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Frosty, The I have only been stranded 2X in a bunch of miles.. I put on right around 24-28K a year.. Way back in the 90's I blew a friction disk in my old 1970 Saab V4 96.. I could have drove it home.. I thought it was much worse than it was, The car has a device known as a freewheel so you don't need a clutch for shifting.. And about a year after having the Audi, I was on my way to NY for work and the alternator died.. Brushes were worn out.. In my old SAAB 900 T16V the gen light would come on and you'd just give it a few revs and it would go off.. This meant you had a month or so before it would be capoot.. And then you would just put in new brushes.. 10minute job on the side of the road (used to carry and extra set in the glovey).. Not the Audi. Light came on about 10miles from the house.. Figured I could do the same thing.. 10miles later I was stuck on the highway.. Had I turned around I would have made it home.. As for SAAB's.. I used to be a wannabe rally driver and I drove a 91 SAAB 900 SPG with all custom parts I designed and then fabricated.. The car would peel rubber in 4 gears on a dry road and in 5th gear in corner it would peel rubber.. Anyhow, I was blowing up the gear boxes about 1 a year. 4th gear was the one that always went.. Anyhow, even with a blown 4th gear I was able to drive home.. I eventually found out one of the problems I was running royal purple and it simply wasn't up to the job,,, I switched over to Redline Heavy weight Shock proof and the last gear box lasted 4 years before I pulled the car off the road.. Audi has a new fuel pump, new spark plugs and a sheet metal repair.. Trimmed a few tooties today and got her apart and back together.. All's good now.. 460K on the Audi.. It's been a great care.. Quattro drive with 4 studded snow tires.. It will go anywhere and treads lightly like a cat.. With all that said.. I had no time to give the hammer a work out.. I think I going to like it. I did move some sheet metal around with it and so far the handle doesn't feel skushie..

ausfire, is there a Website or some more information about the museum? I think stuff like that is very interesting..

Been one of those days.. LOL>> fuel pump went in car, while at the metal yard getting ready to leave.. Battery died cranking it over, Guy jumps the car and i have him crank it while I bang the gas tank to get the fuel pump to unlock.. It started and Then I get 200 ft down the road and a rock hits the windshield and cracks it.. I get home and the car died right in the drive way.. It was a good day.. Beautiful and it reached 52F... First day that warm in a long time.. Daswulf, I'm not a fan of to many other handles either, but for the money of 28.00 with lifetime warranty I figured I would try it out.. I do like the Stanley Anti vibe handles, and the Estwing handles.. Not sure how I would feel about either if I was working then forging but it's worth the 28.00 to try.. Besides that there hasn't been a review I can find on this hammer here.. It has a larger face than my Normal 4lbs German Xpeen.. And a fairly rounded face.. I did cut a few bars on the hardie with it and it felt good.. Not mushy.. I dislike mushy feeling handles.. Mushy and flexy are a big no go and won't tolerate them with sledges.. But then again, I'm not as active as I used to be.. Anyhow, I'll post maybe tomorrow or in the next few days..

$27.99 Amazon, I like most Fiskars products and since i had to order other things figured I'd buy one.. No chance to forge with it today but it's pretty well made.

foundryguy, Nice and fine looking Anvil there.. Yup, mighty fine..

ausfire, that is so cool.. Nice job.. Number stamps or did you make up a special punch.. You building up inventory?? Big show coming up?

ausfire, Brilliant.. I would imagine you have no problem selling those.. Garden creatures here sell for decent money.. Sometimes I wish my interest was elsewhere because there are just so many possibilities.. Well done..

Not much to compare with as you guys have been so busy with excellent work.. I just polished my new hammers and organized them..

