notownkid

Hope you are still doing OK with it and healing well.  Haven't been on here much to see your post Still on the walkabout or maybe should be drive about.

Any report on the Fall NEBS meeting if you were able make it?

guess I'll use the money to buy a couple powerball tickets,  Good Luck Lou

look up canedy drills on the net and I have found a # of nice pictures of rebuilt drills, when I had mine

Just reviewed some pictures from the New England Blacksmiths "spring "fling" in Fryeburg ME in June.  The Demonstrators made Ox Bow Pins and I note they were made from flat stock not round.  Now after racking what remains of a memory I do remember that some of ones we used 55 yrs. ago were flat as well.  the Demonstrators who live and work in "Ox Country" used a jig to form them but I failed to didn't get a picture for some reason.  I have a picture of a pin but I'm electronics challenged to get it from phone camera to computer where I'm traveling at the moment.  I know how important pics are. 

Grill Carts are great, free beside the roads most weeks, I've used one for a compound miter saw for a number of yrs, moves around the shop as needed.  Endless uses

16 hours ago, JHCC said:

Stay away from concrete for anything that's going to get hit, if at all possible. It will eventually crumble.

@notownkid has a portable hole that bolts to the top of the anvil; maybe we can get him to post a photo.

this is what I have, won it in a drawing at NEBs not sure if they still have? 

8 hours ago, Daswulf said:

 Just like dogs, cats all have their own distinct personality. Perhaps he found me but more so he was busted up and hungry and asking for a safe place to heal and live.  

Thanks for taking him in and not booting him to the curb like so many people would these days. 

And the good news is  the Forging Raffle should be Wide Open for a winner, I'll be somewhere between AR & MO. 

So Sorry to hear Thomas in our thoughts and prayers

12 hours ago, rthibeau said:

hey kid .... is "threading the ends" the same thing as tapping them ?? 

Threading, Tapping depends on the day, size of RR Spikes.  I have some Mine spikes that threading would be easier than tapping, Gorilla Glue maybe, or drill hole in drawer frt. and then drive sq. spike into hole with glue works great.       

1 hour ago, arkie said:

If one is just does not necessarily need the head on a RR spike, but needs the square stock, just cut it off and

Not that any blacksmith would but don't throw out the heads of the RR spikes.  When you cut them off leave about 1 1/2 " stem, drill and thread the ends as they make fabulous Draw Pull handles. 

Very nice!  I passed through ODV last week, too late in the day to visit next time.  Been saying that for 50+ yrs.  I go by on the Interstate about 20 times a yr.   

I think they are cast but the joints are rough?  I'm figuring the lay out table and the guy who had doesn't remember where he got it from. 

Well this piece of steel 31" x 39" got into my truck and followed me home from CT last week. It was given to me by an old neighbor last Oct. just before we moved.  We couldn't get it off the floor, no idea how heavy 300 lb we are est.  I finally got back there to get it after months of figuring how to load it.  I decided on a die lifting cart we had in my brother in laws old shop and a much younger fellow(step son) to do a little lifting.  we dropped it on and pumped it up exactly to the tailgate height, slid it in.  Decided to strap it after it slid on every corner and 200 miles was going to be a problem.       When we got it to my new shop I had the mate to the lift cart and my son to help it is standing against the back wall.   2" thick on the edges and 3/4" top plate with the welded braces underside and says Made in England.  3rd picture is my die lift I used handiest tool I have.

I plan on welding some legs with wheels on for a welding table, would like a larger one but shop doesn't have the room.    

16 hours ago, Lou L said:

I'm hopeful that I will be posting one of those trucks on this thread next summer

Lou:        just a suggestion on any new auto product, let others buy the first couple yrs any new models.  I set in on a number of launch meetings and most every time problems had just been discovered some worse than others but the decision to go had been made regardless and away they went and Hard working Americans plunked down their $ often receiving a "pig in a poke"..  Set and watch reviews come in.  Todays Products do not do justice to their name heritage.    

If I charge $1 for my work including labor I have to change Zoning, get a tax #, get some liability ins. keep books for when the fed or state revenue folks hear about me, (others at shows will turn you in you don't charge tax or display a tax # sometimes) plus who knows what.  Did all that in a former life no more.  If this is a hobby it will  have to  be a big one to generate the needed funds to make all the ends come together.  If brave ignore all of the above and hope for the best?

There are a lot of good vehicles being "Totaled" today just because of repair costs and nothing to do with drivability just cosmetics  .  In  my early days the frame or drive train had to be destroyed to total one, no more.  Sounds like you got a decent one Tom drive and enjoy, nice to have a new to you set of wheels. 

I sold 1,000s of new and used vehicles over 30+ yrs, only buy used today and mostly out of lease trucks. 

On ‎7‎/‎15‎/‎2017 at 4:36 PM, ThomasPowers said:

I just got a new car, 2004 Nissan Frontier, after the 1989 Nissan pickup wouldn't start---had some other issues as well and I figured the money would be better spent moving into this millenia . This one has a salvage title---which the MVD claims is driveable in New Mexico law; funny thing it sure looks and drives better than the several others I checked out with regular titles.  

13 hours ago, JHCC said:

If it happens, first week of August. I'll keep you posted. 

We should be around?  Leaving for the West mid Aug for a spell and a few days to CT coast the week before that.   

I've got two sets of these used one once but make nice conversation pieces when someone with little knowledge of metal work shows up. 

We carried bolt cutters the size Lou L shows on our fire truck before the days of Halogen Tools and we referred to them as our "Breaking and Interior Tool" instead of "Forcible Entry Tools".     

10 hours ago, JHCC said:

I may be in Vermont this summer with my van,

What I have Id'd at the moment to move along is tractor equipment, counter weight, post hole digger.  Blacksmith items take less room so not as much in the way and hoping my son will take some of it?  any idea when you might be around? 

7 hours ago, Glenn said:

When (and how) do you stop bringing things home

I'm afraid in my case "When my day is done" and I'm on my final trip to wherever.  Even then I may try to get the driver to stop if something of interest happens to be beside the road "FOR FREE". 

I'm now at a stage in life where I'm re-gifting items to people who can use it.  recently I was trying to get rid of a piece of old farm equip I didn't need again and a young fellow contacted me came to look at it and said it looked like one he remembered his grandfather having a while ago.  I knew that already as it had come from his grandfather when I met him so I gave it to him loaded it into his truck and sent it home with him, that was a good day. 

Way too much stuff out there needing a good home to stop looking now. 

one of the most useful tools on a farm large or small, plus machine shops, auto truck service on & on, never pass one up at a yard barn sale if cheap.  I have pointed, small flat, large flat and about any other design ever seen, 4' to 6'in length even one that went through a barn fire that bends like wet noddle, love watching people when they go to use it. 

I X my horsey neighbors and all their horse hides are still being used on the hoof. 

On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2017 at 1:04 PM, ThomasPowers said:

I picked up a bunch of toolbox stickers once that said "No Tools Loaned" with a skull and crossbones graphic.

Just noticed this today, I had a mechanic in my dealership who had a giant sign over his Giant Tool Box, NO! was all that was on it.

I also keep some cheap worn out tools and when people ask I say yes BUT they come with an operator who gets $150 an hr or any part there of.  Seldom ask  twice. 

only won 2 things there this time   You are all safe at the fall meet as I'll be traveling in the west then.  I could offer to buy the tickets for you!