Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 The older I get, the simpler I become. ~JHCC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 The older I get the simpler I wish people would LEAVE THINGS! More complicated is NOT an improvement. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 "I will never put my name on a plow that does not have in it the best that is in me." John Deere, blacksmith Deere grew up in Vermont where he received a common school education and served a four-year apprenticeship learning the blacksmith's trade. In 1825, he began his career as a journeyman blacksmith. In 1868, Deere's business was incorporated under the name Deere & Company. By then, the company was producing over 13,000 plows per year in the largest plow factory in the western states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 8 hours ago, Glenn said: "I will never put my name on a plow that does not have in it the best that is in me." John Deere, blacksmith “Especially not one that’s red.” John Deere, blacksmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Ha; my Grandfather was a CASE dealer, first in his state; He was given a tractor when it was announced at the State Fair and drove it home ---150 to 200 miles back then. Said the colour was great. Farmers out in their fields would see it and had to come howdy with him about that funny coloured tractor. He had sold a number of them by the time he got it home...Green is so you can hide it in the field when it's not working! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Wise men must not argue with fools, as the buystanders can not tell the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Thank you Charles! I need to have that tattooed on the inside of my eyelids s I don't forget! It put a big smile on my mug today. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 +2 on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc1 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Charles R. Stevens said: Wise men must not argue with fools, as the bystanders can not tell the difference. i believe the say is "don't argue with fools since they beat you with experience" ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 There are many expressions in the "not arguing with fools" department. All of them are right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Not all of them... ...but I won’t argue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 If one prefers, “don’t wrestle with swine, everyone will get muddy and the pig will enjoy it” My personal favorite. Then again I am a fan of “here’s your sighn” and the “additive adjustment” song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 This one's mine. Idgit, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen!" . . Me, "No mirror?" Another one I've always thought was . . . amusing. The guys who try to make you feel stupid by deliberately misunderstanding. How's that? YOU are the one who didn't get it and I'm stupid? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Believe me, I have to remind my self, “they aren’t stupid, their average”... a frightning realization in this age of the internet. I have no problem with folks not gifted with intelligence, they can’t help that as it was an unhappy coincidence of birth. And as ignorance is a treatable condition, I don’t mind the ignorant either. It’s the willfully ignorant, those who refuse to learn, those who glory in their ignorance that twist me off. In an age where one can sit on the toilet and access most of accumulated human knowledge (and unfortunantly its folly) from their IPad, I see little use for them. “When I nod my head hit it”.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted May 5, 2018 Author Share Posted May 5, 2018 As a blacksmith I try for a tolerance of the "thickness of a worn shilling"---if it was good enough for Watt it's good enough for me! Thomas Powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabumi Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 All this talk of fools reminds me of a few quotes, everybody's favorite "A fool and his money are soon parted" which tells me to find out what fools in your area like to buy and start making it Religious reference removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, While others judge us by what we have already done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Unfortunately on the internet it's "What we THINK we are capable of making; not necessarily what we ARE capable of making." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 18 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Unfortunately on the internet it's "What we THINK we are capable of making; not necessarily what we ARE capable of making." That's IT! The internet is the . . . Dunning Kruger super highway! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Got to add in another; after a large number of PMs that should have been answered in the forums many times already and no forward progress that I can see. I pointed out that when I got started the internet didn't exist, there was only a few ABANA Chapters in the country, only a couple of books and they were hard to find---(see: no internet) and I knew nobody who was forging that I could learn from; but I went out and started to forge and made a slew of mistakes folks nowadays don't need to; but instead of worrying I might do it wrong I focused on DOING IT and learned. So: YOU CAN'T LEARN BLACKSMITHING ON THE INTERNET; YOU HAVE TO HEAT AND BEAT STEEL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 I didn't have access in school I was working before it was anything but the military USENET and a how wrecking yards kept track of who had what, wrecking yards actually predated the airline's use of online bookings. Anyway it wasn't until the internet I learned about ABANA at all. Like so many things in life you have to DO blacksmithing or it's just a fantasy. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 Life is not a spectator sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 I remember the RFP for a blacksmithing subgroup on the net news groups. We had been hanging around in rec.crafts.metalworking... How proud I was of my *orange* monochrome monitor and getting a modem that could write to the screen faster than I could read...(4800, 9600, 14.4 kb!) least I never struggled with an acoustically coupled 300 baud one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 Fellow at the non-ferrous recycle yard said We do not buy anything to keep, it all has to be sold to make money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 With advice from some friends and understanding " with my scrap sculptures" even tho I like everything I make that "Everything is for sale." Just some things I don't try as Hard to sell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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