Nice work Josh. A man with many hats, Machinist, Mechanic, Fabricator, Welder. As a one man operation, I've had to do the same thing my whole life. Learned that from my Dad, he was that way. With the decline in business and customers it helps to be diversified. Have a great weekend Josh. 👍🇺🇸👍
Awesome video, Josh. My former neighbor and I used to fix old tractors for farmers (points, carb, etc.) and I really enjoyed this content. I took a break working on my old Chevy to watch this! Thank you, and way to show some hard-facing, many times people think putting mild steel on skids or even front loader blades is enough, but that stuff wears out in hours if you do any rock work.
Great looking machine. What I do with my seasonal equipment is the last time I run it before the off season is I add a large amount of fuel stabilizer and seafoam to the fuel. This seams to keep the fuel from breaking down and creating that sediment in the carb.
Stavanger, Norway here. We have a lot of cold, humid weather and I have the same problem with condensation in the welding helmet. The best solution I have found is to warm the helmet and lens with a hot air gun or hair dryer. That will keep the fog away fore a long time. Just be careful not to melt anything :)
Nice to a part of your shop we don’t often see and the front door ! I often see the iron worker machines in places I visit for work but have never seen one in action. A real time saver if your working using angle or strip. No snow in the UK but that machine is a beast !
Well, as a farmer, I like seeing some farm repairs, nice balance with the precision machining you share ! You and Oliver Snowball might need to have a trans-Atlantic collaboration some day 👍🏻
Good morning!!!!! I sure hope the snow is not bad this year. It is good to see you work because you do things that I have no experience with. I remember last year when you set the snow thrower up; it sure looks mean. Thanks for the video. You did a good job on both the video and the project.
Downright terrifying how easily it punched them out. I was wondering about the difference in resultant stresses on the metal, tho - obviously in this application it's fairly irrelevant, and punching is a darn sight faster than drilling, but any opportunity to learn from people who know better than I, y'know?
Excellent video Josh . You're a hard working man , my hat is off to you . I will keep my eyes and ears open to see if I can steer some work your way . I'm in Northeastern Wisconsin , so it might happen . I was a machinist for many years too , graduating from Boy's Tech and Trade in Milwaukee in 1976 . Take care , James
@@TopperMachineLLC I'd really like to do that . Our son lives in Superior , and you would be kinda on the way up there . We usually take US 2 . We might have to take a slightly different route to get there . I'm glad I found your channel . I'll keep in touch .
I have never seen hard facing. I enjoyed seeing the process. Of course you install those with grade 8 bolts. Kidding, of course. Probably lower grade bolts so if it catches the bolts break instead of tearing up more expensive parts. Thanks for the smoky show.
I wash the gas i put in my gasbike. Just add water, agitate, and allow to settle, then pour the gas off the top. Can't get E0 around here except in $15 steel gallon jugs and Haha No.
Josh, I might have mentioned this another comment but if your glasses are fogging up from temp changes or just breathing clean them with Shaving Cream it will prevent them from fogging up. Just take some regular old Shaving Cream and rub a small amount on both sides of the lenses, then take a clean _Dry_ Cloth and wipe away the Shaving Cream and you'll have fog proof glasses! 👍👍 I know it sounds weird, but it really works my Grandfather showed me this trick when I was a Teenager when I was just staring in the trade bc I refused to wear Safety Glasses as they constantly fogged up on me. I've been using this trick on my Safety Glasses, Visors, Bathroom Mirrors and the inside of my Windshield and Rearview windows on my vehicles ever since. You can also use Liquid Dish Soap, but I find it much harder to get the surface streak free with the Dish Soap. If you use Liquid Dish Soap the application is exactly the same as the Shaving Cream, simply apply it to the lenses, rub it all over then wipe it off with a _Dry_ Cloth.
3M Speedglass G5-03 with a battery driven filter pack on the belt covers TIG, MIG and ARC welding. I haven't heard any problems with it getting fog on the glass in cold/humid weather. 1100$ is not cheap but saves the lungs and add comfort to the welding and grinding. I used a hose fed heated filtered air when I was working as a metal fabricator. It was less practical moving around but it was in the 90's. Better products today.
Josh, Great video on the snow blower. I always look at air cooled engines that have sat for a period of time for mouse nests. I'm sure you gave it the once over.... My dad had a New Holland hay bailer years ago that sheared the fly wheel bolt when we hit a rock..... We did not have a replacement shear bolt so dad put a regular bolt in its place.... We hit another rock.... Dad bought another bailer the following week as the bailer turned into scrap metal... The Wisconsin engine was fine as it powered through the destruction just fine. Dad learned something that week as well...
No, but I hear wd 40 works if you can stand the smell. There's a South African product called Radian B if you can find it where you are. Smells a bit like WD 40, but at least it's formulated for your skin. Works great for winter's aches and pains.
