Nice to see Timmy back around Chris.

TIM!!!!!! Glad to see you! ❤️️ Don't think the guys could be any happier than being at the Classic Cat Auction. Atmosphere is sorta like Christmas morning! Thanks for posting, Chris!

Tim and Justin?? So glad to see them again!

Timmy!! Nice to see the 3 Muskitiers back together again!!

Nice to hear Justin’s laugh and to see Tim .👍🍺🍺🍺

Always nice to see Justin and Tim, they're good people.

It speaks volumes for the older equipment when they can sit for 25 years and all you have to do to get them started is add new batteries, try that with the computerized junk made today!

It was great to see Tim! Thank you Chris.

Nice to see Tim👍🇬🇧

Takes me back to my days 83-94. I had a 235, 112 motor grader, 920 Wheel loader, 966 wheel loader, and two Northwest model 6 draglines, a Mack, and 10 GMC 9500s with Cummins 290s & a Chevy with a 671 Jimmy. Rented a 977 when I needed it. All hard work but I loved & was good at it. Enjoying your channel brother.

Great to see Tim.

This should be fun Justin and Tim together going to watch now👍

Good to see Tim and Justin again. Was thinking you'd silence those people who are always telling you to use a tracked loader on jobs when you said you were gonna buy that one if Justin didn't, lol.

Andrew Camarata would leave that place broke and with 20 new to him machines 😂

This is the most i've heard Tim speak in all his years combined on the channel LOL

Think Chris is in love with the 983 tracked loader!!!😂🇬🇧👍

Always an adventure when Chris and gang head to the auctions!!

Great to see Tim & Justin!!👍👍

I used to drive a tractor trailer dump truck. Our local rick quarry had a wheel loader that would load the truck in one scoop plus just a little bit of a second scoop for a 25 ton load. One day the operator had the bucket down flat smoothing his path. He was idling towards the pile. The end tooth caught a section of railroad track. He didn't know it. We were yelling but he couldn't hear us. It bowed that section of track up like a child's bow and arrow. It eventually broke loose and flew up in the air. The operator and machine never knew it until it broke loose and flew up.

Great to see Tim and Justin Looks like Jpaydirts yard 😀

Justin and Tim together, now that’s a hoot! You can’t not laugh with Justin around! 😂🤣😂🤣🤘🏻🤘🏻👍👍

Nice to see Timmy again. Damn that boy needs to eat more!😂

Great seeing Tim missed him.🥰👍

Wow cool, thanks for sharing Chris

a sandblaster and a airless paintsprayer would be a good investment now Maybe a tig welder to repalce the thinner sheet metall that rusted away as well

Wish I’d known about this auction! Looks right up my alley!

HEY Chris !!! Now you have a "NEW"" SHEEPSFOOT to roll & pack those Pond Dams !!!! Thanks for the video with Tim & Justin !!!! ""KEEP IT SAFE "" !!

Good to see Tim again. And Justin Building his fleet everybody has to start some where

You know he’s serious when he starts asking what number it is!😂

Thats a whole lotta trouble in one spot!

Yay, an auction video! I'm also guessing this means Tim is going into business for himself by the way he's testing out machines? Good on him, glad to see he's succeeding on his own, just like justin has.

Lmao...you and justin are a damn riot!!!! God u miss you two working together!!!

Chris I love to hear Justin laugh man he makes my day every time you and him get together and tell Tim that I said hello I’m glad that we got to see him but anyway Justin must’ve him a big job coming up 2 x 2 rollers well one sheet foot and one roller but anyway I’m glad to see y’all three together and having a good time so y’all stay safe and keep the videos coming brother

“It might be one of those you just pull onto the job site and charge for it to sit there” 😂😂

Good to see Tim again!

Every machine justin gets on* Chris- that’s you Justin. LMAO

There it is Chris, a D9 that I commented about before. Stop playing around pushing brush piles around. With a D9 you can push nonstop from one end of a project to the other. Cheers!!!

