Weld on a bucket

[muddstopper]

I would take a BFH and maybe a little heat and beat the crack back together. Rund a few beads inside and out and go back to work. I might, and it just depends on how thin the worn spots are, weld a little flatbar to each side.

 

[Sodo]

One piece of flatbar, the total width of the bucket, on the bottom would do it. Use the same thickness of the bucket or 1/4". I bet it's 3/16. Also weld it inside the bucket. Very easy repair, any weldshop or welder can do this. One peice would look like a wear-strip it might not even be noticeable as a repair.

If too much of that corner is ground away and can't meet up, a BFH might make ends meet. You could add another doubler on the other angle just in that area. To weld all the way across the bucket again, that's another 10 feet of welding which will cost a lot more.

Easy to make it last. Maybe when the new sheriff is 84 years old he will enjoy trying to grind thru it.

 

[Fastball]

Excuse the newbie - BFH is...?

 

[tre873]

Excuse the newbie - BFH is...?

BIG FREAKING HAMMER

 

[Fastball]

BIG FREAKING HAMMER

D-oh! (headslap)

 

[muddstopper]

I have a big piece of carbon I like to use as a backer for filling in large holes.In the case of this bucket, I cant tell if the metal is worn away or just pulled apart. If it is worn away. plating with flat bar is going to be the easiest fix. if just pulled apart and cant be beat back together. I would take my piece of carbon and lay in the crack and start running beads until the weld reached both pieces. Once one side had a good bead and the gap was completely filled, I would flip the bucket and run a few beads on the opposite side. Once crack is repaired, I would start welding raised xxx's beads across the outside to help keep it from wearing thru again. Even 7018 will makes a pretty good wear pad if you dont have or cant get good hard surface rods

 

[Fastball]

Mudd- it's just a gap that looks like its been ground down. No rips or tears or jagged metal. In my admittedly non-existent experience,msounds like laying two pieces for fat bar along each side and welding them together is simplest and easiest. It's a bucket, not fine art.
Since I've never dealt with anything with this before...how big or long a job is this for a qualified welder? How much does steel cost? How much would a guy charge for this?

 

[Sodo]

1/4" x 1.5 flatbar is ~1.25 per foot in Seattle. 5 feet is $6.25 for the steel.

There's at least 10 feet of welding on the bottom, maybe 5 feet of welding ontop. That's with one flatbar. That's 180 inches of welding. A lot of it can be skip welded, reducing the inches. I can't guess on the cost of weld per inch maybe someone else can help with that.

With two flatbars, that's another 120 inches of welding (but perhaps skip-welded).

 

[Fastball]

Welding dude is here right now, fixing the bucket and welding on 3 grab hooks.
Got a 1.75 x 48 piece of 3/16th flat iron for the inside of the bucket and some pieces of angle iron onto which he will weld the 5/16 grab hooks onto the bucket and lip.
So excited in a I-wanna-use-it-RIGHT-NOW kind of way.