notownkid

If he pulls the Glock your time is UP!

I agree John, we get 200 channels and 185 are garbage if not for English shows on PBS, and BBC America along with the RFD channel and a couple more we wouldn't watch anything now. Haven't been to an overpriced violence ridden Movie in yrs. either.

When in the Army working on Equip. we had all married mechanics tape their rings when working. I've have seen and heard of nasty results when a ring gets hung up on something. I don't wear any jewelry myself only a watch.

I'm confused! Gloves I have some with me all the time mostly from HF and have cut bandaid purchases by 90%. Problem is when I was looking for a pair this week I found 4 right gloves no lefts so I wore one backwards and my wife started giving me stranger looks than normal. Blacksmithing I don't generally wear them other than handling the steel in or out of the shop.

Everything in my shop is or will be shortly on wheels to max. usable space and make the shop multi functional so dirt wasn't an option and having spend 55 yrs on concrete it doesn't seem to bother me much. We also have a company that has been cutting off the top of a mtn near an airport for yrs. and they make a "road pack" of finely ground NH granite with fines and small rock which packs down hard with use or a compactor. Presume shipping costs might be steep depending on where you live.

Dave51B I didn't say where the stiches were being placed!

Getting My last stitches I was mooning and yelling so bad my wife suggested a rubber hammer instead of Novacaine they all thought it was funny and she is a nurse. I didn't. I've used super glue on a cut a few times. My X did research on that 40 yrs ago.

I been doing just that for years and still end up making scrap but really nice scrap, it will get better I'm told. I hope so soon, I'm 70 and Time is getting short here.

as far as the 1st amendment goes I think we need an addition to that amendment 1A requires what ever is said has to BE THE TRUTH 100% That should cut all political speeches and ads by 99%. That goes back to my suggestion of the 1A!

My family as well But let anyone in the family have car or small engine problems and see who they call. My brother has the same clean hands he was born with but called a couple days ago with a car problem when I started to tell him what to do he put his wife on the phone so she could X it out. When I said something her reply was "do you really want him to touch anything mechanical?" My daughter called a few yrs. ago one night and asked about changing frt. brake pads on a Tahoe when I asked where her husband was she told me "holding the light" and she was 7 months pregnant ! I got his lazy butt on the phone and tore him up one side and down the other, I did a tap dance last yr when she divorced him. I've gone to using dish detergent my wife has by the kitchen sink seems to work pretty good on grease and dirt just like the ads say. Hopefully she will not decide to run me and my cloths through the dishwasher some night! JHCC you ever considered not picking up a knife type object? Wow lucky your not sporting a Hook on that arm.

I have never had clean hands from the time I was 10, growing up on the farm, fixing equipment, working in my Dad's dealership, Driving oil trucks, Fixing heavy equip. in the army and then 25 more yrs. in the dealership and having my own farm and being a firefighter as well. I consider someone with clean white hands as lazy or a politician either way not someone I care to know. Strong handshake, calluses, and dirty hands in my friends, a few scares don't hurt either, except when you got them. Far too many clean hands people until you X out their pasts. PS: I do wash my hands regularly once or twice a months.

We had an old Firehouse which was just an oversize 2 car garage setting up on a 4' cement wall for height and when our Chief of many years passed away suddenly we started hearing movements in the attic when we were in there at night. Foot steps and squeaking floor boards, we would look and nothing there, not even marks in the dust???? After a while we decided that it was Howard (the old Chief) keeping an eye on us and we make a joke of it. If we happen to be holding a meeting with outside people they would look up and point and we would just say oh that's just Howard. When we built a new station next door and moved in, the old station was moved up the road for an office addition. The first evening meeting the officers of the department held there was walking and noise in the new attic we would check and nothing so we just figured Howard had moved with the rest of us. I've been gone for a number of years but was back in town recently and attended a pancake breakfast there and asked a couple of the firefighters that I knew then if Howard was still around, Oh Yes was the reply every time there is an evening meeting we hear him. The New Chief told me he never feels alone when working in his office at night. We laughed and said the Town has changed a lot but Howard is still on duty. This is no joke either.

We are selling a small CT farm and the appraiser from the bank is telling us and the buyer that a 30'x36' 2 story horse barn in nice shape is worth the same a 3 - 8'x16' sheds at Home Depot ($9,000) and 18 acres of land has little value. One has to wonder where these folks get their credentials. He spent a total of 14 min. (telling our realtor he hates doing anything outside the city) looking over the farm never looked at the land. I know this isn't Blacksmith value of work but it is a mind set today.

