ptree Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 You might be a redneck blacksmit if you have a hat with a: a. lifesize anvil on it b. a life size swage block on it c. A working powerhammer on it Triple points if you own all three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Parker Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I am in the process of striping an old pop up camper so I can re-build it into a portable blacksmith shop. Closed it will be disguised as a pop up camper. Does that qualify? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 If you sleep in it, it's pretty rednecky. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptree Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I am building a demo trailer, helping a friend. Started as a popup, is using a topper from a tanger as the roof and windows and pallet rack uprights as the truss sides. And the friend will be able to sleep in it:) The trailer has an anvil crane to lift the anvil and stand in and out. Vise on the tongue and forge outside the box in front. Vitually everything is scrap, or salvage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Parker Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 ptree, you are further along than I am. I just got the popup and I am in design phase. I will be sure to look close enough at your pictures to steal a few idea VBG, thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalMechanic Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 If you have to crank up the forge to help get your wife's hair ready for church.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 If you can't crank up the forge because the wife needs her blowdryer back to get ready for church. Bonus points if she uses the dimmer switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalMechanic Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 If you can't crank up the forge because the wife needs her blowdryer back to get ready for church. Bonus points if she uses the dimmer switch. GOOD ONE! How's about: You might be a redneck blacksmith if you have to fabricate a new power transfer shaft for your wife's pull-start, Briggs & Stratton makeup sprayer. -DM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lupiphile Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 If you have more powerhammers than cars...............up on blocks in your yard.(I do) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george m. Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 You cut your grass and find two anvils, a power hammer, and a post vise that you didn't know you had. You list a coal and/or scrap pile as an asset on your home owner's insurance. There's more often the smell of coal smoke than BBQ in your neighborhood. Blacksmithing contributes a significant amount of your income but you only have one or two (if that) forged items in your house. Your wife's favorite piece of jewelry is something you forged. or Your wife would rather you go to the shop than to Gerrods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 If you've ever forged tone rings for a banjo.....for that matter if you forge and own a banjo..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastRonin Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 If you've ever forged tone rings for a banjo.....for that matter if you forge and own a banjo..... ... or fiddle, gee-tar or harmonica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 If you have heated up the slack tub enough and used it as a personal jacuzzi to relax at the end of a long day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 If you have heated up the slack tub enough and used it as a personal jacuzzi to relax at the end of a long day. You make bubbles in your slack tub like a blacksmith Glenn? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 If you have heated up the slack tub enough and used it as a personal jacuzzi to relax at the end of a long day. you say that like there is something unusual about doing that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 If you've ever traded blacksmithing tools for livestock, you might be a redneck blacksmith. (and by the way, let me tell you how that conversation can go wrong... "Sir, this may sound funny, but would you be willing to trade it for rabbits or chickens? Sir? Hello?........" I'd stop except sometimes it works!) If you've ever worried about a forging burn messing up a tattoo.... If you've ever got in a fight with your wife because a chicken did its business on your swage block........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 If you can see your resource pile from space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcostello Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 If You could see Your coal pile from space, (You would be very lucky.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 My dad borrowed a pair of channel locks from one of our mechanics who had just used them to tighten up battery terminals and reached in and pulled a tooth that was bothering him, dropped the tooth in the trash and handed back the channel locks. Mechanic came to me and said I owed him a new pair, I asked why and he said he through them in the trash with the tooth. I gave him mine and got the others out of the trash still use them. Remember my Dad every time I use them. Snap on channel locks too good to throw away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Yates Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 The Term "Redneck" is really from back in roughly 1848 or so when the rail workers actually tied a Red Handkerchief or rag around their necks so other folks of like minds would know them upon site they were good folks that were standing up for what was good and right in that time and day. for that time and day it was the Union for better work days,wages,and treatment . the "Rednecks" were marching to the capital hill to be heard for their rights against the Rail Road Company and the RRC were trying to stop them in the Appalachian Mountains. So really it is NOT a bad thing to be Called a Redneck Gentlemen ;) Just a bit of History to chew on and for thought . Ret,Sgt. Yates PS YES ! This has happened to one of my tats a good slab of scale/slag flipped up and landed in a fold on my right arm and burned through my Leather Jacket and into my arm destroying my tat. ****If you've ever worried about a forging burn messing up a tattoo.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 If you've ever said, "Hang on, I've got a car part around here somewhere that'll work as a swage block for this....."Bonus points if ya added, "Hold my beer." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 If you can open a beer with any tool in your shop.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 doing it with your brain hurts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Not after the first 6 pack.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cochran Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Does anyone have a copy of the anvil stream posted long ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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