The Old Hobart

30 years ago, when I had my boat business, the guy that was welding up my trailers got tired of me stopping by with work, unannounced. He said I could save a lot of time and money, and headaches for him, if I bought my own welder. He said he would even give me some pointers on welding. His first pointer was a finger pointing in the direction of  TVI, our local vocational technical CC. Well several months later I finished the evening classes, with a couple of nice tool boxes that I welded up,  and fancied myself a welder.

This Hobart has seen a lot of projects from boat trailers, to furniture, to the body I had on my big truck (several different ones), to all the people I had dropping by. When Lee first met me she did not understand why I had a big "NO" painted on my workshop tent when I was in Quartzsite for the winters. It didn't take her long to figure it out. Well here it is the old Hobart on another "big iron" project.

Note the trailer frame is on it's side. I don't like to do vertical or overhead welding and if I can rotate the weld to horizontal I will. With the cunning use of straps, a come-along, and the post holding my awning up and post holding my solar screen I've rolled the frame over a couple of times. I do this solo because I know what can go wrong and don't want anyone to get hurt so don't feel bad I didn't ask for your help. Most of you have bad backs anyway.

Well back to work.