Finishing my Massive Grapple Project - Building the Claw

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:10]Oh, what's up my beers?

[00:00:16]But guys, I have a couple of pieces of good news and one piece of bad news.

[00:00:25]Now, obviously, let's start off with the good news first, right?

[00:00:33]You know, it's I think it's kind of lame, you know, um when you order a tool for a project, but uh then it takes forever for the tool to arrive and you almost finish the project with other tools.

[00:00:49]I'm not quite there yet, but um we're pretty close.

[00:01:13]Look guys, bunch of paper and cardboard.

[00:01:17]It's actually one missing right now.

[00:01:22]We can discard the rest. But uh yeah, I ordered this little cutting unit up.

[00:01:33]Hoping to use it for this project as well. But we'll definitely going to use it during this video. Uh because I do have some plate that I need to, you know, cut. So maybe maybe this will be a very good addition to the fleet.

[00:01:50]And definitely can't compare it to the standard cut off disc though, right? I mean, for starters, this guy doesn't produce those annoying fumes and also sparks.

[00:02:01]In the last video, I also bought some type of a special cutup test. I I was just kind of curious to check out how the thing works. And uh honestly, it's just garbage. It's so slow, bro.

[00:02:15]You can't really cut anything thicker with it. I'm guessing if you work with sheet metal all day every day, then it's fine. But if you try to cut something thicker, it's just going to take forever.

[00:02:30]I mean, we can do like a quick cut test here. I suppose safety shoes on.

[00:02:57]Okay, so that took about 15 something seconds.

[00:03:02]Now, I won't be able to cut through that with this guy because it's going to take forever. But let's just do like 15 seconds.

[00:03:14]Okay, I went about 20 there. I lost count. Sorry. But, uh, that that's about it. Let's try the GF disc. 15 seconds.

[00:03:31]Huh.

[00:03:32]Well, fancy that. This thing is actually pretty fast when you compare it to the other junk. Although, I would love to have like a corded version of this guy.

[00:03:41]That would be so good.

[00:03:44]But to be honest, they do have one with this kind of table mounted.

[00:03:50]What do you think, guys? 15 seconds versus forever versus, I don't know, a minute maybe.

[00:04:12]I would say maybe like nine or eight.

[00:04:16]Man, it would be so cool if I had a corded version of this guy but in handheld form. Right. Actually, I kind of found out about that type of tool when I was watching Andrew's videos when he was cutting steel plate in order to build a bucket for his uh Yanmar, I believe. I mean, this guy has so many excavators, so I kind of lost track at some point, but um I kind of find out about that tool when I was watching his videos and I really wanted to get one, but at the time we did not have any of that nonsense in Estonia.

[00:04:51]However, now we do. However, the I guess the supply or models are still kind of limited. Uh we only currently have the Milwaukee version which is corded and that thing costs about a grand. Maybe you can get it a bit cheaper, but it's price is currently around there. But for some reason at the same time, there's like a lot of different metal cutting saws like that, but they're all battery operated from different vendors. I don't I don't think like a battery operated metal cutting saw is a good idea considering you need like a lot of torque or power in order in order to cut steel, right? The RPMs don't need to be high, but you need um torque, right? And I think the battery form factor just won't deliver that. Uh it might, but it's just going to overheat the stupid battery and then it's going to glitch out. Need to have like a corded version of uh for that though, I would say. Now, if you're curious about pricing as well, then I paid about 270 bucks for that thing.

[00:05:57]Now, to my knowledge, the Makita has uh three different versions of the metal cutting dual. This is the middle version. There's even a weaker version of that. I'm so glad I did not buy that because this is already really slow.

[00:06:10]But, you know, this is the middle version. Then, there's also a higher version which was around €500. Maybe should have bought that. Then again, if I could have tripled this guy, I would have got the proper duel, right?

[00:06:27]Maybe sometimes it's worth getting the proper duel, which is, by the way, not that piece of crap because this stupid disc got 71 aas like I mean, which one you would rather have that or four of those?

[00:06:45]Choice is obvious, right? We rather have that 10 times over. This thing is just so hopeless. I mean, we can try.

[00:06:53]Oh, we already dried. Yeah. Sorry, guys.

[00:06:56]We haven't tried to cut sheet metal with that guy, though. Maybe, maybe that's good. Although on the disc itself, you can see like bunch of huge ass I beams.

[00:07:07]I don't see cutting through that giant I-beam with this thing. I mean, you're going to die of old age or the battery will explode your forehand, dude. That's just garbage.

[00:07:35]Betting this guy will go through it much faster.

[00:07:43]It's like cutting plywood, bro.

[00:07:47]Why the hell is this thing so expensive?

[00:07:49]It's useless.

[00:07:53]Maybe this thing will last forever. Then it's worth it. But other than that, this just complete garbage. But anyway, guys, that was the good news. So, we got a new duel and hopefully we'll be able to use it during this project. Let's go over to the second good news now.

[00:08:18]Shut up.

[00:08:22]Look at that.

[00:08:27]The stupid winter is melting away.

[00:08:31]Yes, I've been waiting this I've been waiting for this moment forever. I'm so glad it's finally happening again. This is by far the best best time of the year. We can soon start swimming around in Migan. Wow. You can wait for that bit.

[00:08:51]Oh man, look at this mess.

[00:08:59]Guess we have drainage problems over here.

[00:09:04]and water has nowhere to go or whatever. But uh yeah, winter is ending and I'm so glad that it's doing that. And by far my favorite time of the year is the spring when everything starts to wake up. You know, a bunch of sunshine, birds singing, that sort of nonsense.

[00:09:26]That's by far the best time of year. But uh luckily, we're not quite there yet.

[00:09:33]We're currently in the middle phase somewhere where all the nonsense is melting away and uh all the cool stuff will happen afterwards. So, I'm really glad I still have that project to finish up inside the workshop, but I definitely want to get it out of the workshop before all of this disappears and uh uh you know, it's replaced by a bunch of that sunshine and also birds singing.

[00:10:01]Now, last year I sadly kind of missed a lot of that because I was inside the stupid cave holding a bunch of nonsense together and at the same time outside it was perfect weather to be outside. Like I really hated that. I didn't want to stay inside at all. But I still had some type of a project that I needed to finish. If I'm not mistaken, it was the sheer ram build.

[00:10:26]This this time it's a bit bigger than a sheer ram, but technically the same picture, right? Soon we're going to have very nice weather outside and I don't want to be here anymore. I want to be out there instead. I'm sure you guys would agree. So, we better finish this guy up as fast as possible. I'm going to try to wrap it up during this video. If it gets a bit long, then sorry guys, but hopefully hopefully we'll get this guy out of the workshop by the end of the video. And also instead of the white nonsense, we're going to have a lot nicer weather as well. But anyway, that was the good news, a new tool, and that the winter is ending. But still, the bad news now. So, the bad news is pretty simple. I did a little boo boo in the last video. Now, some of you even mentioned this in the comment section.

[00:11:20]So, maybe you already know what I'm talking about, but uh to be honest, I don't think it was more like a boo boo. I just kind of forgot. I wanted to do it, but I just kind of forgot. Basically, I forgot to install the bushings inside the thick wall pipe which I welded uh inside the arm part. And right now, it's just kind of riding steel on steel. Now, what I should have done was pretty simple to be honest. you know, the same pipe which I installed inside the thing.

[00:12:08]Uh, I should have uh got cutten a little chunk out of it and then put it inside the lathe because I needed to trim the inside diameter down just a little bit.

[00:12:20]And then I could have taken one of the original bushings from the old frame and install that thing inside there.

[00:12:39]Normally it won't go because it's a bit bigger than it needs to be, but I could have trimmed that down on the late.

[00:12:48]install the bushing on both ends and that would have been that. I just kind of forgot. But uh you maybe it's fine.

[00:12:57]You know, doing it right now. It's definitely too much work. I would say, you know, obviously I can't turn that part on the late anymore. And uh I would probably need to like oxytor torch that setup out of there. Then do a new pipe, fit the bushings inside and put it back.

[00:13:21]Also weld it shut. But I could only weld it on the outside. Right now it's also welded on the inside. So I think that's a bit better than just welding it from the outside. I just kind of forgot, you know, but maybe this is fine. Like I said, considering how many hours I'm actually planning to use this guy, I think even steel riding on steel with grease in between, it's going to last for a really long time for me. I mean, let's keep in mind the main reason I actually built this grappler, and that was for the whenever I start cleaning up the other forest plot. I wanted to use this um grappler to go pick up pre-made brush piles. So I could just kind of grab a huge pile in a single single go, drive next to the road, dump it on the roadside, and then go back, pick another bile, and just going to transport biles like that. That's technically the main reason I actually built this um well building I am building this grappler bucket right now.

[00:14:29]I guess we can also carry logs with it and in the meantime ram through concrete walls, but the main reason was always picking brush with this thing. My current setup for transporting brush material is the tractor and the log trailer. Now, I could also log the brush on the trailer with the boom, but that takes forever. So, I usually involve the Bobcat with a scrappler bucket because that's 10 times faster. And then once the trailer gets full, I just kind of drive over here and unload it with the cladding on the trailer itself. It takes a bit more time than loading it, but still much faster than driving the Bobcat over here and then back constantly. But, you know, with the big grappler bucket all around this little forest, I want to make these giant piles and I can just kind of go there, grab the grab the entire pile, drive here, unload, go back. Now, I don't even need to get out of the loader, right? I just kind of drive around moving material from A to B.

[00:15:41]That's way faster than uh with my other setup, right? But, you know, other than that, I don't think I'm really going to use uh that giant grappler for load um trans transporting logs around. I guess we could definitely try, but I don't see myself using it for that purpose. Uh mainly, I just kind of wanted it for brush. I know it's kind of overkill, but it's very overkill, but whatever.

