Line Boring Loader Bucket (It’s Bad…)

Not only is that an expensive and sophisticated piece of equipment but you know how to use it, use it properly. I’d say, very, very well done.👍👍👊

It always amazes me that a dealer who is supposed to be the expert on their product turns out such poor quality work. I rarely go to any dealer for repairs and seek out men like you. Thanks for being a craftsman.

I hope your customer had you take a heap of pictures. I’m sure the head office of John Deere would love to see the quality work of their branded shop.

I’m shocked that the dealer would essentially just tack weld that part needing repair and call it “done”. I’m just a student welder who has never been trained in repairing heavy machinery and even I can see that their “repair” (and I use the term “repair” loosely - very loosely) is inadequate at best and wouldn’t last. I’m so glad I found your channel. My school doesn’t offer courses in how to do this type of work and I’m really interested in learning this skill. Repairing heavy machinery is an interest of mine. I’m grateful you make these videos as I am learning by watching/listening to you. I know it doesn’t take the place of actual hands-on learning but I feel like I’m learning a lot by just being able to watch. Keep up the good work with your channel and thank you again!

I'm a machinist with 45 years in the shop behind me. My favourite jobs were always line boring. Great job!

wow. this is mesmerizing. I'm no welder, but I've always looked up to the ingenuity of welders and the work they do. Thanks for posting these videos. They're really interesting to watch, especially the line boring jobs you do.

Line boring machines are pretty cool. For how expensive they are to purchase, ive been told they pay for themselves in no time at all. Awesome man thanks for sharing👍

Very nice repair, quality craftsmanship is a forgotten art. Have been a millwright for 43 yrs. Never had the opportunity to use these types of line bore/weld equipment. I mostly do Steam Turbine chest refacing. Weld a little, machine, measure, repeat unit +200 ths. Then onto bluing and had lap. It took me 10 years to get this process fine-tuned. Forgot to mention that my basic training was supplied by the US NAVY C1 Weld School. This was a good door opener for me to enter the millwright training.

That was great, i love watching this kind of repair / refurbish, doing something that others have messed up... especially ' main dealers '.

Great job! I always enjoy when I have to fix something what is messed up by a dealer or a professional. Even if I do a totally different kind of jobs as you do. That video was nice to watch.

Awsome hpu by the way...that did a incredible job....you really have a awsome arrangement of specialty tools that alot of field welders wish they had. Your gonna be real busy

Ouch!, both damage and so called dealer repair, yep Anti-Seize fills the gaps 🥴😱🥺. Excellent, and professional repair. Thanks for sharing.

I like how you are smart enough to not trash the shoddy work of others too much, shows you have class.

Great work to restore and good fit after such a worn bore. Top stuff shown in an epic video!

Great video! Good information! And more importantly you CARE!! About your work and the customer! Thanks for that!! 👌👍

Love your work man, good job they put anti seize on the crowd pin, else you'd of never got it out with such fine tolerances.

At first I thought I was watching @ICWeld, so nice job! 👍 I like your explanations, and the process you followed. As a colleague on the trade, It keeps amazing me the messed up "repairs" that some could do, instead of doing it properly at first. It's like they were thinking: "How can we mess up this the most? take my beer, let's do it that way..." 😣(facepalm) Blame on both the operator, the customer, and the dealer... and always call a true professional, and let him do his job as he must do. 🤬 BTW, your line borer model and truck are cool. Cheers from Spain. 🤝 You have a new subscriber. 🤙

I lucked out once on one of these "budget jobs" I had a bought about 50 pins at an auction and there was one that was 1" larger in diameter. The Hole was so worn that it only took about 5 minutes with a half round pipe liner file and the pin went in, it was still loose as a goose but worked out well for a machine that only get used 3-5 times a year now. Karma is good sometimes

Great looking Boreteck welds. Looks like good burn in so when you get to final cut, the welds wont peel out. Great setup and work.

Job well done here! As a heavy equipment tech that works at a dealership, even we know when to call a pro in to sub work out to get the job done right! When the job isn’t too bad the guy will fix it in our shop, and the process always amazes me. I can help but find my self watching the repair being made when I’m supposed to be working on something else!! Great explanation of your repairs and you really are a pro at what you do! Please keep the videos coming..

