We used this hook the other day and worked great

I watch most of D.P.'s videos, I am sure he will appreciate the time and effort you have put into this "hook". Nice work.

I like the way you acknowledge the helping hand of DP. Common courtesy that is all too uncommon.

Thanks for doing this for Mike bro, he has a big heart and would help anyone. Safe travels over the festive season. Ken in NZ. 🎄

MBTS will let you know how good of a weld you made. I'm sure he will approve.

Well done John DP is an awesome guy. He will so appreciate that! 😊

Nothing better than having the mindset to make something you need and solve a problem… good stuff. Cheers from Alberta.

Yep, John! Mike's good people! As nice in person as he is on screen! Been watch'n him for three and a half years.

What a great gift!

Jut found your channel and subscribed that was a good idea for moving the blocks around. After making anything you’ll find the weak or improper design with use, you’ve improved on the tool you’ve created it wasn’t a mistake just a improvement. Good job Sir and I appreciate listening and watching someone who doesn’t curse and get mad when things don’t always go your way.

Thats a great idea. Nice work John.

Nice. You done an awesome job. Excellent. ❤

hey mate from AUS . grinding guards are not for the weak ...they do a great job of not cutting fingers off or burning stuff from sparks

Great work

Just now finding your channel. I liked and subscribed 👍👍🙂 Nice work.

We met Mike just before the show and spent time with them at the show. What a really nice man. Along with Aaron and everyone else that was there. Good work on the hook, I subscribed 😁

Subscribed from Union, KY.

Nice work looks great.

Welding 101 dash one. When welding a metal tempered (Temper = Case Harden) hook, the heat from the welding anneals (anneal = softens) the hook. this is indisputable facts. You even stepped up to using 400 steel versus plain Jane A-36 steel. To Re-Harden the Hook, you needed to heat the Hook, the Weld(s) and surrounding area (approx., 1" in. up from welds) cherry red, then quench in oil or water. How to test if your "Cherry red," is truly cherry red, using just an every day magnet, if you can still feel the pull of the magnet to the metal, (a.k.a., known as Magnetic Attraction) your cherry red, is not hot enough. It should feel the same as putting a magnet to wood, aluminum etc. NO PULLING WHAT SO EVER. The down side of this test, is HIGH HEAT Kill's the magnet, if you leave the magnet close to the heat in excess of a few seconds. FYI. A magnet that you would use to hang say a Childs picture on a refrigerator, is more than enough, for testing purposes. As for your "STICK-OUT," on your Mig-Wire, PLAY WITH YOUR WIRE SPEED. HINT SLOW IT DOWN. Let's say you presently have your wire speed set @ 120 inches per minute, try slowing it down in increments of 10 seconds. My guess is you will only need to slow down maybe another 10 - 20 seconds inches per minute at most. Your welds do look very good, I'm just curious because of the Lens of the Camera, your starting stick-out of the wire looks to be almost 1.5 inches. In my humble opinion, using your welder in the "OFF-Position," place a 1/4" in. (0.250" in.) plate material on your welding table, place the edge of the Mig-Welding-Cup on the very edge of the material @ approx., 45 degree angle, allowing the wire to just touch the surface of the the welding table itself as if you were going to start a weld. This would show you your proper Mig-Wire-Stick-out. Some of the Keyboard warrior's are screaming from the Mountain tops use 3/8" in. (0.375" in.) material, for Mig-Gun-Setup. Choose what makes you feel warm & fuzzy. I'm hoping as well that your using at minimum 0.045" in. wire for when welding 1/2" in. plate. HINT 1/16" in. (0.0625" in) wire for 1/2" in. plate would be better. For what it's worth. If your welder is a true 200 amp , no problem running the bigger (0.0625" in) wire.

Cool video. Good luck at the farm expo in Louisville, hope the handoff goes smoothly.

New subscriber. Great idea!

What a fantastic design and even better idea glad you made it so great to watch

Just found you by accident brother and subscribed immediately love down to earth stuff by ordinary people, and I think you sound great so talk away, good luck from a wv boy,and God Bless.

