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While looking in my collection of pictures on this computer I ran across this picture of an anvil I saw at a Hammer in at a RR museum in Mass a few yrs. ago I know this will raise the dander of many here.

That is why I'm from SOUTH WOODSTOCK!!

OK now what is wrong with ODD? Odd is fun keep them guessing. JHCC would that be Londonderry VT by chance?

OK, now I get it, not educated in the modern abbreviations Thanks for the lesson Thomas. Bad day when one doesn't learn something.

OK what is Lmao?

I can see you do not aspire to greatness being an elected official. Budget that is like a speed limit posted but not followed by 95% of the people.

As I say I'd rather have Time as a Relative than most of the ones I do have Great work "Blades" very nice even my wife got a laugh out of it.

Thomas My biggest problem with the move is no where near enough space for my large library, 6 full bookcases now still with about 16-18 tote of unpacked books and same with art work I've collected over the years. We do have a full basement which will have an office/boys lounge/gun room that will have 2 more bookcases but my best books will not go do there. There is also a workshop going in there for winter work it has radiant heat in the concrete floor as well as the upstairs floors. At -25F I'm "snug as a bug" esp. since we don't HAVE to go out in it anymore one nice part of retirement. Pick the days and show up at the Post Office a couple times a week 2 miles away rub shoulders with the working stiffs in the little diner out back of the country store, get the rumors and leave messages for people you wish to see esp. my son who's answering machine filled up with messages 4 months ago and he never listens to them, has no cell phone (they don't work in our valley). Did just put my 6' snowblower on my 2150 4x4 JD tractor today, should say my son showed up at noon time (I had left a message for him this morning at the diner) and did most of the installing, I drove the JD and handed him the tools and did the adjusting. 6' bucket on the frt. and blower on the back we can handle just about anything mother nature has in store for us, oh yah heated cab as well. Hope to be somewhere warm by Feb. for a spell. Life is grand beats what is coming next!

Not Detested but please leave money lots of it. Picture of farm is nice but will see if I can find a winter shot of it, as my uncle said VT 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad sledding! I understand the stuff not unpacked and fume every time I pick up a box or tote what got packed BUT it is mostly my wife's stuff from 45 yr. on that farm and she knows best. she didn't say much on the amount of tools and steel that I hauled up here. Interesting thing is we now are living across the road from the farm her family ran a girls summer riding camp on and we first met in 1963! Full circle. Keeping close watch on what is going in to blacksmith shop but the big garage/shop is catching it. Keep your wife out of Woodstock at all costs real pretty and make believe to the limit Picture is the same Hill Side as the fall picture but in Feb. watch for Budweiser Christmas Commercials and you many see the horses crossing this bridge in front of our farm same one it is on you tube as well many of their x-mass ones were filmed here for a number of yrs. Can't find other pictures.

Now after all this work of building fires and burning stuff off, hammer the daylights out of it, grinding on it then straightening it just to make a punch how about buying a new piece of steel you know what it is and save your time, lungs, eyes etc. and maybe be able to see your kids grow into middle school at least. Sometimes Free is very expensive. Just my 2 cents worth. I was in auto parts the last 13 yrs of working covering most brands and I don't remember powder coated coil springs and as someone said I doubt that the coating would take the flex a coil spring gets everyday.

Stowe road wise about 1 1/4hrs north west of us. Tons of tourists? Did you come up I-91 to I89N? If so when you went by Exit 1 on I-89 you were about 15 miles from us. (we get off I-91 at Exit 8 and come up from the south) After this Fri we should be there full time, back in CT to pickup a couple more loads house is 99% cleaned out now and the Vermont place is about 225% full! You have my number but don't use the cell as it doesn't work in our valley.. Yes the material is Native White Pine planed one side tongue and groove. This is the third out building this fellow has done for us, fast and very reasonable and always charges less than his estimate. They set the poles and then went hunting for 2 weeks and a day and half it was all up. They own the "Jenny Farm" that is always on Vermont Calendars and his uncle and now him and a brother have been building pole barns for 40 yrs in our area.

Frosty I didn't notice that the Farm Picture was Foliage Time I'm so use to seeing it but you are correct it is nice to see. I remember when I came home from the Army and it was foliage time a very special memory most of it seeing the Army base in my rear view mirror but this part of Vermont has been part of my family for 4 generations. I knew adding it to the garage wasn't a great idea but my wife didn't want it out front until her friend started talking Fire. I was once a Vol. Fire Chief and knew the dangers but "wives know best". You are right about the chimney I've had a few false starts here with what the forge would be first it was going to be a brick traditional style and my son was going to build it as he was a mason at one time but haying and logging and a life got in the way, then I had a champion cast forge I've had for 35 yrs and tried to get a shield & chimney built for it and after waiting for months I discovered the guy had died that was going to make it, then another big heavy forge showed up in my shop from a friend and I now have found a guy to make me a chimney set up and hope to get the guy who built the shop to come back in the spring and put the chimney through the roof. Also have to rebuild the bottom of the forge as the steel is burned through it was run on gas before in a large machine shop. Most of the problem I was only home for a few days a month as I worked out of state for many yrs. and getting another farm ready to sell. As I told Stash there is a light at the end of the tunnel I think mine is about to blossom forth and hope it isn't the train again. I've been using the gas forge for the little time I've had to work in the shop. I have everything on wheels so I roll it to the sliding doors and one anvil is on wheels as well so it works somewhat for small repair work or small stuff.

