Great video, You touched on things seldom spoken of. 1 Obviously you understand your customer base . 2 First aid kit ,3 right tool for the right job that jack was excellent. 4 The conditions , in the dark , rusty material, you Sir have talent .
Anthony, I saw you have a Miller Trailblazer. I'm a certified Miller service center and wanted to give you a tip. Never jump start a Trailblazer new or old. If it has a dead battery make sure the ignition is in off position. Remove battery and replace it. When you start it with the new battery, verify that it is charging at 13 + volts to make sure the voltage regulator works. It could save you a couple thousand in repairs. I see this frequently.
Buying steel from any hardware / big name store is going to be more expensive then if you can go to an actual steel distributor. You should really only buy it from said stores in quick situations like these, otherwise you’re just getting screwed over.
@@CarlosC77 Agreed. I bought a piece of bar for a project, and, though it felt "okay" for the price, it still had me kinda saying, "that's a bit on the expensive side." It's getting pretty messed up when people just starting out with metal working get shafted. What helps is that I do have some fab shops near me that I can check out for junk metal.
Good job! Been welding on the farm for 40 years and have had to fix some crap like that. As far as what you charge goes- that's between you and the customer. You told them a price and they accepted. Ignore the youtube idiots that said you charged too much
Great job under less than desirable conditions and at night! You just have to wonder why some people just don’t maintain their equipment before it becomes an emergency. I hope you made a lot of $$.
@@24681359Davidoh ya, did you run it through your essay machine to see you had water in it before you drilled the hole? Or did you drop the hole so water wouldn't be trapped in your enclosed frame? Because if you just drilled a hole in your BOAT trailer, you now fill it with water every time you launch your boat. Doesn't feel good when someone makes you look stupid just so you can make yourself feel smart.
I like after hours welding but you have to have really good lighting and it has to be light in the right spot. You never want light going in the back of your welding helmet. I use high output LED plug in lighting.
You handled the problem and didn't rape them on after hours call. I think you were very reasonable on price. That is how you have grown your business, honest, quality work. Stay safe and God bless
I watch a lot of welding videos to learn and the thing I like about this one is that it is more typical of what I end up working with... rusty metal in the dark welding in whatever position I HAVE to weld in (though I do confess in my earlier days to actually tipping a trailer on its side to avoid welding vertical and upside down). Rarely am I welding brand new little billets on a pristine welding table in perfect temperature with perfect light and perfect hand support... The only thing I think I would have done different was that last angle piece you welded on top. I think I would have welded it V down (corner up) and welded both edges as I think that would have been even stronger and would have looked better. Others can chime in and agree or disagree...
it may look better, though it doesnt actually add any integrity to your work to weld it corner up. you are only getting that trailer home at that point no amount of welding pieces of steel to the exterior of a rusted piece will absolve it of its greatest weakness.
500$ for an after hours 2-hour service call, seems a little underpriced but if that's USD, I guess nearly 700$ CAD makes sense with the exchange. Thanks for putting up videos like this, I'm at college right now taking welding and I hope to have a business like yours in the future.
$500 seems about right actually around $200 an hour and then u add materials. Anything over $200 an hour I better see a whole refab job done to the trailer. Ive seen plenty of guys charging above pricing and can't weld for shit. So I don't think over charging is the right answer.
@@ebayollis No he didn't. An off hours on-call late-night service call is expensive. Try getting a plumber for 2 hours on christmas and see if it's not even more than that.
I figured the " emergency " was gonna be ....the carnival ride I welded flew apart and now they are looking for me so I got to leave the state !!!! 😆🤣 cool video style on this one brother
The video reminded me of an old friend of mine, who in the mid 80s started doing roadside repairs on 18 wheelers. Due to drive offs, he had to build this spiked piece of pipe to put between their tires that he would remove once they paid him. He also had to start carrying a shotgun. All because he got ripped a few times. Keep this in mind when doing roadside stuff.
@@MeltinMetalAnthony he said that twice the drivers said, "let me get my wallet", and just climbed in the truck, put it in gear and drove off while he was rolling up.
Great video and an excellent repair as all ways. No wonder it’s rotted out keep going in to water. Feel for your eye there’s nothing worst than crap in it hope it’s ok.
