Great to see real world welding repair work being done.... no fancy chair to sit on or holey weld table.....no drink cup holder.... just down in the dirt 'literally' repair work on unknown material.... the only thing you did not have was some rain or mud to deal with.... keep up the great work Austin......Paulie Brown
I will add to those being said:Moisture and unknown material-->not proper filler material and welding parameters selection are enough to cause even bigger cracks.
I see a few comments asking why this truck wasn’t driven to his shop for welding. I’m going to guess it’s because Esab wanted them to show off that battery powered welder.
He could’ve pulled the truck forward to feet. Next time you need a hammer pull the ball receiver hitch out of your truck. I’ve used it as a hammer before it works great. Like other people have said these are the type of repairs I do every day that needs to be scanned. It is very thin. Now I’m going to sit back and watch to see how well this battery pack welder works. Fronius has had one out for about 5 or 6 years now.
Man its so refreshing to see a repair that isn't disney perfectly. You got the job done and thats all that really matters Im working on starting a repair business and I keep getting thin rusty crap that blows through as soon as you strike an arc. Sure makes you learn how to control your heat real quick
@@austinhargett5792 What on earth is CJP??? I used a hard wire MiG welder to weld up holes on a 10+yr old John Deere mower deck(one of the living brackets and a yard wheel had fallen off the deck) and I had a lot of whiskers and was blowing holes in the deck material with the welder set as low on the voltage as I dared! I know what it’s like to weeks thin material, I just never heard that term before, CJP!
I’m sure you will be back to put a new floor in it. I put a new 1/4” 450 Hardox floor in my dump truck last spring. The first one lasted 25 years hauling blasted rock, tuff stuff.
Did you watch the whole video or fast forward through the first few minutes. He said it was a bandaid about 2 minutes in and to make sure the customer knew that.
Memories of when I first started. My dad kept saying "Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance". Finally I stopped showing up without the stuff I needed. Amazing how hindsight is 20/20 and dad would point it out. I said to him once if you knew it wasn't loaded and we would need it you should have said something then!!! I only said it once!!! Keep up the great videos they keep me in memory lane.
😂 not my best job. But the job was done regardless. Luckily this was a friend of mine and I didn’t charge him full price for the “time” it took. That was on me.
Yeah music isn't necessary. Although I do like the fact that is low volume unlike some other channels. Blasting music but can't get a clip-on microphone and barely hear when they talk! Hate that $h!t
Ive only just started doing small repairs and light fabrication. Thoroughly enjoyed your vid as it keeps it real. After all we're only human an the truck got repaired. When you come back to sort the tail end youll be more prepared. 👍👍👍
First thing that comes to mind when I do a mobile welder job. - what am I going to lay on. I bring tarps, moving blankets , towels anything. All that mud and dirt you’ll track into YOUR truck. Does it make the job worth it? Lol just my 2 cents
Didn’t know what I was getting into till I showed up. Didn’t have the keys to move it. It was supposed to be to be a quicky. I turned it into much more
Tale a BIG magdrill for stress cracks! You might as well just leave it cracked if you don’t drill both ends of the crack. Rule of Thumb: If you need to lay down it will have rained the day before
Pretty sure most people Texas tig with flux in the holder, knock it off on the filler metal being dabbed. Mostly because the flux has/is an arc stabilizer too. And you need the shielding gas, all the extra rod with flux knocked off is extra metal for cooling the weld and adding more deposition. Some don’t knock flux off of both rods but feel that creates slag voids. But never seen flux knocked off the main electrode. Feel like arc wander would be excessive, also lack of shielding gas would create porosity. But that’s just my understanding and experience.
@@brnmcc01 Training rod for folks just starting out welding, from what I've seen and heard. Makes a beautiful bead, but isn't known for its penetration.
The truck has wheels and is road worthy? , bring it to the shop and do it there, I have refloored countless dump, garbage, gravity box, spreader ect floors to fill lake Michigan it's seems. skin over the dump edge back a bit and replace, (It's an AR floor) that will last the life of the truck. and for safety sakes never prop the door up to work on it, remove the damn thing. BTW was the truck driveable? As for job estimate, time and material, or base it on the average of the last five jobs, you have a minimum operating cost, travel time can be on a sliding scale, what's your work day? 8,12,16 hours? you scabbing or self employed? ect. there really is no set formula other than what the competition is, and fair market value. you the only gig in town for 40 miles ? or one of ten shops in town ? that has the biggest impact on what to change. As for ECM'S and ECU's disconnecting the neg is not enough, I ain't kidding, You have to check the shop manuals or TSB's on welding on a vehicle, life was so much simpler before all this electronic shit and it's gotten worse, most people get lucky most of the time other's cause thousands and thousands of dollars in damage, went to weld on my Ford E-450 motorhome and had 7 ecm/ecu to unplug, that didn't include all the crap in the box, ie. magnum inverter $2000, auto start genset module $400, house battery voltage management system $500, roof solar system crap $1500 ect. sure damn glad I am retired.
@@austinhargett5792one has to start some place, my dad started his welding business out of a one car garage and a 1945 GMC panel truck with a Airco portable inside , that was 1961. but it was a side job and didn't have a fully stocked field rig so it's kind of tuff winging it. but the job got done nicely, that's what counts 👍
I'm not going to critique the job to me it looks successful. My question is, why wasnt 6010/6011 get laid in the bottom of the cracks to finish eating through the bottom of the cracks? And lay 7018 on top of the 6010/6011..
This is why i am buying a big 28,000 watt generator to run one of my mig machines because i run into the same problem all the time working on trucks and trailers stick welding with my gas powered welder. And with a big generator i can run any of my welding machines mig tig or stick for what ever purpose i need and still be able to work onsite wherever i go.
