Seems like a lot of cost (time and people) to do a single joint. Are fishplates really that bad? Don't you need to allow some movement to account for thermal expansion and contraction anyway?
@signingupisretarded I agree. You can weld them by hand in about 23 seconds. You may want to tell them how to do this, they have been doing it wrong for YEARS now. How often do you hear of a railroad track breaking apart? They should take your advice.
@gsbacorn What exactly do you agree with? No claims where made. What advice? It's a series of questions. CWR first appeared over 80 years after fishplates and are still in use. Which way does your mom prefer to get railed?
@signingupisretarded I agree that it is alot of time and people, all 4 of them, and all 4 minutes. No, fishplates are not that bad. But, no, there is no need for thermal expansion. And for the final question, my Mom likes it just about the way yours does, ecept your Mom has an "outie" and she farts alot, but it is an improvement on her smell!
Really enjoyable video. I watched the same process in Fleetwood, Lancashire yesterday and it is quite something to see. Incidentally, it is nice to see Blackpool completely replacing their tramway infrastructure in Fleetwood with new overhead and tracks.
FDNY made a public announcement that WTC 7 was going to fall hours before it did. Their assessement of the impending collapse was based on the weakened inner suport structure caused by damage from the falling ruble of the twin towers. Fire was reported on all floors from end to end. My sources for this are he fire assessment reports and articles appearing in firehouse magazine. Somehow truthers know more than the professionals that were actually there.
& thank you, dinomaui, for showing interest, and asking an intelligent question about what we should do about it. Honestly I don't have the answer. "PUSH FOR A CIVILIAN LEAD INVESTIGATION" is what my answer would be, but thatseems impossible, considering how many "9/11 Truthers," are tryinig to do just that, former Senator MikeGravel is trying to push for a Nat'l Initiative, but I have concerns w/him, personally, as well.
So I'll just say I'm trying to spread awareness, however the hell I can...
i had a feeling it was the website ii posted, so i put spaces in it that don't actually exist, (example) build ingwhat .org
Anyways, in this economy, i can only do what i can, spread awareness, so that hopefully the masses of Americans see that through unity we can hold our gov't accountable, notso, if we stay as divided as we currently are. 1 day I hope a voice of reason can gather the masses in time before he to, gets assassinated. *Honor the Fallen With Truth*
--or anything surrounding that fact & that it achieved freefall when it fell & that initially NIST tried to deny it & then had to redraft their previous statement & ADMIT that it did achieve freefall. Buildingwhat . org has the proof of that. There is such a media cover-up of the events, & so little known about the actual facts of 9/11, that we are in just another bombardment of being fed lies, so I try to spread truth, just as I did that made u read & respond.
Last post until someone argues w/me. World Trade Center 7 was a 47 story, reinforced steel structure, that OUR GOVERNMENT & NIST wants us 2believe fell due 2fires. When no steel high rise structure has EVER FALLEN due 2fire, in the recorded history of skyscrapers. WTC 7 was so tall, it would've been the tallest building in 33 states. & when u watch how evenly& symmetrically it fell, through the path of most resistance, achieving free fall on the way down, well only explosives do that (thermite!)
@dinomaui hehehe, your response made me chuckle. You know, in all honesty, it's very hard to do anything about it. In New York city, they gathered enough signatures to put on the ballot (maybe like an initiative type thing we have in California, but I'm not sure), to press for a new investigation, & they submitted it and nothing happened. I'm a member of a few activist groups. One is Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice. So many people still don't even know about WTC 7 and that it fell @ 5:20pm.
And if you don't know about WTC 7, then don't even comment back 2me until you find out the facts, & how it fell at 5:20pm on 9/11, and how a mere high school physics teacher(David Chandler) made NIST (National Institute4 Standards&Technology) rewrite their draft of the model of how WTC 7 fell from fires. & ACTUALLY DID ACHIEVE FREE FALL. Reversing their previous error when they claimed the building didn't establish free fall. & don't argue w/me unless u really want me 2make u feel like an idiot.
thermite... just like what was used to bring down World Trade Towers 1, 2 & 7 on 9-11.... Wait, wait, wait... I know i know, before you comment &make an ass out of yourself, it wasn't the planes that brought down those towers like you sheep think it was... Google: "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe" & if your not a stupid fool, then i won't have to school you on here. Better yet, Youtube: 'Everyone has to see this commercial period'
Offshore welders earn $2,775.00 per 84 hr. work week. If you would like to weld offshore, send me your email address. If you would like to go out as a galley hand, or cook, or welder's helper, or roustabout, then contact me. Please make sure and send me your email address.
