Tzelik Hammar

Amazing flowers! The closest I have been to my shop in a while is using the worktable to clean up and repaint a mailbox, sadly. Got a new (to me) anvil from my brother that needs mounting, then maybe I'll get something more done.

It's for breaking their necks (rabbits too). Dispatches em quick and clean when it's time for soup. The brand name thing is called a "hopper popper" if you need more information and some possibly disturbing videos of how it works.

Made a chicken-popper. First thing made in the new shop.

Bought this 6 inch vise as a lucky find on the internet! Now for the fun part... Mounting the beast for use.

It very badly needs a rebuild and cleanup.

After a year and change, I finally have a shop again! Very happy.

Thank you for this information! I have been forging with anthracite for about a year and a half now, and its nice to see information brought together to make things easier. One thing, the smaller size coal from tractor supply really likes to pop and jump, and will bite you pretty solidly. I have had decent success using the bigger size, then putting the smaller on top as a gap-filler. Other than chasing the fire around sometimes, It works ok at keeping the fire hot when I cant crank for a minute or two. What I haven't had any success in is mounding it up and poking the hole in the top for the little volcano (Pardon the childish imagery). Does Anthracite need a hole poked down into the fireball? Thanks again, Randell

One does try...

I have a viability question for use. With the locking pin pulling towards your hand to release, how do you stop it from going all spastic if someone tags it with a parry? Yes, I checked the date. Still interested. Great concept.

Stunning

Absolutely amazing!

I don't know if that's the curriculum for his school, but the classes there are 6 days- 3 weeks. I've checked

Always interested in power armor.

Nice! I'm heading that way the last week of October. My brother still lives there and they're expecting kid number 4.

I'm a forklift (I pick things up, I put them down) at the local mechanic shop. I don't actually get paid but they give me scrap steel, knowledge and occasionally lunch. College dropout, Walmart janitor. I moved to work in the gas field near cleburne tx doing water transfer for fracture operations at about 20. Then became a bouncer and repo guy and ended up collecting a baseball bat to the head at 23. Results: TBI and a stroke after the fact. Currently on SSD in my 30s and trying to get back to real work. I've always wanted to be a blacksmith and tried to make a go of it for a while as a stock removal guy and some armor stuff, but finally got up to really forging things and it's awesome.

Haha

When I was a kid we had an old pop-up camper in a fenced in area with a swingset.... I still have the "O.K. Corraled" sign dad made. (Ornery kids, according to my mother)

Yeah, but I don't like many people so I don't have to make very many Love the suggestions, so they may get made. How would you curl the angle iron twists without getting a gap at top? I'm having that issue with plain twists when I try to make rings. The Nickel way It's practice for patterned knife billets too.

@JHCC stealing this idea

Honestly, I can identify all the wildlife here, but I see a horse track and I'm just like... Horse. No further interest. Doesn't register in my brain because horses are someone else's problem!

Yeah, but the shipping is considerably more than a 2 minute drive, last I checked. Haha

No, but I will now. I think I may have also not quenched it at all, though if it is 1018 I'm not sure that makes much difference. Sounds like you're pretty busy! I'd love to see the pictures of your peppers and rasptlesnakes!

Currently working on getting the local metal shop to order me some nickel steel for it. I'll definitely be posting once I start.

I wish I had seen this when it was posted! I was in Rimbo, outside norrtälje. Be back there in January if you want to meet up sometime!