[TheForge] Period power hammer?

[Ben Barrett]

Got any examples?  (seeking pedal-powered "power" hammers, or
variations of treadle hammers)
I found this:  http://www.google.com/patents?id=02NaAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA39&dq=power+hammer+pedal#PPA39,M1
which I hadn't seen before... looks kinda like a catapult!!  :)

tnx,

Ben



On Jan 2, 2008 12:41 PM, Grant Marcoux <gblacksmith at alamedanet.net> wrote:
> They also used pedal-powered hammers and lathes up to the point when rural
> America was electrified in the 1930s.
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> Consider both a treadle hammer and / or a flypress.  In a one or two person
> shop you can do almost anything you can do with a small power hammer -- only
> slower with more heats.  Treadle hammers date from the 1600's and were used
> in making chain.  Flypress are newer, but at least 200 years old.
>
> Dave Smucker
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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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