Support BladeForums! Paid memberships don't see ads! Hey guys, so for quite some time I've been wanting to build a hydraulic forging press but have been especially stuck on one factor: size.

I was contacted by a gentleman a few days ago about information on making a hydraulic forge press. These machines are interesting and I thought I would post what is found with a few quick searches. What I hope is someone who has taken to task and has actually built one they use and wouldn't mind sharing the pros and cons of their experiences. This is the link.

This is a video from Dragonfly Forge on a neat press no plans so far. I can share with you a few ideas.

There are a number of ways to provide power to a hydraulic press. The video above shows a pump hooked to a 5 horse power 220 volt electric motor. You could also use a lawn mower engine.

Case and Ingersoll tractors used hydraulic pumps and motors to power their garden tractors. You could salvage one of these old tractors for parts to power your forging press. I also found a build for a press on YouTube that rightly started with a warning. 'Don't follow my plans' No doubt CYA. I agree, you should be competent enough to know your design capabilities or hire an engineer to review your plans or design a press for your needs. On the other hand we don't blacksmith because it's a ______________. Keep the fires burning hot!

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Author by: Randy McDaniel Languange: en Publisher by: Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 57 Total Download: 764 File Size: 52,6 Mb Description: 'The hydraulic forging press is becoming increasingly important to the any blacksmith shop. This relatively small machine, which is often hand made, allows smiths to do many of the same operations as a power hammer while adding more control and expanding what one can do with hot metal. Resume yurista na anglijskom obrazec. Over forty years ago a spark ignited Randy McDaniel's passion for forging hot metal.

This has been a passion that continually grows. Seven years ago his exploration of hot metal evolved and he began specializing in work done with the hydraulic forging press. Randy now creates all of his own tooling and dies which he uses to produce a line of unique items. He loves how the power of his sixty ton press pushes hot metal as if it were clay in his hands. This book covers the history, the how to, and especially the versatility of the hydraulic forging press for the blacksmith and the knife maker. It provides a comparison between the press and other machinery, the different types of presses, which type of press is right for your application, should you build one or buy one, focuses on tooling that you can make to get the most out of your press and much, much more' -- back cover. Author by: Vukota Boljanovic Languange: en Publisher by: Industrial Press Inc.