Lol "expert" use that term very loosely. i know just enough to get myself into trouble. looking forward to throwing some dirt around with it buddy. Happened to have stumbled across a 22b shovel the other week so i think you need to plan another road trip and you can help me load up some new toys as well.

I’m fairly certain that you just published the first drag line barn find-I never expected you’d find one of these in a barn. Bravo!

My uncle learned to run heavy equipment as a combat engineer during WWII. When he came home, he went to work for a road building company and did that til his late 70's. He always said running a drag line was one of his favorite things to do although he could operate anything the company had. I guess everybody has their favorite piece of equipment they like best.

DP, now that's an awesome find. Can't wait to see it together and working on a job. Thanks for bringing us along👍👍👍👍👍😺🤗🐺

Very good find! Make sure you get some buckets on the enging intake and exhaust before the rain gets into it!

Wow, Mike, what a Great Find indeed. Can't wait to see this in operation. Love seeing these babies saved from any junk yard.

22B with a D318 is what I learned in close to 50 years ago. Having run a Koehring with a 471 I personally can’t imagine repowering it with a Jimmy. The Jimmy is so loud while the D318 just loafs along with it with enough power that the governor hardly has to open up, much easier on the ears, to each his own. I hope to buy the machine I learned in some day, it’s about 40 miles from home. Good to see Frank. We always ran 40 feet of stick with a 1 yard Hendrix bucket with more counterweight than you have on that machine. I have another counterweight for a 22B I might part with if you should need more counterweight. Have fun with it!

That old dragline excavator still has a lot of life left in it. It just needs some TLC and some money spent on it. I have faith in your ability to get it back in good running condition and ready to show off. This machine is in a lot better condition than the other one you looked at. All things considered I think you made an excellent purchase.

Hi Mike. Where I worked as an mechanic/engineer in the early 1980's we had one on the fleet for river dredging work. I had the job one year of total engine strip and build, new crank even, also all the clutches replaced almost a total refurb of the machine.. Cat powered and was it nice to see someone use it who could almost make music out of it. I for sure cant wait for you to complete the restoration and start having fun on it. Just a thought though might like to cover the exhaust and air intake over against the rain/snow etc, as I noticed the air cleaner was off leaving a large hole ready to drink water and if the exhaust is not covered and has its mouth open to the sky, water will run down and into the cylinders and that is costly for sure. Hope you do not mind that warning as you more than likely have already addressed the issue. Have fun and wait for all updates. Stay safe and well.

That spring loaded wheel is simply a tagline for the clamshell bucket it keeps it straight so your cables don't get twisted.

Hi Mike ,when you paint the boom put lifting marks in a different colour on the sections where it balances.It makes it so much easier for assembly.Looking forward to the videos on this one.👌👍

As I get older I’m starting to appreciate older equipment a lot more. Can’t wait to see this thing running on the channel digging dirt

at 15:21 even the horse was watching!!!! Great find!!!

Seems that Santa 🎅isn't the only one getting his sleigh in to delivery mode. What an absolute beauty you will have, now perhaps your little Elf may need a new workshop. You seem to have found a few wonderfully bad influences with Matt, Clint and others please keep the content coming it is a joy to watch. My wife says that boys never grow up just the toys that get bigger. Christmas wishes to you and your family hope it is happy, healthy and safe. 🎀🎄

Well DP your Christmas present is sure to bring up Jenna’s lack of a camper super clean machine! Nice job unloading!

Cycle times& fuel rate. Don't matter now. Those old machines always fascinated me. Knowing now how much effort takes to operate, great respect for those men. You got real deal ,all there. Be better than a flagpole.

Congratulations Mike, you have a machine that has endless opportunities. Great video. Looking forward to more great videos.

That looks like a ton of fun right there! Good luck with it, looking forward to watching the many videos!! God bless y’all.

Congratulations on this great find. I love to hear when another piece of antique equipment is rescued and preserved. I can see you at the HCEA shows now having fun with Gunner !!

get a sheet over the cab, nothing worse than come spring everything seized up again, looks a tidy piece of kit. In the UK we had 22RB which in my younger days dabbled a bit along with the 33RB and the 54RB all almost long gone. Love the channel watching you matt and MBTS watch after breakfast here in the UK sets me up for the day ,waiting too see the d6 up and running with the help of your son,great to watch you all ,merry Christmas from the UK😎

Sure brings back memories, late 70's I'd load and move from job to job. The old times ran it most of the time. Thanks for sharing.

