a dam and parked after it was finished with. Last time the owner tried to start it (10 years ago) the pony motor was under powered - which I think may have been due to a bad spark plug lead - so it has sat there ever since. I'll have to get it running to drive it out as the road it built is now fallen into disrepair again!
Yep sitting here cheering you guys on . Expect to see her at the Pikes National Show. Good job Scrappy Industries helping Matt wake up this beautiful piece of old iron.
That's how you know it was built To last. When it's full of water and The block survives freezing temps and It just cranks over and spits all the water out. To bad nothing these days is made that well Matt 13:50 @Diesel Creek
One of the best things in this video is your mates. You collectively got this old girl to run. We all need help sometimes and the quality of your mates then shines through. I also know you do reciprocate. Well done all of you.
Those old cats or any old equipment are amazing to me. They can sit so long and with a little work fire up and run like they haven't been sitting for 5,10 15 plus years and ready to work too
Larry - Amazing how the companies who built things back then obviously existed to make money just like today yet there seemed to be an underlying commitment to build and overbuild machines that were nearly indestructible, something that could, well, sit for 15 years then start back up without much effort. Now, it seems like the big equipment companies are less invested in that legacy and more focused on building a machine just good enough to last until a few months after the warranty expires, haha!
How brilliant, sat still for 15 years, then it's awoken woken like a sleeping Dragon roaring back into life. What a sound! To be honest thought that pony motor was FUBAR, but it also came to life. And with your mates as well, what couldn't be a better day. Looking forward to part 2.
Man I got goose bumps when that old girl came alive. I remember my father and uncles running dozers like that on construction jobs when I was a kid. The ground would shake when they went by and I , at about 5 years old, was in awe of that machine...so big, roaring and moving the world with my Dad at the controls, as I watched. Awesome stuff. Hey Matt...on another subject, I really enjoy seeing the seasonal changes in the drone shot during the opening, just FWIW.
ive had 11 but only two d4s now,,,,1948 and 1952 in the back yard,,,,its great to hear them running,,,,i guess i need to sell mine,,,,no job for them now,,,and low hours even ,,,,but they havent run in 2 years,,,,
They say it takes a village to raise a child, well, we know it does to get an old D8 going, at least! 🙂 Nice job guys. That looked like about a “three cans of ether” endeavor. That main power plant looks like gem and sounded like a 747 once it spun up, seriously. And hardly any smoke…nice!
That bulldozer is an absolute thing of beauty!! Just the right amount of rust. Everything about it tells the story of it's working days!! This machine is by far my favorite of all the earthmovers you've saved!! What a great moment when that engine roared back to life!!
Your face said it all Matt when it fired up what an awesome machine great job guys many hands make light work as they say sounds amazing great to see these machines firing up to live on look forward to part 2 again great work guys 👍👌🔧🔧🔧
Well done Brother(s)! I think that was the most help you've ever had on a "Will it run?" video! Good job, and I can't wait to see you get it loaded and pulled back to your new shop. Enjoy!
I like the way you handled this video. You have lots of help working on this old CAT and you just let the cameras run and allowed us to be part of it all. Congrats on getting that old beast running again!
I retired after working for a Fl. Cat dealer for 35 years, specializing in transmissions and hydraulics. When I started in ‘76, they had a few old D8’s in the shop and I saw them start them with the pony motor, but never did it myself. Rebuilt a lot of transmissions, powershift and a few direct drives. I loved the job and the people. I only miss the people. Keep up the good vids.
Dad drove dozers and when I was a kid my brother and I used to go with him on weekends and ride the dozer while it was working. I remember back then even a D6 was a fairly big machine but when the D8 came out, WOW, what a HUGE DOZER!! We were in awe of them and some of the floats in use at the time couldn't fit them on to transport them. This old D8 brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for the video.
"What a beast" indeed! That baby will push just about anything around, I'm thinking. I can't wait for part two to become available! I will be interested to see what you will need to do to get the dozer in working form once more and what your plans are for it, Matt. Thanks for taking us along to show us the newest member of the Diesel Creek stable!
