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Billy Bones, thanks much ,it seems to work for me Smokey

i have been following this group for many years,all of a sudden, when i click on something, it comes up on the first page ever written on that subject. what do i need to do to have it come up to the current page?

when i was in buisness, i did many houses in telluride c.o. all had at least one fireplace and some as many as 9. all the doors were on hinges. this is a great look using the door rollers. i think back on a few homes that this would have been a great look for those doors. great work and keep going. Smokey

no grease on the screw. take a piece of lite leather about as long as you would be opening the jaws, and wide enough to make a tube about 1and 1/2 times the diameter of the screw. wrap it around the screw and sew it with real strong doubled thread. when you close the jaws on the work, the leather is flexable enough to slide back and when you open the jaws it will slde back to its lenght. lite oil on the inside of the tube helps, very small amount. leather will last years.

silver city new mexico at the propane supplier, its 3.49 a gallon plus the sales tax of 8.75 percent.

Hi,to all the vets. U.S. Navy 1960 thru 1964 on the Northhampton, command/communications crusier also ship was Com 2nd Fleet . spent a lot of time going in circles in the Atlantic ocean. Smokey

to protect the screw after you clean and lube it, take a piece of thin flexable leather and wrap around the screw when you have the vise opened a bit. jaws opened about 3 to 4 inches or so. sew the edges together so the leather tube is very loose around the screw so it will flex when to close the jaws. mine on my vise is about twenty years old and still keeps the scale and crud off the screw. Smokey

as commisaryman third class E-4, would be in charge of late night working party when out to sea. in our stores were cans pf stableized milk, crew would not drink the white milk only the chocolate if it was very cold.would hold late night flotation tests on the cases of white milk when far out to sea.

George N.M. saw your post about carrying a Randall knife. thats a name that i havent heard in many many years. bought my Randall in 1962 when i was in the Navy, still have it and its butchered many a deer and a few elk. i wonder if there is any of the Randall clan still making those. i have never found any other knife that can stand up to a Randall. Smokey.

Iron Dragon anvil is strikeing for Master smith Francis Whitiker.

l live in central oregon where the soil is mostly rocks and clay. we have six recycled bath tubs for raised beds. drill a few holes in the bottom for drains , a small layer of rocks, then some weedstop cloth so the dirt doesnt move down. then soil and compost and plants. one has raspberries, one has strawberries. and veggies in the rest. tubs are all fiberglass so there is no rust problem. keeps the small rodents and critters out of them. and there is no real bending over to have to deal with. Smokey

went to Skunk Hollow Forge school of blacksmithing in 1976 and the graduation from thr class , you got to shoot two 100 lb. anvils. one upside down as the base , both had had a depression in the base, so filled the base with black powder ( maybe a third of a pound or so ? ) a ring of clay around it and set the other base down on top with a long length of cannon fuse to set it off, and to get the xxxx out of the way. the school was down in an old creek bed with a high plateau to the south, so someone could go up on the top and estimate the height of the shot. mine went up approx. 90 to 95 feet. i was told. the school was outside of Denver, Colo. near the town of Morrison ,Colo. Smokey.

U.S. Navy,60-64 Command Cruiser (uss Northampton) radioman then switched to commisaryman to get away from a real idiot of a division officer (boot ensign right out of the academy ) did my 4 years and bailed. 40 years as blacksmith till the recession shut my shop down, then retired and wanted to do something different. so now i drive a water tanker for the wildfires in Oregon. looks like its going to be a real bad season this year. already have worked three 14 day shifts and that usually starts in august. we started in june. lots of fun. Smokey

mr.anderson, i have a 402 lb Kholswa anvil that i have used since 1980 . built a sreel box out of 3/16th sheet, poured in sand and then a piece of 1/2 inch chip board. makes it stable and does not ring too bad,and the anvil does not tilt or move. Smokey.

George N.M. before i retired, i had a shop in s.w. colorado and did a lot of work for the trophy homes in Telluride and Aspen. if you built a home and wanted a wood burning fireplace, you had to apply for a permit and they were very limited and also very expensive. therefor i made a lot of doors for gas burning fireplaces which didnot need a permit. i dont remember the exact permit cost but in the early 2000,s they were up in the thousands of dollars. it seems like around 5 to 6 thousand. Smokey