I'm a old dog and have never cut steel with anything but a torch, watching you i went and got myself a plasma cutter I'm pretty sure I may never use my torch again. plus watching you is making me a better welder, so for that i say thanks.
Great video showing the repair of this project. I see you go the extra mile and finish off you work so it all appears to look just like it came from the factory. Not a lot of others take that kind of time, and it shows how perfectional you are with your work. Thank you for sharing your work with us and I will be looking forward to many more videos in the future,
Seeing you go the extra mile cleaning up and fixing up someone else’s work, shows the professional you are ! well done sir great video and great work👍🏼🤩🫡
To do the repairs you are tasked with test ability early and often. I think you are doing a great job solving the messes machines in the hands of man creates. You show what, and were and in no time at all the repair. Yes, some of the welding takes spools and spools of wire. You edit yourself very well, thank you. I am glad you have decided to show us what and how you do what you do.
That's what it looks like right before the hitch breaks in the cut and noses the tractor over in the dirt. Pretty effective way to top jobsite progress. Ask me how I know. Nice repair. Well done.
congratulations I'm from Brazil and I really admire your work I'm going to migrate to this profession too today I'm an excavator operator but I really like welding.
I’ve watched some of your videos & compare to Issac & Kurtis the machines that you fix are different but the work is of the same high quality. It would have been nice if the customer had removed all of those hydraulic hoses. If wishes were horses we would all ride.
You need a lot more gray hair in them whiskers because you weld like someone that is a lot older and more experienced than you are. FINE job! And any pan gooseneck takes a hammering. You got plenty of job security. GBWYou!
By memory I know that shitty welds were often grinded down but good welds looks nice and add strength to the welded area. No need to grind down your welds. Be proud of them.
I keep telling my shop supervisor that it will safe time in major crack repairs.. but his old school. All he wants is 7018 so you know how that goes. Lol. Wich type of Flux wire do you use. So I cam show him this video and convince him that your a professional using wire instead of rod. Lol
I use Lincoln 71A75. 1/16” or .045”. There are many other good wires out there. The welds in this video are not that great. Wire is definitely way faster when a lot of welding is required.
Hi very nice work I like everything except the background music. I would much rather have listened to the welder talking and you explaining as you're going along if there was a problem rather than the music was to distracting for me at least. I know this is a work-in-progress so thank you for a great start. Bob from Virginia USA
@@tomcander3669 if you don't have something that is obvious to say why don't you not say it and not look like the southern end of a Northbound horse? For me it's interesting to hear those that are doing this work explain what they are doing it makes me a better welder as well.
Having done this type of repair many times, would've added a back up strip on the inside a small section at a time. Tack weld it giving something to weld to. Also would have used a blunt end air hammer chisel to stress relieve each weld pass as completed.
Great way to tackle all those hoses/lines, fuck yeah I know where they all go! Get them the hell out of the way! It's always good to know the thing you are working on.
Very nice work! I have watched all of your videos, you're going to have a very popular channel if you keep posting this stuff! Congrats! In regards to this repair, have you had to do any rework? I would imagine there is a ton of stress on that repair, looks like compressive not tensile. But still with the heat affected zone, do they ever crack next to your repair?
This particular repair is still going strong. There are times where the repair will fail and a lot of that is due to bad design or engineering in my opinion.
@@OFW More likely due to the heat of welding changing the base metal, induced stress due to the heat of welding and not smoothing out the weld creates stress risers.
@@SomeTechGuy666 on these machines they break when no welding has been done. It was cracked when he got there. These machines are under a lot of stress. I've done a lot of work on cat and other brands. Usually if you weld all the way thru and then enough support weld there won't be anymore problems. If overheating is a concern jump around on the project or let it cool between passes
looks like a decent repair. only thing i would change is protecting that rear cab glass, i know when you get done its hard to tell there is any problem but after a while it will start to rust the splatter on the glass, and make cleaning a real pain in the butt. KEEP UM COMMING!
I have found that the wire feed weld does not hold up like stick welding especially on a hitch.If I got caught using wire on this type of repair it would have been an ass chewing and cut it all out and burn the sticks to get it done.I also would have removed the plate as keeping it there would not allow the hitch metals to flex as to not crack and/or break the hitch.There is a reason that hole was put there.
DUDE!!!! I LOVE THIS SHIT!!! Iam a NDT guy and I weld for funzies. You are crushing it dude! I have watch about half of your videos now. I will more than likely have watched them all by the time you read this. All you you guys working on these things could really use a permanent magnetic yoke, to help chase all these cracks. It would look like those metal shavings. Anyway this is great stuff dude!!!
@@OFW i just bought a new one for myself to check my welds. I also use it at work now. There are pros and cons about a permanent yoke in comparison of an electric yoke. One being the cracks are way more defined with an Electric plug-in yolk. And it picks them up easier. But the permanent yoke does not need any power, its lighter , and smaller. They are great. They just take a bit more skill. I love using yellow powder . Its my favorite but its not going to be your best choice , cuz I just see yellow machines. I really like this new blue stuff we have. I think yellow , grey, black and red will be to hard for you to see with out having sprayed a contrasts color down first. I will get you the info on the yokes I like and the powder. If you have an Instagram and you want to see how they work. I can make a video and send it to you. You know People helping people.
Well they both can be super strong. It depends on the alloy of the wire or rod. Wire typically gets the bad name. Think about this… all modern vehicles are all welded with wire. Air compressor tanks are welded with wire. The crane on my trucks are welded with wire. I’m not talking shit on stick but wire is way faster and just as good. Stick has its purpose though.
Failure analyst would indicate that plug weld is the culpert for the failure. A stress raiser or impurity or mismatch of materials is causing problems.
The thought of disconnecting all those lines (and then having to put them back correctly) gives me anxiety. Question: did you have to put any kind of support under the machine before cutting into the hitch? I’m assuming it’s the dynamic load on the hitch that causes them to eventually crack but I don’t know how much static load there is.
How does the strength of a MiG weld compare to stick? I have done both but always considered, and was taught that stick welding to be the better option for higher strength welding.
Enjoy the work. Time to dump the music though... at least until you sort out your audio leveling technique. Audio is far more challenging than the video.
The music was awful. I'm trying to listen to you explain then the music blasts out. Don't use music. I enjoy your work but this was really disappointing.
