any blacksmiths on the line?

What I have yet to find on YouTube is videos with the most basic of information

He is working on a railroad Spike knife right now and there are gazillions of videos on that on the tube

Not a single one of them mentions how long it might take for a Spike to reach a malleable temperature

Now, he's gotten the tip drawn out and shaped quite nicely, but he's planning on twisting the handle, that suckered will need to be darn near liquid for that to happen

But im sure with time he will figure it out