Gearing up for a Carrie Nation statue?  (With chain drive to swing the hatchet!)

I think you have it wrong Thomas, Scott said it was washed out and a battle axe saved the day.

Did a crabby old lady help push your car out of a mud hole, throw you a rope, call a wrecker or something else, Scott?

Frosty The Lucky.

Fun finds Scott. I like the chains. Who could pass up a cool old hatchet like that for less than $5. 

I might attempt to take the kids to the fleamarket sunday. With one of them it wouldn't be too much, but with both of them and just me, it might be a bit much. There's just too much to want and for them to grab.. hopefully I'd have a hand free to pull out my wallet if I do find anything. 

If you double post, just report one of them and ask the mods to take care of it.

Not directly smithing related, but I did get a good deal on a used bicycle (one that’s actually big enough for me!) for commuting to work. Hopefully, this will help get my legs in better shape for the treadle hammer.

Almost followed me home, didn’t take pics. It was a Hay Budden for $400. Seller said it actually tipped the scales at 108#. Good shape too. Some limited chipping on the edges in a couple of spots, but none of it was too bad or irreparable. It was mild enough that I would have just radiused the edges to smooth them out. Only passed because, well, I don’t need it. But now I’m thinking of going back for it…
I did pick up a Ruger .22lr wrangler on the way home though. Pretty sweet little plinker.  

I bought a 108 pound Hay Budden in about the same condition that I did not need but at $1.85 US per pound I could not pass it up.

At that price I sure wouldn’t have passed on it either!

  Aric it may wind up in a sculpture or go in my tool collection.  Not very old though I suspect.  

  Chaindrive Carrie Nation lol....

  All of the above, Jerry.... 

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Picked up a few tidbits at the ReStore and a nice hot-cut at a yard sale:

And a nice card and patch came in the mail from the Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths as a thank-you for participating in the most recent round of our mentoring program. Fairly sure those are Anne Bujold’s tattoos.

Bouncy house blower, two wagon tires, two broken bale spikes, an old compressor of some sort, and some random piece off an old combine.

The blower I bought for the motor, same with the compressor. One or the other motors I plan to use to power a home-built disc sander. 
 

The fat spike I don’t have plans for yet. The thinner one I will use for a couple of drifts. 
 

The random piece from a combine, some sort of handled top tool. 
 

The wagon tires, who knows. I am thinking some sort of thing for my wife to use with that scented wax she uses. I have a large pile of WI already. Likely more than I will ever use, but they aren’t making more and the price was right. So I bought it  I may just cut it into short pieces and sell it on eBay some day. The prices for it there have been rising quite a bit for the past few years.

Scrapyard: couple of heavy duty timing chains, larger ball peen hammer head, 3 more feet of 1" sq stock for hardy stems, misc tools; misc scrap: 37 pounds in all.

Round two from our friends studio resource piles they are downsizing. 6 grader blades (like I need more) but helping them out. A lot of usable angle iron, a 100 gallon aquarium stand that will get a top for a work table. A bunch of black steel DOM tubing.

This picture of the front section frame rail of a Chevy pick-up is a perfect example of what was I thinking when I picked it up years ago.

The large black frame is a pallet frame that Polaris ATV's were shipped in. I had a plan to use the plasma cutter and cut it apart back then so I will do that starting next week (better late than never).

 

I've found large aquarium stands to work quite well as hammer racks.  I just flatten the ends of pipe and bolt them to the stand in parallel rows one set along the front and one set along the back with them spaced just wide enough for hammer handles.   (Now I have too many hammers and have done the same thing with larger strongly made bases.)

Went to an auction this morning, bought two industrial gas heaters, two industrial feed hoppers an picked up two industrial fans for a friends shop,

I’ll try an get better pictures of all the stuff  I dragged home, tomorrow after I unload,

but here’s some pictures of the fans Still in the back of  a 2500hd truck for size reference 

 

I can hardly wait to make coleslaw with them!   (And my Hurricane cocktails will be just that more authentic---especially if I can get my wife to spray the hose into it!) 

I'm thinking that setting them up in a silo facing straight up and we could practice sky diving. 

You REALLY think you can talk your wife into spraying the hose INTO the fan, Thomas? If so I'd like a video of the butt whooping she's going to give you for succeeding. Please.

Frosty The Lucky.

TW Looks like your well on your way to a large fan club.

