Water wheel powered tilt hammer, England 1941 | Power Hammers and Presses | Forum

I been tinkering! When you embed code from another site like that you need to use the advanced editor and uncheck down below where it says "parse links in text". Otherwise it just turns any URL into a link.

Oops, we both deleted at the same time! Do it again and I won't interfere!

Yep, Youtube is the bast way to go!

At Caniron V they had Christoph Friedrich demonstrate, one of the nights he did a slide show including pictures of his shop. His shop is a very old blacksmith shop and while he has a modern self contained air hammer he also has a working set of old water powered tilt hammers. I say set because there is a big medium and small hammer as there is not much blow control to the hammers so sizing the work to the hammer is important. Christoph Friedrich's web site http://www.schmiede.ch/schmied.....seite.html

Nice link John, thanks. Wonder if he uses them much, probably just for the tourists now.

I do have one more hammer video from Sweden, this one Gravendal:

The head on the hammer is a hollow box of welded plate, so it doesn't have the power of the original hammer. It was still neat to see, though.

Here's the turbine (I think that's the correct term) that powers it:

I've been to Sweden three times now, and I've found more metal-related stuff there than anywhere else I've traveled. But that may be because I can drop my wife at Herrang Dance Camp for a week or two and go see what *I* want. 🙂

I was lucky to see both hammers on the same trip. The Gravendal hammer runs on Wednesdays, and the Osterbybruk one two or three times a year. And they're not really that close together. It just happened that the Osterbybruk hammer was run the was the day I flew in, and that I was able to get there in time -- surprised the camera wasn't shaking from all the coffee I had to drink to stay awake.

I've got a lot of pictures from various sites that I guess I should organize and post somewhere.