It followed me home (Part 2)

Yankee Josh said:
That is very interesting! And cool! It looks to me like something someone asked the local blacksmith to make for them. Maybe drew it on a napkin real quick and said here make this! At first I thought it was pretty fugly. But the more I look at it the more I appreciate it! I really like the way it looks! Very unique. Could the top lugs have been ground or filed off at some point?
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YJ that's exactly what i thought. "Ughh." But i kept going back to it, it had that je ne sais quoi.
 
Miller '72 said:
... the dad of my sons friend today, had a glimpse in my garage...it was a quiet pick up after that...
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That is a quiet man nod to you.

I get that whenever my neighbors come over to borrow a torque wrench, appliance dolly, or an extension ladder taller than their home. Funny how years back they would have lit up as opposed to going “quiet”.
 
I wonder what the quiet means. Like they're thinking, "ah man, all I have is the Die Hard box set." Or, "I thought my granddad's transit was cool, but look at this dude's stuff. I'm intimidated."

Since my girlfriend is an hour and change away I get to keep my place very dudely unless she's coming up. I would have to drastically "redecorate" if i started dating again. Bringing a women into a house with crosscut saws and many axes hanging from the walls and nestled in corners would definitely get me the label "creepy." Lololol
 
Agent_H said:
Or, "My garage has a treadmill and a bar with stools..."

Die Hard box set - funny stuff
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In my garage they'd just be holding their tongue trying not to say " I can actually see my workbench " :D
It's one step forward and two steps back trying to keep any suitable surface such as my workbench from becoming a catch all.
 
Agent_H said:
That is a quiet man nod to you.

I get that whenever my neighbors come over to borrow a torque wrench, appliance dolly, or an extension ladder taller than their home. Funny how years back they would have lit up as opposed to going “quiet”.
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Fmont said:
I wonder what the quiet means. Like they're thinking, "ah man, all I have is the Die Hard box set." Or, "I thought my granddad's transit was cool, but look at this dude's stuff. I'm intimidated."
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Hickory n steel said:
In my garage they'd just be holding their tongue trying not to say " I can actually see my workbench " :D
It's one step forward and two steps back trying to keep any suitable surface such as my workbench from becoming a catch all.
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I like to think you guys are right...a quiet awe and respect. Afterall I have taken over the entire garage with tools, workbenches each cluttered with 3 projects, (my)toys and yard equipment...my fortress of solitude. A chair, nice old fan for hot days, a heater for winter...I can sleep in the chair, sooo :D:D
 
Fmont said:
Here go. Poll is 3 3/8", which is wider than any of my Rockaways but about the same as a 4lb KP Jersey. It looks 19th century or earlier to my eye, with that eye and the forge marks.
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Wow,what a cool creature!:)
Love the way it was put together,out of whatever was available,seemingly...Welds look sloppy but fairly competent;looks like the tool got quite worn in use...what more can one ask of a weld?...
It has an appearance of being forged in a smallish,short-handed forge;it's possible that it's quite old,too...(way older than 19th c.).
Welds of this rough of an appearance can be caused by lack of hands,or poor quality of coal,or ditto of iron itself.
Severe contamination by S or P would make it Very difficult to work on this scale/to this complexity.
And that too may be pointing to an earlier age,less transportation possibilities,less access to cleaner,more standardised material...
Nor do we need to limit the scope of possibilities to this continent,the shape is quite age-/state-less...
It kinda/sorta reminds me of abroad-axe that i checked out in the UAF museum in Fairbanks that was forged in Barrow(now Utquiagvik:),AK,by a Scandinavian smith in late 18oo's...same blunt-ish wedginess to it..).

