High quality treasure today.
This was a stack of leaf springs from a truck, sitting in a mud puddle.
Cut away the bands, hammered the rust and mud off and stored them for blacksmithing later. Should be great material for making blades.
The one I cut an end off took about 10 hammer blows before it broke despite leaving less than 1mm material on the cut 
Will be a good while before I get to play with these, but great find.
#Steel #Blacksmithing #Recycling #Homestead #Cleanup #Treasure
@dustin The sauna oven and a big chunky steel block of unknown origin to hammer on 😆
Want to make a little forge from a disc harrow disc and attach a blower to it.
150 to 200 Euronen gets you a used Feldschmiede (field forge) round these parts, either treadle powered or with an electric blower. Probably cheaper where you are @yngmar
@PalmAndNeedle @dustin Nope. There's this. It's the only one: https://www.skelbiu.lt/skelbimai/kalve-81079495.html
Gotta remember, in tiny countries availability is tiny too, and prices generally higher, not lower.
But buying is boring anyways! And I already have the parts to make it.
Watched a guy at a fair do some amazing work with a tiny portable forge, old hand cranked blower and a couple sticks of firewood.
@PalmAndNeedle @dustin Found the photo of his setup.
Yup, it's tiny. The geared blower is the largest part and he was very proud of it. It says Champion, Lancaster on there and if you look it up it's an antique collectible that goes for quite a bit of money.
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