eseemann Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Any one near Fayetteville, TN if you have not been to Park City recycling you should. I just came back with a bag of RR spikes, one track tie plate, two things that look like REALLY big pins like you would have to hitch up a equipment trailer and what I think is some part of a forklift tine. 98lbs $29.00. They had a bunch more of the tie down plates and more spikes as well. Park City Recycling 19 Airport Road Fayetteville, TN 37334 (931) 433-9300 One more thing, stop at "The Junque Yard" the guy there is starting out as a hobby smith and he turned me on to the scrap yard so show them some IFI love. 1627 Huntsville Hwy Fayetteville, Tennessee 37334 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankySmith Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 I gotta get up there someday, but Saturdays are really my only chance and those are Forge Days for me. Someday.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 I have some spikes for you if you want them/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyfelwr Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Almost any of the mom-and-pop scrapyards will sell you steel cheap. The one up just north of Fayetteville used to sell you anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Grooming a scrapyard so that they *smile* when they see you and even will set stuff aside for you is well worth the time and trouble! Doughnuts, showing them what you have done with the stuff you get from them, talking with the workers, ALWAYS asking first! Wearing boots and gloves and I like to wear a bright red hat so I'm easy to spot. Not getting in their way. Not trying to talk down the price from scrap levels... *cheerfully* tossing stuff back on the pile if they want too much for it, (ie above scrap price...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Thomas, I agree 100%/ This guy had a fill set (2) forklift times in great shape he would have taken $50,00 for. Since 2 tines would easily equal 2+ plate anvils and I do not know how many tools that is a good deal. Some things you can find on Craigslist but they are just not worth what they want on Craigslist. Good to be known as a guy that is good to see and not a guy they only want around so he can buy stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankySmith Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Hey Ess, just noticing the spike offer, sure I'll buy some off of ya at forge council if I don't score some myself first. I already scheduled an afternoon off this week to take advantage of the beautiful weather and grab some extra forge time, but now I'm thinking a drive to Fayetteville sounds good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Well since you already gave me some flat bar I will give you some spikes. See you in at the meeting one way or the other. In one of the parts marked for structural steel is a drive chain where the links must be 10" apart. I wish I had the saw to cut them up but I do not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJergensen Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 eseeman: why not hot cut them? Better yet, hot cut on off "on demand" and now you've already got some heat in your work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Because they are tangled up in a pile with (I kid you not) tons of steel. I saw them at the scrap yard, I did not see a way to get them out of the scrap yard with out an Oxy cutting rig. Also, I think I am giving you the wrong idea about the size of the chain, think Terminator 2 in the steel mill where he gets his arm trapped in the convener chain. The pitch between each link had to be 10". If you could get some out each plate would be many knives. Think the type of roller chain in escalators. That having been said hot cutting would be an option if you had a short (one or two) sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Eric, One other problem I have been having with hot cutting is since I lack a hardy in my rail anvil I have not been able to rig a good enough hot cut setup. We are doing smithing magicians at the Athens Forge meeting this month so once I make some cutoff dies for the smithing magician and I have it bolted down to something heavy that should be a bit easier. I plan to take some rail plate I got at the yard and make a poor man's hardy out of it and a big stump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 Eric, Take a look at these 2 photos, this is the chain I was talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 I have indicated objects in each photo that provides a scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastRonin Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 That's cool looking. Would look great in many configurations. Welded into a post for a mailbox, or any number of scrap sculptures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 Tell me about it. If you could get that pattern welded together you would have some kind of knife. This yard had one ready made mail box post, a crank shaft that still had a large gear on one end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsoldat Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 That's the rails off of an excavator or cat. the pads bolt up to them to make the tracks. tough stuff and very wear resistant the track pins are supposed to be really good hammer material is the dia is large enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 I can see that since these chains do not have a soft or easy life, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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