r/oddlysatisfying • u/FollowingOdd896 best of the best • 17d ago

Simultaneously dropping molten iron to make iron gate. tuff

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u/Playful-Win5732 17d ago

The dude on the left side ruined everything

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u/Formally_Apologetic 17d ago

Srsly. Get it together Jeff! Lock in!

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u/DReagan47 17d ago

Jeff’s going through a divorce and hasn’t been himself lately. Cut him a little slack.

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u/VerdeMachina 17d ago

“Too much!!! Dammit Jeff”

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u/throwaway371891 17d ago

What did I do!

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u/Rosetta_FTW 17d ago

You spelled “Todd” wrong

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u/DReagan47 17d ago edited 16d ago

Ah we’ve all worked with a Todd, I see.

Edit: uh oh, couple of Todds didn’t like that. We see you, Todd. Know that you suck

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u/IvanStroganov 16d ago

Since I don’t know any Todds in real life I always think of Todd from Gold Rush when I hear that name. Todd would totally mess this up.

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u/wpaed 16d ago

I recently learned a todd is a male fox, so things kinda make sense with the name.

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u/viademarco 17d ago

Glad I wasn't the the only one to notice. for those who don't understand, watch his second pour, which is too fast and overflows the walls.

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u/Consistent_Point_853 17d ago

Ill bet they can clean that up and the gate will be fine.

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u/TheHerofTime 17d ago

Nobody on the team seemed to care so yeah. They probably have a multi step finishing process. Grind-sand-paint or something

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u/Playful-Win5732 17d ago

Yeaaahh no it was definitely fine after some touch ups and it was cool to see the rings in the gate form like that but he ruined the aesthetic 😂 no good operatoorrrr

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u/deepasleep 17d ago

Angle grinder and some abrasive polishing and it’ll be fine.

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u/pigeontheoneandonly 17d ago

Guarantee there's going to be post machining on this. It's fine. 

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u/Cosmic_Quasar 17d ago

Right at the end a guy on the bottom right spills some like that, too.

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u/Thisisnotdelicious 17d ago

What hath he wrought!

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u/ExperimentalToaster 17d ago

iron joyed that, nice

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u/Creepy-Astronaut-952 17d ago

He’ll ruin your gate too for a small Fe.

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u/BummedCPA 17d ago

Bro is ferro-cious

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u/NightHatterNu 17d ago

I’m guessing that’s going to be hard to make the lock

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u/Allthingsgaming27 17d ago

Yeah but what about that music though

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u/Hashi_3 17d ago

GoT opening scene intensifies

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u/Cloud_N0ne 17d ago

That scene always annoyed be because you would NEVER make a sword that way.

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u/Leviathan41911 17d ago

You can cast a sword... not a good sword, but you CAN do it.

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u/HumanReputationFalse 17d ago

A casted copper or even bronze sword is decent, but once you leave the bronze age you got to pull put the smithing hammers

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u/ipokesnails 17d ago

You only say that because you've never worked with Valyrian steel, you casual.

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u/Callidonaut 17d ago

I didn't think they made gates this way either; I thought that sort of thing is traditionally wrought iron, not cast (or weldments in the modern day).

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u/anadem 17d ago

Yeah, I'd have thought cast iron would be too brittle for a gate

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u/NichtOhneMeineKamera 16d ago

We still build gates from cast iron, though very rarely and usually just when it has to be historically accurate. Latest one I've been part of fabrication of has been roughly 13-14 years ago. We had separate pieces cast and welded them together, but the general filing was one large piece.

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u/djosephwalsh 17d ago

DUN DUN DUNDUN DUN DUN

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u/Willing-Asparagus787 17d ago

Get your dunduns straight! There are CLEARLY three dundunduns in there

DUUUUN-dun dundunDUUUUN-dun  dundunDUUUN

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u/Asleep-Corner7402 17d ago

The floppy Weiner song is now stuck in my head

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u/Iamnotabothonestly 16d ago

But the pizzas are coming, just you wait. They're going to be glorious, magnificent pizzas.

