I built a heavy lift hook for Dirt Perfect
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, I make a heavy lift hook for a big TH-camr. Mike from Dirt perfect, helped be out last year on a big problem I was having while building a big retaining wall. I had messaged him, but I did not really expect that he would respond back to me. But to my surprise he did. He was so helpful in answering my questions. I decided to make him an upgraded version of the heavy forklift hook that I designed and use a lot. I meet up with him and Aaron and gave it to him at the Utility Expo Show in Louisville, KY. He is one of the nicest and down to earth people you could ever meet. He introduced me to about a dozen other TH-camrs that I watch, and all those guys are great. It was one of the greatest experiences.
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We used this hook the other day and worked great
I’m glad you like it and it worked good for you. Let me know if you ever have any problems with it.
Its just gonna take 3 months before we get to see it on the channel 😅
He’s a busy man. 😀
Just saw you guys use it on yesterday's video. Seemed to work really nice indeed.
I watch most of D.P.'s videos, I am sure he will appreciate the time and effort you have put into this "hook". Nice work.
Thanks for doing this for Mike bro, he has a big heart and would help anyone. Safe travels over the festive season. Ken in NZ. 🎄
I was so surprised how nice and down to earth he was when I met him to give him the lift hook. Both him and Aaron are really nice and easy to talk to. I wound up spending most of the day with them. I told him I was about to give up on TH-cam and he told me to keep going and just give it time. That meant a lot to me.
I'd like to echo the don't give up the TH-cam! Found you by accident due to TH-cam's algorithm and I'm glad I did. You've got a great way of explaining things and you sound like you're explaining a real passion rather than just out to make a quick buck on TH-cam. Basically, you're real!!
It does take time to build up a following, but to quote a certain saying, "build it and they will come".
Keep up the great work.
Hope you've had a fantastic Christmas and here's to a great 2024.
Regards Chris (from the UK). PS. Can't say you've not got a decent reach, in from the UK replying to a comment from New Zealand. That's some distance you are covering!! ;)
@@ChrisAWright thank you so much. You don’t know how good that makes feel. Someone commented this morning that I basically don’t know what I’m doing and that I need to go to school. That has bothered all day. I know I’ll never be as big as letsdig18 and dirt perfect and the others, but I would like to think I’m doing it for something. I started this channel to try to show the diversity and abilities of the people from the region where I live. I’m working on some projects right now about the coal industry and a video about a friend of mine that has a large bee keeping business. In my earlier video; I tried to avoid talking as much as possible because I didn’t think people would want to listen to my voice. I hate the way I sound. I even bought one of those AI text to speech programs. I tried it on a video and it sounded like a documentary so I didn’t even finish it. I may use the AI thing in the future but I don’t know. Thanks again for reaching out to me. I have heard from several people from other countries in the last few weeks. I love it.
Jut found your channel and subscribed that was a good idea for moving the blocks around. After making anything you’ll find the weak or improper design with use, you’ve improved on the tool you’ve created it wasn’t a mistake just a improvement. Good job Sir and I appreciate listening and watching someone who doesn’t curse and get mad when things don’t always go your way.
Thanks for the sub!
Yeah me too just stumbled onto this channel 😊😊
MBTS will let you know how good of a weld you made. I'm sure he will approve.
He seemed to like it when I gave it to them at the Expo show. At least he didn’t say if he thought it was bad. LoL
I like the way you acknowledge the helping hand of DP. Common courtesy that is all too uncommon.
Well done John DP is an awesome guy. He will so appreciate that! 😊
A bit of grinding
A bit of paint
Makes my welding
What it ain't !
Courtesy of Matt at Diesel Creek .
Honesty equals Respect. No mumbo jumbo.
Most everybody else would spend three hours in editing making it look like they were the greatest welders/ fabricators in the world.. Now, as an added gift, you know what would really make this a great gift? A quart jar filled up? Ya think. 😂
I know I’m not a great welder. I wish I knew all the metals and types of rod or wire to use but I just know enough to get the job done. Anything else I go to TH-cam and watch videos. Any person that thinks they can’t learn anymore than they already know is not being honest with themselves or others. I assume by quart jar you mean moonshine right. lol. That would make it better but DP don’t drink as far as I know. But I could probably get my hands on some if I needed to.
