There was quite a bit tyhat was rotted away, and that's the reason for splicing in about a 15" peice of channel on both sides where the tensioner bolts up. The side supports were busted just ahead of where they were fixed a few years ago, so it started where I was just going to replace those.
After flipping it over and closer inspection and some work with the torch, we decided it'd be better to start all over on the hitch, and just replace everything. The center toungue is 8' long 4" channels welded together to make a box just like the original, but the rest was made of a thinner sheet that was bent in a channel shape big enough to go over the 4" channel iron. It would have cost over $300 just to have the 2 7' lengths made up that I would have needed for the side supports, and I did the whole thing for about that with the slightly heavier channel iron.
I did use a little bit of the original toungue for my splices on the front, after cutting the welds holding them together and then cutting the angles for the splice on both pieces to match for a square joint.
To flip it over, we just used our loader and very carefully lifted it up & rehooked to go the rest of the way once it was on it's side. The steel on the sides on the top was replaced about 6-7 years ago as well because that was all rotted out and the gate would flop around very badly because of it.
My next project is to replace the end gate. It's been patched a number of times, so it's time to go. We've got some metric square tubing behind the barn I should be able to use for that project. Brother brought it home from work, it was gonna go in the scrap heap otherwise.
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