Good job helping them put an end to a miserable night at Bayport. I sure hope we don't see a trailer with some rusty angle iron holding it together backing a pontoon down the ramp all summer.
Been watching your channel for a while now and I love the content. You do a good job informing your viewers on how and why you do your jobs the way you do. Thank you
Great videos, sir. I just found your channel and only had one question (maybe I missed it). Did you ever replace those marker lights you removed. It looked like you welded your one side piece halfway over the light hole. Thanks again for your well filmed videos.
It takes a lot more force to bend an upright piece of metal like that. The simplest way to explain it is the way the force is applied to the metal makes the width of the metal its thickness at the same time.
@@MeltinMetalAnthonyyea and I am sure the cost is passed on to the client for this excess baggage. NO WAY PAL! ALSO SEEN YOUR SHORT ABOUT THE 1440 MAGICAL EARNINGS NUMBER PER DAY..... DREAMING..... NEVER GET THAT FROM ME.... YOU BE CHASED OFF THE PROPERTY BY YOUR OWN ELECTRODES.... SKILLED TRADESMAN.. GO TO THE LIBRARY AND GET A COUPLE BOOKS ON WELDING.... Meltin Metal you are quite funny...., 🤣
I like your SAE350 Lincoln. It wasn’t as well known model and you don’t see them around here as the 200 or 300. Plenty of smoke for those 3/32 rods. Good job!
I love your channel cause it shows real life shit. Every job isn’t always going to be sunshine and rainbows. Even the best welders run into unexpected problems all the time. Its about how you adapt on the fly, and Anthony is good at getting shit done!
all the nighttime action looks great...... good job and your camera gal is rocking it out..... .this is one of my favorite videos of yours. Bravo.....Paulie in Orlando
That was a good video. Good job welding that. I got a hope he's going to replace The tongue on that at a later date. To get rid of all the sketchy metal.
Fine job sir. That tube on the trailer tongue looks pretty thin for that size of a boat. Just my opinion I'm no engineer. I'm not a certified welder but I weld decent and often. When I weld thicker plate to thin wall tube, I aim my rod mostly at the thicker steel and "whip" it into the tube real quick so I don't burn through. I can see there is good penetration, but if anyone who reads this is a pro can you please advise me if this technique is no good?
My buddy does some metal stuff and has had to have metal removed from his eye before and last time I had some small but strong magnets and he got it out so we ordered him a 1"x"2"x1" and he has used it several times since obviously it only worked for iron not aluminum or stainless but still I'd keep one around
A machinist I know made $36,000 in a weekend repairing some road construction equipment. It was going to cost the company something like $50,000 for every day they went over and they were like "do whatever it takes to get it done"
Is there a reason for putting the angle on top the way it was? I agreed putting it up there helped structurally but the way I was thinking was setting the two legs down so the point was up, for aesthetics and structure or was it a "more welding area" scenario? Keep up the great content, been watching for a while
The angle is better for the same reason I beam is better than a piece of flat steel. The vertical section provides stiffness in that axis. Get a piece of long flat metal, bend it one way and it folds by hand. Try bending it the other way, good luck.
Great job. Been welding some cars, and tools for 10 years. if there was little wind, it woud saved you lots of time using MIG welder with arginmix. In my head, whats important is, weld hold for 10 years. it dosent need to look prity.
Hey brother i do lots of welding and grinding upsidedown, i really recommend wearing some 3m goggles under your hood. I once got a metal shard in my eye and I’ve work the goggles ever since
Nice job $500 is about what I would charge for that not a big job but an emergency call. I recommend if you can trying to get on with a fleet so you don’t have to take all those random calls. I do mobile repairs for a couple of the state organizations here and now that’s all I do cause it pays more then enough sometimes there are weeks where I don’t have a single call. Sometimes I have five in one night though so has it’s ups and downs.
My only suggestion would be to do a 100% weld - stitch welding it strengthens it but doesn't keep water out. As it is, water WILL get under the patch and start to rot it out again and not be visible and since it gets submerged it will get soaked under the patch and it is salt water (looks like it anyway). After all, it did already rot out from the water it was in.
My favorite part of every video is when he says if we didn't like his video we can go F%&K ourselves, lol!! I love this channel and I love how he doesn't care about what ppl think. Very refreshing! Two thumbs up
How do you make the judgement on what steel thickness to use. I assume the trailer originally was a thicker and of course box. But as a patch how do you insure that what you've chosen is going to be strong enough to withstand not only trailer weight but in this case the weight of a boat and the abuse of road travel?
