That was the same question I had the new tires say Goodyear on the side but you keep talking about Titan tires. Probably also a money thing not having to replace all of those molds so they said Titan instead of Goodyear on the sidewall.
@@WelkerFarms Goodyear Sold the Division but still has a vested interest in the company. I shared the video with a friend who is the Goodyear director of that division
I live 15 minutes from that factory and I have been in the Des Moines area most my life. I drive by that factory on a weekly basis. What’s cool is that I had to come to your channel to finally see what’s inside. Fascinating stuff and Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing your time with the Cornstars and the great factory tour. The value added features on the Welker Farms channel make your videos a rich viewing experience. You don't just have tilling, spraying, planting and harvesting - you show your subscribers a larger more positive view of agriculture. Great work.
Great to see you guys visiting each other that was a great start to your video! Always nice to see everyone having a little fun once in a while with all that hard farm work. Worked on the farm many years as a young man and have full respect for all you guys!
Once again you guys are "over the top" Great intro with the Cornstar family. The rubber plant tour was very informative and a great background for the "supply" side of agriculture that most people are unaware of. You guys rock. See you soon. Old retired Trucker that grew up on a farm in Washington State.
I wish I'd known you were passing through Bakersfield yesterday. I would have bought lunch for the whole bunch of ya just to get a picture with you and Nave'. Keep up the great content.
It was used to be a mystery for me where those little rubber things on the tires are used for, thank you for explanation Nick. Good luck with the harvest, go for it!!
I am Maintenance Supervisor at Titan Tire in Bryan, Ohio. We build the really big guys at Bryan. The 1400 and 1250 LSWs. We built the tires that are on the Williams Brother's 747 now.
What a PRIVILEGE!!! I would love to tour a factory like that. It always gives me a new found respect for how things are made. So cool. Thanks Titan Tire for giving us a sneaky peeky.
That was a blast to my past! I actually worked in that factory in Des Moines, on 2nd Ave. back in the early 80s for 2 years and there I met a foreman for the Premier Heavy Equipment Company, McAninch and that began my transformation from a tire builder, to a Heavy Equipment (CAT) Operator. Nice pay raise - MUCH better working conditions (Heated and AC cabs, stereo, etc lol) and much better scenery with different road construction jobsites all around Central Iowa. Retired in 2006 and enjoying these videos, gardening and doing a LOT of fishing! :-)
Many farmers have a second job unless you have a large number of livestock. My stepfather, grandfather & grandmother all worked at the Goodyear tire plant producing truck tires & earth-mover tires. Grandma ran 1 of 10 tires thru and X-ray machine looking for defects, placement, thickness, etc. My stepfather moved tires with a forklift. My step grandfather built the inflatable center part that steam pushes the the tire into the mold, while steam was circulated around the outside. A chain hoist lifted the upper mold half automatically after a temperature was reached and held for a period of time. It changes will all variables for size, compounds, etc. I had been thru the plant on open house on 4-5 times. Gloves used at different stages would gather green rubber and once the gloves where to hard to use, they where normally thrown away. Famers would use these gloves to string barbwire to build a fence. They worked great for that. Great video!
I graduated from the state school science as it was called at that time in Wahpeton North Dakota 1971 in Auto-Mec. We took a road trip tour to Minneapolis of the Grant Battery Factory. They manufactured batteries for many different companies they just changed the specifications and dimensions to whatever the different companies required. Thanks for the tour of the tire manufacturing industry very interesting. I knew they formed and vulcanize the tread with heat at the end but I was curious about those little pieces sticking out also. We both received an education.
Great video, Welkers. Glad to see you cavorting with the Cornstars, that looked fun. The Tire Tour was interesting. Amazing how they can turn raw material into tires.
Were you in Quincy for the factory tour? I am a pastor in that town and Titan is a huge part of our community! Love your focus on faith, family and farming!
Two of the greatest families together! Love it! If all men had their integrity, the world would be running smoothly. This is the second time you've been in my home state this year, very cool !
Hey guys. I'm from Findlay Ohio. And I worked at Cooper tire and rubber for 37 years so everything you showed in this video . I did all of them jobs over the years . But we only built truck light truck and passenger tires. We didn't do farm tires.
Your videos are some of the best on the web. The video quality is great, and the commentaries are very interesting, informative, noncritical, and not full of profane language like some out there. They show the wins, losses and ties in farming. I know because I was a dryland farmer until 2009. Kudos to you, and keep em coming!
Awesome video very interesting i learned lots, love the inter action of welkers and cornstars love you guys both thank you for such an amazing video 👍🙏🙏🙏💕😎
I noticed that most of these "farm" channels honor God. I think that is a big reason that American agriculture is so successful overall. Thank you for all you do!
Definitely seeing the manufacturing process gives you an appreciation for it. I work in the oil industry and every time I go to fill my car with gas I think about what it takes to get that oil out of the ground, convert it to gasoline and in my car's tank. Just to construct an oil well is a huge undertaking. You have to drill the well, case and cement it, perforate it with explosive charges, run a lower completion, do whatever well treatments are required (fracking is the most well know one), run an upper completion, Install a christmas tree, tanks or pipeline. It hasn;t even gone to a refinery at this point. It is just incredible how much work goes into these things.
I will buy the beer if you take me on your next field trip.....that plant tour looked awesome. Thanks for sharing and have a blessed, successful and safe harvest this season!
Thank you for this. I worked in a cable factory for 25 years, making rubber and plastic cables. The rubber/ butyl processing is the same. Calendars and mills. Strips and extruders.