Did you know that this friday septa will be going on strike? That's rite 10-30-09 if they dont get what they want they are locking up the buses and trains. Now do you know that septa is not city but STATE owend?? Did you know that just to drive a bus the driver gets $40 to $50 an hour?? Yet these assholes want to go out on strike?
Al(III) oxide, one of the reaction products. If it ran to completion about 48% of the reaction mass would end up on the Aluminium leg. I have no idea what the typical "efficiency" is, though.
@pane36 It's an in-situ casting process, with a 7/8" gap between the rails. The molten steel drops into the runner between the rail ends, and there are risers at each side to let the air, slag etc. out. Because you need the metal to be above the rail head, you do get a lot of extra metal. You can see on the other rail where the top has been ground off to rail profile.
this is the old school way. No hydrolic shear or profile grinder, reusable crucible, using wedges. Not saying there is anything wrong with it, I'm just glad I don't weld for them
How is expansion and contraction of the rails relieved? I would imagine that the summer/winter cycle would cause quite a bit of difference over miles of steel.
ummm no. Rail is added in the winter through broken rails, changing worn out rail, detector defects, etc. The location and amount of rail added is kept track of both on the rail through reference marks and in computers. The thermite welders will either pull the excess with a rail expander or wait for the weather to warm and cut the excess rail out with a torch. There is a table that tells them how much rail should be taken out based on actual rail temp and the temp the rail was laid at
i dont think he was asking about adding metal or welding, just about rails in general. there are small gaps between certain rail sections that allow them to expand and contract a bit.
yes continuous welded rail CWR in great lengths, next time your on a train, listen for the clik clik sounds, that's the rail joints (fishplates) then all of a sudden it will go quiet and smooth making a whooshing sound, that's continuous welded rail
That doesn't look right. I've seen people's comments on why and how this is being done but tbh, id get a long cast of the train track, put it along the track to bridge the gap, clamp it hard against the tracks and fill the gap in with the red hot iron. Shouldn't be too hard, saves all the clay bangin' lol.
They place a mold around the two sections to be joined. It doesn't fit perfect so gaps are patched with a clay like substance, perhaps it actually is a type of clay. The resulting cast/weld isn't a pretty thing and has to be finished with a grinder. There are other vids that show the same process a little bit better. search welding revisited part 1 and welding revisited part 2.
Because even after seven and a half years, they still have nothing better to do than search for anything with "thermite" in the title and repeat themselves over and over.
Not for me. I found this quite educational seeing as how I never knew that thermite can be used for welding. Plus I work alot with the rail companies. I'm subcontracted to help clean up their endless amount of derailments, lol.
Yes Thermite welding is vary cool,but very DANGEROUS allso,u know what happins when water(moisture) comes in contact-BOOM-i did it for 5 years on the track an had my share of blowouts,iam sure the woman with the baby had no idea about the danger,still looks like you guys got down,hope all goes well in the future.try droping a charge off a tall bridge in to the water,now you got fireworks.
Howcome the tracks are welded together? I figure that spiking the tracks to the ties would allow them to expand and contract a little with a gap between tracks. Any insight?
this is aluminothermic... inside of the"bucket" there's a moisture of termithe with aluminyum kind of.... get it?... the gap betwind the 2 rails, are +/- 2.5/2.6cm and the molds are ins sand... so we have to get them hot... this way the rail and the mold don't get cracked.... the aluminothermic moisture gets to 2800º in less then 37sec... and get inside the molds. filling all the gaps... with the frenchsystem of railtech is more simple, becasue after we weld,we have the machine t cut the mold
There's many reasons for welding the rails, but eventually there does need to be the gap.
Reasons include: fewer joints to check bolts in, smother ride for the train wheels, more uniform stress over all of the ties, helps relive wheel stress in curves, etc.
The welded rails usually get heat stressed as they are being spiked, so the gap at the ends is just enough to allow expansion and contraction.
usually here in switzerland, from x km to x km, we less 2 joints open.. soo in the end..with the rail at 28º (to be perfect) (if we have to heat or cool it, we have to do...) and then we get thos joints welded... so this way, the railroad will never too much expansion or contraction... the only gaps i have speaked, were the gaps betwindthe rails when we weld them.because the maximum gap of the molds are 3cm... so we cut the joint to less the gap at 2.6cm, mesure... :) it's a cool work, :D
actually have to agree with matmill, on our railway we have to wear our safety high vis clothing also the welder in this video does not have all required ppe gear on, well in Australia anyway, also your closure looks wrong, why weld a closure with bolt hole in it??
lol and for those who have thinked that 5min was not time enough.... and 45 was the ideal.. LOL i think we do a pretty damn job because when my company goes all together (8 guys) we have already done 60 normal joints in a day of 10hours normal... ;) thats my job!...