I enjoyed seeing the old machine coming back to life. I see so many old machines where I live here in Australia, I wish I had the cash to rescue them all
It is absolutely brings joy to my heart to see three young men bring an old girl like that back to life I sat on one of those machines for hours and hours when I was younger logging for my dad and they are one of the most awesome pieces of equipment that you'll ever own Matt and having that cable set up on the back for a scraper is is really really awesome because you can do so much with that scraper hooked up on the back cutting roads filling holes maintaining a Hall road you name it it'll be freaking awesome thank you for saving it because it definitely doesn't need to be go to the scrap yard that is a beautiful piece of equipment
I went for a job at a scrapyard. They told me if I could get this old crane running, I’d be hired. Then handed me a hand crank and left. Took me a little bit checking the crane out, put the hand crank on the pony motor, a few half turns and it started. I ran it for 4 hours, until one of the swing clutches started failing and then stopped. They hired me anyway and put me on a newer crane with an electric starter! (No heater, but no hand crank either!)
This episode was definitely worth taking a break from the video I was working on, upgrades for my Sheldon metal lathe. Matt, I think this machine deserves the "Christine" treatment full restoration. Back to work now, have about half an hour of welding to do before getting going on a paying job.
I didn't know whether to be more impressed with "the team" getting it started or with the homeowner for doing such a good job manicuring the lawn around this beast.
Damn! I like the sound of that diesel engine...and it doesnt even churn out much smoke. I literally got goose bumps to see its hydraulic systems still functioning! Wow!
My grandfather had an old John Deere tractor when I was a kid that you had to start like that. First start up the small gas engine and then it starts the big diesel. Hadn't thought about that for decades. Thanks for the memories. RIP Grandpa Herman 🙏
This just goes to show us all how good we built engines in this country. Cat engine after 15 to 20 years sitting in bad elements for years and all you need is a good diesel mechanic to get it going again.
I remember that machine sitting in that field along with other equipment years ago. Never knew if it was used for the old city dump or the strip mining company that my grandfather worked for. Great seeing old iron come back to life!👍
Can't wait for part 2, Matt...bring it on, please, buddy..👍 Coming from the 'air conditioned comfort ' age, its an absolute education seeing how these older machines were started and operated. Really looking forward to seeing this old lady in action..😊👍
That cat deserves to be saved Just goes to show there’s still hope in old engines like that sounds amazing too for sitting so long keep saving that old equipment matt also keep up the good videos and content 👌
I've got my dad's old D6 just like that. 1952 D6 cable cat. It's been sitting for about 20 years now, but I know with a bit of work she'll run again. He bought a parts cat for it too that has hydraulics. The plan is to get it transferred over one day. Haven't got a need for it right away, so it's just sitting, but she'll last forever. Great video! Thanks for that. Reminds me of helping my dad get his running when he first got it.
I'm finally back operating heavy equipment and I'm so happy to go to work again lol. Although building roads is slow as shit and to slow for me but it'll do for now the company does site work so it's not all road building. Great vid love watching you get the old iron going.
Wow diesel creek after sitting. For 15 years you and your buddys got her runnning she Sounds great for old bulldozer never knew some motors had pony motors to get the bulldozer motor started wow and to see bulldozer move i learn something new every time i wacth your will it start Thank you 👈👍👍
The Simplicity of these older machines is beautiful. Today's machine you almost need a degree, special certification, and a laptop just to work on them.
Great looking old D8 bulldozer there Matt good work on you and your mates to get the old bulldozer going again and can't wait to see what you do with it stay safe and have fun from your big fan down in Papakura New Zealand Big Matt
I am glad to see younger people are going for the old school machines to get them back in to service good job Matt take care and God bless all of you at disel creek
Great job Matt! My dad worked at Cat in the 50’s. I live a half mile from Caterpillar in East Peoria. I see a lot of the shiny new stuff but the old iron has it’s own shine!!
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My father in law died a few years back, he worked for Hormel in the factory, but also ran heavy machinery like drag lines and dozers for 45 years. I remember talking to him one time when he said if he had a million dollars, he would buy an old D8 and a pile of dirt, and spend all day moving the pile from one end of the lot to the other. That is why videos like this, Matt, make me smiile.
it wouldnt take a million to buy but hed get a million dollars worth of fun!
I agree with what your father-in-law said ,I would do the same thing!
Damn straight. I worked in the woods with a gentleman who had bought a D-7 cable dozer new in 1947. In the 1980s it still ran like an expensive watch. Wonderful machine.
I’ve always told my friends that I want to buy some land and an old Cat to move the dirt. A perfect retirement plan!
@@DieselCreek it would cost a million in diesel lol
Strange how we share the same favorites in machines, ANYTHING IH, Cub Cadets, old iron and now D8 cables. This was my first machine I ran by myself. One summer I worked filling in a sand pit. The pony motor was crank start and when I could get it running it scared the crap out of me sounding like it was turning 20,000 rpm’s! I learned to park it on a hill and bump start it.
Takes allot of time to make a level cut. I was going up and down for weeks.
Thank you Matt for reminding me of good times the summer I was 14.
Good taste!!
Wow try getting a 14 yr old to do that now......
@@blackscotydog I'm sure you could get some that are interested, but I sure wouldn't trust them
@@DieselCreek Matt....
A question....this may sound...... immature of me but...with your love of machinery....
Have you ever thought about collecting the CONSTRUCTICONS IRL?
could be a cool video series
Just a suggestion...
Good video
As always
LINK BELT GANG
AUTOCAR GANG
THANKS
@@clevelandmaker386 I’m not sure what that is “IRL”?
What a great old hunk of iron. The first dozer I had anything to do with was an old Cat D8. Early 1970s, and I had been hired to plant trees on a coal strip mines in Virginia. Got “volunteered” to help change out a set of tracks, track adjusters and front idlers on the D8. Put some long hours in with a big sledge hammer… when I graduated from high school soon after this, I ended up working for a bunch of yrs on this same strip mines, first on a coal auger and then as an equipment operator. In the early 80s I ended up in the military… I stayed for the long tour (24 yrs and several combat deployments).. but I can still hear and smell the old equipment… keep up with what you’re doing..you are a hard working young man! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for your service. Kudos to you
Thank you for your service!
TRATOR A VAPOR MUITA FUMAÇA.
This brings back memories. I learned to operate an old cat D7 cable rig at age 16. The pony motor didn’t have a electric starter. It was turned over with a long crank that stuck out the front. If you killed the main motor with the blade up you couldn’t get the crank in to start the pony motor. I’ve had to walk off the mountain to get the old Ford tractor to move the Cat enough to get the crank in several times.. I worked all summer clearing trees off of 40 acres. I learned that running a bulldozer wasn’t what I wanted to do for the real of my life.
Reviving old equipment by yourself is good, but reviving equipment with friends is gold.
That was one of the better "will it run" videos I've seen in a while. You could see by the amount of stuff that came out the exhaust, that she's been sitting a while. What an absolute score and a can see a good few videos bringing the old girl back to her former glory.
Have you seen the Marty T cat rescue from the New Zealand jungle??
@@cactuskiwi4218 Yes, that was excellent too.
Thanks Mark! it was a lot of work!
6:15
its actually a bloke not a girl :(
Love the old dozers, they can sit for years, throw enough compression back in them with fuel, and boom. Love those old cat engines too. Nother good video matt, shooting for 1mill subs.
Notice how most the old iron that's still running are cats 😁
@@ronniewilliz153 Cats and old old Cummins. Back when they were made to actually do work.
@Ronnie Williz Saw a Gold Rush video the other day and saw and old Clark Loader. Loader older than me! 🤦♂️
Me too! Especially seeing the first fire. LOVE to see all that smoke and think to myself "Sleepy Joe and the EPA can suck it with all there EV garbage!" Black Smoke Matters!
@@tankman1930 yes. That old stuff that didn't need much to work and run and didn't need much maintenance
All things considered, her age, sitting for 15 years, and water in places it shouldn’t be, that engine sounds absolutely amazing. I didn’t doubt you guys would get it to run but I was expecting a lot more repairs to happen first. Good job on this one Matt.
Thanks!!!
19:01 The mouse dropping and rust say thank you for releasing us. Nice start up boys, was great seeing it.
Loved the video which brought memories back of my Cat D8H dozer when working on the Thai/Laos border in 1967 with the British army on road construction. Our pony/donkey engines were notoriously unreliable and on many occasion had to resort either hand crank start or to a pull/push start in gear on decompression and then kick the decompressor over. Although 56 years ago the noise of a Cat D8H starting is etched in my memory. Great you saved an old equipment.
