Good repair on the winch. You should take the fork lift to Reds to load the heavy stuff. I'm 71 years old and remember moving the heavy stuff by myself, now I can't hardly walk. Doctors said that over the years I wore out my backbone by lifting too heavy things. Take care of your body so that you can retire without back pain. Thank for the videos. Carl
Good job, you get the job done without all the arm chair experts advice. You didn’t ask for advice you just were showing us how you did it! Love your enthusiasm.
Getting Old Red home and restoring it plus the these heavy spare parts out of the field. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos from the Netherlands. You’ve put in e lot of effort and I appreciate that. One thing is for sure you don’t give up easy and I comment you for that! Stay safe and be blessed.....
He has a perfect lifting form, flat back, legs do the job. One of the few people who really cares about that, I don’t understand why everyone is so worried :D
@@SalvageWorkshop I used to work like you. My co-workers used to call me a humane fork lift. Now I have arthritis in almost every joint on my body and multiple disk degeneration in my back. Now I can barely bend enough to put on my socks and I live with constant joint pain. Please heed all the advise regarding your health.
If you plan on running the machine in rock or broken concrete then by all means run the roller guards. However if you going to run in sand crushed stone mud or snow then leave them off to allow the chain to clean itself out. When you turn and fill the chain with material the track gets super tight, you need the rollers to let the material out to prevent excess stress on the recoil springs. Hope that makes since.
I have always been into rescuing old mechanical things...I ran across the 955 in the barn video and got hooked on your channel! Love seeing you bring "Old Red" back to life!!!! PS: I had to disassemble my entire 9000lb Warn winch drive assembly the day before I went to pick up '53 GMC Pickup that had been in the woods for 27 years...I know that pain.
A lot of videos and slices of life presented online are really curated and at least part way faked, but you know it's a legit when you're 20 minutes into an old iron salvaging video and they're still working on the electric winch in the workshop hahaha It's so true to life. You're always working on something to work on something haha
Great job, back in high school a shop taught me to rebuild starters then paid me 1.50 for each one I'd rebuild, and his backroom was piled waist high with as many as possible. Ac Delco ford and Chrysler, I wish I had all the brass bushings I'd pressed out of them, literally buckets full. What am experience. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
On your initial winch repair, I acquired a Warn 16.5ti winch (Heavy bugger) and I got it because the previous owner said it just stopped working. He had already changed all the solenoids in his attempt to fix it. I tested them just as you did, and all tested fine. I could put power directly to the motor and it would run in or out depending on how I jumped it. After some further testing, I found that a few of the control wires and one main battery cable were shot. Now I know I could've just fixed the wiring, but I decided to "simplify" things. I pulled out the solenoids and replaced them with a reversing contactor. More room in the "control box" and it really did simplify the wiring. Factory remote works as it should also. Now if it stops working, I only have one contactor to worry about (assuming the wiring and motor are ok). Great videp.
I rebuilt a starter for my motorcycle. Replaced the brushes, but had one hell of a time getting it put back together. Never thought to look for those holes and use nails to hold back the brushes...........nice!
Loved this. Had some years here in the UK where I had to load dead plant from abandoned sites. Nobody around so you had to think your way round getting it onto a low loader with the winch, bits of rope, baulks of timber, lengths of chain etc. Great feeling when it's on and chained down. Rest and a couple of smokes, then head for home.
I need to reroute my control box to under my hood due to clearance issues and I'm glad it'll be out of the elements. This is a great video. Thanks for demystifying yet another mechanical device. Love the vids, they are my happy place.
to answer your question, yes. in the technology field (particularly with programmers) this is known as yak shaving. the joke being if you shave a yak by hand, by the time you're done, you have to start over. it's fixing problems to fix problems, all nested inside one another.
The middle gear (on the motor) is the sun gear, the ones in the carrier are planets and the outer is normally called a ring gear. The whole thing is mostly referred to as an epicyclic or planetary gear set.
