gdocktor3
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Hopefully you guys can see these.
http://tractorgallery.net/hypnotic-...ing-factory-kihlbergs-stal-ab-hammer-forging/
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Forging a huge flange in China
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nh_yota
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At least they're wearing face shields.
lakeroadster
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Thanks for the link... awesome.
jallyn
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I saw that on Facebook yesterday. Love it. Those are real men working over there in China...hard labor outside in the heat of the forging process.
txvwnut
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Kinda small power hammer for the job ya think? 
That's crazy cool.
That's crazy cool.
Strouty
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Thanks for posting!
zoomieport
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Sweet!
beamrider
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Whats the school of retred have to do with it?
AZ Pete
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Pretty cool production
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Great video! - People doing the best they can with what they've got.
I'd have liked to see a shot of the whole hammer mill. The apparatus for opening the (coal fired?) furnace gate is right off the farm (60' lever on a fulcrum). Shows you what you can do when scrap steel is 5¢ a lb., labour is cheap and you can sell it back at $20 lb.
Did you notice the Chinese engineer was using a Starrett vernier?
(just kidding, I couldn't tell)
I'd have liked to see a shot of the whole hammer mill. The apparatus for opening the (coal fired?) furnace gate is right off the farm (60' lever on a fulcrum). Shows you what you can do when scrap steel is 5¢ a lb., labour is cheap and you can sell it back at $20 lb.
Did you notice the Chinese engineer was using a Starrett vernier?
(just kidding, I couldn't tell)
Finky198
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My ears are ringing just thinking about that... Very cool...
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rick carpenter
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Wife: What did y'all do at work today to advance the people's revolution?
Me: We made a flange.
Wife: You made a flange? You mean you made a whole bunch of glorious flanges to flood the capitalist markets, right?
Me: No, we made a flange. Just one.
Wife: So y'all spent one whole day making one flange? OMG! This revolution is in trouble!
Me: Well, it was a really big flange!
Wife: Suuuuuure it was....
Me: We made a flange.
Wife: You made a flange? You mean you made a whole bunch of glorious flanges to flood the capitalist markets, right?
Me: No, we made a flange. Just one.
Wife: So y'all spent one whole day making one flange? OMG! This revolution is in trouble!
Me: Well, it was a really big flange!
Wife: Suuuuuure it was....
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Probably for their new aircraft carrier 
WWheeler
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Probably the most amazing thing to me about that cool vid was how that one guy could manage to keep a clean white shirt all day on that job.
lol
lol
anndel
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Awesome video, now that's a day's work.
WWheeler
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That's one hell of a difference watching that second video from the first. Looks like they should be 50 years apart from one another instead of ~5000 miles.
LOL sounds like the talk of the supervisor material to me.
I think that guy in the white shirt is the supervisor...... maybe.. I could be wrong.... cause he actually does work. I hate to be those guy's neighbors....
Great video! - People doing the best they can with what they've got.
I'd have liked to see a shot of the whole hammer mill. The apparatus for opening the (coal fired?) furnace gate is right off the farm (60' lever on a fulcrum). Shows you what you can do when scrap steel is 5¢ a lb., labour is cheap and you can sell it back at $20 lb.
Did you notice the Chinese engineer was using a Starrett vernier?
(just kidding, I couldn't tell)
It's most likely a large group of men playing tug of war to raise/drop the hammer and open/close the furnace gate.
Superbec
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you troll !
I have found new respect for chinees **** , the coordination those guys show is amazing .
engineer2
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I didn't see any hearing protection.
UH??, u say sumttin?
tdkkart
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You'll slip up and stumble under the hammer long before you ears go to hell.
Mickey O
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Good to see the Chinese are catching up, there at about 1930 in the video.
I design pipe lines up to 120inch and up to 1500 barg. It's not the method most of the time it's the quality of the metal, also big oil companies like the paper trail of where it came from how it was manufactured etc was it and how is approved by third party's and quality system to current world standards.
bczygan
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I want that hammer!
And the lathe they used.
And the lathe they used.
Since our own US "industrial revolution" started 200 years ago, it's pretty easy to forget that up until the 1960's, about the only thing made of Chinese steel, were plowshares, which would be pulled by an ox.
They have come pretty far overall, now that they can make 90" flat screen TV's
Doing a lot with little, reminds me of an interesting video, I once saw of this fun job.
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/11/the-ship-breakers/100859/
They have come pretty far overall, now that they can make 90" flat screen TV's
Doing a lot with little, reminds me of an interesting video, I once saw of this fun job.
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/11/the-ship-breakers/100859/
It is but there are different methods of forging. The way they do it a section at a time would create zones at the edges of where the molecules get impacted. in the second video they hot roll and form the shape all at once so the molecular structure is consistently even.