For all you people out there that say these kids are spoiled and get everything handed to them, I'll bet 90% of your kids haven't done a honest day's work in their life! These boys will be successful in anything they decide to do because the parents instilled a work ethic early in life! Thank you once again for raising productive human beings!

It warms my old heart to see your sons working with you Clint. You are blessed.

Great to see a documented, accurate comparison without being full of assumptions and opinions. I think its great that you are teaching your sons a trade that could turn into careers for them. We need skilled trades people to replace an aging workforce. As always, C&C Equipment continues to work at a higher level. Good job Clint!

Everything you show I have done. I used to burn 50 lb of these welding rods every night building massive steel roof trusses. I could smash the steel truss with my 5 lb hammer and 90 % of the flux would pop off. Man can you put the metal down with rod. I did this from 3:00 pm to 12:00 am while I was in College. I went right to bed and was in class at 7:00 am. I think I learned more working with these old guys who done this job for years than I learned in College. I was a certified welder and I was eventually put in charge of welding inspection. Thank God I made friends with all those old timers before this happened. I helped every one of them to take the certification test and we were 100% certified facility.

One of the things I love about this chat is Clint imparting his wisdom, experience and work ethic on his boys. We should all have cool Dads like that.

I am looking at the screen of my WAY-WAY-WAY-BACK machine. About 50 years ago, I worked for a Caterpillar Dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas. Our rail and roller shop would break down the entire rail, removing the pads and pressing the pins and bushings out of the track links. The rails would be reassembled using the old links, by pressing in new pins and bushings. When the rail was reassembled, the rail was laid flat and a sub-arc automated welding system was used to build up and restore the wear surfaces. The pad grousers were replace also using a sub-arc set up by laying the pads on their edge so that the sub-arc would have a flat surface to work on, then were flipped over to finish the other side of the weld. Rollers were torn apart, and were set up on a sub-arc machine to build up the wear surfaces, then reassembled with new bearings and races as required. Because of all the interstate construction during this time, the shop was running 10 hours a day, six days a week.

Man you can see how much power that welder is putting out when he strikes an arc and all the cables jump as the current goes through it all!🤯😳‼️

Finally someone on KZfaq running a real man’s rod and a real machine. God I’ve ran thousands of pounds of 7/32 and 1/4” 7018 and 7024. 18 years of working on above ground petroleum storage tanks. Wish My company bought me a cool welding hood like that 😉

The channel has great content. Watching the children learn the business is the way to go. Want to keep passing on the institutional knowledge and try to make generational wealth. This is how you do it.. Great stuff as always ❤

I’ve learned more about heavy iron from your channel than just about anywhere else. I’m 71, retired, and will quite likely never need to use any of this information. And I DON’T CARE!

I am always impressed by Tucker's welding! That young man has some talent!

In the late 1950's and 60's, I wasn't much for book learnin. 😀 But, we had shop classes and I wouldn't trade one minute of the time spent in those classes for anything. The young men that you have working in your shop are getting a education that will be with them the rest of their lives. Thank you for doing what you do.

If it's a wash better to keep the wages in the family😉

2 rods per pass. Love it. If memory serves working 7018 1/4 rods, turn the heat way up, strike an arc, and shove the rod in. EZ PZ.

Nice welding job, men! Us Ironworkers call those 1/4” rods wombats! We plated a foundry floor in front of the furnaces with 1-1/2” plate. We used 1/4” rods to fill the bevels that joined the plates together. The welding lead insulation would melt because it got so hot! After watching this video, I’m definitely going to go with the weld on grouser extensions vs new pads on my D6! Thanks for video, Clint!

hi guys being an expipeline welder for British gas late 80s i can totally agree stick welding faster and a lot stronger than any wire feed welder thanks for the video good to watch and your boys are dam fine welders congrats 👍👍👍

I am really impressed on how you are teaching your sons about the work that you do. It appears that they are willing students. The experience that they are gaining will be valuable as they age even if they decide to not follow that route later on. From my experience, I can say that they will look back on the days working with their father with fond memories.

