4250 Crusher with a major problem!

[@jimanderson4495]

Great content. I’m an 80 yr old subscriber sitting on my coach on Thanksgiving morning sipping coffee and enjoying your channel. My wife asked what I was watching. I tried to explain and ended up saying…… this guy’s an absolute artist. Thanks and waiting for the next upload.

[@sam-f5g5b]

I to am enjoying a cup coffee watching this video

[@ypaulbrown]

Happy Thanks Giving Greg…cheers from Florida…Paulie❤

[@ypaulbrown]

Drilling holes for piercing is a great way to use the plasma cutter…

[@OFW]

Not everyone can understand this trade/craft. Even my wife that edits the videos doesn’t fully understand. Happy thanksgiving!

[@stephenmeeks684]

I hope you take your coach to the ER afterwards. Spill chekc failed agin.

[@sam-f5g5b]

I started a mobile welding business this year in san diego and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the work you do...I've been a welder for 20 years and I never stop learning. I learn something new on every video you postponed look at heavy equipment repairs differently when I'm in the field now

[@johnfry9010]

That press is insane , it bends that 3/4 plate like nothing !

[@garytompkins3761]

Outstanding repair, your craftsmanship is superb and your work ethic is remarkable. How did I miss your having that really nice plasma table and set up?. Your shop and service business growth is just growing and growing, fun to watch, thanks for bringing us along. Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and your crew.

[@OFW]

The plasma table is new. This is the first video with it. I will probably do a video about it coming up.

[@Watchyn_Yarwood]

I had the same question about the plasma table. I see the reply. Look forward to hearing about it soon.

[@raulrubio2862]

Love seeing all the tools in action. That press brake is awesome. Finally got to see the plasma table too. Nice!

[@MrRebar15]

*On Fire Welding* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.

[@waiakalulu1568]

What a great video demonstrating how the press brake can introduce a part into the frame that’s strongest where it needs to be. So totally awesome working at night to get the customer back in production. Heavy equipment means dedication.

[@overwatch2671]

It never ceases to amaze me the things you can fix. Your fabrication skills are next level as well as your work ethic. After finding your videos, I spent about a month watching all of your content. I've learned a tremendous amount of little short cuts. You could make a video a day, and it still wouldn't be enough. Again, great job. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Looking forward to the next video.

[@OFW]

Thank you for your support and your kind words.

[@gerardcallan5655]

I really think your channel deserves to have a lot more subscribers.

[@OFW]

I due time I guess

[@gerardcallan5655]

@OFW Hopefully so. Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and crew.

[@terryperrott9913]

That press, what a game changer for sure

[@ssusdorf1]

Greg - I can see why you like field work my Brother. Your mind at work is amazing. GREAT CONTENT for sure.

[@tasjaki]

OFW gonna teach the crusher some lessons now. Good job mate.

[@Cancun771]

Another great one! Love the botched backhoe bending fail! However, it does make my skin crawl just a little when you touch that hand amputator screen while the boy is busy loading it up in the amputation zone. Could make for a great _Halloween special_ though.

[@harveystephens6115]

Nice fix. I feel this machine will need more of y’all’s love in a few months!! Enjoyed and again Happy Thanksgiving

[@russtuff]

Nicely done, you make it look easy

[@JonesMetalCraft]

Great repair guys! Made my Thanksgiving day. Love the bat on the taillight.

[@lucmarchand617]

Yes, repair is tough worse in cold weather.I work lafarge in calgary south side plant broke main transfer case frame crushers yes due cold temp rebuilt and down time was near 24 hours.Thanks expose job again.😊

[@rudyrivera7426]

Great video! Greg! You’re very talented in your craft! Skilled and experienced! Your shop is fabulous with all of your equipment! 👌👍 and I see your channel is growing! Continue success! Thanks for sharing! Happy thanksgiving 🦃

[@a-fl-man640]

gotta say, that press brake is a beast. impressed me w/ how easily it bent that thick steel.

[@Rusty-Metal]

What an empire you've built. You work your ass off! Big brains and a lion's heart.

[@ÁREAJ27]

Muito bom trabalho amigos,agora não quebra mais neste lugar muito bem reforçado!!! Boa sorte sempre!!!

