shinnlinger
Silver Member
Hi,
Wife has camera traveling right now, but Yesterday I made a toothbar for my tractor that slips on and is held by a chain binder that wraps around the back. I cut apart two bundles of unknown vintage (but old) leaf springs and cut them all to the same length with a chop saw. I used a piece of C channel that slips over the lip of the bucket and cut slits in it with a torch and slid each leaf through the slits under the bucket and welded the ends of each leaf to a piece of plate for continuity and then a piece of chain to that I was able to chain bind up and around.
Anywhoo, it looked great and slipped on easy and held tight. BUT then I used it on a pile of fire wood and some of the teeth broke like glass right where I tack welded them to the C channel.
I now think if I had thrown all the leaves in a good fire and let cool, that would have been better to temper the steel, but would that be enough or would they then just bend like noodles? should I look at different tooth material??? I have a nice base to weld to now with the heavy walled C channel so my efforts weren't in complete vain... I hope,
Thanks.
Wife has camera traveling right now, but Yesterday I made a toothbar for my tractor that slips on and is held by a chain binder that wraps around the back. I cut apart two bundles of unknown vintage (but old) leaf springs and cut them all to the same length with a chop saw. I used a piece of C channel that slips over the lip of the bucket and cut slits in it with a torch and slid each leaf through the slits under the bucket and welded the ends of each leaf to a piece of plate for continuity and then a piece of chain to that I was able to chain bind up and around.
Anywhoo, it looked great and slipped on easy and held tight. BUT then I used it on a pile of fire wood and some of the teeth broke like glass right where I tack welded them to the C channel.
I now think if I had thrown all the leaves in a good fire and let cool, that would have been better to temper the steel, but would that be enough or would they then just bend like noodles? should I look at different tooth material??? I have a nice base to weld to now with the heavy walled C channel so my efforts weren't in complete vain... I hope,
Thanks.