[TheForge] treadle hammer anvils

Thu Jan 9 13:43:04 2003

bob,
 That was my experience also.
The adjustable height was nice at first,
but quickly the tooling height became
uniform. Then it was less of a factor.

A simpler solution would be to make the
hammer with a fixed height for , say
1.25 - 1.5 inch stock plus tooling, and
then make a few thicker plates to pop
onto the anvil for thinner stock,
when/if it would actually make a
difference. That makes for a changeover
of about 5 seconds.

Martha says Hi back.

Mike

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> bruce,
> 
> i tend to agree with you but there do seem to be a lot of tube anvil t hammers out there doing good work. i have a solid anvil t hammer in my shop and in spite of the 240lb anvil it seems to be a really inefficient way of moving metal (with a 70+lb head). i think the t hammer really shows it's stuff in use as a striker for hand held tooling. in that app a solid 240lb anvil is less important i think.
> 
> also someone else mentioned that the kirkpatric t hammer doesn't adjust for different height work/tooling. i used to think this was a big problem but i have changed my opinion on that.
> 
> my t hammer is a spencer style swing arm. at first i did adjust the head but over a period of time i made all my tools about 4" long. now i can work in the range of material i usually work without raising lowering the head. the shmirler book with the picture of a treadle hammer has provisions for swing away anvils to accomodate a variety of work/tooling lengths.
> 
> thanks for all the response.
> 
> bob s.
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> >Bob,
> >
> >Have you ever seen a Peter Wrong anvil?  There's one hanging overhead in Gichner's store that's very convincing.  You'd think it's solid to look at it.  It's actually fabbed out of sheet metal, maybe 16-ga.
> >
> >How'd  you like to do all your work work on that anvil instead of, say, a Peter Wright anvil.
> >
> >Nuff said?
> >
> >Bruce
> >NJ
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> >>>> [email protected] 01/09/03 09:14AM >>>
> >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.
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> >bob s.
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