How you can see that a tank on a different type of vehicle can be converted into a new accessory on a different vehicle. Now that takes great talent. LegArms giggling with excitement playing with his new toy. This family is totally awesome!🙂
Great job to the Welkers,not only fabricating to make what you have work but to be able to go through their thought process is excellent. They work as a team. Good job.If future mechanical engineers worked on a farm environment for a few years they would come out better engineers.
When I watch this, I can't help but thank the Lord that Scott has full function of his arm after that accident. What a blessing to see everyone working on the same project. Great team effort.
When i worked for Ag Chem we took off stainless tank off to weld up a crack and we took rear boom frame with booms on it folded part way foward to help stabilizes it the complete frame work and we did it in 2 hrs and tank was out
More than shinny new farm equipment, I love the way you Welkers modify and fabricate to get the most out of all your equipment. Looking forward to whats next on the farm.
Projects like these are why I love this channel so much, besides the Welkers themselves lol. Love seeing the ingenuity and making something work with what you got.
Love that Scott has such a smile during this project. He’s looking at all that 2 in sq tubing and endless opportunities of steel! You guys could make a monster big red now!
I am amazed about how they can see how two different machines can be split apart and made into one that they need. Also, the degree of talent in the various skills that are used throughout the 'farming' (Imagineering - compliments of Disney while they were starting Disneyland). A problem - no, a challenge - comes up and is solved!
I absolutely love the ingenuity of farmers. You all are doing an phenomenal job with doing what you can not to buy new, and repurposing the old equipment. Keep it up, I can’t wait to see the final product!
Nick, I’m so happy a livestock farmer will use the wasted fields! Bailing it for silage is even better than my earlier question, if it could be grazed.
Thanks for the great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Good job all is getting the stainless steel tank off the old sprayer. Now the project ahead is getting it on the big brute. Easy-right!!! Probably not. But all of you are really handy at this type of project. That old sprayer has good steel on it and seems to run fairly well. Hard telling what you can do with it. Looking forward to seeing the new tank going on big brute. Nice rain you got. Too bad it was not earlier in the year to help the crops. Good to see all of you. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks. Take care and be safe. God bless all of you. The Iowa farm boy from years ago.
I drove one machine like that one for years it had a 1800 gallon tank and 80 foot books it was a great unit miss them days ...I know you guys will make it work on big brute...good jod will be a great unit...👍
I welded up parts and body frames for a "Big A" machines like this in a factory in Salina, Kansas in the late 70s. They had the 3 big wheels like this.
I am glad you have someone coming to swath the weeds for silage! See if you can do all of your fields to save on using spray. You might find it cheaper.
You guys should look into dustless blasting They are a company in Huston You could strip and fab stuff out and it will look new And it’s very fast I own a unit I strip cars with It uses crushed glass and water 💦
I love your guy's content so much! You guys should make more videos especially of harvest cause those are like the best videos ever and whenever you guys are in the field doing something! I have been watching your guys videos for the past couple year's now and I have liked every video of yours! I am 15 years old and your guy's videos are the best part of my day! God bless stay strong boys ill catch ya in the next one!
I've read about some farmers putting a hammermill in back of the chaffer on the combine so the chaff with weed seeds goes into the hammermill so the weed seeds are crushed and can't germinate before the chaff is distributed to the ground.
These are the videos I wait for on this channel. Using ingenuity and building stuff. Don't have what you need to get the job done? To expensive to buy one? Then build one that suits your need and the satisfaction of "did it myself"
We commonly silage weedy fieldss for our cattle. Mustard, wild oats, thistle--they actually really help boost the protein content of the silage, and it cleans up the field too. Hope it helps you guys out!
