[TheForge] Lawn Mower Blade also Bush Hog Blades

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

Speaking of J C Campbell Folk Schl.,  I just got back from a week there.  (Okay, I've been back for 3 weeks.)  I took the Celtic Iron class with David Burress and his son Caleb.  Vance Baker was taking the class just for fun.  I learned almost as much from Vance as I did from the official instructors.  I even got to ride in Vance's hillbilly hummer.
 
What a great place to spend a week.
 
Aubrey

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Subject: [TheForge] Lawn Mower Blade also Bush Hog Blades



> Speaking of which, what are bush hog blades? 5160?

Like anything else today not all bush hog blades may be 5160 but most are.
If you think about it the stock is produced in a good size for bush hog
blades and it is a very tough steel that can take hard service.  Most truck
springs (leaf) that I know of are still 5160.

A large number of "new" bush hog blades were given to the John C. Campbell
Folk School a few years back by Vance Baker.  That came from a production
run where they were made to the wrong size and just scraped.  Vance picked
them up and gave some of them to the Folk School.

Dave  Smucker