It followed me home

[tetnum]

a huge pile of files some fire tongs and some other stuff followed me home from the flea market for $5
aswell as 250 lbs fo coal blacksmithing coal form BAM

i will try and post pics of find when i can find the camera

[rthibeau]

Bentiron.....all was free except the big piece of 4150 which I had to pay scrap price for.

[JosephPrivott]

Originally Posted by rthibeau

Bentiron.....all was free except the big piece of 4150 which I had to pay scrap price for.

*scrap envy*

[Bentiron1946]

So tell me now, how many of these shorts are going into hammers? That is sure a great deal even if you had to pay scrap prices for a piece of it.

[Frosty]

Heck, it was a good deal if he had to pay scrap for all of it.

Frosty

[hammerkid]

Here is what I traded a smith I met Saturday for . I traded him a rr. spike split cross for this Flatter.

[rcs7]

My wife and I got an invitation from friends who purchased the property next to them to pick up some concrete culverts that turned into another invitation to look thru some scrap metal. I got about a wheel barrow full and really didn't hit it all. There was a post vise buried in concrete that I was told wasn't up for grabs. Oh well.

I did get a nice bit that's almost 2ft long. A lot of the metal looks like it's galvanized so I didn't take it. Do you guys know if they galvanized plow parts. There are a couple in the attached pics.

Russell

[Thomas Dean]

Russel, I grew up in Goldthwaite, TX and have seen literally tons of old plow points and parts that did appeared to be galvanized. This appearance comes from the lime and alkalines in the ground. You can take a new plow disc and leave it on the ground for a couple of years and it will have this same look to it. You would think it was much older also. Everything in your photos are safe, no galvanize. Good score and very wise of you to leave the galv. stuff. If there was any pipe in the material you left it was most likely galv. also alot of old farms had windmills that the tower was made from galv. angle iron. But if it was old farm equipment you should be safe from the galv. Sorry for the length of this post.

[rcs7]

Thanks Thomas. Goldthwaite is just up the road from us. My wife grew up in Breckenridge.

I get to go back to pick up the culverts this weekend and look over more of the scrap as well.

[Holzkohle]

rcs7. Russel. In your last photo of the wheelbarrow, there is a piece of about 1/4 by 1 with a hole near the left end. That looks like a telephone/powerline crossarm support, two to each arm. If so, it is galvanized.

Jerry