[TheForge] Period power hammer?

[GRAF]

Okay, historic shop....
When was it built?

Mike Graf

robert hensarling wrote:
> Mike I really don't know the periods, places, etc.
> I've got a neat mule operated laying around in the weeds.  A mule 
> would be hooked to a long pole or branch, which was attached to 4 foot 
> in diameter, with teeth on the bottom side.  Another gear meshes into 
> the big gear, and it's attached to a long drive shaft.  This long 
> drive shaft is then turning a flywheel and gear, which operates a 
> walking beam.  I've always wanted to put that thing together and 
> restore it, but will probably never find the time.  I was told once it 
> was worth some $$, but that's not usually my luck :o)  That's all I 
> can remember as to how it works, but I don't think it would fit your 
> application anyway.  If you could find a windmill that drives a 90 
> degree shaft from a gearbox at the base of the tower, that may be the 
> trick.  They existed, but Probably about 1850's +, but heck, I don't 
> even know that for sure.
> rh
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "GRAF" <adveniam at att.net>
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>> 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.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hirst" <saltydog335 at aol.com>
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>>> Subject: [TheForge] Period power hammer?
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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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