New Wood Rack - #3

[crash325]

First off, I'm real happy with my little wood stove. It's on its 3rd year and doing a fine job. I do keep thinking (you can smell the smoke :laughing, it should be a little more cooking friendly. It can be cooked on, just a little cool for some items.

Back to the wood rack. This is the 3rd one that I have built and should be an improved model. Just like soap,New & Improved.

Just getting started and have 1 end tacked together. Have improved some of the welds and done some clean up. Have decided it will be easier to clean up the shoes before welding and maybe a little better job. Welds should be nicer as well.

Picture #1, 2 & 3 are the old rack.
#4 Is the start of the new one. Plan to put it inside. adjustable legs and 1 of my hit & miss paint jobs.

Takes 28 horse shoes for both sides, will be about 30" tall and 36" wide.

Yes Ken, Chasing down the horses is getting harder at my age. If you figure that each horse has 4 legs with feet. That's still a lot of work. Sure hope no one catches me. :laughing::thumbsup:

 

[Baby Grand]

Dang, Crash! That's one stylish wood rack. Nice work - you could sell a boat load of those around here. If you sign me on as an agent, I'll bring photos to my sister's next Derby Day party.

 

[crash325]

Dang, Crash! That's one stylish wood rack. Nice work - you could sell a boat load of those around here. If you sign me on as an agent, I'll bring photos to my sister's next Derby Day party.

Hi Baby Grand,
Thanks for the flowers.

Have a part on order for my cement mixer. Going to try & use it to clean up the old horse shoes. If that works the job sure will go faster. Sand blaster would be nice, but don't have 1.

Going by the metal yard today. They had some 1" "Bridge" re-bar, very hard & stiff, never sag, bend or brake. That is what my stairs is made from. Never moved even when a 350# guy was on it.

 

[Baby Grand]

I can think of a lot of uses for 1" rebar! Looks like someone's been busy around the house - nice looking masonry job.

Where in Tucson? I have fond memories of Hopi Lodge, Gates Pass at sunset & Mt Lemon when it got really hot.

Jim

 

[crash325]

I can think of a lot of uses for 1" rebar! Looks like someone's been busy around the house - nice looking masonry job.

Where in Tucson? I have fond memories of Hopi Lodge, Gates Pass at sunset & Mt Lemon when it got really hot.

Jim

I'm 25 miles west of Tucson, near 3 Points at the end of a dirt road.

All the rock & concrete work, as well as the wood work (Deck etc. ) was all done by me. Most of it with out help.

There is a lot of freeway construction going on and the re-bar is cut offs. When I first got some of it, could not believe how hard & stiff it was. Tried a bi-metal blade on it, hardly even scratched it. Even with heat its hard to bend.

 

[bironacad]

Hi Baby Grand,
Thanks for the flowers.

Have a part on order for my cement mixer. Going to try & use it to clean up the old horse shoes. If that works the job sure will go faster. Sand blaster would be nice, but don't have 1.

Going by the metal yard today. They had some 1" "Bridge" re-bar, very hard & stiff, never sag, bend or brake. That is what my stairs is made from. Never moved even when a 350# guy was on it.

Very creative, the stairs are for a warm climate, we would never have them here or we would be on our arse have the year, lol. How do you come by so many horse shoes?

 

[crash325]

Very creative, the stairs are for a warm climate, we would never have them here or we would be on our arse have the year, lol. How do you come by so many horse shoes?

Were this a climate like yours, first I'd burn a few small holes and having some expanded metal with sharp edges, it would be welded down. Quick & dirty would be to glue some real coarse sand paper down.

Have a big pile of old horse shoes. Use to be the furriers were glad to get rid of the old take off shoes. Had these several years now and may have some more down in Tombstone.

Just hope the cement mixer will work as a tumbler. Got to speed up the cleaning some how. :confused2:

 

[Baby Grand]

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Just hope the cement mixer will work as a tumbler. Got to speed up the cleaning some how. :confused2:

I bet if you threw some pea sized quartz stream pebbles and some good, high quartz content, wind blown (dune) sand in with those shoes you'd get a real nice finish.

 

[crash325]

I bet if you threw some pea sized quartz stream pebbles and some good, high quartz content, wind blown (dune) sand in with those shoes you'd get a real nice finish.

Had tried the mixer a while back and it has a load of dry wash (creek bed in some places.) sand & gravel in it. With the pulley on it, turns so fast the sand just stays out against the drum.

Pictured are the 2 ends of the rack. Despite a random selection of horse shoes they came out near identical. Wire wheeled enough for second end.

Have enough 1" pipe & 1" angle iron to keep moving on this guy.

Getting use to the new E6011 and welds have improved over the first side.

 

[crash325]

Long story but at last the cement mixer is turning at near the right speed and the tumbling does work. The shoes in the picture were tumbled about 2 hours and came out pretty nice. Will make welding a lot easier and better welds.

Sure beats standing at the grinder with a wire brush on it. Going to run the next batch a little longer.

Shoes were not sorted, some small ones, a mule shoe or 2, some bent . One shoe shows that the horse it was on was a cripple, worn thin on 1 side. tumbling also takes off the sharp edges on most of the shoes.

Mixer has a lot of un screened sand with quite a few good sized rocks. Also a lot of odd ball metal, useable cut offs, some stobs as used on my sheep foot build.

More later as the build continues. May finish this year. :laughing: