I admire the owner’s determination and depth of his pockets in getting this machine back to operating condition.

Mustie, Diesel Creek, and Wes all uploading on the same morning, it's going to be a good day

I love when your dog was pointing at it as if to say there is a dead tractor here Wes...lol

This unit's rescue and you beginning to repair it was the first time I saw a Watch Wes Work video. Subscribed right away. It's been great fun ever since.

What we have here is a prime example of a pre-historic skidsteer and a guy that knows how to make old stuff work again. Nice work W3.

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I am amazed you didn't cause more damage than you did when mounting that loader attachment. The Oliver you were using seemed determined to do as much damage as possible. While I can take or leave a video on replacing that leaky control valve, what I would really enjoy is watching you deliver it to the owner and have him test it out! If he does not mind appearing on video that is.

There's nothing better than having a piece of equipment fire right up in cold weather, you had worked on. . Older stuff being simpler , usually does the job and works.

Lots of people have been waiting for this project update. We have been watching it in the background for sometime.now.

The rebuild turned out really nice. This project got me interested in this channel last year. I hope the owner has a covered shed to house the Oliver. It deserves protection from the rain and snow.

Wes I found your channel through a Fred Dibnah comment you left on another channel and I've been hooked ever since. Best on KZfaq by far your knowledge and humour make a great combination. Thanks you

Wes, I can't speak for everyone else, but I think you did a great job on that little tractor. The work and time involved will never be paid for, but when you consider what you've done that's amazing. Steak dinner followed by a adult beverage or two is more than deserved. The owner has got to be happy that it's much better off now than when you started oh so long ago. Some things are a labour of love, but getting paid is always a bonus too.. Nice job Sir.. Bravo!

When I used to work for Perkins, if we had porosity or "breakthrough" on drillings for oilways in cylinder block castings we used to use loctite 638 to fill cracks, splits and voids (it can be used as a permanent thread locker/filler as well ----- we did also use it to glue/seal the wet liners into the blocks as well ) in combination with loctite activator 7471 (it will cure itself but activator speeds up the curing process and improves the adhesion bond to the surface) as one possibility to fix the crack in the spool valve or as an alternative because 638 is quite viscous very low viscosity superglue with baking soda as an activator (the soda won't get into the crack but will set off the glue in there --- this is good also for fixing thermoset plastics such as tractor fenders and hoods/bonnets like John Deere) giving a "glass" hard crack fill (I am tempted to try this on pitted/scored hydraulic rams as a cheap alternative to re-chroming or replacement on cost critical work but worry about peeling due to vibration, heat expansion or flex).

Glad you crimped an eye on that cable. I was already headed for the comment box when you began to tighten the bolts. LOL

I clicked on this video because I have a picture of my Dad running a loader like this when I was a kid. that would have been 60 years ago. He had his own business for awhile but the biggest problem was getting customer to pay what they owe. So he went to work for someone else. somewhere there is a picture of me sitting on the front fender of one of his dump trucks fond memories.

I found this about battery disconnects, "There's considerable controversy over whether it's best to hook up the master-shutoff ("kill") switch to the battery's positive or negative side. NHRA rules still mandate a positive-side hookup, but most stock-car sanctioning bodies want the kill switch on the negative side. I vote for the negative side if it's legal. On a switch connected through the positive side, the exposed terminals on the back of the switch or a broken positive cable could contact the sheet metal or frame during a crash, creating a short to ground and safety hazard. The negative cable connects to the body ground already-so there's no additional danger if it rubs. It's the same principle as to why you should always disconnect the battery's negative side first before performing electrical service." On a tractor, whatever floats your boat.

I was just going to start on a list from the wife of stuff that needs to be fixed, saved by this notification Watch Wes Work, thanks again Wes. Prespilled I love it.

Well done mate, that really is a machine for a married man, you couldn’t hear a thing when operating it !

Serious suggestion Wes; seek collab with Abom on replacement of those hydraulic rods. Your channel is well worthy of such attention, and he has already been made aware of your existence when Lance and company copied your Kingway implementation. This project is already such an obviously ill advised labor of love by all parties...methinks it is a perfect candidate.

“I’ve already gone ahead and pre spilled some fluid” 😂🤣😂 I frequently follow that same procedure at home.

Rolling laughing at the "intro" stuck to the tree at 1:33! Totally unexpected and one of the many reasons I enjoy watching your channel (well, that and sometimes I accidentally learn something.)