Best way to make money. Odd jobs like that just come up randomly. Got paid $400 to cut some trees down with a chainsaw took us about 2.5 hours and it was pretty hot but got it done.
Nice repair man, don't always have to be pretty. Sometimes you just need to get it to work. Sometimes that rusty junk is a real pain in the ass. I deal with lots of rust daily. 🤦🏽♂️
Great video, You touched on things seldom spoken of. 1 Obviously you understand your customer base . 2 First aid kit ,3 right tool for the right job that jack was excellent. 4 The conditions , in the dark , rusty material, you Sir have talent .
Anthony, I saw you have a Miller Trailblazer. I'm a certified Miller service center and wanted to give you a tip. Never jump start a Trailblazer new or old. If it has a dead battery make sure the ignition is in off position. Remove battery and replace it. When you start it with the new battery, verify that it is charging at 13 + volts to make sure the voltage regulator works. It could save you a couple thousand in repairs. I see this frequently.
why would jump starting it cause it to fail? is the regulator unprotected?
@@nerddub computer parts get power in the wrong way.
Any year?
I was on a job where my buddy jump started a welder and toasted it. It was a costly mistake😆
That ain't worth a fuck.
I love those emergency repairs not just the money but because you have a chance to get someone back on the road again it's a rewarding feeling!
I feel your pain when you notice the price of that small chunk of angle iron. Lowes scalps the hell out of their customers with steel
Where else do we get steel? I've been getting it from Home depot it's about the same price
Buying steel from any hardware / big name store is going to be more expensive then if you can go to an actual steel distributor. You should really only buy it from said stores in quick situations like these, otherwise you’re just getting screwed over.
@@CarlosC77 metal supplier, in the UK I use metal4u
@@CarlosC77 Agreed. I bought a piece of bar for a project, and, though it felt "okay" for the price, it still had me kinda saying, "that's a bit on the expensive side."
It's getting pretty messed up when people just starting out with metal working get shafted. What helps is that I do have some fab shops near me that I can check out for junk metal.
@@CarlosC77 from steel yard
Good job! Been welding on the farm for 40 years and have had to fix some crap like that. As far as what you charge goes- that's between you and the customer. You told them a price and they accepted. Ignore the youtube idiots that said you charged too much
Great job under less than desirable conditions and at night! You just have to wonder why some people just don’t maintain their equipment before it becomes an emergency. I hope you made a lot of $$.
Because most people are lazy and can just pay to get it fixed rq
How do you maintain the water sitting in the bottom of a trailer, people don't have the time drain the water out of a closed frame
Those were perfectly cozy conditions 😂😎
@@CarlosC77 Drill a drain hole in the frame?? Easy solution.
@@24681359Davidoh ya, did you run it through your essay machine to see you had water in it before you drilled the hole? Or did you drop the hole so water wouldn't be trapped in your enclosed frame? Because if you just drilled a hole in your BOAT trailer, you now fill it with water every time you launch your boat.
Doesn't feel good when someone makes you look stupid just so you can make yourself feel smart.
Everybody wants to be a welder, until there's welding to be done after hours.
Money is money, no matter the time of day or night. As long as the price is agreeable, I would be out doing the very same.
Depends where you live I guess 🤣 here in Australia I'd rather be welding after hours. The days are just to damn hot
I like after hours welding but you have to have really good lighting and it has to be light in the right spot. You never want light going in the back of your welding helmet. I use high output LED plug in lighting.
@@icecaptain9378 Exactly!!
But that's part fo why I want to be a welder. I am more than happy to make $250/H at 2 am
That's some spec ops eyewash. That guy has loaded that boat before under less than ideal conditions. Great video!
Thanks 👍
You handled the problem and didn't rape them on after hours call. I think you were very reasonable on price. That is how you have grown your business, honest, quality work. Stay safe and God bless
Anthony, you are real hero and such great inpiration to all of us. I hope the customer appreciated your skill and service. Cheers.
Out of all the jobs I hate, repairs on rusted broken frames is #1.
Glad to see you got it done.
Haven't seen you for a while.
