Caterpillar D8H Bulldozer Sitting for 15+ Years! (Will it ever run again?)

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[@matthewroszkowski4674]

My father in law died a few years back, he worked for Hormel in the factory, but also ran heavy machinery like drag lines and dozers for 45 years. I remember talking to him one time when he said if he had a million dollars, he would buy an old D8 and a pile of dirt, and spend all day moving the pile from one end of the lot to the other. That is why videos like this, Matt, make me smiile.

[@DieselCreek]

it wouldnt take a million to buy but hed get a million dollars worth of fun!

[@vinces8974]

I agree with what your father-in-law said ,I would do the same thing!

[@robertodebeers2551]

Damn straight. I worked in the woods with a gentleman who had bought a D-7 cable dozer new in 1947. In the 1980s it still ran like an expensive watch. Wonderful machine.

[@Docdug]

I’ve always told my friends that I want to buy some land and an old Cat to move the dirt. A perfect retirement plan!

[@ezipezy]

@@DieselCreek it would cost a million in diesel lol

[@garybelcher8259]

What a great old hunk of iron. The first dozer I had anything to do with was an old Cat D8. Early 1970s, and I had been hired to plant trees on a coal strip mines in Virginia. Got “volunteered” to help change out a set of tracks, track adjusters and front idlers on the D8. Put some long hours in with a big sledge hammer… when I graduated from high school soon after this, I ended up working for a bunch of yrs on this same strip mines, first on a coal auger and then as an equipment operator. In the early 80s I ended up in the military… I stayed for the long tour (24 yrs and several combat deployments).. but I can still hear and smell the old equipment… keep up with what you’re doing..you are a hard working young man! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Tomhohenadel]

Thank you for your service. Kudos to you

[@DieselCreek]

Thank you for your service!

[@josemartins256]

TRATOR A VAPOR MUITA FUMAÇA.

[@eddieforce2341]

This brings back memories. I learned to operate an old cat D7 cable rig at age 16. The pony motor didn’t have a electric starter. It was turned over with a long crank that stuck out the front. If you killed the main motor with the blade up you couldn’t get the crank in to start the pony motor. I’ve had to walk off the mountain to get the old Ford tractor to move the Cat enough to get the crank in several times.. I worked all summer clearing trees off of 40 acres. I learned that running a bulldozer wasn’t what I wanted to do for the real of my life.

[@D8PETE]

Congratulations Matt! Glad to see the old girl brought back to life. Great to see everyone helping you out with your mission. Looking forward to part two and seeing this machine in more videos. 👍👍

[@Military-Museum-LP]

Strange how we share the same favorites in machines, ANYTHING IH, Cub Cadets, old iron and now D8 cables. This was my first machine I ran by myself. One summer I worked filling in a sand pit. The pony motor was crank start and when I could get it running it scared the crap out of me sounding like it was turning 20,000 rpm’s! I learned to park it on a hill and bump start it. Takes allot of time to make a level cut. I was going up and down for weeks. Thank you Matt for reminding me of good times the summer I was 14.

[@DieselCreek]

Good taste!!

[@blackscotydog]

Wow try getting a 14 yr old to do that now......

[@ilikecereal156]

@@blackscotydog I'm sure you could get some that are interested, but I sure wouldn't trust them

[@clevelandmaker386]

@@DieselCreek Matt.... A question....this may sound...... immature of me but...with your love of machinery.... Have you ever thought about collecting the CONSTRUCTICONS IRL? could be a cool video series Just a suggestion... Good video As always LINK BELT GANG AUTOCAR GANG THANKS

[@DieselCreek]

@@clevelandmaker386 I’m not sure what that is “IRL”?

[@REDBIRD-95]

Old CATS never die! They just wait for Matt to wake them up from a long, long slumber🤘 I doubt if the new machines would survive like this old girl has😊

[@BlueDually4x4]

The mice would total a new machine out after a few months of chewing on wires.

[@gamerelite3989]

theres only one thing more durable than an old cat ...... an even older cat!! and im not joking thoses beasts are full of holes leaking oil making strange sounds and still going after 50+ years of service :D

[@1917Enfield]

The new machines won't survive like this one by design. They are built to have an end-of-life. They sell more of them that way.

