[TheForge] Casting a power hammer

[Doug Ayen]

Thus Spake Mike Linn (bamablacksmith at comcast.net):
> 
> Works like a charm.. I shipped 68 lbs of lead bullets to a guy in Seattle.
> 
> I thought the post man was going to break his arm when he went to snatch 
> the box off the counter..
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> At 06:13 PM 7/30/2006, you wrote:
> >Why dont, you have  a scrapyard or steel dealer cut blocks of steel that 
> >will fit in the US postal service " flat rate boxes" and mail them to you--
> >You can ship up to 70 pounds in each box for $8.10 anywhere in the US. 
> >Then just weld them up to the  power hammer design that you want.
> 
> 
>            Mike Linn
>      Artist Blacksmith
>          McCalla, AL
>        AFC Webmaster
> http://afc.abana-chapter.com

Yeah, I shipped a fellow knifemaker some of my precious stock of real wrought
iron, got about 30lbs in one of those boxes. The postal clerk was . . .
well, she had to get someone else to move the box for her, but she made
a point of saying that what I was doing was not only legal, but
certainly the cheapest way to get that shipped across country.

--doug