When I was an apprentice operator I was running a cat 289 and forgot to latch my bucket before loading trucks. I loaded prolly 10t and that’s when it came off into the back of the truck. This year marks my 5th year since then and not only do I check every attachment when I switch I also still get crap for it. The worse part was reloading the truck while all the clayco bosses watched cross armed. I’ll never forget it and am glad I didn’t get anyone hurt. Lol fun little story for you guys. CHECK YOUR ATTACHMENTS AFTER A SWITCH. Lol
With all of those sparks flying I thought sure it was Ricky the major league welder under the welding hood. Your whole family is incredibly talented. That will be an awesome spray rig again.
I know a guy who turned one of those into a dump truck and a log hauler. For getting trees out of the woods in nasty areas. We always jokes about if someone mounted some bush hogs on that thing you could cut swamps
You should look into the leather welding torch sleevea for your hose on your plasma. You can get really nice heavy duty tig torch sleeve. They are big enough to take a large plasma hose/cable, because water cooled tig torches have a water feed and return line and the electric cable. We have them on every mig, tig, and plasma torch leads
That sure is going to be a huge project for you but all the rite equipment to do the job and I can't wait to see the outcome how it looks as a complete unit
Great job! I have been watching your channel for quite a while and it’s my favorite channel! God Bless you all! Jesus continue to protect my brothers in Christ and I ask that you will bless their crops this harvest season will an abundance of grain in spite of the draught they endured throughout the summer. Bless them exceedingly above and beyond what normally happens during a harvest season. To God be the Glory!
Hi Welker Farms and fans. Help this unfortunate 1st generation farmer, by watching his videos. (Clarke farms) I've been following him for 1.5 years now. Now in the spring his big tractor burned down. now this fall he first had a little son and then his house was totally destroyed by thunderstorms. But he still smiles :) Fun guy with a good mood and sense of humor. :)
I drove a terra-gator type dry spreader called Big A back in the seventies for COOP. It was blast! All over eastern Colorado and western Nebraska. Corn stubble is hell on those tires. Constantly repairing flats. I hope you guys can invent some use for it.
That's looking real good!!!! You now have a mega brute! The tera gator is a useful mac in its ow own right. There are several near us that spread like ect. They do a good job and don't hang about .
If you can find a dry tank, fertilizer tank, you can spread dry fertilizer with it or, get another tank and use it to help haul fuel or, you could make like a auger tank on it, can use that as a self propelled grain cart. Great video, cheers :)
Hello great video. Have yall thought about making 2 full size Crains for the shop run from end to end. And the other side of the shop for the second Crain.
put a cheep rain water tank on the back of the TG and turn it in to a dedicated fire fighter vehicle then build a cultivator / ripper kinda like what graders / dozers have on the back to make fire breaks.
The new tank looks awesome - I love these kind of projects. Now it's time to start thinking about what fresh hell can be raised with the naked Terragator!
Great work Boys, that's natural Engineering Farm style, Bob you have taught them well, that job would have cost thousands in a Engineering shop, well done, regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia.
Ah yes. The 1603. I ran two of these at my last job. One spray rig just like this and one converted to a spinner buggy. The liquid rig wasn't that bad, but the spinner buggy needed to die. Almost killed it when an oil line burst but it missed the hot side of the turbo by a couple inches. But it wasn't enough to burn it down. That poor thing ran wide open all the time at 2800 RPM. Conveyor belt never worked right, and had to spread at about 7 mph because third gear couldn't provide enough drive pressure to the belt to keep it moving. I do not miss that machine at all.
Amazing in your updates this year , Terragator, skid loader and plasma cutter and I believe all 3 have paid for themselves. I was thinking about putting the engine of the gator in the auger tractor and the skid loader and plasma cutter have paid for themselves all ready. Maybe put a fertilizer box on the Gator or a manure spreader. It's always awesome to see you guys do big jobs in little space you have to work with. Of you could make the Gator into a water hauler for emergencies . Love your videos waiting to see the final looks of Big Brute.
Hopefully having a completely rigid tank frame doesn't cause problems with cracking the tank. It probably should have some kind of isolation mount system to allow the chassis to flex independent of the tank frame.