If their aint no shine in Kentucky, well it's a cloudy day. Forget about it.
@@ep9360 you wouldn’t have any problem finding any if you wanted it.
He doesn't drink anything but Pepsi.
LOL. Same here. I switch back and forth between Pepsi and Mountain Dew.
"had me pinned inside it" That's why you get a skid steer with lift up door like DP prefers. 😁 I don't care for hinged doors either. You have to have them closed to operated the loader. Sometimes it's very helpful to be able to talk to someone out in front and on nice days I like the fresh air and the sense of being outside. This doesn't work with closed door.
P.S. I know that sometimes you have to buy what is available and what you can afford.
Yeah I took the door of if it after that happened. It really wouldn’t have been a problem but I was in a place where it was hard for me to back up. It didn’t hit the skid steer but it was standing up on its end right in front of me. But I wiggled around and got away from it.
Welding 101 dash one. When welding a metal tempered (Temper = Case Harden) hook, the heat from the welding anneals (anneal = softens) the hook. this is indisputable facts. You even stepped up to using 400 steel versus plain Jane A-36 steel. To Re-Harden the Hook, you needed to heat the Hook, the Weld(s) and surrounding area (approx., 1" in. up from welds) cherry red, then quench in oil or water. How to test if your "Cherry red," is truly cherry red, using just an every day magnet, if you can still feel the pull of the magnet to the metal, (a.k.a., known as Magnetic Attraction) your cherry red, is not hot enough. It should feel the same as putting a magnet to wood, aluminum etc. NO PULLING WHAT SO EVER. The down side of this test, is HIGH HEAT Kill's the magnet, if you leave the magnet close to the heat in excess of a few seconds. FYI. A magnet that you would use to hang say a Childs picture on a refrigerator, is more than enough, for testing purposes.
As for your "STICK-OUT," on your Mig-Wire, PLAY WITH YOUR WIRE SPEED. HINT SLOW IT DOWN. Let's say you presently have your wire speed set @ 120 inches per minute, try slowing it down in increments of 10 seconds. My guess is you will only need to slow down maybe another 10 - 20 seconds inches per minute at most.
Your welds do look very good, I'm just curious because of the Lens of the Camera, your starting stick-out of the wire looks to be almost 1.5 inches. In my humble opinion, using your welder in the "OFF-Position," place a 1/4" in. (0.250" in.) plate material on your welding table, place the edge of the Mig-Welding-Cup on the very edge of the material @ approx., 45 degree angle, allowing the wire to just touch the surface of the the welding table itself as if you were going to start a weld. This would show you your proper Mig-Wire-Stick-out. Some of the Keyboard warrior's are screaming from the Mountain tops use 3/8" in. (0.375" in.) material, for Mig-Gun-Setup. Choose what makes you feel warm & fuzzy.
I'm hoping as well that your using at minimum 0.045" in. wire for when welding 1/2" in. plate. HINT 1/16" in. (0.0625" in) wire for 1/2" in. plate would be better. For what it's worth. If your welder is a true 200 amp , no problem running the bigger (0.0625" in) wire.
Thanks for the tips. I had heard that about magnet but have never tried it. I figured out the stick out problem. That was only the second time I had used that new welder so I used the preset setting and it had the wire speed at 420. I slowed it down and it quit doing it. I almost never weld anything that thick so I only .035 wire in it.
You’re a good man John Anderson, just good people!
Thank you very much.
Adding you to my subscribe list.
hey mate from AUS . grinding guards are not for the weak ...they do a great job of not cutting fingers off or burning stuff from sparks
I know. I took it off because the new flap disks I bought were to think and wouldn’t fit in the guard.
Thats a great idea. Nice work John.
