Restoring PM disk harrows

[BMan2005]

Happy Easter everyone!! I cut out and repaired a lot of stuff yesterday on the disk frame that had been previously fixed before and just looked horrible and waiting to fail, rewelded a few plates that had cracks, and added some new bracing. I removed the existing 3pt hookup yesterday also and going to weld in some new brackets and move the hookup 4” lower than it was so my 32hp kubota can use them also, brackets are to high for it to lift much.

 

[BMan2005]

Cut out, added new plate, beveled both sides and welded back out.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Cut out, added new plate, beveled both sides and welded back out.

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That is about the worst welding job (middle photo ) I have ever seen. Lucky I didn't just fall off after the original repair. Heck a blind beaver could have done better.
Your welding looks great!!

 

[EddieWalker]

Sorry to hear about the tornado. Did it just destroy the one building?

 

[BMan2005]

That is about the worst welding job (middle photo ) I have ever seen. Lucky I didn't just fall off after the original repair. Heck a blind beaver could have done better.
Your welding looks great!!

HAHA!! And I appreciate that man, I was a little rusty not touching my welder in over a year.

Here is another hack job on it, I completely cut these off and making new brackets.

 

[BMan2005]

Sorry to hear about the tornado. Did it just destroy the one building?

Two buildings and a lot of Misc stuff, it sucked. We moved a mobile home out here to live in until the house is built and it got a good bit of damage, about blown off the blocks so thank god they have a new storm brace system for these things. We just reset the few areas it was pushed off the blocks, and our new pole barn not even a year old barely survived but the trusses are damaged in a few places pretty good so I have to cut and replace those areas here soon. It was bad, but what it did just a few hundred yards past us it could have been so much worse. We think it wasn’t actually full force on the ground yet when it passed us because it leveled everything literally a couple hundred yards past the house and on.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Tornados do some strange things. When I was about 14 my friends and I were riding bikes and saw a tornado coming across a field and heading straight for my friends house. Just before it got there it lifted up and went over the house without a bit of damage, then touched back down across the road. It grabbed up a grain silo and tossed it about 1/4 mile away. Like idiots we sat on our bikes less than 200 yards from the path. It seemed to be only about 100 yards wide.

Another time a tornado hit my girlfriends house and sucked all the bricks off the north side of the house but didn't damage the roses in a bed right beside the house. Really weird.
Glad you weren't damaged any worse that you were. Mobile homes seem to attract tornadoes.

 

[BMan2005]

Cut, squared, and about to tack and weld the new 3pt hook up bracket

 

[BMan2005]

Tornados do some strange things. When I was about 14 my friends and I were riding bikes and saw a tornado coming across a field and heading straight for my friends house. Just before it got there it lifted up and went over the house without a bit of damage, then touched back down across the road. It grabbed up a grain silo and tossed it about 1/4 mile away. Like idiots we sat on our bikes less than 200 yards from the path. It seemed to be only about 100 yards wide.

Another time a tornado hit my girlfriends house and sucked all the bricks off the north side of the house but didn't damage the roses in a bed right beside the house. Really weird.
Glad you weren't damaged any worse that you were. Mobile homes seem to attract tornadoes.

I’ve heard that that they will sometimes just pick and choose it almost seems like, pretty crazy.

 

[BMan2005]

Need to drill holes for hitch pins and bolt in Top link frame hook up. I used 1/2” angle iron for the main hook up bracket notched for the top link frame, and 3/8” flat bar for added support to spread the load from the pins. Should be good to go I hope.

Now to sand, prime, paint, and put it all back together.