[TheForge] Bar Shear

[Dan Scheid]

Lee Green markets a very nice shear. but it it only good to about 1"  x3/8"
after that it gets real hard to twist it
Dan Scheid


> Don't have a picture but the farriers us a bar mounted on a stand that
> has a series of rectangle notches in it. 1/4  3/16   3/8 ect  then with
> a matching piece on a handle they stick the bar to be cut in the one
> piece stick the one with the handle right up tight and twist one way
> then the other breaking the bar off.
> I have done similar with large crescent wrenches
> Maybe a farrier can explain it better or look at a Centar Catalog
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> Roger R Degner
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rafter Lazy C
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:47 PM
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> Subject: [TheForge] Bar Shear
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> Hello guys and all -
>
>     I am trying to find pictures of a home made bar shear.  Maybe I am
> calling it the wrong name or something.  Would not be a surprise.  Can
> anyone help?
>
> Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
> Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
> in the middle of Northern Illinois
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