Topper

[scarecrow]

I gave the lone of my topper to a cousin and got it back with the shaft broken I can't really complain as I have done this several times in the past and kept piling on weld to get myself out of trouble so this time I decided to rebuild the broken section the biggest problem was the pen holding on shaft was seized so it had to be cut out with the reciprocating saw




I cut off the broken section and made a new piece of box from some 4'' angle iron which was 10mm thick
in




then I cut the sleeve and lit a fire to redden it as there was no way it would
budge




they just cut out the whole in the new piece with a small bit in the magdrill because of hole was about 50 mm and welded it all together






I hadn't done any welding for a while so I really enjoyed doing this but some weren't quite so impressed

 

[Wozzaaah]

Pic upload tutorial worked
I've removed your pics from my post just so they're not shown twice. Glad you sussed it

 

[scarecrow]

I cant seem to get them working probably I tought the pictures would just appear pictures drive me nuts so your welcome to what you like with them

 

[scarecrow]

THANKS WOZZAAAH I don't know how you did it or what I was doing wrong if you have any idea please tell me I must go you a couple of pints for that as I would probably have spent another hour trying to fix it and would probably have made it worse

 

[Wozzaaah]

Have a look at this tutorial Malcolm wrote, it explains how to upload photos from your pc.
If you just want to attach pics from an album on here or from another website just use this icon

and paste the url of the pic you want to show so it will look like this

Have a go and see what happens, you can preview your post to see how it looks without submitting it.

 

[wyn]

From your pics it looks like because it's a trailed machine the bracket that had the repairs is taking all the load if the topper "accidentally"hits anything on the outer end.

The bracket is only welded to the top face of the box section. It would be better to add a bit of bracing from the bracket down the side of the box section as long as it does not foul on anything else.

Nice repair though

 

[scarecrow]

You are spot on wyn and had thought about doing the same but because my driving skills probably won't improve I was wondering if I made that bit unbreakable where would the next problem arise. I Have even gone a little light on the weld on the bracket so if I hit something again it shouldn't crack the box section but the bracket might tear away

Thanks again WOZZAAAH

 

[wyn]

Yea good point...

like you say too strong would move the problem somewhere else.

Maybe that's why it went on the bracket first of all, they designed it to go there.

 

[scarecrow]

Maybe that's why it went on the bracket first of all, they designed it to go there.

You could be right or I could just lock back pin in the open position and put a hydraulic ram on the to side bracket. There would be a little bit more give in the hydraulic ram which would help with bad drivers

 

[wyn]

Maybe if you had a system of levers and bits of string from the outside edge of the topper so if it hit something a stick would hit the driver on the back of
the head.


Like you say maybe something with a bit of a damping effect. If you used a ram you could put in some of those spherical hydraulic damper things.

some trailed mowers have some sort of breakaway system, and you just reverse to reset it, probably a spring loaded pin.

 

[scarecrow]

Maybe if you had a system of levers and bits of string from the outside edge of the topper so if it hit something a stick would hit the driver on the back of
the head.


Like you say maybe something with a bit of a damping effect. If you used a ram you could put in some of those spherical hydraulic damper things.

some trailed mowers have some sort of breakaway system, and you just reverse to reset it, probably a spring loaded pin.

If the early warning system came with a beeper instead of a stick i might chance installing it.