It followed me home

[natkova]

Restored broken cleave hammer.

Welded handle part where is broken, made new one from hornbeam kindling.

And here it is.

I did drawn it out with hammer s little bit so it's have sharper edge them grinded it.

Restored broken cleave hammer.

Welded handle part where is broken, made new one from hornbeam kindling.

And here it is.

I did drawn it out with hammer s little bit so it's have sharper edge them grinded it.

[Larks]

It hasn’t quite made it to my home yet but I found this while working on the other side of the country (4380km away from home to be precise). An old lathe face plate of 750mm diameter (29.5”) and 210kg (462lb). I’ll ship it the same way that I shipped my anvils back home. It will be perfect set up as a heavy work table with the clamping slots versatile for all sorts of projects....

[JHCC]

Nice. I occasionally think that something like that would make a good flywheel if I ever decide to make a power hammer.

[Gazz]

I have a large faceplate as well and my plan for it was to mount it to the front hub from a four wheel drive Ford to make a rotary welding table.  So far, it is still a plan.

[Larks]

One of my mates suggested using a slew bearing to achieve the same thing. I can see that a wheel hub could work but I wonder if the slew bearing might handle the weight better being designed for horizontal rotation while the wheel hub is designed for vertical rotation...?

[JHCC]

Picked up from the trash on the way to work. 

Apparently, someone doesn’t know that you can replace a broken handle. 

[gewoon ik]

4 hours ago, Larks said:

One of my mates suggested using a slew bearing to achieve the same thing. I can see that a wheel hub could work but I wonder if the slew bearing might handle the weight better being designed for horizontal rotation while the wheel hub is designed for vertical rotation...?

Wheel hub is normally a tapered bearing and has more surface area.

But a slew bearing mostly is bigger in diameter and so more stable for a given height than a wheelhub, that is mostly smaller in diameter, so needs a bigger base to become stable

[Frosty]

The trick for making a rotating welding plate is isolating the bearings from the arc. An old drive axle works well and easily, they are carried on thrust bearings, the axle stub hanging below counter weights off center loads and makes a perfect place for the ground lead. It's easy to tell when it's made too many turns one direction it starts getting hard to move and reverses direction when you let go to unwind.

Frosty The Lucky.

[Daswulf]

I had a pick joke but that's a mattock.  There's something the mattock with a pick joke in that case. Good job picking the mattock. Some people don't know or don't care about rehandling tools. Their loss is our gain. 

[JHCC]

The funny bit is that I have a more immediate use for what's left of the handle!

[Scott NC]

  I love your cliffhangers.

[Frosty]

They're a cut above the average hack aren't they?

Frosty The Lucky.

[Scott NC]

  I like things that generate mystery and wonder. 

[Frosty]

Sometimes my cooking is like that, I find myself wondering what mystery ingredient generated that flavor.

Frosty The Lucky.

[George N. M.]

John and Das, that's actually an axe mattock because it is an axe blade opposite the mattock blade.  Handy for cutting roots.  If it was a pick point it would be a pick mattock.  Not everyone realizes how useful a tool it can be.

GNM

[Daswulf]

George, I have several in different forms and have used them. They and digging bars are very handy. I have not so fond memories of using them but the alternative? Yeah. Very handy if you are digging in rough stuff. 

[George N. M.]

My least favorite hand tool are long handled post hole diggers.  I think that because you use muscles that you don't normally they really can stiffen you up with use.

G

[Frosty]

Oh I hate post hole diggers! Not only do they strain muscles nowhere near the handles they REALLY make blisters. I'd rather clean stables!

Frosty The Lucky.

[JHCC]

I spent two summers in college working on a sheep farm for a "gentleman farmer" (who wasn't much of either) whose idea of mucking out the barn was to leave it until summer and then hire someone else to hack out the 9-12" of compacted manure and straw and spread it on the fields. Also spent a lot of time installing new fences, so I had the Augean labor AND time with a post hole digger!

[Chad J.]

I've had several things follow me home lately but today it beat me home.  Bought a new river forge from Centaur.  My old pump action forge broke a fan blade.  I had planned on modifying it to take a hand crank with a new fire pot but this is so much lighter for live demos.  Also ordered 10 crosses.  

[Frosty]

I look forward to hearing what you think of it, Chad.

Frosty The Lucky.

[Chad J.]

I've used that model before.   We have them in our trailers for OSTAs.  They are pretty good for what they are.  I'm happy that it's lighter than my old cast iron and it cools down faster after I'm done for the day. 

[JHCC]

$25 on FB Marketplace: a VERY beefy mechanical shear/nibbler. 

[lary]

Thats a good score on the shear. The place I work has one of those. Purchase date was inscribed on it "1973"   It's what I grab for sheet metal projects.

[JHCC]

Couple more books for the library: