I just want to say, I'm going to be a mechanical engineer here pretty soon (doing building design, not mechanical design) but I appreciate how you teach your apprentices tp pay attention to detail early on. An owner will go back to someone who pays attention to the small things, and it creates a quality product!
Another great video showing your day to day work. I really appreciate the way you explain the tools and the techniques you use to address a particular problem,. This makes your content standout from others. Thank you for bring us along again.
Only other place I've seen air-arc is on CCE Australia where Curtis uses it for the same reason you do. Thanks for the detailed explanation and sharing your work.
@@paulsims9155 Exactly my though/ reaction when I read Robert's comment - and I was about to point Isaac's channel to him, but decided to check if someone else hasn't done it already - and yeah, you beat me, mate! : )
I can not ask for anything more......I just pitched out 68,432 items from my videos...now I get to relax with you Greg, cheers my California friend.....Paul in Orlando, Florida.....
You’d think that CAT had a better way to build a blade so this doesn’t happen as much as it does. I reall y enjoy the deconstructing the new repair , you are the blade doctor. Greg I commend your skill set, that didn’t happen over night, nice job
Fabricated structural steel for 5 years this looks like a lot of the stuff I use to do deal with similar arcing welding fabricating .. your are one bad ass dude 🔥
Nothing like an impatient customer. Either way I really enjoy watching your work. The phrase, “a grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain’t.” Does not apply here. You do great work.
Really enjoy your vids. I hope some of your customers watch your vids so they can see just how complicated and time consuming some of these repairs are.
Even for a very small personal home amateur it is great to see! And as a grandmaster u are in my opinion, you are explaining so clear. And even i will never do it on a scale you are working every day, i am learning a awful lot from you video's. Thank you for youré time you are putting in your content. will follow from now on!
Great video! This is the type of work I do. Just not as big nor do I have the size equipment you have. One thing I did start doing was using a local guy with a “dustless blasting machine“. Instead of all that wire wheeling and scraping and shoveling, they’ll come out with their high-pressure water and crushed glass and clean it up within minutes instead of hours and hours of tedious labor. Huge savings and labor cost and very environmental friendly. Just thought I would Pass that on in case you’ve never heard of it.
The lint from the underbelly of civilization, right there in the blade cavities. Love it. Too few people ever think about this, let alone get to see it. Yet we all depend on people taking care of our waste. Too bad there are no smell videos yet. I should just scoop some rotting trash on my desk while watching this, to really appreciate it.
That was pretty epic, particularly your discovery of the strategic dingleberry reserve. A big believer in preventive maintenance, I can never understand those who wait for equipment to fail. Economically, none of us want equipment down time, but PM is a known time and cost, whereas forensic repair, such as this excellent example is not. Just like sex in Matamoros, you best always wear a skin 👍🏻
an option when painting some dont care about colors on floor but some do this is a trick i was showed if you use woodchips on the floor when you paint it colors the chips and not floor great work keep it up i enjoy watching them and watched them all
I got one time rental dozer was like this I caught just in time for rebuild before send back.you show people what happen when wear got too long.good work and video.calgary alberta.
Great work done their'' for the job you do its Very good seamless welding'' shame at the end its tossed about! lol. thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍THUMBS UP👍👍👍👍👍 Anthony, UK
That top fence is nice, along with the "speed holes" on the arms! Great job from you and your team, well explained what you were doing, even me could follow the work flow... 👍👍👍
Welding was one of the career paths I considered following, but I ended up working for the CHP instead. Government jobs and welding are similar, just different in pay. A good government employee and a good welder are impossible to fire, unless they cause a lawsuit for the most part.
Just found your channel and after a bite of binge watching, Up to date! Your filming and editing skills have grown with each video. Thanks for dragging us along with you.
Your job I am confident has its ups and downs, but outside looking in it looks like a freaking blast! I work in healthcare (not very manly) so I am vicariously using your videos to sort of get in touch with that badassness!
Another amazing project, hopefully one day you will do a video on your background how you got all your skills mabe a business video or something like that I'm always interested in how people got to where they're at how they got their skills inspirational type info. Thank you for the great content.🙏🏻
We used to put the c frames on by driving the dozer into them...to bolt on. That cframe and blade had a lot of wear, i was surprised there was not more cracks on them.
Nearly every single dozer I work on comes out of the landfill. We spend so much time just digging out trash just to get to the repair. It's not hard to spend an entire day just digging trash out.
