best way to remove a welded on mount?

[kashman]

take a pic of your mount and ill get it off without touching a weld

[basher]

Originally Posted by BossPlow2010

You need two machines connected to an air arc. Because of the amperage needed. You may be able to get away with a big industrial stick machine. Does that answer your vague question?

High amperage is not required if he runs 1/8 electrodes which since he is just removing weld beads and wants good control is a good choice. they will run as low as 125 amps. If he doesn't have a air compressor there are even some gouge rods that do not require air.

http://www.sweethaven.com/sweethaven...essonmain.asp?

No air gougeing

http://www.zena.net/htdocs/welders/R...um=7&modNum=11

[blee1ash]

Shaped charge explosives would work very well!

[JRS Landscaping]

Dude please just stop being cheap and buy the right truck mount for your truck.....your not going to be happy till it rips off and hurts someone or rips off while pushing and goes into your motor and your SOL. Buy the frame mount then put your plow onto that! Even if you have to cut your plow up to make it fit. If you cant take it to a welder than will. Atleast then the truck will have the proper setup. Then when you decide to buy the right plow when yours fails you wont have to cut another mount off. you will just need another plowside. There are deals out there on uni mounts. Even ultra's can be had at a screaming good deal. Sometimes money spent now is money saved in the future.

[birddseedd]

Originally Posted by JRS Landscaping

Dude please just stop being cheap and buy the right truck mount for your truck.....your not going to be happy till it rips off and hurts someone or rips off while pushing and goes into your motor and your SOL. Buy the frame mount then put your plow onto that! Even if you have to cut your plow up to make it fit. If you cant take it to a welder than will. Atleast then the truck will have the proper setup. Then when you decide to buy the right plow when yours fails you wont have to cut another mount off. you will just need another plowside. There are deals out there on uni mounts. Even ultra's can be had at a screaming good deal. Sometimes money spent now is money saved in the future.

dont you think i would love to simply walk up and say "that one".


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if you are willing to front me the cash ill buy one tomorrow.

and can you please stop with the my plow is going to murder someone. its not going to happen. i have fixed every component of the plow. it works great now. i may have put more work into it than what its worth. but iv done it.

if i can sell it and get a better one. good. if not. well iv already blown away my goal for this year and have 2 more months left to make money. next year i will be able to get a better one.

[bob00]

use your welder at the max and pass over your weld it wil make a mess of fire and spark and eat rod like nothing but it wil undo the weld that is one cheep solution

[meborder]

did you ever get your plow off??

the plow i have (similar or same as yours) was welded onto another truck when i bought it.

i just took a grinder to the welds. ground them down to almost nothing trying to stay away from the mount and frame. once they were thin i took a cold chisle and a 2lb hammer to break what was left of the weld.

then ground the frame smooth and sold the truck

[birddseedd]

hard to remember. but i think i just ground on it till it came off.

[plowcrack]

Originally Posted by birddseedd

hard to remember. but i think i just ground on it till it came off.

So what's your setup now?

[birddseedd]

well. modified meyer undercarriage. western 8' western blade. the a frame someone thought was from a very old western blade. the lift from i bought from an old western blade. the kind from when they pump was inside the engine compartment.

cable pump. brand new pump, motor and controls. will be getting a brand new housing this fall.


iv put a crap ton of work into it. but it should work quite well this year. i need to detach the angle rams and reattach them with perfect spacing ts this year. they are off a bit so it angels a bit jerky.


needless to say, i get made fun of alot on this forum. but i haven't lost my house yet. well see if i make it to winter

[meborder]

A little off topic here ....

I find it interesting the way some people tend to treat others.

What i find particularly interesting is that your set up and mine are not that different. I'd bet that yours is probably nicer, to be honest. the only difference being that i'm not trying to make money with mine. i got mine because i got tired of trying to run make my 50-something-year-old tractor and loader work when it is -10 outside.

My plow frame is not square. the mounts didn't clear my sway bar. the patch job my neighbor did on it before i bought it was pathetic at best.

So i did what you did .... i got out my welder, grabbed some scrap steel, bought what i needed to make it work ... and i did just that ... i made it work. and it works. You could look at what i have and what i did to piece it back together and you might call me a Hack and a Pi$$ poor fabricator, and even a $hitty welder .... but nothing broke last year, no welds are cracked, and nothing fell off or came loose.

The truck i put it on i bought for 300 bucks. then i put another 700 into it to get it ready for the plow. the body is almost gone, the frame is rusted beyond belief. but the engine-trans-4wd is all perfect, it it will start un-assisted in -20*F after not being touched for 2 months (was before i put the plow on, it never gets not used for 2 months anymore)....

sometimes you do what you have to and that's all you can do.

Bottom line .... i've got about $2000 in to a fully functional Plow truck (including the plow), that doubles as my pasture rig for spraying and fertalizing. It gets about 2mpg, but will run all day long no matter how hot or cold without giving a single lick of problems. and last year ... not ONCE did i get frostbite trying to move snow from our driveway.

i wouldn't worry too much about what a guy who has a $10,000 plow hanging off a $35,000 truck ... that's just not the world I live in.

Originally Posted by birddseedd

well. modified meyer undercarriage. western 8' western blade. the a frame someone thought was from a very old western blade. the lift from i bought from an old western blade. the kind from when they pump was inside the engine compartment.

cable pump. brand new pump, motor and controls. will be getting a brand new housing this fall.


iv put a crap ton of work into it. but it should work quite well this year. i need to detach the angle rams and reattach them with perfect spacing ts this year. they are off a bit so it angels a bit jerky.


needless to say, i get made fun of alot on this forum. but i haven't lost my house yet. well see if i make it to winter

[birddseedd]

Originally Posted by meborder

A little off topic here ....

I find it interesting the way some people tend to treat others.

What i find particularly interesting is that your set up and mine are not that different. I'd bet that yours is probably nicer, to be honest. the only difference being that i'm not trying to make money with mine. i got mine because i got tired of trying to run make my 50-something-year-old tractor and loader work when it is -10 outside.

My plow frame is not square. the mounts didn't clear my sway bar. the patch job my neighbor did on it before i bought it was pathetic at best.

So i did what you did .... i got out my welder, grabbed some scrap steel, bought what i needed to make it work ... and i did just that ... i made it work. and it works. You could look at what i have and what i did to piece it back together and you might call me a Hack and a Pi$$ poor fabricator, and even a $hitty welder .... but nothing broke last year, no welds are cracked, and nothing fell off or came loose.

The truck i put it on i bought for 300 bucks. then i put another 700 into it to get it ready for the plow. the body is almost gone, the frame is rusted beyond belief. but the engine-trans-4wd is all perfect, it it will start un-assisted in -20*F after not being touched for 2 months (was before i put the plow on, it never gets not used for 2 months anymore)....

sometimes you do what you have to and that's all you can do.

Bottom line .... i've got about $2000 in to a fully functional Plow truck (including the plow), that doubles as my pasture rig for spraying and fertalizing. It gets about 2mpg, but will run all day long no matter how hot or cold without giving a single lick of problems. and last year ... not ONCE did i get frostbite trying to move snow from our driveway.

i wouldn't worry too much about what a guy who has a $10,000 plow hanging off a $35,000 truck ... that's just not the world I live in.

mine did fall off.

since then iv learned how to weld vertically.

tho i do plan on beefing up those pieces (where the pin goes threw) at some point still.