[AT] Hay wagon update

Stephen Offiler soffiler at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 04:15:38 PST 2017


Speaking as a big fan of the 4-1/2" angle grinder and the .045" cutoff
wheels myself... Cecil's idea sounds pretty interesting to me!  I'm going
to file that one away for future reference.  "If it's stuck, cut it apart
and weld it back together later"

SO


On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> Vibration seems to always work.   If you have a jackhammer, you might
> try it on the sides and also on the end of the pipes.  I use a lot of 4
> 1/2"cutoff blades in a small grinder.   The blades are only 0.045
> thick.   In a good small grinder they are lethal to steel.   You could
> try to just slit the outside pipe and once it is apart, weld the pipe
> back together.  I would only weld a short spot and then go back to
> another spot.  I have done this in the past, it is a lot of welding, but
> it goes fast.
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
> On 11/20/2017 4:41 PM, Ken Knierim wrote:
> > Too bad you don't have a gravel road with chatter bumps... seems like
> > everything on a trailer comes loose when you rattle it across something
> > like that. Of course, this assumes a little higher road speed. :)
> >
> > Ken in AZ
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I have thought about this also, but to make this work you need to push
> >> down on two wheels and block/lift on one.   I have been trying to decide
> >> how to do this, and think I have arrived at putting the frame of a
> tractor
> >> over one wheel/beam,  block one wheel and then  push down with the
> bobcat
> >> on the third.
> >>
> >> Lifting it up on its side and placing the rear axle between two stout
> >> trees  growing close to each other was suggested by one person a while
> back
> >> ago. I have been looking for those two trees all over my property but I
> >> have not found them yet  :-)
> >>
> >>   If I do that would be an interesting experiment.
> >>
> >> Spencer Yost
> >>
> >>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 12:36 PM, John Slavin <chaunceyjb at sbcglobal.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Spencer:
> >>>
> >>> Could you maybe jack up and put some blocks under one wheel or corner
> of
> >> the running gear and hang a weight on the other corner of the running
> gear
> >> on the same side?  I thought first about putting a big bale or
> something on
> >> the wagon, but you’d want to be careful about springing the frame of the
> >> wagon.  You only want to move the running gear.  If the box is still on
> the
> >> frame, you might even want to jack the box up so the twist would only
> be to
> >> the running gear.  That way you could come back every day or so and
> resoak
> >> the running gear.
> >>> John S.
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