Thought this was Awesome!

 

 

 

Wow, they certainly covered a lot of topics: forging, heat treating, machining, open/closed die.  Very informative of an industrial that is vital to our world.

Yes, confirmed. This is awesome.

 

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Can there be any doubt we are in the iron age, and the Blacksmith is "The Man"

Thanks for posting this, Bruno C.!

Thanks for posting this, Bruno C.!

My favorite part is the Guy that was wearing gear/face mask and a full shield to operate the huge steam hammer :),  and the factory floor full of large lathes was cool too.

I wonder how many if any of those behemoth machines still exist let alone are in use today.  I truly hope many have been spared the trip to the scrap yard.

 

Giant Tongs!

 

-B

Take a look at the Scot Forge website to see what is currently going on in the open die forging world.

I particularly liked the terminology used throughout. Nowadays, we hear things like, "It was too fat, so I squished it!" or "How much whackage should I give it?" That's funny and kinda' cute, but let's get real and talk like smiths sometimes.