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Good Wifey.

Nice Work Dunstan.

Same here. Too much of my energy gets put into my day job (working on cars etc), but that pays the bills. We have a 9.5 acre block of land, covered in pines, gorse, and native bush, so thats where a lot of my spare time goes. When theres a slow day at work and I can afford to, I get home a light the forge. Practice practice practice. Jason

Great Work Danger!

This old girl runs a 10 inch stack. I've made a shroud to lower the height of the hood, for when I first fire it up. I remove it after around 10 minutes, and provided I'm not too generous with fresh coal, there is very minimal smoke in the shop. I've made up this high velocity stack for it, which works great. I'm looking forward to seeing some of your forge work Jesse. Jason

Well said. Jason

Looks great Alec. Looking forward to seeing it up and running! Jason

I wonder if he sells any custom tooling for it. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice work Clinton.

Very inspiring work. Thanks for sharing. Jason

Awesome work!!!!

Beautiful roses.

Thanks BigGunDoctor, will do. Yea it sucks how much good metal heads over to China, and then comes back again all watered down!!! When scrap prices were high last year, everyone was having a clean out. Even the dirty theives were into it!!! Being a motor mechanic, I have come across plenty of springs, axles, shafts etc. Just need another shed to store/hide it from my lovely! Jason

Thanks Ten hammers, I'll give that a go. Sorry the cast piece that we bent was what the sickle bar itself was attached to. I notice that not all the mowers have this. Thanks Gobbler Forge. The vintage machinery community is well known to Dad. This stuff is left from broken/rusted beyond repair machinery that many have looked over. It amaizes though, how valuable some of this old junk is to certain people. Kind of like the old blacksmithing gear I have found around the place. That others see as junk!!!

Thanks Phil, There are some mower sickle bars. I assume they're cast steel, as Dad managed to bend one in half with the front end loader, and there were no signs of cracking. Jason

Thanks, I've got my eye on the axles, steering rods and draw bars. Most of it is in very good order. Only surface rust.

Most of it is from the 1920s-1940s. Is there likely to any wrought iron on it?

Hi Everyone, My father is a collector of vintage "International Harvester" only machinery. ie. tractors, trucks, mowers, ploughs etc. He has alot of spares/scrap metal laying around the place. What should I be looking out for, as far as good metal to forge? Thanks for your time. Jason

Thats great!!! Thank you.

As far as borax goes in New Zealand. You can buy pentahydrate or decahydrate. Penta meaning 5 ppm (parts per molecule of water) , or deca meaning 10ppm. So the 5 is better as it has less water. You can buy these at certain chemical supply outfits. Should be the same in Aussie. Anhydrous (dried borax) seems pretty rare here, but was able to be ordered. Jason

280ish pound Hay-budden and a heavier Peter Wright.

Very nice!

Finished the brazier saturday and gave it a test run. I ended up wrapping about 10metres of 6mm round bar around the base of the brazier (hard to see in the photo), which tied in nicely. This is my first attempt at one of these so I was a little unsure how it would turn out. It works great! Jason

Nice work. I think it looks great as it is. Jason

Thanks, I have called it "Flow". Just like an eel in a river. Jason