Buying a cheap D7 dozer and running it

I guess we could use a better guardrail after the Toyota rolls off the side, that was unexpected and entertaining.

Casually rolling that car off the hill and wasting no more than a minute of the video on it is why Andrew is iconic

I’m 68 years old. When I was a young boy, my Dad bought an old D7 and rebuilt the engine. The blade was cable driven. She was old, but very strong. Dad cleared a lot of our land with it and built several small ponds. Good memories! Thanks for sharing.

I'm always amazed at these CATS! They've been idle for years if not decades and start and run. Amazing

Andrew, The piece that fell off is the one that supports in-place the cushions of the idler wheel. There are four cylindrical (4 inches ) rubbers that have a spring inside. That goes inside the idler fork. Hope it helps, greetings from Bolivia. You can find any parts that you need at CTP parts store. Oh and another thing you don’t need to open the track chain to replace that Grease track tensioner seal. 👍🏻👍🏻

Love your content Andrew, as far as your winch goes, the filter you saw on the top is the suction screen filter for the system, the winch is mechanically driven by the pto but is controlled using a small low pressure hydraulic system(only around 220psi to run the foreword and reverse clutches). So on the right side of the winch should be your oil reservoir, hyster recommends either 10wt hydraulic oil or atf. There should be a small gear pump on the converter housing behind the engine that the suction hose and pressure hose goes to, hopefully this helps you start to get winch working. These old hyster winches are the best, hyster was bought out by allied winches and some parts are still available for some, that’s where I have picked up some parts for mine. Also there should be a pressure line filter under one of the covers on the left side of winch good luck 🍀👍🏻

I love how the equipment keeps getting bigger. I look forward to the 10yr progression when the video pops up in my feed of “I bought a used Bagger 293, lets use it to level this mountain in 10mins” Lol, I love this channel, always good entertainment, and fun content

That drone footage of you dozing the hillside is seriously next level. Nobody else on youtube does it like you, Andrew. Really high quality stuff, as always.

You know it's a badass piece of equipment when the motor needs another motor to start up🇺🇲🤘🏻

Its great watching Cody on the time lapse just stood there with massive Dozer running about him knowing where to go and not

Buddy running to the cliff edge and checking out the crash was priceless. He's thinking, "Why the heck did you do that. He's absolutely GORGEOUS!

I love the fact that Andrew loves to save older equipment! The old stuff just works whenever you need it to! People have pushed dirt and rocks for years and never needed a computer to do it. This new 💩 they sell gets used for a week and some sensor gets tripped and only the selling company can fix it! What a racket!

The piece you found goes under the Idler yoke, the 2 round pieces push the springs up. You are missing an air cleaner cover I front of your right foot is a decompression lever, When cranking you should have oil and fuel pressure before you turn the compression on. Turn the pony motor off by shutting off the gas, the gas drains down to the crankcase, change the oil to save pony. Youcan flip the cutting edge and lower the end bits Its a good machine it will move alot of dirt Good Luck Bill V

haha! Sooo close to hitting the shed post! That was epic

My dad was a logger on the West Coast and had a D7E and a D7F, both great logging cats. The D7E should be a turbocharged 4 cylinder, then they switched to a normally aspirated 6 cylinder in the F model. Great to see one of the old girls still alive and working.

The ending was classic, push that roller skate over the edge. Love the videos as a 50 year old guy I get excited to see new ones pop up.

I have been watching Andrew for several years now. Someone posted a link that we should check him out and I did. He was just doing small things back then. boy has he moved up in a few short years. Thanks Andrew for sharing you life with us over the years. Keep it going and I can't wait to see you repairing that cat. I laughed so hard when the car rolled down the hill and the dog ran over!! The look on its face was just priceless.

It’s amazing what was accomplished with the D-7’s. I think if you look at old footage of the Alaskan pipeline you’d see many 7’s in operation. They’d hook 2-3 together and shove stuff nearly vertical off the side of mountains Then pull them back and do it again. Those operators must have had nuts of steel.

My first dozer at 10 was just like that. I rode on my uncles lap and pulled the steering Handles. Thx Grandad

The piece of metal that was found is the idler slider pad. In order to reseal the track adjuster cylinder, the dozer frame and the track need to be removed. The idler can then be removed which will allow access to the adjuster cylinder. I can't wait to see how you are going to push out the track pin to break the track.