Bucyrus Rescue Part 5 - Old Version - See description for new link

[@paulkibler6824]

I am ,and was born in Bucyrus ,Ohio where a lot of these were made . The Michael family owned the factory, and employed a lot of men ,who really took pride building them!! ...what a blast from the past!! Thank you !!

[@RustyRescues]

That's very cool! Does the factory still stand? You're welcome and thanks for the positive feedback!

[@cygnet1963]

I live in Erie and remember seeing these machines lined up brand new when I was a boy. Great to see this rescue. Such a shame so much of this equipment is just left.

[@frankforrest1597]

Outstanding job, so many of these just sit and rot away. Gotta go to the Steam Pagent, live close by, to see this marvelous piece of equipment. 👍

[@RustyRescues]

Thank you! Certainly swing by, this year was canceled but hopefully next year will be better.

[@frankforrest1597]

@@RustyRescues I Shure will, this year wiped out so many "public" events 😟

[@krisdrinkwine6045]

It's amazing that ole relic operates as well as it does.

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

Good to see an old dirt scratcher find a home. I just brought home a 1950's Scoopmobile. I didn't know it was there until the building in front of it collapsed. Sitting outside for 51 years, I hooked up a battery, gave it a squirt of fuel down the carb & it fired up like it was 1969.

[@RustyRescues]

That's excellent! Good save!

[@dodgerehab6984]

As someone who loves reviving the old iron as much as you do, this just warmed my heart. It's like that old girl was saying thank you the whole trip home. I know she's going to get the love and respect she deserves now.

[@PALM311]

I can't tell you the number of years I went by there and saw that old shovel stuck in those trees with that bucket up in the air and thought that thing will just rot into the ground! I always thought it was kind of a shame because they were supposed to be top-of-the-line in their day.

[@RustyRescues]

Binks Machine & Engine Works no kidding? Are you local?

[@DynoDieselWagon]

Folks who know nothing about engines that own that historic iron usually just discard it without any interest of a revival. Its call nostalgia! We need more especially in The American history interest !

[@wmden1]

Thanks for a very enjoyable set of videos. That cable back hoe is probably pretty rare. It looks like it would take a good paint job, with some big time rust removal. You were blessed that the water getting in through the exhaust, and of course freezing, didn't burst your block, or cylinder walls. It is hard to beat the satisfaction of getting, first an old engine running again, and then restoring the other functions.

[@philiphartley8823]

I worked for a UK crane and excavator maker in the UK (NCK Rapier) and another maker was Ruston Bucyrus (UK equivalent of this machine) These old machines were the workhorses of their day and it's great to see examples being resurrected. Great work boys, Keep it up.

[@samueldamewood5273]

Love it, I grew up just a little ways from the Bucyrus Erie plant. Watching the new "steam shovels" drive out of the plant was a favorite activity. Guess kids don't need much to be entertained. Happy to see someone interested in the old machines, good memories.

[@samueldamewood5273]

@daniel bean Back then they were ALL steam shovels, although no one had seen a steamer in 20 years

[@magger46ful]

I work for Caterpillar, this will be great to see this machine restored. Thank you

[@petercrowl9467]

Buck Erie

[@ofbyforpeople1384]

@@samueldamewood5273 that's right, Sam. You enjoyed seeing them leave the mfg plant and I was impressed seeing one of the biggest ones arrive nearby to dig out a roadbed. it was also host to a cool fleet of B61 Mack Dumps.

[@allanwilkerson6426]

Can't imagine spending 8-12 hours a day, day in and day out, working that thing. A lot of levers to work. Great job though...not letting her rot away. Still some life left in the old girl. Put her next to a new one...work them the same...and in 20 years this one will pull the new one to the scrap heap. Thanks for saving her, and for sharing it.

[@rudyschwab7709]

I remember my grandfather saying something years ago when he was talking about operating this old equipment back in the day. He said, "You had better eat your Wheaties in the morning."

[@allanwilkerson6426]

@@rudyschwab7709 No doubt. Men were tough and rugged back in those days. They worked hard and was proud of the work they did. The young people today wouldn't know what a "real days work" is. If they got into a machine...it would have a heater, a/c, power everything, hydraulic suspension, and a joystick to control all the functions.

[@blackbird8632]

Allan Wilkerson oh come on old timer, plenty of young folk work bloody hard and for a lot less pay then back then. You see a lot of young kids buying houses and new cars nowadays?

[@freddiebates5539]

I'm sure glad to see young people taking an interest in saving all the old iron whether it be cars, trucks, machines and everything else, good job I enjoyed the series .

