I love to see old fashioned, hard work. It makes me happy to know that there are skills, old skills, that aren't rotting away from lack of use. When I was a boy, I would follow the garbage truck for two blocks, and the guy would let me throw in all the garbage. I was between 8-10 yrs. old. I loved it. These guys break their backs all day, and I'll bet it is rewarding. Probably not monetarily though, sadly. These types of men never seem to get paid right. Who knows though?
This thing they are doing is probably a bearing housing for some, say, a generator in a hydroelectric power plant or something similar, which has to withstand a huge load. Can you please direct me to a video that shows the process of producing the same or a similar product in a "western way"?
These folks are excellent craftsmen. Their pay will be according to local levels. As if our processes were different. It's only that nowadays we don't want the noise, dirt and work in our neighbourhood.
@@josefish5193 i don't understand dickheads like that guy and his comment of... "How old are you?" Some people just look for the negative in life, walking around with a permanent frown. I just don't understand, and never will. ESPECIALLY when it's easier to be happy. 😜😋
I'm going to go ahead and say these men are aware of the dangers, but, unlike many Americans, they are willing to take what work they can get to support and provide for their family. I would even say they are probably proud to do it.
America wasn't always as safe as it is today because of the sacrifices of so many long before you were a twinkle in your Daddy's eye, obviously those sacrifices were meaningless to you and your family.
Naaah, the alternative is to spend the rest of their lives behind a water buffalo in a rice paddy. This is slightly better, if you ignore their chances of death and injury.
Key word being "If" you survive, I bet there are a lot of limbs lost and burns suffered from this place, street clothes, no PPE, and too much counting on the other guy to do their choreographed work dance as they sequence the Mfg. procedure. Yes 6 months I bet is a longevity record at that place and others like it, which is why many American and European Mfg.'s moved their work there, the dangerous work practices shown wouldn't be tolerated in the US and other countries, OSHA, Work Mans Comp, the EPA all get by passed when this type of work is sent to China and Mexico.
Are you joking? Death rates were incredibly high back then in mills and forging operations. Work safety rules drastically decrease mutilation and death in the workplace.
@@kkknotcool Who's WE?? And what choice has the average consumer to buy anything other than Chinese made goods when "THEY" sold us out and sent our industries over to China for some quick profit. Most Chinese goods have the reputation of being shit, because that's what they are......shit! " Those who buy cheap, pay twice".
@@wefukthenwo : Iphones and other sophisticated electronic equipment are made in China and you pay thousands of dollars for them, that means you are a bunch of morons who pay a lot of money for shit. .
Has anyone even noticed? That power forging hammer... think about it. It's not a forging hammer at all... it's a pile-driver that was repurposed to forge steel. It makes sense... the pile-driver hammer head is massive and heavy, and is intended to drive long heavy logs deep into the earth. The pile-driver hammer head is solid steel and very heavy and already flat. It needed to be in order to hammer and drive logs into the ground with only minimal deformation. The only modifications they made was to include a heavier head and a variety of different dies and the pile driver anvil base that they are using to make the steel forged flanges. The other thing is how much work that they are able to do with only a single heat. There's so much steel that only the surface of the metal cools and oxidizes as they forge and form the steel. Ingenious forging method and a brilliant repurposing of a piece of construction equipment. After all, how many pile drivers in this country were retired and sent to the scrap yard, never to be used again? Very wasteful... These people saw a potential use for the pile-driver and decided to reuse it and make it useful again...
My friend Billy got messed up bad because the driver was turned up to high and blew the pile apart, Billy is handicapped now! Dangerous Machine! Only one or two deaths a month there.
There's a certain something about watching a giant hammer the size of an oil drum and the height of a low rise apartment building repeatedly smash a giant red hot iron block...
If you find the other videos what this thing turns into as the finished product, you will agree that these men are artists using heat and gravity to add to the industry they work for. I just hope they get adequate pay for what they do.
I echo all the positive reactions to this captivating video of a great team making a great product: and it makes me seriously wonder what on earth kind of steel they use to make those cone-shaped hole punches & the molds they hammer the hot steel in to ? I saw the video of this same pipe flange being machined in a huge lathe as the final product. It was just as fascinating.
"great product" try building a train with those handmade rings, then when it derails cuz its uneven you come back to me. This is 1800 century tech. You cant guarantee precision of shape like this
I don't know about what they are making there, but i do know the steel they use in many other products is so inferior, the product is completely worn out in a couple of months.
It's easy. I was told this by my instructor when I began my apprenticeship as a blacksmith/welder. Steel is like toffee. It's soft when hot and harder when cold. Thank about that statement about toffee - those forms they're ramming through the hot steel don't need to be hardened - only colder. You'll have seen other videos where such forms are often dipped in nearby water to keep them cool - these will have water dropped on them from time to time. The forging in this video will be low quality at best. They're hammering cold sections (it's still shaping) which will result in internal fractures inside the forged piece - lethal for pressure systems.
I was thinking the same thing? There's no way that could be used as a wheel in the form its in after forging. It mut be grinded somehow to make the hub on center?
Heading says they are forging a flange, not a train wheel.flanges are made to order, Chinese are far better and economic.see their low cost tools, but extreme high co ordination and innovation.
A lot of COMMON SCENSE used here, no need for OHS Bullshit. Everyone knows there place and what to do. Love how all their tools are hand made. Great workmanship.
Using a powerhammer without any ear protection is just plain stupid, no amount of teamwork will save your hearing, I wouldn't dream of working on something like this without at least ear defenders on, and I highly doubt they are wearing protective footwear either. Say what you like about your health and safety regulator there is a reason they do what they do and that is to keep you safe, without any ppe all it would take is one slip or accident and you could quite possibly be dead
When I crushed the end of my finger it split open in three places and blew the nail off. It actually in the moment hurt less then when hitting with a hammer holding a nail. The pain came latter after the long acting freezing came out then it hurt like a son of a ....
I was a Blacksmith / Forger by Trade in my day in Melbourne Australia and i can tell you that the end product of that forging was below the standard i was taught . I would of been told to rework that flange or start again.
Those guys need some hearing protection and proper footwear and gloves. They are most likely deaf and those vibrations aren't going to do their joints any good. You look at a company like this and think how greedy they must be to not provide their workers with even the simplest of protection.
sure they should have, but wo are we to judge. Until the mid 70s we as western workers didnt had any lung protection. And sure they already invented it, they did it in wo1 already.
I thought China had come into the 21 century, we were doing this 100 years ago. Labor is cheap in that country, Or, Maaybe it is another country, it still comes down to cheap labor.