Nice repair! Those people are lucky you offer after hours service!
You got that right!
500 dollars is 500 dollars.
Doing what you do... making it happen. Be proud of the reputation you're building haus.
Hoss.
Nothing wrong with that job to get them on the road 👍👍
Cheers from Nova Scotia
I watch a lot of welding videos to learn and the thing I like about this one is that it is more typical of what I end up working with... rusty metal in the dark welding in whatever position I HAVE to weld in (though I do confess in my earlier days to actually tipping a trailer on its side to avoid welding vertical and upside down). Rarely am I welding brand new little billets on a pristine welding table in perfect temperature with perfect light and perfect hand support...
The only thing I think I would have done different was that last angle piece you welded on top. I think I would have welded it V down (corner up) and welded both edges as I think that would have been even stronger and would have looked better. Others can chime in and agree or disagree...
it may look better, though it doesnt actually add any integrity to your work to weld it corner up. you are only getting that trailer home at that point no amount of welding pieces of steel to the exterior of a rusted piece will absolve it of its greatest weakness.
500$ for an after hours 2-hour service call, seems a little underpriced but if that's USD, I guess nearly 700$ CAD makes sense with the exchange. Thanks for putting up videos like this, I'm at college right now taking welding and I hope to have a business like yours in the future.
What college ?
$500 seems about right actually around $200 an hour and then u add materials. Anything over $200 an hour I better see a whole refab job done to the trailer. Ive seen plenty of guys charging above pricing and can't weld for shit. So I don't think over charging is the right answer.
If this only took you 2 hrs, you way overcharged him
@@ebayollis No he didn't. An off hours on-call late-night service call is expensive. Try getting a plumber for 2 hours on christmas and see if it's not even more than that.
@@GodOfReality This wasn't Christmas.
You do good work, and you're worth your pay. Awesome job
I figured the " emergency " was gonna be ....the carnival ride I welded flew apart and now they are looking for me so I got to leave the state !!!! 😆🤣 cool video style on this one brother
Running back to the hills of Montana
Ending left me speechless. Earned my like 😂🤙
The company I work at would have charged over a thousand for that call!! Great job!!
You saved another person butt!! Good job thanks for telling us amperage again.. we are all learning
Just a suggestion for the future.
6011 is a great trash rod, but 6013 gives you a smoother cleaner weld.
Thanks Anthony. Ive been watching you over the last couple years and you're my favorite on here. Great stuff!
The video reminded me of an old friend of mine, who in the mid 80s started doing roadside repairs on 18 wheelers. Due to drive offs, he had to build this spiked piece of pipe to put between their tires that he would remove once they paid him. He also had to start carrying a shotgun. All because he got ripped a few times. Keep this in mind when doing roadside stuff.
Got the torch for that lol
@@MeltinMetalAnthony he said that twice the drivers said, "let me get my wallet", and just climbed in the truck, put it in gear and drove off while he was rolling up.
For cracks on metal you HAVE to put a small drill hole at the stop of the crack or it will just crack the rest of the way
If you read the description, he said it was going 15 miles. That crack is going to take more than 15-20 minutes to re-appear.
If you lay a bead over it you melt the metal that makes the crack and you make it solid again. wtf did you think welding was?
Did the exact same this friday. Firewood delivered to my door is a good swap i Norway 😅
Good job as always Anthony!
Great video and an excellent repair as all ways. No wonder it’s rotted out keep going in to water. Feel for your eye there’s nothing worst than crap in it hope it’s ok.
Thanks 👍
Anthony looked red eyed at the start but dangit boy if he didn't get it done, and done fast. Thanks for sharing metal man.
Thanks for watching brother!
It just does my heart ❤️ good seeing a welder 👨🏭 operating a grinder
Good job helping them put an end to a miserable night at Bayport. I sure hope we don't see a trailer with some rusty angle iron holding it together backing a pontoon down the ramp all summer.
Love the closing message 😂
Didn’t know they had eye wash kits like that, definitely getting one!
Been watching your channel for a while now and I love the content. You do a good job informing your viewers on how and why you do your jobs the way you do.
Thank you
I appreciate that!
500 is a steal at that time of the night, nice work!
Great videos, sir. I just found your channel and only had one question (maybe I missed it). Did you ever replace those marker lights you removed. It looked like you welded your one side piece halfway over the light hole. Thanks again for your well filmed videos.
Great video Meltin Metal Anthony! 🔥 Thank you! 💯
Genuinely just curious as to Y not turn that top piece of angle down /\ like so good work tho
It takes a lot more force to bend an upright piece of metal like that. The simplest way to explain it is the way the force is applied to the metal makes the width of the metal its thickness at the same time.
Awesome video dude. Your a hero that day.
feels weird you having a camera man/woman . i like it though.
Figured we’d give it a try
Amazing
@@MeltinMetalAnthonyyea and I am sure the cost is passed on to the client for this excess baggage. NO WAY PAL! ALSO SEEN YOUR SHORT ABOUT THE 1440 MAGICAL EARNINGS NUMBER PER DAY..... DREAMING..... NEVER GET THAT FROM ME.... YOU BE CHASED OFF THE PROPERTY BY YOUR OWN ELECTRODES.... SKILLED TRADESMAN.. GO TO THE LIBRARY AND GET A COUPLE BOOKS ON WELDING.... Meltin Metal you are quite funny...., 🤣
Men do so much ur sounding like a wife rn
@@gallogal7174 kids do so much worried bout the wrong thing rn
Love that you would have relieved their whole week with that repair, your service does more deeds then some
Good job! much respect for manning up and getting shit done!
Not gonna lie I like the eye rinse cups lol. Definitely gotta get some of those
I like your SAE350 Lincoln. It wasn’t as well known model and you don’t see them around here as the 200 or 300. Plenty of smoke for those 3/32 rods. Good job!
I love your channel cause it shows real life shit. Every job isn’t always going to be sunshine and rainbows. Even the best welders run into unexpected problems all the time. Its about how you adapt on the fly, and Anthony is good at getting shit done!
You just earned a subscribe with what people can do if they don't like the video.
Nice video. Thanks for the hammering to find bad metal tip.
Fine work as always. Love your the work you do. I hope to be in your position soon. Keep the good work up
I hope so too!
Nice work, and definitely a fair price for that job!
Looks decent, price is fine, customer is on the road - I don't understand the problem some posters have.
all the nighttime action looks great......
good job and your camera gal is rocking it out.....
.this is one of my favorite videos of yours.
Bravo.....Paulie in Orlando
Nice repair at good Ole Bayport. Been there many times. Nice job.
That was a good video. Good job welding that. I got a hope he's going to replace The tongue on that at a later date. To get rid of all the sketchy metal.
Fine job sir. That tube on the trailer tongue looks pretty thin for that size of a boat. Just my opinion I'm no engineer.
I'm not a certified welder but I weld decent and often. When I weld thicker plate to thin wall tube, I aim my rod mostly at the thicker steel and "whip" it into the tube real quick so I don't burn through. I can see there is good penetration, but if anyone who reads this is a pro can you please advise me if this technique is no good?
Wow, only $500? That’s cheap! You have a great price. Minimum for me would be $700.
Knew the background looked familiar. Was just at the home depot across from lowes in springhill today lol
AWESOME REPAIR , I GOT TO GET GAS WELDER UP AND RUNNING AGAIN
These jobs turn into more regular work. People hear that you're about it. Good deal.
My buddy does some metal stuff and has had to have metal removed from his eye before and last time I had some small but strong magnets and he got it out so we ordered him a 1"x"2"x1" and he has used it several times since obviously it only worked for iron not aluminum or stainless but still I'd keep one around
THAT CLOSING HAD ME DYING LOL SUBBED.
A machinist I know made $36,000 in a weekend repairing some road construction equipment. It was going to cost the company something like $50,000 for every day they went over and they were like "do whatever it takes to get it done"
Is there a reason for putting the angle on top the way it was? I agreed putting it up there helped structurally but the way I was thinking was setting the two legs down so the point was up, for aesthetics and structure or was it a "more welding area" scenario?
Keep up the great content, been watching for a while
The angle is better for the same reason I beam is better than a piece of flat steel. The vertical section provides stiffness in that axis. Get a piece of long flat metal, bend it one way and it folds by hand. Try bending it the other way, good luck.
I can feel your pain man
A nice little earner that job young man, well done.
