Adirondack case guy
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The now 2 post canopy design for my 431T is all fabed up and tack welded. Next step is to take it off the tractor, and finish off the fab welds with my old Lincoln stick welder. on the main strut assy.
Got a good start on my grill guard today, after having to make a trip to HF for a new metal cutting chop saw yesterday. I will post about that on Tool Talk.
Anyway, today I formed the radius bends in the pieces of 2x2" tubing left over from the Kubota crate that I used for the roof structure on the 2 post canopy.
The radius design is pretty easy to make, just a lot of cuts, with the chop saw, 23 to be exact in a 10" section of the tubing;;; and then mig welding to fill the gaps.
Tried bending some of this tubing with my pipe bender but,the tubing just bent and kinked.
Don't get too excited about the next to last pic. I just clamped the RH and LH on the side rails over lapping each other and haven't cut the top of them to length to weld them together.
This is the third grill guard that I have built this way. It works for me.
Loren
Got a good start on my grill guard today, after having to make a trip to HF for a new metal cutting chop saw yesterday. I will post about that on Tool Talk.
Anyway, today I formed the radius bends in the pieces of 2x2" tubing left over from the Kubota crate that I used for the roof structure on the 2 post canopy.
The radius design is pretty easy to make, just a lot of cuts, with the chop saw, 23 to be exact in a 10" section of the tubing;;; and then mig welding to fill the gaps.
Tried bending some of this tubing with my pipe bender but,the tubing just bent and kinked.
Don't get too excited about the next to last pic. I just clamped the RH and LH on the side rails over lapping each other and haven't cut the top of them to length to weld them together.
This is the third grill guard that I have built this way. It works for me.
Loren
