Making an auger. (How I did it)

[@robertford.spendmonthshere1667]

Been heavy equipment tech for 30 years.been around a lot of welder .your a step above nice work.cheers

[@BigTyler]

I am a mechanic for a paving contractor and it is crazy how abrasive asphalt is and how fast the augers wear out. Awsome work

[@waiakalulu2472]

I certainly do learn things on this channel. Nice to have this problem solved. Asphalt is one of those things that you want to go right, because once it cools it's a stuck mess.

[@terrminatoragain461]

Sure shows the power of a weld,amazing

[@sackvilleweldingservices]

Brilliant solution to fabbing up an auger. Have done a few auger repairs myself. Two augers in different boilers that remove ash from the bottom of the firebox had burnt and worn away over the years leaving virtually nothing but the tube. My cutomer supplied the flites and just welded them on. One of them was so badly damaged it needed a section of tube too. A very interesting vidoe young man!

[@rbhe357]

You can do the same with a winch or come along. Stretch the coil between a couple trees etc and carefully tack it in several places before welding it out later. The hard part is measuring and cutting the plates just right.

[@johnscott2849]

Reminds me of building cement mixers 50 years ago. On a smaller scale mind you. 1/4 metal and really long pry bars.

[@martymorse2]

It would be interesting to me if you could do a video about how your got into the business and how you learned so many incredible skills. I've been a subscriber since day one with your channel but I've not watched all your videos. With August coming up I'll have more down time to watch so If you've already talked about your biography then no worries. I'll find it.

[@Gyppor]

That's very cool! The augers looks great.

[@carloskawasaki656]

Another great video, thank you for sharing,i learn a lot and always a pleasure watch your video.👍👍👍👍

[@petermccuskey1832]

Love this. An old dog can learn new tricks from you!

[@joelfrend4994]

Archimedes would be proud!

[@JohnWheels]

Did you just watch Indiana jones?

[@J-Justice666]

Archimedes would sh-t his pants when he saw the forklift.

[@HoodWeldingandFabrication]

Great ingenuity as always! Nice job.!

[@glenngosline1710]

Great job as always. All the right tools.

[@crbrepairmotorcycles6608]

I believe I just witnessed a miracle never seen anything like that made been around auger flighting all my life AWESOME

[@Comm0ut]

Very cool making your own auger flyte. For long augers it's commercially available made to size from a single piece but then you'd have to wait on it, hope they got it right, and pay for it!

[@russtuff]

That's amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@MarvUSA]

I used to buy sections already stretched, or at times, just buy 10' auger sections. If you can do it cheeper, it's all good for sure. I also didn't have problems getting parts like people do now that's for sure.

[@brucepeterson9068]

Another great video...I agree who would have thought that asphalt would wear down that auger. Must be the aggregate in the asphalt.

[@segomatu7063]

"It's crazy to think that asphalt wore this out", hé hé, of course my friend, asphalt is nothing more than concrete, in France we call it "enrobés" that means "wrapped". It's various granulometries of quarry materials mixed hot (very hot !) with bitumen. Good job anyway, even if a little bit risky at a moment !

[@baar6892]

New to the channel and love the content but just had to say, this is brilliant. You guys are awesome at thinking outside the box.👍

[@horstszibulski19]

At first glance I thought that it was for a small foundation drill... Great job, unusual use for a fork lift... 😂👍👍👍

[@mikemull5934]

Now THAT was a cool video to watch!

[@alphaomega9033]

I Am forced by your awesome work to comment on how much I like your work.

[@hubertrobinson8825]

You are very smart I always learn something from what you a few other guys of your caliber do your videos are short and to the point not long and boring like some are whit a lot of explaining that by the end you dont see whats done and you forgot what you heard great job keep the videos coming

[@Rusty-Metal]

Mind blown. Awesome vid.

[@ls2005019227]

Super-cool build/repair! I'd like to know more on how you calculated to cut the flighting sections out- Thanks!

