Show farmers repairing equipment at homo increased use of arc welding aid to farm world war it II and the rapid ex ei tension of 0 govern government ment approved ru ral power lines to meet farm arm pro pio emergencies contri contributed butel more than any other factors to the widespread use of transformer tYPe v I 1 welding being done efficiently on the farm electric arc welders on farms weld ing was an entirely new job to most farmers when 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 enter the peacetime picture with increase in crea ing popularity experience showed shoed that many broken parts could ix 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 parti and modify present equipment to suit nt their particular needs as wen as make necessary repairs with the use of welders discard ed repair parts and scrap metal can be made into feed cars manure loaders buck rakes mm milk can trucks and racks disc harrows and trail ers broken sickle bars tractor wheel rims and spokes tractor hitch draw bars spring tooth points gears gear teeth and sprockets can be repaired and horse drawn equipment is modified tor for tractor use |