Epic Time-Lapse - John Deere Muscle Reborn - Welker Farms Inc
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- This is a low hour JD 844 wheel loader that was all but lost after the water pump leaked into the crank case causing engine failure. The old V-8 John Deere engines are few and far between which makes them very pricey and difficult to find. After seeing this loader sit in a yard for 7 years we decided to take up the challenge of re-powering the beast. My brother and I determined a 8.3L ISC Cummins tuned around 300 hp would be a great replacement of the old 260 hp V-8. After finding a used engine from a rolled truck and the correct bell housing, the project began. It took 2-3 months from start to finish and the result was more than we could have imagined. We've put her 53,000 lbs of iron and 300 hp to use moving hundreds of yards of rock as well as lots of dirt work. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments or private message me!
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Thanks!
Nick
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I had not seen this and am so glad Scott linked it on his latest house build video. Great job as always Welkers!
I just love to see you reuse old machine instead of buying new, a great job done. Thank you for your timelapse video.
You bet! We just put a new fuel pump on her yesterday and did some work, amazing how big that loader is!
Most people have NO idea what it takes to be a farmer, especially on a large farms such as the Welkers operation.
I was impressed when you used a tire balancing machine to balance out the flywheel assembly. I was also impressed when you used your drill/mill machine as a lathe. Great work.
That dog is fearless
Am I the only one who gets really like, happy watching farm equipment or tractors etc etc being rebuilt or worked on?
I like it too
Heck I AM a farmer and this brings me joy... They just are so...decent, no political bitch, no complaints of whatever, no agenda, just decent folk, working hard and loving god. Nick would be the first to admit that its not all peaches and cream.. but its nice just to see them work through it. .. They are just inspiring.
I like it also
A`ole...as far away as the Hawaiian Islans!!!!
Aloha,
Chief
Randomly appeared in my recommendations after 3 years, good job it did! Great video!
Sunday Dinner yeah that happened to me to lolololololol
And I’m not complaining that it did
It is a blessing to have friends and family that want to tackle things like this.
Nick , you guys absolutely need that loader back up and running on your farm . God will make a way for it to happen , with your connections on U-Tube , your fathers grit , and leg -arms mechanical knowledge
You will have that loader running again .
Wow. I love the video subject, editing, the engine, the family effort, the perseverance, everything' I love it all! Job well done! Best part is it was done as a family!!! Yes!
+Tax me I'm Canadian Thank you! It was a lot of work but a lot of fun too. And we've dug some rather large wholes now haha.
I bet. Just so refreshing to see the rare few that can take on projects like this 844. Well done guys, great engine choice. It will run like a champ.
great to see a real beast of a machine back doing what it's best at, great job
+Crazy Monkey (Jame Pond) It is a beast! Tonka toys for adults! Well, we like to think we are adults haha.
+Nick Welker definitely
My heart skipped a beat with the dog and the semi truck! 😳
I used to have a dog like that! 12 years and no one ever paid the $500.00 fee for squishing my dog
EPIC, thanks for sharing, city folk have no idea what goes on in the country
Your right
So now that this how-to video is committed to the TH-cam archives, I feel that I can now rebuild my own front-end loader. I’ve been waiting for this day for some time now. Just need to watch it again in slo-mo. Seriously though..love your channel and content. Keep up the great work. I give 14/10. God bless you and stay well.
Love the effort you hard working guys put forth. You just don't throw something away and buy a new one. You fix it. Love the videos, thanks for the content
Very clean running engine, no smoke at all from the exhaust, turbo must be in good condition.
+East Texas Railfan It is a great running engine, it has over 9000 hrs which is somewhere around 400,000 miles in a road truck. The turbo looks original but may have been replaced.
You guys r some incredibly impressive mechanics. I can turn a wrench but I would never attempt what you do. Leg arms is an artist! Love the vids! God bless
Hard to belive its been 6 years since you guys repowered this.
You guys are petty good at rebuilding stuff 👌👍
Thanks!
legarms may not be a mechanical genius .but he is so close I cant t tell the difference. god bless you all.
Can't wait to see the loader back in action. Have a great Sunday. Bless you all.
James L Coble thank you
At 4:45... love the sound of that Cummins working hard 😀
That dog gives me the chills every time I see it it's trying t bite the tyres
I know! He won't learn....just gotta keep getting after him when he gets the urge to go after the tires.
you people that fix these incredible machines are very talented and i would be very happy if you kept doing time lapses. thanks
+Lucas Fry Thank you, we work well as a team and I don't think it would be possible to do these if we didn't have everyone. Whenever we do a project like these I'll make sure to time lapse it :)
thanks. you just got a new subscriber
I really like your work, these projects are way more interesting than for example a restauration
+Henrik Eikmeier Thanks Henrik! The more we do these kind of things the less the next project scares us haha. It could be awhile before we do another repower, but who knows!
You guys are awesome. Thanks for posting your video´s.
+Cory Schritter Thank you!
Its amazing what you guys get done over there. Best Regards from Germany 🙋🏼♂️
a lot of mod on that flywheel sir good job.
