[TheForge] Re: Your hitching post

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Dave,

So on the originals the lag bolt is screwed into the post independent from
the band which is just to prevent splitting?

I guess if the band is wide enough there could be a hole in it for the lag
bolt to go through, which would help to hold the band in place.

It just came to me that what I had invisioned is kind of like the hardware
on a single tree for a pulling horse. Except instead of a hook it would have
a ring.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net
573-633-2010

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wills" <davnoros at yahoo.com>
To: <eforge at centurytel.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:35 AM
Subject: Your hitching post


> Bob, sounds like he's using a wooden post, and there are a few of those
> surviving down here in Texas.  (though most have been refitted into
> concrete pillars or knobs beside a doorway)  The ring is often held
> captive by a forged loop that looks like it could have been made (and
still
> could be) out of a half inch lag bolt, head lopped off, and turned into
> a flattened loop to hold the ring.  The rings I've seen are about three
> or four inches in diameter, and three-eighths to half  inch round
> stock, welded shut.
>
> The band could be a simple metal band bent around the post to keep it
> from splitting and held in place by a good diameter short nail, even,
> like a shortened 20d.  A trained horse won't pull against a ring very
> hard, and they're not even using real horses, so if there's a problem, it
> would be with the in-the-ground part of the post.  Your metal will
> outlast the post, most likely.
>
> David in Texas
>
> For some reason, I can't reply to the  group.  Oh, well.  I can still
reply.  : )
>
>
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