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Sweaty and humid are 2 bad times to touch anything while welding. The portable welder hits harder than the plug in welder does. Neither one feel especially pleasant.

 

X2 on ear plugs.


Had my right ear drum burned, or the vesinity of it burn. Laying on my side. Stopped welding and flipped helmet. The slag went right down the turnpike. Didnt look good at first. About 2002. Couldn't hear anything. Went to ER which was pointless. They were more worried about getting me to take a pee test. Next day a Dr. Pulled a big piece of junk out and hearing has been fine since. Think I got lucky on that one.

Working in a dealership welding a diff housing on the bottom under spring perch on a 1990ish IH. Oil dripping out. Owner didnt wanna pay to remove it and turn it right side up.

Non union dealer, threatened with my job because of a workers comp claim.

 

No, that was maybe 5 yrs ago. Ive had a few businesses.

Well, its a loaded question. A 16hp tractor at 500lbs is only gonna put about 2 hp into the drawbar. I have ballasted it to as high as 1800lbs with me on it where it cant wheelie or spin, and then itll do ridiculous stuff. I always won my hillbilly pulling class but couldnt beat the outlaw machines. Theyd weigh like 3500lbs with 4 cylinders and just idle a huge sled or stoneboat down the track that i couldnt get broke out the hole.


That blade is more for breaking up gravel to regrade potholes, and for root raking out the briars and sapplings where you want to reclaim the perimeters where early succession forest is stealing lawn or pasture. Say wiring off a goat pen through the woods. You dont want to lose topsoil

 

Well another free educational moment. Even when your well aware that electricity is lazy and passes to a ground with the least resistance.

 

These are pics of pics on my old phone screen that was coincidentally in the glovebox.

Heres a grubber blade. I have a bolt in back wall so it can scoop out a trench or just grub a brush clump and leave the dirt behind. All the buckets are universal to the mount with a sorta quick hitch.




Flail mower



York Rake


Roughing and cleanup blade. The grapple has rock tines.







I started skidding blowdown home for firewood using ropes and that developed into a back end project. Id already done a 3pt hitch and some other stuff then came up with 2 winches and a high pulley to get the butts in the air and load the drives. it can skid these on decent ground or slight climbs if the grapple is full of hardwood. One at a time itll do easy.

 

Then i just had to build ring chains. They were a disappointment in dry ground in massachusetts but ridiculous in snow. Havent tried them in TN clay but i think theyd work well.



Did wings to make a box blade since it could always push waaay more than a little blade could hold. My buddy playing.



Then a 4 way midmount grader.



And a front mount roller. Maybe a few others ive forgotten. Thats all like 5-8 yrs ago.

Before i got a dozer this was it. I pushed out a few triaxles with it and it beat shoveling. But ive had around 200 loads of fill dirt and demo dropped off since then so .. Its sort of a broken toy now.

 

Chow Time....

 

That is awesome, all the stuff that little machine will do. Those ring chains are interesting too, I've never seen anything like those.

 

Yeah it was a good one.

My RTOO will lock itself in reverse and low and is a bear to get unbungled. I need to change the shifter bushing and do a dab of weld to build the shift lever back up where it goes in the forks. Trucks been apart for a year so i forgot all about that. Thx for the reminder actually.

 

Thank you sir.

Theyre just a clone of skidder chains. Made simple jigs for the pieces and heated round stock to form them then just sewed em up miller style. An ironworker helps alot. Tedious job, wasnt worth it other than bragging rights maybe.