Monsters In The Woods... Old But Not Dead

well it's not very often you come across uh two Fiat Atlas 31 those are sitting in the woods so this is equivalent to like a cat d10 stand beside the track it's literally almost six feet tall with brand new undercarriages on them he said he has one that runs so we're gonna try to uh stop by and check it out he's got four of them to make one well these come with uh 17 foot wide blades on them huge tractors that's a dozer that is a dozer and I've been able to keep up with that 550 oh boy look at that a four inch deep grouser pads on there that's something else right there let's go see what else he has that's a dozer um you got a something to tap it with two wrenches inside when you cross over and go to that I see them over here all right look right where your feet are yeah the other battery is right here okay on the side yeah all right so we are on the Fiat that runs Maybe if not I have my trusty jump box in the truck that is not the blue one has not let me down all right let me tighten these down so they don't uh 10 24 22. so here is the Fiat Atlas 31 that does run he said he put batteries in it not too terribly long ago and had it running so we're going to hook the batteries back up see if it fires up this one's got a 17 foot wide blade on it what does this one weigh it's probably about a hundred thousand pound Dozer ain't it 80. uh 96 I believe okay and they had rippers on them but I've got the Rippers off yeah the cylinders are still back there all right so fire extinguisher yep just in case I'll let you hold that I'm gonna get the instructions on what to do go right there to the master cutoff I'll let you hold before it says both okay ath climb aboard I'm already passed say a prayer say a prayer this is so that's right steer left steer throttle I think yep uh this plate locks your starch so come over to me and back or up and back punch forward just punch see if we that should make the starter engage neutral start break on so something's not right are we on both over here yeah now the button you don't use the button I think you just push forward but maybe the plate plate has to go back the other way to lock it in yeah to lock it in so you could start without all right hold on uh which determine where your throttle is you think that's sprotted seat let's see if the injector that's frog so pull back just a little bit too decelerated yeah and Robert you come and watch right here I just saw yeah it sparked a little bit that's what well see I believe you would go if if it's going fast how do I cut it off how do I turn it off uh right here is my homemade switch what does that say it says in for off okay yeah for running now leave it out and just bump it again foreign when you get back up there with blue blades okay well they drop forward and backwards all right he's a Beat can't see where I'm going though [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] so this is the steering on this thing played up and down is right here uh track forward over here one two three reverse one two three steer to the that would be to the right steer to the left and the throttle let's pull it up just a little bit farther easy [Music] it don't steer to the left it steers to the right not to the left it's a big old girl that's what I'm talking about there you go it steers to the right but it don't steer to the left you plan your routes right here over here [Music] okay in case I have to repair one [Music] I laid those they were on the blade I laid them on the ground so I didn't run over them so um down there one night dark starting back up here and this track kept getting looser and looser I could see it and so I stomped and bumped it out another 50 feet it's slack again yeah and when I get up here I notice the bearing in there is gone okay so I called a guy in Greensboro that's got some of these his name is something something and we took it apart you see there that looks custom it's homemade homemade with a piece of cylinder bar yeah stuck in it but I got him to come and I had an extra idler yeah so we swapped it but it took me about a year to get it again the thing is you got it back together finally that's something else and how long has it been since you said you've probably used this I know you just you said you put batteries in it not not long ago 10 years ago it hasn't moved dirt in 10 years because there's newer stuff newer equipment where did this one come from this one came from Coshocton Ohio out of a coal mine and but the other two ones came from a coal mine too the other two came from Duke power in Charlotte okay so he's this one in the one up front where a package deal in Coshocton you buy one and get a parts Dozer [Laughter] okay they're disassembled the Transmissions Motors everything's been disassembled to keep to keep this one going the their Carriage on this is shot oh wow pins and bushings are busted through well you say the other two have got pretty much brand new undercarriage