Mate, are you really going to try to slag on this video when it had those microsoft paint graphical presentations? You're trying to stop art, true art, from happening. How dare you.
I was a pipe fitter welder before becoming a police officer. One of my part time gigs was doing portable weld and in shop fab work on my days off. Most of my customers were farmers. There ideas of things defined the laws of physics. You did a fine job with that pile of stuff they brought you. I would not have repaired it I would have built them a new tongue. Only reason is all the mis matched stuff bent things and thin material. I learnt my lesson with that. You and I both know it’s going to break again by misuse and abuse. It’s then your fault. All the farmers say I make stuff to heavy. I say I must make it farmer proof. That’s a tall order. Great job thought you did as they wanted.
Yeah the problem is a year later when the repair fails due to misuse the farmers are going to scream "warranty, warranty!!!!!!". When i was in the tool business forty two years ago i had a customer who did radiator repair and automobile air conditioning. He told me that he got to the point to where he would not do radiator repairs because if a radiator that he patched sprung a leak in another place a year later the customer would be back screaming "warranty, warranty!". Of course there was a time when people would have stuff repaired and understand that any warranty applied to that particular repair itself. Of course as this man also told me the manufacturers have the cost down on newer items that repairing an older piece is not economically feasible.
First consideration on a job like this is your liability insurance coverage. Don't touch a job like this without huge comprehensive liability coverage to keep you from bankruptcy when the repaired part breaks and somebody gets injured or killed. And watch out for the amount of deductible before the insurance coverage kicks in. Second: There is no way you can ever charge enough for jobs like this to cover your liability insurance premium. Better to refer this type of job to your competitors than to put your neck in the noose by repairing such a haywire concoction.
I love this. "Nobody wants a video about drill bit sharpening, so here's a video about how to sharpen drill bits." "Everybody hated the drill bit sharpening video, so here's another drill bit sharpening video." "I think welding is boring and I don't like welding videos, so here is a welding video." This is why I'm a patreon, and you should be, too
@WatchWesWork I think you're doing pretty well. Seems like you had about 77k subscribers when I first started following. So I'll say, You're pretty damn smart. There. Now you can't say that any more. Neener neener neener!!!
At 65, I just learned to weld, after years of trying and failing. It took just one UA-cam "tutorial" to give me the courage to try once more. With an auto darkening helmet and proper welding gloves, it was so easy to just fall into a rhythm. The trick for me was to (having gloves for the 1st time) use 2 hands, as per the "tutorial, one holding the electrode and one gripping the rod. The proper helmet helped me for the 1st time to actually see what the hell is going on at the arc. Wow, 30 years of failed welding attempts, and I fixed the gate my wife drove into with only a bit of help from my son with the clamping and cutting. Saved a ton of money for a new gate!
Atta boy... I been using video tapes and videos since they were invented to learn techniques that were foreign to me... Since about age thrity five I have come to master or almost master most every trade out there. I can build a home by myself. I can build cars by myself. Give me a pile of money and time and I can build anything.
My fater tried to show me when I was 10 with an AC welder, a fixed shade in my hand and 7018. All I did was stick the rods and burn my eyes. 15 years later I got a cheap auto dark and learned how. 7014 is a great rod to learn with before you go 7018
It's a heck of a time to be alive, people! Some farmer out in the sticks in Illinois goes to this shade tree mechanic down the road and asks him to fix this broken doohickey. Shade tree mechanic goes "Why, sure! I'll just make a drawing on my computer real quick and then print it out on my computer controlled plasma cutter. I'll record the whole ordeal and post it on the interwebs so that some dude in Sweden can watch it and write something stupid in the comments." I'm telling you, folks - get ready for the downhill 'cause it ain't getting better than this!
Ok I _really_ appreciate the closeups of the welding. It really helps to see how you're moving the stick. The narration of what you feel you're doing wrong and right is also super helpful. Thanks.
We are not watching the welding. We are leaned back in our armchairs, listening to the sizzeling and saying: "Welp, that's a good weld." Great fix of a farmer's welding job!
You say you are not much of a stick welder, but have to tell you; your a 1000 times better then the guy that welded those pieces on, when you first showed us the project!
Thing I don't get is that stick welding really isn't that hard. I'm a pretty amateur level welder and I can lay a bead about the same quality as Wes. There's just no excuse for the original welding on there unless it was done by a 10 year old.
@@SnargleflarpMasetblugp Well, there's the thinking part that's needed to properly use a tool. Otherwise you see people trying to hammer a nail with the pliers! It works, but then the unemployed hammer has laid a curse over the nail.😆😆
Reminds me of a farmer that welded up a driveshaft on an old straight truck. It failed and went through the windshield of the car traveling behind. Did not kill the driver but she was paralyzed and severely brain damage. Destroyed her life. Most all of the farmers I know are all multi millionaires. Still milking every government program there is. While at the same time singing the blues, “it’s so hard to be a farmer” and their living hand to mouth.
@@filobeto1691 well may be rich where you are from but there are a lot of farmers driving 500tho$ tractors that are one crop from bankruptcy , yes some are rich but there are a lot struggling to get by and part of those gov payments are so you don't stand in line to get a loaf of bread ask any ex russian
@@filobeto1691 I think all those "farmers on the dole" you're talking about have never set foot on a farm. Even though they might own it. It'd more likely some Republican corporation owner/investor that's on the dole. The farmer is the one doing all the work. You know, the one who doesn't even own the pick-up he drives to the bank to pay his mortgage.
@@filobeto1691 Multi-millionaire on paper and actual millionaire are not the same thing. You might have $1M in buildings with $2M in equipment on a $10M piece of land, but you are always one bad season away from ruin. The banks, Ag equipment manufacturers, feed/seed, and chemical companies make more from farming than the average farmer. Why do you think they don't bat an eye at $100k trucks? It's because they already pay the bank $25-40k/month. An extra $1,500 is a drop in the bucket.
The shots that showed only what you could see were freaking awesome. Loved the vid Wes. The talking was a good amount to inform us the information we need but not a bunch of nonsense.
Thanks for actually painting it after you're done. I watched so many people fail to paint because they wanted to see shiny welds. Then, a year later, it's rusted through.
