Building a rack to unload side by side ATV's

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:01]As bad as I hate to include this clip, I'm going to.

[00:00:06]This is me trespassing. And uh my hope is that this is the only video of me that you'll ever see me breaking the law.

[00:00:16]Is is kind of what I'm hoping. But, I got to get something done.

[00:00:25]All right, y'all.

[00:00:27]CB here.

[00:00:29]I'm NBS Welder with NBS Welding. Uh I had to slide under the gate here. We got to get in here and get some measurements. And uh I hope cops don't show up. But, I came up yesterday to get these measurements.

[00:00:44]It was Sunday and the gate was locked.

[00:00:46]It's Monday now, but it's Strawberry Festival week here and a lot of businesses are closed. I was taking for granted that I'd be able to come in legally.

[00:00:57]Uh I'm trespassing right now, but I got to get measurements to this thing.

[00:01:02]I figured if uh if the cops show up and I get arrested, I'll be down in Flatwoods Regional Jail.

[00:01:11]I'll lift weights and eat and rest for a few days and I'll have a good excuse for not getting any work done. They can't expect me to get no work done if I'm locked up.

[00:01:19]But, otherwise, we're going to go and give her hell. So, this is what we're building.

[00:01:26]This is a side-by-side uh rack.

[00:01:29]And what my buddy done, he built this years ago out of a whole bunch of four-wheeler crates or something.

[00:01:36]These are steel crates that ATVs come on when he gets them.

[00:01:40]And what he does is he picks this whole thing up with a forklift and he drives it up to a box truck when they deliver these side-by-sides.

[00:01:48]And they'll drive that side-by-side right out of the box truck onto this rack, which is being held by the forklift.

[00:01:55]And then he can carry the side-by-side around on the forklift and set it down on the ground, drive it off, and there you go.

[00:02:02]He's been using this thing for years, but it looks like they bent it. You can see there on the other end where they bent it, and he said it's just time to build a new one, so uh instead of this one that's pieced together out of pieces and parts, we're going to build one, uh you know, with full lengths of metal that run front to back, and it won't be spliced and all that, so I made me a drawing, uh to to fill in with measurements, so I'm here to measure this. Uh I've laminated my drawing. I'll draw I'll draw on this and fill in the blanks with a wet erase marker.

[00:02:43]And uh when I'm 100% sure that I got everything right, I might just do it with uh a permanent marker, but this is what we're building.

[00:02:52]That's what we're measuring.

[00:02:54]And hopefully I don't get locked up in the process.

[00:02:59]All right, then. Well, so far, so good.

[00:03:00]I didn't get arrested. I I I don't know what would happen if he if if the sheriff would've showed up, oh, Mike Kaufman's our sheriff. We got a hell of a good sheriff.

[00:03:10]Uh Mike would've showed up and and looked at me, he'd have said, "CB, what now?"

[00:03:15]>> [laughter] >> Mike's a good man, uh a couple years ago when when Mike was a deputy, some bozo out here on the four lane from Pennsylvania pulled off the road and jumped out with a.30-ought-six rifle and just started wildly shooting at oncoming traffic.

[00:03:35]Don't know what was wrong with that fool. Uh anyway, Mike showed up, and Mike's AR was in the trunk.

[00:03:45]And he jumped out of the car and was running around to the trunk to get to his rifle to shoot back, and uh that guy hit him.

[00:03:54]And he uh Mike was a deputy then and uh what when you got a deputy that gets shot with a.30-06 rifle and lives, you know what you do? You make him sheriff.

[00:04:06]That's what we do around here. Uh but anyway, uh SWAT showed up and when they got there, they already got word that that man had uh shot a law officer, so he didn't last long.

[00:04:20]>> [laughter] >> You tell SWAT this guy's done shot a police officer a deputy.

[00:04:28]They shot a couple hundred rounds at that guy.

[00:04:31]>> [laughter] >> 30-minute hamburger. Good for him.

[00:04:34]That's what he needed. Any hoser, look here.

[00:04:38]I filled in my I got in there and I filled in my drawing with uh the main dimensions was the full length and the width and the center to center on the where the tire treads needed to be.

[00:04:52]The other important dimension is the center to center on these tubes cuz these are the forklift tubes where the forks are going to go in.

