my buddy barry rented out his cat 12 grader this past winter and the blade thing broke. the renters got the village idiot to weld up the crack. JB weld would have worked better and would have been smoother. i had one h*ll of a time air arcing out this crappy weld because there was no steel to keep the arc going. oh well. i did some nice 7018 uphand and did some MANLY 3/16 on the flat. looks alot better and a lot stronger too.

will get off my soapbox now.

thansk

Hi KoO,
Which is the before and which is the after???.........Just kidding:D
Lets see the rest of the weld..........nice repair.
Guess you don't need to worry about leaving your 7018 out to collect moisture when it never thaws out.

old magnet, very funny, between the 2 cat BB i'm taking a ribbing on the before and after, LOL

the lincoln rods are excellent, we keep them out, never had to use a rod oven. they even weld when you dropp them in the snow a couple of times too, LOL

i have 4 more days welding on the cat 12, and they only rented it for febuary and march and we just got it back last week. what a nightmare. i tease buddy barry everytime i strike an arc, it is the sound of his profits goes up in smoke, LOL

thansk

Four more days!!!!!!!!Ya wouldn't take advantage of a fellow would you;)
Good thing that ain't my 12 or welding rod isn't the only thing that would be smoking:mad:

At least they didn't bring it back broken. You got to give them credit for trying to repair it.

yes at least they did welded it, wished they had called us to come and weld it.
old magnet, follow along and see what else i have to weld, i'll be working my magic, LOL
the machine was in the shop one summer and we went through it from front to back and everything was welded or repaired. then it was rented out this past winter so we know what damage was down. cat 12 are tough graders, would hate see what they would have down to another make of grader, LOL

thansk

I'll swear some folks can break an anvil with their bare hands. .looks like the breaks in the support and circle was done by just such an idjit. . er, person. Kinda makes ya wonder, doesn't it?

You should have titled the last two pictures (your welds), as MANLY welds.

Sometimes very costly things turn out to be cheaper in the longrun....

Yeah, not wanting to, & knowing better than to do it, I once rented out one of my woreout, sloppy backhoes to a 1/2way "good buddy" farmer friend & priced it off the hour meter really down & dirty, mostly to keep it from being totally free. Told him what kind of shape it was in etc, etc., as well as told him I was busy as he** & didn't have time to do anything. He was going to pick it up as well as bring it back later.....needed it for only max of 1 wk. This was a machine I didn't have to have, but was handy to have when the others weren't around.
Before it was over with, I wound up delivering it about 40 mi. & 3/4 of day shot!

Thenabout 2 months later, I finally got fed up with excuses & went & got it myself unannounced. It was not where he said it was, but was "to he** & back" down in a brushy creek bottom over at his neighbors.....where as it turned out his very happy neighbor happily said "yeah, he been letting me use it as a favor"....

After hunting hi & lo for the nearly new battery that had been pulled & used on something else, I gave up, called my son to bring a battery, two dually trailer tires & wheels to replace the ones I blew on that hidden stob, hyd oil, & other tools & come help me....

We both lost nearly a full day!!
While I waited on my son, I admired the red 3/4" garden hose that had been put on a return hyd hose with hose clamps, the two hardsurfaced bucket teeth that were gone, the leaking radiator that had 3 cores pinched off after a tree limb had poked it because the grill guard was no where to be seen......

3-4 days later he came by my office & presented my wife with a bill for just under $400. This was for his calculated difference between hourmeter hours that he owed me & the bucket linkage he had to have built at a machine shop, the other breakdowns & troubles he had encountered......

The best part was when he hunted me up, bitc*ing about what a pile of wore out junk it was, but wanting me to put a price on it to buy.....

Since I decided he didn't have enough money to buy it at anyprice, I priced it as if it was a family heirloom I was saving for the grandkids.....

I never got my battery back. He never got paid! & I figure I'm money ahead because he's never around anymore.....

Me being dumber than a box of rocks, I still do these kind of silly things though.....