and the skilled articifer continues in his quest to turn the finished product back into raw material .

the pucker meter was maxed out on that one, I didn't know the tractor was a male until it mounted the mill

When I introduced my budget troll to the tractor she said, in a rather delightful strained and high pitched voice, "How do you stop this?" I said, "I normally steer it into a tree."

You *know* somethin's sketchy when a gopro flinches away.

Just got a call from OSHA. They called to inform me that I will be receiving a fine simply for my willingness to watch this video and condone the methods used.

Probably quicker and easier to park the tractor in the corner of the shed and convert it into a milling machine

Never seen a tractor trying to hump a mill before, another "first time for everything" checked off.

The KZfaq money it's gone to his head, he got himself a boat. It's a boat only AvE could love. Has plenty of character.

That machine has got a higher center of gravity than Dolly Parton.

Good thing it's being converted to CNC, because it's gonna take some real fancy math to cut a straight line again.

This is the kind of vijeo that gets shown at the coroner's inquest.

"I got other plans for this." Boat anchor??? 😂

Ave over here trying to cross breed farm equipment with machine tools.

Horizontal milling machine? Welp, she's horizontal now, that's for sure.

'Twas the night before Christmas, Aunt May in her cups. She'd supped just a little, and drank way too much. She bolted upright, and declared with conviction, "The floor's gone slippery, and my arse has much stiction! Lever me up you louts, else I spend the night here. And while you're about it, bring me a beer!"

"I don't like me, and you don't like me, either..." conversations with a tractor. "I don't know what I'm doing and it doesn't appear to be working."

I feel like someday the uploads are just gonna stop and then someone on reddit will post an article on how some Canadian was crushed by a bridgeport and we'll link it together. Stay safe mister AvE, we need more vidjeos in the future.

10:43 This is why I'll have an endless supply of tools to fix.

When the only tool on hand is a dirt mover, everything looks like a pile of gravel or gets screwed.

When a 2020 documentary is made, he needs to be the narrator.

It's really considerate of you to film these. Makes the coroner's job of trying to find out why you sawed your own legs off to reach the phone after the tractor fell on you much easier 😁

For decades, people have been using the bits on either end of the backhoe to dig holes. The genius of figuring out how to do it using a milling machine, chain and tires! Saves so much wear and tear on the hydraulics.

The only thing worse that a goddamn farmer is a miner. This will set the bar at a new depth.

Wiley coyote super genius.

That was easily the most precisely executed collection of HSE nightmares ive witnessed and is why i love AvE.

Armchair Mill Lifter here, but sometimes when moving large stones we'd dig a small hole for the stone boat so it was flush with the ground, then push them on. Usually the shallow graves dug by the tires were a good starting point :).

After 10:26 there's a fair bite taken out of my own chair and I'm watching from an ocean away. I feel like seeing those carefully assembled Jenga blocks trampled underfoot by the tractor is a metaphor for something...

Im glad the wasps are still after him since that hive got both barrels last summer

Yes yes, it's been too long since you bumblefack'd to classical music.

"Start Ya Bastard" is a real starting fluid in Australia.

When he said the seat had bite marks taken out of it ... crying tears laughing over here, lmao

He actually used the term "Pertnear". Wayne, Darrel and Squirrely Dan would be proud.

I see a couple of problems. 1 not enough friends to laugh at you and offer varying levels of opinions and 2 not a beer in sight. This was at least a 6 packer

“Sketchy as frig” doesn’t begin to describe this one.

I don't usually have a good laugh, but today i had the best laugh i've had in ages. That was beautiful, and as a full time blacksmith, i approve.

When i learned my trade in the 1980s, this was how we worked. After 35 years of conforming to modern OH&S demands, i'm glad to see that the original skills still exist!

Instructions unclear: I got stoned on my boat

AvE....the man who adjusts the sound level when using a powertool....a true artist)

That wheel just a spinning in the background at 10:20. Proper laughs were had. Nothing in these videos relates to my normal life but this is a top 5 favorite channel for sure

I love to sit a safe distance away in a comfortable chair with a tall cup of coffee and watch you work or whatever that was. Entertaining as hell. Keep on doing whatever it is you do I love it.

10:50 : "TIME!"

