No horrible music, no overly-theatrical commenting, "WOW LOOK AT THAT!!! WOOOOOOW, SO EXTREEEEEEEM!!!". Just showing the work with natural sounds and just enough commentary to explain what's going on.
@@krisbrzezina2289 yep it’s the most annoying thing ever when creators ruin decent content with crappy, barely audible or occasionally loud, music. This and CEE are my favourite engineering channels.
Waiting for bucket blade replacements is like waiting for a bus in a big city, no buses for ages, and then three come along at the same time. Keep up the great work ;)
That's a full days work. Damn nice engineering, Olliver. The plasma gouge is amazing--and no gouge rod expense. Thanks for letting us watch. Stay warm, mate...not much winter left to endure. Cheers.
Oliver, what I like about your repairs is that you tend to go one step further and improve the equipment making it stronger and more durable than standard. Also, you can tell you're from farming heritage by your incredible ability to only apply red oxide primer to the work you've done and nowhere else 😂
I was going to also comment on how his repairs turn out better than the OEM's original build. That’s likely because the OEM "value engineers" their products to maximize profit, often at the expense of useful life before needing repair components or replacement. By Oliver adding value and life to the repaired unit, he guarantees future considerations when the owner needs more repairs. Very smart business model, but I’m sure he just looks at it as "doing it the right way!"
Great job Ollie ! I know what you are talking about, don't do a job for a while then you get a bunch in a row 😂. Keep up the great work ! Will be waiting on your next post's. Great Sunday morning video's in Texas
Why is this stuff so interesting?? I like watching you open up Machinery or change the original spec to something that can deal with what it's actually used for. Improvement and the why and how is like a life tutoring in engineering. I wish I had a calm Tutor like him to learn from.Even showing all the shit that goes wrong...bc that's life & totally normal. Thumbs *UP* Oliver!!😎👍💪
Some interesting jobs there, all done nicely. I like the way you make allowances for design inadequacies and add modifications to improve on the original design. I see it in many of the jobs that you do. Giving the customer back something better than original.
Nobody has ever been able to explain that phenomenon to me either Oly! You don't do a job for months and then a whole spare of them arrive together.... 😮😅 Very strange but happens a lot.
On vertical welding start with welding at a 45 angle (on a plate as an exercise) , then slowly twist the homework till you get vertical. When i was doing it for the first time, that's how i did it. It's all about moving in tandem with the pool. You can also play around with the pool at various settings to see what it does (when it starts losing it etc), that helped. The faster you understand what the molten metal does, the faster you'll get the hang of it. Feed and speed are your bread, but the butter is figuring out what the metal does in response, IMHO. If you have issues with it, you can also continue rotating until you reach upside down. I've gotten pretty decent at it. Still have a few booboos here and there, but it's a huge game changer for heavy stuff you can't rotate, like working under equipment. Bonus, welding circles (kinda like that penmanship exercise where you keep making a spiral, moving the circle one more cm to the right) clockwise and anti clockwise, without lifting. That's an all rounder exercise that i got taught by a really good elevator shaft welder. Making stacks in that pattern is peak mastery. He was laying some really beautiful patterns when he showed me, straight out of a textbook.
As usual Oliver a fabulous video of a series of repairs and adaptions to farm machinery with an emphasis on producing the best possible result for the customer, I particularly like the no-nonsense way you explain your thinking on how you are going to do the job, the possible problems and the outcome you wish to achieve.
Another great, full length video. Thanks Oliver. Maybe you heard me shouting at the TV ‘take your earth clamp off’ when you were preheating and ‘put a fire blanket over the hydraulic hoses’ when you were plasma gouging 😂😂😂. It’s become part of our Sunday morning routine to get the dinner on and watch your videos. Thanks. Great job. Mike and Nicky
The reason so many replacement hitch rings are welded on the bottom is customers don't want to pay for the extra work cutting open the drawbar. Nice work Snowy, the sort that pays the bills - keep you a troshing.😊
I enjoy your videos great insight into the farm equipment repair world. Re the replacement drawbar ring: I know you put it back the way it was originally but maybe a piece of angle iron welded to each side of the ring would have made it stronger. No criticism, you probably know far better than me.
No, he really should’ve put it underneath the bar, cut holes through the trailer and welded it up from two sides and then again through the top holes like he did on that big straw trailer a few vids back. Butt that ring is really only rated at #6- #10,000 lbs so you can count on whatever he’s doing will be an overkill. But, You never know farmers play by their own rules.
