Saw your post on I C weld and came to check out your videos. Amazing work.

Is that on Cat 745,a A frame for back axel?

I think it is good where you show a picture of the type of machine a part comes from, what it does.

Hi mate. Does liquid nitro affect the grease of bearing? Are those red grinding discs Cubitron? Thanks.

I am not questioning your craftsmanship there's no doubt your extremely talented machinist welded and fitter but I keep seeing people welding things back together welding is not a load bearing method of manufacture that will break eventually I appreciate you filled all the cavities but still welding is not meant for load bearing manufacture but still excellent craftsmanship no doubt about it

Self employed for 40+years and working late is just what we do to succeed !

Cheers mate we appreciate that! Thanks for supporting the channel 😎👍

She catches a lot of spall when videoing the welding sequences.

Absolutely, I noticed that too!!

@@wdwerker my question might silly, but 40+ years selfemployed? how old are you pal? u look 35-40 max! great job btw, greatings! 😎👍

Q: since you might know the answer. How Much $$ do you think these guys make a year?

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​@@nef003 Kurtis is a special case in that he owns his own business and brings together a pretty crazy mix of machinery expertise, welding/fabrication hands, and machining hands. It's hard to find a job working for someone else that engages this variety of skillsets, because the road to profit tends to run through specialization. Three ways to answer this, if it helps: If you want to keep the variety of this work, maybe if you add a lengthy science/engineering education and could do all of this plus high end white collar stuff, you could prototype stuff at the R&D division of a manufacturer. I know a guy from my Ph.D. who has a job like this (but for small high-tech widgets, add labby stuff like lasers and electronics, subtract the welding/fabrication). He has a top Ph.D. in physics and we bonded in the machine shop there - he is great in the shop. There are not a lot of these jobs and variety pays less because variety does not produce a high volume of salable goods or services. Often, these jobs' progression is to pay more as they get less fun. (A megacorp will buy your cool startup with the fun job, and eventually you aren't working with your hands at all as you move into management and deal with megacorp's soul-crushing corporate bureaucracy and politics full-time. They are forced to pay you a lot more to make it up to you.) My friend is in NYC and does fine but I think, even with no kids, he and his wife rent their apartment. If I had to guess, with 10 years' experience, I'd say he pulls $130k/yr plus benefits. That's good money, though remember a lot goes into it (4 years of a bachelor's for $$$$$, then 6 years of a Ph.D. earning a stipend that's just enough to get by, so you're about 30 before you see your first good salary and might have many years of fighting student loans from college.) Funny thing about owning a business (I do this in another, fully white-collar, field) is that it's hard to price business revenues on an equal footing with wages or salary. Business takes over your life, and there are lots of crazy new taxes. The volatility in the revenue can be insane; sometimes you're making less than a professional bum even though you haven't turned away from the 365 day commitment. This can be stressful and humiliating. The cost-of-goods-sold for work like Kurtis' is extreme and in itself hard to price. It's not just the huge bill for consumables like electricity, welding wire, argon, inserts, wrenches that broke, etc. Much of the cost of a heavily equipped facility is depreciation of capital assets and/or debt service on the equipment costs, and you could give yourself a 75% raise by changing the assumptions about these things in your books. If you spend that raise on a fancy lifestyle, you might find out in 7 years that oops, you were actually starving to death all along without knowing it, and now your facility is useless and you're bankrupt. Even my business, which is extremely simple - I sell white-collar expertise from a home office, mostly by the hour - feels hard to price vs. a salary. I've built complicated spreadsheets in which I try. If you keep the flow of work high and steady through good marketing *and* price the work well through confidence in negotiating your sales, you can create a significant wealth despite all these costs. Those are big ifs. Finally: My next door neighbor is an experienced metalworker in his mid-40s. He leaves for work at 4:30 am and comes home looking tired and smeared with that oily iron oxide schmutz. He works at a big plasma cutting table making parts for big steel buildings and has the skills to lean into many other things at the shop. He made this gorgeous meat smoker for his yard, so I believe him when he brags about his skills. Observing his lifestyle: We live in the kind of neighborhood where the public schools are bad, there's broken glass on the sidewalks, and drive-by shootings happen. He and I take pride in making the best of our little corner of it through cleaning, gardening, etc. He and his wife (who also works) have built a strong foundation for their kids, who attend a charter high school. He has an expensive hobby (bodybuilding) and his star daughter, now graduating high school, drives. He drives an old Jeep he fixed up himself, and they pay rent to his mother-in-law for their apartment. He complains when the overtime dries up. If I had to guess, I'd say his base wage is ~$35/hr plus benefits and overtime.

