You WONT Believe How I Fixed It! | Welding Repair on a Excavator | 

The last thing I did for my Dad was cnc plasma cut bucket ears for his backhoe. He bought a bucket that he was told would fit. Nothing lined up. He was old school. We tried for hours. I kept telling him. It does not fit. Finally the stubborn Greek/German old man gave up. The next day I cnc plasma cut new ears and machined the pin holes on the Bridgeport. He waited in his machine while I welded them on. He was happy as he needed to finish his yard. He finished his yard. Grass and irrigation system. He passed 6 months later. He taught me how to weld when I was 12. I built a weight bench. Cherish the time with your Dad Anthony. I miss him every day. I have a vid on my channel cutting the bucket ears. Nice job man.

I sit here, just randomly watching RU-vid videos. Have had a few brews. My dad was and always will be a master at fabricating and just doing the wildest of things. I don't know why, but it makes me feel joy watching you do this. I feel like you watched your dad do many things, and in return what you learned from him and from others you've applied to your business. These skills are being lost in time. Makes me happy to know they live on, in the form of people just doing. Thanks man. Appreciate it.

I have done line boring jobs before however i have never saw someone remove the entire block and weld it back thanks for sharing.

I'm a retired welder with 43 years welding experience so I'm going to make some suggestions on this job. First of all, I'd get set up to air arc. You can't always use a torch for cutting and you needed an air arc set up for this job. Don't put your ground clamp inside the bushing that you are welding, on the bottom of the stick. You could put it any where on the stick or boom. Never use 6010 or any other wire other than low hydrogen on hi tensile steel as you said that you wanted to do on your first pass. You didn't have "undercut" on your first pass as you stated. You just needed more than one pass to make the weld flush. You welded the bushing on the end of the stick, "in position" when you could have made it much easier on yourself by starting the machine, lifting the boom and putting the stick in the vertical position. That's the same position that you should have welded the eye on the end of the bucket cylinder/rod.

Dude you did an awesome job. I'm an ironworker that spends a lot of time doing repairs in steel mills. Also training for a CWI. I had to comment because of the "you need an air arch" and "6010 is bad to much hydrogen" comments. There is absolutely nothing wrong rooting with a 60 rod. Better to have a good backing rather then welding with a 70 series rod that doesn't have enough flux to cover both sides of an open root. That's why pipe liners root with 60. I'm sure you know this and that's why you ignored the comments. As for an air arch or plasma. Plasma is great but I haven't found one that hasn't given me problems. There great until there not. I've been caught up with bad consumables before,. Contact errors. They just cost to much to keep running. If you have money to blow fine. But your out here making money and that torch isn't going to throw a curve ball at you. They are reliable only thing that lets you down is you,. Not keeping an eye on your bottles being full. A lance is nice. Not going to take that away but you don't "need it". I find amazing how someone says you "need it" after you just did it with the torch. One thing you might want to try out thou is 7016. It's like a 6011 and a 7018 had a baby. Great penetration, fast freezing so you can jump a big gap pretty easy, burns like a 7018 with high disposition. About the same price as a 7018. And it's more forgiving welding on dirty rusted objects. Your ground was fine on the new bushing,. An old one might give you arc blow issues do to eddi currents flowing through semi magnetizes the steel. Then you can use a set of jumper cables , one clamp on each piece your welding together. This helps the current get through the magnetic field. The arch blow will typically be at the ends of the round objects(closest to the poles). The only other thing I noticed was the gaps you were filling. You might run into pulling issues. When it cools it pulls. The faster it cools the harder it pulls. Only if it's critical would I pay attention to it. Ways to avoid this is don't let your piece cool. Keeping a fire blanket or keel wool on the piece would contain your heat and control the pulling so it all cools equally. Me personally I love running flux core 212 or 232,. If I feel like carrying a bottle dual shield is amazing but it's pricey to get the set up and a roll of 232 is $4-5 a pound You pissed with the dick you had. You have an outstanding mindset. Best piece of advice I ever got is forget the people that say welding is an "art". It's not l. It's a science. That's why you can program a computer to do it. If you go at the same travel speed, same angle, same settings the weld profile does not change. If the weld profile changes you did something different. Keep getting up my man!

