As this part of the blacksmith shop is intended for heavy work its principal equipment is one or more steam hammers of the small single frame type or of the heavy double frame type. Other essential equipment includes:

(2) Tools and holding appliances to assist in shaping the forging and in holding the billet forged.

(3) A suitable furnace, preferably oil or gas fired, for heating billets.

(4) An upsetting machine (not always installed) which works much like a rivet-heading machine in squeezing a length of red-hot metal into a shorter and larger bulk.