​@ramanshah7627 lifes tough, I'm 19 and lost. Family wanted me to become a software Engineer but now i just wanna get the degree and get over with it. I wanted to get into the airforce but they denied, then aircraft maintenance engineering but they denied. Now comercial pilot is my most favourable career but the fees is too high for my family. These days i just wake up go to college, do nothing and return, Im thinking about getting a part time at the local garage as I'm good with wrenches and machines but managing college and exams would be tough and family said no to job.

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LOL good one!!

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you've been to that tavern as well on north 14th St.? Good times.

@@metalbob3335 yeah, that one's better than the rough one on the other side of town 🤕😆

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same here....u took my words

It's an art that is rapidly going away, at least in the us. There just aren't the craftsman or craftswomen that there used to be I am a diesel mechanic and machinist I build alot of obsolete and unavailable parts. Seems like these days mechanics are mostly parts changers, they just don't fix anything anymore.

​@@zebschreiber7357 It's not so much "don't" as it is "can't", (though it is a vanishing skillet). As in, the manufacturers no longer want their products to be serviced, repaired, or tinkered with by anybody other than their technicians, because they now make a killing overcharging the owners/operators to basically lease the machines that were purchased outright. Disabling the machine/vehicle if it wasn't handled by one of their "licensed technicians". John Deere is one of the most notorious offenders of this corrupt practice. Though, if things keep as they're going, corporations such as Caterpillar could soon follow suit...

Proper bit.

Gotta like them twin swarfs especially the redheads

After they cracked open the first one and saw it was all meat they just swallowed the second one whole. They will spend the week passing it.

Hey Terry thanks for watching over there mate at such a crazy hour! Homey is definitely living his best life we are lucky to have him. Have a good Friday mate

It would take you and I combined, a week to do this job….he did it by himself in the matter of a few days.

Hey Nick yeah a few processes to this one just got to get in and get it done 😆👊💥

@@CuttingEdgeEngineering I laughed at the customer's mis- statement of the job description. I was thinking, "Get paid upfront"

Thank you so much 😁

The sequence at 24:13 to 24:30 where you flip the filter in and out of shot, to just mimic what Kurtis is seeing, is brilliant.

Didn't you have a doormat to clean your shoes on before entering the house?

@@AlessioSangalli those metal chips need pliers to remove them.

Heartily endorsed

not to mention metallurgy, blueprint reading, etc. Even in welding or machining (i have both certs), there is a LOT of science, going on.

You want a line bore? you get a line bore. Oh you wanted a fix? that will be different. Maybe next time, let us know it needs a whole replacement.

Could have fixtured the remainder of the bit cut off, and bored it out, then framed it with a small caption " just needs line bore", and put it on the wall. Reminds me of a job, where the description was "first bomb fell on target".

@@SeanBZA What?! We gotta here that story!

@@SeanBZA elaborate, spunds pretty interesting haha

If the w/o said "repair eye, linebore" it means refabricate and linebore. You got the refabrication done, but you never linebored it. Lineboring is performed to create parallel and square features referenced to a datum (the mounting pads) such that when the A-frame is reinstalled, its bore is parallel to the plane of the pads, perpendicular & centered to the mounting bolt holes and at the right height. Even with a spherical bearing installed, just 1 degree error in the horizontal plane will cause 17mm misalignment of the bolt holes on a 1 meter long shaft. You should have bolted the pads to a HMC or a squared fixture on a vertical mill, centered the spindle to the mounting hole pattern's center and floor-to-bearing-center height, THEN linebored it.

Awesome, thank you!

Me too, just yesterday, love the combination of skill, hard work, great cinematography, great editing and such a cute little doggie.

Hey Ian thanks for watching and the support mate 😎👊💥

Abom79 is another great one that also does big iron projects, just without the aussie accent

I am in IT too and only found his channel last night and am seriously enjoying his skills. But I am right with you on job scope. I have made a couple of those calls to clients in the past. “Oh no, this is out of scope. I will get you the costing this afternoon for your approval.” “Yes I am sorry about that but who knew a massive amounts of user caused damage isn’t covered in the standard price book.”

i would bet that the repaired piece is stronger than the original piece, considering the quality of the work that Kurtis does and the amount of time & attention to detail that he puts into it

Hey mate 😎👊💥

Knowing nothing about these things, (I may have touched a school lathe in the 1970s) I was amazed how casually the lathe itself could spin an irregular price of metal and not even flinch.