  Boy Billy, nice haul.   I miss farm sales/auctions back home.  Parking in the ditch/field, the smell of pipe and cigar smoke in the air, everybody in bib overalls....  I used to get a kick out of watching for the greedy ones moving things they want from one box of junk to another that had something else they wanted.  Hard to do with so many people milling around.  I used to take a chance sometimes and move it back...lol.  The auctioneers usually rode around in the back of a pickup from lot to lot.  I saw one fall out once when the truck hit a rut.  He dusted himself off, made a joke and jumped back in....  "How much am I bid on this Farmall weed free, cog and chain dual plow soybean shuckin' crossbinder?  Wouldn't take much to fix that broken shaft there!  Who'll gimme a bid?"  Good times....

9 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Hurricane cocktails will be just that more authentic

Boy howdy that would give a new meaning to prop wash! 
 

8 hours ago, Frosty said:

I'm thinking that setting them up in a silo facing straight up and we could practice sky diving

Man now your makin me wish I’d bought more of these while I was there!

5 hours ago, Glenn said:

large fan club

Lol, these ain’t for me, I’m sending these out west so Thomas can blow the cottonwood fuzzies outta his shop!

Scott, I love goin to farm auctions, as soon as the cold weather passes an the spring thunderstorms let up you know auction season has started, I’ve been to three farm auctions in just the last month so far! 

i have a customer who’s an auctioneer an he always gives me a heads up when there’s an upcoming one that has stuff I might be interested in! 

it’s funny how people will pay thousands of dollars for a junky beat up trailer they could have bought new for less but then they won’t give a $100 bucks for a multi thousand dollar industrial machine 

I watched a giant diesel power plant sell for pennies on the dollar yesterday because no one wanted to mess with the logistics of moving an storing a generator as big as a truck! Lol

I haven't gone to an auction in quite a while, they're all handled by the same auction company and their shills circulate to run bids stupid high. I've only been caught by auction fever once, even bid against myself that time. Got some good stuff but . . .<sigh>

It's not as much fun as it used to be, watching people bidding against each other, bound and determined to get a good deal no matter what it costs. THEN there's the auction company that will raise what you have to pay after you've won the auction. They have the right to do it too, says so in the fine print on the document you have to sign to participate. Oh, the other person bidding against you was a company shill. It really soured auctions for me.

Of course there WAS the one time a bidder stuck the company shill with the winning bid instead of vis versa and made them eat it, loudly and publicly. That was the last auction I enjoyed.

Maybe if things change or I'm in another state. I really miss auctions.

Frosty The Lucky.

  I never signed a document at an auction that I remember.  Most just want to see your drivers liscence.  Then they give you a number.  What gets my goat is when the prime item advertised on a sale bill is mysteriously not there.  Aww shucks...  Might as well stay and bid on the other JUNK.  Bait and switch.

  I got caught up in a bidding war once, like you say.  I bid against myself in the heat of the moment.  It was somewhat humiliating.  Somebody else took it home anyway.   Lol...

Thankfully This guy doesn’t run his auctions like that, he’s a straight forward guy,

what you bid is what you pay with him,

you don’t have to sign or agree to anything to bid, just give ‘em your ID an they give you a number

he runs a small simple auction company, it’s just him auctioning, his wife runs the check in booth, daughter writes down the winning bids and his sons help carry around the speakers an mark the bidders numbers on what they bought,

then he partners up with another guy who owns a food trailer to sell concessions,

here in Adair county it’d be hard to get away with havin fake bidders in the crowd because everyone knows everyone an it would come out one way or another and all xxxx would break loose! Lol 

An angry lynch mob would storm down your door for trying to pull something like that here! lol

ive bid against myself once at an auction the auctioneer just made a joke about it but didn’t raise the price on me

Hi, I picked up a nice anvil this week

From the patern I guessed it was Germany, and I was right. After some wirebrush turns out its a F W K made in 1942, 98kg

It is forged, ans we can clearly see the weld marks

I paid 220€ for it in Roscoff France

Im so happy to have found a german anvil, and forged !

Congratulations it looks awesome!

Thats a beauty Mel!

Went to the fleamarket with the girls. They got a paw patrol boat, mom got her kettle corn and I found a pair of tongs that are about 42" long. The guy said he has more possible blacksmithing related stuff and took down my number to text me the next time he would be selling there and bringing more. He was happy it was going to a good home and possibly back to use.