Re: Iron Railing


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Posted by Owen Roberts on April 01, 2011 at 08:11:08 user OwenRoberts.

In Reply to: Iron Railing posted by Ed Kiser on March 31, 2011 at 18:44:44:

Not sure that your picture illustrates the type of railing that might have been used for the igloo firebar and the furnace crossbars, Ed.
A more likely type is shewn in the link.
This type of fencing upright would yield a round wrought iron bar, which could be used for many purposes. I dare say the many ex schoolboys among us, could attest to the ways of using such bars. Also any schoolboy would have known ways of circumventing the railings to gain access into locked parks and sports fields.
Anyway it would be easy to break a wrought iron bar having cut a nick in it with a file, wrought iron can be fragile.
It is more likely that the railing shewn in Ed’s picture would have formed the based for the sledge runners. I suspect the Mr Dixon would have detached such bars from a railing set by a couple of swift blows with a mallet or even a sledge hammer. They would have been ready for the blacksmith to rework into sledge runners.



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