Blacksmithing: Restoring a gate

[@indianatone218]

As a gate maker myself in the past ,thats a great job well done ,thanks for showing us.

[@webmonkeyuk]

Its a pleasure watching someone who knows their stuff doing their stuff!

[@888johnmac]

that trick of letting in the metal bar, then grinding the rope twist in was really neat

[@fbollaert]

Enjoyed this a lot - love it when you can solve problem with a sledge hammer. Thank you Maximus

[@lucysparks240]

'..and I'll adjust that with a sledgehammer.' Lol!

[@maximusironthumper]

Proper ironthumping that was!

[@willtricks9432]

My motto is "Don't force it, get a bigger hammer."

[@devina1100]

That's what i call using the irish persuader lol

[@blueskyredkite]

Worked didn't it?!

[@vza423]

That was just a "love" tap!

[@forddoctorforddoctor5918]

Absolute craftsman 👍👍👍👍👍 old original ways are always the best brilliant 👍👍👍👍

[@racheltomlinson2257]

Magnificent finish, you did a fantastic job on the gate. Beautifully done. Pity we could not see it in situ for its full glory. Years ago when I was in Preston, I did loads of wrought iron hanging baskets, the guys were skeptical at first having a female in their workshop but they soon realise I was there to learn and work just as hard as them ,twisting each bar and endless spot welding , painting etc, great fun, very relaxing so I can understand why you was enjoying it. Then we moved onto working on the canal barges, but I did the compound angles etc in the carpentry needed on the barges rather than the metal work needed on them, which was a fun challenge.

[@alcadey9547]

Blacksmithing. such a fine art and skilled science. Im glad someone like Max is continuing the old craft and giving it fair justice. would love to learn something like this. and would swap lives with Max any day ! - apart from my wife and kids, he cant have them !

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Talented chap indeed. Very interesting to see the secrets of a good restoration.

[@pamellajohnstone9711]

You must get such pleasure in bringing these pieces back to life beautiful peice.and great skills you have loved the wee spiral bit in the middle you fixed.

[@pamellajohnstone9711]

How would the floral bitve been made ,some kind of cast?

[@luketallant3571]

That was the fastest paint flingin' I ever saw!! Your solution on the twisted bar was absolutely genius. Great video, as normal, and hammer on.

[@vicj3343]

Mate! You've got your own sand blasting rig? That is SO cool. I know you don't much like doing the pay jobs ... but I'm glad that lovely old gate was left in your hands for repair instead of someone who wouldn't do it justice. You, Sir, are a craftsman. I actually found it very exciting - there's room for every type of video but I, for one, find these eminently practical videos far more enjoyable than what currently passes for the majority of smithing videos.

[@maximusironthumper]

Thank you! The sandblaster will have it's own video soon...

[@cluxseltoot]

Maximus - Have a wonderful Christmas - Please make more of these videos, just like the instruction video you made about water filtering, these videos are gold-dust and inspirational to us town-lubbers.

[@maximusironthumper]

Thank you!

[@nautilus1872]

Good work and the customer gets to see the amount of work that went in to a full restoration,loved the repair on the twisted bars I would never have thought of that.Great to read that you where able to cast the spikes.Saved from destruction and good for another half century.

[@marcduthie4327]

Really love watching your videos here in Australia. Thanks for the effort you put in. Marc

[@TheoriginalANGEK439]

I want a go on your sand blaster. And I would be happy painting that gate. 👍 beautiful finish..

[@TheMrWoodsman]

You are a true mast of your art sir.

[@NathanNostaw]

Nice repair. Good to see you put the thought into the surface finish. Too often restorations strip off the age of a piece and defeat the point of repairing old and not just making new. If it looks new, what was the point? Nice gate, good for another 100yrs. :)

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Superb job my man, excellent, your skills here are always worth heaps to me as I undertake my projects as it gives me the confidence to at least have a go. I am very similar, I don't throw anything away, it always comes in handy for renovation, up cycling or new projects. All your videos are very interesting and informative, your becoming one of my favourite You tube channels.

