Fireplace Set

**Armadillo** · 12-19-2004, 07:57 PM

The wife is tired of using an old 3 ft. long sprinkler tool as a poker for our fireplace. She asked if I could build one before the Christmas get together so I took a stab at it over the last weekend. The set is unfinished and I will be sure to take ones when I am done sanding and painting with much better light. Some of the welds are good some are not so good looking so I plan on using quite a bit of the BarBQue flat black paint LOL...........

If any of you have built a set before, please share pics. I am not quite done and am always looking to learn or find out new ideas.

Happy Holidays!
Armadillo

**Armadillo** · 12-19-2004, 08:04 PM

Bad light, Sorry.....

**Mike W** · 12-19-2004, 08:08 PM

Nice job, those should last at least a hundred years.

**Armadillo** · 12-19-2004, 08:10 PM

OK, Pile Buck, I will bite, How much???? Need to take the family north for a little vacation next summer. Son wants to do some cutthroat trout fishing.

I could pick it up. My Wife, Son and I drove to Oakland California two years ago to pick up a 77 Jeep CJ5 so I am definatly game

**Armadillo** · 12-19-2004, 08:22 PM

Pile Buck,
I used to live in San Mateo, across the bay. And I am sooooooooooo glad to be living in the Hill Country of Texas.

When your ready to sell I guess we will have a bidding war ( good for you ) as you have seen other takers for the tool........BTW... did the 7k+ price include a plasma cutter or was that for the machine only???

**Armadillo** · 12-19-2004, 09:01 PM

Pile Buck,
I figured your price was for the machine only. I knew it required a cutter and computer (C&C) LOL

, We have always wanted one to really step up to a different level. My career over the last 25 years has been information technology, heck, the wife and I designed our house with correl draw several years ago. I love tinkering with welding and metal work so we have wondered what would spawn from the interaction between computers and metalwork.

Thanks again and keep us in mind!!!!

Armadillo, Female Armadillo, and the not so little Armadillo.

**dda52** · 12-20-2004, 12:52 AM

Nice work, Armadillo. That is definitely the last set you'll have to make her.......unless she breaks one over your noggin!!!

( I have been threatened with that a few times.

)

BTW, greetings from just down the road.

**Armadillo** · 12-20-2004, 09:30 AM

dda52,
Thanks for the kind words! You are just down the road. Hope you are as excited as I am to see a new Tractor Supply going in at 46 and 281.

**dda52** · 12-20-2004, 09:40 AM

Yup, I am getting tired of going to Boerne. Well, almost. I started using 3D Welding for some supplies, so I usually combine trips. There is supposed to be a Whataburger with the TSC. Wish it was a Bill Millers.

Don't know why they've stopped working on it. I saw they got their bar joists the other day......hmmmm. A friend of mine was working there with the site guys. He got laid off last week.

Not sure what is going on.

**KennyG** · 12-20-2004, 09:59 AM

Hey Armadillo,

Really nice work man. The wife will be using them for a long time..

Ken

**Armadillo** · 12-20-2004, 11:23 PM

dda52,

I didn't notice the work stopped but now that you have mentioned it I guess it has. I wonder if it is related to the city council voting down Home Depot.

I hope it gets back going again. We have had our ranch out here for 30+ years and the growth has been unbelievable.......I don't like it but understand as well.

Do you weld for a living or as a hobby as I do.

Regards,
Art

**dda52** · 12-21-2004, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Armadillo

dda52,

I didn't notice the work stopped but now that you have mentioned it I guess it has. I wonder if it is related to the city council voting down Home Depot.I don't think so. That special use permit went through a long time ago. It was too wet. That is why my friend got the axe. He actually got paid rain days. That wet spell we had must've hurt those guys.

I hope it gets back going again. We have had our ranch out here for 30+ years and the growth has been unbelievable.......I don't like it but understand as well. Yea, I've been here about 13 years now and boy has it changed. Don't mind so much as that type of "progress" is what pays my bills.....sorta.

Do you weld for a living or as a hobby as I do. Hobbies would mean I have free time...no such luck, unfortunately. I used to have a mobile welding bus. out here, but the competition was just too bad. That and losing my specialty's demand are the main reason I called it quits on the welding bus. I still weld as a favor to some customers, but mostly for my own stuff now. My current business is concrete and dump trucks. It keeps me on my toes at least.

Regards,
Art

I've been looking for Home Depot news, but nada so far. I'm wondering if they will vote again. If they do, it will probably pass. Maybe that will get Wallymart interested again. That is what we need, Walmart and Bill Millers, not another orange store. Hopefully they will get it all going again. When the TSC is here, maybe I'll get my bandsaw.

Hope they hurry!

**wburton** · 12-21-2004, 07:12 AM

Armadillo - Excellent set of fireplace tools. I especially likes the fireplace "scenting" tools in the last pictures. The one with the brown container and the red label. I've found that if I use that on the wife first, the complaints are not so loud.

With the black paint and maybe a little fogged gold or silver on the star and buffalo (at least I think it is), should make her very happy.

Nice work

**dda52** · 12-23-2004, 12:12 AM

Armadillo
Got the scoop on Tractor Supply. Bad news.

They hit ground water and were causing problems for the Tetco next door ( septic I think.). The TNRCC, or whatever they are called nowadays, shut them down indefinitely. I guess they are gonna have to get some over paid engineering types over there to tell them they need to put in a french drain. They'll figger it out one day.