BLACKSMITHING was [TheForge] Patriotic rant....

Fri Jun 21 07:11:01 2002

        Sounds like you did a stroke of business.........what type steak
turners? the ones with the small hook at the end?   What type of handle did
you make for them?

Ralph Sproul - Bear Hill Blacksmith
Webster, NH


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> I thought I had done good unloading 22 tons of coal, making 50 steak
turners and varous other running around.
> "Ralph Sproul" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Bill, I'll bit on this one.......... Got a call yesterday from a
> >good friend that buys and sells stuff. Seems his travels took him to a
> >private school that was dismantling thier blacksmith shop that has been
> >running at the school from 1864. I went over with the boom truck as he
> >said there was a large unit for bending pipe with a flywheel......so I
had
> >to at least go see what that was.
> > While I was there I filled the 8 x 21 deck of my rigging truck with
> >all kinds of stuff like hossfeld benders, ring rollers, old axles made of
> >wrought iron, seven rolls of leather belting, rolls of conveyor belting,
> >cool old signs, three crates of 12" bolts, some air blowers, lots of
chain
> >hooks and u-bolts, some great laminated as well as steam bent runners and
> >arches, a caulking vice(step vice), and oooodles of square head bolts,
nuts,
> >and other nice hardware, etc, etc.
> > Now back to the real point. The thing that bends pipe with the huge
> >flywheel turned out to be a Champion Blower and Forge #2 axle and rim
> >upsetter.......what a cool old tool. This thing would buckle 3/8 x 1 1/2
> >flat cold and not loose it's grip. I can't wait to put a piece of 1 1/2"
> >square into it hot to see how it works. It is in mint condition and I
dont'
> >care if someone doesn't want to buy it or whether it has any value, it is
> >just a really well made tool in perfect condition.
> > I've been taking to more hand tools lately for demos, but this won't
> >be going anywhere, I'll bet it weighs 1200 lbs.
> > So it took me all day to unload and put this assortment of items
> >away around the shop, and that is what I did for the first half of the
day.
> > The second half of the day I spent maching out power hammer die key
> >fixtures so I can take cold roll and make one pass on the milling machine
to
> >have a new key. I'm finding this key fixture is allowing me to make all
> >kinds of tapered ramps, which will then allow me to make different power
> >hammer die dovetails in the dies.
> > Interesting where one fixture/jig can take you..........off on a
> >tangent once again.
> >
> >Ralph Sproul - Bear Hill Blacksmith
> >Webster, NH
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "April & Bill Clemens" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:30 PM
> >Subject: Re: BLACKSMITHING was [TheForge] Patriotic rant....
> >
> >
> >> What has anyone done or thought about regarding BLACKSMITHING today???
> >>
> >> ALL OTHERS NEED NOT REPLY!!!!
> >>
> >
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