Taking the tyre off really added a lot of time to the job but it was absolutely the correct thing to do, nice to see someone take the time to do it once and do it right.

It’s a good job you are wearing that air filter helmet, those shipyard welders during the war should have had something like that.

You said you were not paying attention, I disagree. If you weren't paying attention you would you have welded the center in upside down. Nice Job keep up the great work . I'm rooting for you kid.

Good work! I always hated dismounting and mounting tractor tires. I worked on farms when I was younger. It can be pretty hard work at times, and long hours, especially if you have livestock to take care of. I joined the Army for an easier job. It wasn't, but at least I didn't have to work cattle anymore. I like eating them but I don't like raising them.

I love the attention to detail to get it right the first time. So many people do things half assed because they are lazy. Nice to see someone take pride in their work! Good job!

One of my favorite things about your work is seeing the jigs you come up with - the way you suspended that hub with the box sections and clamps was just brilliant! Thanks for letting us watch you work this stuff out.

Nothing wrong with that Oliver. I do like your quick and easy fixture to get the offset where you want it and your method to get the wobbly's out. Well done👍

Nothing on the box tonight, to compete with a bit of gouging and welding....Thanks for posting.

Considering the size of the wheel, I am impressed that you got the runout down to that, well done sir!!

My wife just asked me this -- "Couldn't he have used his pallet forks to break the bead on the tire?" I love her so much!

The jigs you make to help you do the job, is sometimes more interesting to me than the job. 👍🏻

Fair play to you for sharing with us the centre upside hiccup. You could have edited it out and we wouldn't have known. Seems to me no workshop can be without the essential equipment, of a big hammer and a lump of wood for those tasks requiring "persuasion". I was wondering how "out of true" the wheel rims may have been before you cut the centres out. Maybe you have given them back to the customer with a tighter tolerance than you received them! Great job thanks for bringing us along.

Very good job .what ever you charge for this kind of service its well earned hard work. I did a lot of this sort of work back in the day at least your looking after your lungs an angle grinder is a dirty tool. Keep up the good work.

I’m looking forward to the book/video of 101 use,s of a set of forks that the forklift maker never listed in the sales pamphlets. Good work mate.

I'm surprised you didn't put your 200mm spacers on the floor then set the rim over them, so your weld would have been facing up. Good catch on that flipped center. That would have been a bad day.

That looked like a very complicated situation with the inconsistence of the rim. Well done 👍

The older style 2 piece wheels on tractors were a great job, not suitable for heavy, heavy work but having 4 offsets that you could change with an impact gun and a bit of grunt in brilliant

Definitely the right call to take off the tyre. The heat itself from the gouging would cause the air to expand inside the tyre and it could potentially explode. Good job! 😊

It would have been interesting to see the original runout.Impressive what you achieved!

Bigger hammer! Bigger grinder! Great watching you skilled fabrication

interesting to see how you worked out how to do it. good job.

Enjoyed that. You're always trying to show us something different each video. Definitely a tricky one. Well done you.👍

Having spent many years site welding in all sorts of contorted angles to get to the job my heart goes out to your back. That had to hurt.👏👏

Thank you for sharing, I learn a lot, I enjoy your project 👍👍👍👍

Excellent job. I was delighted to learn how you got the centres on straight! Thanks for another excellent video.

Nice to see your Dad, you should introduce him , I often see him in the background. Looks like a nice dog who came to watch too. Nice job on the wheel rims !

Found your channel via Paul & Hedley. The Silent Pool is close to where I grew up and is a magical place. The gin is excellent as well. Alas the legend was a Victorian invention to encourage tourism. It certainly worked.

As always great attention to detail and a job well donw. Look forward to the next job.

It’s an absolute pleasure to watch your video

Good problem solving there, well done.

Awesome job again ...I do miss my 9inch angle grinder moved to Canada 15yrs ago don't seem to have the same stuff as back in the uk ...thks again for your videos they always give some new way of doing stuff thks ...

Definitely the right decision to remove the tyre. Three guys were killed near me while welding a brake drum on a partially deflated scraper tyre.

Likened your honesty with your work.

