well welcome to the tulsa porter katusa this video is going to be about our
davit winch which is having problems let me show you
wow see that we got to fix that
back here on the half deck and that shaft goes all the way across so there's two lift points
the problem is that these chains i put them on here you know just without any tension on when
we put the weight of the boat on it lifted it the first time they stretched out a lot so you see all
that slop in there so what i'm going to do is i'm going to unbolt this gearbox from the transom here
and we're going to cut some slots in the transom here so that i can slide down and
take that tension up probably adjust it again once these stretch some more dave is here he
brought some uh pieces of insulation yes sir did our friend do that for us yes sir oh that's cool
pull this off and drop it down to see how far it needs to go before those chains tighten up
oh my god this thing's heavy oh it's not very far right there okay this is junior's work again he's
the guy that has the insulation company here in town a friend of dave so a friend of mine
get that back up this direction
nice the more i cut the smaller the disc gets and the smaller the disc
gets the more i can cut through without going outside the hands
what do you think coming along oh i don't get paid to think i just get paid to do okay
ah when working here is done is it sunday oh good i like that you just folded that one over right
yeah yeah good that's a nice fit i just kicked something into the bilge some of my stuff for
the next project next job is repairing one of those navigation lights out there there it goes
there it goes
oh we got some where's that wedding did you take my wedding you just had a piece of [ __ ] not
in it didn't you ah that's terrible we have some webbing i used to do repelling and i knew
i'd tight water knots to make slings great we don't but we'll get around it youtube will wait
yeah that'll work fine
some sailors we are
that's looking pretty good that's the money shot right heaven it's still not
working on the election yeah it's loose again now there's just a spot in it sweet
they can wait
okay it's moving oh maybe i should uh attach it from the trailer first
man it definitely has weight on it yeah okay
that's interesting you push the button the brake comes off it lowers it on its own
but it answers that question you don't need power to lower it right that's kind of nice i know
pop the chain again yeah so if i pull on this lever yeah it's gonna lower it okay coming down
well that's kind of nice to know we can manually lower the boat just by its own weight
we try and get this other chain on
okay back on the chains yeah i mean it's not much but it does deflect a little bit this direction
taking weight look at that slack on that other one i stopped it why is it getting that much slack
and the other chain has the whole load to rethink the whole thing
wow
oh it just almost popped off
right yeah we're gonna need some other arrangement
that is not gonna work now the question is what is keeping it holding it up here you got one
chain there chain on the far side is tight no it's oh that one right there yeah you're right
yeah that chain right there has all the look okay you ready for it to come down yeah
all right
gotta have a way of getting it to come up and down without popping like that
is it boeing here is it yeah yeah because i sit on our day sits on it and you can see that change
watch see that yeah bad ass yeah hey that's what a fat ass is good for is testing [ __ ] under load
yeah that's not gonna work it's just gonna keep doing that come off the mat step right here
yeah we could put a bearing there i'm not sure would hold it that much but what how it just
bearings right here just tie this all together but your flex is here lever you got a long lever
here with this flex yeah but it only matters where the chain is yeah if we put bearings on
either side of those sprockets and kept those sprockets from moving that's what matters
this could flex up and down it doesn't make any difference is where that chain rides
because it's supported you know 12 feet across there's a bushing right there so thank you
like you said right here and hold it up i think you'd be golden yeah so one just right here yeah
mount it to the back what do you think about using these bolts down here that'd be fine well
well there's no adjustment for it no more than i'm lifting up on it like that i think
those two right there would be enough yeah no more i mean that's that ain't gonna take much
no piece of steel coming up yeah cause you can see the chain tightening in
it'd be nice to have a way of adjusting it though
you know and then we need some kind of a slippy bearing here all right dave came up with a great
idea we're going to use this chain as a temporary pseudo bearing oh yeah that's completely your idea
okay there yeah
i think it moved up in that bearing over there it's gonna
have to have something in more than one axis
yep from both chains now could help to secure these two with something
jack bulbs jack bolts sure since we're messing it up that much might as well put them in there
jack bolts i had to explain to me is just a nut welded onto the plate
of the boat and your driver bolt down and that pushes on the motor mount to move how you like it
we are looking for the bushing material yeah plastic oh that would work too
i could just bolt that on i've been having four inches diameter well this is enjoyable solar
panels up on the roof of the pilot house feeding power down to a lithium battery out there in the
cargo hole and our inverter is converting back back to ac that powers a air compressor down
in the floor of the engine room and the plasma torch and i have to turn the plasma torch down
to 30 amps but still good enough to cut quarter inch steel i'll take that any day
if you put a line down a pipe parallel to it yeah a little piece of angle iron works a bigger one
you know works even better but you even got a little angle on a speed square so you can
wiggle that into position and get a pretty good line and the book i'm listening to is called the
last dive it's about a father's son adventure into diving and there's a another book you
ought to listen to before this one and that's shadow divers these two books actually overlap
i won't spoil this but you get to know these two guys really well and it's tragic
high pressure
yeah i think that's nylon but it'll make a good bushing
now the next step is to split the bushing in half because it's got to go around the pipe
from both sides i can't slide it on from the end
solar powered cnc
i was thinking about putting the curtain up here but now hardcore box works pretty good
i'm not going to be perfectly round because of the vise but should be good enough yeah
well between the air compressor and the plasma torch that dropped uh
six percent off of our battery and this is three-eighths inch thick or better
i thought it was quarter so i'm impressed but that's why i want more battery
well i tried it my inverters just will not pull the welder so maybe one of those small welders
from harbor freight would do it but i'm trying to run my big miller here and this thing will work
great off the generator it goes up to 350 amps but for little jobs maybe i need something small
who aren't the sun being pretty and god looked upon his handiwork and said it was good
and there was morning and evening and the first day
just ground a little bit more off the bottom and then we get a nice fit i think
yeah maybe
well boat's coming up maybe further than i did last time
one little pop oh that changed loose there yeah so i need some adjustment i can see right there
see it wants to pop off and i think i can adjust that out of there you know what part
of it's going to be shimming this motor out from this because these are a little bit off
ain't that beautiful i'll tell you why you don't have to be on
the water to appreciate what you have today that's the key
all right i think we got it i'm using this flat webbing because it works so much better than a
rope rope you know when it goes around it tends to cut back into itself and it could get jammed
up this won't ever do that and i made some pulleys for it up there this one's working great but not
that one the difference is this one's all the way over to the side and it pitches more and
so the web falls off to the side maybe a piece of chain would fix that but i want to rebuild these
pulleys anyway so they have plastic cheeks on the sides of the roller and that'll keep the fraying
down because that's what it's doing it's fraying my strap so so i get that fixed no more lifting
and lowering but i think we got it okay time for a shout out go check out the channel ship
happens yes ship happens and it's a family that has been off a lot of boat it's an old one that
they're restoring and i just like the grit i mean they stick with this work and it is hard work and
i really admire that type of character and as a psa let me throw this in too while i'm telling you
to go watch other channels and hoping you watch all of my videos don't really that hurts me you
know somebody says i've watched all your videos it's like i think the back of my head like damn
life is short man make sure you're doing what you really need to be doing so if watching my videos
is fulfilling some sort of uh and inspirational need for you that's great that's why i watch
ship happens uh you know it makes me get off the couch and get out there and do it but if you're
just watching another youtube video damn turn it off you know i make money from youtube but it's
the right thing to do to just tell you there's a lot of people watching way too much youtube and
playing way too many games and just letting life pass you by let me give you a clue here
life is short go out and live it it's a lot more fun doing that than watching somebody
like me or even ship happens to it get out there have fun enjoy life it's short
you