[@RustyRescues]

Young-ish? lol. Some of us, the numbers seem to be dwindling. We need more!

[@hottrodscars]

@@RustyRescues - I teach mine all the time -- just filed the points on the Roadmaster 320 cu. in. straight 8 and she fired right up. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ_Limyqlr6Abs0

[@jeanmayan3151]

A great work for an old Lady!! Merci pour cette belle vidéo et ce beau travail . Amities de France.

[@stevencatlett]

Great series! I love seeing old equipment brought back to life.

[@keithwarkentin]

So happy that you rescued that old iron I know that it’s not cheap but so many people have enjoyed this and put me on the list 😀🇨🇦

[@fernandochavez4312]

I bet the old girl was feeling like a beauty queen, riding through town like that.😁

[@nonokastle8699]

Respect . I'm not sure to have the balls to climb this grand mother on a trailer . Good Job guys. Old iron never die.

[@markallen3293]

Thank you boys for saving the old girl. Signed, an old civil engineering project inspector.

[@milledgewilson5025]

My Uncle and Father were both Drillers for the SCDOT. I work with them when they branched off. It was a nice line of work with a new job sight every few days. As a kid, when u could hang out with ur Uncle or Father on State Work i saw this type girl do some cool things to get into a Boring sight. Since then I have done over 20 years in the Marine Corps. Waiting to retire. They were both Marines first. So I did what they did

[@milledgewilson5025]

When i say Boring Sight I mean a place to take soil samples.

[@thekingsilverado9004]

@@milledgewilson5025 Sounds boring to me...

[@rustybottoms8859]

Boy, she looks right at home in line with those other old machines. Thanks for saving her and sharing.

[@ihate2wait]

I grew up watching these old cable backhoes and draglines dig basements in my neighborhood. I always fantasized rescuing an old machine and finding it to be the only thing that could do the tough job the newer hydraulic diggers just couldn't do. Of course that was the hero in my life, it had to be unbeatable.

[@nathanrossettijr7444]

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[@davidpulaski5628]

Smiled like an idiot when I saw her being pulled away on that trailer !!! Keep these super videos coming !!!

[@TUMBLINJEST]

Now the old girl has had a bit of work, shes sounding so much better than the previous video of her.... Great story this, thanks, (Ian) UK

[@brianmcmahon8524]

I love the old machine!!! Always had a passion for this type of thing.🤠

[@v65dreamer]

I swear I heard the Pork-Chop Express in that video !! So nice to see someone rescuing one of these machines !!

[@glennmoreland6457]

Well done getting that out from where it was and getting it on that flatbed as it's clearly struggling for power...🇬🇧👍

[@ortizracing7534]

Sweet glad to see the ol girl saved looking forward to see her progress of becoming a beautiful old new shovel! Thank you for saving her!

[@stevensonDonnie]

I hope you did all this to put her to work! What she was built for. Not to make a living, but just to work. We all appreciate being useful.

[@RustyRescues]

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[@hugebartlett1884]

We had a RB17 at the brickworks where I worked,and I got the foreman to let me read up the handbook. Once you get the hang of the multi-function levers she's quite easy to operate. We had the machine set up as crowd shovel,working the quarry. Sorry to see her go eventually when the business closed down,but I bet she's still running now after forty years! Incidentally,releasing the main clutch,then pressing a pedal on the left,then re-engaging the clutch,enabled you to fast-track forwards. Main clutch must not be disengaged for more than three minutes or so. Disengage to start up,then release the lever forward to operate. Two levers to the left convert from operating to tracking,depending on their position. Slew lever becomes tracking lever,lever to the left of that is steering lever. Do not operate both together.

[@hottrodscars]

Great to know. Thanks.

[@rustedwrenchrestorationwor9779]

I watched the first few episodes of this and thought "they have got to be in the Fingerlakes" the land just looked so familiar. then I saw you trucking down 5 and 20! AHA! and of course Canandaigua Pageant of Steam. I gotta come check out what you guys do sometime! this is cool!

[@RustyRescues]

Cheers! Certainly stop out and say hi, we're usually easy to spot if we're running the shovels. Hopefully we'll be able to have the show this year.

[@rustedwrenchrestorationwor9779]

@@RustyRescues I absolutely will!! Subscribed!

[@stewartmontgomery2352]

The BC brings back memories as a child watching a Richard Wallington RB drag line dredging the local stream here in the UK :)

[@jamielacourse7578]

Thanks so much for not destroying this wonderful series by using heavy metal music.......

[@RustyRescues]

Haha no problem; not my style.

