[TheForge] fish plates? just how big are they?

[jerry Frost]

Terry: Your description is pretty meaningless. At the bottom of every
Theforge email there are instructions and link to allow members to post
pictures.  You've been a member of the list for decades, make helping you
possible.

It's hard to help you Terry, you spend so much time listing how impossible
your problems are and blaming other people we lose interest. YOUR mower
suffers collision damage and it's someone else's fault. We've heard that
excuse before and we don't care. 

Terry we don't give a rat's behind who broke your mower deck it does NOT
MATTER we'd just like to help you fix it. Unfortunately you tend to make it
as impossible as surmounting your problems are. Do you really wonder why the
dealer or local shops don't want your business? 

You can't get from a wheel chair into a zero turn mower? BAH, I've seen
people in wheel chairs do some impressive things, what you claim as
impossible is nothing, you can watch Youtube videos of quadriplegics doing
harder. If that's too much challenge what in the world makes you think you
can adequately repair a mower deck?

Mark the break, take a couple pics form different angles and post them on
Shutterfly, the instructions are at the bottom of EVERY post.

Frosty


-----Original Message-----
From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 4:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] fish plates? just how big are they?

hello

the mower deck is in good shape. paint missing and some caked on grass.
there are no dents nor bends.

the broken weld in on right front scalper wheel bracket. (as you are looking
at the tractor from the front.)

the bracket is a hollow cylinder welded to a trianglular piece of formed
metal. the hollow cylinder is 1/4 inch wall steel about 4 inches long.
the triangle formed metal piece is 3/16 to 1/4 inch steel.

ASCII art will not do any better explaining it. the best i can do setting
here in this &*%^$ wheelchair is imagine a 2 inch wooded dowel ( perhaps a
broom handle ) held, straight up & down, at the corner of a kitchen counter
top.

I am trying to envision the shape of a fishplate that would be required.
it would require multiple curves for sure.

The dealer has attempted to talk me into a new tractor.
the new mower decks are drive over type and automatically engage the
mid-point PTO. He has also attempted to sell me a zero-turn mower.
zero-turn mowers pretty much require functional legs to climb into the
driver seat.

this broken weld was caused by the infamous "nobody".
nobody was driving the tractor far to fast when somehow the scalper wheel
bracket came into contact with an immovable object. I would assume that
"Nobody's" teeth would have been shaken.

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terry l. ridder ><>
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