barracane
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thank you for your patience your patience, I hope not to be petulant and boring thanks again
how is your project coming along with the farm restoration work ?thank you for your patience your patience, I hope not to be petulant and boring thanks again
I spent a certain amount of money now I stopped for lack of funds. how I start the restoration I send you some pictures. the water is scarce the duck does not float. thanks again I will keep you informed if you like, thank you again for your patience, precious time and suggestions
I think the real big uns, although originally forging hammers were handy for rail work Chris .... spiking and driving in wedges and spring clips ...... 'smaller ' ones would've been common in a smithy's arsenal for drawing out and cleaving larger lumps ..... I have a 2 pounder which is a fave for shaping hot steel with similar to thisThose chisel ended sledge hammers; what’s their purpose? I have one similar, with a very blunt chisel, but I’ve never found it useful for anything.
Could be a stone masons sledge hammer. They normally have a more oval flatter face to themI’ve got a straight pein, circa 14ib, never seen another, and no idea of its intended use? Did wonder if it was Rail related, but thought a rail readers hammer was a very different shape?
agreed James and as said their originally intended use was in the smithy's forge for drawing out mainly ..... a hammer of that size'd be used by strikers, stood either side of the work piece, rather than the smith himself, hence straight pein .... the smith'd more likely use a cross peinI’ve got a straight pein, circa 14ib, never seen another, and no idea of its intended use? Did wonder if it was Rail related, but thought a rail readers hammer was a very different shape?
agreed James and as said their originally intended use was in the smithy's forge for drawing out mainly ..... a hammer of that size'd be used by strikers, stood either side of the work piece, rather than the smith himself, hence straight pein .... the smith'd more likely use a cross pein
our German friends like odd shaped hammers ..... always haveSeen a tower crane service van at bauma and it had 3 different size ones in it... I thought something to do with building up tower crane jobs etc
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Just noticed this thread. Funny enough was putting my gantry upright yesterday lunch time.
On the subject of work benches.....been looking for a decent slab for a few years now. Ideally want something 10-20mm thick but it rarely comes up on gumtree etc. I'll probably need to visit a scrappy but I feel that they just fire all their spare steel oversea's to China now so its difficult to find a good piece!
Interesting stuff, thanks Gra. Seems mine’s a straight pein hammer.1:45 on
pity they can't spell P E I N ... peening is summat different
I think the real big uns, although originally forging hammers were handy for rail work Chris .... spiking and driving in wedges and spring clips ...... 'smaller ' ones would've been common in a smithy's arsenal for drawing out and cleaving larger lumps ..... I have a 2 pounder which is a fave for shaping hot steel with similar to this
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this is a cross pein and with the 'edge' the other way is called a straight pein
air chisel's an easier optionChipping hammer for when you first use Filarcs, Gra