That 3D printed camera adaptor worked fantastic! It is MUCH nicer being able to see exactly what you are doing and not just seeing the end results! I think you are a lot better of a stick welder than you think you are! 👍👍
FWIW, I appreciated watching the silent welding portions. I am slowly learning to stick weld myself and watching your technique and hearing you postmortem the mistakes you identified you were making were beneficial to me. Thanks!
When I was a young man, my dad had a small tool & die job shop in a little rural Kentucky town. The main focus was, of course, building progressive stamping dies. But, being the only real machine shop in the county, we had a lot of farmers coming in with their broken equipment wanting it repaired. A lot of it looked like that hay rack tongue - scabbed together in the field just enough to get that day's job done. We also got a lot of tractor heads with broken exhaust studs, a few cracked heads that needed welding, worn out spindles that needed welded up and turned down, etc, etc, etc. Watching you working on the farm equipment that comes into your shop sure takes me down memory lane.
I always gauge the success of a repair when whatever you fixed breaks again but in a different place than where you strengthened it.... Nice work. That fix is going to outlive the trailer....!!!
You have a pleasant voice and furnish the viewer with valuable information and insights. Please don’t change a thing. Never going to make everyone satisfied. The “sow’s ear to a silk purse” analogy comes to mind. The wagon tongue came in closer to the former and left nearer the purse. Thanks for all your content. Know it takes a lot of time.
I for one, very much enjoy watching you and others weld. I just turned 61, and I am contemplating taking a welding class at my local community college this Fall. Thanks for getting the arc filter for your camera; it is much easier to discern your technique not looking at a blinding light. You are one of the better instructors on UA-cam, and I always come away having learned something.
I enjoy all of your videos. A good mechanic in my experience is you see an issue you find a fix. That is a balance between doing it right the cost and the down time for customers. You should ask these questions up front then let them know what they are getting. It cost to make it farmer proof and 9 out of 10 go cheap. I think you did a great job. It went out a lot better that it come in. Thanks for all your efforts the ones complaining didn’t pay for your video, so they can’t complain too much. Thanks again for all your effort!
You did a good job Wes, it's Quite a bit Better than when it came in.The Arc shots with your 3D printed adapter worked Great! I'm a Welder of Over 40 Years and I enjoyed watching you Work. Like Anything else Practice Always makes you Better,you don't Weld every Day but you did a Good job on This project. At least you Recognize what a weld should look Like and understand the process , Most occasional welder's don't. You're Lucky to have a plasma cutting Table you can fabricate everything you need!
Yup. More metal = more gooder. 60% of the time it works every time. I've made some good welds and I've made some lots of welds and you can't tell the difference if you ain't lookin at em.
The state of repair on this tongue when it was brought in shows that people need to attend a welding course before they attempt to weld. My senior year of high school (graduated 1970) we were exposed to oxyacetylene welding, and it was in that instruction that I could see the basis for welding and that is the weld puddle. In later years (1980) took a welding course at the local skills center and refreshed my memory. Once one gets the basis of welding down it is practice, practice, practice. Your repair will last many years over what you were given. To say the repair that came in was "bugger welded" is an understatement. Also, people who do not properly prepare their work by proper cleaning of the metal are doomed to produce shoddy work. The biggest thing is when a welder shows up to repair something we have all of these "junior engineers" who have already figured out how to repair something and then commence to tell the welder how to do the job.
Same here, I learned oxygen acetylene welding with filler on a Smith welding torch 201-205. Arc welding next on a Miller Thunderbolt buzzbox came easy. Later wire feed (MIG) welding on a Lincoln. Favorite welding helmet, Lincoln Viking 3350 purchased from Baker Gas on the internet.
Great video with the camera addition so we could see what you see when welding. Thanks for thinking of your viewers. You always instruct while you repair or plan. Fantastic channel!
Thanks for the drawing which shows us city boys what you're talking about. Including the collision with the Tesla "truck" was good also, as it saved a Ford, Chevy/GMC, or Dodge. I can account for my movements the day that tongue repair was done.... I don't see what the big deal is; I'm sure the farmer did the obligatory three slaps and uttered "That ain't goin' nowhere" as soon as the welding cooled down. 😄
That was a disaster. You made it functional and safer. Thanks for the informative video and welding tips. I'm glad I don't have to drive anywhere near those guys.
In farm country, the farmers and their equipment are not the real danger. The impatient non-farmers who whip around them, without understanding the limitations of the farm equipment, cause most of the accidents.
Wes. I always enjoy your videos and think you’re a brave man for showing welding on UA-cam. It’s amazing how many armchair certified welding inspectors are out there. 🤣🤣 Looks like the plasma cutting table and 3D printer are coming in handy.
I worked in the Industrial trades all my life and you are very exceptional person and I have the utmost respect for you. Love your videos and wish there were more of them. Thanks!
I would like to thank you for this one. My son and I talk shop and often falls into welding. We have tried to explain it to her. I had her watch it and now she understands. Finally. LOL
I wouldn't call myself even decent at welding, but that was some ugly bubblegum you had there! I live in Farm country, and everyone does what they can to get the job done. Good for him for bringing it into you to do right.
When the project came in it's what us welders call dog nutts it's I think I can weld but really I cants here is some hot molten mess that should hold it. Wes did a decent repair and much better than what was on it
Don't change a thing Wes, perfect balance of everything, all the time. Some videos I don't even understand fully (being a person who can't fix a car, weld, do metal work etc) but I always enjoy watching and the explanations.
Appreciate the close up welding. As someone who welds when required I’m always trying to be better and the closeups are helpful. Also talk all you want, those of us trying to learn are listening.
Wes, you have one of the better, more entertaining channels on this site. Anyone can post vids of the same things you're doing, but NOBODY can match the wit and dry humor of your narrations. FWIW, I've been doing the same stuff you're doing for many, many years, and I still learn something from each of your vids. Keep on being you.
Also Wes, I super appreciate all of your explanations, context, drawings, animations, and narrations. That is how I learn, and I learn A LOT from your channel. No one ever taught me this stuff and I’m always excited to learn how things work. You are an incredible, thoughtful, and engaging teacher. Thank you!
