Very few people can understand the frustration if doing quality work then it gets trashed and you have to do it again with the same high quality work. The only away to stay sane is telling yourself, it's a good return customer
Was just thinking that! Sure there's a lot of guck to clean out and what not, but hands down this is definitely a over time overkill money maker job lol
Great to have you back and giving us some interesting content. I believe you are a "master" at line boring. I am 81 and worked around heavy equipment for over 60 years. I have observed line boring countless times, you are the best I have ever seen. Please keep providing all of us your great videos. Greetings from West Texas.
I remember when I was younger then senior mechanics would make me always put the thumb attachment on a excavator that size... I asked why me, they said because you are 6 feet 8 inches tall that's why... Loved those old guys and learned a lot, very unfiltered guys something that I acquired... No BS
Hi i am Linebore Tech form South Africa .If you want the bush to stop moving to the in size of H-link. We normally leave a step at the back of the bore big enough so the bush stop against the shoulder and small enough to let the pin through .
This may sound a bit crazy, but I started wearing dishwashing gloves when working with super greasy stuff and gear oil. It looks silly as hell, but they are more tear resistant than thinner nitrile, it has actually saved us a bunch of money on gloves at the shop.
Wow ! It takes a lot of knowledge to do that kind of work and I think, I'm far from being an expert in that domain, you're doing a top quality work to achieve those repairs. Good videos. Bravo !!
What in the world..!? They need a blaster for what they're digging, or a new operator. Maybe both. That's an expensive stuff-up. They're keeping you in business tho so I guess that's one good thing about this whole affair!
Really enjoy your videos. It’s definitely inspiring for me to learn as much as I can and have different skill sets. I’m currently a heavy equipment mechanic, but will be taking some welding classes at a local college to get my basic skills down first.
30:55 was going to ask about shielding gas being blown away but you answered my question. I like the option to weld the oval part . Maybe an automatic greasing system should be fitted to this machine. Thank you for the knowledge you share with us 👏👍🙏
I like how their mechanic just throws the hydraulic hoses in the bucket, on top of all the dirt, no ends plugged or taped. That explains why your bushings lasted 10 months…
Brilliant video of an engineer and his lucky apprentice doing extremely difficult work, both in your workshop and out in the field, to an amazing standard. You are an absolute pleasure to watch and listen to. Thank you for sharing
I used to drive a Cat 374 in the English china clay works, very abrasive environment, she was a beast, and used to grease the bucket linkage every 2 hours of operation, if you didn't, it would sheer off the pin keeper bolts.
I watch you work on these things, having been a manager with industrial equipment. If our guys had destroyed equipment like that, they would have been fired. The irony is that oils like canola and vegetable oils were originally made to replace fossil oils because of a shortage years ago. But somehow these things were considered safe to eat?
Those guys are definitely keeping you busy by not using grease. For some reason they think that after the damage is done grease will help....I suppose it will but the time is BEFORE the damage is done....
Great job guys. Definitely a good money maker project for sure. I liked your idea of using the old pin as a battering ram to get the new one in lol. Good thinkin! Thank you for sharing this, been waiting awhile for your vids to drop, but life gets busy which is understandable. 😁👍
machinist tip, heat the end of that stick up with a torch, it makes those fits drop in like butter even without cooling the bushing Nice fix! i bet that sand makes a real abrasive paste when it gets in there
I would think this job would try nearly anyone's patience and determination. That didn't look to be easy or simple at all. Not cheap either with all the tools needed in addition to materials/supplies. Plus your travel expenses, labor, and meals plus a place to stay and sleep/shower.
A lot of people don't realize the importance of not just grease but good moly grease for bushings on a machine. Years ago I had a mini excavator with no quick attach, pulled the pins to change buckets. Would change bucket and grease pins, an hour or two later swap again and be surprised there were dry spots on the pins. This was with regular red grease like Lucas tacky stuff. Switched to 3 percent moly and never a problem, you literally can't wipe it off the pins with a rag. 5 percent is even better than that
Amazing how these cat skinners can clap out their equipment so fast. They never have enough time to grease their equipment but plenty of time and money to have a us fix it. LOL! thanks for sharing as usual.
On the one hand... not taking care of your machines is foolish... on the other.... they pay you to fix their foolishness... I guess if they like paying for your hours, who are we to stop them? Make that money!
you guys are awesome. great helper to be willing to put that much effort in. guess weight must be the limiting factor in how heavy they make the machine. figure someone would be willing to buy a more heavily built machine that needs little maintenance with cost being secondary to reliability. i'd like to see the bill for all that effort, time and expense.