Oh heck! 😂 here's to a great one Josh, thankfully here in Merry Old England, even in the sticks where we are, I've no need for such machinery 🎉, I'm amazed that last years gas works, the crap we get here, is fubar after a few months storage, thanks for sharing and best wishes to you and yours
Funny story: Friend was 'helping' me with a carb tear down and cleaning with the air: 1st time with compressed air: He suddenly blew all of the parts off the counter and across our lawn! Except for a couple items never found any screws, jets, etc. The lawnmower found these items later in the spring. Had to purchase a new carb. Be careful with the air I recall saying to him. Fun now but not, then.
Great content. I last saw hard facing on worn dozer blades on Iwo Jima. Nick, our excellent welder from Iowa would put down layer after layer of hard facing with a stick welder and I would grind it off smooth to sharpen the cutting edge. That coral rock on Iwo was extremely abrasive to dozer blades. Incidentally we had a sweet little V4 Wisconsin in the motor pool that we used often.
Love that Anchor lube! I have a gallon of it. Never thought about using it on an iron worker. Can't wait to try it on my No: 1/2 Buffalo iron worker! Those old Wisconsin's may be fuel hogs but they last forever. Nice work!
can you add an inline fuel filter for your wisconsin? if flow is a problem put two in parallel. Those metal gas tanks will be a perpetual rust flake generator :)
Discovered smthing weird in my last cleanout of my bike tank - water soluble sludge. Thought it was rust at first, but it came out with water and a shake of wood screws (they have good sharp edges for tank cleaning)
You sure are right about the fumes with using flux core wire. I only ever use flux core wire myself and while welding, I hold my breath until the fumes clear. I do small jobs in my 100 square foot shop with the exhaust fan running and a desk fan blowing the fumes towards the exhaust fan. This system works well and clears the fumes quickly. Larger jobs I do on the driveway and there's usually a breeze, so I position myself upwind from the job and hold my breath until the fumes are clear. Flux core has the advantage of not needing a gas bottle and it suits me, but it doesn't suit your shop. Flux core has it's place and is good for outdoor welding in wind, but definitely not good for indoor welding without a fume extraction system.
Good morning from Tucson Az. I use Rain-X anti fog on my helmet and goggles. Works good lasts long time. I love the press brake, it's the one thing I don't have in my shop but at almost 80 and only working on MY classic cars I can't justify getting one. Thanks for video, this is my first time here.
I remember as a kid my dad had something similar for a season in the northeast. One thing that I remember was the chute would get clogged alot. He moved it along mostly because it was too heavy for his truck to support. Hope this does its job and scares away the snow for you again.
from the way it started and then played up it certainly sounds like a bit of dirt..If you haven't already it might be worth putting a new or exxtra fuel filter in the line somewhere. Putting one somewhere accessible can be a real time saver. Scarey was my first thought looking at that auger too lol...theyre always just a little bit horrifying, you can see why movies like dispatching bad guys with them You have some Machines there that are seriously satisfying to use, my local steel stockholder has a shear that does up to 25mm and watching that snip bits off a sheet is just ...well actually its loud but feels so good to see a nice big chunk just fall out the side of the machine. It must take some serious electric to run but wow worth it. Your angle steel choppy thing has that same worthy beefy feeling about it. Thanks for sharing Josh, stay warm
I know by the time you read this it will be too late but, the skids need to be wider to help float the unit over soft ground better. Did that to my snow blower and made all of the difference in the world.
I have a trencher with a wisconsin engine and it would quit sometimes. I finally found that it had a fleck of paint right above the needle and seat. I took it apart many times but finally one time I took out the brass seat and the paint was under there. every once in a while that fleck of paint would lay over the little hole and stop gas flow.
Heard of a local trucker with a similar problem. Every time tank got below 1/4 it would starve out for fuel. Taken apart many times, never found a problem until it failed just right. The plastic cap for an alcohol bottle fell in and would cover the pickup tube. They fought that one for a couple years. Lol
Had a wisconsin v4 on old Oliver combine. With hand crank. Touchy to say the least. That motor will not like alcohol gas of any kind. Try gas with no alcohol and put a filter between gas tank and carb. Enjoy your channel
We had o e of those motors i a new holland skid steer when I was a kid. Being air cooled it would get hot and seize up. One day dad was roading it to the neighbors and it seized up directly on the railroad tracks!! Luckily it cooled down before another train came lol!
That "Ironworker" is an insanely impressive machine. I've never seen that before, usually at this thickness it's angle grinder at minimum or bandsaw/oxy-acetylene. I guess that's the difference between a real machine shop and some other shop.
I would never use an angle grinder for cutting. Super dangerous. I just had a 7" disc explode while grinding last week. That left a mark. Glad it wasn't a cut off wheel. I would have lost my johnson, and I'm not talking about the saw. Lol. I've been downsizing for a while now, but the iron worker is one thing I will keep. So handy.
