Counter Weight

[TexasBoy]

I threw together a counter weight yesterday, guess we will see how it behaves and if it helps load balance on the FEL.

I had a small KingKutter blade a friend had given me because he had put it behind a very large tractor and bent it up really bad and ruined it. But the front 3-point area was okay so I had kept it around thinking I would convert it to something eventually. I have a good friend who owns a machine shop and he does rough-out machining on large oil-field forgings. Some of these items are 3-5 tons a piece, stainless, you name it. He had a flawed forging that we are guessing is about 650# and a smaller chunk he had used to set his machine up to do radius work, that piece was about 200# or so.

So I cut the back off that ruined blade and welded it to that forging, then put that radius'd chunk on as a cap, burned it all together and brought it home last night. Going to fill in the left over void in the middle with Sacrete tonight and once that dries hook it up and see what it does. Only have a handful of 7018s and a few squirts of acetylene invested so far, so it wont be a big loss if it doesnt work out.

 

[k0ua]

I don't see why it would't work..sure would not want to drop that on your toe

 

[TexasBoy]

I don't see why it would't work..sure would not want to drop that on your toe

You got that right, that thing is heavy. Everything he does in that shop is moved with overhead crane and done very slowly to not have accidents. Some of those solid chunks he moves in & out of the lathe are crazy heavy.

 

[ENC]

Looks about like schedule 40 pipe

 

[Thomas]

That will cause damage if back into something..yikes.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Hope you have help getting it on 3ph.:cool2:

 

[TexasBoy]

That will cause damage if back into something..yikes.

Not anymore than any other implement I guess, mowers, disks and others stick much further back and will crunch something also. At least the end is radius'd smooth. Kinda like hammer forged steel battering ram.

 

[TexasBoy]

Hope you have help getting it on 3ph.:cool2:

Actually wasnt any trouble at all. I am going to weld something along the bottom on each side to keep it from rocking over when its on the ground.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I would think that is over 1000 pounds with the concrete. It should make an excellent counterweight.

 

[BeezFun]

Looks like some kind of antennae, you can beam in the mothership with that thing. I love it when I can use old junk to make something useful. The problem is for every 100 pieces of junk I save I only find a use for one.