[TheForge] Forging a pipe flange...

[jerry Frost]

This video has hit a couple fora and it'd darned entertaining. I bet the
folk living in the buildings in the background are happy to have a place to
live and just make a habit of not owning delicate stuff. 

The forklift operators are competent for sure or they wouldn't have the job.
Forklifts are pretty easy to run, a little practice and you're inventing
ways to do things as precisely as possible like slipping the forks into a
pallet without touching the pallet or ground.

I wish they'd shown the hammer driver, I'm betting a decent crane operator,
lift the weight with a cable drum winch and drag the clutch JUST enough to
keep the cable from bird's nesting on the drum. THAT is the more skilled
operator's jobs on that drop hammer. I'll put money on it only being one of
hundreds or maybe thousands of similar forging operations. 

What do you think that hammer's falling weight is?

Frosty

-----Original Message-----
From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
Charles
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2016 3:13 AM
To: mspencer at tallships.ca; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forging a pipe flange...

The team work and forklift operation are impressive.  You get the impression
this is not the first one they have done.  Having worked a lot in China one
thing that gets me is the extreme economy of motion being exhibited.  The
extreme heat and weight must dictate that after a while.  Lot of trust
between the guy operating the tip and the guy placing the drift/punch
because you are not seeng much in the way of hand signals, but of course in
this day and age, that beast could be operated by a hand control in one of
their pockets. A really neat video, thanks for sharing.

Charles

> On Dec 29, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> ...in China.  (For the power hammer fans)
> 
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r41dcYUvNLk
> 
> 
> Looks like a DIY drop hammer.  You never get to see the mechanism or 
> the hammer driver.  But a nice piece of teamwork!
> 
> - Mike
> 
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