Old CATS never die! They just wait for Matt to wake them up from a long, long slumber🤘 I doubt if the new machines would survive like this old girl has😊
The mice would total a new machine out after a few months of chewing on wires.
theres only one thing more durable than an old cat ...... an even older cat!! and im not joking thoses beasts are full of holes leaking oil making strange sounds and still going after 50+ years of service :D
The new machines won't survive like this one by design. They are built to have an end-of-life.
They sell more of them that way.
OLD CATS do die, when they get sunk in the Pacific Ocean.. My old work place, was trying to fill in a sink hole in the early 80s with an old cat dozer in West Vancouver BC, Canada, and the Cat slid into the sink hole, into about 60 ft of water, it took 4 cranes to haul it back out of the ocean.
Well said old iron for life 🤘
Absolutely thumbs UP!!👍👍 That Diesel Dozer Engine sounds awesome! Not even any exhaust smoke once she was up and running. I am on stand by for part two! 💯
I just love the look on your face whenever you get a prehistoric diesel engine going, hopefully another project we can follow the progress on your channel. Great stuff guys 👍🛠🔧🚜
My Mennonite neighbour here in eastern Ontario Canada years ago picked up a six ton Cat V8 power unit with an over center clutch and big belt pulley. He got it out of a scrap yard. It had sat there for years. Apparently it came out of a lumber mill. He messed with the pup (mounted on back pretty much in the bank of the V) until he got it going. A V4, if I remember correctly. No electric start luxury on the pup. No, it was a manual start. Not even recoil; grab the flywheel like an old John Deere two banger and spin it by hand. Stubborn, cantankerous little thing. It just _screamed_ when it ran. I always thought it was going to blow itself apart and stayed clear to the front or the back of it. I never stood beside it. If he got the pup going, big V8 started. It was pretty much a sure thing. Blow a little heat through it then roll it over. In just a few rolls that big V8 fired off no matter what the weather and shook the ground. What a machine. Incredible build quality. Made for the ages.
If you are going to use that cable unit, make sure you install guards on both sides of the operator's station. My grandfather used to grade fields with 2 of those old dozers and had a pan cutting edge catch on a boulder. The tension snapped a brand new wire rope and the cable whipped around and shattered his ankle so it was never even close to right for the rest of his life. They popped cables fairly often until he finally gave in and upfitted both dozers to hydraulics for the pans and the blades.
Oh WOW, compared to the shipping container shop, the new one is MASSIVE!! Didn’t realize its this much bigger.
Nice “new” rig 🎉
The old shop can fit inside the new one it's a great shop. He's really doing things right in life that's for sure
Matt, that was a pretty big smile when the engine fired up! It's great that you are saving these old iron machines. Thanks for the videos, they are very entertaining.
I'm so glad you share your heavy equipment adventures with us. I come from a long line of operating engineers. .y fondest memories of my father were when I was five years old and he had made a deal with somebody to get a old Bucyrus dragline running and pulled to the road and loaded up. I worked with him and sure enough she fired and was able to track the 1/2 mile to the road. I remember it so well cuz it was the first time I drove by myself. Dad put me in the truck, explained what to do and told me to meet him at the gate. This and many more adventures with heavy equipment color my childhood. At the ripe old age of 11 I even went to work for my dad running a international dozer building berms around a landfill. I'll always be grateful for what my dad tells did for me- he taught that being a man meant to work and running heavy equipment was honored.
You have a great dad!
Matt you are like a kid with a new toy. The joy on your face is incredible thanks for sharing Bernie
What an absolute beast! That thing fired up and was ready to go to work. Man those old CAT diesels are something else!
Matt, So happy to see you smiling ear to 👂 ear to hear that old CAT 🐈 brought back to life a little TLC she'll be running like new. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for bringing us along 🙂
Thanks for watching!!
Matt, what I was watching here from my lounge chair in Queensland, Australia, was 4 young American men, good buddies, pouring over a piece of American built, iconic machinery, doing what mates should be doing on a weekend, combining their talents and skills, helping each other out with shared information, to bring this gorgeous bit of iron back to life. For one of your entry videos into 2023, well, the smile on your face just about equaled the experience I felt and it was just heartwarming to see…..well done to you all, can’t wait for part 2.