i have one or 2 videos about this in my page.. see it if anyone like this :) greetings from a portuguese working on the railroad at the switzerland... lol
(yes yes, i've had to use it one month ago, but juste because we have run out of stock of the others... lol) but it's a pretty cool job... i dont need to go at the gym... LOL keep going
OOOOLDDDDD system of aluminothermique welding :/ those things are far worst to do this job.. for each joint the get heavyer... LOL i hate them... lucky for me and my collegues, we use the system from the frenches, of railtech... one time.. one use.. and its garbage... well, there a lot of diferences fromthis way of doing it, to "my" way... but is sad to me, seeing that this systems still being used today..
What the hell do you exspect, later on they cover there faces, there terrorists!! don't you get it, there gonna make the train head towards traffic :D!!
lol what do you expect, for them to wear a suit and tie? They are working in the hot sun, with added heat from the thermite, and on top of it, they have to do a lot of physical labor.
We did a weld like that one time and the traffic vibrating the rail ruined the weld. No kidding a few nights later the weld broke right down the thickest possible part of the weld. Fellow railroaders will know exactly what I mean. :)
thermite is groovey. fills me with peace and love. PLUS it makes good welds. lots of "low IQ" folk here. by the way, wadknockers, the twin towers were "dremeled" down.
Wow did'nt think they still welded rail lines this way. Old school?? I guess if it works. Assume you need a great amount of heat to over come the giant heat sink.
You should see how they heat a length of track in the winter. Since it's contracted and freezing, they mix diesel fuel and sawdust, place lumps all along the track and light em up! The smoke cloud is tremendous, but it heats the track enough so that it expands to fit the gap. Go Eagles!
ive seen it in person they do this to the calgary transit lines when they chenge out a rail... termite smells like asshole with ode of dirty sock added BTW
Well, afaik they dont use that technique in denmark. I've only seen them weld it together with Co2 welder. so thats probberly why our tracks are so bumby, lol.
There is a pre-shaped mold for the track. What they do is pour the thermite into the mold, which super heats the two ends of the track and welds it together. It's pretty much the cleanest and strongest weld that can be made. If you clean the slag off and paint the welded area, you wouldn't even know it was welded.
if you scooped that slag up and threw it in a pond or river it would explode into a million peices its so hot ... i have done it =) by the way ... dont try that
OMG!! Did anyone see the terrorist crossing the road at 0:16
M4D5K1L2 2 weeks ago
@M4D5K1L2 Thats too damn funny... I seen it when I read your post..
CathleenJ64 1 week ago
I like peanut butter.
8091pinewood 2 weeks ago
This would be a MUCH better video of the technique of thermite welding if you had a girl with BIG hooters in the video.
dhbiza 2 months ago
a little more meth dudes?
5150ramjet 2 months ago
thanks guys
dunham161 3 months ago
DONT GIVE THE MUSLIM IDEAS
timpriddy73 4 months ago
It's good to see such intelligent people are keeping our railways intact.
jakebeggy 4 months ago
Omg we found muhamids ghost!
Darkdeathslayer01 4 months ago
Muslim at 0:17 LOL.
Darko2625 6 months ago
I saw a muslim!!!!!!
TheEthug 7 months ago
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A Florida engineer, Jonathan Cole, recently demonstrated how to use packaged thermite to cut steel girders, box columns, and bolts. See my video:
Incendiary Experiments
punxsutawneybarney 9 months ago
I have watched this progress of welding 35 Jears ago (i'll get 50).
It was pretty common and nothing spectacular to weld with thermite.
Thanks for the vid to remind me.
DieterMe 1 year ago
@DieterMe sie ist deutsch?
viperz888 11 months ago
@viperz888
Yes, I'm a German guy but I like the the videos from all over the World and english is
a good common language.
DieterMe 11 months ago
Seems like a lot of cost (time and people) to do a single joint. Are fishplates really that bad? Don't you need to allow some movement to account for thermal expansion and contraction anyway?
signingupisretarded 1 year ago
@signingupisretarded I agree. You can weld them by hand in about 23 seconds. You may want to tell them how to do this, they have been doing it wrong for YEARS now. How often do you hear of a railroad track breaking apart? They should take your advice.
gsbacorn 11 months ago
@gsbacorn What exactly do you agree with? No claims where made. What advice? It's a series of questions. CWR first appeared over 80 years after fishplates and are still in use. Which way does your mom prefer to get railed?