Josh, if your Wisconsin engine is anything like the ones I have, check for mouse nests I'm the cooling shrouds. I have to clean them out all the time before use.
Looks and sounds like a VG4D . Air cooled engine designed to run on ethanol free leaded regular gasoline, try running Avgas. It's gritical to keep the oiling system clean, it has little spray nozzles inside that spray on the bottom of the pistons.
I've seen snow once in real life and I never want to see it again except on TV and in videos. Other than another ice age, we will never see snow here in this part of Queensland Australia and it's already too cold for me here in winter, with the temperature rarely getting down to near freezing at night. We rarely see frost here and only once in over 30 years in our yard and that was only a small patch. Hope you have a mild winter this year with no more snow, so that the snow bower doesn't get used. But if you do have to use it, we'd like to see it in operation.
#1 - Great content. That being said IF it had pump gas (10%) ethanol - it's never a good thing for anything with a carburetor that's not constantly being ran. Also - watch Chickahanicks video on fuel stabilizers, it's very informative. Everything i have with a carburetor only gets ethanol free gas and the fuel stabilizer she recommends (i have no affiliation with her or her channel).
Taryl fixes all did the best test of fuel stabilizers I've seen done. After watching I know which one I would use if I had to. But I also decided I won't store anything with fuel in it. And I use and rotate my GI cans of gas so it is never over a month old. (Except the odd 55 gal drum of 110 AVGAS)
@beyondmiddleagedman7240 I always shut off the gas and run the carb empty. Not sure why I had this issue, other than the crap in the fuel line dried out and got washed it. I don't use stabilizers, mostly because nothing sits long enough with gas in it. Fresh is always blended in on first starts. Except in this case with a full tank still. Absolutely no ethanol gas in anything besides our vehicles. Real gas will keep just fine for years without additive.
That auger sure turns fast. You wouldn't want to get anywhere near that thing. I'd hate to think what would happen to any small animal that got too close to it.
I bought a Topper Machine shirt from this "Spring" company and I ended up canceling the order. They said one of their printing plants shut down. I'd really like an XL Topper Machine t-shirt
Greg from northern Michigan. Let it snow, snow, snow, thanks to you 😂 Consider adding new fuel, a replaceable clear plastic inline fuel filter, and an ultrasonic cleaner using hot water and dawn dishwasher detergent for aluminum carburator parts. Your new skids are way overkill, exactly as I would build them. Happy Holidays ...
@gregforster5913 fuel is just fine. My guess is the crap in the fuel line dried out and was washed into the carb. I always shut off the fuel and run til it dies. Guessing that's what happened. Bead blasting works far better than any ultrasonic cleaner. Been doing it for years.
We have found the same thing, the more time we spend preparing for snow the less likely we are to get any 🙂 On these small carbs we have found that sometimes an air line and/or ultra sonic cleaner is not enough and we use small brushes or fuze wire like you did. If that does not work we use Chem-dip which is great for removing gum, varnish, fuel residue, and other deposits. I would love to find a punch for our workshop, it is a tool we would use all the time. Why did you cut the angle iron at 45 degress and then weld a bit in rather than cutting a triangle out of the side, bend it and make a single weld?
Brake clean is my usual go to, but I didn't have any left. Cutting and bending is a complete waste of time. Sawing the angle and welding a plate on only takes a few minutes. Utting and bending can take a lot longer.
@@jamesdavis8021 I hate flux core ... unfortunately I have to use it because I can't get gas at the moment. Certainly limits what and when I can do things ...hateful stuff
Put a little bit of shaving cream on the inner cover plate then buff it.....that should help with it fogging up. What hard surface wire do you use, brand and diameter?
Thanks for the tip. The stuff I use is very rare and extremely expensive. If you're looking for hardfacing wire, call your weld supplier. My intended application is very specific.
What is the wire number you are using for the hard surfacing? I don't remember it being mentioned. What would you recommend to hard surface my opener seed boots on my concord air seeder hoe drill?
Do you have any super magnets with a hole so you can loop a piece of copper wire thru to fish out any loose rust from the fuel tank. Then cut the long wire leaving a twisted loop to allow easy removal later. This reduces rust particles getting into the carb. How did the gasoline survive a whole year without going bad. Did you put some of the red bottle stuff in it.
You know, if you cut that copper fuel line & fitted a Ryco in line fuel filter, you wouldn’t get rust & scale & sediment from the fuel tank blocking your idle & low speed fuel jets. If it will run on choke but quits when you unchoke the carb, it’s a fair bet the idle & low speed jets are blocked.
Is hard facing like nickel rod? Retired ironworker, I've used alot of flux core, 5/32" wire, for its penetration,, and all position character. But.... Always outside, unless with smoke eater!
