Jim Clark good item? Guess you really have no clue about operating equipment, there is a reason that the blade is installed on earth moving equipment. No contractor would touch this abortion for the very fact you can not feel what is happening. Guess the term “ operating by the seat of your pants” is not something you have ever heard.
It’s a nice design, but really, I’ve been using a Flexi-coil version of the smaller one since the 90’s, and a Shoule built variant for about 12 years now.
Those welds are perfectly fine - that's what welds look like when you stick weld, which is what you use for really damn heavy metals like this. Common MIG and TIG welding, used generally from 1/4"(MIG - TIG is for precision work) and below, is what produces "pretty" welds. Also, the worst looking ones are the ones attaching the reinforcement plate to the base structure, no big deal, the structural welds(from what we can see) look perfectly acceptable. What you see on the surface doesn't matter; it's the penetration that matters, and I can assure you that they almost certainly have perfectly good penetration having stick welded that together. Now the design certainly isn't mass production viable considering the poor use of materials(a single appropriately sized I-beam or rectangular box for the hitching arm would be so much cheaper than scabbing together multiple pieces of box and plate, so on and so forth), but this seems like a 'spare time' kind of project that he builds as people order them, and he probably uses a lot of found materials/scrap yard parts/what he has laying around(the combine axle for the grader box for instance) so he probably saves a lot of money building them in such a fashion. But, in general, there isn't anything wrong with these, no reason that they shouldn't hold up perfectly fine. Also, of all of the grader boxes and pull plows on the market, I don't think that there's anything that has a built in ripper/shank like that, clever useful design.
RyTrapp0 no they’re really bad. Will it hold. For now. Shitty looking welds are one thing, passive viewing and the ability to see weld defects in seconds isn’t good no matter what welding process you use. They’re the wrong fillet width for the material too. I work in industrial maintenance and have a pretty good idea what QC/QA looks for and these and the method (gtaw, gmaw, and smaw, w/stitching) all would fail. For a home build it’s pretty good overall , the tilt feature is pretty awesome and the guy obviously either was learning skills or was having someone learn skills during this build. When it busts apart he'll get even more practice. :)
Land Plane works really well too Its like a gigantic grader frame and blade This is a small one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wNB6eFk01Xk.html Some can be 4X this size
It is, for sure. More like the simple horse drawn versions, which is good for price. Personally I believe the big one will suffer cracking at the end of the drawbar, but it looks like an alpha prototype and I bet that is changed for an A frame in the production drawings.
yep, they certainly need to improve that for a pro product, it looks very amateur level, they may hold, but it just makes you look iike you welded it in the rain standing in the mud waiting to go home on a friday
There is a reason that you find the blade on the front of machinery, that being you can feel and see what you are doing. This is a half baked idiot idea. I rate this in the flop of the day section, it also shows just how stunned the makers of the prairie farm report are. This is not the only stunned fuck idea that has had been covered tho so I should not be at all surprised I guess.
a quick google search would show you many manufacturers produce similar machinery. just a 20 minute drive in the country and you are bound to pass at least one on a property
