DMiller
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Also not yours does as mine where the weight of the bucket rolls it back when parked. Piddly poor over heavy mechanism!!
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Cat 955L saved from being paperclips. Looking for help on tensioners and injectors.
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DMiller
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Noted not NOT
It made quick work of clearing an overgrown waterway. Unfortunately, the garbage 4-1 bucket let me down when I was a little overzealous with a black locust. I’m really not too excited to try and fix it. Anyone know of some good salvage yard leads?
showrguy
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Yikes,
There's been an add up for awhile here on Craig's list, they have a 955 bucket, but they want 3 grand for it, it ain't selling at that !!
Tags
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Ouch, that stings! You may be better off disconnecting the hydraulics and welding the clam shut if you need to use it while you locate a new bucket....
View attachment 187409 View attachment 187410 View attachment 187411 I couldn’t help myself. I am going to have to show it who’s boss.
The side plate is fixed. Here’s a picture of the weld, mid process. I’ve been pulled away from it for a while with the honey-do list and some health issues. As soon as the cylinder is repaired, it’s all ready to put back together!
petepilot
Senior Member
wow lotsa new tooffies
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Theweldor
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It looks as though that weld was done with solid wire and a mig machine. I have never liked a mig for work of that type. Have had a lot better luck with dual shield wire or using 7018 or 8018 for those types of repairs. Those little dimples on the end of the bead steup stress concentrators.
You may have better luck than me with those types of repairs though.
You may have better luck than me with those types of repairs though.
It was a solid wire fix. I was out of 7018, so I put in a couple good roots after a preheat and topped it off. When I welded the reverse side, I cut down the bead at the ends and wrapped the weld around from the reverse.
Whenever I was repairing this, I saw a good amount of stress micro cracks at the flame cut edge. One of those micro cracks was the culprit of the mess. I’m going to get this one fixed up and then switch off the bucket to the general purpose one.
DMiller
Senior Member
You will like the GP once its on, old girl will be a dirt digging ballerina as so front end light. Both us need to work on the spoil upper lips on our GPs and me the one on that Ulrich MP.
Nige
Senior Member
Too late for this repair I know, but it may prove useful to somebody in future....
Welding to the open end of a plate it's obviously difficult to avoid stress risers when starting and stopping a weld bead. Run out tabs tacked on to the plate at one or both ends of the weld allow both the arc to be struck and for each weld bead to be terminated outside the boundaries of the structure that is being welded. The tabs get cut off afterwards using a grinder with a cutting disc. The length of the tab, highlighted in yellow, should be as a minimum equal to the thickness of the plate being welded and preferably closer to double the thickness.
Welding to the open end of a plate it's obviously difficult to avoid stress risers when starting and stopping a weld bead. Run out tabs tacked on to the plate at one or both ends of the weld allow both the arc to be struck and for each weld bead to be terminated outside the boundaries of the structure that is being welded. The tabs get cut off afterwards using a grinder with a cutting disc. The length of the tab, highlighted in yellow, should be as a minimum equal to the thickness of the plate being welded and preferably closer to double the thickness.
Metalman 55
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Depending on the type of work you do with it, you will likely find that you will mostly use the GP bucket more, higher volume, lighter & less to stick in it when wet. We have a GP on our 955L & really like it.
Re the hard wire welds, I have seen some heavy repairs done with hard wire & they held just fine with the settings being right. More forgiveness with the flux core settings that's all. Another thing, ever notice that hard wire welds are harder to grind down? The flux core or 7018 stick welds seem somewhat softer for some reason...…….
DB2
Senior Member
For future reference Cambrian Equipment Sales in Winnipeg MB Canada has at least one of these being dismantled.
204 667 2867
Cheers
204 667 2867
Cheers
petepilot
Senior Member
nige wish i had seen this post a couple days ago before i put this back together. thanks can use that idea in future
Nige
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Apologies for the poor quality of the photo, but this is something taken from a document dated almost 20 years ago showing how a crack in the the rail of a haul truck chassis was welded.
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I tried to adjust that picture a bit as I was having trouble seeing it on my monitor, not sure if this helps.
That crack looks like one I recall we had on a 769C that was never successfully repaired. Wish I had this picture for the welder to see back then!
The attempt on our frame amounted to a quick grinding of the crack with 4 inch grinders and one or two passes with 7018. Looked "pretty" when done but looks only get you so far!
That crack looks like one I recall we had on a 769C that was never successfully repaired. Wish I had this picture for the welder to see back then!
The attempt on our frame amounted to a quick grinding of the crack with 4 inch grinders and one or two passes with 7018. Looked "pretty" when done but looks only get you so far!