March 23, 201115 yr two years ago, when we were harvesting grain and sent a kinfe through the blower and chute into the wagon. so no big deal fixed everything replaced the knives, found a couple chunks, threw them into the scrap pile. well this past weekend i was searching through it and found the smallest piece that we found. grab a chunk of inch hollow tube for a stake, a pair of nuts off some 7/8" silo loop rods. welded it all together because the knife is double sided so if you do wear one side down chopping you can just turn it around and keep going, so i welded the nuts onto that bottom edge in order to save my anvil face. this is my end result. im pretty happy with it, i don't think i will ever need to replace it unless my welds break and i have had enough practice that they shouldn't. anyway what do yall think?
March 23, 201115 yr Always good to recycle stuff! If I may let me suggest something for when this one breaks...that is if it ever does. On the side you are not going to use as the cutter cut the sharp edge off to the thickest section of the blade, this will protect your anvil face. Then cut a notch the width of your hardie shank up to the hole that is in the middle of the blade. Place the hardie shank into the notch you have just cut and weld up both sides. This will give you more welded area to the hardie shank and shorten the hieght of the hot cut and eliminat the need of the 2 nuts. Keep recycling your steel! If it goes to the scrap yard most likely it will end up in China!
March 23, 201115 yr Author Always good to recycle stuff! If I may let me suggest something for when this one breaks...that is if it ever does. On the side you are not going to use as the cutter cut the sharp edge off to the thickest section of the blade, this will protect your anvil face. Then cut a notch the width of your hardie shank up to the hole that is in the middle of the blade. Place the hardie shank into the notch you have just cut and weld up both sides. This will give you more welded area to the hardie shank and shorten the hieght of the hot cut and eliminat the need of the 2 nuts. Keep recycling your steel! If it goes to the scrap yard most likely it will end up in China! i thought of cutting the second edge of but the torches are out of propane, and i will admit to being lazy that day and wanting to get back to forging , so i didn't want to find blades for the grinder, whatever its made of its some tough steel :rolleyes:
March 23, 201115 yr And I was going to suggest cutting it in half along the level of the bolt hole and making *2* of them. You could arc the top of one and so have one flat and one curved for walking a line. Hot cutting might work if the smoke axe is out of gas... Watch out or you will start getting a reputation for not throwing *anything* away! (Of course last weekend I re-smelted my forging scale back into iron...so you have a ways to go yet on the "cheap" scale...)
March 24, 201115 yr two years ago, when we were harvesting grain and sent a kinfe through the blower and chute into the wagon. so no big deal fixed everything replaced the knives, found a couple chunks, threw them into the scrap pile. well this past weekend i was searching through it and found the smallest piece that we found. grab a chunk of inch hollow tube for a stake, a pair of nuts off some 7/8" silo loop rods. welded it all together because the knife is double sided so if you do wear one side down chopping you can just turn it around and keep going, so i welded the nuts onto that bottom edge in order to save my anvil face. this is my end result. im pretty happy with it, i don't think i will ever need to replace it unless my welds break and i have had enough practice that they shouldn't. anyway what do yall think?
March 24, 201115 yr Very practical, a little crude, glad to see there is someone out there that keeps house the way I do.
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