Fixing a previous dodgy repair and line boring John Deere Headstock

[@levitated-pit]

excellent video! .... its sunday morning and im watching someone do what i do !! i must be mentally ill.

[@daleburrell6273]

...it's a cruel world...

[@garyyorke1080]

I'm sure someone somewhere would say its therapy....

[@anthonykent7983]

Ye join us happy few 😂

[@krazykanux]

No you're not. 😁🤔

[@JRattheranch]

I love work too! 😅 I could watch it all day.....😅

[@Icebuntrucker]

Its the small things that show how good you are Oliver (weld prep etc) . Keep it up young man . I only follow two engineering channels you and CEE (Kurtis) both excellent at what you do ,

[@dougdavidson175]

Thanks for saying exactly what I was going too!

[@philipsfavorite]

Enjoy your videos. Your solutions are straight forward and common sense. Keep on doing what you're doing.

[@jackkeys1621]

Onfire welding is also really good.

[@mattatstrat]

yeah kurtis is superb but ollie is getting it done just on a smaller scale ...great to watch!

[@bobhudson6659]

Ollie, you get the "best" jobs. If we viewers try real hard, we can get you more of these "outstanding" jobs - no need to thank us. You are a good operator. Many people would have run a mile from these jobs. The problem is you fixing stuff that others won't/can't means this sort of stuff will come beckoning at your door. Retired mechanic/machinist in Land Down Under.

[@beesbo1856]

Charge accordingly.

[@michaellynskey7124]

Great work, It’s good to see a trades man start and finish a job better then it was when it was manufactured, Two many people today start a repair who haven’t the skills or equipment to make it stronger and even more reliable then previous.

[@mikeburton7077]

Another awkward job done well !

[@scherramv5767]

Allistairc123 does this too. So good to see.

[@ray-ew7tp]

I hope you charge plenty for all the thought and effort put into this repair, Great video,

[@lawrencewillard6370]

It's a comfortable thought that there are still people who care about their customers. Thank you for this.

[@kirkpowell6161]

It is so satisfying to take a wrecked item and make it brand new again. It is even more satisfying to sit in my recliner and watch someone else do it! Great video!

[@theessexhunter1305]

I admire your skills with the cad work as I missed out on that starting in 1977, good repair yet again.

[@Hey_Its_That_Guy]

Another well done repair, Ollie. Thanks for taking us along. Keep up the good work!

[@artemnikitchenko5570]

Добрый день! Я из России и тоже занимаюсь восстановительным ремонтом отверстий, смотрю периодически ваши видео и честно говоря многому у вас можно поучиться, вы молодцы, продолжайте снимать, успехов вам, уважуха😊👍

[@robertcrossley9803]

Great video, excellent content and camera work. Thanks for taking the time

[@0venchip]

You’re giving your homemade line borer some pasty. It’s a good job you made it.

[@tonybrock5288]

Your ingenuity and tenacity is inspiring in all your videos! Just one note: gloves and drill presses don't make good companions. Your glove can be quickly pulled in and you'll be in a world of pain.

[@jamesriordan3494]

Wonderful to watch a meticulous craftsman who is both a boffin and who wisely wears PPE. Well done lad !

[@ringstinga]

Another great video from you young man ! It is nice to see a young craftsman thinking on his feet on ways to solve problems out . Keep the videos coming and thanks for sharing.

[@daig1984]

Honestly enjoy your repair/ fabrication videos, can’t wait for the next one! Really looking forward to part 2 of the log splitter video. I’m glad I stumbled across your channel 😊

[@kennyjohnson5804]

Hello Oliver from the US....good to see you at work again after harvest help. Get repair. Better than new. Thanks for the videos.

[@Dmenbiker]

Awesome repair Ollie... Intricate details... Difficult to fit-up fixes... Great explanations of what is happening with the project... Love it....

[@andrewrobinson2869]

Really love the pride you take in your work, thank you

[@mikebarton3218]

I love watching your work. As an amateur welder and former North Yorkshire (Pickering) resident I find a great deal of empathy with what you do. Every success to you.

