welding hedge cutter blades

[Stefan Palokangas]

Don't try and stick weld this, best option would be a tig, you could try and mig weld it but you get a lot of grinding job after it. With a tig you might just need to melt the carbon together and polish it after.

[Stefan Palokangas]

And remember to really clean the area before you attempt the repair, make the area as clean as you can, even use a grinder to get in to the shiny metal.

[treequip]

I have access to a highly skilled blacksmith and forge, should I get him to fire weld the blade and then re temper it or should I mig or arc weld it then give him it to temper?

 

Highly skilled smith sounds like a good idea.

The blade ought to be made of a half decent carbon steel, get your blacksmith to forge it into a knife, junk the rest and buy a decent set:laugh1::laugh1:

[flatyre]

sound advice Stefan, as for the whole buy a decent set like stihl or husky hahahahaha:001_tt2: stihl and husky should have stuck to what they're good at, chainsaws. I've seen as many of them lying under work benches as any other machine. My echo leaf blowers are as good as anything S&H make but half the price, my Tanaka hedge cutters are as good as anything S&H make but half the price, in fact anything S&H make outside of chainsaws are available by equally reputable manufacturers.....at half the price.