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If your wife has complained about your work clothes rusting
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Rather than your arms resting
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...if you know horses by their feet
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If you know what a toe grab or heel calk is
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All of the above . Also applies to farriers .
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If you knew the word "coke", wasn't just for a soda water or an expensive way to destroy your nose & brain
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you have a permanent tan on your forarms
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If your first name is Will?
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sltm1 wrote:If you knew the word "coke", wasn't just for a soda water or an expensive way to destroy your nose & brain
There just aren't enough emoticons available here :lol: ....you silly bastard .... :lol:
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Happens to me after acid cleaning a condensor,everything I'm wearing of ferrious nature rusts...
The only thing worse is cleaning soot from an oil fired boiler...
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If you know why you give the anvil 3 hammer taps at the end of the day .
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When you expect the service life of your new work gloves to be about a month.
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Chixter wrote:When you expect the service life of your new work gloves to be about a month.
GLOVES ? You pussy . :moresarcasm:
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When you see the words Horn, Hardy & Pritchel and the LAST thing you think of is a law firm.
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If an auto hammer is on the top of your Christmas list.
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If this is used almost as much as yer toothbrush......
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OtisT wrote:If an auto hammer is on the top of your Christmas list.
Christmas came early for me . I built a 100# variable speed hammer that would run to 1200rpm .
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Mayhap get one of these ...got some room behind the chicken coop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w17ZvglKwpo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
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Hey TB, gotta pic? Here's one I built a bunch of years ago...35lb ram, 160 bpm
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sltm1 wrote:Hey TB, gotta pic? Here's one I built a bunch of years ago...35lb ram, 160 bpm

I'm tryin to get puter literate to retrieve some of my pictures and post here . I used an overarm leaf spring set and built a set of flat belt pulleys with a foot treadle to vary the drive speed . Machined my forging dies with a quick change base setup .
The whole holler knew when I was forging .
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Truckinbutch wrote:The whole holler knew when I was forging .
+1. My old man was a fabricator. All my years growing up I would wake to the ring of metal on metal coming from “the shop”. Great memories. :-).

I work metal as a hobby today and sure regret not keeping all my dad’s heavy equipment. Sigh.
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if ya have one monster arm and another muted-appendage, like a crawdaddy.
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If ya not only know what these are, but you know how they work cuz you made 'em.
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If ya not only know what these are, but you know how they work cuz you made 'em.

So for those of us who are definitely not blacksmiths what are they? Got me curious.
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Well I made a jig (?) out of a block of wood with a couple of bits of copper tube sticking up; and made some hooks out of coat hangers.
Quite proud of them.
Am I on the way to being a blacksmith?

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Sounds like you have a start on being a
Jig maker, Carpenter, and Copper, Coat hanger S mith
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yakattack wrote:So for those of us who are definitely not blacksmiths what are they? Got me curious.
They are called Tavern Puzzles. One has to remove the long skinny part at the bottom called the shuttle and separate it from the rest of the piece. It seems impossible because everything is locked together. There is a secret way of slipping the shuttle over certain loops in a certain sequence. They typically are not easy to solve.

In the old days when everyone made their own whiskey, apprentices working for an established Smith would design/make these as part of their practice. It teaches one many skills that are applied to Smithing overall. The Smiths would place these on the tables of the local gin mills and taverns, usually with their business name and location stamped into a metal tag. The idea being, as patrons were waiting for their food & grog, they would try to solve these things. (Think the triangle/golf tee thing at Crackerbarrel) Some of these patrons were in need of a Smith's service to fix a wagon or harness or whatever.

George H.W. Bush was a huge fan of Tavern Puzzles. He had a good record for solving them. One he could not figure out was the "Dirty Dog" puzzle (shown at right in the photo) and wrote the guy who made it for the solution.
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You might be a Black Smith

If you know an Aussie, named Hugh McDonald designed a rolling mill
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If you've used or know what a "traveler", is.
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sltm1 wrote:If you've used or know what a "traveler", is.
That's as much in the realm of a wheelwright or millwright as it is in the blacksmith's territory . All three crafts utilize it .
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