Nice job ! Field repair 101! Get it Done get it digging! Thanks for sharing 👍

He's going to save it I know my dad's been business excavating for 50 years we got parts for machines we haven't had for 30 years

You do what you need to do, for what you need to do.. It's just that simple.. great video!

I subbed not for the great content but the witty humor and sarcasm.

That machine was Really abused, and you did a great job fixing up the worst parts, and keeping the price down. Stay safe.

It works it's perfect. You can't get to crazy with the cost of the repair, if the machine is not worth it. Spot on. Love watching your videos. Keep filming.

Well done. You’ve be taught by the best in my books.

Some of the best years of my life were spent at the shop with my father ! I learned more from him than any school teacher

You need a bigger chipping hammer! LOL I am glad you showed how to "fix" undercut by grinding a little. Many newbies wouldn't know to do that. I agree that you should have been a little hotter on the root. I laughed when you undercut the flat.. (easiest weld ) Yep. I have always had "work gloves" and "Welding gloves". That piston connector could twist to allow you to make the complete weld from one side.. Weld vertical until it gets flat. Stop. Twist it toward you until the next part of the weld will be vertical. (You gotta think "lazy welder" Make it easy as possible on yourself. All in all, a good repair. Its not a rebuild. Its a repair.

That thing you were struggling with cutting off with the torch would be a great reason to get an arch gouging setup 😂

Everything that you weld will hold up longer then it ever would of! Ur a great fabrication expert 👍🏻👊🏼

Id be like a kid in a candy store if I got to mess around in your dads yard. That place looks like a good time hahaha Love the vids, keep em up!

Love all your videos man but I got a transformers vibe when you and your pops were talking reminds me of when the yard gets destroyed and him and his dad are going back and forth lol really enjoy your videos and appreciate you taking the time to get these videos out as fast as you do with all the detail!!! Keep it up man surprised the Chanel isn’t at 100K yet but we’ll get there.

Great work my man! Not even a welder & loved every Minute!!

Your dad is proud of you bro! I can tell by the way he talks to you keep up the great work

So glad I ran across this video. I have to do almost this exact thing

I'm a pipe welder I thoroughly enjoy your channel just some tips on welding with 7018 on small circumference stuff try bending your rid about 4.5 inches from the end at a desired angle and you won't have to use your wrist so dramatically hope this helped

randomly found you.. it's 3:17 AM.. took a piss and now we're buds.. man life is weird.. subbed

Fantastic video and New Year’s Eve treat👍 love how you can turn hand to anything full respect. Really enjoyed this video . Have a great new year👍👍

You got to be a Jack of all trades my man !

Very underrated RU-vidr, keep it up

Your Dad should be very proud. Nice fix indeed.

Choke-up on the stinger like a TIG torch and those small diameter welds are easier.

Incredible work!

Already using the keg from a pevious job, love it man!

nice work man, love this kinda stuff

Awsome video man!!! thanks for sharing!!

Nice work great video. I never wrap the cylinders I just spray them with WD-40 no bbs will stick to them . Greetings from Texas 🇨🇱

Good shit!!! I often talk to pieces of equipment in the same manner as well!!!

Solid Work 🔥🔥🔥

Thats how us poor men make a livin Love this damn channel an im a huge fan of ur dads Reminds me of mine I tend to kinda be the opposite of my father to where when i take the time to fix something i want it done to perfection I couldnt have just done part of it I wuda done it all or not at all But to each his own an it takes all kinda to make this ol world go round God bless

Gotta love the real world welding, Dont get me wrong controlled environment welding is cool and all but this is the field I plan to start my welding career in since I just graduated last year! This is where the money is at IMO.

I'm improving my welding/fabrication working with a veteran welder for a metal recycling company, most of our operators arelbetter seat covers than operators so there's always steady work

Stellar job fella 👏

Pro tip of the day. You can use your welder to jump start equipment if you have a cv setting on your machine. You can actually dial it up to whatever voltage you need works pretty slick.

Convinced this man sports the weld cap even when not welding, and I’m rocking with it

Nice work. There's always welding jobs around excavating equipment

Hell yeah man! Good job

I find that if I cut my rods in half the shorter rod makes it easier to weld the small diameter shaft

Hey hey right dude you got some big badass mechanic you left your impact at home

Your fitting and welding will definitely hold up in my way of doing business!!

