Forklift axle and Sumo Mixidisc frame repair

[@ferrywobma1836]

Advice, place a wooden pallet under the welding table. Always throw the metal scraps on there, then you can remove them with a forklift every few days to clean them up without having to bend down. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@IvyMike.]

Good idea, but a steel stillage would be less of a fire hazard ;)

[@JonDingle]

@@IvyMike. The risk of fire under a welding table is so miniscule it isn't worth a worry. The biggest risk of fire in a welding workshop is from nearby chemicals like acetone used for cleaning a metal surface prior to welding, paint, thinners, grinding sparks on rags, welding sparks on rags, underseal on chassis or vehicles if welding them and paperwork. The chances of setting fire to a pallet under a welding table will millions to one against.

[@IvyMike.]

@@JonDingle I'm not suggesting what I did as somebody with no experience, been doing fabrication and fitting for the last 42 years and had my wooden blocks that you use about the workshop catch fire that I used to store under a welding table, after popping out the workshop for about 20 mins, came back to a fire. The risk might be small but still not worth taking.

[@ronbuckner8179]

Fire hazard isn’t the plus to this idea. Access to what’s on the pallet is the win here guys!

[@dwjr5129]

It’s the simplest things some times.

[@Haasa90]

Your video was a great reminder that when I get back to work from my vacation, I need to grease the masts and axles of the forklifts to avoid similar repairs. And I am always amazed at how customers who bring devices for repair to both you and us never clean the machines. It's not very pleasant to start a repair when there's an inch of mud and dirt around the item.

[@Frank-Thoresen]

Typical for farmers and construction companies. They don't bother cleaning before repairs. Charge them for the cleaning might change their bad habits

[@DavidSellars-b8l]

@@Frank-Thoresen Perhaps a $50 cleaning fee. The customer could at least scrape the worst muck off.

[@Frank-Thoresen]

@@DavidSellars-b8lFor sure. In his case 50£ in UK

[@jeandupont9140]

c'est partout , j'ai travaillé dans une concession automobile comme mécanicien et je peut dire que c'est tous les jours que tu reçois un " tas de merde " et des fois c'est vraiment de la vraie merde , ( bouse de vache ) perso je lavait la voiture avant de la rentrer et mettais l'heure sur la facture ça en à calmé quelques uns mais pas tous, les gens en ont rien à foutre même un ma dit c'est ton problème mec moi je l'aime comme ça et si sa te plait pas tu à qu'à la laver

[@petefletcher]

I knew you'd put that extra gusset on! Nothing too strong ever broke 😎 I never thought of contamination from bringing machinery on to your farm.

[@filmbluff99]

As usual you designed and made a repair that was stronger than when new. What I find particularly interesting about your channel is the number of different agricultural implements that we get to see.😀🇬🇧

[@78jog89]

It seems that farming offers wonderful opportunities for creative, artistic solutions. Your fabrications are always informative, interesting and a pleasure to watch. Thanks for posting.

[@billdoodson4232]

Some nice repairs there Ollie. Lack of correct maintenance kept me in pretty full, well-paid employment for 50 years. Frustrating to see the same jobs come back again, but you can only do so much. The new welding bench is looking good, I can see some big drawers doing well under there. Vevor have some decent'ish big drawer slides at the moment. I got some of the smaller ones for a project for my shop.

[@ianmckay1780]

I so agree with a lot of the team, when people send you equipment charge them for cleaning! I know I had one job where our pressure steam cleaner had broken down, and I had to work on a Zetor Crystal whit dirt so thick you could not see the air compressor and tanks on the underside. Repair was to separate m/c for new clutch. Took 6Hrs to clean before I could begin to do repair! Would have taken several JCB cig buckets to clean out workshop floor after it was ready to work on. That said, your usual work ethic kicked in as soon as you saw the standard of (lack) design thinking, looked like the accountants were setting the quality of work there. You, however did a superb job. If the customer wants the other brace straightened, someone else here recommended ; drive over it with a F/lift or JCB. You won't get anywhere with a sledge. Thanks again Ollie. Best wishes from rural w.berks.

