My Homemade Middlebuster

mbramble

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Built this middlebuster using 1/4" x 2" square tubing and some 1/2" x 2 1/2" flat bar cut off an old brush cutter A-frame. Bought the plow from AgriSupply. Works great - we have buried about 130' of water line on my son's property. Beats the heck out of digging it all by hand! Cost about $60 to put it together. First thing I have ever really 'welded' (more like stuck it together with ugly blobs of molten metal and slag :)) together from scratch.

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NICE Job!!!! I need to make one as I have some water lines to install in the next year or two. That will be a handy tool to have around!!!
Dave
 
I enrolled in a cabinetmaking class at the local votech school and started 8 Jan, using the VA's VRAP program (Veterans Retraining Assistance Program). Two weeks after I started class, we were informed that the cabinetmaking/carpentry class would be shut down at the end of the school year (May).

Just found out this morning that the VA will allow me to move to a different class since, 1. I am early in the training, 2. the core book (safety, etc.) is used in all the 'trades' classes, and 3. it's not my fault that I need to change courses. So, Monday evening I start in the welding course.

That was the class that I originally wanted to take but I don't really want to get into it as deep as they do in this 1 year course. Also, when I was first signing up for a class, there were 40 people on the waiting list to get into welding. Don't know where they all went!! But, I would jump ahead of most of them because they are 'prospective' student and I am an 'active' student needing to move to a different class.

So, maybe my next home made implement will look a lot better (thankfully, you can't see the welds in these photos, cause they are really ugly!!)
 
Looks good!

Must not have a very deep frost line there! Here ya gotta go 8' :( , that would be a whole lotta passes :lol: !

Here is my water line installer :shock:

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Rick
 
LOL, come on up and visit in the next couple of days.....I got a shovel and you can find out first hand :twisted: .

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 12:18:50 02/06/13)
That's not a Pontiac Fiero hiding there, is it??

well looky there. My other bad habit popping up on the tractor forum.

Here's one I'm stripping for parts. Notice the handy-dandy tool I'm using to facilitate this:

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