How To Clean A Vee Ditch With A CAT 14G

[@Big-John]

Really like the way you just let the motor do the work! Not reving it way up and tearing stuff apart? Sign of a true operator! Keep up the great work 👍

[@paulsautocm]

Poke a hole in the end of the filter after you place it on the tote to drain, it'll let some air in and the filter will drain. Thanks for the professional grading demonstrations.

[@dennisholst4322]

Smart

[@doublediamondgarage3031]

Life's a ditch! You make the grader work look so easy

[@derkaderka5910]

Go down to the local high school and see if someone in the shop class would like to organize/sweep floors! Might find yourself with a future HD mechanic!

[@scottwheeler2494]

That’s assuming the local high school still has a shop class. Perhaps there is a local technical college that offers internships.

[@ParadiseLandscapingGA]

It’s amazing what all you can do with a blade. I’ve never ran a grader but they are intriguing machines.

[@mrmiscast]

The "9s" might be your favorite equipment Mr Paydirt, but I love watching that 14G work. I've got one of those Cat filter wrenches in my box, it's old, and no matter what, it will take any filter off. Thanks for the video Jeff...

[@billmoran3812]

You’re right about a full time parts guy. I can relate. When I worked for the railroad, the good thing is all the locomotives used the same filters. Made life easy as long as you kept enough on hand. Lube oil was in a tank with a pneumatic pump and a long hose. Typical top off was 50 gallons. Total lube oil 400 gallons. Never changed. Just top off and change filters.

[@dennisholst4322]

Do those run coolers

[@billmoran3812]

@@dennisholst4322 had to think for a minute, yes there are oil coolers on the EMD engines. Actually those engines run pretty cool. We never really worked them hard like a class 1 railroad might, pulling 45,000 ton trains over the mountains. We ran on relatively flat land, short haul, with trains anywhere from a few hundred tons to a few thousand. It was rare we would run with the throttle at Run 8. Most of the time the engines were loafing which isn’t really good for them. Causes a lot of wet stacking and oil slobber because the rings don’t have a lot of pressure on them.

[@bcbloc02]

Not just all aeration where the filter oil goes there is a lot of drainback that occurs as well as there is no check valve between the pump and oil filter keeping it from getting siphoned back to the pan.

[@alvinsterk2918]

I had a cab over Pete I bought in 71 or 72 but it had that little 270 cat in it and the stick was marked the same way lived that set up

[@TrevorDennis100]

I've always thought that you are to are to graders what Frank Cunningham is to his backhoe. No one operates a grader like you Jeff. All that earth moving with the Jpaydirt humour to go with it. A great way to while away 23 minutes.

[@Fatamus]

46min so far I watched it twice 😁 Both times he missed the phone/power pole.🤦

[@dennisholst4322]

Before GPS finish hands were amazing to watch

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Hello Jeff. Those straps are the best way of removing filters. Although we have one that has 3 prongs that you put on the bottom of the filter. Witch is very good in a tiet place. I think it's a Mac tool.

[@Gooditalian]

Guess everyone has there way of grading ditches, myself I would of got down in the ditch right side put it in back slope and piled the material in the center of the ditch get out of ditch go back and articulate the right side of the machine and pull it all on top opposite of the fence side.what do you think.

[@MyOLD36chevy]

Go to a plumbing store and get two no hub hose clamp they are for PVC Pipe. They come in sizes from 1and 1/2 to 6 inch O.D. pipe should work.

[@richardhoneywell7411]

Great video Jeff alway enjoy watching you work dirt with the 14G. Looking forward to your next video stay safe Jeff

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

I had no idea a grader had so many adjustments available. That just moved it up on my list of cool shit. And about 80% of my list reads like your inventory list. The D9 being on top.

[@rustyshackleford498]

These ditch cutting vids are my favorite!

[@garyharrington5300]

Wait ,your in charge ,and your the boss ,great job my man!

[@_Ben4810]

That would make a great setting for a Jpaydirt offshoot podcast....''Tales From Jeff's Warehouse''.....

[@wlogue]

Ask your Cat dealer if they will loan you the tools to do that front seal, I have only seen a couple real early ones that didn't have the wear sleeve. The thing about the Cat tools is they're really low profile, which eliminates the need for removing alot of excess parts. The Distorter group is what you need for removal of the sleeve. Just my 2c... having done quite a few. Taker easy bud!

[@Jpaydirt]

I have the tools to do, just not the gumtion

[@dennisholst4322]

The easy list isn't as long as the pain in the ass list

[@wlogue]

@@dennisholst4322 That's for sure, especially in the snow!

[@albertmcalister9066]

There is a KZbin channel called Diesel Creek and he a pan/drain/funnel that is as big as the tote you are using for oil.

[@mfc4591]

That strap wrench for filters was one of the first proper CAT tools I bought. works like a dream. The other one that is great is the CAT grease gun. You won't buy one like that today.

[@dennisholst4322]

Before those filter wrenches they used to pound a big screwdriver in turn it loose

[@williamhall5087]

How many inches of rain do you get in Idaho per year? We’ve been getting about 70 inches a year here in North Alabama the last couple years so I have to keep my ditches well maintained on my farm.

