whadja do today?

[treeclimber101]

Awwww what a completely horrible day , panic cable got caught on a piece of brush and tore the infeed control off the chipper folded it in half and what ******* joke that is anyway it's supposed to reverse the wheel all it did was tear the machine up !

 

[treeman75]

Took down a dead maple and trimmed one. I have a bigger one in the back to take down and a cottonwood. We were only there 3hours but wanted to get a start on it.

 

[NYTREECLIMBER]

Nothing worse than cutting stone dead sugar maple on a windy day, I've hot so much chit in my eyes and they hurt. Usually I can get it all out in the shower but not tonite , hopefully it'll all come out in my sleep or I will probably end up with a sty

 

[deevo]

Took down a dead maple and trimmed one. I have a bigger one in the back to take down and a cottonwood. We were only there 3hours but wanted to get a start on it.View attachment 328377View attachment 328378 View attachment 328379

Nice, were your ground guys cursing when ya dropped the big stuff on the little stuff? lol

 

[mckeetree]

1. You probably don't go around shooting off your mouth about things you have no experience with, either.

I'm pretty careful with my advice.

 

[mckeetree]

I dunno... I bet them Mexicans are up to something as we speak!!

I can guarantee you they are up to something. Illegal alien activity in my area is off the chart.

 

[treeman75]

Nice, were your ground guys cursing when ya dropped the big stuff on the little stuff? lol

No, we brought the log loader with so just pulled beside it and started picking. The stump I just made one flush cut and the loader took it away.

 

[pdqdl]

Actually there is a place by me that can get any leaf springs you need or they can make them. All you had to do was ask. Lol

I am sure dot won't like to see welded leaf springs. It would probably land you a big fine and you would have to replace them before the vehicle moved.
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When I welded that leaf spring together, there was no internet to ask you with. It's been a little while.

Prolly true about DOT. You aren't even supposed to weld on a truck frame, despite the fact that zillions of street legal trucks have had the frame stretched, shortened, or repaired.

That being said, for the weld to be done properly, it was practically undetectable. Excess weldment is as bad as pits when it comes to high strength weld. It was all ground down pretty smooth. A little paint, and it was invisible.

Two years later...maybe not! The weld was stainless, so it would not rust up equally. I'd like to see Mr. DOT declare why one little band wasn't rusting though!

 

[2treeornot2tree]

When I welded that leaf spring together, there was no internet to ask you with. It's been a little while.

Prolly true about DOT. You aren't even supposed to weld on a truck frame, despite the fact that zillions of street legal trucks have had the frame stretched, shortened, or repaired.

That being said, for the weld to be done properly, it was practically undetectable. Excess weldment is as bad as pits when it comes to high strength weld. It was all ground down pretty smooth. A little paint, and it was invisible.

Two years later...maybe not! The weld was stainless, so it would not rust up equally. I'd like to see Mr. DOT declare why one little band wasn't rusting though!

How do you weld stainless on hardened steel. I think someone is not pulling your leg.

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[dbl612]

How do you weld stainless on hardened steel. I think someone is not pulling your leg.

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the rod that pdqdl is talking about probably has a high nickel and chrome content which are characteristics of stainless alloy electrodes which most of these "miracle" rods are a derivative of.

 

[pdqdl]

must be the big time area of kansas city doesn't have a decent spring shop. guess they kept the good ones in the east where we get a lot of practice with broken springs. and welding springs is still ********.

KC Spring works would have been happy to take care of us; they are good and reasonably priced. Reasonably slow, too. As I recall, they told me it would be two weeks to a month. I was unwilling to park my tree crew and income for that long, so I came up with a solution. Fortunately, it worked well. I never said welding up the springs was the best solution, I just explained how it can be done.

I noticed that you are a crane operator, probably a damn good one. Crane operators are the kind of guys that need to be rigorous about following the rules, and I can appreciate your thoughts about not welding springs. I hope you can appreciate that not everyone's life is quite so regimented as reading the chart and knowing whether you can do the pick or not. It is certainly true that you shouldn't weld springs, so I don't blame anybody for commenting about not doing it. If you go back and read the posts, I didn't bring up the topic, I just responded to it.

 

[pdqdl]

How do you weld stainless on hardened steel. I think someone is not pulling your leg.

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MG600 welding rod: http://www.messerwelding.com/Product PDFs/by part/MG 600.pdf

This stuff is truly miraculous. It welds unbelievably well, in places that defy normal welds. From the link posted above:

"APPLICATIONS:
Welding low, medium and high alloy steels requiring the highest strength and quality. Ideal
for repair of tools, dies, springs, carbon steels, stainless steels, pressure vessels, aircraft
steels, vanadium-moly spring steels and as an underlayment or pad prior to applying hard
facing alloys. Commonly used for joining stainless steels of unknown analysis and these
steels to carbon steels. Also used for rebuilding shafts and blades used in the chemical,
construction, and mining industries, and for broken stud removal."
​

It has incredible strength and elongation properties, so it just keeps hanging on when other rods fail. It costs so much, you only want to try it out on a really critical weld. So expensive, most welding stores will not carry it in inventory.

On another of my "shouldn't weld it but did" stories, one of my idiot employees managed to knock a small hole in the cast iron transmission of one of my trucks. It could not be fixed without removal and completely replacing the tranny, right? Enter MG600! I took a chunk of mild steel, ground it to roughly the shape of the oil soaked hole in the transmission. I welded it into position without ever removing the transmission, and it never caused me any trouble until we liquidated the truck, years later. No leaks, no breaks, no worries. It did take $10 in Captain Amazing "sell your firstborn" welding rod, though.

 

[pdqdl]

the rod that pdqdl is talking about probably has a high nickel and chrome content which are characteristics of stainless alloy electrodes which most of these "miracle" rods are a derivative of.

Yup.

I don't know what they put in it that makes it so special, but it is MUCH better than rod labeled for cast iron or stainless steel. It makes the prettiest welds I have ever done, too. I think every welder in the world should get a chance to burn up one stick of MG600 just to see how welding should work all the time.

 

[Zale]

I'm confused. Is this the Whadja Weld thread?

 

[treeclimber101]

I gonna say that if he welded hardened steel and it held then it was a fluke , when you reheat hardened it actually changes the chemical reaction that hardened it the first place making it like glass , I tried using old chipper knives to makes a new cutting edge for a bobcat bucket , out of 7 or so blades 3 made it more then a few weeks , and I could basically of shattered them as well , that being said I welded hardened to hardened using a basic 6011 hot rod . I was a certified welder back when I was iron working and I know guys who wouldn't of thought twice about trying it , the next time I see my BIL I will ask he is a pipeliner and pretty inventive when it comes to that

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Going to look at a 20 removal tree job 5 miles from nctree house. Maybe I should stop bye and say hi.

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[DR. P. Proteus]

I think I just murphed it! View attachment 328300View attachment 328301

Aside from not capitalizing ' Murphed' I would say you done real good!

 

[tree MDS]

Going to look at a 20 removal tree job 5 miles from nctree house. Maybe I should stop bye and say hi.

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I think maybe you should just let it go. I mean so what, you lost out by not buying his truck, and ended up sinking a small fortune into that thing you bought instead. Its not the end of the world, man!! I mean Jesus...

 

[treeclimber101]

LOL

 

[treeclimber101]

I don't even own a truck that is worth 11K just for that reason , call me cheap and inefficient .... But I can fix my truck just by walking through any junk yard or Napa auto parts store