Wouldn't want to drop one

[Lorgar]

This will probably be mundane to some but I thought it was a pretty interesting picture (I'm just getting into forging so it's all new and interesting )

I'm sure the trains moving all of 1km an hour to go from A to B in the foundry there but imagine 'tapping the brakes' and having them all go over like dominos

steel ingots

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[Chronos]

LOL you wouldn't want the train to stop beside your parked car, would radiate a fair amount of heat

I remember watching a video (yes i'm old enough to have watched it on VCR) of those billets being rolled to size, flipped on their side and rolled again.

Steel weighs nearly 8 tonne per cubic meter and i reckon at a guess each of those billets would run 40 tonne each. would make a mess of just about anything if it fell over

Chronos

[Noisydad]

Come winter I'd just about kill to have it parked next to my load out bay at work!

[Westy]

Love trains and how they move such heavy loads!!!!!

http://youtu.be/uVqDXr9KAU4

Ohhhh aND tANKS FOR WATCHING

[Chronos]

prefer this one http://youtu.be/uvbgq2Ni2uE

Imagine sitting at the station reading the paper on your way to work and that bastard goes past

Chronos

[fuggle]

Researching trains?

Must be casting some big f***ing ingots in that home made forge of yours

How many tonnes?

[Lorgar]

How many tonnes?

About 0.0005 tonnes

[maxi]

LOL you wouldn't want the train to stop beside your parked car, would radiate a fair amount of heat

Free paint stripping?

[dustin]

Love trains and how they move such heavy loads!!!!!

That's a lot of tanks...

[Kipper]

Imagine sitting at the station reading the paper on your way to work and that bastard goes past

Imagine sitting in the cab!

What a show.

[Manimal]

Cleanup, track 6.

Send eeeeeeverybody

[hoofit]

Looks like they've already been sitting in the dirt.

What's the crap all over the top and bottom corners?

[Korkt]

It's oxidization.

Exposed to the air at those temperatures it forms very quickly. Within minutes.

[Korkt]

Check this out hoofit.

How steel forgings are made.

Go to 2:40

[1290]

This will probably be mundane to some but I thought it was a pretty interesting picture (I'm just getting into forging so it's all new and interesting )

I'm sure the trains moving all of 1km an hour to go from A to B in the foundry there but imagine 'tapping the brakes' and having them all go over like dominos

steel-ingots.jpg

That image doesnt seem right to me....all the same temp, must have been cast at the exact same time, loaded very quickly to remain yellow hot at that time in transit.....must have been some mf of a crucible to hold all that melt...

naaaaah.

They look like photo shopped concrete column sections with plinths and reo out the top....

Rethe military convoy, that alway a bit of a concern to people watching50 or 100 plus mil vehicles going past.... there's one from the US with a load of UN marked vehicles.... get them thinking.

[franc]

They look like photo shopped concrete column sections with plinths and reo out the top....

'reo' = trees behind the things.

To my eyes anyway.

[Grated]

That image doesnt seem right to me....all the same temp, must have been cast at the exact same time, loaded very quickly to remain yellow hot at that time in transit.....must have been some mf of a crucible to hold all that melt...

Could be reheated ingots. Not necessarily just poured.

[Lorgar]

RE: the above few posts.

The picture is what I have, no idea which foundry that is or the volumes it's capable of producing.

Dunno if they have multiple crucibles or they are reheated etc. An interesting picture (to me) regardless.

[1290]

Why would you reheat the ingot?

I did a search and came up with Ukraine somethingorother... That's it.

[Lorgar]

Why would you reheat the ingot?

To shape a previously cooled ingot, so I have seen in a documentary.

Depends on why/what your making I suppose. In some cases they would, in some they wouldn't. I guess.