Lima 604 Shovel Rescue! ITs a Beast!

[@ScrappyIndustries]

Great job getting her going Frank!!

[@73DiamondReo]

Thanks bud. Can’t express how much I appreciate friends like you!

[@DieselCreek]

Shes a beast Bud! very cool looking machine!

[@73DiamondReo]

You’ll have to try it out sometime

[@ironworkerfxr7105]

Great save !!! What's impressive is how these machines were moved back then . ....

[@selwyndyer8357]

Nicest machine I’ve seen,diesel creek will be envious.

[@thieltech1]

Hope your making more videos of working on it ! ! Absolute gold ! So glad you saved this Awesome machine !❤❤

[@73DiamondReo]

More to come!

[@wwfeatherston]

Came across from Scrappy's- found a whole heap of videos to watch!

[@darrellroeters4951]

You are a master mechanic, love seeing old equipment operating American history.

[@davidpontnak3819]

Just watched this on Sam's channel...great job and rescue, now i have more content to watch!

[@73DiamondReo]

thanks!

[@JohnBennett-cw1ri]

Some fine work there, you deserve a medal for getting this old shovel up and running. Best from the UK.🇬🇧

[@boe4448]

Frank, I'm a new subscriber. Your knowledge, determination to get this awesome machine going is so cool. Sam sure helps several of you guys out. What a guy. Thanks for sharing it's revival. Boe 👍👍

[@73DiamondReo]

@@boe4448 thanks for watching. Sam’s a good one! He was out here again and moved the machine in my last video as well while we were at a show

[@waltermattson5566]

Good job getting it brought back to life.

[@CalamityKim1]

As always, great job Frank!

[@73DiamondReo]

Thanks Kim !

[@TCI425]

Major undertaking, but as usual you pulled it off. Great job again Frank! Nice looking machine.

[@TL64329]

Good video-I am glad to see young fellas like you and "Scrappy" saving these old machines. I hope to see a video of it digging.

[@73DiamondReo]

@@TL64329 a short one is already posted

[@TL64329]

@@73DiamondReo Thanks-I found it. It looks good and seems to work good.

[@clausiusuf]

Great job resuscitating this machine piece by piece.

[@73DiamondReo]

Thank you very much!

[@Galaxy2517]

If you hadn't been so patient and worked your magic...Would've been completely lost in just a few short years!❤❤

[@merlinmonson2133]

Very nice to see the shovel saved. Also very nice Ford LTL 9000.

[@Galaxy2517]

I thought so too!

[@AndrewKilvert]

Great work! greetings from Australia.

[@kenfrazier616]

excellent save

[@hans-arnemartinsson1847]

Greetings from Sweden 💙💛

[@johnr1350]

Built in Lima, Ohio at the Lima locomotive works facility. This facility built nearly all of the steam locomotive engines used in the US, beginning in the late 1800’s. These units were made after the locomotive works were shut down with the transition to diesel engines. The same facility built the first Sherman tanks in WW2. They still build all of the US military M1, M1A1, M1A2 Abrams tanks in Lima at a different plant. Eventually, Clark Equipment made these in the same plant under license. Clark eventually merged with Bobcat in Fargo, ND, which is now part of Doosan from S. Korea.

[@poowg2657]

Excellent info. Unfortunately, BLH used very complicated pneumatic controls in their locomoives causing numerous breakdowns which were hard to diagnose causing most railroads to shun them.

[@rw3dog]

Frank, you are the man ! Awesome find, awesome job getting all those valves fixed, awesome job walking it out of it’s grave ! Awesome job by Sam hauling it ! I wish I could go to Steam O Rama :( maybe next year…..

[@BrokenWrenches]

you always find the coolest machines!!!

[@HODGEPODGEDODGEGARAGE]

That's awesome Frank! 😎👍 Glad you could save it 🔧

[@tonymidkiff2108]

I wish I was closer l really like those old shovels

[@texasjetman]

What a save. Well documented on your recovery. Very informative for us viewers that know very little about operational characteristics of these legendary shovels that reshaped our nation. PS. Awesome low boy Ford Haul Truck. She’s a beautiful rig. Have a great show in PA SteamORama. Congratulations again.

[@deserttrucktractor2514]

Great job bringing another awesome machine back from the dead Frank! I love how you show the workings of the machine and how the mechanisms work. Looking forward to seeing more of this machine! I like that IH 500E crawler loader the guy had!

[@73DiamondReo]

it can be yours

[@deserttrucktractor2514]

@@73DiamondReo Oh???!! Uh oh! Lol 😆

[@higamerXD]

This was a good watch i enjoyed it. Lovely content man

[@73DiamondReo]

Thanks

[@RichardBerry-v5i]

Lot of work nice job

[@ferdinandocappelletti6740]

beautiful machine

[@geneshepherdsr]

Great job Frank. Love to see her work. Engine sounds great. Perfect Eng for that machine. U ll never wear it out.

