It followed me home

[Archie Zietman]

Every saturday I bike along a bike path to get to an art studio 3 miles away, where they have a figure drawing class. Along the way, there is a place where 4 houses along with a metal shop were just demolished. On saturday I stopped and scrounged around. I couldn't get the 3 feet of railroad track back as well as my bike with ease, so it is still there, along with various metal tidbits such as lengths of iron pipe, brake drums, and all manner of steel and iron goodies hidden amid the mountains of concrete boulders . Unfortunately we just got a foot of snow, which covered it all up, but this weekend I will probably go back with a radio flyer if the snow has melted.

[rthibeau]

I recently scored some 4", 6", and 8" channel iron in up to 8' lengths. It was free so it came home with me. The problem now is, what do I do with it? I already have cranes and hoists built, so what else can someone suggest? Most of it is really heavy duty stuff.

[T-Gold]

Sections of 8" and 6" make great bolt-on side tables for heavy equipment, and the narrower pieces can make cover plates for your anvil so you can do chiselling over the sweet spot.

[JWBIRONWORKS]

I usually find if I drag it home a use for it follows, its only a matter of time. :lol: :lol: :lol:

JWB

[Strine]

Let's see Mecho3hp, is it ten, twenty or thirty years that I have been searching for such a machine. I think it's thirty. I have come close a couple of times but their owners wouldn't part with them. One bloke had one on every bench in his metal spinning/sheetmetal shop. I have only two questions for you.

1. Would you allow me to give it a good Aussie home?

2. Would you give me fair warning of it appearing on eBay

[Strine]

My turn to have a win. At approx US$150 could you pass this up? All I need now is an extension to the shed to house it!

[meco3hp]

Strine,
Nice find! Whats the name on it?

http://owwm.com/

Try this link for info.

[meco3hp]

Hello,
I've been fighting a head cold the past week and didn't get pics of stuff from last weekend posted, plus I got a whole bunch of good stuff yesterday!

The stuff from last weekend included a chunk of 5" dia pipe, a tie rod, a PTO shaft, part from a A-frame suspension, a plow coulter(sp?), a cast "D" handle for a shovel, a chunk of 1" rod, a socket wrench, and a coil spring and some leaf springs (not pictured).



The stuff from this weekend included a pile of leaf springs(some are off a semi, 1/2" thick), some 1" rod, a chunk of 8" I-beam, a chunk of 1"x3" bar, a round piece of 3/4" plate, a chunk of 1 1/2" bar stock channel, a chunk of 12" pipe, a PTO shaft, and some grader blade

((((second set of pics))))

[Strine]

LOL, I began cleaning off the dirt and grime with a high pressure hose. The first thing I discovered was that it was originally Brunswick Green in colour not grey. The grey just flaked off under the hose. Under the grey was a sticker showing the name Wolfenden Bros with a picture of what looks more like a bear than a wolf as you would expect. Another sticker up the top is open to interpretation! It has the number 7019 stamped on the edge of the table. A search for "Wolfenden" revealed nothing at the site you suggest but thanks fore the link...very interesting

[Hillbillysmith]

Lets see, where do I start? A lot of things have "followed" me home. The first thing was a 6 inch diameter, 2 foot long "chisel" ( big jack-hammer bit)off of a rock crusher from a stone quarry that busted off of the excavator. Next is a tooth from the same excavator bucket that busted off. A piece of 1 inch, 4 inch wide, 8 inch long plate; a piece of 1 inch thinck, tapered from 8 inches to 3 inches wide and 4 1/2 feet tall; a piece of 1 1/2 inch thick, 2 inch wide, 10 inches long; a pice of 1 3/4 inch diameter, 18 inch long round bar; and four 2 1/2 inch diameter solid ball berings all from the same quarry (the ole' mann's work). A piece of 1 inch diameter, 3 feet long round bar that I made into a pry bar; 2 pieces of 1 inch rebar, 4 feet long that I found at an abandoned house. 2 pieces of cheap angle iron, 1/8 inch think, 3 feet long I found along side the road. 1/4 of a 5 gallon bucket of RR spikes from the local tracks. 3 leaf springs from a friend's junk 2 ton step-van. some old files from my old collapsed barn. 5 cold chisels that cost me $2; a $20 bench vise with 3 inch jaw both from the yearly village festival. A big 1 inch by 1 1/2 tapered steel spike from the edge of the creek bank. A 1 inch pipe 1/8 inch thick, 4 1/2 feet long. A 103lb semi brake drum that I picked up at the scrap yard for $7. A bunch of random steel floating about at my house (which looks like a junk yard by the way). An old axe head that I broke using it as a splitting maul pounding on it. A stableiser bar from my dad's old front end of his pick-up (possibly the old tie-rods and front axel shaft too). A piece of 1/2 inch round stock about 12 1/2 feet long I found by the bank of the river. And I always have first dibbs on ALL of the scrap machinery parts from the tractors and combines from the farmer that i work for (who oddly enough is also a full-time mechanic at a chevy dealer. [Maybe some tie rods and springs?]) I have a lot of other stuff like old hand tools that I save, that sort of thing. How do you like my collection?