I did one 6weeks ago on a dumper for a customer but people never see the time an head wreck in the process before you actually put the new engine in, keep vids coming, just subscribed👍
It always seems like an easy job but EVERY repower we have done we run into big problems that require a lot of head scratching. Our best tools though would be our lathe and end mill, with those two you can make adapter plates to mate just about anything together.
This thing is a beast. I have zero use for something this size, but I want one really bad lol. Nice job on the re-power. A machine like this would cost you a mint if you tried to go out and finance a turn-key new one.
As a John Deere product representative, let me say thank you for your video! A top notch Re-Life, from a bunch of top notch gentlemen! Thanks again! I look forward to seeing more videos from you in the future.
Thank you for watching! We will do our best to continue bringing life to old machines as well as keeping ours in top condition:) Its a lot of fun when everything finally comes together.
Nice that you and your brother repowered the payloader. When John Deere put the V8 in its tractor our local dealer had a showing. This was in 1980's. I told the engineer that the V8 is a mistake and Deere should have put in a cummins. They looked at me like I was Nuts but the model was not around long.
Finally! Somebody who has a Deere skid steer from that age! I have a series 2 model 260. Great job, I want your shop.
Thank's Nick W, great timelaps video again. Specialy that flywheel grinding and asembly part.
Janne Eeva fun khhyggghhhgjjjjkkiiiu opioid pay the rent money and you know how you ihjjjiopp
Very enjoyable watching you guys repower used equipment on the farm.
it's awesome to see these old dinosaurs come back to life. it would be sad to see them go extinct. i love your videos nick, and you guy's are doing great work. i work with family in construction up in Canada, so i appreciate these old machines, and it's interesting to see the use of them in an agricultural setting. keep up the good work guys, and i look forward to seeing more videos.
+joshua rainone Thanks a bunch Joshua! Heavy machinery are always fun to operate and or restore. The older machines were built so most could work on them, these newer ones are amazing but not as simple. I'll try to get more videos up as the months go on, I'm just so busy it is hard to find time to make these.
What a great video. You guys are the epitome of getting it done. Having those types of skills I'm sure you learned from your father.
Now you just need to paint it white and slap a welker farms Inc sticker on it c:
Yes!
Great video. It's nice watching skilled mechanics at work.
Good result.
that was so cool love how you guys done all the work on the fly wheel even balanse it yourself. that takes some tallent.
+Howard Younger We had nothing to lose but some money and time and the tire balancer was a perfect solution to getting everything true and aligned. It's been running great ever since!
Another amazing project and video Nick, i hope this video generates alot of views for you.
I am a big fan and I have a question. Is there anything that legarms can't do or fix?
You guys do some awesome repowers great work!
Thank you Mr Mechanic Dave! Couldn't do it without all of us, my brother is gifted with making the impossible happen. I just do what I can to help and film along the way!
You guys amaze me !! So talented, great job guys
Wow! Truly awesome! Your skills and talents are amazing. As always, thank you for sharing this awesome insight to the lives of our farmers. We don't think about it very much, collectively, but if not for you all, our farmers, we wouldn't eat!
Thanks!
l like the way you guys take pride in what you do its hard to find people like that where l live....
We love our farm and taking pride in our work helps us with being motivated to work. It isn't that we think better of ourselves, its just that we love improving the farm when we can:)
.my dad have 8,3 L cummins in the tractor (new holland TG 285) and this sound....anwesome, yeah nice video
+Marty McFly the 8.3 is a great engine!
Excellent work you guys can be proud of what you have achieved, attitude like you guys have is what makes America great.
Not sound bites from non practical people. We did all our own mending on my Dads farm, you look after them better when you have repaired them.
Thanks for your compliments! We try to have good attitudes! Totally agree that you care more when you have to fix it!
The attitude is what makes FARMERS great, not America. Farmers bust their ass refurbing equipment all over the world. What does this have to do with America?
Thanks for the new video great job guys!!
+whiteout1962 You bet! Thanks for watching!
Repair. Reuse. Re purpose. Recycle. YOU CAN'T GO WRONG.
Smarter all the way around. Sitting for 7 years without any TLC would mean a low price. Reuse of an engine that was still viable, means saving a bunch buying new. Investing some time and energy means a useful machine that pays for itself. Congrats.
We paid $6000 for the loader, $3500 for the engine, and probably another $3000 in hydraulic pump rebuilds and parts. So for under $20,000 we have a loader that would run $30-$50 grand in its condition.
Welker Farms Inc Did that loader come from Florida?A clay pit we haul out of had an 844 that was an absolute beast.Full buckets of hard clay out of the bank every time!
KEN MCCULLOUGH as far as I know it has only been in Montana. It is a beast of a loader, great machine!
the Tire balancer super. great job.
+drecee kay It worked great! Use all the tools you have and improvise for the ones you don't :)
I love your guys videos so much and great job on the John Deere
+Benjammin Gaming thanks for watching! That loader keeps running strong!
