Building a super strong hitch for Goliath, part one, and replacing the exhaust flex joint 

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:39]Well, good morning, YouTube. All right, guys. We're doing something different today. We brought Goliath over to the shop. Goliath has never been here before. It's the first time even attempting to get him in here. couple of really sharp turns and uh just one of those things we never really needed to, but we've kind of always wanted to. But yeah, we've got a project today that's going to require us to use some welders as well, we're starting it today. I don't know what's going to get done today. So, uh we decided that it's better to try to do it over here on the concrete rather than over there in the gravel where we don't have a power supply and trying to run generators off of welders. Welders off of generators.

[00:01:16]You know what I'm trying to say. So, yeah, we uh we brought it here. Now, we wanted to back it in further, but we were unable to get the struggle bus to start. We tried jump starting it. It was a fail. The battery is so dead in it that even with the DY on high idle, it wasn't charging it fast enough. So, we went ahead and plugged in another battery charger and just back Goliath in on an angle here to work on what we need to work on, which is all going to be right here in the back. All right, guys.

[00:01:40]So, today we're working on a hitch. And I've mentioned this in the past that I've wanted to rebuild this hitch and it just hasn't hasn't come to fruition. But if you look down here, you can kind of see that it leans down a little bit a little bit more than I like it to. So, let's feed a little bit of backstory here. When we first got Goliath, there was this 2-in receiver already on the back of here. And basically, the construction of Goliath is there's some 6-in I-beam that runs across the back here, like a back bumper, and there are 6-in I-beam that runs forward to the frame. Well, that 2-in receiver tube, basically, they just cut a hole through that I-beam, slid it through, and welded it in. And then the tail that hung out, they put a piece of C channel across it and welded it from frame rail to frame rail to give the back of a support.

[00:02:32]And towing small trailers, like motorcycle trailers and stuff, which as far as I can tell was all the previous owners did, um, it was fine. In fact, it only had a 2in ball on it. It wasn't a big heavy duty hitch. It was never designed to be.

[00:02:47]Well, one time we were going from Myrtle Beach up to the Ohio Bike Week. It was the first time we had really tried to travel with the big stacker trailer on the back and we're going through West Virginia someplace. We're with Wes and Cindy and I noticed that it was trying to rip the hitch out of the back of it.

[00:03:03]So, um, we ended up taking the trailer off of the back of the Goliath, hooking it to the back of the DY that Katie was driving, and we got it the rest of the way to Ohio, where I had strengthened the hitch. So, I got some 2x3 uh 1/4in wall tubing, and I welded a piece in, cut holes in it, put another piece where that uh C channel was, cuz it had bent that C channel up. Long story short, I strengthened it, and it made a huge difference. But over time, the metal on the stickout part is just starting to stretch and fatigue because what I started with still wasn't really designed for the kind of weight that we pull with it right now. So, you can see there's a gap here where this is leaning down and it has stretched the opening.

[00:03:46]Structurally, it hasn't come apart. It's just stretching it. So, a couple of years ago, what we did is we welded this 2x3 brace underneath it to kind of triangulate it. and it has made it much better. And it hasn't really continued to get much worse, but it still needs some attention. So, we're going to rip this out, which is going to be challenging. And we're going to redesign it. And we're going to redesign it to handle a 40,000lb trailer, which is more than what we haul, but we're going to handle it design it to build that much.

[00:04:19]Build it designed to handle that much. I can't talk today. So Talon is pulling off those trim panels that kind of cover everything up. And I'm going to start pulling the draw bar out of it. Now, we use a bulletproof hitch draw bar, which is rated for like 35 or 36,000 lbs. Even though it's only a 2 in, it's still got that rating. So, we don't have an issue with that. It's just the housing that it slides into. All right. So, I had to beat the draw bar out of it. And look, you can see it shows on camera, but there is a slight curve to it. It is bent just slightly. You see the way it sticks off? I keep grinding the bottom of the ball off, too. Might as well just cut that ball completely out of there.

