Buying and fixing an excavator: Samsung 130

i just bought this machine this is a samsung se 130 lc2 it's about 14 tons so samsung is kind of like an off-brand you don't see too many of them anymore and i wasn't really interested at first until i figured out what it came with and that's this another machine this is also a 130 but this is an lc m2 so it's a little bit bigger but there's a lot of parts that interchange with it this machine needs some work i can use that machine for parts if i want or i can fix it up it needs a motor and some work on the final drives and the work on the final drives is only because the owner took out some of the pieces just so that it would roll freely but this is the main machine that i bought i got that one with it so i paid 20 grand for this right now it's got a 24 inch bucket but it's still a half a yard because it's pretty deep so it's like the size of an average skid steer scoop it's a lot bigger than my other excavator obviously so this came all the way from pennsylvania both of them this machine is not something that i bought for like a project i i wanted to put this to use immediately so there's a few things that i need to fix on it but overall this is ready to go on the job so i'm going to use it for some stuff that i wanted to do around my property first and then we'll see how the jobs pan out for the rest of the year there's a few little things that i need to fix on it it's not that big of a deal but the fuel gauge doesn't work just reads empty all the time this has a cummins 4bt motor in it it's a 3.9 liter and so kind of the story behind this is the guy that i bought it from got both of these machines and both motors were bad but one had a bad bottom and one had a bad top so he took parts from that one and he put it into this motor and made this motor good so you can see that doesn't have a motor but there's a lot of other parts that i can use on this machine if i need to but i don't i don't really see anything that i need to use so far so i'm really not sure what my plans are for that machine but i would like to fix it up it's a nice machine that's cheap obviously because i got it for nothing and if i just put a few grand into it maybe i can leave it somewheres like the property up north in the adirondacks or i have a few other things that i might want to do with it but this machine is ready to go hello the undercarriage is not too bad i i don't know really what to rate this but i would say probably like i don't know 70 percent maybe i checked all the rollers they seem to be pretty good it's kind of weird that an excavator has these lights on the back and a license plate spot right there but i think the reason is because a lot of these excavators you would see having wheels they i think they made a lot more of the wheeled excavators than they did the tracked ones and just so you guys know samsung is now owned by volvo and so the this machine is very similar to a volvo of this year this is a 99 and so back in 99 they had volvos that were made with a lot of the same parts and they're very similar this has about a 30 foot reach on it extended all the way out which is really nice it's nice for loading up trucks it's nice for ponds and things that you need to reach really far without having to move too much so it would be neat to restore this machine especially knowing how little the investment would be in it i think i could get all the parts for this like a used motor and some parts for the final drives and a few other things it needs a bucket i could probably keep it under 10 grand and have this machine functional so it's easy to get at this motor all you have to do is take that counterweight off and then you can easily get to this whole area and it's really easy and you have a lot of access with a lot of room to be able to put a new motor in so maybe eventually i'll do a paint job on it but i'm really not too worried about all that kind of stuff a lot of my videos that you guys see i i buy something and then i fix it up and i have to do a lot of work to it but this one doesn't really need that so i'd like to just get right into using it this bucket is kind of small but it's still a lot faster than anything else i have so so so so so so the uh one black on the other side or whether you want to leave it like that now you can cut them all right if you're too wide on that one i'm missing the one i just got this bucket and it's three feet wide but it's a little bit taller and it's a little bit longer that way i think this holds about one yard so the pins on it they're 80 millimeter bosses and this is only a 70 millimeter pin but i figured this bucket only cost me 250 so i figured i could get some bushings and i can make some things work so i have some ideas this bucket's only 24 inches up here it's only 21 inches but with the side cutters it's like 24 inches that's just not enough though my small excavator has a 24 inch bucket this one's obviously a lot deeper this can probably hold about three times what my other machine can but still i'd like to i'd like to be able to get one yard in the bucket this is only a half a yard bucket this bucket is off of a 200 size machine it's off of a cat 200 el it's a little bit older of a bucket but for 250 dollars i i could scrap this thing and probably get that so i got this pin out pretty easily this pin is not coming out i tried everything with my human strength so here goes the machine strength i got a wedge welded on to the bucket here and then i got my truck here sitting with a piece of wood i need that pin to go that way i think once it clears this boss then it shouldn't be so tight i think what somebody did is welded this