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Welcome there are a few groups active in your area.

Google 3 phase converters. It is possible to wire one with capacities or run off a motor that is running but not powering a machine. You can only run 3/4 of the idle motor so a 10 HP will run a 7 1/2 HP but up to 50 HP by combining smaller motors. You also need to wrap a pull cord around the shaft to start the rotation.

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You could try a punch but drilling then file grind and or saw will be much cleaner
If you are filing not sawing drilling 2 larger holes for the top of the heart and one or more smaller for the middle bottom ect then clean up with a dremil or files

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First off think SAFETY for you and every one around you. cut a piece of the saw harden in oil dont temper and stick it in a vise with safety googles gloves ect TAP the part sticking out to see if it breaks off if not hit it progressivly harder till it does or bends. If it bends harden in water do same thing If it bennds in salt water it deffinately is soft. Dont use unknown used steel in a knife you plan to sell but if it is for your or giving as a gift you made only it might be something else until you can affort the extra cost of known steel.

Before Francis Whitaker passed he had an arc welder under the bench. Tom Latane had hours in a steel repousse piece when he tore thru ruining it till a friend tig welded it up and he hardly uses electricity. The anvils ring has had arc welfare featured on the cover. Personaly I am lazy and MIG weld.

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Anyone now what time zone the Mians are in and it it is 0001 hours or 2400 hours.
Just thinking about planning my last day of hoarding blacksmith tools.
The one with the most wins you know.

The local Walmart had lump charcoal for $5 something a bag
This early winter I converted 8 cord of 4 X 4s into charcoal using 4 55 gal barrels.
Coal and charcoal have similar BTUs per # so a pail of coal equals a barrel of charcoal.
Yes every heat you need to add a couple handfulls of charcoal that is the way it is.

Marshaltown trowel in IA used to use Nazel hammers to make there trowels.
I believe when they switched to more automation they had 3 3B hammers that Bob Bergman bought and 3 smaller hammers 1B and 2B which went to Minnesota.
None of this helps you making a trowel and it would be more cost effective to buy one but of course that would not be the point of it would it now.
Good luck on making one and lets see pictures when it is done.

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Glad your gandfather still had some tools to pass down to you

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Nice blade. Did he say why to remove the teeth other than it might stack easier? I don't remove any just cut into 6" or so pieces with grinding wheel, wire bundle together and arc weld onto a handle to make it easier to forge without tongs.

First of all what are they used for the joint between brick

I agree they are cast iron
WR tires were flat iron that went around a wooden wheel but here in MN the are ussually mild steel not WR
Square WR from an old brigde is $1 a # at SOFA tail gate area.
I think the WR from an old elevator in Superior WI is $8 a pound so the price depends on were you are and how bad you need it.

I have a hammer marked 25 but it is a straight pien. Hee in MN big post hammers are ussually cast iron round ones with a big handle.

Welcome. Sounds like you have a few on the list living close I live in MN a long way away

are you buying or selling that also makes a difference in price

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There was a trailer load of them at SOFA last year that did not sell I don't remember his asking prices

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