[@GeneralSulla]

I watch all these channels like yours to get an idea of the tools I need, what size and capabilities (limits) of what I can afford and my repairing skills (again my limitations) As a retired hairstylist of 44 years and now a small ranch owner, I characterize myself as Mr Douglas of Green Acres TV show fame. Thank God all my relatives are contractors and men who do work with their hands! I don't wear a three piece suit when feeding the animals either. Overalls are my new work suit. 😂

[@danielpullum1907]

I wondered why you used a cutoff wheel to cut the plates. It would seem o-a would have been faster and use grinder to "smooth" is needed. Golly whiz-bang, a human welder got out of the groove. Super catch on the crack around the boss and gouging the root to complete the penetration. Great shot of the tool breaking thru the first bore and you were right the tool handled the "cut" quite well. A meticulous job on the build up in the four bores, tough position. I didn't understand what you were doing with the "clamp-on" dial indicator. Well done Laddie!!!! from Ye Ole Caterpillar Cowboy

[@snowballengineering]

The clamp on dial gauge is to measure how far out I move the tool for the next cut.

[@jst245]

Another nice piece of craftsmanship, and that from the barn

[@stephenbrockway1626]

Absolutely amazing . Your dedication to the job , in hand Cut to perfection. Measured to perfection . Top job Ollie , keep em coming 😊

[@IsraelitesUnited]

I love that machine you have there that cuts the metal

[@MattysWorkshop]

Gday, that headstock turned up a mess but left like a new one, might have to get a 30mm bar for the line borer, definitely a challenge mate but bloody top job, cheers

[@ghilreese3413]

Another success story. Sounds like you are weaning calves. Thanks for the videos.

[@TonyFromSydney]

YAY! an hour long! This is great! A Saturday night special for sure...

[@noahingram8052]

Like a 4:00 in the morning for me on sunday

[@TonyFromSydney]

@@noahingram8052 oops silly me! I thought it was Saturday night, but it's Sunday night right now in Sydney...

[@noahingram8052]

@@TonyFromSydney I'm from illinois

[@Luciomarciel007]

🇧🇷 muito bom os seus trabalhos,rápido e sem enrolação 👏👏👏👏

[@mikesfarmmikesfarm3977]

thx for taking the time to bring us along with you. I enjoy the cad and plasma work as much or more than the rest of the job. Again thx

[@jimlong527]

Excellent final product, customer must be happy. They used this head with worn out holes until it broke now it’s like new.

[@DennisRathbun]

Thank you for the entertainment. Have enjoyed watching your skills at work. D.R. Montana

[@MichaelSpeyer]

Wow - nearly an hour long! I will be watching with great interest ❤

[@snowballengineering]

Hope you enjoy!

[@randytravis3998]

@@snowballengineering job well done .

[@BrucePierson]

You certainly get some interesting and often tricky jobs in for repair. You always work out how to do the repairs and overcome any hurdles that come your way.

[@Paddington60]

The boring bar chatter, I have a feeling someone wrapped some lead sheet about four inches wide around his boring bar to stop chatter. He had a cylinder block mounted on the carriage of an engine lathe, a boring bar in the chuck and a centre so the crankshaft bearing positions could be machined, so a bit of length to the boring bar. The lead was secured by a jubilee clip. Just an idea. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@tfildaed]

Amazing job figuring out how to fix that. You're very creative designing your repairs. It looks like its time to add a welding attachment to the line borer. How to do that i haven't a clue but you do I'm sure.

[@cheechU38K]

Another bodge job to fix 😅 always interesting and those cows sound like a herd of elephants 🐘 😝I was wondering if you could line bar all the holes at once 😮

[@kahutochishisumi9056]

You are truly a master craftsman. A new subscriber from Nagaland, India.

[@michaellynskey7124]

As usual Snowball engineering completes the repair so the customer receives the repair job which is stronger then it was from new,

[@edmondmccudden27]

Brilliant. I'm learning so much, fantastic presentation and so easy to follow. Well done

[@michaelkato642]

line boring....I had to laugh... can be a pain in the ass...but your really good at the impossible.... it is your curse and blessing ... your generation has a saying ....it is ...what it is....

[@Diederik240]

Nice repair Oliver. Yes, small holes are not funny to linebore and the hardest to build up with weld. But with using a smaller boringbar and a appropriate microspand/'snap-gauge' you get some work space back...and job😊 satisfaction!

