Big T
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Paid $600 this, picked up in Bonner, MT, which is about 8 miles east of Missoula:
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Woods GB60 Box Grader
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Paid $600 this, picked up in Bonner, MT, which is about 8 miles east of Missoula:
MrMarty51
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Does it have provisions for ripper teeth ?
Might want to add that onto it if it does not. Unless You will be using it in just dirt.
For doing gravel roads though, ripper teeth helps bust up the hard high spots so they can be drug to the lows.
Nice clean unit it appears. Doesnt look like it ever was used.
Might want to add that onto it if it does not. Unless You will be using it in just dirt.
For doing gravel roads though, ripper teeth helps bust up the hard high spots so they can be drug to the lows.
Nice clean unit it appears. Doesnt look like it ever was used.
Big T
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It has ripper teeth and their height can be adjusted.
Big T
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Will L.
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Cool.
You can break out the welder and get some practice hardfacing!
You can break out the welder and get some practice hardfacing!
Big T
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WTF is hardfacing?
I lifted it out of the trailer and saw the bottom for the first time. Was wondering where the middle scarifier was and they had installed upside down.
I will get plenty of use from this on the Fullerton property.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
Hardfacing is special welding rod/wire that is extra hard and used to keep metal from being eroded away by dirt, gravel,etc.
Will L.
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More of joke. I would not expect you to ever have enough wear from the dirt on the metal to justify doing it.
It is some of the most monotonous and annoying welding one can do. But it is good for learning how to weld straight.
All the weld pattern you see here is to trap in soil and make dirt wear against dirt rather than dirt wearing away the steel
It is some of the most monotonous and annoying welding one can do. But it is good for learning how to weld straight.
All the weld pattern you see here is to trap in soil and make dirt wear against dirt rather than dirt wearing away the steel
Big T
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Those teeth or scarifiers are replaceable.
MrMarty51
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Hard surface rod I purchase uses an AC welder.
I’m sure that there is DC HS rod out there but I have no need for that, being my old welder is AC only.
There too is hard surface wire but I dont think that My little 110 volt Hobart 135 would have enough push to get it through the spools and out the hose.
That HS wire is mighty stiff.
I’m sure that there is DC HS rod out there but I have no need for that, being my old welder is AC only.
There too is hard surface wire but I dont think that My little 110 volt Hobart 135 would have enough push to get it through the spools and out the hose.
That HS wire is mighty stiff.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
A guy I know used drill bits for HS filler with his TIG
Will L.
Well-Known Member
When I was in jr high & high school I worked some nights, weekends & summers.
I burned hardfacing wire & rod by the ton. Vegas always growing and so much caliche out here that our dirt absolutely destroys equipment. I got so good with the wire feed I could run mine at 220amps with no preheat and stack it almost 1/2” high. But man, talk about horrible splatter when there was a hiccup!
A guy I worked with had one of the earliest auto darkening hoods- that of course failed him. He has a blind spot center of both eyes now that is like your fist 18” away from you. It took me decades before I finally bought an auto hood. To this day if someone starts welding in a YouTube video I nod my head before he strikes. Haha
I burned hardfacing wire & rod by the ton. Vegas always growing and so much caliche out here that our dirt absolutely destroys equipment. I got so good with the wire feed I could run mine at 220amps with no preheat and stack it almost 1/2” high. But man, talk about horrible splatter when there was a hiccup!
A guy I worked with had one of the earliest auto darkening hoods- that of course failed him. He has a blind spot center of both eyes now that is like your fist 18” away from you. It took me decades before I finally bought an auto hood. To this day if someone starts welding in a YouTube video I nod my head before he strikes. Haha
MrMarty51
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My hood is the old large window Fiber Metal unit.
I installed one of those, IIRC, Phantom autodarkening lenses.
It has not yet failed My, other than if the battery goes dead, or, I forget to tap the button before hanging it on my head.
It automatically reverts to tue darkest shade when it is not activated.
Before I got this auto darkening window, I too worried about the pause taking away my vision.
About 30 years and so phar all is good.