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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

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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? :blink: :huh:

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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