Do you recognize that one? It's for the plough (don't know the english word) I had repaired very much axes like this for to work in the coal mines. When I was 22 old,I made my knife for to slaugther the pigs. This knife probably killed 500 pigs.This year, two pigs only..the traditions are missing. pigs only..the traditions are missing..
Gambino, thanks for those pictures, looking them over the shop looks to me to be like a blacksmith shop from "anywhere" that I have been, by that I mean, those smiths of old all spoke the same language. Comparing to the trucks/rigs that are used today, where everything has a place and is in it s place, kinda hard to imagine that the trade evolved from shops like that. Thanks again, if you get a chance to post a pic of the scrap pile out back , probably not much of one, please do so. Regards Ray
Pile of scrap??? In these farrier-blacksmith shop never never there is scrap !! All steel are recycled. When you need a bit of steel,you see in the floor and you can find it there. The thinks are the same in anywhere..in the country town,the blacsmith-farrier like me, shoe the mules,repair the tools,kill and geld the pigs,help to the calfs to born, kill the sick animals,and is the undertaker too...Thanks to all these jobs,I was put a bit of feed in my table ever.
