[TheForge] Re: make shift anvil

[Jerry Frost]

You haven't really missed much Pete. Most of what I deleted would require
samples retrieved from drill samples to have much meaning for your
situation. Still . . . . I'm working graveyard shift for the next three
months and don't try to change back to days on my weekends. Soooo on one of
my BORING nights off I might try putting my materials lab and drilling
experience in some form of relatively concise and maybe even useful how to
for guestimating soils for hammer, etc. foundations.

I certainly don't envy you the pick and shovel work, I used to live in
southern california and have a good idea how much fun it's going to be. You
might consider renting a compressor and jack hammer, could also drive small
dia. piles with one. <grin> I grin because driving steel with a jack hammer
is a raft of work I don't recommend.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk@thegrid.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: make shift anvil


> Thanks Jerry;
> I'll increase the thickness of the gravel bed for sure. Have most of the
> drainage in place..most everyone thinks I'm being obsessive about it but
> it seems to me I'm not doing enough. Sorry I missed the deleted part.
> Suspect that i can use any  help I can get .
> Pile driving isn't an easy option in the shop. As it is I'll have to
> pick and shovel the hole and carry the dirt out in buckets.
> It's just a little 40K Chinese hammer...perhaps I'm worrying over-much..
> Then again, maybe not enough....twitch...skuff.
>