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Career Guidance Knowledge engineering, manufacturing and construction K071 - engineering and engineering trades K0715 - mechanics and metal trades Drop hammer types
Description
The various types of hammers used in the forging process, such as a counterblow hammer, friction drop hammer, board drop hammer, belt drop hammer, power drop hammer, and others.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Drop forging hammer workerDrop forging hammer workers utilise forging machinery and equipment, specifically machined hammers, in order to form ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces to their desired shape…
Related skills
- Work as a team in a hazardous environment
- Monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- Types of metal manufacturing processes
- Ensure correct metal temperature
- Metal forming technologies
- Perform test run
- Operate lifting equipment
- Remove scale from metal workpiece
- Monitor conveyor belt
- Tend drop forging hammer
- Keep records of work progress
- Non-ferrous metal processing
Last updated on February 18, 2026
