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<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2csroYu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030065 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
<img src=" <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2b992s6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030066 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
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Gents, started this project 30 years ago with the purchase of an old Buffalo Forge, tools and post vice with original post from a farm auction in the mallee of South Australia. Finally several years ago got all the gear backloaded from my mothers place in South Australia to Gidgegannup in Western Australia. The boilermakers at work for the price of a carton of cider made a new fire pot, a ver good copy of the original. A few cartons of beer got me a heap of old bridge timbers from a bridge rebuild just down the road. That made up most of the floor and half faced the front wall. I converted a lean to tractor shed to the smithy which is pretty typical of what you might find on a station ( ranch) or old time farm. The bench is 4" thick jarrah (local WA hardwood) and the floor under the forge and anvil is cracker dust, well watered and compacted. I knocked the head out of a barrel, made it into a lid and use that for quenching. Post drill picked up from a farm dump, also Buffalo and a coke bunker. I have also set up my bullet casting gear in the shop, and restored an old bakelite valve wireless for entertainment. Only a small 120lb anvil, but big enough for what I do. My daughters boyfriend is an English roof lead worker, he flashed in the chimney and the front stoop. Finally got the front stoop floor concreted.
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<img src=" <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2b992s6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030066 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
<img src=" <a href="https://flic.kr/p/NLCnUK" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030064 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
Gents, started this project 30 years ago with the purchase of an old Buffalo Forge, tools and post vice with original post from a farm auction in the mallee of South Australia. Finally several years ago got all the gear backloaded from my mothers place in South Australia to Gidgegannup in Western Australia. The boilermakers at work for the price of a carton of cider made a new fire pot, a ver good copy of the original. A few cartons of beer got me a heap of old bridge timbers from a bridge rebuild just down the road. That made up most of the floor and half faced the front wall. I converted a lean to tractor shed to the smithy which is pretty typical of what you might find on a station ( ranch) or old time farm. The bench is 4" thick jarrah (local WA hardwood) and the floor under the forge and anvil is cracker dust, well watered and compacted. I knocked the head out of a barrel, made it into a lid and use that for quenching. Post drill picked up from a farm dump, also Buffalo and a coke bunker. I have also set up my bullet casting gear in the shop, and restored an old bakelite valve wireless for entertainment. Only a small 120lb anvil, but big enough for what I do. My daughters boyfriend is an English roof lead worker, he flashed in the chimney and the front stoop. Finally got the front stoop floor concreted.
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