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On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 2:13:34 PM UTC-4, Paul K. Dickman wrote:
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On Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 8:49:36 PM UTC-4, Ignoramus22513 wrote:
Totally shocking size of this hammer, and incredible operation.

https://www.machinerymoverschicago.c...orging-Hammer/

That looks like a hammer I saw at Finkl Steel in Chicago, 40 years ago.
It
was forging billets of tools steel, a bit larger than the piece in your
video.

Finkl moved and has modernized its equipment, so it's probably not the
same hammer. What company is that?

--
Ed Huntress
Damn, I miss Finkl. Their old plant used to be about a mile away from
me.
When ever I was jonesing for some heavy industry, I would run up to
Finkltown and watch real men bend raw elements to their will.
On a good day, the Finklmobile would roll across Cortland carrying a
giant
red hot billet of steel. From thirty feet away, the radiant heat through
your windshield was like climbing inside a hot oven.

Paul K. DIckman

I stood on a catwalk maybe 40 feet away from one of those billets, and I
had to turn away from the heat. That was a real "Giants of Industry"
operation.

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Ed Huntress

It was impressive
Because their operations were on both sides of the street, sometimes they
had to haul it between two buildings.
You would just be sitting at the stoplight when this thing,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/143261836@N06/30022773846
would roll across the street with a glowing chunk of steel, bigger than a
refrigerator, slung under it.

The first time it happened, you would get out of the car to see if the heat
blistered your paint.

Most days, the doors to their forging operations were wide open. I could
stand on the sidewalk and watch 'em for hours.

Paul K. Dickman