Rock guards are a must,save ya alot of headaches down the road. New sub,I'm a old machinery restorer myself, worked twenty eight years in the coal mines,now I restore stuff. Great video.
I learned a bunch of stuff from watching the whole video. Excellent visual going through the winch motor. Thanks- I would have done one thing before pulling the pins on the bucket. Double up on your winch rope by using a snatch-block to increase the power. Just weld a hook or heavy D-ring to the trailer frame near the winch, hook the winch hook to that and use the snatch-block in the loop that you've made to hook onto the item. Great content, keep up the good work!
If you were thinking ‘Big Red,’ you know it wouldn’t steer don’t you? Cant use a loader that only turns one way, and doesn’t do that very well either due to the smooth drive sprocket on one side!
Have enjoyed your whole series so far. Gotta tip my hat to you for the effort you put in on all this! Everyone needs a hobby they love ❤️, clearly its providing challenges and opportunities to learn and rewards from the successes. What a great hobby 😊 Just be careful out there but stay at it!
On all our tracked machines, we always had no rock guards, or we removed them if we got a piece that had guards installed. I suppose if you are predominantly/constantly working in areas with a large amount of rocks that could jam a roller, they might be a good idea and relatively little would end up collecting behind them. For us, the primary rule we had was that the tracks were cleaned every day (after shift) and the majority of the moving parts were greased (rollers and pins, mainly). I can't imagine how much stuff would build up around the rollers and tensioner when it couldn't be cleaned regularly and you had guards on the tracks.
Great video !! Got that winch working again a little cleaning and a couple of bearings GREAT WORK !! and the extra parts back home safe !! Great video !! 👍👍👍
I'm sure you've probably already thought of this but if not... you have access to a bunch of old round wood fence posts? Might be enough to reduce the rolling friction and get that bucket up; once you fix the winch brakes of course.
Ya, not a bad thought... ive got some large thick wall pipe that i was thinking about doing that with... or even cutting the 1/2 rotten telephone pole that i moved in the video into a few pieces and using it as rollers... not sure what the plan will be as of now, but ill make sure to take you along when i finally go back and get it!
I'm not sure about the rock guards on that particular Traxcavator, but on the D3 they're a blessing and a curse. for gravel they're great and no complaints. but when you're moving brush or into wet mud they're a headache because everything gets wedged in there. At the brick plant, we welded extra steel plates angled out to prevent that and to keep the mud from getting in there. If you've ever worked with clay, after a few days it would harden in between the gears and the rock guard, or even into the hinges of the track and just get hard a rock. The D3 is strong enough to break it loose, but man after you come back on Monday and jump in, as soon as it broke loose it would scare the crap out of you when it went BANG! and CRACK! makes you think something snapped.
One thing no one else has noticed: The bolts on the motor that you moved *do* matter. What you've done is rotate the brush assembly relative to the coils in the stator. This is known as "brush advancing" and you've now advanced (or retracted) them some 10-15 degrees, which is a huge amount. This is sometimes done deliberately to motors so that they can handle higher voltages in one direction, at the penalty of arcing worse in the reverse direction. Your change is going to result in signficantly reduced torque and significantly reduced brush life compared to the motor's original "neutral" position of the brushes. Also, you never want to clean the carbon dust off the commutator bars. That fine graphite powder will take days or weeks of the motor running non-stop to replace. It provides a conductive cushion for the brushes to ride on, it's a lubricant made of the brushes themselves. This reduces brush wear and commutator wear. In your case, a winch might see an hour of runtime in an entire year, so you're not worried about long term durability, but since all winching is relative large load, you're far more likely to burn the brushes or commutator our entirely by these two changes you didn't know you were making. Just food for thought.
