September 17, 201015 yr A pal of mine has had a matching set of Yater swage blocks for all the time I've known him, and finally....finally he was ready to part with them, now I can sit in the dark and hold them, cause their mine... all mine yeeeheehahhahahahhahahha urk gurgle haaak! oh yeah, he tossed in some cool pieces of tool steel to boot!!
September 17, 201015 yr Congrats Mike! I'm even more happy to hear he tossed in Cool tool steel, HOT tool steel is so much harder to catch. Hope the missus doesn't mind sharing the bed with your new acquisitions for a while. Frosty the Lucky.
September 17, 201015 yr So how long will you be holding onto those before you are willing to pass them on? (And how did you encourage him to finally pass them on? Did it involve beer?)
September 17, 201015 yr He has a big hole in his backyard next to his forge that he can bury stuff just to tease all
September 17, 201015 yr Nice score Mike! Your friend is very wise,now he has cash to go and buy other toys yet still has access to those blocks if he needs them. Looks like the spiders got the most use from them so far.I`m sure you`ll fix that! Post pics of their new stand won`t ya,after you get it built that is. :)
September 17, 201015 yr Nice!! Once you've had them for a while you'll wonder how you ever managed without!! :D
September 17, 201015 yr Author Tomorrow we have our monthly meet here, I'm gonna have them front and center, hopefully the drool will drive the spiders away!! We had planned to build an outhouse tomorrow, but I may have trouble getting the guys to move now!! No beer was abused during the transaction, only dead presidents!!
September 17, 201015 yr Nice score Mike - you'll love it! On any given day, my swage block sees more use in my shop than my anvil.
September 18, 201015 yr Author Thomas, maybe you ought to take a Mark Aspery class, you will learn to use the swage blocks in ways that make them more than "planters", I love having them handy, they are useful, if you get used to using them, you start to find all kinds of things to do with them, otherwise, why have them???
September 18, 201015 yr nice score there Divermike, I picked up a set last year the Yater blocks are real nice, Jere Kirkpatrick told me that Wally used old wrecking balls to make them, I don't know if that is true but they are pretty hard not cast iron like some that I have seen. I was sitting right next to Wally on Lyle's tailgate in Memphis and did not know who it was until later on (bummer I would have liked to pick his brain some) I would like to see what you come up with for a stand as I have not built one yet, the blocks are heavy and they will smash your fingers quite well I Can assure you of that
September 20, 201015 yr "if you get used to using them, you start to find all kinds of things to do with them, otherwise, why have them??? " Hmmmm....why have them ??? Because you can, I've had mine for years now and use the Salt Fork block instead. :)
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