it's Pete from cheap homes standing in today's the day I'm gonna weld the
center link on my Massey 50 tractor so then I can just use my tractor whenever
I want otherwise it's been sitting in my garage
and I haven't been able to use it so that's no good either so let's go okay
so there we go look at this I've got the mighty screwdriver in there the issue is
this is category two and this is category one and they just wouldn't fit
in there so I needed to weld on a new one okay so I went and these are firm
fleet they're just well done through a channel that's more thing I could find
so what I'm gonna do is cut out the shape of this little taper into here
weld it all in and put a little bit of a supporting bracket just to give it a
little more support so a lot start on this
we've got our weld in piece I want to keep it about the same angle okay so I'm
not going to try to cut off too too much so that I can grind and make it fit real
nice then weld it in yeah I went to Home Hardware and got these to fit into my
grinder which are their notching wheels actually but they will just cut off
wheels so you can cut off pieces these things are an amazing time-saver and
they do a really good job so worth every penny there I'll have a four bucks
apiece so they're kind of expensive but they do the job much quicker okay what I
had to do is remove the guard which I am NOT suggesting that you ever ever do
guards are there for a reason it's always personal reasons why you do
things now that is dangerous so I'm gonna be mindful of where my hand is and
I'm gonna use some gloves so hopefully I can hear it not into that before it's
into my hand so as I say don't do as I do
maybe I'll get a grinder that's a bigger guard that could be handy I think so
okay so I can't go down far enough I'm gonna have to use a hacksaw for the rest
you think the sledge will take it now right okay let's see if she'll come
loose yikes
okay that's fitting pretty decent I am gonna grind a little more here and make
it fit nice and then we're gonna start welding it off you know most of my stuff
is just showing you how I do it I don't this is more how I do videos I'm
just kind of vlogging it I don't particularly want you to think that
everything I do is correct running things without guards I try to be as
safe as possible but in the same right I like to get things done and I try to be
as safe as I can like you know all wearing chains up hand stuff I can
really I mean I'm sure wouldn't be nice getting something into your hand but
most times it's not life-threatening your legs cutting your legs wide open
that is so I kind of judge that as I go but you have to do that for yourself so
I'm not showing you how to do it this is just how I do it so be safe I don't want
something happening
a little bit more
ah perfect and I like it see what I'm getting that I'm using the old one to
use as my support I'm gonna weld the rest I'm going to notch the sides to
have more surface to weld I'll grind slightly on these edges too to make a
little more surface they build up see I grooved it so there's more surface when
you weld it makes it much stronger joint from the factory from this weld on piece
they already did that this side here is going to have more room more surface
anyways because I have it's gonna weld in farther so I don't think I'm gonna
joint that I'm just going to weld and fill in and then I'm gonna brace the top
oh man
you find a good ground so actual pin the pins welded into here so that's a good
ground alright so this is only an AC welder so
a CDC and now most people just use DC you have to go get AC rods because it'll
be a frustrating lesson in futility you don't you just can't weld AC with DC
rods very well at all
I'm going to weld the bottom strip now
that's not so bad but what it is I
not so bad got the chipper
we're gonna do one more weld down across the bottom
probably preferably it'll turn up nicely
he's filling him nicely
so that is slang and here's the not-so-nice site you over here and this
is the nice or pretty site so now I'm gonna build a little bracket that goes
on here just to give it a little bit of gusseting now I want to weld this on to
here but I want it to match this edge I'm gonna cut this off with my notching
wheel right about there okay make sure you grind off any paint that you're
gonna well - this is really important welds are pretty strong on their own if
it's straight pulling but they're not good at twisting I tell you break a well
view your twist until it comes off so when I put my gusset in it will keep
more support so it can't twist like this so I'll weld this in then I'll weld up
the sides give it some extra support so it can't twist back and forth and I'll
load it will have lots of that like driving bang bang so you need to put
some extra support in there and so first we're gonna tack it
little coat of primer I don't have any paint but it'll make it look a bit
better and keep it from rusting anyways