Back in 1979 in a previous life I worked for the local Cat dealer. I believe it was A D-7 that came in from the county landfill. You can't imagine how bad that machine stunk. Any and everything that goes to the dump was packed in the undercarriage and pan. I mean garbage, dead animals... It took 2 days and two men to partially clean up what was not burnt by the fire from a fuel leak in the engine compartment. We really never got the smell off it.
Nice job well finished, hope you list the cleaning out hours lol. Never used the air arc method as my repairs are much smaller in scale so 9" slitting blade is the choice of removing.
When I overhauled the skin on our D-10 coal pusher. It's easier to install the arms on to the dozer first. Than you can stand the blade up on skids. Than drive the dozer into position to attache the blade. Safer too.
Fascinating too see this type and scale of work - confident step by step makes it look easy . But how do you price up a job like this ?? Steel ,consumables ,staff , insurance , rent , fuel and time ! Absorbing stuff and great content . many thanks Jonny UK
Very informative and enjoyable video. One thing that would be useful for those of us with no industrial experience - at the beginning, a video or photo of the machine with a quick explanation of where these parts go and what they do. Like, I know what a bulldozer blade is, obviously - but not where these ball joints and arms and whatnot connect and not how they're supposed go together when they're not beat to hell.
Epic channel and fantastic videos, thank you! One request if I may... a tour of your work truck would be AMAZING if you get a chance. Really interested to see what you have on the truck to enable the site work and repairs that you do in the field.
As I work in the trash industry, funny to have you mention that the build up is trash, not dirt. To me, that dried trash goo is just another part of a days work. Not even something I'd worry about touching with bare hands. Part of the reason people in the trash industry have immune systems that are nearly indestructible. Also funny to see the outsourcing of welding fabrication, as we have 2 dedicated welders and 2 bays in the shop dedicated just to welding, and I work at what I'd consider a relatively small yard(55 ppl total, ~35 drivers, 10 mechanics/welders, and the balance being the 7 MRF/transfer people(me), and the office.
Did an old Komatsu blade looked just like this one here went through the pros and cons of cutting vs re skinning and customer didn’t wanna pay to cut it up so ended up getting a 3/8th skin press broke set it on there and burned it on still holding up and it’s been 3 years of heavy use can’t complain haha clean job man (no pun intended from the trash)😂😂
Get some 7" 3M Cubitron on a BAdBoy 7 or 9 inch grinder..... .it is amazing how fast they will remove metal......for those big flat surface areas, you don't even push into the grinder, , the weight of the grinder does all the work.......
I bought Rust-X for to apply first on equipment that will eat the surface rust and prime it before painting and I am totally impressed with the product. I didn't even wire down the surface rust on a 1,000 gallon skid pipes and it ate and leveled the surface before painting. You might won't to try it and I think you will be impressed too. :)
Nice work and yet another nice vid! Can I suggest you finish your vids with a simple 5-10 second out-tro so dummies like me can hit the like button. Will definitely up your engagement and traffic.
Just curious as to why you don't use the flat carbons for doing the finish up on the CAG work...Save a lot of grinding...Just saying Got to love the dual shield wire. I used to run a lot in .045 off my TB302 AirPak running a 12VS feeder When you are fabbing up things you don't use fab magnets.. I almost always working by myself and use a lot of the different ones i have from the big strong hand to the cheaper large harbor freight arrow heads.. Hard to hold things exactly where you want it and tack it at the same time all by your lonesome I like the brush guard on that blade Look real good and so did the rest of the repair..To bad you could not get the cover plate bump arched in time ...Always hated to send it out un finished ...But the customer is always in a hurry to get it back to work 🤐
"Nice little California sunset" I was wondering why the inside of your shop building didn't have any insulation on the walls. 🤣🤣🤣 That naked tin building would give you frostbite if you were working in your shop in January in Wisconsin. 😂
There are parts of california that need insulation and can get tens of feet per season, just in the mountain ranges. Lake Tahoe, where I live has been brutalized. We haven't seen a 7am morning above 32 degrees until this month. I piled snow just from my parking spot 15 feet tall. I saw -6 degrees one morning too lol
I have very little knowledge in your field. What is the cost savings to repair the blade versus replacing the blade. The repair bill for all the work performed based upon your years of experience has to be expensive. I assume the repair costs is substantially less than repairing the blade if one is even available. Thanks, enjoy your videos and vast knowledge.
