[TheForge] The Grasshopper Treadle Hammer Plans are now online

[Larry Brown]

Hi
The link to take me to the grasshopper page works but the link to the plans doesn’t. Adobe acrobat allows you to reduce the file size with out losing the quality. My version of it is still in accessible since the computer died, but I’m trying to get access to it again. When I go back to Pa I’m going to try another way to get into it again or see if I can install it again from the original disc. It’s amazing what I can find in my piles of junk
If I get it going again you can send me the files in parts if you have to, I can then recombine them and see how much I can lower the file size 
Larry
Sent from my iPad

> On Dec 29, 2025, at 9:56 PM, Bruce <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That would be cumbersome.  There are probably about 100-120 individual
> pages and I don't care to try to post them in that manner.  As it stands,
> it's divided into about a dozen PDFs which may be individually unzipped.
> About the only alternative I can imagine is to render them as Word
> documents, but I don't care to use that proprietary software in lieu of
> PDF's.
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM JERRY FROST <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I worked but it's a stack of .PDF files and would eat a barge load of
>> bandwidth downloading.
>> 
>> Have you tried saving them as a .JPG? They're smaller file size, it's not
>> like your plans are complex enough to require the definition of .PDF
>> 
>> .PDF might be appropriate if you put the entire set of plans in one file.
>> 
>> Frosty
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2025 2:54:34 PM
>> Subject: [TheForge] The Grasshopper Treadle Hammer Plans are now online
>> 
>> Visit https://sites.google.com/view/grasshopperhammer-spinoff/home
>> 
>> Scroll down till you find the link.  Copy and paste the link into your
>> browser's address bar and hit "enter."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'd appreciate any feedback, especially on whether the link works for you
>> and shows you the several PDFs that make up the plans.
>> 
>> Please remember that these plans are copyrighted.  I'm offering them for
>> use, not for someone else to publish and possibly to profit by.
>> 
>> If this experiment works, I've got a few other plans to publish that may be
>> of interest to some.
>> 
>> Bruce
>> NJ
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> TheForge mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:TheForge at mailman.qth.net
>> 
>> TheForge mail list group photo site is
>> http://www.shutterfly.com
>> Login: blacksmithblacksmith at hotmail.com
>> Password: anvil
>> 
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>> Message delivered to freemab222 at gmail.com
>> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> TheForge mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:TheForge at mailman.qth.net
> 
> TheForge mail list group photo site is
> http://www.shutterfly.com
> Login: blacksmithblacksmith at hotmail.com
> Password: anvil
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> Message delivered to brownln at icloud.com