Okay, So we actually have a couple of Falcon excavation
projects here today. So this is the first one. This bucket has got some cracks in it. So they are going to get welded. So I'm going to start
by getting this thing cleaned up. Should we hit the whole thing
with like an abrasive wheel? Clean it up? No. Not necessary.
Just like there is where it's
not necessary. Yeah, we'll just work on the area. Look at this actually, there is a crack in it here, too. Yeah, I saw that. That has been repaired before. Oh this is cracked as well, this one. Yeah, that's been repaired before. So hit those spots.
It's been repaired down here. So we’ll have to clean the clean up on the other side
here. Yeah.
Make sure we, we see where they stop. How’s it look? Any more cracks? Oh wow that’s a bad one huh? Yeah. There’s a couple of em. Yeah, that’s a bad one. Tryna clean up All these old welds down here to make sure I wonder what they used on that? It almost looks like frickin hard facing. I’m gonna use a 70-18 on it. They really laid some caps on that one
went right through the weld. Yeah.
It's starting to go into the bucket. So these are going to have to be “V’d” out now and they're all going to have to
be carved out. All right. With a grinding wheel. Put the skinny wheel on there. The cutting wheel. Yeah, you can use cutting wheel. You just gotta make a nice “V”, a “U” shaped “V”
through the crack. You can use the cutting wheel
or if there's a worn sometimes I'll use a grinding wheel. Quarter inch grinding
wheel has worn to some older ones. That's why I keep them around
because they're worn to a kind of a V taper
and they work good for gouging out. Well, cracks. Okay, So that is all of these cracks grinded it out. Ended up being quite a few of them. the underside of the bucket here, done as well. And we got a ground spot all cleaned up right here. So that should be all set to go to weld now. Groovy. Okay, cover the ears and the eyes. All right, Sam, I think that's it, for the cheeks. Back flat? um Let me think about this for a minute. Well, I wish there was a way I could straighten that out. But I don’t think I can. I don't have kind of tonnage we would need.
Straighten what? To push that top deck Oh, yeah. There’s a little arc to this. Yeah, push that top deck back in. I mean. That would take a tremendous amount of tonnage I don't feel like that’s the biggest deal. It’s not affecting it working in any way. We could rig something up,
but we'd have to probably cut a hole in the back of the bucket to get a rod
through it, to be able to pull up on it but. Yeah, I don't think that that's that bad. You don't want me to go through that? No, I don’t.
He Just wants to get it back together again so he can use it. Alright. So just it's not, it's not breaking. It's not,
none of the wells are coming apart. I mean. All right. Yeah some of these cracks are bad. Yeah, well, let's do the sides first
and then a
Okay. And then we will do the business end of the bucket as they say. I'm going to want this thing upright. Let me see if this table is going to be too high for me. No, I think I can work with that. The jack and the copper. What is that? Just to keep
the weld from going through it kind of thing? It'll keep it from burning holes through it,
Yeah. I want to hit it hot. I do wanna clean them up, I probably should clean this one up. I just hit that with some- I didn't cap that one. That's got to be cleaned off yet So I got a little bit to do yet.
Looks good though. We got all the cracks. Like I said, it's a farmer's fix. It's. It's not the right way to fix it. It's just the way you fix it
when you don't have the money to replace it or to buy a new AR plate, and cut the bucket apart and, Yeah, exactly. The bucket is completely tweaked. This part is bent,
this part is bent, The mouth is bent. Hey, it still digs. It still digs. And if he gets a crack in it, you know, just let's get it fixed quickly. Don't let it get out of control. That's all, we’ll just patch it back up again. It’ll keep him going for awhile It may not be popular Eventually
the whole thing will just be weld and then it'll never break, right? No it’ll just start to break through the welds But the places where we couldn't
get it beat out well, I used the 60-11 and I burned it down. I was running them hot.
You can see how hot it was running them I burned it right in there and filled it in. And then I cleaned it off
and capped it with 70-18 so That’s a crack right there isn’t it?
There’s one forming right there. Is it?
I didn’t even see that one I can’t see it. Yeah. It’s small yet, It's just starting right here along the edge of -Off of the last time it was welded, yup Yeah. See, that's
what happens is right on the edge of the. Especially if you don't
get a good pre-heat on it. Right on the edge of it,
you get that, that brittle zone. Yeah. I just saw that. She's still smoking hot. I can go ahead and,
you know, finish this top off. here, let me do that, let me get my jacket back on. All right Well, you happy with this? Yeah, for what it is. I mean, like I said, it's
not the right way to fix it, but I get it. If it was me and I needed to patch something together,
that's what it would look like. I know what it's like to pull pull a welder up to something
that's out in the field and have to take some 60-11 electrode
and just burn right through it. The rust and whatnot get you going again. So, I mean, this is going to get
a lot more digging out of it. So that's the reality of life. How many rods do you think you used? I don't know A handful A small handful
