HARDFACING OF PLOWSHARES WITH STOODITE 1940s STOODY COMPANY FARM IMPLEMENT PROMO FILM 19884
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This undated silent film from the Stoody Company details the process by which plowshares are hardfaced with Stoodite, a cobalt alloy. It likely dates to the 1940s. At 0:48, the film states the type of plowshares adaptable to hardfacing and the need for them to be sharpened and heated to 1750 F before application of Stoodite. At 1:02, a plowshare is shown being heated in a furnace until glowing red. At 1:42, the thickness the nose point (1/8”), and area up to 4 inches above the nose (1 1/8”), will be sharpened to is given. At 1:58, the nose of a plowshare is machine shaped to the approximate thickness needed. At 2:32, the need for final shaping and point setting by hand for proper land clearance and suction is stated. At 2:48, the final hand-shaping and point setting is shown.
At 3:41, the need to draw out the entire length of the share’s edge to 7/16” is stated. At 3:51, the process of drawing out the share’s edge is shown. At 4:09, areas of the share to be hard-faced must be polished to remove oxides. At 4:19, grinding and polishing process is shown. At 5:20, shares must be checked for proper set prior to hard-facing. This is done by fitting a rod 3/16” in diameter under the share four inches (4”) up from the point and seven (7”) from the point along the throat, along the quarter bar. At 5:43, the process to check the set of the share is shown.
At 5:55, the type of welding tip and bushy flame needed to apply Stoodite is described. At 6:12, the welding tip and look of the flame is shown. At 6:19, Step number 1 in the application of Stoodite using a Stoody welding jig is described. At 6:42, the application of 1 ¼” of Stoodite to the edge of a plow share during step one is shown. At 8:28, step number 2, hardfacing the quarter bar is described. At 8:37, hardfacing the quarter bar from the point upwards 2 ½” is shown. At 9:36, the reason that Stoodite can be applied to the extreme point of the plow share is explained (Step 3). This is because it is less fluid and takes a pyramid shape instead of flattening out as other alloys might. At 9:57, a closeup of the hardfacing application to a plow share’s point illustrates the sluggish and pyramidal nature of Stoodite. At 10:48, step number 4, the final step of hardfacing the plow share’s nose, is shown. At 10:56, this final step. At 11:54, the need for final sharpening and polishing of the plow share to enable it to scour the ground. At 12:07, the final sharpening and polishing process is shown. At 12:51, the film states that a Stoodite hardfaced plow share can plow 550 acres without needing resharpening; whereas ordinary plow shares must be sharpened after every 21 acres. At 13:12, the Stoodite hardfaced plow share from a set of three, which plowed 550 acres, is shown.
At 13:27, begins a listing of other agricultural implements which can benefit from Stoodite hardfacing, with grain drill discs, shoes, and scraper knives being listed and shown at 13:36. At 13:43 spring teeth are listed and shown at 13:48. At 13:55, Lister shares at 14:01. At 14:08 rasp bars at 14:14. At 14:22 cultivator shovels are shown at 14:27. At 14:37 cultivator sweeps are shown at 14:42. At 14:50, Stoodite prolongs the life of farm equipment three to 10 times longer. At 15:03, Stoody products are shown to be available at the Omaha Welding Co., 1501 Jackson Street, Omaha Nebraska. At 15:15, the slogan, “Everything for the Blacksmith and Welder.”
The background on the Stoody Company is as follows: in 1921, Shelley M. Stoody started the Stoody Welding Co. to service the growing farm implement and tractor repair business. The developing oil boom in southern California led to a quick refocusing of the business to the repair of drill bits for oil prospecting.
Shelley, with his brother and partner Winston F. Stoddy, was convinced there was a way to make the agricultural implements and drill bits more durable and to stay sharper longer. They developed a technique, called hardfacing, which continues to be used in both industries today. Hardfacing is the overlaying of metal with a coating of abrasion-resistant alloys via a welding process. This overlay greatly extends the life of the equipment.
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In the mid 1950's I recall seeing lines of plow shares either waiting to have new tips put on and sharpened or completed. Names of the farmer printed in chalk on the shares. But I don't know or even knew of this type of extending a shares life. This style plow share went away with a different style of plow design. Now they are replaced when worn. But some of those old plows are still out there. Not many local blacksmiths around anymore. It would be interesting if someone has experience with this process and the straightening of bent or broken plow share noses.
Hardfacing is very common today, but it is generally an electric arc welding process. You use a special "hardfacing rod" and run beads of hardfacing material along the edge of face of the tool to be strengthened. If you see something like an excavator bucket on some sort of digging machine or a bulldozer blade you will often see rows and rows of somewhat rough welding beads along the edge or face of the tool. This is generally hardfacing and not a repair.
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Honestly I'm surprised that they were still using blacksmithing techniques for this as late as the 1940s. Electric arc welding was all the rage, and oxy-acetylene welding was older and available too.
I wish I could find some Stoodite. I've used a lot of it on implement edges, the latest about 15 yrs ago on rototiller tines. The gas rod flows very nicely but, as someone pointed out, all I can find is arc sticks.
The Bare Tube Stoodite (BTS) oxyacetylene rod is still sold for farm implement applications. Stoody is now part of ESAB.
I don't think they inserted the company name enough.
Maybe call the process Stoodification or Stoodifying?
Refer to their home city as Stoodyville?
Their employees as Stoodites?
BTW Stoody still exist as a division of ESAB and according to their web page they still make Stoodite.
Not coming up with anything for Omaha Welding.
That address is apartments now.
All well and good, but when it comes to plowshares, what the world wants to know is how to beat swords into them.
No audio
As it says in the description, this is a silent film.
No audio?
In those days most non-Hollywood films were silent. Audio equipment was extra to most cameras, big and bulky (like it fit tightly in the back of an SUV), hard to set up, and took people with specialized training to operate. It also required electricity to operate, and many 16mm cameras in that era had wind-up spring "clock motors" to run the film, so didn't require batteries or electricity.
The "title cards" that appeared between the scenes described what a narrator would have said, talking over the film.
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Today ,replace with made in India
This film suggests people used to work for a living.
Back when craftsmanship used to mean something
When a man could still work, still would
The best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?
Sources say: Yes.
Tedious.