[@keithk2926]

Another fine job beautiful welds👍

[@ssmith6019]

Awesome job love all your videos !!

[@ThatGuyWhoIsStillHere]

Thanks for the Thanksgiving upload boss, happy turkey day to you and yours

[@darrylwagar4144]

Happy Thanksgiving, great work, thanks for sharing

[@henrycole8705]

There was a video of a plate shop building a navy destroyer.. Press brake operator bending 1.5 thick plate no setup, all by eye. perfect angles and fitment everytime

[@luck484]

I would like to see that video. It feels like modern fab techniques take away the tight reinforcement feedback that supports that skill development and the resulting satisfaction of performance.

[@OFW]

That is old school experience right there.

[@macmac19800]

Another challenging job well done, greetings from Poland

[@chele-chele]

Impressive! Wondering why you didn't run a couple of gussets along the underside of those channels? That press is money in the bank for sure, excellent tool for your application. Thanks for your time, appreciate the effort you put into this content =)

[@OFW]

I probably could have put more reinforcement, I think it should be good for a while.

[@mikeallen266]

Thanks for the thanksgiving morning video, enjoy your day off if you get one 👍🇺🇸

[@yenerm114]

Nice repair 👌🏼 that press 👀👀💪🏼💪🏼

[@ragnarironspear1791]

Always great videos 👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

[@mjm7187]

0Video quality and content excellent. Makes me miss my machine repair days. Happy Thanksgiving OFW!

[@stevo68]

I always use Anchorlube for single point thread cutting. It does an amazing job.

[@troytheconsumeroflargequan3254]

Thanks for the video. I love how you share your thought process as you engineer a fix for whatever problem is thrown at you. Here's wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving. You are a master of the original hot glue.

[@davef7171]

Nice thought out job again great repair.

[@freebirdwelds]

Nice Job! I use 71 elite on everything.

[@charleswelch249]

Nice repair job, and happy Thanksgiving.

When welding on such thick plate would larger diameter wire speed things up. Nice video that shows that no matter how much planning goes into a job ,things crop up unexpectedly .

[@OFW]

I was running 1/16” wire. I probably wouldn’t go bigger than that unless both pieces were 3/4” or thicker. But in the comparison between.045 and 1/16”. The 1/16” wire is faster and has a higher deposition rate.

[@harveystephens6115]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and family and the crew!

[@terrminatoragain461]

Great press brake Greg Sure opens up a lot of opportunities for other work

[@FarmerTom-bz6tn]

Part way through the video the thought came to mind that it may become necessary to have the ability to bend pieces on site. That in theory sounds to me like an expensive thought. 🙂 Whether that proves to be practical and ever cost effective, remains to be known and experienced. Most likely depends on how much fabrication work you do or will do for projects away from the shop. Just thinking out loud or um in typed words here. Always impressed by your work as someone who has repaired, serviced, and operated all kinds of heavy equipment. The weather has often times made things interesting. LOL

[@OFW]

That would be expensive and difficult to do correctly. But some temporary solutions could be constructed.

[@mrdddeeezzzweldor5039]

Switched to Anchor Lube recently and what a difference in the cut quality of my drills and portable band saws.

[@DG_Fabrication]

thanks for the tip on the wire I'm going to try it

[@badjeepman]

Your so lucky you have the luck you do with dual shield outside, I would love to be able to use it more often but wind always makes trouble

[@peterouellette3874]

Excellent work

[@erikslagter3231]

Diddy bought his AnchorLube in bulk. He loved drilling from behind

[@mrdddeeezzzweldor5039]

Love those custom gusset plates - mega bandaid to the rescue!

[@israelswearingen8219]

Happy thanksgiving Greg !

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

Brutal! Nice repair!

[@Daniel_cheems]

That was a job! Well done fellars!

[@marctrossbach6560]

Ya'll are the right folks for the job

[@paulhammond7489]

Nice fix on the frame - But I feel you'll be back on that crusher in the not too distant future fixing that other crossover support, great content for us :)

[@OFW]

Ya, it’s already in the schedule

[@richardbrown2447]

Yep your good. Nice work

[@jaymarshall7632]

Thank you for your videos. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@davidholder3207]

You sure have some cool equipment for the work you have to do.

