[AT] Bending a wheel? [OT]

[Louis R Godena]

Well, that's certanly encouraging, Francis.   Thanks.  I had always heard 
that bending a wheel was like being gut-shot out in the prairie -- it was 
all over.

Now, to find a blacksmith!

Louis G

> When I was about 18 I rolled a big wagon load of corn by going to sleep 
> and letting two
> wheels drop off of the edge of the pavement. They were not common wheels 
> (back then) so
> we took them to some body shop folks we got acquainted with a year earlier 
> (long story,
> high speeds, unfriendly utility pole and end post, removed part of 
> windshield with head
> etc.) and they sent the two wheels to a company they used that all they 
> did was
> straighten wheels for body shops. I think it was just a couple of bucks 
> (remember I am 63
> now).  :-)   BTW, I am still running those wheels.
> A steel spoked wheel from a hay rake would be a piece of cake for any 
> blacksmith worth
> their salt. I have done stuff like that for neighbors now and then over 
> the years and I
> don't call myself a blacksmith.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100
> years
> before the revolution.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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