HF shear arrived and an organized shop! yes!!!

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Archie Zietman
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HF shear arrived and an organized shop! yes!!!

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Hello. :D :D :D
Happy dance! woohoo! My HF shear arrived on thursday and I've just mounted it on an old chest of drawers, as is my forge custom. (The old forge was on a radio flyer, the anvil stand is an old garbage can, new forge is also a garbage can on legs etc...) haven't tested it out yet, but I have managed to compress my entire design/patterning/metal cutting area into one chest of drawers: 1 foot by 2 feet and about waist height with only 2 out of 4 drawers working, yes!!!!!! Now it doesn't span an entire basement.
I also cleared out everything from the basement. The only thing which is not heaped in a pile in the center (pics later) is the aforementioned chest of drawers with HF shear etc. The other literally two to three truckloads of stuff in the basement is piled high for the dump-men. :D :D :D :D Mesa so happy to be seein' deh floor and walls again! :D
Merry Metal Pounding,
Dance in the rain please,
Archie
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Archie,

congrats! Happy cutting. I have used one since the Beverly's owner needed her back. The HF shears have worked like a champ. I have no intention of getting anythign else! Good luck,

RPM
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Happy shop dance.....

I know that.....

Whoooo Hoooooo...............
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Just bolted it down permenantly to the chest of drawers, and cut out a 16 ga. cervelliere blank to be raised once I finish the forged goblet project in a few days, it's probably not going to be fought in, just go on my shelf, or used as a bike helmet :wink: The shear cuts 16 ga. with extreme ease, and apparently needs no modification whatsoever, musta gotta goot vun. :D more happy shop dancing!
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Congrats! You are on your way to becoming addicted to acquiring tools like the rest of us are.

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Now I can actually get to pounding some hot sheet metal! I did a bit of hot raising some 16 guage half an hour ago and it's very slow work with my little charcoal forge, trailer hitch ball stake and oddly mounted angular T stake, but I'll get it right in the end. :D bit frustrating though, so I stopped. It's noisy, raising sheet metal over ricketty stakes as opposed to pounding barstock over a sturdy anvil. :?
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