Hi it's Tod of Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler here and I'm at big knife makers gathering at
Owen Bush's Bushfire Forge and I've got John from Massey Forging here. We use power hammers and it
has been for hundreds of years, so 140 years. Now behind us we've got an Allday and Onions,
so this was one of your competitors from way back. But we're going to show you in a minute
what a power hammer does in case you don't know, but you've got a massive piston here
which is driven down by compressed air and rapidly hammers and it's used basically by heavy industry
and blacksmithing for forging big chunks of steel, but really interestingly John has brought the best
power hammer I have ever seen to this gathering and it is seriously special so we're going to
show you that in a minute, but first of all can you just fire this up? I'm just going to show
you basically what this does so you get an idea of it and then you can compare that to our other one.
So this is a Massey with slides power hammer, now it's kind of a privilege that John brought
it because obviously they're pretty heavy.... usually. But not this one. There you go it is
a fully operational, we will show you in a minute, fully functioning power hammer, so
let's go forge some copper. So I've got a little crank handle on the back here so I turn that John,
and as you can see it really is hammering, it's just an amazing little thing,
brilliant, it's even got a little adjustment on the side here. So we'll fiddle about with that,
so it really is,
a fully working little beastie. So let's get a preheat on
so that's it really. It's a power hammer. Some of you won't get excited about it, some of you will
love it, I just think it's the best thing ever, So John thank you so much for bringing it along to
Owens. Yeah no problem. There's a couple of things I'd like to say before I finally sign off and that
is we don't actually know much about this thing. We assume that it's a sales model for trade shows,
it's fully accurate, fully dimensioned, perfect in every detail, in the way it operates. We know
it's post about 1920 because the technology, the style of the hammer changed very slightly,
so we know that and beyond that, we don't even know if it's made by Massey or is made by somebody
else. We don't really know for sure what it was, but I can tell you it's absolutely beautiful.
The other thing that I have to say is John sells power hammers, but he sells them now,
this was made you know, 100 years ago or something like that. Don't go knocking on his door if you've
fallen in love asking to buy one of these, he doesn't sell these ones. Anyway thank you.