You are the epitomize of American Ingenuity. From the design how to fit a round peg into a square peg, the tools you must precisely cut the “fitting parts” to your skills as a videographer with the rig lens to capture the essences of welding. Thank you so much for sharing!
Another great video Wes. They did what they had to do to get it working, which is always the most important part. Your repair will last as long as they don’t add another wagon or jackknife the wagon and bend the hitch. I can almost see the Lincoln buzz box welder that made the initial modification, sitting in the corner of the shop surrounded by scrap metal pieces, needed for future repairs. One of our best union pipe welders I seen was a small framed woman, who could weld anything.
My dad was a welder machinest. I would look at his welds you could not tell weather he did it or a machine did. I never took up welding . I'm not a critic I just enjoy watching whatever you put out. Thanks for sharing.
You could do animation videos, and I'd watch all day. Welding to me has always been fascinating. I used to love to do welding in my much younger years. I'd still do it now if I had a welding shop. I did it when they only had stick welding and oxy acetylene welding. Keep up the great work sir. Love your videos.
Hello Wes! I think you actually done a very good job welding that wagon hitch!!!! I think its about 100times better than it was! Who ever done that old welding done a real snot job on it!!!Have a good day Wes!!
I enjoy the "off-brand" content. I think the first video of yours I stumbled across was some kind of appliance repair, been watching ever since. Thanks! I am also (not) an arc-welder.
Reading some of the comments reminds me of something Grandpa always said, "Some folks would complain if you hung them with a new rope, and buried them in a gold coffin." Thanks for the video, Wes.
The tractor vs cybertruck diagram is super accurate. The farm has cattle that trusts him to bring feed. The musk has sheeple that trust him to bring safety. Both require someone like Wes to bridge the gap.
Well Wes your welding was incredibly better than the pigeon poop that was on it. Yes, once you establish the arc you can put the rod on the metal and just turn your wrist so the puddle washes onto both pieces. I burned a few cans of 7018 and 7024 in my structural steel fabrication days. I enjoy going to farm auctions and inspecting welding repairs. The good,the bad and the splattered 😊. AL B.
To me, welding is an art form. I watch IC welds and CEE on the tube all the time. It's enjoyable. Wes, I certainly do enjoy your videos. By the way, that lens filter unit is pretty clever. 👍
That “fix” was only temporary unless it worked Wes. You should know this as I purchased this critical motto in sticker form from you.😂. Thanks for the graphic on how this worked. Another good adventure with the Wes crew.
Great video again Wes. Over the years of trying teaching folks to weld, I’ve determined no one can truly “teach” it. You can tell/show them how you do it. You can tell them it’s too hot/cold or speed up or slow down. But they have to find their own groove.
I subscribed to your channel for about an hour and was watching you.Fix somebody's vehicle with rusted out exhaust pipes and broken studs and bad guys gets and I said to myself I don't want to relive my past. I did this is a hobby for years and years and don't want to relive again
Wes, thank you for the effort to show us welding as seen through a hood. I never owned one of the automatic hood lenses. Had to find where I wanted to strike it and snap the hood down and hope. My eyes were not that good, and I soon went back to using fasteners. Great image on the video. By the way, I grew up on the farm and that would have been fixed with some cedar posts and bailing wire when I was little.
I dunno Wes, those seem like fairly good welds. lots of good penetration, no cold lap, a little bit of undercut but you've got lots of material there. I've seen much worse hold thousands of psi in pressure applications. Love your videos, I've literally watched every single one. Cant wait for the next one!
I have NEVER found any of your vids boring, especially welding. One of my retirement projects has been teaching myself to weld. I'm up from whale snot to boogers. So, by the time I croak I MAY be able to lay down a good bead. Anyway, thanks for all the good stuff I've learned in the past 7 years. 👍PS I LOVE ol' Max! 😍
Watching you weld reminds me how much I enjoy welding and why I pushed through the toughest parts of my trade school. Seeing a good weld after cracking the slag is satisfying as hell.
Quite literally laughed out loud at the intro. "Fun little project" coupled with the most terrifying visual representation of "yea I can weld it together". Yikes.
Another great video Wess, love to see you working and to hear your explanations. This way I learn a lot from you. Don't let anybody from LA tell you how to be successful in both your job and on UA-cam.
Perfect timing, I'm welding up my first exhaust system. Think you're right about the rhythm. My puerto rican genes must be helping me find that rhythm.
Your videos are always great. As a fellow mechanic/welder/fabricator, I don’t usually enjoy watching others. However, you do great work and I get the dry humor. I have a rear end out of a 9630T that I have torn down and going to rebuild. I wish I had the time to video all of it. I doubt you’d find many videos of a complete tear down and rebuild if one.
Here in North Wales our farmers have history going back more than 2000 years. These guys can fix ANYTHING with blue rope, a shovel, bailing wire, sledgehammer and vice grips. And I mean ANYTHING!
WHAT?!?!... Wes's explanation of the farmers hay hauling "innovations" had me chuckling aloud, I love his introductions and talking as much as his skills in repairing whatever comes across his table. I find all his videos entertaining and educational so hope he keeps on being himself.
Wes you make great videos, you have a great sense of humour, a talent for explaining what you are doing and why, and a talent to make graphic representation of the work, keep them coming Wes,love your channel 👍👍👍👍👍
Love your work and channel Wes! You keep discounting your repairs (in a humble way). If I were to bet $1000 dollars, I would say other places on that would fail before the area you repaired!
Who welded that Ray Charles you got to love farmer welds .😜 What ever you do will be done right and will be bullet proof there's nothing Boring about watching you Good show Wes
I think the repair and the video were great! Farmers, ranchers, and really anyone working outside for a living needs a good field fix. It doesn't need to be pretty it just has to work and work right now. The owner knows that tongue wasn't meant to be used that way, and because he will continue to use and abuse it probably doesn't expect your repair to last forever, but it's what he needs now and you made it 100X better. I'd say that was a damn good job. And keep doing your thing, Wes. You will never please everyone.
