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doubleboost:
I do like to see a weld with good penitration

one_rod:

--- Quote from: ieezitin on December 19, 2010, 12:46:58 PM ---Hi guys,
Its been awhile since I last posted, due to the terrible economy over here my own business has suffered a lot and I had to get a job working in a quarry to make up for the low income, they got me 60 hours a week hard facing the be-jesus out of everything metal that the rock touches as it goes too and from the crusher units.


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Been there, done that and I feel your pain.
Hardfacing work is probably not the way any of us would chose to make a living but as you say, it pays the bills.

Spent some time 'facing on trencher chains. Big machines on rental, and very expensive to have on site. We were working in urban areas and they would not let us run the welder gennys at night. All the welding had to be done during the day. Of course that was the only time they could dig too, so there was always a lot of pressure to get the work finished and get the things digging again. Not the happiest times.

That is some very tidy welding in those pics, thanks for showing them. Never get tired of seeing that kind of work done well.

On the subject of John Deere equipment. I've been doing some work for the owner of a local golf course on his ground maintenance machines. Lightweight stuff compared to the ag. machinery, but even so I'm surprised to see JD even put their name on some of it. Snapped engine mounts, failed attachment links, hydraulic ram pivots that have simply torn out, and in one case a front suspension wishbone that folded up letting the chassis rail hit the ground at about 10mph. A lot of it is down to weld failure. And a lot of that seems to be robot-welded parts with poor penetration or faults in the base metal. Sadly, it looks like even the mighty JD are building down to price these days.



one_rod.

bry1975:
Anthony,


Are you Hardfacing with Chromium carbide?

ieezitin:
Bry.
No I am using just 7018-5/32 on the plate seam only and on the face plates where they take full impact of the rock, usually every two months during production you have to get into the bin liners ( where the rock falls) and replace other parts in there so they figure they just touch up then. But the real reason is they don’t like paying for the high grade quality rods and or plate stock for they cannot justify the cost, that’s all hog wash to me for in the past I have welded with Ranite™ 35 on material and it lasts five times as long as anything.

Anthony.

MrFluffy:
Really nice work, and those forks are shocking. It seems like whoever made them put absolutely no effort into pre weld fitup to get the joint right. I have a properly made pair of genuine jcb pallet forks to adapt onto my jcb 3c (it doesnt have the mounts on the bucket or a pivot bar yet) and if it comes out as nice as your work Ill be happy.

For the john deere, not to derail your thread too much (as I seem to have a knack of doing, sorry), the lighter JD stuff is now usually made by someone else and rebadged JD under some marketing agreement. So the only thing JD about it is the colour and the badges. I have a "John Deere" badged lawn tractor the kids use round the garden as a sort of gocart, and its got the usual pressed steel frame, a briggs vertical crank lawnmower engine and looks a LOT like a certain budget generic brand which is 1/5th the price. If you go the local JD dealer, amongst the heavy kit and tractors etc are these "JD" badged items with no relation at all to the quality of fabrication or design...

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