Now I have really gone and done it

[woodlandfarms]

Pictures are forthcoming. He painted and put the tractor back together so other than the seam at the cleavis's there is not much to see.

One other thing.... About getting ripped. Yeah, I should have asked how much, but I never get a straight answer. Also, this guy may be trying to impress the boss. "See, while you were gone we did this amount of business with me running things"...

Anyway. It is fixed. Better than I could have. I need to take a welding class and get me a MIG.

 

[toy]

7.5 hrs seemed like a lot to me too. Saddly the owner was out of town... He is a lot more fair. This is one of those moments I think being an outsider cost me.

Did you do any of the cleaning grinding and prep work on the machine before you took it in to the welding shop? If you didn't then he was charging you the big bucks for the prep work which you probably could have done, and you would have saved some money.

 

[Rara Avis]

Pictures are forthcoming. He painted and put the tractor back together so other than the seam at the cleavis's there is not much to see.

One other thing.... About getting ripped. Yeah, I should have asked how much, but I never get a straight answer. Also, this guy may be trying to impress the boss. "See, while you were gone we did this amount of business with me running things"...

Anyway. It is fixed. Better than I could have. I need to take a welding class and get me a MIG.

Just insert the amount on Line 27 of Schedule F...

 

[cqaigy2]

Just insert the amount on Line 27 of Schedule F...

You might have something there. It is called Woodland Farms. Remember to keep some receipts for seed and a few for selling some of your product like say grass hay.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Pix as requested...

 

[J_J]

Pix as requested...

Carl, From what I can see, he should refund about 75% of the money that you paid him. If you paid on a credit card, I would refute the charges. I think even the owner would agree the job he did does not look that great.

7 hours, no frigging way.


Refute To show by presenting evidence that something is not true.

 

[cqaigy2]

I haven't welded in close to twenty years, but last weekend did a little stick welding and while I'm too embarrassed to show the results, I know for sure I'd been somewhat embarrassed twenty years ago to show that job off.

But at least you have it fixed.

Thanks for the Pics. Funny, when you say Pix, i think firewall.

BTW, think you could use the manual focus?

 

[Wayne County Hose]

I agree with JJ. For the time they charged, they could have at least made it look pretty. That job is high school at best.

 

[woodlandfarms]

So, as a novice. What is wrong with these welds? Just so I have something to take back to the guys for future stuff....

 

[toy]

Carl.

I don't doubt that this could happen, with the conditions that you use the machine. I believe you are giving your machine a through workout, due to your landscape, and aggressive use . Even though the machine articulates plus or minus 45 degrees, it also oscillates plus or minus 12 degrees. If you are on level ground, you have equal force on the pin connecting the cylinder to the frame. When you are at the 12 degree limit, you are putting the same forces on the top or bottom of the pin, giving it a twisting action. Couple that with an inferior weld, and guess what, bam {darn the luck }.

Like some one else said, beef up the area with say 3/8 or 1/2 plate steel, and have a good welder use his expertise to lay in a good weld. I think that I would go ahead and do the other side also.

I believe someone else on the forum also twisted off the cylinder mount on a 425.

You might keep one of those JIC male to male fittings on the machine to couple the hoses on the broke cylinder so you can make it back home.

JJ don't you beleive that if you hooked the two hoses of the offending cylinder together you would be setting up an open circuit from the steering valve straight to the tank.