[@howder1951]

I want to make a couple of screw anchors for my fence and was planning an auger type. I think I could do a lot of prototyping out of paper before putting torch to plate. I saw someone making sections from washers, cut and bend on a simple jig in a press.

[@OFW]

Solid works computer program.

[@dirtfarmer7472]

@@howder1951 Those screw anchors used to be sold. You could try a farm supply store I’d bet that they have what you want.

[@howder1951]

@@dirtfarmer7472 No fun in that (for me). what my plan is to have it like an anchor with a tie to the fence. The city had re-graded the back alley and my fence has a tendency to lean outward into the alley.

[@bruceslattengren8587]

Great job what a trip so that’s how you do it !!! 😊

[@DazFab]

Nice seeing how it was made, Nice work,

[@tombowman2154]

You did a nice job making that flyting.

[@JonesMetalCraft]

I was wondering how you made those. Good trick.

[@vinnyhern]

genius absolute genius! 👍👍

[@brandonscarfe8803]

Great stuff as always!

[@nickj2508]

I am impressed, As always, nice work. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@scotthultin7769]

92👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 😊

[@JimmyZ408]

Most Impressive Sir! Well Done.

[@danielpullum1907]

Amazing. Ya could be a magician!!!! LOL I've seen grain augers made and it was a very different process but I don't remember the company.... Steel moving a hot abrasive aggregate mixture will grind a whole lot.

[@derekbryant6137]

That is a great idea I am a little bit jealous because I used to work in a machine shop where I made auger flights had to Mark out to Centerline radius is all of that and stand there at a press break with a pattern and painstakingly increment by increment Bend those with a press and then fiddle with a fixture they made line it all up tack it out and then weld it out that looks so much easier

[@paulb3095]

Good job again sir. I used to reflight a lot of grain augers which were much lighter material. I could use a come along and stretch it tight on the tube.

[@Grantherum]

Where I used to work, we sold a product that used an auger... we chose to purchase our augers from a farm implement company, because the time and energy required to make a 14-15' augers is much better spent letting the folks that do that for a living, just do it.

[@garymucher4082]

Seeing how thick the metal is, kind of hard to believe they wear out at all. But nothing lasts forever I guess. Thumbs Up!

[@mtodd1972]

I'm pretty sure I need to pop a Xanax. My anxiety went off the shart waiting for a big PING and shooting around the shop. Nice work.

[@R.A.G81]

Делал я в своё время такое))) знакомо))) . Привет из России, коллега😅

[@haydenc2742]

I wonder if the blades could be hardened to reduce wear? Pretty cool on the stretching of the plates to make the blades! Awesome! Keep em coming!!!!

[@wayneswonderarium]

Maybe hard facing, but that would probably muck up the surface/blend or something. If it was made out of AR it might last longer, though might be more difficult to bend? (I didn't catch what they made it out of)

[@wadeuww9wmsksznzkknuttall422]

Yes we hard surface screws at potash mines in NM.

[@mrdddeeezzzweldor5039]

Cool and creative way to 'machine' the spiral. Why no hard face on the edges of the auger blades? Seems like that would be a necessity.

[@OFW]

The old ones lasted a long time. I don’t want to put too much heat in them and have them get out of round.

[@428Mario]

Enjoyed your video. Have designed augers but we get the screws made. Blew me away how much smaller they got on the id though that was a big pitch

[@hmrody]

@1:55 - Ya know, you have a 50% chance of getting the direction correct on an impact the first pull of the trigger. And like me, I think 90% of the time, it goes the wrong direction 😀. Car keys tend to be in the other pocket also. The struggle is real.

[@harveystephens6115]

Great work!!

[@Gus1966-c9o]

The short pieces resemble outboard motor propellor . Nice job guys .

[@dalebohling7601]

You know a video is interesting when it's 12 minutes long but goes by in 1 1/2 minutes!

