Fixing a Hydraulic Leak on my Vintage Grader and Cutting a New Road

[@lrrromicronpersei8294]

I love the fact that nothing fazes Marty it’s just another day and another issue to overcome and he seems to just take it all in his stride.. he definitely has the skills

[@MeAndTheBoys_]

Have you seen the episodes, where Marty takes us all to the “mountaintop”, to meet the masters Marty learned from? I mean, Marty could probably fix almost any engine known to man, but his mentors are so good, that even Marty has huge respect for those guys. I just love the hard-working attitude of those old school mechanics, there is nothing those guys cannot fix. They look at some mangled axle, and they can tell right away if it's yay or nay 🤣

[@BAAFILD]

Hes like "oh look more content" 8-)

[@brianmoore5498]

Marty gives me confidence. Hillary said it while ascending Everest, " always solid ground under you"

[@jasontruman1215]

Honestly the world would be a much better place if everyone was like this, minor issues are nothing to loose your mind over. I’ve seen cars sit for 15+ years because of something stupid like a water pump or brake master going out.

[@M.TTT.]

You don't have much of an option unless you like spilling oil all over, spending hundreds on new oil, or just not getting work done.

[@waterbourne9282]

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

[@Lex-Hawthorn]

see you have the trainee driver with you mate, well done.

[@40medic]

Patience and a steady hand wins the day! Well done!

[@Bret4207]

Thanks Marty, now all I can think about is how to convince my wife "we" need a grader!!!!! ;)

[@Pushyhog]

thanks Marty & family.

[@PeterLee-zn3jl]

Your trousseau of tools just expands geometrically...and you keep it all knit together...without much fuss....carry on

[@BrassLock]

It's so dightful seeing an old grader _bursting with enthusiasm_ to grade some gravel after unwanted retirement.

[@637man3]

It's like a sanctuary for old and/or discarded machinery. They get necessary maintenance and repairs, you get the joy of having a functional yard, where the old dears live out their final, and perhaps their best, days. Listening to this old one grunt easily through her work was magic, the header mentions a new road, hope to see updates. She's grand, that one, majestic even. Thanks for the post.

[@latemcire8387]

Thanks for the video! There’s only a few videos I look forward to each week and yours is one of them. Keep up the good work!

[@frankreidy5881]

Patient, methodical, creative, stoical and efficiently effective - that’s Marty as he brings us on another little repair adventure

[@keithgarland3404]

If it's more than a pin hole in pipe, you can coil some pliable copper wire/ cable around pipe then solder/ hard solder to pipe, makes a permanent repair. Good job Marty, always enjoy your videos, great can do attitude.

[@MeAndTheBoys_]

Marty's maintenance is at it again 👍 One leaking pipe? To Marty, this job is like making coffee is for other people. I am confident, that Marty was actually annoyed about doing only this one small fix on that day 😂 It's so lovely to see that old grader again, we were all there with Marty, when he got it 😀

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

No problems, just opportunitys for solutions!!

[@annechristiansen941]

Tusen takk for god underholdning Marty. 👍🤗👍🇸🇯

[@BadradioWOT]

I like the snail chain on the front, great videos!

[@rmc8152]

I'm glad to see you back online.

[@potbelliedolman8939]

I was helping from Tyler, Texas-USA. Enjoy your videos a bunch!!

[@michaelseymour3534]

Never a dull moment.

[@mfc4591]

The thing that amazes me, is that Marty finds all this old kit, makes it run, and can operate it, the grader motor sounds healthy and must be, if it can spin the wheels.

[@bkbinj6320]

Great video Marty. You live in a beautiful part of the world.

[@GreyRockOne]

Nice work Marty! Those damn hidden friction leaks!

[@markfowler2066]

Love NZ! Just another day in paradise living the dream...

[@markbehr88]

Well done Marty. I think the grader deserves some wire wheeling and a new coat of yellow paint.