[@KrazyMitchAdventures]

OLD CATS do die, when they get sunk in the Pacific Ocean.. My old work place, was trying to fill in a sink hole in the early 80s with an old cat dozer in West Vancouver BC, Canada, and the Cat slid into the sink hole, into about 60 ft of water, it took 4 cranes to haul it back out of the ocean.

[@squarebodychevy]

Well said old iron for life 🤘

[@CS_Blitzen]

It never ceases to amaze me what you can bring back to life, what previously seemed fit only for a static museum display is brought back from the brink, and you make it look so easy too. An hour or two in the wash bay and she'll be near ready for work. Can't wait to see part two, 2023 is off to an awesome start!

[@paulne1514]

I went for a job at a scrapyard. They told me if I could get this old crane running, I’d be hired. Then handed me a hand crank and left. Took me a little bit checking the crane out, put the hand crank on the pony motor, a few half turns and it started. I ran it for 4 hours, until one of the swing clutches started failing and then stopped. They hired me anyway and put me on a newer crane with an electric starter! (No heater, but no hand crank either!)

[@gutsngorrrr]

That was one of the better "will it run" videos I've seen in a while. You could see by the amount of stuff that came out the exhaust, that she's been sitting a while. What an absolute score and a can see a good few videos bringing the old girl back to her former glory.

[@cactuskiwi4218]

Have you seen the Marty T cat rescue from the New Zealand jungle??

[@gutsngorrrr]

@@cactuskiwi4218 Yes, that was excellent too.

[@DieselCreek]

Thanks Mark! it was a lot of work!

[@jukkagy]

6:15

[@jamesmiller8845]

its actually a bloke not a girl :(

[@walkerhawes2200]

All things considered, her age, sitting for 15 years, and water in places it shouldn’t be, that engine sounds absolutely amazing. I didn’t doubt you guys would get it to run but I was expecting a lot more repairs to happen first. Good job on this one Matt.

[@DieselCreek]

Thanks!!!

[@archstanton9206]

Man I got goose bumps when that old girl came alive. I remember my father and uncles running dozers like that on construction jobs when I was a kid. The ground would shake when they went by and I , at about 5 years old, was in awe of that machine...so big, roaring and moving the world with my Dad at the controls, as I watched. Awesome stuff. Hey Matt...on another subject, I really enjoy seeing the seasonal changes in the drone shot during the opening, just FWIW.

[@bill45colt]

ive had 11 but only two d4s now,,,,1948 and 1952 in the back yard,,,,its great to hear them running,,,,i guess i need to sell mine,,,,no job for them now,,,and low hours even ,,,,but they havent run in 2 years,,,,

[@stevecorcoran9869]

If you are going to use that cable unit, make sure you install guards on both sides of the operator's station. My grandfather used to grade fields with 2 of those old dozers and had a pan cutting edge catch on a boulder. The tension snapped a brand new wire rope and the cable whipped around and shattered his ankle so it was never even close to right for the rest of his life. They popped cables fairly often until he finally gave in and upfitted both dozers to hydraulics for the pans and the blades.

[@tankman1930]

Love the old dozers, they can sit for years, throw enough compression back in them with fuel, and boom. Love those old cat engines too. Nother good video matt, shooting for 1mill subs.

[@ronniewilliz153]

Notice how most the old iron that's still running are cats 😁

[@tankman1930]

@@ronniewilliz153 Cats and old old Cummins. Back when they were made to actually do work.

[@EyesOnlyTeam86]

@Ronnie Williz Saw a Gold Rush video the other day and saw and old Clark Loader. Loader older than me! 🤦‍♂️

[@EyesOnlyTeam86]

Me too! Especially seeing the first fire. LOVE to see all that smoke and think to myself "Sleepy Joe and the EPA can suck it with all there EV garbage!" Black Smoke Matters!

[@ronniewilliz153]

@@tankman1930 yes. That old stuff that didn't need much to work and run and didn't need much maintenance

[@devisionhun]

Oh WOW, compared to the shipping container shop, the new one is MASSIVE!! Didn’t realize its this much bigger. Nice “new” rig 🎉

[@ronniewilliz153]

The old shop can fit inside the new one it's a great shop. He's really doing things right in life that's for sure

[@jamesrogers8613]

Wow, phenomenal job guys, a stellar performance by the whole cast!!! A work of art, a real masterpiece. That is one fine machine right there! Man, that thing sounds beautiful. Love that turbo singing. Looking forward to part two of the double feature. Keep up the great work!

