daugen
Super Star Member
I noticed that too. Honestly, I don't know what he intends to do, but I'm surprised to hear him talking about 1/2" and thicker. I can't really imagine what "around-the-farm" repairs would involve metal that thick. That sounds a lot like structural stuff to me. I look at my trailer, my tractor, even my truck... hardly anything on there is over 3/8", and most is under 1/4".
As for MIG, when I first started welding, I had to decide between stick or wire-feed, and I settled on stick. I can see now that if my main concern was just git-r-done, MIG would be the right choice. Not that MIG doesn't require skill too, but with MIG, you can really lay down the welds with an efficiency and ease that you can't do with stick. Oh, and did I mention no cleaning slag either? Yeah. Gotta love that. MIG machines can also get down to a thinness that stick struggles with. But I always have to do things the hard way, and I do like the simplicity of stick. No gas, no bottles, no gun, no feed wheels. Just an electrode, a stick, and a ground clamp. As for TIG, I just think TIG is a really beautiful process, and I mean that in every sense of the word too--aesthetically and everything. I look forward to learning TIG someday.
just fyi: my subsoiler is seriously HD, and I guarantee you there are parts of it thicker than 3/8, the main shank anyway, and I was thinking of installing guides to lay pipe. Of course the guide is not that thick but it's going up against
something thick, which was what I was trying to get across. But normally? Mower deck material and sometimes that can be double layered on big mowers, so there's some beef there too. I figured half inch was largest/worst case
so that's the example I used. These mower decks could probably be repaired with a 50 dollar welder from HF.