Hold the welder in place till the burn is finished
my MIG has a feed adjustment inside the box.............. most hooks are grade 10 material and much more durable
I finally figured out what the problem was. That welder has the digital controls and I used a preset. I started looking thru the menu and the preset I used had the wire feed speed set at 420 IPM.
I do not know what type or brand of welder you have but some mig welders have a burnback adjustment. If you have this try adjusting the settings . This setting can cause the wire to do what you have going on.
It’s the Vulcan 220. I figured out the problem. It has digital presets you can use, and I didn’t look at the parameters. It had the wire feed set at 420 inches per minute. I slowed the wire feed down and it worked great with no stick out.
If you do this again make the vertical portion a LOT shorter, then make a rubber (piece of an old tire, etc) cleat behind it.
Tip down to hook the block, then tip up to transport it. The rubber cleat contacts the block and keeps it from swinging and spinning around.
That’s a good idea. I had thought about making an attachment that I could slide the block against to do that but I was going to make it out of metal. .
Nice. You done an awesome job. Excellent. ❤
Nothing better than having the mindset to make something you need and solve a problem… good stuff. Cheers from Alberta.
When the trigger is released a small amount of wire will still come out due to inertia in the system . Try holding weld gun in welding position a second after releasing trigger , if that does not help try checking motor brushes and commutator. Also there may be an adjustment on welder to maintain current for about a second after trigger release . Not familiar with your machine , been retired 20 years , spent 40 years repairing welders in a truck manufacturing plant . Hope this helps >
Thanks for your comment. I finally figured it out. That was only the second time I had welded with that welder so I just used the preset settings. I went into the menu and looked and the wire feed was set at 420 inches per min. I turned it down and it quit doing it. It did fine after that.
Good work, my friend.
Nice work looks great.
Those are great welds! Don’t sell yourself short on your welds! Great job and video! Mike , will like it! Thanks for sharing! “ new subscriber” 👌👍
Thank you very much for the nice comment.
If I said the least bit i know about Plasma , welding, cutting, or metallurgy in general, well this comment would be blank. However i know great workmanship when i see it. Very thoughtful of you Sir. ❤
Thank you so much. I will never claim to be an expert at anything but it try to learn as much as a can about anything that interests me.
Excellent video, I may copy your idea. Cheers 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It has worked well for me. Just takes a little getting used to.
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Nice fab work
Thank you so much 😀
Just saw DP and Aaron use it yesterday - worked awesome
Great fabrication project. Hope DP can use it.
The issue of the wire continuing to run after shut down - If nobody solves the problem
you could try using/modifying/making a longer tip cover or have it telescoping so there's no
need for wire trimming ... (longer by the average amount of wire overshoot? ).
I have noticed sense I shot that video that it does not do that at lower wire feed speeds. I think I might have had the wire feed too high. But that setting was a preset in the welder and it seemed to weld really good at that setting. That was the first time I had used that welder so I will just have to get used to the way it welds and what settings work best.
Look up your wire feed roler if ist at perfec tension (to much or low presure ) or usin the wrong wheel@Janderson-AppalachianCreative
Hi it’s nice to be nice, and then it’s great to be nice back, well did ( I know what you mean about the batteries 😤) all the best👍🐝🌞
Great work
Other guys using your batteries, and not charging them. Time to go to harbor freight and get a can of whoop ass.
We met Mike just before the show and spent time with them at the show. What a really nice man. Along with Aaron and everyone else that was there.
Good work on the hook, I subscribed 😁
Yes they were all so nice. Mike and Aaron introduced me to about 8 other TH-camrs and they were all great. Thanks for subscribing. I had seen you on some of the other guys channels and wondered what your channel name was. Now I know. lol. I subscribed also.
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I watch a few channels & skip the others but I clicked on this one and so far, I like it. Problem solving and "how to do it" always gets my attention. Too old to do it but used too. I agree X it off. Go back to Harbor Freight & buy a stamp set. Make it say MADE IN KENTUCKY!
