Industrial forging of lumber picks

Sam Salvati

Sam Salvati

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Here is a neat video of forging of lumber picks(?), there is some interesting techniques and tooling as well as some interesting hammers including what I think are some old bradley's, the guided ram type, and some OLD wheel driven helve hammers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6cy-9DWK0

They look like a bunch of dudes who like to have fun at work :D
 
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Cool video Sam! I like the dished out die for the drift tools.
Looks like you would fit right in at that shop Sam....just need to learn German!:D
Oh meine lederhosen!:eek:
Mace
 
Way cool. Where do find all these wild videos Sam? I liked watching the old timer do the heat treating. Not sure I saw one pair of safety glasses among them. :eek: That character riding the helve hammer must have been the team goofball.
 
The Feiner website is interesting too. The tool was called ,in the old, days a pickaroon and the term is still used today.
Sam , we did a big business in lumber here in the old days ,in the early 1800s .The lumber was floated down the Delaware by assembling the logs into huge rafts, the largest over 200 feet long !! As many as 1000 rafts were floated each spring. There were at least 3 blacksmith shops here in town.
 
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Whenever I think about it, I am blown away to that as little as 200 years ago the industry of our world was supported by and dependent on blacksmiths. Not a wheel turned, tree felled or moved, horse shod, loaf cut, tool used, weapon fired, etc, etc, that wasn't the handiwork of a blacksmith(s). They served every village and town, farm and industry. It really is amazing that they are what kept the world together in our parent's parent's parent's time. Then poof, they went extinct. We're on the rebound somewhat, as an art movement primarily, but hey it's something.
 
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Way cool. Where do find all these wild videos Sam? I liked watching the old timer do the heat treating. Not sure I saw one pair of safety glasses among them. :eek: That character riding the helve hammer must have been the team goofball.
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Did that look like a temperature controlled oven and park's#50 to you Phil :) ? Phil, I have wore out youtube with search terms like "blacksmith" "forging" "knifemaker" etc, so I worked over to other languages. Finding the odd german video with "schmiede" in the title, I figured I would try that (thinking it is german for smith/blacksmith) and voila!

Robert, working at Fort Delaware has it's perks, I learned alot about the lumber industry we used to have! Amazing all around us used to be open fields and farms, and before that old growth forest! Feiner's website is very cool, they make some neat swords and knives.

Mace i'd love to work in a place like that, I found out there is an industrial forging facility in Poughkeepsie NY with some pretty impressive equipment.

http://www.vikingironworks.com/welcome.htm
 
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That was really cool Sam, thanks for posting it. It always amazes me what can be done with an anvil and hammer.
 
Thanks so much Sam for posting that video. My dad had a small collection of pickaroons. This makes me want to take a closer look at them and admire honest craftsmanship.
 
That is neat! Hey Sam I'm working right down the street from you,fixin up Eldred School.I drive out that way and I start to like NY again....
 
Joe did you see the Barryville Bridge - that they still didn't finish !! I'd like to see you also.
 
They still didnt finish that bridge??!!All the time I sat at home this year I could have finished it myself...I'll be out Sams way during the week,maybe tuesday.Monday I'm re wiring my kitchen for new appliances...Things might get ugly in those 125 year old walls :eek:
 
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