LOVE THE OLDER JOHN DEERE LOADERS ESP THE 544B MAN THE SOUNDS AMAZING
Awesome videos they can fix anything 👍👍👍👍
a very handy piece of equipment. good job.
You,have built a great loader 👍 keep it up
Even if you guys just rebuilt equipment and drove it through fields your channel would be awesome
Sweet video Nick, Scott and Robert it looks like that beast has a lot of power.
I love watching these videos
I wish i had half your garage space and half your knowledge. You guys are awesome. You boys get s&!@ done. My 2 absolute most favorite vehicle's are the 9370 & leg arms fummins. I have a obs 97 F-350 dually.I'd absolutely love to throw a cummins and a manual transmission in it. Well keep up the great work. I look forward to seeing all your new videos.
How I would love to be working with you in the shop!
I did these kind of things many years of my live and I loved it.
You are GOOOOOOOD
Very cool time lapse, thanks for sharing!
+Kerbo You bet!
Farmers: a buncha repair men who grow food on the side
With a Shoestring Budget...(Notice how much "old" equipment they have!)
It's how farmers keep from going broke, during the tough times.
You guys deserve a big Gap Bed Lathe!!!!! I watched as Legarms & you Pop "Caveman Flycut" that flywheel...which is BEYOND IMPRESSIVE!!!! Again I saying: YOU GUYS DESERVE A GAP BED LATHE...NOT BOUGHT..."DONATED!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Aloha,
Chief
Would love one! Yes Leg Arms is a master 😁
Thats one beast of a loader
Thanks for the video.
You guys are very impressive and very knowledgeable Just love these theme song or songs to your videos, I'm a new sub to your channels.
Great video!
I ran one back in the late 80's and early 90's, put a good many thousand hours on it. For the size of the machine one might think it was a bull in a china shop but it was a very nimble machine. It was our only machine so it had to be everything, loader, dozer, crane,compactor, snowplow, sander. Whatever needed doing it did. I personally really liked the original v8 engine although getting coolant in the oil was a common problem for them. Unfortunately the machine burned to a crisp in a shop fire.
Really a great Job for a great machine
I just saw Scott at the family Christmas party here in New York and we talked about this amazing build. it was awesome to actually see it. great work guys
Thats awesome! well you met the brain child behind that repower. He made it happen. Thanks
I must say you are all amazing people with a amazing farm I’m from Scotland where a whole farm is the size of 1 of your fields and you also have a amazingly silly dog 😂👍 keep it up
Time-lapse Gaming yeah I'm England and my farm is about the size of one of his fields
Greetings from Germany! Love your videos and your farm ... go on like that! just subscribed! ;)
+Mr. JEFF Thank you! I will try to keep making good videos and post them when I can. We're in a busy season now so I won't be able to make many for a while but eventually I'll get a new one up.
You guys are damn good mechanics
Thank you, we make a great team. My brother Scott is the gear head, he can make anything happen no matter what roadblocks we run into.
It's pretty impressive to have your own machine shop where different jobs can be accomplished without farming equipment out to other locations. Certainly cuts down time when you need equipment to be back up and running.
It is really nice working on our own stuff but it would be really convenient to just drop off a machine at some place and have them fix it....if it weren't for the steep labor costs.
Congrats on a job well done I just hope it keeps working long enough to be worth while, many loaders that size in this area for 10k or less
Wow you put work in to it.
I love how leg arms is the employee of the week. In the next video he gets fired... again. Haha! What a great place to work. 😋
Good Work There
Nice Restoration.... Also, like the video quality and the way you shoot the vids. Looks a lot like our farm. Hopefully, we don't go bankrupt and have to sell our farm Though. Keep up the good work!
+Riley Kaufman thank you! Don't go bankrupt! Farming isn't easy right now but once the farm is gone it is gone forever. Hang in there!
Long live John Deere
They are good machines!
Impressive
great video
+Robert Jackson Thank you Robert!
Doubt I will ever make it up there where you guys live (I am in Texas, why would i leave?) but if I did, I would come give you guys a pat on the back...love the vids buds!!!!!!!!
You'd leave because of the constant mob of infiltrators showing up to your state every day.
You guys are great and I love your content here's an idea thought do a full restoration on it pls
Farms are fantastic.
They are pretty cool:)
The dog at the beginning about gave me a panic attack. Sheesh gtfo the way dog.
Yes scared us too
That is a nice loader
Love this farm and in FS17
Sweet!
WOW really nice to see you guys got that John Deere back in action. Great video.
” if it doesn't fit we’ll make it fit. ”
Y’all should paint it white so it blends in with the Buds. A John Bud instead of a Big Bud!🤪😂😎
Awesome. love your video
Thanks for watching! Hopefully will have several more out this year.
This looks like something I would do....... IN MY DREAMS!!!
awesome videos
Thanks for watching Jim!
Good vid
Just have to say WOW
Dog loves tyres
John Deere with Cummins would make it a J. Dummins.
Or John Cummins???
You guys should go into the repair equipment business in the off season.
We need like two more of each of us haha!
Now you guys should repaint this ole puppie
The jd skid steer is the 844’s little bro