You are the magician of heavy metal. Thanks for this. It's fascinating to watch someone as skilled as you obviously are save something that looks like it should be scrapped. Awesome job!
Since my wife passed away 4 months ago I have been watching your channel just to keep my mind in the right place I miss her so bad we were married 30 years she was only 51 years old when she passed away thank you so much for your videos I've been driving a truck for 41 years and it is interesting how you do things thank you for everything and keep things coming God bless you and your family
It's a lot like Rigging for a crane lift! There are two types of rigging, Successful and Disastrous! Good Luck and keep on being Successful! Love the content.
Good job dude! :) You do awesome work. As far as knee pads go, I ALWAYS made a point to wear them when I was younger doing HVAC work, plumbing, etc.. (I also wore gloves and safety glasses as well.) The other guys my age at the shop always made fun of me, but my boss told me something one day that made me smile. He said "Jon, don't pay attention to those idiots. I wish I was as smart as you when I was your age, because I wouldn't be in as much pain everyday as I am now."
Resurrecting old machines is a noble cause. Takes a lot of energy to produce any machine of this size and always good for any machine not be wasted. Good work.
Your a dying breed the new gen will never learn or understand what you do because a computer can’t do it for the or tell them what to do. I’m a semi retired diesel mechanic and no new guys to do that either.
A couple of years back, a day that I took off, the truck I run with a end dump, it's got like 15 or 16 foot wb ( wheel base). Well that driver of that day put in it flopped if over loaded. It was messed up 😢😢. They pulled out a very big portion of the load before pulling it back over. Took it to truck frame straighting place. It doesn't drive the same, has a site pull to the left & even with the new trailer it don't track straight. Steer tires aren't cheap now days, thank goodness it's a company truck. You do a great job . It's amazing what these rails will take.
Watching this truck bend like it is has to be the craziest thing I’ve seen in a while…I didn’t even think this would be a job someone does lol very awesome!
When I poured the floor in garage I put chains into pockets for tie downs. Have an old ford 4x4 with bent frame, front left. Giving it a try. Thanks for the confidence
I’m just an overall small mechanic kind of guy. I own my own truck and drive for living, but I didn’t know this type of stuff was possible… Thank you for showing us!
That Mack appears to have originally been a road tractor. Noticed the glad hand holder on the back of the cab and fifth wheel plate frame brackets. And the red dash trailer valve
I'm surprised somebody as young as you would be doing this kind of work it's definitely an art form that is not practice everywhere these days, keep on bendin...👍👍
Nice Twist, as a dozer guy I've seen this and how it's rolled over due to the new guy that has no clue how to back a truck up and give the thumbs up. Let alone the drive actually paying attention. Call the wrecker and don't worry she'll bring the thunder blowing the black smoke driving off.
Amazing how much flex in those frames. I retrieve tractor trailer heavy recovery. I see them twist and come back. So I know it takes a ton to actually get them back straight.
We need a short video on how you know that will shoot out across the shop 😂😂!! Keep up the hard work brother trucker to mechanic we couldn't do it without y'all!!💪
That's some bull work there my friend. Good thing I was in my twenties when I did it. Cement mixers were the worse. We did a crap load of dump trailers mostly.
Mate put his UD dump truck over back in the late 80's while the ram was fully extended / tray up. It was less than a month old. Cab stayed on the ground, tray and trailer laying on the side. It broke one frame rail and twisted the other like a pretzel. Insurance company sent it to the big smoke to be fixed, it was 6 months before he got it back. Huge plate on the broken rail and the other side looked like it had never been twisted. He drove that truck for another 5 years.
I was a automotive heavy frame man 25 years ago and we used a frame machine and I have even used floor pods with moveable towers . I really like your video's . So Thank you
Keep the videos coming my friend and don’t think people make fun of you for the old machine that you have , I am envious that you have such a machine and I wish I had a machine and shop like you have !!! Thank you for sharing brother ! ❤ 🍺😎
I started my trade as a frame man in 1990. After vocational school I went to Chief frame school in Toledo Ohio. Started out with center line gauges and couldn’t believe it when we got our first laser measuring system. But by that time insurance co. Were changing out frames even if it could be repaired. I never worked on anything larger than a f450.
Wow I worked at Bee Line Safety Service . You have Bee Line equipment . I had to straighten a Mack aluminum frame dump . Fell over dumping a load and bent it worse pulling back up . The Dump bed was removed . I had to twist almost 4 feet to make it stay . Aluminum is so rubbery . Had to build blocks to bolt on the pushing heads to use all the stroke of the pusher
