As a fellow scrapyard mechanic, every single snag you hit got a big ol' "Yup," from me. No bulkhead connector for a wiring harness with all one color wires? Yup. Stick clevis almost machined halfway through? Double yep. Can't take the boom clevis out without taking a window out of the cab? Uh-huh. Scrap handler with a discount putt-putt generator stuck to some angle iron to power the magnet? Definitely yep. So far, my favorite was a claw-boom that they sheared 3 teeth off the swing spur, and the other 5 or so were almost machined through. We did 3 swing motors on that crane. It was a classic handles-on-valves machine, and the operator would go from full swing in one direction and then full-reverse it to stop swinging.
It never ceases to amaze me that the design of such high-wear and heavy-use machinery never seems to include any engineering to make it easy to work on. Just getting to some of those bolts was a mess. Kudos to you guys.
you are a frickin wizard. doing both the fabrication and the mechanical end. worked dismantling cars, business owner was a pain and used the big forklift instead of buying a lift. had a car in the air, was doing something off to the side and BOOM, something failed hydraulically, that car hit the ground so fast. there is no way one could have moved out of the way. in retrospect a safety bar would work but i never even considered hydraulic failure, duh.
If you replace the + sign in front of your temp gun readings with a - sign you would be in the ballpark of what we work in here at the South Pole station...Currently -92. Glad I'll be going home in November and missing the summer you guys are suffering through! I feel for ya!
When I worked on the farm we were required to maintain the equipment we were using. Every morning, first thing, check all the fluids on the tractors and loaders and top off as needed. Every single grease fitting on every piece of equipment we were using or planning to use got a shot of grease. If anything looked iffy it got reported to the mechanic. If anything was leaking it got reported. Believe it or not, the radiators were checked for debris and blown out as needed. We ran some relatively old equipment and somehow managed to keep it running and had few breakdowns. Guys that didn't respect the equipment either weren't allowed to use it or were let go.
9:07 'save the easy ones for last' Amen brother! That is the way to do it. I try to teach the apprentices this all the time but they do not listen and end up fighting the hard ones with weight hanging off of them.
Grease worms had been hard at work. Good to hear you ran a grease line to an accessible location. A good hotwater pressure wash now and then would be good to keep this machine going, but then again she's working in a junk yard.
I'm not sure how much a tube of grease costs these days, but you could probably buy thousands of them for the cost of the parts alone to make that repair, and that's not even counting the labor costs or the downtime. With machine operators like that you likely have a job for life, and we get to enjoy the varied content.
И это хорошо :) За выполнение похожей работы, только механизмы гораздо больше, например шестеренка поворота весит 100кг, на видео он одной рукой ее держит, за такую работу мы получаем 700$ в месяц. Россия ahahahahahhaha
Another Job well done by On Fire Welding! Literally At 110 degrees no less! Looks like you have a good apprentice with you, Hard to find these days! Well done gentlemen!
Those temperatures are scary! It has cooled down considerably here in Germany. BTW, IR thermometers do not read accurately off shiny metal surfaces. That was quite a job. Good that Sierra has parts available for that machine. Thanks for letting us sweat along with you.
you know when you have to wear gloves just to put your hands on a part of crawl on a machine it is dang hot..... Living in Florida for most of my life.....I feel for you Greg,,,, I started out working on trucks and we would have to get not he roof of the trailer to repair the referrer units....you would burn your hands touching that roof..... Cheers from Florida, Paul
Gosh Greg, that pin had at least another inch left in it... 🤣 Seriously though, that was quite a job, let alone working in that heat. The apprentice did good. Maybe he made up for the battery dragging kerfuffle...
I’m glad you guys take care of yourselves and each other. I’m typing this message with a cast on my right hand from a shop accident 4 weeks ago. Accidents happen so fast and it is such hassle to be laid up wondering if your hand is going to work again.