[@dannyhill692]

Wait a minute! If Danny Boy supplies the totes. Then Danny must have access to damaged totes as well. Jake isn't getting any younger, and he's probably tired of packing oil in 5 gallon buckets. Griffy likes to ride on the forklift. So let's get this plan together. Call Danny and get a tote that has the upper half damaged. Cut it off so it'll either fit under the Super Dodge or the W900 or Petey's front axle. Well you get the picture. Enough capacity to hold an oil drain of the big iron. Yet it'll fit under the necessary axles. That's almost 45" x 45" catch all. Which will fit in between the Super Dodge front tires. Now Jake can go home, Jeff and Griffy can work together with the forklift. Scoop up the drain tote, tilt it over waste oil tote. Open the petcock, and go hide Milk Bones in the shop.

[@michaelweatherhead9470]

Nice video Jeffrey you handle the 14g nicely.

[@Fatamus]

GREAT 14G Video 👍 Picking up tips n tricks😁 First tip: run off Ol' Nag. LOL Got it. Dang hydraulics are nice and the ability to articulate wouldn't be bad either. V-ditching Ooff-ta I'll wait till the ground is less wet and the frost is gone out of the ground to practice. I'm going to have to move some pins and shift the moboard on the Ol' No.12 manually to get the proper angles... sounds fun. Thanks for the video

[@jimjoe9945]

No waste oil heater?

[@accomack100]

Don't you have a chain saw???

[@garyharrington5300]

I always called it a safety, been nice if the 950b,s and the the 36u d8 had that ,the 1nch n1/2 plug was murder

[@jimconnor8274]

Nice video, like that handyman corner touch!

[@kenwelch6984]

Jeff make a big tray fer the top of that...and then theres no mess really...I seen it on diesel creek's channel and he says it works great, he's up out of Pennsylvania, that of u haven't heard of him...but he's a really great guy....ok jeffer I'm out bed time...

[@two-strokesmoke7289]

Mr. Anderson, have you ever seen the "channel lock" filter wrenches? I have 3 sizes from atv up to tractor hydraulic size......

[@johndowe7003]

They work pretty good I like em

[@vicchiapetta4166]

Good job Jeff!! You are a great hand!!

[@Jpaydirt]

thank you vic

[@jordanwalls2201]

Awesome videos JPDIRT and I loved your videos are awesome and amazing.

[@matthewhansen5008]

How many hours between oil changes?

[@atomicpunk701]

Punch a hole in the bottom of the filter while it's draining and you'll get most of the oil out of it before you throw it away.

[@scotabot7826]

You put dat thr airplanze engin earl in dat scrapur moters!!

[@archangel729]

Just wondering why your not using your old ditch cleaner lol

[@carmudgeon7478]

Since you put Red Green on your outro can we comment on the resemblance now?😆

[@bombardier3qtrlbpsi]

Nice job 👍! Talk to the wife real nice!😄😄

[@two-strokesmoke7289]

Do you use Lucas or any other type of oil additives?

[@Jpaydirt]

no

[@carsons6519]

My little 120g ain't big enough for that operation

[@meirionevans5137]

Nice, did all that without any special words, although there may have been a couple around the 20min mark. Dang people and their dang trees. You know what l mean.

[@garyharrington5300]

Them 33,s only hold 5 or 6 gal folks it's not a huge engine

[@planeiron241]

Great Vid👍👍👍👍

[@imchris5000]

nothing beats filters tightened by hercules himself

[@michaelmcclure8673]

Mr Paydirt I thought you passed the job of parts runner off to Mr Griffin. But then had to fire him because he kept burying the parts with his bones.😅😅😅😅🤣 And just think if you was to put a rookie out the cut that ditch he'd be lost looking at all the levers and knobs.😉😅😅😅🤣🤣

[@Gavin84w]

G series, what a machine!!

[@Jpaydirt]

A little under powered but they are like everything CAT built in the late 60's and early 70's great engineering like the 8 speed and so many other things it was a time when CAT pretty much buried the competition, I have to smile now as they call it "Legacy Equipment" such an appropriate term for the best stuff ever made

[@Gavin84w]

@@Jpaydirt 100% correct Jeff, i feel pretty fortunate to have done my time through a Cat dealer in the mid 80,s great days

[@Digginok]

Too bad you don't have a backhoe to dig them out! LOL

[@garyharrington5300]

Your a inventory specialist brother hahlol

[@imchris5000]

chaos in storage keeps things from growing legs

[@mischef18]

I guess you need to hold ya mouth right when you do stuff like that bro. Great video too. Safe travels

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Well Jeff. That saves a lot of time. When cleaning dikes out. That is easier than using a backhoe.

[@davidballard2170]

LOW RPM'S may save fuel BUT hard on bearings..REAL HARD! same to hydrauli system.. Personally I would not buy this as a used machine!!

[@JD-zm4eh]

Stubborn jackass right in the way. He be horsing around. I like the high speed ditching, that was groovy.

[@jeffv7726]

V ditch ??? you old son!

[@stephenbarrett3763]

You should lean your wheels you will get less drift just saying.your the operator