Enjoyed the video. At a former job many years ago I welded wind mill towers and gasoline tanks used on petrol stations, all with stick welding. I still have this idea, that when it's going to be a strong weld, always use sticks. Sorry can't help it. 😉
Personally, I like the welding videos, when I was a kid 60+ years ago my father use to let me wear his old helmet and watch him weld. He was self-taught and exceptionally good at it; I'd give anything now if I could watch him so just one more time. I enjoyed your video!
You may not be a great welder, BUT compared to the original weld, you are great!!! "Lipstick on a pig", yep, but much safer, and will last longer. Best that can be done with the task you were given. Great camera work, super solution, absolutely very clear images!!
nice repair and on another note.... your video about drill bit sharpening has brought me to another level. I have achieved the best drill sharpening results that I have ever gotten with your advice and instructions,,,,,,, So thank you very much Wes and don't sweat the haters. great video and the arc shots were great,,,,,,
Wes, thank you for another entertaining video, it brings to mind a saying of my apprenticeship foreman over 60 years ago "if I cannot fix it I will make sure no bugger else can"!!
Welding can be dull to do but it gives me a glow thinking I can make metal stick together, watching welding is not dull as it is only a part of repair or creation, this also gives the warm glow. Cheers
My Dad bought a 1933 Cabin Waco (Airplane) from a wonderful, hard working farmer in Washington state. The entire airplane had weld repairs like that hidden under new fabric. Moral of the story. Don't buy airplanes from resourceful farmers. Which is most of them.
Your repairs should hold until something rusts out. Or more likely, someone drops the bail on the tung again 😂😂. I totally agree with how you made the repairs. But as an old stick welder myself, I have a few pioneers to make it better. First try aiming into the place you want to weld. Second if possible try pushing the rod. You will see the puddle as it melts the parant metals. You should have a little ridge leading the puddle. As your pushing the rod into the ridge, the impurities will follow behind the rod with the build up of the weld. This will ensure the impurities and penitration will provide adequate strength. I totally agree with the 7018 rod for this project. It'll cut through the impurities and has a good tensile strength for the job. Great video BTW.
Wes, one thing that popped into my head when seeing that hitch: the tractor does all the braking. Crazy that guy was using a tongue in that condition. I've had plenty of times that a wagon has pushed me around when I tried to stop.
Wes I always learn something from you. You are one hell of a mech. And. I have literally seen card carrying welder do worse. Given what you had to work with good job!
Great thing about Patreon is I get to watch earlier. Bad thing about Patreon is I already watched earlier. But, if I can contribute to kiddo gettin fed.. great!
Wes I seriously enjoy your content. You remind me of Shannon over at Johnnys reloading bench. Sucks he is no longer making content I miss him. But he needed to do what makes him happy so I completely understand begrudgingly. And again thank you Mrs Wes for going along with the UA-cam channel. Lots of guys out here in the world need to see this kind of stuff as I’m sure you already know.
The tractor running into the Tesla Cybertruck was, perhaps, the most entertaining part of the explanation. I have NOTHING against the truck and think they're badass btw. The welding was very cool. The printing of the filter was brilliant!
A little less talk, a little more work… Please.
Please please please.
Jesus man. 2/3 of this video has no talking. At all.
Yeah, I noticed that. You’re like the Calvin Cooledge of welding.
@@WatchWesWork The talking is relevant to the work being done.A bit of background is good.
I really appreciate his explanations, and think he keeps it succinct.
Mate, are you really going to try to slag on this video when it had those microsoft paint graphical presentations?
You're trying to stop art, true art, from happening. How dare you.
The ol boy who welded that up literally gave it two taps with a hammer when he was done and said "that ain't goin nowheres"
Either that, or used Wes' adage of; "It's only temporary if it doesn't work..."
This is the way.
probably welded it up using safety squints
Dude that just shows that it at least lasted for awhile
honestly it didn't go anywhere long enough for the beads to rust completely to shit so yeah it has been fine for a while lol
I was a pipe fitter welder before becoming a police officer. One of my part time gigs was doing portable weld and in shop fab work on my days off. Most of my customers were farmers. There ideas of things defined the laws of physics. You did a fine job with that pile of stuff they brought you. I would not have repaired it I would have built them a new tongue. Only reason is all the mis matched stuff bent things and thin material. I learnt my lesson with that. You and I both know it’s going to break again by misuse and abuse. It’s then your fault. All the farmers say I make stuff to heavy. I say I must make it farmer proof. That’s a tall order. Great job thought you did as they wanted.
Yeah the problem is a year later when the repair fails due to misuse the farmers are going to scream "warranty, warranty!!!!!!". When i was in the tool business forty two years ago i had a customer who did radiator repair and automobile air conditioning. He told me that he got to the point to where he would not do radiator repairs because if a radiator that he patched sprung a leak in another place a year later the customer would be back screaming "warranty, warranty!". Of course there was a time when people would have stuff repaired and understand that any warranty applied to that particular repair itself. Of course as this man also told me the manufacturers have the cost down on newer items that repairing an older piece is not economically feasible.
Farmer resistant. There is no farmer proof, just like there is no miner proof or soldier proof.
@@joytotheworld9109 just like idiot proof, the village will just come up with a better village idiot.
*theIR, tOO
First consideration on a job like this is your liability insurance coverage. Don't touch a job like this without huge comprehensive liability coverage to keep you from bankruptcy when the repaired part breaks and somebody gets injured or killed. And watch out for the amount of deductible before the insurance coverage kicks in.
Second: There is no way you can ever charge enough for jobs like this to cover your liability insurance premium. Better to refer this type of job to your competitors than to put your neck in the noose by repairing such a haywire concoction.
I love this. "Nobody wants a video about drill bit sharpening, so here's a video about how to sharpen drill bits." "Everybody hated the drill bit sharpening video, so here's another drill bit sharpening video." "I think welding is boring and I don't like welding videos, so here is a welding video." This is why I'm a patreon, and you should be, too
very dry midwestern humor.
No one said I was smart...
@WatchWesWork I think you're doing pretty well. Seems like you had about 77k subscribers when I first started following. So I'll say, You're pretty damn smart.