I hate grease to we got a 300 gallon tank with water and caustic soda in it and propane heat we boil every part about 90 mins outside before it come in the shop
Greg, just wanted to take a minute and say thank you for the time and effort you put into creating these videos. I live in Central Texas and would like to get into this industry. I plan on enrolling in my local welding program, but was wondering if there was anything else you would recommend to learn about the line boring and heavy equipment repair? Thanks again for the great content.
Adjust your step size and speed, lack of fusion with a climax bore welder is because of those 2 issues. I run one daily. Pro tip...choke your wire speed down from 3.5 to 2.0 on the uphill side of your last wrap. It wont grape on you and youre golden
Good to see ya back dude. ✊🏻 I just cannot get past the amount of money spent on such machines only to gaff off proper maintenance. Of course, time is money, but i imagine the contractors take a bath when they sit broken. 🤷🏻
Grease, I love it. Except for the way it feels and cleaning it off metal or my skin. A cat 374 is much larger than I can see being useful in LA. Can you share the application?
Never heat the outside bore that you’re pressing a bearing into. Being the bearing is under tension. The heat will transfer to it and shrink the bearing. So in the end you will not get the press fit that you need to hold it tight and keep it from moving.
Very few people can understand the frustration if doing quality work then it gets trashed and you have to do it again with the same high quality work. The only away to stay sane is telling yourself, it's a good return customer
I think the person who drives this machine also hates grease. Good to have you back, we missed you. Cheers from London UK
Nice greetings to London.. !! I love England / Great Britain ❤❤Vivian Hyde 😊
Lol, multiple parties in the making of this story all hate grease.
Drives the guts out of it a operator would grease his machine/tool
52 hours and remote work, nice check coming from this job! Those kinds of operators are the ones that really make you money =)
Was just thinking that! Sure there's a lot of guck to clean out and what not, but hands down this is definitely a over time overkill money maker job lol
Everyone wants big boy money until it comes time to do big boy work!
You are the big boy!!
Great to have you back and giving us some interesting content. I believe you are a "master" at line boring. I am 81 and worked around heavy equipment for over 60 years. I have observed line boring countless times, you are the best I have ever seen. Please keep providing all of us your great videos. Greetings from West Texas.
Hi Greg,
Always a nice day when there's a video from you, Isaac, or Kurtis.
Or all 3!😅👍🏻👌🏻
✊🏻🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲✊🏻
and NBSwelding too
And Oliver Snowball @snowballengineering
I'm familiar with Curtis from Cutting Edge Engineering, but who is Issac? I watch these videos faster than they make them LOL.
@@danielstellmon5330 Isaac's channel is
I C Weld and it's Kurtis at CEE. I usually catch them as they are uploaded if I'm still awake. 🙂
Gotta love the operator of that piece of equipment as he gives you plenty of repeat business. Great Job !!!!
I remember when I was younger then senior mechanics would make me always put the thumb attachment on a excavator that size... I asked why me, they said because you are 6 feet 8 inches tall that's why... Loved those old guys and learned a lot, very unfiltered guys something that I acquired... No BS
Hi i am Linebore Tech form South Africa .If you want the bush to stop moving to the in size of H-link. We normally leave a step at the back of the bore big enough so the bush stop against the shoulder and small enough to let the pin through .
I almost did that but they want it to factory specs
I've seen lots of line boring but never seen the welding process. I didn't even know that the process even existed! Nice repair!
I find it amazing how it goes round & round and welds 😅
We're glad your back. Good job again, I'm happy to see your helper hanging in there. 👍
This may sound a bit crazy, but I started wearing dishwashing gloves when working with super greasy stuff and gear oil. It looks silly as hell, but they are more tear resistant than thinner nitrile, it has actually saved us a bunch of money on gloves at the shop.
So do you like wash them afterwards or how do you re-use them?
@@UhOhUmm Yeah, keep them on your hands, wipe them off really well with a towel, then do some washing hands action in the parts washer.
Smart man. That stuff permeates the skin and causes long term neurological and cancer issues.
Grease allergies have made me a lot of money over the years. Looks like you guys get them too. I hear its worse than ragweed 😂
Wow ! It takes a lot of knowledge to do that kind of work and I think, I'm far from being an expert in that domain, you're doing a top quality work to achieve those repairs. Good videos. Bravo !!
AMAZING what one welder can do with the proper tools. great work.
This was a really good video. Nice job. Good hard woking men. Customer oriented.
Looks like that excavator could use a Lubecore auto-greasing system!
Edit: Just got to the end now - a job very well done! Excellent work.