I understand, but even the OEM FLX610 tank saddle has flex bolts and springs to allow the chassis frame to flex a bit without flexing the tank saddle. The tank saddle is not welded to the chassis tubing. I'm not bashing the build, I work at a Case IH dealer in PA and I have seen that almost all tanks and spreader systems have some kind of flex point built into the spreader/tank mounting system. It appears, in this video, that the saddle is welded/bolted solid to the chassis. If it isn't, then I apologize. If it is, than maybe that could be the reason your plastic tank broke and your stainless tank could suffer the same fate.
I love the fire stick and a sledge hammer, gets it done fast, and cheaper than using the gas axe. I love how you guy's repurpose old machinery, it beats a payment any day, plus it costs thousands to repair the newer stuff if you don't have any mechanical skills, and plastic has it's limits. God bless.
If the Terra gator is in decent shape you should find a grain hopper to put on the back. Build yourself a custom self propelled grain cart for emptying combines.
Put the Cat and allison out of the terragator in the service/crane truck. Im sure you know a Canadian guy that could help you out with that job, not that youd need it but it could be a good collaboration. If you need a 'fire truck' a drop in tank on a frame including pump etc into one of the ford tippers would be more than adequate. Or for that matter just your spray tender trailer setup behind the white-volvo. No idea on the how and why of that machine and why it ended up at auction, didnt it have a dud tyre? the cost of one tyre for it would negate its usefulness.
How you can see that a tank on a different type of vehicle can be converted into a new accessory on a different vehicle. Now that takes great talent. LegArms giggling with excitement playing with his new toy. This family is totally awesome!🙂
Great job to the Welkers,not only fabricating to make what you have work but to be able to go through their thought process is excellent. They work as a team. Good job.If future mechanical engineers worked on a farm environment for a few years they would come out better engineers.
A Self Propelled GRAIN KART!!!! Maybe you could covert the terragator into a grain kart since the Big Buds don't have a pto.
The terregator would make for a nice firetruck. Maybe put an old Tank off the Spraying trailer on there...
When I watch this, I can't help but thank the Lord that Scott has full function of his arm after that accident. What a blessing to see everyone working on the same project. Great team effort.
Yeah bad as it was, that could have been entirely worse...
When i worked for Ag Chem we took off stainless tank off to weld up a crack and we took rear boom frame with booms on it folded part way foward to help stabilizes it the complete frame work and we did it in 2 hrs and tank was out
Super cool, Welker men! Thanks for having us along!!
More than shinny new farm equipment, I love the way you Welkers modify and fabricate to get the most out of all your equipment. Looking forward to whats next on the farm.
Dude millennial farmer, Larson farms, and welker farms videos all in a row! YES😀😀
Right!!??!!
Projects like these are why I love this channel so much, besides the Welkers themselves lol. Love seeing the ingenuity and making something work with what you got.
Love the videos. The terrigaror u can probably put a back to a semi grain trailer on the back, and make it like another trailer to drive around.
Love that Scott has such a smile during this project. He’s looking at all that 2 in sq tubing and endless opportunities of steel! You guys could make a monster big red now!
Imagine monster max next to the worlds largest big red! You could build the racks and all! Could go super viral? Would be cool no matter!
Dad is one cool dude and lets the boys get on with the job in hand! Love it! Great videos indeed!
I am amazed about how they can see how two different machines can be split apart and made into one that they need. Also, the degree of talent in the various skills that are used throughout the 'farming' (Imagineering - compliments of Disney while they were starting Disneyland). A problem - no, a challenge - comes up and is solved!
Definition of a farmer is a mechanic who fixes broken equipment and grows crops on the side
Those turbo nozzles are so nice to use with a power washer to clean stuff up!
I absolutely love the ingenuity of farmers. You all are doing an phenomenal job with doing what you can not to buy new, and repurposing the old equipment. Keep it up, I can’t wait to see the final product!
