Large Scale Forging

[Hellion]

Fascinating.

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

 

[mckutzy]

That flange one is pretty cool...

 

[chancer]

OSHA would have a field day!
This is why we cant have nice things!
Thanks for sharing that is pretty Cool.

 

[Hellion]

Those are some skilled forklift drivers, manipulating that massive hunk of steel.

That hammer coming down is such a visceral sight and sound. I could've been a blacksmith...

 

[Flyinhillbilly]

Those are some skilled forklift drivers, manipulating that massive hunk of steel.

That hammer coming down is such a visceral sight and sound. I could've been a blacksmith...

My great grandpa was. I think that may be where I got some of my talent.

That's a fine example of team work, and a lot of fun to watch.

 

[chancer]

That is a BFH!!

 

[Ebrownie]

That is a BFH!!

Sure is lol. My buddy has a propane and a coal forge and a nice 150 lb anvil that we make knives, bottle openers, coat hooks and such with. It's fun, but once we tried forge-welding some layers together to make damascus for a knife. It worked, but what hammering we did in hours could be done by that in 2 hits.

I can't even imagine how much heat it took to get that huge chunk of metal orange. That's a lot of metal to heat up.

 

[mckutzy]

Heres another cool large forging vid, done by a firm in germany I think....(well there's not many others that could be else really).....Cool none the less....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx5clYrfCVo&t=5s

 

[Rail rider]

Heres another cool large forging vid, done by a firm in germany I think....(well there's not many others that could be else really).....Cool none the less....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx5clYrfCVo&t=5s

That wasn't the reaction I was expecting when they went to the quench bath. But I still want a gallon of the yellow paint they use.... That stuff if tuff.

 

[Hellion]

Yeah the quench bath was anti-climactic. Maybe if they dunked it faster...

But the 'gentle' squeezing of that massive ingot with the press--makes it look so simple, just like the Playdoh.

 

[mckutzy]

That quench part is odd...... I think it might be like a brine or oil maybe........
The mass of thermal heat, you would think would bring that tank just a bubbling and steaming allover.....

There is a more of a reaction of the volcanoes at Mount Kilauea, lava flow at the ocean....
Obviouslly a few K* differencs of temps... but still......

None the less.... really cool forgings...... very impresive..... especially them Chinese smiths.... alot of hands on work......

 

[Denny]

All that just to make a #8 machine screw 1' long.


Denny