[@calvinboondoggle2564]

Outstanding Ironthumping!

[@marscho1867]

You've done an excellent job keep it up 👍

[@Ms_Davina]

Cracking job. Bet the customer was well pleased. 👍🏻

[@maximusironthumper]

He was! He even paid me extra which was nice

[@Ms_Davina]

Maximus Ironthumper bonus! 👍🏻🍺

[@brandolinthickneck2279]

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing. Very cool how you repaired that missing section.

[@S7EVE_P]

Dude you gots some skillz. Lovely job, bet the customer was well happy

[@dalton6439]

I love doing stuff like that. Very satisfying!

[@mpersad]

Absolutely fascinating, and so pleased I was introduced to the channel!

[@dartman1965]

Awesome job,you have inspired me to repair a gate and fence section I need too put back up at our house.Love your videos ........

[@maximusironthumper]

Glad to have inspired you - that's what it's all about!

[@nickwalton8864]

Fantastic. Loved the mended rope look. Genius.

[@willtricks9432]

Like the repair and hand carving the twist. Cheers

[@RobertSeviour1]

A very classy job - lovely to watch you work.

[@kevinsimpson7114]

First class job.

[@scopex2749]

This video caught my eye when i didnt have my glasses on, sounded very interesting....’Restoring a Goat’ ?😳😂😂 What wonderful work and attention to detail. Nice to see you doing a bit of planishing with your ‘adjusting tool’ 👍🏻 I can picture Sherlock Holmes walking through that gate!

[@tinkermouse-scottrussell3738]

Nice project Max, enjoyed watching. it all come together.

[@jennykirchner9989]

beautiful job

[@jbuckley2546]

What a beautiful gate, from an era when Britain was at her best in terms of manufacturing. Commission one of those from scratch would cost you the price of a half decent car, i would imagine. If you could get it made?

[@johnyb3454]

Fantastic craftsmanship really enjoyable video , thanks 👍

[@alanhutchins4233]

Very enjoyable. The determination to produce a high quality end result shines through.

Great video and grate work ..looking forward to seeing your next.video.Thanks for sharing.

[@steveblack1210]

Wonderful workmanship and a joy to watch. have a great Christmas.

[@tadpoles10]

Top job Max, you must get some pleasure with the finished project, couldn't see the joins. lol .. atb t ..

[@geraldswain3259]

Max, an absolute cracking job !!!. Regards.

[@katieh2007]

I just bought your blacksmith book recommendation Max, I wondered would you do a video on how you made your sand blaster.

[@maximusironthumper]

I might, but I'm a bit put off by the fact it's such a horrible machine to use!

[@katieh2007]

It gets the job done

[@MrHeggie123]

Top job mate ... true craftsman

[@domedweller4202]

Beautifully done!🌹

[@kingoffcool]

Awsome repair, love your channel cheers and merry christmas.

[@elisheva5785]

Awesome.. the gate finished up beautiful again !!

[@spiderdad00]

Great video enjoyed watching the gate repair nice job

[@tatankacleary]

Great to see talent at work. Nice one Max keep it up!!

[@celticdude4686]

Nice work brother. That old gate will have a new life because of your care for it's original craftsmanship. Have you ever looked up Alec Steele? I hope things are going well in England? MEGA!

[@maximusironthumper]

Thank you! Alec Steele does some great stuff but he's a little full on for my viewing tastes!

[@jedimike9390]

very interesting and informative thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and skills. May the force be with you always. Or should i say may the forge be with you -LOL

[@tonyalways7174]

Cracking result

[@glenatools1]

Cracking job. Looks great

[@hagmark1]

Brilliant! Moz...

[@copperhousefarm4794]

Maximus, you did such amazing work! Merry Christmas, from the other side of the pond. Sharon

[@maximusironthumper]

Thanks. Merry Christmas to you too!

[@nIzIx98]

I'd like more of these too!

[@devina1100]

Excellent! love your work . Great job!

[@hudsonandhudson3160]

Maximus, I just stumbled on your channel. Genuinely legendary behaviour!! I'm a blacksmith myself who has a huge interest in living off grid. I think I'm probably not too far from you, as I'm in South Wales. If you had the available time one day I'd love to pop over for a cuppa and chat to you about some of your approach to achieving off grid life. Am always more than happy to do some striking or grinding to repay your time if you like. If not......no worries:) Thanks for the great vids and keep on keeping it real;) Genuinely all the best, Rob Hudson

[@maximusironthumper]

Thanks! Not really doing visitors at the moment, but I appreciate the support, cheers :-)

[@brunob442]

Great job, excellent repair too 👍

[@spungletrumpet]

Great stuff! We all have to do actual paid work sometimes, it's always nice when it's something worthwhile! :)

[@maximusironthumper]

Even better when it's out of the way and we can get back to Project Awesome!

[@A.polon.i.a]

Top job...... ol' Fred Dibnah would be very proud of ya lad!

[@adamhorner3950]

Wonderful restoration work!

[@timbeck8039]

Good effort buddy. The last few weeks I've enjoyed watching your vids and will the next ones you post. Being a Boilermaker myself i enjoy watching people build and restore, bring back to life what some people say is dead but i also know the dangers in a workshop and if you need your trade to make money to survive, put the cover back on your angle grinder or ill have to call you Stumpy😉.

[@dianerogers8020]

Beautiful

[@blueskyredkite]

Nice repair/refurb.

[@cjhification]

Did you have to make an extra twisted bar? thought there as 3 bars and 2 bits which you made in to 1 but had 5 at the end. Regardless of that love it. Working of metal is just special in a craftsman's hands.

[@sergiopereira8863]

Very nice job.

[@benspeedschannel888]

Fantastic job dude!!!

[@gentlerowdy]

Do they still Do these kind of beautiful sand casting in the England ?

[@maximusironthumper]

Yes, but such work is rare and expensive here now!

[@julianbeesley5059]

I notice you managed to get the finials screwed in and tighten all facing the right way that’s quite tricky I would have thought

[@HPLP85]

thanks for sharing mate

[@morganplatt6762]

Good job bud!

[@Wildmutationblu]

Amazing work, the gate is restored. How do you get your paid jobs, do you advertise in local village shop windows?

[@maximusironthumper]

I've managed to get by without ever advertising, the work just finds me!

[@donaldasayers]

How did you replace the missing rope twists and finials?

[@maximusironthumper]

Sorry that bit got lost in the edit! I had the missing bits cast up using the remaining ons as patterns

[@donaldasayers]

Thanks!

[@oakashthorn5714]

Bloody champion that...

[@almath9987]

Great video, was luck to serve my time is a engineering factory in the early 90s were they still had welders, platers, fabricators, fitters, machinists, plolishers and a tool room. Hommers ( jobs for oneself) took priority hence why the closed! So meaney guys I work with have a degree but have no know how! The way I see it is I can go to uni at any age they cant go back and get serve there time. Supper to see you work total art

[@andydavidson]

love watching your vid's, if you get the daf stuck again try wrapping rope throught the back wheels and around the tyres, acts a bit like snow chains, good effort though :)

[@andyeversden]

Awesome Job as ever! nice

[@LovelyKauai]

Nice. Very nice.😎

[@johnfleury5430]

What's happening with the zil truck? Nice work on the gate Take good care

[@leecourt8509]

Wow that was fascinating! Especially liked the angle grinder used to do the rope twist. Where did you train and what did you do as a job before you went self-employed?

[@maximusironthumper]

I've had many jobs over the years but mostly I was and am a blacksmith!

[@off-gridlivingnorway5516]

Really enjoyed this!

[@LukeWhitton]

Amazing!!

[@heathersanborn4914]

Wonderful, ended up looking great, do you need to use a special rod other than 6010 or 7018 to weld wrought iron? or is it sort of like cast iron where you heat it weld it and cool it slowly

[@maximusironthumper]

Nope just standard 6013 on this. By the time this gate was made the wrought iron was nice high quality stuff and I find for arc welding, can be treated much like mild steel. Cast iron is a whole different can of worms!