There. Now you can't say that any more. Neener neener neener!!!
@@WatchWesWork Well, Imma say you're smart. Not so much in a conventional way but in a practical way.
@@WatchWesWork😂I did.
At 65, I just learned to weld, after years of trying and failing. It took just one UA-cam "tutorial" to give me the courage to try once more. With an auto darkening helmet and proper welding gloves, it was so easy to just fall into a rhythm. The trick for me was to (having gloves for the 1st time) use 2 hands, as per the "tutorial, one holding the electrode and one gripping the rod. The proper helmet helped me for the 1st time to actually see what the hell is going on at the arc. Wow, 30 years of failed welding attempts, and I fixed the gate my wife drove into with only a bit of help from my son with the clamping and cutting. Saved a ton of money for a new gate!
Atta boy... I been using video tapes and videos since they were invented to learn techniques that were foreign to me... Since about age thrity five I have come to master or almost master most every trade out there. I can build a home by myself. I can build cars by myself. Give me a pile of money and time and I can build anything.
My fater tried to show me when I was 10 with an AC welder, a fixed shade in my hand and 7018.
All I did was stick the rods and burn my eyes.
15 years later I got a cheap auto dark and learned how. 7014 is a great rod to learn with before you go 7018
I'm 58 and have been welding for a handful of years now. Without an iota of shame, I tell people UA-cam taught me all I know about welding.
Your animation of the tractor and 2 wagons reminded me of the saying "uphill slow, downhill fast, tonnage first, safety last."
I mean...What is safety?
@@JAKETSU99 Safety is like religion, all made up stuff! /jk
😂
"Shake hands with danger"
I'm going to remember that saying.
It's a heck of a time to be alive, people! Some farmer out in the sticks in Illinois goes to this shade tree mechanic down the road and asks him to fix this broken doohickey. Shade tree mechanic goes "Why, sure! I'll just make a drawing on my computer real quick and then print it out on my computer controlled plasma cutter. I'll record the whole ordeal and post it on the interwebs so that some dude in Sweden can watch it and write something stupid in the comments." I'm telling you, folks - get ready for the downhill 'cause it ain't getting better than this!
You don't need to use plasma cutter for that. It would take several minutes to cut these sheets with a grinder
I'm also the guy from Sweden that watched this video and wrote a stupid comment.
Downhill? We already did that! After this, it's uphill both ways! 😢😮😂
If that's the limit to your imagination for how good things can be... Man your childhood must have been pritty bland and devoid of any scifi.
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Ok I _really_ appreciate the closeups of the welding. It really helps to see how you're moving the stick. The narration of what you feel you're doing wrong and right is also super helpful. Thanks.
Yes! @WatchWesWork if you're wondering how good your custom welding camera kit is, its very, very good.
Yes Wes, your camera kit is so good you should sell it to others, because no-one can see anything but arc flash without it. Great work!
We are not watching the welding. We are leaned back in our armchairs, listening to the sizzeling and saying: "Welp, that's a good weld."
Great fix of a farmer's welding job!
You say you are not much of a stick welder, but have to tell you; your a 1000 times better then the guy that welded those pieces on, when you first showed us the project!
Those farmer "welds" were chicken poop. That farmer should never touch a welder
Thing I don't get is that stick welding really isn't that hard. I'm a pretty amateur level welder and I can lay a bead about the same quality as Wes. There's just no excuse for the original welding on there unless it was done by a 10 year old.
Probably had a better welder too
@@SnargleflarpMasetblugp Well, there's the thinking part that's needed to properly use a tool. Otherwise you see people trying to hammer a nail with the pliers! It works, but then the unemployed hammer has laid a curse over the nail.😆😆
@@Frank-Thoresenhahaha yes they should a farmers best friend is a welder and a torch, maybe they should get better but shit degrades over time.
I was welding with arc since I was 11 yo, I’m 72 now and you are doing a good job.
The farmers in my family were all very proud of their impromptu field fixes.
Having seen some of this workmanship, they're lucky nobody died.
Reminds me of a farmer that welded up a driveshaft on an old straight truck. It failed and went through the windshield of the car traveling behind. Did not kill the driver but she was paralyzed and severely brain damage. Destroyed her life.
Most all of the farmers I know are all multi millionaires. Still milking every government program there is. While at the same time singing the blues, “it’s so hard to be a farmer” and their living hand to mouth.
@@filobeto1691 well may be rich where you are from but there are a lot of farmers driving 500tho$ tractors that are one crop from bankruptcy , yes some are rich but there are a lot struggling to get by and part of those gov payments are so you don't stand in line to get a loaf of bread ask any ex russian
@@filobeto1691 I think all those "farmers on the dole" you're talking about have never set foot on a farm. Even though they might own it. It'd more likely some Republican corporation owner/investor that's on the dole. The farmer is the one doing all the work. You know, the one who doesn't even own the pick-up he drives to the bank to pay his mortgage.
@@filobeto1691 Multi-millionaire on paper and actual millionaire are not the same thing. You might have $1M in buildings with $2M in equipment on a $10M piece of land, but you are always one bad season away from ruin. The banks, Ag equipment manufacturers, feed/seed, and chemical companies make more from farming than the average farmer. Why do you think they don't bat an eye at $100k trucks? It's because they already pay the bank $25-40k/month. An extra $1,500 is a drop in the bucket.
@@filobeto1691Sounds like you don't know very many farmers. 🤣
The shots that showed only what you could see were freaking awesome. Loved the vid Wes. The talking was a good amount to inform us the information we need but not a bunch of nonsense.
I love the cyber truck illustration 😂
I also liked the illustration except I feel that those trees would of been chopped down years ago.
Love his little sarcastic Easter eggs that are always sprinkled in his videos.
@@stromxtc2033 yeah you're probably 13 years old
@@lethal_larry I'm 64 and find humor in them. Go troll someplace else.
@@stromxtc2033 wtf is a "little sarcastic easter egg"
Thanks for actually painting it after you're done. I watched so many people fail to paint because they wanted to see shiny welds. Then, a year later, it's rusted through.