Hi Josh, winter sure is on the way. Do you use fuel stabilizer in your fuel? I use it for the gasoline in both my tractor and snow blower. Put it in before you fill the can. I've got fuel in my snow blower that's been in there for three years, we've had so little snow. The beginning of the season it starts up at first or second stab of the starter each time. Hope you get some paying work soon. Merry Christmas from Canada's banana belt. 🤞🇨🇦🍌🥋🇺🇦🕊🇺🇲🧑🎄🌲👍
Marvels Mystery Oil..no seriously...2 oz (1/4 cup) per5 gallons will stabilize fuel for up to 2 years, and lubricate the upper end on those small engines...works GREAT for engines that don't run alot and sit most of their lives...
Combination of a scary twisty auger, dirty Johnson, hardcore iron worker and hot hard face should deter winter, and if they don't, it's OK, you are ready.
Nice work Josh.
A man with many hats, Machinist, Mechanic, Fabricator, Welder.
As a one man operation, I've had to do the same thing my whole life.
Learned that from my Dad, he was that way.
With the decline in business and customers it helps to be diversified.
Have a great weekend Josh. 👍🇺🇸👍
I've got so many skills that I have job offers all over. Problem is I want to work in my own shop. Ugh.
@TopperMachineLLC Same here Josh.
Nice being independent and doing it your way! 👍👍💯
Awesome video, Josh. My former neighbor and I used to fix old tractors for farmers (points, carb, etc.) and I really enjoyed this content. I took a break working on my old Chevy to watch this! Thank you, and way to show some hard-facing, many times people think putting mild steel on skids or even front loader blades is enough, but that stuff wears out in hours if you do any rock work.
Works like a charm, I bought a new electric snowblower last year and only used it twice, probably didn't need to use it but it was a new toy!
That is scary was my first thought also. That engine sounds solid the wisconsin engines were built to last.
Thanks! Here's a little bit for your slush fund . Appreciate all you do Josh .
Tha k you so much.
Surprised the big Johnson did not shrink sitting in the cold air.
Merry Christmas.
🤣🤣🤣
Love that Iron worker, great machine
Hi Josh. That hard facing looks amazing. It even looks hard!
Enjoy winter, I too hope for no snow for you.
Be Well
Great videos this year. Thank you for your hard work. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Merry Christmas to you too! Thanks for watching!
Great looking machine. What I do with my seasonal equipment is the last time I run it before the off season is I add a large amount of fuel stabilizer and seafoam to the fuel. This seams to keep the fuel from breaking down and creating that sediment in the carb.
Josh Topper, and his Big Johnson at it again!
Stavanger, Norway here. We have a lot of cold, humid weather and I have the same problem with condensation in the welding helmet. The best solution I have found is to warm the helmet and lens with a hot air gun or hair dryer. That will keep the fog away fore a long time. Just be careful not to melt anything :)
That's a good tip! Thanks.
Nice to a part of your shop we don’t often see and the front door ! I often see the iron worker machines in places I visit for work but have never seen one in action. A real time saver if your working using angle or strip. No snow in the UK but that machine is a beast !
It is a beast, that's for sure.
Well, as a farmer, I like seeing some farm repairs, nice balance with the precision machining you share ! You and Oliver Snowball might need to have a trans-Atlantic collaboration some day 👍🏻
I was complaining about our high of 65 today here in Lake Havasu Arizona. I do not miss the cold and snow.
Good morning!!!!! I sure hope the snow is not bad this year. It is good to see you work because you do things that I have no experience with. I remember last year when you set the snow thrower up; it sure looks mean. Thanks for the video. You did a good job on both the video and the project.
Here's hopping we get another winter like last year.
Wow! Love that Ironworker for punching holes!! Its awesome!
Downright terrifying how easily it punched them out. I was wondering about the difference in resultant stresses on the metal, tho - obviously in this application it's fairly irrelevant, and punching is a darn sight faster than drilling, but any opportunity to learn from people who know better than I, y'know?
That thing is terrifying. The Squirrel Juicer 3000 😂
I'm looking forward to the zombie apocalypse. Lol
Rather snow than the ice we’re forecast to get today.
Greetings Josh from the oldest town in Texas, Nacogdoches. It is the mid 60s here and a little rainy, fortunately we rarely see snow. Keep warm.
I'm hoping we don't see any more. I'll gladly send you all my snow.
Excellent video Josh . You're a hard working man , my hat is off to you . I will keep my eyes and ears open to see if I can steer some work your way . I'm in Northeastern Wisconsin , so it might happen . I was a machinist for many years too , graduating from Boy's Tech and Trade in Milwaukee in 1976 . Take care , James
Thank you. I'd appreciate anything you could send my way. You should also plan a visit someday.
@@TopperMachineLLC I'd really like to do that . Our son lives in Superior , and you would be kinda on the way up there . We usually take US 2 . We might have to take a slightly different route to get there . I'm glad I found your channel . I'll keep in touch .
