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11-04-2007, 02:32 PM
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The local garage was throwing away a couple of deep rotors so I ask and they were put into my vehicle for the trip home. The deep rotor is shown beside the standard rotor I used for a firepot in the 55 Forge. It looks like it has possibilities.
__________________ Tools do not make the blacksmith, the blacksmith makes the tools. gc If someone questions your standards, they are not high enough.  |
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11-04-2007, 07:57 PM
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I took the truck to town to get the engine warm so I could change the oil when I returned home. Stopped by the local garage to talk with the owner and he had a engine hoist that would no longer work because the hydraulics leaked. Then there was a tire rack that was large enough to hold 3 rows of tires. The piece of rail road steel was just in the the fellows way and he was going to throw it in the dumpster, but the truck was closer. He said you want this wire rope? Well it went into the truck to. The wire rope is 50 feet of 3/8 inch cable that had a hook and two Crosby clamps already on one end. For a couple of clamps and a hook I have a good work cable now. And before you could say enough, a weeks supply of wood (mostly short pieces of lumbar) that was added on top of everything else. When I got home I found he had put another 5 gallon bucket of lead wheel weights, 4 shock absorbers, a coil spring, 4 single disk break rotors, a good winter tread 15 inch tire, and a couple pieces of steering linkage under the wood. All this because I stopped in the garage one day and saw him in need of a couple of tools and made them for him from the steel from his dumpster.
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11-04-2007, 08:21 PM
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11-04-2007, 10:32 PM
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Like the find. That's a nice big piece of RR track.
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11-07-2007, 10:44 PM
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well this followed me home a while ago but have been to busy to get photos. It is a little I beam 11" X 10" X14' weighs 1600# the main web is 1 1/8" thick the center web is 1".
__________________ Mike Turner www.turnerknives.com http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/me...1159&protype=1 |
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11-07-2007, 11:03 PM
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I-BEAM at your good fortune, Mike!!!
__________________ "In all you do, do it well, because life's too short to be a hack!"-ac Sole Proprietor of Peedabed Forge- "because momma always said that's what happens when you play with fire!" |
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11-08-2007, 01:24 AM
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Nice Mike, that is the sickest i beam i have ever seen.
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11-08-2007, 03:25 AM
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I forgot it was a freebie  
__________________ Mike Turner www.turnerknives.com http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/me...1159&protype=1 |
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