| William had progressed at work and had been promoted to the position of a puddler and was getting fairly good wages. |
| The decarburized iron, having a higher melting point than cast iron, was raked into globs by the puddler. |
| Sykes, a father-of-four, had been laid off from his job as a puddler at a Rotherham iron works in 1865, forcing him to turn to poaching to stave off destitution. |
| The puddling process could not be scaled up, being limited by the amount that the puddler could handle. |
