Dipper Stick snapped in half

[tungularafishcamp]

Mjncad,
Watching parents age is hard on all of us. Enjoy him every chance you get.:thumbsup:

Best advice I ever read on here Brandi:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[bindian]

Best advice I ever read on here Brandi:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Thanks Rick. I remember Dad helping me split HIS firewood. He would load a wheelbarrow of split wood by the splitter (Mom called it a log slicer:laughing and then push it to the wood shed and stack it. Then he would have to sit down and rest while I split some, hauled some, and stacked more wood. About 20 minutes later he would load and haul another wheelbarrow load. I could tell it really bothered him he couldn't do more.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Short Game]

My dad tossed out me and my old lady (at the time) because I had put a wood stove in his 20 foot vacation trailer where we were living (with his permission). With my long hair, I just couldn't be the person to fit his expectations. His seventh wife eventually tamed him down a little and got him to slow down his drinking. I got a job about three years later, unloading tuna boats not far from them. So I thought I'd stop by and see what would happen. He was so glad to see me that he decided to celebrate and broke out the whiskey. I knew he was sorry, and we became friends of a sort again. We just couldn't talk about what we really believed. Within a year, he died in a head-on on the way home from the tavern (his car crossed the line--the guy in the pickup going the other way got off with a broken leg). My brother refused to go to his funeral, but I did.

Henh, I just figured out that I'm a year older than he was then.

You can choose your friends, but not your relatives. Having both in the same person is the luck of the draw.

 

[Renze]

When i bought my front loader, it had been cracked, forced back together, and they did some shabby patch work on the sides of the arms, to make it sell-able.

I cut the 3/8"x4" and 2ft long patches off the sides, ground it smooth and welded two flatbars of 3/8"x2" over the full length, top and bottom, of the loader arms. That increased the bend resistance by 71% in this particular case.

People often think they need heavy patches on the side: However when a body is strained with a bend load, there is compression in the lower part, and stretching in the upper part. In the middle (the neutral axis) there is a point where no force is.
With some 3 ft long, 1/4" plates, as wide as the dipper is, cut into a point (to get an even overflow of forces from the reinforced area into the non reinforced area) you could beef that dipper up, way over its original strength, with just minor weight gains: just add some metal on top and bottom, where the greatest bend forces occur.
I guess the dipper is nothing fancy, just A572 grade 50 steel (or St.52.3 in Europe) which would require a patch plate of comparable yield strength (which is just a wee bit over ordinary household steel) These carbon steels can be welded with common welding rod and mig wire.

 

[EddieWalker]

Lew's called and said the Dipper was ready to be picked up. Cost will be $600

I'll post pics when I pick it up in the morning.

Eddie

 

[beppington]

Lew's called and said the Dipper was ready to be picked up. Cost will be $600

I'll post pics when I pick it up in the morning.

Eddie

Maybe you could get them to attach a tag to it, "Eddie Walker, $600", so your dad can see it.

Not to start a fight or anything, just to maybe slow him down a little.

 

[Short Game]

"...maybe slow him down a little?"

Eddie Walker 600?

Sounds like a NASCAR race.

 

[Redbug]

That does not sound too bad! All that worrying...and $600 dollars fixed it.

But that's not all of Eddie's bill...all the advise he got from us, (whether he wanted it or not), must be worth something....(notice I did not say we gave it to him)...

 

[Short Game]

I would bill him, but I always work for free. I actually get paid for being a little crazy.

Ya gotta do what you're good at.

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Geezo, I've spent this whole rainy morning doing interwebs. Getting a good case of chair poisoning. See y'all laters.

 

[JB4310]

$600.00, not cheap, but not to bad for being fixed professionally at a legit welding shop. You would have to expect it.

It will be interesting to see the repair they did.

I'm sure his dad felt bad enough, no need for a sign on it to remind him, he will most likely take it a little easier now, after the drama of seeing that thing broke almost in 2 pcs.

JB