It followed me home

[mark hendricks]

They through out some great junk at work. I usually find bearings from heavy equipment, 3" pins from trackhoes,plough disks, but today i scored a wilton c-1 vice in the metal scrap bin. It needs some work on the pivot ring. I'll fix it or mount it solid.

[ApprenticeMan]

NICE SCORE Mark!!

[IronPuppet]

While scoping out my favorite scrap pile where people dump their metal junk for shredding, I found an old snow blower. Needs a motor, but all the rest is there and seems sound. Just needs a good cleaning and lube.

Christopher

[SLOB]

a whole bunch of punches followed me home from work. S-1 tool steel punches. they are shock resistant! we had a meeting at work last night about someone not assembling a press correctly before starting it up. they passed around a punch that had come out while running. it was a 3/4" shank bent about 30 degrees.....but it didnt shatter.


my computer didn't want to upload all the pictures.....I had a picture of one of the 8 drums of punches that followed me home. I wish I had taken a picture of them all loaded in my truck on 2 wooden skids. My toyota pickup was on its bumpstops.....luckily it was only about a mile to my house to unload 3 drums, the rest went to my storage unit. I still had trouble driving the truck that loaded down over the WV mountains.

Rob/SLOB

[ApprenticeMan]

WOW......................................Just..... WOW ROB!!!!!!!!!! Nice haul! This is a legendary haul.

[Glenn]

The IForgeIron gallery handle take the large photos. It automatically resizes them for the gallery and for a thumbnail. Copy the properties of the image for use in the forum.

[Glenn]

Just a black plastic 55 gallon drum to most folks. But to a blacksmith, it has possibilities.

I found a nest of them and brought 3 home. One is already in use, the wife said it WOULD replace the old rusty steel drum used to store the plastic trash bags (remove the top and the drum hold 4 bags of trash) till the garbage man runs. 33% of my working stock gone, but the wife is happy.

[sdalcher]

Stopped by the local recycling yard today. Came home with about 200 linear feet of heavy angle iron, a 3 foot section of 8 in pipe (new gas forge). Several different sizes of compression spring. 8 feet of heavy bandsaw blade (there was more but it was buried under a ton of xxxx) 12 feet of 1 inch heavy steel cable. A usable oxygen cylinder and last but not least a fully functional pallet jack. Damage to wallet $110. What a day!!!!

[Glenn]

I stopped by the local junk yard looking for a piece of brass to make a non-marring punch. Put one end of the brass against the object and hit the other end of the brass with the hammer. The brass does not mark the object but yet transfers the impact of the hammer.

First container I looked into had a piece of brass hex stock, 1-1/2 inches across the flats, and 43 inches long. Should make a couple of nice brass punches.

[Frosty]

Nice score. It'll make some nice non-marring hammer heads too, good for all kinds of things.

Frosty