In Laos, forging is still popular in some areas. In contrast to a fan or bellows, they use a pump-style air blower made of a large bamboo "pipe" with a piston made from chicken feathers. (This one uses a PVC pipe instead of bamboo.) One fellow pumps the air, another does the forging. Some factories have 100 guys pumping air and hammering steel. The anvil is a sledge hammer head, embedded in a stump.
12 years ago
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Yes, this is Hmong Style.
Ger Xiong's cousin demonstrated fro Machinist School
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