[AT] Haywagon update

[David Myers]

Looks good Spencer.  Idea on rewelding the tube.  Think about welding a strip of similar guage steel spanning the gap.  Using maybe 1/2-3/4", 12ga or whatever works best.  That way you close up the tube and have no chance of welding back to the inner tube.  It will be plenty strong enough and though taking a bit more time will actually be easier to weld, just zipping down with fillet welds.  Happy to see this kind of progress, always feels good when a plan comes together.David 

    On Thursday, February 22, 2018 5:26 PM, 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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