Welding A Cracked Excavator Bucket (2015 Ford f350 Welding Rig) 

Thanks! I always bring my wire feeder for cracks because you never know how wide your gonna have to open it up.

@@JTwelder. after having to Texas tig a few gaps you make space in that truck for the wire feeder lol

Yeah this definitely was a wide one! I didn’t video it ($1000 cameras don’t like rain) but there was heavy rain for about 2 hours of the job. I always try to do the best welds I can! Makes the job more interesting when you do it every day.

I pulled the battery and recharged it recently because I accidentally left the switch on and killed it. Put the battery back in fully charged and the display is reading the voltage correctly again. I haven’t tried it yet with the ln25 but I will soon and see if it’s fixed.

Thanks! I was charging my emergency rate as well so I made out pretty good in the end.

Yep. I always gouge or cut 1” past where the crack ended.

I looked It up and it ended up being a giant water bug although it does look very similar to a beetle. They’re pretty vicious, apparently they can take out bull frogs and ducklings.

My plan was to root and hot pass with the wire on both sides because I knew it was going to be a wide gap then fill and cap with 7018. Since it the cv mode stopped working I was only able to root the one side. If I’m welding on metal 1/2 and ticker with wire I use a gas shielded flux core or T8 rated structural gas-less flux core like Lincoln 233 or 232 and Hobart xlr8 Your right though T11 wires like fab shield 21b, Lincoln 212 and 211 are only structurally rated up to 1/2 so it wouldn’t be ideal to weld a big crack like this one all the way out with it.

@@JTwelder. Thank you for the reply. It’s good to know that I wasn’t barking up the wrong tree 😏.

I didn’t keep count but definitely a lot! Probably around 5 or more lbs of welding rods. The crack was very inconsistent through the depth of the steel so that’s why it had to be suck a large opening once I cut it out! Thanks for watching and commenting!

I charge travel by the km/mile and once I arrive on site the clock starts. To set up, do the repair and pack up on this job it was a total of 8.5 hours+ 100km of travel.

@@JTwelder. you must not like making money.