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You must persevere. No no no, not knowing how it works there along the Yukon I can't say but Archive can be inconsistent one time working, one time working but then with a more or less significant delay and one time leaving you stranded. Please try once playing but then giving it time to load till over the 3/4 mark, maybe doing something else in the interim to keep you busy and not getting bored.Aw,man, don't play with me...must be my satellite internet too mickey mouse...
Aw,man,it don't play for me...must be my satellite internet too mickey mouse...
.Darn it...i can Almost do it,seen about half now,to where he cuts off the old edge......But i really am in a different league.Some topics,because of a number and size of photos,i can't read(most days)
The bandhacke, not to be confused with bundaxt, is an axe of the carpenter, and that carpenter can do with it whatever can be done that gives a good result and leaves the axe in a condition to be picked up for use another day undiminished, so no, it is never struck, for that you got wedges. I wouldn't want to go chopping a mortice with one but for a tenon it works fairly well chopping away the cheeks, it's useful for a variety of lap joints, and other fairly rough wasting work doing joints that need getting done in timber framing work. But where it is at it's best, if you were to ask me, is as a companion to the breitbeil
VFD, you got a good eye for catching something I missed... but then I don't know so much about LandRovers.
Have to love the old wooden bellows mounted over head even if it doesn't get used much. Always interesting to see how blacksmith shops are set up. The anvils are heavy enough to not require being strapped down. On elm stumps maybe?I can give you some indications of the shop itself.
The fire is in the old bakery since it had already its smoke outlet.
There are present three systems of forced air, these manual and the motorized.
But, since then the shop has expanded and is now relocated to the converted barn next door
Yup that's the way she starts. It has a neat system to hold the spare onto the back using the head of a pickaxe as a clamp-down. Yours too?Sorry,man,it's neither Rover,nor forging related...
It's a Variable Frequency Drive,a doo-dah allowing you to run many electric devices,new and old,at optimum torque and speed and efficiency...And even run a 3-phase stuff off a single-leg system...a Very useful creature....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-frequency_drive
(there,it's maybe associated with the compressors,or grinders,for speed-control...?...or some very old motors not compatible with the modern grid).
(But yes,incidentally,of course i used to drive an old rover...an "88",like the one in the yard...loved starting that thing manually...carried my starting-crank in the gun-rack in back window
I think that he has restored the bellows, and yes whether he uses it much I don't know but he says he prefers it because it gives him more control over the flow of air. Or the stumps are oak, it's what they have a lot of in that area but it could be elm. But it is noteworthy that a particular section of stump, whether oak or elm, gets used. In just over two weeks I'm going there for some serious axe forging. Not that I will do any myself but will be there watching. We will restore a fine example of an old Swedish hewing axe, the socketed with reinforced bevels version. It will be spectacular.