[00:16:09]It's fine, man. It's the world's most sturdiest brush grappler, right? Maybe we can even use it for locks.

[00:16:18]But um anyway, now that we got all the good news out of the way and also the bad news, I think let's just kind of get to work. Like I said, we have a plan and we we need to stick to it. We need to get this guy out of the workshop by the end of the movie. Luckily, there's really not a lot to do. me saying that while fully knowing that I'm screwed and it's gonna take at least 10 hours to achieve. But um basically we just need to build that little piece that will go down. We need to add something on the bottom as well. Then we need to adjust the quick attach so it will fit the Volvo. And luckily the hydraulics are already there. We just need to remove the center cylinder and cap these lines off. Then we need to clean the ding. And I also want to put some paint on it before we try to somehow get it out of the workshop. So that's about it.

[00:17:14]Grappler, quick attach, hydraulics, cleaning job, and paint job. Let's get to work.

[00:17:30]it about this design as well.

[00:17:40]I made up my mind finally. I'm going to go with the single claw design rather than do. And all in all, I think I'm going to save a little bit of weight with the the single claw design.

[00:17:52]Actually, uh, if I want to do a double claw setup, then I'm guessing I probably need to continue the double wall, right?

[00:18:01]All the way down there. But with a single claw, I could just add steel plate on this side and the steel plate on that side. Join them together in the center with some box tubing and uh, the same claw going downwards.

[00:18:17]But I wouldn't need to do a double wall there. Single wall would work as well.

[00:18:21]So, I'm already saving some space there, I think. But, uh, you know, to put it down on paper for you, it's going to be a pretty simple, I would say. So, let's imagine these two bars are the bone bars currently.

[00:18:35]And from there, I need to add a little plate there. Same on the other side.

[00:18:42]Then, from from that point, we're going to have that claw going downwards.

[00:18:46]And, uh, I guess we're going to add like a secondary plate there as reinforcement. And finally, we can add some box tubes. Maybe a couple of them in the center.

[00:19:00]Um, oh, I also need to build some type of um wall. Well, where the grappler can ram against. So, actually, maybe I'm not even saving any weight. Maybe it's even going to be heavier that way.

[00:19:18]Whatever. That's actually good.

[00:19:27]Kind of a heavy piece. Maybe we can actually cut it here with the new tool.

[00:20:05]And that's showing one bar, but I'm pretty sure I had three.

[00:20:11]Clearly not empty.

[00:20:29]But dude, still much better than trying to lift this guy on the table and uh cutting it there. Definitely.

[00:20:36]However, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and buy the Milwaukeing.

[00:20:42]I'm going to dink it over. Maybe. Maybe I'm going to do it. I mean, that would definitely help. My gosh.

[00:21:00]Most likely I'm going to spot weld everything here and then later just weld everything together if I don't need to change anything.

[00:21:20]Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.

[00:21:46]Just a second.

[00:22:13]Well, that's a lot of chips from just two cuts.

[00:22:27]But honestly, I'm kind of enjoying this right now. Wish it was a bit more powerful though.

[00:22:49]idea.

[00:23:05]Speech. Speech.

[00:23:33]Well, this piece of dirt didn't last for very long. It's not cutting anymore after three guts. After three gots and three batteries, mind you. Yeah, I went through three batteries already.

[00:23:54]It's producing so much spark. Usually that means uh the carbide teeth are already gone. Well, not gone. They're at all. They're not cutting efficiently.

[00:24:03]This This is a colossal disappointment.

[00:24:26]This thing is just hopeless.

[00:24:32]Everything's heating up. You know, the handle is very warm right now. I'm not sure what the motor is doing. Battery is warped to the touch.

[00:24:51]Yeah, something has definitely happened to the blade.

[00:24:56]It was cutting a lot faster before, which kind of odd because the other blade has lasted forever.

[00:25:03]And I haven't even replaced that blade out during the course of this project so far. And I'm pretty sure I also did the firewood line build with the same blade actually.

[00:25:15]So they they do last for a really long time. I'm not sure what's going on over here. Why is this so dull now? I've only done three guts, bro. Okay, before we include the test cut, but that's definitely too too few for this to go bad so soon.

[00:25:33]I mean, the concept is fantastic. I love the idea of just having like a circle or saw to go to cut angles on a steel like that because I can't cut angles on the table saw. No shirt. I would need to use the cut off disc.

[00:25:52]It's not doing anything anymore.

[00:25:55]Maybe it's the steel, but dude, that's mild steel.

[00:26:00]That should be 355.

[00:26:02]It's a bit stronger than the other guy, but still mild.

[00:26:07]And this is 235 100%.

[00:26:12]If it can't cut this as well, then it's good.

[00:26:25]Okay, I can't be bothered or a minute and it's still not true.

[00:26:29]Before it went through this piece in 15 seconds. Now it can't even do it in a minute. Unbelievable. How How did this thing go bad so fast?

[00:26:39]I only I only did three gods, bro.

[00:26:44]Maybe it's not meant for steel.

[00:26:47]a carbide dipped plate for ferrris metals.

[00:26:52]That's That's the thing. But um yeah, look at that. That this is completely chipped off.

[00:27:02]That that has a chip missing. That one has a chip missing.

[00:27:10]Wow, dude. Wow.

[00:27:14]Now, unless I'm missing something here, because I did not read the manual, you know, I just kind of drew that immediately away like I always do. But unless I'm missing something, dude, this thing is just carbide.

[00:27:27]This carbide blade lasted less than a one a cut off. This literally, bro, I could have done more cuts with that thing by far.

[00:27:44]What do you guys think?

[00:27:46]Guess we got to do it the old fashioned way.

[00:27:49]Point of smoke.

[00:28:10]The big Makita guys, my Lord and Savior.

[00:28:50]One thing's for sure, if this project kind of fails, then uh this is going to be a very good um camera mount or the base for it, right? Because it's uh metal and the camera holder is magnetic.

[00:29:15]But uh you know, honestly, I think it's progressing pretty well so far. I kind of figured maybe I should do some type of a plywood like shape already and try to figure the angle of attack out that way. But, you know, going at it like this also works.

[00:29:32]I guess it's going to be a lot of welding later once um everything's set in place. But doesn't really matter.

[00:29:40]Uh it has to go over the lip though because just imagine if if I have a log on this spot and I want to push that log there, then this part actually has to come a bit more down, I think. H maybe I need to adjust the angle slightly right now. I don't think that's going to go vertical basically.

[00:30:08]And then the next one is right over there. It should actually work. Maybe I know who even knows such things.

[00:30:18]Certainly not this guy.

[00:30:50]You know, I always do that whenever the big disc pours down. I just kind of swap it over to the small grinder. And then you have like a brand new disc on small grinder.

[00:31:01]That's a good way to use everything up nicely, right?

[00:31:30]See?

[00:31:34]What?

[00:31:36]Maybe maybe we can bend this guy slightly higher.

[00:31:41]And if it falls down, then it falls down. Then we have to start over. Then we can redo the angles. But uh if not, then maybe Just in case though, I'm going to put the Soviet chair down there.

[00:32:12]Heat. Heat.

[00:33:14]Yeah, I would say that's actually really good.

[00:33:18]Got like a pretty decent turn, I would say. I think I'm missing one more piece. But uh before we figure that out, I think we should add the center part now where the entire thing will ram against once it's like fully closed. Uh for that, I could use just like a simple box tube, I guess. But I was hoping that maybe I can use that final leftover which was from the original attachment.

[00:33:48]So, I got my new bottle of oxygen a couple of days ago. Now, let's go cut that thing up and try to fit it between the two um legs.

[00:34:31]Oh, look at that.

[00:34:33]And spans is back in action.

[00:35:04]Look at the lip.

[00:35:21]This is most likely not going to be the one.

[00:35:38]Poor man.

[00:35:41]Freaking ice.

[00:35:46]Traction numero uno.

[00:36:09]Man, I hate this time of year.

[00:36:16]It's the worst.

[00:36:56]Heat. Heat.

[00:37:05]Heat.

[00:37:25]Heat.

[00:37:30]Heat.

[00:37:42]Heat.

[00:37:51]Another heat.

[00:38:24]It doesn't want to got that thicker blade. Maybe this tip is not meant for.

[00:38:29]I think that's like 30 mil, something like that. And usually there's like a number on the dip somewhere how much it will be able to cut or what the range is.

[00:38:43]Didn't see anything though.

[00:38:49]I kind of looked around. I was pretty sure I had different tips for the cutting torch so I could cut different thicknesses, but I can't find them anymore.

[00:39:00]Ever since I did that stupid cleanup job during the summer time, I can't find anything.

[00:39:30]Yeah, I think it was not the right tip for that thickness. So, most likely went through that pretty easily, but immediately stopped when once I hit that fish.

[00:40:22]Man, that has to be the fastest disc ever that's disappeared on me.

[00:40:28]About a meter of cutting completely gone. Wow.

[00:40:50]Now I may be mistaken, but I think that part is hard steel.

[00:40:56]Although it's bent up so badly. I don't think I'm going to I'm just going to scrap it. Um, currently the thing is too wide. I need to got it 180.

[00:41:05]I think it's better if I got it on both sides rather than one because I do have like a little reinforcement piece in the center there and I could use that to my advantage.

[00:41:20]Okay.

[00:41:22]Looks like I just need to cut along the weld line on both sides and I should get my 180 Heat.

[00:42:06]Heat.

[00:42:10]Heat. Heat.

[00:42:52]I'll see you quick.

[00:43:03]Hold that, will you?

[00:43:19]Fire in the hole.

[00:43:25]Oh, actually actually bent that. Look at that. I guess that wall is not that thick. Wow. Hey, maybe we can use this to run through concrete walls.

[00:43:38]Oh, man.

[00:44:11]It's Mr. Mr. T.

[00:44:51]Where you from?

