Matt, what you have is a hobby. You fix things up, sell them, and then use the money to buy new projects. That is entirely valid and rewarding. Continue fixing things and make them better than when you found them. We will keep on watching.

I'm kind of glad that the steering clutches did not break free because now we get a wrench turning video of the process, and I'm looking forward to it already.

Old school farming safety tip, when pulling hard with a chain or cable, first pass it through an old tire which will deaden the spring back IF it breaks.

Under the seat there are two access panels to the steering clutches. Once you remove them the steering clutches reside. Each of them have a circle of bolts on each side of the clutch pack. They are dry multiple disc clutches. They aren't hard to change. I did it when I was 15 years old. 70+ now lol.

My brother and I also have two HD5G machines. In the A/C shop manual, for clutch and brake problems (like water or stuck clutches) they have you drain the oil out, refill the clutch and brake housing with diesel, and run the machine with diesel in it, operating the brakes and clutches. Then of course, drain and refill with oil. Might be worth a shot on your tractor to see if that would free it up. Maybe even letting the diesel soak them for a few days.

Never been into heavy equipment til I found Diesel Creek. I really enjoy this channel. Please keep it going Matt.

I vote Diesel Creek the best You Tube video series because it is expertly filmed, wonderfully informative and just plain entertaining!

lol I love the AAA tag on the front there, I'm having fun picturing Farmer Bob calling the AAA guy back in the 70s because the dozer broke down and needs a tow. Isn't it great how you can take 500 bucks--which by itself doesn't get you too much these days off the peg--and turn it into actual gold with just a bit of cleverness and know-how? I appreciate that the most about your channel, Matt: this stuff is out there, some of it is very cheap, and LOTS of it still wants to work. Get out there and save it! That's what it's all about. 🍻

Love it it's amazing how them old track loadeders always seem to fire up. I come across one that sat 30+ years in a open field, I put a battery in it and fuel checked the oil hit it with a little ether and the old man said it's not going to start. It took right off bucket worked as it should forward and backwards great only thing was the left turn wasn't good it worked but you had to give it everything you had to pull the lever turned right great. All I was doing was cleaning up this old farm just to help out this old guy. Because the town was coming down on him for all of the vehicles and scrap and if it wasn't for the track loader I was able to get the vehicles to the road and to the scrapyard. His barn was a solid one had a cement floor and a covered up 52 Chevy half ton completely original he never said anything about. But the barn door was in need of a few new boards and a new track across the top. I replaced the board's and installed the steel wheels set of 4 across the top of the door. I used the loader to pick up the door and lean it up against the opening and stand in the bucket to replace the track on the barn and I nailed 3 brackets across the middle of the door for it was 12 foot wide by 16 foot tall he used to park his Peterbuilt semi truck in it for he was a independent trucker for years. So I got the door hooked up to the brackets chained it up to the loader and was able to slide it on the track thank God. When I was done I split the money from the scrap and he gave me the 52 Chevy truck. It was a big surprise for you couldn't squeeze a penny out of the old boy lol. He was barely getting by and we become best friends, he said just park the loader in the barn and I thought it was going to crush the cement floor and I mentioned that to him and he said you ain't gonna hurt that floor. When my father and I were in business we made sure that we could park our 2 semi trucks in it and it was a 40X60 foot barn said that floor is more than 2 foot of rebar and cement not a crack one across it. Just the enterence had the cement crack down perfectly and I pulled the truck out with my truck and parked his loader. You should have seen the smile on his face. I came back a few times to smooth out the property with the loader and he passed away but the stories he had told me of his years of trucking were priceless. Never knew that he had a brother who just lived up the hill they never talked for over 60 years and he was the one who inherited the property it was all together his property and his brother split it when their father passed away and you know how sometimes family gets greedy when that happens. His brother was nice to me and said it was nice to see me cleaning up the property he drove by daily and I never knew they were brothers never waved to each other. Hope you enjoyed the story for I enjoy your adventures. I'm terminally ill now and think back to the days I was doing what you do

Spoiling us with a midweek video! Glad to see this one after you teasing it in your tour of all the projects on the farm. With one or two more I think we might be up to date from everything you showed (or didn’t show!) in that video.