I have never seen hard facing. I enjoyed seeing the process. Of course you install those with grade 8 bolts. Kidding, of course. Probably lower grade bolts so if it catches the bolts break instead of tearing up more expensive parts. Thanks for the smoky show.
Fellow Wisconsinite here.Ethanol fuel in something that sits and goes through the dew point equals carb issues. Non ethanol fuel is our friend!
I never use ethanol. Except in our vehicles.
I wash the gas i put in my gasbike. Just add water, agitate, and allow to settle, then pour the gas off the top. Can't get E0 around here except in $15 steel gallon jugs and Haha No.
Does that lower the octane?
@@Hyratel I've heard of this being done. Never tried it as we can buy real gas.
Looks great man. It should hold up really well. Thanks for sharing.
That iron worker must save you loads of time. Great machine.
Josh, I might have mentioned this another comment but if your glasses are fogging up from temp changes or just breathing clean them with Shaving Cream it will prevent them from fogging up. Just take some regular old Shaving Cream and rub a small amount on both sides of the lenses, then take a clean _Dry_ Cloth and wipe away the Shaving Cream and you'll have fog proof glasses! 👍👍
I know it sounds weird, but it really works my Grandfather showed me this trick when I was a Teenager when I was just staring in the trade bc I refused to wear Safety Glasses as they constantly fogged up on me. I've been using this trick on my Safety Glasses, Visors, Bathroom Mirrors and the inside of my Windshield and Rearview windows on my vehicles ever since.
You can also use Liquid Dish Soap, but I find it much harder to get the surface streak free with the Dish Soap. If you use Liquid Dish Soap the application is exactly the same as the Shaving Cream, simply apply it to the lenses, rub it all over then wipe it off with a _Dry_ Cloth.
3M Speedglass G5-03 with a battery driven filter pack on the belt covers TIG, MIG and ARC welding. I haven't heard any problems with it getting fog on the glass in cold/humid weather.
1100$ is not cheap but saves the lungs and add comfort to the welding and grinding.
I used a hose fed heated filtered air when I was working as a metal fabricator. It was less practical moving around but it was in the 90's. Better products today.
Josh, Great video on the snow blower. I always look at air cooled engines that have sat for a period of time for mouse nests. I'm sure you gave it the once over.... My dad had a New Holland hay bailer years ago that sheared the fly wheel bolt when we hit a rock..... We did not have a replacement shear bolt so dad put a regular bolt in its place.... We hit another rock....
Dad bought another bailer the following week as the bailer turned into scrap metal... The Wisconsin engine was fine as it powered through the destruction just fine. Dad learned something that week as well...
I believe I mentioned mice and squirrels.
Enjoyed, thanks for sharing.
Next time that I am in Spooner I will give you a call and we can do lunch :-}
Wow that's cool can't wait to see that in action
Me too, but I hope I don't have to use it again this year.
Does Anchor Lube have a formula for knee and hip joints? Asking for a friend.
Lol. Would be nice.
No, but I hear wd 40 works if you can stand the smell. There's a South African product called Radian B if you can find it where you are. Smells a bit like WD 40, but at least it's formulated for your skin. Works great for winter's aches and pains.
Thanks!
Thank you.
Oh heck! 😂 here's to a great one Josh, thankfully here in Merry Old England, even in the sticks where we are, I've no need for such machinery 🎉, I'm amazed that last years gas works, the crap we get here, is fubar after a few months storage, thanks for sharing and best wishes to you and yours
I only buy non ethanol gas. All the ethanol crap goes bad fast and makes a mess of carbs.
Funny story: Friend was 'helping' me with a carb tear down and cleaning with the air: 1st time with compressed air: He suddenly blew all of the parts off the counter and across our lawn! Except for a couple items never found any screws, jets, etc. The lawnmower found these items later in the spring. Had to purchase a new carb. Be careful with the air I recall saying to him. Fun now but not, then.
Great content. I last saw hard facing on worn dozer blades on Iwo Jima. Nick, our excellent welder from Iowa would put down layer after layer of hard facing with a stick welder and I would grind it off smooth to sharpen the cutting edge. That coral rock on Iwo was extremely abrasive to dozer blades. Incidentally we had a sweet little V4 Wisconsin in the motor pool that we used often.
Reminds me of Fargo.
Lol. Never thought of that. I was more thinking zombie slayer.
Love that Anchor lube! I have a gallon of it. Never thought about using it on an iron worker. Can't wait to try it on my No: 1/2 Buffalo iron worker! Those old Wisconsin's may be fuel hogs but they last forever. Nice work!
It scared the crap out of me and I'm several thousand miles away!