May be the solenoid you replaced wasn’t necessary. When you use an ohmmeter to check the continuity or insulation of a component, this component has to be disconnected from the electrical circuit. That is, when you apply voltage to the solenoid coil, there should be continuity between the two main terminals of the solenoid. But if the two big cables leading to the motor remain connected during the check, the small current flowing from your measuring instrument will find a way through these cables and then through the induction coils of the motor, thus leading to a wrong measurement. Anyway, your videos are tremendously interesting, you are an excellent mechanic, no job is hard enough to keep you away. Moreover, your videos are of best quality (which very difficult to do when you have to solve difficult issues at the same time) and also a pleasant narrator agreable to listen to. Thank you for your excellent job.
If the solenoids are clicking check for voltage at the motor. If it is present check resistance across the motor terminals. If open circuit rotate motor looking to see if it stays open or if it is intermittent. If it stays open give it a few good thumps. Still stays open brushes are suspect. Intermediate then the stator, or winding are suspect. If no voltage at the motor then back up to the relays.
Did you see the Rescuing Old Iron Episode of this property where i did JUST that? If not, go check it out, its worth seeing... thats when i discovered the TraxCavator "Old Red"!
You should try to get the forklift out at Red's old Place... Ground seems solid enough, though the small tires on it does seem like it may be more trouble than it's worth going off flat concrete shop type stuff... never used one that low to the ground myself. The smallest at my Job is a 4K and we have to be on dirt sometimes lifting heavy bomb bodies, but the tires are a little bigger than that set up so idk for sure. I'd still try it myself though especially if I was by myself... Keep it up this is a fun project to watch!
Oil-based Paint Pens are the best for labelling Winch Terminals. Invest in a Black, Red, Blue and Yellow. Tag the tips of each bolt terminal and also the crimp of the eye terminal. If you really want to go crazy, get some colour-coded terminal boots too.
Mate, that second track frame nearly had you...made me pinch my eyes... 8-0 A simple A-frame like on a logging trailer or a motor crane attached above the winch, maybe swiveling, would be a great idea for a trailer outfit for these jobs! Thx for the vid! :-D
When you attach the strap or chain to the loader/bucket, run it over a barrel so that when you pull with the winch it lifts the thing up and doesn't dig into the dirt. It might even help roll it up onto the trailer.
You should weld up a couple of *"low profile carts"* with small *pneumatic tires and eye bolts on all 4 corners for ratchet straps.* A cart that you can *hook the winch up too* after you've laid it under whatever you want to winch up onto your trailer. Basically a larger version of the things you used to move the lathes out of the warehouse in one of your past videos. Just a thought.
at 27:11 the motor base / first stage gearbox housing is rotated 180 degs out. that little teardrop indentation in the plate where it meets the motor housing should be pointed down. This is the moisture drain hole. Up you risk collecting (more) rain water in your motor housing.
lol... your not the first person to challenge that! Warn solenoids are in an H bridge configuration, but not your standard mag motor H bridge but a series wound H bridge. Warn does not switch the ground lead! The ground lead goes straight from the battery to the motor! More importantly: The solenoids are not in parallel. They are in series, so if any one solenoid fails, your winch will not work in that direction. Hence the safety.
Man, you can't do ANYTHING physical without getting a TON of people saying you're wrecking your back! You must have missed the way in which I use my legs to lift!
@@SalvageWorkshop I thought the same way when I was your age but it came back to haunt me in my 60s and 70s. I fondly remember the days when I could walk without pain. Joints wear out.
If you're going to be lifting/pulling heavy objects onto your trailer, you might want to have a look at the lifting arch that Matt Cremona has on his big log collection trailers. It would probably pull the front loader assembly on no problem..... if could probably load a small car WITHOUT it's wheels!! Also, mabey a steel cabled winch might help. Keep up the awesome work 👍
This was a little painful to watch for a couple of reasons: 1) you really should take along a friend to help even if he just leans on a shovel or nods in approval; and 2) while you seem to operate like you're indestructible, your equipment has limitations. These are not criticisms; just friendly advice. Best wishes and be healthy.