[@redbeard123]

You should see how fast grain wears them out if think that's bad love the video taught me something we buy the pre made flighting and I weld it on now I think I'll try to make some myself for our stub shafts thanks

[@woodartist2021]

Greg, your ingenuity amazes me! Did you apprentice somewhere? How did you learn to do this type of fabrication? That spiral is not a piece the average welder would have much idea on how to go about it. Your videos sure help us new guys…much appreciated!

[@OFW]

Everything I know is self taught. I worked at different shops when I was younger to learn the basics.

[@TaylorAkins]

@@OFW 👍

[@williamthomas9463]

Fantastic thinking. I saw in the comments where you were guided by a computer program as to how to cut the flighting plates. Before reading that, I was wondering how much material was cut up trying to figure it out by trial and error. Nice work!

[@Mike-c7y9t]

My hats off to you, that was awesome 🙌

[@olivermsiska5780]

That's great, I have been wanting to make my own auger coz it's so expensive to buy

[@vicchiapetta4166]

Great job!!!

[@perakoojot1]

Nice job guys, but Hardox has done part of the job there.

[@donhull3857]

That was awesome some of this stuff is just amazing

[@softball2243]

How did you get the center hole size?? Great job.

[@bigdave6447]

I'll bet if you look in Machinery's Hand Book you can find the answer.

[@OFW]

Solid works computer program

[@SamWhite-ut2rb]

When pulling the end of the spiral you should weld on a flat steel bar sticking straight up and pull from the end of that, or at least just pull from the inside edge of the spiral. It avoids the pulled end getting all twisted up in the wrong way.

[@tukangumpruk4546]

Thank you for sharing your experience , very inspiring sir 👍👍

[@buckinthetree1233]

You could put blocks under your forklift mast that stick out past your front tires to hold that plate down closer to the point youre pulling from. That plate flexing makes for a spongy pull.

[@overwatch2671]

Who would have thunk it. You guys are good.

[@bigdave6447]

You can always put h.f. mat deposited radially on those flites,! Asphalt is basically a mushy grinding wheel.

[@HeroBeatsHydra]

you doing any work on that fae in the background? great machines

[@OFW]

Yes. It’s coming up in a video

[@Planeiron]

That was cool Tidey 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@highdesertbill]

Good JOB!

[@robertpalmer3166]

Yeah, I was was going to make one of those earlier but I decided to have a sandwich instead. Killer work.

[@davidbrown312]

Nice work. Questions.... 1 what size is the tube? 2 what's the spread on the screw blade? How big is the center hole and how did you figure the math for it?? I'm making a screw for the sand to hold my tents, the cheap plastic screws that came with broke. So the new ones will be aluminum.

[@OFW]

Honestly I don’t remember the measurements. It was all done in solid works.

[@seththomas2490]

Time to do some shady shit. Do da do da. I love it. Awesome video

[@snowballengineering]

You been watching them Indian guys? 😉 I’ve seen them doing this.

[@made_in_earth]

VERY NICE 👍

[@Reckless_Riders]

Wish I had a picture of one I have rebuilt but you should see what sawdust will do to one! Question: we buy premade auger sections that we just weld on. Why did y’all have to made and bed yalls on? I assume they needed quick turn around but just wondering!

[@OFW]

I don’t have a good answer. Just the way we did it.

[@Hey_Its_That_Guy]

That was really clever, Greg, nice job! Did you come up with that yourself, or have you seen someone else do it?

[@OFW]

Got some ideas from someone else but mostly came up with the idea.

[@GNaron]

What is even crazier than the augers getting worn down from asphalt. Is how the asphalt gets worn down on a 20 year old or so, highly traveled freeway from cars and trucks traffic. If you are ever on old a freeway in a closed lane, look close at the surface and you well see all the rock on the top surface of the AC is worn down flat. Even concrete freeways. Where I'm from there are no flat rocks in AC or PCC mix.

