[TheForge] Has anyone seen Oliver?

Thu Sep 11 16:01:00 2003

Is the company that made the Oliver hammer also make Oliver Tractors??

Paul McComb
[email protected]

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From: [email protected]
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Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Has anyone seen oliver?

Paddy,

Keep looking, they're out there.  You can get one new for about $40. 
Or watch the flea markets and garage sales.  I passed up a 16# sledge
for $5 at a Burbank, CA, garage sale 'cause it would have probably cost
me $50 to take it back to NJ in my luggage.  

This sort of thing DOES show up in suburban garage sales.  Some poor
slob buys the biggest sledge he can find, uses it once, and learns his
lesson.  I've picked up a few for a project of my own
(http://www.monmouth.com/~freeman/wh/wh.htm), so know whereof I
speak.

BTW, I'm mulling over modifying Morgan Hall's (unpublished) Weta
treadle hammer for use over an anvil, like an Oliver hammer. The Weta is
like the Grasshopper (vertical straight-line motion, all pivots - no
sliders or rollers - http://www.monmouth.com/~freeman/bmf/grashopr.htm)
but lacks the frame.  For this application, I think it might be a better
design than the Grasshopper-with-frame.  If anyone else is actually
interested in such a design let me know, as it might motivate me to get
off my butt and work on it.

Meanwhile, there's a picture of one take on an Oliver at
http://www.monmouth.com/~freeman/bmf/others.htm#SteelOliver.
This is by no means the simplest possible design for the thing.

Bruce
NJ

>>> [email protected] 09/08/03 09:19AM >>>
Hello wise sages
       I am looking for a large sledge hammer (cross peen or straight
been 
would be nice)over 15 lbs to build an oliver type treadle hammer.Any
one 
have one they would be willing to sell?also a set of plans wouldnt
hurt.I 
was thinking about the one in the junkyard pics that is attached to a
stump 
and uses a regular anvil,or maybe even the floating hammer.Any help
would be 
appreciated.

Paddy P the wannabe

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