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Offline skyarrow

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forged flatbar
« on: September 03, 2010, 09:34:46 pm »
well as yall know i do blacksmithing and i do enjoy making tools and useful items that arnt blades hence why i am a homestead blacksmith and my main job is waterwell work and i had to make a clapper die for making flatbars for windmills because the manufactured ones just arnt as good as the old ones so i made one with the clapper die i made hope yall like

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Offline skyarrow

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Re: forged flatbar
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2010, 09:37:13 pm »
and here is a very bad quality vid from my phone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmzs2ploC1I

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Offline jeff halfrack

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Re: forged flatbar
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 11:03:53 pm »
  THANK  YOU!!!   I  allways  wondered  what  was  up  there,  it  wouldn't  bother  me  one  bit  if  you  went  into  more  detail !  BTW   a few  beam  clamps  some  angel iron  and  a  hunk of  2x6   hunt  out  of  one  of  those   LOL!!  thanks  JEFFW

Offline Parnell

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Re: forged flatbar
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2010, 05:14:38 pm »
That's really cool and very interesting.  It's cool to see all the other stuff people make outside archery.  I watched that video - that's the first time I've seen one working like that. 
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