RE: NEWMAN BROS COFFIN FITTING WORKS - 3

I see it all now, some of it.
I have never seen a Drop Forge like that before, so I didn't recognise the part that was showing in the earlier photo's.

Neither have I Volty, they are very low down and it must have been a backbreaking job operating them. I worked in a drop forging shop at one time and the men who operated them worked in a pit like arrangement. With the weight of the hammer dropping all the time no bench would put up with the continual banging so a brickwork bench a foot or so off the ground was where the drop forges were set up with a pit running along it and the operatives stood in the pit and used their foot in a noose at the end of those ropes you can see, to swing the hammers.

Quote: phil wrote in post #32

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Neither have I Volty, they are very low down and it must have been a backbreaking job operating them. I worked in a drop forging shop at one time and the men who operated them worked in a pit like arrangement. With the weight of the hammer dropping all the time no bench would put up with the continual banging so a brickwork bench a foot or so off the ground was where the drop forges were set up with a pit running along it and the operatives stood in the pit and used their foot in a noose at the end of those ropes you can see, to swing the hammers.

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