[@73DiamondReo]

@@geneshepherdsr spent another day tinkering and it’s getting better

[@Digginok]

Impressive work! Big job

[@73DiamondReo]

Its going to be an ongoing project

[@thomaspetroff9117]

Nice Job Frank. That was a Beast in it's day. Surprised those valves come apart without broken bolts. Cleaned up nice. Guessing the counterweight is long gone along with the boom? TGP

[@73DiamondReo]

the extra counterweight for crane work is gone but thats the standard shovel weight on it

[@jeffkosier9897]

Awsome video!! Great job frank

[@paulthompson3877]

I would like to come and see it all , but I'm in Sydney Australia . great video.

[@mischef18]

Great video and find bro, will watch Sam's video of transporting this as I see he has it up. Safe travels. Ken.

[@okkiebokkelul9718]

Nice machine thanks for getting that machine going, I love this stuff. Going to try to come to the Steam O-Rama in 2 weeks

[@73DiamondReo]

Hope you can make it

[@Joe.M]

Frank, I went to the Seam-O-Rama show today, 10-6, to see your LIMA run, but you were in N.J. The only shovel running was the UNIT next to yours, and he broke the bucket latch the first minute he ran it. They fixed it and did some digging. Looks like I'll have to wait till next October to see yours run.

[@73DiamondReo]

@@Joe.M sorry I missed you. Got here about 330 and just shut the Lima down. We have a show in the spring also

[@Joe.M]

​@73DiamondReo I'll put next year's dates on my calendar and make the spring show. I wanted to be at this year's show on the 3rd, but I couldn't make that happen. See you next year. Good thing is... I'm only 40 minutes away from the Steam-O-Rama Show. Thanks for the reply!

[@nigel900]

Fascinating. 👍🏻 It’s like witnessing a Dinosaur being resurrected…

[@terryrogers1025]

Can’t make it in person, but sure would like to see it operate on video. Your patience with working with the machine paid off. I have subscribed and liked, look forward to seeing your video content, thanks for the video, enjoyed watching.

[@73DiamondReo]

There will definitely be a video of it digging and a few more of the repairs

[@shadovanish7435]

Great work & video! Excellent that you got it running & working! It appears (in the video) to me that the Lima 604 undercarriage & house is close in size to that of a Bucyrus-Erie 22-B shovel, but the 604's boom, stick & bucket seem larger than that of a 22-B, but idk, maybe the apparent size is only as it appears in the video.

[@73DiamondReo]

This machine is twice as big as a 22b

[@dougjust9518]

Very impressive young buck, heluva haul there at the end

[@michelgrenier1878]

Very nice machine , It is nice that some of them get saved . In this day and age machines like this would be too expensive to build .

[@noelmaher2301]

I would love to be there ,a lot of stuff. It would be like winning the lotto.

[@chuckh.2227]

Very cool

[@poowg2657]

Absolutely awesome!

[@douglasmeek9774]

I rebuilt the last 13000 that came into Ohio Machinery. They were excellent engines..

[@oldamericaniron5767]

Great video! The Link-Belt would be a walk in the park by comparison.

[@73DiamondReo]

Get on it !

[@mog5858]

keep up the great work.

[@johncollings6799]

Very nice video, very descriptive and professional. Good format

[@73DiamondReo]

Glad you liked it!

[@wayne72964]

That's a big Mother 😍

[@johnsheeran1908]

Nice job!

[@1hydrostatic]

Awesome video!

[@petergardner2334]

avery interesting video

[@VintageFarm1086]

That was a lot of work. Glad you were able to get it going. I will have to try to make the show.

[@73DiamondReo]

hope you can

[@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc]

Finally finished my awd with 4x4 semi and powered lowboy axles with detachable swaneck (English name for gooseneck) in 1/20th scale ill upload it when weather is better 😅 but awesome video as always mate dat her Saturday night with a rum and cola watching vids while tinkering Rc's and doing scale working chain binders

[@73DiamondReo]

looking forward to it

[@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc]

@@73DiamondReo holy heck dude y just now finding your channel love old retro iron my fave machine is bucyrus eirie RB 10 front shovel and clamshell bucket and the old retro wreaking ball I watched a show call salvage squad when I was a kid hosted by Suggs from Madness loved it ever since

[@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc]

@@73DiamondReo new subscriber here 👍

[@adamlang7480]

Awesome save! To me the only one cooler than this is a 101 Lima!

[@73DiamondReo]

adopt the one at HCEA

[@adamlang7480]

@@73DiamondReounless it gets “adopted” into my barn, that would be quite the task being 3hrs away lol.

