Brother I love your videos. I'm an old school welder. When I was 20, I worked for a well drilling company and did a lot of hard face welding on their giant bits. I'm 67 today and welding is still in my blood. Keep up the great content.
Hard working, master craftsmen like yourself built America one project at a time! Your work ethic and skills prove everyday that the American dream is still very much alive and vibrant! Thank you so much for what you do👍
Yes it would. I would love to see the performance of his work with the people who use them. The operator of the drill would be my first guess as to the performance of the drill bit.
Isaac I absolutely love watching your videos….. and of course you go and tease us with your car …spend a few minutes or a half an hour or an hour on your car showing us the interior the motor take us for a drive love the car man that’s awesome love your channel to ,all the best brother
Brother I am always learning something new with your videos, I am a welder but i am just starting, I wish some day I will be like you , thanks for your videos , motivate me a lot
You are the only one on Utube that I can actually see how you are working the metal and running your rod in your welding process. You would be an asome teacher
Amazing to see the things you do. It is so satisfying to touch two different metals apart. I used to cut a lot of bearing races off shafts in farm equipment when I was growing up. It is interesting to see you do that with a welded joint. Men like you keep everything rolling. God bless.
Your videos always contain tips and tricks for weekend warriors. We also don't mind longer videos showing your talents. Thanks for posting and take care!
I see a Hotchkiss suspension box. What hot rod modifications are we doing. Great video. Let's make Vice Grip Garage proud and see more about that classic car. Don't need to go crazy on the video. I know this is a welding channel.
Man I was on a site out here in new Westminster bc doing auger repairs everyday for a drilling company. Man those guys were busting pockets everyday. 3 augers per day to fix. Always checked in on your videos to see if I could improve my skills on fixing them, learnt a lot in those 2 months of doing them
Another good video Isaac You get more information over to your audience than any other source that I know. I love your 'not too chatty' approach. Skills and techniques seep from the video and into this viewer. All I need now is for my wife to say, "Sure, you can have a weld workshop. No problem!"
i can only imagine the obstacles and challenges you have to over come to get where you are.. the work you show, is awesome. so much respect for what you do man!
I dont weld much, but i still learn from your videos. Your problem solving, attention to detale, and calm attitude are a pleasure to watch. Thankyou for sharing you work, and thankyou for teaching us wisdom in these situations.
I used to use 5/64 lincore 55 fluxcore hard face. Worked. Really well seemed to wear really well. Liked it over 14" at a time hard facing. I would just get in a zone and go till gun got so hot I couldn't hold it any more. Boy them where the days. Not Keep up the awesome vids. Thanks
Really good to see a proper job done with care and attention to detail. Chinese do not have the skill sets background to do jobs like these on a high demand basis.
In my former career, I used this exact tool quite a bit for siezed pins in well drilling rigs. We called it an arc air slice pack. That's probably a trademark name. My guess is that the hollow rod is either made of magnesium, or has it in it. We used it with a car battery, and it worked great. You could bore a hole straight through a 2" diameter, 3" long pin in seconds. The nice part was that it wouldn't eat through the rust layer separating the pin and the housing, so normally the housing would be fine afterwords. Once the pin had a hole hogged through it, most times, it would almost fall out of the hole it was in. Wonderful product, but the consumables are quite expensive. Thanks for showing it, it was nice to see again.
It's a steel tube with a steel alloy wires. The wires will readily go molten when stroked on the striker , short circuiting 12v at high current and the flow of oxygen keeps the molten state alive consuming the lance.
Learned a better way of using the hard surfacing rods. Used some many years ago, and now I see I wasted a lot of rod! Thanks for sharing your skill and knowledge. Currently I'm rebuilding a 50 inch mower deck and my son is helping me while he learns the little knowledge I have of metal working and welding. Glad we can learn from your videos also!
Short circuit is as good as any other welding you are right THATS what we learned at trade school and you already have all the heat in the job from all the cutting so your welds are sound mate. 👨🏭🇦🇺
Precision gouging with a torch is much better than electric as you show here. Too bad younger welders dont know how to do it or are afraid to try it. You are the master of the torch , worldwidev recognized. Thanks for your videos.