[@terrycapehart6303]

Awsome, have a blessed day bro

[@mikesmith8952]

Awesome plus amazing job. Why didn't you at least weld a couple flat stock bars on top of the steel plate to keep it stiff? Wouldn't that have aided the job? Ty.😊

[@OFW]

Maybe, but it went back straight

[@ronnierivera3991]

Best damn video I have ever seen

[@4shooters]

genius! thank you

[@gettosurfer]

Wonder if just a little heat to the metal would help it stretch out easier. Heat the whole assembled piece with a weed burner for a minute or two. Cover with a weld blanket for a bit to let the heat distribute evenly. Then stretch it out.

[@OFW]

It definitely wouldn’t hurt anything.

[@JaseC80]

To increase the longevity of the auger, could you hardface weld the edges and working surface ? Or not cost effective?

[@OFW]

On this application I don’t think it’s worth it.

[@R.E.HILL_]

Nice one... Leonard: What would you be if you were attached to another object by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis? Sheldon: Screwed? 🙂

[@bartscave]

Great job! How did you calculate the inside hole before stretching to fit the center pipe?

[@bartscave]

see you already answered it below. thanks.

[@mikeydee8398]

Quick question, what were those rigging chains you were using in one of your videos, I can’t remember whichever one it was but they had some colored ends on them…🤔 they may have been blue or teal or some like that🤔… they looked like some real good quality chains

[@OFW]

I get them from a local shop called contec

[@huckstirred7112]

thank you so much for this video

[@delmano55]

Hello, I have a 40 mm shaft, I will wrap a 25 cm spiral on it, can you write me how many mm should the hole in the middle be? Thank you...

[@OFW]

the hole is not a perfect circle. If you google it you should be able to find it.

[@garysanderson844]

I have a question not shown in the video where did and did you weld your bottom to hold it and how did you weld you ancker on the top to stretch it insid putsid or a bracket holding the hole edg of the disk and olsp why did you xut a sr tion of the disk out thanks

[@jazzjohn2]

What formula do you use to arrive at the flat rings' ID and OD given the auger length and pipe diameter?

[@OFW]

There is a formula for it in solid works.

[@p0wn]

Nice dude

[@JoseRGarcia-JRG]

Genius. !!!

[@dylanrussell6925]

That is cool. But how did you know how big to cut the hole in the middle of the plates?

[@OFW]

CAD

[@timothylussirr5548]

Wow great work Just curious those augers were not available through the manufacturer? I’ve been a paving mechanic my whole career and there were always parts available Maybe it’s a supply chain issue?

[@OFW]

They are not available from the manufacturer.

[@timothylussirr5548]

Wow! Well then good on you I actually wish I went more in your direction with my career 32 years and my skills are not what they used to be I really enjoy that type of work

[@JeffreyShailemo-n3x]

How did calculate the radius, cause initially you said the circle was big but ended up closing up the cap to the pipe.

[@OFW]

It was designed in solid works.

[@kerrygleeson4409]

Thanks for sharing guys great job 🦘

[@KarasCyborg]

I see that plate of Hardox, how does that stack up against the AR500 (Abrasion Resistant) Plate vs Domex Steel?

[@OFW]

I would say they are very similar.

[@melvis2017]

U bro u are brave man 🇩🇰👍

[@sparksmobilerepair4025]

Very nice. What size hole to what size pipe is that? I repair allot of augers and usually have to order the flights and I hate doing that lol.

[@OFW]

5.5” hole 3.375 pipe

[@sparksmobilerepair4025]

@@OFW is there some sort of rule of thumb on sizing the hole to the pipe?

[@OFW]

@@sparksmobilerepair4025 it was done in solid works. If you need some measurements send me a message

[@777smitty4]

That’s interesting how did you figure out the diameter hole you needed?

[@OFW]

Solid works.

[@1GuyGamingCo]

I wish I had this video about 3 months ago when I was building augers for an asphalt plant through trial and error

[@blacksheep9734]

Asphalt is extremely abrasive, most guys run hard face around the outside edge of the augers