I love Appies.. My favorite of all the horses.. And yes Sir they sure do.. Loverly herd there. and thanks for posting up your methodology.. You and I would get along very well indeed as to methods and such.. It is funny that I love Appi's but plain old Qhorses there all right a little to tense for me sometimes.. It would be Appies, Arabs then all the rest I do a lot of 5 gated horses now.. My first horse awakening was by and Appie named Winnie.. I had just finished my apprenticeship and over the course of 4 years each year he would raise his rear feet less and less.. By year 4 I could barely get his foot of the ground for shoeing. He'd hold it up about 3" off the ground.. LOL.. I went over there on a February day to put winter shoes on him.. It was 10F out, I had a really bad cold.. Shod both front feet and got to the rears.. He didn't even want to lift it the 2".. I was dieing.. I was on him for about 1hr when I couldn't handle him weighting me down.. So I took the rasp and lightly gave him a smack in the bum while holding him between my knees.. When I say smacked him it was more like a pat.. Anyhow, he Dropped both rear feet and looking right at me started kicking.. Well I started swearing and he would start kicking some more. this went on for about 10 minutes all the time looking at me while double barreling on the cross ties.. I said" you can booger it horse" left him there and went and sat in the running truck to warm up and blow my nose.. In there I found my "Right mind" after about 10minutes I went in and put my hand on his withers and said " I am so sorry for what I did, I apologize to you and please forgive me".. His eyes went soft and he dropped his head.. He then lifted his rear foot the full height like back 4 years ago and I put the shoes on him and thanked him for the lesson.. After that time frame I could work on him anywhere, anytime with no halter, lead line or anything.. I would walk in the barn, open the door and he'd walk out and stand on the mat, I'd get finished and he'd walk back in his stall. After that is when I realized, What I was doing was wrong and nearly all the things I was taught was wrong.. I had all ready started looking for alternatives with trimming and shoeing horses but he sealed the deal.. He lived another 8 years after that and he taught me so much.. I then started to notice all the horses started to look at me differently or was it me looking at them differently.. I find Appaloosa's ( horses of color) once you talk with them are just so consistent and over the years I've worked in lightening and thunder storms, wind storms etc etc on Appies, with nothing but ground tied and they just stand there till done.. Stuff would be flying by, metal roofing, paper you name it.. Love the herd.. What kind of sharpener do you use? Diamond coated or chainsaw file? What get presented to the world " in speech, sound or sight rarely represents what is truly going on inside someones heart".. I have no interest in judging others any longer so you or anybody else can right it bakwards, upside down or anyway you'd like.. I only want to help where I can.. I always enjoy what you have to say and learn from it.. thanks very much..

It funny about the sayng Hello thing but so true.. A few of the horses I do, down right look at it as being disrespectful If I walk from one and not say "Hello" and then start to work.. I figure it out pretty quickly and apologize and say hello and then we are good to go.. Some people believe we project feelings, behaviors and such to make animals more human like but every horse I have ever worked on is completely honest, yet not mean or demeaning about it.. Have worked on a few that thought I was an idiot in my early days and they were 100% correct.. I've worked on a few that literally were not mean,, they just were missing a few cells with hair triggers.. Sometimes perfect other times volatile all within just a few seconds.. That was 28 years ago.. Different world back then.. Sorry if I said something in regards about seeming mean. Some people have a tendency to have a "Eye for an eye" thing going on as that was what I was brought up on in the farrier business.. I may have over reacted to the picture presented in my mind. There are a lot of subtle things horses do which more never even see.. Way to go.. What do you run for a hoof knife?

Well done. I would have never thought of doing something like that.. Little surpised you didn't give the eye balls on the back of the hoods.. Few round punches or something of the like.. Very neat..

Dylan Sawicki, way to go.. lookin good..

@jhcc you guys are all killing it.. I do one project every few weeks and think i got it going on.. Well done.. How is the handle going to be held on?

So true, Love, forgiveness and giving are tops on my todo list.. I still struggle with staying in the NOW and offering Love, forgiveness and giving exactly at that moment of need. but with each day it gets easier.. Golden rules.. Just simplified..

JHCC, you did a really nice job.. did you upset the handle portion to get enough material.. Looks like its about 3/16" thick in the handle web.. Clean transition in the ricasso area as well..

JHCC, that is really cool.. How big around was the spring? Diameter ThomasPowers, sounds like it was a great morning.. was the SCA good also?