[@aerialrescuesolutions3277]

Well said.

[@bobhenderson7961]

Well Ollie you might not like line boring so much now but you'll be getting yourself a reputation as THE expert to go to for line boring so you better start getting set up for lots more jobs like this in the future, as for big jobs can't see many farmers having bigger bits of kit than what you've been getting in so far, you need a Mig torch that can get into awkward spaces

[@einfelder8262]

Nice repair. Remember you will always need the extra bearing now that you have drilled out the whole shaft for the bigger tools - it will be more "whippy" than before.

[@brownmilligan1936]

thanks for your time. good show.

[@LMB200]

Great job you did on that. Keep up the good work 👍

[@richardmills5450]

Those ground and polished inserts have the last 2 letters GT. Like SCGT. They are for ali but work well on steel/stainless. Cheers matey videos are great.

[@PAINFOOL13]

Sir Oliver Thanks for the Awesome work and Great video🎉 You made my Monday here in South Florida. Be safe n Well . See you soon we hope 👍🏻👏

[@snowballengineering]

Thanks! You too!

[@vinegarjoe9706]

Ollie, I hope you charge plenty for what you do. I'm pretty sure your customers haven't a clue exactly how much skill, effort and hard work is involved oin the product you produce. Well done.!!!!!!

[@verteup]

I'm fairly sure most of his customers understand. He's basically doing the job of the engineer and the repair worker at the same time. That's pretty extraordinary.

[@kenreeve6549]

always a pleasure watching you at work ,a very talented young man ,well done

[@jayusher576]

Top job. without being greasable those pins are a constant wear item

[@declanoshaughnessy7733]

Hi Ollie,it is an absolute joy to watch you at work you have everything worked out to the tee best wishes for the future with your company cheers Declan from Galway Ireland 👍👍🙏🙏

[@b.malnit8983]

Your line borer works great Ollie.

[@theoldbigmoose]

It's good to learn from you. You really know your engineering!

[@PaulAnderson-xv2xd]

Was anyone else thinking, A hammer a hammer my Kingdom for a hammer. When your hammer walked off. Great job by the way.

[@edmac8212]

good work nice repair. just noticed the vice grips clamp great idea must remember it

[@DuncanAitken]

Awesome fix! Love the usual high Snowball Engineering standard of the repair, better than new. That's some weird video artefact at 24:40 - it looks like the freshly ground part of the mount is 'floating' when you attach the clamps!

[@mingthemerciless6855]

Another great job. Boy Cutting Edge Engineering CEE Australia has some competition. Cheers.

[@ciaranconeely8579]

Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.

[@johnwarwick4105]

Cracking job. Time you made the welding attachment for the line borer would make life a little easier. Must have a big matbro area round you with those cone and pin headstocks we keep seeing

[@bostedtap8399]

Great repair, better than original. Thanks for sharing

[@ИгорьДедов-к5ж]

You are interesting to provide information on the repair of parts. You probably work in a repair company for the repair of agricultural machinery. Good luck in your work and I'm waiting for new videos.

[@jimsvideos7201]

The developer in your dye kit is good for getting more honest answers from an IR temp gun, where bare metal can give misleading readings.

[@ronmcdavid7084]

another fine repair, you are a very talented fabricator.

[@snowballengineering]

I try 😆

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Excellent job man, those smaller holes are tough, I'd much rather bore the larger holes,great video, keep'um coming..

[@dannywooster8166]

Cheers from Australia

[@warrenjones744]

I am glad they do dodgey repairs in other countries too besides the US. That kind of stuff keeps us repairmen in business worldwide 🍻

[@GICK117]

Looks like your channel is growing a bit young man. I bet you'll have 100 k before ya know it. Cheers from New Mexico.

[@robertlewis4666]

Five pounds to a pinch they leave those bottom bars in! Nicely done!

[@michaelingram4539]

Great work very good to see how you get over problems 👍

[@davetaylor4741]

Looked a relatively simple job. But what a load of work to complete it. These things should be designed with easily replacable bushings. So as they wear you can swap out bushings and pins. In theory. Your customers seem to flog everything to within an inch of its life. If not broke, keep going.

