Changing Frog Bolts in a Number 8 Frog
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Have to cut the old frog bolts off with my gas powered rail saw and
then replace them with new bolts in this Number 8 self guarded frog.
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Disclaimer: I am an employee of Iron Senergy at Cumberland
Mine. My job is railroad track maintenance. I am very fortunate to
have this job and everyone at the mine is very fortunate to have
Iron Senergy as it's current owner. Our past owners had every
intention of shutting this mine down, but Iron Senergy took
over and have kept this mine alive.
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#frogbolts#railroadfrog#changingfrogbolts
Hi Dave. Thanks for taking us along on another repair job. Stay safe, my friend. James.
Dave saves the day again! Track maintenance is obviously essential for smooth running and company certainly has the right man on the job! Keep them rolling Dave 🙂
THANKS DAVE FOR BEING OUR INSTRUCTOR , GOOD INFO. AS ALLWAYS , BE CAREFUL OUT THERE ...
Geez... now those are some wrenches.... no cheater bar required!! Thanks for taking us along on another gotta keep 'er rollin' maintenance job.
Thank you for sharing Mr. Dave, your intro caught me off-guard when you said a frog bolt. I thought what on earth is a frog bolt? But with your explanation and know how, it explain what they were, Thank you Mr. Dave, you make railroading very interesting. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday.
Dave, I am impressed with the way you heft the cut off tool and just sliced off bolt heads and nuts like they were nothing. Thank you for this needed repair and demonstration. It would have taken me a couple of hours do the work even if I wasn't disabled.
Dave!, today i became 74, and in honor of your show........RIBBIT, RIBBIT, ETC❗
Well Happy Birthday Paul! I'm 3 1/2 years behind you. I wish
for you many, many more my friend. Thanks so much for
watching tonight and may you have a very good day.
With Dave on duty...the frogs will rest well tonight!!!
Thank you for sharing Dave! Them are some heavy duty bolts, there is something satisfying about tightening bolts, especially big ones!
Dave, Thank you for sharing another productive day on the railroad replacing those bolts. Glad to see you got some new boots as well...
Nicely done! Changing bolts in that frog must have been a "riveting" experience, lol.
Don't you mean, "ribbeting"? lol
As always Awesome Video and Great job changing those bolts out! Never seen a speed wrench in use pretty neat! Thanks for taking us along and teaching us another lesson! B Safe.....
Coulda used a bit of a close-up shot of it!
When I heard you grunting I knew those bolts were tight. Stay well my friend,
Happy Saturday Dave
Good to see ya
Stay safely blessed
Great video
Great job, as usual. When you were tightening the bolts, I was expecting you to start singing, I've been working on the railroad, all the live long days. Have a great day.
I'd be just like the gandies of old if I sang along to the work
Train Magnet.... :-) I'll have to do that sometime. Really appreciate your taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
A nice day to carry out track repairs 👍👍
Awesome Job Dave!!
I like that cutoff tool!!👍
When you know what you're doing and have the right tools you make everything look easy. I'm always impressed with your abilities and cheerfulness doing it. Good on you!
Dave, you're a wonderful ambassador for the company. Nobody can't say you are a slacker because you have video proof of you working. Think about finding a protege to pass on all your decades of knowledge. We aren't getting any younger.
I learn something from you with every show Dave. You've convinced me that my model shortline road needs a track crew and equipment. I've got a regulator and hi-rail truck coming, and a tamper if I can find one in "N" scale ... projects for this coming winter.
Nice video Dave, you find the smallest things to fix, good to have you checking everything to make the train rolls and no work stoppages on your shift. Cheers and take care
Thank you Pete, that's why I do track inspections to find stuff
the train broke. Every week it's something else, but that is a lot
of weight going over the track with those heavy coal loads. Your
right, we don't like to have trains stopped because of track
problems! Really appreciate your taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
That saw made short work on those Frog Bolts. When I watch your videos... being from the track... I worry about you working by yourself. Good Video !
Good Saturday evening to you Dave. Love your videos.
I'm pleased to hear you are enjoying the home movies Robert,
watch them and may you have a very good day my friend.
Excellent job Dave! You sure do a great job maintaining the track for them.
Nice guide frog! Great job on those bolts changed! ;)
Brought back childhood memories. I'm 80 - my childhood was spent by the tracks in a small town of Leeper Mo. and the track ran along Black river. It was our trail to adventure. There were a lot of loose or missing bolts up and down the track. I remember steam engines and watching for "HOT BOXES". My grandpa was a blacksmith for the RR and we would tell him about the bolts. The lumber co had a sawmill in Leeper. Moved to the big city of St. Louis when I was 10. Lots of RR memories but I have never ridden on a train. That is way back when steam whistles could almost talk.
Only YOU my Friend can make a video about cutting a Bolt in to a 13:53 Masterpiece. As ALWAYS Good Job.