signingupisretarded 11 months ago
@signingupisretarded I agree that it is alot of time and people, all 4 of them, and all 4 minutes. No, fishplates are not that bad. But, no, there is no need for thermal expansion. And for the final question, my Mom likes it just about the way yours does, ecept your Mom has an "outie" and she farts alot, but it is an improvement on her smell!
gsbacorn 11 months ago
@gsbacorn My mom like's it "roundhouse" style.
signingupisretarded 11 months ago
@signingupisretarded That's exactly the way my Mom likes it too!
gsbacorn 11 months ago
Really enjoyable video. I watched the same process in Fleetwood, Lancashire yesterday and it is quite something to see. Incidentally, it is nice to see Blackpool completely replacing their tramway infrastructure in Fleetwood with new overhead and tracks.
oldsyphilitic 1 year ago
@spunkbobstainpants YOU ARE SUCH A RACIST
expertcreatormo 1 year ago
whats with the muslim at 00.15? thaught you yanks were the last christian state
spunkbobstainpants 1 year ago
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FDNY made a public announcement that WTC 7 was going to fall hours before it did. Their assessement of the impending collapse was based on the weakened inner suport structure caused by damage from the falling ruble of the twin towers. Fire was reported on all floors from end to end. My sources for this are he fire assessment reports and articles appearing in firehouse magazine. Somehow truthers know more than the professionals that were actually there.
dreadnaught2 1 year ago
@dreadnaught2 you're a liar and a fraud.
godbluffvdgg 1 year ago
& thank you, dinomaui, for showing interest, and asking an intelligent question about what we should do about it. Honestly I don't have the answer. "PUSH FOR A CIVILIAN LEAD INVESTIGATION" is what my answer would be, but thatseems impossible, considering how many "9/11 Truthers," are tryinig to do just that, former Senator MikeGravel is trying to push for a Nat'l Initiative, but I have concerns w/him, personally, as well.
So I'll just say I'm trying to spread awareness, however the hell I can...
Erikali26 1 year ago
i had a feeling it was the website ii posted, so i put spaces in it that don't actually exist, (example) build ingwhat .org
Anyways, in this economy, i can only do what i can, spread awareness, so that hopefully the masses of Americans see that through unity we can hold our gov't accountable, notso, if we stay as divided as we currently are. 1 day I hope a voice of reason can gather the masses in time before he to, gets assassinated. *Honor the Fallen With Truth*
PEACE
Erikali26 1 year ago
but dinomaui, I wanted to say:
--or anything surrounding that fact & that it achieved freefall when it fell & that initially NIST tried to deny it & then had to redraft their previous statement & ADMIT that it did achieve freefall. Buildingwhat . org has the proof of that. There is such a media cover-up of the events, & so little known about the actual facts of 9/11, that we are in just another bombardment of being fed lies, so I try to spread truth, just as I did that made u read & respond.
Erikali26 1 year ago
its giving me the error sign again...
Erikali26 1 year ago
it won't let me post anymore, it keeps saying' Error, try again so i cant continue....
Erikali26 1 year ago
Last post until someone argues w/me. World Trade Center 7 was a 47 story, reinforced steel structure, that OUR GOVERNMENT & NIST wants us 2believe fell due 2fires. When no steel high rise structure has EVER FALLEN due 2fire, in the recorded history of skyscrapers. WTC 7 was so tall, it would've been the tallest building in 33 states. & when u watch how evenly& symmetrically it fell, through the path of most resistance, achieving free fall on the way down, well only explosives do that (thermite!)
Erikali26 1 year ago
@Erikali26 Let's go out on a fragile limb and ASSUME you're right.
Now what? What do you suggest we do about it? What is the point of your ranting?
The shit happened.
dinomaui 1 year ago
@dinomaui hehehe, your response made me chuckle. You know, in all honesty, it's very hard to do anything about it. In New York city, they gathered enough signatures to put on the ballot (maybe like an initiative type thing we have in California, but I'm not sure), to press for a new investigation, & they submitted it and nothing happened. I'm a member of a few activist groups. One is Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice. So many people still don't even know about WTC 7 and that it fell @ 5:20pm.
Erikali26 1 year ago
And if you don't know about WTC 7, then don't even comment back 2me until you find out the facts, & how it fell at 5:20pm on 9/11, and how a mere high school physics teacher(David Chandler) made NIST (National Institute4 Standards&Technology) rewrite their draft of the model of how WTC 7 fell from fires. & ACTUALLY DID ACHIEVE FREE FALL. Reversing their previous error when they claimed the building didn't establish free fall. & don't argue w/me unless u really want me 2make u feel like an idiot.
