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Old 09-04-2008, 10:13 AM
craig craig is offline
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That looks pretty good, what size stock is it made from ?? I just recently made one for the mother in law very similar to that...they wanted it 4 feet long for the fire pit...and since my forge welding skills are very minimal and I didn't have time to mess around with trying, I flattened the poker end of 3/8 stock since I was cutting with hacksaw so it would lose less metal when I cut down the center. I'm not sure if that really saves all that much metal...but if you're splitting with chisel or hardy then you lose next to nothing.

As long and you're not using that hook to drag trees around the yard it should work for what it was made for.
Thanks for sharing !!

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