aighead
Senior Member
Thanks Willie. I'm using Rock Tough screens as examples to look at as I'm building mine. We'll see how it goes, theirs are WAY beefier than mine will be.
Yesterday, I started tearing down my pallet rack uprights. I cut off the supports that hold the 2 vertical beams, then cut the two 15' uprights down to two 11' high beams and two 4' high beams. I also welded a couple feet onto the 11 footers. Unfortunately, the feet are much to weak, I'm not sure how much that matters once the whole frame is together and I assume, at that point the feet will just keep the whole thing from sinking in the dirt (I could double or triple the thickness of the feet too, to beef them up a bit). My welding is still sloppy. I just have a small MIG welder that's running off 110v and while it worked to attach the feet I'm not sure I've got good penetration, though I'm also not positive I've got my setting correct on the welder, I've got a bit of learning to do. I did wail away on the feet a bit, with a hammer, and they stayed attached.
Then, I stood up the 11' tall beams. They are too tall. I'm not smart enough to do the math on having a 45 degree screen and how tall my uprights need to be, so I've left that to autoCAD, but I probably need to go back in and check that again. Realistically, as long as I have the 45 degrees about right the height of the uprights and their distance horizontally, from each other, doesn't really matter does it? My guess is that I'll have to bring the 11' down to 10' or maybe less. It's also hard to determine how high the loader bucket can really clear. I don't want to be at risk of hitting the screener but I also want to make it high enough to be able to make a good pile of rock before needing to clean out.
We'll see. So far it isn't making me feel too dumb yet, but there's plenty of time for that!
Yesterday, I started tearing down my pallet rack uprights. I cut off the supports that hold the 2 vertical beams, then cut the two 15' uprights down to two 11' high beams and two 4' high beams. I also welded a couple feet onto the 11 footers. Unfortunately, the feet are much to weak, I'm not sure how much that matters once the whole frame is together and I assume, at that point the feet will just keep the whole thing from sinking in the dirt (I could double or triple the thickness of the feet too, to beef them up a bit). My welding is still sloppy. I just have a small MIG welder that's running off 110v and while it worked to attach the feet I'm not sure I've got good penetration, though I'm also not positive I've got my setting correct on the welder, I've got a bit of learning to do. I did wail away on the feet a bit, with a hammer, and they stayed attached.
Then, I stood up the 11' tall beams. They are too tall. I'm not smart enough to do the math on having a 45 degree screen and how tall my uprights need to be, so I've left that to autoCAD, but I probably need to go back in and check that again. Realistically, as long as I have the 45 degrees about right the height of the uprights and their distance horizontally, from each other, doesn't really matter does it? My guess is that I'll have to bring the 11' down to 10' or maybe less. It's also hard to determine how high the loader bucket can really clear. I don't want to be at risk of hitting the screener but I also want to make it high enough to be able to make a good pile of rock before needing to clean out.
We'll see. So far it isn't making me feel too dumb yet, but there's plenty of time for that!