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    Imma have to check them out! Do they have a website I can Google?
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    Really? That’s interesting I got more forge blowers then you could fit in a one ton truck bed and I absolutely love oiled gear cases way better then those janky ol lever forge setups I’m not pickin on ya just surprised someone actually likes those things! Lol that said I’m not a fan of the leaky ol champion 400s, personally I think canadey Otto made the best oil bath blowers but that’s just me by the way, Howdy from Peavine America! An welcome to the forum! Glad to have ya!
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    Thanks Les! I really like my steel sand stands because I can swap out different anvils and swage blocks I have on them but I wanted a light weight permanent stand for the 60 pound Trenton to take portable and I wanted to get the 172 pound Trenton off its oak block an it won’t fit in my sand stands cause it has a big footprint I’m doin 2”x2” square legs for the portable and made it to put the face wrist high since it’s for light projects the bigger Trenton has 4”x4” x 1/4” walled legs with 1/2” plate top an 1/2” plate squares for the feet so it’s heavier built gonna do angle iron an expanded metal underneath both for tooling storage I ain’t figured out what I’ll do for hammer holders on either yet though, there’s so many different ways I’ve seen folks make theirs it’s hard to pick an idea! Lol the flat bar I got today is for making the half moons and the sides to box in both anvils
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    Might try that out if I have some leftovers, or run back down an buy some more, they got piles an piles of bar stock down there in all kinda sizes, I got this bar stock for use on a few stand projects, im messing around with some tripod stands for a couple anvils, I’ve never tried the tripods before so it will be something new in the smithy
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    I dunno I’ll have to look them up, I’ve never heard of that brand, Shaina that sounds interesting I’ll look an see what I can find a out about them
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    Haul from the scrap yard today, 20 feet of 3/8”x 1” flat bar jack hammer bit big truck coil spring 5 feet of 5/8 hex 1-3/4” tapered down to 1” solid bale spear 4 feet long a solid square spike 1-1/2” tapered down to a point 34” long oxygen bottle, Big horse shoe, old funky wrench, misc angle iron, 12” x 5/8” round bar .30 cents a pound today, I was a little over but they rounded down to 100 pounds even and loaned me a portable angle grinder to cut the 20 foot flat bar in half oh and a free truck tire to make Max a swing with!
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    So does the stilwell post office!Bahaha! I’ve been asked by several postal workers if I was sending off baby shower or wedding invitations when I mail off a bucket load of letters with wax stamps! L
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    Gewoon, yes your Christmas card made it! Thank you very much!
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    I always bought my boots in store at atwoods where I could try them on an make sure they fit, that’s not helping anymore.. Now the light weight shoes I’ve ordered I didn’t go in store for, I just ordered them, they have a return policy and a try before you buy deal if you choose to go that route, but they were cheap enough I just ordered I couple pairs, I gotta drive a ways to get to a real shoe or boot store… I ordered the whites catalogue last year, they look like high quality boots but no one carries them around here for me to go check out, an they are to expensive to gamble on plus I’m looking to try out light shoes right now not really looking for boots, my shoes or boots I wear all day everyday in the shop an around the property doin work, not just for blacksmithing at this point I’m interested in anything other then flip flops an crocs that will give me some relief and still be half way durable and light weight, I got hurt over seas and the problems are really starting to kick me in the backside these last few years, after doctors, chiropractors, X-rays, MRIs ect… I’m ready to just use boots for foul weather and find something more comfortable for the rest of the time
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    Update on the wild, feral, viscous monster kitten I dragged out of a armadillo hole after a storm, he is slowly warming up to me, been working with him ea little every day an he’s starting to come around! insted of running away he now stands his ground an hisses! Jokes aside he’s occasionally letting me scratch him and he is now just play biting an swatting at me, an he’s discovered the shop is warmer then the outside! Lol hes starting to put on weight and found his way around the shop an property to the food an water
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    Y’all get ready to check y’all’s mailbox’s in the next week or so! I just finished up all y’all’s new years cards! yes I know I’m pretty late! Lol but hopefully y’all get em before February!
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    I’ve seen those am been curious how well they hold up during regular use for work every day? I’ve worn combat boots when I was younger and then transisiond to heavy duty leather pull on work boots when I entered the civilian world, and been wearing them for over a decade but now even with fancy inserts an buyin a few pairs of new boots every year my feet are getting to the point I’m in pain like I got nails, needles an knives stickin in them ive had a lot of local people tell me to buy the heydudes an they tell me they are really comfortable for all day wear Ive ordered a couple pairs of the hey dudes to try them out, but I’m curious how those twisted x hold up long term? They look heavier built then the heydudes
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    Yeah the nation has really been pushing for language learning and heritage stuff the last few years, they have opened a few emersion schools im creek an Cherokee but I dont speak either language, I use some of the tribes services occasionally but other then that I’m not really involved much with them,
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    Oh wow that’s pretty cool! the tour guide just said he had learned the power of the written word from his time in the military and that he had it in his mind to build something for the Cherokees to have a leg up, I didn’t realize that he was the only one in history to do it from nothing though
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    John He can’t be the only one? I mean someone who couldn’t read had to create all the other languages right? I dunno that’s one of those chicken before the egg type conversations! Lol your welcome Thomas! if y’all make another trip out here this spring lemme know and I’ll call down there to get the open hour’s an days ahead of time!
