that was very unexpected, but i can't lie, i really enjoyed it.

It still ran!!!!!! 😂😂😂

And Im guessing most people will miss it since its at the end

Drive it like you stole it and..., roll it off a cliff. Why not?! LMFAO

I don't think it beats him taking chainsaw to his truck dash, but it's up there with his all time greatest scenes

And then saying he would add some boulders along the edge of the new road was just priceless!!

One video he ordered a Tesla Cyber Truck in like the last 30 seconds of the video and said nothing about it in the title haha

@@adkadk4476 which one tho

@@pandoxno3 The one that he was fixing his white dodge pickup

@@pandoxno3 this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/opN-qJeT27Wqmp8.html

I am just a few years younger, 64 and have a similar story. I love the old D7.. a classic simple rugged machine which is relatively easy to maintain and will operate reliably for years. It is a shame that machines like this are no longer made. Now all the heavy equipment I see is chocked full of electronics that only makes them more complicated and usually more expensive.

Hi ray, i remember myfather also salvaging a used cat in the mid sixties and subbing a chrysler gas engine in it and riding in it with him to clear roads through land butnot much else about it. I watch this and it's almost hypnotic,

I just bought a early 50's D7. I gave 4k for it. Runs and drives.

@@johnpalmer5131 That’s true John, But, they can do a-helluva lot more and, are far far more, Powerful. I know. I’ve did the homework in comparing model. At the end of the day, I do believe it boils down to what we like. I much prefer new equipment. New pickups. New cars. Old cars have never done anything for me. No I don’t do the old restored car shows. You can have it. And I’m 64. I know my dad always said this. “Lots of folks talk about the good old days. I lived them. Many things about them, flat-out-stunk. Riding in the back, in a rumble seat all bundled up. Still freezing to death. I’ll take this shiny new Ford F-150 4x4 my boys bought me any day. And when the cold Montana wind blew we froze if we got away from the wood cooking stove or away from the firewood burning iron beast in the living room or the one in each bedroom. And we made the ones we had. Ones today are 100% more efficient folks! Chinking the walls when the wind blew through on my families old log house.” And he said a-lot more. So many things back then did not, I repeat, Did not last long. Like so many people today flat out lie. And say they did. They didn’t. And farm equipment back then, and like this was far more DANGEROUS TO OPERATE. If you went to our old grange hall here in NW Montana on dance night, back in the 60s / 70s up through the 80s, you could and would have seen so many, old timers missing fingers, hands etc because of equipment. “Back-In-The-Day.”

@@matthewerwin4677 nice

You sure know your Catershitia all right!

Let shitt her road? 😳

Andy, Andy, Andy. We worry about you. You've got to get your old heavy equipment habit under control !

I love how he just rolls the car off the side of the hill then just says “well, guess I need to make a guardrail here” classic Andrew Camatra right there….. lol great video

Should have cut to you crawling out of that Toyota. I thought you were driving it!

Who the heck are you? Sweet!

@@dickmeisterling3924wouldn't it be funny if he's totally making it all up and just escaped from Bellevue...

@@Samlol23_drrich die hard 3 lol

Right on. Oil spec has updated to oil that uses a friction modifier that works better. And the winch is always running when the tractor is on so no oil probably didn’t help the winch. Good call Cumminschevy

@@thomsonequipmentdozerwinch good to know thanks👌🏻👍🏻

Maybe The Boring Company will sponsor his next video.

Would love to see bagger getting restored and used that would be an epic video series

With the quarry sized loader in mind this comment aged well.

You can't beat real information.

I was going to say the same thing, but figured I should check to see if another genius posted it first. Lol

On the older cats the air cleaner looks like it’s missing a cover but the filter has a rubber lip that seals on the inside of the filter housing. So the filter is it’s self the cover. Jpaydirt has a good explanation of the filter typed here at 36:40 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZ1kmpOQ1c-mqp8.html

He ain't got time for all that. Good video though. Doc

Also you have enough land and rock to start buying some used quarry equipment and playing around with making big rocks smaller rocks lol

That's how they all started on earlier Dozers, with a ponymotor.

To be fair, every bigger engine uses another motor to start it, but they are nowadays electrical.

....and the ponymotor does need a (electric) motor to start!! 😉🤣

@@Guust_Flater Earlier ones were crank start and most of the later ones had a crank for a back up starter in case of dead batteries.

follow me function and away function on the DJI drone does that for you not the mini though

He’s always been very good with drones.

@@lutomson3496 I don't even understand how all that works with the drones but it's pretty damn cool they can do all that because it adds so much to his and others videos.

@@Military-Museum-LP I'm not sure there's anything he's not good or great at.pretty amazing guy and if he's not a genius he rewriting the meaning of it.

Not taking anything away from the video because I enjoy them too, however, the drone footage is super easy to do for a few hundred.

Absolutely. One of his vids, he paid like $1400 for a controller for a skid steer, where the computer was all potted so you couldn't work on it. I can guarantee there's plenty of people who could build a similar controller using an Arduino and some relays and sensors.

@@IBWatchinUrVids you might be on to something there 👍

WELL SAID!!!!!

Yes, should do more stuff with that car, still drives fine.

@@AndrewCamarata will there be a "digging a hillside" video ? From up close, i only see freshly exposed rock, but i cant really tell how much material you have removed over last year with all your new toys, but im curious 😁👍

Loved the video, the nonchalant rolling car off the edge just made it that much better!

@@AndrewCamarata That car is incredible then!!!!!!

