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I use a kettle grill just like that for my MARKIII style jabod. I have a piece of round plywood that I put in the bottom so I didn't have to use as much dry kitty litter and I use bricks for the firepot. Simple to set up and disassemble. I will definitely get pictures next time I set it up. Pnut

It might be possible to use a pipe. I've not tried it so cant say for sure but I used a pipe as the mandrel for my first tomahawk I just forged the pipe so it was a little smaller at one end. Pnut

This is one of the funniest and saddest things I've heard. Pnut

Howdy from northern Kentucky. I love the Jackson Purchase area. Welcome aboard, be safe, and remember it's supposed to be fun. Pnut

No one knows but the Turks. Pnut

My great grandfather Strotis (Steve) Peponis was an ethnic Greek man from Istanbul even though he refused to ever call it by that name. My grandmother used to translate ancient Greek for the University of Cincinnati many years ago. When I was a child and my granny lived with us she would only speak to me in Greek. Unfortunately I've since forgotten every bit but a few swear words and simple phrases. Guess I should have practiced more. I was strangely embarrassed by it when I was young though. Pnut

Growing up the biggest lesson my mother tried to instill in me was a strong work ethic. At thirteen she told me one day, "Get some rest you have to be to work in the morning." I said, "Work, what do you mean I didn't apply for any job?" She talked to someone she knew that owned the car wash across the street from my school and got me a job. She even made me pay her $20 a week from the time I was 13 until I left home. It was a trivial amount but she wanted me to have some responsibility. She saved most of it and gave it back to me when I left home. I've never been out of work for more than a month or so except for the three years I was disabled since I was 13 years old. My Mom worked from 13 until three days before she passed away at 76. I think her job kept her alive longer. Pnut

They were excavated to draw as much air as possible into the shaft. Pnut

You can impregnate leather with lapping compound and make your own sharpeners. I have a wooden dowel somewhere that's covered in valve lapping compound impregnated leather. It works well. I have to go to the storage unit today to get my frame pack. I think I'll look for it. Pnut

If you get a tie plate you can put a piece of square steel tubing in a stump that's the same size as a RR spike then mount the tie plate over it and use RR spikes as your hardy shanks. Pnut

Here's a link to the USDA website soil survey page. You can check soil surveys from each state and county. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/soils/home/ Pnut

That'll hold all of it unless I'm misremembering how many barrels were outside of a friend's shed. It took him either four or five 55gal drums to hold a ton of coal. Pnut

I thought you were about to check what condition my condition was in. I'm breathing a sigh of relief Pnut

You can clean your ceramic rods with oil and a magic eraser or the scrubber side of a dish sponge if they get loaded. I found an old broken one with no handle that cleaned up pretty well. Pnut

Olivine sand? Pnut

There's kaolin in rubber too. Quite a bit in some recipes. Up to a third by weight. Pnut

You seem to have forging bronze down pretty well. I've only tried it twice and it took a few failures before I could get it right either time. Pnut

I was thinking it would be scrap or yard sale prices. The price he's asking is outrageous but it's the type of thing I run into most often in my area. I recall seeing some ball pien hammers and a draw knife that were all in pretty poor condition but could still be saved. They wanted thirty bucks for each hammer and sixty dollars for the draw knife. When I said that was too much the guy said, "They're over fifty years old.", people think age automatically translates to high prices. I left them for the interior decorators to buy and went looking for someone who wanted to see the tools get used. Pnut

There was a great scrapyard by me but it closed to the public a few years ago. It was connected to Newport Steel, a steel plant in my region. Pnut

I'd get the rocks out if there are any. Any organic matter shouldn't make much of a difference. Some folks add straw to make cob. Pnut

Holy smokes. You sure don't disappoint. Any idea when book number IV might be available? Pnut

The picks make good punches and drifts too if you cut a spike off. They're almost the shape you want. I've been looking for an old pick to chop the ends off of for a while now. Pnut

I found the Weber kettle grill in the trash too. I live in town but I'm surrounded by rural areas so there's plenty of junk to repurpose. Pnut

That was all made from garbage and freebies. I used a night stand from the hotel I work at as the box hahaha. For being made from cheap particle board it lasted about a year or so. There's a ball valve on the end of the pipe to choke the air off. I power the AC mattress pump with a portable jump starter. The pump is in the styrofoam cooler because it was annoyingly loud. I have a hand crank blower now. Jabods are deceivingly simple. I've since switched to a kettle grill that I fill with dry kitty litter and use bricks for the firepot a la MARKIII jabod style. Pnut P.S. Yeah I'd definitely cut it down if you have little folks running around. They have an uncanny ability to manage to run into anything hard or pointy.

If you get down to Northern Kentucky the place I mentioned will have some. You can call them and I'm sure they'd let you stop by any day of the week. They just don't like people walking around the racks during the week when they have lots of fork lift traffic. Pnut