Test photo

[Gordon Maney]

This is a test, using a camera I just bought. Also, clutter happens....

[Gordon Maney]

Here it is again, adjusted differently.

I am wondering if this is too big for those people who have their monitors set at 800 pixels wide.

[powerwagontim]

Are those little bits of skin I see on that chainsaw chain hanging on the vise?
Always AT LEAST one in the crowd!
Tim

[Gordon Maney]

hahahahahahaha

[Gordon Maney]

Chaos...

[Gordon Maney]

If you like Power Wagons, you would like this....

[Gordon Maney]

....and this.

[Gordon Maney]

This entire thread is an experiment.

My question is this: Given the resolution at which you have your monitor set, are these images too big, do they require scrolling for any of you?

[powerwagontim]

Hi Gordon,
They work fine for me. When I click the hamburger in the lower right corner I have to scroll a bit but that is fine. Nice pictures.
Thanks, Tim

[Gordon Maney]

....hamburger????

[powerwagontim]

The little icon in the lower right corner which when clicked either enlarges or reduces the image. It looks like a hamburger to me. I am not sure what it is supposed to look like. Ummm hamburgers...
Tim

[Gordon Maney]

Originally posted by powerwagontim
The little icon in the lower right corner which when clicked either enlarges or reduces the image. It looks like a hamburger to me. I am not sure what it is supposed to look like. Ummm hamburgers...
Tim

I must not have that at my house. I am on a Mac running Safari as a browser, though I don't think the Mac version of Internet Explorer has that either.

[PhilS]

Looks good, Gordon. What did you get for a camera? The 800 pixel photo fits nicely at 1024 resolution, at 800 I have to scroll just slightly.

Tim, you must be describing the enlarge/reduce floating icon in the lower right corner with the 4 diagonal arrows? You crack me up; never noticed the resemblance to a hamburger but you're right!

Phil

[Gordon Maney]

Originally posted by PhilS
Looks good, Gordon. What did you get for a camera? The 800 pixel photo fits nicely at 1024 resolution, at 800 I have to scroll just slightly.

Tim, you must be describing the enlarge/reduce floating icon in the lower right corner with the 4 diagonal arrows? You crack me up; never noticed the resemblance to a hamburger but you're right!

Phil

Given what you are saying, maybe I should produce them at 700 pixels instead of 800.

In what [PC?] browser are you seeing this icon?

[PhilS]

IBM PC compatible machine using Internet Explorer v6.0. I normally use Mozilla for my web browser but was curious about the <i>hamburger</i> icon. Yes, probably 700 or 750 would be better.

Phil

[Russell Colvin]

Is the anvil in the background a Hay Budden?

[Gordon Maney]

Originally posted by Russell Colvin
Is the anvil in the background a Hay Budden?

Do I take that to mean that Hay Budden is a brand name? If so, I really don't know. I don't think I have seen names on my anvil, but I admit to not having brushed it for closer examination.

I got it from a man I have known since 1962 when I was in the sixth grade; he is now 78. I also have the piece for it that goes in the square hole and presents what looks like a very broad cold chisel pointing straight up. It weighs 125 pounds. It is a beautiful thing.

I have four anvils, actually. I don't use any of them much, I just like them. I think they provide a shop with roots in the past.

[Bruce]

Hey Gordon,

Nice vise. Yard sale?

I use Internet Explorer, and it never dawned on me, but it does look a little like a burger.

BTW, The pictures look great!

[Russell Colvin]

The square chisel is a hardie. Hay Budden anvils were produced in New York. It will Have Brooklyn New York stamped on the off side.

Hay Buddens were wrought iron with a tool steel face forge welded too the body. An anvil that size would have been made in three pieces( horn, body and face). Many old wrought iron anvils have the body beat up with chisel marks where the smiths checked the point on them. Hay Buddens have a horn with a slight crown to them. They are very good anvils that are nice too work on and hold their value.

[Gordon Maney]

Here is a better view of it.

[Gordon Maney]

Here are two others. I also have one in my corn crib that is welded to a stand, of all things, I wish they had not done that. it is a nice anvil, though, and I was fortunate enough to get it for free.

[Gordon Maney]

Originally posted by Russell Colvin
It will Have Brooklyn New York stamped on the off side.

What does off side mean?

[Gordon Maney]

Originally posted by Bruce
Nice vise. Yard sale?

I bought it from an industrial surplus company; they bought things from manufacturing firms going out of business.

It is an interesting vise in that if you pull that big pin out, the jaw will rotate, allowing you to clamp objects that are tapered.

[Gordon Maney]

Interesting things lurk under benches.

[Russell Colvin]

Faceing the anvil with the horn on your left side is the near side.
The other is the off side.

[chewie]

I work for a green tractor company that is in the process of relocating from many multi storied buildings to one big one story. (Can you say No more steps! My department is ten flights up.)
Anyway, they are selling all the old fixtures, cabinets, machines, etc., etc. to current employees and retirees. I find Rock Island vises all the time. There's a bunch of Chicago and Columbian (Cleveland) stuff, too. If anyone is interested in the vises, I can pick some up. They're big, and they've been well used. And they should last another hundred years!

[Joe Cimoch]

They both show up fine on my monitor, I like the larger one best. Viewing at 1280 x 1024

[Russell Colvin]

I am interested in vises (even though my wife says that I have too many vices now). What kind of shape are they in? 10 being perfect and 1 being scrap.

[chewie]

These have been in a machine shop for, oh, fifty years? They work or they would have been tossed long ago. But they are not exactly pretty. I would say about a five or six.
Chewie

[Russell Colvin]

How much do they weigh? What is the jaw width? Are they iron or steel? How much do you want for them?