From what I understand, it’s possible for a blacksmith to inherit an anvil and use it his (or her) entire career and then leave it to their own child for their own child’s blacksmithery.
By comparison, any given blacksmith will go through multiple hammers. Hammers wear out, anvils last generations.
makes me wonder if he does that a lot, and if maybe *that’s* the reason the hods wear out so fast, a squirmy baby instead of stationary bricksReport
Hahaha! I hadn’t considered that! Brilliant!Report
It seems people still need to carry bricks around a worksite, and they still use hod brick carriers for the job, but it doesn’t seem to me that its a big spectacle as it looks like it used to be. (possibly because cranes now haul pallets to the correct level and location?)
From what I understand, it’s possible for a blacksmith to inherit an anvil and use it his (or her) entire career and then leave it to their own child for their own child’s blacksmithery.
By comparison, any given blacksmith will go through multiple hammers. Hammers wear out, anvils last generations.
Hods wearing out is what hods do.Report
The kid in the hod made my chuckle.Report
makes me wonder if he does that a lot, and if maybe *that’s* the reason the hods wear out so fast, a squirmy baby instead of stationary bricksReport
Hahaha! I hadn’t considered that! Brilliant!Report
It seems people still need to carry bricks around a worksite, and they still use hod brick carriers for the job, but it doesn’t seem to me that its a big spectacle as it looks like it used to be. (possibly because cranes now haul pallets to the correct level and location?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVpEx1Dis4Report