“More hours then an Amish sawmill” 😂

21:06 the morning after 12 PC lights, two baconaters and a few sticks of gas station pep n cheds

Why would an unmechanical retired teacher of English language and literature subscribe to and ENJOY these heavy equipment videos? Because I have a passionate fondness for irony, and you, sir, are a fine practitioner of that under-appreciated form of wit. Thank you for sharing your gift.

Being an old wrench twister, just about ready to meet his maker, I thought I would say Thank You for making my days a little better by getting to hang out, and forget about this nasty world for a while.

I have absolutely no use for a machine like that, and yet I want one. Well done, and thanks for sharing the view!

Hours of entertainment for us “big kids” until the diesel runs out or it breaks! Love it. 👍🏻

I was hoping this was going to be a Vise Grip Garage "... and then try to drive it home" style video, but it's greatness as is.

I’ve worked for a Cat dealer since 1994. I spent many hours fixing and actually did quite a few rebuilds of these good old girls. Thanks for the memories this brings. Tranny oil is definitely not good. Too much water can ruin the clutch discs.

Amazing - not a single gasket or hydraulic leak on the whole thing!!!!!! Here in Aus we would run a CEM engine flush to clear the buildup around the rings, a very good chance that would fix the blowby. I have used that flush in a Toyota 2H diesel engine with 400,000ks, drained 14 litres of oil and goop out of a 10 litre engine!

Holy shit he's back and I dropped what I was doing to watch this video. Fookin love this channel.

I love the marker trick and the amish sawmill joke 🤣🤣🤣

One of the most underrated channel on KZfaq just like Watch Wes Work.

Man when that thing let loose with that transmission diahera I bet it felt instant relief!! Ole girls been holding that in for awhile😂😂🍻

I love the repair that you did in the cab. I wish I ran into more jobs that were that easy.

Such good content as always. In case anyone wondered 21000 hours is just under 2 1/2 years total running time. Crazy

Glad you fixed the most important thing, straight away... with a Sharpie!

A little TLC she'll make it to 25K.......I have seen quite a few D-8 listed with close to 50K hours. Might need a couple tires eventually, engine sounds really good, blow by looks "normal" . Someone probably left the fill cap off the tranny or it was stolen and sat quite a while before someone noticed it was missing.

Those style of cat trucks always have a place in my heart, just a cool look to em

I can listen to that CAT purring all day long!!!!

"Ive got it warmed up, Oh shit" hahaha, great video!

incredible clean, strong sound of the engine. CAT is a legend! I've heard the same sound to a cat dozer built in 1950!

So pleased you’re over 100k subscribers now mate, I’ve been here since 4K! Big love from the U.K.

that truck is in amazing shape compared to what i run every day on our jobs...

thats a cool truck the amount of oil in that gearbox was insane lol

Your sense of humor is top notch my friend.

The KZfaq algorithm strikes again. I don't know a thing about earth moving equipment but sat through the whole video and wanted more.

I work at a quarry in CA, we have the same rig. As well as a Volvo haul truck. Hard working trucks

I was starting to panic as that barrel filled and it was still pouring milkshake.

Cool Vid.. Glad to see you back. So nice not seeing ads for merch and begging for subs... Enjoying your knowledge and experiences. Thanks for sharing.

As always you are very thorough and accurate with going over your equipment! you apply the correct level of maintenance and attention to something based on what it's going to be used for and its practical value. In other words, you didn't pull that engine and fix everything on that haul truck. You did what was smart and correct investment to get the work you need done! Most people either drive it until it drops without enough maintenance or they rebuild everything - Money and time is wasted in both cases!

00:44 KT: "Well she definitely ain't pretty" Me: "Ohhh man, she's beautiful !"

Just finished watching . can't wait to see this truck work and the shenanigans when it stops. Glad to see you back.

Always nice to see such close ups videos of this big machinery, love the mechanics of this monster the moving parts. I loved it. It’s a real work horse.

Who needs a sports car when you've got one of these. :-D

You got the BEST back yard toys!!

This is fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to show me how this equipment works.

Thanks for making these videos. Always a pleasure to see what your up to.

Very nice looking haul truck. Looking forward to see what project you have lined up. Don’t forget to check the pumpkins and planetary oil. Thanks for the video.

Great video thank you, really appreciate you taking the time.

Awesome content!! love it when you breathe fresh life into old neglected machines (new oils and filters) being an allround operator in the Logging and earthmoving industries you know how hard these machines work with no mercy given.

Man I wish you would post more often I enjoy your videos more than almost every other youtuber

Another great video. Everyone needs a 40T rock truck.

Great video! I miss the old 400 trucks. They sounded great.

20:30 I felt that one.. and boy that does not look seem like something you want to see. Look like something from the bathroom just minus everything going all over the place.

Thanks for taking us along with you. 👍 as always one of the best channels on KZfaq

Didn't think you had enuff barrel there for a bit .

I drove that same rock truck for five days a week and for a year man ,it can go pretty much anywhere except for deep mud ,and it was reliable and a beast ,we would load boulders and stumps and all kinds of brutal stuff ,always felt like a tank that I was driving and it’s fun to operate

Best thing you can do with it is make sure you run it as much as you can. In other words if you are not going to use it daily, at least start it ,idle it, and move it around a little bit. Will save you money in the long run and it will help you sell it when it is that time. Enjoy your real big toy to work with.

You are one of those guys that even when your working on and old wore out piece of equipment you still do outstanding work well done sir

Your a bad ass dude would like to call you a friend.. from GA I am, glad we still have folks like you and paydirt entertaining us 🇺🇸

I really like how you keep things clean while working on your equipment, and how your shop and yard looks. One of the better looking redneck amusement parks I have seen.

I like how you repair stuff, no expense spared !