[00:04:57]But we're going to put a whole new hitch in it anyways once we do this because we're going to convert it from a 2-in receiver to a 3-in receiver. Same weight rating, but in my mind, a 3-in receiver has got to be stronger than a 2-in receiver. No matter what, if it's built the same way, it's still a big solid shank. They're both heat treated, both the same manufacturer.

[00:05:18]If the 2 in is rated for 35,000 lbs, the 3-in is also rated for 35,000 lbs. I can't help but to think that they've underrated the 3-in. So, that's the route we're going to go. We're going to go as strong as we possibly can so that I never have an issue again. All right.

[00:05:33]So, we've got access to the entire hitch system here. And as you can see where the hitch runs through the back I beam comes through. This is the piece that I added before where there was just you see the little weld that was there. It was just a small piece of channel that went across here that supported it. And my piece hasn't moved at all. This is not budged. And I put this piece in here cuz it used to be channel and sink in kind of like that one does. All of that is good. It's just this tubing right here. But the thing is there's no way to structuralize this really without tying everything back in here.

[00:06:10]So we've got to remove that entire tube.

[00:06:13]Think we're going to use the plasma cutter to just cut this piece out where it's welded in here. Uh same thing on the back and on the front so that we can try to slide this tube out.

[00:06:25]This is going to be the new assembly. So yeah, we're going to a tube with a 3-in diameter or inside opening I should say.

[00:06:33]So this is 4in tubing. It is 3/8 thick wall which is way stronger, way heavier than that. And then we've got the 1/4 in angle underneath it that's going to cradle it, which is going to make that even stronger. And of course, it'll all be seam welded underneath. And then we're going to fill up here on the top as well. So that it'll just kind of make that even stronger. I've got this piece of 3/16 in here just because the 3-in receiver, it's got a little bit of play there. So this little piece of 316 that we'll tack weld in here will just take up that slop.

[00:07:08]But that has got to get cut to length and replace that. And that will simply be the first phase. If some of you that have been around for a long time remember that a couple of years ago, I was mocking up a plate underneath here to strengthen this. And uh I had it all drawn out and mapped out where I want it. I cannot find that plate now. I don't know if it's here at the shop or if it's at home. But when all of that is done, that really piece of thick plate, I think that was a half inch thick plate is going to get put up underneath the whole thing and welded. And it will tie everything together as well. It will weld to the very back beam. It'll weld to the more forward beam and both frame rails. And then that's where we will burn the holes in it for the chain hooks instead of just having these little eyelets on the side. That way the whole thing is then super structuralized.

[00:07:59]That's the plan. All right. So telling us pulling out our little yes welder.

[00:08:02]You guys seen that in the past video that we've used. It's got the air compressor right there. And uh we're going to get set up to try to start cutting this out.

[00:08:36]fail.

[00:08:59]Stop budging.

[00:09:05]Definitely not all the way through in some places. Thing is, I'm trying not to cut into the I beam. Trying to just cut through this.

[00:09:11]>> Well, Mother Nature forced us to stop for a couple of minutes. Laying down there trying to get the last couple cuts. We knew the weather was coming. We could smell it. We could feel it dropping in temperature. But yeah, we didn't get that cut off just yet, but we had to stop. I didn't want the welder or the plasma cutter sitting out there in the rain. All right. Well, that was a very short-lived rain shower. By the time we got everything put away, it stopped raining. Don't know if it's going to come back or not. It's still still pretty cloudy and yucky, but I think that one raincloud was all we really had to worry about for the moment.

[00:09:46]Heat.

[00:10:04]Heat.

[00:10:30]All right. Well, getting this piece out, which I knew was going to be the most challenging part. Welding the new stuff in won't be that bad. Yeah, we're fighting with it. But you can see where I've got it cut around. I got it cut underneath. even got to cut around there. But there are welds back in here that I can't get to. I may have to cut this bigger in order to get to it. Uh it's just challenging to say the least to do what we got to do. But it's about quitting time for today. I got some other things to go do. And usually Talon tries to be off work between 4:00 and 5 and it's 4:30 now. So we're going to come back to this tomorrow.