I wouldn’t have welded on the sides of the drawbar, either. it clearly didn’t need it for the old one and the old one was easier to remove because of it, you’ve just made it harder to remove the new one when that needs replacing. I think you did the right thing welding it as triffitt did it.
U just have to smile with the farmer attitude...bring u the job and to save a little bring the cut off brackets for u to weld on ...priceless lol well I ges it saved u making them ....nice to have a little variety in ya day ....those guys with the buckets must be watching u on the tube lol ...awesome content keep up the good work...
I am NOT a good welder or even a fair one. I do enjoy watching those excellent beads you lay down. I also watch a lot of welding how-to videos and I have seen a few extolling the benefits of dual shield in vertical and overhead. For what it's worth.
It's good to see that you look after your personal safety, using protective gear and guards on angle grinders and the like. I see so many idiots on RUclips not even using hearing protection or guards on angle grinders.
When you flipped the bucket back to weld the top side of the new wear edge, and set the Porto-power to jack out the bow in the front edge, I noticed that there seemed to be a sharper than probably desired compensation. Maybe using a longer section of square tube as the brace for the Porto-power next time would allow for a straighter correction of the front edge. …just a thought…
Olly have you seen that new gouger Isaac from ICWeld has? It’s a straight end cutter and it’s quick (in his hands). You might want to check it out. He was real happy with it, doing exactly what you’re doing but on a piece that required some real contortions. I love you both .
Great work as usual ,I would have thought from a labour /cost point of view just to have cut off the eye and welded a stepped eye underneath would have been the best solution .you had your reasons for doing it your way
I’ve been watching your videos for a while - as a farmer that does his own repairs it’s nice to watch someone else working in a similar environment. Good to see you investing in equipment and moving forward like you are. That bucket has seen some use - I wonder if the customer would benefit from a bolt on edge in the long term?
Hey Hey Oliver!! Great jobs!!! Just a thought… I think I’d have also plug welded that eye tounge from underneath. A totally feel-good thing, I know. Not needed whatsoever, but it would have been a real strength multiplier and a nice feel good moment knowing that was done. Plus, you could’ve engaged in a bit of mischief and totally hidden it to frustrate the next guy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes, thats what i was thinking, even when you get to seventy (which will probably be retirement age by then)the local farmers will be bringing stuff in and saying “do think you could just mend this for me please,”😀.
I think I’d be tempted to drill a hole or two in the large rectangular part, and do some really big plug welds on that. There isn’t a lot of weld for such a big part, I’m positive it will hold as you have done a better job than the manufacturer did.
Your abilities are very impressive. Your video style even more. I am only curious to know, does your family own the farm you work out of? I notice your pop is around quite a bit. Cheers young man. Thank you much for the entertainment.
I'm old fashioned, Oliver. I'd have stick welded that Lunette in with 7018. Even dual shield on a big Mig welder I wouldn't trust to get good penetration on a part that thick. I'd have only wire fed the top plate back on. (Besides, I just love SMAW.)
Was anybody else surprised by how little weld held that ring in place, appears to have done its job though. Often wondered what the joint looked like in the drawbar. When those thermal cameras first came out 30+ years ago they would only read from Matt black surfaces and cost many thousands of pounds, now only a few quid 😳
Oliver can you show a video of how that draw bar system works on that massey tractor. Looks a neat system. Never seen it before, Not in Kiwi land anyway,
No horrible music, no overly-theatrical commenting, "WOW LOOK AT THAT!!! WOOOOOOW, SO EXTREEEEEEEM!!!". Just showing the work with natural sounds and just enough commentary to explain what's going on.
must admit this is what i like about this channel its all work and no Bull Dust
yep no shitty music
@@krisbrzezina2289 yep it’s the most annoying thing ever when creators ruin decent content with crappy, barely audible or occasionally loud, music.
This and CEE are my favourite engineering channels.
@Mishn0 and then you had to spoil the idyllic serenity with irrelevant nonsense.
Check out on fire welding he’s pretty good aswell
Methinks those farmers probably don't realize how lucky they are to have you.
We aren't so lucky in these parts.
No those do know look at the work he gets
Very true in my area as well.
Waiting for bucket blade replacements is like waiting for a bus in a big city, no buses for ages, and then three come along at the same time. Keep up the great work ;)
Another batch of better than original fixes for the farming community. Well done Oliver!
