straightening the Excavator H link

[Frank S]

I don't think I took a before picture of this thing but suffice to say it had about a 4inch twist in it from end to end

I heated it in the forge for about five hours using about 125 lbs of charcoal heat loss and difficulty in fe4eding the charcoal directly under the part was most of the problem I know how to make it better just couldn't take another day or two to do that
For one thing the part was so big I couldn't fit the hood down tight or use the door plate I had cut to close the front opening


You can't see it in the picture but there is a dull glow to the H link along the center and flanges I am using the curl for the bucket of my backhoe to twist the link straight




Flattening the other damaged links while I had the forge going