[00:11:11]All right, guys. It's been a few days since we've been over here working on Goliath. Memorial Day weekend has come and gone. And if you've been watching the Homestead channel, you know that we got some really good progress made on Talon and Sierra's house, turning a old porch into a sun room. Uh we made a video on that. And then we just did some yard clean up and burning some stuff and everything at the house on Memorial Day as long as a or as well as a family cookout. But now we're back over here on Tuesday and we've got to finish cutting the old hitch out of Goliath. And it's definitely challenging. This is the hardest part of the job. Welding the new stuff in won't be that bad. It's getting the old stuff out that's already welded in and welded in places that are hard to get to to cut the welds to get it out.

[00:11:53]But nevertheless, we got to try. And again, all weekend we've had rain. It looks like there's going to be rain today, but we're going to try to do what we can while we've got some halfway decent weather. I mean, it's cool and it's cloudy, but it's not raining on us at the moment. So, let's get back in here.

[00:12:22]Heat.

[00:12:38]Heat.

[00:12:57]Heat up here.

[00:13:10]Heat. Heat.

[00:13:52]All right. It took a little bit of work, but we got the tail end of it. Oops. I didn't mean to zoom that far. Got the tail end of it out. Had to get it really hot, though. Cut those welds. Now, we just got this midsection here.

[00:14:11]All right, guys. It took hours. It's uh about4 to 4 now. We've been here since I don't know. I'll have to look and see what time that first clip was, but it's been a while just trying to cut that metal out. It's been really challenging to be able to get to everything. All right. So, it looks like the very first clip that I recorded, lose my balance.

[00:14:31]Today was at 12:17. It's now 3:45. So, yeah, it's been what 3 and 1/2 hours to get to this point. It's been a real pain in the butt. What makes it really challenging is there even with a torch, there's areas, deerfly just tried to bite me on the hand. Anyway, there's areas like when you get in there with a torch because you're going through multiple layers and like back in corners, like you can't get the slag to blow away. So, even though I'm clearly cutting through the material that I need to cut through, the slag is catching and drying and like cooling basically is what it's doing. And then and it's reattaching. I mean, not as strong as a true weld, but so we finally got to the point where we had to like just cut it out section by section and then get in there with a pry bar. And as like Talon was heating or I was heating the other one almost is prying with a pry bar and driving it in with a hammer to be able to just kind of peel parts of it out of there. Not easy. But it's out.

[00:15:31]We still got a lot of trimming to do to make the new system fit. And the raindrops are starting. So we're going to pack up. Call it a day for right now.

[00:15:39]I just wanted to get this out today. So now it's really about rebuilding. We got to size it and rebuild it.

[00:15:48]All right, guys. Next day we are back over at the shop again. It rained almost all night from the time we stopped. We got some overcast slash partially cloudy.

[00:16:04]Yeah, a couple blue spots, but not very many today. Anyway, so we're we're back up here trying to get this done. Uh, at this point, we've got to we've got to clean up our slaggy mess from cutting everything out. We've got to make our hole a little bit bigger and try to do that as clean as possible so that we can get this new metal slid into place where we want it and get a really good weld on it. It's not going to be easy to get to some of the areas, but uh pretty sure we can make it happen. So, Talon is got the cut off wheel. We've got the plasma cutter out. We got the torches ready.

[00:16:37]We're going to do some more So, what we've done is made a template to uh give us the shape of the assembly we're putting in. Yeah, I know it looks like a loaf of bread, but the angle iron around that 4-in tubing is like this.

[00:17:06]That way, we can kind of get our lines, draw it on the metal, get everything where we want it. so we can trace out a a decent line.

[00:17:18]>> Well, because both of us can't be in there cutting metal out or grinding metal out at the same time, we're at a point where it's a oneperson job. I'm focusing my attention to something different. There's a short piece of flex pipe underneath the passenger door on Goliath for the exhaust system to be able to get the the turn out to this turn out here. and well, it's come loose or rotted through. So, I've got a new piece of flex pipe. So, I'm going to try to squeeze it in there. It's not easy to work in here. I've been in here before and I've done this exhaust once already.

