jroark wrote:Also missed your great posts John. How's that Ranger 8?

Haven't started it for a while.
Has a new battery and amsoil in the engine tho.

Otto Nobedder wrote:John,

Glad you're back, and glad your absence was due to being busy. Busy is a good problem to have.
I'll check that slideshow out.

Steve S

Thanks Steve.
Hope you've been well

paul_s wrote:That looks like a big task. It must have been challenging but rewarding to build all of that stuff. I hope that they find lots of gold to pay for all of the materials and labor for the machinery. Another job well done as usual.

Yes, it got very tiring.

Thank you.

ldbtx wrote:Nice to have you back, John. Been missing your projects...and that great Alaskan scenery. Headed over to YouTube now for the slide show.

Larry

Thanks.

rick9345 wrote:No mountains!
Your Alaska?
Big country, big stuff.

I'll get some mountains for you.

exnailpounder wrote:Missed you being around John! Always a pleasure to see what you've gotten yourself into up there in Gods country. I didn't celebrate on Nov.9 because I still couldn't believe it but I have celebrated every day since. Good to hear from you again!

Thanks man.

Merry Christmas

Really good to see you back here John - miss your epic photo documentary posts & great scenery. That's a big project you got into this time - step up from the usual smaller farm repairs - hope they're paying you well for your super good looking welding - nice to see something like that coming t...

John - Sure we remember you...you're the guy who spends his time making really, really BIG stuff! And it has finally happened...too much, too big to post in the regular fashion. You're gonna break the internet if you keep this up, you know that, right? That is one mega job. Had a good look. You mus...

And just to assure you all that there is substance in that 20 minute slideshow, here's a few pictures. Hope everyone had a great summer. And didn't celebrate to hard Nov 9th 8-) 8-) :D :D Merry Christmas http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1535551&d=1477549623 http://weldingweb.com...

Hey, I don't know if anyone remembers me, but i'm checking in. This was a Job I worked on off and on this summer. Me and two fitters. Lotta 12 hour days, just welding. They would get everything fit up and I would just weld. Used all kinds of equipment, from a bobcat 225, LN25 with fluxcore, Sa200 bl...

Great stuff.

Issac is one bad man

looks oustanding to me.

thumbs up

We been beating that poor old dodge for 6000 miles.
Only thing shes needed is a waterpump

Here's our Ford 7000 for you guys across the pond.

Yes!!

Love it

Oscar wrote:

AKweldshop wrote:I'm checking asap

Burned 130lbs in 9 days, I need more.

So how did it work out for you?

Sorry to confuse.

My post there I meant I had burned 130lbs of the rod I had.
And needed to buy some to restock.

I checked home depot and they just have the cheap stuff.

I'm checking asap

Burned 130lbs in 9 days, I need more.

I don't like to disagree with John ( AK ) he's a great guy & knowledgeable beyond his years - but on a brand new unit I would let it run in with regular mineral oil - do an oil change after say a couple of running hours just to wash out any machining / assembly debris - then another at maybe 20...

Buy 2 quarts of good synthetic oil, (I like amsoil $7 a qt) that engine should take between 1.5 and 2qts.

Engine should run forever then