Even though I'm not in the Excavating field or in the market for a piece of equipment I do appreciate the honesty that you portray when you tell them that 50% doesn't actually mean 50% remaining life in the equipment👍👍

I'm not in the heavy plant machinery like you and Kevin but I enjoy watching people solving mechanical problems, fixing stuff etc. which is why I like watching your channel. This episode blew my mind because it never occurred to me that anyone would get into this much detail with machines of this size. Stupid me I guess, so bring on more videos like this guys.

Very informative video. You've saved some person that watches your videos from buying an excavator that has 30-40% left. Thanks for sharing.

Essential video Clinton!! You and Kevin are one heck of a team, and most important, straight shooters who do the job right or not at all. Much appreciated men!!

Makes my knees hurt to watch Kevin kneeling in the gravel with shorts on!

After 72 years, my undercarriage, is a little worn, and stretched too! 👏🏽 👍🏼☺ Now onto to the Tucker welding Vid! ☺

excellent advice, not just telling us the numbers but putting that information into a real world perspective

Excellent tutorial guys ... always up for learning new stuff. Love watching you evaluate stuff at Auctions ... like being able to lift the front tracks off the ground at idle power setting ... thanks !!!

2:13 A kevi-gator spotted on side rail 🎃 Thanks for splainin’ 👍

Really interesting demo. And props to Kevin for his awesome shadow puppets, even if Clint didn't see them.

Great explanation of undercarriage wear % and if around 50% good to know your not going to get the same hours as the first 50% wear. That was excellent now I know not to double the hours when buying used tracked vehicles. Thanks you just saved me some money.

Thanks for the explanation of how to measure undercarriage.

Honestly never knew where those numbers in ads for equipment came from. I learned something new today. Thanks.

about the 12 minute mark talking about the wear life and the rollers and components being worn past the hardened areas is absolute fact, most wear edges and components of that nature are only surfaced hardened as they cannot be through hardened because this would make the part too brittle to be reliable under the harsh conditions of an undercarriage.

Great info! Always looking for good used equipment.

Realy love this video Clint and Kev ,

Great info for people buying used machinery

Thanks Clint.. a lot of good info Kevin is a measuring ninja

THANKS BUDDY FOR SHARING YOUR TIME WITH US

Interesting, never knew how that was figured. Thanks Clint, learn a lot when every video .

Very informative! 🙂👍 That excavator is still in nice shape. Always helps when the previous owner actually cares about maintenance and greasing the equipment. Take care 🔧🔩

great video guy's, you've just educated those who had no idea what goes on with an under carriage.

Never seen that done on an excavator. Very educational 👍

This is a AWESOME information video for us tracked vehicle geeks. 😁

Great you share your experience with the internet.

Great job! Thanks for the information!

I really like the way you go through stuff and explain whats going on

Great job and good explanation of wear and how the last 50% wears twice as fast

Great information to have, thanks guy’s

Great to see how the pros do it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills.

Nice education, enjoyed the class!!👍🇺🇸

That was educational, I've run this stuff but never did know how they come up with percentages. Thanks. Keep smilin

Good to know !! Thanks. I always wondered how people come up with these figures.

Thanks for sharing some great tips guys.

I just purchased a little bitty Komatsu D 21P dozer for some extremely light finish work. I purchased it from an individual and he kept saying there was about 80% left to the undercarriage. I drove the two hours to look at it because he was an older man and did not know how to send photos of it. Well when I got there I told him yeah it’s probably just looking at it 50% and he said well that’s probably another 1500 or 2000 hours I said no more like when it gets on the trailer and gets home it’s getting a new undercarriage because like you said in the video once it reaches that point it’s wearing extremely fast probably at about three times the rate. I put a new undercarriage under myself including sprockets the whole thing. I don’t know why I waited so long to purchase one of those little dozers, sweet running little machine. I mean you could probably never use it for daily use because it would just make you mad and wish you had a dozer ha ha. I run 650k’s i have 2 of them.

Thanks for the video. Great information about the wear of undercarriage. I think Vana White has nothing to worry about. Lol. Thank you for all you do.

thanks for the lesson and info

thanks for that, I found it very interesting!

Very informative, especially for those of us who don't deal with this type of equipment. Thanks

Clint, I admire the respect you show for Kevin, I am sure he appreciates it. A good Boss is what you are.

Good video...very informative. Thanks.

Great video Clint, much appreciate expert explanations of wear items. Re_did a building 30+ years ago that was a dealer for Italian replacement parts, folks went out of business and alllll the leftover track pads rollers and whatnots got put right in the dumpsters. Shame now that I know what that stuff was.

Really useful information you gave there. Appreciate your time and effort. Always learn something from watching you guys. Keep up the good work!

