That's what you call a PROPER repair rather than just a weld repair

I knew you would get comments about covering the chrome, considering you do this for a living you would think people would ask what you use rather than telling you what you need to do.

grease means that the operator actually cared about his tool

You made a very interesting comment about the lack of pre-heat during manufacture. I guess you don't get much for several hundred thousand pounds anymore, do we? I admire you ethic about always giving it back better and stronger than it was originally made! Hoping to see you hit 100K subs very soon! Rich

Thanks for this vid. I am about to start my work as service advisor by December and this vid maybe used for the future. I am from welding industry a technical engineer from Lincoln Electric. Great video!

Couldn’t help but notice you covered the cab glass up. Once had an intern in the shop doing some welding/grinding on the stick of an excavator, he sent so many sparks into that front cab glass we had to replace it!

The quality of your workmanship forced me to subscribe! I used to do this type of work for a living but I lazy assed out and went to work welding in a factory.

Another great video. 👍 Love seeing some real-life weld repairs on heavy kit. Keep em coming. 👨🏻‍🏭

The slag rolls off in one piece, excellent welding.

Just found u. Great vid, quality workmanship, a rare thing nowadays. Ty

Awesome repair!! Love the video!

Great job Allistair keep the vids coming I know there time consuming and times precious in our game but great to see 👍🏻

Another excellent job and video !. Thanks.

Great work lovely to watch someone with your experience tackle these jobs

I just found your channel. Pretty good stuff. I am also a welder/machinist here in the US working on heavy stuff. My guess is that repair would have been just fine without the supporting plates. But those plates will insure it will break someplace else 😀 cheers🍻

Brilliant video, good descriptive commentary. Very nice with the 2 extra plates. (More videos please)

Excellent work. Awesome repair. Looks great. Thank you for sharing.

I wouldnt second guess your work, it looks great!

the prep work involved in welding has got to be more time consuming than the welding itself

Great bit of engineering there, you should be more than happy to sign off on that job. Well done.

An old-hand trick for protecting the chromed rods was covering them in acetylene soot, back in't day before anti-spatter spray, lol!

thanks for explaining why you did the repair that way, I was just wondering " at what point is it more economical to just cut it off and start again". Good tip on the anti spatter spray as well!

What would a repair like this cost? Very talented work manship. 👍

amazing. just so perfect at the end

Boss job big guy. I would have liked to have watched more work being done though.

“ paint it Cat yellow and make it a bit stronger” love it! JCB made of Toffee

Your right. Snap-on's had its day. Milwaukee is the way to go and I love mine 😊

I enjoy your content enough to rewatch it :)

nice job with the pallets. if the welding thing don't work out ya might want to get into stair framing. I don't know what draws me to these heavy welding vids, but they sure hold my interest. thanks

Fantastic work well done , artists at works.

I would love to work on big machines like that. Unfortunately no apprenticeships for anything close near me and nobody hiring without experience :/ Love watching your videos, I always learn so much.

Crackin Job..i miss the fabrication & repair work...arthiritis has taken its toll on my knee's and now my hands..Great repair! Cj Midlands UK

Another Outstanding piece of craftsmanship!

With just one side of each plate beveled, how did you keep the work from drawing and locking the pin in place? Thanks and thanks for sharing! Loved the video.

G'day there , Thanks for sharing this repair with us , i just love these major repairs . Theres no doubt about your skills ,the welds n prep work speak for themselves . Im guessing you enjoyed a holiday down under recently ,, cos i got a good laugh from the root weld joke . But were good at mathematics too , We learn from an early age that if you subtract ,divide, then add give it a good square root, n it will multiply ,, if ya not carefull. Love your channel ,,keep on bringing it .. Much Respect from Down Under

You can use the soot from straight acetylene burning to protect the chrome. Not to say it works better but good men run out of supplies. Very nice repair! I like your ideas on pre heat and the plate you added for strength was masterfully done as well.

I love watching pros make shit look easy!

I always asked customers if they wanted to pay shop rate for degreasing parts... pay a flunky 1/5 shop rate.

Beautiful job...looks better than new

Thank you. Those are good deep wels. I love my mig welder and I covet that cutting table.LOL.

Great video, I know where to come now if I ever brake something ! Does just leaving the pin in stop the holes moving ? I imagine it would nip tbe pin and not be able to get it out ?? Thank Paul

Its mint that the plates didn't pull so you could remove the pin after welding and put it back in, it had me wondering when you said youd weld it with the pin in, great job! ps flux core is my favourite wire too

Great stuff, what machine is the best built?...

Just found your channel..interesting stuff good content. Love this kind of shit it AWESOME. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great tip on the anti spatter spray!

Nice work!

Nice job that 👍🏻 we have done the same machine onsite but replace both hangers and x2 new bosses 10 hour shift 💪🏻

not sure if it’s been mentioned here, but the broken grease point @ 11.02 will be a huge contributor to the damage done to this machine by a less than mindful operator. Lease company machines are a far cry from a bright owner operator’s steed . Lovely repair detail, no need for new lugs. I am surprised you didn’t grind your welds back for style on your class 1, under the finish coat of primer and paint cover? Great video 👍

Ah duel sheild....nice . That's what I run in my suitcase. Nice work

Nice repair. Man having a burn table would be sweet.

Love watching a pro at work, especially heavy Equipment repairs, a master at your trade. It's hard to believe what punishment company do to there Equipment, especially there lack of Maintenance. Or even daily maintenance like Grease Equipment daily. Especially at prices for heavy-duty Equipment these days. In 1975 I bought a bran knew Backhoes for $24,000 dollars, now that same size Equipment will cost Approximately 150.000. 🤪

awesome job!!!!!

