LeeJustice Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Improvised anvil for starters. I thought that once I posted I did pretty well with the pic. I paid attention to the file size, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Picked up an old hook for a couple dollars at a local junk shop, I thought it was a grappling hook but the old man told me years ago everyone around here used these to fish well buckets out when the ropes broke. I’d never heard of that but it makes sense to me. I have an old hand drawn well out in front of my shop I thought this would make a neat decoration to hang out there. Anyways i thought it would also be a cool project to try an make another one myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Cool hook and interesting story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Back when most everyone had a well; those were fairly common. You may want to make one and go fishing in your well! (start with a strong magnet on a rope). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Thanks DHarris! I’ve heard of magnet fishing but I never thought of trying it out in my old well that’s a good idea Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgeway Forge Studio Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Not so much followed as slid down the river of drool- I've been wanting one of these for a while, and my grandmother found out and ordered it for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Would she like to adopt another grandson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amze Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Perhaps two grandsons? Both named Thomas no less Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 I am one step closer to getting my machine shop and welding gear down here. I bought a 48' Great Dane dry van with a lift gate on Truck Planet. Now to get it moved from San Diego. A 48' should hold two Monarch lathes, a vertical mill, horizontal mill, shaper, my big welders, surface grinder, and a lot more. Thinking I might also be able to run power to it once it is at my place and use the equipment until a shop gets built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgeway Forge Studio Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 She'd take anyone provided they chop wood in the fall for her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalebar Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 A productive but uncomfortable dog walk, my physio is gonna give me disapproving looks. Those clips are a kilo each of shear steel, plus a bit of wrought, that nut and bolt might become hammer and I'm sure I can find a use for the coal shovel. It's sat on the half sleeper I found a while ago which happens to fit my sandbox as a lid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 I make dishing hammers from dome headed RR bolts. Slit and drift the eye in the middle of the shaft for shallow dishing and slit and drift in the far end for deep dishing---I like to curve the shaft too for deep work; so the middle of the face tracks your swing arc spot on! Around here the clips are usually an upper end medium carbon steel; sure wish we had shear steel ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalebar Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 A dishing hammer is exactly what I had in mind I've picked up five modern clips over the last few months , they're supposed to be .4C .7 Mn When the river gets a bit lower I'll do some serious exploring of the harder to get to bits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 "Volunteer River Cleanup" is how to spin it to the Authorities! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalebar Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Found another few this morning and some larger bolts, the bolts resist the file after quenching . I also found an office chair that I managed to lug quarter of a mile to a bin and two dining room chairs I couldn't carry as well. What staggers me is the effort it must have taken to dump them in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Fly tipping: a future Olympic sport? (Along with Tip Diving, of course!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Hot morning at the scrapyard; been a couple of weeks since I last wend and someone was shutting down their well drilling business and junking stuff: I picked up a WI bolt: (ontop the pile) Improvised hardy holes: Some misc steel: 3/8" rod and some 1/2" sq, a few tools, etc and An old Delta Jointer! 6.5" face (fence is on a workbench as the jointer weighs a lot!) I bought it for scrap price but the scrapyard owner told me they were told it was working...Have to plug it in and see! All in all 255# OUT; took in a bucket of scrap copper that paid off about 1/2 my "debt". Supposed to get to 104 degF here today; I went home and consumed mass quantities of iced tea and lemonade! (and some more of my WI stash: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amze Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Nice haul! We just sold our house and I had to leave my WI wagon wheel behind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 2 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: An old Delta Jointer! can you re-share a new pic this one is quite blurry M.J.Lampert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Nice haul Thomas. What are the size of the square holes in the skid shoes? I assume you weld them to something to use as hardy holes; ever break welds in use? They should be very like if not Vascowear, about 200pts carbon and significant % tungsten, high alloy. It doesn't like being welded. it hit 73f here today, a few degrees hotter than Anchorage in summer is the norm. I went through about 1/2 gal of iced tea. I'd render in 104f heat. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Frosty, the weather prognosticators here say 75F for the low and 111F for the high today and 114F to 119F with lows as high as 86F all next week. At least the humidity is only 7% to 20% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 We hit 93* yesterday with humidity around 500%. Nasty day for anything other than sitting in the shade with a cold beverage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Glad I have good airflow in my shop. I'm not far from Frosty's temperature preferences. The last week has been in the 80's and 90's. Ice been going through more water than beer in the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Lovely Bigguns. Deb and I don't plan on traveling in the lower 48 during summer for a reason. A GOOD reason. I grew up in the S. Cal and was a regular weekend desert rat on weekends and holidays. The hottest weather I've experienced was in E. Wenatchee Wa. when my Father asked for me in his last days. Being on the Columbia River there was a decent breeze, were in the 80s and the house had air so I was able to sleep. Mornings weren't awful and I could have a smoke on the front steps but when the sun cracked the mountain tops I felt like a torch was being played over me. It immediately jumped into the 100s, highs were running to 106f and a bit. But it was a DRY heat. You could tell by the salt crust in my armpits. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 As many of the folks here know; I'm using a phone that is OLDER than some of the folks here and so the pictures are often quite bad. I only post them as some of the folks here hassle me to! So: I also found a tamper? Frosty I don't weld the improvised hardy holes, I pick them up so when folks tell me that they can't use an improvised anvil because it doesn't have a hardy hole. I can sell them an improvised hardy hole for a buck or two, (20 USCents a pound...) I might try super missile weld if I did try to weld them. This set was 1.125" IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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