Next time you have to cut a bunch of angles like that, make the pieces twice as long as needed then cut them in half with the angle. It's half as many cuts (time is $) and saves material too
Love how you explain why you do things the way you do them 👍🏽
I just want to say, I'm going to be a mechanical engineer here pretty soon (doing building design, not mechanical design) but I appreciate how you teach your apprentices tp pay attention to detail early on. An owner will go back to someone who pays attention to the small things, and it creates a quality product!
Another great video showing your day to day work. I really appreciate the way you explain the tools and the techniques you use to address a particular problem,. This makes your content standout from others. Thank you for bring us along again.
Only other place I've seen air-arc is on CCE Australia where Curtis uses it for the same reason you do. Thanks for the detailed explanation and sharing your work.
I watch Kurtis also😊 CEE is awesome
@@paulsims9155 Exactly my though/ reaction when I read Robert's comment - and I was about to point Isaac's channel to him, but decided to check if someone else hasn't done it already - and yeah, you beat me, mate! : )
I hate getting addicted to up and coming channels. Not enough videos to binge! I could watch you all day man, can't wait to see your channel take off.
I can not ask for anything more......I just pitched out 68,432 items from my videos...now I get to relax with you Greg,
cheers my California friend.....Paul in Orlando, Florida.....
You’d think that CAT had a better way to build a blade so this doesn’t happen as much as it does. I reall y enjoy the deconstructing the new repair , you are the blade doctor. Greg I commend your skill set, that didn’t happen over night, nice job
Those welds look awesome and the brush guard really finished it all. Thank you very much for another great video. 😁👍🇦🇺
Thank you for bringing me along for the show, much appreciated.
this is one my favorite videos you have made....much thanks!!!!!!
Really enjoy your videos. Informative and enjoyable. Thank you!
Great looking job. Stay Safe! Fantastic narritive.
Fabricated structural steel for 5 years this looks like a lot of the stuff I use to do deal with similar arcing welding fabricating .. your are one bad ass dude 🔥
Nothing like an impatient customer. Either way I really enjoy watching your work. The phrase, “a grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain’t.” Does not apply here. You do great work.
"Not sure if it's the right way, but it's the way we're doing it." Favorite statement there. Awesome work man! Really enjoying your videos.
Really enjoy your vids. I hope some of your customers watch your vids so they can see just how complicated and time consuming some of these repairs are.
Even for a very small personal home amateur it is great to see! And as a grandmaster u are in my opinion, you are explaining so clear. And even i will never do it on a scale you are working every day, i am learning a awful lot from you video's. Thank you for youré time you are putting in your content. will follow from now on!
Great video! This is the type of work I do. Just not as big nor do I have the size equipment you have. One thing I did start doing was using a local guy with a “dustless blasting machine“. Instead of all that wire wheeling and scraping and shoveling, they’ll come out with their high-pressure water and crushed glass and clean it up within minutes instead of hours and hours of tedious labor. Huge savings and labor cost and very environmental friendly. Just thought I would Pass that on in case you’ve never heard of it.
Dustless is a time saver in many applications!
That’s a very good idea, we hope that Greg will look into it.
The lint from the underbelly of civilization, right there in the blade cavities.
Love it. Too few people ever think about this, let alone get to see it. Yet we all depend on people taking care of our waste.
Too bad there are no smell videos yet. I should just scoop some rotting trash on my desk while watching this, to really appreciate it.
That turned out nice, been years since I've done that. Keep smilin
That was pretty epic, particularly your discovery of the strategic dingleberry reserve.
A big believer in preventive maintenance, I can never understand those who wait for equipment to fail. Economically, none of us want equipment down time, but PM is a known time and cost, whereas forensic repair, such as this excellent example is not.
Just like sex in Matamoros, you best always wear a skin 👍🏻
Looks good you did a awesome job on that
an option when painting some dont care about colors on floor but some do this is a trick i was showed if you use woodchips on the floor when you paint it colors the chips and not floor great work keep it up i enjoy watching them and watched them all
I got one time rental dozer was like this I caught just in time for rebuild before send back.you show people what happen when wear got too long.good work and video.calgary alberta.
Great work done their'' for the job you do its Very good seamless welding'' shame at the end its tossed about! lol. thanks for sharing.
👍👍👍👍👍THUMBS UP👍👍👍👍👍
Anthony, UK
That top fence is nice, along with the "speed holes" on the arms!
Great job from you and your team, well explained what you were doing, even me could follow the work flow...
👍👍👍
If I had to do it again I'd want to try being a welder like this. I would have loved to apprentice under this guy.
Very good work indeed young man. Hopefully we get to see Part 2, reskinning the blade.