[@micknorton8318]

Loved the video which brought memories back of my Cat D8H dozer when working on the Thai/Laos border in 1967 with the British army on road construction. Our pony/donkey engines were notoriously unreliable and on many occasion had to resort either hand crank start or to a pull/push start in gear on decompression and then kick the decompressor over. Although 56 years ago the noise of a Cat D8H starting is etched in my memory. Great you saved an old equipment.

[@fatblokes_ferguson]

I just love the look on your face whenever you get a prehistoric diesel engine going, hopefully another project we can follow the progress on your channel. Great stuff guys 👍🛠🔧🚜

[@swede178]

This video makes me miss the old times when turning wrenches with friends. You guys seemed to have a great time!

[@seanworkman431]

They sure did, good to see young men enthusiastic about this stuff.

[@DieselCreek]

@@seanworkman431 not too many of us around!

[@seanworkman431]

@@DieselCreek well it would seem there are about half a million who are glad that you are. Well done Matt, would love to come visit from Australia but I'm not risking the jab just to play on an old drag line, sorry mate. I reckon I could convince Mike Morgan to let us mill some lumber at his yard.

[@CanyonRunVideos]

I became an Operating Engineer in 1979 and the first dozer that I operated was a CAT D8 46A with a hydraulic dozer blade with tilt and hydraulic rippers. I operated the 46A dozers until the CAT D8K dozers came out and then I went up to the massive D8L High Track dozers came out. The D8L had a fully enclosed cab with air conditioning and after that I was in a fully enclosed A/C cab for the rest of my career. It was great watching you guys get the old CAT running again.

[@rogerhodges7656]

I didn't know whether to be more impressed with "the team" getting it started or with the homeowner for doing such a good job manicuring the lawn around this beast.

[@richardthomas1743]

Absolutely thumbs UP!!👍👍 That Diesel Dozer Engine sounds awesome! Not even any exhaust smoke once she was up and running. I am on stand by for part two! 💯

[@lorenjennings1127]

Matt, that was a pretty big smile when the engine fired up! It's great that you are saving these old iron machines. Thanks for the videos, they are very entertaining.

[@PizzaAssasin]

My grandfather ran a D8H just like this one clearing snow from the railroad tracks here in NY in the 50s. He also ran one in the early 60s with a scraper pan building roads and highways. He loved seeing this and took him back to his glory days. Keep up the good work Matt.

[@Anatolij57974]

Очень,похож на Русский бульдозер,T100&Т130. Это милочичный звук турбины знакомый с детства.

[@OuradventuresGU]

That whistle from the mighty Cat power plant is something I could listen too all day long, love your channel and how you bring us all along with the activities you have ahead of you, nothing seems to hard and you overcome everything that is ahead of you! Roll on the next episode 👍

[@gordonagent7037]

Matt, what I was watching here from my lounge chair in Queensland, Australia, was 4 young American men, good buddies, pouring over a piece of American built, iconic machinery, doing what mates should be doing on a weekend, combining their talents and skills, helping each other out with shared information, to bring this gorgeous bit of iron back to life. For one of your entry videos into 2023, well, the smile on your face just about equaled the experience I felt and it was just heartwarming to see…..well done to you all, can’t wait for part 2.

[@williambradley8018]

I'm so glad you share your heavy equipment adventures with us. I come from a long line of operating engineers. .y fondest memories of my father were when I was five years old and he had made a deal with somebody to get a old Bucyrus dragline running and pulled to the road and loaded up. I worked with him and sure enough she fired and was able to track the 1/2 mile to the road. I remember it so well cuz it was the first time I drove by myself. Dad put me in the truck, explained what to do and told me to meet him at the gate. This and many more adventures with heavy equipment color my childhood. At the ripe old age of 11 I even went to work for my dad running a international dozer building berms around a landfill. I'll always be grateful for what my dad tells did for me- he taught that being a man meant to work and running heavy equipment was honored.