@@austinhargett5792 I got to relive the feeling of burning through the material!!! I did that on a John Deere mower deck to replace a lifting bracket and a guide wheel that had broken off the deck!!! Hard wire MiG welder, no cover gas, and my iPhone for a light source outside in the driveway, MiG whiskers and burn through! Was a horrible couple of evenings cause I was borrowing the welder!!! I got it welded up and I painted the top and underside of the deck with yellow Rustoleum paint to prevent rust from affecting the new welded metal!!!
$100 an hour to forget and have to run back to get a hood and leads, and not have a hammer or a clamp? What kind of outfit is this guy running? He couldn't have pulled the truck forward a few feet so he wasn't laying in the dirt, then dropped the bed down and dunnaged up the tailgate? Would've been much easier to work on that way. Better yet bring the truck to the shop? Oh, but then you wouldn't be able to use the battery powered welder ESAB paid you to advertise. He's using a brand new perfectly clean dewalt grinder without a scratch on it..... No preheat to get rid of all of that moisture you can see coming out of it when he's using the wire wheel? 7018 downhill? I understand it's a band-aid fix, but at least do it properly. I miss Mr. Moffatt
We all have to learn , but advise the customer and do a repair that works for both parties, personally i would have reskinned or at the very least cut a patch out back to original thickness and then welded that in , yes we work for the customer and try to stay within his or her budget but it is our reputation as welders to carry out a quality repair that is safe and structurally sound , your customer is also paying for your skill and experience , in the past i have offered customers payment plans so they can pay over a few months at least that way you can carry out a good repair that will last and you gain quality recommendations from your customer, i always found the best way to grow a business was through word of mouth from jobs i had done , i apologize if it came across negative but the way it was repaired was something that we would never of done we just had a very strict boss who had high expectations , just keep going everyday is a learning day we don't know everything , but can learn from others , @@austinhargett5792
😂 forgot the leads! My truck gets such low mileage it would be cheaper to stop and buy some new ones on the way…wow….I’ll just say that we have VASTLY different ideas of what that problem needed. I live in a state that forces contractors to warrantee work for 1 year so I would have run a 10g. X 6” wide strip the whole lip across. Drilled out the crack ends and heated and distressed the entire cracked area. My fix would have run about $3200 on that job but I’d never have to go back. But I also know that some operators do exactly what they have to and that’s a style choice not a quality issue.
When you're running 7018 downhill, why aren't you dumping your slag? Why didn't you switch to straight polarity? Those 2 things would have saved you a lot of messing around. Why not have the truck brought to the shop you work at? I had so many questions while watching this. Good that you got the job done, but you made it pretty much as difficult for yourself as possible. Koodos on getting that welded the way you did. I just don't understand why.
My shop is fairly small. Almost the size of the truck itself lol. I would’ve done things a lot differently given a second shot at it. You’re right it was complicated and silly. You got to see me make an ass of myself. We all get a laugh and hopefully a lesson.
@@austinhargett5792 once again, not trying to say anything bad about your skills or your work. Good job, you got the job done. It's just that you seemed to make it harder for yourself than you had to :).
I have found that 1/8" 6011 on straight polarity / EN actually does not dig as much as 3/32", even though you are at a higher amperage.....the size of the arc cone is bigger and spreads the heat a lot better.....and of course, the EN penetrates less and also builds up material more......I used to do a lot of fence and gate repair at gated communities, on 14 gauge [.062"] and around swimming pools, it was always a challenge on that thin material taht many times had 'rusted into tolerance'....... Paul 'Paulie' Brown from weld . com now to get my LWS to get me some of that 'special rod' II09 the new guys are talking about.....
Not my finest moment. The customer wasn’t charged full price. Because of the lack of tools and the extra time it took me. I’m an honest hand and it was embarrassing and humbling, I’m not afraid to admit that.
$100.00 per hr, you don’t know your equipment, you don’t have any extra material for patches and you don’t have the basic tools to deal with the miss alignment. You may be a good welder, but you are overpriced for a maintenance man. It is a dump body. It don’t have to be pretty. The rocks don’t care
With all transparency. I’m not a “mobile welder “ yet. I have plans for these things. They take time. Also the welder was given to me as a demo unit. As some RnD for the manufacture.
I wouldn't let YOU pay ME $100hr to do this to my truck. Please tell me this is an early, very early, April fools joke? Very, very early? I suggest removing this video asap. Why would you post it? Embarassing
This dude showed up with half an idea, and even less tools. Could have at least reversed the leads and ran DCEN in order to put less heat into the base metal.
this was painful to watch, Had to do something similar few years ago. used my $60-80 cheap chinese gasless FCAW only welding machine. less than a third of a 2 lbs 71t-gs reel used. thin thick parts no issue ,easily to handled. Had power on site though (i.e. long extension cord through the kitchen window), took a drll, angle grinder, die grinder, some scrap metal plate, 'hammer' and chisel as basic kit. got paid in food, also got a new shirt ( as mine was a total loss by the end, not allowed to put in washing machine) hehehehe. dare i say that ESAB was not best choice for the job muhahaha. you do realise ESAB was founded by the man who invented the flux covered electrodes and your promoting a ESAB machine with knocking the flux off the electrodes. the irony
It was a friend of mine, it was more or less a favor. the plan was to come out and knock it out in an hour. it obviously didn't go as plan. So he was nice enough to toss me a bill for showing up.
I like how you show a little of the real in the field. Im sure every Tom DICK and Harry is going to have an opinion. For instance, I love a 6011, but the job got dun, and she's probably going to the scrap yard before that'll ever need to be repaired again.
That's nothing. I've never seen a $h!t spreader come in the shop that's ever been cleaned in its life.... honey wagons too.... the things we do for money.
