Forged and Fitted Railroad Spike Tongs ?!?
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2017
- In this video tutorial, I'm forging tongs for holding railroad spike. This is another pair of blacksmith tongs that you can forge and add to your collection! In you enjoyed this video on making railroad spike tongs, make sure to check out my other tong videos listed below!
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I have a number of Christmas gifts to forge over the coming months and these tongs will be a great help in making them. Thank you!
Made me a set today,supper nice, and very easy to flow along set by step. Thank you
Hey there Roy. Like the style of these tongs. The style is a little different than a couple other videos I've seen on railroad spike tongs. They look like they will do the job just fine. Well done sir!
that's the first set of tongs I have ever seen that are designed to hold the head of the spike!! clean work... awesome tongs!!! going to make some of those right now!!!!!!
On my way to the shop for my build. Thank you
Great video. Thanks for your dedication to blacksmithing.
Hi Roy, 3\4"is 19mm 5\8" is 16mm but close enough, great tongs the first I have seen made this way for Rail spikes, very practical opposed to bolt jaw tongs that hold the shaft of the spike.
Great job as always love the design of these tongs. Thank you for your help with the videos you make they help so much bringing more time to do the art side of the craft. Again thank you and God bless 📖✝
Made a set of these today. Your video helped a ton! Thanks for the video!
Well, Roy, I made a pair and they work great! They don't look nearly as nice as yours, but hey, they do the job well. Thanks for the great video!
Good video. Simply explained! Thanks for this.
Love these Roy. Gonna make some of these.
Great stuff man.
Very nice can't wait to make a pair
I made my very first pair of tongs last night and when I went to cool them I got thinking about how every piece of bare metal in my shop gets rusty bc of our wonderful southern climate with 90% humidity. I thought, hey, why not cool them in used motor oil (which is in plentiful supply around my shop) and keep them from rusting by seasoning the metal while at the same time let the heat suck some of the oil into the joint itself and act as antisieze. Then I watch this video and am astonished an accomplished smith like yourself does the same thing for the same reason. I do believe I might keep this little hobby going. Thanks for the vids.
Thanks Roy going to make some I got spike now I know how to hold them!
An anvils edge should have different zones for different radius and a crisp edge, so basically four different or more edges. Different edges makes the anvil very multi tasking.
This will definitely help me use railroad spikes. Usually use bolt tongs and they would be a pain.
I need a pair of RR Spike tongs. Your explanations and demonstrations are great. Thanks a tonne.... (Metric Tonne)
Thank you!
Great design,I believe I will do up a few pair like this for some of the beginners
Better than bolt tongs in my opinion
Vary cool Roy 👍👍👍
I enjoyed it very much thanks
Nice tong method. I notice all your tongs are 95% the same method. It works good. Have you ever tried to Fuller the bit from the boss and twist the law for flat or box tongs? Works really good for me. I think black bear forge ( John ) have it a try. But it's best to round out the twist. You should try it. Allot faster in my experience for those 2 tong types. Joe.
nice work Roy and when its beer o'clock use your tongs not that I drink beer
Thanks for this video. i had to make these, my tongs werent working for all the spikes i got lol
Those look like they work better than the pair I have.
Do you prefer round edges or square edges on your tong reigns ?
There is NOTHING better than Upsetting some steel!
Could be adapted for hex head and carriage head bolts, maybe ?
Now have a source of RR Spikes, so re-reviewing yopur how-to. When you switched to a "lighther hammer", how light was it?\
Roy, your tongs are very lightweight, I prefer to use heavier stock, then cut the boss and nibs off and forge weld the reins. I think it gives you a sturdier set of tongs, but each to his own.
Very slick, is there a reason bolt jaw tongs wouldn't work though?
Bolt jaw tongs should work, but they are going to hold on the shaft of the spike, which in most cases would be fine. These tongs will allow you to work right up to the spike head, and that could be beneficial in some instances.
These tongs are fairly specialized, and would be great if you do a lot of work with RR spikes. For people who don't do a lot of spike forging, bolt tongs make more sense.
Brian Neeley, thanks for the explanation. I'm just trying to get started into smithing and I have access to a lot of rr spikes since there is a 3 ft scrap pile of them near my house. I was just planning to make a set of bolt jaw and make a bunch of tooling but I understand now that I'll have access to more material if I just hold the head. Thanks again.
The jaw was offset on both sides I noticed , so same tong blank as normal you just center up the jaw with the reigns ????
Where can I purchase some of your work
Joe Kind he sells on etsy not sure if he is selling tongs on there
why do u drill the hole and not punch it? with punchng u remove less aterial aka keping the bos more solid