Wow so much learning by watching ✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 thank you! thank you!

"I got to go find my dogs" 🤣

Buddy, thank you. Cattywompus brought back memories i guess i had buried about some family thats no longer with us.

Another great video Clarke.  It is interesting that what would seem to be a simple part can be a multi pour challenge.  Thanks for sharing!

Fun to watch this ancient process

I hope you found the dogs and they were ok. We had some really bad wind here as well when the front came through.

Always good to watch you work 😸

Well done 👍🏻 thanks for showing the whole process

Thank you for another great video. Stay safe out there. Cheers

had the wind yesterday, gonna get a little nippy tonight in Texas. Next few days a good time to be working in the foundry LOL Love watching you work, thanks for sharing.

Beautiful restoration.

Thanks so much for sharing your process. Very interesting

It looks great!

How important is for him to have DIRESTA on everything...

Hey Clarke, a little trick I picked up from one of Sandrammer's videos - when you were cutting out the riser with that piece of pipe, if you gave the sand inside the pipe a couple thumps with something like the handle of that mini bat I've seen you using in some of your older videos, it'd tighten up that plug of sand enough that you'd get the whole thing out with the pipe on the first try every time.  I don't know if this will help you, but it's saved me a ton of aggravation when cutting out my Olfoundryman-style offset pouring basins.  
Casting looks and ought to work great.  It'll be a nice touch on that monster of a saw.  Eagerly looking forward to the capstan videos!

Thank you!!!

Good

I'm glad it turned out for you. Did you weigh the cleaned up weight? Thanks for the videos!

Those rejects make pretty decent boat anchors i guess😊
Do you think the original also might have had some shrinkage that was hidden with some filler? The main bandsaw casting also had a decent bit of filler on it if i recall correctly.
Either way its a good looking counterweight.

Use the Diresta weights for your tent/awning at shows.