Dogsoldat

Maybe look up coopering tools.  A scorp is use for the insides of barrels.  Post your location and there may be someone next door that could help you out. 

heres the first link I managed to pull up on scorps to help get you going in the right direction for looking up stuff

 https://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/MS-ISCORP/Scorp_by_Ray_Iles

Been interesting reading so far.  I seem to remember reading someplace the burner goes to the top because propane is heavier than air.  I could be totally out to lunch.    Though 2 burners blowing up from the bottom does sound like an interesting expiriment.

Try this again...   search around on IFI or youtube and Brian Brazeal and Techincus Joe have some very good videos on tong making.  After watching them a few time you'll get going forward that much quicker.  Good to see that you are trying things...  can't learn if you don't    I second raising your anvil somehow.  Working comfortably will make better more efficient work.

post never made it 

Much the same at work,  2 D-8 cats in various degrees of disassembly to make one that runs,  tranny and final drive work.  3 yard cleanups  4" of snow and 2 extra mechanics in working on stuff. trying to remember where which linkages go after 2 weeks...   and the extra parts here and there oh what a puzzle.

Played around with bick I've been working on.  Nearly have the upper part shaped where I want it. Have to get it done soon to make working on branches easier.  Then between tried 2 heat horse head like on the anvilfire page.  Way more than 2 heats for me to make a horse shaped thing.  Maybe tomorrow I'll try again, -15 deg C  not a whole lot of fun.  Once the anvil had a little heat in it tried a multi bar spear head. though welds just weren't sticking on the back half the way they were supposed to.  Front end welded up nice though. All the while I should have been working on a firewood rack for my shop...

Found it heres the link http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/38576-how-to-make-a-swage-block/#comment-394332

There was a guy that posted a video of the swage block he had made on IFI.  Torch or laser cut 1/2"plate stacked and welded together around the edges If I remember right. 

would the pigs be able to be broken, roasted and melted a again in a small bloomer furnace?

Trying a few things.  Craft Sale coming up way to soon and hoping to put a little tree on the table.  Have an idea for a little bonsai a tree with copper leaves.  We'll see how it goes... 

Was it bright out? maybe it ended up hotter than you thought, thin section will heat quicker than the rest of it.  Looks like you were off to a great start.  Might be able to save it if you grind it out and arc weld it up.  Then carry on.   Maybe someone else will have better ideas. 

How much powder does it take to get that range?  Use to have a page in my favourites that listed civil war cannon and what their powder charge and shell shape and weight and I think it even had ranges.  Most went with 1/2 to 1lb powder.  the Whitworth was just plain scary compared top everything else.

Now that is a sweet little find.  I'll take one from the nest litter 

I've been using clear coat from a  spray bomb on most things lately.  seals it and gives a nice glossy coat

Not sure whether it was on here or another place that had tiny roses made out of flattened heavy gauge copper wire and then coiled to make the flower.  may make for fairly simple accents on a picture frame.    I attached a picture of a horse shoe heart that I had made as a rose holder,  but would work well for a pen holder on her desk or counter at home or  work.  a leaf bottle opener key fob may be nice as well my wife stole one of my nicer ones and uses it regularily in the kitchen for her canning jars. Roses aren't all that hard though  break it down into lots of small steps and they just take a fair bit of time.

Back end of my brothers splitting maul looked like that.  Took the angle grinder to it and cleaned out any cracks and spots that looked like they would make cold shuts. Hardest part was holding onto it.  A good long heat and soak and it shaped easily enough.  may have helped that the handle was burnt out when the wood pile it was resting on burned up.  Just left it normalized from forging.  Rather it mushroom than chip on him.  As for hardening anyones guess but there are a few industrial hammer making videos on youtube that show their process.  One that sticks in my mind has two brine jets spraying on each of the hammer faces.  

Might be enough for the big bears up there.  But to open up a coal seam... 

Quick little bit of research will tell you how much a given dia weighs per inch/foot.  If I remember right a cubic inch of steel weighs .28 of a pound.  I'm pretty sure you can figure out the math

Have friends up in Clearwater,  may have to try and stop in if we ever get out that way.   Haven't been out to Fernie Forge yet either.  maybe one day.

Where abouts in BC are you?  I live Greenwood. 

Your quite right Charles.   Was a good day all told.   Couldn't find him last night or this morning but a bunch of does trickled out as it was getting light enough to see.  I'm sure he was there somewhere.  Worst part now is there are a few hunters on quads working around my spot something hard.  guess that's the way the cookie crumbles

Don't know whether to laugh or cry... Took my daughter Anna out hunting with me and saw two mulie does. Shut the truck off dug out the binos and started watching for a while. Kept looking around funny ranged them at 295 yards and kept on watching... worked my way closer from the truck and mr 4pt comes out stands where I can almost get him. Right about then my helper gets out to see why I'm taking so long... and their gone... start walking to maybe get around them some place and 15 blue grouse take off, 100yards later on a grassy ridge we find last years shed. sooo darn close...  Later on a doe and her twins crossed the road so we watched for a bit went further up the road.  Hiked up to the cut line in the old logging block, kept seeing a few sign here and there.  Up near the top I look over and there are 2 deer with their heads together.  Spike mulie and a 2 point sparring.  Anna thought it was really cool once she spotted them.  they kept at it for a bit till they realized we were there.  Couldn't run away fast enough.  Home again empty handed, but the youngest is quite the trooper.  Biggest buck I've so close to getting yet.

Fantastic work as always.  Truly wish I had a winning lotto ticket kicking around so I could buy a few of your blades.

Most excellent score!  couldn't ask for that little beauty to be in any better shape.

Stan,  that almost looks like the one I made fort he neighbour next door.  never did take a picture of it though.  3/8" sq with a loop to hang it from, long skinny taper and a hand that could be the same.