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If it weren't for flashbacks from 1978 I'd have no memory of it at all..........

I seem to have fuzzy memory of all the adults talking about what was going to happen to all the houses painted with lead paint since it was just banned. At least us schoolchildren would not be able to chew on yellow pencils with lead paint on them anymore.:skull:

Rob F;9957 wrote: I seem to have fuzzy memory of all the adults talking about what was going to happen to all the houses painted with lead paint since it was just banned. At least us schoolchildren would not be able to chew on yellow pencils with lead paint on them anymore.:skull:

Asbestos was just as prevalent, remember all the houses with those stylish shingles on the siding and roof? Then they probly painted what was left in lead paint....:skull::skull:

Making Combine Harvesters for Massey Ferguson in Kilmarnock, Scotland. To earn some cash in my spare time I made gates,grilles etc, cut and weld frames and fill with scrolls,nothing artistic, all the time wanting to do forging, but there wasn't a blacksmith in my area to learn from and no internet, so I got on with my life until I got the bug again in '96. Got all the gear now but still not much of an idea. Been self employed last 30 years, still welding but now designing and making sand blasters for the restoration business. Too busy to do much forging. Life's a bitch.

Ries;10772 wrote: At first I thought you were making scrolls for the grilles of Combine Harvesters- now that would be a good blacksmithing job...

Kind of like Wim Delvoye's laser cut machines-

That thing is cool.... Im going to do some diggin on Wim, never heard of until now

In 1978 I was a senor in webb city high school working to get my first truck, learing farm work and how to repair most everything that made the farm run smothly. and understanding that the farm would not pay as well as the factory. but the knowage I had ganed on the farm worked well in the factory. my black smithing instrest did not come till I was 30 years older and was on my own farm just me and the wife.:happy:

I was living on a trapline in Central BC Canada with my wife and 1 year old son. We were 30 miles to the nearest ranch and 135 miles by helicopter west of Williams Lake. Used a dog for transport and as a logging truck. Pulling in fence rails from about 1/2 mile away. Getting it done before the snow went.