The guy i served my apprenticeship with felt pretty much that way.... Lots of other farriers feel that way also.. In the last 15 years I have only had 2 horses that have done that.. Both new customers.. One I simply asked to please not do that again and moved her over/off and she never did it again.. The other is a Quarter horse Gelding and he's one of those horses that likes a confrontation.. I've worked on him maybe 3 years on and off and he is one of those guys that just wants you to beat him, then he feels justified in his behavior.. about 4 months ago I was working on him and with his rear foot he slammed his toe down on top of mine.. He knew exactly what he had done and braced for a hit. Instead of hitting him or yelling at him I simple said to him in my mind.. This was a bad thing you did.. I forgive you.. I then spoke to him and asked him to step over.. (he was still looking for that heavy hand reprimand) but he moved over.. I asked for the foot.. He lifted it and I put it back on the hoof stand.. I finished all the rest of the feet with no incident of any kind.. He stood absolutely perfectly.. I've been back there 3 times since then.. 2x after that he stood perfect, lifting the hoof before I even ask for it and he'll just hold it till I get there.. This last time he was a little fidgetty, but I just told him it's ok and he started chewing and then started to fall asleep as I worked on him.. These stories are not made up.. I have found this kind of thing to be true of all the horses I do.. WE all want to be listened to and not bullied or forced into doing something.. Last 5 new customers were all people with horses that won't stand for the farrier.(kicking, biting, rearing, breaking cross ties). Every single horse stood for me with just a ground tie.. Loose rope at that.. I'm not claiming that what I am sharing is the answer for everybody.. What I am saying is " It has been an answer for me and the people who have brought me these so called bad horses, yet that stand perfectly.. 1st time, 2nd time, etc, etc.. Farrier work is the hardest job I have ever done.. Working on minis, or donkeys or pretty much any horse even drafts can be a challenge especially when they aren't trained right and it's 80-90F out and you dieing and it's the last 1 of the day.. Somehow they know when you are beat up and they cooperate even less so than normal.. There is another way.. It's not magic but it does work.. Last thursday as an example I worked on this younger horse Atlas.. Paint horse.. My 4th visit.. I finished up and the horse was licking my helmet and nuzzling me.. I finished up and the owner said to me" I am so glad to have found you and I am so thankful for the work you are doing.. Not only do his feet look better, he is moving better.. Not only that.. He has never stood for the farrier so well as with you">> (first time there he was ready to explode and you know what I mean) he was perfect.. I came from a place of anger and back in the day I carried injectables, (ACE, Rompum), and would twitch the ones that didn't cooperate.. It's just what was done in the circles I worked in.. It wasn't the right thing for me and haven't had to use anything but a loose lead line and a few minutes of my time in many years now.. I'm thankful I learned the lessons I know now.. That Q horse that stepped on my foot He drove it in toe down full body weight. I wanted to retaliate and beat the stuffing out of him, and show him what for.. I was so angry but then found my right mind and it paid off in spades.. Please don't take This as me preaching.. Far from it.. Everybody has the thing they do and if it works for them.. All the better.. Thank you so much for sharing I really appreciate you taking the time to.. Thanks kindly..

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Glenn, you are one smart cookie.. This is a rare talent you describe.. Very good indeed.. One of those Jedi knight moments.. @Irondragon Forge & Clay if the Lady of the house doesn't mind something between her toes she might like them very much.. The are very comfortable for me.. Thanks for commenting with info on how you watch them.. @51 Papy Don't know how safe the footwear is.. Your and years ago I had a job where I had to wear steel toed shoes. was working on 1000lbs rolls of paper.. several rolls slipped and well my toes were injured for a few years.. Also in the Farrier business A horse will intentionally step on your foot as a way to say.. "Hey you suck and I don't really like what you are doing".. not once did a horse step on the steel toe part of the shoe I was wearing. It was like they new my ankle or upper part was not protected.. Needless to say they had a 100% success rate with not stepping onto the steel toes.. With that being said.. I've started to wear the other ones shown in the other picture for work.. Not one horse has wanted to or tried to step on my toes as they are very exposed now without them being combined and loose in the tabi vs all laced up.. I do keep a very keen awareness of the potential for a missed placed horse foot and ready to move if need be though..

https://www.japan-zone.com/store/soukaido-steel-p-561.html this is where I buy them from. And they do offer real steel toed. The sellers are super responsive and just wonderful to do business with.. They respond the same day and will usually help in any way they can.. I've made my own Waraji which are traditional sandals braided out of rice Straw rope in a time before rubber was invented.. I couldn't find the Rice straw rope anywhere so asked them if they could locate the product/type used in making the sandals. Which they did find.. They also included directions on how to make them. . They sent me some in an order for free.. I went on to start using Hemp or sisal rope which worked better with greater durability.. If you end up placing an order with them.. Please let them know you found them through JLP Services Inc with a note saying from me "Thanks you: Something like Jennifer @ jlp services Inc Said Thanks you for the wonderful service.. Anyhow just something like that or not.. No pressure. I just like for people to know that what they do is appreciated and it's easy to do..

Not sure.. Pretty much all the information is in Japanese and while I can speak some simple phrases and understand some written in Alphanumeric (plain letters) I in no way can read Sanskrit or the other symbols used in Japanese writing.. Since people are showing and interest: Here are 4 different versions.. There are more.. There are ones like sneakers which have a lot of padding, Cloth only ones, leather ones.. Rubber ones, neoprene ones.. etc, etc. Also Steel spiked ones.. I bought the steel spiked ones by mistake.. These have hardened steel spikes about just over 1/16" diameter..

eye each end in straight bar.. 45 then 2, 90's.. Thats how i would do it. As you pointed out though, it was a no brainer for these guys and getting equal bends and the desired leg length was normal place.. That is my kind of smithin.. Daswulf, These ones in the picture are actually steel toed work Jika Tabi.. Not really steel toed but hardier plastic I believe.. They also have an alum metal band at the outside around both sections of toes.. .

These are some finds from a Foundry which was built in 1815.. The place was demolished at a later date when they moved the RR tracks over the site.. I don't have the date of the tracks but new it was an old site as a lot of the slag had charcoal in it.. A much larger foundry was built elsewhere.. It's pretty amazing to see how or where they dumped the slag and load from the furnace.. It was a cast iron foundry.. I did find a few sprues also.. Supposedly the Bog ore came from a brook and a pond located in the local area, and the lime stone from 2 towns away.. In the first picture there is a wood drill that came from the trash pile at a mill that was washed away in 1938 flood.. I don't believe it is from 1938 but must have been dropped there at a later date as I pulled it out of some dirt.. Finding stuff like this just shows me how inept I feel as a blacksmith.. Stunning piece of work which was considered everyday stuff on mills, factorys, etc, etc..

Marc1, Thanks much for the feedback.. Strictly instructional with simple techniques is what I am always shooting for.. No fancy tools.. Just hammers, anvil, forge and vise as main players.. My motto is use the right hammer for the job.. for some it's only 2 for me it's Oh, maybe 15.. Really I have 4 or 6 I really like.. Anachronist58, You are very much welcome and thanks for always commenting on the videos and videos threads.. It's people like yourself and the others that take the time to comment and share either good or bad about the information that makes doing them worth it.. Without feedback I'm not sure I would have continued so thanks to you for coming on board early and spurring me on.. I can't thank Everyone enough for giving feedback. . And please leave good or bad feedback both here and the videos.. Without getting feedback or reviews I have "NO idea" as to what content people are interested in and while i keep looking for content which is not all ready well represented.. It gets tough to really understand what people would like to see.. So, even if you don't like the videos please say so.. Each and every person can help figure out what content can be offered.. We specialize in colonial time frames 1750's-1960's and such.. Not big into artist things but good old home and hearth kind of things.. If you have a question that has not been answered or you are looking for a video "how to" that is not out there. Please feel free to ask..

Glen - did you???