Hot and squishy - Forge This!

[Rubycon]

That's hot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooeYRbJuyw

 

[Jodell88]

That's pretty cool

 

[Zeze]

This is strangely hypnotic to watch...

 

[effowe]

That's one hot rod.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Did I just watch forging porn?

 

[SagaLore]

That seemed like a very inefficient way of doing that...

 

[Red Squirrel]

What are those? I'm guessing they're blanks for shafts or drill bits?

 

[sdifox]

What are those? I'm guessing they're blanks for shafts or drill bits?

Rollers.

 

[Leros]

That's pretty cool

It's actually pretty hot.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I wonder how much the operator gets paid? That's some serious skill.

 

[Ferzerp]

How It's Made: buster sword

 

[Leros]

I wonder how much the operator gets paid? That's some serious skill.

It's not automated?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's not automated?

Didn't you watch the video? There was an operator driving the giant claw machine getting feedback from another man at the other side of the forge. The operator might not be controlling the press, I don't know but, he does have to put the part being worked on in the right place. That takes a lot of skill and practice.

 

[disappoint]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRA6RY2o9Lg

Just a bit more info and just as fun to watch.

 

[Cerb]

Holy crap...it looks just like an overgrow smithy!

 

[Rubycon]

I would imagine those guys getting close to that large, hot mass frequently get "hot pants"! :wub:

 

[BladeVenom]

It's actually pretty hot.

It looks fun right now, but wait until summer.

 

[Cerb]

I would imagine those guys getting close to that large, hot mass frequently get "hot pants"! :wub:

Given what I immediately thought of at that point, I think I've been on the web too long.

 

[Fritzo]

That seemed like a very inefficient way of doing that...

I was going to say...seems like they used 3x as much material as they needed.

I think that music hypnotized me into watching the whole thing.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I wonder how much the operator gets paid? That's some serious skill.

I worked at a forging company once. Its hot dirty work and the pay is absolute shit. Not much skill involved in operating machinery like that. A little practice and its second nature just like a car.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

That seemed like a very inefficient way of doing that...

Pretty sure forging it like that means it's much stronger than just pouring it into a casting. Must be for some high dollar machinery.

 

[waggy]

How It's Made: buster sword

first thing i thought of was cloud's sword..

 

[SagaLore]

Pretty sure forging it like that means it's much stronger than just pouring it into a casting. Must be for some high dollar machinery.

I get that. But what I don't get is having all that machinery and technology to do that, and it still is a manual process. It didn't seem to be very high precision either.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I get that. But what I don't get is having all that machinery and technology to do that, and it still is a manual process. It didn't seem to be very high precision either.

It's more than likely something that they are toying around with making (prototype) or a one off type project.
Sure it'd be better for the whole process to be more automated. But who's paying for the machine that is capable of doing that when you got paid for machinery already and guys willing to work cheaply. Look at the furnaces they are using. Those things are probably close to 100 years old. When I worked at a forging factory they had machines from the early 20's in service. Lots of ww2 equipment too.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

And also forging is not always a high precision process. They are going to machine that thing down and that's when the precision is done.