With all the recent disking work and more disking to be done, equipment failures are inevitable. There is a really big bolt that holds the pieces of a disk gang together; the head of that bolt broke off.
Here Jeffrey is removing the disk gang from the disk in order to begin repairs.
The disk, minus broken disk gang, is pulled outside, out of the way.
A photo of the tractor, with dozer blade, and disk....
All the individual disk parts slide off the bolt. The head of the bolt broke off. Jeffrey is welding a bunch of metal on the end of the bolt to reform a bolt head.
The built up weld material is ground smooth and into an appropriate shape.
The remanufactured bolt has an end flange slid down to the bolt head.
Jeffrey cleans the individual disk gang pieces with an electric brush.
I held the bolt upright and Jeffrey slide down the disk pieces to reform the disk gang. With a big pipe wrench and socket we tightened the end bolt and remounted the disk gang onto the disk. After a couple days of use, the repair is still holding.
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