What a weekend........

Yesterday I wanted to try out a plow I bought a couple of weeks ago. My D19 Allis ran about a minute and stopped.

The only reason a diesel will stop is lack of fuel. So-I started at the beginning, drained the fuel tank and unscrewed the sediment bowl from the bottom of the tank. My hunch was correct. The sediment bowl was plugged with goo that wouldn't let fuel leave the tank. Cleaned that up, but ran out of time.

This morning, I finished bleeding the fuel line to the pump and got the old gal fired up again. Hooked onto the plow and made less than a round before someone's half arsed weld broke on the lift cylinder mount. (See photo. Only about a fourth of the weld was holding). When the weld broke, the plow sucked itself deeper into the ground. Spent a couple of hours pulling the plow apart. Naturally it was in an unhandy place several hundred yards from the shop. Took the parts to the shop where I can redo the weld. Doesn't look like the weld even had any penetration.

Redoing the weld and putting the plow back together will be tomorrow afternoon's project. We go to church Saturday evening, but I make a point of not working on Sunday morning.

But, that's the only negative I've found on the plow. I noticed that weld had been redone when I bought the plow, but the moldboards were scoured so I figured the weld was holding.

Looks like a big pile of bubble gum from under a 3rd grade school desk! Would guess a way too small power welder. Have fun.

Pretty sure I could lay down a better weld with our 110v 140amp welder. I welded the harrow back together on the side of my plow years ago and it's still together. Did most of the welding with the little wire welder because there was some overhead and vertical up welds to do. I just kept going with it because it was working really well.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Crank 'er up until the rod burns through then back it off a notch. The very first welding job that I did around thirty years ago broke apart in pretty short order. That was when I learned about penetration. Some day I want to take a class and learn how to do it right.

Won't be hard to beat that weld. I guess that's how most of us learned to weld. Weld it ,break it, repeat until successful.

I'd guess whoever did it, did it vertically on the plow. I have the parts off the plow so I can do a horizontal weld and really crank up the amps.

Looks to me like the rust was not removed before welding.

a friend of mine once took something to weld shop the man doing welding told friend some people should not be allowed to own a welder and FARMERS are one of them.

(quoted from post at 13:22:01 11/26/17) a friend of mine once took something to weld shop the man doing welding told friend some people should not be allowed to own a welder and FARMERS are one of them.

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I got my Lincoln tombstone when the owner of the shop that I was taking my equipment to told me that it was time.