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  1. iron woodrow
    re knife to a gun fight- myth busters did a test on that one. Look it up ;)
  2. iron woodrow
    i cant work out how to read it..... :blink:
  3. iron woodrow
    onto it!
  4. iron woodrow
    the iron period we speak of is puddled WI, as opposed to charcoal WI. Which began in the iron age, but i was referring to the end date of the puddled period. Which appears doesnt have an end, more a slow demise. Thank you for your very broad answer! :P
  5. iron woodrow
    powerful great work.
  6. iron woodrow
    please define "wrought iron period" as i am largely unaware of the dates that this marvellous medium spanned. did it extend far into the 1900s?
  7. iron woodrow
    danger, do me a huge favour and open the biggest one up, i had one of those follow me home a few months ago, but it wont run.... and i cant for the life of me work out the missing part! i think there must be some form of piston inside that is missing....
  8. iron woodrow
    lovely little hammer kubiach, but i would only use that for panelbeating :P it looks like a strongman trying to forge with a tackhammer to me!
  9. iron woodrow
    wish there was a place like that here!
  10. iron woodrow
    hi. my name is woody, and i am a hammeraholic......
  11. iron woodrow
    love the control of your hammer. i just spend ages hypnotized by the linkage..... and how a similar one could be used on my steam hammer..... this technique could equally be used for spear head sockets also.....
  12. iron woodrow
    hi owen, what does the valve look like? is it a rotary system?
  13. iron woodrow
    mine is going into very sandy soil, so i am laying down a 6" slab first at the bottom of the hole, then the wood, im using 4"x8" ironbark railway sleepers (ties), but i have been advised to put the grain running vertically. it is great working for a cane railway!
  14. iron woodrow
    thankyou beth, one can always count on you for a positive response! :) thankyou too mitch, whirly, sam and loner, prokopto, the customer is using it for combat safe re enactment, so the edges and tip had to conform to australian group standards for steel combat.
  15. iron woodrow
    naw, i havent put anything in the hole yet, i have been on changing shifts ( hence the 4 am breakfast log on) so the project is going painfully slow...... in your opinion, does such a large ratio mean less foundations are required, or more?
  16. iron woodrow
    looking at the axes, i believe the ones you refer to are pattern welded throughout the whole head, but the edge is the only ground/polished part, therefore the pattern shows more contrast there. have a look at the poll on them, you can see the lines where the layers are distorted in lines. truly wonderful pieces.
  17. iron woodrow
    hi, i did my calculations, my hammer tup is 313lb (142 kg) and anvil is 7334lb (3327kg) so that is more than 1:20 isnt it? good ratio. isnt it? oh, and i think i got my head around the throttle treadle idea! takes a while for some things to work out in my head........ apologies for my incredulity on the matter!
  18. iron woodrow
    just looked at your website danger....... :o LOVE YOUR WORK!
  19. iron woodrow
    that is wonderful!
  20. iron woodrow
    it is like when you do re enactment and people say, 'people were shorter back then'
  21. iron woodrow
    nice knife, but the shed is what caught my eye! congratulations on your shed!
  22. iron woodrow
    how is the tang done? did you forge it into a point and force it into the wood? or is the handle two halves seamlessly glued?
  23. iron woodrow
    this particular hammer, no. but i have seen it done with others. i know the working history of mine for the past 110 years , but not the maker of it.
  24. iron woodrow
    irony or ignorance? how were people shorter? we see shorter door frames, and assume that people were shorter. going by this assumption, people living in igloos must be 1ft tall? :huh: i think it is more that this hammer was used with relatively heavy swages and tooling, and the height was necessary so the offsider didnt have to cripple himself lifting tools any higher..... or for making dwarven battle axes...... :P
  25. iron woodrow
    poor old girl. she just cant make it..... i see her seat is waiting too..... and air line! love the grinder collection. i dug my foundation hole yesterday, i have to raise the whole hammer 160mm off the ground. at ground level the anvil is only 380mm off the floor! :huh: must have been for making dwarven battle axes..... :wacko:
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