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Some Farmers Can Weld. Some Cannot..
🕑 Added 2024-08-21 17:19:52 +0000 UTCThese guys cannot.
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Richard Pruen
Sorry, don’t agree. I think the level of explanation is about right. It helps to know the thinking behind what is going on, sometimes it isn’t obvious, it helps to know the reasoning behind the plan of attack.
Jay VanLanduyt
I got that from his pinned comment on the public side. Some asshat actually said those words. I really like Wes' discussion. He has a great way of distilling down complex topics.
Richard Pruen
I have the same issue here, and they always want it done by this afternoon. I only do small engine repairs (aside from electrical work, my main job), and sometimes, I find barter works better; 1/2 a pig often works out better than money. Just don't tell the tax man...
Jay VanLanduyt
I'm just going to comment, "A little less talk, and a little more work. Please.... Please Please please," on every video from now on. Especially on videos like this, where there is very little talking.
Bill Scott
Nice graphics, have you considered a career producing cartoon.
CapnMac82
You are probably "on to something" with the notion about how musical, rhythmic folk seem to "pick up" welding far easier than we easily distracted types with kajillion things going on in our heads.
David Yates
Clearly the nuclear-powered Pidgeon has been in the area depositing his load of molten metal crap on that "repair"! That's a gem for sure!
adorfer
it's no shame if one can't weld. others can't solder or can't do plumbing etc... But if so, do it without risking to hurt other people.
Watch Wes Work
It's amazing that people can focus like that all day every day.
CapnMac82
I find welding will reward a person who can focus on the task at hand, especially as a Process. As the worst possible thing you can do while making a molten bead of metal is to wonder if you left the iron on, or has the mailman come yet, and the like.
Joe Adams
What's the difference between a farmer and a welder? A welder doesn't think they can farm.
Watch Wes Work
Maybe after he sees the bill he'll hold off for a while!
Grudd61
U'da Man Wes!! Love the content type choices u r making!
Andrew Burton
3d printers are so useful for that sort of one off solution. Though of course, you could have machined parts for, and TIG welded together, an aluminium frame to hold it.... Think you went for the best option!
AJG
Has anyone out there ever tried firecracker welding? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firecracker_welding
David G King
Nice job Wes! Now that farmer will bring you the rest of his jury rigged temporarily fixed heep of boneyard rolling scrap train!
brian cook
When i was apprenticed many years ago we had arc and oxy acetylene was a pleasure to watch someone doing it the old fashioned way
dozerman53111
That will hold. Welds look good to me !!
Watch Wes Work
You should try it. You can find a decent AC stick welder for $100 or less.
Richard Pruen
I agree that’s where the muscle memory is important, you can’t see well enough, and with the rod feed rate included, a complex and very fine movement. Yes the level of difficulty, the only way to get good is practice, practice, and practice more. It seems like riding a bike, the ability is there, just a few hours practice, more to recalibrate than anything else.
Doug Wray
SAGE advice!!
Jeff Chandler
I can’t weld. I wish I knew how, but I don’t so I don’t. Maybe one day….
Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)
I should clarify, not your welding but the farmerized welds. You did great.
Watch Wes Work
They make two ended drill bits. I have a few made for drilling spot welds. One side gets dull you flip it over.
Virtue Streams
Mad skills —enough said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️🔧
Watch Wes Work
It really is relative!
Watch Wes Work
You lost me.
Watch Wes Work
Yeah I know. The only people I've met with a lower threshold for safety are crop dusters. You can't talk to a crop duster for 2 minutes without them mentioning someone they used to fly with who died in some horrific way...
Watch Wes Work
That's how I was taught to do uphill welding. It's a lot harder than it seems like it should be!
Watch Wes Work
I had a friend in college pick up a TIG torch for the first time and lay down a perfect bead. I about fell over. Some people just have the touch.
Chris orr
I think you’re doing a great job on the diversity of your stuff. I’ve never learned to weld, do work on my old 4Runners and play guitar, so you’re telling me I’ve got a shot at welding? lol. On a side note, you look like you’re loosing some pounds there my friend. Keep up the good work, Wes. Appreciate you.
Stephen Meeks
The new camera face worked well.
Stephen Meeks
Your welding is beautiful and much better than the “farmer’s weld” you replaced.
Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)
I'm not a fantastic welder, well at least I didn't think so until I saw those welds. Now I'm pretty sure I'm a fantastic welder.
Sue Rollinson
Wouldn't it be simpler to put a u-joint between the two shafts?
Lee Ludden
3 miles from hayfield to feed lot, at 15mph. The time adds up when you have a bunch to do.
