January 30, 201610 yr Author 5CWT Massey. Falling weight is 600lb. Roughing it down I am just tapping with the hammer but when flattening with the taper dies I am hitting pretty hard forging that large an area all at once takes a fair bit of power. I am surprised at the amount of scale coming off roughing. It does not look like much from my viewpoint when forging.
January 30, 201610 yr J, Thanks for the info. And very nice hammer! Those heavy chunks of 4140 do kick the scale off. I spent the last few hours forging 1.5" 4140 by hand in to a long hammer eye drift. Lots of scale there too! However, many was time I was wishing to trade my 7pound hand hammer for the 300lb self contained Chambersburg that's going into my new shop, which is still a ways from being complete! You can't beat those big hammers! Oh well, builds character and muscle! D
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