Another great video, I'm a complete novice , your skill level is so awesome to watch, hopefully you'll continue to put out lots of these videos so us underclassmen can improve our own skills, thanks for the videos
I have had good luck with an air hammer, just hit what's left of the tooth one the side. It will eventually rattle the rust and dirt out. Don't try to cut it just rattle it around in the hole. It can take a long time but eventually it will come loose. I have used this method to loosen things for many years with good results. Retired mechanic. Really enjoy the videos. Many thanks.
At 28:46 You said you would do the same with the other side and you would not bore us with that particular part of the video, but this is not boring at all. This is knowledge at its best. When I was in welding school watching the teacher TIG weld, pipe welding, arc gouging. it was all a great firsthand learning experience. I watch all your videos. You remind me of a buddy of mine from New Mexico goes by the name TEHE
I was a reluctant convert to the pneumatic hammer but once I tried it, I rarely use a shop hammer and drift knocking out large broken off pins and bolts. May I suggest the Ingersol Rand 122 or 123MAX for your arsenal? Ear protection is a must but they can save wear and tear on the shoulders and prevent finger smashing glancing blows!
I like stick and TIG, was glad to hear you talk about 7018. I’m not getting paid to do job and don’t have your experience, so my opinion isn’t worth poop. Another great video. More discussion of what you use would be great.
Yes I have had to use my Thermal Lance on a few occasions. Its the tool of last resort when all other means of persuasion have failed. Works great on frozen pivot pins, too! Love your channel. Always great, informative content.
Thank you again Isaac! Your videos are sooo helpful; especially for me. We have a farm and welding is essential to our operation. I’m always learning and your advice is sooo valuable! Thanks!
Look into Air Hammers, perfect for removing teeth out of pockets. Normally when we torch out teeth like these, we cut the tip off and make it flat. Then treated like regular metal. Blow thru the teeth, pierce all the way through. Then we use an air hammer and pop it out. Since the teeth isnt full in the pocket, they come out super easy. I probably didnt make sense. I can make a video if somebody cares enough.
Just a miniature lance rod, they will cut just about anything. Gone thru 2'x2' steel blocks in a very short time. Was a good job. Nice to see how you use the small ones
Always love your videos. You must just keep auger pockets by the dozen. I’ve seen you fix them quite a few times and just love it. Think I could fix one by now. Thx
I had to replace about 30 teeth and a handful of pockets on a tesmec 1675 trencher the other day even with full access to the back side of the pockets it took forever. I ended up using an air chisel about 20 mineuts in and even that took a little creativity. Great video Issac.
Nice demonstration of options for replacing auger teeth. That blower pistol was cool, fast as fast can be punching out a hollow spot huh? Thanks and have a good one....
The longer the videos the BETTER !! And always a GREAT learning experience you are a AMAZING teacher !! A exothermic I haven't seen one in years !!! Right or wrong I remember hearing them also called a cutting Lance at one time. Very nice work !! And bore ......no way !! The vertical up weave on the front of those tooth pockets were excellent !! Cool !! Hard facing !!👍👍A top notch repair every time and always something to learn !! 👍👍
I've used the lance rods and the bigger burning bars on shovels, trucks and loaders. Used the burning bars to remove stuck 992 cat loader pins seized in the bores. Looks good!
Hard facing was one of the first lessons I got to do when learning to weld... couldnt really mess up the job and allowed me plenty of practice time hard facing on a Cat 988 loader bucket
Brother I love your videos. I'm an old school welder. When I was 20, I worked for a well drilling company and did a lot of hard face welding on their giant bits. I'm 67 today and welding is still in my blood. Keep up the great content.
I know this is a welding video, but the classic old car in the background is fabulous!!!
It's a Hudson Hornet, if your young you might remember the movie "Cars", well Doc Hudson was the same kind of car as this. Pretty rare piece actually.
I believe Isaac has promised (I hope) some video on it.
I'm old, I can remember my dad buying a '54. I was 2 years old
It has welded parts on it, so it is in proper context on this channel! Lol
Please don’t think your work is boring! I love it all so don’t worry about It!