Excellent choices to grow your business Justin. Glad to see Chris & Timmy along with you.,

I bought a low number 953 20Z last year for a steal, it was only later when I was having engine trouble that the CAT tech who came out discovered he had serviced the machine 5 years ago. In fact, it still had the same oil filter he had put on the last time he serviced it. So now I've got a great running machine thanks to a new rebuilt engine. Hard lesson learned..

I operated many of these machines in my time operating. Not overly comfortable as today's machines are, but these machines could move some earth with serious intentions. Extremely durable iron, dump trucks from this era are no joke either.. 😎

Chris you have some awesome friends brother, that’s what life’s all about! Good video brother! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

The company that did dirt work for my pops back in the day had a 955 and a 977 track loader along with several Ford 755 backhoes with cab

Where is Charlie? He could do some work on this equipment and get 25 more years of service out of it.

The NC National Guard was on stand-by today with you three (3) guys hanging out together. 😬👍

I could watch for hrs of y all piddlin. Hope Justin Gets those ol girls n good shape

Love the older equipment. It definitely was well built.

Great to see you, Justin and Tim together.........good times. This was in the Raleigh area somewhere right?

love the big track loaders! we have a 977k with a huge bucket as well

Good to see Tim and Justin! Hi guys! (Waving hand)

Well hot damn timmy has made a guest appearance!!!

Jeff would explode with excitement there ! Enough iron for a years shows

Man the coolest old iron auctions are always in the Carolinas an Chris is always the first to get to them, man there some classics at that place, that's awesome, thanks for sharing

What did that old stuff bring

That was fun to watch. I miss going to equipment and truck auctions. Well, it's the hot dogs and ice cream mostly.😁

OH MAN! I have driven past that yard a million times over the years and always wondered why such classics were left to rust! Glad theyre going to get new homes and get used!

Great to see the three of you together laughing and messing about .🇬🇧👍👍👍

30 yrs ago I operated a Cat 225 excavator. Rotator brake was gone. Used it to screen top soil. To stop it from rotating had to put the bucket in the ground to stop it. Right main drive was broken so it just sat on top of the pile. No A/C windows was broken out of it. And bushing was so sloppy bucket would flop side to side.but it got the job done barely lol

Hell to Charlie that’s a new fleet!

It's a day of the boys and their toys!!! 👍😁👍 Getting ready for the new Infrastructure projects!!! 🚧👷‍♂️🚧👷‍♂️🚧 🚜💨💨

You want $205,000 for that cat excavator. I'll trade you 4 green treated 2x6-14' boards. Which is more then what you want for that cat excavator. Lol. 🤣🤣🤣

the clam (4 in 1) for any cat 953,63,73 is a must. a track loader can do most of the work you do w/o the help of an excavator. but. you need a good operator that can sift, grab and shake out dirt and rocks. Also, you can cut grade if you open the clam a bit and use that front cutting edge. very versatile and under-rated machine. we rely on the track loaders and use excavators when the added dexterity is mandatory.

very neat video thanks for sharing 😎👊🏻👍🏻

I have a 955 with a 4 in 1 bucket. The 4 in 1 on that 953 makes it a useful machine.

They didn’t tell ya that Tim comes with the purchase of that roller!.

Great to see the gang all here again.

Justin sounds like Gomer Pyle. No joke. Same kind of accent and very similar voice.

Looks like a good time 😁

Wasn’t sure if Tim still worked with you or not. Good to see him!!

Good to see tim, justin all in this video at the auction .

I watched a Cat D11 ripping overburden rock north of Las Vegas. The ground literally shook every time it hit solid rock. Awesome!

one of those old track loaders dug all the basements in my neighborhood we had the 8th finished house and as a kid I would watch the old guy working 12 hours a day smoking a giant cigar in an open cab

Camatra property maintenance would buyout that whole lot and have them all mint in a week.

Great to see Tim and Justin with they're pal

Always great to see Justin!

