Can I repair bush hog sheet metal with stick welder?

[GoatDriver]

Nope Goatdriver bronze or braze as its called. It will take vibration better and will easier for this fella to do without making a mess out of it. Its called using what you have available. I welded professionally for years and have lots of real life experience on things like this. I have seen blue prints that called for bronze versus a weld because of the vibration factor. I respectfully disagree.

Your welcome to disagree with me, but the truth is, the factory uses welding because that is the best and most viable solution for the bush hog application. And if you welded "professionally" then you would know this and try to help the OP thru the procedure.
I gave the OP a working and photo documented example of the same "scenario" so to speak as he is facing. It can be done and could have been welded, finished and back to work by now if some did not try to make rocket science out of a simple everyday common sense repair.