[00:45:21]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:45:44]Yeah. About 10 mm. That end needs to go that way.

[00:45:55]That was 20 mm. Wow. All right.

[00:46:28]Break the speed.

[00:46:37]Oh, that's honestly kind of amazing.

[00:46:58]I mean, the Bart actually sits I mean, fits here pretty good, right? It's like meant for that spot, honestly.

[00:47:06]The way it's shaped and all. I mean, You know, to be honest, technically it will kind of make more sense if you flip it around the other way because the other side is definitely stronger than this side.

[00:47:21]However, I think it will look kind of weird if it's the other way around. So, maybe this is fine. I just need to do some type of a clever connection point for the claw and the bottom part. But um you know overall I'm kind of glad and considering um the attachment we which we bought at the start of the project.

[00:47:43]I've gotten to use up most of the parts from that uh previous build. Right.

[00:47:49]The leftovers. Yeah. And I don't think I'm going to use these. This are this is scrap most likely. But I'm going to keep this plate.

[00:47:58]Might actually need it one day.

[00:48:02]You know how it goes with steel. Might need it one day.

[00:48:42]Stupid cylinder wants to go down on its own. But uh yeah, I think I'm pretty happy with that.

[00:48:51]seems kind of big. Maybe. Um, well, we can always go buy a bigger loader, right? No, there's an idea. But, um, anyway, later once I figure out the everything, then I'm going to probably cut um all of this material off. You know, it's not going to remain like that. It's going to be as thick as it is there, but but as it goes lower, it needs to get less thick. And eventually, it's just going to be about this much, I think.

[00:49:29]So, uh, before I can do the next step, I need to do the other side as well, and then I can figure out how I'm going to make the bottom connection.

[00:49:43]So, give me a couple of seconds. I'm going to do the other side as well. It should be pretty straightforward. I just need to copy that and paste it here without any errors.

[00:50:04]I think I just need to make the exact same length.

[00:50:27]Heat. Heat.

[00:51:05]That takes care of that bit. I think it came out pretty okay.

[00:51:12]Freaking huge though. Currently, I'm thinking um dude, if I put like a giant pile of logs in the center there, no way the Volvo is going to lift that up.

[00:51:25]I do need a bigger loader in that case.

[00:51:29]Nope. We're going to do like a little hack, I guess. Going to bark Joseph on Volvo's rear end. That's going to fix the problem.

[00:51:39]Oh, by the way, I have no idea how I'm going to get this thing out of the workshop once it's fully finished.

[00:51:46]I don't think Bobcat can even uh drag it at this point.

[00:51:51]Maybe Yanmar could uh, you know, with the pocket kind of drag it on the ground. We could try that, I guess. But honestly, I think we're going to end up just kind of pulling the guy out of the out of the workplace either with Joseph or the Wo itself. Not really sure at the moment. And honestly, I'm not really looking forward for that part. It's going to be a mess. I'm probably going to pull the wall down or something.

[00:52:22]Especially if I'm bullying it with Joseph. You can't really understand anything what's going behind you.

[00:52:29]But um next up, we need to add more stuff. So I want to install a steel bait between the two points. And I'm going to do a 20 200 mm steel plate. But I want to install that inside that steel blade. And uh once that's installed, uh I'm going to cut this edge off. So this edge doesn't go very far out. It's going to go like that. And then it's going to go like that. Go like that. And uh in the end, same way as in as in as on this side. So the contact between the grappler and that part will be only on this area. And later I'm going to install some type of um um thing there as well. So if it's a hard hit, it's just going to put the force there as well. I think that's a solid plan. So let's do that.

[00:53:43]By the way, so far I'm about halfway through of my steel order.

[00:53:51]So, we can actually do some calculations for the weight. The entire steel order was about 950 kilos.

[00:54:04]Now, if we're halfway through, that means about 500 kilos of steel we have added on the ding so far.

[00:54:15]And uh the original thing was about 800 kilos.

[00:54:21]So, if that math makes any sense, then currently this guy is 1.3 tons, which is not that bad to be honest. But you know, I'm pretty sure my math is incorrect and there's a error somewhere.

[00:54:56]Heat.

[00:55:10]Heat.

[00:55:39]This is Continue.

[00:56:42]Heat up here.

[00:57:15]Guys, I think we need to do like a little design change.

[00:57:20]I think we have a problem right now.

[00:57:25]It's way too wide, right?

[00:57:29]this area. It's way too wide.

[00:57:34]Now, for starters, we're going to bend up that plate so easily. If we uh bend it at a weird angle, I guess, for example, there's like a rock under it and then we try to close it, it's just kind of bend upwards.

[00:57:51]And uh that's actually not the main issue. I just kind of realized why. um why I did the individual crafter design on the Bobcat and that's because uh unevenness I mean not everything is equal right for example the logs that we try to pick up it is very rare if they are perfectly round maybe one end is bigger maybe one end is smaller maybe there's a giant knot on one end so for For example, let's just kind of imagine there's a knot on this end, but nothing on that end.

[00:58:32]This end will go against the nut, so to speak. But that end still has room to keep going.

[00:58:42]However, this end can't go any further.

[00:58:45]So, that cylinder, the other side, will keep pushing and thus bending the entire crappler like that. I could make it strong enough so it wouldn't bend I guess but that's like absolutely un unnecessary amounts of steel which would be required for that. I think the smart choice here would be to take the grappler closer to the center point. I guess basically something like I did there. The grapper did not continue from here. I'd rather just kind of migrate it that way. But we need to migrate it more that way.

[00:59:27]I'm thinking maybe from here just kind of turn it like that and then it will come at a slight tilt and maybe maybe the gap needs to be only about that much. I don't think I need anything else here. And one thing that is good about having a wider grappler though is uh picking up brush. And for that this will work definitely better.

[00:59:55]But generally I think we should do it the proper way. I think most grapplers are designed like that especially the ones which uh look like this. The the claw bar just kind of goes inwards. Right. I already did a couple of sketches here. for example, something like that. We need to make our grappler look like that. So, it kind of resembles a uterus. Addition to that, we're also going to achieve less weight, right? Because less material is required to to join the two halves together.

[01:00:30]Plus, we can make that plate a lot shorter.

[01:00:34]I'm like just going to cut it off from cut it off from there and also from there. So, I think we should definitely do that. That's uh that's actually a good idea. Right now it's just too stupidly wide.

[01:00:51]I know. Let's try let's try let's try to bend one side inwards. If we're relatively successful, then let's do the other side as well.

[01:01:03]If we can temporarily put like a hinge there.

[01:01:48]Shut up my I think this doesn't work.

[01:02:01]I mean, I'm going to I need to make the other end go straight. I don't think I can achieve that with this setup.

[01:02:09]Even if I turn that, it's not going to be straight.

[01:02:14]I need to make these plates like go that way once they hit the bottom. I don't think I can achieve that without making it look really weird. I would need to like undo every weld and then then try to turn it maybe like a little bit at a time.

[01:02:35]Maybe it's fine like this though.

[01:02:38]I mean it does look kind of sexy honestly in a weird way. I mean but no once I weld both the both the sides together weld everything up it should be sturdy enough I think. Maybe just turn the last one. So, so it would face that way. And then we could add this the plate as well. What do you think?

[01:03:12]I don't know. That looks so weird.

[01:03:17]The further I go, the weirder it gets.

[01:03:23]This part looks actually really good.

[01:03:26]Bottom part is weird, but maybe weird in a good way.

[01:03:52]Yeah.

[01:04:02]Come here.

[01:04:30]Got to do like a weird angle. Got here.

[01:04:35]Sure how that's going to work out.

[01:04:51]Heat.

[01:05:12]Heat.

[01:05:32]Heat.

[01:05:36]Heat.

[01:06:06]Okay.

[01:06:08]A boot to make it good. I think the roof.

[01:06:27]Heat. Heat.

[01:06:45]Okay.

[01:06:50]Oh, Cinderella. Will the slipper fit or not?

[01:07:12]Yeah.

[01:07:15]Leg.

[01:07:27]Well, one thing's for sure. We can immediately dust our shoe or slipper making business plan out of the window.

[01:07:52]Yeah, this is definitely the way to go.

[01:07:54]Look at that. Looks like a little squirrel with it giant tooth.

[01:08:00]This thing is so cute. Want to pet it.

[01:08:06]Good doggy.

[01:08:08]Woo. Look at that thing. I mean, just imagine being up there in the loader department and looking down at this.

[01:08:16]That's going to look really nice.

[01:08:19]Yeah, I'm I'm glad I actually decided to take these guys inwards and uh it should work a lot better plus less material needed, right? Going to save some uh weight as well. I mean, already saved like I don't know 10 kilos.

[01:08:39]And maybe if we keep this up in a weight saving mission, then this guy is just going to float out of the workshop. That would be pretty good. But um anyway, next up, need to add some type of u contact piece. I guess something for this dude to ram or rest against.

[01:09:14]Jeep was back.

[01:09:40]There we go.

[01:10:04]All right.

[01:10:29]Looks like a bit more.

[01:10:48]Heat. Heat.

[01:11:10]I think that's pretty okay.

[01:11:13]I mean, good.

[01:11:15]I'm kind of thinking maybe a couple of reinforcement plates coming from here going to that, but I think we should add that later once we figure out what we need to cut off and weld everything shut.

[01:11:32]Now, as for the center support, I'm not really sure if that's really necessary.

[01:11:43]I need to get rid of that. That's kind of getting in the way. But I can't go higher than the Blx though because that's pretty cool.

[01:11:58]Look at that.

[01:12:10]What is that molten steel?

[01:12:14]And when I was grinding away that piece.

[01:12:17]Wow.

[01:12:19]It's actually really cool. It's like a piece of art.

[01:12:24]Oh no, it broke for no reason. But um about the center part, can't go higher than the legs because that's probably going to get in the way of loading stuff up.