This video makes me miss the old times when turning wrenches with friends. You guys seemed to have a great time!
They sure did, good to see young men enthusiastic about this stuff.
@@seanworkman431 not too many of us around!
@@DieselCreek well it would seem there are about half a million who are glad that you are. Well done Matt, would love to come visit from Australia but I'm not risking the jab just to play on an old drag line, sorry mate. I reckon I could convince Mike Morgan to let us mill some lumber at his yard.
I bought a 2U D8 back in the 1990’s. One of the funniest projects I’ve ever had. Sold it (wish I still had it) and bought a 1982 Bucyrus Erie 300h excavator. I still have it, hasn’t been started in 15yrs.
When in the Army I ran an old D8-2U and 3 D8-9As. All older than this H model. The 2U the crank was down thru hood covering. The 9As just like this one. One of our 9As actually had batteries.
these old cat machiens are unbelievably tough! I love watching these old machines start back up! Cat made some badass machines!
Absolutely LOVE the "will it start?" videos. I know nothing about equipment, mechanical stuff, or repair work. BUT, really enjoy Matt and am amazed at his skills and knowledge. The older and rustier the better, right? 😄😂😜❓❤👏👍😍
Matt, you could make a 4 hour video and I'd watch the whole thing. You're the only you tuber I'd take that much time for. You make them interesting and your excitement when something works always makes me grin. Good fortune to you and God bless you.
Agree sometimes feel cheated if only 30 minutes :)
Matt takes old, rusty, beat up machines puts in minimal parts and a lot of time and sweat and comes up with a jewel.
Watch Marty T in Nz
Same Here!!!!!
Amen!
hi, we started an old TATRA 148 truck that stood for 25 years. I share your joy when it worked out for your dozer. I can imagine your joy. I look forward to more videos. At is doing well.👍👍👍
While the overall of this video is absolutely fantastic, the best takeaway is watching all these younger guys all over the D-8 like a cheap suit. While seeing it swarmed over by a bunch of old geezers (of which I are one), I am overjoyed to see these young guys having so much fun restoring this treasure of the past. If there are more of these whippersnappers, I feel better abut the future. My hat is off to all these guys and the rest of the whippersnappers out there who share Mat's passion.
My hat's off to all you guys, here and watching this. Really.
Matt, you and your friends did a great job bringing that Cat back to life. It will be fun to see what you do with it when you get it home. Blessings to you.
Amazing! Great work.
There’s a little grin that Matt gets right when he realizes the old crusty rig he’s working on is gonna fire that I love to see and keeps me coming back for every video! What a great freakin channel this is.
"EPIC TEAM WORK" Matt! Another venerable piece of vintage (Not exactly ancient) piece of machinery saved. Totally worthy of rescue. After all a classic doesn't become a classic till it's old enough! That Cat definitely had nine lives. 😉.
anyone else notice at 26:50 when matt woo's, the dozer revs and woo's back? awesome moment. as if its alive
Congratulations Matt! Glad to see the old girl brought back to life. Great to see everyone helping you out with your mission. Looking forward to part two and seeing this machine in more videos. 👍👍
Matt never disappoints when it comes to starting an old engine. Glad to see the old cat dozer run again.
Thanks David!
Many years back I was based at the international telex center in New Zealand. We had a WW2 USA Cat generator set on sled with pony motor. Except ours didn’t have a starter motor, had to decompress and hand crank and hope it started, then used it to pre warm the diesel before starting it. So this brings back memories, thanks again for great video
Until they were all recently upgraded, lots of the smaller telephone central offices in Southwestern Pennsylvania still had 2-stroke Detroit Diesel generators from the late '40- early '50s. Before they were all scrapped, someone apparently took all of the cool stamped steel GENERAL MOTORS signs that were bolted vertically to the sides of the radiators, possibly selling them on eBay (though I can neither confirm nor deny this) :P
We have a 1950s Cat piston air compressor (with pony motor) up at the gold mine. It's a backup and peaking unit to supplement a Cummins genset and Gardner Denver electric compressor. We rescued it from a stripped-out millsite in New Mexico.
@@wes11bravo I know where one of those gen sets is still hidden!
@@wes11bravo that makes sense. Ours was to recharge the telex batteries and provide power in the event of a failure. We had to run it up,every month to ensure it would start.