boss on here and they didn't get it line board so it's probably not super straight so let's see if this will work so not enough power on that i i think it's because it doesn't have enough jolt to it so what i think i'm going to try next is i'm going to take this pin out so that i can have the whole bucket on the ground that way i can tip it over and i can try to get more force maybe even use the excavator arm at that point so i found out that really stubborn pins sometimes if you can get a pipe wrench on one side of it big pipe wrench and you can turn it while you're pushing on it or pulling on it then it helps a lot it helps to get things moving so i mean i tried it on this pin but it's so smooth that it wouldn't grip on it i'm not really sure why i've done that before on a pin maybe that pin is like super hard i'm not sure but this one i i already can see that i can get a bite right here so okay all right that came out pretty hard but i got it so it is what it is seems like there's a very thin bushing in there i'll check those out before i put it back together foreign okay so the space that i have between here and here is about an inch maybe an inch and an eighth bigger than what i have from here to here so i was gonna just stack up a bunch of shims but i think the better option is try to do anyways is i have this boss right here and i'm gonna i'm gonna attempt to cut i only have one of these so i'm gonna attempt to cut it in half this is about an inch and a quarter so when you cut it depending on what you're cutting it with it should take out a little bit more than that and then it should be just about perfect of what i need i'm gonna attempt to cut this on the chop saw so i'm thinking that if i put a pipe in here about the diameter of this and then do a couple tack welds on it then that can give me something to steady this with so it doesn't go flying all over and then i'll cut it in half and then i'll grind off the tack welds so i just use this exhaust pipe i think this is two and a half inch od and it's it's a little bit loose in there but i'm just gonna i'm just gonna put some like shims in there and then weld it up and this is just to hold this so that because this is too small to put on the chop saw with your fingers or something so this will give it a place where i can steady it while i'm cutting it so so so that's pretty impressive right there that cut through that with no problem it loosened up a little bit and it lost its angle but you can see it's it's not it's not too bad the idea that i had behind this was i have 70 millimeter pins and this bucket takes 80 millimeter pins so i got this 70 to 80 sleeve or it's a bushing i guess you could call it you can see it's got grooves for the grease on the inside but i don't really need that because these are all bosses so they don't really need grease it fits pretty snug in there so i'm happy about that i'm happy that i didn't have to like press it in too so then this is the piece that i cut on the chop saw and this was the outside of it so i'm going to say that that's still straight and square so what i was planning on doing was putting the pins through putting the bucket on putting these on as a shim for right now just to see how everything works and then i would tack weld it on while it while everything's together and then i can take it apart and weld it up good you can see i got those grooves in there maybe i'll fill those in with weld these bosses have a little bit of a lip on them this one's sticking out pretty good i already ground this one down but this one needs some work still so i'm gonna grind that down flat so i'm just putting this bushing in until it's flush right here and then where that keeper pin hole is i'm just going to notch out just like that so this is a 70 by 80 by 80. the last number is the length of it so so i also picked up this assortment of 70 millimeter shims so these are 0.5 millimeter these are 0.2 millimeter and these are one millimeter so i got hopefully whatever i need to take up the slack here as well as here too me so so look so so okay so that went pretty good the only thing i'm a little bit worried about now is this bushing in here can slide out so i think i'm what i'm going to do is put a couple of tack welds on it so it doesn't do that same thing with this one there's nothing stopping it from coming out this other side is locked into here because it's behind this keeper pin and it's on the other side you can't go that way either so that bushing can't move same thing on this one you can see i got the spacer in there well really that's not going to be a spacer for very long because i'm going to weld that onto there and then on this side i put a couple shims because this piece was slightly smaller than the other one i didn't get it exactly even when i cut it but that's why i had the shims there so i probably could get away with just using this as a shim on both sides it probably wouldn't matter at all but i think just to give it less of a fulcrum point or a leverage advantage i think i'm gonna weld this to here and in that way the forest is transferred from here to here instead of from here all the way over to here because if you do that on both sides that's that's a big focal point and the leverage is at a disadvantage of breaking the pin so like i mentioned before the fuel gauge doesn't work it just always reads empty so this moves but i don't know if it sends any signal the way it should this piece right here is all this piece right here is all chewed up i'm not really even sure what part of it that is but the good thing is i had that other excavator so let me go see if i can take that one off and see if it