Yall remind me if Marlin Perkins and Jim on Wild Kingdom. Marlin would say "We are going to capture this Grizzly Bear" which was code for Jim is going to capture the grizzly bear. You have a good "Jim" looks like. 😂
Great job and vlog. Well done to Jacob for finishing up. I’m glad I live in the UK 🇬🇧, I couldn’t cope with those temperatures, it’s a nice 74*F here 👍
I like how you treat ypur apprentice. Its important to get these young guys into the trades! When I was coming up as a machinist I wish I had a boss like you.
Good Morning Greg........always great to see what you are up too..... a little rain here in Orlando, but those poor families 70 miles to the west in Tampa really had a lot to deal with because of the Hurricane and the ones up North even worse..... Take Care My Friend..... Paul in Orlando Hope you are enjoying the Blue Moon.....sounds like an old Rock and Roll song title....
*On Fire Welding* Never fails does it, something so simple ends up turning into a can of worms. Thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
I am not saying this is the case but as a scrap company owner, it is a very usual issue to broke the bronze teeth crown because the operator do not use the brake when the crane is rotating.He just stop the crane activating the controls to the other side.
When you’re young you say “I don’t want to be trapped in an office, I want to be outdoors” when you’re old and done, you look at these temperature 🎉conditions and say “eff that shit” I’ve worked in -70 and +126 I don’t miss that.The closest I get to that is the weather app on my phone
3:00....that hole is .like one of the Wright Brothers........Orville........ your little buddy needs a Hat...... I just bought a Black Stallion 'Cooling Towel' from the weld supply.... you need to get one.......9 bucks....dip in water, stays damp for at least 10 hours or more.....it has been a life saver in my shop......after 15 minutes I would be soaking wet with sweat.....now, after 8 hours, I am only a bit damp around the shoulders... in the past, after 2 hours, I would go home, now I am working 6 to 8.... This Cooling Towel needs no refrigeration.....I have no idea how it works, but it works great.... not like those ones you throw in the freezer...... check em out.....they are the quality of Cubitron II discs in my opinion, and you store them in the cylinder they come in, they actually come damp from the MFG. Cheers, Paul in stinky hot Florida......
From you working on broken monster recycling machines in temps of 110 in the shade, RUclips takes me to Pakistani dudes pre-heating broken engine blocks with cow patties before they re-weld them. Two prime examples of supreme survivors in the coming heat apocalypse. And also most likely contestants in the popular reality show "Alone" when surviving in society becomes more relevant than in the bush.
Maybe have someone build you a phone holder with batt and cooling fan so your vids work in the heat. Sounds like a useful product. Oh, it needs a phone umbrella for shade.
I would love to have a rebuilt baller for my tin in my yard , nice mine would need to be natural gas or propane, or simply get an all electric solar powered, lol not, thanks BigAl California
i worked undercarriage in similar heat one week back 2004 or 2005 ... had to have gloves and shades . yeah , a LOT of water and occasion a/c breaks inside .... after week , i was spent . new YUCK state RARELY gets that heat and always HUMID
Whoever your assistant is he seems he is worth his wages for sure.
Good help is hard to get & keep, take care of that guy.
As a fellow scrapyard mechanic, every single snag you hit got a big ol' "Yup," from me.
No bulkhead connector for a wiring harness with all one color wires? Yup.
Stick clevis almost machined halfway through? Double yep.
Can't take the boom clevis out without taking a window out of the cab? Uh-huh.
Scrap handler with a discount putt-putt generator stuck to some angle iron to power the magnet? Definitely yep.
So far, my favorite was a claw-boom that they sheared 3 teeth off the swing spur, and the other 5 or so were almost machined through. We did 3 swing motors on that crane. It was a classic handles-on-valves machine, and the operator would go from full swing in one direction and then full-reverse it to stop swinging.
you also forgot about the bits that you take off are inevitably cracked or broken as well and its your fault that its not a 10 minute job
Single colour wires is standard in industrial wiring, they'd usually be tagged though.
