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    Small tractor bumper

    Nice, I made one for my used and abused relic L4150 a few years ago when I replaced the rad, used repurposed channel, old tubes, heavy gauge angle, added a front hitch. Even rattle canned it orange. Bent tubes with a 16 ton hf bender. Will probably reconfigure lights and add mesh in between...
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    Flooring for a welding shop?

    1/4" cement board, hardi backer? Its Fire proof with great compressive strength especially if you use thinset under it imo. However never used it Or seen it used for a shop floor, only as underlayment for tile over a wood floor
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    Kindling splitter

    Nice idea wish I would have seen or thought of something like it before I bought my xl kindling cracker a few yrs ago.
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    My projects - farm repairs and minor fabrication

    I built this ATV trailer mover positioner quite a while ago using nothing but scrap steel and an old trailer ball, Modified to fit existing ATVs over the years, used a lot, easy to put on and take off ATV and works really good for moving my smaller single axle trailers as I'm sure some of you...
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    My projects - farm repairs and minor fabrication

    Don't really have advice on gophers cause we have some vicious ferrel cats in the area lol. however I started to "carefully" run an old towable homeowner grade lawn roller up and down my rows and since I started to get kind of good at it I run it in-between the rows cross directional. It...
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    My projects - farm repairs and minor fabrication

    Yes it is I don't shovel just run a bar into trench to widen it a little bit put tree in done. I also use a homemade wooden tree spacer. After a few years of experimenting currently run 6' rows with about 4.5-5'spacing between trees in rows, seems to work pretty good for my hobby operation...
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    Pull behind trailer for snowmobile.

    My first welding project over 30:yrs ago. It's been reconfigured a half dozen or so times, used to have a flat bed with wood sides, currently repurposed a broken poly tow behind garden cart added and built the spring pin hitch after breaking multiple snowmobile bumpers widened the ski stance and...
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    My projects - farm repairs and minor fabrication

    Plant a few hundred Xmas trees every spring on our hobby operation. Built a homemade row marker beats making my field look like a new subdivision with string lines everywhere, basically just a 6 ' extension off a cheap subsoiler I bought used. Marker pin itself is an old snowmobile rear...
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    Press Brake

    Here's mine I built for for 20 ton hf press made with pretty heavy duty cutoffs.
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    What have you built this year?

    1st post, Built around 15 yrs ago, my welding carts used an old Lincoln 100 amp flux core welder, repurposed craftsman 22gauge bottom box I almost scrapped, welded to 3/16 angle iron lying around, old repurposed Yamaha snowmobile track axle for the rear, old swivel casters for the front, green...
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