Bucket flange repair

[admweld]

These are some photos of a bucket i replaced the inner flanges with some bigger ones .The thumbs was tearing the bucket apart when carrying large rocks.I made them from some 1" plate i had.In the last photo you can see the size differents compared to the factory flanges.

[metal-doctor]

Well what can I say Nice truck, Nice plasma cutting from the pic & them gussets should tie that bugger in nice. Good job , curious as to what plasma cutter you are using & keep up the good work.

[admweld]

Well what can I say Nice truck, Nice plasma cutting from the pic & them gussets should tie that bugger in nice. Good job , curious as to what plasma cutter you are using & keep up the good work.

I'm using a hypertherm pwr max 1250 plasma.The last photo shows the old flange size, i just added that pic.

[J hall]

Nice work! It's good to see you back posting.

[admweld]

work load?

Hows work out your way j hall i seem to be holding my own.But things are looking a bit slow.Diesel has also hit $4.30/gal out here in mass.

[weld-tek]

nice work as always bill,on the work note things ae slower than crap here.i have only done 480.00 dollars worth of work in last 6 weeks.i hope things pick up.

[BDJ]

Good job better to go bigger I always say. By the way that is one good looking rig you got there very slick

[grnxrymnky]

aint it fun!

man it's fun to repair and weld on those things! i think i like the permanence of the heavy stuff. besides it's hard to burn through thick stuff! nice looking truck, too. see ya' around, keep posting pics.

[RAD]

man it's fun to repair and weld on those things!

Nothing compares to laying in a big loader bucket welding hardface on a windy 30 degree day in the dead of winter. Ahh the memories!

[admweld]

Good job better to go bigger I always say. By the way that is one good looking rig you got there very slick

Thanks for the compliments guys.I figured most of you guys already seen my rig, i guess i was wrong.

[Portable Welder]

Adam, It looks to me that the pivot of the thumb may have been welded a little to close to the bucket giving an incredible amount of pressure where the bucket flares out.

The operator may be a little heavy on the hand, Putting a death grip on the rocks might be the problem.

As always your truck looks good.

As far as work goes this is the slowest I,ve been since I started in business back in 1988.

We still have work but the profit margins arent like they use to be.

[HMW]

Good work. I've seen the truck before but still like pics of nice equipment.

Slow work here too, side work seems slow. At my real job the work there never changes...Trucks/ equipment are always broke down

[admweld]

Adam, It looks to me that the pivot of the thumb may have been welded a little to close to the bucket giving an incredible amount of pressure where the bucket flares out.

The operator may be a little heavy on the hand, Putting a death grip on the rocks might be the problem.

As always your truck looks good.

As far as work goes this is the slowest I,ve been since I started in business back in 1988.

We still have work but the profit margins arent like they use to be.

Portable,I thought the same also with the location,it was installed by the cat dealer out here. And the owner/operator did tell me he is heavy on the grip and also has been pushing its limit with some large rocks.

[framescr8pintoy]

more pics of the truck

[admweld]

Here ya go.