Hard working, master craftsmen like yourself built America one project at a time! Your work ethic and skills prove everyday that the American dream is still very much alive and vibrant! Thank you so much for what you do👍
For as many of these as you repair, it would be really cool to take us out and show us what they look like in action.
Yes it would. I would love to see the performance of his work with the people who use them. The operator of the drill would be my first guess as to the performance of the drill bit.
Yepperzzzzz..... ship it to Mars.... lol
Isaac I absolutely love watching your videos….. and of course you go and tease us with your car …spend a few minutes or a half an hour or an hour on your car showing us the interior the motor take us for a drive love the car man that’s awesome love your channel to ,all the best brother
Brother I am always learning something new with your videos, I am a welder but i am just starting, I wish some day I will be like you , thanks for your videos , motivate me a lot
I was a Rat Hole / Foundation driller for many years. This welder really knows what he is talking about.
You are the only one on Utube that I can actually see how you are working the metal and running your rod in your welding process. You would be an asome teacher
Love the Derek and VGG reference. Love your videos!
Thanks for the tips. I learn something from you each time I watch.
Glad to help
My favourite time … when CEEA and IC weld upload !
Amazing to see the things you do. It is so satisfying to touch two different metals apart. I used to cut a lot of bearing races off shafts in farm equipment when I was growing up. It is interesting to see you do that with a welded joint. Men like you keep everything rolling. God bless.
Your videos always contain tips and tricks for weekend warriors. We also don't mind longer videos showing your talents. Thanks for posting and take care!
I love that you’re referencing Vice Grip Garage 🤣😂
I am so very glad you showed the hard surfacing!
That was the most fun thing I'm gunna watch today, Thank you!
I knew once I heard “Tonya 4000” in another of ur videos that you were a vice grip garage guy. That’s awesome!!! His videos crack me up!!!
Right on
I've always liked your shows man keep up the good work
well this popped up in my recommended and i am not disappointed. defiantly showed me something new for my welding carrier
Love your work! I'm an old man, and I'm now retired. I'm just now learning to weld. Please keep the videos coming.
I see a Hotchkiss suspension box. What hot rod modifications are we doing. Great video. Let's make Vice Grip Garage proud and see more about that classic car. Don't need to go crazy on the video. I know this is a welding channel.
An artist with that torch!
Man I was on a site out here in new Westminster bc doing auger repairs everyday for a drilling company. Man those guys were busting pockets everyday. 3 augers per day to fix. Always checked in on your videos to see if I could improve my skills on fixing them, learnt a lot in those 2 months of doing them
OMG, I spit my cold snack out or my dual intakes when I saw your autograph. Classic!!!
And the master of the torch hits it out of the park once more. Great work stay safe.
Another good video Isaac You get more information over to your audience than any other source that I know. I love your 'not too chatty' approach. Skills and techniques seep from the video and into this viewer. All I need now is for my wife to say, "Sure, you can have a weld workshop. No problem!"
Sir,you are the master of your field.great respect from Pakistan ! ! !
i can only imagine the obstacles and challenges you have to over come to get where you are.. the work you show, is awesome. so much respect for what you do man!
I dont weld much, but i still learn from your videos. Your problem solving, attention to detale, and calm attitude are a pleasure to watch. Thankyou for sharing you work, and thankyou for teaching us wisdom in these situations.
More cool stuff from Mr Cruz. You're spoiling us.
I learned something today!!! Thank you for your time again!!!
I used to use 5/64 lincore 55 fluxcore hard face. Worked. Really well seemed to wear really well.
Liked it over 14" at a time hard facing. I would just get in a zone and go till gun got so hot I couldn't hold it any more.
Boy them where the days. Not
Keep up the awesome vids. Thanks
the zig zag pattern hard facing makes the auger look like a big
festival sombreo.....way kool......Bravo
Very nice job cutting and beautiful welding.👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Really good to see a proper job done with care and attention to detail. Chinese do not have the skill sets background to do jobs like these on a high demand basis.
All of my welding is on the farm, I always look forward to seeing you work your magic, always learn something thank you.👍🇺🇲.