[@derekcomer4858]

How I wish I could tidy up at the fast forward speed 😁 Thank you for another fab video, it genuinely is a highlight of the weekend 🙏

[@Sportinjected919]

Up early this Sunday morning in New Jersey USA, coffee and Snowball Engineering! I really love to see 1+ hour videos from you, I know your videos are always entertaining and educational for the full hour! Keep it up

[@darrenwilson4330]

Never stops surprise me how companys let the machines go with out proper maintenance and take care of assets Very interesting jobs as normal oliver great video look forward to you next one Cheers thank you for your content ❤

[@firstname3078]

That forklift axle needs a big “This side up” sign etched onto it! Great job, as always.

[@tedmogsm7037]

that work bench is a serious bit of kit, very versatile, great addition to your workshop, love the videos,

[@allenbrown7820]

Now we see why the leg on the bracket was so thin. So they could weld the end piece on after welding the bracket on! Proper repair as always! The new table will be a game changer . Be Safe!

[@robevans8555]

Thanks for sharing, nice to sit with a coffee on Sunday morning watching your work, the cnc plasma cutter is a great tool

[@everestyeti]

Ollie you forgot one crucial item for that fork lift part, a label saying this way up you plonker. 😂 Nice work on that repair for the roller, I'm with you why do they expect small bits of steel to carry that much weight. I was watching Tom Pemberton and he was using a roller that must have come out of the arc, even the hitch was original. Since finding your channel Sunday mornings have become a joy. 👍

[@stuartmccall5474]

Another excellent video. I loved the ending! It made a very valid point in a relatively understated way.

[@passenger6735]

Great vid and loads to choose from. That was a big effort reaming 10% off the bore for those rose joints Ollie. That gusset will add a lot more strength. They probably stick welded that difficult to reach area. Ingenious way of removing the dirt at 1:04. Ha.

[@GB-bl6hn]

Absolutely love the way you over engineer some projects, well done Oliver.

[@ipaddlemyowncanoe.7441]

Yeah it was a good video. The guy that owns that forklift axle. It's obvious he's got more money than brains if he doesn't like grease and stuff. As long as he pays you, you'll keep on fixing it. One little tip that I your forklift. I watch another guy out of the states and he has a forklift and they work on heavy equipment. What they did was they drilled a hole in each fork and then they put a bolt in it when they're using straps or chains so it doesn't slide off the end like you had happen there. The strap slid off the end and you dropped the equipment so they put a bolt in the end of it temporary but when they're done they take it out and they put it away. But something you might want to think about because you could break some of your equipment and their equipment. Just a thought. Other than that good stuff 👍👍🙂🇨🇦

[@ianmarsden8568]

Excellent video. When you said you were unsure how it would work out, I knew it would be a great watch. The recap on last week was nice too. The table is useful right away. Cheers

[@kenthesparky178]

Another job sent back better than factory👍.

[@Gpbattersby]

Great work with the soil return 😂

[@karstenwetzlar8304]

Good morning ☀️ you gifted professional. 2-3 red color spray cans in your portfolio would be the icing on the cake. That would then be the completed completion. Red keeps coming back 💁‍♂️ I’ve always been on the perfection’s trip... 😊

[@johnsawyer2516]

The magician waves his wand and the machine lives to fight another day. Well done Ollie.

[@denniselvy3528]

Your work shop and your work are looking very professional and it's a pleasure to watch thanks

[@sr7289]

Scott from Vermont USA. That table is a beauty to behold.

[@BurnAndHackett_RC]

Well done Sir! Another piece of tillage equipment back in action, better than before. Good work on the idler wheels also, and big thanks to the chinese forklift operator for keeping you occupied as well !!

