I spend 9 or 10 hours a day running heavy equipment then come home and watch people running heavy equipment on KZfaq. Do what you love

I know exactly what you mean 😏. A friend of mine has a saying, “steal with your eyes”. There’s always something you can learn!

You bet I am retired and still take time to watch u tube.

A mate of mine who was a 'Gun' wardrobe installer told me that he would do similar, spending long hours working each day installing and then use time spent driving or in shower or dreaming of ways to speed up his workflow in order to get the work done faster so that he could go home earlier each day. He said that focusing so much mental effort that way meant that he ended up dreaming up some techniques to help him at work. So there is that sort of aspect to watching Isaac at work, you can see how he goes about tackling a tricky situation and some of those techniques will be buried in your mind and will pop up to help you when you encounter something similar. You may find that others that you work with or around may comment 'How did you work that out or come up with that idea?' You can either let them think that you are a genius or let them in on the Isaac. I don't repair heavy equipment but there is always something to learn from Isaac and working in school maintenance like I do, just about anything can come across my workbench. Mark from Melbourne Australia

Bruce, I as well know exactly what you mean. I’m not a welder, but a person that owns a welder and can stick two pieces of metal with the aforementioned, then I turn Isaac’s channel on and see how the pro’s do it! There’s just something about watching a person at the top of the game do what they do

You gotta check out cutting edge Australia. Dudes takes fixing shit like this to the next level

@@stlnation alistairc123 a guy from northern Ireland does similar work and bigger. His shop has huge lathes and mills as well.

@@stlnation 💯% AGREE ... Kurtis @ Cutting Edge Engineering, CEE, is an awesome and talented dude and his GF Karen is an amazing videographer. Homey, the security chief, is no slouch either.

@@Curlyim2 💯% agree again, Alistair is another awesome hard working and interesting fellow ... check out his model collecting too.

They do where I work, the local Caterpillar dealer.......

Very true for the good fathers. I have great memories of doing things with or watching my dad until 15 then I lost him. He taught me so much and as an adult I have had the same ability to do most anything needed. I have missed and regretted not having him in my adult life.

Right now my dad is a zombie upstairs with dementia. He doesn’t understand the vaccum bag gets full and it doesn’t work or how to operate a toaster. Life kicks you when you least expect it.

@@FrancisoDoncona What a terrible thing, I just lost a sister to it, I would rather be struck by lightning.

SO SO TRUE .

@@FrancisoDoncona YER HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT . KEEP YOUR CHIN UP .

The industrial revolution was not done by small shops

I heard an interview that the Saturn 5 rocket that got us to the moon could not be built today because the lost art of how welders welded back in the day. The welders were true artest and improvisors during the construction of the Saturn 5. They came up with very clever ways of welding in locations that seemed impossible to do today! Crazy but true story! That rocket was at the very tip of the threshold on what was possible in the 1960s/1970s. Those welders were just as important as the engineers!

Da mus mann genau wisen wie krefte auf treten und wie mann sie apleitet . Und wie mann stag beanspruchte Stelen fersterkt danke ❤

Woodworking is often MORE precise than welding. I wish they made welding wire for wood. If it interests you as a craft I recommend oxy-acetylene which is the most versatile process and very affordable.

Broken Banana is the phrase indeed! What a f!@#&%g mess! Mark from Melbourne Australia

"broken banana jobs" That's what happens when you don't use the metric system. ;-)

Same here dude

Grew up the same way and when transition to industrial off the farm work was much better than those city boys that only had classroom education experience

@texasrancher9318 I dig on the coast of Maine we have some of the hardest ledge on earth, that break to me looked like an over swing into an immovable object or something crazy. We run hammers, crushers etc never seen anything like that.

You're just not doing it wrong enough.

You boys have got to stop caring for your machines and start playing rough with them.

@@texasrancher9318 Similar paint colour is one thing that I have noticed but given that I am not in the USA or Texas, I have no idea as to the mix of machinery brands available and being used on sites. We now have ten to a dozen brands in the excavator market in Australia. I just confirmed that there are 10 well recognised brands in Australia and possibly more outside of the list that I looked at, probably smaller Korean and Chinese brands. Mark from Melbourne Australia

What are they doing to cause the damage like that ????

Thank you man. I appreciate you saying that and Im glad it brought back good memories.

A manufacturer isn't really obligated to redesign a product just because the end user abuses it and stresses it beyond the design parameters. How many times have you watched FEL's haul, spin, or bounce around on the front axle while the rear of the machine hangs in the air? Of course, it's going to fail....

Just got done watching Kurtis channel myself, 😂 🖐 from o HI Oooo 🇺🇸

Two best machining/fabricating channels on YT!!

​@@Watchyn_Yarwood💯👍🙂

I certainly concur with that sentiment. That only does Curtis do fantastic work but it’s fun to listen to him talk. As a matter fact, both Curtis and Isaac talk funny.

I deal with type issues all the time and find there’s no inspection of equipment in place . Operators just keep going until it quits. Probably don’t check fluids or any wear parts.

You can do it!

A artist at work ! . It makes me wonder what kind of abuse that equipment goes through before it snaps like that

I'm 72 and have been retired a few years but I experienced similar situations. People didn't understand stress risers , fatigue and it's relationship with failure. Something as simple as an arc strike can be the origin of a failure. Nothing more satisfying than a beautifully welded repair or new fabrication.

Awesome, thank you!

I have to add this , it seems like most of the tractor boom repairs you do are on Cat backhoes . This tells me don’t buy a cat !

This is a factory part from @hypertherm themselves. its mostly used for scrapping type of work.

They are a game changer for sure. I’m not sure how much they are now but I paid close to 2k for just my torch. Duramax I think they call it now.

Thank you. I wish i had 500k subs too! It would help compensate for the time involved in editing these crazy videos. 😁😁😁

@@ICWeld But we appreciate your work more Isaac!

We definitely do appreciate it. If I don’t get my dose of IC welding I go into withdrawals.

Ha!.. Thats a big pair of shoes to fill. Nots sure I compete with the guys that do repairs at big mines or quarries. Thank you though.😉😊👍

It sure is!!. Its crazy pricey but its one of those things that you immediately appreciate. Such a handy tool. Less heat input. instant cut, etc.

Amen

Those tabs are the work of an artist...pride in his work.

That is what I was told, but then I started watching these Europeans with their tilt/rotate heads where they do alot of digging, filling and leveling with the swing, so now I have questions.

Thanks for the sub!