Lock chased and assembled.

Water wheel spiral pump build.

SAW swing set build.

SAW Spiral Pump Proposal

SAW is revamping its ceramics program. They have wheels, kilns and space to expand. The only problem is that there is no water up at Barn 2. As part of my work exchange I will be building this spiral pump:

Spiral pumps utilize a series of airlocks to pressurize water from the stream and pump it upwards of 80ft above the waterline. Check out http://lurkertech.com/water/pump/tailer/ to learn more about spiral pumps and the science behind them.

Casting Complete!

I got lucky, there's not too much clean up.

First US/UK '12 Iron Pour Complete Success!

Week 3 at SAW

Here is a simple 3D model of what I will be creating while here at SAW. The piece on the left is phase one. After the swing set has proven itself I will cut it up and reassemble it as pictured on the right.

These are the end caps for top bar of the swing.

Here are the finished sand molds.

I'm starting to get anxious to see them in iron!

Now that the molds are all ready I had a chance to drive out to the scrapyard in Rutland, Vermont. After three hours on the brink of heat exhaustion I came home with these:

Two electric forklift motors and a hydraulic pump!

The small one will be the power source for this:

This is a basic 3D model of the traveling sculpture yet to be titled.

The big motor will be put into this guy:

A '68 double cab that hopefully will make an amusing and practical electric vehicle to cruise around Detroit.