Glad to see you get this gem Matt! There’s nothing like operating an older Cat dozer. I used to run 1970’s era Cat D8 and D9 pushing pans, spreading overburden and blading roads for haul trucks. I can’t wait to see what plans you have for the old girl.
It never ceases to amaze me what you can bring back to life, what previously seemed fit only for a static museum display is brought back from the brink, and you make it look so easy too. An hour or two in the wash bay and she'll be near ready for work. Can't wait to see part two, 2023 is off to an awesome start!
Memory Lane! My Grandpa hired a man with a cable lift Cat 7 to do some clearing on the property. He let me ride and manipulate the controls a little. I was 6 and I was Hooked! Ten years later I went to work with one of my uncles when he needed help and it turned into my lifes work, 48 years later I still enjoy the work. Thanks for a Great video!
Great video thank you Matt! I'm in the process of recovering a D6 8U (also a cable blade) and watching you and your mates going through the inspection and resurrection of the pony motor was valuable. I've added a points file to my list of required tools. Also checking the injector pump oil bath - definitely don't want to risk an engine runaway! Looking forward to seeing part two of this adventure.
L S - are you guys rescuing your D6 from an old mine or someplace? It seems fairly common in the more remote areas of the USA for larger machines to spend their last working hours at a mine or quarry, etc. The operation ends and it's not worth it to haul the larger equipment back so it gets abandoned. Heavy D Sparks gets some of his machines that way.
@@wes11bravo Hi Wes. I'm in new south Wales, Australia. The dozer I'm working on is on a farm. It was hauled up there to build a road and a dam and parked after it was finished with. Last time the owner tried to start it (10 years ago) the pony motor was under powered - which I think may have been due to a bad spark plug lead - so it has sat there ever since. I'll have to get it running to drive it out as the road it built is now fallen into disrepair again!
Another cracking vlog Matt. Watching all of you guys work the issues to resolution, is pure viewing pleasure!
Yep sitting here cheering you guys on . Expect to see her at the Pikes National Show. Good job Scrappy Industries helping Matt wake up this beautiful piece of old iron.
with any luck it will be there, maybe not the spring show but hopefully the summer show!
That's how you know it was built To last. When it's full of water and The block survives freezing temps and It just cranks over and spits all the water out. To bad nothing these days is made that well Matt 13:50 @Diesel Creek
One of the best things in this video is your mates. You collectively got this old girl to run. We all need help sometimes and the quality of your mates then shines through. I also know you do reciprocate. Well done all of you.
Those old cats or any old equipment are amazing to me. They can sit so long and with a little work fire up and run like they haven't been sitting for 5,10 15 plus years and ready to work too
Larry - Amazing how the companies who built things back then obviously existed to make money just like today yet there seemed to be an underlying commitment to build and overbuild machines that were nearly indestructible, something that could, well, sit for 15 years then start back up without much effort. Now, it seems like the big equipment companies are less invested in that legacy and more focused on building a machine just good enough to last until a few months after the warranty expires, haha!
How brilliant, sat still for 15 years, then it's awoken woken like a sleeping Dragon roaring back into life. What a sound! To be honest thought that pony motor was FUBAR, but it also came to life. And with your mates as well, what couldn't be a better day. Looking forward to part 2.
Man I got goose bumps when that old girl came alive. I remember my father and uncles running dozers like that on construction jobs when I was a kid. The ground would shake when they went by and I , at about 5 years old, was in awe of that machine...so big, roaring and moving the world with my Dad at the controls, as I watched.
Awesome stuff.
Hey Matt...on another subject, I really enjoy seeing the seasonal changes in the drone shot during the opening, just FWIW.
ive had 11 but only two d4s now,,,,1948 and 1952 in the back yard,,,,its great to hear them running,,,,i guess i need to sell mine,,,,no job for them now,,,and low hours even ,,,,but they havent run in 2 years,,,,
They say it takes a village to raise a child, well, we know it does to get an old D8 going, at least! 🙂
Nice job guys. That looked like about a “three cans of ether” endeavor.
That main power plant looks like gem and sounded like a 747 once it spun up, seriously. And hardly any smoke…nice!
