Pneumatic forging hammers are specialized hammers designed to flatten and shape steel during the forging process.

That is so deeply satisfying to watch with all the pounding. I wish I could see what the end product was from all of it. 👀 I love this feed so much! I'm seeing so many incredible things.

This is more entertaining to watch than the NFL pro bowl

That was incredibly satisfying to watch

I’d like to be that cube

How they look when finished

And that’s how you get a regular old plumbus

Amazing to think that things can be forged as small as a scissor blade or bigger than a ship engine crankshaft.

No googles, no hardhats or other PPE. One dude was even wearing shorts.

Seamless wheel tire 1852/1853 Alfred Krupp invents the seamless wheel tire: A long, forged piece of steel is split in the middle, driven apart in a ring, ...

I use to work in brass and steel mills in Connecticut repairing machine controls. It was noisy dirty dangerous work.