SAVED FROM THE SCRAP! Will this 1950s Roller ever run again??

Hope yall enjoyed this video! It’s been over a year in the making! 😂 finally got it done tho!

Matt's top reasons for working outside: 1) Pickup tailgate makes a better work bench. 2) Fire prevention. If project catches fire, shop won't burn down. 3) I work better with mosquitoes. 4) Honest, I have a deep down fear of nice enclosed spaces. 5) I like to listen to the classics when I work...the birds.

The obvious answer is the garage is currently haunted. Too many old machines have called upon the twisted spirits of long gone mechanics. If you sit still at night you can hear them whisper, "That ain't going anywhere." The quickest way to get rid of them is just to ask them if they want to help you move something.

In my experience, working in the dirt occasionally makes one appreciate having a nice shop to work in.

He hasn't stopped with the rollers my god we've lost him. 😂😂😂

The umbrella was a nice touch. I remember the road crews packing asphalt in the hot summer sun and the big umbrellas over them.

A band took the name "Buffalo Springfield" and made it famous among rockers during the 60s. The band consisted of Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, Jim Messina, Doug Hastings, Ken Koblun, Jim Fielder. Stephen Stills & Neil Young went on to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Jim Messina went on to form the duo Loggins and Messina with Kenny Loggins. Jim Fielder went on as an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears.

Hey Matt, it was pleasure to hook up with you at National Pike. High hopes to a collab in the future!!

Man, this opened up a memory from my childhood... In the summer of 2004, I was living with my grandparents when a crew came to resurface our street. I enjoyed watching the crews strip and pave the road, until the final day when an old roller that looks pretty similar to this one was finishing up the last portion. As I was watching, the operator approached me and let me hop aboard for a ride up and down the road. As a five-year-old, that was easily the coolest thing I ever experienced; definitely would not be allowed in today's times!

Never before even imagined, push starting a steam roller.

Use that roller as a sign at the end of your farm lane. Paint it up nice and put the Diesel Creek logo on it 😁😍😁. Make a flat mound of large stones and sit it on top of it.

12:46 Old internal combustion motors aren't so different from newlyweds. Lubrication of the pistons and cylinders is essential. Sometimes the initial action may be bumpy and uncertain, but with some persistence things tend to loosen up with each stroke until everything eventually starts to smoothly purr! Then you are rewarded with the responsibility of housing the thing you created for years and years to come.

Something good to do is drain the water from the pan while it's still separated and at the bottom, just until you start getting oil, then put it back in. Then, if it does turn over, you don't end up pumping water into all the bearings and mixing it all up.

Just about had to pick myself up off the floor laughing when your buddy from Scrappy Industries almost sent you into low earth orbit with that enthusiastic push! LOL!

3:18 DON'T BLAME ME I DIDN'T KNOW LOL

In the grand sport of “Get it started “ Crawling around on a Dirt floor is embedded in your muscle memory

@38:03 I can't believe you didn't say "stop what's that sound everybody look what's going down"🎶🎤 When it busted of

☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸 OMG !!!! I’m 72 & my dad owned a construction company in NYC … my eldest brother 6’3 would prop me on his shoulders & I was the break smiles … I got to ride one of those !!!! Standing between his knees my tiny hands oh his massive hands …HUGE machines all around the look of 😱 on the secretary’s face as we drove passed the hub. Those men guarded me with thier lives treated me like thier own no wonder I love the smell of grease gas & honking BIG machines. Thank you Matt for saving the machine that built America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Matt, if there's one quality I appreciate about you the most it's your perseverance in solving a problem. So many people give up so easily. Way to go lad.

- Matt, 37:30; Hurrah!, Good for you. - Your tenacity over one or two years to get this to run is laudable...and fun for us.