[00:05:00]So uh I want to show you something really neat. When you make your drawing like this and you laminate it, I got a cheap laminator with the plastic clear plastic lamination sleeves from Walmart. Uh I've been using that thing for years. It works great. And you know, you can laminate your original drawing and then you can write on it with like a wet erase marker. If you want to erase it or you could write on it with these Expo sure markers are the ones that's on my Amazon storefront. These are the ones I like because if you if you if you spend the money on a Sharpie and you drag it through the grease like I do and it don't you know, it ruins it in a second.

[00:05:40]You buy a box of a hundred of these for 25 bucks, so you only got a quarter in this marker. You you on my Amazon There's a link in the description of my videos. Got all my my links to Arc Captain and my Amazon storefront and everything. If you go on my Amazon storefront, you'll find these are Sharpie markers. These are good markers for a quarter a piece. And at a quarter a piece, if it gets goofed up, you catch it on fire, you drop it, you drag it in the grease, you just throw it away and get you a new one. Ain't no big deal. But, I want to show you I've been laminating drawings like this and making cut lists this way for a long time. And I'll show you what's really neat on a symmetrical thing like this.

[00:06:15]See, I've drawn really important dimensions on this side, and I don't want to mess that up and make it a boggled mess. But, look, you flip this over and you can still see.

[00:06:28]It's like by drawing this thing one time, I've got two drawings out of it.

[00:06:33]So, what I've got here are a bunch of my more critical dimensions, you know, getting down in between things. If you stuff all these on one side, you'll have so much Egyptian hieroglyphics written on the damn thing, you won't even know where you're at. But, this way, you know, I got my main measurements right here.

[00:06:52]Uh and then I got my notes here. And if you look down here in the corner, I don't made a cut list.

[00:06:58]So, I know like my 6 by 3 tubes, my 3 by 3 angle, 3 by 3 angle, 3 by 3 angle, 1-in solid key stock, uh galvanized planks. I got my I got my measurements to cut my my material right here. So, I'll just And you know, this is tough. Once you laminate a piece of paper like this, you know, you can bang it around the shop pretty good, and it's all right. So, we're going to get to work on this thing.

[00:07:25]Uh glad I didn't get arrested. And uh here we go.

[00:07:32]Now, before I get too far into this one, there's something I want to mention that's going to be included as part of this video. Uh there's been a lot of viewers ask me about the industrial machines that Arc Captain is beginning to build.

[00:07:45]And my Arc Captain contact, he contacted me not too long ago and he said, "I got one on the way for you." So, give her a shot. Well, look at what we got here.

[00:08:00]Arc Captain has entered the industrial welder market and this is the Arc Captain MIG 300. Now, Arc Captain has told me that the what they're going to go with as far as the name, I really like it. It's Aim, A I M, Arc Captain Industrial Machine. So, this would be like a Aim Forge 300 is you know, when these are out and and they uh That was the name that he mentioned and and I think that's a good name. But, any hoser, uh what I have done with it so far, I spooled it up with some 0.35 solid wire which would be great for what we're fixing to build. Uh right off the bat, I noticed it's got the heavier I think this is TWECO TWECO style heavy gun, extra long. It looks to be about 15 ft.

[00:08:45]I didn't measure it, but it's it's longer than a standard Arc Captain gun.

[00:08:49]Uh something else I noticed right away when I opened it up, this is a magnet.

[00:08:57]That's awesome.

[00:08:58]It seems to be really well built the way they did that. And another thing I noticed right away, she's a dual drive roller.

[00:09:07]So, you got four drive rollers here. It Each one of these drive rollers is geared, so uh she ought to feed like a like a well-oiled machine. Um any hoser, this would be the first time I've ever welded with an Arc Captain machine with a full-size spool of wire, you know, with their other machines, 10 lb is big as you can go.

[00:09:30]Um I think that spool that's on there now I have run a bunch of wire off of it on another machine because that's been taken off a Millermatic 252.

[00:09:39]And uh uh I'm thinking I'm probably going to sell my Millermatics.

[00:09:44]Uh They've been sitting in the tool room.

[00:09:47]I I've been welding with the other Arc Captain machines, the 205 MP, the 205 Pro, the MIG 250.

[00:09:55]Uh both of my Millermatic 252s been sitting in here in the tool room forever.

[00:10:01]I just don't use them no more. And uh I was happy with with using what I was using, but then they sent me this industrial machine and on something like what we're building, you know, you've got one advantage is to be able to put those 33-lb 25- to 33-lb spools in a machine is an advantage in a shop setting. Uh that much less screwing around. A lot of times you can get a better price per pound on the wire that way if you're running enough wire that it's worth buying a spool that big. Another advantage on something like we're fixing to build is that that longer gun.

