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Blacksmith's shop
Date(s): July 2, 2004. Album by Bob Geldart. 1 - 24 of 190 Total. 7627 Visits.

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1 Base of hearth. Measures about 32" x 18" (81 x 46 cm.)On the right of the picture you can see the handle and gears that operate the firebars. They open downwards, presumably to release ash and clinker onto the floor or into the ash pan.	2 Weight of this apparatus is about 90 lbs.	3 Turned on its side you can see the pipe ( about 3" diameter) where the air enters. A sliding gate to control airflow can also be seen.	4
5 Sliding valve on the left of air inlet.	6	7 Base of hearth with base open revealing underside of firebars.	8 Firebricks found under the hood of the hearth. Possibly from a heat treating oven.
9 Gears off firebars after removal.	10 The base from the anvil. the top is about 16" square at the top (20" at bottom) and weighs about 2 cwt.	11	12 Hearth canopy suspended by chain.
13	14	15 Looking up the flue.	16 The blacksmith's bench.
17 Slack tub made from slate 1.5" - 2" thick. It's about 5` long. Sadly one side is missing.	18	19	20 Putty can be seen where the missing piece of the bath/tub was.
21 The view of the shop from the doorway, the anvil stand and heath base can be seen on the floor.	22 A view of the slate used to make the floor.	23 Another view of the shop.	24 Presumably the shop had some form of lighting, this photo is illuminated by flash. I believe that the steel box in front of the anvil stand was the upper part of the heat treat oven that housed the firebricks.

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What a wonderful old place.Would be worth picking up anything not nailed down,can figure out what it is later!But I think you are right oh the "bit" thingy.
- jimmy, Sun, 11 Jul 2004 7:28PM

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