Good value in traditional welding techniques and this is why we see this work is a valuable tool for 😅 training professionals in welding! Good job!

I hav'nt see 1/4 7018 in 30 years...Thanks C&C for posting the big boy welding job...Best process [SMAW 7018]for those HI Mang Steel Tracks 💪💯✔

Did you happen to watch an Aussie video by The Jackson Brothers, a farm in Australia? The father put grouser bars on one of their D11s. He made a fixture to hold multiple welding rods at once to minimize his welding passes. Worked pretty good.

Your boys are a credit to you, Clint Most youngsters these days want cash but not dirty hands Your boys deserve massive credit for their efforts 👍

That 1/4 inch 7018 is some slick stuff, especially when you a machine that can run efficiently. Of course having quality, consistent, skilled people who can run a good solid pass, an absolute must. Great job fellas!🤙

And here we thought the boys just used the wire feed machines....Quite a bit of difference in the two. Great job by all....Keep the videos coming!!!

Clearly the experience gained by the boys is worth more than the cost of materials

I learned to weld on a dairy farm in Colorado at a young age. I flew cargo jumbo jets worldwide for a living and am now retired in Florida. I had a great life and got to see the world and my health is good. I will be turning 70 in a few months. Blue Sky's.

Thanks for the shout out Clint 👍

Clint, thanks for going over what it actually takes to do a job like that. As a fabricator/business owner I’m well aware of the time it takes however there are many people out there that have no idea the amount of time & work it takes to do work like this “correctly” Well Done!

Great job looking good Hunter and Tucker 👍 Not to many kids at your age can say they welded 1/4" rod!

And of course those boys learning good work ethic have their friends coming along and learning with them. Best school those kids could come to and Clint lets them get their hands dirty learning. Good deal all around.

Great job boys, the welds look impressive. I would think a lot less labor, welding versus replacing pads. Thanks for another great video.

What a great learning experience for Hunter. Nothing beats this type of repetition on a major welding project to perfect technique and consistency in handling the materials properly.

G'day Clint. We used to put our welding rods in an oven @50 to 60© in winter to help the rod flow better.

A long and tedious job welding all of those grouser bars on. Clint have you ever used PALCO rods. They were costly but did a great job. They used to make a cast iron they actually welded and held. That was 30 years ago when I bought and used them. Both of your sons are very talented and there welding skills are second to none. Beautiful weld beads. Great video and a joy to watch. God Bless.

I am utterly amazed at how well them boys can weld! I'll tell you what I know places that shipyards and aircraft factories and like that that I know the guys there can't well like them boys do. I'm going to tell you what they got a career anywhere they want to go!

Tucker's red truck debt is slowly being paid off 😁 Great work young men. Kevin's Supervisory role is what he loves best,apart from Santa. 🎅

Melt the welding cables leaving them coiled on the machine 3:56 I saw the mess it made on a portable petrol welder back in the 1980s Same issue if you don't fully unwind a electrical mains drum extension when using a heavy load. My dad back in the early 1960 worked in the UK welding buckets for Chaseside Engineering Company Ltd before JCB purchased in 1968? Great video

Your Sons did a great job welding! I know that you are very proud of them! Best wishes.

Having done this the most important is have the 500 amp machine. The pads will be stronger. Performed this on a 375 Komatsu dozer for a company I worked for. Get the precuts and preheat the rods. Wire feed unless you are set up for production is a bad choice . Love to see your young men working with you. Spot on and stay safe!!!

The boys have done an amazing job on that Dozer 👏 You are teaching the work ethics and responsibility. 😊 Thanks for sharing! 😊

Have you thought about doing a cost study on re-grousing a set of pads off of the dozer? It seems like it would be an easier process individually, off the track, and on a bench. Then create a full replacement set out of good old stock (In your spare time). Then when someone wants you to re-grouse the track pads, just swap the pads with your stock ones and repeat. It may save you time and labor when the machine is onsite. Again may be worth a performing the cost study.