I hope mother nature and Jack frost are shaking in their boots. Lol
can you add an inline fuel filter for your wisconsin? if flow is a problem put two in parallel. Those metal gas tanks will be a perpetual rust flake generator :)
The issue is something else. Will be addressed in the followups
Discovered smthing weird in my last cleanout of my bike tank - water soluble sludge. Thought it was rust at first, but it came out with water and a shake of wood screws (they have good sharp edges for tank cleaning)
You sure are right about the fumes with using flux core wire. I only ever use flux core wire myself and while welding, I hold my breath until the fumes clear. I do small jobs in my 100 square foot shop with the exhaust fan running and a desk fan blowing the fumes towards the exhaust fan. This system works well and clears the fumes quickly. Larger jobs I do on the driveway and there's usually a breeze, so I position myself upwind from the job and hold my breath until the fumes are clear. Flux core has the advantage of not needing a gas bottle and it suits me, but it doesn't suit your shop. Flux core has it's place and is good for outdoor welding in wind, but definitely not good for indoor welding without a fume extraction system.
I've burned a ton of flux cored wire in my time. Yes it has its place. But it will never replace a good MIG setup or proper stick welding.
Good morning from Tucson Az. I use Rain-X anti fog on my helmet and goggles. Works good lasts long time. I love the press brake, it's the one thing I don't have in my shop but at almost 80 and only working on MY classic cars I can't justify getting one. Thanks for video, this is my first time here.
I'm sure you could justify it. It would be great for working on old cars.
As Soichiro Honda said "All engines are air cooled. It's just that some people insist on putting water in the way".
I remember as a kid my dad had something similar for a season in the northeast. One thing that I remember was the chute would get clogged alot. He moved it along mostly because it was too heavy for his truck to support. Hope this does its job and scares away the snow for you again.
I was told it worked great, just was sold due to lack of use. I bought it much further south.
23:39, happens here in the sough at 50° F... LOL
The Ironworker on an angle shear is a surefire cure for constipation.
from the way it started and then played up it certainly sounds like a bit of dirt..If you haven't already it might be worth putting a new or exxtra fuel filter in the line somewhere. Putting one somewhere accessible can be a real time saver.
Scarey was my first thought looking at that auger too lol...theyre always just a little bit horrifying, you can see why movies like dispatching bad guys with them
You have some Machines there that are seriously satisfying to use, my local steel stockholder has a shear that does up to 25mm and watching that snip bits off a sheet is just ...well actually its loud but feels so good to see a nice big chunk just fall out the side of the machine. It must take some serious electric to run but wow worth it.
Your angle steel choppy thing has that same worthy beefy feeling about it.
Thanks for sharing Josh, stay warm
I know by the time you read this it will be too late but, the skids need to be wider to help float the unit over soft ground better. Did that to my snow blower and made all of the difference in the world.
We never get soft ground. Never. Not a concern here.
Josh if you not put a video on youtube till christmas, in that case I wish Merry Christmas to you and your family. Greetings from Germany.
I think I have a couple more in me. Merry Christmas
That Miller CP-200 is a workhorse.
Almost as good as my CP300.
I have a trencher with a wisconsin engine and it would quit sometimes. I finally found that it had a fleck of paint right above the needle and seat. I took it apart many times but finally one time I took out the brass seat and the paint was under there. every once in a while that fleck of paint would lay over the little hole and stop gas flow.
Heard of a local trucker with a similar problem. Every time tank got below 1/4 it would starve out for fuel. Taken apart many times, never found a problem until it failed just right. The plastic cap for an alcohol bottle fell in and would cover the pickup tube. They fought that one for a couple years. Lol
Topper goes Mustie
Had a wisconsin v4 on old Oliver combine. With hand crank. Touchy to say the least. That motor will not like alcohol gas of any kind. Try gas with no alcohol and put a filter between gas tank and carb. Enjoy your channel
I don't run any gas with ethanol. No issues since I switched.
We had o e of those motors i a new holland skid steer when I was a kid. Being air cooled it would get hot and seize up. One day dad was roading it to the neighbors and it seized up directly on the railroad tracks!! Luckily it cooled down before another train came lol!
The only time I've ever seen one overheat was when it was plugged up. Mice and squirrels love those air ducts. Keep them clean and they run forever.
Add a Racor bolt on filter with clear bowl and water drain and you'll be all set.
It's not a filter issue.
That "Ironworker" is an insanely impressive machine. I've never seen that before, usually at this thickness it's angle grinder at minimum or bandsaw/oxy-acetylene. I guess that's the difference between a real machine shop and some other shop.
I would never use an angle grinder for cutting. Super dangerous. I just had a 7" disc explode while grinding last week. That left a mark. Glad it wasn't a cut off wheel. I would have lost my johnson, and I'm not talking about the saw. Lol. I've been downsizing for a while now, but the iron worker is one thing I will keep. So handy.
That damn spiral of death!
That hard facing should last a thousand years . Can you show the machine in action ? Nice work Josh .