Great repair super strong Regards Steve UK London

I know this is a sensitive question but as a new shop that I'm trying to build up, what would you say a good price or a way to figure a good charge and fair for jons like this, ibe got a crane boom I've got to start tomorrow and I just dont know what the going rates are for projects like this, thanks for the vids and hope to hear from you soon , Michael

Love seeing another side of the metalworking trades. Kinda surprised you didn't use more solvents to knock that grease out. At least in my shop, some brake cleaner or contact cleaner is the typical way to deal with grease.

Superb work!

I really appreciated the explanation of your methodology. Thank you @10:54 what was the reasoning for not tying the new plate all the way along the seem?

Thats a good time saving tip for protecting the chrome lad cheers

Great video would love to see some close ups of you welding!

I'd be awful nervous welding something like that without a pin going through the ram ears and I'd try to get most of the welding done before taking pin out. 3M add-flows work good but extremely expensive...

I enjoy your videos. What wire/size did you use before you switched over to flux core? What wire/size flux core did you use to finish your welds with?

Bloody beautiful 😂😂 I like that!

Looks excellent! What wire do you run for yellow steel (equipment like this)? I've run a ton of Lincoln NR233 (d1.8 spec for earthquake structural) sized at .072" and I would think it would do the trick. What were your preheat and interpass temperatures? I'm assuming you gouged the backs out of your roots and filled them back in, yeah?

Are you using short circuit on the weld ?

Question, why use wire feed dual shield over stick welding? Stick welding had a higher rating for strength. Just a question.

Now that's how it's done🥰🥰🥳

That repair is stout. As you say, preparation is the key.

I am new to your channel and have a simplistic question. Are you using both gas shielding and Flux core?

Cat yellow joke is on point!

Love the “comment” on the “CAT” - YELLOW PAINT: making it last longer , Arrogant CAT. Techs the world over will love that statement LOL ! You’re spot-on with your observation on the buss gun trend it was 100% Snap-On : Now 100% Milwaukee a few IR ,Great VIDJA’s !!!!!!!! To the point 👍🏻

Better than new. Proper fix.

Any chance of another look around the hymac crane would be great 👍

Looking great.

if there wasn't any heavy equipment there would be no foundations for me to play with my nails and wood on. if there weren't no welders there would not be anyone to keep this heavy equipment in shape to do their jobs.

Thanks for another good video, welders hate grease, but as a mechanic if some guys actually used it, it would help me no end when the pins /bushings weren't all chewed to crap needing a machine shop and a welder. Or the pins are seized in so tight it's a days fight getting them out to do a repair. Do you see loads of the same repairs on those model machines or is part of it the guy in the seat pulling the controls, if it's him it will be back when he busts the next weakest link in that boom doing the same thing. But hey we all need to make money to pay bills somehow L.O.L .

Very good! I've just had a gander at JCB's website where the boasting about the superior strength of the steel used that will defy failure even under the most arduous conditions, is almost laughable in light of what Alistair has just done! It would be good to know if Cat, Volvo and others of similar size have the same failure rate at the same hours of work.

Some preheat even on this thickness for a MIG weld is probably the thing to do. I would heat even stick welding the root pass myself. To me just a little insurance of good penetration.

Great video, ball park figures, how much can a job like that cost?

Thanks for the chrome tip

Great video again . Did you weld at the welds with the flux core wire or just the first run . Why do you use hardox 450 plate . Would s355j2+n plate be as strong and cheaper then hardox and the metals would be same in welding.. with the flux core wire do use welding gas or just the wire . Do you have to change the welding liner in the touch and tips . I tried about 20 Years ago using a Lincoln plant and wire in vertical up in a single v 15 mm plate in a test pei

1.5 day *very fast. A place the customer would like to be. Awesome repair. M

Keep your videos coming. Thank 🧒

Lovely looking repair .I didn't realise you had to measure and draw out the plates I thought the guy on the laser cutter would of done that for ya just goes to show that your even better at your job than I thought you were and I already thought you were perfection. 🙂👍👍👍

Top class repair job done properly.

How much of those spools of welding wire you use a week?

Nice work 👍🏻

cant tell if you were slagging-off JCB, or CAT with the paint comment?.. Very nice work for sure👍🏻👍🏻.

Did you run a solid wire root?

Tried de-greasing with a steam cleaner? Seems to be a bit of a jewelery thing, but close enough.

Greetings from the American west coast! I love your content!!

This is another great example to my earlier question about "Why don't the Manufactures put more strength into these stress points" Your answer was awesome and it rears its ugly head again. Is JCB a high quality Manufacturer? and if so, do all of these have the same problems or is one the clear cut favorite IYO?!

I would imagine that you would fall on the floor somebody told you to do it right once. At least they know where it's going to fail the next time again.

I remember the first time using that E71T-1 flux core. Had to invest in better gloves, 250 amps that stuff burns HOT 🤑

Nice work 👍 Think it's a jcb not 100% sure

Excellent welding

Just found your channel brilliant videos. Is it your own business

very good missing the yellow spraying

Just think of yourself a grinder artist you are making something good and strong thanks for sharing

Love ur repair videos Alistair. Excuse me nievety but whats the difference between the flux core mig wire your using there and gassless flux core wire

From the state of the pin,tell the operator to try a bit of grease!