Big Metal Bender Built From Pickup, Combine Parts
Using a combine final drive, a pickup differential, and a used hydraulic motor, Clair and Warren Wilson made a bender that can handle just about any bending job on the farm. They've used it successfully on solid steel rebar up to 1 1/4 in. in diameter.
They built the bender entirely from scratch, enclosing it neatly inside a cabinet that's 3 by 4 ft. and stands 41 in. tall.
A salvaged hydraulic orbit motor chain-drives the differential which came off a Datsun pickup. Its gears were welded together solid. Above the differential is a final drive from a Deere 95 combine. It's fitted with a large steel pin that rotates in the center of a turntable that was cut from 2-in. steel plate. The piece of metal to be bent is inserted between two adjustable pins in the turntable and rested against an angled steel block. The motor is then activated until the metal is bent to the correct angle.
The top of the cabinet has three rows of pin anchor holes.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Clair and Warren Wilson, 132 Hillview Rd., Winchester, Ill. 62694 (ph 217 742-3918).
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Big Metal Bender Built From Pickup, Combine Parts FARM SHOP Tools 27-2-37 Using a combine final drive, a pickup differential, and a used hydraulic motor, Clair and Warren Wilson made a bender that can handle just about any bending job on the farm. They've used it successfully on solid steel rebar up to 1 1/4 in. in diameter.
They built the bender entirely from scratch, enclosing it neatly inside a cabinet that's 3 by 4 ft. and stands 41 in. tall.
A salvaged hydraulic orbit motor chain-drives the differential which came off a Datsun pickup. Its gears were welded together solid. Above the differential is a final drive from a Deere 95 combine. It's fitted with a large steel pin that rotates in the center of a turntable that was cut from 2-in. steel plate. The piece of metal to be bent is inserted between two adjustable pins in the turntable and rested against an angled steel block. The motor is then activated until the metal is bent to the correct angle.
The top of the cabinet has three rows of pin anchor holes.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Clair and Warren Wilson, 132 Hillview Rd., Winchester, Ill. 62694 (ph 217 742-3918).
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