[@glenngosline3303]

You have so much dedication. Greg you are the best of the best. Seems flux core is the thing now. When I was in high school we got a flux core setup. I did not mesh with it much. That was in 1978. I worked in a vessel shop as a burner. They used a lot of it. They were using 211 wire and 3M wire made by Lincoln. I am just a pipeline welder getting ready to retire soon. Like I say would love to be your apprentice. Start me off by sweeping the floor lol. Have you always had the plasma burning table? Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

[@OFW]

The plasma is a new to me table. A lot more to come with it.

[@BruceBoschek]

As always, repairs done without compromise and with integrity. I will be curious as to whether you will be working on that crusher again soon as it really looks like a rather weakly designed machine. In any case, thanks Greg for letting us look over your shoulder.

[@OFW]

Yep, it’s already in the schedule.

[@markmccoy1512]

Drilling your Pearce location looked like a great place for a mag drill😁

[@alseip4418]

Nice fix Love that break you will be able to bump break skins with that machine. That wire the 71 that is regular Flux core not 71M dual shield is it ...seemed a little smokey for dual shield...Like the way you did those gussets ...Have a Happy Thanksgiving

[@johnpope4464]

Welder flabbergasted loves working on them

[@PontiacLS]

I've been watching your channel since it started I love how you are perfectionist It has to be right it can't be done half ass .

[@OFW]

Yep, I like doing things one time. And I want it to look good and be done correctly.

[@Jacob-40]

Well, done guys ❤

[@richwielechowski5191]

Is this the same crusher you rebuilt the hopper on? Hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving.

[@OFW]

Different one

[@dirtfarmer7472]

You know what’s going to happen now. When the customer tells his buddies about what you did and how you did it, they’ll start calling you, again and again. There’s only so much that you can do, enjoy it while you can. Thank you Sir

[@OFW]

Maybe that’s why my phone never stops ringing. Hahaha

[@crbrepairmotorcycles6608]

WoW 👌 what a amazing job, and OFW welding on Thanksgiving morning have a happy day 🦃

[@JonDingle]

Top job that young man!

[@Jin-Ro]

The thumbnail looked like machinery in space, with the USS Enterprise 1701E coming in to help :)

[@whodat90]

As soon as you said ‘hopefully we’ll be finished by lunch’ I heard ‘god himself could not sink this ship!’

[@OFW]

Lunch/ midnight same thing lol

[@MySynthDungeon]

4 am coffee on! Here we go! lov it! Cheers!;-)!

[@samuelspencer9194]

I was wondering why you didn't cut the plate in a diamond shape my dad always did Said that would let it flex and not crack just curious and I know there is a thousand ways to repair it And no one way is the right way and no one way is the wrong way as long as it comes out and it works fine love your videos be safe and have a great thanksgiving Sam

[@OFW]

Like you said, there is a thousand ways to do this. I was trying to reinforce the top part of the bent area as much as possible.

[@steveanderson4768]

Sure is nice to have some new toys in the shop isn’t it that press break is absolutely amazing and that CNC table when did you get these?

[@OFW]

I had them for a while. This is the first real video showing them in action

[@McNeillWelding1]

Nice repair you guys laying the coals to her. Sweet plasma table what amp plasma do you have hooked to it?

[@OFW]

In the video was a 65. It now has a 85 which is the maximum due to power restrictions in the shop.

[@mikeknoll1130]

Your computer illiteracy far outshines my computer illiteracy.

[@YunaTheKumaBear]

i cant believe the whole frame cracked like that, not an easy repair considering the weight. Even our small crusher weighs close to 90,000 lbs and the large one is 120,000 lbs. the amount of vibrating those go through is crazy. im gonna triple check all our frames when i go into work tomorrow lol

[@harley2die4]

3:55 Like bending butter, that is a very useful tool 😺

[@mrricky3816]

Thanks!

[@arkhars389]

Not a welder here, so I apologize if this is a dumb question - In the plates you fabricated to reinforce the areas that were failing/cracking, why did you put holes in the middle of them? Was that just to create additional points to weld? Assuming that increases the strength of the reinforcement?

