[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 61, Issue 44
Chuck Robinson
robi5515 at bellsouth.net
Mon Feb 23 21:00:38 EST 2009
We allready have, and they are all ready up on our site.
http://gulfcoastblacksmith.com/library/online-videos/
But we can't find the Monday Hammer video.
Chuck
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 61, Issue 44
> check on youtube they have a bunch of older videos with blacksmiths making
> anchors and chains
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>> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:55:37 -0600
>> From: "Chuck Robinson" <robi5515 at bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: [TheForge] Old video
>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Message-ID: <004a01c99562$35586950$6401a8c0 at CHUCKHP>
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>> Does any one on the list still have the link to the old video showing
>> blacksmiths using "Monday hammers" with the 3 handles doing very large
>> forge welds?
>> Chuck
>>
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>>
>> ------------------------------
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:00:30 -0400
>> From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
>> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Old video
>> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>> Message-ID: <200902230800.n1N80UK27827 at bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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>>
>> > ...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
>>
>> --
>> Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
>> /V\
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:30:06 -0800
>> From: Ben Barrett <ben at nw-arts.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Old video
>> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
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>> 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
>> >
>> > --
>> > Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
>> > /V\
>> > mspencer at tallships.ca /( )\
>> > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:45:24 -0600
>> From: "Chuck Robinson" <robi5515 at bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Old video
>> To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>, "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"
>> <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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>> Hey Mike,
>> Ben is exactly right about the hammer. The video I remember seeing a few
>> years ago had a big team of smiths beating the poo out of some really
>> large
>> iron. There were at least 2 Monday hammers going at it and a couple of 2
>> handled hammers, plus several single hammers, all at the same time. It
>> was
>> like a double time Russian ballet.
>> One caption said the Monday Hammers could weigh up to 160 lbs..
>> I'm working on hot linking some old videos to Our new web site for the
>> GCBA
>> www.gulfcoastblacksmith.com
>>
>> Chuck
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
>> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:00 AM
>> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Old video
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> ...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
>> >
>> > --
>> > Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
>> > /V\
>> > mspencer at tallships.ca /( )\
>> > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
>> >
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