Thank you. I’m still trying to figure out the right balance. Sometimes I fell like I’m talking too much when I’m explaining what I’m doing. Then sometimes I fell like I’m going into more detail than I should. I want my videos to be informative but I know if it’s not entertaining, then people won’t watch. I’m still learning.
I just ran across this. You did fine. Check out On Fire Welding. He really knows his stuff. He also got me to try 3M Cubitron abrasive wheels. They are more the Gold Standard of abrasives. A little pricey but they last ten times as long as Harbor Freight abrasives.
You did fine
Thanks. I’ll check them out. The Harbor Freight wheels said they last 4 times longer. I think they are just 4 times thicker is all.
I think you do a good job of editing. I like this video.
Thank you so much. I probably put more time in on editing than I should but I want to try to make the videos as good as I can. It pretty tough where I’m a one man operation. Lol.
@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative Hopefully it will all pay off.
@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative being a new video creator and knowing the work that goes into making a quality video that actually gets viewing hours is a lot of work!
I've got 572 subscribers. Very low viewing hours. Very few returning viewers.
Thought I spotted the cad program - Yep - I have that machine myself. Since 2005 or thereabouts.
It’s been a good one, but it’s starting to have some problems. I love working with it, but I don’t get to use it as much as I’d like to.
That is a neat design. New sub. Cheers
Thanks. It was a design of necessity. I had to move and set over 100 retaining wall blocks. Seemed like the best solution.
I also subscribed to your channel. Looks like some interesting videos you have there.
4.5" razor wheel with guard removed..that's how I roll, got finger scars to prove it:)
lol. Yeah me too. I know I should use the guards but man I hate them so much. I cut my left hand first knuckle about 6 month ago because I forgot that I took the guard off and I laid the grinder down with business end down and it spun around and jumped up and then flipped into my hand before I could get way from it.
You need to watch a bunch of Welding videos or go to school your plate joints need to have a few stacked welds on them to strengthen as for the hook nice idea but with all the heat you have put into it will have taken the temper out of the hook as for the idea nice but would be better if it can rotate
I never claimed to be a professional welder. As fare as my stacked welds. I had 4 layers of weld on it. How many do you suggest. And I used the hook to move and set 125 of those 4,000 pounds retaining wall blocks with it and pulled my 26,000 pound tire truck sideways with the boom to test it out before I gave it to Mike. It didn’t even have a scratch in the hook. I talked a man this morning that works for a company that build truck beds and loader buckets. He said it take 1200 degrees for at least 30 minutes to fully lose the temper. I didn’t put nowhere near the that temp or time.
New subscriber.
Great idea!
Sirz I'm amazed at your weld. You are using arc welding techniques as you mig weld. You do the same as you are the only difference is you push so you can see where you are going. Just a heads up I used to do the same as well. Give it a try I think you will make some super great welds. I can't believe you got it that good pulling. Great job budy.
I started stick welding when I was 10 years old. I guess it hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I grew up helping my dad and we done a lot of equipment rebuild. I can’t tell you how many loader buckets and dozer blades that we rebuilt. I always got stuck doing the welding. I think another reason I might weld like that is I can’t see good up close I probably compensate by pulling the weld.
@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative I understand when you get use to doing something a certain way that's how it goes. I AM NOT CRITICIZE YOU. just saying I'm impressed, when I started mig I done the same thing and couldn't see where I was going at all.
If the tension on the wire drive rolls is to loose the drive rolls will coast after you let off the gun trigger. AL B.
I’ll check that out.
Are u selling these now that they have gone viral? If so how much shipped to NC?
Yes I’m planing on making some for sale. Let me do some checking on weight on shipping prices and I’ll get back to you.
Just found your channel brother keep your head high and do what you love
Thank you.
Dirt Perfect uses the excavator a lot to set these blocks. Can it attach to the excavator?
I put the thing on top to be used for a safety chain but I think it could be used to connect it to other lifting devices.
+HELL YEAH, HEY KY, EAST, KY HERE, FLOYD CO, I SUBBED TO HELP OUT A FELLOW KENTUCKIAN
Well we are neighbors then. I’m in Johnson Co. Thanks for subscribing.