[00:17:49]It's a nightmare. So, I started by releasing the bolts on this, but I also wanted to mention that, you know, it's been a couple months now. We still been using this CC CI impact driver, and it has been awesome. Now, the only issue we've had with is you see these four bolts right here that go around the perimeter that hold like the back of the body to the front of the head. After the first couple uses, those started to back out and get loose. So, Talon put a little bit of blue Loctite on them, snug them back down, and there have been zero issues since. This thing has just been working well. They even sent me this set of impact sockets, which we've been using the heck out of as well. It's hard to make a whole video on impact sockets, but at some point I'm going to have to.

[00:18:31]I wanted to use them before making the video. So, I've mentioned them a couple of times. Little short clips, but yeah, this is uh working out really, really well so far. The quality of the product seems to be really good, especially for how affordable they are. All right, so it's been a bit. Talon's making pretty good progress over here getting that hole opened up. Uh some parts we've cut out. Other parts we have literally just been using the heat to kind of flow the slag out of the way because there's areas in there that we can't get it to blow out because it hits an obstacle behind it and just falls down and then puddles up and and mountains up actually, I should say, and uh becomes quite difficult. But he's getting there.

[00:19:11]There were times where like he was heating it up and I come in with a crowbar and a hammer and while he was getting it hot, I would kind of get in underneath it and chip it out and get it to where it would break free and then it would cool down and not bond to the next spot.

[00:19:24]Big pain in the butt, but we're almost there. I've also got a pain in the butt over here on the exhaust. You see, I've got the stack down on the ground. I got the piece of flex pipe off of this side, but the other end of the flex piece, not so easy to get to. So, I've got this little gap to work with here.

[00:19:42]And uh right there, you can see the other piece of flex. But you see the clamp? Well, the bolts in the clamp, the heads of the bolts are facing the other way.

[00:19:53]So, I either need like a 7 and 1/2 ft long extension, which well I don't have.

[00:19:59]Um there's room above the transmission to get all the way across. I can see them clearly from the other side. I just can't reach them from underneath.

[00:20:07]There's not much room between the air tank and the frame rail and the transmission to be able to get up in there. But I got to try. It's either that or I got to pull the turbo and everything else and pull the whole assembly out from the front, which I don't want to do. So, yeah, I'm going to get down there and try to get these bolts broke loose. Then maybe I can reach in there with a long drift punch or something and tap that part of the uh the flex pipe off the end of the hard. I have basically put together every 1/2-in drive extension I could possibly find.

[00:20:37]Put them together. It's quite a bit.

[00:20:40]And with that, I was able to reach through from the other side and get what I thought was getting the socket on those the heads of those bolts. Try to break them loose. It spun. It felt like it was go back. They're not even budged.

[00:20:52]Angle just wasn't right. I just just couldn't do it. So, I've resorted to pulling off the exhaust brake and trying to pull out the exhaust. Now I've got it kind of wedged in there, but I get sidetracked. Come back here and and help Talon for a little bit. Making some progress on the hitch as well. So here we're kind of beginning the mockup.

[00:21:08]We've got the opening cut in these pieces. We just need to cut it back there. So he's marking it like tracing it out where it's going to go. So we can try to get that one as close and tight as possible.

[00:21:22]Got a little bit of a gap here. A little bit more than what we wanted, but we'll be able to make it work.

[00:21:27]And no, it's not going to stick out that far. Uh we're just not cutting it to length until we get everything exactly the way we want. And then we'll cut all the pieces to length and weld them all in. All right, so Talon is taking the plasma cutter, making those final cuts on the back of Goliath, and I finally got the rest of the exhaust pipe out so I can get to the two bolts I couldn't get to without pulling it out.