Now there is a new word and 'thing' for my vocabulary - grouser - so that's what that bit is called. Excellent opportunity for the boys to weld and for all to see if the project is profitable. Experience is so valuable for life and making good decisions.

Lincoln and Hobart 5/64 and 3/32 flux core wire that works very well on grousers

Very nice test case and great to see the old IH/Dresser/dresta iron being saved. Thank you.

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AMAZING WORK FROM BOTH OF UR SONS. VERY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AT EVERYTHING UR SONS DO. AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS HERO ON JOB WELL DONE. U AND WIFE ARE VERY PROUD MOTHER & FATHER.

Good place to get experience on welder for sure dozer is be hooked up

If you can instill and impart even 60% of your knowledge and abilities to the next generation, they will be fortunate!

We use to take a come along to pull the tracks around

Love the no talkie intro!!!! The sound of work and silence is awesome

Enjoy all your videos. That sure is nice to see all that training your boys are getting with you. It’s a wide spectrum from engines to welding to fabrication to computers in machines. They are going to have a wealth of knowledge as they continue into life. Keep up the great work and videos.

Kevin Has his Hands in his pockets With every one else Working ! I Can Not Believe that !

Your boys are becoming seasoned welders. That in it self is an impressive trade. So many great comments on this video speaks to respect they all have for you, your sons and your business. Thanks for another great one.

3-2-24 it was in my queue to watch, but waited a few days. That big blue is a badass welder by the way. But the right way for the kind of work y'all do. But a little overkill for anything small. Enjoy. I have a older Miller 225G with a onan, and a Millermatic 252, along with a Thunderbolt ac/DC 225 and love using all of them.

Great welding school!

Was once a welder for a mobile home manufacturer, we had to “ camber “ the frames so when the load of putting the wood on it, the frame would straighten out. Had a piece of wood stuffed into the stinger to move your hand back around a foot to get away from the heat. Similar rod, similar heat. Would provide a controlled heat source and the frame was on horses to bend the I beams. Hot work especially in Phoenix’s summer months 😢

That kid can weld.

I have exactly the same job on the same machine to do when me and my son have time to get around to it. We used to use 1/4" 7018, for doing grouser bars, but found that 1/4 7024 runs a little faster and is easier to get all the way to the edge without blowing out a crater. Washington alloy is a little less expensive and runs just as good as the Excalibur rod. That's a big time consuming job that will really help the boys develop those skills. It's really good for those young men to be in the shop developing a skill set that will provide for them and their future families for many years to come. It's good to see young guys who are working and helping build the family business instead of partying and causing trouble like most kids are doing nowadays. You are raising them right by having them take part in all that you do. They will go far in life and be very successful.

It’s truly amazing what you have done Clint. You took to young boys and turned them into men. People that we need to respect because in my opinion they have earned it and it’s all because of you sir. All the continued success in your life professional and personal. It’s people like you that make me believe there is still hope for the youngsters still coming up. Much respect!

so nice seeing your lads working with you one skilled welder working there a well hard learned skill.

Back in 82 we had a rep come to our welding class and offer us a job doing just what you did and was willing to pay $20 an hour!!! That was Dr/Lawyer money back then ;-) They just couldn't keep welders cause it was SOOO BORING!!! Great job gentlemen!!!

Clint, this was a great video showing the results of young men that were taught a great trade! Great job Tucker and Hunter! You da man Kevin! Take care and I’ll see y’all down the road…

Those boys will have laid down more inches of weld on that dozer than I've ever did growing up on the farm. Impressive!

Pretty proud of your labor...

Thanks for the information. Great job!

Oh I know what dunking the stinger in a bucket is all about. Used to weld 7024 they were 1/4 rods, we had boxes and boxes of them from auction sales. I was 16 back then working for my old man pouring rods my hand was a claw at the end of the day. I'm ambidextrous welder, a south paw I can weld with my right hand I'd swap back and forth. Our shop my family owned we had 3 phase welders so I could weld all day. Mig welding is new to me I learned old school back in the mid 90s stick welding was the welding process of choice.

