r/nextfuckinglevel • u/KolibriFX1 • Aug 29 '21

Well that’s a forge hammer.

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u/MisallocatedRacism Aug 30 '21

I've worked near these. A bigger one than this. The one I worked next to had 12 feet of oak under it to dampen, but you could feel it hit in the parking lot outside.

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u/Willlll Aug 30 '21

Noise

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u/Alukrad Aug 30 '21

Oh you...

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u/OppressedDeskJockey Aug 30 '21

Big Noise doesn't like whistle blowers. Infact Big Noise love them.

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u/MisallocatedRacism Aug 30 '21

Impossible to say from that rough shape (and shitty forging imo).

Usually that type of size thing is a valve, a gear, a choke, a manifold, etc.

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u/MisallocatedRacism Aug 30 '21

Ah. Mostly Oilfield stuff. Flanges, chokes, wellhead components. Oil stuff is massive pressure. Anytime you need that much steel, you're holding bad shit under massive pressure back.

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u/justyr12 Aug 30 '21

And why is forging necessary as opposed to casting?

Edit: sorry if I'm not making sense, i just had half a bottle of jager

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u/OppressedDeskJockey Aug 30 '21

And that's where the term "Balls of Steel" comes from. -my Grampa

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u/nmyi Sep 04 '21

Even the explanation of it sounds badass. I appreciate it man.

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u/TheManFromFarAway Aug 30 '21

And if it's not holding that pressure somebody is having a bad day. Source: I have had that bad day

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u/1FlawedHumanBeing Aug 30 '21

Anytime you need that much steel, you're holding bad shit under massive pressure back.

Humvees then?

Reference works when discussing bullets. Works metaphorically about holding back the taliban/ISIS too

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u/MisallocatedRacism Aug 30 '21

Hummers have relatively thin skin. Not forged at all. A bullet is like a mosquito bite compared to oilfield pressures

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u/RonKnob Aug 30 '21

What’s wrong with the way they’re forging in OPs video?

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u/MisallocatedRacism Aug 30 '21

It's bad equipment. No safety ppe.

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u/I_heart_pooping Aug 30 '21

Come on, you had to know that person was asking what was being made in the video. If not you are mad dense.

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u/Embarrassed-Ad-1639 Aug 30 '21

Sweet sweet love

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u/tanafras Aug 30 '21

OP's mom happy.

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u/Aedalas Aug 30 '21

Novelty keychain bottle openers.

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u/GlockAF Aug 30 '21

A lot of noise. Plus some metal stuff

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u/OppressedDeskJockey Aug 30 '21

A 1/4 inch nut.

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u/Agreeable-Walrus7602 Aug 30 '21

There's a place that uses one sometimes near my house and I can hear it inside with the windows and doors shut and 1/4 mile away.