[00:22:07]All right. So, now that I got the clamp off, I need to get this piece of flex pipe off. And in my experience, it didn't come off very easy. So, I'm going to use the cut off wheel and cut a slit in it. And it usually comes off pretty easy. All right. So, scored through and then it just kind of pops loose. Um, I didn't realize how much pipe I actually had inside there, but it broke right at the end of that pipe, which means this pipe is almost long enough to reach that because you can see there wasn't there wasn't much on there either. Looks like I won't need very big of a piece of flex. And I almost wish it get away without the flex and just use a muffler clamp there. That would be great. In either case, just in case, I flipped the bolts around to my clamp as well. Also, when I put that clamp back on, you can see it's an offset clamp. So, I could have just flipped the whole clamp, but at least this way the bolts have been coming through this direction. And maybe I can position them to where I can get to them when it's all together next time. Well, so sure enough, I got down down there.

[00:23:06]I've got the the main head pipe basically mocked back up into place. I don't have everything super super tight up there. And I still got one mid clamp support to put in. And then I take my curvy piece that bends in and it's like a double S turns out and then turns up.

[00:23:23]And yeah, the pipes actually hit each other. So there's absolutely no reason really for a flex pipe here. What I really probably need is just a 5-in coupler that I can clamp on there or a coupler clamp to clamp on there. But it's actually so tight it's still pushing the exhaust up against this, which is the way it was. And to make a long story short, it's because I was I paid someone to fix this exhaust once before and they welded in all sorts of crooked and stupid and yeah, it drives me crazy. But then when I added the exhaust brake, I had to push everything back a little bit and I shortened that pipe a little bit, but I ended up getting it so close that I guess the uh don't really need a flex pipe there anymore. So, I'm hoping maybe I can just get another 5- in coupler and a couple more clamps and put it all back together and not have the flex pipe because the flex pipe is the part that fails. This flex pipe's only been here a couple years. Uh 22, I think.

[00:24:24]Yeah, I think it was 22 when I put the flex pipe in here. And yeah, it's it's been burned out for over a year now. So, all right. Well, the pieces are all mocked up going through the front I-beam, the front 2x6 and the rear 2x6. It doesn't come all the way out through it. It dead ends in there. But this way, we still get a full seam weld around all of that when the time comes. Well, our earlier rain shower came. It turned into a beautiful day again. But now it's a little after 4. Talon has gone home for the day. I was going to keep working, but the rain has come back and my head dirty.

[00:25:03]Well, now it's instantly 6:30. Boy, did the rain come down. It just started storming. I had to rush to get all the tools put inside. I sat inside the shop for a little while. Um, and then I was like, you know what? I'm going to run up to O'Reilly. They had a 5-in band clamp that was just a straight band clamp, not a step-up band clamp like the ones I had. So, I went up there to got that.

[00:25:26]And I'm telling you, it just it rained cats and dogs. I think that I literally saw one cat and one dog fall from the sky. I'm not positive, but it was heavy.

[00:25:34]There idiots out there driving with no lights on either. So, like I'm coming down the one road like 55 and all a sudden there's a car in front of me doing 35 with no lights on. Almost didn't see them. Yeah. Anyway, now it's well still cloudy there, but kind of nice over there. Going to try to get a little bit more done before heading home for dinner. So, it looks like I had enough room to take about 1 in off of that. So, I cut a 1-in ring out of it.

[00:25:58]give me a little bit of clearance there because the two pipes were hitting each other before I could get it straight in the hole and lined up. Now, it's still not going to be perfectly straight because this bend coming out here is wrong. If you look the way they welded it, it's cattywampus and you probably can't see on camera, but it's never going to be straight. I'm just going to make it a little straighter. Well, one thing I just noticed about the band clamp that I went and got from O'Reilly is it uses nuts on the backside and bolts instead of the captured nuts in the clip. So, I'm going to have to put this in a position where I can try to reach in there and hold the nuts while I tighten them down, which remember I couldn't get to them the way they were, but it was set up like this. Maybe if I rotate this down or put it sideways, maybe get in there with a wrench and a ratchet. I don't know. Definitely not going to be as easy as I hoped. All right, flash cut jump here. Right, it's the next day now. I was up here working on this on this exhaust until about 8:30 last night and well, it started to rain on me again and I ran into a problem and I just said screw it. I'm done for the day and I went home. I kind of didn't record that part. But here's what happened. And as I got the exhaust pipe or the stack I should say back in place and arranged my joint where that clamp was come undone. As I tighten this, it moved that bottom enough to where that clamp won't even reach. So I think at this point I've got no choice but to use my flex pipe.

