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Here are some pictures of the gun body/drive roll assembly. Gives you an idea of how it works (pulling) in conjunction with the drive rolls in the machine (pushing). I probably wont have any exciting pictures for the next few days. Ive got some cold welds to grind out and redo, but all the...

John - The wire is being pulled by the gun itself, in addition to being pushed by the drive rolls on the machine. I'll try to remember to take pics of the gun's rolls tomorrow. My lead is 35ft long, and the aluminum feeds pretty smoothly. You can even get 50ft leads, if you want to make a truly...

Hey Guys, Here are a few more pictures of the bulkheads going in and getting tacked. Ran out of welding wire yesterday, but after reloading today, I was able to get #3 and #2 tacked in out to the 18" (from CL) longitudinals. Hope all is well, Neil

Here are a couple pictures of the transom going in the boat. I wanted to full weld it on both sides before I close myself off with bulkhead #6. Its a little tricky getting the 1/2" plate welded to the 1/4". You need to heat up the 1/2" hot enough to get good penetration, but you don't want you...

It works good as a base layer, or if there is a bit of rye or wheat in a cut corn field. But I would suggest always trying to use what you find in that specific field. Don't be afraid to take all of your killer weed off your blind if, for some reason, it doesn't match your field. If your blind...

Ive been living down here for the past four years. Way too many people up here. I'm looking to move in the next year or two since ive graduated, provided I can find somewhere better to go. Lots of stripers, blues, tautog, sea ducks, and deer and everybody and their brother trying to hunt and...

Why whats happening with the duckwater boats? They coming unglued? I don't know anything about them, other than that they make some big stuff and its pretty pricey. -Neil

Kevin, I forgot to mention, that Millermatic 350P has factory "guidelines" or parameters for different alloys and metal thicknesses. You turn a knob on the butt of the push-pull gun and it raises or lowers the wire feed speed, which automatically adjusts the amperage. I've found that the...

The machine is Millermatic 350P. Here are a few more pictures from today. It will be awhile before I'll be able to post any cool pictures of dramatic progress/changes. I've got a ton of welding to do... - Neil A picture from below the cradle...trying to show the underside of the hull. Its...

Here's a few pictures of the hull. Tack welded forward on the longitudinals (18" from centerline) today. I have been using boat stands to put a bit of pressure on the bottom plates to get rid of any gaps under the longitudinals. Once they are tacked bow to stern I can start tacking all of the...

Here's a few photos from last year. Spring will be here before you know it. - Neil 2006 bird...

Brian, I would have to look into that. I normally clean my oxides off the area to be welded with a stainless brush on an angle grinder, but it never occurred to me that I would get frost on my wire spool. But with temps in the single digits at night, and the heaters in the barn during the day...

Hey everyone, I was hoping to have more progress to show for my weekend, but it was not meant to be. The very cold temps made almost everything uncooperative. Saturday was spent chasing down large quantities of propane for the heaters, hitting my head on the same 2"x4" repeatedly, and making a...

Andrew, Dad will be here sat. and sunday. We should be at the barn both days, as I'm going to try to get everything tacked together. -Neil

Bob, My machine is a Millermatic 350-P pulsed mig machine w/ a Aluma-Pro push/pull gun. The Aluma-Pro gun is great, and you can get they with very long leads which helps when trying to reach different parts of the hull without moving the machine. Im working on a dirt floor, so its next to...

Few pics of all the bulkheads and logitudinals (except the two at 32" from the centerline) finally in the hull. Took awhile to finish the #4 bulkhead, but its in. Hopefully I can start welding in earnest this weekend. Hope all is well, Neil Bulkheads and longitudinals nested together...

Some type of rhododendron, or something very similar. The leaves pucker and curl up when it gets real cold. neil

Ive got kevlar on the underside of my scaup, and it has taken serious abuse over the years. But like Andrew mentioned, keel guards are an important addition. My hull has oak stringers and bronze half rounds to guard against abrasion. Kevlar is nice, but again, a pain to work with. It is very...

Here are a few pics of what will eventually be bulkhead #4. In the process of cutting a #5 into a #4, the bulkhead needed another 1/2" at the bottom. So I had to weld on a 1" x 1/4" piece of flat bar and cut it back. If done properly, you can barely tell there was ever a weld bead or seam, once...

Nothing (other than the centerline longitudinal) is welded together yet. I need to fit everything in and double check stuff before it all gets tacked. -Neil