Today I acquired...........

[imagedude]

 

[KemppiFrog]

I don't think I would, I think she would taste of Botox!

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Rear of the year several times

 

[KemppiFrog]

‘My’ tractor???

Might part with this effort

 

[Sean]

Not actually mine but it's turned up at our house so looks like I'll be busy helping.

 

[Pete.]

Not actually mine but it's turned up at our house so looks like I'll be busy helping.

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DNEPR/Urinal?

 

[Sean]

DNEPR/Urinal?

Urinal, with a slightly more modern engine.

 

[bricol]

Not today but a while ago, it is the one I used for clearing ditches and hedging to earn pocket money as a teenager, a Yorkshire Bill Hook from Yorkshire.

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@The_Yellow_Ardvark and others, where can I buy a new 14" (?) handle, what is left of the existing handle is around 28x 38mm where it enters the metal of the head.
There is a seller on Ebay that lists what I think would be suitable item no. 264499566360 but as two of my messages re that item have been ignored I doubt I will be giving them any of my money even if it is suitable.

I've got two of them - one with handle, one not.

Now I live in Yorkshire now . . .but one came via my dad (and probably his dad) - who was Northamptonshire, and the other via my mum's dad, who was Buckinghamshire . . . why did either of them have a Yorkshire pattern? Admittedly, my mum's dad did once show a bull at the Yorkshire Show in the 50's (slept in the stall with it! Decided Yorkshire folk were strange, and never went back ) but can't imagine he would have bought anything there.

 

[Screwdriver]

I wonder if that’s a blacksmiths choppy thing? Hold it on the steel and hit it. Can’t remember the name now

Generic name would be a bottom set or cold set but it doesn't look like one to me. Would typically have a striking anvil behind the handle. Looks like a regular home made axe/hatchet.

 

[Seadog]

Today this appeared

Not too shabby, 8 days from China, and the tracking worked.

We'll see how true it is tomorrow.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Does a Fuller not normally have a solid body with a striking end and the handle goes around the outer?
Maybe I am thinking of a different thing?

They vary. Fullers are normally used for making a round end on square bar, or variations on that theme. They are normally used in pairs, the bottom fuller slots into the anvil and the top is handheld. Each has a half concave. The thing in the picture looks like a splitting iron. You sometimes see them with a flat square head, that's a flatting iron, does what it says on the tin.

 

[brightspark]

scary

 

[Screwdriver]

They vary. Fullers are normally used for making a round end on square bar, or variations on that theme. They are normally used in pairs, the bottom fuller slots into the anvil and the top is handheld. Each has a half concave. The thing in the picture looks like a splitting iron. You sometimes see them with a flat square head, that's a flatting iron, does what it says on the tin.

They do vary! Unlike most other sports, blacksmiths make their own tools so while an individual tool might conform to a family or set of typical versions, they will almost all be different!

 

[badabec]

Yes, every schoolboy's dream.

Clare Grogan, Michaela Strachan and Chloe Annett in my day...

 

[Farside]

Maybe if it was 40 years ago.

She still wouldn't be any much older than me.
Phowarr...

 

[Farside]

Scored one of these, today.
I'd put off for long enough the acquisition of a FF dSLR, while waiting for the prices to drop to sufficiently cheapskate levels and decided to push the button. Then I found the prices of the MkII were low enough... so instead of a Mk1...got this...

This'll do me for the next few years.
Now I can effectively explore the real limits of the classic glass I collected ten years ago (and more) when great old lenses were cheap as chips.

 

[Hood]

She still wouldn't be any much older than me.
Phowarr...

Aye but she has tried to look younger, that only works for so long

 

[Pete.]

Aye but she has tried to look younger, that only works for so long

Or not, going by that photo. You couldn't bend wire that shape...

 

[Maker]

Because of that level thread, and nothing to do with alerts from the eBay app after a couple of pints of home brew...

 

[KemppiFrog]

Looking at your pic and seeing the calculator, I wanted a dead simple one for the w/shop. Just roots and squares. They had one in the local supermarket at €5, except it was called 'The Primary School Model', which put me in my place Made me think back to my first one in '74. Big feature was a constant (!) and it weighed a pound or so with a rechargable battery and cost £35 back then....

 

[Bryan Williams]

Dug out of a skip.