I just saw this on another thread:[MEDIA] Apparently battery chainsaws can’t draw near the amperage of 120v electric chainsaws and are easily...
I just found a used Stihl MSA200c kit with spare chain, charger and three ap300 batteries on FB Marketplace for less than half that. I’m picking...
I just found a used Stihl MSA200c kit with spare chain, charger and three ap300 batteries but only 10” bar. I’m picking it up tomorrow for what...
There’s something to be said for that.
Unfortunately we sold the old homestead and I sold off all the rocket mass heater stuff three years ago. I do know the fellow who bought this...
I found a 5” post leg vise on FB Marketplace for $100. The original mounting bracket and screw cap were missing and because of that the vise had...
Good, but he had no heat in his shop. My strokes screwed up the system that controls my ability to regulate body heat and I was so cold (even with...
As I try my hand at blacksmithing, this is a good reminder of that which lies behind and above it. The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth...
Yeah, I figured they were the best ones of the five in the Kens Iron Rapid tongs kit to do first. That way I could use it to hold all the other...
I’m in this year! I’m healed enough I can actually be useful, but stamina is still in short supply.
I’d really like to come this year, Dennis. Please keep me in the loop.
On these slot jaw tong jaws? For clearance of the round, square or flat stock to fit into the slots, and so they don’t spin when you’re hammering...
I used cheap HF vise clamps as tongs to complete this set of tongs. Not exactly optimal; I dropped hot metal several times.
I finally got the first tong finished. Went through most of a 5 gallon bucket of lump coal I separated out of the ashes from our two wood stoves...
It works! First project was a simple fire poker for the wood forge. [MEDIA][ATTACH]
Thanks. Amazing what can be accomplished with flap disks and cutting disks on an angle grinder. I’m on several FB beginner blacksmithing groups,...
Honestly I have to use it outside and it’s been so windy here, with so much snow and rain, I haven’t fired up the forge lately. I built a hood so...
My friend who’s workshop we’re heating with a big Home Depot Chinese knock off wood stove[ATTACH] is from San Diego and never heated with wood. So...
Nice! I was looking for a small older vise for the shop. From everything I’ve read, any new vise for less than about a hundred dollars isn’t...
After doing a bunch of research, I concluded that a diagonal pein hammer makes perfect sense from an injury prevention perspective. It’s more...