Rock guards are not a bad thing - prevents debris from falling into your rails and causing extra premature wear. I’d say if you have two of them I’d try to put one on the outside of each side, it’ll prevent wind-rowed material falling into the rails when you start working it. It’s better protection than nothing. Undercarriage is expensive so protecting it is a good idea. It’s not just important for loader crawlers either, my old 1933 Cat Twenty Five has them even. They almost always came off the first time someone had to work on the undercarriage because the bolts broke and no one cared to deal with them - had to get back to work as quick as possible.
I might be wrong, but at first glance the reason they put 4 solenoids in there is because they are in an H bridge configuration allowing to reverse de polarity on the dc motor. Not de redundancy reason.
![Cody Johnson - I'm Gonna Love You (with Carrie Underwood) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yy9PuYMU29g/mqdefault.jpg)
Must be a teacher or someone in your life so proud you listened and learned.....
Thank you I learn so much just watching you take that motor apart .😊
The nail trick on the brushes was brilliant problem solving. That kind of thing floats my boat when I'm working on stuff.
I was taught the nail trick back in the early 80's while rebuilding alternators
Good repair on the winch. You should take the fork lift to Reds to load the heavy stuff. I'm 71 years old and remember moving the heavy stuff by myself, now I can't hardly walk. Doctors said that over the years I wore out my backbone by lifting too heavy things. Take care of your body so that you can retire without back pain. Thank for the videos. Carl
Good job, you get the job done without all the arm chair experts advice. You didn’t ask for advice you just were showing us how you did it! Love your enthusiasm.
love watching the methodical way you approach repairs
Getting Old Red home and restoring it plus the these heavy spare parts out of the field. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos from the Netherlands. You’ve put in e lot of effort and I appreciate that. One thing is for sure you don’t give up easy and I comment you for that! Stay safe and be blessed.....
Thank you my friend! Im glad you're enjoying the project!
Leuk om naar te kijken.
Anyone else's lower back hurt after watching this channel? lol! 😂 It's not hard to understand why you look so trim and fit. Damn you work hard!
My back feels great!
He has a perfect lifting form, flat back, legs do the job. One of the few people who really cares about that, I don’t understand why everyone is so worried :D
@@ZGGordan thank you Gordan! I do really care about it and the way i lift things is very intentional!
@@SalvageWorkshop I used to work like you. My co-workers used to call me a humane fork lift. Now I have arthritis in almost every joint on my body and multiple disk degeneration in my back. Now I can barely bend enough to put on my socks and I live with constant joint pain. Please heed all the advise regarding your health.
Works very hard, does all the lifting pretty near perfect and his back will still punish him in later life for working hard not smart! 😢
If you plan on running the machine in rock or broken concrete then by all means run the roller guards. However if you going to run in sand crushed stone mud or snow then leave them off to allow the chain to clean itself out. When you turn and fill the chain with material the track gets super tight, you need the rollers to let the material out to prevent excess stress on the recoil springs. Hope that makes since.
That's kinda what I was thinking, plus I don't have them for both sides anyway!
Yeah, my Daddy always called it "having to work on something before you could work on something."
Sounds about right!
0)0+1¹⁰pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp9p)775
J
1,
Man you guys are just full of advice
I have always been into rescuing old mechanical things...I ran across the 955 in the barn video and got hooked on your channel! Love seeing you bring "Old Red" back to life!!!!
PS: I had to disassemble my entire 9000lb Warn winch drive assembly the day before I went to pick up '53 GMC Pickup that had been in the woods for 27 years...I know that pain.
I admire your work!
Brilliant. Well done.