[01:12:39]However, we do have a very convenient mounting bracket over there. We could just weld something.

[01:12:52]Looks like it also matches up with the center frame sort of.

[01:13:22]I think I'm not going to add anything here, guys. Perfect option would be to make like a leg, but it would be only up to this point. But then again, I don't think I'm going to really achieve much of anything with that. It's just going to add more stupid weight to it. I don't think we're going to be able to like break this part or bend it that way.

[01:13:43]Anyway, seems like a pretty pretty sturdy piece.

[01:13:51]And if I add something small here, I'm just maybe going to bend it up anyway cuz I don't really have a lot of room.

[01:14:01]And if I It has to The thing has to remain under this. I don't want it to be higher than this. So it it would need to go under it somehow under there.

[01:14:17]It's just going to be a huge pain to add anything there. honestly would have to weld upside down, you know.

[01:14:32]Let's let's skip that. I don't see the point of that. Let's just unnecessary weight.

[01:14:39]Rather, let's remove weight.

[01:15:01]Heat. Heat.

[01:15:28]Heat. Heat.

[01:15:58]Come man.

[01:16:07]You know, so much weight saved. We can add another crafter to the thing.

[01:16:12]Anyway, guys, now comes the fun part.

[01:16:40]I think we can finally use up these things.

[01:16:48]You know, the plumbing from the Titanic.

[01:16:51]I think they're perfect for this project right now.

[01:17:06]That's it.

[01:17:33]What an embarrassment.

[01:17:38]I'm not really sure how much steel is left here.

[01:17:43]I'm pretty sure this pipe used to be like 5 mm, but it looks like maybe three is remaining.

[01:17:50]But I think it's strong enough for the purpose I need it for to join the two things together. I'm going to make four connections. So I need four pieces of pipe. And each one is going to be different length. Plus the three final ones are going to have like a weird angle as well because of that mess.

[01:18:13]I think it's good enough honestly.

[01:18:28]See guys, I wasn't crazy.

[01:18:34]There is something wrong with that that thing.

[01:18:51]Yeah, something's going on over there. But sometimes it works. So weird. I'm going to check that later if I can remember.

[01:19:26]with the rust about four. Huh?

[01:19:30]I think it's fine.

[01:20:10]What is going on, man?

[01:20:12]One dual works, the other dual doesn't work.

[01:20:24]How can you explain that? That is witchcraft, bro. By the way, this is the front bike.

[01:20:53]See guys, there is still a little bit of that steel stuff remaining.

[01:20:58]So it's not in my imagination only.

[01:21:01]Video evidence right there. Video evidence right over there.

[01:21:22]Not bad.

[01:21:30]Oh man, there goes my structural integer.

[01:21:49]Heat.

[01:22:09]Heat.

[01:22:25]I think I want to add one more piece down there, but something different, something stronger so I could um support that plate.

[01:22:39]I do have one more piece of that pipe remaining. So, I could cut it out that actually I'm thinking I'm going to put that piece up there because later once I w these um no everything shut. I want to add an extra plate there for reinforcement. And uh and this cap seems kind of bigger than than the other caps.

[01:23:02]Then I can add like a extra pipe up there as well. But uh down there is something perhaps over here. So uh we could also add couple of pieces of plate in the center.

[01:23:18]And uh I do have one more piece of Titanic remaining.

[01:23:24]It's not part of the plumbing system though. It's probably part of the ke somewhere over there because man, this thing this thing is really thick.

[01:23:35]I think that's like 12 mm pipe and u it's long enough. So, whatever.

[01:23:46]I'm really glad if I can use up rusty garbage, especially if said garbage has been sitting underground for at least 40 years.

[01:24:00]Heat.

[01:24:17]Heat.

[01:24:23]Heat.

[01:24:48]Heat.

[01:24:54]That little shiny dirt over there.

[01:25:46]you okay? Oh, by the way, that was just a small taste of uh what's to come because um I think that's that's the final piece of the puzzle right over there. And now we can weld everything shut. Well, to be honest, during the welding phases, I'm going to add extra plates here and there. For example, I need to add a plate coming from here, connecting there, something on the back end, then another plate over here, plus that extra pipe.

[01:26:16]But other than that, I think nothing much extra. At least I can't think of anything right now that we need to add.

[01:26:24]Should be everything. To honest, I'm really glad that uh I decided to take it inwards. You know, this looks way cooler. Plus, we saved some uh weight as well, right? Although I'm I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to cut off from the frame because I did install these pipes in the center and I'm not sure if I'm going to cut anything off from here. Perhaps only at the bottom to make it a bit, you know, pointy. But um anyway guys, I think I'm going to draw you on a quick time lapse while I attempt to mend that nonsense together.

[01:27:01]I think it's going to take me quite a bit of time actually.

[01:27:19]I'm guessing this is going to take a bit of time. No wild guess. Maybe an entire day. Oh, by the way, I can't wait for the power bill. So, that's going to be quite fun.

[01:27:31]And when I was doing the firewood line build, then the power bill was about €470 for the month. Well, to be brutally honest, and I think that's not even that bad considering how much welding we actually did. Maybe this is this project is about the same. Maybe a bit more.

[01:27:55]I think I think that's fine. That's not that bad. A lot of people actually in January had uh pretty crazy power bills.

[01:28:03]Like they they posted online showing 1,000 power bills while having uh a wage of 1,000 at the same time. So your entire wage went to the power company. So that kind of makes no sense.

[01:28:19]But um that's life, I guess. Not sure what she did, but u yeah, let's do a quick time lapse about the welding session. I'm going to throw some music on for you guys and also for me.

[01:28:33]So, enjoy, I guess.

[01:28:39]Yep. Mr. Editor mixed up some tunes for me to listen during this entire session.

[01:28:51]de check it out, guys. Mr. Editor thinks he's a pop star now.

[01:29:13]What a >> Dude, shut up and stop talking to the radio and get back to work.

[01:29:48]Heat. Heat. N.

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[01:32:31]Heat up here.

[01:32:56]Heat.

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[01:33:09]Are you Heat.

[01:33:51]Heat.

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[01:36:13]Heat.

[01:36:43]Someone over there, right?

[01:36:46]I think that's pretty good.

[01:36:58]We La.

[01:37:44]me.

[01:37:46]I think Laala doesn't do any justice anymore.

[01:37:51]That's just insane.

[01:37:54]This thing is just insane at this point.

[01:38:09]Shut up.

[01:38:12]You're distracting my view, man.

[01:38:19]One moment.

[01:38:23]Go away.

[01:38:26]What a colossal bio scrap metal. Look at that. I mean, um, lo grappler. So glad I actually decided to go inwards. This looks way cooler. And it's, uh, you know, the blades being tilted, not a problem whatsoever.

[01:38:42]Everything's, uh, pretty much solid at this point.

[01:38:50]I think I'm not even going to cut anything off, you know. And maybe it's just a little bit at the bottom, but nothing up there. This just looks so good. We even added bunch of reinforcements to the bone part. And to be honest, even with one blade to weld that down, this thing was just rock solid. It didn't move anymore whatsoever. Right now, it's just it feels I mean, it's not even touching, you know. There's like a clear gap there. Now, while I was mass welding away, I I kind of noticed that this that thing just migrated away from the base plate.

[01:39:30]So, currently it's not touching anymore.

[01:39:33]And look how solid this piece is.

[01:39:40]I mean, I can't move it whatsoever.

[01:39:43]It just wobbles a bit, but that's pretty normal.

[01:39:49]I think that should be pretty solid along with the rest of the build. So far, I don't see a thing on it that can break even if you like try it. Well, if you try really hard, then you can break anything. But if you are very careful careful loader operator like Moa, then um I don't see like I don't see any options on breaking anything. Everything should be pretty solid at this point.

[01:40:21]However, it may have like a little problem. I'm not sure if you noticed during the time lapse, but I did try to open the thing up.

[01:40:31]And I think it's not going to open up enough for me.

[01:40:36]Maybe. I'm not really sure. You know, I would only open up one meter before that part hit the ceiling.

[01:40:43]And at that point, you know, when the claw area was 1 m high above the ground level, I still had I still had 13 or 130 mm of uh rod travel distance left to go inside.

[01:41:09]So, I think it was like somewhere over here.

[01:41:13]But it should go all the way to over there. So, I'm not really sure how much extra height it's going to add. Now, I did some wild math and it looks like I'm going to get Okay, so for every 3 cm the rod travels downwards, I get about 15 or 16 cm of that thing going upwards. So um you know if we trust that weird math then I should have a opening of 1.6 6 m almost 1.7 m actually but I don't think that's constant you know the math I mean I think the more it goes higher then the ratios kind of change maybe it's a bit more maybe it's a bit less I'm not really sure you know I just have to open it all the way then we can figure out how much this thing actually opens but just that's not slack. But um now I think I would be happy if this thing opened up at least 1.5 m because the height from the leg down there is exactly 1.5 m up this point.

[01:42:37]So that's that's the full Grappler bucket load, right? 1 1 1.5 m high. And if the claw tip opened up also 1.5 m, then I think that's fine. That should work. I I could nicely get logs, maybe even like a full scoop. And also brush would work as well. Get like a full scoop of brush. I mean, that that's that would work, right? I would be happy with that. Although I would love if the ink went a bit higher, you know, to clear out of any stuff that it might hit. And for example, if a brush pile is higher than 1.5 m, then I'm going to ram into that brush pile. And uh um well, the tip of the claw will also kind of ram into the brush pile, which sits higher. So that's kind of um annoying. Or maybe that's a problem.

[01:43:33]I'm just not 100% sure at this point, you know. I just need to figure out how much this thing actually opens up and then uh do some testing as well. Maybe maybe it's fine, maybe it's not. This has been um issue for a while now during this project. And uh I think it started off when I was installing that piece in episode two.

