[TheForge] Period power hammer?

[GRAF]

I was thinking of the horse also.
The first questions are where and what period?

The second is what standard? What you can document as having been done 
or what someone could have done with materials and technology at hand?

I saw a nice fly wheel driven metal spinning setup, turned by an 
apprentice. It was supposedly "period", but it was also at a Ren Faire 
so the standards were pretty loose.

Mike Graf

robert hensarling wrote:
> I've seen photos of horse and or human powered tread mills that in turn
> operate a line shaft.  Wind power, water power, there's probably more.
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> I have the opportunity to take over a historic shop, on one condition:  no
> electricity.  This is fine with me, as 90 percent of what I do anyway is
> hand work  (can do my electric welding and grinding off site) but I have
> been hoping to get into some heavier stuff with a small power hammer.  Is
> there any period technology (other than water or steam) for say a 25 lb
> hammer?  Treadle and flywheel maybe?  Just starting to research this so any
> help is much appreciated.
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