[TheForge] Old video

[Ben Barrett]

I don't have the video, but out of curiosity I found this, on the
reader comments of a page that otherwise defined it as a heavy hammer:

> Reader comments:
>
> A 'monday hammer' was a three handled hammer that was used in the chain and anchor trade in the Black Country.  Its head weighed one cwt and 5 men were required to handle it.  The Vicar of Dudley came to Noah Hingley's of Netherton and was pleased when the leader of the gang told him that "me and me mates lift it up but the Lord sends it down".
> Its was called a Monday hammer because the men told him that "nobody likes mondays either"
> "Strike while the iron's hot" use as heavy blow as possible, and this was possible with the Monday hammer.
> by Ron Moss 19 Jun 07, 0919 GMT

source: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/monday_hammer/
(at the bottom)



On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
>> ...blacksmiths using "Monday hammers" with the 3 handles doing very
>> large forge welds?
>
> Okay, Chuck, I'll bite.  What's a "Monday hammer"?  With 3 or any
> number of handles?
>
>> Does any one on the list still have the link to the old video
>> showing...
>
> Or even a still image?  Say what?
>
> - Mike
>
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