I am 74 years old and have been around some very talented mechanics and fabricators while working as a certified aircraft mechanic. I knew two personally, I worked for both of them building one of a kind prop driven aircraft. Their talents were beyond amazing. They seemed to have the various projects mentally completed before they picked up a wrench. Their efforts were always spot on no matter what the project. I put you in the same class as those talented men. Three cheers sir.

I appreciate your skills and special thanks for demonstrating how difficult it is to convert automobile parts in to useful part for non automobile projects.

Have to add my kudos for the spline grinding. I've spent many hours using a mill and indexing head to make them. That was really slick the way you did it.

Many post-hole augers have been built in this way. They truly last forever. Great job!

Dude that was badass never seen someone made their own splines!!!! that is awesome

While grinding the splines was an artful demonstration, you had a lathe. You could have cut the splines off, turned down a stub end, bored a hole and welded the factory splines into the existing axle. No beating them. Very well done and interesting video.

Not what I expected to see where you did the splines instead of a shaft splice. What a beautiful job and video production!

Ok, you had me at splines! LOL

I remember watching this video years ago and thought then. Wow. This kid is going places!

Seriously cool way to solve a problem with minimal tooling, excellent!

Great job!!! Thank you for sharing!!! Be safe and God bless you !!!!!

Man You certainly are a pro. You rock. Such skill with that angle grinder!

his hands are nice when it comes to building great work with precise craftsmanship to the core

I have been doing this type of work my entire life. What I saw in this video is amazing. You should be working in a prototype lab and earning 100k a year. You have a talent that should not be wasted.

Truly Beautiful Work !! Very Well Done! Great work on the Log Arch trailer too!! Subbed!

Amazing the groving by hand ! Well done as well !

You are one talented man

Love at first sight! Aw inspiring

Absolutely amazing!!! i was thinking to buy a £300 90 degree gearbox for a project now no more. Your design is godsent!!

Good idea, nice work !!!

that was the most impressive display of freehand angle grinding I have ever seen.

Good idea and great work

Excellent job ... Professional

You are a master with that grinder ,excellent work

I live the idea of grinding in your splines.that looks very nice for free handing those bevels.

Thank you sir you just blew up my mind with them splines on the driveline My hats off to you

nice machining.. looking forward to seeing the finished project.

Okay. You have my attention. That was awesome!!!

Very nice work doing the splines,Great idea over all.

Run a pto off of a transfer case via driveshaft and you mount the axle shaft end through the bed of a truck with a capstan style winch head. Works best with standard transmission! Great video. Never thought I'd see this on youtube

great job sir!!!!

Amazing! congratulations you are very talented. Cutting the splines with the angle grinder was priceless man! keep up the good work!

What a great job you did on those splines!! Great work bud!! Keep at it, as it is not only great for the mind, but as well for the soul!!

That is true craftsmanship. Thank You for the informative video. Keep up the good work. Have A GREAT DAY! 🛻🚚😁

Very good This must be followed.

amaZING VIDEO!

Automotive differentials are very useful items for homemade implements. I have an old post hole digger for my Allis Chalmers WD that utilizes a Plymouth (I think) diff.

Amazing idea to connect diferensial 👍

Dude, really nice job on cutting the splines! Freehand with an angle grinder? That's bad ass man. Can't wait to see how you put it on your mower...

Really impressive grinding skills there

Thanks for sharing this beautiful video

impressive grindin skill! cheers.

Very impressive fella great skills

Congratulations! Great work

👍 Excellent work ! 👍

the spline making was genius!

this type of projects is one of the best for me

Lol, great video! Thinking of doing this for a large windmill down shaft.

a work of art, very nice

I`m glad to see I`m not the only one who`s cut shaft splines with an angle grinder!

Awesome work

Отличная работа,браво!!!

i really love your videos , keep up the amazing work

Good sir best idea

One hell of a fabricator!

good job, good verry talented.

Nice job , came out nice.

awww what a cute lil rear axle

Excellent! what more can be said.

Fantastic metal working skills.

Amazing , i like it.

Fabulous.

So nice video

Heavy duty! You can turn a lot of blades with that gearbox!

Excellent video ! 👍

Hey, making splines using grinder is something special.... VERY COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome build! For some reason I would love to cut down an axle like this but I don't have any reason to right now! Maybe I'll find a reason and use some of the techniques from this video! Great video! Keep up the good work!

haha spooked me when you suddenly spoke lol

dang!!! you got some mad ass skills with the side grinder.

I’m most impressed how you splined the shaft! 👍

BRAVO NICE WORK

Your skills are over the top ! Amazing 👍

you are outstanding.......the worldworks because of people like you

VERY NICELY DONE , YOURE AN ASSET!!!

impressive free hand splining!

Ok Donn, 10/10 for the duplicate spline clever'ness.

waiting for final project great job

Very nice job u done

Brilliant!!!

3:30 Transferring the spline grooves, clever and skillful, thanks for the video.

I can't wait to see the front mount mower build..

That is the Angle Grinder King there!

That would be a good way to up-speed a waterwheel too. Instead of hand cutting splines, I would have just turned the shaft down to about half the diameter of the splines. Then saw the splined end off the axle, drill down the center to match the shaft, slip it on and weld it in place. I've done that in emergency repairs a couple of times.

Great job. Nice knowledge

Well done! I am impressed with your work.

Отлично...!!! Особенно понравилось как шлицы нарезал...))) Ставлю лайк..))

Nice job. The spline cutting was excellent!

very nice work

you're bloody good with that angle grinder mate!

Genial 👏👏👏

Nice work! Never thought of making a spline the way you did it.👍👍👍

Thank you very Much Brother for the detailed video you are really very very very technical boy

Very good.

Nice work thanks

Superb

Nice video

awesome self-made gear!! i love high-precision work with the grinder :-D

Mad skills bro

and the whole time I'm thinking you're building a helicopter!! great fab work man!

Freehand spline shaft! Well done!,