started fabbing up the 3pt on the C today.

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souNdguy

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dinked with the H this am, then finally got to work on the C.

backed it up to the shop and had my available scrap set out. drug out the chop saw and torch and marking chalk.. started measuring what I had and layed out a basic fram that bolts tot he tractor rear, and centers above the place where the belt pulley would be, etc.

have it all vice clamped together and on the ground and will weld it next chance I get to play.

i have a pipe and round stock for the rockshaft.

I will be using some old 8n arms as the lower arms, and will use flat stock as the lift links I THINK, unless I have enough rebar left over .. most of the rebar will be linkage from the forward hyd arms.

won't be elegant.. but should be functional.

have yet to measure out the 'L' shaped brackets fro the rockshaft that hook tot he lift links and the links to t he tractor hyd.

more pics as work progresses. perhaps monday night?
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looks good! Can't wait to see it come together!

teach a man to weld and he'll be unstoppable.
:)

jealous (without welding experience)
karl f
 
i did a lil welding in high school.. then none for a couple decades. then one day got froggy at work and played with the tombstone.. learned / remembered enough to build some ramps for my trailer and get a good sunburn on my legs. finally decided to get a tombstone at home to fix stuff on the farm.

Something about burning a rod that I like.. :)
 
(quoted from post at 18:12:27 01/21/12) i did a lil welding in high school.. then none for a couple decades.

I wanted to take welding in HS but the counselors urged me that it was beneath my potential--I was college bound because the standardized tests said so. That's a long whiny story where I got a degree in abundant Arts...

If the economy ever turns around I'll have to take some welding courses.

karl f
 
sounds like the counselors did ya wrong..

I went to college for engineering.

when i was in high school.. I took the act test and scored top 3% of the school.. and yet they had no problem letting me take ag, electronics, and construction classes. const was where we learned welding.. etc.

soundguy
 
don't want to turn your post into my post any more than it has so i'll just say: Some things I could have done different or better and some I wish I knew it was up to me at the time. I wish I wouldn't have decided that slacking off was a good form of rebellion against The Man. Age has its benefits and hindsight is 20 20...

As long as I can always keep tractors in my life I'll be happy. Hard for me to shed the farm influence. Hope as time goes on it's less armchair engineering, more shop time, and even more field time


I look forward to watching your projects unfold here. I'll pretend it's my shop time for now.

karl f
 

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