Erikali26 1 year ago
thermite... just like what was used to bring down World Trade Towers 1, 2 & 7 on 9-11.... Wait, wait, wait... I know i know, before you comment &make an ass out of yourself, it wasn't the planes that brought down those towers like you sheep think it was... Google: "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe" & if your not a stupid fool, then i won't have to school you on here. Better yet, Youtube: 'Everyone has to see this commercial period'
Erikali26 1 year ago
I would love their job!
whitelines2007 1 year ago
cool didn't even that they used thermite for this :Þ
Hayden1911 1 year ago
9/11
MrRobokoper 1 year ago
@MrRobokoper fuck you
Hayden1911 1 year ago
Lol the guy walking in the background at 0:19 is probably like "no no no, that's not how you make a bomb"
clayto1332 1 year ago 2
@clayto1332 racist
jetlaged 1 year ago
grinder with air horn at 3.00..lol
permenentway 1 year ago
"There! As pretty as a shiny new penny..."
SPUNKKK 1 year ago
Offshore welders earn $2,775.00 per 84 hr. work week. If you would like to weld offshore, send me your email address. If you would like to go out as a galley hand, or cook, or welder's helper, or roustabout, then contact me. Please make sure and send me your email address.
moseseseseses 1 year ago
Between 00:17 and 00:22 you see a man i suspect doing some intel. work for Al Qaeda. Thermite, Terrorist, Coincidence? I think NOT
kickfacer 1 year ago 2
@kickfacer ROFL, rewound the video and saw it. Good eye :D
sup2069 1 year ago
@ 2:59 .. LOOOOOOL XD i expected a big heavy train.. but then xD
gummel82 2 years ago
@gummel82 hahaha
565Customz 2 years ago
@gummel82 HAHAHAH me too hahahhahah, expecting a train then it turns out to be a guy pushign a cart HAHAHA..epic
swasnation 2 years ago
0:20 looked like a terrorist passing by
adjuvants12780 2 years ago
@adjuvants12780 LOL Indeed! hahaha
shark00700 2 years ago
Best job ever
xxxcagriersozxxx 2 years ago 3
Lol @ 2:58 I thought a train was gonna run them over.
scuds03 2 years ago 2
i would not be standing that close to the thing
ap327145 2 years ago
Have you guys seen "You Can't Weld This!"? It's pretty funny... The guys over at WeldingMart com had it made! Do a youtube search for it :)
3blindmicefilms 2 years ago
this is so interesting
TenacFTW 2 years ago
Hallo sehr geehrte 8d :-!
:D
ovj htirddr jimh ;D
8ananaN 2 years ago
Did you know that this friday septa will be going on strike? That's rite 10-30-09 if they dont get what they want they are locking up the buses and trains. Now do you know that septa is not city but STATE owend?? Did you know that just to drive a bus the driver gets $40 to $50 an hour?? Yet these assholes want to go out on strike?
marxbroths 2 years ago
are those giant chunks at like 3:30 they are chipping off all slag? if so......wow that's alot of slag. lol
pane36 2 years ago
its most likely the mold that they are breaking off.
calelandess 2 years ago
Al(III) oxide, one of the reaction products. If it ran to completion about 48% of the reaction mass would end up on the Aluminium leg. I have no idea what the typical "efficiency" is, though.
invasivenorman 2 years ago
@pane36 It's an in-situ casting process, with a 7/8" gap between the rails. The molten steel drops into the runner between the rail ends, and there are risers at each side to let the air, slag etc. out. Because you need the metal to be above the rail head, you do get a lot of extra metal. You can see on the other rail where the top has been ground off to rail profile.
harley333man 10 months ago 2
What's wrong with you conspiracy kook-tards?
That was an office fire on that railroad track!
Skeptic121 2 years ago
and tearing cars in half!
SamWise050 2 years ago
I hear this stuff is great for taking down buildings
GarGPS 2 years ago 6
Very subtle, but i totaly agree..
pieholepirate 2 years ago
burns through almost every metal lol so easily buildings =p
forashy616 2 years ago
I heard that it melts steel beams much better than high octane fuels. Shoots molten metal everywhere though.
babyeatsdingos 2 years ago
Largely because one of the products is molten iron
dragonridley 2 years ago
No entiendo. ¿que hacen soldar el rail o cortandolo?
MelanionKISS 2 years ago
something funny happens at 3:00, you hear the train comming but instead, that man appears on the rail XD
mito0101 2 years ago 83
hahaha
tjalolx 2 years ago
@mito0101 Dude that is FUCKING FUNNY!
maddox1408 1 year ago
@mito0101 lol, I was thinking that too. That was gonna be my comment and then I saw yours.
TakronRust 1 year ago
@mito0101 That's hilarious!
