welcome to sailing vessel seeker i'm doug that's seeker and look here
that's the pilot house we are getting ready to move to the tulsa port of katusa so today's work
is about getting everything out of the way so this beast can go down the road
yeah no you're right that would be a bad idea
that's much better i like that one better
good there good
nice
there you go
okay
got me a little homemade breather cap mainly because it's mud dauber season
looks like a charm
yeah this is uh mini park one the city kind of abandoned it it's not used anymore or anything
because uh they planted trees where the kids used to play soccer so
soccer game moved elsewhere one of the times when the government should have asked what we wanted
there's taylor crane
okay if you're in tulsa and you need junk hauled off or you need a dumpster set in your yard
yard work something welded back together call my neighbor
that's the website that's the number to get a hold of him write it down
you'll get henry or cynthia lovely people and they will fix you up thank you
they've been my neighbors for years and they do things for me and
they don't take payment for it so hell
see that i told you henry's a hard worker
it's 110 out here and he's over there welding on his trailer
a little last-minute repair on it that's
justin down there from taylor crane these guys do everything
you can't get it across here without the chills dragging so the truck will
come across for that and once it's out there a little bit they take all this out
they definitely know what they're doing
these guys with cameras would just get out of my shots
no i'm just doing this [ __ ] i don't care you must hate it when you take like an hour
and a half to set up and then some guy with his little toenails in front of you
you want to go down we can go down
coming down
want to set it on there keep on coming
right there i was a little surprised that worked so
we well to be sure to keep track of all the pins and everything though
yes sir welding back here on this doll dooley dolly
do what i'm doing on this dolly over here yes sir i'll touch up
come on
so
my god
so we're using all their mats so they're taking
mass out from behind and putting them in front it's working out really nice
it's hot it's hot it's hot and we're in the shade of a boat that's nice yes but the boat
isn't where it was two hours ago it's a good thing it's in the park resting on the ground
oh my god did we get a permit for this i don't know well let's get a picnic blanket
there you go that'll take care of it set a board up here and call it a picnic table we'll do that
so
hello
foreign
so that is a spring snap it right in half well what's taking the weight now the shackle in the
axle on the frame it's just it's not touching there yeah it's not enough weight you know what
it did to transfer the weight back to the other axle right so the left final set of leaf springs
okay i knew you both don't whack them all yeah we have to get new u-bolts
okay yeah i don't think you'll ever get them all
i can cut the u-bolts off that's no problem
so the plan is to back it up park it replace those springs
that's right there where he'll be in the shade in another hour
that's bush's turn he's going to change out those springs that's what we broke today and i just love
how calm these guys are about it it's like uh four hours to have it back off well it's the end of a
beautiful day and the boat is sitting over there in the park next to barch he gets to look out his
window tonight and see the boat instead of me and this is strange to see all this area but paul is
here we're gonna hook the pilot house trailer up to his rig and get it moved out there too
oh
there you go okay
somebody fabricated this little thing it's the part that the springs rest on somebody said i'm
gonna miss all the fabrication once you're on the water it's like i don't think that's gonna stop
it's a boat for crying out loud a home built boat there's gonna be fabrication on this thing for
a long time so this here is the piece that broke that really caused the problem see that hole in it
the springs here have a bolt here that pins them together and that needs some place to
stick through corrosion years of abuse this thing broke away and then that bolt ended up
sitting right on top of the axle and then that focused all of the energy right into the spring
and the spring didn't take it over on this side we can see what it looks like so
that's what we're rebuilding it's a good start but i need a grinder
i'll show you what we did here's what we did we welded this steel in and there's three of them
going across and then we welded this tank to it it was in good shape but the other tank is broken
loose the one back under here so it got welded onto our steel but
that made our whole thing too wide and so the bracket that fits up here wouldn't take the bolt
and you can't just cut this way because you lose this weld and this support here for this tank
so we got a piece of 5 8 inch plate put it across burned holes in it ran the bolts up through there
good as new probably better there is a bad tire
yes that that opened up look at that monster and it's holding air and as soon as they try
and turn on it it would probably rip the wall out so what they did is they brought it out here
trying to tear it up they failed cody's changing it anyway i think it's a good idea
so