[TheForge] Re: Old video

[Mike Spencer]

Chuck> Ben is exactly right about the hammer. The video I remember
Chuck> seeing a few years ago had a big team of smiths beating the poo
Chuck> out of some really large iron. There were at least 2 Monday
Chuck> hammers going at it and a couple of 2 handled hammers....

Yow!  I must not have been paying attention.  I never heard of that.
Please do mention it here and post a link if/when you locate the video.

The only pics of heavy welding I recall seeing were from (I think)
Diderot, showing several guys welding a ship's anchor with what might
be 15 to 25 pound sledges.

Working on construction once, there was an occasion to drive long 4x4
stakes with a 25# maul.  As I was the Big Young Guy on the crew (I was
25 at the time and 6'1"), the task fell to me.  Embarassingly,
although I could swing the maul, I just wasn't able to do so
effectively and the ca. 55 year old foreman disgutedly took over and
did it.  (But after he'd driven in 2 or 3, there was a pause and a new
plan was devised that didn't include the stakes or the big maul. :-)


- Mike

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