Thank You for completing OC46. I’m thinking that this machine could be older than 60. I’m 75 and when I was a 15 year old Kid, I worked for a small JI CASE Dealer in Kamloops BC, and I loved this machine that was taken in on trade and maybe 10 years old back then. I had a lot of fun spreading cinders from the WHITEWAY LAUNDRY coal fired boilers on dirt Equipment Lot that was next door. You gave us a lot of good videos. Thanks again.

Well, the machine is younger than me, so why should it not work? Mind you, the effort to get it back to nearly good, has been one long haul for you. I have to say this, you are not one to be put off and can always find a way to bypass problems with a workable solution, though when key precision things are broken, it does become a bigger challenge to overcome the trouble. It has been an interesting year, thank you.

I'm a retired heavy equipment mechanic. You are old of the best that I've seen. I love how you take such pride in everything that you do. VERY rare in todays world. My favorite channel.

Love the "post it" note and the muzak, at 1:29 😆

Well Done on that Old Iron Repair- its been a fun one to watch, the mechanical technology they came up with back then was amazing, such intricate pieces on some of those areas for such big iron, thanks for keeping her alive!

A pile of loam just magically appears ready for the Oliver to play with. Now I know Wes has made it to the big time when he can afford production & props like this. ;-)

Although I am a lot older than you I have learned so much about the really technical side and the electrical side of problems you encounter and you have helped me understand so much, god love you and your family.

The loader was a after thought for Oliver they were built originally to be a ag crawler for plowing disking and planning that’s why I it’s geared so high

OMG, Scoopy has a FRAM filter on the gas line 😱. I'm sure it won't run long like that LOL

Very nice, Wes. Sad to see this is the last vid on this old unit. My hat is off to the owner who was willing to spend the money to keep this old girl going. Great job!

My Dog is laying here on the couch watching Max sniffing the tractor, She is hysterical watching him.

That Intro was terrific! Loved the note on the tree. OK, just thought I'd say that quick. Now back to the video...

You've done a fantastic job with that Wes. I'd be happy to see the final part with the spool block but whatever you choose, I'll watch bud 👌🏼🇺🇸🇬🇧

The new seat and tank and battery box is nice cool to see the front loader attachment added back on @Watch Wes Work

This comment counts as qty:1-Huge Demand. Back in the 80's, on the coldest day of the flipping year, my 76 LTD fuel pump pulled that diaphragm stunt on the way across north Texas at 0530 in the dark AM, first day of Christmas break. Sounded like a clattering knitting needle convention. Oil was way past full, I got some motor honey on the interstate, and dumped it in. We pulled into Tyler, shouted out a request on the 2 meter radio for directions, and waited at Whataburger until Autozone opened. I swapped out the fuel pump and did an oil change in the dirt lot behind the 'zone. It overflowed the drip pan I bought. Wind chill was WAY below freezing.... I couldn't back the nuts off the pump without having to warm my hands up for a bit. Leather gloves were too stiff to wear. We made it home to visit kin in Lubbock, but the heater couldn't keep up. Long story that..... We unpacked the suitcases and dressed the little ones up in every thing we had just to keep them warm. What a memory. Thanks Wes.

my dad used to draw for Oliver corporation late fifties early sixties. he always thought the designs were weird. you had that loader assembly hanging from a chain so close to being blasted and painted i could taste it. highest pressure plumbing jb weld and emery cloth for deficits in the piston chrome.

"I've already gone ahead and pre spilled some fluid so hopefully the machine doesn't feel it has to compensate by spilling anymore" I literally spat my brew out laughing when you said that 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Bonus no pipe leaks 👍 Another fabulous video Wez, good to see the Oliver running again

I admire your skills to solve problems mechanically, & your attitude in doing it. What a gift from God!! Thanks for blessing us.

nothing is better than seeing old iron with new switches and seals put back in service.

Gooday Wes You cold wash out the spool stand it up on the end clean again with loctite primer warm a little then fill the hollow at the end with loctite 545 hydraulic sealent this has worked for me before with the clamp reducing the ability of the crack to spread good luck Len

All I'm saying is someone has to love that little track loader !

The owner must really love his antique loader after all the hours of work you have endured an materials used.

Yay! This is the machine that brought me to your channel! Yay to the Oliver Crawler!

Now I understand why machines like this sit in fields unused, quietly rusting for eternity.

