Sam Fixes My Dragline And We Move Dirt With Everything!

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[@GoBlue79]

'Scrappy' was smooth as silk operating the dragline. Such a cool guy! A day jam-packed with education on multiple fronts.

[@jaygraham5407]

Sam had an AMAZING teacher!!! His Grandpa was the BEST!!

[@normhowes2975]

Was fun watching the adult 'children' playing in the dirt. Looked like Chris enjoyed having company fully capable of running the machines.

[@chuckbrown2765]

“Wiggle the battery cable!” Classic 😎

[@thadsmith2889]

Adds to the authenticity.

[@eladfitz5673]

Sam smiles more than anyone else I Watch on KZbin. Watching this one reminds me of my brother about 60 years ago, he would stay outside all day playing in the dirt with metal Tonka trucks and tractors, literally wearing out the axils. When the weather was to bad they put a pile of rice on the floor for him. kept him out of trouble for years.

[@stevenlatham4397]

I love how KZbin has united a truly talented and like minded group of people.

[@derrickscogin]

It’s awesome to see Sam hanging out here with Chris. Hopefully some of Chris’ fans will go check his page out. Sam does some really cool stuff.

[@CK-yi6pc]

Love his work and his trucks❤

[@grahamstretch6863]

@@CK-yi6pc One of my favourites is his crane remote control upgrade.

[@adampowell1049]

Whats his channel

[@derrickscogin]

Scrappy Industries

[@derrickscogin]

Scrappy Industries

[@Vickie-Bligh]

I have such a huge grin on my face watching you both work these machines and the absolute joy you have in running them. Thanks for this wonderful interlude, Chris.

[@williamhall9204]

My favorite videos on the letsdig18 channel are the ones that feature Sam working with Chris. Even more enjoyable than the pond building episodes.And Sam is extremely knowledgeable about the old cable operated machines.I really enjoyed this particular video. Great Job by you guys.

[@Machines.In.Action]

Sam did an amazing job fixing the dragline! It’s great to see everything back in action! 💪

[@chrisbarr1359]

I was just thinking... Sam could have a side gig fixing, adjusting and teaching new drag line owners (for extremely high fees). It's definitely a specialty skill.

[@richardherring8220]

Chris, all you need now is a cable operated backhoe and you''ll be set to start a retro excavation business !! LOL

[@mikehunt3222]

Now all he needs is something steam powered. 😂

[@sandie062985]

It’s really nice to see old equipment come back to life. As a child I’ve watch some of them in a sand pit and wanted to operate one but Uncle Sam got me and stay in for 22years God Bless you and Sam for making them come alive. Hopefully sometime later this summer I can get up in your nice of the woods Once again God Bless you both

[@michaelmcclure8673]

Thank you for your service Sir. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Maybe you could make it to the equipment show up by Sam and Matt .

[@axcs0119]

Fun to see the older equipment still moving dirt. I think the reason for the triple sheaves on the drag line would be for a block with either two or three sheaves when working as a crane.

[@terryrogers1025]

Sam is definitely in his element working or operating older equipment, he sure loves it. It is fun to watch the cable equipment operating, and it does require some hand, foot, and eye coordination for sure, but you guys were great with the shovel and drag line. Thanks for the video, enjoyed watching.

[@keithdunlap2701]

That's awesome Sam fixed the Dragline for ya !! And pretty damn good running it too !! lolol... I think it's pretty cool to see the old machines in action like that, that was a good shot of both machines working side by side Chris !! Great as Always !! Have a Great Evening, And, On too the Next !! I hope you guys sprayed on some tic dope ,before ya got crawling around in the weeds !! lololol....

[@SPACEMAN_fkYT]

Watching you two working those machines is like traveling back in time.

[@louGriggs1944]

Loved watching the two of you working the dirt pile with the different machines. Thanks.

[@gtnaylor5870]

The older the boys - The bigger their toys! That looked like so much fun!!!!!!! Glad to see you two playing in the dirt!!!!!!!

[@jimmorrisy7881]

Today’s video with the dragline and shovel were terrific. It was like going back to my childhood watching a job site progress while my buddies and I threw dirt bombs. You and Sam make quite the pair.

[@rozmoran1840]

Sam looks like he is in his element playing with old machinery. It’s amazing it still works and you’re learning more about it. It’s great to watch when you were digging in the pond.

[@kirk467]

I used to run an old Lorain truck crane and it was a 35 ton! Fully manual and dangerous to operate if you weren’t paying attention! I like Scrappy, he’s cool! I love his channel too!

[@user-cz3ey6hu2g]

It’s amazing watching those old machines moving dirt. Man they sure built them to last back then. Loved seeing Sam on your channel I watch both of you guys✌️

[@heatherlane9270]

So great to watch these old machines at work again. Remember them in construction work in the 50s here in Australia. Fun day and both making your own memories.

[@GlobalistJuice]

Chris has an "adult entertainment center" ...err um, I mean "adult amusement park" in the making right there!🤣

[@bobbentley8908]

Nice watching you and Sam operating the shovel and drag line.

[@RM.....]

Sam's a good guy.Very knowledgeable and fun guy to hang with

[@garygentry583]

Its awesome that a young man knows how to work on old equipment! Its a rare skill anymore..

[@TsunauticusIV]

That old equipment is amazing. It’s important to keep that kind of equipment around for younger generations to see operate. They need to understand how far we have actually come. The evolution of earth moving equipment/methods has helped advance our societies more than many things.

[@user-dn6ij6lm2g]

Watching you Guy,s having fun with the old Equipment . That was Fun .

[@wallbawden5511]

Good to see the kids outside playing in the dirt Cheers

[@bobferranti5222]

I love watching the old iron working, the sounds and sights are amazing! Chris, you have a old operators theme park!

[@philipberry2704]

Loved watching the two old pieces of equipment working side by side

[@trebornesregrot]

A few minutes of power washing would be a blessing! I cannot abide spiders in my working area! Being able to see small mechanisms is also a great blessing! Love old equipment and the challenge of keeping it working!

[@bw6378]

The shovel took one look at the dragline and decided it wants a paint job now. lol

[@JoeMGajdowski]

My thoughts exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@codymon100]

Very cool seeing the old machines getting it done.

[@bethanyhaskiell9116]

I love watching these two slinging dirt I could watch for hours

[@kirk467]

Chris, you have a crap load of dirt dobber nests under the dragline! WOW, that’s most of the extra weight! lol 🤣😂🤣 Sam”scrappy “ knows his stuff!

[@albertmorris9780]

I’m actually doing a job with Tidwell now. I’ll share this video with the owner of the company, he’ll be happy to see you working with it.

[@katherinerose446]

It's too cool to see the older machines working glad you brought them back to life❤❤

[@SuEnRoD]

If you had Matt and his old cable dozer y'all could really put on a show.NICE!!😄

[@kenguier8464]

Two boys playing with their old toys.. Fantastic !

[@sloppystooly5439]

16:19 such a beautiful site, all this old iron working away. So cool I think this old stuff its so neat.

[@ianmckay1780]

This is what Chris needed, someone to play with. Now Sam has been introduced to the ld18 family, no doubt he'll be back for more fun and instruction on the machines. Well done Sam as always, Scrappy Industries is a fantastic showcase for Sam's skills. LD18, what can you say other than this guy is the master of equipment. Thanks for both your inputs today, much appreciated. From UK.

[@grahamstretch6863]

When I was at school in the ‘80s I used to go to the local sand quarry and watch a guy run a Ruston Bucyrus dragline. That guy was smooth as silk, he could cast that bucket across the pit like a fly fisherman casting a lure, reel it in and drop the load right on the peak of his pile every time and back to casting the bucket in one fluid motion, not only that but he was fishing underwater most of the time but when they did pump the water out his benches were almost perfect! I realise now that I was watching a master craftsman at work.

[@ralphnorris-vk8ff]

It's been almost 50 years since I last ran a Bucyrus but as I remember, the brake on the swing clutch is used more for a travel brake. If you're traveling on incline you use that to hold yourself back. You use the same clutch for your swing and your travel.

[@BillW-NJ]

I have never seen a shovel like that till you got yours, that’s one cool scene with both of your antiques moving dirt!

[@Todd.Roberts]

Always need to have a little fun sometimes

[@johncates5081]

So yesterday the algorithm brought me a letsdig video from 8 years ago, him and Charlie riding down the road, and with his Carolina accent ole Chris was cussing up a storm Charlie was grinning and laughing...... Thrown back on a Monday was kinda cool

[@larrywhaley7143]

Cool to see a couple machines that built America working side by side.

[@r1mein54]

Glad that Sam was able to help Chris with adjustments on the dragline.

[@joebacarella2829]

We have come a long way with machinery haven`t we, you guys reminded me of the Flintstones, it seems that Sam can run anything, working that dragline perfectly smooth, too cool.

[@chrisbarr1359]

Would be hilarious to pull up at Belly Goods with your low boy with the Shovel on the back! Unload it like nothing is out of the ordinary!!

[@peteschram9524]

Should have showed up when back filling gravel in the basement with the new shovel it is hourly Jeff’s jaw would have hit the ground

[@danphillips3125]

Cute baby dragline. I spent a number of years doing vibration analysis on draglines in Florida. Some with buckets in the 55yd neighborhood.

[@kevinmurray7135]

Chris now you have a couple of nice older machines and they work awesome glad to see them at work they aren’t just too sit around i know you will have fun working with them that’s is a good thing and Sam he’s a good old man glad he got the the swing brake fixed now you can rock and roll 👍😎🇺🇸 NY

[@waltermattson5566]

Sam has a great channel. We all wish he would come and visit us when something needs work. He can do anything.

[@John13Edge]

The absolute worst part about trying to learning to run draglines and cable shovels is that they basically got retired in the 1970’s …There are still a few draglines still running for a very few companies ..So there is very few people to ask the simple questions “Is this machine suppose to behave this way ?“ “Is this the right way to do this ?”..Glad to see you found one in Sam!

[@Supertech-86]

Cable shovel emits a little puff of smoke when under load, its adorable.

[@josephcook4923]

…Snort in dr. Seuss

[@johnhodge2788]

Great video with some legacy equipment. Those operators were studs!

[@mischef18]

Pure awesomeness guys. Safe travels. Ken.

[@markbrown6236]

Seems to me if you were to lower the boom as the bucket starts to dig into the dirt, you might get a full scoop? Great video with you vintage machine collection. Way to go Chris fixing the swing lock.

[@malcolmyarnold6172]

Good job guys loved watching yous working those old machines

[@michaelmcclure8673]

It's amazing to think that these machines made America 🇺🇸. Think about all the operator's from that era . 😊😊

[@robertadriver6931]

OMG, what joy to see the boys & their toys!!!

[@warrendemars]

Definitely a cool video to see these old iron machines working again, if it's to play for a bit.

[@RAYAR54]

It's great to see the old iron getting some action, including Betty. Good to see Sam make some adjustments on the dragline for you. Seems the cable at the yoke of the bucket can be adjusted just a bit shorter to allow the bucket to tilt back a few degrees more to help keep the contents from spilling out as much, especially with sloppy content.

[@benjaminbeamon877]

What a cool video. Looks like a lot of fun. You should have took Sam and the drag line back to the pond. Sam could have had fun and you could’ve gotten the pond a little deeper at the same time. Lol. 😂 Thanks for sharing.

[@randywilliamson5613]

All we needed was for Mike and Matt there with their old machines. That would have been a dream team moving dirt.

[@ryanhoward1013]

Hi Chris, your grandfather would be ecstatic and proud of you for running those machines. He could have shown you young whipper snappers how to run those machines the right way. He also could have shown you how to work on them. Thanks for the video, Chris it was nice watching you and Sam running the old iron. Thanks for sharing, Chris, and God bless you and be careful out there. 👍👍👍👍

[@user-rt8ik1ow4i]

Chris, you're doing pretty darn Good with that shovel. It's not easy to play in a pile. Cause it's supposed to be on a high bank wall. But you're doing really well with it, considering.

[@markpace779]

Some super cool pieces of equipment you got there!!

[@tylergodfrey2800]

1. Start with even piles. 2. At the sound of a horn, start taking dirt from your pile, and put it on your opponent’s pile. 3. Every 2 minutes, a referee sounds the horn again, and you have the get out of the machine you’re in, run over to the other machine, and use that one for 2 minutes. 4. After 12 minutes, 6 minutes of using each machine, check the size of the piles. The one with the smallest pile wins.