[01:44:00]I just kind of didn't think this through, I guess, thoroughly. Basically, that pivoting point is uh a bit too far.

[01:44:10]You know, it should be closer to that point. So, it could be more vertical with the cylinder bottom mount or the cylinder could be a bit more on that side. That that would work as well, I guess.

[01:44:25]So, I guess I didn't really think that part through very well. And now we have that question at the moment. Is does it open up enough or not? I'm I'm currently unsure about that.

[01:45:14]I mean, that looks pretty cool, right?

[01:45:18]But, um, currently we're about 90 90 cm off the ground. and uh 13 1/2 cm to go for the RAM.

[01:45:34]So, I'm not really sure how much that's going to translate into that end, you know. Maybe it's going to end up being 1.5 1.6. Not really sure, honestly. I just have to get it out of the workshop and uh then we can um determine if it's enough or not.

[01:45:54]Maybe we can put something there while the thing is up. I shouldn't probably go here though. Might be a bit sketchy that maybe like an extra steel plate. I mean, this guy migrated away from that plate quite significantly during the welding process.

[01:46:12]And I'm not sure if it's like important even honestly. Right now, once once it goes all the way down, it's just going to rest on the cylinder. But I think it would be better if it rested against that plate, you know.

[01:46:35]That would work. Maybe seems like a another one of Tosquito tools. Heat.

[01:47:04]Heat.

[01:47:19]Well, my last I'm running out of everything with this project.

[01:47:45]You rather bend this guy a bit more straight.

[01:48:00]This is that guys. This little homemade breast has been very useful especially during uh this project honestly.

[01:48:09]I built I think I built that thing like back in 2017 if I if I can remember correctly somewhere there. Very old by now.

[01:48:22]Still works.

[01:48:24]I'm going to put you guys a bit further away so at least you're safe.

[01:48:43]Stop making funny noises, man.

[01:49:00]If we hear a click, then it's pretty good.

[01:49:10]We got a click.

[01:49:13]Excellent.

[01:49:48]Okay.

[01:49:50]I think that's better for that part to rest against that part when it's fully closed I guess rather than being um fully on the cylinders.

[01:50:04]But u anyway guys about the grappler itself I have changed my mission goals as of right now because of that situation.

[01:50:14]I have decided that I am not going to currently paint the thing and uh I'm not currently going to haul it out of the workshop but I am going to finish the thing. So we'll we'll deal with the hydraatics.

[01:50:32]sort that business out and also the quick attach. But after that, I'm going to leave it inside the workshop for now until I can figure out the situ situation on the Volvo's end. Now, as most of you already know, currently the Volvo loader doesn't run. The last time I tried to uh fire it up, it's it started up, but then it just kind of died. I'm not getting any fuel from the fuel tank at the moment. I and I have not even checked what the issue might be. So I that just kind of happened before the winter and then I didn't I didn't need the guy during the winter. So it's been kind of sitting there for a while. So I need to figure that situation out before we uh pull the grappler out of the workshop, you know, because as of right now, I think that's the only good candidate that I have in order to get it out of the workshop. I just need to drag it on the concrete. And from here, it would be best if I could just immediately hook it up to the Volvo and then take off. Right.

[01:51:41]My current other option is to use Joseph because I'm pretty sure none of my other machines would be able to move that guy.

[01:51:49]And Popcat definitely can move it.

[01:51:51]Yanmar might be able to drag it, but I don't think it's going to be able to drag it up the grade. Maybe only on the flat surface. So, the Volvo seems like the best option as of right now. Well, we do have Jose Joseph as well, but that guy can't really lift the thing. It It needs to drag it behind it and that's just going to mess up everything here, right? We're just going to have like a bunch of meteorite impact craters all over the place. So, we don't need that business here. I'm going to keep the guy inside the workshop until we can figure out the Volvo situation and then pull it out of the workshop, test it that way by immediately putting it on the Volvo itself. And the reason I don't want to paint the thing right now is because uh A, I need to wash it. It's kind of very grooyy down there. Uh B, I still need to do a bunch of welding on the bottom end.

[01:52:48]you know, the stuff that I can't access right now.

[01:52:52]And uh three, maybe I need to do some um redesigning if the grappler doesn't open wide enough. Luckily, I do have a plan for that. So, let's imagine we pull it out of the workshop, put it on the Volvo, and discover crappler doesn't open enough. It's just kind of crap.

[01:53:15]Then um the current idea is u well I chose the least amount of work idea basically it's not perfect but it should improve the situation. So instead of having the pivoting point there we just kind of ignore that part and make a new pivoting point further that way towards the pin. So I'm guessing like somewhere over here uh while not moving that guy. And also uh I need to make the hole while this guy is sitting as it is right now because I don't want to alter the closing position. This needs to say stay like it is right now. Uh I would well I would need to leave that guy there.

[01:54:01]Build a bunch of steel here and then make a new hole for the new pivoting point.

[01:54:08]uh then swap the beans out and then that's not going to alter the closing um department, right? That should stay the same. Although the opening department should significantly improve meetings. I mean, that seems like the least amount of work that they need to do, right? I don't need to alter that. I don't need to alter that. I just need to move this guy or rather make a new hole there and then I have a new pivoting point which is going to improve the opening.

[01:54:45]There are a couple of negative side effects to this though and for starters the cylinder won't be able to go all the way in anymore unless I also take this pivoting point higher. But if I take it higher, then uh that's going to alter the closing position, and I don't want to do that.

[01:55:04]So, my only option is to just kind of go as straight as possible that way.

[01:55:09]Leave it there.

[01:55:11]Uh so, the cylinder won't be able to go fully all the way in. But maybe that's not really a problem. Another thing that might be a issue, but I'm not really sure if it is, is once it's fully open, you know, maybe the cylinder wants to go the other way.

[01:55:28]like it did when we did a bunch of testing previously, right? At some point, the cylinder just kind of wanted to go the other way. Uh, however, I think that's not going to happen considering the weight of the grappler itself. It's kind of pulling the entire system that way. So, I think that should prevent the cylinder from migrating to the other side, right? So, I'm not 100% sure about that, but I think that should save us from that situation, the weight of the grappler itself. Maybe you guys scare to speculate on that. I'm not really 100% sure, but I think we're safe in that department. I guess there's actually one more negative effect. While we move the pivoting point closer to the cylinder eye, then the cylinder has to work a lot harder, right? in know in order to pull the entire thing up and it's going to put more pressure on the plates themselves as well. But maybe that's not a issue. I guess this cylinder is pretty beefy. I mean the rod itself is 70 mm. However, the bore I think it was like 130 mm. So I think it's going to be powerful enough to lift the thing up. But without any wild math, you can't really confirm that. I don't even know how how it wouldn't calculate the requirement of the cylinder if the pivoting point was closer to the cylinder.

[01:56:56]Um, no idea, bro. But you know, this is one of those solutions. If it doesn't work, we can always revert back, right? We're not going to lose that eye. We're just going to make like a new eye and then we can choose which one we want to use. So, I think there's literally really nothing to lose with that solution. But I'm not going to do it before I I take this thing out of the workshop and figure out if I even need to do that because because like I said, if I get 1.5 m of opening, then I don't even need to do that. I think that's fine. Obviously, we have to do some testing as well, but I think that's fine. Guess time will tell. But right now, let's just kind of continue. I want to I want to at least finish off the grappler before we wrap up this video.

[01:57:42]So, two more things to do. We need to alter the quick attach and then need to sort out the hydraulics because we don't need that center cylinder and maybe we can lose some hoses as well in the meantime and then make things look a bit better. I guess kind of a messy situation right now. Plus, there's something leaking on it.

[01:58:03]Something's going somewhere.

[01:58:06]Definitely not over there because that's just going downwards.

[01:58:12]This gap needs to be exactly 1 meter.

[01:58:15]That's easy to remember.

[01:58:20]I think we should go try to try to take those pieces off, figure out if they even fit here, and then try to figure out the next step.

[01:58:34]Thickness wise, this is 30 mm. I'm not sure if that's enough. Maybe it needs to be more.

[01:58:42]Let's go check what's on the bucket.

[01:58:51]This seems 40, I think.

[01:58:54]Yeah, this is 40.

[01:58:57]Maybe we need to order 40 mm plate.

[01:59:01]That's 50. Too much, Joseph.

[01:59:14]Maybe we can oxych to through that.

[01:59:19]Back plate is 25 mm.

[01:59:52]Heat. Heat.

[02:00:19]slow and steady, I guess.

[02:00:38]went through that pretty good.

[02:00:42]Bunches of magma down there. Look at that.

[02:00:48]Actually, maybe we can just kind of cut along the bold line.

[02:00:55]and then get it off like that. Then we really need to remove the other part.

[02:00:59]It's kind of welded all over the place on the back end, even inside corners.

[02:01:05]I think if I keep going with the oxy torch, then I'm going to cut the entire thing in half. Wish I had one of those um what my dings world catching devices. You know the ones which you use to remove will bit. Estonia does have them now but they cost more than I've spent on this entire project so far.

[02:01:33]New stuff in Estonia are very expensive.

[02:01:37]Gold level expensive.

[02:01:40]Now I'm going to drive with the cut off disc. If we're successful then I need to go buy more cut off discs because this is my last one at all. At least access is good, right?

[02:02:04]I do kind of wonder will that black blank catch on fire or not?

[02:02:09]It haven't it hasn't even started smoking so far. If you guys remember, I did coat the lumber inside the workshop with some special fire retardant um type of liquid which is supposed to prevent the wood from catching on fire. I mean, so so far nothing has catched on fire inside the workshop. That's wood. I coated everything with that stuff. It was a very expensive liquid, but I think it was worth it.

[02:02:38]Right now it's getting a lot of sparks this spot. So I'm kind of curious.

[02:03:19]I hope this thing is not fully welded on there.

[02:03:25]Oh, look at that.

