[TheForge] Blacksmithing, treadle hammer

[Marc Godbout]

I think that's true, if carried to extremes. I've heard that mostly
about power hammers, but they always use dies and all sorts of
mounting schemes, which would also absorb energy. I think if you're
scrounging, then two or even three pieces to get the height/weight
you're looking for would be fine. Just don't stack 32 steel pancakes.

Mine is two pieces, although the top piece is about 125-lbs by itself.
The bottom is a 365-lb cutoff from something. More overkill, but that
was totally free, too.

And filling a pipe with anything is probably not going to help much
more than the pipe itself. Whatever's inside just bounces around.
Concrete will pulverize and be just dust eventually.

--Marc


On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Larry Brown <lp.brown at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Good point about the solid steel anvil. If you have smaller pieces you want
> to join them so they run vertically, not stacked, 4 - 2"x2" instead of a
> solid 4"x4".