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[chips&more]

This is something I did a while ago, but this site has not seen it. This is a welding and also wood project I did. All the metal and wood work for the stairs took me 6 months from start to finish. Not pictured is another 50 feet or so of railing. The railing is bent up metal, a little hammering, some store bought ornamental elements and then it’s all wire welded together. The curves in the wooden hand railing are strips of glued together white oak. The curves where glued in fixtures in place on the steps of the stairs. Used a slow dry glue and wire ties for the clamps. I tried regular clamps but the wire ties worked better. It took three tries to get that ~260° turn done right. And all the sections of hand railing are finger joint assembled together. There are no simple wood butt joints in this picture or anywhere in the house. I like to see the natural grain of the wood, so no paint anywhere. And because of the clear finish on all the wood, its joints must be as tight as possible (can’t use a filler). So, no simple butt joints and no cross nailing anywhere, they must be tight and strong. I did the hard wood floors with feature strip and all of the molding in the house too. Even made the form cutters for the moldings from tool steel.

 

[RandyM]

WOW! Things are gettng really artsy. Very nicely done.

 

[Stonebriar]

Rick, you gate seems pretty large! (other than nice, of course!)
How do you prevent it from bending?
The usual wheel at the end or something more sophisticate?

The gate post is a 5" square 1/4 thick. The hole for the gate post is also part of that column base so it is held by a 3 1/2ft deep X 3'x3' hole full of concrete. The gate is 14' wide. I calculated the gate weight but I don't remember what is was now. I use a thicker gauge for the bottom to stiffen it. No sagging.

Randy i'll get some close ups but I don't know if much detail of the welds will show since they are powder coated.

Rick

 

[John Hasler]

The gate post is a 5" square 1/4 thick. The hole for the gate post is also part of that column base so it is held by a 3 1/2ft deep X 3'x3' hole full of concrete. The gate is 14' wide. I calculated the gate weight but I don't remember what is was now. I use a thicker gauge for the bottom to stiffen it. No sagging.

Rick

Without some sort of support it will eventually sag. A wheel would ruin the look and should not be necessary anyway, but large gates should always be designed so that they are not hanging on the hinges when fullly open or closed.

 

[RandyM]

Randy i'll get some close ups but I don't know if much detail of the welds will show since they are powder coated.

Rick

No need to get too detailed, just curious on joints and the center decoration. Powder coating is the way to go, good choice.

 

[Firestopper]

Finishing up a 14K dump trailer. The box/fenders are a retrofit. The frame is 6" channel welded with a 350P .035 at 425IPM. 90/10 shielding gas.

 

[Cholmes]

Great looking trailer firestopper.
Here is one we rebuilt this year. It's a 14k tilt bed for moving forklift and other equipment. Started with a trailer that was going to be junked because of a bent tongue. We fabbed a new tongue and it just snowballed from there. We got rid of the old 5 spoke wheels and hubs and went to 8 lug hubs, putting brakes on both axles, pipe fenders, flattened the beaver tail to about 10 degrees, mounted a 12k electric winch and battery box, chain & binder box and new stubby ramps. All LED lights. Now we are just waiting on the Oak timbers for the bed to get here from the sawmill.

 

[Firestopper]

Nice work Cholmes,
I could not get the pictures to open, but the from the thumb nails, the trailer looks very nice.

 

[Firestopper]

Paint done, also got the onboard status/battery charger, lights, and warning stickers installed. Also mounted a flap access for the power cord to charger done.

 

[Firestopper]

This dump trailer project is done.