Abandoned Excavator left in woods for 16 years- Will it start ??

this trick hasn't been used for a few years apparently the digger was popped up when when these trees were just planted so you can see they've grown quite a bit interesting to see what state it's in that looks like an old Hitachi you watch oh-for-three so that's one of the earlier ones that Itachi put out it's going back a few years Jesus the withers been added a bit she's pretty well rusted out no keys damn it very grass growing in it I've always got a cover for the exhaust so that's a good sign the engine hoses hopefully hasn't had water on it Rammstein let's do that there's a wee bit of rust there but those two front two are retracted so that's good there should be a right bloody cover covered in oil looks like the hydraulic pump is still there good it's actually pretty clean under there surprisingly looks to be all intact doesn't look too bad all right everything seems to be intact so I think what odo has come up again tomorrow bring some batteries up maybe a bit of diesel and some tools and see if I can get it started it's probably gonna take a bit more than that but we'll see what we can do it's been a rat's nest under there I suppose the first place to start as drawing get that key Barrow out of there and test the whys behind it to see if it's getting power there so I've tested or was was and it doesn't seem to be any power getting to the back of the keys I'll have to trace the wire back to the battery and see whether breakers I've traced the wiring back to this shutoff relay so this this here was lossless cable so I've tightened that up and now I'll see if is power getting to the key of managed to get power to the ignition by attaching these buried a was but I can't seem to get the starter motor to engage so after do some more investigating yes I found some Rhett Trude wiring up under there I've joined it again and I will see how that goes oh she's turning over that's a relief before I go any further I'll change the world and fill up the radiator that's a good sign she's turning over it's not seized up so I do a bit of maintenance on the motor and then we'll try again yeah the radiator had water or not so I only had to put about three liters on so that's a good sign it's not leaking out of the radiator anywhere it's probably just evaporated over the years still had some oil in it but probably only about three or four liters that's it's got a slow leak and it's mostly drained out over the years yes blackest tar that stuff so I put some fresh oil in it now it's holding oil that's good it took all of that ten liters just the right amount the next job is to flush the diesel tank see if I can get fuel to the fuel pump diesel tankers up there so I've got to somehow reach up there drain what's in it and refill it with fresh fuel hey that's not lift in that diesel tank and it doesn't really look like fuel anymore there's a bit of rust on this yeah that wasn't gonna start quite a bit of water as well by the looks of it I ran out of power on the batteries yesterday before I could do any more I had a go at starting at priming the pump it was turning over but not firing so I replaced the fuel filter you can see it's got quite a bit of rust and in there so it's got a new filter in there I'll give another Prime and then see if it'll start okay I'm theory now it should start stopped fresh fuel new oil water the engines turning over so and this is a problem with the both compression or the fuel pump it should run but before I try and start it again I'll check the hydraulic oil so I don't want to doing the pump out if it has all week tout as you can see the hydraulic O'War looks pretty good after all these years I see a bit of moisture on the cap so I'll drain a few liters off the bottom that'll let all the water out of the tank don't really want water going through the pump well she's a runner most of the controls work boom the arm and the bucket controls will work but of a leak on that RAM it doesn't look too bad bad results that only one of the travel motors works the side one is all right that one's got no engagement whatsoever this the control stick actually feels quite loose like there's something disconnected so I'll have a look underneath that'll be the problem that linkages come off so obviously a nut that's come off there it was holding it on I've managed to find a temporary fix for it so I just put a bit of tape around the thread so it doesn't ruin it and put a pair of vise grips on there so that that'll hold it in place just temporarily opening another nut up for it tomorrow so see if that works I went to start it this morning and it wouldn't go so I had a bit of a look under here and I noticed the feed pipe this rubber pipe here had perished yeah right at the where it goes onto the the hand pump so I've pulled it off cut it and put it back on so the parish but that's gone now and reprime knit and it's good again that and I should get it going again yeah it had leaked a bit of fuel but just mainly got a bit of air into the fuel system so that's what wasn't starting obviously these trees weren't here when it was parked up so I went quite foot through there so what I'll have to do is try and work my way up slowly and scrape a bit out of the bank there so I can get through it's gonna be a long day probably getting it out I also checked all the oil and the swing motor the gearbox oil in there and the travel motor gearbox hauls and one of them looks good but the other one seems to have hydraulic fluid on it it's leaking through the main seal of the travel motor they don't need pulling apart and fixing before I do too much work but it should hopefully get me out of here to a place where I can pull it you know strip it down take it out [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] mission complete I managed to crawl with digger home to my place took two days but we got there in the end had a bit of a nursery with this travel might have started passing out oil so I poked and prodded and this this whole pipe broke off so so rust and through it just and just popped off a whole lot of hydraulic fluid came back through it's just the case drain pipe so not a huge deal but I'm going to take it off here and just swirled it back on so they've got me home anyway this this is the motor I'm gonna have to pull apart because it's leaking from I dropped motor through to the gearbox so there's obviously some seals or something go on in there looks like it's quite rusty so I might end up having to buy another one if it's too shared and soon to be tracking all right maybe a bit less power than the other side but I think these ones are quite prone to leaking through from the motor to the planetary side yeah that's the gearbox side and it should only be about that full with oil but that's full with hydraulic fluid so it means the fluids from the hydraulic motor is coming straight through seals so if it's been doing it for a long time it's probably worn some grooves in the shaft and I might have to get it reground anyway small price to pay for a free digger another thing I noticed was the tracks are obviously pretty worn out you know and there's odd loose squirrels over there but that the tracks are quite quite sloppy so eventually have to replace those and this top roller the bearings are shot and that's just spinning around craft so I have to replace that but apart from that she's pretty good mix a bit of oil but nothing too major got to expect that for a 40-year old digger the arm Ram the seal was shot on that and these ones have a slow leak so I've got three Rams to reseal I should be able to fix it for a listen maybe was that motor maybe less than $3,000 hopefully so cheap digger really and the neighbors happy that it's gone from this property so everybody's happy