That bulldozer is an absolute thing of beauty!! Just the right amount of rust. Everything about it tells the story of it's working days!! This machine is by far my favorite of all the earthmovers you've saved!! What a great moment when that engine roared back to life!!
It’s my favorite too!
Lol I would have thought the right amount of rust would be zero ha, I get what u mean.
Your face said it all Matt when it fired up what an awesome machine great job guys many hands make light work as they say sounds amazing great to see these machines firing up to live on look forward to part 2 again great work guys 👍👌🔧🔧🔧
Well done Brother(s)!
I think that was the most help you've ever had on a "Will it run?" video! Good job, and I can't wait to see you get it loaded and pulled back to your new shop. Enjoy!
I like the way you handled this video. You have lots of help working on this old CAT and you just let the cameras run and allowed us to be part of it all. Congrats on getting that old beast running again!
hard to document with so many cooks in the kitchen so to speak but I was grateful for the help!
I retired after working for a Fl. Cat dealer for 35 years, specializing in transmissions and hydraulics. When I started in ‘76, they had a few old D8’s in the shop and I saw them start them with the pony motor, but never did it myself. Rebuilt a lot of transmissions, powershift and a few direct drives. I loved the job and the people. I only miss the people. Keep up the good vids.
OMG! It’s alive! It sounds great, congrats you guys, great job! Now, will it move?
And it does move. Great job!
Dad drove dozers and when I was a kid my brother and I used to go with him on weekends and ride the dozer while it was working. I remember back then even a D6 was a fairly big machine but when the D8 came out, WOW, what a HUGE DOZER!! We were in awe of them and some of the floats in use at the time couldn't fit them on to transport them. This old D8 brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for the video.
At 22:22 how many others were yelling "Come on baby , COME ON" along with Matt? LOL
"What a beast" indeed! That baby will push just about anything around, I'm thinking. I can't wait for part two to become available! I will be interested to see what you will need to do to get the dozer in working form once more and what your plans are for it, Matt. Thanks for taking us along to show us the newest member of the Diesel Creek stable!
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Oh i miss the will it start videos soooo much !!!!!
Ditto!
But will it drive all the way home? 😎
@@TH-bj1pb Knowing Matt, if it doesnt drive, he will MAKE it drive !
I enjoyed seeing the old machine coming back to life. I see so many old machines where I live here in Australia, I wish I had the cash to rescue them all
Thanks man. My pop was a HEO for decades. I remember, as a kid, riding with dad on a D8 and hanging on a for dear life. He would have loved this.
It is absolutely brings joy to my heart to see three young men bring an old girl like that back to life I sat on one of those machines for hours and hours when I was younger logging for my dad and they are one of the most awesome pieces of equipment that you'll ever own Matt and having that cable set up on the back for a scraper is is really really awesome because you can do so much with that scraper hooked up on the back cutting roads filling holes maintaining a Hall road you name it it'll be freaking awesome thank you for saving it because it definitely doesn't need to be go to the scrap yard that is a beautiful piece of equipment
Agreed!!
Love your work, Matt, good job. Nothing like a diesel in the morning.
I went for a job at a scrapyard. They told me if I could get this old crane running, I’d be hired. Then handed me a hand crank and left. Took me a little bit checking the crane out, put the hand crank on the pony motor, a few half turns and it started. I ran it for 4 hours, until one of the swing clutches started failing and then stopped. They hired me anyway and put me on a newer crane with an electric starter! (No heater, but no hand crank either!)
These old school machines will rescue the construction industry when the new dozers break down 😊good luck Matt love the work you do
This episode was definitely worth taking a break from the video I was working on, upgrades for my Sheldon metal lathe. Matt, I think this machine deserves the "Christine" treatment full restoration. Back to work now, have about half an hour of welding to do before getting going on a paying job.
The nice thing about flathead engines is that you basically can't get water in the cylinders. What a beast! Love the gear drive generator.
I didn't know whether to be more impressed with "the team" getting it started or with the homeowner for doing such a good job manicuring the lawn around this beast.
Great Fun And Ingenuity. Reviving renovating and rejuvenating. Teamwork firing like a well oiled machine.. Thanks a million..☝️❤️🌍
Damn! I like the sound of that diesel engine...and it doesnt even churn out much smoke.
I literally got goose bumps to see its hydraulic systems still functioning! Wow!