Hi Dave & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Dave & Friends Randy
Another fascinating and fantastic video Dave, i absolutely love these behind the scenes view
Dave makes the line safer bolt by bolt 👍👍👍👍
And faster!😊 Like france TGV!😅😅
Good evening, dave. Something that I have been doing on those Self guarded frogs is get some mag rod and weld that flat head lock up shelf up on the outside and grind it down to make that head look work better. Over time, those shelves get worn out that the bolt head just spins around and around. I use antitseas on my frog, too. Just a quick tip. Great job and video.
Majority of our frogs are #10's. Ive used the good ol rail saw in a similar fashion many times when the heat wrench wouldn't work. There is a speed wrench somewhere here, it always seems to disappear for months at a time. Found a rail fork will tighten 1 inch bolts in a pinch also.
Nice job, Dave! You learn from your mistakes. Not everyone does!
250lbs ft or nore. ImpressiveThanks, Dave.
Good evening Dave,
With everything that needs attention to make a railroad run, Frogs 🐸 are an essential part of railroading. Why their called Frogs 🐸 a best definition could be:
F-or
R-olling
O-ver
G-oing
S-moothly.
FROGS 🐸, and once in awhile they need ribbit attention 😮. 😂.
Baby bobcat 👶 is in the Bobcat hospital 🏥 and will be back and says Hello 👋.
As always, stay safe and have fun my friend.
Hi Dave, I'm learning alot of railroading terminology. The gas powered cutoff saw made quick work to remove the stubborn bolts, a torch would've made a whole bunch more sparks and could have buggered up the end of the bolt not allowing you to slide it out. Also no sparks landing on your camera lens but still cool shots !!
No mishaps this time, no hot bolt heads burning the boot.... Joking!
Thank you Mr. Dave, it's been unbearable here in sw Missouri hot hot hot
Hi Dave love your attitude and hard work I'm sure you are a great asset to your family and company. Love the videos I learn something new about the railroad every day very educational videos and well made kudos Dave!
250 lbs on foot MOMENT😮😮👍👍 GREAT!😮
In metric system SI is it 34 kg\meters or 340 newton on meters.
Dave is very strong boy!😊😊
Thank you for this video!
That was a neat bit of surgery on the frog. If the frog had legs, they could have made a nice snack. Ate them just once, mistaking them for chicken legs.
When I worked in the shipyard we used those same size wrenches and as those and said the something it’s torqued. Love the video Dave and have a great day.
Good to see ya big guy 👍
Great to have you join in with us tonight Teddy. We really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day
my friend.
Dave I am wearing my hard hat and gloves and a reflective vest while watching your video this evening I didn't get to the last video until early Thursday morning.
Hi Dave, thanks for sharing this, cool video… interesting to say the least 😊😊
Love the blade braking action on your FingerGone 6100, Dave!!
That was a tight spot , u make it look easy
My favorite bolts, for obvious reasons!
In my younger days I would have enjoyed working along side of you.
Good job 👍
Now that is some leverage!!! Is it common for the normal expansion and other forces at the frog to pop the washers apart like that? I couldn't see really well but i'm guessing it's a split lock washer type of thing? Thanks for showing us another good day on the railroad, Dave!
Dave the Frogman lol!
Thanks for sharing 🙌🙏
Best wishes always.
Brilliant job Dave, you may have different point arrangements and call your components different names to us in the UK but the challenges are exactly the same
Good job well done
Dave....well done! I thank you, and Kermit the frog thanks you!!!
Love it. You do nuts to the same German spec I use. Gutentight. :)
Great work Dave, at least the bolts are high strength steel ver 316 or 316C stainless steel.
As we say in the power block, tight is tight, too tight is broke, call maintenance.
Wonderful Dave, thank you. But I have a question when it comes to the rusty bolts and nuts. Why do you not first treat with WD40 and wait a bit, then try with a wrench? My understanding is that the material was developed by the Navy for rusty bolts and I have used it on many and it works great if one gives it some time..is that reason, just having to get things done more quickly? Just curious. I learn something that I wouldn't otherwise from everyone of your videos and so I thank you for them. Keep well and prepare for Fall soon I guess too.
Now that's railroading ... We live and learn don't we Dave Thx
Now that's a wrench.....
Love your vids! Thank you for sharing
It would be nice to learn from you, i love your show.
I was wondering when you begin cutting today if you would mess up your GoPro lens again. Nothing gets by you on your track inspections.
I have some normal sizes of speed wrenches. I had no idea that they made them that large.
thanks for another great video dave . do you have any crossing gates to maintain along the rr line
Job well done
You are the pro. Are you self-taught on the stuff you've shown us over the years??
Dave: "The Energizer Bunny".. He just keeps going..
Do you ever have any of the coal dust & fine grindings get on fire from the sparks off the cutoff wheel??