In my former career, I used this exact tool quite a bit for siezed pins in well drilling rigs. We called it an arc air slice pack. That's probably a trademark name. My guess is that the hollow rod is either made of magnesium, or has it in it. We used it with a car battery, and it worked great. You could bore a hole straight through a 2" diameter, 3" long pin in seconds. The nice part was that it wouldn't eat through the rust layer separating the pin and the housing, so normally the housing would be fine afterwords. Once the pin had a hole hogged through it, most times, it would almost fall out of the hole it was in. Wonderful product, but the consumables are quite expensive. Thanks for showing it, it was nice to see again.
Arc air slice is a trade name that comes under the victor technologies banner along with the likes of tweco thermal dynamics thermal arc and many more
It's a steel tube with a steel alloy wires. The wires will readily go molten when stroked on the striker , short circuiting 12v at high current and the flow of oxygen keeps the molten state alive consuming the lance.
Always a pleasure watching a highly skilled person working with their hands, thank you, nice shout out to VGG give it some onion's haha
I enjoy and learn something new every video, so keep em coming please sir !!!
Learned a better way of using the hard surfacing rods. Used some many years ago, and now I see I wasted a lot of rod! Thanks for sharing your skill and knowledge. Currently I'm rebuilding a 50 inch mower deck and my son is helping me while he learns the little knowledge I have of metal working and welding. Glad we can learn from your videos also!
Short circuit is as good as any other welding you are right THATS what we learned at trade school and you already have all the heat in the job from all the cutting so your welds are sound mate. 👨🏭🇦🇺
I thoroughly enjoy tuning in here now and then. Great content and always satisfies my curiosity. A++
Someone told me to bed with a stainless steel rod first then overlay with the hard surface rod, thanks brother appreciate you.
Precision gouging with a torch is much better than electric as you show here. Too bad younger welders dont know how to do it or are afraid to try it. You are the master of the torch , worldwidev recognized. Thanks for your videos.
Another Masterclass
I like the "How I do it" techniques and really like the "IC Weld" signature tag.
Thank you for this. Not a lot of video tips on exothermic cutting. It helped me out today
Cool video and there is that Hudson sneaking into the back ground. Thanks for an informative video.
😂 I looked away when you MIGed lol. Love your work
Always a pleasure watching and learning .
Thanks for all the videos ic . I got behind on watching your videos but I will get caught up again.
Welcome back!
ic weld signature is a nice touch. good stuff. awesome channel
An auger with a twist! I like that!
Nice one great job! Greetings from the netherlands 🇱🇺
Thks for taking your time to show the process! Great Video!
These tools don't come cheap. These lessons are priceless! Thanks again Brother!
Really great video young man and I like the cheeky IC WELD in the hardfacing. Quality job!
Jippii and wow, nice job and great welding. Awesome video again. More such videos, I do look at them all. Greetings from Finland.
Another great video, I'm a complete novice , your skill level is so awesome to watch, hopefully you'll continue to put out lots of these videos so us underclassmen can improve our own skills, thanks for the videos
I have had good luck with an air hammer, just hit what's left of the tooth one the side. It will eventually rattle the rust and dirt out. Don't try to cut it just rattle it around in the hole. It can take a long time but eventually it will come loose. I have used this method to loosen things for many years with good results. Retired mechanic. Really enjoy the videos. Many thanks.
Thanks for sharing and letting us watch over your shoulder
Nice. I always wondered why the big augers had those weld patterns on the edge. You learn something new every day.
At 28:46 You said you would do the same with the other side and you would not bore us with that particular part of the video, but this is not boring at all. This is knowledge at its best. When I was in welding school watching the teacher TIG weld, pipe welding, arc gouging. it was all a great firsthand learning experience. I watch all your videos. You remind me of a buddy of mine from New Mexico goes by the name TEHE
Very nice work bud. Love the ICWELD trade mark... that was really cool. Keep up the great work and thanks for the video. Stay safe ✌
Nice touch with adding your logo👍🏼
Oh goodness. 44 min vid. Probably have to chip away at it tomorrow. Thanks for sharing Issac!
great video. thank you very much for sharing. im a welder too. doing lots of jobs for the steel industi here in sweden. love your channel.
Thanks for watching!
I always kept a couple of those inserts on my truck they make excellent center punchs
Another mighty fine job. I've never seen that blue rod in action. I was surprised at fast it went through that pin.
