Not when you're included, it would seem

Not when it advocates stealing, it isn't. Sorry but stealing is not funny, and not something to joke about.

I have had more than one business say that they don't want to be near a blacksmith because of fear that they would steal iron from them. Not funny, at least not to an adult.

Edited December 20, 200916 yr by UnicornForge

Well sorry you've developed such a reputation for yourselves, thought a stereotype like that would tickle some funnybones. Next time I try to gain some common ground I'll be sure to leave my humour at home.

Chances are if you just ask the property owner, he would have GIVEN you a section of the rail road track he used for fence posts. Humor has nothing to do with destroying a fence and chasing livestock all over the countryside, hauling the livestock back home, and then having to repair the fence.

To suggest activities that are against the law on an open forum is not a good idea. It brings a lot of attention toward you, real fast. We have a large number of both active and retired law enforcement officers (which are also blacksmiths, bladesmiths, and metalworkers) on the site. They live in many different countries of the world, including your location, and you have just alerted them to be on the look out for missing fence posts, etc.

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Joking about theft and advocating it are two different things. Lighten up guys.

You might be a blacksmith if... when you goto a fancy restaurant, but instead of complimenting the chef, you end up more interested in who built the balcony raillings

I am a beginner blacksmith ,but got the other day 52 tongs and i feel like a blacksmith with all those tongs.

You might be a blacksmith if there is always place for more tools.

You might be a blacksmith if you have more tools than there is space to have, and you still accept more.

Phil

you might be a blacksmith if..
you build a fence out of old railroad track:)

Rail track ? Not as in train track, right ? I f this is correct, I have never seen't a track rail used as a fence post. We have cemented them in the barn to keep a tractor from knocking out a timber. I guess they would make good corner posts to a fence when used along with another brace post and cross wire bracing, but seems like overkill.

Every pawn shop I see in a nearby town has a series of railroad rail posts sunk into the sidewalk or asphalt surounding the building. I suppose so noone rams a car into the place and makes off with the goods.

Mark

In the fields around here there are dozens in not hundreds of corner posts and embankment posts that are rr track. I have been told that they are sunk at least their height into the ground, so that's 4 ft for most, or more. This was from a neighbor who tried pulling one with an excavator once.

Phil

just tell me how they drive staples into a rr rail?

WITH A BIG HAMMER?

The RR track sections I have seen used as posts had holes torched into the web and cable run through the holes.

you might be a black smith if...
you use baling twine and or wire for alot more than just baling hay:)

just tell me how they drive staples into a rr rail?

WITH A BIG HAMMER?

very carefully

Rail track ? ... but seems like overkill.

Isn't overkill the name of the game?

You don't staple the wire to the post.. you just wrap it around twice... pull tight.. it'll stay for decades......

Just to throw it in there, I never stole the fencepost. I just found it amusing I so easily noticed it amongst the weeds and hedges. If I wanted it, I would've asked the landowner, who I know.

And in this case, he'd lazily wrapped the fencewire around it several times. It wasn't doing it's intended job very well...

Friends,
I have read this thread with some amusement at the various posts, but could not let the re-cycling of RR track "as fence posts" go past without without sharing what happens in parts of Australia.

In South Australia they used to re-cycle RR track with a liberal amount of concrete to make power poles, colloquially known as "Stovie Poles" (apologies to and corrections, abuse accepted from any S.A. members).

What you wind up with is a power pole that is shown in the pics attached, comprising of two RR tracks with a whole lot of concrete in the middle.

As a young man traveling Australia I could never resolve if the story about their name related to some town planner, engineer or politician, named Stovie, who decided to recycle RR in this fashion or whether the popular anecdote that if you hit one with your car it will certainly "stove" the front end in (aka. stovie).

At the end of the day I guess it shows a form of re-cycling steel (albeit without heat or hammers) and probably has its roots in the nearly 2,500 miles (4,500km) of track between Sydney and Perth and a lack of forests in S.A (which is roughly in the middle).

Anyway - A Merry Christmas to all and to get back on track for this thread....

You may be a Blacksmith if you look at a "Stovie Pole" and see a whole lot of hammers.

Trevor

that guy must have been a blacksmith

Man, if I lived over there I'd have to get me a bigger shovel.

Steel poles supporting electrical wires? Pure Genius!

oops grounded

You might be a blacksmith if, you have run your tongue over a piece of steel in order to determine it's carbon content.

...your young daughters know the diffrence between good and bad coal.
...Your 10 year old daughter asks for a rounding hammer for Christmas.
...threatening with coal in thier stockings brings a smile to thier faces.

Well, lets just say that anyone rummaging around in my 130-year-old farm buildings for stuff is likely to really really really tick me (and my mastiffs) off, especially without permission.

My in-laws spent over 50 years dealing with folks making free on their farm with their flowers, their plants, and anything else not guarded with a large dog and a shot-gun. Apparently folks felt that since it was on a farm and not fenced in or locked-up then no-one owned it. Imagine people actually thinking that digging up flowers along your driveway was free stuff.



You might be a blacksmith if you store stuff in an old barn.

always ask fore i take anything. always ask permisssion before ,if any body has anything to do with the place in 20 years ,orso.