Man invents impact wrench. 3:45

"I can now turn coal into diamonds, and I need a new operator's seat" good God that one got me hahahaha

Uncle, you are such a smoooooth operator!! Way to go, using the stranger for the intricate lever work!

The pucker-factor is strong with this one, sketchiness at its best.

'you know, like the way the aliens built the pyramids.' spat my tea out

This got me into safety squinting on both ends; impressive.

I'm glad you saved the day and gave us all the biz. No poem for you today!! I erased it five times and that's my limit. It may have been the outhouse door's fault? Chopin's Picnic Spot is up the hill and to the left; directions for if you go to visit his final resting place someday. Just Sane: It's worth the finding. Take the kids but hold their hands. Chamber music and chamber pots; so many thoughts. I just woke up man.

I must have missed the episode where you got into the scrap metal business.

So you’re going to put this on eBay as ‘lightly used A+++’?

Loading that Mill may have been the greatest act of courage I’ve ever be held on KZfaq,

Absolutely brilliant as always AVE! Regarding the widow makers onslaught of abuse and neglect. You can save dollhairs on ‘START YOU BASTARD’ using this method someone demonstrated to me back in the late 1960’s, before START you Bastard’ (other brands are available) became available. Turn diesel or petrol engine over on starter for 3 seconds if it doesn’t start, stop turning. Count slowly to ten, turn engine over on starter for 3 seconds if it doesn’t start. Keep repeating this process. This process will start the engine provided the engine is in working order and just cold, or left unused for some time. This works because the cylinder on full compression is heating the cold charge of fuel air mixture while you are counting to slowly ten. In the case of the diesel engines which are after all compression ignition engines. This process is very good on modern diesel engines, where the tool who designed them, put the glow plugs truly out sight out in their minds where no one in the right mind can easily access them.

She'll hold tenths all day now. As in 0.1" FFS

Ah a rare look at the Crescent hammer in its natural habitat.

Pucker factor got turned up to 11 there... that poor ol' tractor. Just got my stickers in! Very nice! Thank you Sir!

When I was a kid we used two logs, bolted together at the nose and spread apart at the other end, in short a vee. The logs were topped with boards to form a bed that would hold two 50 gallon drums. We would use this stoneboat to drag drums of river water up the hill to the house where it was poured into a horse trough in the rootceller...a hand pump in the kitchen provided, what my dad called, running water. It made my mom happy. My brother drove the tractor pulling the stoneboat and water barrels, while I sat on the tractor hood to keep it from going over backwards. Just normal ranch living in the 50s.

Watching this while at work and the safety inspector walks by right at the final loading point. Felt bad for him, he damn near had a stroke and spit coffee all over his clipboard.

Nothing looks more helpless than an inverted machine tool.

3:18 "These are eye bolts that are nuts, they're quite weak" 12:12 😳😳😳😳😳

The way the ole girl belly bumped that machine into submission on to the skid...*chefs kiss* perfection!

The pride of Nagoya slid upon its lackluster conveyance with much difficulty, implying a strong desire to die with dignity in the yard. 'Perhaps another week and a snowfall, and I'd have granted you that wish', he said.

You need an apprentice. Could’ve stopped yourself having to get off the tractor to reposition stuff, and used them as a chock for tractor brakes and a soft landing for the mill. And if, God forbid, something went wrong... you just go out and get another one ‘cause their cheap.

Ha ha. The only tractors I drove as a kid were the ones without brakes. My dad had me raking hay when I was 8 year's old.

Well on the bright side, with you recording everything it will make the coroners investigation a lot more straightforward.

“For sale, Horizontal mill, light scuffs and scratches on the side, was built as a horizontal, but re fitted for a few hours as a double horizontal by former owner: In factory config now. Fair condition. No returns”

The backdrop of the classical Aria juxtaposed with the human struggle to upright a fallen piece of machinery with another one that's clearly underpowered was, in fact, priceless. I salute you good sir 🤣🍻

Hey Ave. this by far most interesting video. Thanks sir, from Australia

Captain hindsight says " next time bolt skid to bottom of mill before flipping."..... Lol good work always love watching your action....

