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pamike

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I had some 3/4" pipe left over from running air lines in the shop, and I needed a cart to keep my wood blocking and jackstands on, so I whipped this thing up quick. The shelves are laser cut blanks with notches for the uprights to fit in. I bought weld on pipe caps to close the pipes off on the top and give a finished look. Expanding stem casters slid right into the pipe uprights. Had more money in it than I wanted, but the laser blanks saved a lot of labor.
 

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You're a Fn machine dude!!! How the hell do you even do that last weld (pic 8). That's crazy cool!! :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown: :spit:

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Haha thanks guys! I've been welding pretty much my whole life. I learned when I was 10. Started TIG at 14, got a job tigging at 16 and I've been doing that ever since.

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maxhemphill351 said:
Haha thanks guys! I've been welding pretty much my whole life. I learned when I was 10. Started TIG at 14, got a job tigging at 16 and I've been doing that ever since.

Here's some pics from last week

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Do you not drink coffee or soda before welding or drink a beer? I’m still blown away at your skill
 
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pamike said:
I had some 3/4" pipe left over from running air lines in the shop, and I needed a cart to keep my wood blocking and jackstands on, so I whipped this thing up quick. The shelves are laser cut blanks with notches for the uprights to fit in. I bought weld on pipe caps to close the pipes off on the top and give a finished look. Expanding stem casters slid right into the pipe uprights. Had more money in it than I wanted, but the laser blanks saved a lot of labor.
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Kinda neat how you made it able to roll on the wall like that!
 
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Repair piece for one of our waste water collection customers, one side stainless tank fitting to repair the original grouted in PVC that was broken off inside by a pump truck crew.

Fabricated onsite in our shop trailer. No bead shot as we slammed the coupling on as soon as we could and put the pipe back to get done inside the shutdown window.

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Picked up a cracked BT palletjack on letgo last night. Had it fixed by lunch this morning.
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We've repaired hundreds over the years of ones that broke in the same place as the one you have. Between BT, Big Joe and Multiton they all seem to have the same week point.

One thing we were doing on them was to bend a piece of 3/16" into a 90-degree and weld from the backside as kind of a fish-plate to the corner, but you have to remove the tension bars to gain access. It really helped the longevity of them.
 
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zmotorsports said:
We've repaired hundreds over the years of ones that broke in the same place as the one you have. Between BT, Big Joe and Multiton they all seem to have the same week point.

One thing we were doing on them was to bend a piece of 3/16" into a 90-degree and weld from the backside as kind of a fish-plate to the corner, but you have to remove the tension bars to gain access. It really helped the longevity of them.
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I was surprised how thin that metal was when I went to weld it. It has an extra piece along the side now; I won't be using it hard since we do have a forklift but if it cracks again I will do what you did.

I worked at Farm & Fleet and not one of their Crown, Hyster, or ancient BTs was cracked; what are people picking up with these? This came from a candy factory apparently.
 
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A suspension repair I did a while ago, the rust kind of takes away the beauty tho.
 

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Farmall450 said:
I was surprised how thin that metal was when I went to weld it. It has an extra piece along the side now; I won't be using it hard since we do have a forklift but if it cracks again I will do what you did.

I worked at Farm & Fleet and not one of their Crown, Hyster, or ancient BTs was cracked; what are people picking up with these? This came from a candy factory apparently.
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I wondered the same thing, what the hell are these people lifting. However, we weren't seeing similar issues with our Crown or Hyster units and I'm sure they were lifting the same items. The biggest issue we had with the Crowns were the load wheels and with the Hysters was the hyd pump leaking.
 
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zmotorsports said:
I wondered the same thing, what the hell are these people lifting. However, we weren't seeing similar issues with our Crown or Hyster units and I'm sure they were lifting the same items. The biggest issue we had with the Crowns were the load wheels and with the Hysters was the hyd pump leaking.
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Yeah, ironically Farm & Fleet's had the same issues. Too bad none of them are perfect at everything, although it seems the newer Crowns are the easiest to move. They must have some big guys to be able to push/pull a load heavy enough to bust the jack.
 
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Farmall450 said:
Yeah, ironically Farm & Fleet's had the same issues. Too bad none of them are perfect at everything, although it seems the newer Crowns are the easiest to move. They must have some big guys to be able to push/pull a load heavy enough to bust the jack.
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When we were having many of our cracked fork issues, I actually did what we call "follow the load" where we followed the product from warehouse to destination and observed all of the behaviors involved, from loading the product at the warehouse completely through unloading and staging the product at the destination. That is when I witnessed what I think was our biggest culprit as far as cracked forks.

A couple of the docks were not level and compounded by having the old lift in/out style of portable dock ramp which sits a bit more proud on the end of the trailer than the hydraulic lip style of dock ramp. I witnessed the driver offloading the product and I was able to view the forces involved when the heavier pallets would get some momentum behind them and then hit that large lip of the portable dock ramp. You could actually see the frame of the pallet jack flex from the impact. We then switched over to the Crown pallet jacks as their frames were a bit beefier built and even since then we have slightly modified the lip of the portable dock ramps at those couple of destinations.

Our expense in repairs has dropped quite extensively since.
 
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Today I finished the project that inspired me to take a continuing education welding class to learn how to build it. The bench was inspired by the many workbenches built around the 44" HF box.

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Just finished my new lawn roller
 

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I’m about to remove the engine/trans, rear end and suspension form my project car. I wanted a body cart but also wanted access under the car. I’ve had a Miller 211 for a year and a half but have only been doing body panel work so no real thicker material welding.

This last week after work I built a couple of these, besides being able to move the body around the shop I can used them to jack the car up and I can also put jack stands under them (between the wheels). I built them out of 1x3” channel I’ve had for some time.

I still need to clean up some of the welds and paint them.
 

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Not as nice as I would like but it was a fun exercise in flux core welding which I have never done. I always MIG or TIG. It was pushing the limits of my smallest welder. If it bugs me enough I might go back and redo the screw on pivot plate. The important thing is it is very square and will be a great help in welding things. Most people might just spend the $150 on a bessey clamp but I thought I could make one myself and use my brain and it mostly came out ok, I struggle with overthinking things and it took much longer than i wanted but oh well!

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Maybe someone can answer me why all the welding clamps I see have a bevelled wedge clamp instead of a 90 like on mine? Is it just for access to tack weld?
 

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Memorial weekend project. Needed a new bookcase to match the floor I just laid. 1/2" square steel tube. I liked the raw finish so just clear coated in satin. Please ignore the missing baseboards!

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s14kev said:
Memorial weekend project. Needed a new bookcase to match the floor I just laid. 1/2" square steel tube. I liked the raw finish so just clear coated in satin. Please ignore the missing baseboards!
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Very nice! Did you design out all the angled pieces, or just do it live?

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I'd luv to say this was my weekend project but considering I only got a half a day I'm on it.......you could consider it three weekends work ;).

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Very nice! Did you design out all the angled pieces, or just do it live?

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The basic frame was measured and tigged together. All of the angled pieces were cut as random angles once the frame was together. Aim was for a random appearance and to stop books falling out the back and sides. I just got a horizontal bandsaw with swiveling frame which makes cutting angled miters quick and easy. Highly recommend it in addition to a portaband/swag table.
 
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s14kev said:
The basic frame was measured and tigged together. All of the angled pieces were cut as random angles once the frame was together. Aim was for a random appearance and to stop books falling out the back and sides. I just got a horizontal bandsaw with swiveling frame which makes cutting angled miters quick and easy. Highly recommend it in addition to a portaband/swag table.
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I admire people who can do asymmetric work like this. My OCD would never allow me to have random angles. Looks awesome though man. Nice work!
 
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zmotorsports said:
That is turning out AWESOME Cam.:bowdown:

Great job.
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Thanks Mike, coming from you means a lot my friend. :beer:

Poor Mike had to put up with my ******* questions while contemplating the design. But his answers where priceless with all his experience in both the towing department and his bumper builds. :thumbup:

BPJOOP93 said:
Looks good. Are those tow points or clevis mounts. I mean do you flat tow it?
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Thanks BP

That's exactly it. The owner tows this behind his RV and already had this kit installed on his dead stock jeep. It came to me for a AC and 4" lift install plus the winch he recently bought. The only thing left to do is the spacer blocks behind the bar brackets and clean up my edges a little better plus I'll be making him some tubular fenders. Once those are done it's off to get powder coated.
 
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