[@iansutton3176]

Great video, it's good to see that some of these old machines are being restored.😊

[@hiramjonesjr1887]

Nice to see some one cares about old iron

[@screwitchannel8287]

Great job love these old machines . My old pop drove a 22 rb still think of that old machine with fond memories. Took skill to work them on a job site .

[@leonardwhitlowii2411]

I’ve watched your whole series on this machine. Love this stuff (history teacher who grew up in a logging family). I wish someone would rescue my Dad’s 1935 D-6 caterpillar overhead blade lift bulldozer. He and I cleared timberland in the late 1950s Dad had logged. My sisters still have the property.

[@flyerbob124]

Amazing you got it to move under it’s own power. God job, well done!

[@Ellenslife851]

Can’t wait to see this all restored these are some of the machines that shaped America

[@turbo8454]

God I love old machinery. I have both a roller and backhoe/loader of the late 60's and both still do what they were designed to do! BTW, it looked like they were passing through Auburn NY.

[@turbo8454]

Forgot about my '68 GMC HM80 dump truck. I still use it frequently too!

[@normhowes2975]

Looks like 5 and 20 in Auburn NY. Either way was great to see this great machine running .

[@___PK__]

Awesome, Just want to dip the entire machine in oil 🤣 Can't believe you got that thing running, I need to go back and watch this whole series.

[@GP9railfan]

Looks surprisingly good on that lowboy!

[@andygreen6726]

Fabulous, seeing her moving about under her own steam (so to speak) and what a sweet sounding old flathead. Well done and good luck from here on. Oh, and dont paint her up to look like new, she looks just perfect in those rusty clothes. just keep her looking like she does and make her mechanicals like new! Yeah?

[@RustyRescues]

She does have a nice bark right?! That's the plan right now, continue to work on / improve / restore the mechanicals until she's 100%. Gets a little better every year!

[@TherealDeltaEcho]

This really brings back memories. In the early 60’s I hired on as the low-boy driver moving a 22b and 30h around NJ with a 50 ton low bed and Autocar quad box tractor. The operators let me walk the machines around, play a little and even load and unload them on their days off. Very sad to see the machines so old and ratty and worn out now......kinda like me!!

[@RustyRescues]

That's neat! Love the old Autocars, good trucks. It is sad, but they just need a little love!

[@ofbyforpeople1384]

Yes and the ignominy of seeing these once powerful brutes being dug out w handshovels and mini skid-steer loaders !

[@charlesgall8052]

Beautiful machine ! Can't wait to see her future !!!

[@cloutierrichard6134]

I truly enjoyed watching all five episodes...loved it...the fast track motion on part 5 was a great idea...just too bad about the background music though...had to turn off the sound ...and that is too bad....hearing engines running is all we need...looking forward to the next chapter

[@jamielacourse7578]

This is amazing.....those damn things just keep on running!

[@natefinch9869]

Recognized Auburn as soon as I saw the Curleys sign! I'm in huron!

[@RustyRescues]

That sign is certainly a landmark! Had a couple people spot us as we blew through there, it was pretty neat.

[@nectcruiser]

I know where there is a bunch of these machines just rotting away in a weed chocked field along with an assortment of Cat dozers Quite a collection

[@nickhastings3957]

Where?

[@nectcruiser]

@@nickhastings3957 In the town of Putnam, Connecticut USA. I have no idea what the story is behind them being there.I think I just shared a bunch of pics on Instagram @ alfandersonii

[@nickhastings3957]

@@nectcruiser k thanks for the info

[@Wrangler98JPTJ]

Sweet rig... A lil tip for loading on lowboys or travelling slopes... keep the drive sprockets on the downhill end..

[@TheByard]

That was the worst part of driving a tracked machine, loading it on a low loader (Low boy) especially on a frosty morning, Cranes that run on rail tracks were even worse, and the ground was never level so we often took a run at it. Tracked machines gave me great training for when I bought a twin engine boat, she could 360 in her own length putting one forward and the other in reverse. Plus mooring was a doddle keeping the rudder amidships and then steering with the engines.

[@johnwhiting6405]

Sheet metal is in nice condition /looks to be galvanized steel .......my crane is full of rust ,holes everywhere in the body.....very good mechanicals tho....cant have it all.

[@rp1645]

Thank you thank you for saving the Beautiful old girl I am so so envious of your collection. I only have my 78- Dynahoe-190 / 2 wheel driv I Love your BE pull shovel such a Beautiful machine Thank you for doing video could you do 1 on the controls how the machines work. What happens when you pull the Levers. I think there are people out here besides me that would like to see the old lever manual function machines control patterns. Thank you.

[@RustyRescues]

I'd be glad to! She's parked for the winter, but next summer I'll try to do that; it'd be a neat video.

[@rp1645]

@@RustyRescues thank you for your videos great job.

[@RustyRescues]

@@rp1645 thank you! I appreciate the support / positive feedback

[@hottrodscars]

@@RustyRescues - Loved the video set. I have been a mechanic and a semi-driver for 50 years, and I rescue cars in the 40's and 50's too.

[@RustyRescues]

@@hottrodscars thanks, and that's awesome! Reminds me of Spooner! Keep the old iron alive~

[@grassman8100]

Thank you gentlemen

[@RustyRescues]

Absolutely! Just doing my civic duty!

[@merlinmonson2133]

Very well done. Glad you saved it.

[@MrHefat]

In 1971 I took my exam as a crane operator with a bucyrus in the Belgian army, I had to dig 11 meters of ditch in an hour. But I think it was a heavier type, the engine starter was a smaller petrol engine and you had to turn on the diesel engine cylinder by cylinder. The crane was also equipped with a grab bucket. I passed.

[@UnitCrane514]

HEY! After watching your series for the 5th time I noticed something, your boom hoist clutch is stuck! Watch at 1:20 when you lock in the main clutch, that hook that’s on the boom hoist jumped and pulled tight, you need to investigate that, you don’t need that spinning and burning up the drum. Plus is robbing the rest of the machine of power, the engine dogged hard when you locked it in

[@thekingsilverado9004]

Broken spool locks were common 4 that era machine and I am sure this guy knows it just wasn't worth dragging torches and welders out to the machine...

[@larrydriemel6242]

excellent job guys ! nice save , especially after the 'you're doing it all wrong" commenters love it !

[@samhardie5473]

Fantastic guys loved every minute

[@jayyoung5423]

Nice save...cherish the old iron, no one else will.

[@tonydeleo3642]

Thanks for saving this great old girl. Sad to think she was replaced by a hydraulic backhoe, really sad!!

[@jimrerko3415]

Oh don't leave him outside. Put him inside some place. It's been out side it's whole life....I love old iron. If it could only talk. It would have a lot to say. Great video's.....!! May " he " rest in peace.

[@allanwilkerson6426]

Jim Rerko. She does talk. Loud, clear, and beautifully, with that two stroke Detroit diesel. But I knew what you meant. :)

[@blackbird8632]

Allan Wilkerson it is actually a 6 cyl flathead petrol. But she does sing.

[@allanwilkerson6426]

@@blackbird8632 You're correct...my bad. But I agree...she does sound good, nonetheless.

[@royallclark6331]

LOL, brought back memories of my preschool book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam shovel" this was in the early 50's and I didn't know they didn't used steam anymore then.. BUT I do remember the last of the steam locomotives passing through the Tacoma, Washington freight yards and hear those wonderful whistles.... especially at night!! BTW.. where did this recovery take place?

[@kenkayiii]

Love the music...you are a class act!

[@garyelkhorn2116]

I first thought you would need to cut it in pieces to haul it away. That machine had to have a soul that made it survive all those major defects and still function.

[@martiniv8924]

Well done saving the old girl 👍🏻😎

[@OldSkoolF]

She's running much better!

[@daveh7945]

I see you took Route 20. i take that everyday.... just in another state

[@saul5009]

Like the truck to 🥰and wha a sound Thanks for sharing

[@piratasdecordoba]

So good to see that old girl running. Where is she now? Maybe make another video about the actual state, please?

[@RustyRescues]

The actual state of the machine? Let me know what you'd like to see and I'll add it to my list.

[@richardskola6982]

I think there are still two of these guys out on Beck St. Still looking good. The company that owned them originally was always known for having the oldest equipment around, and the best looking. Enoch Smith & Sons, the long-time contractor for Mountain Fuel Supply. Neither company exists under those names today.

[@73DiamondReo]

nice. its been years since I've been to that show

[@RustyRescues]

Great show! This is one of the ones I refuse to miss lol.

[@byrd955]

cool rescue been fun to follow

[@Mercmad]

A lot of Similar machines were sold here into Australia and New Zealand,most being built by the partner company in the UK as Ruston Hornsby ,Ruston Bucyrus etc. When I was a little kid at school in NZ we were all taken up to a hill to watch one working in a swampy bit of ground,using mats and the operator blowing up big trees in the mud with dynamite... .10 or so years later me and some mates were playing around in an industrial area and parked behind a factory was the same machine ,looking just like your 15B .

[@RustyRescues]

No kidding? That's interesting! Does the one behind the factory still sit there?

[@scottk.8494]

Big Trouble In Little China! Cool series; fun to watch 👍

[@Piocota]

Bela escavadeira Bucyrus, ótimo trabalho. Parabéns

[@bobcranberries5853]

Oh that was painful to watch it moved like a one legged turtle about to lose it’s last leg. Seems like the tracks are about to pop off. Maybe start with power washing the tracks and innards and 10 cans of WD

[@tymmay46]

8:00 Is this rte 20 through Auburn, NY?

[@tymmay46]

Upon further inspection, the building that says "Curly's" confirms that.

[@barbaratodd1288]

All this time I was wondering that maybe it didn’t rotate on it’s axis but sure enough I finally see it does ❤️

[@JimNichols]

Can't move heavy equipment without, bacon, eggs and taters. ..... and several cups of coffee. ...

[@Bodgemiester]

Loving the music from Tremors! You’ll be safe in that thing lol

[@markesthe1]

i got a kick out of the music choice he picked. you have idea what the artist and song names of the songs that was played?

[@fourhillsfarm]

I'd venture a guess that most of the basements in the postwar suburban development I grew up in were dug with similar machines. Being in Ohio those machines were everywhere.

[@antonjames818]

Loved the music and the pucker factor 👍😁

[@HardNorthOutdoors]

6:00 mark, that's the music from Tremors lol pole vaulting off the rocks lolol

[@Blues_Man989]

it's all music from Tremors

[@gutwrench1961]

I grew up in the 60s going there with my dad and Sullivan's with a 50hp Case steam engine.

[@onrr1726]

hey were you guys located? I see at 7:53 you guys are in Auburn, NY know Curly's well I live in Auburn!

[@RustyRescues]

We're in CNY as well, scoped your channel, I worked for the rail industry for quite a while, I miss it!

[@onrr1726]

@@RustyRescues same here worked fo rd a Railroad contractor for a while

[@RustyRescues]

@@onrr1726 very nice, retired?

[@onrr1726]

Layoffs followed after 9/11/01 and I did not get called back to work. Things have been hit and miss scents then

[@BruceBoschek]

...and not one hydraulic ram!😉 Watched all 5 videos. Great job

[@RustyRescues]

Thank you sir!

[@duard1220]

It is so great to see this machine rescued! Thanks for doing this. Where is the 15B located now?

[@yettbnilrac]

Hello from Donegal in the land of shamrocks and Guinness. Ruston and Hornsby were a company in Lincoln England who formed a partnership with Bucyrus and produced Ruston Bucyrus cranes the most popular was the RB22 but went up to over a hundred. Wikipedea is worth a read as they made ship and railroad engines and rolling stock

[@marcusfinn759]

Excellent 👍👍👍👍

[@timerickson7056]

A company I worked for had 2 30Bs they worked one and the second was buck up. The company was a large logging company maybe. 3 equipment operators but only 1 could run it a guy named Hawkeye. They needed him so much he drove a company pickup. He was the only operator outside of family drove a company pickup. I was a mechanic there and I remember replacing the swing bearing. Now that's a job. This must be a 15b you have just guessing.

[@randalljames1]

Gotta give a cool factor of 10... working on stuff older than your parents takes some balls...

[@craneguypaul]

Looks like you've got a happy swing friction, lol I miss those old cable rigs but know I'm too old for that game anymore.

[@RustyRescues]

Not bad, the swingers need to be relined, but haven't gotten to it yet. They are really fun to run, but certainly know you did something by the end of the day!

[@craneguypaul]

@@RustyRescues I'm sure you know already but just want to urge caution with the old frictions. They contain asbestosis, my father died from mesothelioma. I have asbestos nodes in my lungs. Not something to be taken lightly.

[@RustyRescues]

@@craneguypaul duly noted, thank you!

[@rugger8787]

these things look like they could do some real work

[@dougnymeyer8806]

Is that old girl going to get restored?

[@ryannewland1700]

You must be a huge tremors fan as all music is from there

[@edbiggie]

Awesome job !!!!

[@WH32R]

Are you guys located in canadaigua NY?? That pageant ground looks very familiar

[@drivin379]

Music reminds me at end of every show of MOVIN ON in the 80s .....sounds just like it

[@saul5009]

How many draglines did you now saved?

[@ivantinipollon6214]

Eu estava cansada de ficar parada já estava enferrujando,estou doida pra trabalhar!!