Pitchfork Rebuild

broke another yard tool. hmmm what do? ahhh rebuild broken tool of course. Here is what i did. first take the busted pitchfork and toss it in the fire pit. This is the easiest way I have found to remove the broken old wooden handle.

Once out of the fire and cooled off, you will have something that looks a bit like this (it will probably look worse my camera was mia when i pulled this outta the fire pit).

Take the business end of the fork and stick in in a vise. take the wire wheel attachment and put it on ye olde angle grinder. make the rusty, charred and otherwise undesirable layers go buh-bye.

I also set this in the fire for a while. my hope was to get the galvanized coating off, it doesn't weld well. You will also want to take the wire wheel to this. the cleaner you get it the better.

I know, I know those welds look awful. Weld the fork and the new handle together. try to do a better job than i did. i suck at this.

There ya go all fixed up get back to work.