Misc.

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I know I've been slacking with posting my new projects. Here are a few that we have recently worked on.

A local city guy wanted me to cut down an old hydrant and glue a base to it. Damn that thing was heavy. So I cut it down, cnc plasma cut the base plate and mig welded it to the cast. No pre-heat or special treatment. I thought about brazing it, but it would have taken forever for how think the material was. While I was tacking the plate on with mig I realized that it stuck good enough for what it was and I mig welded it out. There were a bunch of cracks shooting though my welds, but they held fine. It will be on display at the city hall in Carlton Oregon.. Oh yeah, they guy told me another guy came around a few years ago and offered a few thousand dollars for it while it was in the ground because it was a limited production strictly for the NW. While he was telling me this, one of my guys was unloading it from the back of his truck with a forklift. He stomped on the brakes and it rolled off onto the ground. Fortunately no damage was done to it.
The other photo was of some simple rails I did.

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Another stair rail pic.

And some stairs we made. The sides are 8" channel, treads are 11ga plate that we plasma cut and broke, rails are 1 1/4" sch 40 pipe. Also, it hinges at the top so they can mount a winch above it and move it out of the way when not in use.

Also, the hydrant will be sandblasted and powder coated before they display it.

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This is an open top fermenter for a local winery. When equipped with the rotating fork option, they like to have cross members under the totes so they dont fall off when being rotated. We used 3/4" cold roll round stock, drilled holes in the thick plastic and capped the ends with washers.