Now you can reel in those big gators!

Howboutcha! One of my other fav channels to follow. Hope Wiley is doing well!

Good luck breaking that thing Hank, Wes doesn't design lightweight crap for sure!

This was indeed a great idea 💡

I wish I would have known hank was heading up to see wes. I'd sponsored his trip. I have a perpetual content machine for wes to restore.

It's the constant reflex laughter that would drive me to drink.

😂😂😂😂

You are a brilliant man Wes, and a true gentleman, please don’t ever stop making videos.

Right? I love the mechanic`s sticker that lists the prices of work, adding another category of added rates for watching, plus additional rates for helping, as helping implies both watching and driving you nuts... Something like 30$ per hour, watching +15$, helping +25$, totaling in 80$ per hour of helping time... And it`s true... Mechanic-ing isn`t just spitting on the nut and wrenching it back, swapping shit and returning the nuts before they dry up.... It`s stuck crap, snagged pieces, already damaged parts that you have to deal with first to get to what you need to do, rusty brittle fasteners, seized studs, bent rods, spun bearings and red herrings... All of which quickly stacks up into a major fuss, a swear fest the likes of which would make a sailor blush, yelling, screaming, howling, all in an attempt to suppress the desire to bash the shit out of the customer`s part in a fit of rage... We may return the part in perfect condition, all restored, all repaired, all shiny and clean, but it took mental strength that would subdue an avalanche if put to that use - to not harm the damned thing in the process and just keep steady and gentle until you are done... Only to realize that you forgot to return a part that you have to take the whole thing apart to put back in... Tho, by then, you almost mastered the job and what took 4 hours or more to do the first time around, now with fresh bolts, studs, hoses, pipes and what not - take no more than 45 minutes... Ah, the joy of wrenching or any mech. field jobs... And no, programming doesn`t compare, you don`t get your fingers smashed by an engine when a mount fails... You get sweaty and pissed off, but the closest you come to risk of bodily harm is when you plow your fist into the keyboard... It may be as frustrating, but it is harm free environment, and mistakes only cost time and money, not potential body parts... Unless you are programming for the cartel, but what use of such services would they have?

28:32 Those welders were good for the first five years and then they turn into shit. I’ve gone through so many of these trying to find the problem I finally got myself an old lindi wire feed. There’s a felt follower for the wire to go through to clean and soak in oil.. that might save your liner. Little bits of dirt, maybe pile up towards the end of the liner dust and grit from grinding

I'm a design engineer. First you do the thinking, then you do the sketching, then you do the drafting. When that is finished, it is time for the easy part: building!

I spent a lot of time in the design/build world. Sometimes I miss it. Sometimes I don't!

@@WatchWesWork Same here. All in all though, I’d do it again.

He has a degree in engineering, not really that out of his world. Lol

@@elianbarajas2869 He did everything from start to finish. That’s way beyond what an engineer does. LOL. J/O

Man I'm glad I'm not the only one who has that problem. Has been extremely bad since my wife and I bought an old farm. There are endless projects and I always seem to work without eating or drinking. In warmer weather I always end up seeing spots from dehydration. That's when I know I actually have to take a break. Probably going to have to work to change that as I get older.

​@@coltonkruse2313In the Australian Army drinking water regularly in warm to hot weather is called "Water Discipline" or at least it was back in the 80s and 90s! 😅 But seriously, going without adequate fluids and to a lesser extent food is detrimental to your productivity and your health in the short, medium and long term. Have you ever seen one of those urine colour charts? They tell you if you are passing enough fluids through your urine amongst other things. Look them up. You may think that you are "pushing on to get the job done" but how many times do you find yourself making dumb mistakes and or tripping over things and get angry? Step back, take 5, wash your hands and face and then have a sandwich and a drink! Even if you only take 10 minutes, you can be looking at the job in front of you and preplanning your next moves. Something to think about? Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

I try. It doesn't really translate to views.

@@WatchWesWork Betcha it translates into more end-to-end views.

@@WatchWesWork Yeah, but the people who get it are here permanently.

​@@WatchWesWork Hey man I just found your channel and this build was awesome, gained a subscriber. This is not meant to be critical at all, just offering you a few ideas to help drive up viewership. I think the biggest factor is runtime, it's hard to commit to a 40min video, I've heard some big channels say the sweet spot is 15-20min. Your content is great and this was a complex build so I know it's hard to cut it down. One thing you could do is speed up the footage of stuff that is common work and not unique to the build (i.e. unloading, plasma cutting, bandsawing stock to length, tacking, welding, etc). If there's an interesting fit up, a mistake that needs fixing, or you just said something funny def leave it in. One other thing that I think might help is advertise your old videos as you go, if something you previously did a video on happens to come on screen then add the little pop-up link to that old video so if it catches someone's eye they go back and watch that one. Hope it didn't come across the wrong way and you can use something to help you so we can keep watching Wes work!

And then you add an angle grinder that says for emergency use only.

Brilliant, with a phone number of family

Is that where I dropped it?

He probably would have dropped a 10mm socket down there but he’d already lost it. 😂

Thanks! I'm really happy how it came out!

He's just building the working designs that are already out there. Having that plasma table makes a huge difference when it comes to quality and time saving. That's on my bucket list of tools

Most skilled person on YT.

Lots of mud in Vietnam. Recovery of m48 tanks was always a challenge.

any cool stories you mind sharing?

To many .​@@bennett34

We are seeing it here too!

I'm just swamped.

@@WatchWesWork It's your own fault for being both competent AND honest, Wes.

LOL, SMH....

Yep, that CNC Plasma cutter is The Cats Meow...🎉... 41:23

I'm using ESAB wire, which has always been pretty good for me, but maybe they changed the recipe.

If I remember right, thats the brand I had trouble with, I had ran it in the pass to and had no trouble, it was hard to tell in the video but it sure can piss a person off

Well it does if you engage your brain.

​@WatchWesWork , AND You're NOT thinking of a DOZEN Other projects at the same time as well also... 41:23

I think they had a lot of rain in Florida, so it should see some action.

I guess we will see. I've never used this design myself.

Makes me feel better for having 2001 projects in process

You can also steel a clothes peg and use that with some lint free rag, also uk

@@johngibson3837 steal

Thanks, I thought of that also...

As i askey my dad, why did you use stickwelding for that? Well.... i have an awful lot of them, and it makes things stick big time. Cant argue with logic 😂

@@timodeporto686 and no 'wire feed' problems.

@@timodeporto686 Yep.... It sticks things together just as good, if not better than mig welding.

stick is excellent for this dirty structural steel

MIG welding to Stick welding is like going from an automatic transmission to a manual transmission, not everybody can do it. Best to learn both for this exact situation.