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John: He hasn't posted in better than a year. You might have better luck contacting him if you look at his profile and try a PM or his email address.

Frosty The Lucky.

Definitely work to aspire to! Just flat out beautiful.

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Nice looking blade Mikel. Unfortunately when you post an image from your gallery anyone who opens the post gets your entire gallery. Soo opening your 3 posts meant I had to download your entire gallery 3 times. This takes up a lot of bandwidth and many forum members don't have broadband access so they have to pay data charges. 

If you save the images you wish to post here a folder on your computer and attach them from that folder, everybody can look at the picture you wished to show without having to download all of them. 

The only way I can clear multiple major bandwidth posts is by reading every other post, then marking the forum "read" which clears everything. 

I also post photos at a lower file size, no higher than 300kb. out of consideration for our brother smiths who don't have broadband connections.

Make sense?

Frosty The Lucky.

PLEASE post pics from your computer files, NOT your gallery!

When you post a pic from your Gallery the forum downloads your WHOLE GALLERY. Anyone who wants can look at every pic in it by clicking on the < > arrows on either side of the pics.

When you post a raft of individual pics you are making everybody download your entire Gallery, EVERY SINGLE TIME!

This is a HUGE waste of bandwidth and there are only two ways to clear it out of my inbox. I either have to open then close your entire gallery. Or I have to mark the site as read and lose all the posts I'm interested in reading. 

Remember there are a lot of members who do not have broad band connections, access the site via dialup connection and pay data charges. 

I'm not mad at you, I haven't figured a way to solve this issue and someone starts posting bunches of gallery pics every once in a while. Unfortunately they inspire someone else to do the same and it just goes downhill from there.

Good job on the drain tile.

Frosty The Lucky.

Beautiful piece, thank you for sharing. 

Sorry about blowing up at you, it was obviously a problem somewhere in the software, not you. I remember you and your work now. Please continue to share with us.

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Nice size for a portable.

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Good score, she's a beauty. How much does she weigh?

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Very nice. I love your work, thanks for sharing.

Frosty The Lucky.

It happens because the Iforge OS is kind of hinky, don't sweat it. 

Posting groups of pics works better by attaching them from the folders on your comp. A good file size on IFI seems to be in the 100-300k range. Smaller than 100k and the pics are hard to see and much larger doesn't make them clearer. 

If you select the "Choose Files" button below the text window you can select the file you'd like to attach, upload it and place it in the post by selecting the + symbol in the small pic that appears below the window. 

Chances are it'll fill the window and then some, double click in the picture and you can resize it by dragging the corners or sides. 

It's not a rule and heck Glenn sometimes posts multiple pics from the Gallery we just try to keep the bandwidth down for members who have to live with dial up connections. 

It's just part of the learning curve here and something newly weird pops up now and then to keep us all on our toes.

Frosty The Lucky.

I have a pair almost exactly like those. Got them as part of a bunch of tools I bought and kept them hidden for a long time. Then one day I needed a pair to do what the ones I had out wouldn't so I grabbed the "fake" tongs. Darned things worked a treat, then and on other work. Now they have a permanent place on my go to tong rack. Nothing makeshift about a tool that does it's job and does it well.

Michael, please don't post several pics from your gallery in separate posts. It downloads your whole gallery in every post and uses a lot more bandwidth than necessary. Some of the Iforge membership are still on dialup connections and band width is tight. Lots live in the 3rd. world and are online believe it or not. Earth is getting cooler all the time eh?

Oh, charcoal only sucks in a too shallow bottom blast forge. If you break it up to acorn or smaller size and turn the air WAY down it'll work a lot better for you. Even a garage sale blow drier produces WAY too much air for a normal size charcoal forge fire. Check out the JABOD forge, easy to make and sideblast works much better for charcoal.

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Even I have heard of Mama Yaga! That is so very VERY cool a piece of art. You continue to astound me with your work. Thank you so very much for sharing with us.

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Arghhh! Now I remember Wayne, fish and game have been keeping really close watch on moose and caribou for Chronic  Hemorrhagic Wasting Disease. I knew there was something niggling the back of my mind when I replied but couldn't put a finger on it. From what I've seen on the news it's spreading all over the lower 48.

