It followed me home

[sandpile]

MY trades seem to go the other way.

I had a really nice mare. There was a good horse here in town. Stud fee was $500.00. Kept the mare around for a year and then kept her and the colt around for another year. Sold the mare and kept the colt three more years and spent $300.00 getting him broke, plus all the time I had put into him myself.

I let a 15 year old kid trade me and old swedish anvil and a trailer load of pipe and steel for him. He gave me about $600.00 worth of stuff for a $4000.00 horse.

Of course, You have it figured out!! This kid is my oldest grandson. I have ten more grandkids and I could not GIVE the horse to him because of all the other kids not getting an equal amount.BOG.

I still think I got a pretty good trade. I know the horse and kid did.grin.

Chuck

[ThomasPowers]

Hillbillysmith---you won't notice the weight difference between steel and real wrought iron, it's not that much.

However they have made Ti prybars...spark test it!

Thomas

[Nolano]

Last time i was at a hammer in, I heard about an auctioneer auctioning off a 300lb anvil. He got cocky, and said if you could carry it out to your vehicle, it was yours. So one of the guys did, but he got a hernia on the way there. Never came back for the stand.

[one_rod]

The company that my brother runs are moving premises. He phoned me and said that there were some "old bits of steel" laying on the land at the side of the new site, and would I like them. They wanted to clear the land to use for car parking. Not expecting too much, I went over. This is what I pulled out from among the weeds and brambles. 4"x2" and 2"x2".



I don't have room to store it indoors, so just brushed the worst of the rust and dirt off and painted it with oil. There is probably twice as much again still there, but it's welded together into all sorts of "interesting" shapes, too big for me to transport, so the scrap man is probably going to get it.


one_rod.

[meco3hp]

Hello, OneRod!
so whats holding you up from taking a torch back and getting the rest? Nice find of structual steel!

Thanks
Richard

[Krstofer]

Lots of stuff has found it's way back with me.. Some I bought, some I took.. Some were freely given.

Most I've made into things- A few I've written about here: http://krstofer.org/projects/

My welding table & computer desk are both made from 1/2" plate aluminum I picked up in a Forest Service "boneyard".. Both tops are 2' by 4'. Add some inch square thinwall for legs & wallah! Indestructable.

With the change to the newer propane tank valves the old ones become un-refillable- Often free at refilling stations. Great for forges. And freon tanks? Look behind the local car shops- light weight pressure tanks for that home-brew air compressor. Or a small forge as well.

[FredlyFX]

Originally Posted by Krstofer

Lots of stuff has found it's way back with me.. Some I bought, some I took.. Some were freely given.

Most I've made into things- A few I've written about here: http://krstofer.org/projects/

My welding table & computer desk are both made from 1/2" plate aluminum I picked up in a Forest Service "boneyard".. Both tops are 2' by 4'. Add some inch square thinwall for legs & wallah! Indestructable.

With the change to the newer propane tank valves the old ones become un-refillable- Often free at refilling stations. Great for forges. And freon tanks? Look behind the local car shops- light weight pressure tanks for that home-brew air compressor. Or a small forge as well.

Interesting projects Krstofer. I particularly liked the trike. How is it coming along? Did you finish it?

FredlyFX
http://fredlyfx.com

PS. I work in the disabled student program at Mt. San Jacinto College training students to use adaptive hardware & software. I have a couple of students who would be kindred spirets with you. They are both quads that do all sorts of projects. I am impressed all the time by the stuff they can do with a tiny fraction of the grip you have.

[one_rod]

Originally Posted by meco3hp

...........so whats holding you up from taking a torch back and getting the rest?

About an acre of shoulder-high weeds mostly. It's not rained here for weeks (that's something you don't get to say very often in this country), and everything is tinder dry. Setting fire to that lot would not make me very popular with anybody.

They want to tractor-mow the land but need the remaining steel moved first. With the price of metal so high at the moment they will have no trouble finding a scrappie to take it away.

Just have to be content with what I already have.



one_rod.

[ThomasPowers]

Well I stopped by the fleamarket in Las Cruces on Father's Day; only thing I got was a large *old* Nicholson file; only reason I picked it up was it was "Warrented Cast Steel" (did I mention it had some years on it?)

It will go on the cast steel pile...gotta do some more 18th and 19th century work...

Thomas

[yesteryearforge]

My ex son in law asked me if I would like a fly press so I said how much , he said free , so I said yes, / This is what he brought me
Its not a flypress but a 50 ton screw press
The stain is from over oiling

can't seem to post a photo