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8:38 pm
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October 4, 2010
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Here is a shop I came across in Nicaragua - found it by following the sound of hammer on steel. The forge is a wooden box on legs, lined with local clay. The blower is a hand made wooden paddle wheel powered by hand from a string around the bicycle wheel.. The fuel is pine bark. The anvil is a chunk of rock crusher jaw. The raw material for forging is auto springs and re-bar. The business is mainly horse shoes and small tools.
8:58 pm
March 22, 2010
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Look at all that modern technology!... Is that a pair of your tongs laying there Grant?:happy:
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9:55 pm
hey that looks like a side draft forge there. good on the man.
10:06 pm
March 18, 2010
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I just love seeing blacksmiths working with a minimum. Probably why I've posted so much in the "primitive" section in the media library. Got any more pictures?
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
11:01 pm
March 18, 2010
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Those ARE fireproof hay/straw bales right?:hot:
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
11:07 pm
SURE they are.;)
isn't all straw fire proof?
no funny enough I have set pieces flying into them once or twice. unlike the front end of a car they do smoulder loads before they become a problem.
and the straw on the floor also helps identify small hot pieces cut off the work. (little scorched are. so I never put a hole in my shoe from hot chunks.
believe it or not this set up lasted till this year (6 years)when the tarp had given way at the wrong time of year (ie straw got real wet this year)
also had the added advantage that when I was making a long hand rail I could put the piece through the straw bales and not have to cut a hole in the wall... as such.
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