[00:27:27]So as I go down here and look, you can see where it has pulled that section of pipe out of the clamp. And now it's too far that clamp will not reach. So, got no choice but to use the flex pipe. The angles on them are just slightly off, too. So, there's no way to even put like a a coupler in there. Not straight anyway. So, flex pipe is going to be our best option. And I've already got the flex pipe laying around. So, that's just what we're going to do. And wouldn't you know it, just my luck. It's been mostly sunny for hours now. It's almost 3:30 in the afternoon. I'm just not getting up here because I had a doctor's appointment and some other things to deal with this morning. Um, and like I said, it's been really nice. As soon as I start coming up here, I get sprinkles, but I think it was shortlived. I still got some nice blue skies that way, but cloudy, dark skies that way.

[00:28:14]Rain chances are low, but we might get a little bit.

[00:28:24]Well, I finally got it in there and it sounds so much better. All the noise, all the exhaust is coming out up top now. Now, I know the pipes are not pointed the right direction. Decided to change this one a little bit. See if I like it better. They're pointed more back rather than out to the side. Not sure which one I like best yet. Leave a comment down below. Let me know. So, I know the pipe is still crooked. I don't like any of it, but at some point, I really need to go through and redo the exhaust system on it. I want to go to an 8 in stack and I want to reroute things differently and bring them further down towards the ground instead of stopping way up there. I think all in all it'll look really great when it's said and done. That's why I didn't want to put too much effort into fixing this because I know it's not my my final fix or like the way I really want to do it. So, for right now, it is what it is. All right, guys. Yet another day over here at the shop. I finished up the whole exhaust thing yesterday. I even heat cycled it once before I left. I just let Goliath warm up, let all those pipes get nice and hot, and let them cool down overnight. I think I'm going to do the same thing again today and I can go back and retorque all that stuff after it's heat cycled at least twice. Hopefully that helps. But today we are back working on the hitch. Um we're we're getting ready to start cutting things to length. So again, here is our mockup and we're thinking this line here is we're going to cut for the overall length.

[00:29:41]We're going to cut the angle plates on the sides a little bit further back.

[00:29:46]That way we've got room to run a bead of weld to bond the two of those together without being right on the edge of the hitch itself. Um, but we think that's going to work. We even marked where the holes are going to be for the hitch pins to go in. We're going to do a double pin system. So, you see the hitch has got a spot for two holes and that's really there for adjustability. But, I think I'm going to put two pins in it just for strength. Now, keep in mind the new hitch we're getting is going to be a 3 inch. This is a two and a that is a three. The new hitch will be that size to fit into that big hole. And well, it's because I just want things to be as strong as absolutely possible because of the abuse that this takes.

[00:30:26]So, we're getting ready to cut this stuff to length and do our final mockup before we start welding stuff in. Don't know if we're going to get to welding today. We've got to fill a couple spaces as well.

[00:30:49]Heat up here.

[00:31:23]Heat. Heat.

[00:31:39]Heat.

[00:31:42]Heat.

[00:31:51]All right. Now, with those pieces cut, that is going to be our stub out. It's a little bit longer than the original one was, uh, but that's so we can fit the two pins in it rather than the one pin.

[00:32:11]So, I think that will work well. And yeah, we're going to mock up the rest of it real quick and before we start welding anything together. All right.

