Doing the bucked curl bushings and finally installing the thumb on the mini. Had to work the first half of the day off the grid because we were out of power due to high winds. Was nice to get all the big tools back for the second half.
Great job!!! ...... I'm curious, how the mini excavator works.? The engine will provide the power & in turns drive the hydraulic pumps ? eg... moving forward/backwards and doing the tasks... It will be great to see a video (101 crash course) , showing the interior of the engine & working principal for beginner like me...
You will love that thumb if you cut wood! Pick the price up and start cutting! We have a JD 50 and everyone uses it to cut fire wood! Thanks for the great video!
Remind me again what make and model of lathe y'all have? I know the one we have at my school is a 13" South Bend made (according to the serial number) in 1969. Needs a bit of work. There's between .030 and .040 of play in the cross feed, which is just annoying to me. Other than that, she runs great.
Sitting here with Covid, been looking forward to a video. Glad to see you got the thumb on. The welder in me wishes you zoomed in on the welds. We all love some good weld porn lol
While you had the film sped up, you shoulda had the Benny Hill music playing LOL Great video and always great to see your dad in there with you. We lost power here for about 5 minutes, and that is unusual for our road. Usually, if someone has a fan on and pointed out a window it knocks the power out here.
As always great video and teach and learn experience, between you and your dad it seems that nothing is too hard. Positive attitude and professional 👌 quality work. Thanks Ethan. 😊
That Amazon warehouse that collapsed is about 20 miles southeast of us. I was dumping corn at Bunge in East St. Louis when that hit. I believe there have been 6 fatalities confirmed so far.
The storms missed where I live in arkansas but farther east got hit pretty good the town where a friend of mines sister lives got hit and unfortunately her house was hit
At 8 mins in when you start with the die grinder I learned a trick over the years for bearings and bushings... take a welder and run a hot bead around the inside then soak quickly with a hose or let it cool naturally. As the weld cools it shrinks the bushing/bearing enough that they almost fall out.
I have a Wet Thumb on my little Takeuchi, wouldn't have bought it if it didn't have it really. It's so handy. I ran a bead of weld around my bushings and they punched right out.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy That tool your Father made seemed to work well enough, I wanted to do that but I didn't have the right size thick wall pipe. There's always plenty of ways to skin a cat. Your thumb matches up perfect with your cutting edge, you'll be able to pick up pine needles with it. It's made out of thick steel as well.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I know about that gust be glade them buckets are easy to move around by hand I know all to well how hard it is to put pin on buckets on bigger equipment lol
