In the weeds find.. amazing

pretty neat in the weeds find.
just throw some axles out in the weeds the county lawn mowers will run em over & twist em up with those industrial mowers.

 

cool look
I love twisted springers on bikes
and Indian larry did a down tube that way on a frame
run it, What's the worst that could happen?

 

interesting axle, it would make a great conversation piece for anybody's garage......

 

Speedway Motors has a World's Fair axle on their wall (at least they did a few years ago). Maybe someone in Lincoln could go measure it to compare your's to. I'd guess your's is a World's Fair axle too though.

 

Boy, that's a new one to me! I wonder if the rear axle was done like that, too?

Seriously though, I'd keep that piece like it is .... it's way too cool....

 

That would be a great wall hanger ! I have seen pictures before of them but never seen one in person .
That is very kool !

 

Very interesting "weed find" !

 

Me too... very cool...

 

Twisted axles are the new flat black

Just kidding, that thing is cool.

 

yep its still there, we just seen it a few weeks ago.

there was also one on ebay a month or 2 ago, i wanted it but didnt have the $$

JEFF

 

Ever heard of "X-ray" or "non destructive crack test" ?
Before putting my name to any car with one of those I would demand a legally binding disclaimer absolving me of all responsibility .
Sure Chrome vanadium steel is highly ductile and can be bent cold but don't think for one moment Ford would ever consider using one on a car because of stress induced fracture or the possiblity of it happening.

 

I've seen weeds do that to trees. They make walking sticks out of them. I never knew they could do that to steel though.

 

there was an axle vendor at the Round-up that had one on display.

edit: saw that someone already mentioned it.
I wonder if they start with a wide truck axle and twist it down and then it fits a car or golf cart, dunno

 

Yeah, I've heard that too. I've also seen connecting rods all bent up just like that.

 

The guy at the Lonestar Round Up that twists the axles is Joe from Joe's Speed shop in Ponca Oklahoma. He also does axle dropping. Here is his link:
http://www.joesspeedshop.com/joesproducts.htm




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You always bend stuff like that at "room temperature", not heated. If you heat it, its almost impossible to get the entire axle to a uniform temperature, and all the twists will occur at the hottest spots, with very little twisting in the cooler areas. How do I know this??? Well, back when the earth was young, I made friggin MILES of wrought iron railing for handrails, room dividers, coffee tables---all that shit that your parents had in their houses in the late 1960's, early 1970's. I used to twist square 1018-1020 steel bars to get that "twisted" look on a machine I designed and built to do it.

 

I have never seen a twisted axle but i have seen a twisted sister...

 

Must be a Catholic scholl surviver thing. My wifes is one of those serviver kids.

 

Is it possible that the top and bottom flanges were cut off the center beam and then twisted around the center beam and rewelded. The beam doesn't appear twisted to me.

 

No, it is twisted all together as a unit....I will take a close up pic later and post it.. Jason.

 

I was the guy that twisted the axle for a display. It was a dropped 47 Ford axle. I had it at the Lonestar Roundup. I also have a Business Card holder with a dropped, shortened and twisted axle. I have sold several for displays. I drop the 1937-64 Ford and Chevy axles. Joe and I set up together. He drops the 28-36 Ford axles. I'm Nostalgia Sid's http://www.droppedaxles.com

 

I have sent a bunch of guys your way lately.. they needed chevy axles dropped.. Jason

 

WTF...I dont know what to say...I guess its pretty cool!

 

What, is he going to use it on a go cart?

 

Nostalgia Sids www.droppedaxles.com
405-416-3080

He had a few axles that looked like this one thought it was interesting picked up his card. He was at the round up this year

 

There is a similar axle in the Bill Smith's collection at Speedway Motors. I saw it last fall.

 

Thanks Jason for doing that. SID

 

OOps. Sorry Sid.

 

There has to be a reason the previous owner threw it out into the weeds.

 

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