My friend has a locomotive, he bought some rails, fixed up the train and drives it round his place. He found a few loco loonies who come out on the weekends some come in their campers with wives and kids. Its crazy time for every body, the kids, dogs, bbqs, lot of swimming, he gets people polishing the brass. All hands on deck.

Matt, you never cease to amaze us with your troubleshooting skills. I can't wait until you get elbow-deep into those clutches! Carry on, my friend!

Matt, your ingenuity to a crap sandwich situation is awesome! The young people of today are missing out on solid problem solving skills... your channel should be required watching in schools across America! Keep up the great work!

Holy smack! This is what I grew up on the farm with. My dad built a lake and a dam with this beast. It is waaay more capable than anyone would think.

Once again we see that the best tool to use when working on heavy equipment is heavier equipment! Looks like you're having lots of fun, which means we have lots of fun watching. Thanks again for bringing us along; great, interesting content, and I look forward to the next video on this one!

Our Family business was my Dad running this exact machine. Ours had the metal cab for protection that came in handy a few times. Great memories. We then moved to a HD6G where my dad who was a one man owner operator made roads, dug basements, cleared land, unloaded scows among other jobs. Thanks so much for making this video.

New Diesel Creek on a Thursday morning......heart be still!...😊

Thank you for explaining what "rail height" was and showing it.

I knew nothing about diesel engines but have learned a lot from watching you. Not enough that I would ever own one though. I love watching you revive all the old equipment.

11:19 Did you know that WD-40 is a great diesel starting fluid and easy on your engine. I learned this trick on the GM350 Oldsmobile diesel engines.

With a little bit of luck and a little bit of either, by far the best quote from Matt

That was a neat operation getting it turned.

When working on any 2 stroke Detroit, pull the valve cover and check the fuel rack isn’t stuck wide open before you try to start it.. they’re known for getting stuck and the engine running away on ya

The part where you're shock-loading the Allis-Chalmers with the Kobelco is reminiscant to the epic duel between the D9 and the cable shovel in the movie Killdozer!

Isn’t that the cutest little dozer engine you ever ever seen , what a buy. Good job

You might try soaking the clutches with kerosene, depending on how much grease buildup is in the clutch housings. I have changed clutches in an HD5, it is quite a chore. The shaft to the clutch assemblies is a tapered press fit. I had to make a special tool and copious amount of heat to get them to separate. Thanks for the great video content.

What a clever way to get it to turn. Never would have thought of that!!

My dad did his internship with Allis Chalmers. Civil engineer. He designed the walkway from one building to another over the street. Despite reports, Allis Chalmers is not in Milwaukee, it was in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee. Near the end of WW II they were producing the biggest bad ass tanks that the USA had at the time. They also made the power shafts for the Glenn Canyon dam. They had the largest forge in the country at the time.

Yeah Buddy, you got it running and functioning with the obvious exception of turning! I cannot wait to see you dive deeper into those clutch packs! Well done, Matt!

10/10 Matt Not just for the rescue but also for the attitude to making the machine usable again 👍

Thank goodness you save all these old machines from being melted down. Thanks for the memories from my younger days. 👍

I've behaved fairly well with my comments but the shot of that drive sprocket brought back My first true after high school job and Otha Lee Cooper. Otha ran the old IH dozer with the huge winch on the back that was used to drag all of the huge logs out of the ditches behind the main Mississippi River levee so that they would not snap the old BE dragline cables which were a serious pain to restring if they were broken. My job was, and you guessed it, to wade into the ditches Summer to Winter to wrap the one-inch steel cable around said logs. Summer attire was combat boots, snake leggings, cut off shorts to get to the leaches with ease, T-shirt, and cut down manchette slid in the right legging. Winter wear was chest waders, army surplus wool underwear, jeans and flannel. Coats were too much after the first log was got. The drive sprockets were so worn to a fine point that every time you tried to turn on any sort of muddy incline the track slipped off. Break out huge wrenches, loosen lock nuts, back off, put track on, repeat wrenches in opposite direction. LOL. Love your stuff and thanks again. Oh, Otha had been released from Parchman Farm prison for shooting a fella he caught in the wrong bed so to speak. They always had room for me in the warm truck but never Otha. I sat on the dozer with Otha in the rain and sleet and snow, bugs and ate. He was the better man anyway.

