welding broken front axle /equaliser beam off 50 ton bulldozer!

[@butchphillips873]

Allistair, when you say you've been lucky I think you mean you are very dilligent with your work. cheers from Australia.

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

All hard workers say they're lucky. I suppose they are - lucky they enjoy working hard!

[@foundryman1985]

That is a cast steel eq. bar. You can tell by the lettering and the small, rectangle pad where they cast the date or individual serial number on the bar. A little big for a closed die forged component. High strength, quench and tempered steel. I used to make CAT eq bars for D9 through D11 at the steel foundry I worked at. Fun times. Love the vids. Keep them coming.

[@davidrussell8689]

Excellent explanation.

[@Welderman007]

You did a fantastic job reparing that Your attention to the fit up shows your true craftsmanship in the trade. As an old retired welder the only advice i would give to you is get your projects up off the floor. There's absolutely no reason to be crawling around on the floor.

[@allistairc123]

I fitted it up on the bench but I had to turn it so many times it was easier on the floor than turning it on the bench

[@nineoclockhero]

I remember the rock crusher jaw, just thought. He's got this. Loved the use of the.model and the weldfootage. Not something you usually get at a Expo.👍

[@garyyorke1080]

Always of interest for me , it's great to see how these components can be repaired instead of replaced . Way to much older equipment gets scrapped today. Thanks for a great video

[@allistairc123]

My pleasure thanks for checking in bud

[@Planeiron]

Great Vid I like the little 375 example showing the workings 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@jimurrata6785]

I just love seeing that boring mill at work. What a monster!

[@charleswelch249]

You are definitely a great fabricator and welder. I love your Chanel, and I'm always impressed with your work. Can't wait to see you repair another huge machine that needs a complete rebuild again.

[@welderfabber]

Legend..... More vids please!

[@allistairc123]

Thanks baz I've such a backlog and hate editing lol

[@welderfabber]

@@allistairc123 You need a Director bud

[@ypaulbrown]

@@welderfabberbest wishes BAZ…Paulie Brown in Florida

[@allistairc123]

@welderfabber I had one but I couldn't afford to keep him ha ha ha

[@BenHamill-db9hx]

@@allistairc123I’m on theeeeeeeee way 😂

[@chestercobblepot7839]

Always impresses me when I watch your work. Thanks for the content, your diligence and humility is what I respect the most. When I grow up I want to be at least half as cool as you.

[@allistairc123]

Thanks bud appreciate it . Really

[@BenHamill-db9hx]

@@allistairc123took a while too shake of the cobwebs 😊

[@dusting4188]

OCD kicked in when you put that toy dozer backwards on the shelf lol 😂 good job tho

[@jimmycrosby]

Even though I'm not a welder I absolutely enjoy watching your uploads. Good stuff mate.

[@paulcooper9135]

Awesome work! I see a problem with you collection ... an entire Empty shelf!!! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@Jkush463]

that bandsaw is a beast

[@Thedudeabides803]

Excellent work as always.

[@PlantweldRob]

One of the best channels on KZbin. Keep at it Al.

[@raindeergames6104]

Damn that is a serious milling machine. Old but gold

[@ghilreese3413]

Enjoyed every minute. I did look like a real pain. Thanks for the videos.

[@rickstephens6795]

Awesome Allistair! Whenever you say it was more welding than you expected I can't help thinking ALL your jobs are more welding than any sane person would expect.

[@cat-pl7ey]

Your grate guy grate welder much respect

[@69dblcab]

Nice video. Thank you for the video. Merry Christmas

[@matthewmarquette]

Great toy room!!!!

[@BenHamill-db9hx]

😂 red room

[@jkdwayne]

Ive made a Fixture , with 2 Horizontal pieces of tubing tacked to the table , 1 in the center , 1 in the good end. Leveled and Tacked, the turn it around and mount the new boss on the vertical tube. Relevel the arm , Bobs your Uncle!

[@markhosbach9420]

NIce weld job! That is definitely a forging. I worked as a die sinker. We made and repaired many forging dies for Cat equalizer bars.

[@hairybird56080]

So glad to see you back , ive missed you're impressive work and interesting videos pal 👍

[@horstszibulski19]

Again, your welds look like you braided the wire into place, awesome! That big mill is a beast, the control panel looks like it came from an old submarine... 👍👍👍

[@kepa504]

Always a joy to watch you at work .

[@localcrew]

I reckon that some of those factory Komatsu welds are big robots or even sub arc. Nice, fat welds anyway.

[@peterwoosey4020]

Great job as always,I get so much pleasure watching you at work and play Keep them coming

[@JonesMetalCraft]

Great repair. Thanks for sharing!

