VIDEO HERE (6:31 minutes)
-Grumpy Bastard
Monday, September 13, 2021
Welding the Big Ring
A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hanging horizontally on chains, out of the fire. Four men hammer the hot area on the ring into shape while the remaining men hold the ring. They put the ring into the fire again, take it out, and take it over to a machine which continuously hammers down on that area of the ring. The men then take it away from the machine and hammer it themselves into shape. The ring is presumably a piece of a generator.
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The foreman in the bowler hat does appear to be doing anything useful.
ReplyDeleteHe's foremanning.
DeleteCan you imagine what today’s man bun wearing soy boys would do if they were actually forced to perform real work? The future of the USA is very bleak thanks to those pansies.
ReplyDeleteIt IS still a bitch bun . . . .
Delete@Onehalfmvsquared
DeleteWhat generation do you think did the bulk of the dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, genius? What generation operates the oil rigs, welds pipelines, and keeps the shale oil flowing (or did before that infamous millennial, Biden, shut down fracking)? Do you think it's all guys in their fifties and sixties?
Millennials suck, but at least we admit it. Boomers like you don't get to castigate a generation that was born with less than a tenth of a percent of the advantages and opportunities the Boomers were born with, and took ruthless advantage of, to the detriment of the future of the nation.
Also: google abortion rates. They're lower now than before Roe v Wade. Abortion rates have been dropping since Gen-x started having kids, and that trend has continued, almost uninterrupted, to the present day. (The peak from 1973-1980 was about 29.3 abortions per 1000 women. In 2017 it was 11.2 per 1000 women, mostly black. In 2018 it went up...to 11.3. Abortions per 1000 women) Lowest infanticide rates in decades. We millennials absolutely suck, but at least we kill fewer kids. Also we homeschool at greater rates than any generation besides possibly Gen-x, because public school is child abuse.
Not all individual Boomers were or are bad, but collectively that generation has a lot of destruction in its past.
Millennials suck, but we don't actually have power. Or we didn't have any at all until very recently, and it's still negligible compared to the Boomers. Freaking Obama was/is a (late) Boomer, ffs! Not to mention the Clintons, Bush Jr. (Sr. Was a Silent by the skin of his teeth, like Biden and Pelosi), Jeff Bezos (late Boomer. Yup.), etc. And Boomers still own the vast majority of all property in the US. The world, really. The socioeconomic pendulum isn't just failing to swing back. It snapped off a few decades ago, and is lying on the floor of a bar in Margaritaville. Or maybe Jeff Bezos' personal collection.
Source for abortion numbers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States
PS: millennials also didn't invent hippies, the folks who took the expression "pansy" and ran with it. All the way to Congress, in many cases.
Now, with respect to the video: those guys are badasses of the first order, from a time before Western Civilization had been successfully converged by feminists, SJW's, and pedophiles. God bless 'em. May we get back there someday, God willing. I pray that happens before too much blood is shed in the horrors of a civilizational collapse, but whatever happens, God's will be done.
"Not all individual Boomers were or are bad, but collectively that generation has a lot of destruction in its past."
DeleteI love how boomers are blamed for all this "destruction". How the pendulum "fell off" bc boomers sumtin sumtin.
Every generation builds on technology. Wealth is passed on.
Seems like everyone post boomer is just pissed we're not dying fast enough and thinks their shit don't stink. Ya'll are fucking up the planet with all this green bullshit that is far from green and not even scalable for large scale energy...
Remember 2008 market "collapse"? - jt was an opportunity of a lifetime, buy when there is blood in the streets but it seems like a lot of millennials got scared and walked away - now they're back for bitcoin insanity lol
How about this - no generation is without bad, and good.
chillhill
When we were a free, strong, united nation, under God with liberty. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteI was thinking we are witnessing 'The Men That Built America'.
DeleteFast forward to today and they become 'Symbols of Toxic Masculinity'.
God Bless what America used to be.
He is the one responsible for the welding and the integrity of the weld. In those days, no one made it to that position without tons of experience.
ReplyDeleteThe guy on the chain hoist is a fucking beast.
Some damn accurate hammer blows there.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely magnificent.
ReplyDelete"What did you do at work today, dear?"
And yes, the guy on the chain hoist IS a beast.
Hard hats, eye protection, hearing protection. Probably a few hot slivers to the eyes, burns, and busted thumbs doing that work. Also notice women didn't demand equality in the work place when work was actual toil.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
Bad ass & makes me proud to have worked construction in my younger years.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile,China Bans Effeminate Men From TV and we get 'queer eye for the straight man'.
That's called a tuyere, I believe. Pronounced, 'tweer' I'm told. An industrial sized forge, forced air and coke or metallurgical coal, before gas and arc welding came into general use.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of construction of the Hoover Dam. Many men entoombed in concrete there. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteNo one is entoombed in Hoover Dam. When I visited I talked to a lady at the visitor center who was there the entire time it was being built. The only person who died was a guy who did of heat exhaustion.
DeleteHoly hell. I have a splitting axe with a hammer head on back of it, I sometimes use it for some demo work around the house. I get about 4 or 5 swings and then I gotta take a break, catch my breath, drink a beer, sit down for a spell before I can continue. Those guys are fricking tough as nails.
ReplyDeleteReminds me recently I worked alongside a guy in his late 60's building fence. He was digging post holes with a post hole digger, ran circles around me. There are still guys like that today, still working, but you don't find them sitting in an office chair.
Somebody notify OSHA.
ReplyDeleteJust a bunch of racists exercising their white privilege. This film should be “re-imagined”, aka destroyed, since it doesn’t fit the narrative today.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I wish I had the strength to do this work.
The noise must have been deafening.
ReplyDeleteAnd THAT, boys and girls, is how America was built. That was a small example of the men who actually did it, unlike the pansy assed clowns running about today with all the braggadocio about how great they are. It took sweat and hard work then, and it still does, always has, always will. Getting something for nothing is a mere fantasy, just like where our gubmint operates, fantasyland.
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