We use our shop vac on the fill tube to stop the fluid it works pretty cool
Nick, I’m so happy a livestock farmer will use the wasted fields! Bailing it for silage is even better than my earlier question, if it could be grazed.
you could take the terragator and find a fertilizer spreader box for it too if you don't make it a fire truck that would be sweet too
Thanks for the great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Good job all is getting the stainless steel tank off the old sprayer. Now the project ahead is getting it on the big brute. Easy-right!!! Probably not. But all of you are really handy at this type of project. That old sprayer has good steel on it and seems to run fairly well. Hard telling what you can do with it. Looking forward to seeing the new tank going on big brute. Nice rain you got. Too bad it was not earlier in the year to help the crops. Good to see all of you. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks. Take care and be safe. God bless all of you. The Iowa farm boy from years ago.
I drove one machine like that one for years it had a 1800 gallon tank and 80 foot books it was a great unit miss them days ...I know you guys will make it work on big brute...good jod will be a great unit...👍
Always a pleasure to watch your videos! Thank you for allowing us to join you and see all that you do!
I welded up parts and body frames for a "Big A" machines like this in a factory in Salina, Kansas in the late 70s. They had the 3 big wheels like this.
I am glad you have someone coming to swath the weeds for silage! See if you can do all of your fields to save on using spray. You might find it cheaper.
That plasma cutter is like a knife trough butter
I think the best about this channel is that nothing stops y’all
You guys should look into dustless blasting
They are a company in Huston
You could strip and fab stuff out and it will look new
And it’s very fast
I own a unit I strip cars with
It uses crushed glass and water 💦
I love your guy's content so much! You guys should make more videos especially of harvest cause those are like the best videos ever and whenever you guys are in the field doing something! I have been watching your guys videos for the past couple year's now and I have liked every video of yours! I am 15 years old and your guy's videos are the best part of my day! God bless stay strong boys ill catch ya in the next one!
I've read about some farmers putting a hammermill in back of the chaffer on the combine so the chaff with weed seeds goes into the hammermill so the weed seeds are crushed and can't germinate before the chaff is distributed to the ground.
Should send that tank to Tony Fast for a good buffing.😉 Glad you are utilizing all the steel for other future projects...waste not, want not.
These are the videos I wait for on this channel. Using ingenuity and building stuff. Don't have what you need to get the job done? To expensive to buy one? Then build one that suits your need and the satisfaction of "did it myself"
We commonly silage weedy fieldss for our cattle. Mustard, wild oats, thistle--they actually really help boost the protein content of the silage, and it cleans up the field too. Hope it helps you guys out!
The work you guys undertake in the shop is just awesome!! I love watching you figure these things out and 'plasma' your way to a solution! 💥👍🤣
When I was an apprentice operator I was running a cat 289 and forgot to latch my bucket before loading trucks. I loaded prolly 10t and that’s when it came off into the back of the truck. This year marks my 5th year since then and not only do I check every attachment when I switch I also still get crap for it. The worse part was reloading the truck while all the clayco bosses watched cross armed. I’ll never forget it and am glad I didn’t get anyone hurt. Lol fun little story for you guys. CHECK YOUR ATTACHMENTS AFTER A SWITCH. Lol
With all of those sparks flying I thought sure it was Ricky the major league welder under the welding hood. Your whole family is incredibly talented. That will be an awesome spray rig again.
I know a guy who turned one of those into a dump truck and a log hauler. For getting trees out of the woods in nasty areas. We always jokes about if someone mounted some bush hogs on that thing you could cut swamps
Absolutely love the teamwork needed to accomplish this. If anybody can do this the Welkers can, what a family!!!!!!!!
I like the preview part at the end of the video. Great video and very enjoyable to watch!! I know it's been said before but you guys are so talented!
WOW you guy's work together so GOOD!!!!
NOTHING is gona stop YOU ALL!!!!! Nice WORK!!!!!
You should look into the leather welding torch sleevea for your hose on your plasma. You can get really nice heavy duty tig torch sleeve. They are big enough to take a large plasma hose/cable, because water cooled tig torches have a water feed and return line and the electric cable. We have them on every mig, tig, and plasma torch leads
A nice set of stainless steel saddle tanks from a semi with a cool as hydraulic tanks.
turn the old Terragator into a self propelled grain cart!
