Warrior Welding LLC shop.

Elderly man down the road heats with wood. He is out! Loading up as much as he needs with another neighbor who checked in on him.
 
tlucier said:
You’re a good man!
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Thanks, I was just part of the reaction. Another neighbor got the info. That neighbor knew we had the wood.
 
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After we got the bumper and storage off. Those frame extensions are 3/4 plate btw.
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Little shave of all the really bad damage. Dollied the rest.
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Little trimming of a factory replacement. I've made them from scratch. Bump bending the radius sucks and takes about 70 locations at 1/4 spacing. Being both corners and the middle we ordered a skin. Took forever to come in.
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Trash!
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Just needs the lettering and stripes.
 
skyhighZJ said:
Not to sound shitty but is there a reason this kind of damage happened? If driver error was there repercussions like wearing the dunce cap for a month or something??
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I've seen the fault swing both ways over the 18 or so years total I have worked on Emergency equipment. As far as penalties I couldn't tell you how that plays out. Most of the time we rarely get details on the faulty party let alone how the incident occurred. A career member would have better knowledge.

I have fixed numerous units over operator error.....the most of which are doors and equipment torn off leaving in a hurry. Quoted one of those just this week. Stainless body. Really messed up. Probably near 200 man hours not including paint. Fixed a few doors last year. Also have two more besides the recent quote in waiting. One we just delivered of our own brand/build last year. It left and tore the door post out of the concrete. Buckled the garage door. The best part is our product still shuts, didn't tear the door off and the cabinet is still square!

A lot of others are fubared by rubber neckers on the scene. Many years ago I cut the entire back corner off a steel bodies unit. Guy hit them on 321 at full highway speed. Never touched the brakes. He was DOA.

Fixed one that went through a fence. Top rail pinned the Captain to the passenger seat like a tooth pick in an olive.

Burnt, Rolled, And every corner I've replaced or rebuilt them.
 
I've always thought Sutphen engines were some sharp looking rides. Their aerials not so much though lol.

Duane
 
CLRracer said:
I've always thought Sutphen engines were some sharp looking rides. Their aerials not so much though lol.

Duane
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I had the pleasure of meeting old man Sutphen when I worked for a hydraulic cylinder manufacturer in Ohio. Dude in his 90s was nut and bolt restoring 1st gen rolls Royce’s doing all the work himself. He had 5 or 6 going at the same time

There was a story they told where he was trying to make a model t based hot rod using the engine from a fire truck. He apparently got so excited to drive it once it was running that he took off from the shop, and proceeded to circle the building about 10 times with the clutch in. Turns out he hadn’t done brake lines yet, and just let it coast to a stop. He was in his 80s at the time.

They have the only no weld ladders in the industry using specially made rivets for ladder assembly that make for a safer product supposedly
 
Shreddinlettuce said:
I had the pleasure of meeting old man Sutphen when I worked for a hydraulic cylinder manufacturer in Ohio. Dude in his 90s was nut and bolt restoring 1st gen rolls Royce’s doing all the work himself. He had 5 or 6 going at the same time

There was a story they told where he was trying to make a model t based hot rod using the engine from a fire truck. He apparently got so excited to drive it once it was running that he took off from the shop, and proceeded to circle the building about 10 times with the clutch in. Turns out he hadn’t done brake lines yet, and just let it coast to a stop. He was in his 80s at the time.

They have the only no weld ladders in the industry using specially made rivets for ladder assembly that make for a safer product supposedly
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They have a aircraft hanger full of awesome restored stuff, including a airplane.
As for the ladder the rivets are a Huck bolt. I have in the last year had to change out some damaged structural pieces in a ladder of that brand. Very modular. Not terrible and much easier to reinspect. Any repair on a fabricated welded unit goes under NDT testing. Annual test done over UL gets every single weld mag particle tested if steel. Visual on aluminum and if suspect Sonography. Every single bolt gets a torque wrench as well.
 
Been stupid busy. Several of these in the shop.
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Done a few in a row. All with the claws torn slam off.

And a really random job.
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Shift forks on a 100 hp Tractor. Supposed to be rare unobtainium.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Guy spec’ing the purchase for Sunbelt didn’t read between the lines on this part…
“Ignite delivers American-designed attachments”
Aka cheap Chinese crap.
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Yep, I've never saw such poor engineered design. The Cylinders over stroke by a good margin putting it in a awful lot of tension when raised. To the point of beating out the back bone of tube that all the pivot bracket are attached to.
The worst is the tube has been 3/16 to 1/4 thick pending the size. None have been absolute weld failure. It flexes the tube to the point of cracking out. Both side brackets and the entire mount in one spiderwebbed chunk. Everything else is 3/8 and 1/2 inch thick. The loaded member is the thinnest material.
I have been cutting out the the ugly, backing plate the joint with full pen bevels and adding braces to spread the load out. One brace I add ties it full width on the inside ears perpendicular to the seam to help slow down the fatigue on the corner of the tube.
 
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