August 28, 201411 yr Your not really working hard enough unless ,,, You set your self on fire at least once a year SJS You have sweat rings down to your belt loops. You boil half the water out of the whiskey barrel slack tub by lunch.
August 28, 201411 yr ....your calluses peel off but you don't worry about blisters because there are already calluses underneath the ones that came off.
August 29, 201411 yr You have to cut your fingernails more than once a year... You have to look up where the switch is to shut off your power hammer... You are seriously considering an auto fill valve for your slack tub.. If your grand son comes into the shop and the height mark on the wall is a foot lower than his head... If the steel in your stock pile is rust free... ( all new )
August 29, 201411 yr Your firescale and or clinker pile is known to swallow tools whole and hide them.
August 29, 201411 yr you re-fill you're propane tank every other day lol Glen only once a year to catch you're self on fire DARN I do that once a month ! at least coveralls are full of holes -- yep smells like cotton again LOL people always ask me if i smoke NOPE I just smolder :P
August 29, 201411 yr Author you get your anvil so hot, you can fry an egg Is that a mid-morning break egg, a lunch egg, or a dinner egg?
August 30, 201411 yr people always ask me if i smoke NOPE I just smolder :P I always answer that one, ... "Not if I can help it ....." .
August 30, 201411 yr "I don't want to catch you boys smoking behind the barn again." "Well, if you had got here 5 minutes ago, you would have seen us when we still on fire!!!"
August 30, 201411 yr you know when you're a true smith - welder when someone says Hay you're on Fire ! / again lol You're reply is yea I know but I am to busy right now I take care of that later :D the coverall guy Hate's Me :o just DON'T no why :rolleyes:
August 30, 201411 yr When you step back from the forge and the 90+ degree day with high humidity feels like AC.
September 2, 201411 yr What Ted? Huh? Say again? Speak up? You miss a day and a neighbor from a different street comes to check on you because he didn't hear you working. You have a left glove pile....from this month alone.
September 2, 201411 yr When you can no longer straighten a bar on your anvil because it has developed too much sway... When you can no longer sharpen your cut off tool because there is not enough material left.. When you look out of your shop and your wife has installed a new mail box and arranged for mail forwarding. When you can no longer sweep the shop with the wide push broom ... Just the skinny stick one...
September 2, 201411 yr When you step back from the forge and the 90+ degree day with high humidity feels like AC. That's what I was about to say - when you have to step out of the shop into 100F weather to "cool off".
September 3, 201411 yr Unless at least two tools have been broken AND repaired or remade today. Dang it. (drill bits don't count)
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