Need advice on modifying plow

Nothing more to add that hasn't already been stated above.

If you are having trouble oxyfuel cutting thinner materials go to a smaller tip ex: 0, 00, or even 000, and or decreasing your working pressures to slow your travel speed, and narrow your kerf width. I've had good success with 00 tips cutting 1/8 through 1/2, with only changing working psi. Much slower than using a larger tip, but a better cut.

It's difficult to get your travel speed fast enough, and kerf width narrow enough on thinner materials.
 
Working on the frame extensions today. The welder keeps tripping the breaker and it's very frustrating because I have so much to do with double passing everything.


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i hope that butt weld is strong. you've essentially just created a long fulcrum with twice the load on the long end. i understand that seemed like the easiest way to get the job done, but splitting the frame, moving the existing furrows to the outside and adding another pair in the middle would have given much stronger build.
 
There is a butt weld outside of the frame that holds the factory discs. The last pic shows the outside boxed setup that is a lap joint. So there are 2 weld connections to the frame at different areas.

I think it's more than enough for the use
 
Looks like the discs you added are higher than the rest. Camera angle?
 
rockcity said:
There is a butt weld outside of the frame that holds the factory discs. The last pic shows the outside boxed setup that is a lap joint. So there are 2 weld connections to the frame at different areas.

I think it's more than enough for the use
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the factory discs are on a much shorter fulcrum, with a center mounted connection to the frame, equal force applied to both sides.
 
Thete was just no real way to split the frame with all the moving parts in the center (joints, heims, cylinder)


The outside disks are larger than the others. I've still got my doubts about it holding up. I hope I can try it out next week.
 
I added two more gussets from the existing frame to the extension for a total of 3 on each side.
 

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Reid said:
i think the discs are larger and the axle has to be higher, but the bottoms look aligned.
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Yep, I see it now. Was looking at the axle of the disc.


*Edit Looking at post #46 the end disc still looks higher at the bottom.
 
I'm far from an expert welder. I used the ARC welder where I could and did the best I could with MIG overhead. I tried to compensate by increasing the locations of welds but I'm still concerned.
 
I've seen much crappier work hold up surprisingly well. Looks like you put forth a pretty good effort. Worst case scenario: it breaks off and you improve on it.
 
Seems to be a bitchy crowd critiquing your hard work from their armchairs. As I understood the original part of your post, this is to backfill freshly plowed dirt back into a trench, so I assume you are not planning to do any sub soiling of compacted earth with it so there seems to be enough weld on there that I would bet on your success:rockon: Well done, let's see some action photos of it now.
 
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