Replating New Holland combine skids

In this video I cut off and replace the worn skid plates that fit on a New Holland combine header.
The first job is to remove the old metal, I do this by gouging away the metal to remove where the welds are using the arc air gouger.
Gouging was proving difficult and slow so I then moved onto using the 9” grinder instead.
Once all 4 skids had been stripped down to the skeleton, new plates were cut out using the cnc plasma, they were pressed on the ends to match up with where the old ones had been cut off. Tacked into position and welder round.

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