Howdy, again! Have been off the computer for awhile dealing with family unhappiness. My wife and I are 64yo and as you understand (or may already know), our parents can depart at any time. That said, it is good to be back. I came across this site that offered another way to construct a simple but pretty efficient ore (rock) crusher. I showed in an earlier post how I crushed ore. I use a post hole pounder made of steel purchased at Home Depot. It set me back about $27, but for those of you looking for a better budgetary option, I found this site from a kind gentleman. His suggestion is to take a 2 inche piece of pipe (his is 14" ling), weld a base for stabilization, and then let it rip. You can see that the piece he used already had thread, so was probably a left-over piece from another job. Notice that he used an old piece of pipe for a rammer. I cut my 6' "chinga" bar in half and have two 3' rammers that work great. You can also weld a round piece of plate...
