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Frosty get better very soon, this Flu crap is horrible this yr.  You have 50,000 IFI friends in 150 countries depending on you and your words of wisdom. 

On ‎2‎/‎9‎/‎2018 at 1:36 PM, horse said:

I use the team for parades, family trots down the road and haul some manure from time to time. No real justification for these critters is there?  

You keep the team to haul the manure they leave behind.  The Justification for keeping horses is the same as keeping friends they are always glad to see you, Just that the horses are 100% glad.

In my humble opinion Worth?  not  much.!  She should be lucky if you offered to haul them off for free.  I don't know if the blower turns but at auction the other stuff would be lucky to get an opening bid most days. 

I'm about to buy a band saw and have decided on HF $259 Horizontal  one.  It's that or nothing I know the stories of HF etc. but it's what I can afford.  I have yrs of experience using this type in shops but have to admit we also had verticals ones available to us.  I like the horizontal one for repeat cuts when building or working on a project and they are set and cut while you are doing other things and a lot easier on old shoulders and arms than a portable model. 

I  have a older Multi Delta vertical band saw that I bought at auctions a few yrs. ago that is suppose to be a wood or metal depending on blade that I will set up as well and see how it works out.  I've tried the cut off/chop type ones and not impressed except for making Hyd. Hoses which I no longer do so will sell it. 

Everyone has their own needs, desires and expectation of equipment hence that different designs, models and prices.  

Merry Christmas folks, enjoy the day.

23 hours ago, Michael Cochran said:

 

I don’t know what it is about this time of year but it seems like it happens ever year when it starts getting good and cold.

You are right about this time of yr. and my mother who was an RN for yrs. and would be 104 yrs old now always said "Mother Nature cleans house with the sick at the start of winter"  I think she had something there.  Plus it seems harder to deal with loses around the Holidays.   

Blessings on the surviving family members. 

any form that a lawyer can write can and will be broken by another lawyer in half the time it took to write it in the first place.  Too many of my friends and fellow business owners have come out on the wrong end of Liability Forms.  That is why there are so many lawyers "Practicing". 

4 hours ago, genesaika said:

Got me a forge, anvil, and work bench set up under a roof. I'd call that a shop haha.

• in about 1956 I started work at a livery stable where they restored horse drawn carriages and sleighs my job was cranking the blower for the boss a couple hrs a week and this was just a 8x8 roof nailed to an Elm tree and no sides, this was in Vermont and it always seemed to be in the winter.  A shop is a shop where ever it might be. 

Good find,   the rest will be envious about your hardy hole.  Use it in good health. 

I grew up in the family Auto & Truck repair shop all we had for 40 yrs were a bench top vises usually 2-3 at a time and they were used rough and darn hard esp. installing U-joints and replacing rear end bearings.  They lasted a number of years but we broke all of them in the end and as time went on the lasted less and less time.  I never saw a post vise till I was about 30!  I have a number of both now in my assorted shops.   

My Wife retired a yr and half ago from many many yrs of being Evening Nursing Supervisor in Long Term Care.  I can't remember all the  times she would come home and tell me one of her residents had passed.   The number of times they would pass minutes before her shift change also not countable in number but she would always stay for the of couple hrs it took to do everything that was needed to get it settled.  Many of the residents had become friends of hers and she was great with their families during the time of grief. 

I like Michael I never  understood how she could do this everyday with a smile  I tip my hat to these folks who can do it and thank the lord for them.  A far better person than I.  

They didn't talk about the "Reaper" but they had a big, long haired cat that would wonder the halls and if she landed on someone's bed and curled up they were about to go.  Other times she would sleep at the nurses station and watch people.  PS they had a number of cats over the years that did this job.   

Welcome Timberbull.  The people on here are for the most part the finest you will run across.  Your quest for an Anvil can be a short trip or a long haul.  Considering there were many 100,000s of them imported from England and 100,000s more made in the US they seem to have decided they got sick of being hit with a hammer so much they hide now in dark corners of barns, shops, basements and only move in the dark of night. 

As stated many times in IFI you have to ask everyone you see, or know, every relative, friend, neighbor, fellow workers, your Doc. Dentist, anyone and everyone if they know where there is an anvil.  If there is anyone within 100 sq. miles of you that doesn't know you are looking you are not working hard enough on it. 

Good luck, I also started my Blacksmith experiences cranking the blower for my first "Boss" at 10 yrs old, in the 50s.  Good time to have started. 

Nice collection of patterns, they look like a similar collection that resides in my barn and have for 40+ years.  I paid $5 for the entire pickup load and I was the only bidder that didn't plan on using it for kindling.  I've tried to give them to a couple museums but they have had no  interest.   The big sled runners appear to be from heavy farm or logging rigs, I've got them as well.

