Happy to see how you're fitting into the neighborhood and introducing us to some great characters.

Farmer , welder, barber and solid neighbor! You are always blessed when you have a great neighbor(s)!!

Tom, glad to see your channel is growing rapidly. As an engineer I really enjoy your thoughtful approach to things as opposed to the seat of the pants, entertainment approach on another channel.

@michaelhancock9636

5 күн бұрын

As a tradesman I can attest that engineers overthink and over complicate things and that with experience seat of the pants production is way more efficient in many respects. As an engineer I can attest that it's best to have a plan as a guide that will often times need to be revised or disregarded completely.

@ghettobirdish

5 күн бұрын

You have to realize 95% of these “builders” have no actual experience with fabricating or engineering. They are just home wrenchers that worked in the construction industry long enough to put 2 and 2 together. Tom is actual millwright/welder. Not really so much “seat of your pants” more “necessity is the mother of invention”

@kylegregory9355

4 күн бұрын

I agree. Side note: it always weirds me out how non-engineers/tradesmen always find themselves up in arms when someone has a positive comment about an engineered or mathematical approach. The "tradesmen" approach works, but that's how you end up with these behemoths that get half the fuel economy because everything is twice as dense as it needs to be, or how it took four times the manpower to work on something because it weighs 400 lbs when it only needed to weigh 75 with proper design. There's a place for both approaches and the engineered design approach is the only reason these tradesmen can afford and purchase a welder to do their craft in the first place.

@dougpark1025

4 күн бұрын

As an engineer I concur with your assessment. I really liked the information on spring back and would enjoy a little more information on the non linearity of the curve that was shown. I like to understand the why of things.

@howardcobb4354

4 күн бұрын

I'm inclined to agree with that. The "other" channel is great, and I've loved watching it , but I feel there is too much entertainment creeping in there for my liking - much happier with plain old seat-of-the-pants. Preferred it before it got quite so slick.

It would be awesome to have Tom Tom as a neighbor. I'd pay to watch him work on stuff. Would be a great education!

I like Tom's approach to his build. A lot of work gets done, when a lot of rework isn't needed or necessary.

Right on for helping out your neighbor we need more people like this in the world to make this world a better place

@pear7777

4 күн бұрын

Tom's up there with the best.

Great job Tom. I’m finding myself watching you more than the outfit just down the street. Very educational and quality work.

Tom Tom you’re a gentleman and a scholar. Literally

Tom, also as an engineer, I approve this video. It was very informative and fun to watch. Keep up the good work.

@zanerasmussen8889

4 күн бұрын

“How do you know someone’s an engineer?” … “they’ll tell you!” Lol just a fun joke.

Your doing a sterling job there Tom...Great to see a craftsman at work.

Hey Tom Tom, That tubing bender looks like it works really well. How bout a "How to build it" for the bender as well as the tubing notcher when you have time? I think it was cool that your farming neighbor ask you to teach him to weld and he was able to pick it up quick as well as the plasma cutter, I hope he will purchase a combo welder, plasma cutter so he will be able to do those welding and plasma cutting chores on his farm himself. Living in farm country myself I know how those little jobs can pop up and stop progress no matter what is being done. That roll bar in Dig Doug looks nice and surely will do it's job if ever needed.

@davebaker489

5 күн бұрын

Ditto 👍

@Papa_Smurf-lz3my

5 күн бұрын

I'd like to add the grinder mounting brackets to the list of "How to build it" projects. I've always liked it. Thanks!

The step-by-step is fantastic! Thanks for these videos Tom...

Throughly impressed but not surprised that you made your own bender and notcher!!! Nice work.

Your roll bar is fitting like a glove!

Tom, I am watching how you handle your metal sheet stock, and I think it could be optimized. Others who use plasma tables maximize what they get out of a sheet by cutting it only with the plasma table. They use run-off and run-on tables. Usually they place the stock onto the table with a forklift. The tables feature kick-up rollers that bring the stock to the precise same height as their plasma table. For you, I suggest a rolling stock table, since your sheets are small enough to slide by hand without a roller. Then you roll the table out to your truck, activate the kick-down so it doesn't move, slide the piece on, deactivate the kick down and roll it into your shop. If there's much difference between the height of your bed and plasma table, then the base of the roller frame on the run-off table could have a screw-operated or hydraulic-ram operated scissor mechanism to let you change its overall height by a few inches, while remaining more-or-less stable. Besides...it would be fun and educational to watch you design and build it.

You get more done working solo than most shops do with a full crew. I love the math.

Good job Tom, you are fixing and building and overcoming faulty eyecrometer readings!! And it always turns out first class!!

At first I was sad that you left MOR. But the more I watch your channel I see it was a good idea!

Hey Tom! Thanks for the chuckle! Oh! And welcome to the human race where we demand perfection of ourselves and give grace to others. I've relabeled my Oops to Rick's. 👍

Love being able to help people out with fabrication etc. - Hate being distracted when I'm on a mission; luckily I shave my head!

Tom Tom is the engineer we need!

Tom, I admire and enjoy your approach to measuring and fitting the components of the roll cage. Reminds me of my Dad and his brother, both tool and die makers and their approach to building anything.

Awesome upgrade on Dig Dug! Excellent methodical approach to the cage build. Great explanations of how/why and project progression. I continue to be amazed at the inventory of 'home built tools'! Keep up the great content, Tom Tom!!

It's such a pleasure to watch you tackle a project with such precision, so everything fits perfectly. The engineer stuff really shows.

Tom, it’s nice to see Dig Dug getting some ❤ Looking forward to see how your vision for Dig Dug plays out.

Very nice job. I'm impressed you made your own bender and notch cutter. 👌

As an apprentice welder - 50 years ago - I learned Always tack only in spots you can hit with your grinder … lesson learned !

Clean work Tom Tom. Always a pleasure to see a craftsman tooling away.

I wish Tom Tom was my neighbor. What a top bloke.

Is it Linear? I think Matt's head just exploded 😅 Tom you're the best!

Lookin' good! Cage and sliders were a necessary addition to Dig Dug.

You know... For a simple rocket scientist... You are not a half bad fabricator. I find it refreshing that not only can you figure out on paper how it should work but you can actually do it too. That sir I find to be very uncommon. Somehow you make it look easy. 👍👍👍

every time I watch your channel, it just seems so professional, it reminds me the Saturday morning 4 * 4 TV that used to be on. you can tell that Tom is a seasonal pro

I learned how to weld after I retired. I built that same tubing bender as my first serious welding project 8 or 9 years ago. It's still chooching at my nephew's welding shop.

When ever TomTom drops a new video, it's a better day.

I wouldn't mind seeing some of the CAD work, that angle-finding software sounds really interesting!

Glad to see someone use the chopsaw notching. Works great!

I love your videos Tom! I miss seeing you in Matt's but I bet you're glad you went out on your own! That took some courage 🙂

Veeeery well done @TomTom. Absolute professional....

Dude, when I'm fabbing a cage, I buy a stick of FLEXIBLE exhaust pipe about the same size of the tube for mock-up and test fit. Bend it by hand for fit up, transfer to the tube. Any boo-boos can be straightened in a piece of angle and rubber mallet, in the vice.

Tom Tom, actually I bet you are glad in the long run that your back tube was too short and had to cut it in the middle and put in a splice. It will be stronger and .....it kinda looks cool.....almost like you planned it that way! LOL!

That looks great. I haven’t fabricated anything in years but my hands are working again so I’m hoping it will look good 😊 Best of luck with your project and God Bless 😊

Love your work Tom. You’re a genuine sort of guy with care in both your work and your manner with people. Your channel deserves to do well. Take care.

the amount of youtube comments giving engineering advice to an engineer is a little funny XD

@JohnShalamskas

4 күн бұрын

Engineers love to optimize things.

Tom is the man . He rules !

Payton did a great job with your hair. 👍

Tom is definitely a genius!

Hey Tom, it's great to see how well your doing plus your Channel doing awesome. Keep it going, I'll watch your videos before a few other. God Bless and have a great day ya'll 🇺🇸

I just love dig Doug ,and I'm so happy to see it getting some love. the cage is amazing!!! can't wait for the next video. thanks for all of the instructions on the build.

Thank you so much Tom for making videos like this! I loved watching you on MORR and I had the best of wishes for your new channel. I can tell you I am loving watching your content! Love the more engineered approach to very DIY projects. Thanks for taking us along with you on this journey

Your videos are so fun to watch! Nice work on Dig Dug, it's gonna be a beast when it's finished. Hope to see it on the trail.

“That’s a problem for future me” that’s why you and Matt are friends, that’s the bridge. As well as the intros and outros. I’m throughly enjoying the dig Doug build, and the more precise approach.

In place of the visor how about some of those yarn dangle balls 😂 dig Doug is coming along nicely!

Nice job on the roll cage Tom👍🇺🇸

Doing it right the first time !! Nice going Tom...Looking forward to the finish !

Looking pretty good Tom. Looks like the roll cage should be pretty strong once it is completed and in place.

Looks great Tom, I agree to adding handles to the A pillar just to keep people from grabbing the roll bar.

@velmeran42

4 күн бұрын

Seconded, always put intentional places for people to grab. If you don't, they'll stick their hands somewhere.Between the cab and rollcage can be a bad move if there is any flex and definitely bad in a roll/tilt.

Looking good, Tom! Like how u help out the nieghbors!

Nice craftsmanship

So very happy for you having your OWN channel 👍🏼 I Absolutely Love how you explaine everything you are/will/why - doing ❤️ Love Your Channel Brother ❤God Bless You and your family 🙏❤️👍🏼 Merch ????

Tidy job Tom 👏👏👏

TomTom you make it look easy!

Tom Tom Rules!

great video as always Tom, you make it look so easy, thanks for sharing

Thank you Tom for sharing this information with me !

Looking good Tom Tom. 👍

Awesome video Tom.

Doin a fine job TomTom , looking forward to your upcoming videos ! Keep up the good work my friend !

