esired length for one link, gives it a made large quantities of ships' cables for the United genious machinery can equal, much less supplant. States government, and particularly for the lightships couple of blows to form the welding scarf, bends it There are not many such cases, it is true, but… … helpers (it takes three men to which are required. Thus we find it employed in sling chains hand-forge the larger chains) Hydraulic Machine for Forming the Links. in the rough work of quarrying, forging a 1%-inch ship cable. The iron is cut to about one-foot lengths, and sev- lor lifting heavy…
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