Bad Attitude Farm & Forge LLC

You can acquire free high carbon railroad spikes legally, without trespassing or steeling railroad property.  Truth be known, the majority of spikes found by the side of the tracks are so low carbon that they are just about useless for knife making.  Although much better than the older spikes, knives made from so-called high carbon railroad spikes should not be considered high performance.  I forge railroad spikes into knives because the finished product demonstrates the tranformative nature of forging.  Let’s face it, everybody knows what a railroad spike looks like, so seeing one changed into a knife really illustrates the difference between forging and stock removal knife making.

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When we first started experimenting blackberries, raspberries, and grapes; our plants were set in raised beds around the out buildings and fences.  We thought about buying a truck load of mulch to keep the weeds down in our new beds, but the cost seemed a bit much and we didn’t think we would use that much mulch.  So we started buying mulch by the bag whenever we put in new plants.  We quickly realized that we could have used an entire truckload and the buy bags as you go plan was adding up fast.  Then I had a revelation and have not purchased mulch since.

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