No hydraulics on this machine! All mechanical!
@@DieselCreek No hydraulics? It must be a relic from the past...I'm in love! 😍
It is real great to see these “young guys” understand and have the interest in working on older equipment that could have ended up as salvage
these videos give me satisfaction I can only imagine being in person!😂 well done fellas!
Garage is looking mint mate!
My grandfather had an old John Deere tractor when I was a kid that you had to start like that. First start up the small gas engine and then it starts the big diesel. Hadn't thought about that for decades. Thanks for the memories. RIP Grandpa Herman 🙏
This just goes to show us all how good we built engines in this country. Cat engine after 15 to 20 years sitting in bad elements for years and all you need is a good diesel mechanic to get it going again.
I remember that machine sitting in that field along with other equipment years ago. Never knew if it was used for the old city dump or the strip mining company that my grandfather worked for. Great seeing old iron come back to life!👍
What was that old building used for it was sitting next to?
Can't wait for part 2, Matt...bring it on, please, buddy..👍
Coming from the 'air conditioned comfort ' age, its an absolute education seeing how these older machines were started and operated. Really looking forward to seeing this old lady in action..😊👍
That cat deserves to be saved Just goes to show there’s still hope in old engines like that sounds amazing too for sitting so long keep saving that old equipment matt also keep up the good videos and content 👌
I enjoyed watching the young guys diving in and showing interest in these old dinosaurs!
I've got my dad's old D6 just like that. 1952 D6 cable cat. It's been sitting for about 20 years now, but I know with a bit of work she'll run again. He bought a parts cat for it too that has hydraulics. The plan is to get it transferred over one day. Haven't got a need for it right away, so it's just sitting, but she'll last forever.
Great video! Thanks for that. Reminds me of helping my dad get his running when he first got it.
I'm finally back operating heavy equipment and I'm so happy to go to work again lol. Although building roads is slow as shit and to slow for me but it'll do for now the company does site work so it's not all road building.
Great vid love watching you get the old iron going.
What a sweet old dozer, they just have that tough old timer aura over them don't they
*- It was fun to see friends work together all knowing what to do and when to do it.*
*- What a good feel this video has.*
Wow diesel creek after sitting. For 15 years you and your buddys got her runnning she Sounds great for old bulldozer never knew some motors had pony motors to get the bulldozer motor started wow and to see bulldozer move i learn something new every time i wacth your will it start Thank you 👈👍👍
That's a nice new toy you have there Matt, I look forward to seeing more of it.
Thanks for all your great clips, Paul in Brisbane Australia
The Simplicity of these older machines is beautiful. Today's machine you almost need a degree, special certification, and a laptop just to work on them.
Great looking old D8 bulldozer there Matt good work on you and your mates to get the old bulldozer going again and can't wait to see what you do with it stay safe and have fun from your big fan down in Papakura New Zealand Big Matt
Fair play Matt I never thought for one minute that this beast would run!!! ✌️❤️
It's nice to have friends that share the same passion for old equipment
I am glad to see younger people are going for the old school machines to get them back in to service good job Matt take care and God bless all of you at disel creek
Great job Matt! My dad worked at Cat in the 50’s. I live a half mile from Caterpillar in East Peoria. I see a lot of the shiny new stuff but the old iron has it’s own shine!!
Def one of my favorite will it start videos. Everything was so sketchy! Lol 😂
Can’t wait to see more of the amazing shop he made 😊
The commentary is hilsrious when you got Friends Around helping ya Matt 7:00 @Diesel Creek
LOVE this channel, 66 and still into this stuff. Keep it coming Matt and wife- keeps me going
You have some good friends:helpers. That was cool to see you all work together and get that running.
Looks like you got the dream team on the job with you there. It just sounds so darned sweet. Can't wait to see the next episode.
Great job Matt. I had every thing crossed willing that engine to start,well done mate 👍
Awesome! Cant beat the sound of an old cat engine, learned to run dozer on the old Mid - late 70's D8 and D9H's. Love that old iron.
Matt you guys were having so much fun!! Amazing revival!! The engine sounds excellent!! Thanks for sharing
Fantastic work getting this old iron running again. What a find! Also, much appreciated not making us wait a week or two for the next part. 😂👌