Ya buddy! The best part of waking up, is diesel creek in your cup

I counted them, you have 47,538 trees all around but you hooked on to the excavator bucket. 😉 As for chains breaking, I've watched videos of big badass Russians dragging WWII tanks out of bogs with badass Russian trucks and chains and sometimes they break but they always just snap and fall. Cables on the other hand...fly through the air with the greatest of ease. Also watched a navy ship's crew inside the ship's anchor chain room lose control of their gigantic anchor chain and see the sailors scramble for cover. As the last links enter the sea hole in the hull the chain flies around briefly smashing everything then disappears into the ocean. No doubt the captain wanted to have a word with those sailors later that morning.

A good way to "protect" yourself in the event of a chain breaking is tossing a blanket or jacket over it to prevent the snap from being so violent. They also sell "winch dampeners" that do the same thing. Just some food for thought!

I started watching Squatch and Marty T, so it's good to see different styles of solving problems on these old machines. Shops like ADS also help regular folks learn about heavy equipment. As soon as you said "fuel shutoff" the neurons awoke. Nice work. That machine is as strong as the day it rolled off the assembly.

Being terminally sick I'm currently in my 4th week of hospital and iv antibiotics for sepsis, today now is a happy day, got somthing to watch now Why couldn't you just place the trailer in front of the dozer, instead of doing the thing you did

I've heard of rope tricks, but dang Matt, you took it to a whole new level! Great job!

That _"Will It Run?"_ in the title of a video on this channel is basically like asking _"Will the sun rise tomorrow again?"_ BUT OF COURSE IT WILL! ;-)

Never been mechanically inclined but started buying equipment and fixing it up all after learning/ watching your channel. Even the wife is impressed with how much I've learned mainly from just watching you do what you do best!

Glad you figured out the fuel shutoff being stuck. I was going to remind you to check the spark plugs 😂

Wohoo! Just sitting here, no work today and BAM! A new Diesel Creek video! Just happens I’m wearing my DC shirt too.

This is a very fine example of his editing and sound work he puts into all his videos.

What? $500 omg Matt the gems you find. That beauty is well worth it, just needs that love. Damn cool find!

Back in the early 70's I ran an HD6 for a friend of mine, loading fill onto my F600. That one had the 4 cylinder AC engine in it. Good working machine and pretty strong for it's size. Lost a track one day while working in about a foot of mud. Walked off the front idler because track was loose and myd built up in the chain. Lots of fun with bottle jacks, come-alongs and bars. After heating the adjuster with the hot wrench of course !! Oh the joys of the pre-hydraulic tensioners !

I like the old thing's you save from the melt down, and also how you fix them, and then get another one to save, or keep. I just got my dream project for a smoking deal. A military jeep willys, it's a 1954 m38a1 with the 24 volt system still intact, and the F134 hurricane engine with all the sealed wires, plugs, and ignition. Solid body and frame, never driven on the road since purchased many year's ago from the government. An old guy drove it around on his property in northern Michigan. They painted the green paint with a horrible dark wine color, but that's gonna be stripped and painted back to the proper military color. She hasn't run since 2017, because he passed away, and his daughter had been trying to sell it for awhile, and dropped the price, because she had interest, but no one wanted to come to Frankenmuth Michigan to look at it, because she wouldn't sell it without it being physically inspected. I accidentally got on a kaiser willys selling page, looking for parts for a very rough 1953 cj5, and found this gem that i bought for 2500 dollar's, that just needs a couple small holes patched. I just had it brought to me yesterday on a flatbed, and I'm fixing to go get some work on it today. G-d bless.