You guys (father and sons) are having to much fun…good for you all.
That sure is going to be a huge project for you but all the rite equipment to do the job and I can't wait to see the outcome how it looks as a complete unit
Got a nice healthy starter on that one
I love when the Welkers stop framing and go to fab ing.
You should put a house on that sparer
Great job! I have been watching your channel for quite a while and it’s my favorite channel! God Bless you all! Jesus continue to protect my brothers in Christ and I ask that you will bless their crops this harvest season will an abundance of grain in spite of the draught they endured throughout the summer. Bless them exceedingly above and beyond what normally happens during a harvest season. To God be the Glory!
At the end of August I had 5.2 inches of rain in tow days. In Sioux Falls, SD to say the least we need it.
Great value there at $2500. A ton of value in just steel, hydraulic parts, and hardware!
Hi Welker Farms and fans. Help this unfortunate 1st generation farmer, by watching his videos. (Clarke farms) I've been following him for 1.5 years now. Now in the spring his big tractor burned down. now this fall he first had a little son and then his house was totally destroyed by thunderstorms. But he still smiles :) Fun guy with a good mood and sense of humor. :)
Thank you for sharing this very unfortunate events with them.
I drove a terra-gator type dry spreader called Big A back in the seventies for COOP. It was blast! All over eastern Colorado and western Nebraska. Corn stubble is hell on those tires. Constantly repairing flats. I hope you guys can invent some use for it.
Big Brute gets a shiny new back pack. Whoot Whoot Big Brute!! 🤪
Nice upgrade. Nice rain.
You should try and make the terragator into a self propelled grain cart
That's looking real good!!!!
You now have a mega brute!
The tera gator is a useful mac in its ow own right. There are several near us that spread like ect. They do a good job and don't hang about .
Great channel!! 👍👍
Farmer ingenuity and engineering at its best. Well done gentlemen.
Love how you guys can take something apart and rebuild it to fit your needs. 👍👍
If you can find a dry tank, fertilizer tank, you can spread dry fertilizer with it or, get another tank and use it to help haul fuel or, you could make like a auger tank on it, can use that as a self propelled grain cart. Great video, cheers :)
Hello great video. Have yall thought about making 2 full size Crains for the shop run from end to end. And the other side of the shop for the second Crain.
Man i could watch you guy fab all day!!! Good work Welkers!!!💯💯💯
Anyone else who would love to watch terragator drag racing? Great video as always!
put a cheep rain water tank on the back of the TG and turn it in to a dedicated fire fighter vehicle then build a cultivator / ripper kinda like what graders / dozers have on the back to make fire breaks.
Good luck with gabbing everything up on the new weed killer body!!!! Hopefully all will go smooth with the hydraulic lines and wiring!!!???
That would make a brilliant grain cart now you took the tank off. Don't let it rot away
Terragator for self propelled grain cart is not a bad idea!
Big Brute is going to look amazing with the upgrade! Bravo for knocking it out in such a short time! Take care and God bless!
The new tank looks awesome - I love these kind of projects. Now it's time to start thinking about what fresh hell can be raised with the naked Terragator!
put a grain body with a auger on the old sprayer so it can be used like a grain trailer
As far weight goes it would only haul about 200 bushels.
Love the fact you guys build things,rather than go out and buy a brand new sprayer, then end up redoing it all over, because engineers designed it. 😉
Awesome job cant wait to see it in action you guys can fabricate anything keep up the great work cheers
You guys do such an awesome job fabricating and making stuff work. Great video.
Great work Boys, that's natural Engineering Farm style, Bob you have taught them well, that job would have cost thousands in a Engineering shop, well done, regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia.