[@OFW]

You are correct. It creates more weld area. Technically making it more stout.

[@dongelgef5655]

cool stuff ,great fix

[@noelagnew8605]

Love your stuff buddy

[@oldscoutinks_7482]

I’ve got Anchor Lube coming in tomorrow……I’m curious too see how well this performs on a trailer hitch extension that I need to drill.

[@OFW]

It will probably do pretty well.

[@Stan_in_Shelton_WA]

Those cracks show more on the sides of the members but the highest tensile stress load is on the top of those places. Did you put any reinforcement there or just relying on the 3/4 plates on the sides? Those were a lot thicker than the base material if I saw that right, maybe 1/2 inch or 5/8?

[@OFW]

The top has extra weld. There wasn’t enough room to put a plate on top and have it go under those mounts. So the 3/4 is doing a lot of the work. The main frame was 5/16 I believe

[@johnpope4464]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@scotthultin7769]

610 👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 🤗

[@curtisricks9043]

That was a good one.

[@johnjr3870]

That was a good video.

[@SuperSecretSquirell]

Does the bender give you a readout of how much force it's using? Would be interesting to see how much it actually takes to bend 3/4".

[@OFW]

Yes it does. It automatically calculates it. I’ll show it in the future.

[@warrenjones744]

Is that light you are using near the end there Milwaukee the 2129-20 extendable boom light? Looks like it might be handy. what are your thoughts on it? Other than it's pricey

[@OFW]

It’s definitely pricey. I use it all the time. It’s brighter than I expected, with different brightness modes. And the magnet is very strong.

[@Mike-b3v]

I find things funny. Example not even 2 months ago. Same issue. I was there to look at a different machine. I fixed the 1 almost 3 years ago. They made sections like you did. They failed due the the beating of machine. I made plates way bigger. Wider. Unfortunately it seems like mfg knows those points are a fail point after talking to them.

[@OFW]

I’m sure they all fail in similar ways.

[@Mike-b3v]

@ if mfg fixed there issues o guess we would be outta a job. I remember a unit many years ago I fixed that had a different issue. The rep was there that day and told me. The new issue was caused by my fix. And although I understand part of the reason. You fail points shouldn’t be in the main frame section

[@JFirn86Q]

Man, they need a drain hole for all that water in there.. sheesh!

[@I_Am_Your_Problem]

6:33 Measure on the outside not the inside. Your tool interferes with the inside bend radius causing inconsistent measurements.

[@stevemoyer2311]

Perfect!!

[@johnpope4464]

Anchor lube, have 4 others I flow that use it

[@jimsvideos7201]

Good save.

[@MrJuggy1985]

Impressive 🎉

[@lefty1999]

Is this a new plasma table ?

[@OFW]

Yes. First video with it in it

[@lefty1999]

@@OFW big congrats Greg, need me one of those 😄

[@montymc450]

Secksey job. Solid

[@ardennielsen3761]

very heavy things, 18 inches of 1-1/4 square bar holding up 4000 pounds on the far end... that would be 72ton/inch of bar or 46ksi tensile... bar made of... 180ksi head studs melted in with 5/32 E6010 at 165amp 50/50 with some E11018... 1-1/4 inch bar/plate that wont bend till it gets to 120ton per inch square so bending a 12"x12" of that in the center would be 240ton. only old 12.9 bolts in the foundry pot, only engine that works 3208 CAT... everything else quit. right to the 4X4 car "trar" with the 2.5ton transfer case. 1/16th flux core wire would be nice if it runs the same as a 5/32 E6010... tho that 180ksi SAE9254 needs 780Kw/inch^2 to fuse properly "165amp74v/8th inch diameter" 1970's Lincoln AC225 bricked 7 hobby welders... it would drive 1/16 mig wire for hours, -40 outside and everything becomes duty cycle.

[@JohnSmith-lv8xk]

What type of wire are you running ?? Edit: I guess I should have waited for it 😂

[@Stan_in_Shelton_WA]

that's at the end of the video.

[@markmccoy1512]

With all that new equipment, next thing ya know you’re gonna have air conditioning in the shop.

[@bohussain8654]

👍