I know it is all about what is economical and also practical time wise but deep dives into the workings of older machines are some of the most interesting videos!

Impressed that yankum kinetic rope Worked so well to Turn the Machine off the tree Nice Pivot Matt 16:00 @Diesel Creek

My whole career of 45+ years I worked on mostly two stroke Detroit engines. In tech schooling in the mid 70’s we had a really good instructor that was a Detroit guru. I always loved the two stroke Detroits and thought I would be cool to collect 1 of every model. Well, at 65 all I have is a series 60. So I guess that’s not gonna happen. Fun to see you save this loader and it’s 2-71 from the scrap yard.

Mid-week Diesel Creek… I’ve died and gone to heaven!

The comment about draining and refilling the case(s) with diesel has merit. That is what is done with Cats. The recommended fluid is kerosene as diesel has too much lubricity. My suggestion is to determine that the linkages are allowing full disengagement first as a stuck linkage will not allow the clutch to do its clutch thing. Was there with an IH machine.

Hey Matt, love what you are doing with the old iron. Next time use one of those old light weight hoodies that you said you didn't and tie it in the middle of the chain or cable, and if it happens to break it will take the jolt out of it and it will help stop it from going any where. Again enjoy watching you with your many projects!

Half way through this video I was going to suggest you changed your name to Either Creek.🍻

Thanks for taking us along Britney! LOL .. I am glad that you abandoned that Chain idea when trying to break those clutches free. A chain break could have shattered your Mellon like a Pumpkin thrown onto pavement , none of us wants you to get hurt! Thanks Matt , I'm already looking forward to your next video to see what you're gonna do to the Galion ! Maybe glass install among some other tinkering?

That's why I love this channel. I learned not to strap a chain on angle when doing sketchy stuff. May sound dumb but for someone who doesn't really do this type of stuff I'm glad i learned it before even attempting it.

You have twin 955L’s? Matt you have a fleet of iron. You’re going to have to start numbering everything.

A tip: when parking the vehicle for a long period, leave the clutches engaged to avoid them getting stuck. Quite common to perform this trick on older combines as they are parked most part of the time. A 2”x4” cut to suitable length will do the trick. This can also not just be done preventing clutches to stuck, it might help to release stuck clutches if left engaged for a while. But in this case, I guess also letting the clutches soak in diesel might help.

What the sk250 does with the loader is funny and amazing. A 250 isn’t a huge machine but shows how powerful hydraulics and geometry is. Hence why Excavators are my favorite and go to machine.

And another piece oh history saved! Nice job Matt! Glad to see you saving the machines that built this country! My hats off to ya.

Excellent presentation. Thank you. Your number one "tool" for almost everything is "spray ether". You seriously need to see if some "ether provider" would give you a sponsorship. That stuff seems to be 80-90% of the secret sauce to your success in these videos.

Sweet running machine for 500 bucks just needs a bit of love 29:02 great video as always Matt @Diesel Creek

When using a steel rope or a chain, throw a heavy blanket or carpet over it. It will dampen thew vipp effect and you will be in less danger

Wish I had 1% of your troubleshooting skills when it comes to engines Matt! Hats off 😀

Get the bucket and lines serviced soon. Keep the RPMs high and let her rip. We welded more track tread and had some attachments bolted on the back. Our clutch was stuck until a crow bar and a sledge said hello. Didn't hit hard. Never had a problem since. Replaced the smaller track guide on one side. Handles replaced. Bought parts out of Pittsburgh. I can't stress how important getting the right batteries is for this machine.

Dear Matt, This Allis Chalmers Crawler is going on with a frozen steering system but when Matt can’t fix this nobody can so I therefore look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands

you scared away the mouse. 25 minutes 11 seconds above the caterpillar 😄. you're doing a great job .

Back in the day I ran HD 5 and HD6 loaders, and occasionally a very early HD 20 used as a yard loader one place I worked. When I was just starting out an old operator named Joe Lees told me that the only way to run an AC crawler was to be mad at it, and if the tractor had a cab, you should slam your hand in the door a few times to get yourself in the proper mood!