[@jesusisGod1434]

You have a great dad!

[@NJP-Supremacist]

A Diesel Creek shirt that says: "Ether in one hand, Throttle in the other. Contact!" is surely something I would wear.

[@iansaddington6057]

Cheers Matt. That is an exciting episode. So pleased that you realized your dream in getting a D8H. They were a revolutionary dozer when they hit the market. Good for you mate.

[@davidsnow1481]

Matt never disappoints when it comes to starting an old engine. Glad to see the old cat dozer run again.

[@DieselCreek]

Thanks David!

[@RumMonkeyable]

Absolutely LOVE the "will it start?" videos. I know nothing about equipment, mechanical stuff, or repair work. BUT, really enjoy Matt and am amazed at his skills and knowledge. The older and rustier the better, right? 😄😂😜❓❤👏👍😍

[@WatchWesWork]

The nice thing about flathead engines is that you basically can't get water in the cylinders. What a beast! Love the gear drive generator.

[@donaldwhitted4214]

Wow diesel creek after sitting. For 15 years you and your buddys got her runnning she Sounds great for old bulldozer never knew some motors had pony motors to get the bulldozer motor started wow and to see bulldozer move i learn something new every time i wacth your will it start Thank you 👈👍👍

[@daved7024]

Matt, So happy to see you smiling ear to 👂 ear to hear that old CAT 🐈 brought back to life a little TLC she'll be running like new. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for bringing us along 🙂

[@DieselCreek]

Thanks for watching!!

[@greypoet2]

Matt, you could make a 4 hour video and I'd watch the whole thing. You're the only you tuber I'd take that much time for. You make them interesting and your excitement when something works always makes me grin. Good fortune to you and God bless you.

[@dubuque1]

Agree sometimes feel cheated if only 30 minutes :)

[@46bovine]

Matt takes old, rusty, beat up machines puts in minimal parts and a lot of time and sweat and comes up with a jewel.

[@mattyallen3396]

Watch Marty T in Nz

[@artstudio9673]

Same Here!!!!!

[@jesusisGod1434]

Amen!

[@ronlowenstein9489]

It is real great to see these “young guys” understand and have the interest in working on older equipment that could have ended up as salvage

[@DrewMarold]

I love seeing these old machines brought back to life. Looking forward to part 2.

[@Sophocleous91]

Oh i miss the will it start videos soooo much !!!!!

[@Military-Museum-LP]

Ditto!

[@TH-bj1pb]

But will it drive all the way home? 😎

[@Sophocleous91]

@@TH-bj1pb Knowing Matt, if it doesnt drive, he will MAKE it drive !

[@billroberts3864]

Matt, you and your friends did a great job bringing that Cat back to life. It will be fun to see what you do with it when you get it home. Blessings to you.

[@46bovine]

Amazing! Great work.

[@ronyon1]

Loved this series of videos! That old equipment is so cool and it is amazing that it just still runs like that.

[@JC-sc4il]

An exceptional job in getting this monster back on track ! 😉 Congratulations to the whole team ! 👏 I'm looking forward to the rest of this video... 🤗 Thanks Matt ! 👍

[@oldhouseredux7733]

There’s a little grin that Matt gets right when he realizes the old crusty rig he’s working on is gonna fire that I love to see and keeps me coming back for every video! What a great freakin channel this is.

[@CZAnthonyX]

these old cat machiens are unbelievably tough! I love watching these old machines start back up! Cat made some badass machines!

[@georgeenriquez612]

What a hell of a video Matt!!! You knocked it out of the park with this one. Can’t wait for part 2 and seeing it working. You deserve 1 million subscribers.

[@viking7558]

Memory Lane! My Grandpa hired a man with a cable lift Cat 7 to do some clearing on the property. He let me ride and manipulate the controls a little. I was 6 and I was Hooked! Ten years later I went to work with one of my uncles when he needed help and it turned into my lifes work, 48 years later I still enjoy the work. Thanks for a Great video!

[@stevewareing8525]

"EPIC TEAM WORK" Matt! Another venerable piece of vintage (Not exactly ancient) piece of machinery saved. Totally worthy of rescue. After all a classic doesn't become a classic till it's old enough! That Cat definitely had nine lives. 😉.

