Nailer's Dog Photo

Photographer’s Note

Another photo from "Landschaftsmuseum Hachenburg", a museum village in the small town Hachenburg with wonderful old houses from the surrounding low mountain range Westerwald in the north of the German state Rheinland-Pfalz.

It shows a device in the last smithy in this region where all sorts of nails were produced by hand - especially nails for the solid shoes of the rural population. By the way - a versed nailer needed 24 strokes with the hammer to produce one single nail.

This dog had to keep the bellows for the forge going by running in this treadmill. The museum guide told us that the "substitutes" of the dog have been the smith's wife and the children - in this order! ;-) They however used the visible crank-handle.

lestans, robertosalguero, saxo042, maximage, Charo, dareco has marked this note useful

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jasmis (49559) 2009-06-24 23:01

Funny photo. Excellent lesson of history.
Regards my dear friend.
Some rays of sun appeared!

lestans (15373) 2009-06-24 23:43

Oh what a strange device!! Interesting ... I'll tell to my happy dogs!
Thank you for sharing it!
Greetings from cloudy cold Italy - tomorrow I'll be in Croati, I hope better weather!
Livia

robertosalguero (2759) 2009-06-25 0:02

Hi Frank,

Glad they used the crank handle! Interesting image and artifact. I think the little doggie add a sense of comedy to this composition. Good details and perspective of this historical place. Thanks for sharing Frank :-)

Roberto

mesutilgim (36180) 2009-06-25 3:01

Hallo lieber Frank,
Was wuerden die Tierschuetzer heutzutage dazu sagen ??
Meines wissens nach blieb es nicht nur bei den Hunden; von meiner Kindheit erinnere ich mich noch an die armen Esel mit zugebundenen Augen, die den ganzen Tag im kreis liefen und Wasser aus einem Brunnen herauscheopften. Oder die Kuehe im Felde, welche auch mit zugebundenen Augen den ganzen Tag Stroh vom Weizen trennten etc etc.
Ein gutes Dokument ein gutes TE Beitrag.
Danke schoen und mfg
MESUT ILGIM

saxo042 (15030) 2009-06-25 11:34

Hi Frank,
A very interesting way to use a dog and a very interesting note as well. I wonder if the smiths who produced the nails in this picture were just as competent. A very good TE entry anyway!
Kind regards
Gunnar

maximage (13223) 2009-06-26 9:20

Bonjour Frank,
Encore une image étonnante de l'ingéniosité des hommes!
Je n'imaginais pas que cette "machine" puisse exister.
Un objet splendide et intéressant que tu as bien capturé.
Merci et bon weekend.
max

ellelloo (4626) 2009-06-28 0:50

Hallo Frank,
An amusing and intriguing contribution. Always interesting to see the history of craftsmanship in this kind of museums. A nice photo with good details. Thanks for sharing!
Greetings,
Lasse

Charo (31651) 2009-07-01 9:51

Hallo Frank,
Ein neugieriger und sympathischen bild. Es scheint, dass der hund interessiert sich auch für die alten maschinen. Excellent compsición und details.
Grüße,
Charo

batalay (20654) 2009-07-08 5:50

Hello Frank,

The composition includes all the necessary parts of the mechanism for the homemade machine. I guess, in our modern age, we cannot put an actual dog in this structure, even for demonstration purposes, but a robotic dog could be considered here. No doubt the engineers at Honda could provide such an 'animal.' But your photo, well illuminated, and characterized by ideal light management presents it all.

Warm regards,

Bulent

John_F_Kennedy (30503) 2009-07-08 8:57

Hallo Frank,
eien gute Dokumenation, so was habe ich noch nicht gesehen. Aber der arme Hund ...
Viele Grüße,
Achim

amaryllis (16985) 2009-07-15 23:28

Bonjour FrANK
Cette visite de musée est impressionnante avec toutes ces anciennes machines et merci de ta note explicite et vraiment je ne connaissais pas.
tres interessant
merci de ce partage
juliette

dareco (17024) 2009-07-17 19:53

Very unique!! Something I've never seen before for sure. I enjoyed your note very much. The lighting, color and detail are great! TFS