That's a full days work. Damn nice engineering, Olliver. The plasma gouge is amazing--and no gouge rod expense. Thanks for letting us watch. Stay warm, mate...not much winter left to endure. Cheers.
Oliver, what I like about your repairs is that you tend to go one step further and improve the equipment making it stronger and more durable than standard. Also, you can tell you're from farming heritage by your incredible ability to only apply red oxide primer to the work you've done and nowhere else 😂
I was going to also comment on how his repairs turn out better than the OEM's original build. That’s likely because the OEM "value engineers" their products to maximize profit, often at the expense of useful life before needing repair components or replacement. By Oliver adding value and life to the repaired unit, he guarantees future considerations when the owner needs more repairs. Very smart business model, but I’m sure he just looks at it as "doing it the right way!"
3 different jobs in one video. Brilliant. Thank you for sharing
7am here from across the pond. Nothing like Oliver and a cuppa Joe to kickstart my morning. Gonna be a fantastic day!
I hear yea brother
love your work and that you only explain stuff once and it's to the point and non of that rubbish Music just sound of work great job thanks you Cheers
My perfect weekend starts on friday with CEE and finishes on sunday with snowball engineering keep up the great vids 👍
3 good repairs done. All straight forward for a man with your skills. Thanks for taking us along as you do them.
Brian from South Yorkshire.
It's Sunday with snowball. Great video
Snowball is better than meet the press lol
Another episode of "where is this going..?" which I like and learn from. Thank you mr. Snowball!
Great job Ollie ! I know what you are talking about, don't do a job for a while then you get a bunch in a row 😂. Keep up the great work ! Will be waiting on your next post's. Great Sunday morning video's in Texas
Nice one Ollie , the weather is looking a bit better,nice to be able to work with the doors open eh . 👍
Why is this stuff so interesting?? I like watching you open up Machinery or change the original spec to something that can deal with what it's actually used for. Improvement and the why and how is like a life tutoring in engineering. I wish I had a calm Tutor like him to learn from.Even showing all the shit that goes wrong...bc that's life & totally normal.
Thumbs *UP* Oliver!!😎👍💪
Love my Sunday morning coffee and Snowball Engineering videos. Keep up the good work bud
Thanks for sharing. Always enjoyable, interesting and informative. Plus get to see a bit of other side of the pond. Greetings from NE rural Ohio, USA
Another excellent video Ollie and a diverse trio of jobs, Sunday’s posts from yourself are always anticipated and enjoyed!!!
Another outstanding video. well done. The content this weekend gives a deeper look into your skills. Thanks John. 😊
Oliver, it is great to watch you do the splendid work you do, and watch you learn and use new skills.
Some interesting jobs there, all done nicely. I like the way you make allowances for design inadequacies and add modifications to improve on the original design. I see it in many of the jobs that you do. Giving the customer back something better than original.
Hello Oliver from the USA...3 for one!! Outstanding!
Such a pleasure to watch good craftsmanship.
3 great jobs in 1 video, congrats Oly.
Well done.
Thank you for sharing, always a pleasure watch your project, I learn a lot, you are a good teacher and entertainer 👍👍👍👍
Great work Oliver, love the way you present the jobs you do.
A professional engineer and a pleasure to watch. PETER LINDOP UK.
Another great video on a Sunday morning, keep them coming Oliver 👍👍
Good work! Feed bucket went very neatly!
Phil
As per usual nice and tidy, welds and planning are brilliant. 👍
Nobody has ever been able to explain that phenomenon to me either Oly! You don't do a job for months and then a whole spare of them arrive together.... 😮😅 Very strange but happens a lot.
I've had days when there are 4-5 white cars in the garage (or black or silver). 🤯
Very true and they all want them done yesterday
It's like buses, you don't see one for ages and then they all turn up at once. 🤣
..."feast or famine"-(?)
23:03...we'll let that slide...
get it? get it? get it?
(snucker-snucker-snucker!!!)
On vertical welding start with welding at a 45 angle (on a plate as an exercise) , then slowly twist the homework till you get vertical. When i was doing it for the first time, that's how i did it. It's all about moving in tandem with the pool. You can also play around with the pool at various settings to see what it does (when it starts losing it etc), that helped. The faster you understand what the molten metal does, the faster you'll get the hang of it. Feed and speed are your bread, but the butter is figuring out what the metal does in response, IMHO.
