use for old blades.

[Ironwood]

I LIKE the concrete reinforcement idea. I may have to use that one.  :P

Also, MEN sound like horses,

"Doesn't matter how good the feed is on the inside of the pasture, the animals are never satisfied and will get what they can from the other side of the fence."


Interesting.........

Ironwood

[medic]

Jake in the long run it would be cheaper and a lot less trouble to just get a new girlfriend that doesn't like horses   ;D.
I married horse person and most of my life since then has revolved around build barns, build fences, cut hay, fix the baler, bale the hay, fix the baler again.....you see where this is going.  Run while you can.  Although all the building projects did give an excuse to buy my mill  hmmm. 

[zopi]

He already has the mill...and can build furniture out of the weather...not so much horse fence...

Best use I have ever seen old bands put to was a blacksmith/knifesmith forging welding them into damascus steel and making knives with it...
And yeah...horseproofing is harder than childproofing an explosives factory...

[jpgreen]

You guys seen this fencing?:

http://www.thehealingbarn.com/Electrobraid/horsefence.html

We live in the mountain forest and I'm consindering running this from tree to tree for our dogs (in) and pot growers (out)...  ;D

Very reasonable in cost, and you can get it in black.  It would cost thousands of dollars not to mention the labor to run conventional fencing.

[hackberry jake]

Woven gate and rebar. Never thought about those two. Thanks guys.

[caveman]

I have not used any WM blades to make knife blades out of but I have made several knife blades out of similar sized blades that were used for cutting steel.  With proper lubrication and a sharp bit I can usually drill three 3/16" holes in the blades before resharpening the bit.  It is imperative to keep the bit cool or it will not cut.  The blades are very hard; I frequently break the tip off of the punch when making a divot to start the bit in.  They take a while to sharpen but will get sharp and hold an edge.
Caveman

[Satamax]

Hi everybody.

Hackberry Jake, i use pieces of old wide bands to make scrapers. Tho, once you have ten, this should last a fair while :D

[redbeard]

 

I liked the idea of weaving the bands through a fence. So i had a couple of blades that broke awhile back and now i have a use for them.

[Magicman]

   That certainly makes it more visible.    ;)

[sandhills]

redbeard, that does dress up the fence and add some character, but you still couldn't pay me enough to use it for horses.  Is that what your fence is for?  My dad got a very pretty little buckskin yearling a few years back and she got caught up in a fence that was netwire on the bottom with 2 strands of barbed wire on top, why or how she got into that spot is beyond me, she was right along his driveway and must have stood there most of the night guessing from the dried blood.  She still is a small horse but has a lot of bloodlines behind her and after that she'll never be the same, took muscle off right down to the bone in her right knee.  She'll still be a good little saddle horse but never as athletic as she once was.  Even with the wire panels a horse will still figure out some way of getting a leg through. :-\

[captain_crunch]

With the smooth wire and a hot charger horses unless spooked leave it be after being bit a few times. Have seen two bulls blowing snot and screaming at each other and nither would get within 3 ft of power fence  8) 8)

[paul case]

bulls have a ''sixth sense'' and can tell if the wire is hot by getting close to it. horses i dont know about.

when we tried to keep a hot wire up around my bull pasture, i found that the older bulls would gang up on a younger one and push him through the fence to get the wire off and then get out. i saw them do this numerous times. i gave up on the hot wire thing and put my bulls in a pasture with road or empty pastures surrounding it for the winter. pc

[Woodwalker]

Jake in the long run it would be cheaper and a lot less trouble to just get a new girlfriend that doesn't like horses   ;D.
I married horse person and most of my life since then has revolved around build barns, build fences, cut hay, fix the baler, bale the hay, fix the baler again.....you see where this is going.  Run while you can.  Although all the building projects did give an excuse to buy my mill  hmmm. 

You forget about the vet bills, horse trailer, truck to pull the trailer, tack, saddles, stalls, vet bills, farrier, training, feed, more vet bills, a newer\bigger horse trailer, bigger truck to pull the trailer, more tack for the shows and missing part of a Elk hunting trip because of a conflict with a horse show.

Build a good horse fence out of boards or at least some sort of slick wire. The money you will save in vet bills will offset the cost of the fence.

[zopi]

Take those old blades and weld em together amd strong em for a clothesline which does not need clothespins.


What?

[LeeB]

Horses can hear when the charger is on. I've seen thier ears perk up whenever I turn it on or off.

[Groo]

make bow saws

[timbuck2]

Best use for old bandsaw blades?   EASY!  I throw a couple down at the entrance to my remote landings and woods roads.  The best deterent there is for trespassers, works like a charm.