Really Nice Work and Looks great too.
Managed to recently hit a cast Iron
sitting bench when moving large square bales with the FEL.
Broke the whole side off. I had never tried the Hobart Nickel 55 sticks arc welding and gave it a shot.
Not real pretty but so far we haven't broken it again.
I did propane preheat it a bit and then did several 1 inch beads peening each until I finished.
Broke the recommended procedure though since it should probably cool between welds I guess. Oh well.
MIG welded a broken intake on an inline four in a boat (water froze) with standard .030 wire and It never leaked, maybe got lucky and the carbon content was low.?
I also tried "Cast Iron" rod on a Buick V6 upper transmission mount and it is still in one piece but it is only mounted on an engine stand.
Unfortunately just don't do enough of this to get Good at it. Nice to have access to welders though.