That was pretty neat engineering to have an oval pin to fit the oval hole
It never ceases to amaze me that the design of such high-wear and heavy-use machinery never seems to include any engineering to make it easy to work on. Just getting to some of those bolts was a mess. Kudos to you guys.
most fellow engineers don't plan service and maintenance while designing. my GUESS is, this item was never meant to be serviced
Engineers are never wrong? We design things to never fail.....
I would say it's more the fault of sales and beancounters. Engineers know about serviceability.
you got lucky finding a helper like him. Damn good worker!!
you are a frickin wizard. doing both the fabrication and the mechanical end. worked dismantling cars, business owner was a pain and used the big forklift instead of buying a lift. had a car in the air, was doing something off to the side and BOOM, something failed hydraulically, that car hit the ground so fast. there is no way one could have moved out of the way. in retrospect a safety bar would work but i never even considered hydraulic failure, duh.
If you replace the + sign in front of your temp gun readings with a - sign you would be in the ballpark of what we work in here at the South Pole station...Currently -92. Glad I'll be going home in November and missing the summer you guys are suffering through! I feel for ya!
DAng ....thật is might cold......do not know how you deal with it......
but I have read some about the issues.....best wishes from Florida, Paul
Sat night down here now and we have a big bonfire lighting up in a hour...it's going to be interesting at -93 currently
we must have it near perfect in new YUCK state ; just in 40s lately witha (+) 😅😅
When I worked on the farm we were required to maintain the equipment we were using. Every morning, first thing, check all the fluids on the tractors and loaders and top off as needed. Every single grease fitting on every piece of equipment we were using or planning to use got a shot of grease. If anything looked iffy it got reported to the mechanic. If anything was leaking it got reported. Believe it or not, the radiators were checked for debris and blown out as needed. We ran some relatively old equipment and somehow managed to keep it running and had few breakdowns. Guys that didn't respect the equipment either weren't allowed to use it or were let go.
9:07 'save the easy ones for last' Amen brother! That is the way to do it. I try to teach the apprentices this all the time but they do not listen and end up fighting the hard ones with weight hanging off of them.
Grease worms had been hard at work. Good to hear you ran a grease line to an accessible location.
A good hotwater pressure wash now and then would be good to keep this machine going, but then again she's working in a junk yard.
I think that bolt will buff out nicely.
I'm not sure how much a tube of grease costs these days, but you could probably buy thousands of them for the cost of the parts alone to make that repair, and that's not even counting the labor costs or the downtime. With machine operators like that you likely have a job for life, and we get to enjoy the varied content.
И это хорошо :)
За выполнение похожей работы, только механизмы гораздо больше, например шестеренка поворота весит 100кг, на видео он одной рукой ее держит, за такую работу мы получаем 700$ в месяц. Россия ahahahahahhaha
Holy hottness! I give you extra credit for those working conditions! Stay safe man, we enjoy your videos!
Another Job well done by On Fire Welding! Literally At 110 degrees no less! Looks like you have a good apprentice with you, Hard to find these days! Well done gentlemen!
Those temperatures are scary! It has cooled down considerably here in Germany. BTW, IR thermometers do not read accurately off shiny metal surfaces. That was quite a job. Good that Sierra has parts available for that machine. Thanks for letting us sweat along with you.
Great job in pretty rough conditions! Thanks for sharing.
Smokin-hot out there. Ain't fit for man or beast. 👍
you know when you have to wear gloves just to put your hands
on a part of crawl on a machine it is dang hot.....
Living in Florida for most of my life.....I feel for you Greg,,,,
I started out working on trucks and we would have to get not he roof
of the trailer to repair the referrer units....you would burn your hands
touching that roof.....
Cheers from Florida, Paul
Great work! You certainly earned your money on that job and in that heat too.
Gosh Greg, that pin had at least another inch left in it... 🤣 Seriously though, that was quite a job, let alone working in that heat. The apprentice did good. Maybe he made up for the battery dragging kerfuffle...