[00:10:38]Um you can get some longer guns for the other machines and this is a regular Euro connect, so there's no reason why this gun wouldn't fit on the other machines like a 205 MP, a 205 Pro, or a MIG 250 Arc Captain. But those machines only have the the regular drive roll system and the fact that this MIG 300 has got the dual drive roll setup and four geared four drive rolls that that are going to help you feed wire, that means that when you have this longer gun, uh you're going to get better feeding and if you've got a little turn in it, you know, it wouldn't have to be perfectly straight all the time, it should feed. Now, I haven't welded with the MIG part of it yet, but obviously the first thing I do when I get an Arc Captain is try to burn it up. And what I did was, I put it on stick mode and uh turned it wide open.

[00:11:39]And this this machine, I did this yesterday for a minute uh Yeah, right off the bat, wide open. All she'd do on stick, and I ran a 3/16 7024 high deposit jet rod, and I'll show you that it ran that rod too hot.

[00:11:59]This was the bead I run with it.

[00:12:01]And you can see that the heat was good starting out.

[00:12:06]But as I went, that material was getting hot and the rod was getting hot. You see this down here?

[00:12:14]This is overheated.

[00:12:17]This is too hot.

[00:12:22]We like too hot.

[00:12:24]When you're too hot, you can always turn it down. If you're at max and you're too hot, you can always turn it down. If you're at max and it's not hot enough, you ain't got nowhere else to go with it.

[00:12:33]But we're going to be MIG welding this assembly together for the first time with the Arc Captain Industrial machine, and I wanted to let y'all know, especially the viewers that have asked me about this, uh we're going to see what she's got.

[00:12:49]Getting marks on these, I want to show you how I did it in case you run into something like this. I think this is a little bit easier way, and I'll show you the parts I got here.

[00:12:58]The two uh 3 by 3 by 3/16 pieces of angle iron >> [clears throat] >> be running down the outside of this thing.

[00:13:08]Uh and the crossmember spacing needs to be marked on them, so you know where to tack your crossmembers on. You can see the way these would need to have the marks on them would be a mirror image of one another. So, lining them up like this and going across here and uh making your marks and having the two lined up. See, I've measured uh one time and got two marks out of it because of the way I've got them lined up as a mirror image.

[00:13:39]So, when I take this one and put it on this side, that one put it on the other side, the marks will be facing each other and tell me where my 1-in uh bars are going to go on there. And then the other side of the 1-in bar is going to go. Now, this needs laid out on both sides. So, I'll be flipping it over and I'll be doing the same thing.

[00:14:00]But, I've taken uh did my work did my math on my equal spacing. I got four cross members going across here. So, I've got five spaces.

[00:14:14]So, I've got them equally spaced. And you'll run into where you see right here, there's a mark right there.

[00:14:24]Right here, there's a mark right there.

[00:14:25]That's where I've laid it out from one direction and then laid it out from the other. And if you actually do go from this mark to that mark, you could say, "Oh, CB, you're an eighth off."

[00:14:37]I've worked with guys that would sit here for a half an hour goofing with that eighth of an inch.

[00:14:42]Um on something like this, that eighth of an inch right there ain't going to change the price of tea in China one yen.

[00:14:50]You see what I've done here? Yeah, I got a mark here from one direction that came out there to the right. I got a mark here that I measured from that you know, that came from the other direction. And there's an eighth-inch difference in them. I split the difference. I made a line right down the center and I ain't going to worry about it.

[00:15:07]Don't be foolish about spending a half hour split the difference on it and move on.

[00:15:14]Uh you could lay this out 100 times and you ain't going to get it no better than that. And if you did, who cares?

[00:15:22]The guy that's going to drive a side-by-side on this thing and set it down with the forklift don't give a I want it as straight and square and quality as I can make it, but I ain't going to waste a half hour over a 16th of an inch. You could say, "Oh, you're an eighth inch off." Yeah, but when I split the difference, now I'm only a 16th of an inch off.

[00:15:40]Uh this thing from the heat of welding's liable to pull more than that, you know, don't worry about it. But, any hoser, uh I'm going to flip this over and mark the other side of it, and then we'll be ready to uh use these other pieces here, cuz what we've got, uh between the tubing and the angle iron, there's four of these uh at the ends.

[00:16:05]And then between the tubing and the tubing, there's uh these that go across.

[00:16:13]Six of these.

[00:16:16]And then you got uh these bars will go from the tubing to the angle iron on the end. Now, I don't know if all that's going to make sense, but it will when you see it tacked together.