Channel: Marty T

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Keywords: Hitachi, yanmar, ihi, kobelco, cat, caterpiller, uho, uho43, uho53, uho63, uh053, uh063, heavy machinery, earthmover, earthmoving, komatsu, hydraulic, ram, travel motor, swing cylinder, overgrown, stuck, logging, machine, heavy, digger, bagger, backhoe, tracked, vehicle, tank, john deere, case, crawler, bulldozer, dozer, uh081, uh051, uh181, uh16, uh07, uh-14, uh10, isuzu, isuzu 4bb1, 4bb1, diesel, restore, restoration, खोदक मशीन, kotrógép, scavatrice, экскаватор, 挖掘机, 挖掘機, excavador, excavatrice, NZ, New Zealand, barn find, barnfind

Id: sFudJ2yIBJE

Length: 17min 53sec (1073 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 11 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/MyNameIsRiffa]

"Looks like it's an old Hitachi" * Girlfriends ears perc up *

[u/kokothebozo]

Weird, watched this last night. Dude sounds like a Kiwi. NZ isn't as big as the US it anything, but it's still massively remote. 4 million people for a country the size of the UK. 300 hectares is a lot of land. But not cray cray amounts.

Anyway, loved this vid. Wish I knew enough about something of value like this this guy seems to. In a post apocalyptic world ain't no one going to be looking for my TPS reports..

[u/rcr_nz]

I'm more concerned about the follow-up video that appears to contain a sheep trying to use a chainsaw.

[u/0rangeJEWlious]

"My neighbors forest" is one hell of a phrase

[u/GOATSQUIRTS]

anyone know how much that things worth

[u/shelzmike]

Really cool. This is like a find a relatively modern day treasure in the woods. Seems most of the issues that he fixed were a result of the 16 years in the woods which leaves me to believe that single 10 cent bolt was the only problem. If so, that's crazy the previous owner just left it there bc of that.

[u/0xD153A53]

When your neighbor says you can have the excavator on his property if you can get it working again...

[u/kokothebozo]

Ah. That makes sense! Loads of land down there.

I'm in Wellington. Got my "house on the hill".. hence no sensible garage. I do what I can with the land I have. Just putting funds together to get up north of here a bit..

[u/HxartAWD]

I literally have no knowledge of diggers or diesel mechanics but found this fascinating! Thanks for sharing mate, chur from Rotorua!