Back to Basics, Making a Pritchel

[@kvkcoils8011]

You can tell when a man's good at something, when he makes it look easy.. great work !

[@garyhuston]

Thanks

[@macbilling6410]

I never get bored watching you Gary.

[@garyhuston]

Thanks

[@grandadz_forge]

You have such clean, forge to finish skills

[@garyhuston]

Thanks

[@lindafrench5412]

Now I know what that tool is! Very interesting watching you make one. I've always like watching a horseshoe being made, takes some good craftmanship. Thank you for sharing!😎

[@garyhuston]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@smoknjoeee7966]

Awesome work again mate!!

[@garyhuston]

Thanks again!

[@lowellsewell3192]

Thank you great forging and information!!

[@garyhuston]

Very welcome

[@jackdawg4579]

Quite a bit of that went over my head, but I am slowly picking up more info as you occasionally do a set of shoes or show a horse being shod. Like the angle on the front holes, but the back holes being vertical - makes sense, and I wouldn't have even thought about the need for it until you mentioned it! One day maybe I'll even understand what you are talking about with "hunter" as a shoe type :)

[@tellket]

Thank you for the post Gary.

[@garyhuston]

No problem

[@samanthalutgendorf8173]

I understand the struggle of forging tough steel, my professors made us use really hard steel for our pritchels and it took me a good few hours just to get it down to the general shape. I really enjoy watching you forge, it gives me new ideas and methods for doing stuff and I like learning from multiple people!

[@garyhuston]

If there is anything I can try and help with please don't hesitate to mail me.

[@damndale7279]

Well done on the tool made it look easy. Great looking shoes too.

[@garyhuston]

Thanks 👍

[@Miserieful]

I wonder what amazing things he can do if he had a working like alex steele. Already makes beautiful knives, with the stuff he has now. Still remember his antler knife. 🥰

[@garyhuston]

thanks

[@Livefreelivesteong87]

Brilliant

[@advance9572]

Nice!👍

[@garyhuston]

Thanks! 👍

[@nrhoofcare7724]

great work! I thought you would have to heat treat the pritchel at the end but seems to peforrm fine simply air cooled.

[@Andy-Gibb]

Gary to allow to know what orientation a chisel is in I always knock a area of about an .5 inche reduced area about an inch from the top of the chisel on the orientation line at the top of the chisel on both sides. This lets me know the lay at a clans.

[@garyhuston]

That's fine if you have time to look, my way is done purely by feel the instant you pick it up, no need to look. Each to his own.

[@shortfuse43]

Nice work on the pritchel. Your work is always so clean...even to keeping your anvil surface cleaned off for forging. BTW, that thumb at 1:33 looks horrible! How did you mash that?

[@garyhuston]

Thanks, I hit it while shoeing a horse with shivers.

[@shortfuse43]

@@garyhuston WOW! I bet that brought tears to your eyes.

[@garyhuston]

@@shortfuse43 it certainly did!😢

[@wheezie923]

Interesting

[@alanhill4334]

You mention getting a forge hammer when you get a bigger shop. I know a couple of tradesmen and finding a decent workshop at an affordable rent seems to be an issue these days ?

[@garyhuston]

It is a bit tricky but I'm waiting for my current landlord to find me somewhere on his farm. Unfortunately all the big units are taken. I have to wait for someone to move out or die!!

[@alanhill4334]

@@garyhuston Individual tradespeople are a vital part of the economy, we would be in trouble without them, something that is hardly recognised. Therefor there should be some form of aid or tax relief. Anyhow this isn't a politics site so I'll say no more.

[@garyhuston]

@@alanhill4334 At the moment we do get free rates which helps a lot but I'm sure when this covid business is over that will be reinstated so they can recoup their losses!

[@jokoarek74]

Joos bahan nya besi semua 👍

[@jokoarek74]

Keren bos kuu .mantab pokok nya👍

[@j.mshrader2347]

Nice work as always Gary,the little driving hammer you made me is still working out beautiful. I’ve been spending more time at home with the new baby but I’ve shod roughly 100 horses with it and I absolutely love it. I made mine years ago out of broken bmw halfshafts from my ‘89 m3 back when I autocrossed years ago. 20yrs,2 wives and 4 kids later the bimmer is gone but most of my hot tools tools are still with me lol. What’s your stance on tuning up prichels,stamps and punches Gary? Are you in the thought of tuning them up with a grinder/belt or tune them up hot? I used to grind mine,but at the same clinic I went to with billy as clinician he did a tool maintenance session and showed me how to tune them up under the hammer,he told me if you do good enough work off the hammer you don’t need to clean much of anything up with a grinder or rasp.

[@garyhuston]

Glad the hammer is holding up. I’m of the same school as Billy, we were taught to tune them hot, you don’t loose so much material either and the tools last longer.

[@j.mshrader2347]

@@garyhuston I’ve learned a lot from billy over the years,as well as big John from Ireland and a few others I’ve meet in my travels over the years. And it’s mostly little things,things that you chalk up to inconsequential little details. But billy told me that it’s the details that separates as half assed job from a so-so job from a good job. And from that day on I’ve shod everything the same,dosnt matter if it’s a back yard nag,a 4h kids walk/trot horse or a 2yr old that’s already made $100,000. They all get the best that I’m able to do.

[@Andy-Gibb]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@josecarlosgrandinetti6195]

Show 👏👏🎱🤙🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@andrewgrimmett8363]

Sounds like you have a cold ,hope your ok mate

[@garyhuston]

No cold just a long day!