yeah and all four of these are the same correct [Music] all the same Motors same under cage what we call Earth pushing yeah 17s those had 22 foot wide blades on them this is 17 the other I'll show you the other blades but I'm gonna go back up front all right all right well let's turn the fuel off and uh disconnect the batteries for you I I wanted to push some dirt but yeah absolutely big girl I'd love for you to is you a one Robert on the other one and do what I'm talking about push dirt four foot Bridge yeah because then you're 38 feet down and that's how all these ponds got built and the ones up front our motto was upon today upon today we'll keep doc happy that was good stuff oh wow so I imagine you've earned about 300 gallons of fuel a day in this wide open runs 22 gallons an hour well it wasn't five dollars a gallon then either was it was 85 85 cents and the full tank it would run you more than a full eight hour day oh wow eight hour day that's only like a half a day part timing part-time man oh okay that was in the winter oh okay we'll blame it on the winter time yeah no what did he say did he say he said you know the lights weren't too good on these things did you cut the master off it's right there yeah turn it to the left two notches one more there you go all right he's a good reader he's not bad trained him well I can't get on this thing I thought my 977 was a pain to get on this is sure enough an accident waiting to happen don't dive off yeah you just don't leap off the side of this one by no means do on the other side oh wow all right I'm gonna get him to take a picture of me in front of the blade did it have two exhaust pipes on it or what was the second hole for I think everyone we've got only has one okay the muffler got a hole in it I had the mechanic remedy and straight piped it there it looked like we used some Pond I like the way it says we rebuilt the motor in this local mechanic did that for me yeah but believe it or not enough right oh wow well there's enough room around it there's enough room around it yeah oh my God the motor's eight feet long the radiator is about six feet square KT Cummins 1150. KT Cummins 1150. see fishing buses oh wow well let's go check out what other Hidden Treasures you have now that it's not pouring down rain so tell me about this Beast whatever this came from Williamsburg Virginia uh-huh there's the name of the uh sand plant that owned it can you read that I can't read it that's probably for their best entrance what I do love is a story you told me about when you pulled up to pay for this thing I think everybody I think everybody on YouTube would like to hear that story and uh used it wanted it for Farm use and uh The Price is Right and I wrote him to check and they put it in his pocket and then he turned to me looked me straight in the face and he said do you know what you just got into I said no sir not really I said but it looks good he said it'll make a fine machine for you once you get it there once you get this 70-ton excavator to your farm all right well I gotta take it all in first [Laughter] uh well you you said you were digging right here and then then stopped about 10 years ago hey hey buys he that long story short he buys a machine for every project and he's got like 18 pawns so there's a lot of equipment around here let's see it does have batteries in it we just checked and Robert put on the master disconnect power is on how long has this been since it's started okay two years I do I got a light on but it starts with the switch or is there another button I'm thinking it was just switched but I could be wrong you see any other buttons anywhere I don't even hear a click back here I don't the light comes on though you see a push button anywhere look back further on your right side no foreign might be a dry day with a hammer and tap starter yep that might be saved for uh another day will he come out yeah right there that way I know it's all okay and we're gonna go get back in the car Lee bear 972 it's a big machine West Virginia so that's the Euclid that it about uh took you away from it did you in you said you flipped that over over to pawn Dam yeah roll the end of the water rolled it into the water and that's what broke your neck right but it's ready to go if you buy it tonight and ready to go I'll ruin something else with it okay package deal right here wrap it up right here we're coming up on the other side of this concrete building is the Euclid scraper van yes oh wow and I caught it on fire last year burning this pine straw it's not as funny as you might think of it it wasn't funny for you at the time was it to burn the uh the fire went right up underneath see the front wheel yeah this was a perfectly good ready to go scraper was yeah it still is it still is part of the package deal okay and coming up here flip that flip that up see if the cables are hooked up it is okay the JCB what is it a 1400 B the seat cushion's no longer here with us but Robert oh be