I really enjoyed your bag of tricks on loosening up the steering and the way you swung it around to load that right there was backyard geometry at its finest seriously, I was impressed.

Matt we used to fill the steering clutch housing with paraffin also use a chain or a block of wood to hold the lever back while the clutch soaks works every time

While we are all (patiently) waiting for the wrenching part of the "new" A/C loader saga, what we are all really wanting to see is the pressure-washing part!

Half a million views after just one day! You can film whatever you want, people want to see it. You're a really nice guy, you could become a teacher, the kids would love to come. Greetings from Germany!

I live in a small city neighborhood.. And for $500, I would buy it just because. Obviously, I can't use it in the neighborhood.. but sure would be fun tinkering on it.

Sounds strong, nice rigging to get her loaded! Looks like a couple of Cat 955L's in the BG, sweet! 👍

Did something similar to this when I was in the Army with a stuck Abrahms out in the desert, they figured it out eventually. Keep up the good work! Keep trying and you'll move the world.

Thanks for all you do Matt. I do enjoy watching, wish I had what it takes to jump into some of your projects. Thanks!

Turning that thing around with the Kobelco I was thinking… Matt is enjoying his Hot wheels loader… 😂🤣😂

I can literally feel the wind in the trees and feel the cold in Pennsylvania. I miss it!

I'd really enjoy seeing this old beast cleaned and washed, every time I see a machine like this with the tracks all clarted up with mud I just think there's no way I could stand to not clean it all off!

I'm glad you thought about the chain situation. Knew someone fairly well that died because a chain snapped and hit him in the head

Every time you fire one of these old pieces of machinery up I’m so stoked. Your knowledge is incredible. Well done as usual.

Man oh man, you find all the nice priced toys where you live. Up here in NE Ct, you can't find deals like that anywhere. Wish I could. Those AC's go for much more up here. Keep up your fun time entertaining us. lol. A 70 yo Retired handyman.

Thank you kindly for the trip down memory lane Matt. As a little farm kid I literally grew up with, by spending countless hours playing on, an Allis Chalmers HD5 crawler tractor that had for years been the only tractor on the grain farm, save for an old Cletrac crawler that was kept as a keepsake after the HD5 was bought not all that long after WW II. That HD5 was a new overstock never delivered to the army army surplus unit that went from its original military yellow paint to a factory applied Allis Chalmers orange repaint prior to shipment for resale as army surplus by an Allis Chalmers dealer. No bucket or bulldozer blade on it ever, so it had the transverse suspension spring up front that let the tracks articulate some up front. It did come though with the full array of heavy skid plates on it, including a heavy formed thick steel plate shield over the back of the open to being damaged fuel tank―that shield was removed when a hydraulics system for implement hydraulics was added to the crawler; a red all in one Char-Lynn pump, valve body, and hydraulic oil reservoir unit mounted on the back of the tractor and chain driven by the PTO. In September of 1960 on my fourth birthday under my Dad's supervision I got to start the HD5 on my own and rattle it out of its storage shed. Most memorable birthday "gift" ever... When cold at room temperature, sparing use of ether was pretty well mandatory to get it's supercharged two cylinder two stroke Jimmy engine started without killing batteries by cranking and cranking and cranking some more. Straight liquid ether in a clear glass screw top bottle was what was being used at the time―no added lubricant like in most all modern ether sprays. Open up the throttle some, open up the air cleaner and methodically instill but two drops of ether, loosely close up the air cleaner, pull in the hand clutch―as a little boy I had to put both feet up on the dash just to be able to pull in the hand clutch―double check that the transmission is in neutral, step on the starter and release once it fired; in warm weather it would catch and start up right away every time. In the winter at -35°C/-31°F would take a bit more finesse to get it started, leaving the air cleaner open and instilling a couple more drops of ether as needed to keep it running as it is trying to run in the cold. Of course there was an 120V 1200W calrod immersion element recirculating convection current engine coolant tank heater plumbed into a coolant line from and back to the engine so that the diesel engine would be warm enough to even start in the winter. Starting in the early 60s the HD5 crawler tractor became a secondary tractor to a succession of ever more powerful rear wheel drive wheeled tractors―rubber tires of course. In 1973 at my suggestion a decent used three cylinder HD7 engine was shoe horned in in that crawler to give it some more power in a bid to keep it somewhat relevant to the implements pulled by the more powerful wheeled tractor on the farm. In 1975 the farm and attendant farm machinery was sold by my Dad and Mom as a package as a functioning farm. I haven't a clue as to the fate of that modded HD5. Ssh, hear that rumbling sound Matt? That's my Dad rolling over in his grave at the copious amounts of ether you give a HD5's engine... You do know you definitively "voided" what would have been the factory warranty of a HD5? NT ; - ) Again, thank you kindly for giving me pause to go down memory lane. And, thank you kindly to all who had the patience to read this post.

