[TheForge] Tire power hammer

[Rick]

Hello Roger -

    Have you heard any more about this?  I am very interested.  (Even though 
I don't make many meetings.)

Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
  Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
   In the middle of Northern Illinois

    http://www.smokyforge.com
     rick at smokyforge.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger R Degner" <rog781 at means.net>
To: <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>; "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:14 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Tire power hammer


> UMBA is talking about having a tire hammer build also sometime this year
> at Elkhorn Wis.
> But again this is only in the very first stages of talk
>
> I am thinking of building at least one and I already have two 25# LG,
> two 50# LG and a 250# Murray hammer.
> I still think this is the best 50# mechanical hammer I have ever watched
> run
>
> www.umbaonline.org then the library has a DVD-R of Clay and the hammer
> at Alabama forge council conference.
> The web page doesn't list it yet but hopefully this week it will
> It is RD105 and has about 3 hours of Clay demonstrating and another 3
> hours of Joe Miller, Brasstown, NC doing hollow iron things.
> The video shows close ups of the hammer working and no pictures of how
> it was built and no plans are available from Clay either so you need to
> sign up for a workshop and build your own.
> Cost is $7 for the first and $5 each DVD-R in the rest of the order.
> This includes postage and you don't send them back.
>
> Roger R Degner
>
>
>
>
> Power hammer workshop in Tallahassee: The target date is May 26, 27 & 28
> for a build in Tallahassee, Fla. at Mike Bettenger's welding shop. His
> e-mail is bmchild2 at aol.com if any one is interested. We could do it for
> less if we had a source for cheaper-than-new 6"x36" steel, square or
> round.
>
> Ron Childers
>
> -
>
> I have returned home from the Alabama Forge Council conference where I
> got the opportunity to watch Clay Spencer run a shop made #50 mechanical
> hammer made with a emergency spare tire as the clutch.  He gave the name
> of the inventor several times but I don't remember it at the moment.



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