There's nothing better then "brute force and ignorance" to complete a task. Well done Uncle Bumblef*ck! 😂

Prudence the safety goat musta been on the shitter.

great stone boat; i built one years ago to move large granite stones on the ranch, great tool you can't buy. use it all the time

Some of the greatest loading techniques I've ever seen. Especially when the rad started coming into play. 👍😁

A Mexican showed me a trick to get stuff in on a pallet or sled thats turned over. And thats to attach the pallet or sled in this case to it before upright it then u up right both.. also a shorter chain would have helped u not spin out

I remember when a coworker dropped some sort of $100k milling machine (it was very early in my career) and the boss found out. Poor coworker got so much verbal abuse from the boss he ended up quitting before he could even get fired.

My god that looked miserable but I haven't laughed that hard in quite some time. Thank you for what you do. MORE THROTTLE!!

Easily my favorite video youve put out to date.

Haven't laughed that well for a long time as I did when "Well, that was interesting" was quietly whispered over the low hum of the yellow workhorse. Awesome stuff!

My seat has bite marks in it, just from watching that.

I've been watching since 2015. I have loved all your videos! Keep on rockin' ya crazy Canuckistanian!

I love the way you take charge of your fully extended boom.

I'm pretty sure babydoll checked up on that life insurance policy after this one

My parcels from Amazon often arrive in a similar fashion.

I loved the Queen's musci playing in the background. PLanning is great!

You introduced me to a new word. Thanks. Also, everytime you do one of these operations, it looks beyond perilous.

I feel your pain , I was puckered up with you . I to often work alone and without adult supervision

12 minutes to understand what is a stoneboat.

The pucker factor was through the roof on this one, haven't laughed that hard at a lube tube video in a while

The Mary Ellen Carter reference made my heart happy. Thank you. :)

Can you get it more central to even the weight out on the runners. Top marks for machinery porn. Tractor mounts milling machine 🤣

Started as a 'horizontal milling machine', ended as a 'machine'.

Yup, stone boats are handy. They were actually used to haul stones out of farmers fields in the old horse drawn days. They are sometimes still used as a training device for horses to have something to pull that is fairly easy and very durable. Just don't get caught unawares like I did, helping an old friend with his horses that were supposedly trained to pull a stone boat, but in fact never had before. Seems they had only pulled wheeled carts and wagons previously. So this friend wanted to exercise his horse, and asked for my help. I asked him why we weren't just hooking them up to one of his wagons, but he wanted this horse to pull his stone boat instead. Ok says I, and we go to it. He even had a little seat bolted to the boat. So we hook up the horse to it, and I say giddup... and the horse starts pulling, but the boat isn't budging, so I was like, common boy, pull! Then the boat started moving, which made a scritching sound, and scared the hell out of the horse, which bolted into a full run. It would neither woah or turn, so once I realized the direction we were heading, I bailed off the thing. The horse then, at a full run, tried to get through a pasture gate to head back to the barn, where it crashed as the boat got caught up on the gate opening. Boat was badly damaged, horses harness was damaged, but the horse was ok at least. I was ok also. But that was the last time I helped his friend with his horses, lol. I'll stick to driving and riding horses that I know have done those things before.

LMAO! I got tears in me eyes, from laughter! I definitely subscribed!

Need one of those special extra-long dipsticks for your machine in case the oil doesn't reach the full line on your normal one. A few extra jokes built into that one for free

Not gonna lie, this took me back to exactly WHY I don't move heavy equipment anymore. Ah, good (traumatic) memories! Still super entertaining. Thanks AvE!

Done like a true professional !! Best I've seen !

Aw that was brilliant ....... laughed my ass off !!! Health and safety at its best. I observed one or two pinch hazards though.

Who else was waiting for the mill to fall off the other side and drag the tractor on top of it and get stuck.

There is never a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane around when you need one...

"That'll buff out." I really enjoy your madcap adventures. Thank you for sharing. Now I think I do need a stone-boat.

I recognize the sound that tractor made!! When I work on a free farm to provide city folk with the beauty of nature I often would hear my boss swearing and spitting as this New Holland skidder would be forced to wake up. We'd laugh our asses off until the poor thing started moving and the boss-man started using it to throw 800 pound trees at us with it. I miss those days...