Erikali26 1 year ago
thats an arab dumb !$#@
Hopkinbjaykid1 2 years ago
watch obama walking at 0:19
Cleazen 2 years ago
Osama, not Obama! Good place to hide really, they wouldn't be looking for him there!
EsquireOfTheEstate 2 years ago
110 metres for what?
fukdyamum 2 years ago
weird but cool
bigbradford69 2 years ago
i bet this job pays pretty good
fuckiraq12 2 years ago
this is the old school way. No hydrolic shear or profile grinder, reusable crucible, using wedges. Not saying there is anything wrong with it, I'm just glad I don't weld for them
bubbadrum1 2 years ago
How is expansion and contraction of the rails relieved? I would imagine that the summer/winter cycle would cause quite a bit of difference over miles of steel.
Reubenhubert 2 years ago
there are cuts in the rails of a few centimeters every mile or so that allow them to expand and contract without buckling or splitting.
tj2691 2 years ago
OK. Thanks for the information. My only experience with railroad tracks is driving across them.
Reubenhubert 2 years ago
ummm no. Rail is added in the winter through broken rails, changing worn out rail, detector defects, etc. The location and amount of rail added is kept track of both on the rail through reference marks and in computers. The thermite welders will either pull the excess with a rail expander or wait for the weather to warm and cut the excess rail out with a torch. There is a table that tells them how much rail should be taken out based on actual rail temp and the temp the rail was laid at
bubbadrum1 2 years ago
i dont think he was asking about adding metal or welding, just about rails in general. there are small gaps between certain rail sections that allow them to expand and contract a bit.
tj2691 2 years ago
Re-read what he said... He is being a smart ass.
"Go to the basement and get me the pipe stretcher"
stravevane 2 years ago
yes continuous welded rail CWR in great lengths, next time your on a train, listen for the clik clik sounds, that's the rail joints (fishplates) then all of a sudden it will go quiet and smooth making a whooshing sound, that's continuous welded rail
fukdyamum 2 years ago
That doesn't look right. I've seen people's comments on why and how this is being done but tbh, id get a long cast of the train track, put it along the track to bridge the gap, clamp it hard against the tracks and fill the gap in with the red hot iron. Shouldn't be too hard, saves all the clay bangin' lol.
blinkvirus 2 years ago
No hard hats, no HRC2 shirts, and the dude in the yellow vest is wearing a nylon vest (extremely flammable).
I would have shut this job down for lack of PPE.
They get an F.
masscomnet 2 years ago
Fair enough point, but when you're using thermite not much will stop it. Ever tried putting thermite on the bonnet of a junk car? Quite impressive.
iNonickname 2 years ago 6
And a hard hat helps how? There are no falling objects.
Cold1Forged 2 years ago 19
@Cold1Forged Expect the unexpected. :P
claimless 1 year ago
@Cold1Forged
It looks cool
TheGrim666 1 year ago
@Cold1Forged ya but how'd you like to get whacked with a sledge hammer?
benjiboy576 1 year ago
@benjiboy576 as if a hard hat is gonna protect you from an massive sledge hammer...
weetnietgeen 1 year ago
@Cold1Forged I can't see any Hard Hats lol
Bikekid450 1 year ago 5
@Bikekid450 or fireproof overalls. jokers.
mrkennethporter 3 weeks ago
@Cold1Forged because of bird shitting
zataflex 9 months ago
@Cold1Forged part of the job...... required lol
Churros714 7 months ago
I just love the deep low sound of those train whistles.
OmonRa71 2 years ago
Always one step ahead of Min Chen
Biggins363 3 years ago
They place a mold around the two sections to be joined. It doesn't fit perfect so gaps are patched with a clay like substance, perhaps it actually is a type of clay. The resulting cast/weld isn't a pretty thing and has to be finished with a grinder. There are other vids that show the same process a little bit better. search welding revisited part 1 and welding revisited part 2.
aredditor 3 years ago
Paris Hilton says, "that's HOT!"
Nice video, educational.
btw why are the comments filled with 9-11 conspiracy idiots?
tompaah7503 3 years ago 2
tompaah7503:
Because even after seven and a half years, they still have nothing better to do than search for anything with "thermite" in the title and repeat themselves over and over.
iarejester 3 years ago 7
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the smoke and the stuff falling off look alot like 9-11
johnknoefler 3 years ago
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Nano-Thermite is even cooler than regular thermite....
