What kind of firewood makes the best head for a big thumper?

Rock Maple - they didn't name it that because it's soft.

What you need a pounder for Franz? You actually putting up a fence?

The best wood is whatever you got at hand at the moment. Some of them tropical woods is real hard and heavy and should work real good. They got lotsa silicates in the wood too. Might be kinda costly though.

Shouldn't need real tough stuff though for them Croquet mallets though. Don't need the iron end ring or rawhide lacing either. :lol: :lol:

Gittin kinda late in the season though. Them road apples ain't froze no more. :lol:

Hickory would probably work too.

Just about any tree trunk would likely do the job. If you wear it out, there's always more trees.

Now I'm really pissed.
I read the Garland site and learned I should have shipped some waterbuffalo rawhide back to the States when I could have had it for nothing.
Lack of knowledge gets expensive 40 years down the line.

I can't even find a damn kid with a pile of hockey pucks.

Naw Egon I ain't into fenceposts, I just want a big thumper, and I damn well ain't paying Snbatch On $200 for one. Theirs is nice, but it ain't that nice. Besides, why buy something for a dollar when you can build it with only 10 bucks in material and 9 hours time.

Hey, youse wock up from the morning nap I see.

Get you're self a big wompher and who's gona lift it. Anyways you gota keep it hid cause there's them days LN migh be wantin it! :D

No fear Egon, she has a marble rolling pin.
Besides, she doesn't even set foot in the shop, so I can just leave it there.

I've got a 25' by about 12" diameter greenhart piling thats been out of the water for about 15 years. Your welcome to it if you want to come get it. I had a few of them but I occasionally run some through the wood stove when I'm too lazy to go cut standing dead.

Ok's, yous can keep it hidden. :o

Now; can you talk Marco into firing up the forge and Smithing and placein the hoop ends? :D

What are you going to be thumping... Gallagher has the wood thumper down pretty well with that sledgomatic..

Whats the story for the thumper Franz? ?? inquiring minds want to know ! unless you plan on thumping some sft peoples...

Well Walt, I had a real nice deadblow thumper donated to me. My #2 man happened to have a hook into the War Memorial arena and scored a sack of hockey pucks.

We're looking for a sack of shot to make a bunch more, but haven't found any that isn't being guarded. The deadblow idea is definitely superior to a bouncing hammer.

I ran a side by side comparison with one of the bulls from Town Highway driving oak stakes and the deadblow delivered as much down in 2 whacks as the same weight sledge in 3 with no mushrooming.

Ever use a lead hammer?

They still make them. Nutso ordered a new dead blow sledge from Fastenal. Of course Nutso couldn't remember a brand name, but did remember the hammer he seen and wanted to order was red. You know, a big red dead blow type sledge.

Guess what he got....

Wouldn't know that "red" lead hammer really gets the job done!

We need to melt it down and make little candy corn looking nuggets.

Put them in a bowl and wait for your boss to show up. You may have to think outside the box to get your new compressor. Perhaps lead "poisoning" will be more effective than logic and common sense.

Order a couple more, and we can duplicate a 12" sub. There's your new welder.

Oder a pile of them, that first sub only makes him hungry.

Them red plastic thumpers Snap on sells for around $200 can't hold a candle to my homemade. They ain't even made by SnatchOn, Aemstrong I think, and they want a lot for them too. Damn things crack from being in the sun too.

Hockey pucks are cheap, and there are at least 2 densitys, one for ice and 1 for driveway hockey. If I could find somebody mining a clay shooting range the shot would be cheap too.

Trouble is I just learned that Galliger fellow gave himself a heart attack swinging the sledgomatic, so I gotta wait for Sheis to come by and swing mine for me. When he does he can bring along lead & some 3/8 pipe and I'll let him make up a binch of lead hammers for Christmas gifts. I own a mold.

You'll end up with a heart attack watching me ruin the handle on your sledge.

