Frosty Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 And poked your finger too?! Oh the humanity! Oh you poor boy, please allow me offer my assistance, if you'll ship all that horrid old JUNK to me I'll see it gets dealt with appropriately. I have a disaster fund set up specifically for the purpose. (Of course the disaster is trying to get my shop clean enough to put anything else in it.) Yes, I feel much better now, thank you. Keep us in the loop please. How about a better pic of the anvil? We don't want it feeling neglected now do we? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 This will be following me home tomorrow !! oh the ease of moving heavy anvils and any other heavy items... even it close tight areas !! this is the smallest forklift ever made !! its a Clark Trucloader !! made from 1945 - 1967... it weighs 2500 lbs. with a lift rating of 1000lbs. and 9 ft. max lift height.. its 28" wide and 52" long not including the forks.. takes up about as much space as two trash cans !! and fits through a man door !! the orange one is mine, the other two are to show the size better.. the man standing next to his is 6' tall.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 HB's are stamped in pounds so you are a bit more burley than you thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ling Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 On 8/15/2017 at 5:58 AM, ausfire said: That seems a bit drastic. A chain would have done to quieten them down. However, a hornless anvil is still useful in the shop. Here's one I found in the scrap a while ago. It would do 95% of what I make. was that one cut off or busted off? it looks in good shape other than the horn missing, just interesting because typically when the horn breaks off, it's from someone doing heavy blows with a large hammer or a sledge, and so is edge chipping, but there don't seem to be much if any chipping. Littleblacksmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 My heelless Powell doesn't show signs of abuse on the edges though the horn is worn quite a bit. It's puzzled me too that the heel could be hammered off but the rest tof the face look good. But it does seem to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 My wife would lie serve me with divorce papers if I brought home that awesome forklift. But at least I would have no problem loading all her stuff into the moving van! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 HaHaHa !! that's funny Lou !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I've met your wife, and she is a lovely woman. I'm sure you would miss her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 In all honesty, I can't wait to show my wife this thread. She will love it! That's what makes her a keeper. She will argue that I have yet to display my "keeper" qualities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Autocorrect? One way to track them down is to find places that generate scrap and ask them what they do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the iron dwarf Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 got a bit of 4140 today 6" by 6" by 13" also getting some 4" square 4140 going to make a few block anvils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Ah the old days in S. Cal. Dad used to make regular shopping trips to a salvage yard in Burbank (I THINK it was Burbank) and I tagged along every chance I got. It was the coolest place on earth it was about 60 acres of every kind of salvage S. Cal. industry generated. There were ocean mines stacked 4 deep in a double row probably 60'+ long. Ever need a rocket engine? There were no less than 3 Saturn 5 engines. Stacked Aegena boosters, and ore. Ever sit in a Mercury, Gemini or Apollo capsule? I didn't bother to count them. There were decommissioned bombs of all kinds. Aerospace salvage. You name it. Dad was usually shopping for die making alloys primarily NuDie V. I was looking for, at cools stuff. I'd picked out a small LOX tank I wanted to make into an insulated lunch pail till Dad noticed the beryllium alloy stamps and nixed the coolest lunch bucket in the 10th. grade. That salvage yard is the inspiration for the old TV show "Salvage 1" If it's even still there I'll bet there's no picking allowed. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Remember the old Army Surplus stores? Picking your way through piles and shelves and ducking under stuff suspended from the roof... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Oh yeah, loved the army surplus store! Dad bought my M1 Carbine at an army surplus store and the 8mm. German Mauser he sportereized at an army surplus store. We visited quite few stores looking for just the right Mauser. It's upstairs, Dad gave it to me when he stopped hunting. Supposedly he was making it for me but I never got to hunt with it, I had to use the 30 06 another surplus store buy. There is a "surplus" store in Wasilla just packed full of military looking stuff made in China. It takes an industrious people to make brand new surplus eh? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 20 hours ago, littleblacksmith said: was that one cut off or busted off? it looks in good shape other than the horn missing, just interesting because typically when the horn breaks off, it's from someone doing heavy blows with a large hammer or a sledge, and so is edge chipping, but there don't seem to be much if any chipping. Littleblacksmith Doesn't look like it was cut off. Perhaps just a clean break. Anyway, it's still useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cochran Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Found myself a coil spring on the edge of the highway on my way home from work today. Looked like someone got bumped a little too hard right there. Not sure how the coil spring fell out in an accident that left so little mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 29 minutes ago, Michael Cochran said: Found myself a coil spring on the edge of the highway on my way home from work today. Looked like someone got bumped a little too hard right there. Not sure how the coil spring fell out in an accident that left so little mess. Roadkill is roadkill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cochran Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 5 minutes ago, JHCC said: Roadkill is roadkill! I go to a chuckle when I saw it lying there, first thing I thought was 'I got my roadkill today, wonder if he did?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Michael Cochran said: I go to a chuckle when I saw it lying there, first thing I thought was 'I got my roadkill today, wonder if he did?' No, the only think I saw that looked rusty turned out to be a piece of brown wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jclonts82 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 On 8/15/2017 at 5:08 PM, Frosty said: . How about a better pic of the anvil? We don't want it feeling neglected now do we? The wife took this just after I picked it up and put it in the back of the truck... kneeling down to take a breather. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Oh my dainty little thing isn't she? Beautiful old lady, good for you. Forgive my ignorance please but are those cup holders built into your bed liner?! Great, now I have bed liner envy! I'm going to have go back to hating you for a while and maybe stop looking at your posts at all. <snivel snivel> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Sow what to the pair of silver bars denote in the US public health service, Mr. Clonts? Being ex Army I think Captain and whant to salute... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I see the uniform, there. Thank you for your service! (My wife's uncle is a retired USPHS Rear Admiral.) 9 minutes ago, Charles R. Stevens said: Sow what to the pair of silver bars denote in the US public health service, Mr. Clonts? Being ex Army I think Captain and whant to salute... Lieutenant. The Commissioned Corps uses pretty much the same rank structure and insignia as the US Navy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Still want to salute ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jclonts82 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Yessir, Lt Clonts, USPHS. Still O-3 rank, but naval ranks. I Picked it up on the way home, still in uniform, didn't wan't it to run away JHCC, what discipline? I'm a Pharmacist working for Indian Health Services. O-7!!! Thats no joke. You could salute, but my return would probably be horrible in form! Oh, and Frosty, the truck was borrowed... I drive a nissan versa... SUPER-manly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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