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I am replacing the skid on my slasher, it is 10mm thick x 70 mm wide. I need to bend the end at the front so it will not catch in the dirt etc. I have cut the bar. So wodering how to bend it.

Google tells me to do a series of cuts along the section i want to bend. Then bend it and weld up.. I am not really a metal man so any ideas appreciated.

The metal is mild steel so maybe even a sledge hammer :D
 
Several ways...

Heat it with a torch would be the easiest, get it red hot, be ready either with a hammer, or clamped in a vise and bend it.

If you have a press, sit it between 2 parallels, lay a piece of round stock on top and press it into shape.

I don't think I would try just beating it cold, that is a pretty substantial piece of steel, it would show a lot of battle scars by the time it was bent!
 

Cheers steve. I have no torch or suitable press. I have a cheap propane torch, it may be able to heat it enough to bend with a sledgy :)
 
U got enough vegetation to make a fire? Coal would be what an old fashioned blacksmith would use, but heat is heat. You might need to bring this to a fab shop, quicker and safer...
 
So it's about 3/8 thick by almost 3 inches wide,you should be able to lay it on a piece of heavy pipe or round stock and use a maul and
bend it without heating if it's mild steel,heat would be nice ,but you can do it with out,move the piece back and forth to get the
radius you want.
 
You can cold bend it if you feel like a decent workout Pcp .
Apart from muscles and a mate if you can organise one you only need an old piece of pipe and a deep crack in a strong concrete floor or big rock .
Lay the pipe , which should be the same size as the radius you want , next to the crack . Stand the bar upright in the crack and secure the pipe with a chock . Grab the top of the bar and bend downwards over the pipe.
 
Cheers Boys, thats got the grey matter on the job. Rocks and cracked concrete, I like it.
Cmon tony a bloody fab shop there's no fun in that
:shock:

Another question re slasher, I have pulled the part that the skids weld to, it is pretty pitted and thin in some places, mainly down the bottom. I will weld some bar onto the bottom for re enforcement and some running vertical. Is this the way to go as i assume there is no point trying to repair the pitted area, unless you want it to look like new.

Ill grab some pics on the weekend
 
Yah yah. settin the bloody wops wops on fire and the arson squad stopping at your slasher project will be no fun either.... don't you have a beer swillin mate who has torches and an arc welder? Bring him some castlemain...
Really, as you get into this stuff deeper and deeper, an oxy torch and AC welder buzz box got to be on your list to Father Christmas....
 

I am inclined to agree Tony , but out here in ' Whoop Whoop ' (yes that's how it's spelled :)) , also known as ' Back of Bourke ' or ' Back of the Black Stump ' , or even ' Out in the Mulga ', you have to make do with what you've got , or haven't got . It is a shame but Australian tool supplies are not like those in the USA , you can't go to Harbour Freight and buy a tool of half decent quality for $50 . Add a zero to that and you might have a closer estimate down here .
Still the crack better be strong or else it should belong to the local council and not be in your shed floor
:shock:
 
An H and 2 O's? Sounds like your spelling water mate! Never knew that. My mates called it 'out in the wop wops inbacka beyond'... do they still spell jail 'gaol' ??? Not that I know anything about the insides of an Australian gaol.... musty old fashioned dank place... or so's I was told...
Nothing was cheap when I was there in the 80's, but better deals than in the land of the long black cloud, kiwi's were always getting roge... nevermind...
Harbor Freight is less than 'half' OK... still have to pay well for good quality stuff in the states.
Back then, seems army and government auctions had good value. Heaps of tools got rotated out. Got to be a way to find an affordable set of torches. Bottles to last thru a holiday weekend is another thing eh? Here there are many petrol or pto drive arc welders, with some ozzie enginuity, nay bloody worries mate she'll be right!!
Things seemed to be in the 1960's then, I hope you aren't still in the 80's now... but then again, genesis, urithmics, splitenz on the radio top ten every day... could be worst!!!
Hate to ask... what is a litre of petrol lately??? I can't even guess...
 
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Hate to ask... what is a litre of petrol lately??? I can't even guess...
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Not so bad Tony , though I'm sure it won't last. I filled my daughter's car up today at .99 cents per litre . This is the first time it has been under a dollar for almost five years . Worst it has been was twelve months ago , $1.64 for standard , unleaded petrol with no Ethanol . Diesel for the Landrover cost $1.14 yesterday . It was almost peculiar to see more litres than dollars on the pump read out :shock:

I get really P!$$eD off at the quality and cost of some tools , I buy a few through E bay , generally older brand name stuff , these work well . For cutting tools I now troll E bay as well , I recently bought the same mid range quality tungsten hole saw for Aus $10 from E bay that a so called 'Tradesman's tool shop was charging $97 . for !
 
Charles

If it is just mild you can cold bend it with nothing much more elaborate than a good workshop vise and a good length of pipe.

Work out where you want the bend to start and end. Then add enough length that your pipe can still get hold of the end and cut that off later. Then start from the inner of the bend and do an incremental bend - less is better than more. Move your skid a bit in the vise (if your slasher is like our MF maybe 2 inches). and bend a bit again. See how you're going wrt the bend you need and adjust. Then keep going till it is about right. Might need another go round.

I bend the pipe circles for the guards for our home poured round troughs like this too.

The troughs (about 250 imp gallons) show signs of being related to corrugated water tanks - understandable as that is where the mould material originated.
 
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