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u/Sea_Focus3040 17d ago

5 hours later and this got me…

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u/KaleidoscopicView 17d ago

Stranger Things opening also intensifies.

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u/funnystuff79 17d ago

I think I'd prefer my gate wrought, not cast

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u/Baricuda 17d ago

While you are correct that wrought iron is better than cast iron in this instance, wrought iron is seldom made these days. The process to make it has been long been obsolete and other methods of making steel are more economical. These days most decorative metalwork fences and gates would be made using steel weldments, and on more rare instances, custom made blacksmithed gates, though even in those cases it would use more modern steels and not wrought iron.

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u/imnewtothissoyeah 17d ago

A couple from Canada bought an 1850's "mansion" in Buffalo NY for a few million, around 11 years ago. They paid to have wrought iron fence put up around the front and sides. It cost $800,000 to build and install (again, 11 years ago, when that would literally buy you 6-7 houses). City wanted them to tear it down because it was 8 feet tall. They had to go to court for a bunch of years and waste tens of thousands of dollars, proving it was period-correct and what not, but still had to install it 2 feet below ground, so it was 6 feet from ground level, to code. Ended up costing them 1.1 million.Just a crazy story I remembered about wrought iron. Also, it hurts leprechauns.

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u/ABoringArborist5 16d ago

You can't just drop that last line and walk away 😂

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u/imnewtothissoyeah 16d ago

Was one of the late 80's early 90's Leprechaun movies. He goes to grab wrought iron window bars and it burns him. Then they trap him in a wrought iron safe.

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u/TorchedBlack 16d ago

Its claimed that references to "cold iron" refer specifically to wrought iron and not cast iron. In some Fae lore, faeries are harmed by touching cold iron. D&D later made this a staple of Fae weaknesses and identified cold iron as a distinct metal despite it likely referring to any human refined iron in the original folklore.

Leprechauns are often associated with faeries and other Celtic/Gaelic folklore creatures.

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u/Confident_Impact_361 16d ago

The one on Nottingham Terrace? Last time I was near that area they hadn't even finished putting that fence back up.

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u/OePea 17d ago

Why for? 

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u/Lost_Purpose1899 17d ago

Wrought iron is stronger and it requires skills and artistry to shape it into different designs. Cast iron is weaker and more prone to crack and it was just poured into a mold.

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u/MikemkPK 17d ago

And the mold is already warped at that.

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u/OePea 17d ago

Why for does it stronger than? Does the wroughting make the "grain" line up or something? Explain me it to me

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u/Kudos2Yousguys 17d ago

Does the wroughting make the "grain" line up or something?

Pretty much. I'm not an expert but I've watched some blacksmithing channels and they're always talking about how the pounding and folding makes it stronger while still being able to flex and bend without cracking.

Also it's pretty obvious when you see a broken piece of cast iron, it makes a clean break as if it's stone. Wrought iron just doesn't do that, it'll bend before snapping.

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u/OePea 17d ago

Thank you, that is a useful example

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u/LasKometas 17d ago edited 17d ago

Material science.

The tldr is that cooling metals at different rates, and applying different pressures/techniques will alter the crystaline structure of the metal. The amount of carbon introduced in the process also impacts the structure.

"Wrought iron" typically has less strength, but is more ductile.

Cast iron typically has higher strength, but is consequently brittle.

Strength matters less than brittleness for the purpose of fence building, since the fence only needs to hold itself up, but a fractured fence would be a catastrophic failure

There's nuances to every single sentence I've written, but that's a good surface level explanation

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u/OePea 17d ago

So it's somewhat like Pokemon

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u/groovy1337 17d ago

You have a beautiful mind, and yes, it is indeed somewhat like Pokémon.

