Video-Automatic hammer build by Larry Sandlin (in action) This is a video of a hand built automatic blacksmith hammer. This hammer was built by my late brother-in-law for use in his blacksmith shop. He assembled and cut to size all the components. The motor is 3 phase. He studied up on different designs of hammers, [...]
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The crew ab0ve were some of the helpers we had when building the house. Without friends like these we could never have completed the project. When we were designing the house we tried to keep in mind that we needed to use construction methods that would allow me to do most of the work without [...]
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The plant holding area in my nursery is terraced into two section with a two foot retaining wall between them. The wall makes a right angle on one side as the lower terrace is sort of cut into a sloped area but only two feet. This northwest corner was where I built a small greenhouse [...]
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Several years ago we constructed a small pond and waterfall at the back entrance of our underground home. When it was finished, we hated it and it leaked! After a couple of years we decided to disassemble it, replace the liner and rebuilt it. After a lot of work we finally finished and again we [...]
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With all the tools and equipment for a blacksmith shop we needed some place to put it. We decided to build a barn for the shop as well as storage for tools and other equipment. I had a few girders left over from my daughter’s recently constructed home as well as a number of 4×6 [...]
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The front of the house is exposed with earth wrapping around each side and up a couple of feet below the windows. We covered all exposed surfaces with stone that was gathered on the property. The walls of the sunken courtyard in back were also covered with rock. We made the front doors with mahogany [...]
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