Needs to be an electrical interlock circuit that prevents the claw from opening (hydraulics solenoid) whenever the magnet attachment is installed and functioning. High quality fabrication and welding workmanship skills.
Good to see you back on the job young man and that you are well again. Nice job on the magnet and the new truck. The shop dog, you have to have one and he looks quite the character. I have a German Shepherd and he gets in the way plenty too. All the best for 2024!
Reflex motion, he was going to drop the load from magnet, fingers automatically ran the claw to release instead. It's why it sucks having to hop from one machine to the next when they are set up different. You do embarrassing mistakes.
great job. I think that the mount holes how you did them are actually better than what you were going to do. Although I get the point you would never have been able to weld them inside anyway. The bracket itself is the structure. The bolts just keep it from jumping off. 👍
I knew there was a reason they said "And the meek shall inherit the Earth" ,,, but who will drive our semi-trailers and weld large bits of steel together. Yep, mate, you make it look dead easy, but speaking as a crap welder, if I was to do this job, I'd be forever worried when those welds would break and drop a 5 ton magnet on someone or something. Yep again you make it look so easy, not knowing the confidence you have in your brilliant skills. Good on you mate a wonderful video and an even more wonderful job. Thank you for sharing a small percentage of your skills with us in this video. Well done mate, well done.
In the first try you could see the importance of the safety chain. The reflex of letting the load go translates into opening the claw. He almost dropped the magnet
Great job! I was a little concerned that the wire pipe will lead water into the connection box like a rain gutter, but it seems to work so far! That magnet deserves a pacemaker warning sticker... 😂 Nice to see that you and the dog feel better by now, thx for the video, have a great New Year! 👍👍👍
I’ve noticed that several welders from RU-vid repair equipment using mig or flux core instead of stick welding was wondering if it was cost of electrodes or comfortability preference, great video and greetings from central cali
It's not the cost that is a determing factor. When welding outdoors the wind, even the most miniscule of breezes, will rob you gas when mig welding. Flux core would have worked in this case but if you ever have to change wire in the machine to weld dissimilar metals it's a pain. Stick welding uses no gas, not affected by environment, and no need to change wire just change electrodes. They make hundreds if not thousands of different electrodes for stick welding. Simplified explanation hope this clears things up for you. Have a Happy New Year.
Sorry to hear you were on the DA list. U've created at least one addict waiting for the next fix1!!!!!1 Thanks for the tubing bender demo. I've seen many of them but never seen them put to use, great device. Your bend pattern was ingenious. U are a pretty smart feller.
Nice to see you again the scrap yard near me Andersen wrecking has detected machines with permanent magnets, some machines with claws and a huge shredder can shredder a car in 5min
You could weld a bar on the base of your tubing bender to step on, so you don't slide around. or make it so you can slide it in and out, so it's not always in the way. Since you don't seem to want to bolt it to the floor, which I totally get for a small shop with limited space. Need to be able to move stuff out of the way.
screen room aluminum kickplate 16,24,36" widths, .024 sheet makes excellent pattern material, easy to cut, Wiss or scissors, no wrinkles, very clean edges.
Suggestion on the side where the power lead comes out if you put a piece of box section or pipe from the centre out through one of the gaps between the Claw and pulling on Cable.👍
New subscriber! Very impressive!! You guys are very good at what you do!! I love your mobile welding setup, I hope to be in your position someday with a mobile welding truck like yours!! Keep the videos coming, I’ve learned a lot from you!!
I was trying to figure out why the scrap yard wanted that(looks like the hub\planetary cover from a big machine of some kind - D-11?) on there at all? Then you said the claw grabs it and it made more sense. They didn't want it dedicated to the magnet & wanna swap from claw to magnet. Most yards have both dedicated machines claw & magnet. But for a smaller operation this make more sense having 1 machine do both. Just have quick connect wire plug on boom. It absolutely needs the safty chain cause I can 100% see a new operator throwing the magnet across the yard or crushing someone or their truck\trailer. I've seen some of these guys working at scrap yards & understand why the chain is necessary!😄🤔👍🏻👌🏻🛠️🔧🗜️ 29:50 good shot there explaining it. Cool video. Something different on this one. It must be nice to have the variety of projects to repair. Keeps the work more pleasureable & keeps you thinking. If you love your job, it'll never be work!
21;30...I had to chuckle about clamping to the forklift, I bolted with T Nuts my Hossfeld bender to my Bridgeport Mill...[2,200 lbs] and I ended up dragging the mill all around my shop.... Justin form the Fabrication Series uses the same or similar tubing bender you have......it is somewhat different than the Hossfeld, the way it moves the die on the tube, where the Hossfeld moves the tube on the die.... great job Greg......cheers, PB...I do see you are up and answering comments at the moment....It is still 123123 where you are.... 12 31 23.......later, Paul
Another nice job. Was worried you have not put anything up in a few weeks. Glad you are back at it and feeling better. Great on another truck as well. Do you think down the road you will get a cnc machine. I worked on a tunnel project the contractor I was working for had things cut out on a cnc machine always right on. I like you Hossfled bender have used on myself years ago. I have bent 2 inch pipe filling with sand and capping the ends. Lot extra work but works. I have been a pipeline welder my whole career but would give most anything now to have taken the path like you. Again you are a true craftsman. All the best in 2024.
Looks like you almost got to see the safety chain at work. Looked like the operator was going to open the grapple and not release the magnet when he first started playing with it!
That wire tab is a little weak. That’s a pretty sharp corner for the wire to make. If the gotten of that tar is open the I would recommend drilling the hole maybe 2” up of bottom the post and making the hole more trapezoidal and the tube a little longer.abd welded in place.so the wire can be fed
I once rented a wheeled excavator with magnet to collect all buried barbed wire and nails and welding wire snipbits and anything else that might pop a tire Hoooly crap that thing pulled some steel out of the dirt, like barbed wire coils that were 2ft buried, nails from dumping wood ash from burning pallets for 25 years. On a 14 acre farm I pulled 8 tonns of scrap out of the dirt including fence posts, guard rail, buried roofing metal, harrow disc's, horse shoes, tires and rimms , scrap pieces, welding electrodes, car parts, remains of burn barrels, 3/4 of a ton was just nails, sure was cheaper than earthwork
If you still have to go back to your customer to finish this job i would suggest adding a second safety chain on the other side of the big flange plate and a second eye on the claw because im almost 100% sure the chain is getting tested the first week and with a single chain the magnet will start spinning when released Or they could install a single manual valve at the auxiliary line of the claw so they can close the line that gets pressurized when opening.