Thanks for taking the time to bring us along. Nice to see you get her running. 🇨🇦

I’ve just learned something. Hank on Hamiltonville farm keeps mentioning‘crescent wrenches’. I assumed that was the name for an adjustable spanner in the US. Turns out it’s a make… Live and learn🇬🇧

"The Scotch-Loc of battery terminals".. PERFECT. And true. :)

Please don't talk yourself down. I respect your abilities you're awesome mechanic and a decent person.

Thank goodness the video dropped!!! I was going into withdrawal from WWW…. That little tractor, even though it cost a bit to get going will still do a lot of work and for way less than a used skid steer!!!

Fired right up with no problems what a champ this is such a great old machine @Watch Wes Work

one of those jobs you get sick of the sight of it and really hate it at times and when its finished you do the a little happy dance and pat your self on the back and smile because you fixed it

I see you're 1650 Oliver has just as smooth Hydraulics as my 1850! Yep, extremely aggravating with a heavy load. Kudos to you for lowering that heavy thing all by yourself and getting it into position.

Look who's fancy, a title card and music? Watch out Speilburg!

Somehow I got the feeling you were really enjoying yourself driving that around... Thumbs Up!

Great job Wes. You made this old baby look new again.

What an intro! Well done.

They weren't engineered like they are today, but they were built tough to last a long time.

I just about blew coffee out my nose when you had the hydraulic fill failure!

I didn't know anything about this project. I just spent 188 minutes watching the other videos to catch up. Loved every second of it. Thank you for your videos and time. Is is always informative and a great watch.

1st from Australia. Love your work.

Hi Wes, Braze the spool valve and machine it back to the standard size.

I am 68 years old and was working on farm equipment when I was 13. I seem to remember all 6 volt systems had them heavy battery cables for a reason. Not sure what that reason was some thing to do with being much better for carrying 6 volts. The other thing is I put 8 volt battery's in every thing that was useing 6 volt system and it worked very well. Or I would convert many over to 12 volts change the generator to 12.volt alternator had to change all the lights to 12 volts, add resisters to the ignition. They would always start much better and never really harmed the starters. Its great watching some one working on so many different projects. Thats the way it was for me on the farm even as a young kid. Keep up the great work.

i couldn’t believe it when you bolt on that terminal lol

Awesome video Wes, the baby bulldozer lives!! Good job!! Greetings from the UK 🙂

I think I watched that pop off with the glass jar shooting in the air and landing next to you at least 10 times. It’s right at 2:23 into the video… A Three Stooges moment near miss!

This reminds me of the 1960's when, as a teenager, I worked in my father's rural/farm country garage. He kept up a lot of the area farmers' equipment.

well done Wes, thanks for the hours of entertainment. you deserve a medal.

Nice job! If your customer ever wants the cylinders fixed on the loader, Able Machine in South Carolina used to handle all the rechroming work my dad did. He did business with them for years, he seemed to be happy with their work. He was a mechanic and later foreman at a Clark & Crown forklift dealership.

Woohooo! Oliver’s back! Nice one Wes! PS: There’s a huge demand for any Oliver content.

That thing starts and runs better than my wife’s new traverse!

I had one of those machines back in the 1970's and as I recall we ran it with the motor wide open. It had very strong hydraulics and was quick as a cat for a dozer/loader. Mine was what they called a spot turn model in which it used some kind of planetary steering system. You could actually make the tracks go in different directions and turn in circles. It was the closest thing to a modern skid steer, track machine. It was the quickest loader I had operated up to that time. Was a long time ago, but it did a great job for us until I decided we needed a larger unit. I think we replaced it with a John Deer 125 skid steer. Also, ours had a large counter weight on the rear above the draw bar. Small but mighty rig. Nick, North West Farmer

Vintage iron! Amazing work, Wes! How many hours of labor did you put into it?

Well done Sir! I dont know about the rest, but personally I'd love to see what you end up doing with the Cylinder and with the hydraulic controls. Replacing it with new could be pretty reasonably straight forward but I'm betting you end up recycling or repairing something to get it to work. At least with a new one, it might give you a spring on the boom control

Can't get enough of the work on vintage stuff.

As a kid I got to drive one a short ways. Father had it to level out some farmland and clear stumps. Broke down more then it ran.

This is a great way to start off a Sunday morning!

The intro was great, you just keep getting better and better at this whole KZfaq thing. Great job.

