[TheForge] The Grasshopper Treadle Hammer Plans are now online

[Bruce]

The URL on the webpage isn't live.  You have to cut and paste it into the
address bar.  If I ever figure out how to make it live, I will.  But I
simply ran out of energy on this project, what with all the other stuff I
have to do.

Bruce
NJ


On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM Larry Brown via TheForge <
theforge at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> 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
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