Frosty Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 This came up on another list I hang with and does a great job of showing how few tools a person needs to do some good work. It's enough to make a fellow with a well equipped shop feel a little embarrassed. Frosty The Lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccustomknives Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Learned lot from watching that guy. The way he used that peice of RR iron, wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seldom (dick renker) Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 couldnt understand a word of it but they can sure put stuff together pretty fast. thanks frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatfudd Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Thanks Frosty! I really like the guys leg vise, with toenails! That actually was not just informative but pretty inspiring, the way blacksmiths really used to work! Way cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 That looked like West Africa and the stoves that they were making are very useful in a place with out a lot of trees for charcoal. I have read that people like UNESCO are teaching people to make retorts to turn what are really clippings, leaves and grass in to a kind of charcoal called biochar. Its got Bio in the name since every thing with Bio is better for the environment. These guys who take what they can get and make stuff are really my heroes. I have about 2 foot of rail of the same weight and it works like a dream for light stuff. Give him an anvil or even an ASO and I bet he could build a battle ship! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch4ging Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Thanks for sharing, Frosty! Amazing! But now how can I tell my wife I need the latest tool I just seen, can't work with out it?....... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solano Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 boy what those guys would make out of a scrap iron pile!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Solano Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 and again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 About what they could do with real tools, did you notice how much more productive the guy with the rail was than the guy with the anvil? One thing I was struck by was using a nut to bolster punching for rivets. Frosty The Lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudman Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Very impressive! Thanks for the vid Frosty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yves Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 That looked like West Africa It's in Haïti. And for all practical purposes, they do not have any trees left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 That is an AWESOME video, thanks for posting Frosty! Just goes to show you what the most important tool of all is, YOUR BRAIN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 My father knew a Jesuit Priest that did a good bit of work in Haïti and one of the things that he did one year was had 100's of spalings planted. Came back from a trip off island and found out that the saplings were cut down for charcoal. This was in the late 80s early 90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 I liked how he smoothed the chisel cuts using planishing blows with his hammer. Barely a file in sight and nobody cut their hands on sharp metal edges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Entrance Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Some amazing out-of-the-box thinking. Definitely got my brain going, and I've got some sheet metal I've been wondering what to do with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 Out of the box? These are the kind of guys who made the box. No, not these guys specifically, but these guys represent the spirit of smithing as it was and is from the time metal began. Frosty The Lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old South Creations Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 wow, that's really awesome. thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 What struck me was *practice* I bet that wasn't the hundredth or even two hundredth one of those he's made---not a wasted or misplaced blow! And a certain elegance in design often seen in places of great poverty. Also those were *real* tools and exactly the ones they needed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Mullins Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Thanks Frosty! I really like the guys leg vise, with toenails! That actually was not just informative but pretty inspiring, the way blacksmiths really used to work! Way cool! I was thinking the same thing. Here I have been trying to figure ways to hold things when working by myself and all I needed to do was take my shoes off : ) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 And develop calluses thick enough to hold hot metal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Mullins Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 It was actually pretty humbling and inspiring to see what could be made so efficiently with so little. I believe the only tools used were a piece of RR iron, hammer, punch, chisel, and a nut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twodogzz Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Now I don't feel so bad about doing all my forging barefoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnie Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 If something is important, we find a way. If not, we find an excuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Connell Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Just impressive, and nothing heated. All sheetmetal shaping and rivets from old rusty nails. Just WOW... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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