Good job!

Just found your channel brother keep your head high and do what you love

I like that! Very cool

You’re a good man John Anderson, just good people!

I watch a few channels & skip the others but I clicked on this one and so far, I like it. Problem solving and "how to do it" always gets my attention. Too old to do it but used too. I agree X it off. Go back to Harbor Freight & buy a stamp set. Make it say MADE IN KENTUCKY!

Good work, my friend.

If you do this again make the vertical portion a LOT shorter, then make a rubber (piece of an old tire, etc) cleat behind it. Tip down to hook the block, then tip up to transport it. The rubber cleat contacts the block and keeps it from swinging and spinning around.

A bit of grinding A bit of paint Makes my welding What it ain't ! Courtesy of Matt at Diesel Creek .

nice tool and gift,

When the trigger is released a small amount of wire will still come out due to inertia in the system . Try holding weld gun in welding position a second after releasing trigger , if that does not help try checking motor brushes and commutator. Also there may be an adjustment on welder to maintain current for about a second after trigger release . Not familiar with your machine , been retired 20 years , spent 40 years repairing welders in a truck manufacturing plant . Hope this helps >

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I can't wait to see DP using this.

"had me pinned inside it" That's why you get a skid steer with lift up door like DP prefers. 😁 I don't care for hinged doors either. You have to have them closed to operated the loader. Sometimes it's very helpful to be able to talk to someone out in front and on nice days I like the fresh air and the sense of being outside. This doesn't work with closed door. P.S. I know that sometimes you have to buy what is available and what you can afford.

Adding you to my subscribe list.

Hi it’s nice to be nice, and then it’s great to be nice back, well did ( I know what you mean about the batteries 😤) all the best👍🐝🌞

I think you do a good job of editing. I like this video.

Those are great welds! Don’t sell yourself short on your welds! Great job and video! Mike , will like it! Thanks for sharing! “ new subscriber” 👌👍

Honesty equals Respect. No mumbo jumbo. Most everybody else would spend three hours in editing making it look like they were the greatest welders/ fabricators in the world.. Now, as an added gift, you know what would really make this a great gift? A quart jar filled up? Ya think. 😂

Great fabrication project. Hope DP can use it. The issue of the wire continuing to run after shut down - If nobody solves the problem you could try using/modifying/making a longer tip cover or have it telescoping so there's no need for wire trimming ... (longer by the average amount of wire overshoot? ).

I do not know what type or brand of welder you have but some mig welders have a burnback adjustment. If you have this try adjusting the settings . This setting can cause the wire to do what you have going on.

If I said the least bit i know about Plasma , welding, cutting, or metallurgy in general, well this comment would be blank. However i know great workmanship when i see it. Very thoughtful of you Sir. ❤

Looks great , seems strong enough ….even for DP 🥃 subbed

That is a neat design. New sub. Cheers

Sirz I'm amazed at your weld. You are using arc welding techniques as you mig weld. You do the same as you are the only difference is you push so you can see where you are going. Just a heads up I used to do the same as well. Give it a try I think you will make some super great welds. I can't believe you got it that good pulling. Great job budy.

Lookin good , fabricating to own needs is the best way to go if you have time. If I may suggest, on areas you have alot of wear use hardface rod to build up those wear points of rubbing. Platinum 943 series is a great rod for this Continental also makes some great high tinsel hard facing rod. Enjoyed your video so going to follow!

Nice fab work

Very cool hook DP should like it but about the the feed of the wire on welder DP has a friend Aaron is a Boilermaker by trade maybe he could help out with some information the hook works very well 👍😎🇺🇸 NY

my MIG has a feed adjustment inside the box.............. most hooks are grade 10 material and much more durable

I like your channel man! .. I watch dp also and am now adding you to my list

Had the same trouble myself, wire stickout, discovered I was pulling off the work before I let go of the trigger. Suspect it was a habit left over from stick welding.

