The forks suck. If you hit the forging with a hammer correctly, you can do it quite handily- now get this, the taper of the ball joint is a round wedge-, so before you make a formless piece of modern art, approximate a perpendicular line to the side of the taper nearest you, back the nut off a little to protect the threads, and hit that forging along that perpendicular line with a Mack Daddy Whoopin' Hammer. Energy is transferred from the MDWH, to the forging, to the ball joint taper, and to the other side of the taper. All of this is forcing the interface of the opposite side of the taper and and its corresponding forging to start to slide against each other, ejecting the taper... all while leaving your components completely reusable, except for maybe the nut, which may suffer from missed strikes by the MDWH. Multiple applications of the MDWH are necessary to do this work, as that taper has been there for quite a while.
Yes, you will dent your forging, and my answer is: your great grandchildren we be proud to see your handiwork, if the vehicle sticks around that long.