Really nice weld loving the vids. just got tig and mig down working in fluxcore and stick now

Good job. Now, Blippi is looking for his sun glasses…

Love your channel man.

I grew up doing the same stuff here in northern maine pretty fun if you like it.

Impressive skills!

Good job !

Looks good man nice job

👍good job

Obviously you are very skilled I just have a little tip I want to share to whomever reads it. Tip: re: jumping or charging a battery. Always connect 1st - positive (red) 2nd - negative (black) when disconnecting go in reverse so remove 1st black 2nd red.

Great stuff buddy

Like your closing much better! Keep up the good work

As a field tech myself I can really relate to the language and feel of your videos. I'm not a fab guy but I'm getting ready to do this exact job on my own mini ex. Good shi t 👍

looking great Old-Timer......Happy New Year.....Paul

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼………….no complaints from me, you did the best you could with what you had to work with.

Dad sounds like Anthony. Like Father like Son.

MELTIN METAL ANTHONY IS ON FIRE!!! Its not perfect?? Thats an amazing job!!! mY God to weld like that with parts amazing skill very neat welding👍👍👍

Keep dragging rod keep pushing mig, and always stay whipping that tig.

i like you work things

First video I've seen. Liked and subscribed. Thanks and keep them coming

Your content’s dope, your work is dope, the jobs are dope, and tools are dope! Has to subscribe!

Just found this channel. 🤙🏾💪🏾👍🏾 good shit!!!

Some people will never learn that grease is cheaper then parts/repairing

Cool Video !

Getting done !!!!!

Good cheaper repair job. Great Video. Thanks

your name is on it put the love in to it

Just found your RU-vid channel it is freaking amazing love it good job

Good repair.

Great work bud

Nice job. Well done. "Hard to weld small circumferance"..... bend your rod to a "wrist friendly" curvature and get yourself up higher on box or ladder etc. You are your own best friend or your own worst ENIMA.

It look nice and sunny out there in Florida for you guys! We're in a rare rainy week here 8n San Diego. Enjoy!!

Great work buddy.

Your a good man, have a blessed day América

I’m serious man. Anybody that criticizes this is deep into overkill. I think it’s perfect. But I think the tracks are on backwards. Probably doesn’t matter though.

Keep it up

Pretty sweet Man! Actually about to do the same thing to my 5ton shitbox lol if the thing starts up and makes money then it's a good machine. Happy New Year!

Nice, Good 👍 job.. from Philippines..

Dang i was hoping this was a video about taking JB weld to its limit. Seriously cool video.

Nice video I like young fonzy lookalike Anthony. I have watched a few of his videos, quite a bit different than the Hollywood welder" types you see doing the 6g with the fleets or tig. He's a young guy hungry to learn and not arrogant enough to not admit his mistakes or shortcomings.

Nice man! Cool stuff

Awesome

Great stuff. 6010 root is a bad idea. Introduces too much hydrogen and that’s bad for welds with dynamic loads. Love your videos, keep them coming!

You look pretty good!!

Great job. Happy New year.

When you don't have someone to hold the bushing ... you can use your table on your truck or ive even set it on a piece of steel on the ground and use the boom to put pressure until you get a few tacks on there but you did amazing job it cam out beautiful... you deff got skill

Nice vid fam

Respect

U should look into line boring save a lot of time

Thanks I have to do almost same job

Would like to see a video of that fix at work. To know what kind of pressure it could actually hold

That thing is hammered for a 2018 model .

You invest into your equipment. The question is, what is the replacement cost of that machine vs. investing 2-3K into making it run right? Just because he spent 3K on the machine does NOT mean it is not worth putting another 3-4K into it. Try to buy one for 6K that is in perfect working order the ntell me it is not worth putting money into. If he don't want it let me know. I would LOVE to have it and put money into fixing it up lol

That wear on the bores and pins is absolutely unacceptable, a few tubes of grease and a kick in the ass would have prevented that. Pure, unadulterated laziness, without a doubt. There is no such thing as a disposable machine, a well maintained machine will last a lifetime. Wear and tear are to be expected, but you deal as you go not wait untill the damn tracks fall off.

Roll the rod over in the cylinder to weld end on down hand ...if rod won’t turn just turn it as you power it closed or open using hydraulics . You did real well to bring this back to usable condition using bits of crap ...