Metalworker cutting copper sheet with electric hand shears at forge workbench
Blacksmith Tools
Portrait of male metalworker holding up welding mask
Portrait of male metalworker in dust mask
Portrait of three male metalworkers outside forge
Metalworker grinding the edge of copper in forge workshop
Worker setting up a rack bar to be machined
Manipulator operative in heat treatment area
Operative prepares to hook steel billet out of furnace. Team in background using counterblow hammer
Male metalworker reviewing designs in forge office
Red hot drive shafts on manipulator ready to unload
Forge worker, second in command of hammer control or "stamper" in pre forming forging area with a
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Checking dimensions on crank shafts in warehouse area as fork lift truck unloads a new steel
Lifting up a rack bar to be machined
Operative levers still steaming drive shafts off trays in order to cool down
Operatives dragging newly heat treated forgings off trays and into steel container in heat treatment
An experienced worker explains the workings of a CNC machine to an apprentice
Forge worker grinding (or linishing) flight bar (mining component), removing last traces of excess
Flight bar is moved out of the clipping press where excess "flash" has been removed
Forge workers pre form red hot billet into flight bar (mining component) on hammer
Fully forged and clipped flight bar (mining component) is lined up to cool down for final stage of
Fully forged and clipped flight bar (mining component) is lined up to cool down for final stage of
Worker pre forms steel billet on 5 tonne clear space hammer before it will be presented to set of
100mm square steel billet is removed from furnace as cold steel billet waits in foreground to be
Crank shaft is inserted into clipping press to remove excess "flash"
Flight bar (mining component) having been forged in a 15 MT counterblow hammer, is moved to clipping
Forge worker pre forms steel billet on 5 tonne clear space hammer before it will be presented to set
Red hot steel billet which has already been partially pre formed is moved back in to the furnace
Flight bar (mining component) is manoeuvred with industrial tongs under the counterblow hammer
