Daily Fabrication Thread

moodnacreek · February 18, 2024, 06:56:00 PM

Too complicated but I like the cartoon. Another idea was to weld teeth in the grapple jaws and grab the log loosely and twist. Problem there is that I don't like to puncture the bark on good fresh pine or cedar, it lets in the blue stain and scars what might be live edge. If I had not started this fummins project [spent the day needle scaling] I would start a tooth bar, thanks Mike, Doug

mike_belben · February 19, 2024, 10:57:55 AM

Mail me your fummims and i will mail you back a remote control hydraulic debarker!

Firewoodjoe · February 20, 2024, 06:40:10 PM

Well the flue bug hit my house. So I was home with the kids. Went out and welded this old bucket up. It's actually in good shape has two bushings that need replaced but it's broken over the years. I think it's the standard duty version. But it's makes a good spare. Two hose and a few bolts and it's on the machine and can fix the other one up.

☝️The entire jaw broke off and has held up well after a years worth of work so I guess it's still worth my time to fix it. It really doesn't take long to weld these up. The steel is very good material in these. and I haven't welded one spot twice that's usually when the steel started getting really stressed and won't repair well. I should take the time to plate these jaws. Repairs will prolly almost stop.

barbender · February 20, 2024, 09:04:50 PM

I'm pretty sure that is an SG-S, which is the heavy duty version. Yes, they are a good steel. Be careful welding around the pins, they have nylon bushings that you can melt.

caveman · March 09, 2024, 03:24:36 PM

I brought the trailer that we have been building home yesterday so that JMoore can paint it and we can add a deck. I may haul it back to school to wire it. The students could benefit from learning how to solder and run trailer lights. I was using a ball mounted on a tractor fork to roll the trailer up onto my trailer. It almost fit between my fenders, and I bent one of the new trailer's fenders a bit. I was able to get it mostly straightened out. Unloading it was quite a bit easier.

We will use 1" live oak to deck it with. Bigger wheels and tires are coming. These were some I had that we used to move it around on. A good portion of this trailer was made from scrap, but we did use a new coupler, jack and fenders.

trimguy · March 23, 2024, 12:31:04 PM

I had to build a new box for my dump trailer, among other things on it.

I still have to add wood sides, I guess they'll be rough sawn 😂.
First Time adding pictures to the new system, it seems I figured it out, now if I can remember how to do it next time.