when did you get back do i what does that mean i i can't work anymore who do we fire
well somebody's got to get the employee of the monsters so
well hey can i at least be an employee for the day then i'll go home i guess we can keep you on
tony for a little longer the end of the day i got a better solution let's just become a rotary club
if you haven't noticed like arms is back so i guess we better put them to work yeah just got
back right after we hired somebody it's good to be back but then i find out i got competition
tony yeah we can probably figure it out i thought i finally got rid of him but it didn't work
all right let's get to work after evaluating this little closer a couple things made some mistakes
one i can't make a box i got to make it more like an eye otherwise the front steer
wheels won't be able to steer and two the square two-minute boss is too light
i thought it'd be heavy enough it's not so i came across some two-inch tubing here that we had in
storage and i think that'll be a lot stronger for the build so we're gonna switch over to that
tony's doing a good job making the door for the smoke compartment and leg arms back they're doing
something with the axle and so i'm going to get a grinder and start cleaning up the edges on the
rotor housing because my plasma cuts aren't the most let's just take a look we'll clean it up
now that i got those axle shafts built i just need to weld it on the square tubing that i measured
out for the whole length and from the outside to the outside of the tire should be about four feet
is what we're doing so once i build the back axle then we can build the supports for the
well to go to the front axle well i went through i ground all the plasma edges off
a little wavy right here i made a mistake when i cut that one it was kind of hard with the brackets
there's some pitting wear i use a torch actually on some of these welds you can see where it cut
in the side of the tube i think i'm gonna get some bondo some kind of paint filler put it in
there we'll clean it up sand it down real well and put paint on top and you shouldn't see those
imperfections had these i had to take off same with that side right there on this side as well
but i'm not going to clean this edge up because his cap that's going in that tony's working on
there'll be a weld all along that so there's no reason to clean that edge up other than just
for the weld to be a little stronger which that's not a structure point so as long as
the welder does a good job of making a nice pattern it'll look great well that's a lot of
grinding done we're getting there look at this that is a slag from cutting that shaft apart
not crazy it's a lot of iron that had to come off well now i need to figure out a way to draft
let the drafted air in to keep the fire going but not get too much
oxygen in there that it gets hot and doesn't smoke so they came up with a great idea cycle
sections we're going to weld three sickle sections together put them on a little
track on the bottom here cut out triangles behind that and we'll be able to slide this
back and forth to adjust our inlet for air hopefully it's enough air but i think it'll work
so all right well the door for the most part is done minus a way to latch it shut but we'll do
that when it's all mounted up here now i'm gonna get this thing put back in the end of the rotor
get all tacked in hang the door on it get it all figured out how that's gonna go
all right tony i think it's time you need to hit the road right yeah a little drive home
here well it's been fun it's good been having tony here working on this he's a good fab
good fab chop cut he's uh he's met a lot of stuff built over over a hundred hopper bottoms yep
pretty amazing stuff so no having tony on board when leg arms wasn't here
it was definitely help now like i'm just here i don't need you sorry
if you guys don't know tony fast make sure you go to this youtube channel fastag montana
yeah and uh instagram all kinds of good stuff but his youtube channel is great similar to ours but
totally different he's got some cool machines so go stop by tony subscribe to his channel and
enjoy his videos because they're worth watching do you like jake brakes yeah i love jake he's got
lots of chickens lots of drink breaks he's got sweet trucks okay thanks nick yeah you bet tony
well we're back at it had a little bit of a break
what crazy other day we're good things are moving along this thing is looking more and more like a
torpedo or a smoker you guys can be decided of that as you can see the frame is welded together
we're just getting the point where you create the sports though like arm's working on that i'm gonna
kind of help square this thing up a little bit before he gets over here and then we can figure
out how to tack them on there and then we gotta fix the door put hinges on it kind of figure out
how we're gonna do the wraps bars that some are gonna be cut so i can overlap as it closes i gotta
get a thin strapping of flat iron to run around the door so when it closes it doesn't leak smoke
out of all the nasty plasma cutter crack and then um some work to do on the inside once we get this
thing leveled and on the stand got to cut some openings so smoke to move through a vent over here
make a hitch and then when we get to the point i think i need to take this thing to a sandblasting
shop sandblast it down so it's just bare metal and then hopefully if all goes to plan my paint
will show up which i ordered and then randomly the order got cancelled so i ordered it again so
it hopefully gets here in time and then i'll paint this thing and then there's just a piece left that
kci is making for us if you go on the inside it's done oh we're going to haul some pieces of day too
now i went ahead and cut out the right angles for the supports to support the rotor
and to keep these together i just tacked just a piece of angle iron on we'll set it up square it
up figure out where we want we'll tack these all on and then we'll have to lift the rotor
up and grind off the paint weld together and then that rotor will be secure on the frame
this