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Welding burn – This afternoon I was welding on the big Waldon snow bucket when a hot spark rolled down the curved metal right into my workboot. I could see the smoke coming out and I shook my foot and that made it go down farth and burn me more , yikes. So my next choice was to hurry and unlace all the laces and get that boot OFF , ha,ha. Once it was off I saw the front of my sock all burnt and when I pulled off the sock I saw a 2.5 inch long burn on the top side of my foot , Youch !! As I set here changing my webpage I am having sharp pains from the long burn but I can’t complain because over 40 years of welding I never got this bad of a burn.
The good news is I got those nasty bucket pins cut off . I beat the crap out of those pins and they would not budge . So I got the hand held bandsaw out and cut the shafts from the inside . Even after the pins were cut and the outside bushings were cut off the short remainder of the pins would not budge. 20 years of rusty salty pins is just like it is one solid pice of metal. I also installed a new black seat and a couple grab handles on the back.
The Waldon looks funny with no bucket.
Next week I’ll build a new quick tach frame for the bucket and the forks.
Then the Waldon 5000 will be ready .
Have a safe , great holiday weekend.
