yesteryearforge

this could be providential because

most businesses dont plan to fail / they fail to plan when I worked for someone else I had one boss When I became self employed I now have a bunch of bosses, theyre just called customers now :lol:

Youre not in OZ anymore TOTO , this is kansas and

Whatever brass you use make sure that you keep it annealed while forging / you do this by doing the reverse of hardening steel heat it up and quench it to soften it as it will work harden from hammering

its thr predessor of the modern dial indicator

Cant be a blacksmith holding it the / The fingers still have fingerprints on them :wink:

hit it fair and square

Strine I would assume that a roo is easier to skin than a beaver or otter that we have over here, so heres my two cents worth. It doest take much of a knife to skin untill you get down around the head assuming that you are case skinning and not open skinning.This can be done with something as simple as a dexter pelting knife which cost only a few dollars and a not to sharp semi upswept bladed knife.Most of the skinning will be pulling the hide from the carcus and not much actual cutting involved untill you get to the head area where you will have to do some cutting / especially around the ears, eyes , nose and lips. You can do a reasonable job on most of the carcus with a knife made out of wood if you have to.It all depends what you want to get done / the amount of skinning that you will be doing and how cool you want to look. You can also skin a roo size animal with a boat winch or your truck / I guess you could say theres more than one way to skin a cat or roo.

Footy ??? Beware of the man carrying copper pennies,????

Blacksmithtec The pulleys are probally crowned pulleys / they just appear to be flat / the crown keeps the belt running in the center

Go to this site under tools then vises / there are a lot of examples of vise mounts

sometime you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you :?

This computer in general and this site in particular / plus having the whole world wide web at your fingertips makes the gathering of information and ideas so much easier and faster that you gain years of knowledge in milliseconds.

I use coal / Im not so sure that it takes any less time for nature to make oil or natural gas/propane than it does to make coal and Im pretty sure that my burning coal doesnt pollute the atsmophere any more than a lot of other things that I do / mainly garbage in the landfill / emissions from my vehicles / electricity / welding gasses etc. Besides I really like everything about coal. To me its like the smell of a campfire or a woodstove and its a comforting and familiar smell that instantly produces pleasant memorries. :)

Some of the real old silos have wrought iron support bands around them / most that I have seen are 3/4 or 1" round stock.

Tool are like life insurance / you can never have too much :lol:

Oh OK I must be dealing with imaginary heat

you can make your own pipe although I have not made any as small as 10 inches I have made pipe 16 inches. used 16 gauge sheet metal / curl one end around and pop rivet then curl other end around and pop rivet then pop rivet along the seam It is actually easier than it sounds but may help if you are bowlegged best of all it requires no special tooling other than a hand pop rivet tool and you can get sheet metal up to 12 feet long fairly easy. If this is a coal forge I doubt that the exaust stack would get hot enough to effect galvanized. Mine are painted steel and it doesnt get hot enogh to effect the paint but that is just my take on it / use your own judgement.

cotton clothing is great I think you are a lot better off if you go ahead and sweat as wet cotton clothing will help keep you cool / a lot of people try everything that they can think of to keep from sweating when they would be cooler if they sweated untill they were soaking wet. Loggers around here wear long sleeve denim shirts and when you see one they are wringing wet in temps like 97 degrees with 95 % humitity and dont seem to show any ill effects. personally I drink a whole lot of water / it just happens to have caffein , cream and sugar in it. Since I was about 20 years old I have consumed approx 20 to 30 cups of coffee a day and very rarely drink anything cold. I seem to take the heat better than most, whether this has anything to do with it I dont know. I have box fans in my shop that are thermally protected at 110 degrees and some days they just cut off unless I have another fan to blow on them to keep them under 110. I think Ill have a cup of coffee and think about this some more

Welcome Tinker Sparky -- I like that You probally just have a bad spot in the switch / It happens sometimes on welding machines on whatever you call the thing that sets the heat / maybe a reostat or something / I dont know the technical term as I am not a Sparky :lol:

I usually wear a welding glove on my tong hand / I generally use shorter length tongs or sometimes large vise grips and havent had a problem with slag or scale getting in the glove and they come off with a flick of the wrist when needed. But it all comes down to common sense , even my wife uses hot pads or oven mits when something is too hot to hold barehanded and I would hate to think she is smarter than me or at least I would never admit it to anybody but her :lol:

yes there are water hardening tool steels they generaly start with a W as in W1 just as oil hardening start with an O as in O1 O2 etc.

if you would like I can send you drawings for some forges like I make you can view them in the gallery section of this site. there are only two potential concerns / the drawings will be in the form of a DXF file and you need a pressbrake to form the forge and firepot as they are made of 3/8 plate but I guess you could cut the pieces and weld them together as an alternative

my wife came up with the name yesteryear forge because of my desire to not do anything the more modern way. I own a manufacturing business with the latest machine tools and equipment and I will admit to using them to make anvil stands , forges, tooling and such but in my forge I try my best to be as traditional as I can. A lot of smiths would like to have plasma cutters ,mig welders and such but I try to leave those at work and do things as they were done yesteryear as I truly believe that for me that is what attracts me to this addiction

not real sure of the weight but the size is 3 1/2 thick x 5 inches wide x 11 1/2 inches long