[TheForge] Old video

[Chuck Robinson]

Hey Mike,
You also have to remember that folks in those days were smaller. 160 lbs. 
divided among 5 men is over 30 lbs. each, and using the Monday Hammer for at 
least a few hours per day. They really were better men than I in the days of 
iron men and wooden ships.
I still haven't a clue where the video came from.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:36 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Old video


>
> 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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