careful this is just this is the cut-off switch I've got the cutoff we leave the kid in but we got everything's hidden cut off right it should be ready see if it'll start a see if it'll bump [Music] might have to make a deal on this beauty but Mike can't live without it [Music] thank you [Music] foreign you just couldn't let me leave without looking at it 6 a.m General I'm aware I'm aware does it look for me it looks very familiar I'll see if it sounds familiar no cats no wasps coming out I'm opening the door okay you gonna hold it up and for me Robert you take over I like the steering wheel he definitely got a lot more room in here now right there and right there I don't know cold start I don't know it doesn't sound like not gonna happen I'm thinking a battery battery jump it's gonna need a boost whenever you decide to move it again [Music] thank you didn't even have to think about it just to have it Flip Flip hey why would this for go walk in the cab of that Lee bear if you've never been in one I want you to see why I love that so much so you got like how many of those 641 track letters do you have several we the old uh is that a Terex or Euclid pan that is the Euclid that I caught on fire 3 30 A.M [Music] yeah that's a pine straw Bagel pine straw baler paying attention yeah we got plenty of seat cushions [Music] oh yeah it does yep big old Dozer if Robert would walk around over there and take the trash can be we could start it up batteries are up in here [Music] that's a nice exhaust pipe a modified uh parking brake okay pull back okay okay another way okay keys in it juice pull it back a little bit yeah get a little secret this one no no no that's the button you were talking about yeah that's the stop button [Music] still no smoke so something else something else somewhere is this the maybe yeah I pulled it all the way back and it it cut it off it won't do anything okay so that's good you're sure the only one knob there what are these two over here what color are they oh hold on one of them says stop let me pull it forward a little bit you can't go nowhere everything fires right up doesn't it oh now he wants me to drive it [Music] big old Dozer [Music] it's amazing this stuff's been sitting so long and still uh fires right up foreign has anybody told you you're a good salesman no that's why you're not a good salesman that's why everything's still here right he said why stop with that when we can go start this up all right Robert hold the camera this this one's got a handicap I see that you have made some nice modified that's right platforms here oh that's my uh door cam yeah door Shield don't lose it so red is still shut off okay so that goes but probably back where it was okay the other one's throttle all right and he is over there if he clunks now go [Music] all right thank you [Music] Robert doesn't that engine sounds sweet yeah and that thing is sweaty don't quite sound like Betty or the D6 but it's nice and look how soft it dirty is isn't that nice and that'll really grow some gross Vine trees good just turn around show them what it's growing right now look at that look at what it's growing those teeth are long enough on that you can just about break through anything with it and that thing sounds good [Music] would you love to have two or three of those really I mean seriously don't laugh I don't have that much room you work your whole life you need something nice you know good set of tracks on it look how smooth they are in this machine sealed back we call this machine the white spot so anytime somebody comes if we need something that's a good white spot they know right where to go [Music] foreign [Music] conversation on the way home is going to be Robert I need to leave here Robert I need a 641. Robert you wouldn't believe how good that Lee bear ran Robert I got to get rid of my caterpillar that's 953 is a piece of junk now that I've been on that lever here believe it rakes nice damn those teeth on that bucket You're Gonna Hurt Kyle's feelings we'll wait to talk goes back to Greensboro we'll take a little boy down there and get that thing what a sweet sweet I said I can see why you don't get rid of anything Ben is that sweet or what the man with all the toys look right here and we have more stuff these are the two uh cold blades 22 feet long or wide for those two Fiats in the back so he took them off because they wouldn't fit through the wood yeah what's that oh that's a Robert special right there there's a pattern to everything look it's her what RDS Roundup is the look and see if the battery cable is hooked up yes or no all right just twist it on tight and get up there and sit I'll do the thank you this doesn't work anymore that's you're are you familiar with this tractor no okay this is that used to be the throttle choke start run but I've rigged it up here I kind of what I figured out something because the injector pump is here is stupid this is straight through yeah why would an idiot put it there and run it