mat Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkrankow Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 For want of water power? That looks like a rather effective setup in reality. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Wonder if the hammer head is an antique? That one WOULD upset the neighbors.....I'll bet he's a character........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njanvilman Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Cool. I always wanted to build one of those. Just have to fabricate the head, the rest is easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhartironwerks Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 What always amazes me is that smiths always figure out how to move metal from basic to high tech. Ultimately, it all boils down to the same techniques. There is something incredibly reassuring that we all do the same thing with different points of view. Methodology really doesn't change, ideas do. There in lies the beauty of hand made work. Nice vid! John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 You could maybe do that with a 1 horse electric motor with the right sheave setup. I think that some time in the past there was a post of a hammer something like this with an apprentice turning a crank. Instead of a wooden beam use some box tubing, concrete in a steel box for the head with a bolt on hammer, concrete anvil with steel insert, pillow block bearings, it could work, couldn't it? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 IIRC Ed Rhodes (sp?) of SOFA made one with about a 500# head on it that used an old haybaler for motive power---the ram from the baler would push down and release the helve. They used it the time they forged a small anvil as a demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Furrer Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I'd have to run a water powered wheel..and the 20hp motor running a pump to move the water...just hide it behind the shop. Actually if you had a water feature on your property you could use the run-off as a waterfall...could be quite nice. I like the look of that hammer and the idea behind it, but I would not exchange my Nazel for that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 As the old saying goes "Where there's a will there's a way" Thanks for sharing! Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 It's a nice if smallish tilt hammer. Does anyone know how old it is? If you want one of your own you don't need water, a decent sized windmill will do nicely. A small windmill would work too but you'd probably want it driving a flywheel to build and store torque. Heck, you could drive one with a dog, goat, son, etc, on a treadmill driving a flywheel if you wished. A tilt is as far as I know the oldest type power hammer developed to felt wool, then crushing rock, making pulp and sometime shortly after hammering iron refined from the crushed rock. It's predecessor would be the walking beam hammer and the evolution is really obvious. Frosty the Lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K. Bryan Morgan Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 What a wonderful piece of technology. I wonder if you can make something like that with a large sledge hammer? Say around 20 lb. or so. Use a 6"x6" beam or 8"x8"? I've been thinking of an oliver style hammer to help in the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 No free flowing water here! Free flowing dirt perhaps but not free flowing water, the arroyo hasn't seen free flowing water since the stock tank overflowed two years ago. That may be a good way to go with the sledge hammer. I got a sixteen pounder that has a bad chip on one face and I still have a big old chunk of iron I could set in a bucket of concrete for an anvil and set the hammer head in a steel box beam and run it off a 3/4 single phase motor. Oh well one can still dream even if their back is killing them. When I stop dreaming I'm a dead man! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrow Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Other than just a curiousity, I don't see the pont in building a modern one. With a step up in complexity, you can make a DePew-style helve hammer that will out work that water (now motor) driven one in the video with a fraction of the ram weight; with one step in complexity from the DePew you can make a Rusty-style guided helve hammer that will give a linear motion and adjustability. Just sayin'. Both of those are still bone-headedly simple designs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalhead Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 xxxx, that's got character; VERY cool! Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Walley Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 and just exactly how is he not in jail for disturbing the peace? lol. i love and i want one. like right now. lol. man thats great. kinda reminds me of tim the tool man taylor lol. big block lawn mower anyone? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Because it's being tripped, isn't it a trip hammer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonned Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Nice video. I like the "modern" electrical switch mounted on the wood anvil base. Great old hammer. Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinityforge Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 It reminds me of Leonardo's Automatic Hammer. Which I am going to build...with a bit of modification of coarse. He,he,he... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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