I can not say anything about somebody else's welding, but my welding always looks good.... especially after I douse it with some spray paint...... just saying
Like I always say; if you can’t weld like a pro then grind like a pro.
Spray paint covers a multitude of sin also........@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative
Lookin good , fabricating to own needs is the best way to go if you have time.
If I may suggest, on areas you have alot of wear use hardface rod to build up those wear points of rubbing.
Platinum 943 series is a great rod for this Continental also makes some great high tinsel hard facing rod. Enjoyed your video so going to follow!
I’m guessing that rod is something I’d have to order. I don’t remember seeing them at any of the welding supply shops around here.
@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative most bigger welding supply shops have them usually have to ask as they tend to keep them in the back , if not you can definitely order them.
I hope the welding and grinding didn't take all the temper out of the hook
I checked the hook with a file before and after , and it seemed like it still had the same hardness. I talked a guy that I do truck tires for at a place that builds truck beds and equipment buckets and he told me that tempered metal has to be heated to over 1200 degrees before it losses enough temper to weaken it. I moved 125 retaining wall blocks with it to make sure it was strong enough before I have it to Dirt Perfect and it did not even make a mark in the hook.
Just now finding your channel. I liked and subscribed 👍👍🙂 Nice work.
Sometimes in cold weather them micro switches in the mig handle stick you can try spraying some wd 40 or what ever kind of lube you have and also it may have a piece of slag that has gotten in it at some point and made a spot on the trigger if none of that is problem then it's probably just a bad micro switch them is easy changed lso I'm in breathitt co ky. What part of ky are you in . Keep up the great videos .
I’ll look at that. It’s about a year old but I’ve only used it twice. I just kept using my Lincoln welder for some reason. I did notice the trigger felt funny now that you mention it. I’m in Johnson Co. Just outside Paintsville.
@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative ah yea your not that far from me then about an hour yea them micro switches is bad to stick when sometimes they are just slow to release when you let off trigger they may have screws to tight in handle best to check it with welder off and just work it to see if it's sticks sometimes I've got a 135 miller it's 20 years old I've put one switch in it over them 20 years I got a new eastwood 250i and trigger would stick on it I took it apart filled allplastic pieces havnt had no issues since good luck
Very cool hook DP should like it but about the the feed of the wire on welder DP has a friend Aaron is a Boilermaker by trade maybe he could help out with some information the hook works very well 👍😎🇺🇸 NY
Hopefully it works good old DP is good people
Cool video. Good luck at the farm expo in Louisville, hope the handoff goes smoothly.
❤ from Norway
Modified tool now you need a engineer stamp or something
I was thinking about checking into having it load tested and rated but I’m not sure how to go about it. All I know is that I hooked 2 of the testing wall blocks together and it lifted them fine. That’s almost 8,000 pounds.
Yep, John! Mike's good people! As nice in person as he is on screen! Been watch'n him for three and a half years.
You should be using stick welding, mig sucks for welding higher carbon metals. DP made the same error on the tile plow.
I was thinking about using stick. I’m an old stick welder at heart anyway but I opened up my box of 7018 and they were wet and couldn’t find anything other than cast iron rods so I just decided to try out the Vulcan 220.
well technically, wouldnt that been MBTS Aaron decision? as I recall, Aaron did 99% of the welding
@@harveylong5878as he should as he is a welder.
Just found you by accident brother and subscribed immediately love down to earth stuff by ordinary people, and I think you sound great so talk away, good luck from a wv boy,and God Bless.
Thank you. That means a lot.
1st you should preheat anything above 8mm thick 2nd try push welding rather than pulling, gives better penetration and a shallower weld that ends flush with both sides
Get leather gloves
Yeah I’ve had several people mention that. I stick welded my whole life until the last several year so I do it without thinking. I stated welding when I was around 10 years old. I push weld sometimes and then pull others. I guess old habits are hard to break.
Had the same trouble myself, wire stickout, discovered I was pulling off the work before I let go of the trigger. Suspect it was a habit left over from stick welding.
