It followed me home

[T-Gold]

Hahaha, awesome centurion! Keep up the good work!

[ThomasPowers]

I have some stickers for my tool box thazt have a skull and cross bones and "No Tools Loaned" on them---perhaps your "art" should have the sdame motto?

Thomas

[Strine]

"No Tools Loaned"

LOL The sign in my shed just says

"The borrowing tools are on loan, call back later"

[Glenn]

It was a judgment call, and after some head scratching, I brought it home anyway.
1000 feet or so of 7 bundles of 19 wires galvanized 1/4" cable.
The bundled section is better than 350 feet.

Yes, that is the bottom 1/3 a 55 gallon drum that it is stored in for now.

[oakwoodforge]

Boy what a day, Pulled into work thismorning and one of the guys I work with took me over to his car , had a trunk load of 3/8" dia spring tines from some old farm equipment looks like about 3' long when they are un-coiled, he even helped me load them into my car. another guy had a stack of copper flashing and J metal, for me in the back of his truck, almost 50 lbs of solid copper. Must be my lucky day. And to top things off I recieved a NOS Dayton electric forge blower, what a day , feels like Christmas

[Danny D]

A friend of mine went to the junkyard looking for steel to build an air hammer. When he walked in the gate there was a 100 # Little Giant laying on it side that someone had just brought in. Needless to say he gave up on the air hammer project.

[GobblerForge]

You folks are posterchildren for us blacksmiths being great scrounges. I have been collecting "stuff" that will someday be made into other "stuff" for years. And I have found one downfall with the collecting of "stuff". Some day you might move. Oh my God! When it was time to move my shop, I did not have a new shop yet so my stuff was to be stored in the garage. So only the good stuff moved, the rest left. If I picked something up that had not been touched since it entered the shop, it was gone. Took weeks on a 12 by 12 shop. And on the big stuff, remember what it took to get it in? So as we go on our treks to find what we may, I now look at some things with a new vision. I just wish my visions weren't so fuzzy. Enjoy. Brad :wink:

[Glenn]

Really, I was just in the "neighborhood" of the scrap yard and promised myself that I was "just going to look". There amoung all the rust was 3 pieces of douple wall galvanized pipe. Don't like galvanized so I moved on. As I moved on down the line of rust, the sun reflected off something and caught my eye.

I walked back to the pipe and son-of-a-gun, it was lined with the prettiest 12" diameter by 4 foot long liner you ever saw. No magnet so it was take it or leave it.

So here is the problem, what do you do with 12 feet of mirror finish 12 inch diameter "stove pipe"? I can NOT use it in the shop as that would mean sweeping the floor and everyone knows that sweeping the floor will eventually lead to cleaning followed by curtains on the windows. :shock:

I gotta quit going to those places.

[meco3hp]

Hello,
This is todays score. I found all of this stuff walking along the RR tracks around where I live. It took about 3 hours of walking to find all of this, and I passed up hundreds of spikes. If I could of carried off a 20' section of broken rail, I'd done that also. This will keep me for a day or two!

[T-Gold]

A few suggestions for your new junque

The carriage bolts make good mushroom stakes.
The bridge plates make excellent hardy tool plates (bolt to a stump).
If you cut off the part that the train rode on you can make a good very small bickern out of those short sections of rail (use the web as the shank, draw one side of the flange to a point).

I'm sure you'll come up with some creative uses of your own, too -- please post 'em!