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273451 Kirk Eppler 2021‑04‑16 Re: Froe made from vehicular leaf spring
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:46 AM scottg  wrote:

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> One thing nobody ever talks about is holding the shake bolt. You can't
> just chase them around on open ground for long. It'll wear you to a
> frazzle.  (been there)
>   I used a pretty short tree stump, flattened on the face, with a corral
> made of scrap 2X4's along the ground, to keep the bottom end of the bolt
> in place and have something to pull back against.
> You sure need something when you are going to be doing a lot of them.
>
>
Glad you brought this up Scott.  You posted a pic of this some time back,
but the angle really didn't show what we needed to see.  Can you post a new
picture, so we can actually see what you built.  I was thinking of this
while splitting firewood a few weeks back, and when fishing out
froes earlier in this thread.

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Kirk Eppler  Fun time over, time to dive back into a video meeting.

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