Show farmers repairing equipment at home increased use of arc welding aid io fo farm world war 11 II ond and the rapid extension of government approved rural power lines to meet farm production emergencies contributed more than any other factors to the widespread use of transformer type welding being done efficiently on olt the farni farm electric arc welders on farms welding was an entirely new job to most farmers when tho the war started but before it had progressed many months scores of them had become old hands at the fix it up make it do trade thus a war taught talent enters the peacetime picture with increasing popularity experience showed showe d that many broken parts could be welded satisfactorily without having to remove them from the machine and that such equipment then could be returned to the fields promptly especially when timesaving time saving welding jobs were done on the farm also farmers soon learned that they could use their welders to construct new equipment out of scrap parts and modify present equipment to suit their particular needs as well as make necessary repairs with the use of welders discarded repair parts and scrap metal can be made into feed cars manure loaders buck rakes milk can trucks and racks disc harrows and trailers broken sickle bars tractor wheel heel rims and spokes tractor hitch draw bars spring tooth points gears gear teeth and sprockets can be repaired and horse drawn equipment is modified for tractor use |