Welding Tips and Tricks

Got a call at work the other day from an operator asking for his frost bucket. There's no frost and now I'm baffled by it, but this guy knows his equipment and has been a dirt worker since Moby dick was a minnow, he says wait till you get here you'll get a laugh. This is what I pull up to...

Some heating, prying and beating it's stuck together

Some carbon arc gouging and welding the sides back

You can never have too much reinforcement

Where is the picture of what won the argument with the bucket?

Was he gentleman enough to use the machine to bend things back for you after you warmed them up?

Franz© wrote:Where is the picture of what won the argument with the bucket?

Was he gentleman enough to use the machine to bend things back for you after you warmed them up?

That was my first thought. Did he let you use the backhoe to bend it back? I’ve done some pretty precise restraightening work with a D6 Cat

I was welding the reinforcements in while he was still digging. I pinned the bucket down with a mini excavator, bent it back with a big pipe wrench and a 8 foot cheater.
That bucket was about 4 years old and a lot of hours on it with no type of hardfacing, just wore paper thin and he hit a rock. Just another day playing with dirt.

Went back that easy it wasn't a bucket, it was a pattern for a bucket.

Them jobs used to be real fun back in the 60s when we worked on cable machines. Decent operator would generally bang it back into shape for you if he had something hard to hit it against. Really good ones would call as soon as the wear beads wore down to the bucket itself.

JayWal wrote:

Franz© wrote:Where is the picture of what won the argument with the bucket?

Was he gentleman enough to use the machine to bend things back for you after you warmed them up?

That was my first thought. Did he let you use the backhoe to bend it back? I’ve done some pretty precise restraightening work with a D6 Cat

That’s a precision straightening tool there. Especially if you got the winch going as well. You can push and pull.

Farmwelding wrote:

JayWal wrote:

Franz© wrote:Where is the picture of what won the argument with the bucket?

Was he gentleman enough to use the machine to bend things back for you after you warmed them up?

That was my first thought. Did he let you use the backhoe to bend it back? I’ve done some pretty precise restraightening work with a D6 Cat

That’s a precision straightening tool there. Especially if you got the winch going as well. You can push and pull.

If you’re a fellow farmer I assume you know how a harrow works. Was doing the headlands and didn’t see a drainage culvert in the tall ditch grass and hit it with the outside tire at 10 mph. Bent the main 8x8 beam but surprisingly the cable or cable pins didn’t give. Welded the tire bracket back on and a little nudge with the Cat and it was good to go.