works all right so here's the parts machine should have the same fuel center well at least this one appears to not have any damage to it so let's go see if this works hopefully this works moment of truth let's see it nope does not work all right so the fuel sender didn't work that didn't do anything but i got the other dash or gauge cluster from the other machine and it is working now and this is actually with it off but when you turn it back on it gets up to about a quarter of a tank which is about what i have right now it's really slow to get up there but it does go but the thing with this cluster is the rpm gauge doesn't work so i'm going to change that and then also the hour gauge reads ten thousand hours ten thousand eight hundred and i only had like i think sixty eight hundred on the other one so i'm gonna change that out too and then i should have one good working dash and if i ever get the other excavator going it's probably not necessary to have all this stuff that's kind of going to be a grunt machine so this is the gauge cluster that i'm going to use so now we can just slip this right out of here so it's just not working so here's the other one that is working from the original dash in here see works good now let's put it in the dash i'm kind of out in the field right now so i don't really have a lot of tools but you really don't need a lot for this now i should be able to just pull this out of here so i got to take apart this harness in order to slip this through here so i just got to take out these little prongs here so when i got done putting these bushings in i just put some tack welds around the outside and you can see they cracked a lot of them cracked before i even got done welding but i don't really care if they crack as long as they as long as it holds it in there i don't really care i'm welding an inch and a half steel to 3 16 steel so it's not exactly easy but actually some of these did hold but that's just so that bushing doesn't back out of there and it's doing its job so that's all i care about so the next thing i want to do on this bucket is the teeth i want to work on everything to do with it i want to make sure that this is all good to go like ready for a job and you can see these shanks are pretty worn out but i already have some parts on the way for this and it's going to be a few days so in the meantime i'm kind of anxious to see how this bucket works before i do a whole bunch of work onto it so i'm just going to move some dirt in a few different ways just to kind of make sure that this bucket isn't like too big or if the angle isn't right or something so i have a bunch of these piles of dirt over here from another project that's gonna be a near future video here i'm not gonna show the rest of it but this is some of the excess dirt that i have and i have some places that i want to use it so what i'm going to do is back my dump truck up and i'm going to load some of this dirt out bring it around the corner there so let's see how this bucket works out i know that it's going to wear the shanks out by doing this but i'm not going to use it for that long and they're already really worn out and i already have some new parts for that so i'll show you what i'm gonna do with that but in the meantime i'm really anxious to see how this bucket works out so uh so so so that bucket worked pretty well for loading that truck i really kind of put it to the test because that stuff was really wet but everything seems to be working good the angles are good i'm not limited to anything the machine's not tipping over trying to pick it up i've been wanting to get rid of this label for a little while but i don't really want to repaint the whole thing and i can't take that stuff off without scraping up everything but i'm going to try anyways i'm going to try to take it off the best i can this actually seems to be working pretty good if you go slow with it and you kind of turn the blade as you're going i really don't want to damage the paint and have to do a new paint job on it although it could use it i just don't think that's high on the priority list right now the last thing i wanted to do to this bucket was put some new teeth on and i knew that these adapters or shanks as you would call them are worn down probably past to where you can use them again so i called up and i got the serial numbers off of this and i called up cat and i asked them which tooth it takes and they said it takes a j 350 style they said it takes a a 1u 3352 tooth so i got five teeth for this to see if i could maybe weld it back together and like you can weld on on the top here to make up the slack so i ordered those teeth and they're way too big that's what it looks like look at the bucket compared to that tooth so i don't know i don't know if that's what was supposed to be on here and then they changed out these adapters to something else i don't really know but i know that this is too big and you can just see that the the retainer pin hole is only about 5 8 of an inch whereas this is like 7 8 of an inch and plus it just it's just missing like three quarters of an inch of steel on it so i think this is too big so i think whoever put these shanks or adapters on here used a different maybe the next smaller size so i thought the next smaller size was a j250 which would be a a 1u 3252 but then i realized that there's actually a size in between and that's a j300 which i don't remember the the number for the teeth on that but it's a j 300 style so i think this is actually a j 300 style so i think this one's a little too big this one's a little too small but you know what this one i'm gonna make work because i spent a lot of money