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I'm not sure OSHA applies unless it's a working dog in the work place. ADA ( Ca. canine standards) is probably the applicable code section you are looking for.

I like that design. I think it shows the original spike better than the original does.

Note that there are 2 cylinder single stage compressors and 2 stage compressors. Both have 2 cylinders. Biggest give away is that two stage compressors have two different size cylinders where twin single stage compressors both cylinders are typically the same size. Single stages top out around 125 psi while 2 stage compressors top out at 175 or so. Usually when comparing apples to apples, twin single stage compressors will make more CFM @ 90 psi than a 2 stage one will since you have in effect 2 compressors pumping at the same time. The 2 stage compressor takes the air and just compresses it twice ( hence the higher max output), but it still is only drawing air with one cylinder.

I want to say the one I used at a buddy of mines was a Geka. He mostly used it for shearing pickets and punching rails for fence. The auto stop was nice. Pretty much feed the stock thru until it hits the stop and it shears the bar and dropped it in a bin. Then you just keep feeding the bar in again until it hits the stop again. He also used it for punching holes in plates, but I never did any of that.

Nothings wrong, that's like double what I get.

Very nice.

The bottom two look sort of like the tools used to caulk or chink wooden boat seams with oakum.

Antique shops often charge a premium on things, but not always. I used to have a really good "antique" shop I would visit that had some pretty good deals on occasion. Stuff that looked "old" often went for premium money, but many times you could find hidden bargains if you knew what you were looking at. A good place to look for old farm equipment is in the weeds and hedge rows along farm fields. Farmers used to simply park old stuff off the field and it would get over grown. A good place to look is farms that are being developed for new homes. I've found old farm gear buried in the weeds around many of them. Most times that stuff just gets buried or hauled off as trash/scrap. In some cases even years after the lots were all sold, I've found stuff they left as they left in a "barrier" of scrub between the development and what ever was next door. I'll bet even 10-15 years later I can still go back and probably find that same stuff rusting away where I saw it back then. Driving around I'm always looking at what might be sticking out of old hedge rows on farms. If you see something large like tractor, chances are there's other stuff hiding in there as well. Old farmers used to save everything as back then materials were expensive, and labor was cheap. You never knew when something might be useful to fix something else. I went and helped the family who runs the 4-H archery program help clean up their old farm after her father died. They pulled out trailer loads of all sorts of old "junk". The old equipment they offered mostly to the guys in the tractor club who could make use of it. I was there looking for any WI bars or rods I could lay claim to before it went to the scrap yard. I didn't find much they wanted to get rid of at the time, but I now have an "in" with them. Hopefully I'll manage to talk them out of some of the stuff they saved, or work a deal where I can get some in exchange for forging up some replacement hinges latches etc as they renovate some of the older buildings.

In a city or town, old buildings being demo'd. You can often find WI bars being used in old warehouse or factory buildings made up out of old timbers. In some cases they are the bolts used to hold timbers together, in others they may be tension bars for trusses. In some old brick homes you might find them as tension bars helping to hold the faces on. Those usually have those big iron stars or washers showing where the bolts pass thru the face. In the country, old farm equipment or fences, old industrial buildings like feed mills, old bridges or docks being retrofitted. On occasion I've spotted some that has been grabbed by scrap guys who drive around on trash day and pick up stuff. You just have to recognize what you are looking at.

If you are inferring someone here went and "poached" that forge because you listed where you are located, I seriously doubt it. Most members here are pretty straight about things like that. If it was listed on CL or some place else, letting it sit several days, it's common for someone to see it and inquire after it. I've seen stuff disappear off CL minutes after it's been posted. We have several members who are in the Az area from what I remember. Getting a contact with a good smith in your area can be priceless, and you can't hook up with people if we don't have some idea where you are located at.

Another "simple" fix is a bad power cord. I get really annoyed at one guy who occasionally works with me because he constantly wants to tie the cords on tools up in tight wraps. That causes the insulation on the cords to break when the cords are older and can cause the wires to cross and short. I've also seen guys lay down spinning grinders right on the cord and cut thru the insulation shorting the cords. In some cases the breaker will trip at the house, in others the cord arcs thru before the breaker trips. Either way often the cord is shot if this happens.

I'm thinking the issue has to do with the direction of the "grain" running. I'm wondering if instead of punching/drifting, if you did a wrap and weld, then opened up the "loop". That way the grain is always wraping the loop rather than being cut by it.

My 1st thought would be to get a decent sized genny and run my plasma cutter. Option #2 would probably be the 14" gas demo saw and abrasive blades. Of course this might be the opportunity to justify that exothermic torch I've always wanted but never had a real need for quite yet.

Build a "portable hole" to use as your hardy hole.

