It followed me home

[Adam the Mortician]

sweet forge - looks to be in good shape

[julian]

Originally Posted by Jeremiah

I found this on the local classifieds yesterday for $25. The guy said it was in his back yard when he bought the place and he just wanted it out of the way. The champion blower works great. He was just happy that someone would get some use out of it.

nice! A good working blower alone for $25 is a great deal, and now you have a portable forge

[bipolarandy]

Valentin, I have seen a power hammer die kinda like that before, it was made for nail making, you would draw the nail out on the flat part, and then put it into a header and the end of the nail would stick down in the hole in the die wile you forged the head. Maybe it was used for something like that??

[Bear]

Excellent find. The champion 400 blower goes for at least $100- and thats for damaged ones- around here at auction.


Sean

[Fionnbharr (finn:-)]

Could be for heading, but with the sweetspot on the flat die like it is and the oblong slot in the other section of the die you would need to use a correctly sized bolster/header to make your heads. With practice you could freehand that pretty well especially if you laid a kiss block on the flat die to tell you when you had the correct thickness for what you were making... Of course you could build a set of spring swages that would size your rivet stock, and cut your head to length and extend over your bolster hole and form your rivet head... You would probably want to have the spring swage hinged and a little longer than normal so you could have it act like a flat spring... if you know what I mean;-) If it was hinged you could lift the top of the swage to insert the rivet into the bolster and then drop the top of the swage and whack it a few times to form your head...

[Dale Russell]

Was drivin' ta site this mornin' when my boss rang me , first thought was " what ave i's done wrong now ? " He asked where i was headed for , i told him , he then said i need ta get my rear inta workshop this arvo cos he had a pressy for me . I arrived at the workshop after finishin' off the jobs i had ta do & he walked me out the back of the shop , sittin' next ta the steel bin ( scrap ) was an " old " 36" guillotine , he was told by his boss ta dump it inta the scrap bin but thought i'd make better use of it . And with that i was told hook up the trailer ta my van & load it cos if it was still there tomorrow mornin' in the bin it'd go .... now i've just gotta figgure out how i'm gonna get it off the trailer & inta shop ( thing weighs 500 kg's )

Dale Russell

[ThomasPowers]

Dale, you climb onto the trailer with the Guillotine and yell "FREE BEER" then you tell the resulting crowd of "friends" that the beer doesn't come out until the machine is *SAFELY* in your shop.

Back at my old house/shop I had a large tree that would take about a ton/tonne on a chain hoist, very handy. Out here most trees I can see over the top of, (mesquite) and I've been looking for a hoisting platform.

[Dale Russell]

Thomas ,
around here they'd wanna " sample " of the goods first ( & that leads ta more samplin' & nothin' gets done )
Timber yard / hardware store down the road has a forklift , gonna ask him ifin he'll lift it off & put it inta shop doorway for me ( sling him a slab , less chance of any 1 gettin' hurt that way )


Dale Russell

[Glenn]

That is 4 pieces of flat bar 2-1/2" wide, a little over 4 feet long, and 2 pieces about 24" long. Total 20 feet or so of flat bar. Cut it into square sections and that is 96 base plates for hardie tools.

AND you have to have somewhere to store the new hardie tools. Somehow a couple of parts containers found their way into the car while the door was open. Imagine that.

[ApprenticeMan]

Nice Glenn! Leaf spring packs have ALOT of steel in them.