[02:03:32]Guess not.

[02:03:56]Yeah, we need to get rid of that part.

[02:03:59]That's kind of getting in way.

[02:04:04]Plus, I think we need to add some some additional mating surface.

[02:04:20]Maybe I could order some weldable mounts.

[02:04:26]Not sure how much that will cost.

[02:04:30]I'm sure they're available somewhere.

[02:04:43]Okay, so technically I do have some material to make this work. I think not best material though. The thickest plate I have is 20 mm.

[02:04:53]So I would need to glue like two of them together from the center and then make the hole for the bottom part and then bolt it to this part.

[02:05:06]Also, this needs to be modified and we need to cut that hook off. It's too long.

[02:05:14]Install um thick wall pipe inside here, but only halfway.

[02:05:20]So, you could kind of sit somewhere over there. But maybe maybe that's even not enough room for that.

[02:05:34]Not sure.

[02:05:36]I would need something like this. This is considerably thicker than the other guy.

[02:05:42]And also, I'm assuming I need some type of plate there as well.

[02:06:09]This pipe is slightly under 60.

[02:06:13]But then again, the thing on the loader is also worn down. So maybe this is going to fit perfectly.

[02:06:42]That's actually a really good fit.

[02:06:45]It's kind of kind of riding, but overall I think it's just going to wear itself in, you know. I think we can make it out of this piece.

[02:06:59]I think we can make this work without buying anything.

[02:07:09]I found my secret compartment of writing discs. Look at that.

[02:07:14]I can't wait until I can find my secret compartment for donuts.

[02:08:00]Keep presses pretty good now. Look at that.

[02:08:33]Meeting has ended. Let's get to work.

[02:09:08]Heat.

[02:09:18]Heat.

[02:09:20]Heat. Heat.

[02:10:21]Smells like success.

[02:10:24]Or maybe that's just the toxic fumes keeping me high.

[02:10:37]sit there.

[02:11:32]Heat.

[02:11:48]Hey Man, such a nasty lot. Look at that.

[02:12:16]So messy.

[02:12:30]Heat.

[02:12:44]Heat.

[02:13:02]Heat. Heat.

[02:13:58]Anyway, I I think that's the ding.

[02:14:02]Hopefully nothing will get in the way.

[02:14:06]Maybe this area needs to be modified slightly. But I'm also thinking maybe some reinforcements later on if we confirm that everything's cool. Also, we need to figure out where the hole needs to be.

[02:14:23]But I think we need to first ball everything shut.

[02:14:29]Uh, but first let's go check it out if it sits or not.

[02:14:45]I think the frame is kind of positioned awkwardly right now. It would be great if this this guy was vertical.

[02:14:56]Maybe I can lift it up a bit.

[02:15:11]Oh man, look at that piece of crap rust over there.

[02:15:16]I bought this last year, man.

[02:15:19]Why do you look so bad?

[02:15:21]Wow.

[02:15:47]Looks looks like we got the front end off the ground.

[02:15:58]We're going to move a little bit over there.

[02:16:04]Something like that. Maybe that should work. I think Oh, yeah. I think this will work pretty good.

[02:16:26]Actually, it should be a bit longer to be honest.

[02:16:33]Should have made it maybe like 5 cm longer, but I think this will also work.

[02:16:51]I think it's fine.

[02:16:54]And before then we make the hole though, we should probably weld this guy up. And maybe if we make the hole first and then weld everything up, that hole is going to I don't know, migrate to the North Pole or something.

[02:17:12]Oh, by the way, look at the nice weather.

[02:17:17]So beautiful.

[02:17:20]So, let's go back to the game.

[02:17:33]You guys want to see the magnetic stand?

[02:17:39]Look at that mess, dude. This thing is amazing for cleaning the shop floor. Oh my lord.

[02:17:56]Very good.

[02:17:59]Is this thing on now, man? Freaking hell. I've been talking to myself for like half an hour. Camera wasn't even recording.

[02:18:17]You know, that happens way too much, way too often.

[02:18:22]Luckily, I still have a little bit of boing left to do so you guys can enjoy the mosquito sounds.

[02:18:44]pretty good.

[02:19:04]Heat.

[02:19:17]Heat.

[02:19:26]Heat.

[02:19:43]Heat.

[02:20:11]I think we can do more. Although I don't think we it's necessary.

[02:20:19]Honestly, I don't see this thing breaking apart the way we're planning to apply forces to it.

[02:20:30]But, you know, we do have a little bit more room there. So, maybe run a couple of more beads.

[02:20:43]Yeah, I think that's worth it. Let's do at least two more beads side by side.

[02:20:48]Then we should be able to fill the gap nicely. Now later I'm also thinking maybe a extra plate on top, but I'm not really sure if that's necessary.

[02:21:01]We got to do what we got to do, right?

[02:21:05]I mean, the end goal is obvious. We need to make this part way more than the grappler over there.

[02:21:30]Okay. If it wasn't going to break before, then it's definitely not going to break now.

[02:21:36]Stupid beard.

[02:21:40]I hate that thing.

[02:21:42]Actually a really good weight design for me.

[02:21:56]Kind of getting heavy now. Plus a bit hot.

[02:22:25]Apparently they have to get this part right.

[02:22:36]League though.

[02:23:00]What is this one?

[02:23:21]Heat. Heat.

[02:23:41]Okay, so this is probably going to take a bit of time as is always, but luckily I get to listen a bunch of Taylor songs while I try to drill through this part.

[02:23:56]But you guys, huh?

[02:24:05]What happened there?

[02:24:07]You guys get to listen a bunch of weird drill noises.

[02:24:22]That definitely took longer than 13 seconds.

[02:24:36]36 minutes.

[02:24:52]Oo, look at that bit.

[02:24:55]Wow, this is how adults play Legos.

[02:25:00]By the way, not the pin. It's hard.

[02:25:23]Oh man, that's perfect.

[02:25:35]Heat. Heat.

[02:25:55]Heat.

[02:26:19]Heat.

[02:26:22]Heat. Heat.

[02:26:57]Yeah, all things considered, I think that's actually really good.

[02:27:08]Unless the hole doesn't match up, then I'm pretty much good.

[02:27:16]Is that okay?

[02:27:21]Oh man, that actually lines up pretty good.

[02:27:31]It's actually perfect. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the pin should come through that nicely.

[02:27:38]Although, and the little extra plate that we had on the bucket, I think I need to install that after uh getting the bin inside the hole. Then I know where the plate exactly needs to be.

[02:27:57]So, I can't install that right now, I think. But I think this part should do the trick.

[02:28:09]boiling water. Agree.

[02:28:12]I'm just glad I didn't need to buy anything extra for this.

[02:28:19]Yeah, looks like it fits the other side perfectly as well.

[02:28:37]But I think I need to add some reinforcements to this lip area.

[02:28:44]May bend that.

[02:28:53]I think I'm going to try to build it up with world.

[02:28:57]It's not a lot of area. Should be pretty fast.

[02:30:01]Yeah.

[02:30:07]That should be really okay. I think Guess we'll see how that will hold up.

[02:30:41]But um I think that's about it for this part right now.

[02:30:46]I was thinking maybe add some uh you know extra blade pieces like we did on the bone bar just kind of weld them on that but uh I think it's not necessary.

[02:31:01]I don't see myself breaking that.

[02:31:07]I mean, if we try to lift like excessive amounts, then maybe like this part is just going to break off.

[02:31:17]But, uh, separating the two plates, I don't see that happening. No way.

[02:31:23]Uh, maybe later. Now, I was thinking maybe later once we put the thing on the frame, then uh maybe then I'm going to add a couple of extra plates here because I definitely want to weld that. So, if I add like a piece of plate on top, then I can't properly weld the bottom plate, right? It's just going to be welded on the top plate. So, maybe let's try to weld this thing to the frame first and then figure out if we can add any extra material there.

[02:31:54]Right now, let's go with that. I just need to do one more.

[02:32:01]Oh, the agony. I mean, why can't we just take copy paste? That would be the easiest option.

[02:32:10]But yeah, got to point me.

[02:32:18]By the way, I already given it some dot.

[02:32:20]I'm going to make the connection.

[02:32:31]Basically, I'm really glad I did not cut that plate off. I'm actually going to need that.

[02:32:45]Anyway, basically, I'm really glad I did not cut that piece off because I'm going to need that. So, I'm going to need to weld that cap shut again.

[02:32:56]I'm just going to take another piece like that, put it there, and then add another plate on top, which will tie the two pieces together. I also need to connect that part to the party as well.

[02:33:08]So, it's going to be holding on from these three points. One, two, three. And I think that's should be pretty good.

[02:33:16]So, I need to cut that off the same way.

[02:33:20]I don't have any cutting this remaining at the moment but a while ago have a lot of those sadly these are meant for aluminum I think. Yeah, aluminum. So, I'm not sure if it's going to even cut steel, but uh I do have a lot of them and um I don't have any alum aluminum to work with. So, figured I'm going to try whatever. If it doesn't work, I might as well just throw this away.

[02:34:04]I think it's going to cut still, but it's probably going to wear way very fast.

[02:34:27]Heat.

[02:34:29]Heat.

[02:34:58]Okay. Well, that disappears pretty fast, especially the vinyl bits. However, I can still use them upright. I've had these guys for a really long time now.

[02:35:15]Usually there's I think they're even expired, but there's like no date on them.

[02:35:22]There should be like a expiry date expiry date on them as well.

[02:35:30]2004 on them.

[02:35:33]What the dude? That is really old.

[02:35:38]2004 seems really really old. It's like over 20 years old.

[02:35:44]Holy hell.

[02:35:46]9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 like 20 discs actually.

[02:35:56]Plus, we got some smaller versions. These are 2005.

[02:36:04]But basically, yeah, I've had these since forever. They're expired through the roof. But seems like we can use them up and then we don't need to throw them away. But we have to be careful because they are so expired, they might just explode.