[@richardtobias192]

if we engineer things, they would never break. Great job Snowball

[@alastermacphail5086]

Watching your videos from the isle of tiree, Scotland. Always learning something new every week, thanks.

[@a-091-l2j]

Excellent video, excellent repair, you never know giving the customer their dirt back may eventually provoke them to clean their broken kit before it contaminates your farm!

[@782sirbrian]

Another quality repair, well thought out, neat and stronger then original. I agree customers should show consideration and pressure wash the muck off items before bringing them in for repair. I didn't think also of cross contamination of soil. Thanks for sharing your repair. Brian from South Yorkshire.

[@robhall9599]

Good job again , good to see you’re looking after your breathing with filters. I would get you to do work if I was near.

[@jblifeasitis895]

I follow your channel for a time now, and I really like it. You re design the construction to make it better then the original design. Real good work in my opinion

[@allanfisher8248]

Sunday evening (7.00) in Tasmania Australia, enjoying your video as always 🤙🤙🤙

[@wayoutwest4944]

Just a home owner here. Some how I acquired a flat nose shovel with a broken handle 40+ years ago, still use it as a heavy duty dust pan.

[@gdmonks1959]

You need to start putting on a charge/cost for cleaning Ollie then they’ll either be happy to pay you for cleaning it prior to work or they’ll bring it in clean! Great work as usual 👍🏻👍🏻

[@TheMortenjohansen]

Thanks for making videos. Another perfick repair. Great editing. Greetings from Norway 😊

[@lemmy9996]

Its Sunday and it's another quality Snowball job!! Nice one Ollie 👍👍

[@darrylwagar4144]

Another job well done. At least this one was straight forward. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

[@mikeburton7077]

Nice job well done,that cutting table is brilliant !

[@wallbawden5511]

Nice couple of small jobs first up well done then clean up time get welding bench in the right spot As for the Plow thingy I Charge the customer the same HOURLY RATE for cleaning things they soon learn to either clean it off before or cop the charge as work shop time is workshop time regardless as I say they soon learn Yet another repair job done stronger than the manufacturer nice job Cheers

[@memyselfandeye1234]

Double Hourly Rate Or At Least Time And A Half ... AS Been A Cleaner Is NOT Chosen Trade / Job And They Will Learn Faster When Itemized / Broken Down Bill Lands On Thier Desk...

[@123456BobJackson]

As always better than new. Well done

[@dwjr5129]

That’s Oliver’s jobs in a nutshell.

[@peterhornung3184]

I also know this problem with storing things from which I mean they could be usefull some day😐 and in deed there are some items you need after years but till this happens, you have alway to fight with too few place in the workshop; in my case that was (or still is) a big problem😣 ~ 44:28 Where are these two mm difference of thickness? You should have to weld the little sheets 2mm deeper to not get a step joint? I admire you for your diligence, I'm even jealous because in my life (now a 71 old bone), I had not enough of this virtue😫. Keep sane and stay safe, Oliver!

[@derekrand8462]

Another great Sunday morning video Olly

[@petegraham1458]

Nice repairs, good re-engineering on the cultipacker you may want to dye penetrant check the other end and advise the owner the other side needs inspection as well. I as a retired engineer I enjoy watching your channel! Nice to see your Dad , I bet he is proud of your expertise and capabilities!

[@jasonhovey815]

Enjoy my Sunday mornings watching your videos. Great way to start the day

[@steve_weinrich]

Great work and great video. A bit of advice: At the end of a job, clean off the fixture table. It only takes a few minutes and keeps it from becoming a big mess. Thanks for the videos!

[@bertjetolberg103]

You should have told me this earlier😂😂

[@KarlLittle1975]

Great video Oliver!

[@Sportinjected919]

Your cutting table looks much better than the ones I see on other channels, the software looks much more legit than FastCut which I see elsewhere. The torch/plasma/engraver interchangeability is awesome. I'm not sure I have seen that elsewhere.

