Some welding needed done on one of the sticks, so I chugged my beer and donned my welder costume.
Then we discovered some destroyed parts that interact with the extend a hoe ram. 🙄 We sorta reverse engineered what we thought the ram cradle should have looked like before it got mangled, and then I cut some repair parts out with our trusty little plasma cutter.
Because our CNC plasma table has been down for modification since October; and instead of working on THAT, I’ve been working on a backhoe. So hand torch it is. 😄😄
Somewhere in there, a beer or few were necessary to keep the project well lubed and moving forward. 😊🍻
With the extend a hoe ram cradle rebuilt and hopefully a little better than new, it was time to reassemble that big greasy mess.
With that assembly put together, it was just about time to put everything back on the rear of the tractor, but the day was over and we were still waiting on a few parts to show up, so here we stopped. So close though!