Warrior Welding LLC shop.

Big girl had a bad day!
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"I like big butts......"
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CasterTroy said:
Wow.

Das a big crackšŸ˜²
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Not anymore! Healing regimen is underway.
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Burnt in and filled up. Top is smoothed of as well. Shot for hot consistent beads with enough build up to land flat when prepped for some plating.

Full pen welds with backer. Had to chase the crack all the way down to the bottom. Darn thing split all sorts of ugly. Torch beveled since the crack wasn't consistent. Excavator could push it in to shape but it would spring back after the hydraulic pressure let off. Combination of a couple chains with binders and 40 tons of bottle jacks I was able to level and square it all up.

Ignore the crazy paint chasing, owner had ideas.

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Lots of cutting.
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Wind wasn't playing nice. Really making the dual shield wire act up. Really didn't want to spend hours on end welding out the fish plates with 7018.
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Built a small shelter. Wouldn't want to live here like the homeless camps. This new canvas stinks and may be making me high!
Lots of hot stuff latter with a wire feeder and 7100 ultra core with 75/25 shield gas.
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What do you think about the 7100? Not so much on the shielding gas side but the weld quality on possibly less than ideal surface prep situations?
 
skyhighZJ said:
What do you think about the 7100? Not so much on the shielding gas side but the weld quality on possibly less than ideal surface prep situations?
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It had its moments. One area it pulled some nasty crap out of the plate the fella provided. I had ground the back chasing back heavy rust. It was some stuff he had laying about. I guess I didn't hit the back side hard enough in that area. Another area I had not cleared the factory paint quite wide enough. It chewed through it but really disturbed the arc and puddle flow. It is a bit finicky with wind. I had to gouge out a couple passes before I got mad enough to eat a nab and put up some wind blocks. Absolutely a gas hog and is happy running 25-35 cfm on flow. With a small nozzle and the wrong angle it is enough to pull ambient air into the puddle! Drag, pull, push it doesn't much care just changes the profile of the bead.

I absolutely love running Lincoln 212 inner shield for less than ideal prep. No gas. Extremely smooth. I need to check the tensile, notch toughness, and elongation data between the two. The 212 is a supped up very of the old Lincoln 211. It was heavily used in construction til they figured out it work hardens over long periods and caused fatigue cracks. It was extremely well liked and used all over red iron, construction, and equipment up til then and got a bad rap.

The Lincoln 212 is seismic rated! (Edit) "I can't find where I read this statement , take it for a grain of salt!"(Edit number two) "See next post had my stuff backwards" Its also what I ran in that Volvo loader bushes for you. Absolutely cuts like butter with the line bore. I used it on that other job posted earlier. Got the same results. When I get time and compare the two wires metallurgy if the 212 is pretty equivalent I may not buy anymore of the Esab Ultra Core for two reasons. The needed gas and the shelf life. It is much more sensitive to moisture. I don't know why but storing both in the same environment I can tell the 212 runs better if the rolls have been around a while.
 
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So I had my details backwards. Esab states on the webber pages the 7100 falls into seismic rated filler for seismic rated alloys....I remembered reading it but I had it backwards. But for the data here are some screenshots.
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My second happy place. Outside of metal I absolutely love running a chainsaw.
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Gotta get the rest of this oak down. Power company butchered it a few year ago and it has became a threat.
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Pretty tall, hemmed in by the road and two sets of three phase power lines.
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Not quit enough to get in the top. Gonna be interesting.
 
Couple shots of me in the basket. Much respect to dudes who do this daily on much bigger more dangerous trees.
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ghost said:
So was it dicey? I've got a couple pines I need to take out in Hartsville and have been contemplating renting one.
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I'll let him speak for himself on the tree work. But they simply move a lot more than a full size all terrain boom lift in my experience. Not bad up to like 20', and the have their place. We use them in warehouses and factories occasionally.
 
JSJJ388 said:
I'll let him speak for himself on the tree work. But they simply move a lot more than a full size all terrain boom lift in my experience. Not bad up to like 20', and the have their place. We use them in warehouses and factories occasionally.
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Fully extended it wasn't exactly confidence inspiring. I used to never tie off to one. I do now but the whole time I was thinking about that ride down if it went south. I've used bigger self propelled lifts at greater height like you stated. Two times here at the house on other trees. I did like the leveling feature. Its only rated for 500 pounds. It is also not at all wide. Me and my son never got in together but a chainsaw and me was a basket full. As for stable the saw would cause enough torque to move the basket. Making a cut it would pull the basket towards the bar.
Biggest thing full height stretched out the lift had to be really close to the base. Not ideal and had to move it 4 or 5 times. I paid real close attention to lengths of drops so iff they hit wrong couldn't kick back to the lift. I wedged a couple really big blocks. Back cutting helped them a couple times to fall away. One or two I wedged and choose to push them for absolute control. This didn't work so well because to push moved more lift then blocks.
 
R Q said:
Busy road in Mint Hill (Charlotte suburb) he is always stacking wood! Good guy too. It's all he does that I know of. He has land behind his house full of trees and I think he lets a tree company dump logs from time to time. $10 a stack, honor system, put money in a box.
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Oh yeah. I remember that house.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Fully extended it wasn't exactly confidence inspiring. I used to never tie off to one. I do now but the whole time I was thinking about that ride down if it went south. I've used bigger self propelled lifts at greater height like you stated. Two times here at the house on other trees. I did like the leveling feature. Its only rated for 500 pounds. It is also not at all wide. Me and my son never got in together but a chainsaw and me was a basket full. As for stable the saw would cause enough torque to move the basket. Making a cut it would pull the basket towards the bar.
Biggest thing full height stretched out the lift had to be really close to the base. Not ideal and had to move it 4 or 5 times. I paid real close attention to lengths of drops so iff they hit wrong couldn't kick back to the lift. I wedged a couple really big blocks. Back cutting helped them a couple times to fall away. One or two I wedged and choose to push them for absolute control. This didn't work so well because to push moved more lift then blocks.
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Itā€™s definitely an acquired taste. I tend to hang on the the tree when it gets stretched out. If you need any help give me a shout
 
R Q said:
Busy road in Mint Hill (Charlotte suburb) he is always stacking wood! Good guy too. It's all he does that I know of. He has land behind his house full of trees and I think he lets a tree company dump logs from time to time. $10 a stack, honor system, put money in a box.
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Damn...ok I have an Idea @WARRIORWELDING we shrink wrap 10 pieces in a bundle and I take them to Derek's house every week. We build a honors system box on the corner there at the entrance to Salem Glenn.
I get 20% and we give Derek $20 a month for rent.
We'll be rich in no time šŸ˜ŽšŸ¤£
 
No fries said:
Selling a bundle at a time. Like at the grocery store.
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You get 5 pcs for $8.95, I looked today. So my guy at 10 for $10 is a good deal! Is that expensive? I have actually bought a few stacks from him when I have been heading to URE or Harlan and needed wood when I didn't have any. I've never bought a full load of wood, I usually cut up fallen trees on jobs and dispose of them in my wood pile so I usually have plenty for the incinerator.
 
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