[@terrminatoragain461]

That’s why I love your videos, not just one bead, more like 100s ! Great video and keep up the excellent work

[@johnwarwick4105]

Impressive weld 👍didn’t realise you had to be careful not to get it too hot

[@panzerdan867]

Alistair YOUR BACK!!! AWESOME WORK MAN!!! YOUR THE BEAST 💪💪been waaayyyy too long!!!

[@johnjay5143]

Good stuff, stacking welds after a lot of calibration . :)

[@DavidGrassSr]

Now that was one hell of a challenge .. I hope there was some younger fabricators watching you. Thats over 25 years of tricks right there .. See Ya

[@dallasbaiton371]

A very impressive collection, time spent just trying to find all them . I find when doing research on what I’m interested in that time is some of the best entertainment and satisfaction that I get . Good to see you still making videos Sir.

[@warrenjones744]

I sure like that standoff set up Allistair. As you say it ain't goin' anywhere. Worthy of a gold star sir. The big Kommies are indeed a sight to behold

[@RalfyCustoms]

Happy days Alistair, nicely done as always mate, have a great one and thanks for sharing 👍

[@davidrussell8689]

When the fix looks as good as or better than the original you know Allistair is on the job 😂. Beautiful work .

[@michaelkolb6142]

You are very impressive to watch. Great work.

[@donniceblakely1075]

Looks great. My great grandfather was from Ireland. Imagine that.

[@antoninobellittogrillo9196]

Wonderful collection . Top man

[@AlwaysBored123]

Great video and repair! That looked like a real pain to set up.

[@markrich6657]

Hi Alistair, your collection of earthmoving equipment models would make a few videos on their own , but , you have the job of playing with the real stuff. Skill , knowledge plus knowing the equipment. Your customers and reputation keep the real stuff rolling in. Can we fix it??? Yes we can😊 Loving these videos, short or long , All interesting 👍👍👍👍 Take care MARK

[@robertmanley7556]

Very nice work !! I enjoyed this video as always !!! I am glad you took the time to video in my opinion it was well worth it !! Weld pervin in Las Vagas 🤣🤣🤣 I love it !!! It's ok do the same thing constantly checking out other welds. Great video as always!! 👍👍

[@alseip4418]

Nice Collection of miniatures. Yeah those little things may not brake but they are not cheap...You need some machinist screw jacks or similar

[@dannycrooks8462]

Fantastic job well done 👏

[@matthewchastain136]

Every time you show your guys massive boring mill I'm jealous. would love to operate a machine like that.

[@Markyard77]

Excellent job! I also appreciate not having to ff through an intro 👍

[@scowell]

Got to see the collection again... looks bigger now... gotta get 'em all! I remember a Tonka maintainer as my fave childhood toy... shame it was someone else's!

[@tiltzer67]

it is amazing how often skill and good luck go hand in hand

[@seanohare8496]

Great video thanks Allistair

[@BerlietGBC]

As always outstanding job

[@kawasabi1]

Awesome video. Just bought me one of those model dozers.

[@TalRohan]

I can't help wondering what they did to break that one ...wow....Some very cool process gone into rebuilding that , thankyou for sharing.

[@gregshearer423]

Bushing maybe completely failed and then am sure the weight of the dozer wouldn’t be long in hammering it to breaking point

[@TalRohan]

@gregshearer423 ah yes I replaced bushes are responsible for a lot of failures even in cars. Wouldn't take long for that amount of weight to do some really hideous things to unprotected parts

[@ypaulbrown]

Great to see you in action Allistair…best wishes, Paul in Florida….❤

[@memyselfandeye1234]

Quality ... Nice One For Sharing And And Other Top Quality Video From You... Your Self And Cutting Edge Engineering Australia in The Same Day .... Today Is A G00D Day... peace

[@stihl0903]

Nicely Done.

[@kristianskov4841]

The toy dozer went back on the shelf BACKWARDS....!!!😮 Please tell me you noticed, and turned it around...🥺😄

[@weegrant1980]

Always a stressful thing lining up parts, very satisfying when it all works out though

[@mog5858]

keep up the good work

[@jackking5567]

Really interesting as always. I have a question: Did a fair amount of your industrial machinery (saws, mills etc) come from the shipyards in Northern Ireland? I ask because they're rare beasts and of a certain age.

