[TheForge] Period hammer

[Peter Hirst]

Wow, thanks for the input.  The Youtube video shows one strong possibility.  The smith working the links uses a spring loaded lever rig that could be just the thing.  looks like about a ten-pounder, but I dont know why it couldnt go at least twice that.  Anybody ever seen one of these?   

As to the period.  Well.  Like most existing Cape Cod buildings, the smithy itself is a Heinz-57.  It has already been moved at least once, and may be again for this project.  It shows reassembly, repair, refurbishing over at least a 150 year stretch, c.1825-1975.  It also holds equipment from at least as broad a range.  My own stuff  is mostly mid to late 1800's.  I will be melding all of it into something representative of as broad a range as possible, rather than narrowng it, so just about anything pre-WWII will probably fit the bill, the older the better.  For example, my regular job is at a general store that is on the National register.  It  was built as a church in 1852, converted in 1865, and has correct repairs and updates through 1980and relics of each of the previous ownerships.    The local Historical Society  and the town historic commission like us just fine. 

Its not out of the question to have horse power available at least on occassion, and there is room on site, so I would like to know more about Robert's rig "laying around in the weeds".  Where is it?  Would you consider a charitable donation or long term loan?  What a great restoration project it would make.    I may have some resources avaialble to me for things like that, especially if I could document that such a rig might have been used somewhere around here.  There are still enough horse folks around, including working stock, that it could work.  
ph