macbruce Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 This is from a book about historic railroad shops in Argentina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Sort of thing that would go perfectly in a living room! I must ask the wife.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njanvilman Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I love this type of heavy riveted, fabricated construction. I consider machines like that to be industrial art: wonderful to use and great to look at. It is awful that most of these great old hammers eventually go to scrap when they are no longer used, and the people who knew how to use them are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.F. Thumann Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 A few things, what is the life preserver thingy on the crane? Two: notice the sword on the controls and how it looks like it rides on a cylindrical boss on the tup? Looks like the boss can be rotated on the round plate with he handle for more or less engagement with the sword. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 The ''life preserver'' loop looks like an expantion loop in the steam pipe with a small connection tapped into it, perhaps to power an oiler.....The ring has a peg that would indeed change the sword dynamic if rotated.........sure would be fun to try it out....... B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humphreymachine Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 That is the coolest steam hammer/photo I’ve seen – rivets -- mahogany encased cylinder –even the heart shaped pulley. If one had the time and the means it would be a fun build and much easier to accomplish than a cast frame. If one Googles ‘steam hammer’ and hit ‘images’ it’s amazing how many great examples survive today – particularly across the pond where many more large hammers appear to have been preserved – if only as out door sculpture. There is at least one more image of a steel plate fabricated hammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Mullins Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Very cool indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgemaster Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 That would be a drain coming off the bottom of the expansion loop, its the lowest point and any condensate will collect there, so you need to drain it from there. Not really a good design of drain, its normally practice to have a water leg coming down off there with the drain on the bottom, otherwise the condensate tends to get blown past the take off point, and into the hammer. In fact a better design would have had the loop going upwards, with a condensate leg in front of the loop. I reckon I've seen this picky before, and I think it also appears in the "bull of the woods cartoon series" where they put the smallest person in the shop in the photo so as to make the piece of equipment look bigger. Massey used to offer the option of a fabricated standard with all their steam hammers, it allowed a saving on import duty to some countries, along with a saving on shipping weight if I recall the wording of their broucher. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJP Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Now the question is how tall is the operator...3ft6 or 6ft3? looking at the picture he is more in the 3foot category Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgemaster Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 yes hans he is fairly small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOONY Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 well i am thinking it look lovely i almost cut the left one off with a old hack saw to get my paws on it but the single arch 20cwt steamy i got coming will do me just fine as garden sculpture i say that curved sword like is a link to allow the hammer to self acting as i see not trigger stop , and i say the fellow driving was the shop boy, tea lad, an hammer drivers apprentice , or , go get the sky hook , ,person lolol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 Another cool one......the guy on the left looks a bit dodgy though............ :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.F. Thumann Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Mac, is the odd post/handwheel thing that rises behind the rear flywheel of the hammer part of the original photo? What is that? (ps, I got a chuckle from the pic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 I have no idea.......Looks like the creeper could have been Photoshopped into the original.....I like the belt coming through the wall....... B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 *Finally* someone wearing PPE! The wearing of your pants halfway to your armpits does help keep hot scale out; but an apron works better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahoo2 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Mac, is the odd post/handwheel thing that rises behind the rear flywheel of the hammer part of the original photo? What is that? (ps, I got a chuckle from the pic) I think that is used to move the belt across from the idler pulley. If the belt is run onto the drive pulley to quickly it is possible to snap the belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.F. Thumann Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 That makes sense. I'm so used to seeing the nazel/beche with the geared drive wheel that it didn't even occur to me that it would be a split pulley with just the rear side for idling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arftist Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I have no idea.......Looks like the creeper could have been Photoshopped into the original.....I like the belt coming through the wall....... B) Ah yes that explains the size difference. I was thinking what a monster he was...so gullible for a gaffer sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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