my terrmite backhoe is suffering some metal damage on the fixed thumb that I built 7 years ago. so we are going to make sure it is strong enough to not happen again. lets fabricate some parts and weld them up.
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Put a pin in your chuck. Use it as a center
Do a video on cleaning the trails or makeing sum😊
Enjoy your videos Mustie , however I find it interesting that in your country you can drive an unregistered vehicle on a public road. Seen that on quite a few videos from the US .
I have been looking for one for 13 years I would like one that doesn't run or need repairs I can't find any in my area
When you drive a Terramite any distance over a mile, you don't use a watch to time it, you use a calendar…lol
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I love this guy. . .
nice hammer and bronze drift, had one of each of those, but I only used it on engine and transmission parts….
Don't force it, get a bigger hammer!
Mustie 18:20 your using your emery back to front , no wonder it's taking ages D'oh !
Great old time video working out of your garage and fabricating right out of your imagination. Even thou it is 2021
the video is relevent and worth watching. Watching you work reminds me of this expression……. We have been doing
so much with so little for so long , that now we can do anything , with nothing at all.
I know that your a very capable man at working with your air tools however using a “death wheel†one handed is a accident waiting to happen! Because it happened to me and now I don’t have any feeling in my left thumb because of it. It happened in a spit second doing something very similar to what you were doing. It caught, stopped & slipped out of my hand and then as it was flipping around I hit the trigger again as it was heading right at the base of my thumb! 28 stitches later. I’m saying this selfishly because I want more of your great videos with both of your hands!
Miller welders are the best.
Don't know how I missed this one….Nice job Mustie.
Bugga me 3 years ago? why did it just come through as a new video?
I thought I saw a crack in the weld on the left arm where it meets the pipe. I could be wrong but worth a good look.
Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.
put it on the bench son
Why r u dry fitting the Material
Would b a great time to tap in a grease shert
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A small round bandaid [injection site size] over the Mic hole will cure all but force 5 mind noise.
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If you want to build a Thumb like this, but haven't got the extra hydraulics, then consider a coil spring shock absorber for your back arm so you don't bend it like Mustie's friend did.
I used one of these Terra Mites for almost three weeks. The things I didn't like was that it struggled going up about a 30° slope. Also, it had no parking brake. It would drift downhill if I didn't have one of the buckets dug in. A little disconcerting at times.
I hate those terimite backhoes so much
Realy like watching you fix things the 175honda you fixed i bough one the same collar in 1976 and it was a 1976 model also wish i could find one like it again im 64years but still would love to have one to enjoy life and ride again thanks so much for your knollege of fixing thing
Great content and I thank you for it…one word of advice, if you're going to use a grinder above your lathe ways, ALWAYS lay a protector rag across your ways. It's extremely hard to get ALL of the grit out of nooks and crannies on a lathe, and the grit will destroy your ways accuracy !!! Use a piece if 1/4" 2" x 2" angle iron and form a triangle using the piece you tacked on first. then come off with a flat-bar tab on each side to line up with your pin hole spots. Less welding and less material, but structurally beefier than original and 45 degree of angle Iron on inside should give more clearance…just head figuring…but, yours looks good. Just a note, if you can spray paint it while it's hot, the paint will bake on and be a lot tougher and last longer.
Oh, and thanks for the "wheelie" at your video's end. KEWL.
Making corduroy roads
Well that answers my question about where the metal comes from for welding!
Owns a lathe, uses an angle grinder to reduce diameter of the rod???
If the length of the rod is too long for the lathe bed, put the rod through the headstock and only turn down half the length at a time. I am sure that rod was anything but smoothly round after that. I know it's just a pivot pin, but my OCD is telling me to do it right the first time for a better fit.