[02:36:24]And truth be told, I thought they're not even going to cut steel.

[02:36:31]Guess that's not the case. They will still cut.

[02:36:39]They just wear away a lot faster.

[02:37:06]Heat.

[02:37:17]Heat.

[02:37:27]Oh, that was definitely faster than going to the supermarket and buying a bunch of cut discs, right?

[02:37:33]But yeah, it took me two full discs to make that cut happen compared to half a disc on the other one. So, these things definitely wear down a lot faster. Uh, but still I can use this up. At least they're not going to go they're not going to stay on the wall there forever. And I'm not going to buy any any discs before I get rid of those. So, I'm going to I'm going to focus on getting rid of these before getting any new discs cuz cuz we're doing that now.

[02:38:17]Anyway, guys, give me a couple of seconds. This should go pretty fast.

[02:39:11]me.

[02:39:31]Heat up here.

[02:40:21]This seems like a neverending world building mission. Listen, right there.

[02:40:38]Oh, never mind. It ended.

[02:40:42]You know, got to give respect to the old saying, whatever has a beginning has an end.

[02:40:52]me. Oh, as it turns out, Smith was pretty much right about everything except the final part where he was deleted.

[02:41:03]But guys, check out my freaking welding table. This is not normal anymore.

[02:41:11]And look at that. Oh my. Don't Don't even get me started on the floor. This stupid ass project is going to kill me.

[02:41:23]But uh and before we fall over and expire, we got to finish this mess.

[02:42:08]Hi guys, that stupid mistake is fixed.

[02:42:12]So the old gap was 80 exactly. The new the new gap has to be 100. So this is easy math, right? 10 cm on both sides.

[02:42:25]It's going to be I'm pretty sure I'm going to mess it up still though.

[02:42:33]I'm probably going to end up welding that thing um somehow over there.

[02:42:44]Please call me.

[02:44:39]You hear that?

[02:44:46]I think I should also put like a spacer blade something there.

[02:44:51]I mean the Volvo bushing on the grappler with it full might might actually, you know, deform this plate kind of inwards. I'm thinking maybe something something to just kind of bridge the gap. I guess maybe I should have installed a wider plate or something like that.

[02:45:22]Looks to me like that plate is not even thin like a dot.

[02:45:29]Seems like eight.

[02:45:31]Hopefully that's not a problem.

[02:45:55]Heat.

[02:46:20]Heat. Heat.

[02:46:48]Don't you just love it when the stick gets stuck and then you when you try to wiggle it off, you just destroy half the goating.

[02:46:59]It feels like it happens so often. It's so annoying.

[02:48:07]Heat. Heat.

[02:48:34]Fancy that.

[02:48:41]Where is this from?

[02:48:46]Yeah, hopefully I have one more.

[02:48:49]Oh yeah, that's still hot.

[02:49:43]Okay, I think that should hold.

[02:49:47]But, uh, the truth be told, it ended up being kind of a messy mount.

[02:50:05]There you go. Now it sticks.

[02:50:09]looks a bit better.

[02:50:17]But anyway, guys, what was that?

[02:50:29]Sounded like someone drew up Give me a couple of seconds. I'm going to quickly do the other side as well.

[02:51:08]Shoot.

[02:51:10]Stupid chemical reaction. Who invited you to the party?

[02:51:21]Stop sticking. You stupid stick.

[02:51:29]bullet right now.

[02:51:52]And welding this side up is much more exciting.

[02:51:55]Control the flame. Don't overcook it.

[02:52:41]Woulders are so lucky. They don't even know. They don't even need to break for a lunch break, right?

[02:52:49]They eat as they work.

[02:53:18]dinner is served, guys.

[02:53:21]Whoops.

[02:53:23]I dropped my sausage.

[02:53:26]The truth be told, I don't think it's it's quite ready yet.

[02:53:49]Look at that guys.

[02:53:52]Medium rare.

[02:53:55]Dude, I should stop making YouTube videos and uh start making hot dogs.

[02:54:04]Wait, Guys, just try to remember um if that hose is broken for no reason, then Um, well, it was already broken before we melted the whole droid. If you recall, I told you there was a there was a leak somewhere here. So, I just assume it was already broken. Just keep that in mind if if we need to deal with this situation in the future.

[02:55:36]We may need to put that somewhere else later.

[02:56:11]I mean, we're almost there. Keep your pants on.

[02:56:34]mean where is that part now? I'm pretty sure I had to put it somewhere else.

[02:56:53]I guess it was in high demand.

[02:57:23]Oh man, these death discs are wearing way faster than I can count to 10.

[02:57:32]Don't worry guys, I got about 13 left.

[02:57:36]So far, I haven't been hit in the face, but I am wearing a face mask now just in case.

[02:57:53]Now the interesting part is that the first 20 or 30 mm burns away very slowly but uh once you reach somewhere over there then I think the disc is flying away faster than the m than the steel literally. So that's kind of interesting.

[02:58:12]Not sure why it's done.

[02:59:09]Yeah, that looks pretty good.

[02:59:14]One more.

[02:59:16]One more of these.

[03:00:01]Nothing gets wasted, guys.

[03:00:10]Except if you decide to get drunk or die in GTA, then you're wasted.

[03:00:30]Oh my, that part was extremely annoying.

[03:00:36]Hopefully not for you guys though.

[03:01:35]from here probably.

[03:01:59]Okay, guys. So, here's the situation.

[03:02:02]I'm not going to fully weld this shot because I can't guarantee if they're on the right spot or not. So, I'm going to do like um let's call it the technical weld. So, it shouldn't break when we pick the grappler up with the Volvo.

[03:02:18]But, we just need to like confirm if it's good. Maybe we need to adjust these guys left and right.

[03:02:28]Right now the numbers are telling me that uh you know we're good exactly 100 from center to center. So that that's the Volvo ding. And then the bottom bottom thing also needs to be 100. It's kind of hard to catch them. So let's just kind of add 15 mm there. So this is 101 3 minus 15. So it's almost 100. It's basically on the spot there. But still, I'm pretty sure something's messed up and it's not going to pick it up properly. But if it will, then I can finally w it shut. Uh perhaps add some reinforcements as well. And I also need to make that stop thing, you know, at the bottom where the Volvo's um loader frame part will hit this part. So, just like the just like we had on the bucket. So, the bottom pin actually doesn't need to is not designed to uh take the load, you know, that's that's just for securing the attachment.

[03:03:40]That's not a load thing. it it needs to have some extra plate down there for that. But uh you know, as of right now, I have even no idea where to install that. So, we need to mount this guy on the guy and then we can do the next step. So, give me a couple of seconds. I'm going to do that technical weld.

[03:04:09]What do you think, guys? Will that hold?

[03:04:11]Six little seams on both sides. We just need to pick it up, see if it matches or not. I'm not going to immediately start ramming into concrete walls.

[03:04:24]May maybe, but uh that takes care of that part. My only words are something on the lines of um doub.

[03:04:38]But uh I think this part actually came out pretty good. kind of looks like poop, but uh there's a lot of poop welded together there. So, maybe it will hold. I think it should be pretty solid.

[03:04:55]Pushing pulling forces included.

[03:04:59]Thing shouldn't fold in anywhere. Got the hydraulics though. And let's get rid of that cylinder. And then I think we can also remove one set of hoses.

[03:05:14]Oh man, here's have removed the thing before even starting the build. There's some idiot welded points of steel in the way now.

[03:06:17]It's kind of hard.

[03:06:21]Shouldn't be that hard.

[03:06:26]Maybe I'm not the only one who decided to convert NPT to a PFP.

[03:06:38]It wouldn't be the first one, right?

[03:06:41]So, that one went there. Needs to needs to go where now?

[03:06:56]there.

[03:07:05]I think these won't match up.

[03:07:43]Look at that. I think that's going to go there nicely.

[03:07:57]The hydraulic guys are loving me right now.

[03:08:03]But I think this actually doesn't match up.

[03:08:06]Or maybe there's not enough clearance for the nut to turn because that thing is against the frame.

[03:08:13]I think there's actually something wrong with the threads. immediately get stuck.

[03:08:20]And it did come off unusually hard.

[03:08:24]So maybe the dresser smacked.

[03:08:45]It just gonna pops out of that hole.

[03:08:51]Looks like it's going now. Had to force it a bit.

[03:08:55]Now there's something wrong with the threads. Yeah. But whatever. At least we got it in there.

[03:09:03]This this this type of hose seals by uh tightening the nut and nothing much else.

[03:09:12]So that hose went there.

[03:09:15]which went there.

[03:09:19]And uh this hose needs needs to go there. But I don't know. This seems a bit short.

[03:09:28]Also, it's kind of facing the wrong way.

[03:09:38]Yeah.

[03:09:40]Very good.

[03:09:46]Looks like we got a bit lucky on the hydraulic side.

[03:09:51]Didn't really need to weld anything together.

[03:09:57]Kind of rare.

[03:10:00]Truth be told, though, I think I'm still going to need to take I need to take all the hydraulics hydraulic hoses off the thing before painting anyway. It's not really that important right now what the situation look like, right?

[03:10:21]It would be great if I could turn that guy a bit higher though.

[03:10:33]Really old steel lines down there.

[03:10:36]And the other side, one was replaced at some point. replaced with a rubber hose.

[03:10:40]I'm guessing um it's just kind of rusted through. And technically, I'm not a fan of uh steel lines, but guys, the they do last longer than the rubber dings that that's why they installed them in the factory because by the time they finally rush through, you have probably went through like 10 rubber hoses.

[03:11:03]Am I right?

[03:11:19]Look at that mess. Look at that mess, guys.

[03:11:24]Kind of hard to access.

[03:11:27]I mean, or maybe not.

[03:11:51]That should work. No problem, I think.