I have no idea what will become of mine esp. now that antiques have little or no value and a lot of Horse drawn vehicles being built are fiberglass not wooden.  I'd guess that it will  be easier and profitable selling the hub cap than the patterns.  The piece on the right of the 4th picture with the hole and hook on the ends may be from a sled brake chain?  

Big question is where are these located.      

For many years I shot competitively around the Northeast portion of the country.  I shot with some top long shooters in the US, I not being one of them.  I kept a small notebook of  excuses why my day's shooting wasn't up to par.  I would have an excuse and  x the book to see if I had used it recently like wrong ammo, not enough sweatshirts, sun wrong, barrel shot out etc,  When I came up with a new one in the book it went.  Eventually the word got around and others would show up to get an excuse out of the book,   Ran across the book when I moved last Dec. 

I've got nothing done in the shop recently and now I have my backhoe parked in there to get it out of the snow so I'm working on a new book, ",Pain in the butt to have to start the backhoe and move it out for a small job", "if I move it out it will bring snow back in the shop, "  first two entries.

Tried the "Big & Tall" catalog?  Don't have one handy at the moment to look at but on line.  I'm a 6' version of the Fire Hydrant  John mentioned above, and find stuff there as well. 

On ‎11‎/‎20‎/‎2017 at 11:30 AM, Dillion Brian Grant said:

Hello I recently aqquired some small pieces of tin roofing and I was wondering what I could use them for, I also would like knowing what the dangers are of using it if there are any thank you very much in advance

Best use is for Roofing, covering wood piles etc.  All my buildings any size has metal roofs (steel), generally Galvanized and in the last 20 yrs colored, right down to an outhouse at hunting camp.  Not designed to be heated. 

Welcome Cavpilot to NEBs, a real friendly group but spread over a 6 state region. 

There is a monthly meeting/get together at a Mus. in RI that is listed on NEB's website.  I have not been, too far for me for a days outing,  I have met some of the people and nice folks.

Keep an eye on postings here as I know there is an active blacksmith from Rutland Mass  who might give you some others in your area. 

See if you can find a class somewhere, great leg up and a better place to meet people of the same interest. 

This is a NICE idea but who is going to be doing the work for this idea, registering them,  keeping track of them, answering questions, enforcing the rules if they are enforceable without some governmental   agency (what country)  making the rules.?  Then the $$$ funding is coming from where, who is the bookkeeper?  and ending back at the enforceable question again. 

Certainly not fair to load this onto IFI folks. 

I use high pressure hoses on all applications regardless of return or not, better safe than sorry in my book.  It doesn't cost all that much different.

On ‎10‎/‎29‎/‎2017 at 9:03 PM, tdriack said:

but will go for the water can extinguishers first every time.

What about -20F?  I agree that they make good extinguishers esp. with foam additive but winter months?? 

our prayers are with him and your family, hard to have anyone sick to say nothing of it being  a 4 yr old makes it that much harder.  Hang in there. 

now that you have an address send him a dead skunk or something equal.   Good Job, I've taken to blowing a whistle into the phone for the clowns calling about my computer needing service.  How they do scream. 

On 10/4/2017 at 4:56 PM, Jasent said:

. You gotta be a little crazy to work with horses  

after 55 yrs working where I had to deal with humans daily I've found horses be more honest and enjoyable to be around than a lot of people these days.  Now retired I can choose what I do and when I'm going to do it.  A lot more fun

Welcome Dick to NEBS nice friendly  group of people. 

On ‎10‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 9:40 PM, JHCC said:

Is that how you tapped the birch tree, Frosty? Any New Englander will tell you that you have to tap the maple trees!

maybe he wants to make Birch Beer? 

I have no pictures of them as they were just every day wheels to live with and work in Vermont,  but I was fortunate to have grown up with Jeeps.  my dad's Aunt was a very early Jeep Dealer and he worked for her.  2 of the Canaday Bros. of Ohio, Willy's owners had summer homes in our town.  My first driving experience was a '46 cj we used as a service vehicle at my Dad's Dealership then came a '50 that we used to haul manure out from under a large livery stable then came a long line of many Jeeps all yrs 15-20 of them. until about '88.  When cleaning out my folks house a few yrs ago we found some early brochures for jeeps one showing all the accessories that was offered. 3 pt hitches, power take off, rear belt pulley and other farming equip. 

Most people don't know it but during WWII 100s of Jeeps were flown into combat in all major airborne operations inside combat gliders and landed behind enemy lines.  I know this as my Dad was one of these Pilots who flew these glider missions.

I Always have wanted another Jeep but with Fiat owning them now and I've heard they are looking to sell it, it isn't going to happen unless I find an original somewhere I can afford.  To me the Jeep is as American as Apple Pie.