[TheForge] Re: Walter Scadden Workshop on Marine Hardware at FurnaceTown

[Mike]

Too bad I'm such a Luddite that my browser won't handle the photo
site.  I'd like to see the anchor.

Bill> The anchor is made out of 3/4 inch mild steel for the shank and
Bill> arms and 1/2 for the stock.

Most of the anchors I made (when there was still any amount of fishing
going on in Port Medway) were from 1-1/4" or 1-1/2" with a 3/4" stock.
But these were for 32' to 40' boats or to anchor mid-water trawl or
gill nets.  And I never tried to make one that was all forge welded.
Demand for anchors was what prompted me to get an arc welder in the
first place.

I do have a special stake tool for forging flukes.  In muddy or sandy
bottom the fishermen wanted big flukes -- pieces of 1/4" plate welded
on.  For stony bottom they wanted small flukes and it was easier to
forge them.

Bill> The balls on the end of the stock were made by wrapping 3/4 x
Bill> 1/4 around the bar and forge welding it.

I've never put balls on the ends except for one with the slide-through
and fold-down kind of stock for a recreational boater.  I don't have
any experience whatever with actually *using* anchors so I tried to
make exactly what the fishermen asked for.  Given the risks of
commercial fishing, I wanted never to be responsible for 3 or 4 guys 8
hours off shore looking at each other, saying "Oh, S**t." and never
coming home.

For your next assignment ("should you choose to accept it" :-), make a
5-claw graplin all banded and forge welded.

- Mike

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