[00:16:29]Get going on assembling this thing.

[00:16:32]You know, I I got my parts all cut uh where they're they're very equal in length.

[00:16:39]And so, I have the marks that I showed you, and I line those parts up with those marks, and then I take a cross measurement. And uh when I take a cross measurement, I want those cross measurements to match, and when they do, then that frame is square.

[00:16:55]Uh I got to clamp to the table with it good and square, and then I weld it up.

[00:16:59]Uh slide it around a little bit, obviously, cuz it's a little bigger than the table, but the table's big enough to use. I just got to put it where I need it uh when I need to do a certain part, and then I can slide it around and do the other part. Uh this assembly's not so heavy that it's an issue where I got to use the hoist yet. Just kind of sliding it around and get it to the point where I can put the treads in it.

[00:17:24]All right then.

[00:17:26]Uh got the tread planks on this thing, gussets in, and some bracing.

[00:17:30]Um didn't do a lot of filming today. Uh wanted you to take a look at. I had the doors open. The light really messes stuff up and the smoke. Uh I did weld some galvanized today. Um but let me uh bring you up to speed before I flip this thing over.

[00:17:51]Got the planks there on each side.

[00:17:54]And if you look at how this is put together, our outer angle iron goes like this.

[00:18:03]So, that angle iron rib is underneath of here.

[00:18:06]This channel has this angle iron helping it out there as far as pressing up.

[00:18:19]And uh the center-to-center measurements, you know, on the planks are based on measurements I took from side-by-sides that he's going to be driving on this. And of course, the center-to-center measurements on the forklift tubes come from uh you know, the forklift.

[00:18:36]Uh the way the tubes were on the one he's using.

[00:18:46]In line with the cross bracing that goes all the way across this thing, on the outside, I added a quarter by two flat bar.

[00:18:55]And here on top of that 1-in square uh hot rolled key stock, I've got a 2 by 2 angle iron that's acting as a gusset and uh beaming out that that 1-in bar just pretty much crossways stiffening the whole thing. Now, I'm probably going to do I'm still dreaming on what kind of extra bracing I'm going to do for the top. Uh I want to brace it up pretty good without adding a lot of weight to it. Although, I think this is going to be quite a bit lighter than what he's got cuz what he's got's The one he's got's got a lot of metal in it that's not really adding structure.

[00:19:38]Uh what I want to do is have this to be lighter but more structural. But, uh I'm not going to I'm not going to be really installing the the upper bracing at this point. What I'm wanting to do is flip it over and weld everything I can get to on the bottom.

[00:19:58]And then flip it back over and do that top bracing. I'm still dreaming on that a little bit. I'm getting ready to flip it over right now.

[00:20:05]And I figured I'd just give you a look before I did that.

[00:20:09]Uh And I just want to say quick without getting too far into it that that Arc Captain MIG 300 MIG welds absolutely fantastic.

[00:20:20]Uh I'm really enjoying running it. And I'm making a list in the ColorNote app on my phone of the points and different things to mention on it. I'm not going to do it right now. I don't know if I'll do a separate video or put at the end of this video or what, but making a list of things that I want to share about that particular machine. Uh but right now all I'm going to say is I absolutely love it. Uh MIG welding with it is it's a it's a it's a wire burner for sure. But, uh let's get this flipped over and that'll be the end of the day today and we'll uh go from there.

[00:21:00]I've worked in a lot of shops with a lot of different kinds of hoists. Uh some of them extremely expensive. This thing that I built, the Hillbilly Bridge Crane, it's pretty cheap. Most of the moving parts in the winch came from Harbor Freight.

[00:21:14]Uh and pretty much the rest of it I built from raw materials.

[00:21:19]But uh you notice how it free rolls, you don't drive it. And most of what you do when you're welding is flipping things over. Uh you don't want a hoist that you got to drive.

[00:21:30]You want a hoist that plumb bobs itself automatically like this.

[00:21:35]Flipped over and ready to weld the bottom. Uh the only detail that I'm adding on the bottom, when the forklift goes in these forklift tubes and lifts, you know, since we're upside down, this would be the bottom then.

[00:21:50]Uh the weight of whatever's on here will be you know, the fork will be pressing against that part of the tube.

[00:21:58]So, that could tear over time and uh obviously with this 3/4 by 2 flat bar I got on there, that's not going to happen. So, that's the only thing material-wise I'm going to be adding on the bottom and the rest of them the rest of this is just welding.

[00:22:20]So, let's get to welding.