A lot of videos and slices of life presented online are really curated and at least part way faked, but you know it's a legit when you're 20 minutes into an old iron salvaging video and they're still working on the electric winch in the workshop hahaha
It's so true to life. You're always working on something to work on something haha
Great job, back in high school a shop taught me to rebuild starters then paid me 1.50 for each one I'd rebuild, and his backroom was piled waist high with as many as possible. Ac Delco ford and Chrysler, I wish I had all the brass bushings I'd pressed out of them, literally buckets full. What am experience. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
On your initial winch repair, I acquired a Warn 16.5ti winch (Heavy bugger) and I got it because the previous owner said it just stopped working. He had already changed all the solenoids in his attempt to fix it. I tested them just as you did, and all tested fine. I could put power directly to the motor and it would run in or out depending on how I jumped it. After some further testing, I found that a few of the control wires and one main battery cable were shot. Now I know I could've just fixed the wiring, but I decided to "simplify" things. I pulled out the solenoids and replaced them with a reversing contactor. More room in the "control box" and it really did simplify the wiring. Factory remote works as it should also. Now if it stops working, I only have one contactor to worry about (assuming the wiring and motor are ok). Great videp.
I rebuilt a starter for my motorcycle. Replaced the brushes, but had one hell of a time getting it put back together. Never thought to look for those holes and use nails to hold back the brushes...........nice!
Thanks for posting and sharing. So great to see all the things you were able to rescue from the property where it was stored.
Use dielectric grease on your connections. Less chance of bad outcomes.
Stay safe
Rock guards are good to have. If you work on hillsides they are a must have, trust me you will be happy to have them on.
Loved this. Had some years here in the UK where I had to load dead plant from abandoned sites. Nobody around so you had to think your way round getting it onto a low loader with the winch, bits of rope, baulks of timber, lengths of chain etc. Great feeling when it's on and chained down. Rest and a couple of smokes, then head for home.
You hit the goldmine of spare parts!
watching this during pandemic in europe is pure meditation! ;-) thanks
Just love the fast forward of you trying to get the bolt out of the motor! LOL! I conveys a feeling I've had so many times myself! HA!
My favorite thing is how meticulous you are with repairs ! Awesome work
Not agree, left a broken nut in a hole, shame on you. It not us.
watching him is so comical sometimes. love watching that thing come together. this one had me rolling. keep it up, you'll get there.
Nicely done sir, I like to see that you use what you have to get things done very creative!
Good job,if you move heavy machines like these,this tool is the best friend,....Congratulations
Вы молодцы. Но мне больше нравится когда Вы реставрируйте старые вещи. И даёте им вторую жизнь. Это завораживает
I need to reroute my control box to under my hood due to clearance issues and I'm glad it'll be out of the elements. This is a great video. Thanks for demystifying yet another mechanical device. Love the vids, they are my happy place.
Thanks matt, nice to see the old red project running again... Looking in from the UK..
Glad to see you got the tiller and blade for the 318 deere! Hard pieces to find
You make it look easy. 😊
to answer your question, yes. in the technology field (particularly with programmers) this is known as yak shaving. the joke being if you shave a yak by hand, by the time you're done, you have to start over. it's fixing problems to fix problems, all nested inside one another.
Yak shaving huh! Well, such is my life of yak shaving projects! Good thing I like solving problems!
What a cool expression! I've been there quite a few times!!
Great jobs well done .
Yeah working on your tools sucks rocks but it has to be done.
great video ... thanks
Works like a brand new one. Got lucky having those long bolts!
Nice work as usual. You have patience for days. thanks for more great content
The middle gear (on the motor) is the sun gear, the ones in the carrier are planets and the outer is normally called a ring gear. The whole thing is mostly referred to as an epicyclic or planetary gear set.
Sooo very glad to see you back...missed your videos.
Rock guards are a must,save ya alot of headaches down the road.
New sub,I'm a old machinery restorer myself, worked twenty eight years in the coal mines,now I restore stuff. Great video.
