How would you fix this. (I DONT HAVE A WELDER)

[newbury]

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Buying welder, reading the instructions for ten minutes and declaring yourself a welder is possible for some of the gifted but not for most of us.

But there are too many who will, and they should be trusted like you would a person who pronounces himself a doctor because he read a book.

There are three things that make one a better welder: practice, practice, practice.

 

[puckgrinder85]

I just used a torch on mine. Heated the piece with a rosebud as much as I could and used the tractors hydraulics to do the work. Little by little.

 

[wedge40]

Just an FYI. Medical condition prevents me from welding.

Wedge

 

[Gary Fowler]

If you had a good neighbor like me, I would fix that for you for free if you supplied the new piece of steel to replace that upper angle. The lower piece can be straightened without a problem but that angle would take way too much heating and beating and it would never be as strong as it needs to be. I might even replace it with some schedule 80 pipe that has a much better torsion resistance than angle iron.

 

[wedge40]

I would remove it from the lift arms, get center to center dimensions of the lift arm then remove the bent piece and replace it possibly with a heavier /stiffer piece while holding the correct dimensions. Too bad you don't have a welder, then it would be simply a matter of cutting out the bent piece, getting everything aligned (you could hook up to a QA attachment for quick alignment, then cut a piece to fit, weld in. The QA attachment would help hold everything in alignment when welding

This is what I'm thinking. Need to ask around to find a good welder. Figure I'll bring the bucket and braket. The can use the bucket as a form.

Wedge

 

[Arc weld]

Might be as simple as cutting the bent piece of angle out and getting an experienced welder to weld a same size piece of square tubing in its place. Square tubing would add a lot of strength and be pretty simple to put in there. The bottom piece should straighten pretty easy but it might not be a bad idea to beef it up too. Getting a welder is a very useful tool for doing your own fabricating and repairs BUT you don't just buy one and become a welder. At least not on a project like this that needs to be pretty strong.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Curl until the short side cyl bottoms out. The long side cyl will still be extended some. Use a chain on that side of the QA to chain it to the loader arm so it cant extend. Uncurl carefully til the two sides match [only the unchained side will move]. Relax pressure and see how much further you need to push to allow for springback. Repeat.
larry

 

[Soundguy]

But there are too many who will, and they should be trusted like you would a person who pronounces himself a doctor because he read a book.

There are three things that make one a better welder: practice, practice, practice.

note that i did not state that in my message.

 

[Soundguy]

I bought my first welder, an Lincoln AC225 tombstone, to repair an old mower that pieces kept falling off of. The welds didn't look very good, but they usually stayed glued together. The thing payed for itself in no time. I got better as I went along.

mine was paid for the day i brought it home. was cheaper for me to buy it than farm call it.

 

[Sodo]

Look at the pics and see if you can suggest a method to fix the twist.
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Cross couple the two cylinders (one retracts while the other extends) and see if there is enough twisting moment capability to realign the part. You just need to switch two hoses.

I like this option for the simplicity of using the tools that are at hand, but wouldn't the bending power be limited to the cyl that's pushing? In which case all the power you'll ever get is available just running it to the end of "dump" (?) I think.

In any case there are many solutions that can be done without leaving the farm, I think chaining up to a tree as mentioned above is feasible way to straighten it out, as long as you are using the dump direction, probably not the curl direction.

If that top member is angle iron, typically angle iron doesn't twist straight again. You may get the loader straight but the crossmember will look like a piece of crap. Which you will want to cut out and replace it with a box-section for better torsional strength.