Bucket repair

[MMW]

This is from a PC200. It's not the angle of the pic. They actually pulled the center of the cutting edge down & cracked it on the outside of the two center shanks as well as split the seam where the edge meets the floor. Need to straighten as best as possible & weld it back up. I gouged out the shank cracks from both sides till they met & put the machine weight on the two center shanks. It didn't move. So I kept gouging toward the seam until it did. Got the left crack lined up & welded. Tomorrow I'll work on the right crack & once that is done I'll try to push the whole edge center up & weld the seam. Then I'll go to the bottom & gouge/reweld the seam as it is cracking also.0214031352.jpg0214031353.jpg0214031353a.jpg