hdwarner

i have a couple requests for boot horns , does anyone have a plan or an idea
everyone on this forum probally knows a diabetic or someone heavy like my self that could use an aid to put on those red wings.

nice job, quick question what is a fertilizer tip?

i think you are missing one other reason not to wear your wedding ring in the shop.
don't you think it would be hard to pick up single women in the blacksmith shop if you have your ring on

i keep mine in recycled coolant buckets with lids on outside ,
i buy coal via mail order ,
chuck

i wondered how he got that little guy to cook all the time,
notice there were no cats on the bonanza ranch

my youngest daughter told me that she found someone that was interested in my work
i said really who?
she gave me the name and address of the scrap dealer
she said , the ad in the paper said looking for steel and metal all shapes and sizes
she thought they were looking for art work.
good to know someone appreciates my work and willing to pay me for it.
by the pound that is

i seen Lorne Green in bonanza turning the crank of a small buffalo rivet forge and talking
his usual nonsense to a passerbyer i didn't see an anvil or a horse , you don't suppose he had a branding iron in the fire and was going to brand HOSS do you?

you forgot the infinatly variable adjustable wrench that once adjusted to the right width
of nut or bolt automaticly adjusts to the next size when applied

steve , thats the site i meant the one dutchmancreek sent you
chuck

i like that door knocker idea , two recyclables

lucky duck

like that word frugal , thats what i am frugal.
i will search around but somewhere in my travels last year there was a site with a whole slew of ideas
me myself i can only think of a tomahawk , some sort of handles
one i did and liked was i cut the point off did a pinnaple twist, drilled 5/16 dia cross hole
where the point was and drilled another hole perpendicular to the cross hole but about
a half inch back fed a piece of 5/16 round thru the cross hole to egual lengths sticking out stuck a piece of 5/16 thru top hole only half length forge welded rods in
after welding and still hot i bent to a garden tool , you know little fork tool .
i forget what they are called
chuck
them dern railroad spikes always migrate from he railroad to my shop, how do you suppose that happens

these are all good ideas
i was checking them out today , i have a bunch to fool with

if any one of you were thinking of buying me something for christmas
or making me something ,
FORGET IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was incouragable all year , i misbehaved, stayed out to late , back talked
my elders , didn't clean my room , failed social studies,
i don't deserve any gift .
my wife said the only thing i deserve is coal ,
small pea size bitumous coal thats all i deserve .
delivered to claymont, de , probally about a ton as bad as i was

i feel sorry for carpenters ,
they pay for a two by four and they get a 1.75 by 3.75
we metalworkers would never tolerate that would we?

i built this coal forge with three legs
hard to see but i welded unistrut on both sides of forge to add accessories
like stock carriers , small quench tanks etc.
a centuar firepot with dumping ash gate
surroundings are a horse run in shed i bought with a crush and run floor

i bought a surplus of identical lug wrenches for 25 cents each at the surplus material store
25 to be exact , trying to think of a usefull project
the kind that are bent at about 30 degrees
i was thinking of spacing three wrenches 120 degrees apart with the socket end down
and the shaft going straight up so to make like legs weld a piece of pipe in center and devise an adjustable stock stand .
or do the same but scroll the top of the wrench {where the hub cap removal blade is} weld a ring in the inside to hold those large flower pots.

does anyone know what kind of stell these are
can someone come up with something creative to do with these things

chuck

what are you planing on making once you get all these pieces put together?
whats your plans for an anvil stand ?

conversly so on a cnc mill , climb milling is the preferred method .
spindle and axis loads are a lot less doing it this way.
think of the dynamic of climb milling as opposed to conventional
it's biggest chip load is at entry then diminishes at exit , conventional just the opposite
when i served my apprentiship conventional was the way to do it
then along came cnc's which changed that

steve i tried one of those robots,
the b9 to be correct
and all it would do is light up and say "DANGER WILL ROBINSON"
dr smith was right those robots are ninni's

i have one of those wireless remote controls that i set up with my forge blower ,
i hang on my shirt so i just reach up and hit on or off

lathe leveling has nothing to do with the earths level it has all to do with all axis's are perpendicular and parralel to each other and leveling is the medium in which to do.
years ago hardinge made a claim that thier cnc's could be run in any plane , upside down
side ways , whatever . becuase they were such a rigid machine.
upside down plays havoc on coolant leakage however

think of your tape measure sticking out 30 inches all twisted and turned from the starting point , imagine following that line with a tool what your work would look like

climb milling on the bridgeport
although climb milling is the best way to mill don't do on bridgeport becuase
it pulls to hard on the lead screw nut and i have heard that lead screws have broke

thoughts

i was watching a rerun of the rifleman the other night and the so called
"town blacksmith " was hitting a BLACK piece of steel and he wasn't even hitting it hard , you know "dink dink dink"
and the coal forge was just smoking a little .
i screamed at the tv "HIT IT HIT IT"
i guess i am no better than the people watching sports being a arm chair coach.
my wife said the blacksmith was probally an actor
and i exclaimed right back , well he failed blacksmith acting school miserebly!!!

why i oughta .

whoa , i am hypnotized by the radial pattern, thankyou for sharing
c.