[@dirthawk2669]

Great Job Marty !!! You know how to KEEP E'M RUNN'IN My Friend !!!!!

[@flowerstone]

Watching a video from a year ago. 15 year old rotary tiller. Enjoy the rebuild. I know this type of video takes a lot of work and I appreciate the work you put into it. The maintenance videos are great and the fixes like the grader. Hope to see more. 😊

[@richardw.foxhall3392]

It a happy time when Mr Marty T posts, a repair done by you and your young "helper". Repair for the cost of your time, some hydraulic fluid. The bonus is Mrs. T doesn't see a new tractor in the yard😊, and Marty gets to cut in a new road. Hope it is more direct to the main road....

[@rdeanbenson2214]

Good job Mate!

[@patrickmoodabe9728]

Awesome videos Marty. Showing us skills that are (ridiculously) in short supply. & maintaining that wonderful kiwi can do attitude. 👏👏

[@chiefjohnson2642]

Commen sense ain't that Commen any more

[@ToreDL87]

Yeah today it's, something approaches completely normal factory specified maintenance schedule = IMMEDIATELY PROCEED TO PANIC and buy some chinese crap to replace it instead.

[@markhensley9378]

Great job on the repair. That was a beautiful view from the top of your mountain in the beginning of the video. Thanks again for your time today and enjoy your week.

[@FPVsean]

I envy your ability to keep a machine mechanically flawless even if it looks cosmetically abandoned, awesome stuff

[@MeAndTheBoys_]

Marty would very likely be called a chief engineer in many countries. He is THAT good.

[@grahameroberts8109]

‘Cosmetically abandoned.’ Great phrase. She could do with a bit of anti-rust treatment.

[@M.TTT.]

@grahameroberts8109 there are those of us who'd call that "patina". Then we don't have to bother painting it 😂

[@BrassLock]

Guys spend hundreds of hours trying to create the perfect Rat Rod for Meets & Shows. Marty seems to attract such machinery with _the desired look_ automatically.

[@stumpy2816]

Well done Marty. 👍👍

[@assassinlexx1993]

Glad to see you brought your mechanic's helper. Fast job when you know what to do. Wish you had explained the job with the grader.

[@johndemeen5575]

Roadgraders are my favorite big tool to watch. Million thanks, St.Paul,Minnesota.

[@gregfoster3620]

The snail emblem on the front is brilliant 👌

[@publicclammer]

That grader is what my Dad would have called a "wheel horse"!

[@philyew3617]

A good enough fix Marty, It'll probably outlast the pipe. My god that floors a bit 'chunky'. Made when things were built to last. Thanks for the video, always great to watch.

[@brianelliot2719]

Thanks for showing us how to braze the hydraulic pipe, Marty. Everyone else heads to the hydraulic shop for a new one. 😊

[@paulravitsky2898]

Great fix! Love the snail "hood ornament"!

[@michaelbarrett2346]

Well done

[@naweedkhan8682]

Hey Marty great video. We are from Fiji originally and my dad had a 4x4 aveling barford with a Leyland 400 in it. It was imported from NZ to the islands for use in the roading department. There weren't many of these in the islands and surely none as powerful and grunty. Dad used to cut new roads and drains in places where you'll find it difficult to walk on foot. During sugarcane season pulling trucks out of soggy fields, making house sites, new drainage on roads. It could do anything. Dad fitted a D6 ripper to the back of it and he fitted a spare wheel on the front mount face. Ripping hard rocky ground then leveling with the blade was a sight to behold. Working on rough terrain you'll always need a spare handy. We sadly had to sell the grader when we moved here but what a machine!!!!

[@MartyT]

Thats awesome

[@mopar4656]

Who cares what it looks like, as long as it gets the job done. Excellent work!

[@Mike-ef7xe]

Good job

[@CAPNMAC82]

It's good that you fixed the hard pipe. All too often people with graders just replace them with flexible hose, which becomes its own nightmare down the road.

