notownkid

If you look at the design of your shoulder you will see there are MANY things that will cause you the problems you have plus some you've never considered. Strongly suggest you see a Good Ortho Doc. now before additional damage is done. Best thing I ever did but it took 2 operations to repair problems. No idea how your medical system works in England.

I'd be happy to move them from snowy cold, windy New Hampshire west across the CT River to Vermont which has a much friendlier climate, forested Green Mountains instead of cold granite NH mountains. I'd give them a nice home, only bang on them occasionally.

I've an old Dart Board and in the shop and when a "To Do List" item comes in I add it to the board. When I get pressured to do something I throw a dart and start what ever I hit. So far I've missed the board completely 25 out of 25 times, no item hit no work needs to be done. As this is wearing a little thin my next idea is to add blank pieces of paper to the board and get better at throwing the darts.

Last I heard in our area maybe $.28 a lb. May get a big surprise once the plate is removed!

If it works and it should it isn't crude it's "New Design" Pat. Pending.

Glenn:
The first picture we use to use one (similar in design but different manufacture) as a Tapping machine, worked slick.

Last one I heard shoulder and chest so again depends on the region. second one is quite interesting.

Someone was darn hard on their anvils in N Carolina. Nice collection of half anvils!

We used a spray product "Break Away" in our repair shop in Vermont one of the rust capitals of the US. Been out of the business for 18 yrs and once in a while find it in a NAPA store if they will order it for you. Great Stuff. WD40 is nice but not really a good heavy penetrant but 1000s of other uses even killing Carpenter Bees, great for the first lub. after it comes free.

I heard of a fellow working on a Wood Turning Lathe who was found on the floor with a chisel driven into his leg, that cut the artery and he had died before he could call someone, only phone was on the floor above, before days of cell phones. Lathe was till running when they found him. I've never used one since!

Deepest Condolences' to Mr. Dempsey's family.

I suffered from shoulder and neck pain for 20 yrs. progressively getting worse each yr. One day while unloading my truck I had a warming flowing feeling down my arm and very little strength in it. After a hurried visit to Doc. wife thought it was a heart attack I ended up at an Ortho surgeon who discovered bone spires had cut through the bicep tendon on that side. Well an operation on both sides over the next 3 months and a number of months of rehab no more neck or shoulder pain. Both shoulders were found to have the spires. If there is pain it isn't always muscle related.

After living In log homes for 25+ yrs with latches I forget about round knobs till we go traveling. My first trip to Sweden years ago I liked the levers immediately but have no place for them now except on a couple of storm doors.

As before very nice and would love to see installed.

I've been assured all pieces are there, already noted the drive belt is missing, and have located pictures of what it suppose to look like operating. I grew up in my dad's auto shop where we were always receiving engines & transmissions in boxes all apart from those who could "fix anything".

Only problem is finding time and something to lift the dumb thing to work on.

I was given this Canedy Otto No. 16 Post Drill Press recently if I would use it in my new shop. It was removed from a woodworking shop of an old fellow I knew. It worked when it was taken apart to move it out. I also got a post vise from there as well. It was delivered on the pallet and according to an original ad it weighs 362 lbs without the electric motor.

Very Nice. 

From my days of buying Replacement Carriage Wheels from an Amish Shop in Penn.   "Too Late Smart and Too long Dead"

 

From Will Rogers, "You want a quick answer, The Answer is NO!" 

 

I will admit this has kept me out of more trouble than it's got me into.

If I'm understanding the descriptions correctly and Here we go again with locales and wording of the same thing.  Your "Bitch Hook" are known in my area or within our family as a" sled chain"  or "brake chain" and were used as long as we logged or made Maple Syrup with Oxen or Horses.  It was a heavy U type piece that rode over the top of the runner just ahead or the forward cross bunk and  had a short chain 24-30" attached to one side and a hook and slip ring to fasten the hook once you ran the short chain under the sled runners and back to the hook.  Stopped at the top of the downgrades and attached unhooked on the flats.  The short chain was allowed to drag on the inside of the runners until needed.  I Have a number in my collection usually picked up in Yard sales as junk chain.

 

I have a picture of one somewhere but to date haven't been able to get anything to go onto IFI.

