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Sharpening plow shares

I was just a teenager, and I used to watch Kelly Moore, in Milton Ill. sharpen plow shares at his black smith shop. Sometimes I would be late getting back to class after lunch. Shop was just a block from the high school. Good days in the 50's!
 
That would been neat to live in that time . I probably wouldn?t have made it back to class I don?t think .
 
My Dad did this way back when. Had the trip hammer and all. I can still hear it and smell the coal fire. He usually worked this in the evening when it was cooler.
 
My school had no cafeteria so back then we had an hour off for lunch. Lots of time to get in trouble.
 
I rembember when I was kid 50 years ago. There was a blacksmith in a small town not far from home, he would put extensions on the ace bottom points.
 
I have sharpened many a share but my forge was way too small that I still have and an anvile I also still have. Never had a trip hammer, just the old armstrong hammer that I no longer have the armstrong part. If we needed a good sharpening took them to the shop. Had new noses and edges put on a lot of them. Just this week it think it was I saw a auction bill that had 50 of the new weld on points to sell. And I could still guide somebody thru rebuilding a wore out blacksmith type share using a throwaway type deep suck share. Many a time we just resharpened the nose only as the edge was still in good enough condition the nose was all it needed and with our small forge it was easy enough to do that but the forge just would not handle the edge. That throwaway deep suck share can also be nose sharpened and get 3 times the wear out of that share. I will no longer be sharpening any as I am moving from the farm this week into a senior housing apartment as at 75 just not up for much any more. Did not have the time to watch the complete viseo but it looked like a Deere share he was working on.
 
Some NOS shares and points we got last weekend for Junkshow. It?s been stored for 60 years and will help fixture our new BS shop.
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We had an exercise program at lunch. We would run down town to the pool hall. The fastest runners got a table. We got a new principal who thought it was bad for us and had the hall shut down at noon.
Dave
 
Leroy I thought it was a Deere share as well . I would love for you to walk me through rebuilding the point on a blacksmith share if one breaks off ?
 
Cool, that is a lost art just about.

The ?new? plows from the 1960s and 70s we use now the shares wear down thin, there isn?t anything left to beat out longer. Must just be a total different design of how it works out.

Don?t think those drop nose bottoms were ever popular here in rock country, the rocks would break that nose off. Can?t imagine riding on the plow behind horses and hitting the rocks we have.......

Paul
 
I worked at a blacksmith/Minneapolis Moline
shop in middle 60's. We had a piece about
1" had a v to fit the share. Just welded
them on. They were hardsurfaced. But on the
old type shares he got them hot and
welded=pounded a new piece to the old
shares.
 
Some years back a guy on the internet told of a redneck method of re-pointing plowshares, apparently his dad used to do it. Cut a 4" legnth of an old springtooth and weld on to the share (pointing down). I confess to having done this many times on my old 4-14" IHC plow. It has worked out well for me, not pretty but sucks into the ground real good.
 
Dad ran Raydex shares on Oliver plows as long as they would go, 300-400 acres, then take the shares off and replace them. Guess it varies state to state according to soil.
 
We raced to town to be first in line at the snack shop for hot sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, and BBQ.
 
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