Excellent welds, we see you can do it all. Thanks for the video.

Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself 🇨🇦

More great work. I don’t know why I’m so addicted to watching work on big stuff, I rebuild magnetos everyday, so everything I do is tiny in comparison, but I love watching your work (although I’m glad I don’t have to do all your heavy lifting, watch your back). Keep up the good work, maybe one day I’ll get the confidence to video what I do & put it on KZfaq.

Good work. Thanks for the video and your time.

Another interesting project ~ the alignment and concentricity was dam near perfect ~ well done and thanks for posting 👍🏻

Awesome video, thank you Oliver. Great work

Great problem solving mate 🇦🇺

Well done on trueing the wheels up. Reminded me of trueing up wedge lock rims on JD 4020. Set a spray can beside the wheel and roll it over tightening the bolts to get it even. I was yelling at the phone when I seen the second center upside down!😂 I had faith you would see before you welded it. Don’t blame you for sending the wheels back without the tires on them. Save the customer money 😁. Great video! Be Safe!

Gday, I think you did a good job getting the centre squared up as close as you did, probably closer the it was originally when you see how they are made, great job mate, cheers

really enjoy your videos. good job. hope your channel grows fast soon. greets from germany

patience of a Saint Oliver wow 👌

Well done mate !

Nice work as always!

I bet those rims were out by quite a bit before you took them apart. Like you said so well, it's a tractor, not a Ferrari. Top work, Ollie!

Oliver ain’t no fool, good job. This young gentleman has a very creative thinking problem solving mind. So good to see in a younger person.

Great job as always, removing those tyres was a pain. Thanks for sharing

Hey mate, thanks for your videos, they're good stuff and I like the way you approach and clearly think about jobs. I've got a bit of a tip for you if you're interested about using heavy hammers, or more accurately how to reduce having to use them.... first off, I'm 6'4" and 120kg, and I'm not built for using sledge hammers either - Nobody is. So, the thing about hammers is that when you use a hammer you're always actually using two: there's the hammer, and there's the thing you're hammering against which is a dolly or anvil or forklift tine or whatever. The thing you're hammering against has a bigger effect than the hammer, it's hitting back at the same time as you are hammering. In this video you hammer out the centre after gouging with the rim sitting on the forklift tines. If you look at the video you can see how you're wasting a huge amount of energy by just bending the tines, which is effectively the same as having a spring between your hammer and the workpiece. If you lower the tines so they're on the ground then more of the energy from the hammer will be focused into the join you're trying to break and I guarantee you'll need a fraction of the hammering for the same work. One other tip is that moving the hammer twice as fast quadruples the energy, whereas doubling the weight of the hammer only doubles the force. So if you can use a hammer half the weight but swing it twice as fast, you'll be doubling the force of your hit. Hope you get some use out of the tip, and thanks again.

I’m not a welder but after watching snowball, CEE, and IC weld I’ve decided my life is not going to be complete until I get my own forklift.

Good work right there, always a pain getting them to run true again after moving the centres 👌

Great job sir. Love the videos.

Amazing... You figuring out the steps and process to reconfigure the wheel rims... I did not know silicone was used to seal the weld bead... Seems I learn stuff on each of your videos... Thanks...

great work as usual

Great job.

Great job - well done.

Bit of a chew that one but you pulled it off marvellously. Great video, great techniques for truing the wheel, not many would tackle a job like that. Well done. 👍👍

A straight rim on a tractor wheel !. Never, not even from new, and even more so after the farmers have driven them a few times.

Very interesting, I thought the hub would have been welded from both sides, just shows what thought does. I used to moan changing a tyre on my motorcycle, those tyres on the tractor were beasts. Thanks for the post, enjoyed it. Keep well 👍

Real witches cauldron job. Well done indeed, excellent.

Good to watch. You made it look easy.

Good work mate.

Great video!

Nice job!!! Good Idea mounting the wheel center on a spare hub! Hindsight is always easier... But, I might have done that before I started just to get a baseline for how far out of center it was and how much it wobbled when I received it. I also might have tried mounting the wheel on the spare hub and securing the edge of the rim to the table while I air arced out the wheel center. With the wheel secured in that fashion it may have been easier to "float" the wheel center in place and use spacers on the hub to create the required offset... Once it was tacked securely, welding it out like you did was just like having a rotary positioner...