[03:11:54]And that should also get out of the way nicely.

[03:12:04]There's definitely something going on with that thread.

[03:12:12]Shouldn't be this hard.

[03:12:38]Look at that, guys. Let's go. Let's go build another log splitter. Oh, man. This is hard.

[03:12:49]But dude, I think that's it.

[03:12:54]Oh, wait. One more thing actually. Do actually I think I'm not going to add this this thing back.

[03:13:16]They're kind of short anyway, right? So nice.

[03:13:36]Only one more thing remaining. It's kind of important. We need to name the guy.

[03:13:43]The name is kind of obvious. I think I also hinted hinted it at some point.

[03:13:50]I can't recall what episode that was from.

[03:13:54]This thing just has taken forever to build. But um more on that later.

[03:14:23]Cure crap.

[03:14:25]No, guys, that's not the name. I'm kind of confused if the crappler is with with two or won't be grappler police pumper.

[03:14:37]I I think it's with two then.

[03:14:39]>> Yeah.

[03:14:52]One moment.

[03:15:01]And with that, the stupid mission has ended.

[03:15:06]Drop the mic moment. Well, to be honest, not really. Still got loads of work to do. But, um, I would say like maturity of the stuff is finished now. And, uh, dude, it's been one hell of a journey.

[03:15:23]Honestly, I can't even believe uh we have got this far, you know, and considering how we started off this project by having that little center part on the floor and trying to figure out what to do next, man.

[03:15:39]And uh now we're here. Look at this guy, dude. Holy This is by far the biggest project I've ever done and most likely ever will do. Big ass dude. We started that thing u 18 of February I started that thing and right now it's six six of March so that's 20 10 plus 16 days yeah 16 days exactly so a little bit over two weeks to build that thing and I think I did it nonstop actually I didn't do it non-stop up.

[03:16:22]There's bunch of there was some movie nights and uh uh concert nights, you know, that sort of business. So, I I'm guessing maybe like 13 days then two weeks, something like that. Dude, two weeks to build something like this. That's actually pretty impressive.

[03:16:43]I'm kind of impressed with myself right now. Although, maybe it doesn't even work.

[03:16:48]That would be kind of a bummer. You know, maybe the grappler doesn't open enough, but we can mint that, I think.

[03:16:56]But yeah, truth be told, I just yesterday started reviewing the first episode of this build, and I was like, I don't I don't want to do anything like that ever again. It's just so much work, you know, and eventually you're just going to get sick of sick of welding.

[03:17:13]It's it's like this was like nonstop welding, bro.

[03:17:18]Even our power bill for the last month was almost 600 arrows. And I'm guessing it's mostly because of that thing. Now, usually our power bill is around 300 arrows, maybe 400 arrows during the winter seasons, but like 600 arrows almost. But, you know, that's not really a problem because Super Sister pays for 50%.

[03:17:42]Now, luckily, she's extremely rich and doesn't notice those bills at all. But, um, yeah, actually, right after this project, I was planning to build another massive building project. But, as of right now, I'm going to abandon that. If you guys are curious what that was about, uh I was planning to build my own concrete mixer.

[03:18:04]But uh because of this because how much time um effort and work this thing actually took, I'm kind of abandoning that project right now. I'm kind of sick of welding. I don't want to even I don't want to do any welding for at least couple of weeks minimal. So we're going to do that project some other time in the future. Not right now. Like you guys saw, it's kind of getting very nice outside. So, starting tomorrow, I'm going to be mostly outside and going to going to stay away from the workshop for a while. Now, as for this dude though, it's probably going to stay inside the workshop as well for a while.

[03:18:45]Uh, I did call up my dude who's going to supply me the parts for the Volvo. So, once I get those parts, I'm going to go work on the Volvo and try to get that thing running. You know, once we achieve that, then we're going to try to bull this guy out of the workshop, mount it on the Volvo and figure out if the quick attach setup works, and then we can also weld that shot completely, maybe reinforce it up and uh whatever else is needed.

[03:19:15]Oh yeah, I need to figure out the hydraulics as well because uh you know these connect these connections won't fit the wall. That guy has like five times bigger hoses and connections and stuff. So maybe we need to rethink the hydraulic connections as well.

[03:19:34]Or maybe we can get like a coupler that is small on one end and gigantic gigantic on the other end. Maybe that will work as well. Apparently, this guy doesn't really require a lot of flow because my little test bed over here actually seems to power it pretty fast.

[03:19:53]Maybe the hoses are fine. You just need like proper connections for the thing.

[03:19:58]But if you do figure that mess out, then uh we also need to test it, right?

[03:20:06]And if the grappler opens up 1.5 m like I explained, whatever. Let's go try to pick something up. probably that brush pile. I actually want to build it higher. Right now, it's kind of sitting low. I want to build it higher so I have more room to put new stuff in it. But, uh, if it doesn't work, then we need to rethink something. If you guys have some suggestions as well how to rethink the pivoting situation without any major reworks then um comment down below I guess. But uh right now I think the best option probably is to just kind of migrate that hole somewhere over there which is going to open up the GL a lot more without changing the bottom position.

[03:20:58]Right. I know. But no, all in all, I guess I'm really happy how this thing has turned out. You whenever I was working at my plywood factory place um and um these crafters were were running around the lot every day, I always always like imagined that dude, I'm going to build that one day. That's going to be a thing and I'm going to make it happen. And now here we are.

[03:21:24]That's the thing. Now, it's one to think about, to dream about something, but it's entirely it's entirely something else to actually make the thing happen, right? I personally think that having this type of lock grappler on a front end loader is like the coolest attachment um you can have. Maybe not as useful.

[03:21:50]I'm pretty sure there are a lot more useful attachments, but how it makes the loader look, you know, it's just kind of looks well sexy, right? It makes the loader look super sexy in my opinion. But maybe that's just me.

[03:22:09]Maybe I'm kind of weird that way. So, I can't really wait until I can we can finally mount this guy on the Volvo and see if um the Volvo would break in half or not.

[03:22:20]I don't really have like a date for you guys when I'm going to do that. I guess we just have to go figure out the Volvo end first and then take it from there.

[03:22:28]But obviously, this guy can't stay inside the workshop forever, right? So, we need to get it out of here eventually.

[03:22:36]With that, I think I'm going to wrap this mess up now. I mean, the video got kind of long, I guess, but I'm glad I'm also ending it at the moment because I also plan to like paint the thing and drag it out to that just makes it too long, right? So, I I hope I hope this is fine and looks pretty fine. Fine ass over there.

[03:23:01]Also, a pretty good girl face over there. Oh, by the way, if you're curious how much welding rods I actually wasted on this entire project, then and about 10 kilos of that stuff and uh one entire roll of uh 5 kg welding wire. Also, almost two bottles of gas. Before we wrap up the mess, I guess we can do like a bit of math. how much this thing actually cost me to build out of pocket. So, there was the initial cost of 500 arrows for the thing. Uh, I'm guessing like 300 bucks on power or 900 arrows on the steel order, but I still have quite a bit left honestly.

[03:23:53]One, two, three, four. Four of those plates. I had I had 10.

[03:23:59]one. I had I think three of those. So maybe over half of it.

[03:24:11]I know. Let's say like 600 bucks on steel.

[03:24:16]And uh then we had welding stuff.

[03:24:21]One, two, three boxes.

[03:24:24]70 bucks on the rods. What happened now?

[03:24:28]28. What? What happened, dude? Me.

[03:24:41]Grinding discs. Are we even going to include those?

[03:24:46]Probably not. Oh, we did buy that useless Makita tool which broke immediately. So, maybe we could add that to the mix as well.

[03:24:56]H maybe not. Let's just kind of go with that number. So, out of pocket 1.6 grand.

[03:25:04]Well, to be honest, if you compare it to the uh 9 grand thing, then that's a complete win, right? I mean, this thing probably is even bigger than that thing. But it most likely is not built as good. But still, 1.6 seems kind of lot. I mean, maybe you can find like a used grappler of a farmer or something like that for something cheaper, maybe like a grand, but then again, finding something like this probably not going to happen. Maybe one or two will come on sale per year, even if that. So, with 1.6 grand, I think it's kind of okay, but it's kind of high also. I mean, if I wanted to sell it for whatever reason, I don't think I'm going to get 1.6 grand for it, maybe like 1.5 grand. I'm not really sure how much this thing would cost, honestly. Luckily, I'm not going to sell it. I don't sell anything I make or buy. I just, you know, die and then someone else can deal with the mess. Not my problem. But um I'm going to go now and maybe also clean up the workshop because I'm getting curious how much chiao I'm going to get from the floor.

[03:26:34]To be honest, I was expecting more Well, probably there was a lot more, but most likely I just inhaled the rest.

[03:26:49]Oh, by the way, guys, want to know something funny?

[03:26:53]Or maybe it's not funny, it's more like sad.

[03:26:57]Uh, so yesterday I told you I don't want to do any welding projects for at least couple of weeks.

[03:27:03]And then this uh neighbor, well, it's not like directly my neighbor. He's my neighbor's neighbor neighbor friend. So that confusing line of neighbors dude called me up and said uh that he's log splitting unit or firewood processor needs some repairs, needs a bit of welding.

[03:27:31]Now, all I could imagine was like, great timing, bro. I finished something huge and I don't want to do anything involved with welding, yet you now need me to do weld some stuff together. Well, obviously I said yes because I'm a I'm a good neighbor's neighbor neighbor friend. So, uh he's probably going to show up with his equipment tomorrow and u we're going to try to figure that mess out. But right now, I'm going to go outside because look at this crab.

[03:28:20]Dude, there's one more little bin inside the workshop. Back up. Pack it up.

[03:28:27]What is that now?

[03:28:30]and spring.

[03:28:33]So much action going on. That's why we need to stay outside, right?

[03:28:38]Action is over there to the Lou or something off the lines.