I pretty consistently put the business end of any given hammer about 4" past what I'm aiming at. Sometimes I don't even bother aiming.

I do believe Armstrong is the brand we were after.

I could just shoot you in the azz with my BB gun and adjust your swing.

This site should occupy Nutso for a week.
http://www.pronto.com/armstrong-tools-hamm...allets-aaf4e-ss

This one would be fun for you. Just put a couple layers of radiator hose on the handle to correct for your swing.

http://www.pronto.com/product/armstrong-to...11-p_2015129337

This would be good for Nutso given he's off center most days
http://www.pronto.com/product/armstrong-to...11-p_2015129337

He ain't afraid to buy tools, but Lista is his favorite name to put money on. They are good boxes.


There's a new outfit selling pre-stocked kits of tools that are pretty well thought out and looks like they would work, but I absolutely can'tthinkof the name. Designed for mobility rather than just storage. Pretty good replacement for the 5 gallon bucket. I'll post a link if I can think of it.

http://www.mobile-shop.com/

These are the kits.

Run (I know it's a new motion experience) for your life Sheis.
He's trying to convert you from a leaning clock watcher to a white shirted citiot dweezel. Then he plans to sit back and watch you catch fire in the sissyboy shirt.

I take it you are not impressed.

They may be borderline feminine, but I like the mobility and the amount of tooling they cram into a little space. Would be great for plumbing. Given our lack of free space at our shop and the the short bed truck that can't carry anything, these would be handier than the gang box approach. We both work out of the same set of tools, and neither of us can remember where the other one lost what we're looking for. I think these kits would require the least of amount of time and effort to stay somewhat organized.

Just a followon of the Jentsen Tool concept.

The wheels are probably crap too.

If you MUST take that approach, begin with a large Knaak box, Line the bottom half with PVC and put in a decent pump so it can serve for jacuzzi clock watching.

Then install a small flatscreen, DVD player and microwave.
Employ remaining space using the CPL toolbox model to carry needed toolsm and install a towbar.

Remember, Go 1st class or stay home.

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What the hell is a OPO UP?

Damned if I know, I quit my decoder ring subscription.

Looks like the one & only Jack is back.
Best I can decode he's now selling another brand of Chinee machine.

Jack, first of all, you have no defamation case as this is written form - that's called libel.

Second, you have no damages. Anyone who reads things said against you here only has to look at the gibberish you respond with to substantiate the claims against buying from you. You're your own worst enemy here.

Third, no lawyer in their right mind would let you touch their computer. That's a dead give away that you're full of poop. I'm thinking the closest thing you've gotten to a lawyers computer is public access in the law library of some college.

Fourth, any manufacturer who'd be dumb enough to give you a dealership is likely unaware how you present yourself and thus their brand online. Once that comes out (which would be your only evidence for a libel case) would mean you no longer have a dealership: and again, it would be your own undoing.

Lastly, libel is VERY hard to prosecute successfully. Your claims are no more than hearsay unless you can find someone willing to testify that something Franz said was the SOLE reason they chose not to buy from you. Then you're only looking at reclaiming the profit you lost on that single sale - so with a crap welder, we're talking what $150-200? You really think a lawyer is going to represent you for less than their hourly rate? They'll take your money all day long if you're paying them for the time involved, but no one is going to represent this for money out of a settlement - not even a law student who has nothing to lose but time. They aren't that stupid.

So here's your warning. Stop puffing your sunken chest and making stupid threats which have no basis in reality. We're tired of hearing them, and I think you're actually tired of writing them even if you won't admit it. If you'd like to continue posting here, add something to the discourse of current threads (that are on-topic, unlike when you start writing in threads that have no relation to what you're talking about), or start some new threads and you can post up what you're up to. Any further mention of suing anyone will be deleted. This is your last warning. I don't have the ability to ban you (only Franz does), but I can make your gibberish vanish in two clicks of the mouse just the same.