Thanks,Fmont,for rescuing such classy old tool,and showing it to all of us here,wonderful!:)
 






Today was a decentl day at the flea! I got two vintage dB handles that are in immaculate condition and a very nice vintage hammer handle. Then I found the plumb flooring hatchet! Great shape. Someone took the edge off of it so it needs to be sharpened but they did a decent job of it. Didn’t over heat anything. I believe it is the original handle because of the hole where the screw in wedge would go. Just no wedge. Are those called “take up wedges”?? For some reason that term is in my mind for those. Thanks for looking! If anyone needs a good handle for a specific project let me know. These woman’s father passed away and she is selling some of his stuff. (Keeping his most prized possessions) but he had handles for all kinds of stuff. First time I had ever seen a vintage handle made specifically for RR spike hammers. The ones with the real long cylindrical side and then a shorter fatter opposite side. It had a beautiful knob end on it and was marked KATRR if memory serves. For the Kansas Arkansas and Texas rr. An older gentlemen in front of me bought it to use as a walking stick. Lol Anyways let me know she might have something u need. Thanks for looking!!

Oh yes!! There is a Starrett marking gauge in the background of the picture that I also found today! Very cool!!
 
A friend of mine in Missoula died recently. Some of the guys in our Schuetzen club offered to help his long time estranged daughter sell everything and the house. She would be the first woman in Bill's house in 30+ years. What she found (and I was well aware of) was that Bill had taken out a window and enlarged the opening. This allowed him to put a milling machine and a metal lathe with a 6' bed in the dining room, he did gun work after he retired from the FS. He also had built structural walls in the basement to carry the load. Of course he closed up the wall and replaced the window. All of this allowed him to do his barrel work while looking out the dinning room window. The fridge was close enough so he could step back and get a fresh beer while running the lathe. His daughter is now the proud owner of this set up. My wife calls this type of thing "Men without adult supervision"
 
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A17 said:
Do they have a haft suitable for a Puget Sound (ie really long) or a 32 inch double bit, octagonal or not? I missed out on the last 32 double bit at my hardware store and I still have a TTFE western that needs one.
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When I get back to the house I will measure those and let you know. I’m sure she does though. It’s hit and miss. She brings small portions at a time. She is in Kansas and coming to Oklahoma to set up so she doesn’t bring a ton of stuff.
 
Correction. It is definitely not the original haft. I was excited about it and wishful thinking took over lol after really looking at it it is a replacement handle. But I will shape it to my liking and it will be great! It is a club of a handle lol
 
I’ll try to post a picture later, but in today’s yard sale adventures, I picked up a Disston rip saw (I think about 5 TPI) for $2 that has 3 medallions. Ito lay has the three medallions and posts, no other bolts. I haven’t done a lot of searching yet, but I haven’t been able to find much. Anyone have some ideas?
 
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Fmont said:
I also received this earlier than expected. It was described as a kitchen axe, which is off course ludicrous. It appears to have been a full sized broad axe that was re-steeled. Just my suspicion given the size of the poll and eye. I thought J jake pogg might be interested in the pics. The bit is 7.75" wide, weight about 3.75lbs. Twenty five bucks +shipping and nobody else bid on it, I thought it a worthwhile curio that may see some use if the forge weld is deemed to be fit.

I'm sorry if the pics are small and bad, it seems BF has lowered their tolerance for hosting images. Unfortunate. It wasn't generous to begin with.

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I'm going to take a file to it and see if those voids in the lamination are from corrosion. If anybody knows definitively what it is please do share! Perhaps a butcher's axe?

Eta: to clarify, by the voids I'm taking a file to I mean on the cutting edge where the iron body and bit meet, seen in first photo
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I think I found a relative!
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Obviously they have differences but similarities too. Interesting the missing top lugs. Having two examples lends credence to the pattern having a recognized purpose. In my view anyway. I thought I might learn something of the axe in the guys description. Instead I got a little chuckle. Screenshot_20190810-173321_Chrome.jpg
Descri.....Potion!?! :confused:
 
I found a few things today. Not the usual by any means. A few things for pondering and an idea. I thought these jacks are pretty neat.
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Are these automobile jacks?
And I think I'd like to try to make one of these;
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So these followed me home;
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I'll just cut the meat hooks here;
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And then hammer and bend them, cold, to shape. It'll be fun to try anyway! I'll be out looking for sharp things tomorrow....
 
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