I only remember one blacksmith and that was my uncle, used to like going over there in the 50s when I was just a little kid. He was busy, did the plow shares, welding, fabricating, sickle sharpening and so on for farmers for miles around. His old shop had a plank floor, the basement was open to the south so a few cattle could go in so it had some straw in it, he had a forge in the shop, had some holes in the plank floor and he'd pull something out of the forge, lay it on a big anvil and start beating on it, sparks going every direction and I could never figure out why it never burned down. Iron was laying everywhere out front, both his welder and his torch looked like they had a mile of cable and hose on them. He had an old one stall garage with a cement pit in it, only one I ever seen until all the quicklubes opened up... and the old boy liked to talk about what he did in his younger years, ran a dragline and dozers in I think the Paradise valley, where ever that was, California maybe. When I was in my early 20s I'd take him a 6 pk of beer once in a while and listen to the same old stories, cats and draglines.
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