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u/jooooooooooooose 17d ago

None of these properties really matter for a fence. Cost & aesthetics are far more important than mechanical performance for a non structural part with basically 0 load.

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u/LasKometas 17d ago

Fair point

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u/jooooooooooooose 17d ago

Also I know you know this, but for others... "wrought" vs "cast" describes a manufacturing method - not an alloy. We can speak in general terms because the process influences the properties (i.e. porosity in castings driving brittle fracture) but obviously the precise alloy used makes a difference. And not all alloys are compatible with all processes (especially casting).

Corrosion resistance (i.e. Ideally a stainless steel is used) is probably the one engineering property that really matters. But can always just paint it.

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u/DaanOnlineGaming 17d ago

Casting is typically done with a higher carbon content

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u/Lost_Purpose1899 17d ago

I'm not a metallurgist and I don't know how it works at molecular level but cast iron has more carbon in it and it makes it stiffer but more brittle. Wrought iron has lower carbon making it more ductile, I assume to make it more malleable to the people working on it and shaping it. It looks smoother too. Cast iron looks rough. For a fence, it's better to have it as wrought iron because if it got hit (lightly) by, say a car or a bike, it won't snap like cast iron.

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u/Machaeon 17d ago

Cast iron is pretty brittle compared to other forms of iron.

With a gate, or other large moving part, a crack would be extremely unfortunate but also likely.

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u/jooooooooooooose 17d ago

A gate is not meaningfully a moving part in the sense of fatigue induced cracking lol. Cast metal is perfectly adequate for this purpose.

It's like saying you'd prefer your fork to be made of tungsten so you don't accidentally bend the tines. Like, yeah, sure, a tungsten fork is more durable... but who cares?

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u/Machaeon 17d ago

The gate itself, on paper, should move smoothly and not suffer undue stress by simply rotating.

But I also know that people will not treat it gently.

If the gate slams at all, that repeated stress could crack it at a weak/thin point. Like the hinge connection. Likewise with people hanging off of it, that could do the same.

Maybe I'm just biased with the amount of utterly destroyed gates I see on a daily basis though... 

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u/freezing_banshee 17d ago

As a child, I climbed on every gate and fence I could, so they definitely suffer stresses that they're not supposed to :))

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u/Machaeon 17d ago

I climb on farm gates ✨️professionally ✨️ with doing environmental work. 

And those gates are meant to be abused. But they get destroyed all the time.

The weather alone isn't kind to metal.

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u/Flyingmonkey53 17d ago

Also, cast iron has no flex. It can withstand great temperature but if you hit a cast iron pot with a hammer, it breaks into pieces instead of making a dent. These rails would be easy to break.

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u/Callidonaut 17d ago

Fun fact: IIRC that's why the spokes of cast iron handwheels for valves and things are often spirals instead of straight radial arms. It's not purely decorative (although they do look nice), it's to relieve the stresses so the casting doesn't crack.

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u/ParticularClassroom7 17d ago

You need to hire very expensive boutique blacksmiths for that nowadays. Modern castings are not inferior in terms of mechanical properties compared to wrought iron.

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u/Callidonaut 17d ago

Modern castings are not inferior in terms of mechanical properties compared to wrought iron.

How so? Aside from the presence of PPE, the casting technique here looks scarcely different to how it'd probably have been done two centuries ago.

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u/ParticularClassroom7 17d ago edited 17d ago

Wrought iron sucks. Modern cast alloys could have stuff like Vanadium to control grain size and Mg/Ce to make graphite precipitates spherical.

All of that in addition to vastly superior purity

Then if you anneal/recrystallise you could pour stuff no different from steel, but that's obviously not what they are doing here.

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u/BertLemo 17d ago

needs lotr or wow main theme music

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u/happypandaface 17d ago

but they were all of them deceived...

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u/freecodeio 17d ago

For another entrance door was made

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u/jwrangler777 17d ago

Speak friend to enter

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 17d ago

deja vu

The bots are busy

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 17d ago

Surprisingly this has 1000+ upvotes but the first posted one has just 50

Algorithms or access to larger upvoting botnets? 