I bought my first mini (micro) excavator 2 days ago and it was delivered today (3/7) for free. Your machines make mine look like a tonka toy. You know where to click to see a video. But it will do the job for my 1 acre on brush clearing and moving logs from cut down pine trees.

26:32 And now we see the plant equipment mating ritual. Mating an excavator with a dozer is how we end up with a litter of backhoes. 😂😂

one thing is for sure,the engine and master clutch is good!

Tree-power steering move works! My dad did it on an old tractor my grampa had some 50 years ago. I hadn’t thought of it until you did it just now. I remember He did it a lot more violently then you did, and the steering broke free but it did a real number on the tree. What a great memory!.

Use to run a wheel loader at my previous job and would get stuck in it during the mud season and always wished they’d get a track loader. Still want to get one for around the house.

When your using a chain you should put something with a little weight in the middle of the chain that way if it snaps it will not go far because the object laying over the chain will keep it from going all the way

I love it when you bring these old machines back to life must be very satisfying.

A good layer of oil and grease protects it from rusting!

That A.C. crawler could become quite useful, once the clutch cylinders get fixed----!

Another gem in the rough. "Don't tell my wife that this is how I clean off dipsticks." Lol, I think she already knows.

The ole Rope to a tree trick worked in a remarkable fashion!

Just a related thought, Not likely in your Allis Chalmer track loader but I've seen a case where manual tranny on a 4x4 pickups Clutch was packed full of A mouse's house and not until it was completely removed and cleaned out by hand did it function again. They attempted the same procedure to free it to no avail. They had never seen nothing like it. It was packed super tight and it only packed tight due to the fact it was ran before they realized it was full of mouse bedding, so the centrifugal force packed it ultra tight inside the clutch. The lesson here. Don't ever discount the damage Mice will do the Buggers are slick little sabotagers. Cheers😊

That's an admirable amount of rust prevention in the engine bay.

A lot o people are so near sited and look at something like your dozor and all they see is junk. It's amazing the mind of someone that likes to fix things what they can do with it. And the satisfaction that it brings to ones spirit and soul. Gracias for sharing enjoy your videos.

Lots of beauties in this video, loved seeing the two caterpillar track loaders in the background and the mega fresh Gallion grader at the end :D This Allis Chalmers seems like a lovely machine :)

Matt, next time when you encircle a tree with a chain hooked to a "Yankum" rope, use a slip hook on the end that's hooked back onto the chain. Drive a tapered drift pin into the link on the "back" or "tree" side of the chain where the slip hook is fastened onto the chain leg running to the "Yankum" rope. Make sure your total loop around the tree is a couple of feet larger than the tree diameter. Then when the chain is under tension from the "Yankum" rope, simply drive the drift pin out of the link and the slip hook will slide toward the tree, giving you enough slack to unhook it. I may not have described it well, but the process works. I've done it many times. Best of luck with your toys!

HAHA i REALLY did not expect the sling around the tree trick was going to work quite as well as it did! Smart move Matt.

i knew the second you drove it off the trailer you were going to say "what a sweetheart"