Re: Fire Tools #537

Posted by South Park on Mar 20, 2024; 6:19am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Fire-Tools-tp19512p19520.html

Only semi-related, ....  I purchased a short back corner hook in a
Salida antique store than I *might* assume is D&RG stock.  Also
got a freight car side grab bar at the same place.  Old stuff, ...
... blacksmith forged.  I found the hook so damned useful with my
woodstove firebox operations that I made more of them.  I do that
sort of fabrication/blacksmithing in ornamental iron fence restoration
work, so it was a snap.  If mine were pitted, they would look 100+
years old too.  I often justlook at them and find pleasure in the workmanship.
I don't think the railroad guys cared, and thusly beat them like ordinary
tools.  Being a proudly dull man, I get satisfaction just looking at them
and knowing how functional they are, and that the design is a direct
rip-off of Victorian era steam operations.