LOL, sometimes the batteries do run down tho Jon .... :-) Actually
no I've never had coal catch fire from those sparks, I have had
a brush fire happen along side the track from them, so now I'm
careful about which way the sparks go when cutting stuff off.
Thank you so much my friend for watching and may you have
a really good day.
Hi Dave, another great video! You may have answered this in another video, but how many miles of the track are you responsible for? Thanks for the great content!
Very glad you enjoyed guit57strat. We have 16.7 miles of track,
plus a little over half a mile of run around track, and a small
bit of yard track. Enough to keep me busy with only 2 guys who
are track maintenance here. Thank you my friend for dropping
by to watch tonight and may you have a very good day.
If I were a bolt, I would want to be a frog bolt 😉
I love your videos
That saw cut through the bolts like butter what kind of steel are your bolts
Nice work coming up with a solution to remove the bolts with limited access. Made me curious if they make torque wrenches that big. Maybe it's not that critical for the application but couldn't help wonder.
There are torque wrenches that measure in the thousands of lbs. Used to mount structures/towers to anchor bolts in the petro-chemical plant construction/maintenance and power transmission industries. Probably other industries too. Torque multipliers are used then. Some specs call for a torque number plus an additional degree of turn. Mechanical engineers with a specialty in strength of materials usually write the specs. Bolt stretch and compression of the material held are part of the formulae. Strength of materials considers compression, tension, and shear.
It's not stuck if it's molten! Either with the blue wrench or the motorized spinning wrench! Just like the exhaust manifold bolts on a Ford FE block!
Dave, how many track miles are there between the coal loading area and the off loading area? Thanks for posting an interesting video!
From the load out to where they dump is about 16 miles Sleeping Dogs. On either end there is about .35 miles of track in addition
to that, but that is track used for loading or unloading the train.
Glad you enjoyed the video tonight and may you have a very good
day my friend.
Love your work. But why do you wear a hardhat when there's nothing to fall on you're head except UV, which only needs a broad brim.
A left handed monkey wrench works Great in those type places
Does the authority for inspection (like the FRA) stipulate the bolts be Grade 8 or can they be normal hardness?
The FRA does not stipulate which grade of bolts to use in track
joints, switches or frogs Colin. All those bolts are grade 5. Grade
5 bolts have a bit of flex to them where the grade 8 bolts do not.
A small bit of flex is desirable in a track bolt. Grade 8 bolts would
actually snap easier than the 5 bolts in track applications because
they are harder and have no flex. Really appreciate your taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
What is it that determines that those two bolts need replacing and not all of them?
BTW. Is the company doing the video the Iron Synergy done?
I haven't heard anything more about it Colin, but will let you
know whenever it comes out. It seems to me is taking a long
time to produce.
How many guys work on the track crew Dave? It seems like you get into a bunch of messes by yourself!
I bet them bolts are a little hot on the red end after you cut them off with the saw!
Do you keep a log of repairs to track and failures? Could that help spot problem areas or future trouble areas. All that history will hel[p the guy who follows you>
No melted boot soles this time I hope? Hope no coal fires also on the track from all those sparks from the cut off saw.
Frog bolt? Any "rivits"
It kind of surprises me that you have any #8 turnout on your railroad, I would have thought the minimum would have been #10, with #16 for full length trains.
Dave would those bad bolts cause a train derailment?
salut depuis la france dave
What kind of torque specs are those bolts tightened to?
02:19 You're using a power saw to remove a seized bolt; do you have any idea how that would have been dealt with in the days before power tools?
You have lower back issues Dave?
What is a frog? I've never heard of one before just curious!
Is that a diamond impregnated saw blade in the cutoff saw?
No sir it is not. Just a regular blade for cutting steel Colin.
Carborundum.
@@ccrx6700 I can see why now if it’s not Grade 8.
I have a feeling that's quite a bit more than 250tt lbs....lol
where is your hearing protection Dave.
Are that bolts sience 1976?
*_You need a ribbit gun to tighten those frog bolts down. Got to say, that cut off saw is scary man. And you can get a piece of acrylic or polycarbonate and make a shield to stick in front of the go pro. Or you could use someone else's go pro.... Just a thot...._* 👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣
I ordered a Ribbit Gun from Opie's Home Shop 6 months ago
and it still hasn't arrived? Must be a delay in shipping because
of Covid or the ship that hit the bridge in Baltimore, or the
Malaysians bought out the Home Shop???? They seem to be
buying everything lately. Hmmmm, maybe our mine is next
on their list. Thank you my friend for paying us a visit tonight
and may you have a very good day.
@@ccrx6700 Yeah thats it, the ship that hit the bridge. 😆
@@opieshomeshopand they borrowed Dave's Ribbit gun to put the bridge back together. But forgot to return it to its rightful owner.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Might have to put in another order for a Ribbit gun Dave, someone done liked your other one so much they decided to keep it!🙀😼😹
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