Charles R. Stevens

For what they were designed for they are nice forges. 

Ye ol post  of knowledge...

As it looks to be made of 4x4’s and 2x4”’s we can assume the top is 10” square, the hight depends on your anvil, hight and style. As we want out anvil at first knuckle hight for sledge work, fist hight for general work and rist high for delicate work. Nite bending ones knees more or less can make a difference their. 

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So what did you learn? We often learn more from our failures than our successes 

As a dad and granddad of girls, I have a soft spot for the young ladies. 

In no way was that a gig, I figured you were working to a price point. 

Nice, if primitive for your usual high standards. 

Gerald is good peaple.

You know "she" is just going to try and show you up...

or is that your nefarius plan?

being a Ferrier  is certainly interesting, part vet, part mechanic. The trith is we have bread them for everything but sound feet. Big butts, skinny butts, long necjs, short necks, even collor, but not sound feet. The  we ask them to do things that nature, in her wildest imaginings didn't build them for. Ad to this the fact that we can do more harm than good. Owners and trainers are  as guilty as poor work on our part, they think they have some magic formula to make them go father, faster or prettier. 

First order of buisness is to get the foot trimed so that the coffin bone is orented to the ground like god intended, dont leave the toe long or the heals unnatuLy high because of some illconcived notion of what is ideal, shoe the horse standing befor you. From their, we can asses and see if we can help the horse or is it simply best to get out if his way. 

you learn somthing new, and face chalages every day. 

So now you have to carve 3 more, and rooks, bisups, pawns, and the kings and queans... 

Might need a rather large board...

looks good. One peice of advice, if you are softhearted, love kids, dogs and horses, dont become a Ferrier. You will end up broke and heart broken or well paid but youre soul will die. Why do you think so many hear have transitioned over to blacksmithing.

Sorry, we have ADD...

but rabit is good stuff! Easer to clean than chicken!

Sad to say Ive milked goats, cows and horses. Saved a foal, when the vets milker bellied up, his wife had the nearve to charge me for milking my mare and me bottle feeding the foal. That went over real well. 

Pine and oak have been used as shingles as well, but i don't imagine pine holds up well, i think Birch bark and sod are gods gifts to roffing in the subartic climes...

Not screwed on , just bet over with or without a washer

If you heat the tails and drive the handles on, the ligum "melts" and acts as glue. Not hot enug to scorch but hotter than boiling water.

for lage files get your handles from a farrier supply, they are threaded and screw on to the rat tail, smaller ones realy like golf balls.