[00:32:18]I'm not sure if I mentioned it in this video, but this is that steel plate that I was looking for that before I had mocked out like where the tow rings and stuff like that were going to go. This will kind of kind of come out like this and go underneath. We'll have to put a filler underneath there. We still got some slag we've got to cut off at the bottom to make it all fit. But that's kind of how the overall hitch is going to go once we get it all welded in and secure.

[00:32:43]All right, so we have our base receiver assembly in here mocked up. We clamped it all together with C clamps and we tacked it into place. Now we're just going to do a finished weld. We're pretty much going to fill this entire seam here on the bottom with a weld and then the two sides. Maybe a few stitch welds here and there, but that's where it is.

[00:33:24]Heat.

[00:33:38]Heat.

[00:34:06]All right, guys. Here is the final mockup.

[00:34:24]Now, the jack is just holding that bottom plate up against the bottom of Goliath. I decided to scoot that plate out because this beam hangs a little bit lower than this beam does. So, I basically slid it back and butted it right up to it. And then we will be able to weld around all inside here, all inside there, weld all around this, weld around this. Eventually, we're going to weld D-ring plates in there as well.

[00:34:48]We're going to put another plate underneath here just to fill that gap.

[00:34:53]But you can see we've got all of our angle welded to our tube. Yeah, it's going to be super super strong.

[00:35:01]But I think that is all for today. We're going to come back and finish welding this. There will be a part two and I hate to do it. I wanted to finish this all in one, but it's been more than a week now that we've been working on this and I haven't got a video because it's been taking so long to do this. So, I'm tossing whether I put this video out now. I know that we're not going to work on it over the weekend. So, we won't be back over here till Monday, which puts us into next week before I get you a video. I'd really like to get something to you guys this weekend. So, either or I got to find something else to make a video on this weekend and then uh I can save this one till next week. All right, back out at the house now. I've been home for a couple hours actually. I've been out playing with the tractor, clearing some areas and getting rid of some down trees and stuff like that just uh just to kill some time and put some hours in on the tractor. I didn't record any of it, so none of that will be on the Homestead channel, but um it's about 7:30 at night now and I'm I'm pooped really. I'm about ready to go take a shower and uh settle down and actually Katie's going to trim my beard and all that stuff too. We've got a wedding tomorrow to go to. So, um that's why we're not getting any worked on anything tomorrow. But hopefully Monday we'll get that hitch all welded in and uh the new hitch should be arriving. The actual hitch itself, I should say the receiver, right? The draw bar should be arriving and we'll go over what we bought there.

[00:36:20]A little bit different than what we got.

[00:36:22]Same but different, right? Oh, I just got to say like cutting and welding. I mean, we spent like a week on this and it's it's kind of worn me out. That and the exhaust that was it was challenging.

[00:36:32]It doesn't sound like an overly difficult job, but it was just awkward body positions trying to reach into places you just can't reach. Either way, I'm glad that that's done. I'm glad that the hard part of the hitch is done. I know at this point we still got to weld everything in and that's still kind of hot and tiring as well, but uh yeah, we're we're this close to having that project finished and I'm definitely ready for it. Now, I do have to say um somebody mentioned in the comments in a past video when we put that carbide tip blade on that chopsaw, that chopsaw was made for more of a fiber type blade. And uh someone said that you need a slower speed saw and and I realized like the evolution chop saws or whatnot, they they do spin at a slower speed, but I got to say that thing just cut like butter. I didn't put a lot of pressure on it. I just I just kind of let it eat at the rate that it wanted to eat and it worked out very very well. So I'm very thankful that we have that. Anyway guys, we're going to end this one here. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed it.

[00:37:30]Until the next time I see you, keep those engines running. And in the description below, I'll leave links to the video from Hey Nice Bike. He put up the video where he interviewed me in Merl's Inlet. And uh I mentioned it on the Homestead channel the other day, but I know that not everybody watches the same channel. So I'll put it here as well. And if I can find the link also the um the biker nurse radio podcast that we did back in Panama. I believe that is live now. I haven't actually seen that one myself. He talented. He saw it. So, yeah, I'll try to find links to both of those to put in here.