Blue91Ex
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Alright so I have yet another school metal shop project. A science teacher at school has tasked me with taking his ATV and a cheap plow and sticking them together. This seems pretty easy but with new shop teacher trying to intervene and change my plans on it, and limited class time, it turned into a reasonable project. So anyway, I thought I would share my progress with you guys on it.
Start of the project: Mount the Winch.
The atv has a tube frame. This includes a brush guard like portion at the front, this is where I started. I cut out 4 pieces of steel plate to make into a winch-plate to bolt the new winch to, inside the tube frame.
This is the only close up pic that I saved of this part, its one horizontal plate, one verticle plate with a hole cut for the fairlead, and two triangular pieces, cut with a curve to match the bend of the tube guard/frame.
Test fitting:
For my first large welds since last year (lots of sheet metal work this summer, no plate) I think they came out kinda purty.
Start of the project: Mount the Winch.
The atv has a tube frame. This includes a brush guard like portion at the front, this is where I started. I cut out 4 pieces of steel plate to make into a winch-plate to bolt the new winch to, inside the tube frame.
This is the only close up pic that I saved of this part, its one horizontal plate, one verticle plate with a hole cut for the fairlead, and two triangular pieces, cut with a curve to match the bend of the tube guard/frame.
Test fitting:
For my first large welds since last year (lots of sheet metal work this summer, no plate) I think they came out kinda purty.