[@thepagan5432]

Good job, and the extra putting strength into the area was well thought out. I used to keep offcuts and pieces that I thought would be useful but at the end of the day it just sat there gathering dust and being an eyesore, have a box and empty it every 6 months. Keep safe and well 👍

[@carloskawasaki656]

Thank you for sharing, always a pleasure start my sunday morning with you and your project, i learn a lot, from Quebec,Canada👍👍👍👍

[@grahamkahabka66]

You do such good work. It's a pity your customers don't respect you and your work enough to clean the items they've broken before they bring it to you.

[@formesteel]

It was a pleasure to meet you at the Yorkshire Show, the channel is looking great...keep 'em coming. Kind regards, Tim @ Forme.

[@stephenmeeks684]

Great work and design.

[@daveA2024]

Yet another great video Oliver, I was almost shouting "Watch the vise" as you were revering out with it on the forklift after completion, I ought to have known better, you got the big hammer though.

[@davidmosscrop2374]

Oliver. Nice welding on the gusset! Looks good and strong. Have a great week. Thnx for the video! cheers

[@johnpartridge7623]

Good job as usual Ollie 👍

[@EricHarrison-dk3rn]

Brilliant keep up the good work

[@glenncpw]

When it fell from the tynes I could hear you all the way out here in Australia... LOL Good onya

[@barney2633]

Another excellent piece of work. Well done !

[@glentyan2505]

Excellent repair as usual.

[@tomtd]

Great work great video, with a what’s that about right at the end? Never heard of black grass but some googling throws it up as an increasing problem. Maybe you should include a demand to wash off before arrival of these items on your clean farm. Foot and mouth like restrictions, your agri clients should understand better than most. Keep up the informative Sunday entertainment provision, many thousands obviously look forward to it, add an excellent laid back presentation format, add a coffee and it’s a special part of many people’s Sundays, it certainly is for me.

[@lefzer7713]

9:50i waited one year to see you cleaning that mess under the welding table...i am very glad you are doing well,you deserve it,great videos,great talent..keep going!!!

[@Dalbayob69]

Another great video while having my 3 doses of caffeine. I don’t know how you price your jobs but I would include cleaning charge in the price. Then it’s up to customer wether to clean equipment themselves or pay you to do it. At the end of the day you’re running a workshop and bills have to be paid.

[@snowballengineering]

Hourly rate. I charge the same for cleaning as I do for welding

[@Dalbayob69]

@@snowballengineering that’s the way to do it👍

[@thinking-monkey]

Great repair as usual! 👍

[@TonyFromSydney]

That was a good proper job for sure. looking forward to the next one.

[@dougdavidson175]

Good morning fea Perthshire Scotland Oli. Cracking jobs again! Thanks. Take care & stay safe.

[@BruceBoschek]

Just found time to watch this today and really enjoyed it. Adding that gusset was a good idea and should add a good amount of strength. Our local guy here (in Germany) won't accept any machinery on his property that has not been power washed. Some animal pathogens can also be unintentionally introduced into the shop and surrounding. Thanks very much for another excellent video.

[@TheVillageIdiotUk]

Great video as usual. I really enjoy watching how you tackle problems. Your CNC machine is a fabulous bit of kit which is a great asset in your armoury, however it doesn’t replace the skill and experience required to do your work. I hope you enjoyed the Yorkshire Show. It used to be an annual pilgrimage for me which I miss dearly. Thanks for your time and trouble.

[@DavoShed]

That repair on the roller looked great! Have a line item on your invoice for Dirt Money. People will clean stuff from then on or you will simply get paid to clean up 🤠 (Charge them for the bucket)

[@ChrisSherlock]

Very neat job you made of that Oliver.