If you have issues with it, you can also continue rotating until you reach upside down. I've gotten pretty decent at it. Still have a few booboos here and there, but it's a huge game changer for heavy stuff you can't rotate, like working under equipment.
Bonus, welding circles (kinda like that penmanship exercise where you keep making a spiral, moving the circle one more cm to the right) clockwise and anti clockwise, without lifting. That's an all rounder exercise that i got taught by a really good elevator shaft welder. Making stacks in that pattern is peak mastery. He was laying some really beautiful patterns when he showed me, straight out of a textbook.
Absolutely fantastic stuff.
I can’t believe that digger bucket is only THREE years old and already needs rebuilding??!
It sees a huge amount of work though compared to the average farm bucket
As usual Oliver a fabulous video of a series of repairs and adaptions to farm machinery with an emphasis on producing the best possible result for the customer, I particularly like the no-nonsense way you explain your thinking on how you are going to do the job, the possible problems and the outcome you wish to achieve.
I’m offshore, Nightshift and I was hoping you’d post a video today that I could watch in bed, you didn’t disappoint 🤙👌
Another great, full length video. Thanks Oliver. Maybe you heard me shouting at the TV ‘take your earth clamp off’ when you were preheating and ‘put a fire blanket over the hydraulic hoses’ when you were plasma gouging 😂😂😂. It’s become part of our Sunday morning routine to get the dinner on and watch your videos. Thanks. Great job. Mike and Nicky
The reason so many replacement hitch rings are welded on the bottom is customers don't want to pay for the extra work cutting open the drawbar.
Nice work Snowy, the sort that pays the bills - keep you a troshing.😊
3 fer on this video Ollie, happy days mate, lovely stuff fabbing those all up mate
Stay warm and have a good un
That is a busy forklift you have there, it's a real work-horse. And a good job on all three as usual.
Another great video to go with the coffee
I enjoy your videos great insight into the farm equipment repair world. Re the replacement drawbar ring: I know you put it back the way it was originally but maybe a piece of angle iron welded to each side of the ring would have made it stronger. No criticism, you probably know far better than me.
No, he really should’ve put it underneath the bar, cut holes through the trailer and welded it up from two sides and then again through the top holes like he did on that big straw trailer a few vids back. Butt that ring is really only rated at #6- #10,000 lbs so you can count on whatever he’s doing will be an overkill. But, You never know farmers play by their own rules.
Sunday’s finest is here
I can smell the red oxide from here Oliver.😂🤣😂. Great engineering jobs.
Always interesting videos from you Oliver
I wouldn’t have welded on the sides of the drawbar, either. it clearly didn’t need it for the old one and the old one was easier to remove because of it, you’ve just made it harder to remove the new one when that needs replacing. I think you did the right thing welding it as triffitt did it.
That trailer will be scrap before that towing eye ever need changed again
@@gregshearer423 yea I thought that too, tbf
Excellent episode, as usual.
Great video. You covered a lot of ground. Good filming. Thanks
Looks like the weather changed from rain to wind. It has been blowing over on this side of the pond also
Thanks Oliver again, you and CEE are the best. 😀☺️👌 Tasmania Australia.
another job well done.
cheers ben.
U just have to smile with the farmer attitude...bring u the job and to save a little bring the cut off brackets for u to weld on ...priceless lol well I ges it saved u making them ....nice to have a little variety in ya day ....those guys with the buckets must be watching u on the tube lol ...awesome content keep up the good work...
Always an enjoyable watch.
Thanks for sharing Oliver 👍🏻
These new tools are sure coming in handy
I think that auger bucket is a sand bedding dispenser.
Also that flatbed needs a new floor!
The customer is using it for feed.
Yes it does! Not my trailer tho
Top work again, not sure how your land is but if it does not dry up it will be Cuckoo wheat or Barley...!!
I am NOT a good welder or even a fair one. I do enjoy watching those excellent beads you lay down. I also watch a lot of welding how-to videos and I have seen a few extolling the benefits of dual shield in vertical and overhead. For what it's worth.
Oliver... Always making stuff better than new... Love it... Dave
Vertical up welding looks great, well done! 👍👍
I usually build up drawbar rings with weld rather than cut the whole thing out. Give it a good preheat and it's absolutely fine.
It's good to see that you look after your personal safety, using protective gear and guards on angle grinders and the like. I see so many idiots on RUclips not even using hearing protection or guards on angle grinders.