That's a great vid!! Nice way to explain everything

That’s good news for all of us to know thanks again for your great news 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

👍👍👍 THANKS FOR THE INFO VERY EDUCATIONAL

That was very interesting and informative Clint and Kevin from a guy not in the excavating or equipment basis. Very interesting to see what goes into determining how much of an undercarriage is left on a machine and if it gets to that 40-50% range it won't last as long as one thinks.

Of course this would have to be done - just like the tyres/tires on a car have to be checked. This is a whole new worl to me and enjoy the learning experience.

Looking forward to the dozer video

That is interesting and that part about 40-50% wearing out quicker makes a fair bit of sense.

Holy cow..! Lotsa info., there…, very interesting. Thank you sir’s.

Clint Im an attorney, I practice Constitutional law for the state of Illinois but Im also an A&P IA which is an airplane mechanic. I just started building a hanger (brothers & myself) because the place I was rent got too small. I just learned how to operate a dozer & excavator clearing trees for the flat work for the hanger floor. I find that operating this type of equipment is very enjoyable and since watching @dirtperfect first very educational as well. Between you & Mike from Dirt Perfect I have learned a lot about this type of equipment. At 53 Im always learning even if I didnt want to. Thanks for this and all your videos I find them very interesting

Very informative thank you for sharing

Nice shadow puppets, Kevin

Thank you for the tutorial on assessing undercarriage condition. I am looking for a small excavator and this will be helpful in figuring if its worn out or not.

Thanks for sharing great explanation on how to measure track and rail wear

Very informative. Thanks

Our 210c case has some links kinked up and won't straighten out. Pretty sure it needs new rails for sure. Thanks for the helpful info. Will be doing some measuring to check for further wear.

Clinton another essential video thank you for taking the time. 👏👏👏👍

Information appreciated 👍

Great information 👍

Great educational video.

Always wondered how to determine that. Excellent information guys. Thank you and thanks for sharing.

Nice video thanks for the education in the big equipment field. Not in this field but I sure help someone that needs this information for future use.

great information 😊

Great video guys that is something that I would have never known if it were not for watching your channel. Safe travels bro

Cool video even if i will never need to purchase the parts its cool to see how it suppose to be done for measuring. I know i have seen some farm equipment that just from watching you guys and a few other excavator channels can see that the front sprocket is pushed way out. Have even tried to send a few farmers your way who were looking to purchase big dozers.

Great watch gentleman thanks for sharing 👋👍🇨🇦

Interesting, thank you for sharing this process.

Great video and information 👍🤙🇦🇺

As someone in an entirely different profession I find your work ethics to be outstanding. To many individuals wouldn't give a crap about the equipment they are selling. To many in all professions are all about maximizing profit over honesty to customers.

Thanks Clint…

So 50% means 10% left. Great video, I always wondered how that measurement goes.

thanks Clint alway wanted to know how to measure the wear on the tracks

Great video Clint 🇺🇸

Vary helpful videos my family owns a hardware store n they rent out mini kabota excavators n track skid steers b nice to b able to look at em n no a lil more what I’m looking at n not bugging good ole dad lol

Hey Clint!! Great video and info. Was always wondering how they came up with the percentages on undercarriage wear. Looking forward for the dozer video. Thanks. Tell Kevin he made my knees hurt kneeling on that gravel.

Great job y’all

Very informational loved the video guys

Good stuff guys.

Thanks for the info 👍.

great video, loved it!!!

It's very interesting to see how measurements are done on an excavator compared to military tracks. We would do an EST on a tank and change any parts.

Interesting informative stuff we can take this to even mean even in vehicle's we buy used first owner got the best 50 thousand miles our next 50 thousand it will wear and break so much faster, Oh Kevin sure has tough knees knelling in the gravel in shorts wow.

Nice content. No more semi educated guessing.

Clint I always wondered how to measure a undercarriage properly and get average how warn it is very informative 👍

THANKS guys

Informative

I R edgumekatided now that I tooken yurn korse on tha undur karridge, thankee Kindlee.😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wasn't trying to be a smart @zz but having a little fun Totally now understand how the situation gets translated into numbers and percentages Now thanks to you guys I get it! Much respect guys!!👍😎

Could you do a video on what you think is the best pusher dozer? like I don’t know if I high track would push more than the standard way, nothing bigger than a D6 nothing smaller than a D4. just would like to get a video on what your thoughts are. I demoed a d5k2 lgp but it seems like those tracks spun way too much for what it was pushing.

Like the way you pass this useful information on well done boys thank you

good stuff

Thank you Knowledge is power Have a great day brother Just saying

INTERESTING

learned a lot i did not know

Kevin knows how to button up a shirt. Lol 😆 🤣 😂

Done checked ✅

Nice out it's November 1st. Snow can come anytime

Nice explanation. When measuring from center to center, I often measure from left edge to left edge, or right edge to right edge of a circle. A tape measure is much more accurate when you can put a line on a edge, instead of eyeballing the midpoint of a circle. Just a tip from a finemechanical engineer.

Like the video and the information but I hate the metric system