Here's more from a quick search. http://gfp.sd.gov/wildlife/diseases/chronic-wasting-disease/

Prions are nasty things, IIRC boiling has no effect..

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If you have coyotes that take down deer you have a problem alright. Not wolves or big cats? Sure those are a problem too but not like bold coyotes or a large pack is high risk, they're really smart. Is it legal to bait? I know I wouldn't travel without a rifle in your situation.

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Lose how? Poached, predation, disease or age? I doubt poached or the trophies wouldn't be left unless someone were hungry, I can cut folk some slack for dong what they need to to feed their family. Predation isn't going to change unless you thin the predators and age gets everything. Disease would be a worry.

Good supply of antler.

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Ooooooh CREEPY! 

Well done.

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Doctors have to pay somebody to keep their stuff working and they have LOTS of money. 

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I hear that, I've given a portable kit thought. I was thinking a case similar in size to yours but both sides the same thickness and about 30" or a bit long, and about 24" wide, it'd depend on what I could get out of a sheet of plywood. I figured it'd open like yours does but on end. The sheet of say 14 ga. steel that armored the bottom when laid flat would pull up out of it's tracks and lay across the top for a table top. There would be a pair of wheels tucked into the down flat side so I could roll it like a hand truck and the truck handle telescoped out of the bottom.

At about 30" long I could roll it up to the pickup truck, lean it back and pick up the other end and slide it in. Reverse it to take it out of course. Truck it to the demo site, flip the catches open it up so the inside of the case is an outside 90* for easy access slip the table top out and fit it across the top and the handle bar becomes I don't know what, it can slip back inside or maybe be a towel hanger or such.

Opened up the tongs and would be racked vertically in plain sight. Drawers at the top would hold hand tools and hardware: rivets, pins, etc. Stock in 2' lengths are racked in the other half with drawers at the top as well.

Part of the trick is to make it top heavy when opened to use or in truckin mode. This puts the center of gravity closer to the truck's tailgate and easier to load.

One of my main problems making the thing is I get way tooooo carried away with the gizmos.

Sorry for the hijack but your demo case really got me thinking again. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Pretty nice case Dale. Tools & materials, sales display, or?

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Beautiful memorial, well done. Next time you want to post a number of pictures either link us to your gallery and we'll look through them OR attach them from a folder on your computer using the button below the text window.

Posting each picture in your gallery individually actually links us to your gallery so you are in effect causing everybody on the forum to have to download your entire gallery several times. There are still a LOT of folk around the world on dial up connections and wasted bandwidth can be expensive.

Again, excellent work Wayne would be proud and humbled.

Frosty The Lucky.

Oh my! Beautiful work. I think having the wood done by someone who specializes in beautiful wood was a good decision it turned out a grand advertisement for you both.

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Welcome aboard Tasha, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many Iforge members live within visiting distance. 

I think you're going to fit right in here farmer, pianist in training and want to be blacksmith. Lots of hobbies a good sign if ever I saw one.

There are a couple things to think about before you get too carried away. Is there a local blacksmith organization you can meet blacksmiths, maybe take classes network with folk for tools, equipment, etc? Every hour you spend with an experienced blacksmith will save you many hours, days or more even of trying to figure things out yourself. 

Do you have an idea of what you'd like to make? 

What kinds of forge fuel do you have available? 

And so on, lots to talk about don't you know.

Frosty The Lucky.

Exactly, a tripod is stable on any surface level enough it doesn't overbalance and just tip over. Dirt is self adjusting so not a factor for a quadrapod stand. If you put it on a concrete floor you'll see what I mean, it'll want to rock.

Doesn't your power saw vise have angle adjustment? Man, that'd suck big time. Cutting angled legs is a piece of cake if you can angle the vise. If you have to use spacers to get the angle it gets tricky.

It looks like an excellent stand, I love having room to lay tools I'm using right where I need them. I have a tong rack on my forge for that very reason.

Frosty The Lucky.

Looks solid, how stable is it?

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Beautiful work but GOOD GRIEF did you HAVE to attach every darned image in your gallery to the forum? The wasted bandwidth is huge. We can browse through your whole gallery if you let us know to look, say post ONE image and a little text to tell us what's up.

I skimmed all your gallery images on the first posting but now I have to open every single large file post to delete it. Several pages worth of huge files.

Nice work though, well done.

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Very nice, well done.

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