[TheForge] Re: power hammer

[Mike Spencer]

Shannell wrote:

> Take a look at mine on anvilfire
> http://www.anvilfire.com/power/jyh/sugrue/jyh-au.htm

Yow!  And people were saying *I* was a hardware hacker.  Amazing.
Bizarro.

See if I have this right:  The shocks connect the crank-driven parts to
the hammering parts and serve the same function as the toggle arms do
in a LG?

I better get back to work on my chipmunk-powered wood splitter if I
wanna retain my rep. :-)

Thirty years ago, practically all the trap and long-line haulers on
inshore boats were made from car and pickup rear ends.  Cut off one
side, mount with the remaining axle up, connect the drive shaft flange
to a PTO from the engine, weld the diff and mount piepans on in place
of the wheel.  Not really pie pans, of course.  They were the only
industrially made parts of this rig, brass or aluminum disks shaped
like pie pans, mounted bottom to bottom, worked as a capstan to haul
in lobtser trap lines or long line trawl.  Sure beat hauling by hand,
clunky or not.

- Mike

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