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rthibeau

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  1. all "this I need something"..........to be contrary (again).....I need to get rid of most what them guys want...... oh, yeah.......I'm in northwest lower Michigan and you gotta come here to get it.... :)
  2. wished I'd stayed and gotten that nuclear physics degree....maybe I could understand all this now...... :wacko:
  3. good to see you alive and still kicking Ted...............wuz gonna email you, but don't need to now... -_-
  4. I can't make that,it's too complicated.....see the guy down the road...... I can't make that,it's too big a project for my shop.....see the guy down the road...... I already made one of them, I don't do duplicates....see the guy down the road...... You can't afford me doing that.....see the guy down the road......
  5. Frosty, you'd have to fry doughnuts for awhile before you'd get that doughnut smell. You could always get used oil from an oriental food place and have the shop smell like a wok..... ^_^
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    whatzitt Pic

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    whatizitt and what use is it????
  7. take the coil springs off her car and make what you want....if she complains Then tell her "if only I went to the scrap yard".....YMMV.... :ph34r:
  8. I use a wire brush because them plastic ones don't last at all. oh.....misread the topic.............nevermind....
  9. "---why barns were traditionally painted red!" Thomas you are a never ending source of trivia...Thank You!! not to mean the information is trivial, but meaning a constant source of data, or.....ummmm.....oh,nevermind..... :)
  10. From the album: Hammers

    short piece of fence looking wood for hooks decoration
  11. those things are really not worth bothering with........but if you send them all to me I'll take care of them for you
  12. I switched from coal to coke and had a ton of L Brand coke shipped in....cost about $725 delivered on a pallet. Always an option if all else fails.
  13. I've used 1144 for various purposes and never had a problem....of course, I didn't know I couldn't or shouldn't....as always, YMMV....give it a go and then you'll know.
  14. where in Michigan, Lorid?? I'm in Traverse City
  15. seems to me for stock that small you coulda just bent it by hand cold......................just sayin'
  16. "...a good price..." someone once said that it takes money to blacksmith.... :) I built a press following Batson's book (mentioned above). It came out to about 20 ton and all new parts cost me about $1200 USD, I built the framework from stuff on hand. I thought it had plenty of power and speed was good to make hammers, etc.
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    Pond brace

    slick!!! and nicely done.
  18. hey....if it was made by a blacksmith........ya just never know.... :)
  19. methinks picket lines for horses were simply a rope tied to two trees and the horses tied to that rope. mayhaps a manual bear trap????
  20. if you need a sharp edge on an anvil....place a length of channel iron (the width of the anvil to fit) and have at it.....when done remove the channel and keep on keeping on
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