Tool Talk
Welcome Forum => Welcome Board and Introductions => Topic started by: oldgoaly on September 07, 2013, 02:41:59 PM
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Hello and Thank you for letting me join the forum!
I'm a tool-a-holic
pedal and treadle tools to power hammers I do have. I got a invite to ask a "wtf is this stuff" I'll be posting that in the proper place real soon, like just as soon as I post this.
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Welcome to the site. I want to see pictures of these super hammers, and please WTH away :)
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1st is a Mayer bros 50 pound Blacksmith's hammer 2nd is a Metalcraft kit a Yoder clone for doing sheet metal work. 3rd some of the pedal and treadle tools.
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Welcome to Tool Talk!
I like to see those treadle machines.
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Hi, and welcome from Florida. This is a great site! Hope you like it here.
Mike
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Welcome, treadle machines are fascinating.
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Hi and welcome from Alberta
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HI, welcome from Illinois.
Those treddle hammers are great!
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Welcome & Aloha from Hawaii, more photos of your stuff please!!! WOW! what amazing tools you have...
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Sorry I don't have very good pics from the pedal/treadle tools shed, what happened I had found termites in my barn. I had to pull out some stuff, one happened to be a old radio. Now I liked the dial face on the radio so I bought at the auction 50 cents the auctioneer gave e so he didn't have to carry it to the burn pile. So I hosed it off, cabinet is bad. Some internet old radio experts were having a discussion about this manufacturer and they "stated" there were no console radios by this company. Well you know how much fun it is proving the "experts" wrong! So I have that radio under reconstruction and few more in the way of the pedal tools. How many radios you are thinking? Well 20 years ago I lost a bet with my wife, I said 125-150, she said 300, well it took a few days to go and count the all. I wrote down a total of 297, well she had gotten 3 more..... Well she was right that time. so my guess would be 400, counting old test equipment 500 pcs. Btw I live on a farm so the out buildings are full of stuff.
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Don't let American Pickers in there! They'll spend the afternoon and buy one old sign!
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They were about 5 miles from me and bought stuff, I was more excited to see a TIV tornado intercept vehicle, I know they are for real! My wife can't stand Frank. I would not let people climb over stuff, especially my stuff! hehehe I have a few old Indians too!
I also have a few Pullmax machines, they are pretty good at shaping metal. Here is a pic of the "Hot Shop" where the foundry and blacksmith's tools and equipment are, I moved them out years ago cause this can be hazardous, plus it gave me more room in the main shop. This also has a crushed limestone floor which is perfect for that type of work, easier on the knees too!
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WOW!!, what a shop!!! how big is it?
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the hot shop is 30 by 40 was a old machine shed, little low on power, need to bury heavier wire to it. Main shop is 100 by 50 it was a old chicken house. here is about the best pic of the outside, it is going to be sided with metal about 1/2 the windows are coming out, the sunlight is blinding in there at certain times of the day, not going to fool around with curtains or shades! replaced the old windows a few years ago and the new ones let in so much more light
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2 shops!!, 6200 SF!! Wish I had that kind of space for my stuff..
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still I do a bunch of stuff outside cause of no room or it is easier. At one time I had planned a for a line shaft to drive some old tools in the hot shop, but the old body isn't what it used to be. moving old heavy stuff has me wore out! Added a pic of my "big" lathe it's a old South Bend, The story was it turned armatures for the street cars in St.Louis, so when I went to look at it I stuck my little magnet down where only the smallest of chips could hide not steel swarfs! Year later the local PBS station did a documentary on the last of the street cars and they show the little garage with the I-beam sticking out the end of the building.
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I see it is ok to post a facebook link, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sluggos-Slow-Shoppe/187845251266156?ref=hl
is to the "tongue -n-cheek" look at the workshop, having bad joints keeps me in slow mode! and the regular run of the mill fb page https://www.facebook.com/oldgoaly there a few hundred pics on there.