I learned a bunch of stuff from watching the whole video. Excellent visual going through the winch motor. Thanks-
I would have done one thing before pulling the pins on the bucket. Double up on your winch rope by using a snatch-block to increase the power. Just weld a hook or heavy D-ring to the trailer frame near the winch, hook the winch hook to that and use the snatch-block in the loop that you've made to hook onto the item. Great content, keep up the good work!
I would use that old Grill for a fire place screen.
A friend of mine had that thought too! Only reason I won't is that when i make bonfires, they are MASSIVE!
Ya know, if you had a track-ter with a bucket loader you could have gotten those parts on that trailer much easier.
Its coming , its coming!!
If you were thinking ‘Big Red,’ you know it wouldn’t steer don’t you? Cant use a loader that only turns one way, and doesn’t do that very well either due to the smooth drive sprocket on one side!
@@grahamstretch6863 this only turns one way?
It’s called main strength and ugliness
Have enjoyed your whole series so far. Gotta tip my hat to you for the effort you put in on all this!
Everyone needs a hobby they love ❤️, clearly its providing challenges and opportunities to learn and rewards from the successes. What a great hobby 😊
Just be careful out there but stay at it!
On all our tracked machines, we always had no rock guards, or we removed them if we got a piece that had guards installed. I suppose if you are predominantly/constantly working in areas with a large amount of rocks that could jam a roller, they might be a good idea and relatively little would end up collecting behind them. For us, the primary rule we had was that the tracks were cleaned every day (after shift) and the majority of the moving parts were greased (rollers and pins, mainly). I can't imagine how much stuff would build up around the rollers and tensioner when it couldn't be cleaned regularly and you had guards on the tracks.
I have a similar press in my garage. Thanks for the info on how to test the solenoids.
During the winter season I service all my equipment so far no problems.
Man, you sure work hard for your toys..
Interesting engineering 😎
Great video !! Got that winch working again a little cleaning and a couple of bearings GREAT WORK !! and the extra parts back home safe !! Great video !! 👍👍👍
Steel bolts into an alloy casting, what a great idea!
EXACTLY!!
I'm sure you've probably already thought of this but if not... you have access to a bunch of old round wood fence posts? Might be enough to reduce the rolling friction and get that bucket up; once you fix the winch brakes of course.
Ya, not a bad thought... ive got some large thick wall pipe that i was thinking about doing that with... or even cutting the 1/2 rotten telephone pole that i moved in the video into a few pieces and using it as rollers... not sure what the plan will be as of now, but ill make sure to take you along when i finally go back and get it!
Some people say that’s how the Epytians moved those large blocks of stone
Nice repair 👍
Keep the videos coming dude i love old stuff getting another chance at life
Great repair on the winch. Your a 1 man machine 😂
Your the first youtuber i see who cares about his back and knows how to lift
I'm not sure about the rock guards on that particular Traxcavator, but on the D3 they're a blessing and a curse. for gravel they're great and no complaints. but when you're moving brush or into wet mud they're a headache because everything gets wedged in there. At the brick plant, we welded extra steel plates angled out to prevent that and to keep the mud from getting in there. If you've ever worked with clay, after a few days it would harden in between the gears and the rock guard, or even into the hinges of the track and just get hard a rock. The D3 is strong enough to break it loose, but man after you come back on Monday and jump in, as soon as it broke loose it would scare the crap out of you when it went BANG! and CRACK! makes you think something snapped.
That there, is perseverance!
This is the first time I have seen that type of binder with a ratchet that you can use a drill on it.
Nice job!
Woop more Traxcavator!