[@adriannettlefold9084]

I know where there's a Lima Dragline with a D9 motor in it and it has a 30m boom.

[@73DiamondReo]

you should get it 🤣

[@adriannettlefold9084]

@73DiamondReo you're a funny man... I have enough trouble with 1 dragline let alone 2 and one that Huge too. Is there a way of contacting you Frank? I am looking for parts.

[@marcellebaudry5786]

bravo

[@andedavi]

Nothing like working on these old legacy machines! The education you get is priceless! Just get you a drum of WD40 and go for it!

[@73DiamondReo]

dont forget the torch and hammer too.

[@andedavi]

@@73DiamondReo I can't think of anything more rewarding than resurrecting these old machines. I can't imagine how you make the time and can afford the expense of getting it done, but you're doing an amazing job! I'm going to make subscribing to your feed mandatory for all the students in our Diesel Power Technology Classes!

[@73DiamondReo]

@@andedavi thanks, i enjoy making them dig again! just trying to keep old iron going and inspire others to preserve it as well. there's never enough time or money to keep up with it all but i do what i can. hope your students find it interesting

[@АлексейРюмин-ж6в]

Молодец, круто..!!! Клевая техника..

[@gradyyokeley9930]

I wish you had filmed the starting of the pony motor and main engine.

[@73DiamondReo]

@@gradyyokeley9930 I would have made good content. We ran the pony on ether to start the diesel. It was pouring rain that day as you could see in the video and all I had was my phone. We looked at a northwest in the morning and didn’t realize how close we were to the 604 until we were there. Bud only had an hour to spare and he was 5 hours from home so we were in a hurry. I can do a video at the show of starting it in the next video

[@mabecka]

Sam sent me!

[@filobeto1691]

What a bitchin’ outfit. Hats off to you for bringing that behemoth back from the dead!

[@johnhaines6546]

There is a Lima up here in Punxsutawney that has been sitting for a long time. It has a Detroit and last it was started, it was reported to travel and that was about it.

[@73DiamondReo]

I talked to him a few years ago. It’s a pretty rough model 34. I ended up buying my 34 shovel out of Ny for half the price and in considerably better shape

[@johnhaines6546]

@@73DiamondReo It was on the property where we were stripping coal and he ended up with it and it is still sitting there on the owners property .He is asking way too much for it in my opinion and the owner wants it out of there years ago.

[@alphonsotate2982]

WOW I see out General shovel in the back ground I hand made the name plates on the boom of the shovel

[@73DiamondReo]

they look good

[@ChristopherFerguson-v8s]

So, I found Matt on Diesel Creek, that led me to Sam on Scrappy Industries, and now, thanks to Sam hauling the Lima 604, here I am.

[@73DiamondReo]

Glad you found us.

[@hurricanedaniel]

thats a good size shovel there frank. what sorta tons is she? that beam trailer would be mighty handy. im heading up to a acution next week. prime mover, folding goose neck trailer and a 22RB dragline parked on the back off it. all possibly sold together for scrap value.

[@73DiamondReo]

40ish tons. Package deal! Hope you can get all of them

[@neilmcintosh1200]

Now the green stuff has stopped dripping and it no longer blends with the background vegetation, it is starting to look quiet fierce.

[@1978garfield]

Very cool. Did this have a Cat engine from the factory or was it an aftermarket repower? Would love to see avideo about the honey hole you pulled this out of.

[@BobOBob]

I would be SO tempted to re-paint and re-weather the painted side logos from a black diamond into a pale green oval. I'd even assert that it was "authentic." You'd never convince me people in the 1950s didn't have humor.

[@o.o-vt1rc]

I wanna see "Safety Third" on the back of one of these, maybe "Maintenance is cheap, Downtime is expensive".

[@deercreekmechanical]

I used to live 45min south of Steam o Rama, makes me wish I could make the drive to the show to see it in action. I also know exactly where you got that, I used to work at BWI and would drive past that area quite frequently.

[@rickarndt3895]

You know for an old machine that has been sitting awhile she's not all messed up say like wires hanging everywhere thier all zip tied up neatly

[@o.o-vt1rc]

29:10 Swing Wide, It'sa Fullsize Trailer😅

[@michaelguinn5736]

Hey Frank, it's been awhile, years ago I bought all the parts that an old timer maybe 20 years ago, there was a bunch of QR & hand valves, what these come off from I have no idea, I no longer have your address, I can send this stuff to you, I will never use it...

[@73DiamondReo]

Hey Mike! I’ve been wondering where you’ve been. Hope all is well. My email is in the description

[@woodhonky3890]

Why fer was the best video of it moving on it's own shot with a tater?

[@73DiamondReo]

someone else filmed it and sent it to me.

[@douglasmeek9774]

Nice job !!!