NanoThermite911 3 years ago
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BORING!!!!!!!!!!!
pyroperson624 3 years ago
Not for me. I found this quite educational seeing as how I never knew that thermite can be used for welding. Plus I work alot with the rail companies. I'm subcontracted to help clean up their endless amount of derailments, lol.
pyroguy21 3 years ago 3
It's primarily what thermite is used for outside of war where it's used to ruin equipment.
aredditor 3 years ago 3
neat, a guy learns something new every day, lol
pyroguy21 3 years ago 3
2:59 watch this part, the train actually is going to hit them.
Omg, it was just a tool the guy was pushing lmao
needlenitz18 3 years ago 3
Yes Thermite welding is vary cool,but very DANGEROUS allso,u know what happins when water(moisture) comes in contact-BOOM-i did it for 5 years on the track an had my share of blowouts,iam sure the woman with the baby had no idea about the danger,still looks like you guys got down,hope all goes well in the future.try droping a charge off a tall bridge in to the water,now you got fireworks.
Artic1snow 3 years ago
yap.. firework.. and a bunch of cops around :D i know that perfectly... it's nice LOL :D
jilcainessa 3 years ago
0:33 blatant advertising lol
thomals 3 years ago
"Fed Ex. We ship delicious Thermite right to your doorstep for cheaper and more effective than any other ground shipping company. We guaruntee it."
Trahira517 3 years ago 2
Haha, I didn't even notice when i was watching it. Good catch!
pyroguy21 3 years ago
smart people stand in the smoke
diederrr 3 years ago 4
Howcome the tracks are welded together? I figure that spiking the tracks to the ties would allow them to expand and contract a little with a gap between tracks. Any insight?
sykop8ntballer 3 years ago
this is aluminothermic... inside of the"bucket" there's a moisture of termithe with aluminyum kind of.... get it?... the gap betwind the 2 rails, are +/- 2.5/2.6cm and the molds are ins sand... so we have to get them hot... this way the rail and the mold don't get cracked.... the aluminothermic moisture gets to 2800º in less then 37sec... and get inside the molds. filling all the gaps... with the frenchsystem of railtech is more simple, becasue after we weld,we have the machine t cut the mold
jilcainessa 3 years ago
There's many reasons for welding the rails, but eventually there does need to be the gap.
Reasons include: fewer joints to check bolts in, smother ride for the train wheels, more uniform stress over all of the ties, helps relive wheel stress in curves, etc.
The welded rails usually get heat stressed as they are being spiked, so the gap at the ends is just enough to allow expansion and contraction.
railrider2000 3 years ago 2
Gotcha, I've always wondered why tracks were welded. Thanks!
sykop8ntballer 3 years ago
usually here in switzerland, from x km to x km, we less 2 joints open.. soo in the end..with the rail at 28º (to be perfect) (if we have to heat or cool it, we have to do...) and then we get thos joints welded... so this way, the railroad will never too much expansion or contraction... the only gaps i have speaked, were the gaps betwindthe rails when we weld them.because the maximum gap of the molds are 3cm... so we cut the joint to less the gap at 2.6cm, mesure... :) it's a cool work, :D
jilcainessa 3 years ago
Fascinating and interesting.
motonegros 3 years ago
After getting certified in jersey, I thought I would never get the chance to do this. But I did it with R.P.I. , it is so cool.
Tallshipdreamer 3 years ago
i never learned this type of welding at school, or heard about it. sweet shit
Blo0daXe 3 years ago
hey what is your guys on track safty warrent and where is that track dogs vest ha ha hello from the ann arbor rail road
soccergurl7295 3 years ago
actually have to agree with matmill, on our railway we have to wear our safety high vis clothing also the welder in this video does not have all required ppe gear on, well in Australia anyway, also your closure looks wrong, why weld a closure with bolt hole in it??
tekkag13 3 years ago
ooo nooo the trains coming hurry!
SnOoPs994 3 years ago 4
lol and for those who have thinked that 5min was not time enough.... and 45 was the ideal.. LOL i think we do a pretty damn job because when my company goes all together (8 guys) we have already done 60 normal joints in a day of 10hours normal... ;) thats my job!...
jilcainessa 3 years ago
i have one or 2 videos about this in my page.. see it if anyone like this :) greetings from a portuguese working on the railroad at the switzerland... lol
jilcainessa 3 years ago
(yes yes, i've had to use it one month ago, but juste because we have run out of stock of the others... lol) but it's a pretty cool job... i dont need to go at the gym... LOL keep going
jilcainessa 3 years ago
OOOOLDDDDD system of aluminothermique welding :/ those things are far worst to do this job.. for each joint the get heavyer... LOL i hate them... lucky for me and my collegues, we use the system from the frenches, of railtech... one time.. one use.. and its garbage... well, there a lot of diferences fromthis way of doing it, to "my" way... but is sad to me, seeing that this systems still being used today..
jilcainessa 3 years ago
these guys look really unprofessional
mattmill91 3 years ago
They don't work in cubicles...
kleei2 3 years ago 5
What the hell do you exspect, later on they cover there faces, there terrorists!! don't you get it, there gonna make the train head towards traffic :D!!