Talented guys, life in the field!
I’m glad you guys take care of yourselves and each other. I’m typing this message with a cast on my right hand from a shop accident 4 weeks ago. Accidents happen so fast and it is such hassle to be laid up wondering if your hand is going to work again.
It is unfortunate but I hope for a good recovery for your hand. Take care
Never risk your health for your employer
In ‘08 I messed up my left thumb, worst thing was buttoning my pants
@@dirtfarmer7472 I’m right handed and broke that hand. I had to learn how to do something left handed and it wasn’t buttoning my pants!
Great co-worker! And video/ job! Thanks for sharing!
Love your work!! Thanks for the video's and thank you for no music...
718👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 😊
Yall remind me if Marlin Perkins and Jim on Wild Kingdom. Marlin would say "We are going to capture this Grizzly Bear" which was code for Jim is going to capture the grizzly bear. You have a good "Jim" looks like. 😂
I like the bucket balance on knees
It’s so cool too se you tackle such narly jobs great work sir
Great job and vlog. Well done to Jacob for finishing up. I’m glad I live in the UK 🇬🇧, I couldn’t cope with those temperatures, it’s a nice 74*F here 👍
I like how you treat ypur apprentice. Its important to get these young guys into the trades! When I was coming up as a machinist I wish I had a boss like you.
Good Morning Greg........always great to see what you are up too.....
a little rain here in Orlando, but those poor families 70 miles to the west in Tampa
really had a lot to deal with because of the Hurricane and the ones up North even
worse.....
Take Care My Friend.....
Paul in Orlando
Hope you are enjoying the Blue Moon.....sounds like an old Rock and Roll song title....
*On Fire Welding* Never fails does it, something so simple ends up turning into a can of worms. Thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
@ClickOnProfile1993 SCAMMER ALERT
Extreme craftsmanship
This heat ain't no joke brotha. Yall did good as always!
Great job! Mr Apprentice needs some extra appreciation.
Awesome,thank you for sharing ,another great job 👍👍👍👍
Don't it feel good to see your work, work!!!!! You and your assistant work well together.
Really cool to see and now the bearing job has a bigger story! haha.. Nice work guys. Your right hand man seems to know his stuff. Keep him around!
You get some amazing job, fab video thanks for sharing
I am not saying this is the case but as a scrap company owner, it is a very usual issue to broke the bronze teeth crown because the operator do not use the brake when the crane is rotating.He just stop the crane activating the controls to the other side.
Awsome job, I'm a heavy equipment mechanic and I never seen a dry rotect bearing berfoe. Pretty neat.
Nice Job guys !!
When the pin becomes a crankshaft😂
😆👍
Great job! 👍👍👍
You get to fix some crazy stuf!
Thanks for posting,
OMG really, where do I send my money too???@ClickOnProfile1993
Lmao. That heat is almost a preheat for you welding
If you squint, it's mint! :)
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Maybe explain some phrases to the owner/operator such as Preventative maintenance,grease gun and a decent clean would more than likely go down well !
We had a sierra just like that one.We constantly hat trouble with bearing coming loose and breaking the bolts off.
Love your hat!
When you’re young you say “I don’t want to be trapped in an office, I want to be outdoors” when you’re old and done, you look at these temperature 🎉conditions and say “eff that shit” I’ve worked in -70 and +126 I don’t miss that.The closest I get to that is the weather app on my phone
When over head work wear a safety helmet. You never know. Be safe!
Enough of a change, the operator will learn a different way. Hope the boss reminds him of the grease gun location.
Nice one.. new eager apprentice?
3:00....that hole is .like one of the Wright Brothers........Orville........
your little buddy needs a Hat......
I just bought a Black Stallion 'Cooling Towel' from the weld supply....
you need to get one.......9 bucks....dip in water, stays damp for at least 10 hours or
more.....it has been a life saver in my shop......after 15 minutes I would be soaking
wet with sweat.....now, after 8 hours, I am only a bit damp around the shoulders...
in the past, after 2 hours, I would go home, now I am working 6 to 8....