Great video. Appreciate the hard work.

Pretty interesting. The only time I’ve seen this done was on the tv show swamp loggers years ago the welded grousers on the cutter machine.

Great job , thanks for all these informative videos 👍🏻

Its awesome that your boys are so involved.

I swear I like watching what you do

great video! love seeing your boys working in your shop!

That’s a pretty cool comparison. Really enjoying this series.

Excellent video on the grouser's !👍Boston wise guy 🇱🇷🇮🇪🦉

You saved money and it was good experience for the boys...It was a win win!...

You are correct in saying that the stick welding process produces a stronger weld as the penetration of the weld pool is far greater than MIG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

Great job. I have done several dozers and track loaders. They last longer than new pads. As long as bolts look good. The operators hated them because they don't wear down like new so makes rough ride in rock

Great video great to hear all the facts about a job like this👍

Outstanding!

Hard work pays off

Cutting edge engineering uses a needle scaler for removing slag. I have not tried it because I don't do any large welding. It looks fast and clean. Keep the money with your son's if it works.

I love welding new grouser bars on. Hate the grinding, cutting and tacking. But once you get to the part of just burning 7018s for a day I love it. Good job with your boys. Successful men raise successful children. They will go far.

At least now, current date, mom has gotren Tucker some gloves, so he won't be getting hot fingers !

Great job Clint. Have a great weekend.

Very good cost analysis guys ,,, love the info

Glad to see you using 7018 rods

The boys did an excellent job on the grousers.

Great video! Good to see kids learning a trade!

Lotta welding. Nice work as always guys.

Great Job tucker and hunter!

thanks for the price breakdown. excellent work there fellas!

As always, I find your videos fascinating, Clint. Your kids are a chip off the old block.

Another great video. Kudos on the welding hood. 👍❤️📹😃

As long as the overall track isnt clapped out regrousing is always a better option ive done dozens of pairs of tracks over the years on site with innershield 5/64 dia. Wire

Great job guys looks great . And cheeper doing it that way 😊

"We had our Snap-On welder" ... enough said. Snap-On really went down hill, the tools, the service, the warranty. No longer honoring the Snap-On reputation. It seems as if Snap-On hired a few too many MBAs and not enough people that know the customer, a lot of shops don't want the tool truck to even come around anymore because there is always an excuse why the tools won't be warrantied or replaced. Always great to see younger guys getting their time in. With a welder as big as the 400, I would have gotten a wire feeder and ran 1/8" diam FCAW with a heat shield on the gun. 1/4" rod gets the job done, the 1/8" FCAW just saves time and costs less than running the bigger diam electrodes. Less time for electrode changes, less material wasted because of unburnt electrodes. Something to consider for the future. Edit: Just to stay ahead of questions: I run 55-60lb spools of 1/8" Lincoln or Hobart FCAW, I use an old (Grey) R3S-600 Lincoln on 480v with an LN8 wire feeder, the gun is a 12' Tweco with a metal shield. The old machines are ugly and cumbersome to use, but the duty cycle is 100% at 650 amps output

regrouser a machine eliminates the almost guaranteed broken,stripped track pad bolt costs. add in the time to chase the threads. at some point machine going need pads but regrouser till it isnt viable option. Tucker definitely got his welding in on that job

Them guys get after it, Tucker and Hunter being men of few words shows in the amount of work they get done while still being in school. I did a 955 for my dad and I can attest to the amount of work this is ..and it’s nowhere near as much welding as a TD-25 track. The boys have bright futures if they’re willing to put out hard work at this age.

Big job well done guys

That kick from the wires is a trip. I presume that's a magnetic effect when they switch on?

Another brilliant video, Clint. Love the ethos of a proper family run business, and the boys are doing amazing work

Thanks for the great info.