Good progress on the welding today. Made a plate for the bottom of the chassis, welded side plates onto each side of that and then welded the whole thing onto the chassis. Job’s a good ‘un! Welding is bloody hard work though - I went through my last three grinding wheels and have a back ache and a white stripe on my face from the welding mask strap.

Looks OK on this side - nice straight welds and pretty tidy.

Not so neat on the other side - mainly because of the nasty patch I had to put on to cover a hole where the welder blew through the old chassis.

So, that’s about a third of the welding I need to do. Need to do exactly the same on the other side of the chassis, then patch up all the other little holes. A good three days more hard work to do.