Old time manufacturing

Fascinating!

Wonderful to watch! How many OSHA violations can you find. It's a wonder we get any work done today.

Ivan Vegvary

Very cool. Karl

Wow. My grandfather was a good forge welder, and I've dabbled with it a bit, but nothing on this scale. Bet you had to LOOK to find the weld after they were done.

Notice the hammering in the background on other parts? See ear protection anywhere? Lot's of hand signals, probably nobody could hear worth a darn!

What would be the preferred process for the same job, using today's technology?

Same with this one!

Impressive! Those guys were swinging those sledge hammers like they were broom sticks. Probably 10 or 12 lb hammers, too. Bob

The Pentagon was being used in 11 months, finished in 18 or so. We are strangling our selves via regulation and lawsuits.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

But ask yourself, would you want your kids to work in an environment like that?

The WWII mentality would end our need to burn coal in about 2 years. We would be using nuclear for everything electric.

How long do you think the enviromental impact studies would take now?

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

One impressive thing that no one has mentioned is those **upward** sledge hammer blows. It's one thing to raise the hammer over your head and bring it down fast. But bringing it up fast from around your ankles takes

Take a look at the photos on this website:

Damn you Michael!!!!

You got me into yet ANOTHER fascinating website thats going to eat up a shitload of my time going through.

Sigh....you do have a way of diverting people who have things to do.....sigh....

thanks Dude..absolutely fascinating website!!! Bookmarked and saved!

Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno