Show us what you welded today

[M J D]

Used up a bunch of scraps to make a pull through pig to clean silt out of a couple of culverts. 12 inch plate for 16 inch pipe. It takes a few passes. Then they can shove some 12inch PVC through for a temporary irrigation line to pump liquid poo from the nearby dairy for subsoil injection .
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I'll help install new stuff... but after it gets used they are on their own.

Nothing like the smell of burning animal waste.

[12V71]

Nothing like the smell of burning animal waste.

Yeah... ewww. I get their spreader trucks and tanks once a while, they are good enough to firehose, then hot wash the things. If they sit and dry for a few days outside it's not that bad.

[ezduzit]

Nothing like the smell of burning animal waste.

In Vietnam we burned our human waste The stench can never be forgotten.

[milomilo]

Making a battery box for a friends RV. Will mount on the trailer tongue. He wanted steel. It is 11 gauge. Still needs paint.

[whtbaron]

Nothing like the smell of burning animal waste.

Welded steel pens in the barn for 30 yrs. To get the full effect you have to mix in a little galvanized coating. Honey wagon was always fun to work on too...

[ArcTan]

Did it break near the notch at the top of the 3 pieces? Where the top piece extends, unwelded, over the middle piece.

Sucks after all that work

Yep.

I was gonna mention that,, ha. Wasnt exactly sure on the design but you get to have more fun if you wanna fix it. The shank needs inches or so. They often knife the front edge too.

Patience is not my strong suit. Apparently design isn't either

I will have fun fixing it and improving it at some point. I really expected something to bend, didn't think it would simply snap. Must be a harder grade steel.

[Willie B]

Making a battery box for a friends RV. Will mount on the trailer tongue. He wanted steel. It is 11 gauge. Still needs paint.

That'll give it tongue weight.

[Munkul]

Yep.



Patience is not my strong suit. Apparently design isn't either

I will have fun fixing it and improving it at some point. I really expected something to bend, didn't think it would simply snap. Must be a harder grade steel.

I wonder if it's something to do with the heat affected zones from the reinforcement. I would have expected it to bend too, but if its hard metal then it will need a bit of pre-heat before welding and low hydrogen welding process.

What was it, a ripper shank to start with? Probably something pretty hard and tough...

[Willie B]

We just tried that on a smaller brook. 30" culvert on a stream known as the sewer brook. Until 1960 it was the communal septic for the Village of Danby (50 houses). In my childhood it was pretty nasty! 60 years later, no septic. We dredged it a few years ago, I got 20? tandem loads of nice topsoil from it. Beaver have been a big problem in the culvert under Brooklyn Road. We clean it too often. Just tried the inner pipe first time.

We put a trash rack around the end of the culvert this fall. Thought it'd encourage the beavers to dam 5' away from the end of the culvert. We didn't put a top on the cage, & they just climbed over the top to dam the culvert.

[smithdoor]

I have seen points 72" snap in haft
They under so must stress they just give up.
Weld back to geather will just fail but sooner and the blame the welder. The steel is shot till replaced.
It is lots of welding but can give a welder a bad name.

The steel is some type of AR plate.
I would replaced the steel.

Dave

Yep.



Patience is not my strong suit. Apparently design isn't either

I will have fun fixing it and improving it at some point. I really expected something to bend, didn't think it would simply snap. Must be a harder grade steel.

[Sberry]

I guess we saw the welding but didnt pay much attn to the design. I posted a job on a forum a while back and someone knew more about it said, dont think it will work,,,, he was right and I really had to go back and look. The learning curve was high. It involved some real fundamental principles I didnt grasp.
Yours is a bit more forward buy it needs a shank 6 inches vs 3 or so.

[Sberry]

The bad news is it broke, the good is you can fix it.

[smithdoor]

The good news it broken
That is best work to do.
You fix right. your bank account is happy, the customer is happy 😊 his tool is fixed.

Win win let the good times roll.
Dave

The bad news is it broke, the good is you can fix it.

