[ThomasPowers]

Woodwalker, it may be fine with the local law; but you may not want to get on the bad side of the ATF and sometimes it can be hard to tell what's OK and what's not. Specially as you are out in public on a forum with it it might be wise to err on the side of being discrete, (Be Discrete was the motto of a bagpiping club I once knew)

I myself *never* do anything I might get in trouble for---had my son in law the LEO fire the black powder cannon last time he visited...or admit to it in public...

Hole in the ground forge and a hot cut will work. I make big hacksaws using a bow saw frame and a metal cutting bandsaw blade cut a tad short for extra tension---cut trolly rail in two with that. I consider it part of my exercise program and ifn you were to see me you'd say I could use a whole lot more exercise!