[TheForge] Chain & Treadle Video
Dann Johnson
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Mon May 3 15:35:00 2004
Broad Band is wonderful. I got that about a month ago. I love listening
to glitch free NPR web radio.
I took someone's posted email lead, and looked up realplayer.com &
downloaded "Real Player" and finally got the video to open this morning,
and watched it a dozen times.
Thanks.
His treadle hammer was a pretty straight forward, no frills design. It
certainly looked like he was dancing on the kick treadle , but I was
guessing that the hammer weight couldn't have been much over 25 pounds. To
me, the treadle hammer looked like it was hitting on some kind of "horn
like" addition / attachment to the side of a big, maybe 400 pound
semi-conventional anvil.
Also guessing that there might have been a single purpose: swage like
groove in it to help position the link for the treadle hammer / final
forge weld.
Certainly there is no wasted motion in anything he
did. Another wild guess, but it looked to me that he was making the
chain from at least half inch diameter thick stock.
No one would take bets that he was one tired fellow at the end of the day.
Dann Johnson
At 06:50 PM 5/1/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a broadband connection, so I'd be happy to take the full-sized file.
>Whatever is easier for you works for me.
>
>You're right -- that guy was dancin' on that treadle. Did you notice how
>he'd pause a bit and let it rise while he changed positions? He really knew
>what he was doing.
>
>Mike Murphy
>
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>On Behalf Of Mike Linn
>Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 10:44 PM
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>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Chain & Treadle Video
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>
>I can reduce the resolution and make the image bigger to keep the file size
>reasonable or I can not worry about the file size and make it full sized,
>or maybe even change format any suggestions on this ?
>
>mike
>
>
>
>At 09:25 PM 4/30/2004, you wrote:
> >I just took a look.
> >
> >1) It's on the main (home) page. Look right above the graphic of the
> >blacksmith at the anvil.
> >
> >2) Under Mozilla I just clicked the link and it ran.
> >
> >While I wished for a larger display of it, it was fascinating to see how
> >quickly he did each step.
> >
> >Aaron
> >
> >At 10:57 PM 4/30/2004, you wrote:
> >
> >>Mike,
> >>
> >>I enjoyed and wondered around the AFC web site a while. Really good
> >>web site, but I didn't find a link to your chain making video.
> >>
> >>Help?
> >>
> >>Dann
> >>
> >>At 08:17 PM 4/30/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>All,
> >>>
> >>> I got ahold of an OLD movie on chain making at the Netherton
> >>> Ironworks of Noah Hingley & Sons Ltd. over across the pond. This movie
> >>> dates from early last century and shows various craftsmen making chain,
> >>> anchors and the like. Ive pulled out a 53 second snippet and converted
> >>> it to mpg and placed it on the AFC website for all to enjoy. This
> >>> particular excerpt sows a guy making a link with that aid of a unique
> >>> treadle hammer, and lemme tell you the guy can dance a jig on that
>hammer.
> >>>
> >>>anyway the video is about 4.7Mb which was about a small as I could make
> >>>it and still be visible. The entire movie is about 20 min and 750 Mb.
> >>>
> >>>I cant figure out how to get the thing to launch by clicking on it but
> >>>you can right click on the button, select "save target as" and save it
> >>>to your drive.
> >>>
> >>>Enjoy http://afc.abana-chapter.com
> >>>
> >>>mike
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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