O.A. McClain and Jesse Belt shearing bar steel for timber truck reinforcement. The shearing machine saved many tedious hours of sawing and cutting bar steel.

Emmet Flaherty preparing to pre-heat two blank pieces of hollow drill steel. In the background is an automatic oil-fired forge which will bring these blanks to an exact temperature for forging. From the hollow drill blanks, finished pieces of lugged steel are formed for use in rock drills.