I am sure that many interstate highways were built with this stuff and new prices are just insane. I kinda remember all these working at one time as a kid going across the interstate roads and seeing them move a mountain of earth on each pass. as well as those pusher rigs for the scrappers. I have ran the 245 excavator with what was called the high cab and it did set way up in the air. We tried to move a cab on another one so we could use in logging for loading logs with. With large grapples, we could load a log truck with a bail of wood in each time they reached into those large log decks. So sometimes even those machines were just not quite big enough to load some of the timber that we were into at that time ... late seventies. You think those machines are big... other companies would try to outdo the other mans logging operation an would have a quarter of a million in one machine and most loggers of that time had several sides going at one time meaning when it come lowboy time and I had to load those on a trailer an move them to the shop in the winter for all the necessary upkeep. I asked one old logger why? I mean your not a young man... sell half this stuff and retire an he said if he quit, then he would die and you know what... he was right. I do think its a addiction when you hear one running and know what they can do and how much you "think that you can do" so you keep building up. I bet that you found that one out Cris. I don't think that even though a cool machine, the military dump was a poor investment when you could own a cat dumper with a bigger box.... of course there is movement problems as it gets too big for most jobs. Were I you at that auction, I might of come home with one of the Terex dump rigs with six wheel drive. I think that the only thing going against you at the moment is your the only one who knows how to properly run one, and will not come to work all hung over and take it out on a piece of equipment.;I too ran small business jobs and could do it all but help cost so much that the machines just couldn't overcome some of the dumb idiots who had chances to learn on the job just as long as they put in effort to really learn how... just to watch them learn then quit to go to someone else. I don't mind a man improving on his job but let me get something out of the time and money invested in them. In the early eighties, the government offered to pay for all my equipment and give me lots of work if I would train so I did look into it an I was basically owned again so left the game for others to get sucked into it... so just guessing to buy all those machines new would be a high eight figures right?

That Cat 953 is the best machine out there.

You need the 983 to load those neighborhood pond dredging jobs you usually use the skidsteer on. It'd cut your loading hours by 90%.

With Justin there, what could possibly go wrong :).

That Terex and paddle pan bring back some memories.

Fun to see the Cats and fun you guys had. Love the cat track loaders!

good to see Tim.

I didn't know Charlie was down sizing!?

I worked with a company in the mid-2000s and ran one of those old 9 series track loaders a few times. Got stuck on one for a week at one job. Not fun. I also spent a lot of time on an old D6. Mostly pushing those old pans. That thing was a beast. That old stuff made for some long days compared to the newer stuff. Luckily, I was on a crew that mostly ran newer stuff if we weren't using the pans. That stuff was from the "when men were men" era. haha We also had 235 and 245 hoes. I didn't operate those other than to moving them around or fueling them up. They didn't seem as bad as the other old stuff we had. I mostly did dozer work but did occasionally operate a couple of 325B and a 330B.

ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO CHRIS 😊

Nice video.i like the johndeeres there.nice old dozers and diggers they have there.wouldnt mind Buying One. It was good To See tim Abend Justin again 😀

i love the old equiptment

The man the myth the legend justin!

Well never a dull moment with you and Justin together bro and nice to see a cameo from Tim. Strange Jeff was not there, maybe that stuff is too high tech for him. Safe travels.

Those machines crank like beasts! Great engines.

Wow so many beautiful old CAT in bad shape. I wish I would be a millionaire to safe all those nice machines.

I got to operate the 225 235 245 cat excavator back in the day, now equipment is a lot more efficient

My Father use to use a 983 to demo buildings in NYC back in the day had a peterson 4 way bucket when it was open it measured 9 yds.... one hell of a track loader that 983 and the 977L was also one badass trackloader

Love my 980 circa 1983

Man' its nice seeing Justin and Tim again. Ive always wondered how close or far Tims new job is from your area. I recall the day he said "man this man can talk"

Hey Chris, I thought you were going to have an allergic reaction being surrounded by all those CATS😸😸

TIIIIMMMMAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Nice to see Tim again…get him on a job or two soon.

shoulda had Charlie with ya thats deffinately his flavor of Iron!!!

Love those old mechanical engines

That 963 would be great for shuttling brush across a site