kab
02-04-2004, 06:05 PM
I just found this web site - WOW! I've looked at a lot of your projects you have posted. I was hoping you could provide me with some advice for my upcoming projects.
I always wanted to learn to weld, but never took the time in school to take a class. I finally went out and bought an inexpensive wire feed welder. I know, not your first choice, but it has worked well for the first couple attempts I've made.
I would like to build some ATV implements for making food plots. I would like to weld up a smaller trailer as well as a small plow / cultivator to pull behind my ATV.
Trailer first - I would like to make it light weight / small. I can't imagine ever putting more than 300 lbs or so in it. I plan on welding a tongue to a frame with sides / corners and then putting plywood on it. What size steel should I use for the tongue (I believe the hitch is 2.5" wide) 2.5" square 3/16th? 2.5" square 1/8th? rectangular? What about the side supports? 1.5" angle 1/8th?
Plow / cultivator - I plan on buying either some "shovel" cultivator blades or narrow plow "spikes" (i.e. 3-4" wide) and attaching them to a frame w/ wheels (to adjust height) attached to a tongue. Same types of questions. Tongue size? frame size (I think this one will be key as it will get a lot of torque from the plowing)?
I sure appreciate any suggestions you have from your experience. I am just too new at this to have any sort of "feel" for the strength / properties of the steel yet.
:confused:
I always wanted to learn to weld, but never took the time in school to take a class. I finally went out and bought an inexpensive wire feed welder. I know, not your first choice, but it has worked well for the first couple attempts I've made.
I would like to build some ATV implements for making food plots. I would like to weld up a smaller trailer as well as a small plow / cultivator to pull behind my ATV.
Trailer first - I would like to make it light weight / small. I can't imagine ever putting more than 300 lbs or so in it. I plan on welding a tongue to a frame with sides / corners and then putting plywood on it. What size steel should I use for the tongue (I believe the hitch is 2.5" wide) 2.5" square 3/16th? 2.5" square 1/8th? rectangular? What about the side supports? 1.5" angle 1/8th?
Plow / cultivator - I plan on buying either some "shovel" cultivator blades or narrow plow "spikes" (i.e. 3-4" wide) and attaching them to a frame w/ wheels (to adjust height) attached to a tongue. Same types of questions. Tongue size? frame size (I think this one will be key as it will get a lot of torque from the plowing)?
I sure appreciate any suggestions you have from your experience. I am just too new at this to have any sort of "feel" for the strength / properties of the steel yet.
:confused: