Made a ladle for watering the coal from the slack tub. Ladle body was a piece of thick walled exhaust pipe. Handle was a piece of 1/4 inch electric fence post. Rivets were 16 penny nails cut off about a quarter inch from the head. Rivets were set hot.

My slack tub ladle, in all it’s glory… 😉

Back of bowl showing rivets connecting handle.

And the scroll at the end of the handle. Comfortable to use and easy to control. Over all I am rather pleased with it.

One Response to “Ladle for slack tub”

1. Steve says:

   March 4, 2007 at 7:59 am

   Now THIS I can relate to personally. I had the pleasure (??) of making several ladles like this (not made the same way, and not made as well, to put it mildly…) when I worked at the radiator shop. We used them to melt solder scraps and cast them into bars for tinning up tanks and so forth. We just used whatever scrap pieces we could find–the bottom of a Ford A/C accumulator with a handle welded on was the usual thing. Not exactly artistic, but it worked.