[TheForge] Heavy floor shear

[David E. Smucker]

Peter,

We have one at the John C. Campbell Folk School that sits just outside the 
steel room under a shed roof.  I think it is an Edwards, but have never 
looked at the name on it.  Sometimes hard to get students to use it, they 
always jump right the the noise and sparks of the chop saw.  We hang the 
handle on a post so folks don't run into it.  It handles a very wide range 
of stock with ease.

Dave

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From: "Peter Hirst" <saltydog335 at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:24 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] Heavy floor shear

> I have been offeed a monster machine that I would love to have and know 
> something about.  It is a huge (400 lbs or so) cast iron shear.  Stands 
> about 6 feet tall to the end of the handle, which is itself about 3 feet 
> long.  Base is two arches with 1/2" bolt holes in the feet.  Body is about 
> 6" thick.  Scissor type blades are about 8" long and open to 1/2" or a 
> little more.  Body has a neat taper in it right at the blades, so it looks 
> like it could take a continuous long feed of sheet or slitting thick flat 
> stock.  I has some recent welded-on modifications arouind the throat, as 
> if it was set up to feed 1/4 x 4 perfectly square across the blades.  I 
> plan to remove that, and aside from that it looks perfect.  I plan to use 
> it in my historic, off the grid shop, as it looks like it can handle just 
> about anything up to 1/2 or maybe 5/8.  Save a lot of hacksawing and hot 
> cutting.  Anybody ever see or use a shear like this?  Anything I should 
> know about it?
>
> Keziah
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