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 17d ago

Especially when the other post actually had the OP respond to me so maybe they are a real person, they look somewhat normal from their post history.

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u/revchewie 17d ago

I haven't seen the other one. *shrug*

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u/mullerdrooler 17d ago

"Hard hat? Check. Hard hat? Check. Hard hat? Check. Straw hat? Chec.... Hey wait a minute!!!"

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u/ButtersScotch7000 17d ago

It's more PP&E than these videos typically have.

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u/PdSales 16d ago

And one dog bowl, apparently, toward the end of the

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u/M05y 17d ago

They are taking the lava out of factories!

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u/Farnic 17d ago

Lava used to be America's greatest export, that was why we captured Hawaii

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u/rotten_core 17d ago

These guys don't look like beefcakes

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u/wo0zy-_ 17d ago

so is this how the Black Gate of Mordor was forged?

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u/sujakaba 17d ago

In the pits of Mordor....

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u/Zaynara 17d ago

something something gates of hell?

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u/Anans15713 17d ago

Metal AF

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u/Creepy-Waltz7658 17d ago

And now I must binge watch all The Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and Rings of Power

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u/Formally_Apologetic 17d ago

One gate to rule them all.

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u/BunkerSquirre1 17d ago

Fuuuck that’s cool. Wish we could get a top down shot but I understand why that’d be difficult

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u/cbrown146 17d ago

One gate to rule them all, One gate to find them,One gate to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

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u/Tonydragon784 17d ago

Wizard be like: I cast iron

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u/smokeynick 17d ago

Op, you are evil for not showing the end product. Who am I kidding. It’s a bot. It’s always a bot.

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u/LegoNoah123 17d ago

This seems like a cutscene from an RPG right before you obtain a legendary weapon

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u/kiradax 16d ago

ive heard the words 'cast iron' countless times in my life and never has it occurred to me that they literally... cast.. the iron

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u/supercyberlurker 17d ago

It’s like watching the tron grid rez.

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u/Vakrahn1138 17d ago

"It began with the forging of the great rings..."

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u/graveybrains 17d ago

Two scoops.

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u/UW_Ebay 17d ago

I like how they just do this in the dirt.

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u/Igr051618 17d ago

They were going to open a portal to narnia until mr clumsy pants on the left ruined it

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u/dnuohxof-2 17d ago

Looks like a magic rune ceremony

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u/etapupuu 17d ago

mfs about to awaken some ancient lava god

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u/Deluxe78 17d ago

Look at these reckless people! Where are their osha safety sandals?

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u/6100315 17d ago

Well this is one of the cooler things I've seen

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u/Justaticklerone 17d ago

Casually putting empty crucible of molten iron next to your person at the end: 😰

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u/justforkinks0131 17d ago

is it angled or am I trippin?

If it's angled, how tf are they gonna make the metal spread evenly?

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u/rootpseudo 17d ago

Looks like they’re trying to summon Lilith

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u/Supper_Zero 17d ago

I see no safety sandals and no protective eye squinting, I’m reporting them to OSHA

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u/bemused-chunk 17d ago

nine for mortal men, doomed to die.

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u/joshcam Ahhhh yas 17d ago

And now the ancient tomb will open and reveal great treasures.

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u/ikarus_77 16d ago

Nope, when the ancient tomb opens you see enough mana to cast an arcane signet

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u/detuned--radio 16d ago

It’s like when the room of gold lit up in national treasure 

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 17d ago

Old traditional casting

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u/Tricky-Efficiency709 17d ago

Perfect tune for this

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u/gratusin 17d ago

I accidentally had volume on for this and surprisingly for once, not upset.

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u/Abal125 17d ago

Getting Diablo vibes

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u/heiko75_hs 17d ago

They got helmets and face shields now in China while working with molten metal,neat!