[@ianbedwell4871]

Many years back I was based at the international telex center in New Zealand. We had a WW2 USA Cat generator set on sled with pony motor. Except ours didn’t have a starter motor, had to decompress and hand crank and hope it started, then used it to pre warm the diesel before starting it. So this brings back memories, thanks again for great video

[@wes11bravo]

Until they were all recently upgraded, lots of the smaller telephone central offices in Southwestern Pennsylvania still had 2-stroke Detroit Diesel generators from the late '40- early '50s. Before they were all scrapped, someone apparently took all of the cool stamped steel GENERAL MOTORS signs that were bolted vertically to the sides of the radiators, possibly selling them on eBay (though I can neither confirm nor deny this) :P

[@Porty1119]

We have a 1950s Cat piston air compressor (with pony motor) up at the gold mine. It's a backup and peaking unit to supplement a Cummins genset and Gardner Denver electric compressor. We rescued it from a stripped-out millsite in New Mexico.

[@DieselCreek]

@@wes11bravo I know where one of those gen sets is still hidden!

[@ianbedwell4871]

@@wes11bravo that makes sense. Ours was to recharge the telex batteries and provide power in the event of a failure. We had to run it up,every month to ensure it would start.

[@kristoffermangila]

Excellent work bringing back this D8 to life! Can't wait for part 2. The earlier versions of the D8, along with the D6 and D7, served during WW2, pushing dirt for airfield construction in Europe and making highways in the Pacific (and dragging heavy towed artillery pieces through thick mud, among other tasks).

[@MaggieandMissyPugs]

Matt you are like a kid with a new toy. The joy on your face is incredible thanks for sharing Bernie

[@larrymeyers6913]

Those old cats or any old equipment are amazing to me. They can sit so long and with a little work fire up and run like they haven't been sitting for 5,10 15 plus years and ready to work too

[@wes11bravo]

Larry - Amazing how the companies who built things back then obviously existed to make money just like today yet there seemed to be an underlying commitment to build and overbuild machines that were nearly indestructible, something that could, well, sit for 15 years then start back up without much effort. Now, it seems like the big equipment companies are less invested in that legacy and more focused on building a machine just good enough to last until a few months after the warranty expires, haha!

[@Eric-gi9kg]

The Simplicity of these older machines is beautiful. Today's machine you almost need a degree, special certification, and a laptop just to work on them.

[@renem6441]

Matt you guys were having so much fun!! Amazing revival!! The engine sounds excellent!! Thanks for sharing

[@phazerfourtyseven6431]

anyone else notice at 26:50 when matt woo's, the dozer revs and woo's back? awesome moment. as if its alive

[@CMDSR]

Yep sitting here cheering you guys on . Expect to see her at the Pikes National Show. Good job Scrappy Industries helping Matt wake up this beautiful piece of old iron.

[@DieselCreek]

with any luck it will be there, maybe not the spring show but hopefully the summer show!

[@steveray7770]

What an awesome video, very exciting to see it run. Thanks Matt !

[@Myrddin1955]

Another cracking vlog Matt. Watching all of you guys work the issues to resolution, is pure viewing pleasure!

[@dougadams9419]

My day is complete. Another Diesel Creek video! I was having withdrawal symptoms.

[@robertkerby2581]

Great team effort on getting the bulldozer running! Well done, Matt and the guys from Scrappy Industries!

[@davidjones8680]

Looks like you got the dream team on the job with you there. It just sounds so darned sweet. Can't wait to see the next episode.

[@maudepotvin8660]

Will it ever run again ? Of course, Diesel Creek has it in his hands !

[@peteraitken6494]

Your face said it all Matt when it fired up what an awesome machine great job guys many hands make light work as they say sounds amazing great to see these machines firing up to live on look forward to part 2 again great work guys 👍👌🔧🔧🔧

[@BladePro2021]

Awesome! Cant beat the sound of an old cat engine, learned to run dozer on the old Mid - late 70's D8 and D9H's. Love that old iron.

[@Midwest_Gaming_Express]

congrats on the shop and its always nice seeing an old machine like that brought back to life

[@brandonchristian2411]

Glad to see you get this gem Matt! There’s nothing like operating an older Cat dozer. I used to run 1970’s era Cat D8 and D9 pushing pans, spreading overburden and blading roads for haul trucks. I can’t wait to see what plans you have for the old girl.

[@everestyeti]

How brilliant, sat still for 15 years, then it's awoken woken like a sleeping Dragon roaring back into life. What a sound! To be honest thought that pony motor was FUBAR, but it also came to life. And with your mates as well, what couldn't be a better day. Looking forward to part 2.

[@scottlee9428]

That bulldozer is an absolute thing of beauty!! Just the right amount of rust. Everything about it tells the story of it's working days!! This machine is by far my favorite of all the earthmovers you've saved!! What a great moment when that engine roared back to life!!

[@DieselCreek]

It’s my favorite too!

[@martymartin2894]

Lol I would have thought the right amount of rust would be zero ha, I get what u mean.

[@dennisjohnstone4739]

Dad drove dozers and when I was a kid my brother and I used to go with him on weekends and ride the dozer while it was working. I remember back then even a D6 was a fairly big machine but when the D8 came out, WOW, what a HUGE DOZER!! We were in awe of them and some of the floats in use at the time couldn't fit them on to transport them. This old D8 brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for the video.

[@langdons2848]

Great video thank you Matt! I'm in the process of recovering a D6 8U (also a cable blade) and watching you and your mates going through the inspection and resurrection of the pony motor was valuable. I've added a points file to my list of required tools. Also checking the injector pump oil bath - definitely don't want to risk an engine runaway! Looking forward to seeing part two of this adventure.

[@wes11bravo]

L S - are you guys rescuing your D6 from an old mine or someplace? It seems fairly common in the more remote areas of the USA for larger machines to spend their last working hours at a mine or quarry, etc. The operation ends and it's not worth it to haul the larger equipment back so it gets abandoned. Heavy D Sparks gets some of his machines that way.

[@langdons2848]

@@wes11bravo Hi Wes. I'm in new south Wales, Australia. The dozer I'm working on is on a farm. It was hauled up there to build a road and a dam and parked after it was finished with. Last time the owner tried to start it (10 years ago) the pony motor was under powered - which I think may have been due to a bad spark plug lead - so it has sat there ever since. I'll have to get it running to drive it out as the road it built is now fallen into disrepair again!

[@robertburns3014]

"What a beast" indeed! That baby will push just about anything around, I'm thinking. I can't wait for part two to become available! I will be interested to see what you will need to do to get the dozer in working form once more and what your plans are for it, Matt. Thanks for taking us along to show us the newest member of the Diesel Creek stable!

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[@onesadtech]

Fantastic work getting this old iron running again. What a find! Also, much appreciated not making us wait a week or two for the next part. 😂👌

[@tobytopanga]

Your assistant using a Milwaukee, impact driver as a hammer, priceless.😅

[@braddokken9191]

I like the way you handled this video. You have lots of help working on this old CAT and you just let the cameras run and allowed us to be part of it all. Congrats on getting that old beast running again!

[@DieselCreek]

hard to document with so many cooks in the kitchen so to speak but I was grateful for the help!

[@richardthomas1743]

HELL YES !! Worth the wait!~

[@stevie.dx1710]

How cool. Right when I saw this thing I thought, now that's a Diesel Creek Special. You were just bubbling over with happiness.😃Nice to see the cabling still working.

[@michaelbroshears3053]

Great job Matt! My dad worked at Cat in the 50’s. I live a half mile from Caterpillar in East Peoria. I see a lot of the shiny new stuff but the old iron has it’s own shine!!

[@richardthomas1743]

At 22:22 how many others were yelling "Come on baby , COME ON" along with Matt? LOL

[@mikenovick4827]

Totally awesome Matt , you know how to bring them back and my hat goes off for your team of gentleman that helped you get this massive piece of equipment moving again. 👍👍👍👍, Mike from AZ

[@graemethompson340]

What a magical moment Matt that thing sounds so sweet after sitting for that long and yes as usual no body could wipe that smile off your face well done cheers for now mate

[@rusty_restorations36]

Old hoopty equipment: “ah yes. I’ve finally retired in peace” Matt with a can of summer and a dream: “no”

[@fhwolthuis]

What a beast, Matt. Great purchase! Can't wait for a refurb video

[@oneteaminbristolbcfc]

Fair play Matt I never thought for one minute that this beast would run!!! ✌️❤️

[@RoryTrackrod]

Beautiful teamwork. A pleasure to watch. Always remember the D8, after one reversed at full speed, into the truck I was driving and wrote it off. Great video..

