It's 52 and going to 36 tonight with frost warnings! I said it before and I'll say it again, I just hates you! Beautiful riding country, Mailman!
Park it, Samurai. If that thing required a state safety inspection, it wouldn't pass, unless the inspection was pencil whipped.
know anyone that can help? lol
Doing one side at a time would almost certainly warp it out of alignment. You really need to go see a real welder. That's not an area of the frame where an amateur welder should practice improving his skills.maybe I could grind off one side where a gusset would be, fix the welds on the inside, clean it up. Weld the new, 1/8" gusset on the outside. Then repeat on the other side? If I did one at a time, it should keep the the same correct?
More pics The Cottonwood is 36' diameter and 125' tall. The house and water tower were built in 1930.