You might look into Peter's Valley in the Delaware Water Gap. That shouldn't be too far away. They run a number of classes in the summer. http://www.petersvalleyworkshops.bigcartel.com/category/adult-workshops-blacksmithing There are a number of other places in the north east that also offer classes, but the drive might be longer.

http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/23-year-old-trucker-destroys-historic-bridge-because-sh-1749930189?rev=1451328651253 Trucker Destroys Historic Bridge Because She Didn't Know How Many Pounds Six Tons Was The craziest part isn’t that 23-year-old Mary Lambright drove her 30-ton truck onto this tiny bridge in Paoli, Indiana built in 1880. It’s that she knew that the bridge’s weight limit was six tons. She just didn’t know how many pounds that was. Seriously, that’s what she told the police after the crash on Christmas, as they note in their report: Ms. Lambright was aware of the iron bridge stating she had driven on it several times in her personal vehicle and was also aware of the posted signage “no semis, weight limit of 6 tons”. When asked by Paoli Police why she continued through the bridge knowing the weight limit was only 6 tons she admitted to not knowing how many pounds that was. She was advised the weight of the vehicle at the time of the crash was close to 30 tons. Lambright, who got her CDL earlier this year, said she wasn’t comfortable backing up her Volvo truck, so she just chanced it on the bridge. That bet didn’t exactly pay out. BangShift reports that Lambright’s company will be the one that will be in a real heap of legal crap for this, though Lambright herself should expect a $135 fine for her citations of “reckless operation of Tractor-Trailer” (a class B misdemeanor), “disregarding a traffic control device” (a class B infraction), and “overweight on posted bridge.” The real mystery here is how she got her CDL. Lambright was uninjured. Based on the date I'm thinking that bridge might be wrought iron. Anyone in the area might want to keep an eye on things if they choose to demo rather than repair that bridge. I'd probably try and gloom as many of those tension bars as I could from the contractor, especially with the cost of scrap steel being in the basement right now. Talking to the Super on the job right away could net someone some really good stock if you get to them early on. Probably well worth paying what they'd get in scrap value for that to get the wrought iron tension bars.

Dirt will stick to cast iron as it rusts. I've seen that plenty of times with cast iron drain pipes. A good wire wheel on a grinder will clean it up fairly easily. I know the cast iron drain pipes buried in my yard are still solid after more than 70 years. The only place we had issues were where the trench dipped and the pipe settled and cracked allowing tree roots in. The pipe itself was still very solid when I cut it with the abrasive saw to do the patch. The bottom being black is probably a good sign. That tells me you aren't getting any water leaking due to rust thru in the cast base. How thick that base is it can be hard to say. My guess is because it's black, you simply won't be able to stick the screw driver thru by hand. So it should be reasonably solid if this is the case. As far as the pots, at least 20 years. Thats as long as I knew they were used as pots.

Ash dump is probably the "drain". I've seen plenty of old iron feed troughs used as planters with no major issues, same with iron kettles.

Cast takes a fair amount to rust thru, but I've seen it happen. Look at the bottom of the forge from underneath. Poke at it with a screw driver. That will tell you something about it's condition. Assuming the water can drain from the pan, it's probably in pretty good shape. If it can't drain well, it's hard to say without looking at it. I'd be all over that forge myself, especially if the blower is all there. Even if it's just the pan, I'd be willing to bet it's usable and I'd take a shot at it sight unseen if the price is right.

I got the package with the nippers, but I won't have time to mess with them until I get back after Sunday. We'll see how busy I am next week and go from there.

Wine racks and cork screws. Horse shoe "art" if you have a lot of horse people around. They are always interested in buying things made from new or old shoes, Tack racks, horse shoe hearts, bottle openers, hoof picks ... The good old fashioned "S" hook. A good warm up exercise that can be done in an endless variety of variations. I often find them useful also for hanging up other items in the booth to get them up off the table and in the line of sight of others at a distance. I'll often sell the hooks if not the item they are displaying. Repurposed Railroad spikes, especially of interest to those who love trains.

Well we've always been told Alaska is cold. Whats wrong with it being 25 deg below the point where all molecular motion stops? Hey fuel costs should be dirt cheap if that's the case. You can just go out with a bucket and collect all the solid hydrogen and oxygen you want to fuel your forge.

A lot of these book smart archaeologists think every single wreck or old building site is of historical importance and must be saved in tact until they have a chance to use public funds to examine it themselves. They have managed to convince enough politicians and career bureaucrats that stuff like this is critical to preserve our 'heritage". These politicians and bureaucrats go along happily as it ensures their jobs. I've seen it in diving where they have made it almost impossible to recover stuff from many places as sport divers or even licensed salvage divers. It doesn't matter that much of this stuff in salt water will not survive the destructive elements of the ocean, or that there is no way they will ever get enough funding to excavate even the important sites, let alone the common ones. You'd think the way they talk, that they'd be out there trying to protect every car wreck on the highway so 100 years from now they can come along and examine how we lived today. That's pretty much what they are doing with old stuff. The old stuff was trash and discarded as not worth salvaging even at a time when labor was cheap and materials were expensive. At sea they won't have to worry about modern wrecks. Legislation passed by environmental groups means that you pretty much have to completely remove most wrecks in salvageable waters no matter what the cost today.

I like the trees. I just wish I had time to make some before Christmas for people. I saved those picts for next years ideas.

They'll be ones in every generation. Kid in my neighborhood in High school ended up lit up pretty good in a stunt dealing with matches and gasoline.