Wes, your blow by blow commentary makes your videos. Dry sense of humor just adds to the entertainment. AND of course the instructive quality of the video caps the deal. Well done Sir. I chuckle a lot while watching your channel and my wife keeps asking "what's so funny". I never try to explain cuz she'd never get it. Thanks

I mean, a year's a respectable time table to restore a 60 yo unit without breaking the bank. I'm having problems sourcing parts for my old Merc these days. :)) Great job Wes, and kudos to the owner for sticking with it. Awesome job!

WES !-- the MOST humble, competent man I know ! Ms Hufflepuff is one lucky LADY !

Wes, I just picked up some new hydraulic line fittings at a local scrap yard. They are for a garden tractor that I'm building. It will have either an 18 HP engine, or a 21 hp. I have a Kubota 18 HP gas engine, that is most likely going to be the power plant I'll use. I bought it for $75, and had it gone over. The only issues I had were a leaky, brittle radiator, and the need for new gauges. I'll integrate them into the body when I get that far.

Great to see this back in operation! I scanned some comments to see if anyone had suggested a miraculous cure for the split spool valve, but didn't spot one.

I have followed this series from the beginning. They only thing I would put that much time into would be a Barbecued pig. Keep up the work Wes. Always enjoy your videos.

Wes, I had a Subaru Justy years ago that needed a muffler for state inspection, and since it was only 66hp, I used a tractor muffler on it, and it worked surprisingly well. I think the exhaust pipe was 1". The factory muffler was over $80, the tractor supply muffler was about $20.

Long way coming but what a result.awesome as always

My Saturday wasn’t complete without your video. But it was better today!! Thanks for your videos!! Greetings from PuertoRico

The tape holding your note up makes this even better

If you flip the strap over on those bolt-on battery terminals they work a lot better. Not saying they're amazing but they do hold quite a bit better than if the strap is the way it's "supposed" to be.

Love your work Wes. Always enjoy watching.

Wes, we had one of these. It was a 1963 Model. It cost I believe $6,000.00 new from the dealer. We had a hydraulic 3 pt hitch. And yes Its weird to operate but we got used to it. As I remember the Reverser lever was on the left side not the right on ours. It had enormous power for a 3cyl Hercules. We owned a landscape nursery and used it on landscape jobs and in the field lifting large trees out of the holes. We had a special "hawk nose" tree attachment on the loader to lift trees out of the hole after they were balled and burlaped. We used the 3pt with a trencher V implement to cut a trench and line out new trees in the field. This video really brought back a lot of memories. Thanks so much.

I have been subscribed to your channel since you were working out of a little garage/shop on some alley way in whatever town it was. When you were doing machining and lathe work. Plus repairing some electrical circuits I think. Forgive me, it's been awhile. I love the old iron videos, as well as the comedy you add in a daily repair. Keep up the great work Wes, and tell the dear wife that she shouldn't wear good clothes to a repair shop and expect to keep them clean. hahaha. Even if the threat is from your own kid!

I should be on my dozer pushing up brush piles, but no, WWW has a dozer update....priorities!

Nice fix on that spool. I don’t know whether there’s a standard accepted pattern on reverser levers in general, but fwiw, Caterpillar reverser levers on their old standard transmission dozers are like this Oliver where it’s back for forward. My old Clark/Michigan loaders came with the most annoying control valve arrangement for the lift function and it’s only the “up” control side. To lift the boom its all or nothing. Just full send with ALL the flow. You can’t feather it. Additionally, it locks in place. So every time you lift something you just bang it into the “up” position and when it’s up high enough you have to bang it out. When these loaders were new, they unloaded ore freighters on Lake Michigan so I don’t know but someone thought it was a good idea. The guy I bought these loaders from has modified the second loader to eliminate this “feature”. I’d love to do my other one too - we’ll see.

Quintessential Watch Wes content right here folks. Keeping machines running is part of what makes America work.

Seems way quieter with the new muffler looks great new lines and belly pan and the shifter turned out nice great work i enjoyed this series a ton was super entertaining @Watch Wes Work

Wes - that was a big project and a great project to watch - I would watch the valve project because I don't know much about the hydraulic valving systems - great video - until the next one :)

Always put the cut off on the negative (ground) side of the battery, if the positive terminal of the battery touches the grounded metal of the vehicle isolating the negative (ground) side will stop the short.

Id love to see this fixed up proper, and given a paintjob. Some farm yellow, spray and pray but it would look nice. That thing is a cute little rig.

Wes, you are so so right about the Scotchlok of battery terminals. LOL