Thank you for taking the time to show us another way to pet a cat; you can never have too many options.
Isaac great video, and thanks for all the details on rods and setups!
love that exothermic oxygen torch! that was slick.
I learn something from every video, thank's.
I was a reluctant convert to the pneumatic hammer but once I tried it, I rarely use a shop hammer and drift knocking out large broken off pins and bolts. May I suggest the Ingersol Rand 122 or 123MAX for your arsenal? Ear protection is a must but they can save wear and tear on the shoulders and prevent finger smashing glancing blows!
I like stick and TIG, was glad to hear you talk about 7018. I’m not getting paid to do job and don’t have your experience, so my opinion isn’t worth poop. Another great video. More discussion of what you use would be great.
Another great job....you are the Master of the torch and welding.. Thanks for sharing.
Enjoyed the video and a personalized touch is always good thanks for sharing
Your skills are amazing!!
Great video, Loved the intel on the hard surfacing.Thanks for teaching and taking the time to explain and share.
Yes I have had to use my Thermal Lance on a few occasions. Its the tool of last resort when all other means of persuasion have failed. Works great on frozen pivot pins, too! Love your channel. Always great, informative content.
Thank you again Isaac! Your videos are sooo helpful; especially for me. We have a farm and welding is essential to our operation. I’m always learning and your advice is sooo valuable! Thanks!
Well done my friend !! 😀😀
Look into Air Hammers, perfect for removing teeth out of pockets. Normally when we torch out teeth like these, we cut the tip off and make it flat. Then treated like regular metal. Blow thru the teeth, pierce all the way through. Then we use an air hammer and pop it out. Since the teeth isnt full in the pocket, they come out super easy. I probably didnt make sense. I can make a video if somebody cares enough.
Please do!
Needs a Big Nasty, the Astro Pneumatic Tool 4980
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wouldnt it be easier to just cut them off flush, weld a stud on and pull the m with a slide hammer??
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very cool stuff i have never seen,, nice old car too ..thanks
Just a miniature lance rod, they will cut just about anything. Gone thru 2'x2' steel blocks in a very short time. Was a good job. Nice to see how you use the small ones
Always love your videos. You must just keep auger pockets by the dozen. I’ve seen you fix them quite a few times and just love it. Think I could fix one by now. Thx
Maybe the hard facing would get boring after a while, but I'm glad I finally got to see it done. Love the signature, it matches your license plate :)
Hard facing is the most boring when using a wire fed machine. But using stick for hardface isnt to bad
That lance is slick, they chop through anything and everything. Can't be stuck if it's molten spooge!
Back when I was an underwater welder, we used those exothermic torches a lot. We used Brocos. Cut through ANYTHING!
Another great learning video.... Now I've got to get another cutting tool...
I had to replace about 30 teeth and a handful of pockets on a tesmec 1675 trencher the other day even with full access to the back side of the pockets it took forever. I ended up using an air chisel about 20 mineuts in and even that took a little creativity. Great video Issac.
You are truly awesome! You take welding to an art form. Terrific videos!!!
Nice demonstration of options for replacing auger teeth. That blower pistol was cool, fast as fast can be punching out a hollow spot huh? Thanks and have a good one....
Love my mine... don't need it much but when I do it makes the difference
The longer the videos the BETTER !! And always a GREAT learning experience you are a AMAZING teacher !! A exothermic I haven't seen one in years !!! Right or wrong I remember hearing them also called a cutting Lance at one time. Very nice work !! And bore ......no way !! The vertical up weave on the front of those tooth pockets were excellent !! Cool !! Hard facing !!👍👍A top notch repair every time and always something to learn !! 👍👍
I've used the lance rods and the bigger burning bars on shovels, trucks and loaders. Used the burning bars to remove stuck 992 cat loader pins seized in the bores. Looks good!
Outstanding as always. Thanks again for sharing.
Beautiful vertical up!
Thanks for sharing always interesting to me even if you get bored doing it thank for the video
Hard facing was one of the first lessons I got to do when learning to weld... couldnt really mess up the job and allowed me plenty of practice time hard facing on a Cat 988 loader bucket