[TheForge] OT (?) What's this?

[Larry Brown]

Was just thinking along these lines. In a BS shop I think this is a good 
bet for its use (If its not just there because someone wanted a copy)
L Brown


At 05:50 PM 1/31/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>Something hung from this and rotated.  I betcha the old pack  rat (or a 
>predecessor) forged chain -- heavy chain -- at one time.  I am betting 
>that this was used to hang the finished length of chain in loops whilst 
>the smith swings the link being worked on between forge and anvil.  Bottom 
>mounted on a stake plate for lighter work and overhead --likely on a 
>sliding track --
>for the heavy stuff.  Look for other evidence of chain-making in the shop. 
>An Oliver, for example, would be a dead giveaway, but also some kind of 
>plate, eye,  ring  or track on the ceiling or beam over the area between 
>forge and anvil,  heavy swaging tools, pehaps permanently mounted to a 
>heavy hammer  and corresponding bick that would match the short, curved 
>section of the chain link, where the weld was.
>
>PGH
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>Richard Maynard - Artist Blacksmith
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