[@davros517]

Cracking video, love your stuff and way of life.....magic, quick question - what medium do you use in your blaster ?

[@maximusironthumper]

Thanks. I now use recycled glass (not glass beads), before I could get that I used to use 'jblast superfine' which was copper oxide. The glass is not quite as effective but cheaper and cleaner! Suppliers of both are on ebay.

[@davros517]

Thanks for the info.

[@WilliamTMusil]

Nice work.

[@stansmith1030]

My dear fellow,you are just amazing to watch love your work.be very careful that drew Pritchard doesn’t try to enslave you,and put you with his other poorly paid slaves,on resto work.

[@MrWIB]

Impressive work :)

[@reubenleveridge5175]

watch loads of these vids very good stuff where abouts in the country are you ???

[@ukbeeps]

Good job buddy 👍

[@Jonathanbaker]

I can’t wait for the next instalment of the zili

[@Kalkaekie]

Good job !!

[@trecedaves3159]

Loved it.

[@robertthornhill4379]

hi max good job 10/10 bob in derby thanks for sharing

[@anthonysinclair5721]

Yeah! , I enjoyed that , how many hours of your time went into it from when you pulled it off the wall until reinstallation? : )

[@KRAMPUS1933]

Super job Maximus. The Norse spirit lives on! I have some great old Victorian gates that I intend to restore, but I was hoping to use mig to let fresh metal in. Is that something you would agree with - seeing as you use stick, or would you not recommend it?

[@maximusironthumper]

Thank you. I'm using arc welding as my arc welders are more powerful than my mig and with an arc I can weld cast iron, wrought iron and steel. If your mig is powerful enough (200amps or so) then yes it's fine for repair of wrought iron and steel (if it's not that powerful you can get the job done by grinding very deep bevels into everything before welding and then using several passes).

[@KRAMPUS1933]

Ah, just as I thought. I have a Lincoln 180 and I weld chassis rails/motorbike frames and fabricate steel stuff all the time. I asked around a few smithys about mig, and they all raised their eyebrows, but I guess it is like asking a barber if you need a haircut. They all want money, and they cant earn if you do it yourself! By the way. I just moved out to the South of France and intend on adopting an autonomous lifestyle, growing food, keeping poultry and so on. When I found your channel, it lifted me right up, because I know that we can all return to this way of life, to cherish what we have rather than yearn for what we have not, and learn to reduce our consumption at the same time as having a fuller richer life. Hail to you Maximus!

[@AddictedtoProjects]

If welding cast iron with a MIG, it also help pre-heating the parent metal. That way you get less of a chance of a cold-tear at the weld joint. Another excellent repair process for cast/wrought iron is to braze the stuff with Silicone Bronze. That's probably the most appropriate and most secure repair. But you'll need *A LOT* of heat to get the parent metal red hot. Otherwise the bronze brazing wire won't melt. Good luck! ;)

[@KRAMPUS1933]

Addicted to Projects; I have only tig and mig, right now but I can heat the surrounding parent metal up no problem. Most - if not all of the material I need to weld on these gates is wrought iron, so in terms of what I intend to do, that's good advice. Thanks!

[@Dominic.Minischetti]

Nice job!

[@crzynrs100]

Nice!

[@tombore9516]

hello Maximus Ironthumper, me and my dad found your channel from the land rover series and the soviet Russian truck video, from them we was hooked. i am really impressed at your work and knowledge you have, You do a brilliant job!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just one question how is your land rover? Merry Christmas and happy new year. - Tom

[@maximusironthumper]

Land Rover is still going well thanks!

[@zennor_man]

Proper job.....

[@rayblade6383]

Very theraputic to watch this... You are very talented... How much would you charge for something like this? Approximately.... I have some gates that i also need doing. :)

[@maximusironthumper]

I think this one came in at about £400 for my work plus casting past was on top, maybe another £250 or so. Last one I'll do for the foreseeable future!

[@rayblade6383]

complete bargain for the amount of work you put in.... Thanks for being so honest.