David Kailey

ere is a link or file is attached to a tool holder i came up with, It is simple to make and works great. Let me know if you have any positive comments to improve it. Tool Holder kailey.doc

i wear the 14mil "thicksters" and i keep baby powder in the shop so i can use them untill they tear. I had on pair last me 4 days!!!!

i moved from So Cal to Montana and entered Jr High, I wore cargo pants and surf shirts, road a skateboard or a freestyle bmx bike. they all wore wranglers and road horses. I combed my hair they all had cowboy hat hair. I got beat up everyday but during the summer I started to build my own teepee and killing game and tanning the hides and making my own bows and arrows. I put on 25 lbs and became very able to handle logs, deer, cows, pigs, a bow, knife or gun. I wanted to live out in the forest so i did. I froze at night cooked in the heat of the day and had a ton of chores. when i showed up to the 8th grade one of the kids that picked on me looked at me and said, xxxx xxxx!!!! and took off running lol. I took some revenge but i realized that i was and all around good guy and one tough kid because i new i could live in the wilds and no one can take that from me! So figure out who you are or want to be, dont wast time with fighting and loosers, dedicate yourself to your craft and let find contentment in knowing you!!! Some people spend there whole life trying to figure that out, if you know it at a young age you will be way ahead of the game.

hot chisel on the cornor of the spike at a 45 degree angle. some have a center line down the length of the spike.

hot chisel on the cornor of the spike at a 45 degree angle. some have a center line down the length of the spike.

Here are a few RR spikes that i made with diffrent handles and my second knife

I just bought a papa anvil last night. Beat metal on it until the neigbor came over at 10pm and asked me if i would stop!!!! I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't own the cutter, i had a fab shop cut them out if you would like a top plate i could find out the shipping and i sell you one for my cutting cost and shipping. My cost is around $50.00 to have them cut out of 1/2" plate.

he's got two women, his father in-law, and a lazy apprentice working in his Smitty!!!! his whole world is up side down, sadly the only thing right side up is the anvil!!!! lol

Phil, This is my stand I built for my new 242-lbs Papa Rino Anvil "http://www.incandescent-iron.com/rhan.html" I have seen a lot of stands made of metal and people would always take flat 1/2" Plate and welt loops and flat 1/2" X 3/16" Stock on edge to hold tongs, hammers and hardie hole tools, this works but a lot of stands have loops missing cause they fell off or got tore of threw use or a bad weld. So I figured I wanted to make a stand that one guy could lift 50-70bls, had a large shelf, adjustable feet, would only have 10-12 pieces to weld and would not have missing loops after using the stand for a year or two. I also wanted to be able to sell the stand or the top plate or make different configurations. So I drafted up a top plate and had 15 of the plasma cut at a shop. A guy can take the top plate and weld up any configuration he wants to; 3-4 legs, shelf or no shelf…… whatever suits him Below is my preference a wide footed stand with a large shelf. I like to put a chunk off conveyor bet or hard rubber mat under my anvil, I also fill the legs with spray foam.