on the pieces for it so rather than try to because this is a little bit too big it's too wide the height is alright but the width of it is not wide enough so i could grind it down to make it work but then there's not enough clearance in these retainer holes for it to still slide so i'd have to drill these holes further which that's like an inch and an eighth hole so i figured forget that so what i did is ordered with these teeth i ordered on a weld on style adapter so they bevel it for you basically you cut the old ones off and you weld it in and you make just a whole bunch of passes on it and that way everything's back to normal with this so this fits this j250 tooth that i have see so so that's meant for that so what i'm going to do is cut these off weld these new ones on if it doesn't work then i'll be looking at replacing the adapters which i was going to have to do anyways so i don't really see this as a loss if i if it doesn't work out i know this tooth is a little bit too small this other one here but i don't think it's terrible we'll see when it's done so i can't think of a better way to cut this or any other way to cut this than to use a band saw because that's like two inches thick so i got this portable bandsaw with a 10 tpi tooth blade so let's see if that can cut through it do so this is what i got so far kind of ran out of disks for this last one but got all these mounted on they're pretty straight with each other this one's sticking out just a hair maybe like a quarter of an inch so that's kind of my first pass on each one first full pass anyways i didn't clean the bottom yet i didn't clean the slag off but let's see what it looks like on the top stick water really gets some good penetration in there it's it's gonna hold pretty good so this is kind of like my third pass i guess you could say so probably another three passes on this side maybe four on this side it's hard to see this side but when i'm making this pass i got the excavator like this when i'm making the pass on the top of the teeth i curl the bucket in so each time i got to move it every time i make a pass i gotta move it again all right so i think i'm about done making passes on this i have about 20 passes on the top here and probably like 16 or so on the bottom the only reason it was different because it was just slightly a different angle so one side had a little bit more of a gap than the other but i'm very confident that these are going to hold up with that many passes there's just no way that this can't hold up i know that i still have like what seems like a little bit left to fill in there but i got two inches of solid weld around there so i really don't think it's going anywhere so i'm just going to put these teeth on and call it done for now so so that came out pretty good it's not perfect but definitely reasonable so i'm just going to try this out real quick now when i was loading out before that was all loose dirt i was just trying to see if the capacity the bucket or the angle is going to be wrong but now i want to dig into virgin ground and see how it does so so so i've been wanting a bigger excavator for a while for at least a few years now it's been kind of a goal that's been reaching the top of the list and then it finally did and to be honest with you i like running an excavator better than anything else better than any other piece of equipment i mean the dozer is fun a loader a skid steer they're fun but the excavator is kind of like where i'm really efficient at it i whenever we get on a job and we're doing some excavating work i'm always the one that's on the excavator but now we can bring this to a job and of course i'll be running that too i just like the versatility of it it's just it's universal for so many different things i just you have so much precision and control with an excavator so this is kind of like the the missing link for my company so now i have it so i'm going to be doing some more videos with this i already did a few and i'm putting this out now before i really do a lot more to it because it's i've had it for a while and you guys haven't got to see it yet so this will be your first opportunity and then i already have some other projects that i filmed and i'll be putting those out shortly and i'm gonna get a lot of use out of this machine i already have got a lot of use out of it i probably put 150 hours on since i got it or more and it's really it's really nice the controls are super sensitive which i really like i definitely wasn't trying to get an older machine with some some big sticks on it i definitely wanted some pilot controls this was 20 grand so i you know in like a year you can make back that kind of money but you can obviously charge a lot more for a bigger machine like this and i do for you got and for you guys that are wondering i do have a trailer a 15-ton trailer that i got that i'm going to be fixing up pretty soon and and so i can't move this exactly yet by myself but in the next few months i will be able to so i'm sure you'll see this on some jobs it's definitely not worth bringing on a lot of the jobs that i go on but some of them i could have used this anything where you're there for like three or four days or more it's probably helpful to bring a machine like this on because then you can get it done a lot quicker so for now i guess this is it and i'll see you on the next project with this machine you

Channel: Jesse Muller

Views: 359,567

Rating: 4.9017186 out of 5

Keywords: excavator, excavation, samsung 130, fixing a bucket, dirt work, andrew camarata, letsdig18

Id: LosqwxgXXTg

Length: 66min 48sec (4008 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020