Richard Pruen
Neat idea, but a fuse has to fail safely, two hay carts freed from the tractor, that hardly counts as safe…
K H
I had a friend whose father was a farmer. He died when the hay cart that had a top shelf for the extra bale collapsed. Guess who welded it up when it failed the first time? You're not kidding when you say their idea of "safe" is different to the rest of us.
Richard Pruen
Another good video, glad you broke it up a bit, yeah welding. Like your description, moderately boring. I’d be out of practice now, but the technique you are using looks like what I was taught as ‘backing’ you can improve the arc length problem, instead of an oval path, try making it more triangular. |> start bottom left, move the rod forward and towards the Center, then back and up, the tricky part is the downhand pass that makes the top of the weld, if anything bring the rod in since you are going over already hot metal, that part is also slower but not much. Described differently, the forward and up, plus back and up, forms a root weld, the downhand pass forms a cap over that. Thus you can get the same result as a root weld and two cap passes, but in one pass. I hope that makes sense, because it is easier to do than describing it. One other thing is the feed rate, you feed the rod in going up and right, hardly at all going up and back, then feed a little faster going down. Takes a little programming into muscle memory, but when done it gives good results and better than 3 times as fast, as there is no cleaning and inspection between each pass. Obviously there will always be small included bits of slag, so don’t do that if your welds are getting x-rayed, but for everyday welding it is great. Disclaimer: I was only ever trained/certified to weld MMA on inconel 625 super high temperature alloy, so the above is on a hope to be helpful basis, no more. Sorry if this is a bit long, easy to get carried away!
Eric Halcik
grinder and paint makes me the welder i aint
Greg
give em the go away price, makes every job a win win, either they go away and you win or they stay and you still win.
Watch Wes Work
I get that all the time too. "The dealer wants $400 for this shaft, can you make one for $100?".
Watch Wes Work
They had the right idea. They just lost it in the execution.
Watch Wes Work
Yeah, it's the easiest vehicle to draw!
Watch Wes Work
Yeah I can believe it. They do some really sketchy stuff.
Greg
Well done, we get farmers into the machine shop all the time, just cut a gear for some sort of irrigation equipment. they are our neighbors, and they do noble work, but man are they cheap for repairs when they are all bombing around in millions of dollars of subsidized green equipment.
Adrian Gadd
Wouldn't want to cut that apart.
James R Champion
Lot better than when it come in great work wes
Eric Corse
The original welds looked like my first welds with a Lincoln tombstone and 30 year old damp rod. That camera filter setup is pretty neat.
FliesLikeABrick
The nature of this request/repair gives me Snowball Engineering vibes and I like it. Loved the animation -- though your implication that the Cybertruck driver values safety more than the farmer may be tenuous here! On the other hand, the CT sure is nice to draw into an animation. Loved the pissbot video up in the background
scottgm321
I love watching Cutting Edge Engineering, On fire welding and IC weld, do their work. Remember, IC Weld says " a grinder and a can of paint make a good welder look like a great welder." I'll never forget my first day of college back in 1988 Law Enforcement and criminal justice 101. The teacher asked if we knew what the deadliest job in the country was. It was farming. The spinning PTO hitches and welds like the one you repaired and the other safety stuff you mentioned.
Doug Tinsman
Loved it... keep up the good work
Robert
Thanks for going to all the trouble with using a filter and printing the filter holder. I love those shots when watching the welding.
Watch Wes Work
LOL!
Watch Wes Work
I have gas welded with coat hangers a few times. It works pretty well if you can find uncoated metal hangers. Most of them have a plastic coating that ruins everything.
Jack Dodge
As a non-welder who wants to learn, seeing the footage you shot with the plates on the camera is really fascinating.
Bubba Hyde
Hopefully they slapped it when they picked it up and said “That’s not going anywhere!”
Bill
seeing welding like that just burns me up
Tom Hollowell
Who needs welding rod when I've got coat hangers
Terry Lawrence
Awesome filter holder! Now can we see how the weld drill bits together? mine are getting too short
Watch Wes Work
They should have taken it back to the first guy who welded the pipe to the tongue. Those welds were fine.
Watch Wes Work
It works until it doesn't.
Tim Allan
That's about as close as a silk purse out of a sow's ear as you'll see on farm equipment.
Watch Wes Work
Yep! Farmers...
TheOnespeedbiker
All this to carry one more bail of hay?
Sammy Fender
I used to belong to the farmer’s style of welding. If you can’t weld good, weld a lot! I was actually more impressed at the 3d printer light filter bracket design than I was the welding
Watch Wes Work
Maybe it's like a mechanical fuse.
James Riordan
As a farmer who is familiar with field-expedient electric glue, I ain’t sayin’ nothin’
Terry Lawrence
A flex-joint for going around corners if you always go right
Matthew Hodkins
that is rough I guess the "if it sticks it ships" motto
Adam McKnight
"The bigger the gob, the better the job" applies here too.