Great project! You get into some abused and neglected large equipment repair. Thanks for sharing.
Pretty amazing how you set up the machine to do partial passes to fill in the bottom of the hole, Amazing stuff you do !
Burning the block of incense under the end of the stick to ward off evil spirits was a nice touch.👍
You guys are hard core, keep Rockin Greg
What a job. You must have been knackered at the completion.
Heard of this process , but never watched it done , thank-you , very fascinating technology. cheers
Damn that was a tight one! Good job! That’s what he said!
When the pin becomes a crank shaft, finessing the removal.
Glad to see you back. Awesome work. Great video
What in the world..!? They need a blaster for what they're digging, or a new operator. Maybe both. That's an expensive stuff-up. They're keeping you in business tho so I guess that's one good thing about this whole affair!
The patience of Saint Francis.
I need you to weld a big sign that says *_"PLEASE GREASE ME!!"_* into the operator's line of sight on this excavator.
Really enjoy your videos. It’s definitely inspiring for me to learn as much as I can and have different skill sets.
I’m currently a heavy equipment mechanic, but will be taking some welding classes at a local college to get my basic skills down first.
That is amazing. Some people could break a anvil half in two. Good thing they have your talent.
That boring equipment is so damn cool. What you can do with it is amazing 👏
Best welding/fixing kit channel on the internet from the UK. Top Darts
The UK is the finest Country of the world ❤Vivian Hyde 😊
30:55 was going to ask about shielding gas being blown away but you answered my question.
I like the option to weld the oval part .
Maybe an automatic greasing system should be fitted to this machine.
Thank you for the knowledge you share with us 👏👍🙏
I like how their mechanic just throws the hydraulic hoses in the bucket, on top of all the dirt, no ends plugged or taped. That explains why your bushings lasted 10 months…
Ya. And you can imagine how long it took to clean all that. Because we had so much extra time.
Brilliant video of an engineer and his lucky apprentice doing extremely difficult work, both in your workshop and out in the field, to an amazing standard. You are an absolute pleasure to watch and listen to. Thank you for sharing
Excellent presentation. Thank you. Nice to see a fresh post.
I used to drive a Cat 374 in the English china clay works, very abrasive environment, she was a beast, and used to grease the bucket linkage every 2 hours of operation, if you didn't, it would sheer off the pin keeper bolts.
That was a good OFW video, more than usual, worth the watch!
I watch you work on these things, having been a manager with industrial equipment. If our guys had destroyed equipment like that, they would have been fired. The irony is that oils like canola and vegetable oils were originally made to replace fossil oils because of a shortage years ago. But somehow these things were considered safe to eat?
Grease has gotten too expensive!
I love the pendulum hammer.
Oh she's tight! LOL Well done, thanks for any upload you may do. Stay safe.
I like the pie mode bore welding at 29:35 . Neat work applying fill material..
_they're in a hurry for it_ funny how their failure to plan (upkeep on this piece) became YOUR emergency lol bless
Being a worker myself, I was hoping you and your men were compensated well for the long hours.
I cannot believe the hours you put in! That’s pretty good. 👍
Neglect and poor maintenance is money in the bank.
Lots of fire! "On Fire Welding"
Another great In Fire Welding Video!
Those guys are definitely keeping you busy by not using grease. For some reason they think that after the damage is done grease will help....I suppose it will but the time is BEFORE the damage is done....
20 👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 🤗
Great job guys. Definitely a good money maker project for sure. I liked your idea of using the old pin as a battering ram to get the new one in lol. Good thinkin! Thank you for sharing this, been waiting awhile for your vids to drop, but life gets busy which is understandable. 😁👍
44:18 I love the way how Jacob is hiding behind you 😅 by the way, good job guys I hope you will share videos every Fridays same like CEE guys
I’m trying to keep a consistent schedule
machinist tip,
heat the end of that stick up with a torch, it makes those fits drop in like butter even without cooling the bushing
Nice fix! i bet that sand makes a real abrasive paste when it gets in there
I would think this job would try nearly anyone's patience and determination. That didn't look to be easy or simple at all. Not cheap either with all the tools needed in addition to materials/supplies. Plus your travel expenses, labor, and meals plus a place to stay and sleep/shower.
Hard workers. Well done!
The machinist's triumvirate! 😊
Man I love to watch line boring.. my first time watch the 'face cutting' in action.Very cool stuff.. Thnx for the movie.. Jose R Garcia
💪💪💪 nice work fellas.
Muito bom trabalho em equipe amigos,perfeito!!!
Boa sorte sempre!!!