The mess up fix up u nailed it

Reminds me of my dad trying to teach me how to bend conduit. 😮 never did get that right. Good thing firefighters don't bend conduit 😊!

@rogermccaslin5963

5 күн бұрын

I'm with you. My dad was a master electrician. For him bending conduit was like breathing air, just came naturally. Me, I'd have a pile of scrap to get one to fit right.

@ericcox6764

5 күн бұрын

Retired electrician here. I was working, wiring a Walmart during my last semester of electrician school. I was tasked with running the conduit for the walk-in coolers in the back of the store. I didn't have a clue what I was doing and ended up with a huge pile of bent pipe. Since I was new to the trade, I was worried that I'd be in trouble for messing up so much material. I decided to just hide my mistakes between the cooler and the outside wall of the store. I eventually became very efficient at running conduit and even taught electricity, but I will always remember those early years where I was learning. One of these days, someone is going to find my pile of scrap pipe and wonder what the guy was thinking.

Another great video from Tom Tom. Thank you sir.

I like your honesty..

5:30 is the moment when you remember Tom is an engineer.

Great content T^2. I like the fact you use technology ad well as brute force.and eyeballin'. Keep up the great work.

The Homemade Tools are too cool!!

Great stuff Tom. Checkout KSR Fabrication to learn Kevin's trick about drilling a vent hole in the tube face at a welded tube joint. Give the hot expanded gasses someplace to escape, not bubbling back through the last of your weld. That would work in concert with vent holes in the foot plates at the base of your main hoop. 1/8" will do 'er.

Free haircut. Definite win. 30 bucks saved

@briangalloway3684

5 күн бұрын

Im bald so...

@sir_frag1868

4 күн бұрын

@@briangalloway3684 lmao

great video always good to help a buddy when you can project looking good

@12:40... My back went out!!! Ouch! You're a beast, lifting that plate steel! @16:52... Reminds of a Ray Stevens song!

Very cool project

Tom Tom! Your videos are looking great and interesting 🧐 Signed, Your viewer, Tom😉👍

Old Skool Observations: 1) Rusty Floor will collapse when needed. a] Suggest a larger floor plate footprint with a bend up. &/or b] Add a bolted sandwich plate bottom side, with a brace / strut to Main Frame. c] Considerations for vibration / flex 🤔 ❤

@Bumblebee4788

5 күн бұрын

He could weld supports from the frame up to the body at a later date...

@DB-yj3qc

4 күн бұрын

For frame to tub "cab" use motor mounts like on Jeep 4.0 after market type bolts to frame or tub with a poly bushings or HD rubber. It helps isolation for vibrations. Or some other type of motor mounts. Tom probably already knows that method, but someone who's not built a cage before.

@efgeebe

4 күн бұрын

Cab is already welded to the frame when he made the rocksliders. This will be a very utilitarian machine when done. No frills.

@alanmunroe8332

4 күн бұрын

@@efgeebe All the more reason to add a bottom sandwich plate & brace to Rock Sliders & Frame. Would take more than a pair of ✂️ to recover occupants, if / when, the cage foot is pushed through RustyFloor.

Roll cage is looking sweet, i like how it bolts through the roof, nice tuch.

I really enjoy your clear explanations and your skillful work

I bent conduit and electrical tubing for 45 years. If you over bend by a couple degrees, bang the outside of the bend on the floor and you can take 2-3 degrees out. Be careful not to hit it too hard or you will flatten the back of the bend and you only have a few minutes to get it done.

I like how you explqne everything. I love equipment more than fabrication so I tend to fixture everything as it's more fun. I know I would drive a fabricator wild with my progress but what is the point of building if you don't enjoy the process. I suggest you protect your glass from spatter it will fuse to the glass and for some reason the spatter damage creats stress rizers in the glass and over time it cracks.

I really enjoy your videos, Tom! Cheers from Tokyo!

Are you going to put a bar across the windshield ? Glad to see that you’re installing a roll cage👍🏁

Joining the in-cab roll-bar with the roll-bar in the bed will be bad idea. Your truck frame twist under articulation so your rear roll-bar could move more than the one in the cab. So it will stiffen up your truck at the least but could destroy your cab if something should give.

Great job. Keep up the great videos

must be super handy to have a Tom Tom as your next door neighbour!

Looks like the roll cage fits pretty well to me. Built ours basically the same way so far, but our floor plates were larger. Also, a little larger tube and stock interiors. One took a solid roll over like a champ. Like the "dash is a problem for future me". Those chickens WILL come home to roost, but I don't think it'll be a major issue for you.

Great setup! Good work going on!

Pool noodles + tape to get your templates xD

Think I might have painted that rear hoop, everywhere except where it gets welded, before welding it in. (Also paint the holes in the roof, unless you have something else planned for them, and put an LED bulb in the dome light - looks like it would be real tough to change with the bar in thar.)

Great project Tom tom. Keep it up man

I enjoy watching you work. Keep it up with the fun projects.

Tom you got some cool neighbors

First video I’m watching and so far really enjoy your content. Your methodology and precision and not just winging it lol

That's going to be one sturdy roll cage ! 👍