[@michaelholmes4525]

That new table is awesome 🤩 Loving your content and videos - Michael

[@TheJoedirt6000]

Nice Little Drill Press

[@evo-labs]

Nice fixture table 😍

[@danielgriffith7694]

As a suggestion, you could have made the backer plates thicker and longer to start with, weld them in for the strength to the end plate. Then the cover plate could have been made with 1/4 or 6 mil plate. Because of the inherent design, the end gusset could have been added to the other end. The arm that was bent, could have easily been removed and heated with a torch and pressed flat on your press. A gusset could be added to one side for extra strength . As always another excellent repair 👍

[@donaldmendes184]

Keep up the interesting work and challenges , Oliver. 😂

[@TheGrimReaper1]

That plate gusset looks nice, just what it needed. It must get some hammer when it’s in transport mode with a load of wet soil/mud on it and then going through rough field gateways.

[@hl8256]

That is a great welding table. The wings are more substantial then i thought.

[@Johannes58934]

1:05:53 In the future you should tell them not to bring their equipment to you with all that mud and crud on it! You do good work and going the extra bit to make it better than original is not common in our time...

[@alandawson2813]

Awesome job Oliver. One way I have straightened plate with out a press is a piece of chain and a bottle jack, I made some hooks up to go over edge of plate and a piece of pipe and a piece cut in half to go over ram on jack and chain sits in curve of pipe and doesn't slip off, and put a shortening hook into chain loop to shorten up chain if needed, works a treat, Couldn't afford a press so this works a treat, even used it to press in and out bushes and other crazy kiwi things.

[@JohnSmith-tv8ft]

Another excellent video Oliver, thanks again for posting. It must take a lot of time to arrange filming and editing. I hope you get as much out of recording and posting as we get out of watching you solving problems and carrying out these excellent repairs.

[@peterwright217]

good too see that you moved the new table Snow. top show

[@georgewalton-b5s]

great video again well done Oliver

[@michaeltraynor9328]

Great channel Ollie, love watching what you do. Just a thought….if you don’t need the small plasma, why not get it sorted and do a give-away. I’m sure there’s a young fabricator out there that could make use of it 👍🏻

[@jeandupont9140]

I really like your radial drill

[@rs2024-s4u]

I know with the perspective I have the bent brace (sic) appears to be removable and if so could your brake be used to manually straighten "brace" that is bent? This is a high quality repair your customer is getting their money's worth using your firm for this repair, Great Job. I recommend that you get an air brush gun and spray any bare metal repairs with etching primer before the rattle can spray paint finish or you coudl also use the airbrush for top coat paint for these small area repaints w/o needing a booth. Ray Stormont

[@christopherforster6555]

Wow Super job good and strong.

[@hornetboy3694]

Awesome video, great work. Thank you Oliver

[@Cricket-lw6br]

Bro that's a sweet new table you got.

[@b.malnit8983]

Great job and great engineering Oliver.

[@toddplenda5569]

Nice work as usual 👍

[@davidwiltshire6094]

Good that you take your farm biosecurity seriously. Cheers D from Australia

[@charleswelch249]

Oliver, put in the contract before taking a job. You're charging x amount of money for excessive dirt and grease clean-up in the repair area. The repair was definitely stronger than the factory and should last as long as the unit. Love watching your videos, Oliver.

[@mattdodds2954]

Great job and video mush

[@notanf1show237]

Yourself and Welderfabber would be close enough to eachother could be a good idea for content and contacts 👍🏻

[@williambailey9378]

Ollie you are one of the most talented blokes on KZbin no ifs or buts !!!!!! but as regard to keeping things tidy you would make a Saville Row suit look shit !! We can't all be perfect eh buddy 😮😅😂 keep up the great work 👍I bet you was born with grease and oil on ya hands 😅😂

[@brownmilligan1936]

another great show. thanks. see you next week i hope.

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Excellent job man,

[@gilgameshismist]

I am of the opinion that if someone wants me to clean up their gear, I should be paid for my time. I don't work for free, and my time spend on cleaning their crap is as expensive as me doing other work. And disposal of non recyclables isn't free either.

[@tomtd]

Thanks

[@snowballengineering]

Thank you!