[00:22:23]Time to really get into some welding with this Arc Captain Aim Forge 250A machine.

[00:22:31]Um I started out with some 0.35 wire and that was a one of the big 33-lb spools of 0.35 wire that was left over.

[00:22:41]Uh came out of my Millermatic one of my Millermatic 252s.

[00:22:46]And um I was loving it. The the thing just man, it didn't it did a great job and then uh I also wanted to try some 0.30. 0.30 is really uh my favorite as far as multi-purpose wire. What I always say about 030 is it's razor blades to dozer blades. I can I can what most people would do with 023, I can do with 030 just fine, but what most people would do with 045, I can crank up 030 and do that just fine. So, as far as most useful wire, 030 is what I like and um I you get better looking welds with 030, I think, than you do 035 or 045. And when I was changing the drive rolls, one of the great things I found out about the Arc Captain um Aim Sports 250A here is it actually takes a a standard benzil drive roller, which you can go on Amazon and get any size or shape of that you want. So, if you want a set of 1/16-in drive rolls for this machine, they're they're right there on Amazon. Um from 023 to all the way up. Um U-shaped or whatever, V-shaped or knurled.

[00:24:30]So, I want to tell you about what I got going on here now. I flipped this back over and the rest of the welding should be on the top here.

[00:24:37]If you look at the the end on each end, I've got a jack stand. The V-head jack stands that I can I can jack with this thread right here.

[00:24:48]You crank that handle and it jacks up.

[00:24:50]So, the first thing I did was I centered it up pretty good on that welding table. And as you can see, that welding table's heavy. That's a 10 by 5 1/2 inch plate sheet plus the framing, plus all the material that's stowed underneath of it. I don't know what it weighs, but it's a lot. Uh I clamped it very securely uh in eight locations to that table.

[00:25:15]Um it's clamped on the outside here, and each one of the tubes has a [snorts] heavy clamp. The next thing I did is I come out here and I got when it was straight, I got these jacks where they were just making contact.

[00:25:31]And once all of them were just making contact, I started cranking it. And I've cranked it until I've got an upward crown.

[00:25:40]And I don't know how well you're going to be able to see this.

[00:25:48]Not sure if you can see it on video or not.

[00:25:56]>> [clears throat] >> Doesn't look like with me looking at the camera, it doesn't look like you can see it on the video.

[00:26:08]But what I'm telling you is I've raised the two ends of this up uh probably I'm not going to put a I'm I don't have to put a string on it, but I would say the center of it it's about 3/8 of an inch lower than the outside.

[00:26:29]I've intentionally put a crown in it.

[00:26:32]Now we're going to apply the bracing and we'll let that go. I don't expect it to stay this way.

[00:26:38]I'm just loading it, okay?

[00:26:41]Um So, let's do the bracing.

[00:26:47]Using the DeWalt 872 DeWalt saws on the roller rig.

[00:26:55]I've got one that's locked down. Uh can't use it to cut angles. It is made to set up a stop to to do repeated cuts of the same length.

[00:27:06]Uh the other saw I can move it around. I can set it on 45, 22 and 1/2, 30, whatever I need to.

[00:27:15]Having the two saws with the roller rig is is really handy. And uh this is an example here where I'm using the one that's locked down with the stop system.

[00:27:26]And I'm cutting all these parts that are exactly the same length. I don't have to measure but one of them, and I'll get a whole lot of parts cut the same length.

[00:27:36]Um Another way I use this is uh a lot of times on a job, you'll be making 45° cuts and 90° cuts. And I'll set one of them at 45 and set the other one at 90, and I can just leave them.

[00:27:51]You know, with one saw, I would have to go moving the saw from 45 to 90 and back and forth on uh jobs when I'm doing a lot of framing.

[00:28:01]Uh with two saws like this, I don't have to do that. I can just leave one at 45, leave the other one at 90, and make all my cuts.

[00:28:12]Building a 4-in tall bridge stiffener out of this uh 1-in hot-rolled square solid stock.

[00:28:20]And I decided to do this on a 4-in channel. Had one handy, and I figured that would work nice.

[00:28:27]Uh kept me nice and straight. Give me something to clamp everything to, even though it's a little long.

[00:28:33]And um it was nice to just lay out my angles and spacing and everything right there on that 4-in channel. And you can see that I put one of them together and tacked it. And then I just built the other one right on top of that, so there wasn't much extra time getting wasted uh measuring a lot. Uh I was just using the marks I made on the layout to assemble the first one and then use the first one to assemble the second one.

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