Hold the welder in place till the burn is finished

Excellent video, I may copy your idea. Cheers 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I just ran across this. You did fine. Check out On Fire Welding. He really knows his stuff. He also got me to try 3M Cubitron abrasive wheels. They are more the Gold Standard of abrasives. A little pricey but they last ten times as long as Harbor Freight abrasives. You did fine

That run out is your cater fill at the end

laser tables are incredible!!!!

You should be using stick welding, mig sucks for welding higher carbon metals. DP made the same error on the tile plow.

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If the tension on the wire drive rolls is to loose the drive rolls will coast after you let off the gun trigger. AL B.

Sometimes in cold weather them micro switches in the mig handle stick you can try spraying some wd 40 or what ever kind of lube you have and also it may have a piece of slag that has gotten in it at some point and made a spot on the trigger if none of that is problem then it's probably just a bad micro switch them is easy changed lso I'm in breathitt co ky. What part of ky are you in . Keep up the great videos .

Thought I spotted the cad program - Yep - I have that machine myself. Since 2005 or thereabouts.

The Amish have it right, in that, when the commuity comes together in time of need, all are better for it ! This sort of thing makes me proud to be American ! This is what we are and what we are made of. Thanks John, your thoughtfulness and generosity shows the way !

Hopefully it works good old DP is good people

Dirt Perfect uses the excavator a lot to set these blocks. Can it attach to the excavator?

what are your settings to cut the thick plate? ipm on the program and amps on the plasma? i have the same table that your have and software, never cut thick plate though, Thanks

Are u selling these now that they have gone viral? If so how much shipped to NC?

4.5" razor wheel with guard removed..that's how I roll, got finger scars to prove it:)

ARE YOU USING FIRST GENERATION PLASMCAM MACHINE. IF SO HELP

What welder do you have?

1st you should preheat anything above 8mm thick 2nd try push welding rather than pulling, gives better penetration and a shallower weld that ends flush with both sides Get leather gloves

I can not say anything about somebody else's welding, but my welding always looks good.... especially after I douse it with some spray paint...... just saying

You need to watch a bunch of Welding videos or go to school your plate joints need to have a few stacked welds on them to strengthen as for the hook nice idea but with all the heat you have put into it will have taken the temper out of the hook as for the idea nice but would be better if it can rotate

Modified tool now you need a engineer stamp or something

I hope the welding and grinding didn't take all the temper out of the hook

However flawed, I understand your reasoning, but I question your choice of AR ( abrasion resistant) 400 steel for this project. The 400 is a designation of hardness and west resistance, not strength. A better choice would have been QT 100 (quenched and tempered) but but regular mild steel with a tensile strength in the neighbourhood of 44,000 psi tensile strength would be ore that adequate and less susceptible to cracking. I like your grinder rack.

Other guys using your batteries, and not charging them. Time to go to harbor freight and get a can of whoop ass.

No spark/grinder shield ='s fire

As others have said “grinder and paint make us the welder we ain’t “ lol good job

You have too much stick out, you want the contact tip 3/8 from the weld pool with solid wire, it looks like you have about 1 to 1 1/4 in most of the welds you did in this vid. Every manufacturer I've seen recommends to go by the "if it slags, you drags", meaning you travel in the opposite direction to which you were travelling with solid wire, you push solid wire. You're losing a lot of amps with that much stick out, the welding wire doesn't carry current as well as the leads.

i like it, but u cant spin it.

I don't think it's going to work very well ,,,, It's not DP green ,,, Just kidding ,,, Great job

Problem with hook is... The word(h*na on it

It isn't the welder, it's the technique. (And the unsupported tanks in the way in the work area is classic home handyman.)

Nice hook🪝

You Spend Money on Precision Plasma Cutting & Nice Heavy Steel And then you Buy a Chinesium Lift Hook 🪝 made Of Cheap who knows what Metal , REALLY ??😂😮

Using your own designs is not a problem, building your own designs then giving them to other people to use is a huge liabiity. Espically things that lift and hold weight. Just remember that is isn't necessarily the person who got injured that files the lawsuit against the designer, it is also the insurace company that has to pay the medical bills of the person that got injured as the party that files the lawsuit. I dont like it either, but thats just the way it is.