[smithdoor]

The type work I did most of life failures is not a option.

I have products in worst weather you have.
From some coldest places to the highest wind load on earth.

Dave

The bad news is it broke, the good is you can fix it.

[smithdoor]

FYI
I enjoy repair type work .
New work is very boring 😴 and is a pain witch is most of work I did.

Dave

The bad news is it broke, the good is you can fix it.

[Lis2323]

Welded steel pens in the barn for 30 yrs. To get the full effect you have to mix in a little galvanized coating. Honey wagon was always fun to work on too...

Thank god we farmed row crop and only had dogs on the farm.


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[whtbaron]

We put a trash rack around the end of the culvert this fall. Thought it'd encourage the beavers to dam 5' away from the end of the culvert. We didn't put a top on the cage, & they just climbed over the top to dam the culvert.

For our small dams we build trash racks out of rebar, the tops are teepee shaped to keep from building up with organic matter. We've had beavers try to block them to the top. One may have had an electric fencer attached that worked very well, but is a little more management intensive than what you may want.

[farmersammm]

Yep.



Patience is not my strong suit. Apparently design isn't either

I will have fun fixing it and improving it at some point. I really expected something to bend, didn't think it would simply snap. Must be a harder grade steel.

I have no idea how these are made,, so I looked for a pic of a factory designed ripper.



There's very little taper in the shank, until it reaches the tooth.

I generally look at other designs to come up with something that might work. This one seems reasonable I guess.

[M J D]

I wonder if it's something to do with the heat affected zones from the reinforcement. I would have expected it to bend too, but if its hard metal then it will need a bit of pre-heat before welding and low hydrogen welding process.

What was it, a ripper shank to start with? Probably something pretty hard and tough...

Don't you know grinding in a little bevel and some 6013 is the proper repair🤣

[smithdoor]

I agree
Working with E7018 right way is a pain.

I like going to box of rod and just welding.
Most manufacturers of rapper's use A36 and just about any rod will work.

Dave

Don't you know grinding in a little bevel and some 6013 is the proper repair🤣

[Willie B]

For our small dams we build trash racks out of rebar, the tops are teepee shaped to keep from building up with organic matter. We've had beavers try to block them to the top. One may have had an electric fencer attached that worked very well, but is a little more management intensive than what you may want.

I think not having to mechanically intervene every few days sounds pretty attractive. We haven't tried electric fencer, consider it soon to be tried.

[Willie B]

Yep.



Patience is not my strong suit. Apparently design isn't either

I will have fun fixing it and improving it at some point. I really expected something to bend, didn't think it would simply snap. Must be a harder grade steel.

Buried here, if I can find it is a Bron cable plow. It was mounted on a D7. I set it up once for three point hitch to root rocks from my driveway. It worked well, but rooted up a thousand rocks, I then had to deal with. I know within ten feet where it is. If you want it, I'll try to find it.

[M J D]

I agree
Working with E7018 right way is a pain.

I like going to box of rod and just welding.
Most manufacturers of rapper's use A36 and just about any rod will work.

Dave

Ah, no. You couldn't be any more wrong on that one. Most likely T-1, 80 or 9018 with preheat and interpass temperature followed or you'll be picking up pieces and doing it again, provided you weren't ran off for good.

[smithdoor]

I all ways check hardness before welding.
So use the right rod.
I found older earth moving equipment (before 1960's) used mid steel not even A36.
But simple hardness test will give information about steel need.

Dave

Ah, no. You couldn't be any more wrong on that one. Most likely T-1, 80 or 9018 with preheat and interpass temperature followed or you'll be picking up pieces and doing it again, provided you weren't ran off for good.

[smithdoor]

I agree
If over do welding or under do you will get a bad name.

If I see the name CAT odds are they use a harden steel.

Dave

Ah, no. You couldn't be any more wrong on that one. Most likely T-1, 80 or 9018 with preheat and interpass temperature followed or you'll be picking up pieces and doing it again, provided you weren't ran off for good.