Think you Still needing that gantry crane building,great work as always
Yes, would be good!
Another 3 jobs well done exlant job.
that was like a hole week of work. thanks for your time.
1 and a half days
Enjoyed the video, what bit of equipment would you like to get next?
A bed mill would be good but I don’t know if I’d have the space
Just what I want, no nonsense! Keep them coming.
Sent hear by a friend Good solid down to earth repairs and mods
Another awesome video young Oliver.
Very impressive.
From kiwi land.
Hey Oliver, nice work again 😊😎👍
Great work again there young man.
Tidy job fella good work and good equipment
At 28:35 I like how you use a broom rather than one of those noisy (and much more expensive) blowers.
I was expecting a bang when you turned the bucket over 🤠
When you flipped the bucket back to weld the top side of the new wear edge, and set the Porto-power to jack out the bow in the front edge, I noticed that there seemed to be a sharper than probably desired compensation. Maybe using a longer section of square tube as the brace for the Porto-power next time would allow for a straighter correction of the front edge.
…just a thought…
Only mentioned it because you’re usually so detail focused and consistent deliver a quality product. 👍
Thank you for sharing Ollie
Yes indeed nothing to distract you from the rea reason of viewing his video good job thanks for sharing
top trio of jobs there Snow.
Olly have you seen that new gouger Isaac from ICWeld has? It’s a straight end cutter and it’s quick (in his hands). You might want to check it out. He was real happy with it, doing exactly what you’re doing but on a piece that required some real contortions. I love you both .
Great work as usual ,I would have thought from a labour /cost point of view just to have cut off the eye and welded a stepped eye underneath would have been the best solution .you had your reasons for doing it your way
I’ve been watching your videos for a while - as a farmer that does his own repairs it’s nice to watch someone else working in a similar environment. Good to see you investing in equipment and moving forward like you are. That bucket has seen some use - I wonder if the customer would benefit from a bolt on edge in the long term?
Hey Hey Oliver!! Great jobs!!! Just a thought… I think I’d have also plug welded that eye tounge from underneath. A totally feel-good thing, I know. Not needed whatsoever, but it would have been a real strength multiplier and a nice feel good moment knowing that was done. Plus, you could’ve engaged in a bit of mischief and totally hidden it to frustrate the next guy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The next guy would probably be me 🤣
Yes, thats what i was thinking, even when you get to seventy (which will probably be retirement age by then)the local farmers will be bringing stuff in and saying “do think you could just mend this for me please,”😀.
That’s a lovely 390 you have moving the trailer
I think I’d be tempted to drill a hole or two in the large rectangular part, and do some really big plug welds on that. There isn’t a lot of weld for such a big part, I’m positive it will hold as you have done a better job than the manufacturer did.
Your abilities are very impressive. Your video style even more.
I am only curious to know, does your family own the farm you work out of? I notice your pop is around quite a bit.
Cheers young man. Thank you much for the entertainment.
Another great video! thanks again!
Thanks for the videos. Jobs well done.
Nice trifecta of content!
Nice work as usual, but that attachment system the farmer wanted added, looks very small for the size of that bucket.
The MF390 looks clean.....
Amazing work like always!
Oliver. You might consider hanging a wet rag over the tube of your ram whilst welding to guard against spatter eroding the seals.
Well done man. Owesome job
I'm old fashioned, Oliver. I'd have stick welded that Lunette in with 7018. Even dual shield on a big Mig welder I wouldn't trust to get good penetration on a part that thick. I'd have only wire fed the top plate back on. (Besides, I just love SMAW.)
When it’s only welded to 6mm plate then there’s no point in having any more penetration than the base material thickness
My experience is that there will be little to no penetration in the thick material regardless of the penetration of the thin material.
Literally every trailer in the UK will have had the eye MIG welded on! No manufacturer is going to piss about with a stick!
Was anybody else surprised by how little weld held that ring in place, appears to have done its job though. Often wondered what the joint looked like in the drawbar. When those thermal cameras first came out 30+ years ago they would only read from Matt black surfaces and cost many thousands of pounds, now only a few quid 😳
Oliver can you show a video of how that draw bar system works on that massey tractor.
Looks a neat system. Never seen it before, Not in Kiwi land anyway,
Clean looking 390 😍
Great that you are busy😁
Thanks Oliver 😊
What a mint Massey Ferguson 😊
Great pair of hands