Yeah I think mine was a combination of that from stick welding and also I had the wire feed set way too high. I just stated using the Vulcan 220 welder so I just used one of the presets and it had the wire speed set at 420 inches per minute. I turned it down and it stopped doing it.
What a great gift!
That run out is your cater fill at the end
Subscribed from Union, KY.
I can't wait to see DP using this.
I like that! Very cool
nice tool and gift,
what are your settings to cut the thick plate? ipm on the program and amps on the plasma? i have the same table that your have and software, never cut thick plate though, Thanks
I had the turned all the way up. Set at 60 amps and the IPM was set at 20. I probably should have turned the speed down a little because it beveled the cut a little. The thickest I have cut on it was 3/4 and it was set at 10 IPM and it barely cut it.
@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative having ran a CNC plasma table, I find the height of the head is crucial in minimizing the bevel of the curf. You did say you were having trouble with the height control. How long have you had the unit?
Clean dry air is important too. Dry air will give you cleaner cuts and save big time on your consumables. When moisture is in the arc stream, the electroid will burn up fast.
Hope some of these tips will help you save tips! 😂
What a fantastic design and even better idea glad you made it so great to watch
Thank so much. I try to make the videos as interesting as possible.
As others have said “grinder and paint make us the welder we ain’t “ lol good job
ARE YOU USING FIRST GENERATION PLASMCAM MACHINE. IF SO HELP
Mine is the standard DHC. So I think that is the second generation. Some of the settings are the same tho. What was you needing help with.
Looks great , seems strong enough ….even for DP 🥃 subbed
Thanks. I moved and stacked over 100 of the retaining wall blocks with the one I made before this one for DP. The one for DP is made heavier than the one I used.
laser tables are incredible!!!!
This one is a plasma table.
However flawed, I understand your reasoning, but I question your choice of AR ( abrasion resistant) 400 steel for this project. The 400 is a designation of hardness and west resistance, not strength. A better choice would have been QT 100 (quenched and tempered) but but regular mild steel with a tensile strength in the neighbourhood of 44,000 psi tensile strength would be ore that adequate and less susceptible to cracking.
I like your grinder rack.
I know what you’re saying. I have a bunch of the AR 400 and Hardox 450 and not very much mild or anything else in the thickness I needed. The most the hook would ever left would be 4000 pounds so it should be fine. I made the grinder rack a few years ago when I was building a big metal gate for someone and I got tired of looking for my grinders.
I like your channel man! .. I watch dp also and am now adding you to my list
Thank you so much. I’m trying my best to build the channel up. I have a lot of stuff coming up but it’s so hard to get time to put toward the channel. Me and my wife are trying to run 2 family owned business. Let me know what kind of content I’m doing that you like and tell me if you would like to see more of one type than the other.
Just let your thing flow.. Its working. Listen to dp podcast about channél marketing and purpose.. It sums it up well.. The first 10k are hard to get. Then it compunds
i like it, but u cant spin it.
I made it that way. If you watch my videos of me using it for the wall, I had to carry them a long distance to the wall. If it was allowed to spin, it would be going all over the place. Any time I needed to be able to spin it, I would set them down and hook the chain with a swivel up to it.
Good job!
Problem with hook is... The word(h*na on it
Agreed. I’d love to know where to get one made in America.
You have too much stick out, you want the contact tip 3/8 from the weld pool with solid wire, it looks like you have about 1 to 1 1/4 in most of the welds you did in this vid. Every manufacturer I've seen recommends to go by the "if it slags, you drags", meaning you travel in the opposite direction to which you were travelling with solid wire, you push solid wire.
You're losing a lot of amps with that much stick out, the welding wire doesn't carry current as well as the leads.
Ok, I see what you’re saying. I did not even notice I was doing that. I’m so used to using flux core that I keep forgetting I was welding solid. That would explain why I’m getting wire run out Thanks for the advice.