Thanks 👍
Its so cool to see experience in action
Nice content! Nice to see how its going on the field
Great job. Been welding some cars, and tools for 10 years. if there was little wind, it woud saved you lots of time using MIG welder with arginmix. In my head, whats important is, weld hold for 10 years. it dosent need to look prity.
Or a nice little flux mig for on the fly.
You're like mechanic Mike with your Mrs on the job with you 😂👌
Hey brother i do lots of welding and grinding upsidedown, i really recommend wearing some 3m goggles under your hood. I once got a metal shard in my eye and I’ve work the goggles ever since
Lol nice disclaimer at the end there
Had to do this for a railing. I wish I could have just put a piece of angle iron and called it an evening. lol
Nice job $500 is about what I would charge for that not a big job but an emergency call. I recommend if you can trying to get on with a fleet so you don’t have to take all those random calls. I do mobile repairs for a couple of the state organizations here and now that’s all I do cause it pays more then enough sometimes there are weeks where I don’t have a single call. Sometimes I have five in one night though so has it’s ups and downs.
I like your jack i use the same one on my dullytek dhp7 to press fresh frosen flower or bubble hash
O damn that's a 20 ton I just used a ten ton but if it would have fit
I can’t say I’ve used it for that, but it has bailed me out quite a few times
Making me wanting to more pay attention to class even “more”
nice work as always Anthony👍
Thanks!
Dude what nice weather I’m still sitting here with snow in driveway lmao working with my yellow rubbers on hahaha
Tough job. Well done.
Nice fucking video I like the fact that you ain’t holding it no more time to get busy 👨🏽🏭👨🏽🏭👨🏽🏭
been there done that, in a snowstorm. Welding in the cold and snow sucks a$$.
Another job well done 🤙🏾
Anotherjobweldun👌
My only suggestion would be to do a 100% weld - stitch welding it strengthens it but doesn't keep water out.
As it is, water WILL get under the patch and start to rot it out again and not be visible and since it gets submerged it will get soaked under the patch and it is salt water (looks like it anyway).
After all, it did already rot out from the water it was in.
He said it’s a temporary repair for the guy to get his trailer to a shop to do a full repair
My favorite part of every video is when he says if we didn't like his video we can go F%&K ourselves, lol!! I love this channel and I love how he doesn't care about what ppl think. Very refreshing! Two thumbs up
Good repair only other thing I would have done was round off the corners on that piece of angle you put on top of the frame
Ya good suggestion
Yep, don’t want any sharp edges or stress risers.
Great job shit always happens at the most inconvenient time and place but such is life
Lowe's is good. Where else can you buy metal in an emergency after sundown.
What was that eye thing he used to get the metal out?
Link in the description
Get you some.Great stuff to have on hand.
How do you make the judgement on what steel thickness to use. I assume the trailer originally was a thicker and of course box. But as a patch how do you insure that what you've chosen is going to be strong enough to withstand not only trailer weight but in this case the weight of a boat and the abuse of road travel?
YOUR AWESOME JAM UP JOB!!!!
Need to hit up the large welding shops in the area. I befriended A guy and brings me all the scrap I need. They scrap anything under 4’.
You have every piece of safety equipment on besides safety glasses lol id take that as a lesson to wear them when you are welding upside down
They fog in Florida
Ahhhh I used to live there, weeki wachee, crystal river. Thank JESUS I don't anymore
Amazing video
Just a suggestion but I'm going to took some 316 plate and welded on top of that web in the trailer hitch
500 is cheap for that. Guy needs to put some drain holes in that trailer or it will make it's own
My service truck has a Lincoln electric 225 welder don’t really know how to stick weld but I’m going to practice for shits and giggles
I saw you using the water for your eye I got one of can totally relate
Where did you buy the thing for the eye? I find it very useful for when I get metal in my eye
Best way to make money. Odd jobs like that just come up randomly. Got paid $400 to cut some trees down with a chainsaw took us about 2.5 hours and it was pretty hot but got it done.
Nice repair man, don't always have to be pretty. Sometimes you just need to get it to work. Sometimes that rusty junk is a real pain in the ass. I deal with lots of rust daily. 🤦🏽♂️
Weeki wachee, brooksville fl my home town awesome to see this.
i love the outro's! keep up the good work & the vids coming, Brother!
guess thats why my instructor wont let me in the shop without safety glasses under the hood