The Ole Fashioned Way... by Hand & Hammer... BIG HAMMER 💪
While plowing snow I ran into a buried tree stump and seriously bent the scraper blade on my tractor.
The steel was cold and the bend was so fast it cracked the steel not to mention put a twist in the blade with a giant buckle in the steel.
This requires finesse and brute coaxing to straighten the blade body, the hardened steel knife blade bolted onto the bottom which bent and broke, and take the twist out simultaneously.
It takes a large rosebud from my oxy/acetylene torch that puts out about 150,000 BTU's and turns the metal cherry red and malleable.
Applying the heat strategically will also allow the metal blade body and scraper to untwist as it straightens, just the opposite of how it initially bent and twisted.
Heating the steel anneals or softens the steel
Hammering it and hammering it and hammering it (which I don't show you much of) causes the molecules to tighten up and puts the strength back into it
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Great job there, Cap'n! I'm a big fan of budget friendly repairs like this. Nice to know you're ready for the next one.
Budget friendly, but in this case, necessity is the mother of invention. There is nowhere close that I could have someone else do the job, and I had my own metal shop for 11+ years so I have the training and know how, but no big shop equipment to do it... and yes, that cold just sucks the life out of me, but like I say in the video, the hot steel radiates and kept me pretty warm, until the end when it was getting dark and cold and the steel had lost it's heat!! Thanks for the comment. Oh yes, today was the next one, we got another 4" of snow last night... Not such a big deal if you only have a small driveway and walkway to clear, but we have over a mile of roadway and nooks and crannies to clean out... I have over 5 piles of snow bigger than city buses and they just got even bigger today!! The plow worked great.
Can't stop watching your videos, amazing
Thank you very much.
❤ Perfect!
Nice job for a cold day
Yes it was. In the summer the heat is a vampire and in the winter, the cold is the vampire, but worse, you have all of the clothes on and moving is made even more difficult so I think you actually work harder in the winter. Thanks for watching.
I like the format of your video!
Thank you. Thanks for watching and more thanks for taking the time to comment.
Hi! Perfect!
Hey, thanks! And thanks for commenting.
I liked the video! keep it up
Thanks, Appreciate it!