through California to get it up there because they're stupid and they don't use them that's they sell them but they don't use it so you're going to push this in just bump the key City wait a minute we're not we're in the danger zone now keep it going let's see if it'll start batteries cables loose Twisted which one did you put on I put that one on but this one's smart you got smoke yeah a little bit of smoke give her a little bit of go-go maybe I had to pull this out a little bit I think to throw the combination sure yes you go not today this is why I like riding around my farm always find free tools I know it's everyone that the battery's been disconnected there's a set of wrenches there and you go to the toolbox none because there's three dozen sets of them laying around on all this equipment try it again if you had some spray it would start all right before it gets dark I'm gonna peek over here so here is the fourth Fiat 31 as Matt calls him fat Alice in another Lee bear 631 Track Loader that one right there has got a problem with the transmission so I'm told but those two in the back came with the uh those two big coal blades from the power plant loves the lee bears and he's got a case 125b over there but we're not done yet they're still a lot more equipment around here we just gotta find it so long story short he built a lot of there's like 400 acres here and he's built a lot of ponds for raisin bash and bass and catfish so he is actually done an extreme amount of work with all this equipment as you can tell right here this giant hole in the ground and he also does uh pine straw with all the Longleaf so that's why everything is grown up in pine trees and they break all that up but I think there's like 18 ponds on this farm right here let's go check out some more equipment so what's the story on this one [Music] Williams who came to pool out of the the pull my tractor out of the first mud hole that got stuck in okay and I asked too many people teach me how to run it and I asked him if he would sell it to me so he went home with money and I went I stayed here with the dog you stayed here with a dozer now we're now we're getting ready to put this brand new undercarriage on it on the right the old undercarriage has been removed so we got all new sprockets rollers tracks idlers what did you use to pick this thing up and uh sit it on the ground or how did you get the tracks out from under it I had Hickory blocks under the rear back here where the draw bar is now I got you push the blade down it was blocked up with Hickory blocks away and they've rotted away I got my hand on this project okay how long has she been sitting here 2023 [Laughter] oh lordy Motors so it's got electric start now it could be or it could not be [Music] thank you and oh there's your that's only been there since 1995. [Laughter] and there are on the d8h I was told there are two by the way the maple tree goes with it maple tree goes with it uh there's motor high horsepower hour and low horsepower okay with the high horsepower was this the fuel line you were talking about okay where's the fuel bowl that cracked and broke off on the other side okay years ago because I mentioned to you before there's an identical machine to this um yep I know who you're talking about uh I have yes I have seen it [Music] is this the fuel bill over here on the right hand side yeah the fuel gravity feeds into that correct okay well we also got a uh something exciting a water hose is that the fuel line that might be the fuel line well that would definitely cause it to drain right there let's see uh we could probably hook the jump box to it and just see if it did spin over yeah I save that for a dry day [Music] yep down here I ran two more cables straight to the starter so I could put two more batteries to make it easy for cold stuff yeah exactly double in the amperage so you've been here a while got a little pedal left now it comes back it just needs a couple parts and she'd be good to go luckily all the bolts are right here where you left them right while the gorilla bars here oh wow Robert's here look Robert down there I see a piece of metal that I can't dig up that no that's marketing yeah bar if you will of the hook and hook that thing up so I don't lose it and there's one on the other side yeah there's a there's a lot of them right there [Music] there's another one right there probably you got a diagram on how this goes back together okay handwritten and crap oh boy

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Keywords: cat, caterpillar, D8H, bulldozer, dozer, crawler, tractor, fiat, allis, 31, FD31, old, abandon, iron, heavy, construction, equipment, start, cummins, engine, excavator, trackhoe, digger, bagger, forgotten, machines, scraper, pan, dump, truck, army, military, backhoe, tractors, parts, farm, land, clearing, pond, building, junk, yard, exploring, woods

Id: ZvT5TBz0XbM

Length: 43min 32sec (2612 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2023