 

Now the bitch link in our area was always known but with a Religion Name I don't care to use here.  I have a number I use all the time on my tractors.  Today you find them on the back of Cable Skidders used in Logging.  Used to attach the Choker Chain to the Cable, it slides up and down the cable as needed in the hitching up of the logs. 

 

As I say IF I understand the question correctly.  Another interesting Hook is the" Choker Hook" used in logging that makes it hard for the chain or fall out of the hook but easy to attach to the logs. 

The Bradley & Hunters were the wood burners and Glen if you look up logging RR's in your neck of the woods and their were a ton of them, you'll see the Shays, Climax's and Hysler all gear drive engines used the spark arresters to keep from burning up their own woods as long as they burned wood but once converted to coal or oil up went the tapered stacks. 

 

There is a Currier & Ives print of an early American type 4-4-0 wood burning engine (Like the General) highballing across the plains somewhere at night and the stack is just blasting red sparks out of it lighting up the night. 

Usually had an electric motor, all ours were 220v 3phase  don't remember the HP we had so many.  The motors were mounted on the back up  close to the top.  Most of ours this small were used for secondary  work, bending, trimming, final holes.  Limited use in a Blacksmith shop as most shops don't do repetitive work like this.  We had some that were set up to do the same job everyday and ran 20+ yrs, as long as the orders kept coming in.  A lot of the early ones were forced out by OSHA rules for hand safety. 

Definitely a Punch Press, helped my brother in law clean out a shop with about 15 of them from 2 ton to 70 ton plus ran some for a couple years.  I have seen a few used in local blacksmith shops but limited use in my mind.  We scraped 7 of the smaller and the 70 ton one as I couldn't see where I could use one enough to bother getting 3 phase in my shop.  They use specific dies to do certain jobs and must make a complete cycle to operate.  Production type machine and dies are very expensive. 

The salvage yards in CT that I have found also only want to buy no selling at least to me.  That includes a yard we shipped 40,000 lbs. of scrap machine tool stuff to a year ago when cleaning out a family shop. 

 

A couple months ago I was offered a post vise by a fellow over breakfast that he had cleaned out of a basement shop of a old carpenter who's family wanted his place cleaned out for resale.  I bought it sight unseen and he delivered it as I was on my way out of town for a spell.  He said he had an old post drill on a pallet that he would give me if I'd use it in my new shop.  After 2 months of not connecting we did last weekend and it turns out to be a Chenay Otto No. 16 drill press that he said worked before the took it apart as it was too heavy to move in one piece.  360 lbs according to a brochure I found.  He is delivering that next weekend when I'm home so we can unload it with my tractor.  Has an old electric motor with it that was running it but appears to have been in a line shaft shop originally.  Who knows.  I've got to clean it up and find a space for it in one of my shops but's it's going to winter on the pallet. 

 

He also gave me an Envoy load of tools he couldn't bring himself to scrap, carpenter tools as well as mechanical/plumbing/shop items.  Some I've pasted on to friends who know more about woodworking than I do and can use them.  I'm hoping to get back there to see what I might have missed the first time. 

 

I have another fellow who cleans properties for estates that is looking as well.  

There is animal/ pet friendly anti freeze available out there.  Most NAPA stores have it, green bottles of course I'm sure most auto stores have it about twice the cost but less likely to dry out.   

I received the book "The Mastermyr Find".  Haven't had a chance to read but the pictures are quite amazing for items 1000 yrs old and buried. 

The book Mastermry Find is available as of this AM on Amazon. I just ordered one. I visited Gotland Island where this chest was found a few years ago. The Walled city, cobble stone streets, and burned out churches are striking. It is known as the island of Roses and Ruins.

Best way to find out which is worth the $$ is get some of each install on same machine and see which lasts longer. Low bidders generally get the job so lower levels of steel can follow the lower bid. It is also not uncommon for replacement parts not to last as long as the original.

Caulking Vice it is. many draft horse shoes had hole on them to drive/push assorted caulks into for different needs, pavement, ice, wood lots, etc. Make a great general vice as well, see them in the north country a lot. always have wanted one but never found but one for sale and that was way too much for my wallet.