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The time came to finally replace the furnace in the house this fall which left me with a squirrel cage fan. Between late nights in the shop smoking cigars or welding the smoke would get pretty thick. I took the fan and attached it on a small cart my dad brought over. He was at a high school...

I dug out my Dad's old anvil to use in my shop. He bought it from a retiring blacksmith in the 50's. The story he told me is it's swedish steel. I cleaned off the rust and paint with a wirewheel to see if I could find the manufacturer name. It looks like someone ground off the raised letters...

While fighting to keep a blade on a worn out band saw my Dad reminded me of his Toledo power hack saw. He bought it in the fifties from a machine shop. He used it in his shop on the farm until the farm was sold in '91. From there it went to a friend's granary. Not sure when the roof fell in on...