Alright! lets hangout with, On Fire Welding, On this Beauty Friday!Coffee on! Cheers!;-)!
Great job like usual Greg
Those must of been some horrendously long days
Whoever was running that machine needs to be sacked, that's pure abuse to destroy it to that level in 10 months
hello very happy !!! because you are be back !!!! your video is very interesting !!!! I like very mutch !!!
Do you use grade B7 all thread?
A lot of people don't realize the importance of not just grease but good moly grease for bushings on a machine. Years ago I had a mini excavator with no quick attach, pulled the pins to change buckets. Would change bucket and grease pins, an hour or two later swap again and be surprised there were dry spots on the pins. This was with regular red grease like Lucas tacky stuff. Switched to 3 percent moly and never a problem, you literally can't wipe it off the pins with a rag. 5 percent is even better than that
Oops, hit the like button before watching the video. Never fear already knew it would be good. 😂
Amazing how these cat skinners can clap out their equipment so fast. They never have enough time to grease their equipment but plenty of time and money to have a us fix it. LOL! thanks for sharing as usual.
On a positive note, nice to have customers you can rely on for repeat business.
374 stick end bushings is about .015 on those bushings if your cutting to print. An insane amount with no nitrogen
On the one hand... not taking care of your machines is foolish... on the other.... they pay you to fix their foolishness... I guess if they like paying for your hours, who are we to stop them? Make that money!
Amazing work…
26:47 With a bit of warmup you could probably have gotten that bushing in from the three point line.
That bushing won't fall out💪😬
you guys are awesome. great helper to be willing to put that much effort in. guess weight must be the limiting factor in how heavy they make the machine. figure someone would be willing to buy a more heavily built machine that needs little maintenance with cost being secondary to reliability. i'd like to see the bill for all that effort, time and expense.
Great video!
This Equipment, all the machines, must be pretty expensive.. !! And you need the knowledge for all that !!😮 Vivian Hyde 😊
Got to love On Fire Welding…Paulie in Orlando
Great job! 52 hrs? thats quite the long work day!
Bon Boulo 😆😆👍👍
Job creations. Id be bringing that operator coffee each week,!
I hate grease to we got a 300 gallon tank with water and caustic soda in it and propane heat we boil every part about 90 mins outside before it come in the shop
That's a good customer.
Yes missed your videos from uk
You should try to put those bushing in dry ice or liquid nitrogen. Thanks, great video.
Greg, just wanted to take a minute and say thank you for the time and effort you put into creating these videos. I live in Central Texas and would like to get into this industry. I plan on enrolling in my local welding program, but was wondering if there was anything else you would recommend to learn about the line boring and heavy equipment repair? Thanks again for the great content.
I would learn some basic lathe skills. That will help big time. And mechanical knowledge of what you are working on would help.
Sounds good. Thank you. @@OFW
Adjust your step size and speed, lack of fusion with a climax bore welder is because of those 2 issues. I run one daily. Pro tip...choke your wire speed down from 3.5 to 2.0 on the uphill side of your last wrap. It wont grape on you and youre golden
Thanks for sharing.
This is at least a 10k job if not twice. good job mate.
I recon you need to get a few "Operator My Ass" stickers from Clint at C&C Equipment.
When we are trying to shrink a bush to pull it i like to use 7024 (jet rod ) it shrinks alot and very mininal splatter
Good to see ya back dude. ✊🏻 I just cannot get past the amount of money spent on such machines only to gaff off proper maintenance. Of course, time is money, but i imagine the contractors take a bath when they sit broken. 🤷🏻
I've never seen that special job before.. - very interesting !! ❤Vivian Hyde 😊
What is the interferance fit between the stick and the bushings? Thank you for sharing the knowledge with us.
.010”
@@OFW thank you!
Grease haters means more bizz 😂
Grease, I love it. Except for the way it feels and cleaning it off metal or my skin.
A cat 374 is much larger than I can see being useful in LA. Can you share the application?
It’s digging in a mine site to process material for concrete and such.
I love how they decide to grease it after it's smoked...
Dang! Operate it like you stole it!
What hydraulic unit did you use to press those bushings? And what size/grade rod did you end up using?
OTC foot pump and enerpac or cheap Chinese hollow cylinders on Amazon. Grade B7 all thread. 1” is my go to for 30 ton. 2” for 60 ton.
Nice one.. So the motto is.. we do it right because we do it thight really thight... 😉🙂👍
Never heat the outside bore that you’re pressing a bearing into. Being the bearing is under tension. The heat will transfer to it and shrink the bearing. So in the end you will not get the press fit that you need to hold it tight and keep it from moving.