Scythe hammer

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Scythe hammers were usually settled along smaller river courses, where the driving power of the flowing water became to transfer over water wheels to the production machines. The transmission of the driving power of the water wheel on drop hammers was made by flywheels and transmission belts. The flywheel in production-resounds from outside the parallel attached water wheel was propelled. Over different transmission belts the number of revolutions of the following waves was increased, so that finally the wuchtigen drop hammers with high work speed down-rushed on the workpieces. The noise into the production resounding, developing from it, was considerable. In order to achieve a high cut ability of the scythes, they were produced from steel. In order to heat the blanks up for the production of the scythes so far that the material was sufficient soft and ductile, one used forging fires from charcoal.