john baronich: yep heat it back up.se a tool called a cut off hardy, which is a chisel with a square shank on it. just put that back on the and bowl. i will take the metal and i will be hitting this and then i will -- just put that back on the anvil. i will take the metal and i will be hitting this and then i will break it off. a little more. now the hooks that i am making called the tear drop hook was a hook that soldiers would have locksmiths make -- blacksmiths make. i don't want to cut that all the way through, because i will ruin the sharp edge. so, i cut it about halfway. then all i do is twist it right off. now put this in. and i will shape the back end into the shape of a teardrop. >> [indiscernible] john baronich: yep. the soldiers -- these soldiers would be marching along, and they might find a piece of chain -- not too much -- they might find a piece of chain or a square nail and they would take that to the blacksmith and ask the blacksmith to make them this hook, the teardrop hook. i will make the teardrop e

. >> my name is john baronich. i live in springville new york. , this is a replica of the traveling forges that the artillery and the cavalry would have with them. our basic purpose is to repair items that would break, such as handles and chains. also the farriers would use the forge to re-shoe the horses. i like to tell people our job back here is very similar to a a nascar pit crew. we were the nascar pit crew of the 1860's. working with us would be carpenters that would repair the wagons. the wheelwright's would take care of the --cannon wheels wagon wheels. the coopers, the ones who would work on barrels, fixing and repairing barrels. we also have the leather workers and harness makers. and of course, the blacksmith, whose primary job, as i said is to repair items. the biggest job is the farriers. for example in an artillery battery, we have approximately 140 horses, so there are more horses than men. so, they have a really big job. multiply 140 times four hooves. so, i have heated up this metal, so i'm going t

[laughter] john baronich: -- professor maurer: this is what american politicians feel comfortable sayinge sun shown yesterday upon this great and glorious country. american politicians do not want to say things that are too controversial. a have to say these platitudes. lloyd george his boss, the prime minister, was even more severe. harding's speech about the u.s. holding up its navy, no matter how bad britain felt, he would upon his shirt rather than allow america to dominate vcs -- he would pawn his shirt rather than allow america to dominate the seas. harding's successor kalvin coolidge -- calvin coolidge was also a champion of the big navy. 10 years after the armistice, calvin coolidge gave a message to the american people in which he said the knighted states had to build up a powerful navy to be strong against britain -- united states had to build up a powerful maybe to be strong against britain. this infuriated churchill. this is what churchill had to say about coolidge in a memorandum to his colleagues in the government in the conservative government at the time. coolidge as just