No horrible music, no overly-theatrical commenting, "WOW LOOK AT THAT!!! WOOOOOOW, SO EXTREEEEEEEM!!!". Just showing the work with natural sounds and just enough commentary to explain what's going on.
@@krisbrzezina2289 yep it’s the most annoying thing ever when creators ruin decent content with crappy, barely audible or occasionally loud, music. This and CEE are my favourite engineering channels.
Oliver, what I like about your repairs is that you tend to go one step further and improve the equipment making it stronger and more durable than standard. Also, you can tell you're from farming heritage by your incredible ability to only apply red oxide primer to the work you've done and nowhere else 😂
I was going to also comment on how his repairs turn out better than the OEM's original build. That’s likely because the OEM "value engineers" their products to maximize profit, often at the expense of useful life before needing repair components or replacement. By Oliver adding value and life to the repaired unit, he guarantees future considerations when the owner needs more repairs. Very smart business model, but I’m sure he just looks at it as "doing it the right way!"
That's a full days work. Damn nice engineering, Olliver. The plasma gouge is amazing--and no gouge rod expense. Thanks for letting us watch. Stay warm, mate...not much winter left to endure. Cheers.
Waiting for bucket blade replacements is like waiting for a bus in a big city, no buses for ages, and then three come along at the same time. Keep up the great work ;)
Why is this stuff so interesting?? I like watching you open up Machinery or change the original spec to something that can deal with what it's actually used for. Improvement and the why and how is like a life tutoring in engineering. I wish I had a calm Tutor like him to learn from.Even showing all the shit that goes wrong...bc that's life & totally normal. Thumbs *UP* Oliver!!😎👍💪
Great job Ollie ! I know what you are talking about, don't do a job for a while then you get a bunch in a row 😂. Keep up the great work ! Will be waiting on your next post's. Great Sunday morning video's in Texas
Nobody has ever been able to explain that phenomenon to me either Oly! You don't do a job for months and then a whole spare of them arrive together.... 😮😅 Very strange but happens a lot.
On vertical welding start with welding at a 45 angle (on a plate as an exercise) , then slowly twist the homework till you get vertical. When i was doing it for the first time, that's how i did it. It's all about moving in tandem with the pool. You can also play around with the pool at various settings to see what it does (when it starts losing it etc), that helped. The faster you understand what the molten metal does, the faster you'll get the hang of it. Feed and speed are your bread, but the butter is figuring out what the metal does in response, IMHO. If you have issues with it, you can also continue rotating until you reach upside down. I've gotten pretty decent at it. Still have a few booboos here and there, but it's a huge game changer for heavy stuff you can't rotate, like working under equipment. Bonus, welding circles (kinda like that penmanship exercise where you keep making a spiral, moving the circle one more cm to the right) clockwise and anti clockwise, without lifting. That's an all rounder exercise that i got taught by a really good elevator shaft welder. Making stacks in that pattern is peak mastery. He was laying some really beautiful patterns when he showed me, straight out of a textbook.
Some interesting jobs there, all done nicely. I like the way you make allowances for design inadequacies and add modifications to improve on the original design. I see it in many of the jobs that you do. Giving the customer back something better than original.
Another great, full length video. Thanks Oliver. Maybe you heard me shouting at the TV ‘take your earth clamp off’ when you were preheating and ‘put a fire blanket over the hydraulic hoses’ when you were plasma gouging 😂😂😂. It’s become part of our Sunday morning routine to get the dinner on and watch your videos. Thanks. Great job. Mike and Nicky
As usual Oliver a fabulous video of a series of repairs and adaptions to farm machinery with an emphasis on producing the best possible result for the customer, I particularly like the no-nonsense way you explain your thinking on how you are going to do the job, the possible problems and the outcome you wish to achieve.
The reason so many replacement hitch rings are welded on the bottom is customers don't want to pay for the extra work cutting open the drawbar. Nice work Snowy, the sort that pays the bills - keep you a troshing.😊
I wouldn’t have welded on the sides of the drawbar, either. it clearly didn’t need it for the old one and the old one was easier to remove because of it, you’ve just made it harder to remove the new one when that needs replacing. I think you did the right thing welding it as triffitt did it.
I enjoy your videos great insight into the farm equipment repair world. Re the replacement drawbar ring: I know you put it back the way it was originally but maybe a piece of angle iron welded to each side of the ring would have made it stronger. No criticism, you probably know far better than me.
No, he really should’ve put it underneath the bar, cut holes through the trailer and welded it up from two sides and then again through the top holes like he did on that big straw trailer a few vids back. Butt that ring is really only rated at #6- #10,000 lbs so you can count on whatever he’s doing will be an overkill. But, You never know farmers play by their own rules.
Hey Hey Oliver!! Great jobs!!! Just a thought… I think I’d have also plug welded that eye tounge from underneath. A totally feel-good thing, I know. Not needed whatsoever, but it would have been a real strength multiplier and a nice feel good moment knowing that was done. Plus, you could’ve engaged in a bit of mischief and totally hidden it to frustrate the next guy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes, thats what i was thinking, even when you get to seventy (which will probably be retirement age by then)the local farmers will be bringing stuff in and saying “do think you could just mend this for me please,”😀.
It's good to see that you look after your personal safety, using protective gear and guards on angle grinders and the like. I see so many idiots on RU-vid not even using hearing protection or guards on angle grinders.
I am NOT a good welder or even a fair one. I do enjoy watching those excellent beads you lay down. I also watch a lot of welding how-to videos and I have seen a few extolling the benefits of dual shield in vertical and overhead. For what it's worth.
U just have to smile with the farmer attitude...bring u the job and to save a little bring the cut off brackets for u to weld on ...priceless lol well I ges it saved u making them ....nice to have a little variety in ya day ....those guys with the buckets must be watching u on the tube lol ...awesome content keep up the good work...
When you flipped the bucket back to weld the top side of the new wear edge, and set the Porto-power to jack out the bow in the front edge, I noticed that there seemed to be a sharper than probably desired compensation. Maybe using a longer section of square tube as the brace for the Porto-power next time would allow for a straighter correction of the front edge. …just a thought…
I'm old fashioned, Oliver. I'd have stick welded that Lunette in with 7018. Even dual shield on a big Mig welder I wouldn't trust to get good penetration on a part that thick. I'd have only wire fed the top plate back on. (Besides, I just love SMAW.)
Olly have you seen that new gouger Isaac from ICWeld has? It’s a straight end cutter and it’s quick (in his hands). You might want to check it out. He was real happy with it, doing exactly what you’re doing but on a piece that required some real contortions. I love you both .
I think I’d be tempted to drill a hole or two in the large rectangular part, and do some really big plug welds on that. There isn’t a lot of weld for such a big part, I’m positive it will hold as you have done a better job than the manufacturer did.
Great work as usual ,I would have thought from a labour /cost point of view just to have cut off the eye and welded a stepped eye underneath would have been the best solution .you had your reasons for doing it your way
I’ve been watching your videos for a while - as a farmer that does his own repairs it’s nice to watch someone else working in a similar environment. Good to see you investing in equipment and moving forward like you are. That bucket has seen some use - I wonder if the customer would benefit from a bolt on edge in the long term?
Was anybody else surprised by how little weld held that ring in place, appears to have done its job though. Often wondered what the joint looked like in the drawbar. When those thermal cameras first came out 30+ years ago they would only read from Matt black surfaces and cost many thousands of pounds, now only a few quid 😳
