Busy weekend. It was clear it would be hard to save the ladder frame and the body birdcage so I decided to scrap the ladder and that worked out pretty well. Nick mentioned he may send a new ladder so that helped make the decision too, if not I will build a ladder.
It took a weekend to remove the towers with the swazall and took half a day to cut everything out with the plasma cutter.
Hypertherm 45 is new favorite tool! Can't believe how quick n easy it was and I was able to do the cutting with the body attached:
Cut out ladder frame on left, that will be replaced:
