Help with fixing a landscape rake?

[Big Barn]

Good work, bumper!

And you could probably even use that mobile "press" to go rv'in in a pinch.

Terry

 

[Xfaxman]

Xfaxman you are working way to hard! You need to get an oxygen & acetylene torch, and this book. Learn how to heat shrink material.

Nope, not too hard. I figure if it got bent cold, I can straighten it cold.

I do have a Victor O/A torch on a cart, but have not used it in years.

I straightened this bent fork for my neighbor, by putting it in the Gorilla Grapple with pieces of steel to get it where it needed to be, then used hydraulics to do the work.

 

[Xfaxman]

Xfaxman,

That is a cool looking bell you have sitting on the floor in the lower right of the first picture. Is it steel? Looks like it might have come off a locomotive or??

It is cast iron, commonly called a dinner bell, farm bell or school bell around here. We don't have it now, so these are from a Google Image Search.

BTW, about half your straightening "rigs", viewed in two dimensions, look like if a fly came and landed on one there would be a horrendous noise and flying chunks of steel!!

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bumper

Yep. there have been times something would slip and I would have to re-rig it. Or maybe it was a fly! :laughing:

 

[Shield Arc]

I was working on a cofferdam project in California. For a 3-story underground parking lot. We were drilling and driving 30-inch I-beams, 60-feet long for the soldier piles. One of the I-beams got bent. I asked the project superintendent if he wanted me to straighten the beam. He asked how I would do it. I replied with heat and water. He said he would have the excavator operator drive one track on the beam and use the bucket to pull up on the beam. When the operator got through, then I had a beam that looked like a big S. :laughing:

 

[PhysAssist]

It is cast iron, commonly called a dinner bell, farm bell or school bell around here. We don't have it now, so these are from a Google Image Search.

Funny, my wife bought one new off of Amazon for my birthday this year- not that I had any real need for a bell, I just thought it would be a neat accessory for the house.

We mounted it on top of doubled 2x4's in the corner of our back deck, so either of can call the other if the other is down the driveway and the one at the house needs or wants them.

It carries a good long ways from up there too.

Thomas

PS: To return to the thread- it's great that you were able to straighten it and no harm no foul.