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Are you talking about a double ferrule or a single ferrule? Are you talking about setting It on edge or laying It flat? Don't lay It on edge. Lay It flat and beat the snot out of It.
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Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: nyhuntfish]
#6935267 07/19/2004:00 PM07/19/2004:00 PM
If I'm still doing it wrong please tell me. Thank you.
IMO yes you are doing it wrong.In the case of the ferrule coming apart you did not squish it hard enough. For extra security/holding power cross punch your flatten ferrule with a standard screw driver.
Last edited by bctomcat; 07/19/2004:03 PM.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: bctomcat]
#6935275 07/19/2004:05 PM07/19/2004:05 PM
If I'm still doing it wrong please tell me. Thank you.
IMO yes you are doing it wrong.In the case of the ferrule coming apart you did not squish it hard enough. For extra security/holding power cross punch your flatten ferrule with a standard screw driver.
That won't work for a PA cable restraint!!!
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Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: nyhuntfish]
#6935278 07/19/2004:06 PM07/19/2004:06 PM
Are you talking about a double ferrule or a single ferrule? Are you talking about setting It on edge or laying It flat? Don't lay It on edge. Lay It flat and beat the snot out of It.
Double. Flat is what I had done all this time, then I watched a youtube video about someone doing it the right way and it was from them laying it on its side. Makes a much stronger (looking) square almost.
I can't access that link. But I have closed 1000s of double ferules by laying them flat and beating them closed with my 16oz hammer. Never had one fail yet.
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Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: The Beav]
#6935353 07/19/2004:54 PM07/19/2004:54 PM
I can't access that link. But I have closed 1000s of double ferules by laying them flat and beating them closed with my 16oz hammer. Never had one fail yet.
let me try this
Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: bctomcat]
#6935354 07/19/2004:54 PM07/19/2004:54 PM
If I'm still doing it wrong please tell me. Thank you.
IMO yes you are doing it wrong.In the case of the ferrule coming apart you did not squish it hard enough. For extra security/holding power cross punch your flatten ferrule with a standard screw driver.
Thanks
Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: GROUSEWIT]
#6935375 07/19/2005:22 PM07/19/2005:22 PM
Hello "gcs" Weld an inverted V seam on the edge of your railway iron and you can easily cross punch your ferrules and stops, as shown in previous picture, as the last stage of hamming them.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: nyhuntfish]
#6935412 07/19/2005:55 PM07/19/2005:55 PM
Does cross indentations hold better then just smashing them flat? Seems like a lot more fooling around.
IMHO yes and it's only one additional hammer strike if you have a ridge welded on your iron as I show in my picture. I have never had a cross punched one come apart which I cannot state about just flatten ferrules.
Last edited by bctomcat; 07/19/2006:09 PM.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: nyhuntfish]
#6935440 07/19/2006:14 PM07/19/2006:14 PM
I have done many thousand,snares,cable restraints,cabled Berkshire cable stakes and slide wires. .All double ferrules were flattened as needed with a 2 pound hammer. I lay them flat for pounding and have never had one of mine or one of my customers have one fail. I never lay them on their side Experience will help teach you what works for you. Never have watched a you tube trapping video. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
Re: Ferrule advice for the newbe
[Re: nyhuntfish]
#6935472 07/19/2007:01 PM07/19/2007:01 PM
I use an old bottle jack and pound the ferrule on the top of that with a 2 lb maul. The top of the jack is checkered and makes a nice set of imprints on the ferrule have only done 8 to 900 but haven't had one fail yet. Never pounded it sideways. Just my experience.
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