That 3D printed camera adaptor worked fantastic! It is MUCH nicer being able to see exactly what you are doing and not just seeing the end results! I think you are a lot better of a stick welder than you think you are! 👍👍
FWIW, I appreciated watching the silent welding portions. I am slowly learning to stick weld myself and watching your technique and hearing you postmortem the mistakes you identified you were making were beneficial to me. Thanks!
When I was a young man, my dad had a small tool & die job shop in a little rural Kentucky town. The main focus was, of course, building progressive stamping dies. But, being the only real machine shop in the county, we had a lot of farmers coming in with their broken equipment wanting it repaired. A lot of it looked like that hay rack tongue - scabbed together in the field just enough to get that day's job done. We also got a lot of tractor heads with broken exhaust studs, a few cracked heads that needed welding, worn out spindles that needed welded up and turned down, etc, etc, etc. Watching you working on the farm equipment that comes into your shop sure takes me down memory lane.
I always gauge the success of a repair when whatever you fixed breaks again but in a different place than where you strengthened it.... Nice work. That fix is going to outlive the trailer....!!!
You have a pleasant voice and furnish the viewer with valuable information and insights. Please don’t change a thing. Never going to make everyone satisfied.
The “sow’s ear to a silk purse” analogy comes to mind. The wagon tongue came in closer to the former and left nearer the purse.
Thanks for all your content. Know it takes a lot of time.
You’re doing ok brother, I’m a retired welder with over 40 years experience!
Those are some of the best welding shots I've ever seen. 55 yes old and you nailed it. Great job.
I for one, very much enjoy watching you and others weld. I just turned 61, and I am contemplating taking a welding class at my local community college this Fall. Thanks for getting the arc filter for your camera; it is much easier to discern your technique not looking at a blinding light. You are one of the better instructors on UA-cam, and I always come away having learned something.
There is something hypnotic about watching welding with a nice voice over.
I enjoy all of your videos. A good mechanic in my experience is you see an issue you find a fix. That is a balance between doing it right the cost and the down time for customers. You should ask these questions up front then let them know what they are getting. It cost to make it farmer proof and 9 out of 10 go cheap. I think you did a great job. It went out a lot better that it come in. Thanks for all your efforts the ones complaining didn’t pay for your video, so they can’t complain too much. Thanks again for all your effort!
at the end, max does not care what you have to say, he's on a mission to success
I was hoping the hooman was going to start pulling some things out and help and we'd get a hunting show scene!
He's never wrong.
You did a good job Wes, it's Quite a bit Better than when it came in.The Arc shots with your 3D printed adapter worked Great! I'm a Welder of Over 40 Years and I enjoyed watching you Work. Like Anything else Practice Always makes you Better,you don't Weld every Day but you did a Good job on This project. At least you Recognize what a weld should look Like and understand the process , Most occasional welder's don't. You're Lucky to have a plasma cutting Table you can fabricate everything you need!
If you can’t weld good, then weld a lot is what the first repair guy said. Nice job Wes
Yup. More metal = more gooder.
60% of the time it works every time.
I've made some good welds and I've made some lots of welds and you can't tell the difference if you ain't lookin at em.
The state of repair on this tongue when it was brought in shows that people need to attend a welding course before they attempt to weld. My senior year of high school (graduated 1970) we were exposed to oxyacetylene welding, and it was in that instruction that I could see the basis for welding and that is the weld puddle. In later years (1980) took a welding course at the local skills center and refreshed my memory. Once one gets the basis of welding down it is practice, practice, practice. Your repair will last many years over what you were given. To say the repair that came in was "bugger welded" is an understatement. Also, people who do not properly prepare their work by proper cleaning of the metal are doomed to produce shoddy work. The biggest thing is when a welder shows up to repair something we have all of these "junior engineers" who have already figured out how to repair something and then commence to tell the welder how to do the job.
Same here, I learned oxygen acetylene welding with filler on a Smith welding torch 201-205. Arc welding next on a Miller Thunderbolt buzzbox came easy. Later wire feed (MIG) welding on a Lincoln. Favorite welding helmet, Lincoln Viking 3350 purchased from Baker Gas on the internet.
@@dand3975 Once you get the basics it is like learning to ride a bicycle. You never forget, might get a little rusty but that will pass.
Great video with the camera addition so we could see what you see when welding. Thanks for thinking of your viewers. You always instruct while you repair or plan. Fantastic channel!
Thanks for the drawing which shows us city boys what you're talking about. Including the collision with the Tesla "truck" was good also, as it saved a Ford, Chevy/GMC, or Dodge.
I can account for my movements the day that tongue repair was done....
I don't see what the big deal is; I'm sure the farmer did the obligatory three slaps and uttered "That ain't goin' nowhere" as soon as the welding cooled down.
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That was a disaster. You made it functional and safer. Thanks for the informative video and welding tips. I'm glad I don't have to drive anywhere near those guys.
In farm country, the farmers and their equipment are not the real danger. The impatient non-farmers who whip around them, without understanding the limitations of the farm equipment, cause most of the accidents.
Thank you, from someone who did not ever master the art of welding. This was a joy to watch. Cheers from Australia.
Wes. I always enjoy your videos and think you’re a brave man for showing welding on UA-cam. It’s amazing how many armchair certified welding inspectors are out there. 🤣🤣
Looks like the plasma cutting table and 3D printer are coming in handy.
Honestly, I loved the design fix. Great job Wes! We love whatever your up to in projects!
I worked in the Industrial trades all my life and you are very exceptional person and I have the utmost respect for you. Love your videos and wish there were more of them. Thanks!
I would like to thank you for this one. My son and I talk shop and often falls into welding. We have tried to explain it to her. I had her watch it and now she understands. Finally. LOL
I wouldn't call myself even decent at welding, but that was some ugly bubblegum you had there! I live in Farm country, and everyone does what they can to get the job done. Good for him for bringing it into you to do right.
A lack of large enough a fuze i.e. large enough a current may be a reason.
When the project came in it's what us welders call dog nutts it's I think I can weld but really I cants here is some hot molten mess that should hold it. Wes did a decent repair and much better than what was on it
My thoughts exactly. Im no welder but i own a mig and stickwelder and even i would do a much better job.