Very excited for you . Can't wait to see the project putting it back together and then watching you in operating it

What an awesome find Mike. Looking forward to updates on this drag line project soon.

Awesome find, I'm jealous. Can't wait to see it up and running. 👍

So pleased for you Mike, we knew you were looking for one. What an added bonus, already in working order, with loads of parts and looking at the body work all it needs is a good clean, doesn't even need a paint job. If you get to use it on a few jobs, it will also pay for itself so what's not to like. Its a pity the guys skid steer wasn't for sale, that must have been one of the originals.

I hope that you get the clam bucket too. Congratulations on the great find. I hope it brings you a lot of enjoyment. Hope to see you someday at the Brownsville Pa National Pike show.

"She's a beaut' Clark!" Nice find Mike 😃. Need to get a couple good tarps to keep out the weather and kritters. I'd say get it warmed up and drive it around a little to loosen up the steering and drive. Yep, looking forward to Those videos! Stay Safe from Central Ohio. 👍🇺🇲🎄🎉🛻😉

I drove the British version of the 22 and it had RB after the twos. This stood for Ruston Bucyrus. It was used mainly as a yard crane on a tube project in London. Though I did some dragline work loading muck away tipper trucks with tunnel blue clay, if those drivers didn't stop in the correct loading spot, I'd drop a little muck on the cab roof. The engines were Ruston single cylinder engines and multi cylinder banks could be made up, yer and sometimes in winter swapping from crane mode to track travel took a bit of fiddling. But I liked the old girl, there was so much feel in a machine with hoist and winch brakes. Went onto drive an Allen Grove truck mounted crane she to have a winch drum, very unusual on a truck crane of the time. Again, an Anglo/US partnership that ended up just Grove. Good luck getting yours up and running as you like it. Thanks for posting and giving this old man some memories back.

Mikey… that’s a find! I love old shovels and drag lines. When I was young, my dad took me on a short trip over the state line to a strip mining coal operation. His brother had a job as a mechanic for Big Brutus. It was the largest electric shovel in the world. It weighed 1.1 million pounds and could load 90 yards or 150 tons per scoop! I was impressed as it loaded coal cars with just one scoop. The Earth shook as it ripped scoops out of the coal seam before it. Although it isn’t in production today, it does still operate as a National Historic landmark… the museum has several demonstrations each year. While we were watching it run, I asked my uncle, “Why is it called Buckey Russ Erie?” He smiled and told me, “Boo Cyrus Erie is the company that made it!” To this day, the first thing that runs through my mind is… “Don’t say Buckey Russ!” Mikey… I can’t wait to have my picture taken with it the next time I am in town!

Another nail biter and enjoyable video, thanks for the trip and great show.👍👍🎬📽

Nice find Mike. The motor sounded great. It should be a fun project restoring this drag line. Have a good time doing it. And yes i think this is a good excuse to add to your shop. You will need a covered area to work in and to help preserve this machine.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and videos. Very nice find. Looking forward to seeing it put together. Wishing you and your family the best.

That is awesome. Mike it's awesome you found this. It will be great to see this and Dan working. Thanks again buddy

Mike, I am excited for this to be on your channel. A guy can only watch so much dirt being moved or cement blocks being stacked, lol

I’m so stoked for you and this great time capsule! Love your videos and can’t wait to see what you’re gonna do with this amazing piece!!

I am happy for you that you found one of your bucket list items and it looks like you got a good deal. But I think it's going to cost you a brand new RV for Jenna

Wow what a find! Looks in great shape and you have all the panels too! Can't wait to see it all put together mike

Nice looking machine. Glad you finally found the one you wanted. Can't wait to see it run

@Dirt Perfekt put the top pannel on else it will get water into the intake cause no air filter housing mounted weld some rebar or square rod on for cleets

Nice find, and for almost scrap price it is very decent. The “thing” for the grapple is a tagline winder, because the cable is called the tagline. The Hendrix bucket looks almost new, but getting new teeth is hard and expensive, I know there are users that exchanged the original teeth and holder for Caterpillar bucket teeth. They are much cheaper and easy to buy new, when you ran in to this problem Aaron got himself a nice welding job. But it probably takes you years to wear them down, just keep it in mind.

