Gardening for guys

Is time to go get new lawn mower blade. It isn't just that this one
is flat on the leading edge, but it is also bent. My local expert
says "replace it, cheaper than stitches, when it breaks loose". Okay,
Super Saturday sale today ... But it leaves me with a "nice" blade.
My Scot's blood has me wondering if a handle could be made and
attached to make it into a chopper/heavy duty 'machete'? Or something
for the zombie apocalypse, maybe?
Or would it be better if I had a blacksmith type forge to work it
a bit?

Regardless, time for me to be gone.

tschus
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pyotr filipivich wrote:
Gardening for guys

Is time to go get new lawn mower blade. It isn't just that this one
is flat on the leading edge, but it is also bent. My local expert
says "replace it, cheaper than stitches, when it breaks loose". Okay,
Super Saturday sale today ... But it leaves me with a "nice" blade.
My Scot's blood has me wondering if a handle could be made and
attached to make it into a chopper/heavy duty 'machete'? Or something
for the zombie apocalypse, maybe?
Or would it be better if I had a blacksmith type forge to work it
a bit?

Regardless, time for me to be gone.

tschus
pyotr
--

We used to make sheet metal rippers out of them. You would tape one end
up good than go about 1/2" down on the other end and grind a shallow
notch with a cutting edge. Grind the wing side down so it's a flat
blade. In use you would take a heavy hammer and hit the back of the
blade and drive the point through the sheet metal, then tip the end up
and drive it with the hammer. Cut more than a few vehicles open using them.

I have also made froes and small kindling splitters out of them. For
that you sharpen the edge like a knife.


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Steve W.

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pyotr filipivich wrote:

Gardening for guys

Is time to go get new lawn mower blade. It isn't just that this one
is flat on the leading edge, but it is also bent. My local expert
says "replace it, cheaper than stitches, when it breaks loose". Okay,
Super Saturday sale today ... But it leaves me with a "nice" blade.
My Scot's blood has me wondering if a handle could be made and
attached to make it into a chopper/heavy duty 'machete'? Or something
for the zombie apocalypse, maybe?
Or would it be better if I had a blacksmith type forge to work it
a bit?

Regardless, time for me to be gone.

Lawnmower blades are usually made of 1018 or the like.

Joe Gwinn

Steve W. wrote:
....
I have also made froes ...

http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/202...ngle-Froe.aspx

On Jul 2, 5:44*pm, "Steve W." wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
...Or something
for the zombie apocalypse, maybe?
...
I have also made froes and small kindling splitters out of them.
Steve W.-

They do NOT make good boomerangs.

jsw

Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Jul 2, 5:44 pm, "Steve wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
...Or something
for the zombie apocalypse, maybe?
...
I have also made froes and small kindling splitters out of them.
Steve W.-

They do NOT make good boomerangs.

That's fortunate!



--Winston

Jim Wilkins on Sun, 3 Jul 2011 16:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Jul 2, 5:44*pm, "Steve W." wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
...Or something
for the zombie apocalypse, maybe?
...
I have also made froes and small kindling splitters out of them.
Steve W.-

They do NOT make good boomerangs.

Oh I don't know. With enough pounding and shaping, you could make
it into one.
But it probably would be too heavy to be really useful.

Oh, and do not forget to duck ...

pyotr
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