Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 02, 2009 at 18:57:31 from (216.208.58.137):
In Reply to: Re: 200 Blues posted by CNKS on January 02, 2009 at 18:14:05:
CNKS: I have a story about good welders of cast. When our 300 was still relatively new, someone wasn't quite careful enough about keeping rim tight on the cast wheel. The cast broke in two places, one side right in to bearing race. My dad and I discussed our possibilities and decided it could be welded. We knew a good welder, also knew he'd be cranky, and very likely under the influence of alcohol. I got elected to take the wheel in for welding, dad warned me I was in for a lecture, allowing wheel to come loose.
I arrived at his shop about 6pm, right he was cranky, right he was so drunk he couldn't get off the 5 gal. pail he was seated on, and right he did lecture me for 5 min. Then he said come back tomorrow evening about this time and the wheel will be welded. The next evening I went back, he was all smiles, not cranky, but still so drunk he couldn't get off the 5 gal. pail. The wheel was welded. The wheel was still on the 300 when I sold it 35 years later. Some of those years it had a loader on front. He was a pitiful man, drank himself to death, but he could always do good welding.
So, yes it definitely can be welded. Our neighbor had a 200 narrow front. Some kids playing on it, slipped the tractor out of gear. It rolled about 100'and on down grade and hit a concrete wall at roughly 10-12 mph, snapped the front end right off at the engine, tractor dropped down and oil pan hit the dirt. It broke cast out of both bolster and block. Our friend the welder on the 5 gallon pail welded that back up. Just before I moved here from NS 7 years ago, I passed that 200 on the road one day, driven by the guy that bought it new. The owner has since passed away at 92. Who would have ever thought a tractor he bought when he was 40, then had that happen, would have out lasted him.
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