To expand on what Mark said...
Yes, I have a very portable Miller brand wire feed welder that uses a standard household 110 volt power source, OR a properly powered gas generator. An hour of touch ...
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To expand on what Mark said...
Yes, I have a very portable Miller brand wire feed welder that uses a standard household 110 volt power source, OR a properly powered gas generator. An hour of touch up welding on those baskets could make them play like new. Or at least they would no longer spit out discs because of their funky rocking and pivoting lower cage.
So, I propose we have a half day work day (4 hours with 6-8 people minimum) and get the baskets back to rock solid shape. Specifically speaking we would do the following.
- Myself and one other person would set-up w/ welder in a fixed location at the course
- Two or three man teams pull baskets & haul them back to the welding location.
- Once the baskets are brought back to the welding location the guys who pulled them will hold the poles, chain racks & baskets perfect as I make the required welds. In other words, permanently welding the chain racks & baskets to the poles.
- After the welds have been made, the two to three man teams return their basket... then go grab yet another troubled basket.
I can even put a few beads of welding slag on the posts to make them fit their ground sleeves tighter if needed. However this should be kept to a minimum so as to not make them fit too tight (and maybe get stuck).
Regarding painting a few years ago I exchanged e-mails with the guy in charge out there. Not too long after that I decided to start working on the Warner Park thing, thus I kind of left it at that. At that time he was willing to provide some spray paint if we did the work. So, I suspect he will take us up on a matching spray paint idea.
