Dump truck bed repair

crack repair of an Ox Body rock bed floor on a Trizaxle Mack Granite and a tailgate chain bracket replacement on a Kenworth with the same bed

[@thomashaley7657]

I'm subscribed! Thanks for all the humor. U R 1 crazy S O B! Thomas, Welder, Mississippi!!

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you for subscribing and thank you for watching. I just say some of the things that fly through my head. Lol

[@bruced1429]

I was just wondering why you did not drill out the end of each crack? I am sure you have good reason , it is always good to learn something from you as it is real world work.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

1st, The bed floor is made of hardox 450 wear plate, so a drill bit won't even penetrate it. I'd just smoke/melt my drill bits trying. 2nd, the plate was already so thin, I just cranked amperage up high enough to "keyhole" the crack and used whip&pause technique to get a light root in. Once I had the root, I just started covering it up

[@bruced1429]

@@NAWeldingandFab many thanks for the reply, you do great work, keep it up.

[@royyazzie6028]

You don't spray paint over your worked area there sir

[@NAWeldingandFab]

That's because I'm a welder with nothing to hide and not a painter.

[@jojocono4887]

You would make more sense if you said dog "ear" and wedge....

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Maybe in your part of the world, but we just call them dogs in my part of the world

[@techmarine83]

You don't actually show anything. It's like here is a crack *jump to the end* it's fixed. It is very boring to not see anything.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Working on getting a real camera to set up. Spatter and sparks are rough on my phone

[@buddylouis8348]

I guess you don't know how wedges and dogs work

[@okiedoke6373]

At this point that is the most expensive chain lock on the internet