[TheForge] Period power hammer?

[Peter Hirst]

Walt:

Thanks very much for this addition.  Your renditionn is quite impressive, 
and I especially appreciated the animation.  Good ol Diderot, huh?  I think 
I could get the help to crank it easier than I could get the resources to 
build it!!  How did your club's project go?

Peter
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> Peter,
>
> Check out this page.  This is from Diderot Encyclopedia of Trades and 
> Industry.  Appropriate for a very early age but I doubt you will have the 
> help needed to crank it.
>
> Walt
>
> http://www.thomasironworks.com/hammerproject/Hammer%20Page.htm
> From: "Peter Hirst" <saltydog335 at aol.com>
> Date: Wed Jan 2, 12:47 PM
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [TheForge] Period power hammer?
>
> 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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