Welding The Big Ring !!

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Amazing video in 1904 Forge welding a large steel ring with sledge hammers & steam hammer. Highly skilled workers.

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Howto & Style

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• Welding
• Ring
• Forge
• Skill

[OurCousinVinny]

There was no hanging around in them days

[dynomania]

Rather be the guy in the Dapper Top hat than the poor bastards with the hammers !!

[sw8741]

all for pennies a day!! check out the arms on the guy working the hoist! dude has some guns! don't think he went to the gym just to look good.

[ANewNormalcy]

The clown in the vest was only there to look toward the camera. He sure as hell didn't work on the shop floor!

[1overthehillsfaraway]

I bet this ring was used in a rail yard at the end of the line where there was a turntable that allowed the locomotive to be turned around.

[1overthehillsfaraway]

@ChrisCraftJohnny no you are wrong. there are many applications which require forging of complex parts that no other method can accomplish as efficiently as forging. Many items are still forged as a machined part can not equal a one piece forged parts strength and ease of manufacture I could think of hundreds of things that are still forged it is far from an obsolete technology.

[rtuinstra]

@sw8741 I bet you're a sportsman; funny how different people see different details.

[kingy002]

Great video. Interesting to see them using a hot chisel to trim the outside and inside edges.

You wouldn't want to have a donnybrook with that bugger hauling on the chainblock. Although he was a bit sensitive about breaking a nail at 4:16.

[blacksmither1]

@ballygeale1 those hammers weighed probly 10 pounds

[blacksmither1]

@ChrisCraftJohnny whats the fun on machines doin it though?

[ChrisCraftJohnny]

@ironfighter2002 It doesn't need to be seen or done again. Blacksmithing is a obsolete practice. Such as heating your house with a fireplace. Today, modern manufacturing would CNC MACHINE this piece out of solid sheet to a precision that these hard-working men in the video could only dream of. Yes, there might be some uses for a blacksmith in a shipyard still, but otherwise, it's a past-time obsolete technology.

[savagenomore]

I wonder how many guys were seriously wounded when one guy missed.......

[boxforge]

Those sledges would most likely be in the 8-10 lbs weight range as the common hand held hammers would range from 2-3lbs.

[ballygeale1]

i think those sledges weighed 2 pounds in weight.