[@robertbrinson5101]

Thanks man. My pop was a HEO for decades. I remember, as a kid, riding with dad on a D8 and hanging on a for dear life. He would have loved this.

[@DunbarLandFarms]

Great video. Can’t believe the pony motor worked with all of the water. Diesel purred just like a Cat. Can’t wait to see you put it to work.

[@louiludog]

these videos give me satisfaction I can only imagine being in person!😂 well done fellas!

[@paulsmith9569]

That's a nice new toy you have there Matt, I look forward to seeing more of it. Thanks for all your great clips, Paul in Brisbane Australia

[@jefferyrightmire9520]

LOVE this channel, 66 and still into this stuff. Keep it coming Matt and wife- keeps me going

[@rubenbraekman4515]

What a sweet old dozer, they just have that tough old timer aura over them don't they

[@lancenutter1067]

Def one of my favorite will it start videos. Everything was so sketchy! Lol 😂

[@JMR7Six]

My Dad had an old Cat with a hand crank pony motor. I think his was a D7. It had a wider seat on it and he'd let me ride with him while he cleared land for pasture. Seeing that old rusty yellow color and hearing that engine is bringing back some memories! Thanks for posting this!

[@honza8971]

hi, we started an old TATRA 148 truck that stood for 25 years. I share your joy when it worked out for your dozer. I can imagine your joy. I look forward to more videos. At is doing well.👍👍👍

[@WoodNMetalWorkshop]

This episode was definitely worth taking a break from the video I was working on, upgrades for my Sheldon metal lathe. Matt, I think this machine deserves the "Christine" treatment full restoration. Back to work now, have about half an hour of welding to do before getting going on a paying job.

[@edkennard72]

It is absolutely brings joy to my heart to see three young men bring an old girl like that back to life I sat on one of those machines for hours and hours when I was younger logging for my dad and they are one of the most awesome pieces of equipment that you'll ever own Matt and having that cable set up on the back for a scraper is is really really awesome because you can do so much with that scraper hooked up on the back cutting roads filling holes maintaining a Hall road you name it it'll be freaking awesome thank you for saving it because it definitely doesn't need to be go to the scrap yard that is a beautiful piece of equipment

[@DieselCreek]

Agreed!!

[@spencerrobinson2719]

I enjoyed watching the young guys diving in and showing interest in these old dinosaurs!

[@douglasmayherjr.5733]

Great Video, Matt. Looking forward to the next episode. Looks like the old cat was close to some major problems, the whole water and freezing temperatures thing. Glad to see it saved from the scrap yard. Thanks for the videos.

[@walter2990]

Well done Brother(s)! I think that was the most help you've ever had on a "Will it run?" video! Good job, and I can't wait to see you get it loaded and pulled back to your new shop. Enjoy!

[@CM-pw4jk]

Love your work, Matt, good job. Nothing like a diesel in the morning.

[@The_DuMont_Network]

While the overall of this video is absolutely fantastic, the best takeaway is watching all these younger guys all over the D-8 like a cheap suit. While seeing it swarmed over by a bunch of old geezers (of which I are one), I am overjoyed to see these young guys having so much fun restoring this treasure of the past. If there are more of these whippersnappers, I feel better abut the future. My hat is off to all these guys and the rest of the whippersnappers out there who share Mat's passion. My hat's off to all you guys, here and watching this. Really.

[@transcanada9028]

35 minuets is not a long video. I look forward to the completion of this great adventure. Thanks Matt.

[@albertkolthof8000]

Well that was fun ! Looking forward to part 2 !

[@ewanstewart8011]

Good lord that hand throttle sounds worse than my knees. Looking forward to part two already Matt 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@DieselCreek]

lol thats a detent in the mechanism its supposed to sound like that.... your knees arent 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

[@ewanstewart8011]

@@DieselCreek The smile on your face when she started was enough to forget about them 😅👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