Fishmouth Fabworks shop thread

[CM1995]

Beautiful welds on the chipper, very nice work. Wish you were closer, I've got all sorts of ideas.

 

[hvy 1ton]

Looking good Fishmouth. I'm guessing all these chippers are for fuels reduction?

 

[theironoracle]

Very, very nice work. Did you weld that with hard wire or dual shield? The welds are very nice. I'm a mchanic that welds not a fabricator so my questions may seem odd. Did you use your new 12vs? I have been having a sticky splatter issue with my welding lately and trying to figure it out. I run .045 dual shield with 75/25 dcep. This sticky splatter has been going on so long I thought it was normal until this weekend I grabbed another welder with gas shielded hard wire and it ran so clean and neat I have to fix my dual shield machine now. Any help is appreciated if you get time. TIO

 

[Randy88]

Nice work, one question so far, how to do replace the rollers on the machines you've installed the rock guards on, cut the guards off and replace the rollers then weld the guards back on again??

Keep the photo's coming.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Nice work!

Thank you Sir

Can we see a picture of your truck.
Great work, a pleasure to view.

What part would you like too see? It's just an old 92' F Superduty. non turbo 7.3

Beautiful welds on the chipper, very nice work. Wish you were closer, I've got all sorts of ideas.

Thank you, I wish I was too, running low on work!

Looking good Fishmouth. I'm guessing all these chippers are for fuels reduction?

Yes mostly. We are having so many fires and a very bad bark beetle problem. Most of the timber is garbage and not worth hauling. This company owns 8 M20R and 2 large tub grinders.

Very, very nice work. Did you weld that with hard wire or dual shield? The welds are very nice. I'm a mchanic that welds not a fabricator so my questions may seem odd. Did you use your new 12vs? I have been having a sticky splatter issue with my welding lately and trying to figure it out. I run .045 dual shield with 75/25 dcep. This sticky splatter has been going on so long I thought it was normal until this weekend I grabbed another welder with gas shielded hard wire and it ran so clean and neat I have to fix my dual shield machine now. Any help is appreciated if you get time. TIO

Thank you. The fire skids were welded with er70 with 75/25. the "beever" was all 71m dual shield .045". I ran that with my 12vs. If you have your settings correct with er70 and 75/25 you shouldn't have much spatter at all. .035 er70 i run around 18-21 volts and 30-42 IPM an 20 cfh. .045 71M I run 28-31 volts and 420-515 ipm on the 12vs 25-30 cfh. It takes a little while to tune it but ear, but you want to hear "bacon and eggs" smooth sizzle. If it's kind of jittery- too much wire speed or not hot enough, if it's kind of a slow popping, wire burn back into the tip it's too hot or not enough wire speed. Hope that kinda makes sense.

Nice work, one question so far, how to do replace the rollers on the machines you've installed the rock guards on, cut the guards off and replace the rollers then weld the guards back on again??

Keep the photo's coming.

Their Mechanic just cuts the lower window out of the guard, changes the roller and welds the window back in. He wanted them welded on because he has seen bolt on and bolt on/stitch welded on fall off.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

one leaves and another shows up. 3 more too go. This one has a Cat motor like the first one I did. The one that just left was a John Deere. It changes the "Iron Maiden" a little. The exhaust and air filter are arranged differently. It takes about 10 days to bob,shorten feed drive,cut new slots,re weld the tensioner, new guard over side controls, relocate and build the battery box, frame the cage, build doors and fully weld the panels.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Picked up another new "toy" yesterday. CP-302 too match its older brother CP-200. It will be nice too have one with dual shield and one with hard wire.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Here a few for Williams Marine. 92' F superduty. 7.3 non turbo, 5 spd, 2wd 10 lug. Reading box with 1014 IMT crane and IMT pto compressor. oxy/acy hose reel, Trailblazer 251, 50' 1/2" hose reel. I just put that rat pack box in the bed. Not sure If i want to keep it there. I was going to put all my line boring bearings and set-up stuff in it. That would clear out my top box on the driver side. The driver rear and mid boxes have built in drawers already. The front driver box I stuffed an old kobalt lower into. I will take some pics of the inside. It works. not my dream truck, but I own everything. I like not having payments, but sometimes more write-offs would be nice.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Foam fire systems painted and plumbed. Shipped out last week

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Got too build a guard on a PC300. 2"x4"x.250" wall box tube with 3" x .500" flatbar for slats. I dont have a finished picture yet. It has vertical supports up the center now also. I drilled and tapped the rub rail for the base plates. The top mounts using motor mount bushings that I use on the racecars. The cab was rubber mounted, so that was the best thing I could think of.

 

[ETER]

Looks OEM to me Fishmouth!
Regards, Bob

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Here is one of the suppression units out at work

 

[hvy 1ton]

That's pretty cool fishmouth. This is for if they start a fire while logging?

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

That's pretty cool fishmouth. This is for if they start a fire while logging?

Thanks! Yes, they are working a USFS job. They require 1 suppression system per Timbco/ with Fecon heads for mowin'

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Never did get a finished picture of the guard on the PC300. Thought I would share a pic of Rich and Billy getting that gnarly attachment hooked up. They are using it to split logs and break them up in the sort yard. A lot of their work currently is bark beetle and salvage/clean up Since our whole state is on fire.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

This next one is gonna take a while to post. I rebuilt an entire PSM grapple bucket for a Rock wall company. Every pin bore, every pin, cracks in the bucket ears,New teeth, motor cover, main yoke pivot, cracks in the ram mounts, even the whole main chassis had cracked in half before. AND this was the good one! Mechanic said the spare was 10 times worse. So I will start with all the before pictures first.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Bent!

 

[kshansen]

Bent!

Must be a mistake, looks like at least one of those pins is still straight!

Are you going to "fix" this or just use it as a pattern to build a new and better one?

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

It had been fixed a time or two. Lots of Gouging and grinding.

 

[FISHMOUTH FAB]

Found all the cracks in the bucket ears. Ground them out and laid some 7018 in there