BAM March 2010 meeting

The Blacksmiths of Missouri meeting was held at President Ken Jansen's shop in Moscow mills.

The trade item was anything that rings.

Hammer and ringer made by Ed Harper.

Pat McCarty's jingle bell.


Kent Harbit's school bell. It rang beautifully!

Steve McCarthy's work.

Osage Bluffs cow bell.

Don N's bell. Sorry Don, I can't see your last name.

This one was really cool, but I didn't see who had made it.

Chris's dinner ringer.

Mike McLaughlin's bell.

John Murray making a ladle.

Ed, Bob, Harry, and Bernie, doing what blacksmith's do best.

The blacksmith enjoys Mom's pies

Brother Pat enjoys his blackberry pie with half a carton of ice cream.

The Blacksmith enjoys his 2 pieces of Blackberry pie with black coffee.

To read more about the pies go to Osagebluffquilter.

Fur buying session

February is always the month for the annual fur buying session in this part of the country.

Mr. Miller, the buyer is showing the girls how to grade the hide. He loves to teach the kids this art.








A pile of raccoon hides that have just been graded and sorted.













Elizabeth says, "Hey Grandma is even here with her camera!"









The blacksmith showed the son his new friction folder knives. For some reason, the blacksmith came home with one less knife after this picture was taken.









In this photo you can see a red fox and two bob cats.













The son and grand daughter.











Jerry and his grandson Matthew











Mr. Miller sorting beaver hides











More sorting and grading of the hides.

This is Paul. He is the grandfather of all these young men. Not really but they all look up to him, as if he were. The sale is always held in his shed. Dinner and drinks are provided. He also hosts trapping camp for the guys. You can't find a better mentor to all the younger men and their children.

Fresh made daily. Take 3

Friction folding knife

Fresh made daily. Take two

He made a really neat trailer today to use with my 4 wheeler.

I can think of all kinds of things to haul with this.

Just another day in paradise and he had it made!

Fresh made daily

Bearded ax

Tomhawk

Making deer sausage 2010

Well the grumpy old men (the blacksmith and Terry) made deer sausage this week.

The process actually started Friday when the venison and pork was ground and seasoned.

Here you see the son and oldest grandson helping in the stuffing process. This was done on Sunday afternoon.

Yes that is a gun on the counter! You never know when someone might come to steal your sausages.


Monday morning . . . 7 AM and darn foggy the smoking starts.

Bentley is inspecting the ash pan.

To smoke a 100 pounds as they were doing took about 10 hours.

I had to work so there aren't many "during" pictures.






As you can see the skies cleared up some time during the afternoon. BT is checking the temperatures of the sausages here.








This was pretty close to the end. The sausages need to reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees.

Sorry I have no pictures of the finished products. However if you go here you can see the finished one from last year.