[TheForge] Air hammer anvil height

[Jerry Frost]

Make it a comfortable height for the heaviest stock you're likely to work.

Older hammers are much lower than we find comfortable simply because folks 
are getting taller with better nutrition and health care.

This july I got the pleasure of visiting Bob Bergman and spending a little 
time on his Nazel shop hammer. He has it raised a good 6" and it wasn't too 
high for me at all. The treadle was a bit high but that's nothing to adjust 
or run off a foot rest. Bob gave me a 4 x 4 block of wood for a foot rest 
when he let me play with his Bradley Helve hammer and it was much more 
comfortable.

Both hammers were "shimmed" a good 6" and fell just shy of belt height on 
me. I would've gone belt height, I've been steadying work on my hips since I 
was a kid so it's my ideal. I wouldn't go higher, even for really light work 
but that's me.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Woolley" <wjec at verizon.net>


Greetings,

I am pouring a concrete floor in my new shop.  I was considering leaving the 
floor in front of the air hammer earth or plank or maybe concrete.  I'm 
concerned about the height of the work on the air hammer.  I haven't used it 
yet so don't really know from experience what a comfortable height from the 
ground to the work should be.  I'm thinking making the floor too high is 
gonna do a number on my back when I use the hammer.  Anyone care to weigh in 
on preference?

Regards,
Bill Woolley