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Don’t worry they got an app for that!

My iPhone 11 Pro Max is water proof shock proof chemical proof an can do anything a laptop can do an fits in my pocket! after I first got it 2-1/2 years ago I left it on the hood of my truck an didn’t realize till I was goin 65mph over Baron bridge, it vibrated off an rolled do the highway, I stopped got out a picked it up an kept goin, id like to see a laptop do that! Jerry, my phone has soaked up enough oil, grease, carburetor cleaner and gasoline that I’m pretty sure it’d burn for a month if it ever caught fire!

Jerry, have you stayed at a holiday inn? actually I was thinking the same thing, if your getting numb in 50 degree weather ya definitely might wanna get that checked out! i know I’m pretty comfortable outside till it gets below freezing with a strong wind, or if it gets down in the teens or negatives then I’m not doin nothing but settin by the shop stove

Thomas, I’ve used the big chicken house fans before but as my business grew an i got busier I needed more an more space so I switched to squirrel cages in the back of the shop an these old GEs on my main work bench

Flight speed varies from buzzard to buzzard they could deliver a letter from eastern Oklahoma to central New Mexico in about the same time it takes the usps too! And the payload is consistently around four coconuts! Come on Thomas it 2022!!! Not 1999! personally I don’t own a laptop or a desktop computer, I just use my phone for everything,

Thomas, I’ve gotta stack of sheet metal ready to go! I’ve also located commercial steel chicken house trusses! im just to lazy to Put it together! Shainarue, That’s not even half the piles of junk that inhabits my property lol All that junk is magnetically attracted to me for some strange reason it just keeps showing up all the time! I could be wrong but i think it has something to do with the earths magnetic field here in peavine Oklahoma! Lol Seriously though I only use about half that stuff, the rest is just spares, or projects I drug home to get back up an goin again, and some of it I rotate in an out of use or I haven’t got around to fixing or mounting yet, ima scrounger an I pick up stuff all the time, even if I don’t need it, someone always comes along an says they need something for their smithy or a part for an old blower ect… so it’s kinda handy to keep some spare material an tools around Incase someone needs something, Not everyone but there’s quite a few smiths that collect extra stuff around their smithy’s, I think Thomas has a limit now on how many post vises he keeps around the shop! Lol as far as forging in the rain, it depends on what season it is! If my trees an wisteria are leafed out they do a pretty good job of keeping things dry in there, well as long as it’s not a full blown thunderstorm tornado type storm with crazy amounts of rain blowing in all directions!

Thomas there ain’t no oil wells in Adair county that I’m aware of, I think the closest pump jack is probably out around Muskogee

Not really forge work but what I did in the shop this morning, when I opened up I went to turn on all my fans in the shop this morning and one of my 1960s junk store GE fans started then stopped and hummed so I did what any reasonable person would do an I took it apart to see why lol come to find out apparently the grease they made 50 years ago wasn’t designed to last forever, who knew? It got hard an caked up an finally seized up the shaft, so half a can of carburetor cleaner later I had her flushed out, got the shaft an oscillating gears freed up, an spinning I put high temperature grease back in it, not sure what they were originally designed to use? anyways got it put back together and it blowing this 90+ degree air around again! Hooray for junk store fans!

Good point!

Winter time 30s an 40s isn’t bad once ya get up an moving you stay pretty warm, summer in a 110 heat index? I don’t even bother lol theres lots of people here who have open air smithy’s I’m not tryin to sway you one way or the other, just letting ya know others forge that way, heres some pictures of my junky open air smithy to give you some ideas if you choose to go that route ive Got two permanent table forges setup with post vises next to them and the slack tub Between them an treadle hammer opposite both stations but still central Anvils set about a step away opposite the forges an my traveling forges are over to the side, the blue job box is where I keep my tooling,

Ahh come on guys! Don’t everyone here wear a heart rate monitor specifically during heat treating their projects? Jon Rarine, to answer your question, a heart rate monitor wristband is a band that holds a heart rate monitor to your wrist!!! How does it work you ask? it works buy using a variety of different clasps to lock the two ends of said band together to hold it on your wrist! Unless of course you have a stretchy band that does not have a clasp, in that case you just stretch it over your hand and it compresses back down on your wrist to keep the heart rate monitor in place! there ya go! Question answered by your friendly local MD working on a PHD! (mower doctor working on a post hole digger)

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What size blower is that champion? I might have a spare inner housing part

I know imma little bit south of you but I think the weather is probably comparable, But my smithy is open air and with trees an wisteria for a roof, I use a job box to store my hammers, tongs, hardies, chisels, punch’s ect.. during wet weather, but all the big stuff like my forges, post vises, anvils and blowers stay permanently outside, I just keep everything greased, oiled and wiped down with oil, I forge using bituminous coal and like George says the smoke clears out just fine once you get up an goin,

Howdy from eastern Oklahoma and welcome to the forum!

That’s even better! Buzzards could load up like a camel an travel farther!

It’ll be okay it’s all red clay an chert rock it can take it!

Sure do! Just feed em some road kill once a day and they’ll make it to New Mexico! you ain’t even gotta build a hutch for em! They’ll hang out in an ol dead tree!

Bahaha over kill? What’s that?

We might have to resort to carrier buzzards for communication! sorry I ain’t got no pigeons here in peavine it’s the best I could come up with on short notice,

Hmm…now y’all go me wondering if some kinda solar deathray contraption wouldn’t come in handy melting off my drive way after ice storms! boy howdy I could mount it on the tractor an just poke along melting everything off! might come in handy for when we get those 4” snow blizzards too!

Lol i thought that was supposed to be squirrels?

That leftover photo Thomas posted made me wonder about a coffee an sandwich shop that used to be right outside of NSU campus in tahlequah called “the iguana cafe” just what was in those sandwiches?

Most definitely!!! ya never know what kinda trench foot, jungle rot, flesh eating, stank undiscovered fungus unknown to science that the previous inhabitant of said used boots might’ve had!!! personaly I’d rather save up an spring for new boots then spend six months an a thousand bucks on tough actin tinactin fighting off someone else’s foot disease! But that’s just me! Lol