You WONT Believe How I Fixed It! | Welding Repair on a Excavator |
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- čas přidán 30. 12. 2021
- #heavyequipment #repair #welding
This has got to be the SLOPPIEST machine I’ve ever worked in on. Why my Dad bought it? Well it was cheap. And he’ll make his money back on the very first job! That being said. I didn’t make out like a bandit, but it was a honest days works. This welding repair was done on the cheap! The only goal : make it work! I wanted to replace all of the pins bushings and the quick connect. But that would’ve cost him more than he paid for the pair of excavators. So we opted to replace only the most worn down parts and use parts from his spare machine to make this one usable once again. When welding, cutting and fabricating you always end up with a curve ball or two. Well this project threw me my fair share!
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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 CZcams 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'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.
I have done line boring jobs before however i have never saw someone remove the entire block and weld it back thanks for sharing.
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.
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.
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
Nice job ! Field repair 101! Get it Done get it digging! Thanks for sharing 👍
Well done. You’ve be taught by the best in my books.
You do what you need to do, for what you need to do.. It's just that simple.. great video!
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👍👍
That machine was Really abused, and you did a great job fixing up the worst parts, and keeping the price down. Stay safe.
Everything that you weld will hold up longer then it ever would of! Ur a great fabrication expert 👍🏻👊🏼
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
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.
So glad I ran across this video. I have to do almost this exact thing
Really nice weld loving the vids. just got tig and mig down working in fluxcore and stick now
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.
That thing you were struggling with cutting off with the torch would be a great reason to get an arch gouging setup 😂
Great work my man!