I Stripped The Bombi Down To Nothing!

I taught high school, community college, welding and metal shop for a total of 40 + years. During most of the summer breaks, would work as a traveling millwright. Really impressed about how you guys work together. Everyone has an input and their ideas are valued. Just hearing how Lizzy welds, her heat settings and travel speeds are super good. The only thing I would change would be that everyone must wear safety glasses while in the shop, working or just watching. Long sleeves when welding is a good safety precaution. Skin cancer is not what you want as an older person.

A story about my eye. I used to grind metal without eye protection. One time I got some steel in my eye. It did not come out for a day so I went to the hospital. They used a needle like device to remove it from my eye. Then cream and an eye patch for a day. Then a follow up to see how it was doing and remove the patch. They used a small "pencil grinder" to remove a rust ring around the crater the piece left behind!! From then on I use eye protection for all grinding, cutting, and any activity that could result in an eye injury!! Now you know!! 🙂

Trailer builder here, I have a trick for you to get the grease caps on easy peasy every time. Use a Forstner drill bit in the same diameter as the caps, drill a pocket in the endgrain of a short chunk of 4x4 post, slide the cap into it (light friction fit is best), hold it against the face of the hub and smash with a hammer (claw hammer of course lol). It always seats the cap in one or two quick smacks without any dents or modifications. I’ve been using the same 4x4 chunk for ten plus years and have installed thousands of these caps without any trouble with it. Bombi is looking great, you guys rock!

The single long camera walkthrough when everyone was doing different things was a really cool shot. Kept it in real time and more interesting than a couple jump cuts would. Good stuff! 31:14

Awesome! I’m 67 yrs old retired metal/iron worker/fabricator/certified welder mig tig and stick. I love to listen to lizzie mig weld! The heat and speed are spot on! You guys and gal rock! I enjoy all you videos!

Wasn't that long ago certain folks were up in arms about how the heavy wrecker wouldn't, shouldn't, can't. Seems to have worked out fine . Here we are again . Carry on MORR !!!

Colby, that continuous shot of the work around the shop around the 31 min mark was just too much fun! Thank you for your contribution to these videos!

Matt and Jamie are goals! Them holding hands like little kids walking back to the shop was precious!

Glad to see you made it easier for Jamie to get in and out. You know, you really have to hand it to short people, they can't usually reach it anyway. Of course, when I mentioned that to my short better half, she looked up at me and said "God only lets you grow until you're perfect, obviously it took you a lot longer to reach perfection than it did me."

If you did have some sort of soft suspension on those bogies, it would allow the track to flex over dips and humps. This allows for much much better traction. Look at the way the older skidoos were built with bogies or tanks with bogies. That's why they are there. Cat has finally gone to bogies for its big cats for this very reason, much better traction. Great to see Ed in the shop and its always nice to see all of your crew in the videos, so thanks for that.

I've watched the morrvair get made, the banana get remodeled, and Ed's Suzuki. These videos are so much fun to watch as someone who tries to DIY their entire life. Fun to watch them be so good at what they were built to do too!

We are all SO GLAD you are finally doing the Bombi project (and series of videos) and doing it AS seriously, meticulously, well-engineered, upgraded and powerful as you did the Offroad Heavy Wrecker. We are so looking forward to seeing it become a BEAST of a winter snow, plus year-round sand, mud and shallow-water-capable recovery vehicle with LOTS of power, many HD tow/pulling points, maybe a couple of interchangeable hitches, front and back winches(?), a toolbox, etc. and a bunch of marker and flood lights for night use and a nice, comfy, roll-caged interior with cup holders, grab handles front and rear, a stereo, nav screen system, good heat and maybe even A/C...go big! (You are after all Matt's Off Road Recovery!) This was a fantastic video all around. EVERYONE in it is an ESSENTIAL part of what makes this channel what it is...the MORR Crew all ROCK and you each do it with character, your own style, lot's of problem-solving, a get it done attitude and a lot of fun mixed in. ;)

I always thought it was weird how Matt would always wear his bathing suit around the shop and on recoveries but now it all makes sense.

I totally understand why you build your own rigs, cause you can, and you build better than factory !! Seriously, you put your equipment to maximum use and beyond, factory builds just are not going to last, and they will fail at the worst times. Love your stuff, and your crew !!

Holy mackerel. This was your best video ever. Focused on fab with y'all highlighting the right information. And then getting to see it happen. With everyone engaged on different tasks at the same time. You just set the bar for every fabrication channel.

I liked seeing Matt & Jaime holding hands as they were walking back into the shop .

1 of the many things about Lizzie that's enjoyable to watch is she's got such an outgoing personality, but when it's time to work, the lady just gets after it!

44:20 back when we were first married we got down to only two vehicles .. and my wife had to drive the monster truck to work! :) 20" A 1978 GMS Step Sid wit 42" tll tires off an 18 wheeler (I literally made the rims by welding 1/2" plate steel in the middles of 20" Split rims . She was 5' 2" tall and 125 pounds .. She had to climb up the rear tire, walk along the running board to the cab :)

I'm enjoying watching this build come along and the usual teamwork/quality on display! Being a military history buff and observing how tanks started out with no suspension and went to torsion bar or other types of suspension, I hope the no suspension decision pans out. Looking at the way a British Mark 1 rolls across the terrain versus a Russian T-34, it's a pretty big difference in crew comfort and speed/ maneuverability. crossing fingers for you

It's great to see Ed keep an eagle eye on all the working at the shop and smiles his approval