Alaska

we have been real dry here so we have been waiting for a fire and hoping for rain .
we no rain but we had a brush fire today a truck started it got it out before it got a acre.
but the truck did not make it .
water is getting hard to find to fight fire with most of the creeks are dry now so pray for rain for us we need it

thanks for all the great help here. when we start getting rain again so I can forge just to dry here right now I will try some of the things

year I lost one last fall 16 years with me it is real hard . he was a peak but he backpack with me one summer it was great I miss him

boat only but we are going to get there this summer.
have to go out that way to get a skiff
we are getting to dry out some one is going to start a fire

yeah she love to eat crab that the look in the bottom pic

it was 80 at 11:00 am today hot we do not get that hot most the time

seam coal bay I am going to see if it is any good

we are hoping no one start a fire that would be no fun

Alaska

crab pot is not doing good we did get a lot more rockfish today

yeah we know it is hard to get them here but there are some so we will start looking soon

well we are going to get hot here so I will be on call till we start going rain again

and no forging till we get rain :mad: we are real dry here and going to get dryer still

found some coal here on island want to go look at it soon see if we can use it

cool pics goat can be a lot of fun we are talking of getting a milk goat for the land

well sorry I have not been on but got the flu and was down

welcome to the forum and about time you got here

thanks will try when I get some time have a lot of work on the land will be forging when I get time

I hope a lot more then it looks like

love the pics yeah we have been out of the new land working on a road
maybe we will get some goats when we get the land up and going

not much change here but will get some pics real soon

OK that was it

wow that is great

I am forging with coal and charcoal and some times wood but that day it was charcoal
rail road spike
I quench most the time in water for a rail road spike to get them hard

and it is my stress and may have forgot something I do not think I did but ?

going to be working with a lot more 5160 just got 500# of it and will go back to oil quenching then

it was a hot day and I do not forge a lot on hot days

no fire dept. not much logging going now fishing is starting to go real bad to so not a lot of work

no pics of town but will work on getting some

yeah do not get much time to get out of town but may soon the job I am at is not working out

it is when I am quenching and yes I am normalising
thinking about it I have been just a bit stressed it may have something to do with it
just may not be getting something but should have soon time to work on it

no not yet will have to go look may have some time soon

need some help this has not been happening but it started last week and I can not see why
I have not Changed anything


help why is this

welcome to the forum

yeah same here we live in thorne bay on a house boat great fishing and camping here

thanks for the great welcomes

pow island where north of Anchorage I have lived all over Alaska

hi every one I am a firefighter and EMS ett live it a small town on a island in southeast Alaska
I was given a forge two years ago now and have been making knives and things
but I a am still new to this

I am the asst. fire chief here live on a boat and no the forge is not on the boat

we just got land so I will be moving on to land and making a new forge

just started to work with 5160 spring steal

just wanted to say hi