You sure he only said "crack"???

@@darrylvanrooy 😝

Ah, Australian humour, up there with "It'll buff out"

@@PeterNield bit of duck tape shee’l be right mate

All it really needed was some high tensile wire wrapped around and a bit of duct tape... maybe a zip tie or too just to be sure 😉👌🤣

Congratulations mate to you and your fam that's awesome. Thanks for watching, now family time!

@@CuttingEdgeEngineering nope still watching! Trying to finish the video lol

hey mate thanks for watching!

Oh and thank you Karen for all the hard work you do creating the videos!

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People are always pissing and moaning about health and safety getting in the way. And sure, it sometimes does. But it only exists because employers have historically chosen to kill workers over spending anything to keep them healthy. Everyone deserves to go home healthy after a shift.

There is no real excuse for it these days. quality safety equipment is cheap, easy, and better than ever before.

Sadly the regular KZfaq videos coming out of the Middle East, South Asia and S.E. Asia demonstrate that personal safety equipment is off the radar and out of reach.

We don't see it, but I hope the Camera Lady also has eye, hearing, and breathing protection...

@@ZaphodHarkonnen It pains me to say but more pepole should see pepole like my old mentor whene he had the lungcancer, he didnt die well im sorry to say. Use the fucking saftey eq and dont nag about it is what i always say to the god dam kids that think they are immune to everything.

Thank you glad you enjoyed it

Hey mate thanks for supporting the channel and merch shop! Hope you enjoy the goods 😎👊💥

Greed, the universal human condition!

Yep I stopped watching that guy for the very reason... stretching out content. Kurtis, Isaac and Peter at Edge Precision for CNC on the Mazak can't be beat!

@@theoldbigmoose The one guy is building a shop and I was thinking for what? making fancy bottle caps and tapping holes :)

Welcome mate thanks for taking time to watch and comment

Hey Mark thanks for watching mate

"In(side of) stock"*

More like "I have a piece of stock"

Yeah it's a great bit of tooling that has come in handy many times

Not to mention you picked it up like it was a 2 Kilo sack of potatoes

Watch a gear cutting vid. There's a channel on YT called this old tony. Indexing plates like this are used for gear cutting and on his home lathe he showed us - and it was A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y fascinating.

Share link to drawing, please!

Tis but a scratch, I've had worse....

@@kiddiescripterkiller Or - We'd like a room for two Knights, please

Black Knight, “I'm invincible!" Arthur "You're a loony."

In addition to your excellent comment, there's often an imminent need, and a short timeline to make the repair....No pressure! LOL

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Hey mate yeah this style mill works great. Thanks for watching, I'm not looking forward to it warming up here or the snakes that come with the heat 😆

Or the value of a conscious maintenance director and crew!

That's just an example of Ozzie sense of humor. Yes, a bit strange, but that's the way they are. I would like to see the part fitted onto the haul truck, but with the articulated bearing, I wouldn't expect alignment would be terribly critical. I was more surprised that no dial indicators or micrometers were seen. 35 years in trade, thankfully retired for 11 years!

@@StuntPosse Yeah I wouldn't imagine it either with a spherical bearing, afterall he only clamped it to the table off the back face. Boring it would have been to make it to size after all the welding. What impressed me was measuring the snap gauge with the verniers, that's not as easy as it looks. Very nice repair.

I was wondering how he would manage the final ID after attaching the eye but I was not expecting that kind of balancing act!

@@Legendinium yeah, I was expecting him get out the line borer, again. But, in retrospect, nothing to fasten it to.

It worked out but I'd be afraid of the forklift getting a slow hydraulic leak and slowly lowering the work piece while it's still bolted to the mill.

The sometimes-confusing magic of leverage. It's a wonderful thing when it works _for_ you.

The screw on the insert is there to locate it, the cutting forces are mostly carried by the big bearing face on the base of the insert into the tool, which is why you see every time Curtis is changing an insert or moving it to another cutting face he is scrupulous about making sure there are no chips or dirt on the faces that will come into contact, so that there is full even loading. If there is a small chip there it can easily shatter the cutting tool or damage the bearing face, making the tool useless till it is either reground flat or replaced. 30 seconds of care versus $500 for a new bar, or an hour with a carbide flat mill in the small mill to reface the pocket.

Haha have one for me mate cheers

you really think that all that wood not warped that pies