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Tube borium hardfacing?
That is some damn hard stuff. Once you put it on, you cannot grind it off, at least not with a normal wheel. I guess that would work real good on horseshoes. I have a little pile of that stuff in my backroom; at least 20 years old.
I don't recommend it for lawnmower blades.
It ought to triple the life of a horseshoe. I've played with it, but it is just for hardfacing steel surfaces that don't suffer from high impacts. Like 101 pointed out previously, that hard stuff shatters pretty easy.
If you have some chunk of metal on some machine that keeps getting dragged on the ground, that would be a great place for it.
If you have some chunk of metal on some machine that keeps getting dragged on the ground, that would be a great place for it.
My neighbor has some pulling horses and they are amazing. We did a storm damage job several years agoi and could not get a tractor to the tree and if we did it would not have pulled what his two horses pulled.
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Is this what you see welded on to excavator buckets and dozer blades sometimes in a criss cross pattern?
Nah. That is usually done with a special electric rod for "hardfacing". The hardface rod comes in several varieties, some of which are supposed to be used to fill an area that has been ground down too much, and others that are very hard so as to resist abrasion.
Tube Borium is thin walled metal tubes that resemble welding rod, but you put it on with an acetylene torch. I don't know what is on the inside of those tubes, but I suspect that it is a finely ground powder with some really hard stuff in it. Using a technique somewhat like brazing a layer of brass onto a piece of steel, you more or less paint it onto red-hot steel. The final coat is so hard that a sidewinder grinder doesn't even throw any sparks when it hits it...just dust off the grindwheel being eaten up by the harder metal.
Tube Borium is thin walled metal tubes that resemble welding rod, but you put it on with an acetylene torch. I don't know what is on the inside of those tubes, but I suspect that it is a finely ground powder with some really hard stuff in it. Using a technique somewhat like brazing a layer of brass onto a piece of steel, you more or less paint it onto red-hot steel. The final coat is so hard that a sidewinder grinder doesn't even throw any sparks when it hits it...just dust off the grindwheel being eaten up by the harder metal.
I see we are still welding,,, see ya later,,
Jeff
Jeff
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
What you do today Jeffery?I see we are still welding,,, see ya later,,
Jeff
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He was probably beautiful all day long. 
It is 9 o'clock at nite. I can't believe I am still up. We are working 6 days a week for foreseeable future,,great for the guy's that get overtime,
I just shaved some to get ready for our managers meeting Wednesday,
Today, I just went to the office for about 2 hours to get ready for the week,,
Went to Jiffy Lube,
Went to the yard just for the hell of it,,found a pole pruner and extension in the back of a chip truck,
Yeah, Someone is gonna get a write up.. the guy that say's he can not find his pole pruner! Because it is in the bed of my truck, yup,
ther than that, this is a crazy Hot winter,,damn 90 degrees,,
Tree's are trippin'
Jeff
I just shaved some to get ready for our managers meeting Wednesday,
Today, I just went to the office for about 2 hours to get ready for the week,,
Went to Jiffy Lube,
Went to the yard just for the hell of it,,found a pole pruner and extension in the back of a chip truck,
Yeah, Someone is gonna get a write up.. the guy that say's he can not find his pole pruner! Because it is in the bed of my truck, yup,
ther than that, this is a crazy Hot winter,,damn 90 degrees,,
Tree's are trippin'
Jeff
I see we are still welding,,, see ya later,,
Jeff
We are welding because all the equipment is broken and we don't have any tree work to do.
Happy MLK day to all. Day off to make out bills and tinker with the equipment.
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
Heading out to work at the new "Grand ol Man of the Marine Corps" CW0-5 Rod Mooney. They created the rank for him. Promoted to MSgt in 69' then had to pick between Master Guns or SgtMaj, but instead went the gunner route. Was buds with Chesty. Had 41years 9 months ACTIVE DUTY! Founder of Toys for Tots. Dude is awesome. Was working at Lowes and was canned for sexual harassment. Younger hot chick that worked there kept wearing tights to work, kept bending over in front of him..........whats a old Marine to do........but smack it. EPIC level 90 Jarhead!
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
wow, just was checking email. Bid a removal job, 3 trees, bid $5300, lost to a $1000 bid. Amazing. Other dude, whoever he is, get's them into thinking I was gouging them.......... I bid it cheap as far as I was concerned. At least 3 days, with a bucket. This I gotta see. I foresee massive damage from going big and hoping it clears.
OLD OAK
TREE KILLER
Ride by there and get us some pictures when he drops the tree on the house.
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
Got the trucks ready Sat. To work tomorrow and now snow , god I hate the winter !
beastmaster
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It is 9 o'clock at nite. I can't believe I am still up. We are working 6 days a week for foreseeable future,,great for the guy's that get overtime,
I just shaved some to get ready for our managers meeting Wednesday,
Today, I just went to the office for about 2 hours to get ready for the week,,
Went to Jiffy Lube,
Went to the yard just for the hell of it,,found a pole pruner and extension in the back of a chip truck,
Yeah, Someone is gonna get a write up.. the guy that say's he can not find his pole pruner! Because it is in the bed of my truck, yup,
ther than that, this is a crazy Hot winter,,damn 90 degrees,,
Tree's are trippin'
Jeff
Yeah Jeff this weather is crazy, air conditioning during the day, heater running all night
. The yellowtail are biting down in la Jolla, Think I may take the kayak down there friday.
Okay, Eddie, we heard you. You can shut up now. lol
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
I'm not posting anymore
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