ryancrowe92

by getting the ged you are finishing high school as an equivalent

if you didn't finish what you started why would you have one in the first place

nut coal

Sup guys hope you had a good weekend. Well mine was kinda bad it rained and the dirt and stuff got wet but never fear I got the forge leveled and dirt in it. When I get home I have to finish getting dirt in it. I got the pipe welded though now I'm just waiting for TSC to call me and my brother is coming over this weekend

that is useful information I will remember this in the future.

I poured the water on my glove to get it wet just to hold it

and I know about the inconsistency of the rebar and that is kind of why I decided to use it because it was lying around.

what kind of jaws would be good for steel plate?

and when I get home I'm gonna take a pic of the place I'm gonna set up and show the new forge that's still WIP.

Weekend agenda is to

1. go cutoff that pipe

2. level up the forge

3. concentrate on the new area

4. put the dirt in the forge

5. get a new air source* on hold  

6.find a place for the anvil

7. finish sawing logs up

8. wait for TSC to call me

9.Relax and have a good weekend cause I'm gonna need it.

10. weld that pipe

11. do maintenance on torch

12  as you can see I have a busy weekend

24 minutes ago, Michael Cochran said:

 I have a GED myself and it has slowed me down a little bit. People see that you have a GED and assume you're stupid which isn't the case with me. 

How was applying for a job did they treat you any different than a highschool diploma 

43 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

Weld a handle on the rebar?  Use a couple of hose clamps to hold a handle on the rebar? Vice Grips? (not suggested as overheating will detemper the spring)

The vise grips are like channel locks and I'm holding the other end of the bar with my gloves hand and I had to pour water on it to cool it Dow to where I could handle it 

Hey what's up guys been sick awhile so I'm gonna be making some progress today on the forge I got the dirt and the coal is on it's way but I have to cut the pipe off the old forge and weld it back together neatly and cleanly using the grinder I got parts for the torch hoses but I'm still out of oxygen I get that when I pick up the coal and I'm worried about school cause I'm tired of some of the things that go on the teachers side so I may be getting a ged and going to work sooner and that's a good thing so I'll have more money than 75 a week but I don't know things are real blurred for me right now so I'm gonna pull through on this one way or another. Does anyone have a way to hold the rebar without it burning my gloves and my hands I have nothing I can make something if I have to. my brother is coming up next weekend so that will be a fun time forging stuff I've got to level the forge when I get home. 

good cause im thinking about buying it, also i got dirt truck load. and more timber for logs im cutting up. i got to level up my forge and get a new air source plus i seen some flat jaw locking pliers im gonna get and some oxygen and hoses for torch

yea i got a whole shed full of wood and thats what ive been using but it takes too long to make it, im not interested in the best i just want to know what works and does coal go bad.

thank you little blacksmith,

now to frosty and people who told me about coal for blacksmithing

the TSC people said  i have to buy it by the pallet cause they dont keep enough of it to sell and thats 250 for 40 bags at 40 pounds so thats 1600 lbs of coal i can use so is that a bad price because i thank thats a pretty fair deal

I know right but the dirt has to wait cause it rained recently and is still wet. Truck Truck is running smoother than it was before that fuel pump and tank works great and the starting problem is fixed

Ok I have made progress the new forge is about 99.99% done just got to get another 1x4 to put on the bottom and I used nail to nail it with and done it for free now I have to do some welding on my pipe and get some oxygen for the torch and I'm having to move the setup also I got to the wood after finally getting a chainsaw that worked to the wood that fell during the hurricane. 

Ok I've been busy working but I have good news the truck is fixed except a hesitation in the carbuarater. Forging work will begin when I get a new air source and my forge built. And I have still yet to read you posts while I was gone. 

Ok I've been busy working but I have good news the truck is fixed except a hesitation in the carbuarater. Forging work will begin when I get a new air source and my forge built. And I have still yet to read you posts while I was gone. 

Oh by the way I'm in English 3 I've done read Shakespeare now I'm econ and CP government. And I'm in anatomy and we have to make a prototype limb and start on my new government contract for a "iron Man" suit quoted from teacher 

I'm still working on them, taking me a while since I'm having to redo my forge and my shop right now, had to burn some brush yesterday that's how I worked on the pin. using the old forge but its not working and I got to get a new air source. and some coal I'm gonna call tsc and see if they can order it

plus I've been doing research on them and I've had school it wasn't like it was over the summer when I had all the free time in the world.

I got a good piece of rebar that has been bent and I can make a few of them but ill find me some good metal to make one with soon

the 1/2 rebar it will be easier and my cooking trammel and I'm going to start making stuff and selling them at the flea market

yeah just got the power on last Wednesday made it  through the hurricane and I have lumber a tree fell in my yard so I should have two and some 8 foot 2 by's got to get them to the saw mill up at my dads and cut them. also more wood to use for charcoal. thank you hurricane. now on to what's up with my life the truck is getting a new gas tank and I fount a pair of vise grips, I'm gonna use them to fabricate a pair to make my drift pin for some of the things Trent shows how to make and I'm go to be busy remodeling my shop and that I will post in another  thread for another day. my power hammer is going to be made soon if I can find a way to cast iron 50 lbs. at a time into the anvil and machine a dye for it. and so when I get to that shop remodeling is gonna take some thought but with those 2 by's I can make something and the tree is really big. like I can get maybe 3 or 4 or even more 8 foot sections I don't know I haven't measured it yet. I fixed my oxy acetylene torch the other day got new fuel and oxygen valves for it. going to try to make my drift pin today.

Yep all the other forums were dead 

Yeah and I got plenty of that yesterday trying not to break a board

Anyway update time 

Truck: going to pick gas tank up today, finished draining the old one yesterday. Still have to get lines 

JAOBD: got wood cut up air compressor quit so I have to nail them by hand sometime in the weekend

School: my virtual Sç classes start tomorrow so I won't be able to post like I used to at this time I can post during lunch hour 1220-1250

just orderd the sending unit for the truck and the straps for the tank

i dont have the world figured out if i did id know more than i do know

and who said old people are stupid my grandpa on the blood side may be out of his mind but my other one is about as bright as one of them educated people

and its not that i have any disrespect for you because yall know more than i do about this

it takes you 10 minutes to do somthing you can do in 2 or 3 minutes

i was always good in math but i forgot it over the summer and i took an algbera 2 pretest and i made an 80 and i don't know how i done it its like when i seen it just comes to you

i might go weld one of those blades in the hole that the blade goes in to be mounted 
for the cooking tramels

there is your blacksmithing topic

i dont like the boxes i thought they were cool in 5th grade but that i got bored of

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