[TheForge] Fw: Stonehenge

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dan tull" <dantull at numail.org>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Fw: Stonehenge


> Dave,
> Brings us back to teaching blacksmithing. Often a student will ask "Why 
> not
> this way?" so to keep from stifling curiosity, I have often said "try it"
> knowing it wouldn't work that particular way, but hoping it would open up 
> a
> new path."  This is A way of doing it, not THE way.  "Because we have been
> doing it this way for 40 years." will not fly anymore.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
>
>> For innovation to work it requires the freedom to think about things in
>> somewhat new ways.  I am always reminded about this when I think about a
>> young engineering asking me over a beer in a small German hotel why we
>> couldn't move a fully assembled 400 ton rolling mill stand.  I replied "I
>> don't know lets see how it might be possible."
>
>
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