Ah yes. The 1603. I ran two of these at my last job. One spray rig just like this and one converted to a spinner buggy. The liquid rig wasn't that bad, but the spinner buggy needed to die. Almost killed it when an oil line burst but it missed the hot side of the turbo by a couple inches. But it wasn't enough to burn it down. That poor thing ran wide open all the time at 2800 RPM. Conveyor belt never worked right, and had to spread at about 7 mph because third gear couldn't provide enough drive pressure to the belt to keep it moving. I do not miss that machine at all.
You needed Coby with the 3 of you in the quad, can't wait for the finished product
I think it looks better with the stainless tank up close to the cab, it looks more complete. Nice job.
Amazing in your updates this year , Terragator, skid loader and plasma cutter and I believe all 3 have paid for themselves. I was thinking about putting the engine of the gator in the auger tractor and the skid loader and plasma cutter have paid for themselves all ready.
Maybe put a fertilizer box on the Gator or a manure spreader. It's always awesome to see you guys do big jobs in little space you have to work with. Of you could make the Gator into a water hauler for emergencies . Love your videos waiting to see the final looks of Big Brute.
Hopefully having a completely rigid tank frame doesn't cause problems with cracking the tank. It probably should have some kind of isolation mount system to allow the chassis to flex independent of the tank frame.
The frame is welded solid box from factory
I understand, but even the OEM FLX610 tank saddle has flex bolts and springs to allow the chassis frame to flex a bit without flexing the tank saddle. The tank saddle is not welded to the chassis tubing. I'm not bashing the build, I work at a Case IH dealer in PA and I have seen that almost all tanks and spreader systems have some kind of flex point built into the spreader/tank mounting system. It appears, in this video, that the saddle is welded/bolted solid to the chassis. If it isn't, then I apologize. If it is, than maybe that could be the reason your plastic tank broke and your stainless tank could suffer the same fate.
Fertilizer spreading dec broke threw ice.had 4 in there pulling me out ripped up field some reason never went back
The terragator might make a good yankum rope tractor for harvest time.
Thanks guys for sharing another great video. It was amazing to watch the change in both machines. Take care and have a great weekend 👍
I love the fire stick and a sledge hammer, gets it done fast, and cheaper than using the gas axe. I love how you guy's repurpose old machinery, it beats a payment any day, plus it costs thousands to repair the newer stuff if you don't have any mechanical skills, and plastic has it's limits. God bless.
I still hope that you'll find another job for the Terra-Gator
because it's an awesome machine.
Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻
That's the plan!
At least something unique yeah! Like the buds. That unique to.
If the Terra gator is in decent shape you should find a grain hopper to put on the back. Build yourself a custom self propelled grain cart for emptying combines.
farmer ingenuity at its best, great job guys.
Big brute is coming along fine!! Should be great!
One of the very best Welker videos I've seen.
Love watching you guys, That S.S. tank looks so much smaller sitting on B.B.
Can't wait for the finished model! That machine for 2200 is score!
Nothing better then you guys working on equipment. The best.
Anyone else thinkin what I'm thinkin?......BIG BRUTE Monster truck lol, that would be amazing!!!! Just change the tire size on the front!!!
Hey nick I was thinking that you could turn the terra gator into a permanent fire truck for harvest season
I think that would be a good idea
Need a tank.
Lloyd holt in another comment. Nick says they have a tank
@@lloydholt6511 they should put a stainless one on........
Put the Cat and allison out of the terragator in the service/crane truck. Im sure you know a Canadian guy that could help you out with that job, not that youd need it but it could be a good collaboration.
If you need a 'fire truck' a drop in tank on a frame including pump etc into one of the ford tippers would be more than adequate. Or for that matter just your spray tender trailer setup behind the white-volvo. No idea on the how and why of that machine and why it ended up at auction, didnt it have a dud tyre? the cost of one tyre for it would negate its usefulness.
Scott…it looks like your arm is doing well! I’m so glad for you.
We need a Hollywood on the door, Brute whould find it nice having its masters name on it...haha
U should put a 5th wheel on the Terragater to move trailers in poor conditions.
And thats how you do that boys and girls!
That would be cool if you got some footage of them chopping kochia