original plan was to ad the blacksmith shop on the back of the 4 vehicle garage/workshop but a friends wife convinced mine that that would be a fire hazard so I said I would build it separate across from the garage where I really wanted it when we built. The garage was built large enough to get the tractor in with 5' snowblower and still get 2 vehicles under cover out of the weather but that isn't happening this yr with all the "valuables" stored in there from the move. Big barn is still very much like when the cows, horses and oxen left in about 1950 so plans are to make it a private museum as I have a large collection of old farming and logging equipment I'd like to display. The hay lift system is still in place and all roped up for use hope to give it a test hop this summer sometime. Used one similar in a livery stable when I was a kid. There are no cars stored in there as I hate cars. Always have.

Lou I will look for a couple they are mostly just the outside at the moment, the inside at the moment looks about like the back of Stash's truck. When stuff arrives from CT anything that doesn't seem to fit somewhere else shows up in the shop. It now has 3 coal forges of varying sizes plus a gas forge 3 steel work benches welders and anvils & tools and a 4 wheeler and a pile of junk residing there at the moment. Hope to be there full lime after the 2nd (will believe that when I see it.) Will sort that stuff out soon I hope. If you Run short of horse shoes I've got plenty just a bit of a longer trip to pick them up. Stash nice looking shop there enjoy it good luck with the move there is light at the end of the tunnel sometimes not a train! pic 1 is the graded and Posts in. pic 2 filling it with gravel that washed into my yard from Hurricwhole farmane Irene about 60 yds. of it Pic 4 after a friend came up from CT t spray stain it for me 16' x 20' 8' door pic 3 after the floor was poured pic 5 the whole farm. everything but the big barn we have built since 2003. Getting ready for retirement which is NOW. Best I have at the moment

we were the 2n d oldest SAAB dealer in the country when GM bought them and kicked out all small time dealers, didn't worry about being caught as the VT Attorney General was a customer and when he was assist US attorney general in Washington he still had them. Nice to be protected. A life time ago glad to be shed of the auto business.

Stash: I love the rocks, I use to hunt in an area known as "Granite Ledge" in Vermont where they cut a lot of thee stones out of faces of ledges and haul them out by ox team in the winter. We would find some they never came for(about 100yrs. later) buried in the leaves and mud and then find the ledges they came from very interesting. Spent more time hunting them than game but never could have dragged them out! I know the "Moving Experience" you are in at the moment we are finishing up a 3 yrs move 200 miles in 9 days the important stuff have been moved over this time the Blacksmith shop, equipment shop, woodworking shop and general fix it shop are done, down to the less important stuff like my wife's 40 yr of goodies. I was doing the same with a loader at both ends and pallets are great esp. with a pallet jack at hand. But my son showed up 2 weekends ago and picked up my 2 tractors at the shipping end so every thing went to hand labor there. Movers coming Mon. for the heavy stuff that has to go into the new place furniture and beds. Good luck on your move your old shop certainly looked like it had "character" time now to do the same to a new one.

Yup, but in our area where there were a zillion Saabs everyone was use to them & the oil in '67 they came out with a mixer tank that injected the oil into the fuel stream and then gas attendants went nuts and refused to put gas in without an qt of oil. I had to show one guy the tank and the owners manual before he would allow even me to put gas in. We were dealers for 33 yrs.

great JHCC, except I was driving a SAAB turbo at the time, a real SOOB Story It became. Much would have preferred the Trotters and Pacers from the home farm a lot more fun to race. one of the first thing a Vermont kid learns as well. JHCC I just spent 6 days in NoTown had a blast with my son and best friend.

I'm sure you are right but when I moved into a new shop they came along so must be attached to the tools, best thing to do is give me all your tools and make new ones and I will deal with the Gremlins. Smile! I can't write limericks but did drive at Limerock once (that is a race track in NW CT for those from out of town) does that count.

it will also be the large half as well and keeps on costing.

Now is this hammer designed to beat the gluten out of the food? I use to have a metric adjustable wrench that did in fact say Metric on the side.

we noted a message at a church last night gluten-free communion wafers. We were there for a Sauerkraut Sup but didn't see any note on the menu of any gluten-free items being served. Fine with me don't buy into any fad.

These are some Pics I took at a Blacksmith event at a RR Museum in Palmer Mass. 5-6 yrs ago that will give you an idea of what others there were using. Everyone seemed to have their own idea and design and they worked for them. Not sure if this is what you were asking or not. The last picture doesn't show the large opening that was in the front to work in.

very nice job!

If they don't let you test it walk away, it's like buying a used car/truck no test drive no sale. It appears you are experienced in buying Junk ones from HF so it's time to go uptown on a decent anvil and they aren't cheap. Good Luck. Pawn Shop, first time I have heard that one, can about picture someone pushing an anvil in a wheelbarrow through the door.