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So, after I purchased the big 566lbs anvil, I cleaned it up and ground & sanded the face and horn to my likings. I`ve owned a whole bunch of different anvils over the years but this one surely is up there for hardness. That took some hrs and a bunch of abresives of sorts to get it done. I did...

just came across this. I liked it and it has english subtitles so I thought I`d share. https://youtu.be/nQlr3adHUWg

I built the frame for this / these tables last winter. My buddy is a carver and made the oak top. The river runs through ,was the initial plan. The steel is cor-ten and some stainless. The plane just flew by... :D

I picked up my new daily driver today. 1976 bmw 528. I`ve been looking for one of these "first fives" for a while. My very first car was one of these and I`ve owned 6 over the years and they just fit me like a glove. They are getting really hard to find nowadays. It has some rust issues so...

In 2014 I bought this new Rehm 190 mig welder. Both 230/ 400v, highly adjustable top notch machine. No cheapo either. Fast forward to last week... I was welding not too clean steel, little rust little paint, your average spatter mess, nothing too crazy, when the welder started acting weird like...

Made a couple fenders for an Allis Chalmers tractor. I don`t know anything about those other than they made really cool crawlers. The fenders are 16ga steel. This little tractor is under restoration now and by the looks of the fenders it was about time too... :p The owner promised to send me a...

Personally I don`t care a lot for Porsche`s. But to my ear the 1970 flat 12 917 is the best sounding car ever. It`s not a rat but it`s kinda silent here at times so I thought I`d share it anyway... crank it up & enjoy [dr https://youtu.be/PFUlMUo3h10

13 yrs ago my friend and ( mainly bmw ) car lover died. At the time he was floor manager at a bmw dealership. The building had a cellar and 2 stories with an elevator to move cars up to the showroom floor. That morning Jan. 28 he was walking backwards with a container filled with car parts...

Wish you all the very best in good health for 2022 https://youtu.be/DnkLpaqF3QA :D

I purchased this old German fly press the other day. The press was bought by a vintage interior dealer in Amsterdam years ago and sat outside ever since. They used to buy old machinery for the cast iron legs and turn those into "vintage industrial" tables and what not... The machines...

..to me that is... As some of you may have read in my rant a few days ago, the woods where I live are flooded with tourists and their vehicles. Due covid lockdown city people need to get some fresh air, which I understand. Long story short; Google maps directs them to my ( private ) road...

For some reason throatless shears are few & far between overhere. I`ve been looking into purchasing a Beverly but just could not bring myself to paying the Beverly price + shipping the boat achor across the globe, but I also didn`t want to go China-crap, so nothing really happened. A few...

I picked up a Pexto shear tonight. I`ve never seen one for sale overhere, it was an hour drive and the price was good so I brought it home. Capacity is 18# but I`ve also seen the rated at 16# [S Can anyone here tell me what the difference is? Maybe the cutting angle? they look the same to...

little covid lockdown project. Last year I purchased an Eckold hand held pneumatic planishing hammer. It`s time to build a frame for it... so, instead of building a whole new frame, I purchased this old tapping machine last week. It has a nice heavy base and 6" cast column. The top of the...

Been looking around for one of these for a long time. I don`t know about your side of the pond but they are stupid hard to find here. This poor thing had a tube welded on the center of the (cast) top plate with a table to carry a shot bag for shaping sheet metal :confused: a bit of work to...

So... when I built my e-wheel frame yrs some ago , I ordered anvils with a flat centre. The thought of the e-wheel gods / guru`s was that if your frame is really ridgid ,you can move material faster with those... well, I`ve been fighting my wheeling machine ever since. I recently saw a video by...

I should have build this ages ago... drag all my hand tool crap with me through the shop, 1 extension cord... no spaghetti to trigger bad language , no miles to walk trying to find that one tool I used 5 minutes ago... [cl ofcourse thats all theory... :rolleyes: It might work tho... :D sorry...

I gathered a lot of tools over the years but one of the things on top of my wish list was a planishing hammer. Finally bit the bullit last month and ordered a hand held Eckold hammer. I chose this one because the quality of Eckold is second to none and also because I can build a frame to use...

picked up this 2 stage Westinghouse compressor today. Runs like a champ. 66 gallon tank 175 psi. I understand its quality stuff but I dont know anything about it. Cant find a build date or anything... like it anyway :D:cool:

Meet my buddy Goliath aka Goofy :D he`s a 2,5 yrs old Dutch landgoat. I`m looking forward to see him when his horns are fully grown :cool: He`s strong as an ox and jumps like there`s no tomorrow... caught him lazy today...lol