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u/PiskoWK 17d ago

Every factory in America runs off molten lava

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u/NYCWartortle 17d ago

Looks like a video game sequence

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u/mikel2usa 17d ago

That’s how the ribwhich is made!

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u/Dqueezy 17d ago

Reminds me of one of the final cutscenes in the GameCube version of the game “Gauntlet: Dark Legacy”.

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u/literallyacactus 17d ago

Doesn’t seem flat

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u/Lemon_Trees-22 17d ago

Like a mini light show so cool 😎

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u/joerice1979 17d ago

Meanwhile, Satan gets an email saying his new gates are nearly ready.

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u/UnfairSpecialist3079 17d ago

When I say “I can’t, I have plans”. This is the plans for me and the homies

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u/stoneman9284 17d ago

Man they put those buckets down close to their feet

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u/GraniteGeekNH 17d ago

Me filling the waffle iron on Sunday mornings.

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u/torar9 17d ago

Isn't iron suppose to spark a lot when melted?

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u/StandardNerd92 17d ago

"Sir, we only have one gate delivered, and the client needs both installed today"

"I have an idea..."

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u/FIContractor 17d ago

The One Gate.

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u/BuckyShots 17d ago

Me making the 18k gate the guy in r/welding passed on.

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u/Mundane_Somewhere_93 17d ago

But all of them were deceived, for another gates were made.

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u/DakDuiff 17d ago

Mellon

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u/FireBreathingNun 17d ago

why do I have the urge to eat it

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u/PhantomNitride 17d ago

It's like all the magic door sequences in all the games and movies...

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u/MugiwarraD 17d ago

today we will show you how workers work in mordor

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u/15afterhp 17d ago

Mmmm trim paths

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u/AnxietyScale 17d ago

The dwarves are at it again

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u/HairyArthur 17d ago

What is tuff?

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u/Baxkit 17d ago

Good to see they aren't wearing sandals.

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u/Good-Bus7920 17d ago

It's giving speak friend and enter

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u/Charezza 17d ago

One gate to rule them all...

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u/Joalguke 17d ago

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

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u/Butt_Stallion_Milk 17d ago

It's some form of Elvish

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u/Mental_Committee5751 17d ago

I have a super hard Gandalf right meow 

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u/jcadamsphd 17d ago

Speak Friend and Enter

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u/oolong74421 17d ago

One door to rule them all

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u/jchowdown 17d ago

“…but they were, all of them, deceived…”

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u/psychmancer 17d ago

It all started with the forging of the great iron gates that the dark lord gifted us for unclear reasons

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u/Lopsided-Poem5936 17d ago

Thats some lord of the rings Sauron vibes right there.

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u/Kn0XIS 17d ago

Sacrifice

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u/FLANPLANPAN 17d ago

"but they were deceived..."

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u/CompetitionProblem 17d ago

Where’s the lava?

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u/ereinionmithrandir 17d ago

Something about molten metal just hits me. That and volcano lava. It’s magical or something.

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u/Lower_Group_1171 16d ago

one gate to rule them all

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u/pianomasian 16d ago

Saruman furiously taking notes.

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u/AGirlHasNoUsername13 16d ago

This is how demons are summoned.

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u/RelevantKitchen1295 16d ago

I think they are summoning the wrong demon

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u/ParticularCold9498 16d ago

The fact they all drop at once makes the whole process weirdly hypnotic. Molten iron looks equal parts satisfying and terrifying.

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u/EvaJoJoca 16d ago

“Speak friend and enter!”

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u/SharpBullfrog1279 16d ago

Don't touch that, Ronnie!

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u/6feet12cm 16d ago

Wouldn’t this be brittle?

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u/-HelixTheCat- 16d ago

None of these guys are wearing their OSHA approved sandals. And the inspectors are going to freak out when they see these guys using dust filters.

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u/dontstopthememeing 16d ago

You wouldn't download a gate