I would have welded a piece of angle iron on the inside of that box you made.
Farmers are also incredibly arrogant and won't hone a skill. Good enough is all the can do
Don't change a thing Wes, perfect balance of everything, all the time. Some videos I don't even understand fully (being a person who can't fix a car, weld, do metal work etc) but I always enjoy watching and the explanations.
Appreciate the close up welding. As someone who welds when required I’m always trying to be better and the closeups are helpful. Also talk all you want, those of us trying to learn are listening.
Wes, you have one of the better, more entertaining channels on this site. Anyone can post vids of the same things you're doing, but NOBODY can match the wit and dry humor of your narrations. FWIW, I've been doing the same stuff you're doing for many, many years, and I still learn something from each of your vids. Keep on being you.
Great job on the camera adapter!
Now I won't go blind from watching the arc!
Thank you!
Agreed, brilliant idea and saving the eyes.👍
Also Wes, I super appreciate all of your explanations, context, drawings, animations, and narrations. That is how I learn, and I learn A LOT from your channel. No one ever taught me this stuff and I’m always excited to learn how things work. You are an incredible, thoughtful, and engaging teacher. Thank you!
The modified filter holder worked a treat it is always nice to see welding like the person behind the mask sees it.
You are the epitomize of American Ingenuity. From the design how to fit a round peg into a square peg, the tools you must precisely cut the “fitting parts” to your skills as a videographer with the rig lens to capture the essences of welding. Thank you so much for sharing!
Another great video Wes. They did what they had to do to get it working, which is always the most important part. Your repair will last as long as they don’t add another wagon or jackknife the wagon and bend the hitch. I can almost see the Lincoln buzz box welder that made the initial modification, sitting in the corner of the shop surrounded by scrap metal pieces, needed for future repairs. One of our best union pipe welders I seen was a small framed woman, who could weld anything.
The “Gen I” filter holder reminded me of the “Gen I” wagon tongue. ;-) Brilliant fixes, thanks for another great video.
I loved the "I used two pieces of tape!" on the gen1 mount.
My dad was a welder machinest. I would look at his welds you could not tell weather he did it or a machine did. I never took up welding . I'm not a critic I just enjoy watching whatever you put out. Thanks for sharing.
You could do animation videos, and I'd watch all day. Welding to me has always been fascinating. I used to love to do welding in my much younger years. I'd still do it now if I had a welding shop. I did it when they only had stick welding and oxy acetylene welding. Keep up the great work sir. Love your videos.
Damn it, Jim...I'm a mechanic, not a miracle worker.
Hello Wes! I think you actually done a very good job welding that wagon hitch!!!! I think its about 100times better than it was! Who ever done that old welding done a real snot job on it!!!Have a good day Wes!!
Solid animation work. Elon's "truck" is a gift to animators everywhere! 👌
I enjoy the "off-brand" content. I think the first video of yours I stumbled across was some kind of appliance repair, been watching ever since. Thanks! I am also (not) an arc-welder.
on today's episode of 'old mcdonald had a welder'... I'm surprised it held that well. Job well done Wes!
Reading some of the comments reminds me of something Grandpa always said, "Some folks would complain if you hung them with a new rope, and buried them in a gold coffin." Thanks for the video, Wes.
The tractor vs cybertruck diagram is super accurate.
The farm has cattle that trusts him to bring feed.
The musk has sheeple that trust him to bring safety.
Both require someone like Wes to bridge the gap.
1:40 Farmer here who hauls big round (and small square) bales on wagons: you forgot to say "no safety chains" .
Thoroughly appreciated the close up welding shots really helped to see what was going on. Thanks Wes!
I've never even held or have seen a stick welder... that alone you're light years ahead of me.. nice work Wes!
Well Wes your welding was incredibly better than the pigeon poop that was on it. Yes, once you establish the arc you can put the rod on the metal and just turn your wrist so the puddle washes onto both pieces. I burned a few cans of 7018 and 7024 in my structural steel fabrication days. I enjoy going to farm auctions and inspecting welding repairs. The good,the bad and the splattered 😊. AL B.
It’s a brave man that will show himself welding on UA-cam. Good on you and thanks for sharing!
Those were some of the best clips of welding I have seen. Thanks for posting and critiquing your own work.
To me, welding is an art form. I watch IC welds and CEE on the tube all the time. It's enjoyable. Wes, I certainly do enjoy your videos. By the way, that lens filter unit is pretty clever. 👍
That “fix” was only temporary unless it worked Wes. You should know this as I purchased this critical motto in sticker form from you.😂. Thanks for the graphic on how this worked. Another good adventure with the Wes crew.
Great video again Wes. Over the years of trying teaching folks to weld, I’ve determined no one can truly “teach” it. You can tell/show them how you do it. You can tell them it’s too hot/cold or speed up or slow down. But they have to find their own groove.
That's a long term fix. Great job Wes!
"It's only temporary. unless it works."
I subscribed to your channel for about an hour and was watching you.Fix somebody's vehicle with rusted out exhaust pipes and broken studs and bad guys gets and I said to myself I don't want to relive my past. I did this is a hobby for years and years and don't want to relive again
If it fails in the future, it won't be at this repair for sure. The repair is stronger than the rest of the setup. Nice!
Wes, thank you for the effort to show us welding as seen through a hood. I never owned one of the automatic hood lenses. Had to find where I wanted to strike it and snap the hood down and hope. My eyes were not that good, and I soon went back to using fasteners. Great image on the video. By the way, I grew up on the farm and that would have been fixed with some cedar posts and bailing wire when I was little.
I dunno Wes, those seem like fairly good welds. lots of good penetration, no cold lap, a little bit of undercut but you've got lots of material there. I've seen much worse hold thousands of psi in pressure applications. Love your videos, I've literally watched every single one. Cant wait for the next one!
I have NEVER found any of your vids boring, especially welding. One of my retirement projects has been teaching myself to weld. I'm up from whale snot to boogers. So, by the time I croak I MAY be able to lay down a good bead. Anyway, thanks for all the good stuff I've learned in the past 7 years. 👍PS I LOVE ol' Max! 😍
The licking of chops after the “carry on” was perfect timing from Max.
