[TheForge] Re vice spring info turned what no leaf springs?

[Rick Crawford]

When I got a bucket of horseshoes, I used them to make a gate.  They were
just wire welded together, but it looked pretty neat.

Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
Home of Rick's Forge and LEM the Wonder Mule
In the middle of Northern Illinois
http://www.rafterlazyc.com
rick@rafterlazyc.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TOOL GYPSY" <toolgypsy@hotmail.com>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:20 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re vice spring info turned what no leaf springs?


> I notice that the responses to this vise question have many people talking
> of scrounged iron.I was out to the valley with the wife today and we
stopped
> at a farm /nursery where she bought a few plants.while this went on i went
> wandering around the sheds out back ran into the farmer ,we got talking
and
> i left there with a five gallon pail full of old horseshoes.dont know what
> ill do with them yet but who knows when you might need em.How about some
> ramblings on you alls  best metal/tool scrouge of the year.
>           P S  he gave all his old smithing tools to the lad that shoes
his
> horses.