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trip hammer
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Trip hammer
A
trip hammer
, also known as a
helve hammer
, is a massive powered
hammer
used in:
agriculture
to facilitate the labor of pounding, decorticating and polishing of grain;
mining
, where
ore
from deep veins was crushed into small pieces (though a
stamp mill
was more usual for this);
finery forges
, for drawing out blooms made from
wrought iron
into more workable
bar iron
;
fabricating various articles of
wrought iron
,
latten
(an early form of
brass
),
steel
and other metals.
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