[@peteb2]

Gosh the sound of the AB's engine brings back some very distant childhood memories for me! I grew up with nothing but metal roads & they copped a regular grading by such a machine... As a kid i would stand in awe watching "Mr Graderman" come past out on the road, a rolling flow of road material being worked infront the blade....

[@everestyeti]

Marty T's excitement when he found out that the floor is 1/2 steel, priceless. 👍🤗

[@sixtyfiveford]

Looks like a blast to run that grader.

[@MartyT]

It is quite fun

[@subwiser]

There is a joke about bursting hydraulic lines somewhere in here

[@hh-qc7rp]

Well done

[@brianmoore5498]

nice one! i saw the hat and remembered it is fall/winter in your half of the planet😊👍

[@j81851]

Too short and infrequent!! We really are very fond of you Marty and with all the other stuff on YT a video from you is truly a glimmer of sunshine. Thanks and please be more frequent and longer length of the videos if you can. We truly miss your bush engineering that is so amazing when you are absent! Thanks for the video I really enjoyed it!! Love from Alabama USA

[@1paparico]

No mention of a nice lawn again for the good lady/assitant...

[@kirbyn2010]

You, sir, have the coolest machines! I have a 1/2 mile gravel driveway and i wish that I could justify a grader. I would have one in a hearbeat.

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

When used properly, a motor grader, especially a full sized one, can be invaluable. Especially considering the driveway you have. What a great start for a new week. Happy Monday everyone!! Go kill it!!

[@tonyrum5808]

Marty you have a special relationship with machines which have been discarded to the forest. They seem to talk to you and I sense you do the same to them. They recognize you are there to save them and they willingly give themselves to you. Once you have them on the road to good health they perform almost as good as before. Thank you Marty for your efforts to save these dinosaurs for us to appreciate. Again Kudos to you!

[@mayhemmayo]

[@daddybob6096]

Good to see your channel loud and clear again Mart. We just got back from the Philippines yesterday. Wifi wasn't that great at our house there, so was struggling to get good YT videos. Strangely we had little trouble accessing ZB talkback all day. Bob.

[@justcolin2887]

I was just re watching the old grader videos and now youve posted a new video of it for us to watch😁

[@ecocrime8957]

How durable do you want your floor? Car manufacturers: slightly thinner tin-foil. Also grader manufacturer: What? Half an inch of steel isn't enough?)

[@jamesbreault5762]

Good job Marty, would like to have seen more footage of the making of the road ,just saying.👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@puirYorick]

And you didn't need the manufacturer's authorization codes to update the ECM via the onboard satellite receiver or anything. 🤣

[@danhammond8406]

To be fair that's what the epa forced on the manufacturer.

[@puirYorick]

@@danhammond8406 The fancy electronic tech perhaps as a result of better combustion control but making the module accessible strictly via authorized factory access under satellite-directed live login control was purely a manufacturers' greed move. They wanted to deny consumers the right to repair.

[@blacksheep9734]

You wouldn’t have to do that for a hydraulic leak

[@deancoley7987]

What a machine, can you imagine how many men it would take to replicate the same amount of work, well worth the spanner work.

[@tiglet5382]

man, that was a long time waiting. more please.

[@ronaldbalkaran9481]

Mr. Fix anything. Good job always

[@bubbagreensmith7174]

Marty is at it again! Quite the fixit man… great job!!!!!👍

[@pl9372]

Love the intro with the sound of the korimakos

[@seanknight9898]

Graders are so satisfying to watch. Wish I had one for my property.

[@terryrogers1025]

Excellent repair sir, always a pleasure to watch you at work. I had an uncle who operated a grader for a living, he always referred to as either as running the blade, or the motor grader, but after seeing some of the beautiful mountains and areas where you are, I would be more inclined to refer to the grader as a goatergrader, you must at times have to be part mountain goat to get around your area; it’s still beautiful country none the less, thanks for the video young man.