If we get snow, it'll be a great video.
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That occasional popping can sometimes be a leaky valve. If you have an infrared thermometer try taking temp readings at each exhaust port
Good point. It did clear up with some run time.
Josh, if your Wisconsin engine is anything like the ones I have, check for mouse nests I'm the cooling shrouds. I have to clean them out all the time before use.
I mentioned that in all my wosconsin videos. I have several.
@@danielyoder5928 yes I had a mouse nest in mine and it burned a hole in the piston when it got hot.
C'mon Josh, I thought you were going to use the drag line!
Next winter. Ran out of summer to get the tracks back on.
Good morning from mystical drone country.
Looks and sounds like a VG4D . Air cooled engine designed to run on ethanol free leaded regular gasoline, try running Avgas. It's gritical to keep the oiling system clean, it has little spray nozzles inside that spray on the bottom of the pistons.
Well versed in Wisconsin engines. Absolutely no ethanol used here.
I've seen snow once in real life and I never want to see it again except on TV and in videos. Other than another ice age, we will never see snow here in this part of Queensland Australia and it's already too cold for me here in winter, with the temperature rarely getting down to near freezing at night. We rarely see frost here and only once in over 30 years in our yard and that was only a small patch. Hope you have a mild winter this year with no more snow, so that the snow bower doesn't get used. But if you do have to use it, we'd like to see it in operation.
There will be a video. For sure.
Great video. I don't know if it's wise to depend on a machine to scare Mother Nature 😂
It worked last year. No snow at all. Lol
That thing is terrifying
Sure is. Hope it works.
#1 - Great content. That being said IF it had pump gas (10%) ethanol - it's never a good thing for anything with a carburetor that's not constantly being ran. Also - watch Chickahanicks video on fuel stabilizers, it's very informative. Everything i have with a carburetor only gets ethanol free gas and the fuel stabilizer she recommends (i have no affiliation with her or her channel).
No ethanol in anything buy our daily drivers. I rarely use fuel stabilizer. I have gas in stuff that's 10 years old and still fires and runs great.
Taryl fixes all did the best test of fuel stabilizers I've seen done. After watching I know which one I would use if I had to. But I also decided I won't store anything with fuel in it. And I use and rotate my GI cans of gas so it is never over a month old. (Except the odd 55 gal drum of 110 AVGAS)
@beyondmiddleagedman7240 I always shut off the gas and run the carb empty. Not sure why I had this issue, other than the crap in the fuel line dried out and got washed it. I don't use stabilizers, mostly because nothing sits long enough with gas in it. Fresh is always blended in on first starts. Except in this case with a full tank still. Absolutely no ethanol gas in anything besides our vehicles. Real gas will keep just fine for years without additive.
New fuel hose, some go bad internally by the agressive fuel/ and rubber drying out.
30°c here.
That auger sure turns fast. You wouldn't want to get anywhere near that thing. I'd hate to think what would happen to any small animal that got too close to it.
I keep envisioning a zombie apocalypse. Lol
Nice work. Maybe time to make a welding extract hood / station for your welding shop. Though I guess you can do without the expense right now.
Never been a need. Just open the doors. And, like I said, absolutely no flux cored wire.
You could really use a fume extractor for when you're using dual shield. Maybe then you wouldn't have to freeze while welding!
I don't use it enough and freezing just makes you work harder. Also, no money coming in for fancy equipment.
I bought a Topper Machine shirt from this "Spring" company and I ended up canceling the order. They said one of their printing plants shut down. I'd really like an XL Topper Machine t-shirt
They are the only way to get one. I don't have any that I stock. Yet.
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Greg from northern Michigan. Let it snow, snow, snow, thanks to you 😂 Consider adding new fuel, a replaceable clear plastic inline fuel filter, and an ultrasonic cleaner using hot water and dawn dishwasher detergent for aluminum carburator parts. Your new skids are way overkill, exactly as I would build them. Happy Holidays ...
@gregforster5913 fuel is just fine. My guess is the crap in the fuel line dried out and was washed into the carb. I always shut off the fuel and run til it dies. Guessing that's what happened. Bead blasting works far better than any ultrasonic cleaner. Been doing it for years.
Yu Da Man ... that's how they say it up north here too ... Love your channel and content ...
Looks cold
You bet it is.
I wonder if an air shield would help. I’ve been thinking about getting it myself.
We have found the same thing, the more time we spend preparing for snow the less likely we are to get any 🙂 On these small carbs we have found that sometimes an air line and/or ultra sonic cleaner is not enough and we use small brushes or fuze wire like you did. If that does not work we use Chem-dip which is great for removing gum, varnish, fuel residue, and other deposits. I would love to find a punch for our workshop, it is a tool we would use all the time. Why did you cut the angle iron at 45 degress and then weld a bit in rather than cutting a triangle out of the side, bend it and make a single weld?
