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10-14-2005, 11:47 AM
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Old Grinders
Checkout this postcard of old Sheffield grinders at work.
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10-14-2005, 12:14 PM
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I've heard that those kinds of stones would ocassionally break apart and kill the guy sitting on them.
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10-15-2005, 01:23 PM
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naaah THESE are grinders.........
  gunbarrel makers in Birmingham, England, mid-18th century............ Some of the Sheffield grinder wheels were 6' (that's right feet) in diameter and the workman laid down to grind.........and yes these wheels even though slow rotation by modern standards did come apart fairly frequently and killed the worker/workers. __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com  The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses.
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10-15-2005, 01:48 PM
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Cool pics Chuck. When I was a kid I had a Puma catt. In it was a photo of a guy grinding at a wheel that was about 8' tall and about two foot wide. just the edge of the wheel was protruding thu a wall to work off of. I thought I could not make knives till I got one of those. I never thought about one of those wheels comming apart. Yikes!
__________________ "Many are chosen, but few are Pict" "The doer alone, learneth" NT Neo-Devo
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10-15-2005, 01:57 PM
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I had 10" x 1" at wheel at 1750rpm come apart on me once - luckily I was wearing a heavy wool jacket (it was cold in the shop) and the biggest chunk - about half the wheel - slammed me in the gut where I had plenty of padding along with the jacket!
 Still not a lot of fun and it could have been MUCH worse. I learned then like with buffing wheels DON'T tighten them down hard........BTW - on another post which I don't remember you asked about Mountain Man forums drop me an e-mail at chuck@wrtleather.com and I'll give you links to the ones I know about....... __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses.
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10-15-2005, 09:30 PM
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I've seen giant grinding wheels like that. They were used in a papermill. (a "groundwood mill") Logs were fed into them sideways, in water, and they would strip off the fibers for pulp. The pulp was terrible quality - mostly used for making phone books. They would get unbelievably hot and kept a pretty heavy odor in the area. My understanding is that they would also come apart from time to time, but most of it was encased in a steel jacket, so that wasn't a big source of injuries. (Everything else in the area was!)
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