Welding was one of the career paths I considered following, but I ended up working for the CHP instead. Government jobs and welding are similar, just different in pay. A good government employee and a good welder are impossible to fire, unless they cause a lawsuit for the most part.
I'd like to hear more about dual shielding. I'm new to your channel and enjoy your content. Great video on this blade!
Just found your channel and after a bite of binge watching, Up to date! Your filming and editing skills have grown with each video. Thanks for dragging us along with you.
Your job I am confident has its ups and downs, but outside looking in it looks like a freaking blast! I work in healthcare (not very manly) so I am vicariously using your videos to sort of get in touch with that badassness!
Another amazing project, hopefully one day you will do a video on your background how you got all your skills mabe a business video or something like that I'm always interested in how people got to where they're at how they got their skills inspirational type info. Thank you for the great content.🙏🏻
Rain, rain go away! The High Desert is greener than ive seeen in forever 😂
Not your most prestigious job but you got it done. Good job to your apprentice for handling the real dirty work. ✊
We use cutting edge supply for bending they are awesome
the best part is showing the apprentice pressure wash it!!!, you are a good journey!!! please let him watch!!!!
Nice as normal. Lots of work!!! Look forward to skinning!
Great job Greg, that was definitely a large undertaking.
We used to put the c frames on by driving the dozer into them...to bolt on. That cframe and blade had a lot of wear, i was surprised there was not more cracks on them.
Amazing job. What a transformation.
Nearly every single dozer I work on comes out of the landfill. We spend so much time just digging out trash just to get to the repair. It's not hard to spend an entire day just digging trash out.
love your vids. absolutely hate air arc'ing lol. have problems finding the seam sometimes. definitely a skill
Back in 1979 in a previous life I worked for the local Cat dealer. I believe it was A D-7 that came in from the county landfill. You can't imagine how bad that machine stunk. Any and everything that goes to the dump was packed in the undercarriage and pan. I mean garbage, dead animals... It took 2 days and two men to partially clean up what was not burnt by the fire from a fuel leak in the engine compartment. We really never got the smell off it.
Nice job well finished, hope you list the cleaning out hours lol. Never used the air arc method as my repairs are much smaller in scale so 9" slitting blade is the choice of removing.
Great freakin work man. You and your team are killin it
Nice work ! Love to see quality work.
great job on the dozer blade! 👍👍
Awesome work on the blade
When I overhauled the skin on our D-10 coal pusher. It's easier to install the arms on to the dozer first. Than you can stand the blade up on skids. Than drive the dozer into position to attache the blade. Safer too.
It's a dirty job but someone has to do it. Well done bud!
Nice fabrication and rebuild! Could you show sometime how you make your templates for curved plates? Thanks
cardboard cutouts of the profile are all that's needed. Give them to the bending company and they'll use the templates as a guide 👍
Amazing job on the brush guard add on
That is one bad looking blade right there , very cool !
Nice job Greg. Looks factory.
Fascinating too see this type and scale of work - confident step by step makes it look easy . But how do you price up a job like this ?? Steel ,consumables ,staff , insurance , rent , fuel and time ! Absorbing stuff and great content . many thanks Jonny UK
All by the hour. Got to factor all expenses into your rate.
Your work is better then factory "Dam good work".
Very informative and enjoyable video. One thing that would be useful for those of us with no industrial experience - at the beginning, a video or photo of the machine with a quick explanation of where these parts go and what they do. Like, I know what a bulldozer blade is, obviously - but not where these ball joints and arms and whatnot connect and not how they're supposed go together when they're not beat to hell.
That brush guard looks amazing
Nice welding, a big exhaust fan woul be a nice addition to your shop.
Nice! Looks a lot better than when it was first fabricated by Cat! Cat should pay you for making your quality version
Nice work love them landfill machines got that funk to them , have you tried the rectangular air arc rod i like them better than the round ones
Watching a bulldozer blade being repaired. Seeing some of its construction Is pretty dang neat.
Excellent piece of work.
Do you have a pole type pneumatic flooring scraper to carve out the tastys treets. And dried mud.
Epic channel and fantastic videos, thank you! One request if I may... a tour of your work truck would be AMAZING if you get a chance. Really interested to see what you have on the truck to enable the site work and repairs that you do in the field.
Great job with the air arc
I had you all wrong, you are a cool cat and a great engineer and welder and boss, my apology for any neg comments in the past. Please forgive me.
Great job and QUALITY!