Real life welding doesn't follow anything that you just mentioned. The manufacturer reccomends a lot of things, what you wrote follows the guidelines however hardly any welding ever follows perfect parameters that allow for the manufacturer reccomendations. The idea of slag and drag is outdated and has been disproven through a lot of testing. As long as the proper welding techniques are used direction of travel is irrelevant. The amperage "lost" is also redundant as the voltage is also a consideration that is not taken into account, when you set your MIG welder do you set it by amps or by volts?
@@sshep7119 I'll just run a bead with 6 inches of stick out seeing as the amperage "lost" is redundant.
Which youtube channel disproves slags you drags?
You should go tell GE that welding procedures don't matter and you will show them how to weld up a reactor pushing dual shield with 6 inches of stick out.
@@sshep7119yeah you go with that theory if it makes you feel good. Real world welders know that if you push flux covered elderly beads, you will trap slag and lay down a compromised weld bead. Yes you can drag solid wire but your bead profile will not be optimal so unless circumstances demand that you do so,why would you.
It isn't the welder, it's the technique.
(And the unsupported tanks in the way in the work area is classic home handyman.)
When I was editing the video, I seen the tanks and figured someone would notice them and say something. I had just got them filled that day and it was pouring the rain so I didn’t put them on my service truck like I was supposed to.
No spark/grinder shield ='s fire
Tell me about it. But the flap disks I was using was thicker than would fit the guards. I need to get some more grinders so I don’t have to change out between cutting wheels, flap disks and wire wheels do much.
What welder do you have?
In the video I was using the Vulcan 220. I have had it for almost a year but had not done any welding with it. I also have 2 Lincoln welders. I had been primarily using my Lincoln 180. I have to say I am surprised that the Vulcan is a lot better welder. I have a miller Bobcat but I rarely use it.
OK. I was wondering. Thanks
@@Janderson-AppalachianCreative
I run a harbour freight welder myself. The green machine. I bought it because it's a multi process machine. I had bought it for stick. I couldn't get it to weld. There is no starting for arc. I was running into the stick sticking to the pipe. I finally loaded it with a big spool of 0.30 and I finally got my pipes welded.
Anyway,
I believe there is a small switch you flip up or down. It's on the far right on the panel.
That switch allows the wire to stop when you let go of the trigger.
If it's not setup. When you stop welding. The wire runs for a sec or two.
Then the far right dial also helps. See what the setting is. Try turning it down a bit. Try welding with Sir. I was having similar problems with mine.
I don't think it's going to work very well ,,,, It's not DP green ,,, Just kidding ,,, Great job
Yeah was thinking the same thing when I painted it. If I could have found the color green in time I would have painted that color for sure.
The Amish have it right, in that, when the commuity comes together in time of need, all are better for it !
This sort of thing makes me proud to be American ! This is what we are and what we are made of.
Thanks John, your thoughtfulness and generosity shows the way !
You Spend Money on Precision Plasma Cutting & Nice Heavy Steel And then you Buy a Chinesium Lift Hook 🪝 made Of Cheap who knows what Metal , REALLY ??😂😮
Sad thing is , you don’t have a lot of choices these days.
Nice hook🪝
Thank you. This one is a lot better than the one I built before. The old one worked great.
Using your own designs is not a problem, building your own designs then giving them to other people to use is a huge liabiity. Espically things that lift and hold weight. Just remember that is isn't necessarily the person who got injured that files the lawsuit against the designer, it is also the insurace company that has to pay the medical bills of the person that got injured as the party that files the lawsuit. I dont like it either, but thats just the way it is.
I agree with you but I don’t think my design is in any way less safe than wrapping a chain around skid steer forks and hoping they stay attached.
Thats pretty coolL@Janderson-AppalachianCreative
You sound like my old boss he was safety anal if an accident can happen he believed it would happen I was a volunteer firemen for 26 years we took risk every time we geared up.but I do understand your point but if we never try anything you never get anything done
@@bobdavis430 that is so true. I have been a firefighter for 39 years. I am an instructor here in Ky. Thank you for your service in the fire department. Always nice to meet another firefighter.