This is the problem with doing anything for farmers, they never have the intelligence, manners or appreciation to either wash anything or prepare it before bringing their equipment to a workshop for repair. I can say this after 25 years of this kind of work. Here in particular they could have brought those rims to any tire shop and had the tyres whipped off them saving this man and his dad a couple of hours of hardship.

Nice job has always bud

Have an idea for the next video. Fabricate a stand for the rotary table so it can adjust to a vertical position so you don’t have to stand on your head to weld. I do admire your will to get the job done right though. Keep up the good work and Be Safe.

Good Work. Good video bro.

Nice job. Thanks for sharing. God Bless

Nice job !!

Nice job!

Another fun video!

Very enjoyable! Thanks!

Yes please to the drawbar and a look at the finished trailer thanks

My first reaction was it use threaded rod to suspend the nave (centre) of the wheel and then use wedges to centre it but your method works admirably. The only point worth making is that as the offset is now greater there is more leverage on both the steering and the bearings that will need to be monitored more regularly.

Note to self in future. Customers to supply rims without tyres, 😀

💥great video 👍the arc gouged better on the second rim , it burnt of less paint on the outside . Thicker rod or your technique improved , nice one Mr Snowball.

Excellent job you never know if you'd checked those rims before cutting the centre out they might have already been out.

😜 if you’re gonna try tyre removal, go for the biggest one 😅 wow that was a neat gouging free hand 👌🏼 might have been smoother on a powered foot pedal turntable 😝

Lot of work to offset two wheels. But nicely done. So many of those big front wheel tractors come out the factory with the wheels hitting the tractor at full lock. Years ago had a brand new County. Chewed into itself every time you took a tight turn. Ie. Only one football field. Some manufacturers get over this by making the wheels lean out as you turn. Whichever it is a problem you don't get with the small 2WD tractor wheels.

that was a clever solution to what appears to have been a very complicated situation and for wheels that size on a slow moving vehicle I think the tolerance difference will probably not be noticable.

Pleased to see that you removed the tyre , as W.Jones also commented , it's possible to get a runaway fire or reaction inside a wheel and tyre with catastrophic results. More people should be made aware of this , as I was untill a few years ago. Great video as always Oliver.

When you did this job an over head crane would have been very handy

20,000+ subscribers, and you can understand why...great video, cheers

they works fast😮

I hated tyre fighting.

Rather than using a clamp, Drilling a large hole in the end of the forklift tines to fit a bolt or eyebolt will make it much safer and easier when using slings to lift things.

Thanks for the education I have to do that on some 12 inch Deere wheels

Muito bom!!!!! Parabéns!

Where there’s a will there’s a way. Brilliant vid. You’ll get all the boy racers wanting to reverse the rims on their Vauxhall Corsa.😂😂

one would think those rims came off a FELD Monster jam truck being so out. might have found a niche market Ollie - custom making wheels for UK / European Monster truck teams. for free handing gouging the centers out , welding them back in the rims came out pretty damned good

Tyre fitting can be tricky, once, I changed the tyre on my pushbike.

For a job like that you can use the smaller gouging rod and probably move along faster, because you don't have to be as careful and you can get a hotter burn at the rod's end making it easier to control your gouging area. (I would use the smaller rods when I couldn't get enough amps because of my distance from the machine, and you can move along pretty fast with those.)

Soapy water is your Best Friend doing tire changes...add some dishwashing detergent to water in a spray bottle and lube the bead areas on tire and rim..lots !! The stiffer the tire the more lube helps...still going to be tough if you don't do tires lots...

it would be like the fire engine on trumpton... the old man will be sea sick hehe

Where would you be without your dad? 🤣🤣🤣.

You did the right thing taking the tires off the rims buddy

Hi My Friend Very Good Job ❤❤❤❤❤

Tractor tyres without the right tools are a pig to get off! I use my telehandler to push down on a block of wood on the tyre wall. Pops off every time without breaking a sweat