With Christmas only a few days away, it's not too late to "tool up!" No, I don't mean buying yourself and your loved ones a lot of tools. Hopefully, you've already taken care of that task.
If you have limited needs for an anvil, a foot-long piece of railroad rail might be enough. For those who are intrigued by the idea of having their own working anvil, there are multiple other options …
Anvil use can be as simple as a base for straightening bent metal or as complex as making metal bowls or other decorative work.
Anvils are multi-purpose tools developed by and for blacksmiths, but you don't have to have a forge to put an anvil to use in your shop. In my home farm shop, the anvil was simply used as a base for straightening bent or twisted metal.
I've got a wish list a mile long for shop tools and fixtures, but one thing stands out among them all … an anvil.
I've blogged in the past about sharpening chainsaws. At its most basic, that means using a round file on the saw chain's cutters and a flat file on the guides.
I stopped by the Bad Axe Tool Works website to browse its handcrafted saws. The saws are truly beautiful works of art for the shop-inclined.
Leaf gathering is nearly over for us in the Northland. Recognizing the value of leaf mulch, we stockpile ours for late-fall shredding.
Power tools have their place, but so does a hand tool and a bit of elbow grease.
Choose a generator for your farm now, before a power outage proves how much you need one.
Choosing a vise, like buying any tool, requires thinking about how you will use it before you go looking, much less buying.
