TWISTEDWILLOW

All the way from Thomas’s horde in the Desert to the smithy under the wisteria in peavine, my new to me cone mandrel Thanks Thomas!

Lol I like it!

Sweet!!

Silly Thomas! theres only one level 1 curriculum!!! Get it hot, lay it on somthin relatively hard an hit it with something else that’s harder then what your hitting…Sheesh I figured you’d know that by know!… Oh and what John said! Bahahahah Shaina thats a very purtiful leaf and twist!

Your welcome! Anytime,

Sure thing

No sir.. but I do hope that I’ve repaired the most broken down blowers before I die,

Went to a farm auction today, bought a truck load of really cool antique junk but the one thing blacksmithing I grabbed was a Buffalo blower for $15, it’s missing the original gearbox and someone replaced it with a gearbox of one of those old hand crank bench grinders, which is actually a pretty good idea! Lol but i bought it for parts essentially, I wanted the stand for a canadey Otto blower and I wanted the impeller for another Buffalo blower project I got goin

Cant wait!!! Your outta my range but I love seeing rusty stuff!

Very interesting thanks for sharing John

Thanks Shaina!

Howdy from eastern Oklahoma and welcome to the forum! You might ask Job, he is in the Netherlands

Howdy from eastern Oklahoma and welcome to the forum

Awsome! I’m glad it made it there in good shape! Scott ill be watching!

I don’t know why they want me to pay extra postage for non machinable letters but then run them through the machines

Howdy from eastern Oklahoma and welcome to the forum! you got pictures of it? Condition goes a long ways towards price,

Oh man I hate to hear that

It will be new to me, I’ve used wood stumps and I’ve build some killer heavy duty sand stands but these will be my first use of steel tripods

That’s what I do with them

Nah, commercial farms put them in the feed hoppers to bust the clumps of feed up so the auger can take it down the feed lines, where I live there’s 100s of commercial poultry farms Tyson, Cobb, Simmons, George, ect… a single broiler farm is usually 5-10 houses 400 foot long and 40 foot wide, with feed lines running down both sides, we used to have 25k chickens per house but regulations have since knocked that down to 19k birds per house, because someone somewhere felt that chicken destined for the butcher plant in 8 weeks of life needed more space to run around for the farms to be considered “humane” anyways, you got feed towers outside every chicken house and there’s an auger at the bottom with a ball to bust the clumps, then a line runs into the house and dumps into a feed hopper attached to the feed line and there’s another ball in that hopper that bust up clumps again, commercial farms undergo retrofitting every so many years and there’s always a farm shutting down an goin under, so there’s a never ending supply of those things laying around

North west Arkansas is notorious for that!!! People pick up the steel balls used in feed hoppers In chicken houses and then try to sell them in antique stores, Im settin here thinkin good grief people!!! The battles that happened around NWA were relatively small compared to the ones back east, y’all have more “cannon” balls for sell in the flea markets of Lincoln and prairie grove than the actual shots that were ever fired there!!!

I’ll look in my pile, I’ve got like six or seven 400s am some are just junkers

Thanks Jennifer! the larger stand is 3x3 square tubing 1/4 wall with 1/2” plate top and pads, it’s gonna be used on concrete so I’m not worried to much about it, the smaller stand is for the little 60 pound Trenton, im building it to be super light for a portable kit im putting together, I haven’t tried it out yet on soft ground but you might be right, I may need to put bigger pads on it

I have a few old fence stretchers an none of them look like this thing, but the jaws just don’t look like they would be very effective for any logging work, mall the old hand forge log Peveys I’ve found don’t look like this thing

That’s a nice looking Peter Wright!