Next time I need another anvil I'm calling Mrs. Judson Y. They only live up the road a piece from me, Ok a fair piece but the same state. I keep my freezer in the garage so as to cut down power to keep stuff frozen good for 5-6 months a yr. Don't allow beer on the farm to many tools, equipment, and guns in use to take a chance. We use to have a big Shepard watch dog that would knock over a beer bottle or a drink glass and lap up the stuff off the floor he turned into a real Lush, tried too get him to AA but didn't seem to be interested. Now to the treatment of anvils when you put the money on the table it's yours and if someone wanted it used some other way they had the option of paying more for it. All and all it's a better use than a lot of seen on this sight. Now to Frosty and the tasty critters when is supper on the table? Would this be home raised, store bought, hunted, or roadkill?

This is very correct. Everything has to be right now this moment don't ask me to wait. This I find in 2 sets of grandkids 1500 miles apart and never see each other. They go nuts if not catered to instantly and completely. They know everything about everything and none are older than 10. I know one set has a part time father just like this, goes through jobs on a regular basis as he isn't moving up fast enough and the next one will have him Corp. Pres. in a yr. I see this in the so called Millennium groups as well. We were at a large party at my Step sons recently and he and his fellow age groups have done well for themselves are in charge of groups of workers in different fields today as they are in the + 40s age. they all said they have had nothing but trouble with recent hires of the Millennium folks. Most were saying it is a strike against them when they apply now. People use to ask about pay now most ask about advancement schedules regardless of work performance. If they start racking up absences and they are questioned they are saying it's their right to come to work or not. On a side note my former step daughter in law was saying yesterday she got a new App. for her phones which allows her to monitor her kids phone use, limit the time a day they can be on and caps a time when they shut down and allows her to stop anything but G rated viewing. Plus she can shut down the phone for what ever time she needs for punishment that sounds like a needed app on all parents phones.

I'm presuming you are right on the design. These are all new from the spring meet and they are designed to be taken apart and loaded in NEB's trailer and hauled to meets from Portland ME. I spoke to the fellow who I think made the design and sells the units from a shop in NH and he said he would build and sell me a hood for my forge I'm rebuilding. So as not to get into trouble here advertising things I will not list him here but give me a PM and I'll give it to you if you want. They really seemed to work real well while I was watching. The powers that be in NEBS I've found to be pretty sharp on these things. The design was the reason I took the close up of the hood.

Ask everyone you know or see at the gas station, all your relatives, co workers, at church, school, neighborhood, ask and ask. If you still can in your area stop at old farms ask if they have one they would like to sell. Attend area Blacksmith events and watch auction ads. Be prepared with $$ and a ball bearing.

Here are a few pictures from the Sept. 2016 Fall Meet. One of the new forges for the Green Coal Tent Bob Menard, Portland ME. NEB's V Pres demonstrating Dragons Leigh Murrell, Colrain Mass. NEBs Treasurer with a basic Blacksmith skills (the event was hosted by his family's shop Murrell Metalsmiths) Green Coal Tent sporting 4 of the 6 new forges, the Green Coal Tent was busy all the time, youths, ladies and folks just starting out in Blacksmithing. How Many Blacksmiths does it take to move a lathe from one PU Truck to another? about 16 from what I could tell, 4 doing the work and about a dozen of us doing the heavy looking on and giving unneeded nor wanted suggestions. myself I held the dog of one of the workers and watched closely, The dog and I did agree that the job was done well in the end but there was some concern as to it's outcome at times. Photos not great but haven't seen an any others. I was only able to attend Sat. so # of Pictures are limited. Good time was had by all. Watch for the Spring event.

Thomas & Kozzy have covered this well, a few yrs. ago I helped my brother in law clean out his shop and we scrapped 10 of these a couple about 3 times this size. I was offered any of them for my shop but passed will not do the job of a hammer. Great for what they were designed for.

hope it is well insured that could go astray. Very nice find and purchase, age ?? most likely qualifies for AARP!

Charles Someone get your goat?

I will do that but it will be after the first of the yr. as I have to finish our move north in the next few weeks and then a short hunting trip Will keep that in mind Lou L but guessing we will be on the way to Fl. when I get there but not sure at this point.

remember now that our forefather Blacksmiths made their living by Forging year around regardless of the weather or Temps. I'm sure in your section of the world there were blacksmiths 100-125 yrs ago and the temps were worse so we are told. Are we getting soft? I am!

As I told you told when you visited it was suppose to be twice the size but $$ got in the way but I figured something solid and built was worth a lot more than a wish setting on the to do list, esp at my age.

Welcome Lou still have a bag full here! and about 10 in VT, I never had to try it as when married to first wife we only had on neighbor in a mile and he cared less about any of us. Now I've learned to speak careful at all times around the little lady. Had a former HS classmate did just that and it worked at least getting him back in the house but 25+ years later on their 47th anniversary (three weeks ago) she told him she wanted a divorce now there is a girl who can hold a grudge.