Just bought a 22b and currently running our 30b to clean tail water ponds this winter! Great machines!

So many projects to be excited for! Can't wait to get started on this as well!

Wow, fantastic find! I’m very excited and happy for you. Great video.

Great buy Brother! I'm looking forward to the build videos. I have wondered a time or two if an Old school drag line would be handy with the pond cleanouts.

Cool find! Can't wait to see it operating!!

Looks like a nice piece of equipment even though there is some assembly required. Looks great, can't wait to see you operating it.

Having good friends is the best part of this. Ya, you have way too many projects, but something I learned the hard way and regret, if you don't act when something like this comes around, chances are that it won't be there when you have the time. So you have the money, you have the space, why not act and be ready when you have the time. Great job of getting it off the low boy. Thanks very much for sharing.

A Detroit, it’s paid for and no DEF fluid great buy Mike thanks for taking us along great video see you on the next one

Nice going, Mike! A drag Line AND a barn find Just what you always wanted. I'll be fun seeing this all come together. Thanks for bringing us along.

That’s awesome. Can’t wait to see the videos of you putting it together

That's an awesome find DP! I know it has a great home. Look forward to more videos on her. Thanks for taking us along.

Definitely more excited about this project over the others. Great find!

Now that is going old school! I saw one of these converted to cable logs in the woods, on a job I worked as a kid. Neat old iron!😀😀

wahoo, great find, cannot wait to see the video of this unit working on the next pond/lake build.

Welcome to Lancaster County, PA. DP! James Julian was a huge contractor in the tri-state area of PA, MD & DE. Did a lot of site work for major shopping centers, housing developments and highway projects. Was a very large employer that turned out a lot of great operators.

That's one of my fantasy dream machine! Congratulations on a great find and looking forward to seeing the old girl shoveling dirt!

Awesome find. You could have a contest as to when it will move its first bucket of dirt. A sticker on that machine would look out of place. Looking forward to the assembly episodes.

Congrats Mike on the great purchase, looks like it will be lots of fun figuring that one out !

Looks good nice to see someone is preserving history can’t wait to see it done

I think you got a good deal . Its a lot better then the one in the bushes you looked at .My Dad ran one of those for the State of Vermont back in the 60’s . They would send him to different towns in the northern part of Vermont in the Summer to work on projects. I use to play in them when he would bring me with him if he had something to do at the state garage.It stays with you the rest of your life. A couple years ago I had a project and bought a 5 ton mini excavator My Dad would of loved that.Thanks for the Video and the memories can’t wait to see you use it.

Very nice! Will be waiting to see more videos with this machine

Great job.I recon you were meant to have this one.With a little reassembly and adjustment you will soon be flinging mud around with it.Well done,cheers from UK.

Hey Mike I think it is time for some additional storage space to keep the equipment out of the weather . Next Project!!

Greetings from England DP. Its a great find and I look forward to you getting it fixed up. Thanks for the great video's this year and a Happy Christmas to your family and friends

I wished I could find workers like the ones you have in your kind lapse You're special

Very cool DP! I’m not sure a person can have too many projects. My wife may have a different opinion though… I look forward to seeing it and the others getting some wrench time this winter!

DP, I got my HO Kibri drag Line crane in the mail from Germany yesterday. We will see who gets theirs done first!!! The cab and tracks are the same as the bucket crane I am still working on. Getting there!! What you need is a shop like what Matt from Diesel Creek is having built to store and work on your "barn finds"! Have fun! Don't bust too many knuckles working on it!

Love your new piece, my dad had a guy dig our pond deeper with one when I was a kid 40 years ago. I watched it for hours. Well done DP 👍👍👍👍

Congratulations mike, what an awesome find and a fun toy. Only problem is now I want one too!

Goodmorning from 🇨🇦, where it’s snowing and -3c. Warm by our standards. Keep the great videos coming.

That's a pretty big smile on your face Mike, a boy's dream come true 👌

Wow, congratulations! Looks like it's in great shape and should be a perfect machine to have fun with. Mrs Dirt Perfect must be so excited! Lol.

No doubt you could have rebuilt the other one but, imagine the amount of hours it would have taken just to get it to the starting point of this one. Looking forward to watching.