Good fit what a stuff up from the dealership thanks for sharing

Hey, you now have a fan here in Brazil. Superb work man!

Outstanding work, sir!

We use to line bore loader center pivot bores on loaders thensize that would take that bucket. It's a huge job and required a crane. Then one loader we tried useing this product called Belzoni..its basically a metal epoxy. That machine never had a problem again.

Love these freakin videos…… that piece of machinery has new life!!

Great video man and I was absolutely stunned at how much that was worn-out. I have never seen one that bad lol. I'm curious why they didn't want any bushings put in and tapped for grease? But considering the condition that thing came in I don't think they give a shit about maintenance lol SMH

Just subbed. We need more to know what actual care and quality looks like

Good job, nice machinery. I have welded up but usually true up the bore oversize and machine bushings to fit.

What a Great Job you Do ,That Dealers Work was Shocking. Also Your Skills and that Line Boring Rig With Welder is Amazing Never Seen That Before 👍

Wow! Didn't even know that these kinds of machines even existed. Great video.

Im a toolmaker and i find this interesting. A couple things come to mind, first if the original bores were concentric to the pin bosses, why not just indicate the od of the pin boss? Next, rather then weld them up pass after pass, wouldnt it be better to make hardened steel bushings from something like 17-4 ph or 4140 after the bore were bored round? The bushings should have spiral grease grooves machined in them, the pins should be made from heat treated nitrided 4140 or 8620. I have also seen hi pressure plastics used for bushings in similar applications. Nice work.

Some times an eyeball from a good way back is better than a measure to get pins parallel .

Line Borer, What a satisfying piece of equipment.

I have never seen anything like this before, that's pretty damn cool!

As usual very nice piece of work 👍

Nice repair, Thanks for sharing

5,000 + views in less than 24...you are growing my friend,.......best wishes, Paul from Florida.....your #1 fan

The bosses can be removed and new ones can be welded in , clamped in position on a guide . I found fluorescent light bulbs worked well as a guide . If any thing was off the bulb would brake . the loader worked long after that repair

If I would have been the customer of the blade John Deere would've ate the cost of you work to repair their screw up ! Or I would have been in contact with their home office or headquarters whichever it took ! As always your work was outstanding ! 👍👍

I’ve never seen anything good come out of a dealership. I feel like they just hire anyone with a set of snap on tools. Another good fix homie.

I have stitched flat bar across the 2 ears of a bore, or between the 2 ears. Tying the together. In there happy spot. Helped with vibration.

That is rock-star level magic right their! I wanna be your neighbor! Amazing!

boy howdy!! as a millwright welder, who has friends who are machinists, you are doing both our work!!!, I HOPE you are getting paid for your work!!!!!

I worked at a local machine and welding shop in the VICA during 2-3 years in high school and wanted to go into the machinist trade out of high school in 74 but our shops large was the least used piece of equipment in the shop. The elderly gentleman than ran the lathe had been a machinist and welder all his life but his eyesight was really getting bad. While he wanted no one around his lathe especially when the shop owner/boss was out in the floor he would spend a little time I thought at the time tutoring me but what he was doing was getting me to read his dial indicators during crucial setups. I enjoyed learning but he was kind of down on the machinist trade and the boss complained about the monthly use and charges for jobs requiring the lathe never paying for its monthly note. So against my larger desire to go into machinist work I went into Army surface to air radar and missile system then state of the art then went on to work in like employ in the commercial nuclear industry in electronics, computers, hydraulics and pneumatic controls. I had to retire early at 51 due to working in a life long chronic pain with sleep deprivation. At 66 I still desire to learn the trade even if mostly on a hobbyist scale. The unit had to upsize the turbine coupling bolts and a guy came in with a large chain drive line boring machine but he kept breaking carbide cutter inserts. He was using a custom but holder that he had over ground the back up support for the carbide and the portion of the tool head that should have reduced or minimized the bits tendency to want to grab and dig, he proceeded using the cutting but holder and ended up goose-egging all the holes which required going to an even larger bored hole, bolts and nuts. Now I wasn’t a machinist but had watched enough videos to know from the deep blue/purple of the cut material being removed and the chatter that he was trying to Cut to aggressively. I was sent as A QA monitor to observe his actions and report t to only manager which I did which made him all upset and the turbine power upgrade supervisor all upset asking that I not be sent to observe any more. Well, tuff shit bubba you are supposed to be the specialist at doing what you were doing and you screwed the pooch as was later verified when a design Modification change notice was submitted asking permission/approval to bore larger holes and get larger fasteners delaying the project. I personally think he was running on too little sleep and too much coffee or something. Anyway, worn out bushings on earth moving equipment is a near constant though mist do nit worrying about it u Until it takes a piece of equipment out if service. So if doing line boring work could be priced economically enough to get steady work and if it paid for making or buying line boring equipment it would be a pretty steady income. Do you charge by the hour with your travel time added on or by the job estimating your hours make or lose a bit?

