carvel minne farmer
Well-known Member
good evening everyone I was working on my new Moline af plow today and what a treat that was! I was heating, straightning and welding on the trip rope guide and the trip lever itself, wow you forget how nice that old steel was to work with the amount of heat input you need to get metal moving and flowing I'm so used to this Asian hard brittle steel made of recycled god knows what that you have to have your torch and welder cranked right up to max to get any type of metal flow!! it's like walking a tight rope between having the metal flow into your puddle and having it just blow away in a shower of spatter! I had to crank my mig welder right down and watching the metal flow into the puddle with no effort, no spatter, no roaring arc, just the sound of bacon frying in the pan!! so smooth, still can't get the smile off my face, I'm gonna have to go out and see if I can find any more cracks to weld you know our polititians and industry leaders are always spouting about how much we've progressed? the new techknowledgy, I call b.s. we have lost so much more in the name of progress!! i'll get off my soap box now and go back to working on my new plow :wink: