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Hey Stan, I realy do wish you the best...I have been off the site for a while and was unaware that you finally got fixed. I hope all is well and if ya need a buddy you know where to find one....good healing to you buddy!

PA would like to increase it population of 25s also...Oregon is a long way....

glad to hear it Jimmykeep on keep on buddy got a real thanksgiving ...how bout it

looks good Stewart...I got my Mouse hole up there right now....he is just gonna clean up the edges a little...good guy i may take up the PW i got from you and have him put some nice sdges on that one too....

i got most of my hair and its longer....muzzy since high school ...how come the muzzy aint mentioned in the poll "muzzy only".....never shaved it off....had beard when i was in a play in high school and grew a full beard for a year with out trimming or cutting it at all...when i shaved it my daughter asked me where it was...never grew one .... i shave every 3 days weather i need it or not.. being a smith makes me not want any facial hair ...knowing myself it wouldnt last long...i burn enuff skin let alone facial hair...

all the links are gone i cant see anyones anvil....

ok guys....your help paid off...i owe you all a beer! she came in 3rd overall but she was the only buis in pohilly that participated in her catagory so effectively she came in first in philly.....thannks so much for your patience and your votes...i dont normally get involved with this kinda stuf...but she is happy so thanks again!!!

I just got this email from my daughter PLLLeeeaassee, help me win!! http://ctvr.us/6keyspilates I know I have asked a few of you for help...but the last day is the 10th...if you already voted THX Vote again!! You can vote as often as you want. Me and her would realy appreciate the help in voting...even you guys and gals from other countrys ....it is way more important than you think so ...... I appreciate it

one day I gotta meet you...

Try this link http://www.abana.org...n/schools.shtml

Hope all gets better Steve...i will be thinking about you and your family...hang in there buddy!!

Its obvious ..look at the advancement of bellows...they went from blowin in a tube to crankin to variable speed motors... what came first a power hammer or a big helv hammer or oliver hammer or a rock...If you r a buisness guy it is imperative to stay up with the advancement...time is money...i watched a factory go from vertical boring machines to cnc ,,,the only complaint was it eliminated jobs so there was animosity but it had to be... Most hobbiests have a choice to pick a period to smith in,,,you find guys that love the press...the hammer has its distinctions tho..hammer marks are cool today but a real smith leaves no marks....but the places a lotta smiths worked were ugly dirty ruff places and they were on piece work bustin hump...not under a spreading chestnut tree...lol...there were and are artist smiths then as now ... i would bet the first smith ever was some sort of experimenter...and what did he make??? a nail? did he make a hammer? knife? boogie picker??

I have both...coal is cooler for the room but dirtier...propane blows that heat into tthe room..altho propane dries the air in the humidity i find it way more hotter in the room. However a btu is a btu doesnt matter what produces it its a btu. I have heard people tell me the heat doesnt stay in the metal as long as coal...cant be! NO chance. The only difference would be the scaling is more with propane than the gas...only difference. 1000 degrees is a thousand degrees no matter what makes it. The nature of a propane forge is why it makes the room hotter...it blows into the room...duh!! the coal is in a contoled pile so it may radiate a bit but it dont blow into the room...

First I am saying this because I am allowed to. I believe in freedom, I have never worked for a poor man, and i have been employed both by the union and also as management as a manufacturer. I was once a member of the steelworkers union. Waste of time. Unions may have at 1 time work for the good. These days they are parasites save a few. There are some unions that make sure you have decent good pay and keep you working safely. I do respect everyones posts. Most sound like what I believe. Humans are the root of all this balony. Greed, Averice and Vice. I could rant and rave...but I dont type as well as I would like and voicing my opinions doesnt help anyone. I am waiting for the day someone comes on my property and tells me burning coal is illegle...or burning propane is going to cost me x amount of dollars for my carbon usage...go and read some history of Andy Stern and seiu. It aint money no more its all about power. It aint just big buisness, consider our wonderfull new gov't. they are so buddy buddy with the unions like i have never seen. Scary days are ahead union or not.

I ran one of them with 4 60 hp heads for somem time....we made gear boxes for large commercial printing presses...that machine was huge and powerful and amazingly accurate...or was it the operater. those press frames were 3000# and you load them on the table and make em flat....

well if you can avoid the union and improve and operate the smithy that would be preservation....be my guest...if you have another way around the union great! seems to me they r the problem...

I will write the letter...no union is a good union...http://www.unionfacts.com/

you oughta weld a piece of ibeam on the bottom of the 1 tube...funny thing your set up looks alot like mine....my tube only comes up to about my knee..dint think i would ever have something that long to quench. the quench can flare up so i would wanna be able to kinda be away from it when you thrust your hot steel into it...also make a metal lid so you can cover it when you quench... there r diffeent quenches for different things...1 tube of oil is enuff..

What happens to attached pics in different topics...a good example is "Flint Striker" thread. References to pics that do not exist

I was at memphis for the Abana confrence and there was an unmanned booth from the florida blacksmith group....You guys have the coolest t-shirt...I would love to purchase one....

Best to Frosty and good will to mending....I will keep him in my thoughts...

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