Watching you weld reminds me how much I enjoy welding and why I pushed through the toughest parts of my trade school. Seeing a good weld after cracking the slag is satisfying as hell.
Quite literally laughed out loud at the intro. "Fun little project" coupled with the most terrifying visual representation of "yea I can weld it together". Yikes.
Another great video Wess, love to see you working and to hear your explanations. This way I learn a lot from you. Don't let anybody from LA tell you how to be successful in both your job and on UA-cam.
Perfect timing, I'm welding up my first exhaust system. Think you're right about the rhythm. My puerto rican genes must be helping me find that rhythm.
Your videos are always great. As a fellow mechanic/welder/fabricator, I don’t usually enjoy watching others. However, you do great work and I get the dry humor. I have a rear end out of a 9630T that I have torn down and going to rebuild. I wish I had the time to video all of it. I doubt you’d find many videos of a complete tear down and rebuild if one.
Here in North Wales our farmers have history going back more than 2000 years. These guys can fix ANYTHING with blue rope, a shovel, bailing wire, sledgehammer and vice grips. And I mean ANYTHING!
It just depends how you define "fix". I know how it is. I grew up on a farm.
I hear there's a guy with a garage with Vice Grips in it's name!
@@WatchWesWork This is very true, Wes but you're just splitting blue rope now...
WHAT?!?!... Wes's explanation of the farmers hay hauling "innovations" had me chuckling aloud, I love his introductions and talking as much as his skills in repairing whatever comes across his table. I find all his videos entertaining and educational so hope he keeps on being himself.
Wes you make great videos, you have a great sense of humour, a talent for explaining what you are doing and why, and a talent to make graphic representation of the work, keep them coming Wes,love your channel 👍👍👍👍👍
Love your work and channel Wes! You keep discounting your repairs (in a humble way). If I were to bet $1000 dollars, I would say other places on that would fail before the area you repaired!
Who welded that Ray Charles you got to love farmer welds .😜 What ever you do will be done right and will be bullet proof there's nothing Boring about watching you Good show Wes
I think the repair and the video were great!
Farmers, ranchers, and really anyone working outside for a living needs a good field fix. It doesn't need to be pretty it just has to work and work right now.
The owner knows that tongue wasn't meant to be used that way, and because he will continue to use and abuse it probably doesn't expect your repair to last forever, but it's what he needs now and you made it 100X better.
I'd say that was a damn good job.
And keep doing your thing, Wes. You will never please everyone.
Enjoyed the video.
At a former job many years ago I welded wind mill towers and gasoline tanks used on petrol stations, all with stick welding.
I still have this idea, that when it's going to be a strong weld, always use sticks.
Sorry can't help it. 😉
i have been welding for almost 51 years and you are a hell of a lot better than me.
Kudos to you for having the courage to weld on the internet!
Personally, I like the welding videos, when I was a kid 60+ years ago my father use to let me wear his old helmet and watch him weld. He was self-taught and exceptionally good at it; I'd give anything now if I could watch him so just one more time. I enjoyed your video!
You may not be a great welder, BUT compared to the original weld, you are great!!! "Lipstick on a pig", yep, but much safer, and will last longer. Best that can be done with the task you were given. Great camera work, super solution, absolutely very clear images!!
nice repair and on another note.... your video about drill bit sharpening has brought me to another level. I have achieved the best drill sharpening results that I have ever gotten with your advice and instructions,,,,,,, So thank you very much Wes and don't sweat the haters. great video and the arc shots were great,,,,,,
Wes, thank you for another entertaining video, it brings to mind a saying of my apprenticeship foreman over 60 years ago "if I cannot fix it I will make sure no bugger else can"!!
Welding can be dull to do but it gives me a glow thinking I can make metal stick together, watching welding is not dull as it is only a part of repair or creation, this also gives the warm glow. Cheers
My Dad bought a 1933 Cabin Waco (Airplane) from a wonderful, hard working farmer in Washington state. The entire airplane had weld repairs like that hidden under new fabric.
Moral of the story. Don't buy airplanes from resourceful farmers. Which is most of them.
Your repairs should hold until something rusts out. Or more likely, someone drops the bail on the tung again 😂😂. I totally agree with how you made the repairs. But as an old stick welder myself, I have a few pioneers to make it better. First try aiming into the place you want to weld. Second if possible try pushing the rod. You will see the puddle as it melts the parant metals. You should have a little ridge leading the puddle. As your pushing the rod into the ridge, the impurities will follow behind the rod with the build up of the weld. This will ensure the impurities and penitration will provide adequate strength. I totally agree with the 7018 rod for this project. It'll cut through the impurities and has a good tensile strength for the job. Great video BTW.
Wes, one thing that popped into my head when seeing that hitch: the tractor does all the braking. Crazy that guy was using a tongue in that condition. I've had plenty of times that a wagon has pushed me around when I tried to stop.
Wes I always learn something from you. You are one hell of a mech. And. I have literally seen card carrying welder do worse. Given what you had to work with good job!
Great thing about Patreon is I get to watch earlier. Bad thing about Patreon is I already watched earlier. But, if I can contribute to kiddo gettin fed.. great!
Wes I seriously enjoy your content. You remind me of Shannon over at Johnnys reloading bench. Sucks he is no longer making content I miss him. But he needed to do what makes him happy so I completely understand begrudgingly. And again thank you Mrs Wes for going along with the UA-cam channel. Lots of guys out here in the world need to see this kind of stuff as I’m sure you already know.
The tractor running into the Tesla Cybertruck was, perhaps, the most entertaining part of the explanation. I have NOTHING against the truck and think they're badass btw. The welding was very cool. The printing of the filter was brilliant!
It was a good looking job when finished, Wes! I enjoyed watching it.
Putting the worst "truck" ever made in the graphics departments masterpiece was just epic 😂
Easy to draw tho lol.
What are you taking about we all drew that truck as kids 🤣
easy to draw, all straight lines except the tires!
He's making a comparison between their similarities.
I was hoping for a dukes of hazzard county type of tractor launch. Good ol boys, never meaning no harm..