I love this channel, this Man is a master of his craft!!

Good toy and nice playground. Brings back memories from my childhood.

I know nothing about engines but i do appreciate a master of his art at work hats off to you

Glad to see Ya again bud, hope yall been doing well. Appreciate the videos and all your time you put into them. That 3406 sounds good on the deceleration rev match Jake braking.

Awesome content sir. Love this type of stuff. Great editing and quality.

Great video! Love learning stuff from people who have a lot of knownledge of the machines!

I’m a gas engine mechanic now 34 years and never on a diesel. You man have me thinking about a career change. Tired of building damn LS AND SBC enigines. Thanks for great content. I’m definitely a new subscriber for life

Man that thing is a hell of a rig. Runs great!

I work on these for a living, 21k hours ain't that bad and that rig has plenty of life left in it. I have some 772 and 773 along with a couple 745 that have double the hours and a couple hitting 50 and 60k hours. Some of those are Quarries and those rigs run 24 hours a day and rarely shut down

so glad you are still making vids, love them all!!!

Awesome video sir! Pretty cool with the J Paydirt shoutout. Being from Montana, I've watched him for 3-4 years now. He is a Cat man through and through. The trans fluid sure reminded me of calf scours yellow. Gotta love it.

Having lived by the Amish I understand your saw mill reference. Outstanding job, who wants a milkshake!

I'm a gold prospector so I'll definitely be checking that channel out and subscribing👍 my friends used to work at a local tyre garage and they would repair any tyre. I used to go out and get the wheels with them. Often earth movers. When they got them back they would cut new treads into them and I had a go. It's not hard to do so maybe give it a go and save yourself a fortune. Obviously the perished ones you will have to replace. It's quite therapeutic cutting them.

This is nice to watch in a home theater with proper subwoofers :D

Would love to see more of this, Restoration if possible, im driving a CAT 745 at work and yours looks waay cooler than mine 👍

I love seeing this videos dude, love the way you do them 💪🏽

Great video , Just keep them coming .

That engine,sounds real good.Love that noise!

Very cool ! This is every guys dream... lots of land and lots of toys!

I’m blown away by how much oil the transmission drained. Wow.

Don't know what you paid for it, but I'm pretty impressed, you buying it sight unseen. Looks like it was a good buy, all things considered. I think you should easily get another 500 hours out of her...

good to hear from you, great stuff!

Always entertaining and informative. Thanks!

"I just warmed up the transmission...Oh shit!!!" Just the other day I saw that happen to another youtuber fixing his machines.

That thing is a beast. Sounds good too.

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of diesels with us. I look forward to more videos. Great job.

Love the steel cable theft protection of the ignition key. :)

Love your videos man keep them coming

Interesting watching the maintenance on the ol' girl. Sounds good for being tired. Got to watch a crew a few years ago doing roadside maintenance on one of the big belly scraper earth movers - for some reason, they decided to flop it on it's side...

The way the coolant cap spins is so satisfying

Another great video! Always informative and a few good one liners to make ya laugh……more hours than an Amish sawmill!!!! Glad to see you back on you tube again…..hopefully you’ll do a few more engine build videos again…..really like those and appreciate your knowledge. Keep up the good work.

i honestly laugh out loud at least 5 times watching ur vids listening to you describe something🤣🤣 enjoy your thanksgiving my friend

After looking below at just a glance and seen a short comment by a english teacher, I feel I met my match in witticism an cut to the chase. I am guessing that even though most of these large machines get put to bed wet.... I have to think with that many hours some haven't been as hard as say those gold miners on the Yukon where soft wire is the best they have for cotter pins. If its a liquid then close enough for who we work for. I have worked up there when the famous Tony Beets was a pup or guess what mom, there is a foccell in our yard and it moves. I have only memories of things we did an sometimes they are worse than the trip uncle sam gave me in the late sixties. I mainly spent most of my time in the southeast alaska islands and when something large came... it died there. All those islands where there was mining or logging mostly has the carcuses of dead equipment laying in pits and we called them bone yards as it was where we got our "new to use" part just repurposed for it. Out at Thorne Bay where government subsidized roads to open for public eventually, was muskeg that just didn't have a bottom and we hauled rock into those spots. A dozer gets stuck and started down, they gave a half hearted attempt to get it out and then if not our, let the muskeg have it and build road over it. One crazy spot was known to have got three D8s and something else in it too deep before moving forwards with the road. I think it will last a while this machine that you got as a whole looks fair to me. What would I know though and only thousands of miles away on a computer.... at least it is not a grandmothers basement/LOL

Just love to watch your video's, man they are entertaining. Keep it up will keep watching anytime you post a new video.

Love this content! My 4 year old and I love watching this!

Good video - you know your stuff !

Thoroughly enjoying your wit, and mechanical knowledge of these huge machines.

teach me more please love the tech info. I can tell ur a good mechanic. thanks from Alaska

Sounds great mashing through those gears! Gotta love CAT

Great video! Really glad to see You get some more good use out of this old machine.

The way she is running, no hydraulic leaks she could go beyond the 500 your asking of her.

Ran one of those at a coal mine that was converted into a fuel truck beat the shit out of it for three years didn't break once. Heater sux ass but 30 below Wyoming winters are pretty cold.

Nice to see you back.

Excellent video, clear descriptions and very good filming.

The neighbors be like, "What did he buy this time?"

with that many hours that machine has been running for almost 2.5 years constant.

Lovely to see that truck. I used to work for DJB of Peterlee England the company that sold articulated trucks to Cat. Thanksd for the video.

Haha, we picked up a couple of those to finish up a job and send the newer 40 tonners to a new job. One old timer said, 'Boss, I have a rule not to run anything older than me and that pos qualifies". He was about 60.