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    May I present to y’all, Misses Pink Nose! one of the shop cats, sleeping on a bed of coal…
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    Scott, Heck I live 30 somethin minutes from there an I didn’t even know half that stuff! Lol Jerry your very welcome! if y’all come down for a visit sometime I’ll make sure to take y’all down there!
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    Looks awesome!!! I like the ball peen you used! I’ll have to try that myself sometime all the Fredrick’s crosses I’ve made I used a small double cross peen to make wood grain texture, but I’ve been wanting to experiment with that ball peen texture like you used! what size stock did you make it from Shaina?
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    I have some good post vise bodies that are missing the screw and screw boxes if your wanting to go that route,
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    your welcome George! they said they will be building another cabin exhibit soon maybe a shop is opening n the works for the future? don’t worry bout Max, he had ten acres of park to run around and he got a horse from the gift shop and last but not least there was a play area loaded with puzzles, coloring pages, crayons, activities ect.. at the cabin sorry I didn’t get a picture of that area, I’ll ask Ash if she did, anyways so it wasn’t completely boring for him! But you’re right he likes going to see dinosaurs and trains a lot more! lol we saw a nice lookin restaurant on out way through Sallisaw and wouldn’t ya know there’s a small park across street with an old cabin and a caboose and some other stuff to see, so we’re planning on running back down there another Saturday morning to grab lunch and let him go bezerk on the train car! Lol Your welcome Randy! I’m glad ya liked the tour! they apparently host different workshops through out the year with Cherokee demonstrators coming in and teaching different skills, ill try an let ya know when Incase y’all get board one day and don’t mind driving to Sallisaw! Lol Your welcome Jerry, the second half I already posted, I just split it up on that post with that comment,
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    If you end up using coal then Your gonna need bigger holes in the tuyere grate, you won’t get enough air flow through that to effectively forge, that said it should work decent for Charcoal if your goin that route,
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    Today me Ash n Max loaded up and went down to Sallisaw for a BBQ lunch and then to Sequoyah’s cabin museum and park, I knew he had created the Cherokee syllabary so they would have a written language but I didn’t know he had fought In The the war of 1812, John had mentioned here on the forum that he was a blacksmith awhile back and that intrigued me to go visit his homestead i Learned today that he was also a silversmith and an artist with paint the cabin was built in 1829 by Sequoyah himself and the hand dug well was dug by him aswell over a spring and had sandstone stacked around it I learned that Sequoyah disappeared down in Mexico in search of another band of Cherokees an never returned home, his wife sold the homestead to the Blair family and they lived here up till the thirty’s an sold the place to the government and the WPA built a rock wall around the 10 acres and then built a rock building to permanently encase Sequoyah’s cabin for preservation, they built a few other things around the property like a stone and wood water tower that was fed by a windmill pump and gravity fed back down I thought that was kinda cool, the two artifacts that are original to Sequoyah other then the cabin itself are the spinning wheel and the plow is what the tour guide said the visitors center and gift shop was built by the Blair family and they had built it off the side of Sequoyah’s cabin and plumbed into his original chimney in their add on that’s why there’s a random fireplace on the outside of the cabin, the WPA removed the Blair family’s add on since it was not part of the original structure anyways I might have missed some stuff but I made sure to take lots of pictures of all the plaques for anyone that wanted to read them, Here’s the second part with his cabin pictures
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    You still find em all over around here in old barns and around old home stead sites
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    Scott they are Single tree clips, I’ve got a bunch of odds an ends off old horse drawn stuff hanging around here
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    I saw a news article few years back about a dude from Australia who took a pontoon boat from the port of catoosa all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico through all the locks an dams on the Arkansas then on down the Mississippi, that’s where I got the idea, I think most of the river traffic is all commercial though big tugs and barges, a few months ago the USS Tulsa navigated up an came into port at catoosa, I would have loved to go visit it and taken Max to go see it but I didn’t hear about it till they we’re already gone, I think my ol boat the USS Mesa Verde is way too big to come up to catoosa, I’ve got some pictures of her I’ll have to find an show y’all sometime the WW2 submarine USS Batfish is a permanent museum over at Muskogee right off the Arkansas river, every few years it makes the news when the river swells and leaves it’s banks and they scramble to keep that thing chained down lol Nah!! We just follow the equator racing Jimmy Buffet to the good ports!!!
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