Tim McCoy

Prayers up from Vegas . . .

Hi Everyone, Taking my wife Harriet to Cedars Sinai hospital in LA on Tuesday to be tested and interviewed to determine if she can be placed on list for heart transplant. She's had bad ticker for about 16 years now and her heart specialist says time for a change, no more repairs. Not much else they can do with what she has. No complaints here, God has seen fit to grant us 34 years of time together. Most of you who have loved ones with health issues do not need a long story - you've been there, as we say. Just asking for you to put her on your prayer list. Prayer has been the magic bullet more than once for her. We remain hopeful that they will have good answers for her. Thanks ahead of time and we'll let you now how things went when we get back. God is Always Good. Tim McCoy

Alec, You are an amazing young man! What you learned with Brian will help you for the rest of your life in most everything that you do. Tim

Another job well done!

Will look great on someone's wall - great job!

This should be required viewing for anoyone starting out! Seeing a 14 year old "man-child" do these things removes all excuses anyone can have ... theory in action. Hit it hot, hit it HARD! Alec makes all of us proud.

It's all good here - welcome!! :D

:D Thanks Cretedog!! Great photos and very easy to understand all that you did. Well thought out and very adaptable. A photo truly is worth a thousand words. Man I love this place!

Nice looking units! I'm guessing poured cement with steel tops and recessed nuts for the tie down bolts ... any steel inside the stand? What do the stands weigh? Regular cement or hi-tensile stuff, etc, etc. How about a BP on how you did them?

Stumbled on this interesting site ... don't think I have seen a link to it on the IFI Forum: http://www.mountvern...dex.cfm/sss/98/ ... for those of you who haven't seen it, enjoy!

A great start and something that others will want ... can't buy'm in a store canya?? Do more!

Cretedog Great design for your stand/set up. Nice of you to show the innards of your stand!! Tim

Prayers up from Vegas ... Tim

"Do not try to teach a pig to sing. You will waste your time and aggravate the pig" :P

All the dogs and cats I have had as an adult were cremated when they died. The last two dogs died within a month of each other (one was 17 and the other 13 years old)about two years ago. All of them (the cats too) are in beautiful oak boxes that set amoungst my favorite books. Never thought about puttin' them into urns. Cool. Pets, dogs especially, never ask for much, but will take all you can give'm. Never worry about how some one else responds to the way you memorialize the love/loyalty they shared with you.

Thanks Thomas

Been a while since I did any metal hunting - found several items in a field today; what looks like trencher teeth, t-shaped bolts, bucket tooth and some other goodies. Does anyone have any info about the composition of trencher tooth??? Are the points carbide? Any chance they can be converted to hardy tools?? Not a bad days work. As you can see in one of the photos what looks like trencher teeth shows that two are worn at the collar so that they are oval while one looks mostly unused although rusty.

IMHO it resembles a military bayonet - you can go to this link to see most country's styles of bayonets. Great find at any rate - http://www.arms2armor.com/Bayonets/bayonets.htm

Prayers up from Vegas . . .

No, no, go here!!

Hi All, My wife Harriet is home now. Doc says that there is no procedure or electric equipment that will solve the problem - 70% of heart is dead. Instructions to her were to go home and live like a princess. She could last one day or five years, just depends. So she is at home and taking her meds and resting. It is a miracle that she made it through this - we know that your prayers and good thoughts helped - more than many of you may know. Many of us fight health issues or live with those who do. I am proud to know all of you and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support!! God Bless you all Tim McCoy

Thanks for the prayers and good wishes from all of you and a special thanks to BIGGUNDOCTOR for his posting - my wife Harriet has had diabetes 35 years now and has all the challenges that go with that, previous heart attacks, stroke, seizures and so on. Too many complications for most procedures - even died at the doctors office several years ago and he and I had to do CPR until ambulance arrived - she made it through that one. She has never complained about her lot in life. Last Thursday nite she had a really tough time and asked to have an ambulance take her in Friday morning ... EKG says she had a heart attack on Thursday. She's been in hospital since then while they got her stabilized. She is scheduled for angiogram and maybe a stint installation if there is enough to work with this next Monday. My wife has been my "striker" for a lot of years , not in the steel forge, but in the more important stuff called life. She couldn't swing a real hammer if she had to, but she is always on the other side of the anvil in spirit if not in fact. For those of you that have long term relationships you know what I mean. We remain hopeful that God will grant us just a little more time ... and a few more swings! Again, thanks for your good thoughts and prayers - we know that they help! Tim McCoy

. . . spearpoint .. . :rolleyes:

Thank you! The body of information you have collected through your own work and the supporting work of your filmographers is wonderful. Certainly makes one appreciate what it means to be able to buy ready made steel and how precious remaining pieces of steel from the past are. Also it was great to get little more info about the "truth" of Damascus. How many of us would heat and forge a single piece 50+ times to get a usable billet?? And how hard was it to wait for the next caravan for billets to work? I wonder. I enjoyed your videos a great deal ... now, out to the fire and the anvil! Tim