[@robertheyes3975]

A cool vintage grader. It's so good to see the old ones working again. Isn't it not! 🙂 Marty T

[@DrynGaming]

Just so satisfying to watch. Keep up the good work man, I'll take this style of content over anything else

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Good to see you still saving all this old machinery Marty 👍👍

[@remog38]

Thanks Marty beautiful opening shot.

[@j.w.3345]

What a beautiful view. I can see why you live there. Great old machine! Sure beats shoveling!

[@topotone]

Good to see you’re keepin at it in winter down there. Doesn’t look too brisk. Good steady drone shot from above…I assume that was the drone, unless you had the gopro hanging from a tree 😂 Anyway, thanks for the vid Marty.

[@mark-]

Nice one. 😊👍 have you thought of doing a Q&A?

[@garycoppard3596]

Nice , no nonsense video. Get it off, repaired and back together. Some KZbin videos are full of long BS explainations that are boring and unnecessary. Thanks for doing it short and sweet. ❤❤

[@JohnSmith-iv7xt]

Always enjoy your content Marty.

[@mattmopar440]

its always amazing me how a copper wire can cut through a steel pipe we have this issue all the time in refrigeration system they wire them so badly these days half our leaks are from badly run pipes and wiring

[@davidgreening173]

Every year Google has to go remap New Zealand to keep up all Marty’s new roads

[@joerodrigues3816]

So glad you are back mate I really appreciate your videos you are amazing at what you do love it more pls

[@horstszibulski19]

I think Marty is the only one who uses a grader instead of a dozer... 😂👍👍👍

[@smokedog123456789]

Marty T!!!! Such a real enjoyable channel to watch, always a special treat when you upload ❤

[@avrel820]

Nice fixing of the leak I had no idea it could be brazed.. And you're good at leveling with the grader too 😀

[@izzy123412457]

Quick and easy or that’s what it seemed, nice video

[@georgehorne394]

it's like you have your own public works department

[@nayBobb]

Dang I miss my motor grader!

[@stephenbrown1136]

Another gem. Thanks for the update. Looking forward to what you get into next

[@grahammctygue724]

Thank,s needed this pushing my way thru cowboy /western movie ,middle of thunder rain showers be blessed Peace to you and family

[@lv5998]

1113p CST Great way to end the evening….a Marty T video. Thank you sir

[@terrytopliss9506]

Good job done Marty,there’s life in the old girl yet. Thanks for the video.👍👍

[@Ray-lo4hr]

Hello from Canada.🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

Excellent! Excellent fix by Marty!!

[@DanKoning777]

It's amazing-you'd think the wiring would relent before metal would [if that's what it was rubbing against all that time]. Anyway, thanks for the video. Btw, did you know that New Zealand's own Shane van Gisbergen [Supercar Champ], made history yesterday winning NASCAR's inaugural Chicago street race? He represented NZ well.

[@bobturnbull18]

Nice introduction to the "Cup" series. Congratulations to him.

[@Poppi2006]

Thanks for giving us some bird sounds in the intro.

[@barra245t2]

Beautiful Bellbird song

[@raywilson800]

I believe you can fix anything. Fantastic

[@willf5768]

Nice job Marty 😊👍

[@k13ehr]

I have done this type of repair a few times, but I always cut a section out a washer to cover the hole and then braze that in place, a much stronger repair and I would have made a semi pipe to cover the worn part of the pipe and brazed that on.

[@bigbird2100]

Great video 👍Marty at least having a bigger hole in the floor lightens the grader😊

[@rhondasweeney7271]

Awesome! Fixed it! 😊

[@job38four10]

When you showed that piece you cut out of floor board, I went WOW, I never seen 1/2" floor board on anything. First time I seen you with grader, be nice to have on long driveways......

[@wideyxyz2271]

Cool as always. Now I'm curious about the "new road" Where too and why? Does this mean we might see some more dozer action?

[@Zvolis]

i would use dozer first for the rough shape and then the grader, but i am no expert. either way nice wid as allways.