This is my first time seeing your repair. Great work and what a cobble job by the dealer. Must have been a grade school mechanic on the job before you got it. Great rotary welding machine and especially for this repair.

"Great Job" with the right tools and experience.

John Deere has the best warranty in the business. If it breaks in two you get to keep both pieces.

Love your videos! I mainly do heavy equipment and large heavy trailer repair. Customers are asking me to do line boring. Any advice on line boring machines would be greatly appreciate it

On the pin retaining bolts. Slightly longer. And a sleeve on the bolt. So the bolt pinches down on the sleeve for tension without bottoming out in the hole. But the pin slot is not pinched by the bolt head. So the sloppy bores can allow the pin to wobble around the sleeve on the bolt without the bolt trying to hold the pin in place when the bucket is in motion. A pair of belleville springs that fit outside of the sleeve on the bolt could hold the pin while allowing it to wobble. Might make a bullet proof fix for really cheap. A stud bottomed out in the threaded hole and double nutted again allowing the pin to shift around would work too. But I like the sleeve to put the bolt in tension without the head pinching the pin groove better

Excellent job!

Great skills! 👍

That is a top quality repair. Hugely interesting. I had never seen this boring machine before. What a poor ‘repair’ by the ‘dealer’? Subbed.☘️👍

You're the first person I've seen with a hydraulic linebore 😳 that sumbitch is nice!!!!!

8:18 love that hat you are wearing......made in the Shade as we say in Florida

Perfect Job 👍💪

May have been easier to just toss a bigger pin in there and resize the cylinder eye 🤣🤣 Great job

Hey , awesome job fixing lack of maintenance and a “dealer repair”. Knowing a little about sliding fits , I’m wondering why there wasn’t a replaceable bushing of a harder material in the bucket for the pin to wear against? Or is the weld going to give the same type of longevity? And no grease channels is curious as well?

That is one kick ass welder.....

A really nice result. I think you skipped recording the making of the bushing and installation of it. I thought how the pin could fit into the line bored hole 😄

Nice work. I think I would have "set up" off the OD of those bores. The ID was machined concentric when it was originally manufactured. It only needs to be close to the original set. This is one of the worst "worn out of round" bushes I have ever seen. Hopefully you established grease nerks somewhere on the finished job. A daily grease would probably have prevented all that damage.

Are the factory reinforcing collars welded in on both big and small ends. How about cutting the welds driving them out and machining new ones to press and weld in

Thank you for your Videos!

That hydraulic unit sounds very quiet in the video. I'm impressed with the depth of cut you are taking per pass. Are you sold on the indexable inserts for this setup? Looks like they are doing a great job. Curious how long each side lasts before it's worn too far to cut nicely.

The budget repair will cost them more long term though if the other pins have slop in the fit, the repair will be worn out faster than normal.

I've no experience of welding, fabricating and repairing items like you do, and as a consequence would massively appreciate more content in the vlogs, as well as telling us what you're doing and why, I would love to SEE as much as possible. I don't mind if the vlogs are longer or if you have to do them in 2 parts. I know you're working and probably can not spend as much time filming as you'd like, but if you could that would be excellent?

I just found you. Nice video, good work. Subscribed.

They will never take a repair job like they did before...The customer will take to you the next time...You did good.....I do this all the time......Robbie

That was pretty neat to watch what a cool tool

Budget line boring? What is cost comparison between line boring vs. cutting out the gusset and welding back machined plates?

01:36 ya know, it's not too bad. lol. i love your deadpan

Great job on that thanks for the video

As always nice work

In reference to your set up measurements what points do u use so the everything lines up the attachment points on the loader arm

Nice work.. Are there any options to do this without a line boring machine?

When I started out as an apprentice motor engineer, I was told that there are 2 ways to do any job, the correct way and again, Looks like you do the job correctly!! Well done you!! For the dealer, we give him this :🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I work for a Cat dealer and I'm not defending a JD dealer, but when you go over a machine and a bucket and tell the customer here is what needs to be done and the customer tells you well just do this or that and not make the correct repair some places will do that. Where I work we don't and will pass up the job. I don't know what your customer told JD to do or not to do, but you did a great job.

Top de mais,um sonho de consumo uma máquina dessas (Mandrilhadora climax)

Nice work!

Looks real good

impressive work

Do you lay down all 8 welding passes without boring in between? or do you put 2-3 passes and line bore it straight before more weld? Thank you, Jim.

Awesome work! I just found your channel and subscribed. Any reason you are shooting in 4:3 format? How about changing to 16:9 so we get a full screen video? Thanks

How could anyone imagine that rebuilding the material worn away in use should occur on the side closer to the bucket? (as did the dealer) Either from experience or just from observation, that seems completely wrong. I am not a heavy metal fab/repair guy by any means, but this seems like an exceptionally light duty bucket, judging from the thickness of the struts that hold the bearings. You mentioned this. Especially the thickness of the material encircling the bearings. What does the end user use this for, picking up fallen leaves? A load of sand would twist this think right off its mounts.

Bucket was burned up with grease. You could see where it was rolled out on the outside of the ears where the strain was with roll back. Common problem these days. Shortage of grease guns and people that know which end does what. And a good welder and a die grinder with a burr could beat what that 1st bunch did. Your final product looks like something Brian Bloc did. A-PLUS and Blessings 2 U!

6:30 Whoa!1 Holy Crap 1/4 inch!! That dealer should be taken over by corporate, until the staff has had some mandatory training! :) ... You have patience!, I'd arc air gouge out the 1/4" THEN fill in the obvious parts on the other side by hand ... THEN start boring. Must say you do nice work though, no complaints, great job!

How close were you to recommending replacing the whole brackets? Following bad repairs is always so much more work than being the first one in.

I have a Kubota M59 backhoe. I grease it regularly but it’s developing some slop is the boom. Are there replaceable bushings in there or would it require a repair like this?

It would be nice to have a dew sand bags to out a damper on that bucket! A plastic bag of sabd inside a burlap sack with a rope to secure on angle surfaces!

5:26 the cutest little air quotes

Between the hydraulic power unit, hydraulic motor and drive head mechanism and that nest line bore wire welder you have considerable $$$ tied up in the rig. But that line bore welder looks like the cars meow for that kind of work.

Oh I absolutely love the hydraulic boring bar.

I stumbled upon line boring a few weeks ago it’s my new favourite thing😂

curious on something, is it best to build up weld on top of weld over and over again or would it be best to weld, then cut a even surface, weld and cut over and over again?

You should try and build a hydraulic pump setup to run off a PTO on your truck just in case the generator you have stops working

If you go to the effort of drilling bolt out I would keep drilling and put a longer bolt and a nut to secure pin .....that’s if arm doesn’t hit nut . These bolts always come loose/break as boss wears and it’s easier in the future to replace bolt/nut than getting a broken bolt out . Saves time tapping new thread also ...nice boring job !!! Another small thing ...if possible set job up so it’s easier to work on ...if bucket was lifted onto a few blocks at start of job you would have a way better time doing your work .

Awesome nice tools really good job

Interesting that the climax does a circle, then steps, circle, then steps, rather than spiraling itself out.

You did a good job! only i vould have made up some new bushes and put hem in. Seemes to be less work then linebore. But you also removed the broken bolts so it may be about even

What kind of wire did you use for the weld? What type of gas?

Great job. I need these done on my excavator