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I watched on internet that good starting stock is 3/4 round for usual tongs, than saw its good to use 3/4 squere, but last time i saw its good to use flat bar 1/2 by 1 inch wide that way you have less work to do? Well i never tried to make V bit tongs out of flat bar. What's are expirences?

Thanks. Well I am a little bit messy I must admit but it's tight place so you can easily loose some tool misplace it and find it later on concert floor. That's why I don't like to buy small tools like drill bits

Here it is it's kinda hibrid shop, woodworking and metalworking. Well it's 10 feet by 10 feet. Maybe on spring I move to other room of building. it is old barn that grandfather build maybe 40-50 years ago.

I stick welded neighbour tractor sycthe yesterday, didnt wanted to mention it sooner, becasue i didnt know how it will perform , well it didnt get broken. I mean this part i welded

I always forge from reins. Well I can't hear that much of material forge get deep/shallow and it loose too much fuel in vein.

Cut in half

I forged one backwards that is with holes? Other part I wanted to draw reins out to be one half of Tonga but changed mind it will be two sides from one rod. What do you mean I don't get it? Oh now I see what you think we'll i will reforge it there is plenty ofd material

It is 3/4 20 mm round I found new home depot for material , I was haappz you have even 2 inch round in diameter. One thing I noticed round bar is easier to forge squish than squere and I will now use sometimes you need right materials for right work. This 3/4 look great for tongs (making boss and reins drawing out) And I can't forge too long like I wanted but good thing is I will cut this in half.

Forged some tongs i want to ask question can I split this lenght for decent Tongs, its 18 long inches 3/4 thick

Here is finished silicones tightened well not like in videos but it does give less ering

Thanks

Well I underestimated weight of stump and anvil together.

I had luck I thought I have enoug strength to flip this stump over with anvil, well half of the way I had and suddenly it has fallen to ground , heel of anvil came 5 nches away from my foot . Maybe I exaggerated but it was scary experience. If it was wider let, say wide like this stair of anvil I woul have hard time

Well I nailed all together but didn't took picture All over edges.

Nailing rubber under stump to protect concrete. I maybe used wrong rubber (cycle tire) smith that sold me anvil used different one Well stump and anvil are litle wobbly for now, maybe later weight will press rubber more so it can absorb strokes from anvil going to stump.

I feel guilty becaseu i own 5 bought tongs and 1 made by myself, well that one made look terible but i didnt had enaugh thickness of material to start with. Maybe i will experiment with some 1/2 inch 14 com squere for tongs like did in past, thicker would be better but this homedepot only cut you size you want and you pusht that in car.

Log dogs are usually used here in history for timber framing. If you have like L beam instead mortise and tenon you join it by two dog logs on opposite side Or on some corner joints or diagonally. Sometimes combined with mortise and tenon.

Look like some one was watching forum and copied my work about log dogs.

Well here it is. Stump is mounted, only anvil need to be tightened this way it hold only with chain for safety reason. Five miniature "timber clamp" forged basically two L on each side with spike on it, nailed in stumps. Firsr wooden strips were nailed on it so stumps don't go out of alignment when clamps are being nailed

IT does not have to be knife, but recentagle any like axe wedge etc.

I don't understand you frosty

About dancing part I find myself on old stump that anvil is one time om one place of shop on other time on different place like 4 5 inches moved, maybe I move it while walking. Well I thought to nail some 2by 4 along lengths and that to hold two stumps. It is really solid like this, if birch was not fresh and brittle I wanted to nail those two together using forged nails with two sharp sides , where you would place head I will taper that end too so they can go inside top stump. But o changed đind with wood connection.

How you guys deal with holding stocks knifeshaped it tend to twist like that. If you hit it on wider side. Like if you try to hit recentagle but not flat side, it twisted and flipped couple time on me hard to hold in tongs.

I tought stumps are not same, but turn out they are just i didnt aligned them well, they fit nicely becasue of one branch that is cut off and it is same stump that is cut in half. It will be better if it was one but i dont have, i have this. Will this cause some trouble like dancing around shop?