Cody was probably thinking I’m sure glad I wasn’t in there when he let it go over the cliff!

@@Hoaxer51 Cody is one smart dog!!! Levi taught him well!!

like a jake brake sorta ran d-7 d-8 us army d-7 had the rops (roll bar) with 1/2 perforated metal scabbed onto it to keep debris like tree limbs from hitting you went we were clearing woods definitely i nice find not ever cheap to fix but looks like it's ready to go to work as is

@@dangates3022 I was a wrecker operator in the Army. Had to recover a D7 that was buried over the tracks in sticky red clay. Sure was fun to get out.

@@shadymaint1 me too, drove an M62, 1957 international harvester, it had a 650ci straight 6 gas engine, i loved that wrecker..

Isn’t that just a feature on CAT dozers? I’ve ran a Deere 650 and it didn’t have that. Our d4 most certainly has that

Some Deere dozers have a decelerator, just depends on the dozer, some have a clutch pedal.

I believe that he did one on his other equipment, great information tho,👍👍

Pretty simple

@@dalejohns2758 It sure is if there is a shop with substantial tooling and cranes and lots of experience working on Cat machines.

@@chrisluttor2275 he has all that

@@dalejohns2758 No he doesn't.

Ok

@@AndrewCamarata Also, don't try to open the throttle until it has oil pressure, they are blocked from going much above idle without oil pressure.

@@AndrewCamarata never planing on buying a stone crusher setup and make youre own gravel?

If the pony motor uses the same coolant as the engine, run the pony for 20 minutes before trying to crank the diesel. It will warm up the block. There should be a compression release to hold to crank the diesel to get oil pressure then release it to let the diesel start. It should be in the manual.

I think the pony motor exhaust preheats the big engine too, so just running the pony motor longer will make the main engine start better.

I'm glad you said that. hope he reads this. squash253 always talks about that important factor.

That is funny And true

yep.. mountains that came down on his head

@@involvedbystander66 what's your problem

U

Not only that, but we are able to watch it all on a tiny little device in the comfort of our own homes

6 Irish navvy's, a fortnight.

It’s even more impressive when you consider that the first D7 came out way back in 1939. We moved pretty fast from shovels and picks to heavy equipment.

@@jimallen9442 Haha nice

100 years ago, it would all be cheap slave/prison labor, like the kind that say, “hot-tars the roof of the plate factory for a bucket of suds for a guy and his co-workers” ;) (I wonder if anyone gets the reference nod)

In

yea it runs but that's about all i can say for it look's like it was raised from the dead from some scrap pile i want Andrew to get rich and buy one of those fancy new dozer what are they I'm guessing about $143.000 ? this antique needs a funeral in the steel mill

I was an operating engineer local 12 for 30 years only ran one dozen with a pony motor and actually saw a drop cable doze that hauled around to job sites for a Tax write off it never was used

@@stevenherrold5955 Andrew has plenty of money, thus his growing collection of antique iron, but he has stated many times that he hates electronics and refuses to buy anything that has them.

Thats what I thought and just posted a comment to the same effect

I remember going with my grandfather walking along the railroad to watch all the construction of I-75 at SR 36 many years ago.

My Transmission on my Toyota Sienna went out at 160000 miles.

Yes, how good would that be.

just watch the many previous videos

@@kennyirish5021 while that is true it would be nice to see an update video as there are pieces of equipment I saw in this video that don’t have there own video yet, unless videos for them in the works already lol. In any case this is another quality video from an awesome video creator. Keep up the great videos Andrew

"fixing things" ... or not! (29:19) Maybe a guard rail along here... oh well, the left headlight needed replacing, anyway. It'll be easier with the bumper "removed"! 😜

Good description. I'd never seen a CAT started until this past September when an old farmer brought one on a trailer to the Sandwich, Illinois fair. Was part of the Old Engine Collectors. Took him a while to get the pony started, but did get the big engine going. I guess it was on a trailer because there was like a 10 KW generator attached to the machine for powering stuff.

The pony motor on my fathers inherited D6 Cat from ww2 is a monster. pull cord is pretty awesome. Edit: The steering seems much easier as well.

Thanks for the explanation. While complex in steps, simple for a pro to get it manually going.

He usually does one really long snow plow video of the entire season when we get closer to spring.

yeah for sure

@@Spacecadet0730 yes ik but personally I would prefer more threw out the year.

@@etaled Maybe a few update videos through the winter and then at the end of the season do a long video like usual

@@NuggetGames1 u could of not said it any better

with no women

@@involvedbystander66 But he got plenty of old milf iron

@@jeffg3042 wouldn’t you love to see a review of his stable of equipment, everything I reckon even Andrew would be surprised at what his got Doesn’t often sell much

The old old Cat not best the newer electronic ones $$$$$$$to fix.. I am selling off my new 2016 308e alot of issues DPF regen and CAT will not sell me scanner which can read new stuff. Only CAT ET which is limited. Komatsu and Case give owner all tech needed. CAT and Deere bad now. $975 just for CAT to come plug into and scan machine minimum. I went to CAT to get bushings for my 289 CTL " made in china"!!!! 🤔x

Rolling a junk car off a hill was also a great homage to the good old days

always testing things.. lol

Poor Toyota!

That Toyota is a piece of junk, broke for no reason.

That piece you found goes under the front idler where it slides the position that is put in changes the set up for either pushing dirt with blade or pulling scrapers dont loose it you need it,good luck!

That's his *second* D7!

i think you mean behemoth