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Laynne

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  1. On 9/22/2019 at 6:19 PM, Frosty said:

    Good job all round Laynne. I have a 6" Indian Chief vise too. The heat shield on your forge will probably need a pass through so you can heat farther from the end of your stock.

    Thanks Frosty,

    The heat shield isn't attached so it's completely removable if the wind is calm, doesn't happen often in Kansas. I can rotate it to have an eight inch gap to work longer pieces. The vise has 5 1/2 inch jaws with faint serrations, closes evenly. I think it is missing a thrust washer on the movable jaw. It took two weeks of soaking, tapping, and a little torch to get the screw freed up.

    Laynne

  2. Good job on the tongs.

    I made a couple of changes on the forge. First I went to 12 inch pipe and that helped and using a section of barrel to block off ambient air. It especially helps on windy days. The vise that followed me home turned out to be an Indian Chief, so I forged a spring and fabbed a mount for it. Forged my first horseshoe heart, I think it is easier to start with square stock. I will keep working on it.

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  3. My wife and I just got home from Norfolk VA. Our oldest daughter is one of the US Navys newest Chief Petty Officers. We had the privilege of pinning her new insignia on her lapels. We are a little proud. Her ship deployed Saturday.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Glenn said:

    Make a shield or wall to run around the hood so you have a working area and the shield or wall blocks any unneeded air from entering the hood opening. This makes the hood pull the smoke and exhaust from the fire, not the room.

    I will give the enclosure a try. The hood is set at a height that I can just see the far side of the fire when I am at the blower. Thanks

  5. Buffalo Climax blower on the stand, Champion 40 with the forge. The vise has 5 1/2 inch jaws. I've started the soaking to free the screw but it looks good. Missing the mount and spring, no big deal. Tongs and round, square, and hex stock. All for $150. I didn't think that was too bad. The bucket of horseshoes and spikes I brought home from SW MO after the weekend at my parents. The disc blade too.

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  6. A couple of things to add. There is a lady in the Wichita area that has been dubbed "the Crazy Goat Lady". She has a small herd she leases out for weed and brush removal. It is obvious from the news clip that she has a blast with the goats.

    The other is that in the mid '80s I was working on the side for a dairy supply company. I had the opportunity to work at a goat dairy. We were setting up a new milking parlor. As I remember it was one that rotates. I never got to see it in operation. 

    It was quite the education.

  7. I have taken a couple of days away from the forge. Not so much the temps, but the humidity and lack of wind. It has been more like it was growing up in the Ozarks, I didn't know any better then. Today is supposed to be better so I'm planning on being out there after work. Stay cool and hydrated.

  8. 11 hours ago, arkie said:

    Laynne, you have to forge wrought iron HOT.  

    Joey van der Steeg works with WI often. Check out his videos.

    Point taken. That's where it was when I was using the fuller and yes it moved like butter. I should have taken another heat before tapering. I'm separating it from the known material as it pops up. Then it won't surprise me, maybe. As long as I keep learning it's all good. Thanks for the pointers. Keep saying it and eventually it will get through.

  9. I did it again. Grabbed some half inch round, cut off a piece, used the fuller on it. I thought to myself "that was easy".  Went to taper it and it started fraying. It was from an old gate brace or something, about twenty feet long. Two weeks in a row now. I just keep separating it out until I decide what to do with it. I live on property homesteaded in the late 1800s. The barn was demolished before we purchased. It's hard telling what I would find with a metal detector.

  10. That was going to be my next attempt. Then I will probably get it all together and put away for a rainy day. 

    There were two of the box cars I had to demolish because of the insurance company. I cringe now at all that went to the scrap yard. Long before I became interested in Blacksmithing.

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