As I work in the trash industry, funny to have you mention that the build up is trash, not dirt. To me, that dried trash goo is just another part of a days work. Not even something I'd worry about touching with bare hands. Part of the reason people in the trash industry have immune systems that are nearly indestructible. Also funny to see the outsourcing of welding fabrication, as we have 2 dedicated welders and 2 bays in the shop dedicated just to welding, and I work at what I'd consider a relatively small yard(55 ppl total, ~35 drivers, 10 mechanics/welders, and the balance being the 7 MRF/transfer people(me), and the office.
Did an old Komatsu blade looked just like this one here went through the pros and cons of cutting vs re skinning and customer didn’t wanna pay to cut it up so ended up getting a 3/8th skin press broke set it on there and burned it on still holding up and it’s been 3 years of heavy use can’t complain haha clean job man (no pun intended from the trash)😂😂
Get some 7" 3M Cubitron on a BAdBoy 7 or 9 inch grinder.....
.it is amazing how fast they will remove metal......for those big flat
surface areas, you don't even push into the grinder,
, the weight of the grinder does
all the work.......
I bought Rust-X for to apply first on equipment that will eat the surface rust and prime it before painting and I am totally impressed with the product. I didn't even wire down the surface rust on a 1,000 gallon skid pipes and it ate and leveled the surface before painting. You might won't to try it and I think you will be impressed too. :)
That brush guard looks bad ass 👍👍👍👍
You sure do nice work very nice
Great work guys better than new👊 back to pushing daisy's 🎉😂
For some reason the term "spoil board" comes to mind regarding that extra moldboard at the top.
It's one of those jobs that you have to remember to keep the mouth shut
Literally 🤢
That would be a face mask job for me 😂
Keeping your mouth shut is generally a good idea.
Nice work and yet another nice vid!
Can I suggest you finish your vids with a simple 5-10 second out-tro so dummies like me can hit the like button. Will definitely up your engagement and traffic.
Nice job! Looks amazing:)
Beautiful work as always
You should have some nice compost to start a garden out the back of the workshop now!
The inside of your shed roof may need a little attention. The blade looks good for a short while. Thanks for the videos.
I'm a welder I want to see more of it and your welding skills not just the fit up
Amazing! I love videos like this!
I love your videos, makes me rethink my fire sprinkler carear choice
Another good video. That tipover looked risky
What a nasty job. You would think it would be cleaned before loading it on your trailer. Job well done
I appreciate your videos and the discussion with yourself.... Which of the options is best for disassembly and later for reassembly!! Keep it up !!
Just curious as to why you don't use the flat carbons for doing the finish up on the CAG work...Save a lot of grinding...Just saying
Got to love the dual shield wire. I used to run a lot in .045 off my TB302 AirPak running a 12VS feeder
When you are fabbing up things you don't use fab magnets.. I almost always working by myself and use a lot of the different ones i have from the big strong hand to the cheaper large harbor freight arrow heads.. Hard to hold things exactly where you want it and tack it at the same time all by your lonesome
I like the brush guard on that blade Look real good and so did the rest of the repair..To bad you could not get the cover plate bump arched in time ...Always hated to send it out un finished ...But the customer is always in a hurry to get it back to work 🤐
Talk about master of all trades.
Awesome work, wish I could work with you.
"Nice little California sunset"
I was wondering why the inside of your shop building didn't have any insulation on the walls. 🤣🤣🤣
That naked tin building would give you frostbite if you were working in your shop in January in Wisconsin. 😂
There are parts of california that need insulation and can get tens of feet per season, just in the mountain ranges. Lake Tahoe, where I live has been brutalized. We haven't seen a 7am morning above 32 degrees until this month. I piled snow just from my parking spot 15 feet tall. I saw -6 degrees one morning too lol
In Australia that would have to be cleaned before leaving the trash site
That was a really nice guard you built for the fire dozier!!!!!! But then all of your work seems to be "really nice"!!
A quality shop like yours needs an electrostatic paint system,maybe for Christmas!!
I have very little knowledge in your field. What is the cost savings to repair the blade versus replacing the blade. The repair bill for all the work performed based upon your years of experience has to be expensive. I assume the repair costs is substantially less than repairing the blade if one is even available.
Thanks, enjoy your videos and vast knowledge.
Well a brand new blade is not available and my invoice is about half the cost of a new one.
We started grinding all the paint off the trunnion balls, sockets and flanges. We found it leaves a better end product 🍻🍻
Fantastic job!
Next time you have to cut a bunch of angles like that, make the pieces twice as long as needed then cut them in half with the angle. It's half as many cuts (time is $) and saves material too