Great find Frank, you have a keeper I think and should have plenty of fun playing with it. 👍

That's an amazing deal! Really glad I found your channel here, and enjoying watching all you offer!

Nice. Looking forward to the rebuild videos and seeing it in operation. Personally, I would call the clamshell stabiliser unit a sidewinder. On a side note, I think you need to build another equipment shed for your toys!

😄😄😄Dirt prefect got the antique equipment bug a great complement for your antique old dozer

Mike, when I was in the Combat Engineers, I operated a B&E, as we called it. Brings back memories.

Awesome Buy Can't wait to see Her fixed up and used. 👍

That is a pretty sweet find. Hope it comes together as you hope.

Awesome! Great project and find.

Nice find and a great resto project, don't the parts look small compared to modern day machines, but these things helped to build our first motorway in the UK, back in the mid 60s, the Mi, from London to Nottingham,....to together with Drott shovels , Allis Charmers, Cat dozers with cable blades, Barber Greene pavers and Ditchers but they got the job done, even ahead of schedule....and built to a very high quality....

Drove a 22RB (Ruston Bucyrus) dragline on the Haast Road project in NZ in 1964/65. Looks to be the same as this one. Certainly same colour. Had to drive it up temporarily access roads with grades over 20%. Often had to adjust the clutch up part way up the hill as machine was never designed for that sort of work. I can still smell the burnt clutch plate smell. Have photos of it somewhere.

I owned one of those. To steer it I would push the lever to lock one side with my foot as you move forward. There’s a slide that fits into dogs that lock the chain drive. I would just lock one side and go forward or backwards to turn. You can also throw some wood blocks in front of the track you want to lock to turn. Best of luck with it. I had a 6 cyl. Cummins in mine.

looking like you will need a workshop extension to fit all these restoration projects in and worked on and to fit the larger equipment with room to work ?!!!!!!

May not have been the best thing with your first drive being a slightly dangerous unload but it worked out. Nice having a large yard to maneuver/learn in. I think you picked to right project at the right price. It should be an interesting video series.

Great find DP love old iron have a 1952 American drag line we still dig sand with it

Another morning you took me away from my task outside! Good thing there's a supply of coffee! Trying to watch on my small phone, is that a Bucyrus Eirie? Extremely versatile and you're going to love it despite it having old school leavers and pedals to keep your arms in shape! Trying to remember if it was a four or five cylinder pony moto?r It has gazilian Grease fittings... Congratulations on your acquisition and look forward to some more awesome videos

Wow that’s in really good shape. Couldn’t get any better of a find for the money. Pretty cool seeing a case 1845c. I got one exactly like it. Sucker always works and always runs. Just not as comfortable as a newer one

Beautiful find indeed, can't wait to see it slinging dirt/mud. Will make for a nice show piece in front of the market too. Look forward to the videos of her going together and running, as always keep up the great work my man 😁 👍

great machine. smooth tracks could be a problem. look forward to more videos with this unit

Cool find, in pretty nice shap for the age! I grew up around all types of fiction cranes from locomotive cranes with pole grapples,draglines and got to run a 3900 Manitowoc with an orange peel grapple!

Well Done! Great find for the right price & it's running. Got all the parts with extra attachments & a lead on a bucket.

Awesome Mike. So excited for you. What a great working show piece to have out front. Should charge $100 bucks per person to have a go at using it on a project. It could go to the upkeep of your toys. Have a great day!

Make sure you cover up that intake with a bucket oir you will have water all down inside the engine... That is until you can get the roof panel back on... I am happy that you found a good piece... Much better shape than all the ones I have seen that have been sitting around a long time... Have fun, enjoy and stay safe... Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas early... Hopefully I will still be here... God Bless....

A great find at a good price. Looks like a fun project. James Julian is a large highway and infrastructure contractor, from just over the state line from me, in Delaware. They've always had good looking well maintained equipment.

Looks good for being that old. Thanks for taking us with us to purchase it.

That is a beauty! Congratulations!

My first dragline was link belt LS98 (63’) 1-1/2 yd bucket with 55’ boom, had the 471 Detroit and did she screamed and was great on fuel. Sure could sling the spoils. I never need to work out at the gym as I was plum tired after good days run! Can’t wait to see run.

Looks like a fun project and play toy can’t wait to see it finished and working