Hand forged garden tools

[ashling]

[NYC_SKP]

1. Awesome! Middle pic implement uses a cutter from an agricultural cultivator.

I think. I know I've seen that part before.

Which I find fascinating in it's repurposing from big ag back down to manual use.

[RILib]

2. that middle pic would make a pretty nice dragon n/t

[oldhippydude]

4. we used to call those a section...

it is the cutting edge of the sickle bar... from a combine, or a forage chopper (oldhippydude paid his way through school working at a hay mill in the summer)

they attach with rivets and break off on occasion, we carried spares with us...

[SnowCritter]

5. Yeah, I remember those

Carried spares, extra rivets, a decent sized hammer and, believe it or not, a large rock on our old J.D. 520 to replace them in the field.

[oldhippydude]

6. yep

[NYC_SKP]

7. It's coming back to me, the cutting bar.

I don't recall them on any of the active equipment on our farm but do have a memory of a modified Model A that had one off the passenger side.

We had that rusting away next to two old glass top fuel pumps!

[dhol82]

3. that is really neat!!

wow!

[rrneck]

8. Nice work recycling the sickle mower blade. nt

[PuffedMica]

9. I want

Where get?

[ashling]

10. here

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fisher-Blacksmithing/435540653131549

[Sirveri]

11. Blacksmithing is the next thing I want to learn.

am almost finished with precision machinist, already took metal casting and mold making.

[velvet]

12. Lovely. Reminds me of my favourite garden tool, the Ho-Mi

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I've had mine for around twenty years. Very handy for planting, furrowing and weeding and ergonomically just right.

You can read all about it here: http://www.allsun.com.au/HoMi.html