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Step 820/20 Hindsight
If I had known how many of these things I would have had to make I think I would have first made a Lazy Susan type turntable to put the rims on at waist height so as to be able to sit and weld. The turntable would have taken the earth clamp as well as an arm coming out of the bottom with a 90° bend rising perfectly vertical which one could use to check how true the rods are when spotting them on.
There are tons and tons of great Instructables on welding. I really advise you to have a look at them. Especially the safety ones. I usually don't bother with those 'cause more often than not it starts with something dumb like "DO NOT IMMERSE IN WATER" and of course I think Sheesh..... and tune out. A contributor on Instructables (alas I can't remember whom, 'cause he deserves a link) said amongst many other interesting things - "Do not wrap the cable around yourself 'cause the resulting generation of magnetic field can stop your heart !" (How do you think a motor / electro magnet works?) Oddly enough I read this the very night that after I'd been working on the feeder - moving around and around the frame getting my super long cables more and more tangled around my body. Obviously it didn't stop my heart, but it did totally erase every shred of information on my cell phone's SIM card, and render it incapable of storing information. The only one I've ever had, and not backed up at that either.
So I guess I got off lightly.
The Lazy Susan would also have stopped me from going round and round the feeder while welding.
Perhaps I would have modified the lazy susan bracket so as to make the feeder cone shaped with the wider side at the top, I did that once and it definitely is easier to chuck the bale in but much, much harder to make owing to the lack of right angles.
It's true about the goats though.
There are tons and tons of great Instructables on welding. I really advise you to have a look at them. Especially the safety ones. I usually don't bother with those 'cause more often than not it starts with something dumb like "DO NOT IMMERSE IN WATER" and of course I think Sheesh..... and tune out. A contributor on Instructables (alas I can't remember whom, 'cause he deserves a link) said amongst many other interesting things - "Do not wrap the cable around yourself 'cause the resulting generation of magnetic field can stop your heart !" (How do you think a motor / electro magnet works?) Oddly enough I read this the very night that after I'd been working on the feeder - moving around and around the frame getting my super long cables more and more tangled around my body. Obviously it didn't stop my heart, but it did totally erase every shred of information on my cell phone's SIM card, and render it incapable of storing information. The only one I've ever had, and not backed up at that either.
So I guess I got off lightly.
The Lazy Susan would also have stopped me from going round and round the feeder while welding.
Perhaps I would have modified the lazy susan bracket so as to make the feeder cone shaped with the wider side at the top, I did that once and it definitely is easier to chuck the bale in but much, much harder to make owing to the lack of right angles.
It's true about the goats though.
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