[TheForge] Heavy floor shear

[Mike Linn]

Ive got a #7 Edwards and would rather use it than anything else. It cuts 
up to 1/2 inch with ease. Its fairly precise and best of all... no noise!!

mike


David E. Smucker wrote:
> 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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>> 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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Mike Linn
Artisan Blacksmith
McCalla, AL

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