haha! Thank you :)

Totally agree! good luck with the build!

Absolutely customisation of tools, and manufacturing your own tools is definitely part of the job.

Thank you very much!

Thanks! Yeah it really helps alot!

Thank you, i wish i filmed the process!

Ill do that!

@ ..... How are you? Can you tell me how powerful a motor is in a horse?

@@malikalabd7816 the motor is 0,75 kw

@ Thanks for your interest رمز "تم التحقق منها بواسطة المنتدى"

You can simply pry the machine up in the air to replace the wood. Not a real problem.

you can adjust the height of the ram by tuning the bolts on the linkage arms, since they are made out of threaded rods. If you take aclose look you can see that. ALso you can adjust how hard you hit by how much you press down the pedal. hope that helps!

2 inch off center

I think it was like 5 cm. Not 100% sure

Yes

Yeah i totally forgot to mention that i filled the ram with led!

@ oh ok kuul

I have seen a guy who uses a lawnmower motor. The only thing is that they are very lound and run on gas, so it will probably release the fumes in your workshop. So an electric motor is sager that way IMO. And if you look around you might find a used one just like i did. I got mine from a childhood friends company. They had alot of old motors and they thought it sounded like a fun project so they wanted to help me. Our comunity here were i live is very helpful that way!

You want rhe anvil part to be as big and heavy as possible. To be honest i think a railroad track is to small. Well, it depends what you want the machine to be capable of i guess. I have seen people use square tunes for anvils, but thats not going to be very useful. When it comes to the matting thing, sure that would perhaps be a good option. But i dont im going to have to change the wooden part until i get a bigger workshop anyways. Thanks for watching and asking questions!

@ thank you for the information! Knowledge is power and your videos are full of it, keep up the awesome work :)

Railroad track is more difficult to use as anvil, BUT it's better than anything hollow. I know a thing or two about railroad tracks; so listen: If you need say 90 cm of "anvil"; you need 2 section of 90 cm, preferably the 60 or even beter the 70 kg /m , and 8 matching fish plates (one plate is about 45cm). Fish plates are those really heavy plates with boltholes for connecting 2 tracks without welding them. Railroad track (modern anyway) is the rough equivalent of C80 steel with a LOT of manganese and some added silicon in Europe anyway. Weld the two pieces of track back to back, and put all fish plates in them. You'll have about 250 kg steel anvil, it will cost you about one box of 3.25 mm electrodes to stickweld it together. If you can get plenty railroad track; if you avoid the top 5 mm (it's full of surface cracks when trains have been driving on it), it makes great mono-steel axes.

@@bartweijs thanks! I was thinking of taking a 30 inch (roughly 75cm) lenght and standing it upright and welding a 2.5cm plate to the face of it so that i can bolt the various tooling to it (hammer, fuller, swages, etc). The ram would be a mirror of it, with the plate and tooling on the bottom of the track piece.

This was a while ago, and I sold it. But i think it was quite loose

No issues, however it wasnt hard hitting enough for my kind of job, hence why I bought other hammers

@ thanks mate, much appreciated. Keep up the great work.

It is filled with led half way up the tube. Filled it a little more yesterday, i am getting a press quite soon

I love the primative side, I'm off grid so I'm interested in treadle etc I'm just starting out so I'm starting with your podcast while I work and hope to see some blacksmith farms in Norway once we visit family there are very few Smith's in new Zealand

Depends how cheap you can find the parts!

Indeed!

Watch more of my videos. I use it on the carpenters axe build