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My body will no longer tolerate lifting weights heavy enough to be the strongest guy in the gym. I needed another hobby that will ensure a firm handshake and an overall indifference to polite society. I am also drawn to the natural pragmatism of building your own equipment. Most of my knowledge comes from this site and a couple of short meetings with some guys that know what they are doing.

Well, it was more like 5’x20”x10’. Which by math would be real close to the volume of half a true 4’x4’x8’ cord. I cut my firewood well under 2 feet in length due to the size of my woodstove opening.

Split a half a cord with the kids. Coldest day of winter so far - not actually all that cold (west Texas).

Mine is 1935, looks roughly around the same age. I am no expert, I hope this picture helps.

In the finest tradition of Thomas Powers, people call me and ask ___________ blacksmithing tool and I say yes. Here is an HF anvil from a co-worker’s uncle. I made a Tri-pod stand with left over parts. I figure free is free.

Voldemar- here is a pic of the stamp the kg is faded but you can see the 320. The logo is not as distinct either, but you can tell what’s going on.

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I will grab a picture of the stamp the next time I get hime early enough to get to the shop. With the age it’s rough getting a picture without natural sunlight.

For reference here is a 1935 FW Krageloh there is a small crown stamp half way up the waist from the upsetting block. The weight is stamped in Kilos below the crown stamp on mine.

Great reminder. I will just save this thing for when my pritchel gets some burrs.

I imagine this had been a scenario for several on here before. I found a previously forgotten gem while cleaning today. A brace and bit reamer. I have not seen a lot of these, but I apparently saved it years ago. I am looking forward to using this on hot steel to take full advantage.

From last Christmas, I made a pitch fork from the garage door spring then made a few of these from floor scraps.

I have made several Highland Games forks and “modified” traditional pitch forks for the games. I would suggest using heat before trying to straighten the forks, in my experience the tines will likely break.

Yes sir, the rotating damper on the side was not enough for me. I use a valve on the air flow of my coal forge set up too. My burner is 12”x4”, there are 32 individual crayon sized holes. As you can see from the pictures. I run a .030 mig tip for the propane supply and mixing tube has a blender vein inserted nearly the full length. I can attain welding heat around 4-5# of propane tank pressure. My forge opening is roughly 11” by 7”. I use various arrangements of doors depending on what I am working on. I went ahead and dropped in a picture of my crayon mold for reference. I got all the ideas and information from the ribbon burner threads on this site.

Here is my rig for the airflow on my ribbon burner. This one is a plain 1&1/2” ball valve plumbed in approximately 2’ ahead of the mixing tube. I have had excellent luck with is set up for the last two years. I believe we even have the exact same blower. Hope that helps.