[@dansbrown1313]

Hello Chris, thanks for an entertaining video. It seems to me that the issues you are having with filling the shovel bucket are caused because you're not using forward and reverse in your process. Try dumping and back up and lower the shovel to the ground and walk the machine into the pile and then fill the bucket. Where I grew up (circa 1957) there was a gravel pit and I used to go there and watch the operators and they would move back and forward as part of the process. It's like clapping with one hand.

[@debcamp2359]

Awesome tag team! That's a cool new shovel Chris.

[@RalphFreeman-ok5of]

It's good you're getting an idea to the skill set the old operators must have had to run those machines effectively. 😊

[@11derA]

I love seeing both of them running next to each other!

[@lloydg4942]

Those are AWESOME! Keeping the past alive :)

[@johnnymaddox6322]

They unload the fertilizer barge with a big clam bucket n one the old school big square crane at Ft. Loudon where we haul from some. Definitely a true operators machine cause not just anyone can run em.

[@bryanlloyd1099]

Hard work and then fun playing in the dirt!! 😂

[@davidorr8645]

I love track loaders. They are so fun to watch😂

[@kirk467]

I love to watch Betty do her stuff! She’s a beast girl!

[@AnthonyJones-bb1sr]

I have been watching your videos from the beginning and I live about 30 minutes from where you got both of them machines. It’s amazing to both of them in action! Love your videos and keep up the great work.

[@klrwhizkid]

Operating a dragline requires brake finesse and rhythm. My Granduncle, Fred Robinson, was an expert dragline operator and he would use the rotation of the cab to create momentum to swing the bucket out farther before making a drag or making the drop of material. He could swing the empty bucket out more than one and one half the length of the boom. His smoothness of operation with the dragline was like watching Chris with an excavator.

[@davidepool5884]

We used to get into honeybees, hornets and yellow jackets a lot when we were clearing land behind the loggers for the local paper mill. When we disturbed a nest we would park our bulldozer and set them to about half throttle and get between the cutting blade and the front of the bulldozer. Every time the bees or wasp tried to come sting us the radiator fan would blow them out and away. That gave us time to let them settle down then get back on the bulldozer and move a safe distance away.

[@larrywalker7759]

You and Sam sure turned that compost pile upside down.😁

[@Alfymale]

Sometimes the third hoistdrum you are chatting about is an arrangement for power lowering of the load rather than just friction. Much safer slower and controlled.

[@user-kb6kw2me2j]

It certainly took a real man to operate a cable machine and do it efficiently , it is closer to an Olympic event ! Well Done Sam .

[@user-sj4dj6ks3e]

This video was a small sample of what it took to build the modern world we live in…thank You Guys it was a good one.

[@charlessmyth]

That's a well turned pile of dirt :-)

[@lesleyhirst3422]

Best big boys' toys ever, in the hands of two really expert big boys.

[@jefffinley6569]

Very cool to see both shovel and drag line working together!! Tnx 👍🏻🍀🍀🍀

[@Dave_9547]

Boys and their toys, looks like a lot of fun.

[@abrahamtov364]

Just think of everything back in the day that those old machines built. They got the job done!

[@DougNicholson-uh9ke]

You two were having way too much fun . I would like to have been there !

[@WonderMonkey2]

Two buddies playing in the sandbox. That's what it reminds me of about halfway through.

[@Monkeysic]

Imagine the hours machines like these have building interstates and dams and bridges. Hard to believe what was done 80 years ago with this old stuff!!

[@TheHillbillyEngineer]

You kids get to play with the best toys! Could you imagine being the operator of one of those back when Steam was you power?

[@TexDrinkwater]

With all this Vintage Machinery, I thought I was watching Keith Rucker's channel! 🤣

[@charlesswhitlock]

Always a good day when the 977K gets out. I love that old thing, it is so big.

[@chrisgalliher497]

Watching these two machines in action is so cool. Chris there’s not a machine out there you can’t operate

[@trapybruno3646]

Good morning. Thank you for bringing back to life the machines of my childhood

[@paulthompson3877]

just 2 little boys playing in their dirt pit with their toys having fun .