It followed me home

[IronPuppet]

That is just the thing! A real step-saver. My wife is up for a power wheelchair, too. Her shoulder has turned bad and she hasn't been able to wheel herself for about a year now.

I'm sure your new find will make a big difference.

Christopher

[simmonds]

These two items followed me home today. The geared, chain block and tackle was 15 bucks and the other threaded turn buckle bar was 50 cents and will be used as the drive shaft for my power hammer I am building. Not a bad day at all!

[Tyler Murch]

Got this platen/swage today. 184 pounds. The square holes are 4", the round holes are 7/8". It's steel.

[ThomasPowers]

Tyler you are going to have to use a bigger hammer if your tooling will have 4" shafts on it...nice find!

[monkeyboy]

all good stuff. i check the local railroad dumpster on my daily rounds. ash wood sledge handles some never had a sledge attached?, several broken sledge handles which do good service for hammer handles. iron! lots of iron and brackets and washers and ??????? railroad stuff.
the track crew cleared out some switch shacks that had 12 volt battery chargers , they cut the power cords off and some were missing clips ,but i replaced the clips and put new power cords on and they all worked just fine.
been tryin to find parts for a project sander/grinder 2X72 inch. no doubt everything i'll need will show up in the dumpster.
oh yeah, i have quite a few track cut-offs. they make nice cutters.

[monkeyboy]

pieces like this rail cut-off



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[millwright]

I bought a Hobart 250 amp gas drive welder off of this old farm and found these short iron fences. after talking to my antique dealing sister I found out these are grave yard fences... creepy! They will still look good around the top of my wall though.

[Blackbeard]

Went to the scrapyard looking for something solid i could use as an anvil. Found this. Think its a peice of shaft- stands 8 inches high, the face is 9" wide and it weighs 140 lbs. Its standing on top of the i beam i used to use.Has a nice rebound.
Bb

[ApprenticeMan]

CONGRATULATIONS BLACKBEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally a suitable anvil of sorts.

[Blackbeard]

Thanks App man. Think it will save me a lot of time, having something solid to hit on. Im still searching high and low for a proper anvil though!
Bb