[@jerryglenn7323]

I enjoy all your videos. Don't change mate🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@user-sj6pv7op6l]

Oliver, in OnShape after drawing an object line, circle or rectangle you can enter the dimensions straight away (no need to select the dimension tool).

[@snowballengineering]

Thanks for the tip!

[@hornetboy3694]

Awesome video, thank you Oliver great work

[@DavoShed]

Great Job. You can say no to small line boring or just charge more until the customer says no. If he says ok it won’t be such a bad job. 🤠 CEE seems to charge half the cost of a new one (about) 🤠 Well done!

[@rustyul]

You should investigate using spiral flute machine taps for your threaded holes. That way you can actually run them in with the drill press or a milling machine without having to turn the truck by hand.

[@JonDingle]

Good result that young man.

[@alandawson2813]

Yay a long video, love a full day or week. From kiwi land.

[@AdelinoGambiarras]

Yap nothing is easy, but another job well done I wish I could weld as good as you, I am practising and slowly getting better every time but still a long way to go.

[@chrisbailey459]

Another tradesman repair good stuff mate.

[@davidkrueger2987]

glad i found your channel i enjoyed it a lot. good work on this repair. i have watched a couple of your jobs and think your have a great work attitude.

[@snowballengineering]

Thanks 👍

[@mostlyharmless2841]

The plate takes the shear load off the bolts, so when the pin flexes it won't drive the wedge to cut into the bolts.

[@astravanmk2]

I enjoyed that greatly. Another excellent repair.

[@snowballengineering]

Thanks again!

[@markrich6657]

Hi Ollie, I know it cuts your workload down good or bad but I've said it make thousand times over my career( retired) but GREASE IS CHEAPER THAN MEATAL. How long doesn't take to grease a machine. It ain't that long. And for them, that say "they havn't put a grease nipple on it" get some ep90 in an oil can and give it a squirt. It's not grease but it will stop the wear. I've had my rant, great video again, take care Keep it coming. 1st class stuff👍👍👍👍

[@johnwarwick4105]

Livestock farmers are allergic to grease, it a known fact 😂😂. To be fair it’s not lack of grease that wears the fixed parts of the pins. The high lifting capacity in a small area makes headstocks a very high stress item. The tilt rams are usually very big for the size of pin. If this was an excavator the pins would be much larger for the lift capacity

[@BrucePierson]

You are pretty brave using that 8" angle grinder. Someone gave me an 8" grinder, but I've never been game to use it.

[@snowballengineering]

I’ve never had any bother with the 9” grinder, as long as you’re careful and don’t do anything daft.

[@johnwarwick4105]

It’s a shame they Stopped making the 7” grinder ( had one in the 80’s) these were much lighter but still bad good cutting power

[@artisansportsman8950]

Nice job, them head sets get some stick , pretty brutal some of the work they are expected to do.

[@robertstewart7744]

Great job. You make it look easy.

[@derby1919]

Hi snowball, with your line boring, have a look at cutting edge engineering. Curtis uses his line boring machine to weld. hope this helps you. 😊

[@petegraham1458]

I keep wondering about how the owner thought that repair was going to last ? I know those tele handlers get used and abused but that headstock was really trashed ! It’s better than new now , nice work hope you got paid well for saving the owners from buying a new replacement.

[@charlietabone6162]

Pretty tight job that one wasn’t it, but you sorted it without a problem

[@barney2633]

Excellent video, yet again. Problem solving and skilled workmanship.

[@philipspencer1834]

Great work! Good result 👍

[@TheRossi48]

Grande trabalho. Parabéns!

[@Wizedealsales]

Nice work as always

[@jerrybigrig9475]

😎👍😎 Yes.. It may have been a poor repair..but someone continued to use machine while this was loose and banging around ..

[@kenwood8665]

Thanks for another amazing video.

[@MichaelSpeyer]

Cracking video mate!❤

[@billdoodson4232]

Sort of hoping that someone is watching this video seeing their work described as a "crap repair."

[@jeffersonwebb5850]

Very nice work!

[@jasdunlop9907]

That will the the tightness bit on the old machine!!!! Should just make a new set of pins cause we all now the owner won't bother his arse .slow old job line boring good work bud