Homemade Piranha tooth bucket attachment

[newbury]

Couple of hours work, plasma cutter. Must have been fun. It took me over an hour just to drill my darn thick bucket.

 

[stuckmotor]

Couple of hours work, plasma cutter. Must have been fun. It took me over an hour just to drill my darn thick bucket.

I want a plasma cutter. Can't justify the cost but I want one anyway.

 

[Kernopelli]

I want a plasma cutter. Can't justify the cost but I want one anyway.

I said the same thing for years, finally pulled the trigger on an Everlast 50 amp w/pilot arc this January ( $420 shipped)....best money I've spent in a LONG time!!! Still giggle like a school girl every time I use it....

 

[Gary Fowler]

Is this the Build It Yourself Forum or the Buy It Yourself Forum. I'm confused

I think what everyone is saying is that if you are going to build it yourself, you should use proper materials or expect failure. Nothing wrong with building stuff yourself if you have the skills, but many times it is cheaper to buy it already built than buy the virgin materials. It is always cheaper to buy than to build inferior and hope it works and sometimes inferior products can also be very dangerous to the operator. If you are going to copy a product, use the same type, weight and grade of material or don't build it.

 

[newbury]

Also don't discount the investment in special tools required.

 

[like2wheel]

Also don't discount the investment in special tools required.

I'd say don't discount the value provided from using the tools you invested in whenever appropriate.

 

[like2wheel]

Also don't discount the investment in special tools required.

I'd say don't discount the value provided from using the tools you invested in whenever appropriate.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I'd say the "whenever appropriate" is to be considered as the prime directive for purchase vs build even assuming that you have the proper skills and equipment available to do the fabrication. Unless you have a few tons of structural steel and plate that was free or nearly so, most builds cost you more than having it fabbed, painted and delivered.
The last time I did price check for a major built (2 storm shelters for me and my brother in law) using the same 1/4" thick plate as a vendor used in his tested and certified construction, the plate cost from a local steel supplier (75 miles one way) alone cost as much as the finished and installed product.

Self satisfaction from building something for yourself only goes so far, at some point one has to evaluate how much the self satisfaction is worth in actual dollars versus just spending the dollars for the finished product.

Build it yourself is generally only cheaper if the product you want is not available on the market or you are so remote that shipping costs run the price up (but then shipping the raw materials costs more also)

 

[PhysAssist]

I'd say the "whenever appropriate" is to be considered as the prime directive for purchase vs build even assuming that you have the proper skills and equipment available to do the fabrication. Unless you have a few tons of structural steel and plate that was free or nearly so, most builds cost you more than having it fabbed, painted and delivered.
The last time I did price check for a major built (2 storm shelters for me and my brother in law) using the same 1/4" thick plate as a vendor used in his tested and certified construction, the plate cost from a local steel supplier (75 miles one way) alone cost as much as the finished and installed product.

Self satisfaction from building something for yourself only goes so far, at some point one has to evaluate how much the self satisfaction is worth in actual dollars versus just spending the dollars for the finished product.

Build it yourself is generally only cheaper if the product you want is not available on the market or you are so remote that shipping costs run the price up (but then shipping the raw materials costs more also)

Agree!, AND, unless you are retired without a supplemental job, you have to figure in your hourly labor cost. I get paid my straight hourly rate (salary divided by 80 hours for 1/26 of annual) for exta days I volunteer to cover, and any time I decide to do big projects myself, I have to figure out whether I'm better off working or doing my preferred DIY. For instance, when I rented a mini-ex/trackhoe for a weekend, it was cheaper, including the diesel burned, for me to rent, be off, and run it full time for the 2.5 days than it would've been to hire it out, plus it was fun, plus it was done the way I wanted it.

A couple of months later we needed our barn site filled and the fill was from the other pond bank, and THAT turned out the other way because of the scope and details of the project.

YMMV!
Thomas

PS: I wasn't disparaging the OP's work, just his premise that the PTB (which he disparaged for being pricey) was an easy to duplicate tool, and not an carefully engineered, massively built beast.

 

[JP9MM]

I haven't had the chance to finish this up. I estimate my time into @ less than 1 hr at this point.
"good lord thats a lot of money" was meant partially as a joke as well.

I'm considering using what i made as a template on some 1/2" , just don't have the best tools for that at home.
Had i known i'd be getting a tractor a couple years later i might have splurged for the 40amp machine, i can probably do it with my 30 but would be pushing it a bit