One thing no one else has noticed: The bolts on the motor that you moved *do* matter. What you've done is rotate the brush assembly relative to the coils in the stator. This is known as "brush advancing" and you've now advanced (or retracted) them some 10-15 degrees, which is a huge amount. This is sometimes done deliberately to motors so that they can handle higher voltages in one direction, at the penalty of arcing worse in the reverse direction. Your change is going to result in signficantly reduced torque and significantly reduced brush life compared to the motor's original "neutral" position of the brushes. Also, you never want to clean the carbon dust off the commutator bars. That fine graphite powder will take days or weeks of the motor running non-stop to replace. It provides a conductive cushion for the brushes to ride on, it's a lubricant made of the brushes themselves. This reduces brush wear and commutator wear. In your case, a winch might see an hour of runtime in an entire year, so you're not worried about long term durability, but since all winching is relative large load, you're far more likely to burn the brushes or commutator our entirely by these two changes you didn't know you were making. Just food for thought.
A simple answer: it is just Warn out!
Liking this series. Keep up the good work!
Really enjoying your videos and job that you do. Can’t wait for the next video, stay safe!👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
May be the solenoid you replaced wasn’t necessary. When you use an ohmmeter to check the continuity or insulation of a component, this component has to be disconnected from the electrical circuit. That is, when you apply voltage to the solenoid coil, there should be continuity between the two main terminals of the solenoid. But if the two big cables leading to the motor remain connected during the check, the small current flowing from your measuring instrument will find a way through these cables and then through the induction coils of the motor, thus leading to a wrong measurement. Anyway, your videos are tremendously interesting, you are an excellent mechanic, no job is hard enough to keep you away. Moreover, your videos are of best quality (which very difficult to do when you have to solve difficult issues at the same time) and also a pleasant narrator agreable to listen to. Thank you for your excellent job.
If the solenoids are clicking check for voltage at the motor. If it is present check resistance across the motor terminals. If open circuit rotate motor looking to see if it stays open or if it is intermittent. If it stays open give it a few good thumps. Still stays open brushes are suspect. Intermediate then the stator, or winding are suspect. If no voltage at the motor then back up to the relays.
Groovy man 🧰😎
You got me on why you didn’t clean and repack the other side of the motor while you had it open.
Feats of strength... Iron man competition real world style. As old as I am now... I look at that stuff and go yepp... I'll have to phone a friend. LOL
I Really enjoy your videos ! Keep on making them !
Mr, you sure have a great work ethic.. just take care, particularly working on your own .. :)
well done
I can imagine exploring that property for hours discovering all of the old lost treasures.
Did you see the Rescuing Old Iron Episode of this property where i did JUST that? If not, go check it out, its worth seeing... thats when i discovered the TraxCavator "Old Red"!
Hey man. Just wanted to say that you do really good work. I enjoy watching you do what you do. Keep it up!
I enjoy your videos. Keep’em coming.
Love the hard work!
Metal clad winches often had issues with condensation in colder/wet climates (Im 65/Seattle, now san Antonio). Put a cover on it when its not in use.
A left handed drill bit sometimes works wonders on broken bolts.
Guard rocks are very important to protect the roller from excess of dirt and the track to came out.
Fun fact: the multiple solenoids are not for redundancy its to reverse polarity on the motor for rotating in the other direction
yes its called an H-Bridge lol !! idk maybe he will figure it out when he shorts it out or trys to use two
You should try to get the forklift out at Red's old Place... Ground seems solid enough, though the small tires on it does seem like it may be more trouble than it's worth going off flat concrete shop type stuff... never used one that low to the ground myself. The smallest at my Job is a 4K and we have to be on dirt sometimes lifting heavy bomb bodies, but the tires are a little bigger than that set up so idk for sure. I'd still try it myself though especially if I was by myself... Keep it up this is a fun project to watch!
Oil-based Paint Pens are the best for labelling Winch Terminals.
Invest in a Black, Red, Blue and Yellow.
Tag the tips of each bolt terminal and also the crimp of the eye terminal.
If you really want to go crazy, get some colour-coded terminal boots too.
so you hauled a load of junk. This is such an outstanding video
Good to have rock guards
Looks like fun...Suggestion , Take the fork lift to the site to move the bucket ..
Mate, that second track frame nearly had you...made me pinch my eyes...
8-0
A simple A-frame like on a logging trailer or a motor crane attached above the winch, maybe swiveling, would be a great idea for a trailer outfit for these jobs!
Thx for the vid!
:-D
When you attach the strap or chain to the loader/bucket, run it over a barrel so that when you pull with the winch it lifts the thing up and doesn't dig into the dirt. It might even help roll it up onto the trailer.
You should weld up a couple of *"low profile carts"* with small *pneumatic tires and eye bolts on all 4 corners for ratchet straps.* A cart that you can *hook the winch up too* after you've laid it under whatever you want to winch up onto your trailer. Basically a larger version of the things you used to move the lathes out of the warehouse in one of your past videos. Just a thought.
at 27:11 the motor base / first stage gearbox housing is rotated 180 degs out. that little teardrop indentation in the plate where it meets the motor housing should be pointed down. This is the moisture drain hole. Up you risk collecting (more) rain water in your motor housing.
The 4 solenoid's are not redundant, they are wire to reverse the polarity from the battery to the motor.
Yep, it's an H bridge.
Yea, that fella doesn't know what he's talking about.
Well, he fixed it, so whatever.
lol... your not the first person to challenge that! Warn solenoids are in an H bridge configuration, but not your standard mag motor H bridge but a series wound H bridge.
Warn does not switch the ground lead! The ground lead goes straight from the battery to the motor! More importantly: The solenoids are not in parallel. They are in series, so if any one solenoid fails, your winch will not work in that direction. Hence the safety.
Be care and don’t injure your back! Believe me you don’t want to go down that road.
My back hurts just watching.
Man, you can't do ANYTHING physical without getting a TON of people saying you're wrecking your back! You must have missed the way in which I use my legs to lift!
@@SalvageWorkshop I thought the same way when I was your age but it came back to haunt me in my 60s and 70s. I fondly remember the days when I could walk without pain. Joints wear out.
should have put the bar in the stake pocket of your trailer to stop that piece. Could have fallen off the trailer.
Ya I thought that same thing when I saw the footage! Hindsight right!
@@SalvageWorkshop Was starting to worry if when that piece flipped over that it was gonna fling you off the trailer too. Glad it didn't.
If you're going to be lifting/pulling heavy objects onto your trailer, you might want to have a look at the lifting arch that Matt Cremona has on his big log collection trailers. It would probably pull the front loader assembly on no problem..... if could probably load a small car WITHOUT it's wheels!! Also, mabey a steel cabled winch might help. Keep up the awesome work 👍
This was a little painful to watch for a couple of reasons: 1) you really should take along a friend to help even if he just leans on a shovel or nods in approval; and 2) while you seem to operate like you're indestructible, your equipment has limitations. These are not criticisms; just friendly advice. Best wishes and be healthy.
you only get so many lifts in life. a lot of those will be more useful later on.
@@AffordBindEquipment agreed.....and my point....I care for this man....
I find the work ethic painful, 1. Use your muscle power less.
2. Work smart.
Great job, can't have to many spare parts!
39:07 few centimeters from disaster. Scary stuff.
Rock guards are not a bad thing - prevents debris from falling into your rails and causing extra premature wear. I’d say if you have two of them I’d try to put one on the outside of each side, it’ll prevent wind-rowed material falling into the rails when you start working it. It’s better protection than nothing. Undercarriage is expensive so protecting it is a good idea. It’s not just important for loader crawlers either, my old 1933 Cat Twenty Five has them even. They almost always came off the first time someone had to work on the undercarriage because the bolts broke and no one cared to deal with them - had to get back to work as quick as possible.
I might be wrong, but at first glance the reason they put 4 solenoids in there is because they are in an H bridge configuration allowing to reverse de polarity on the dc motor. Not de redundancy reason.
You're not wrong
Brother that's the story of my life fix one thing to fix something else lol I do love it though