[@allistairc123]

Yes did indeed, our place is museum of local industrial heritage from all the big names long gone

[@jackking5567]

@@allistairc123 Fantastic! Recycling at its best :)

[@brandonlavan2825]

Was that a tampon commercial at 10:08???🤣🤣 I played it twice to make sure I heard it correctly

[@idontgiveaship2575]

13:45 what's up with all the torches on the ground? Cleaning up the shelve to see what's repairable😂 Ive done that last week Saturday, only I've had just 3 torches laying like that to see what inner liners fit

[@mikeslayer5926]

? WELD PERVING ?,...EH ?, thats a good one I had an olde girlfriend tell me once or twice "if that wasnt an old international truck, Id accuse you of sleeping with her" I guess i understand "weld pervin" rock on , Mike

[@neffk]

Make sure you set the emissivity on the IR thermometer. Paint and shiny metal read very differently.

[@Rangitatahunter]

Have you watched this channel? It’s not his first rodeo…

[@eppot1]

BIIIG DOOSER nice work !!

[@maxpuppy96]

Other names would be Trunnion or Walking Beam. Excellent job.

[@billmoir1]

Some of those welds on the new dozers look like sub-arc ??

[@forumbezoeker]

nice work

[@TheVillageIdiotUk]

Very impressive work - that was not an easy job, but you are the master. As for the Vegas exhibition footage, it took me a lot longer than it should to realise that the big grey stand fabrication was, in fact, the Komatsu blade 😳🤔. But I am the eejut.

[@--_DJ_--]

That grab hook had me a little nervous. 3:53 It's not going anywhere with that much weight, but a little sketchy none the less.

[@allistairc123]

Lol I only noticed I quickly got toes out from under!

[@theessexhunter1305]

Top darts for that fix, I missed what material you used for the new piece, guessing not a EN8 type maybe a bit tougher? EN19?

[@job38four10]

First video for me in ME USA. I did very little fab work but I welded 35 years with mig, pulse, stick, I also used that 3M Ad-flo welding hood for several years before retirement 2 years ago, I really liked it. Your like me, when ever I look at equipment I always look at the welds first. And I have to say your welding was good, I remember inner-pass temp being around 300 at most, we used temp-sticks, some steel needed to be 125 before striking arc......

[@robertheuston6351]

Need a few drakes on that empty shelf there Alistair.

[@SourCream01]

Can future videos include a segment where we see what's for lunch

[@kerrygleeson4409]

Great job always very interesting thanks for sharing 🦘

[@johngibson3837]

Hey up allistairc top work mate and thanks for sharing, did you ever post your old footage of H&W think it was sposed to be of the engine machine room (shed) that you mentioned

[@McNeillWelding1]

Awesome repair thanks for sharing always loved your welding content. Your equipment is impressive. Just curious what kind of wire you were using?

[@BarnyardEngineering]

Those first few passes had to be interesting. Imagine you just started stacking beads until you filled the gap, and didn't do some magical whip technique to fill the gap in one pass, right?

[@allistairc123]

Yup, plain old stacked beads sorry didn't get weld shot I'm missing an assistant

[@JimmysAfterHoursAdventures]

Would cross pattern welding make it stronger eg horizontal & vertical build up?

[@dzrdr65]

My friend, you claim to have been lucky before. Youre luck is the skill you have aquired. Lady luck is fickle, skill is not. That is what wakes up at 3:00AM telling us what our dragging ass missed the day before. Keep it up.

[@scotthultin7769]

147 👍's up allistairc123 thank you for sharing 🤗

[@andyhillis6779]

Pain in the ass indeed.

[@jimsvideos7201]

Forging seams will be wide, casting seams are narrow.

[@watch1ngy0utub3]

She's a biggin!

[@sighpocket5]

Nice!!!!!!!

[@craftycri]

It seems to me that you almost can’t f your setup up, the Machinist can put the final hole wherever he wants in that hunk of metal, you don’t have to be perfectly centered or square, hell, it could be a solid block and, like Michael Angelo said, you just knock off the stuff that you don’t need.

[@paulusmarc]

Bon Boulo 😆😆👍👍

[@andrewwilson8317]

That’s got to be submerged arc on that new Komatsu in Vegas?

[@CrazzyMead16]

Great video as always @allistairc123! I’ve got to ask tho, what is with the 10 legged or so I’m guessing mig torch monster lying dead on the floor next to the work around 12:50, have you killed that many recently? 😂😂😂😂

[@kurtisjohnson4562]

Damn, they could have at least given you a technical drawing with dimensions and measurements.

[@Yevhen_Lohinov]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@falcon8553]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@edwardlowery6510]

did they ever grease it

[@davidfoguth1824]

How many hours did that welding take asking for a friend 😅

[@allistairc123]

Tiny job, check out big jobs in my playlist

[@kevinwalls19]

What filler did u use

[@russellsmith3825]

Is that equalizer cast or forged?

[@jamesriordan3494]

Another dainty bit of kit 😂

[@northmanlogging2769]

is there somewhere in Ire that a dozer that big can even turn around?, I'd hate to be the poor SOB that had to haul that thing in...