[TheForge] treadle hammer anvils

Thu Jan 9 10:46:02 2003

bob, The "solid "configuration that you
used on mine is good and solid. That
being said, for the most part I do not
hit hard enough to really utilize it,
most of the time.. I use it as a striker
when I am holding tooling. So for me the
tube probably would have been fine. 
If he is not likely to be stomping as
hard as he can most of the time a tube
will still make a sufficient immovable
object. It might be a bit noisier
though.

Mike Graf

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> i am building a treadle hammer for a friend. he is not sure whether to go with a solid anvil or a tube type. it seems that most commercially available t hammers have tube anvils with a plate on top, centaur, kirkpatric (the same?) and the one advertised in the hammers blow.
> 
> are there others that can be bought?
> 
> any opinions on the functional difference between solid or tube anvils? the guy i am making it for is concerned about moving it (weight). he lives in a flood plain and his shop has 7' of water in it some springs. he usaully loads thing up and moves it to high ground till the water goes down.
> 
> bob s.
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