FunnyestVideoz 3 years ago
lol what do you expect, for them to wear a suit and tie? They are working in the hot sun, with added heat from the thermite, and on top of it, they have to do a lot of physical labor.
ToolshedEd3TF 3 years ago 6
oh I've been workin' on the raaaailroad
inthefade 3 years ago
different...but i hope they dont call themselves welders, id shake my head and say i dont know you....that looks like iron workers to me...if that
johnpaulsz28 3 years ago
We did a weld like that one time and the traffic vibrating the rail ruined the weld. No kidding a few nights later the weld broke right down the thickest possible part of the weld. Fellow railroaders will know exactly what I mean. :)
AlvinAZ 3 years ago 3
i was talking to some mexican guy on here who was talking about taking all of ameican jobs, but its cool.
odale1606 3 years ago
put some saftey cones up and get a spotter, fucken. in my country the govt would shut ur biz down for that.
good vid on thermal welding tho, 5 stars.
antiwonggalonggalo 3 years ago
Theyre not engineering a rocket, ok?
So just shut up, sit back and enjoy the show.
ThunderAppeal 3 years ago
well then lets be glad they arnt in your country and there in the USA
ardwelding 3 years ago
from 0:14 to 0:23 you can see osama
bob46802 3 years ago
LOL i just seen that! haha
salba90 3 years ago
It's not ghetto at all - it's the best and fastest way to weld something that needs to be as strong as railroad ties together.
madtonesbr 3 years ago 5
Awesome.
AmericanFabricator 3 years ago
thermite is groovey. fills me with peace and love. PLUS it makes good welds. lots of "low IQ" folk here. by the way, wadknockers, the twin towers were "dremeled" down.
hardwares1 4 years ago
How the fuck do you know there IQ? Oh yeh you know because you go through life assuming everything, witch is why you must be a genius.
sz42781 3 years ago
If you are going to launch a verbal parry, pleae use decent grammar and spelling.
Swearing is a reflection of your intellect
TheFluorineMartyr 3 years ago
"pleae use decent grammar and spelling"? Beat it!
sz42781 3 years ago 4
I agree one hundred percent on that one.
cordsweat 3 years ago
Wow did'nt think they still welded rail lines this way. Old school?? I guess if it works. Assume you need a great amount of heat to over come the giant heat sink.
wambs8 4 years ago
You should see how they heat a length of track in the winter. Since it's contracted and freezing, they mix diesel fuel and sawdust, place lumps all along the track and light em up! The smoke cloud is tremendous, but it heats the track enough so that it expands to fit the gap. Go Eagles!
pj065724 4 years ago
is that some hilly billy fix? or is it actually how its suppose to be done?
Shishizurui 4 years ago
It's meant to be done like that. Thermite is used an awful lot in industrial to weld iron.
Phate101 4 years ago
Because it burns at over 2000 Degrees C. hotter than Lava i think.
RadKuntSmith 4 years ago
you can see why the metal under the wtc stayed so hot.
stratocaster539 4 years ago
What did that do???
AmtrakFanNEC927 4 years ago
Weld the tracks together, seen it on discovery channel too.
perkerfrans 4 years ago 2
ive seen it in person they do this to the calgary transit lines when they chenge out a rail... termite smells like asshole with ode of dirty sock added BTW
TehKazlehoff 4 years ago 3
Well, afaik they dont use that technique in denmark. I've only seen them weld it together with Co2 welder. so thats probberly why our tracks are so bumby, lol.
perkerfrans 4 years ago
Does everyone in Denmark smoke?
ssparklesparkle 4 years ago
yes
elgranto7 4 years ago
me too:) But you can put thermite on tracks ant melt them :(
Deswaldso 4 years ago
There is a pre-shaped mold for the track. What they do is pour the thermite into the mold, which super heats the two ends of the track and welds it together. It's pretty much the cleanest and strongest weld that can be made. If you clean the slag off and paint the welded area, you wouldn't even know it was welded.
screamosux 4 years ago
Actually, the thermite reaction releases a stream of molten iron, which simply fills the mold.
Iron Oxide + Aluminum=Aluminum Oxide + Iron(molten)
cue1go 4 years ago 3
if you scooped that slag up and threw it in a pond or river it would explode into a million peices its so hot ... i have done it =) by the way ... dont try that
elliott0 4 years ago 6