Jobtiel1 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I always check the "readers for readers" part in the local newspaper, and yesterday someone wanted to give away an old wagon wheel for free. I drove there to pick it up, the thing was massive! It's about 140 cm in diameter. The guy also tossed in an old wall anchor he said came from an old restored church. He mentioned it being from around 1400-1600. So that should be wrought, and I'm hoping the wagon wheel is too! ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 They’re doing work in my building on campus (and high time, too), and the workers were kind enough to let me salvage the old conduit they were replacing. Thinking about rebuilding my punch rack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Brouwers Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Picked these up at restore for $7 for the axe and $1 for the 3/4 wrench that I didn’t have any of before. The axe is a Plumb axe. I’m pretty sure that is a good brand, but not sure how old it is, and what the quality was like later on. I also got $10 worth of hacksaw blades. They aren’t too bad for being $.25 a piece! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 A machine shop is renovating and needed some space, so they gave me this (-Thanks Robbie!). Brown and Sharpe 612 Valumaster. They included some wheels that I'm sure I'll use, but once I get the VFD for it I'll look into converting to 2"X 72"belts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Oh my! How come nobody gives me stuff like that? No, don't answer I know why but like to maintain my fantasies. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 They just dropped off a MAZAK CNC at the scrapyard. Unfortunately I couldn't afford it even at scrap prices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Whew! Four hours later my surface grinder is finally in the shop. Not where its going to go, just inside the doors. It was only a little over half the weight of my LG 50# but seemed more cumbersome and top-heavy. Moved it with chain fall, come-along, pipe and pry bar, with a few towing straps for hold-backs when it got tippy. I recently got an engine hoist to help with this sort of thing, but it was useless. At my age I need a better heavy mover. What do you guys use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I use my Massey Ferguson 255 tractor with a front loader, which I welded a towing hook to the front bucket for a chain or lifting strap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Not having a tractor or an engine hoist and nowhere to put them if I did I have a similar problem. When we moved here a couple of years ago I decided where I wanted stuff in the shop and had younger guys unload and place it while I supervised. I have to move a larger forge to replace my smaller rivet forge that I have used for years and I will probably use a come along and furniture moving skids under the legs to drag it across the dirt floor of my shop. I guess the short answer to how I move heavy things is: minions. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax Hewitt Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Pipes, a toe jack or 2 and crowbars. The old compressors we used to move around were between 2 and 5 ton, Jack them up and slip pipes under, lever with the crow bar and your off. An old boy who had a workshop next to mine used to install weaving machinery in India many years ago, he was showing me photos one day. This loom was the size of a small house and was to be situated on the second floor. There was a hole in the floor to lift it through. 50 or 60 Indian blokes on each side, they would lift one side and slide blocks under then lift the other side and do the same, 12 inches at a time the loom rose through the floor and once through long beams were put through to span the gap. He always said he could move anything no matter how big it was, the only variable was how many Indian chaps you needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Visited the scrapyard today and 156# followed me home; mostly the piece shown. It's 2" wide and 3" deep and close to 2' long. Anybody know what it was and what alloy it might be? (2"x3" is good die material for one of my powerhammers!) On a sad note; the Baler has arrived and they are starting to bale the general scrap pile in prep for shipping it out. I expect they will be done by Christmas... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 That piece is pretty cool. Many uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 A big lower case b or q for a very heavy duty sign. Spark test? Bounce test? GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Thomas, are they keeping the baler to bale it as fast as it comes in or just to get rid of that pile and then send it back? I found this little piece of history at the flea market friday for $2. It may go on the curiosity shelves. Or a mini anvil? It fits in the palm of my hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Looks like something that might be more valuable as something to sell to a collector and use the cash for something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 You may be right but I collect rr related memorabillia. I bought a bunch of stuff from the fellow and he threw in an old rusty logging pike with the handle broke off for free. It's crazy around here, certain vendors sell for next to nothing and then you go around the corner to an "antique" shop and similar stuff goes for 10 to 20 x the price. Maybe I should open a "junque" shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Then onto the curiosity shelf it goes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Maybe I can find an avid logging pike collector! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 The shape of the bulb of the track is indictive of its maker and time period. I remember several from Manassas VA town museum that were quite different from modern ones. You could probably look up the patent if you were totally lacking other interests... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Ive got some old railroad antiques I’ve been meaning to take down to the Adair county museum, I talked with one of the people who helps run it awhile back, and I told them I’d donate a feed store scale from the mid 1800s that came from cane hill Arkansas but after I talked to them I thought I’d give em some more railroad stuff too, because the museum is located in the Kansas City southern depot in Stilwell, and one of the old railroad spike mauls I have is actually stamped with KCS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 This just arrived in the mail. Fantastically usual beastie. Just slap it on the workpiece, set it so that the measurements are equal on both sides, and mark the center point: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Didn't follow me home *yet*: I got to talking to an older gentleman who was buying a brake light lens for his pickup at the scrapyard. His father used to be a blacksmith and made and sharpened mining and logging tools. His Father's JABOD was an small old mining car filled with dirt with a pipe with holes for a tuyere... Anyway he hasn't used any of his father's tools: Forge, Hand Cranked Blower, Post Vise; they have just been sitting in his garage for years----I gave him my card and said if he wanted them to have a good home where they would be used, just give me a call! NM is fairly tool poor; but I keep stumbling over stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 An old mining car would be awesome to have! But sadly there’s none to be had in my area, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 They are expensive out here; I've seen one for US$900 on CL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 That would definitely be a bit much to pay for a lawn ornament! maybe one day when I get around an load up the pickup an head out west for a visit they’ll be one along the way that someone needs to find a new home lol id be the only one in Adair county with an ol mining car in the yard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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