This Cooling Towel needs no refrigeration.....I have no idea how it works, but it works great....
not like those ones you throw in the freezer......
check em out.....they are the quality of Cubitron II discs in my opinion, and you
store them in the cylinder they come in, they actually come damp from the MFG.
Cheers, Paul in stinky hot Florida......
That pin was cashed. 🤣 Amazing how companies spend millions of dollars on this equipment yet forget about maintenance.
@ClickOnProfile1993 I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you too!
That is one handy cardboard bale !
you gotta love a good apprentice. that's a good time for a good hot water pressure washer. gotta love those nasty greasy messes
Central Valley live in is hard.
From you working on broken monster recycling machines in temps of 110 in the shade, RUclips takes me to Pakistani dudes pre-heating broken engine blocks with cow patties before they re-weld them. Two prime examples of supreme survivors in the coming heat apocalypse. And also most likely contestants in the popular reality show "Alone" when surviving in society becomes more relevant than in the bush.
Do not use grease on this equipment.
That way I can work on it again next year.😎
Those damn grease worms, ate that grease outta those bearings!
Very nice
Knipex pliers are bad ass.
@ClickOnProfile1993 ?
I had to do one of them last year about twice that size in a harvester,in northern Michigan in February, not too much fun for three days🙄
I would love to know your background? Man of many hats.
Those temperatures are to high for this flabby Canadian.
Maybe have someone build you a phone holder with batt and cooling fan so your vids work in the heat. Sounds like a useful product. Oh, it needs a phone umbrella for shade.
1:50 i can almost make out the wear on that pin 😂
We would just feed the baler with a bigger grapple at the first yard I worked at. Them tiny ones wear out pretty quick.
I hope you make boatloads of money. You earn every penny.
Most things just need a regular grease gun and a "MK1" eyeball. It's amazing how many companies fail at this, and then risk failing themselves. omw.
You should have had their normal operator test run it so we could have seen them blown away with how it run when it's maintained 😂
As usual great video and great job! What kind of boots is Jacob wearing?
Ariat catalyst vx
Greg, great to see a new video.
standing on cardboard bale, lifted by a forklift. OSHA much? just kidding
@ClickOnProfile1993 oh. a scam account found us
Wow.
No preventative maintenance causes heavy repair bills!
No slop in the arm? That’s called a cam bushing 😂
Grease worms ate all the grease
Just have the lad knock out some fixtures real quick so you can work all these parts *on the milling machine!1*
👍
At Least it's nice clean work, Lol.
Knipex are King, carry 2 everyday in my tool pouch
Grease worm attacks .........
2nd your opinion on the Knipex pliers. Bought my first pair in 1985.
Bon Boulo😆😆👍👍
I would love to have a rebuilt baller for my tin in my yard , nice mine would need to be natural gas or propane, or simply get an all electric solar powered, lol not, thanks BigAl California
Hope you tacked on a filth charge for this job.
Good helper can complete job without you. Rare these days!
Go wrench in scrapyard= nail in tire btw nice job guys
i hope you got payed well for that
Man you need someone and a hot water washer with about 50 gals of degreaser!!!
Any idea why that excavator boom is resting on that block wall in the background
It’s missing a bunch of parts and no one wants to invest any time or money into it.
👍🏻
🙂👍be safe !!!
It would make a fantastic ending if you cut that old bearing apart to show us why it failed.
I believe there is a core charge on it.
i worked undercarriage in similar heat one week back 2004 or 2005 ... had to have gloves and shades . yeah , a LOT of water and occasion a/c breaks inside .... after week , i was spent . new YUCK state RARELY gets that heat and always HUMID
Nothing like haveing a bale of cardboard tosoak up the oil when you break the cylinder loose.
😊😊😊😊😊