Had a couple of days at the Great Dorset Steam Festival over the weekend, thought this may be of some interest.

yeah that'd move a bit of metal!

A very apt use of the engine, the public attending these shows likely never realise it was blacksmiths that made these marvelous machines......after they'd finished retreading the horses obviousy!

My largest anvil came from a Blacker; when they shut down a RR shop one of the smiths got the anvil and later in life I got it from him---pretty sure me and my hand hammer aren't going to do much the anvil will even notice...

Blimey never seen one with a bent top arm/link/ shaft before!

Though interestingly my old non-traverse one has a much heavier top link, I always assumed it was a non OEM replacement. Maybe the original suffered the same way.

Alan

I know of a few that have had the top link "adjusted" to bring the head to vertical over the anvil face, some bent, others upset. 

Can only speculate on why it was needed, favourite idea being that a replacement part was not exactly the same as the original.

May have been a Heinz 57 and made up from bits from a different model...as I mentioned mine has much heavier solid bars, and one is even heavier than the other....the ones on Alan Knight's traversing hammer were much thinner shafts into sockets at either end I seem to remember.

Was it actually working? I can see it has been oiled but not much scale around and the tool surfaces look a bit rusty.

I am thinking of getting a donkey engine to run my 5cwt Massey as I don't have 3 phase here. But maybe a big generator would be easier to set up. Brian Russel had a little combustion engine driving his Goliath direct...the advantage was he could vary the speed as well the blow pressure.

Alan