[AT] Haywagon update

[Barney Van De Weert]

This looks like a Deere old wagon running gear reach tube, I have 2 of them, we had one on my Dads farm. under no circumstances would I weld on this. It's made to be bolted tight on each end and the Reach tube twists as required. For mine I ground the heads round on 1/2" bolts to make what Deere used to hold the front and rear together- 
Barney Van De Weert 

    On Thursday, February 22, 2018, 4:26:03 PM CST, Spencer Yost <syost at triad.rr.com> wrote:  
 
 Had to be home today for a personal errand , so I had a chance to try to separate the Haywagon. Chained the rear to a tree and pulled.  Even with penetrant soaking for a few days after cutting a groove in the tube, a bobcat could not pull  that thing apart.  So I tried twisting by picking up one front tire with the bobcat bucket and it did create a twist. So I set it back down and pushed to twist it back. Try pulling again and it still wouldn't separate.  So I picked up  the other front tire and got it to twist. Set it back down. This time it pulled apart ever so slowly but it finally came.

 I am so glad I didn't bother with any other method and went straight to Cecil's solution of cutting a slot in the tube.  After heating grooving, soaking, twisting it still took a bobcat to pull it apart.  I think that thing was close to rust welding itself.

Here's a picture of the groove in the picture of rust on the inner tube.

Next will come welding. I guess I'll  have to be careful not to weld the innertube to the outer tube :-). I'm afraid to weld it without the inner tube in place because if I get some slag/welding material below the groove i will have a hard time grinding  it out so that the innertube can slide in.


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