Brake clean is my usual go to, but I didn't have any left. Cutting and bending is a complete waste of time. Sawing the angle and welding a plate on only takes a few minutes. Utting and bending can take a lot longer.
I never use flux core.Your right.That stuff is nasty.Use flux core outside only.
@@jamesdavis8021 I hate flux core ... unfortunately I have to use it because I can't get gas at the moment. Certainly limits what and when I can do things ...hateful stuff
Would inline fuel filter help with the dirty gas? Those are cheap and available basically everywhere.
It isn't a filtering problem. I'll cover it in the followup.
Put a little bit of shaving cream on the inner cover plate then buff it.....that should help with it fogging up.
What hard surface wire do you use, brand and diameter?
Thanks for the tip. The stuff I use is very rare and extremely expensive. If you're looking for hardfacing wire, call your weld supplier. My intended application is very specific.
How about some Nylatron surface skis?
Not a great application for it.
What is the wire number you are using for the hard surfacing? I don't remember it being mentioned. What would you recommend to hard surface my opener seed boots on my concord air seeder hoe drill?
I didn't say because it is hard to get and very specialized for my one customer. Talk to your welding supplier.
Do you have any super magnets with a hole so you can loop a piece of copper wire thru to fish out any loose rust from the fuel tank. Then cut the long wire leaving a twisted loop to allow easy removal later. This reduces rust particles getting into the carb.
How did the gasoline survive a whole year without going bad. Did you put some of the red bottle stuff in it.
Great idea. I found stabilizer is a welaste of money if you use non ethanol gas. Absolutely none of my stuff has ethanol in it besides the bmvehicles.
You know, if you cut that copper fuel line & fitted a Ryco in line fuel filter, you wouldn’t get rust & scale & sediment from the fuel tank blocking your idle & low speed fuel jets.
If it will run on choke but quits when you unchoke the carb, it’s a fair bet the idle & low speed jets are blocked.
No copper line. It does have a filter. There was still some ethanol gas in it. Hoping tonrunthat out this year.
How far does that beast throw the ❄️. My guess 1/2 mile. Wicked.
No idea, we never got any snow last year.
Hello Josh, would A/R steel be another option for the skids?
It would, but I still hatdface AR.
5:30 Someone should tell him that there is such a thing as "close up"
Close enough also.
Is hard facing like nickel rod? Retired ironworker, I've used alot of flux core, 5/32" wire, for its penetration,, and all position character. But.... Always outside, unless with smoke eater!
No, hardface is something totally different.
I couldn't quite tell from the shot at the end of the video but does that hardfacing bend the parts from the thermal stress?
It did beautiful slightly. Not enough to worry about.
Good job with the hard facing wire! How is the cost and durability compared to using some stainless flat bar?
No snow in southern half of Sweden yet 🥳
Stainless is much softer.
i jst spotter Mother Nature and Jack Frost scarpering an heading off down Mexico way!!! - fleeing from thos whirlin blades!!! 😊😛😊
Good. They can keep running. Lol
Hi Josh, winter sure is on the way. Do you use fuel stabilizer in your fuel? I use it for the gasoline in both my tractor and snow blower. Put it in before you fill the can. I've got fuel in my snow blower that's been in there for three years, we've had so little snow. The beginning of the season it starts up at first or second stab of the starter each time.
Hope you get some paying work soon.
Merry Christmas from Canada's banana belt.
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I quit using stabilizer. With non ethanol gas it really isn't an issue. I also go through so much gas that it's not an issue.
How much stock have you purchased in AnchorLube? (jk)
Quite a bit. It's about all inuse anymore.
Marvels Mystery Oil..no seriously...2 oz (1/4 cup) per5 gallons will stabilize fuel for up to 2 years, and lubricate the upper end on those small engines...works GREAT for engines that don't run alot and sit most of their lives...
The fuel was actually fine. Follow up video.
When you can see the dust come off the jet like that, even on camera, That's Pretty Bad
Id been wondering about if you did MIG-SAT or just SC but hadn't had an opportunity to ask. Question answered!
Does that snow blower have gas sediment bowl on ìt?
Yes. It was cleaned and screen replaced. Guessing fuel line started to break down.
What would it take to power the snow blower from the Payloader?
Alot of hydraulic upgrades and money. I could have bought one that was hydraulic driven, but I specifically wanted an engine driven unit.
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I used to call hard facing dirty facing. After a couple hours of hard face welding, I'd look almost like I was wearing blackface.
Been there. Same with any flux cored wire. Nasty stuff.
Is it supposed to go that fast or is something going on with the camera making it look like it's going faster then what it is.
Nope, it's that fast.
Combination of a scary twisty auger, dirty Johnson, hardcore iron worker and hot hard face should deter winter, and if they don't, it's OK, you are ready.