[TheForge] Re: Making a drag bar

[Jerry Smith]

Mike,

I have been going thru my pile of truck leaf spring
scraps and looking for the right sizes.

I thought I would curl one end for the attachment pin
and then drill the other end for the actual drag bar.

Jerry

--- Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:

> 
> Jerry> ...an old truck spring for the actual drag
> bar.
> 
> Frosty> No problem forging 5160 Jerry...
> 
> I don't know about 5610 but I forged a replacement
> tine for my
> Troy-Built tiller from new truck spring -- offcut
> from the spring shop
> -- and it's on its 3rd year and doing fine.
> 
> - Mike
> 
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