The operator is very good, but at ~3:23 the work piece does fall off the work table. Bad enough in HO scale, don't want to think about 12 iches to the foot scale. 😄
That's no train wheel. Way to much material, hole diameter absolutely too large, plus again, that's like roughly 15k lbs or more of material being forged. Train wheels are pressed into shape, then final machining.. Miss leading title
That is not 15k pounds of material either. Sorry but it's just not. Slightly taller then the lifts back stop approx 18 in tall. It looks like maybe 2 feet in diameter, and about the same length as the forks of the fork lift. 24in Dia 1540lbs per foot. 12 feet is 18k lbs, !! That bar is not 12feet long. is it? No it's not. 30 in diameter 2406lbs per foot in comparison
Thanks for keeping the title on the screen the whole video! Every few seconds, when I would forget what I was watching, I'd look down and remember again! I'm gonna impressed that since these are the only people in the world making 'train wheels' they must've been doing this since about 1600 BCE!
The skill of that giant claw machine operator is just amazing. It's as if the machine is an extension of there own arm with how precise they position the workpiece and tooling.
I'm amazed at this operation. I've hauled every material that goes into steel. I'm sure I've hauled train wheels, axles etc. Seems like it took a long time to make one. I've been in steel mills all over the country back from 1970 until they shut all the mills down and same thing with coal then that slowed down so I started pulling a reefer so on and so forth for 50 years. I'm retired now.
As an engineer I find it fascinating that another piece of steel is pounded into this wheel assembly. Metallurgy is a science that goes back thousands of years, and is truly magical.
I used to calibrate the instrumentation at Trinity Industries, the old McKees Rocks plant. Wheels were forged from small cylinders. They put them in the press and squeezed them. One shot. Then they went through heat treatment and then to the machine shop. Axles were forged by a rotary hammer, then sent through heat treatment, then to the machine shop.
Recently retired from a forging company with several sister companies that made train wheels which were cast and machined. While this is good forging its very basic and almost primitive compared to modern forging.
I did a series of training/safety videos for Griffin Steel here in Canada. Most of the process was automated and they injection moulded wheels of different sizes from an underground tank of molten steel. Production rates were about one per minute. Very efficient!
The Handcrafted Way of Making Train Wheels would be a more appropriate title. We are far from modern and efficient industrial processes. But I must admit that they are talented people, who are certainly not afraid to work hard in difficult conditions. We must remember that this is what people in the Third World live with on a daily basis.
@@perrylc8812 The drop hammer forging sets up the appropriate microstructure within the steel. Once the rough forging bangs the material into roughly the right shape, it goes on a lathe and gets machined down to the final dimensions.
Engineer here. Not sure why there is so much doubt in the comments about what is being made here. All we are seeing is the forging process, so we have little indication of final shape. It would be nice to see the subsequent processes and the final product.
I've been through a train wheel factory, and this isn't a train wheel. At that factory train wheels were cast, machined, and heat treated. They're close to the finished size straight out of the mold.
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I take things for granted. "There goes a train" and not a thought goes into how much work/ labor/ time/ $$ goes into just making a WHEEL ! Then the bolts, rails, every other part on a train takes a lot of time, engineering, etc. Wow.
I am still amazed, though familiar through videos, at these GIANT forging pneumatic (or however driven) hammers. I mean the ground must shake every time they hit with full force! It's just nuts to me how much power must be behind them.
Yeah, as a kid in Los Angeles I remember my baby sitter walking us past a foundry on Alameda Blvd., in the 1960s when we still had lots of industry here. The ground shook each time one of thoze giant hammers hit whatever it was hitting. As a kid it scared the F out of me...
@@danielgoodman3578 Should not be too difficult... Just call around to various foundries and maybe ask for a tour? Might have to sign a waver, grease a palm or two, but eventually you could gain some access? Plus, some crews might be proud showing things off to you?
@@viktorl8 forging (shown here) and casting are different processes that produce different qualities in results. Casting is more liable to break if I'm not mistaken, at least in certain cases.
The purpose of forging as in this video is to get grain flow in the material. This is to promote strength in the finished component....It may look long winded compared to casting for example, but it serves a specific purpose....🤔😳🙄🇬🇧
These workers are very skilled at whatever they are making. I highly doubt they're making train wheels. But I would like to know what they are, in fact, making.
I am not sure how many wheels do India and China need. They have so many trains. Probably hundreds of thousands of wheels. It should be done more efficiently.
Great Forging work is carried out in Foraging shop by Pneumatic Hammer but I think this is not a Train Wheel & safty Precautions are not using by the Workers, But this is Very essential as a safety Precautions. THANKS.
Pretty Amazing... The Timing of the Workers to Make it All Happen. and Nobody Got Hurt. A Tremendous Amount Heat and Pressure being applied to Move These Large Pieces of Raw Metal into Shape
Not only shaping, but manipulating the underlying crystalline structure along the way. Looks like it will be the casing for a large bearing, like for a ship propeller shaft, is my guess.
My ! My ! My !...the feats of man and machine !... that artist on that fork lift grapple should be called "feather fingers !...I've been exposed to a lot of equipment & equipment operators...but this soul takes the cake !!..."damn !"...👍😳👍😮👍🤓👍...🇺🇸
These souls that operate this fork lift grapple to those serving that beast of driving force hammer are legend's... they'll never have problems finding work !!... unimaginable feats and skills as a team...👍🇺🇸👍🙋👍
@@lazzynur Correct! Just go out and purchase a 5000 ton hydraulic press and a dedicated ring roller! And, don’t forget to buy the spares to keep them running.
The title of this video, "train wheel how are made in the factory", is gramatically incorrect. Corrected title: "wheel factory are train how the in made"
It's like watching a dance. The movements are so precise and coordinated. I wonder what it is that they are making, strangest looking train wheel I ever saw.
Hot metal definitely wears solid rubber tyres away however there is a lot of rubber. Kress's (large machines that carry massive slag ladles uses pnuematic tyres & occasionally get set on fire) . Saw that at glenbrook steel mill in Auckland New Zealand. Point being is rubber is used where hot metals are
This 100 years ago Manufacturing process ! 😂 Factory ? You are OUTSIDE ! This is ALL Automated in America with Computer and Robots . By the time it takes you 5 guys to make just one single item America can make 10 😂
The person operating that ' claw' is without a doubt an artist!
The operator is very good, but at ~3:23 the work piece does fall off the work table. Bad enough in HO scale, don't want to think about 12 iches to the foot scale. 😄
At 2x speed it is impressive.
Indeed! 1323
I have my doubts...
Yeah, I wonder what the controls are like. It may be pretty easy.
Ive been working on passaenger trains in Canada for almost 25 years and i can say these are not train wheels being forged . Very cool video though .
That's no train wheel. Way to much material, hole diameter absolutely too large, plus again, that's like roughly 15k lbs or more of material being forged. Train wheels are pressed into shape, then final machining.. Miss leading title
Yeah I couldn’t figure out how that much material could be compressed into a train wheel.
That is not 15k pounds of material either. Sorry but it's just not.
Slightly taller then the lifts back stop approx 18 in tall.
It looks like maybe 2 feet in diameter, and about the same length as the forks of the fork lift. 24in Dia 1540lbs per foot. 12 feet is 18k lbs, !! That bar is not 12feet long. is it? No it's not.
30 in diameter 2406lbs per foot in comparison
@63GTDriver no matter still too much material. Hypnotic watching it though
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@@perrylc8812 😮 4:43 4:44
Thanks for keeping the title on the screen the whole video! Every few seconds, when I would forget what I was watching, I'd look down and remember again!
I'm gonna impressed that since these are the only people in the world making 'train wheels' they must've been doing this since about 1600 BCE!
The person running the claw lift has some serious skills
Damn right lol
@@lorriecarrel9962 lol 3:22 lol...
They could probably do small watercolor paintings with it as well. Lol
Never seen a train wheel like that before. I Doubt it’s a train wheel. Great claw skills for the claw operator.
Train wheel for carrying nuclear wepons for Ukraine.
"How NOT train wheels made in a factory" is the right sentence
U know nothing
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😂😂😂😂
Whoever is controller the hammer must be the same guy in that machine that’s picking up the metal.
Correct English is "How not to make train wheels in a factory"
That's a funny looking train wheel...
It is hot forging, but dont think it is for Train Wheel.
The skill of that giant claw machine operator is just amazing. It's as if the machine is an extension of there own arm with how precise they position the workpiece and tooling.
I'm amazed at this operation. I've hauled every material that goes into steel. I'm sure I've hauled train wheels, axles etc. Seems like it took a long time to make one. I've been in steel mills all over the country back from 1970 until they shut all the mills down and same thing with coal then that slowed down so I started pulling a reefer so on and so forth for 50 years. I'm retired now.
¿Hecho in China?
As an engineer I find it fascinating that another piece of steel is pounded into this wheel assembly. Metallurgy is a science that goes back thousands of years, and is truly magical.
What insane amount of energy you need for metalurgy
What kind of engineer are you? Maybe not mechanical engineer? This is not a train wheel, Mr. Engineer!!!
@@raym6415he never said it was
@@juniorsanchez7441What kind of distorted perception plagues you? Dyslexia?
It is fun to watch even if it is not a train wheel.
Very expensive washer for a ship
I used to calibrate the instrumentation at Trinity Industries, the old McKees Rocks plant. Wheels were forged from small cylinders. They put them in the press and squeezed them. One shot. Then they went through heat treatment and then to the machine shop.
Axles were forged by a rotary hammer, then sent through heat treatment, then to the machine shop.
Pittsburgh WAS the steel capital. I lived in Homestead in the 1950's.
They went to cast wheels in the US in the 1980's.
@@vincemajestyk9497 I have seen them machined and they are not cast. If you are talking AAR wheels I'm afraid that you are mislead.
I assume that was in an American factory. The factory in the video is one big safety violation but that's what you get when you go overseas.
@@supercuda1950 The two Trinity Industries plants that I used to calibrate were near Pittsburgh and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
The crane operator is so competent that it feels like he is sculpting clay and not forging steel.
Thank how you make train wheel China in! Much good video!
If that's a train wheel I am Mr bean
Recently retired from a forging company with several sister companies that made train wheels which were cast and machined. While this is good forging its very basic and almost primitive compared to modern forging.
I did a series of training/safety videos for Griffin Steel here in Canada. Most of the process was automated and they injection moulded wheels of different sizes from an underground tank of molten steel. Production rates were about one per minute. Very efficient!
Holy Sht, no wonder I'm paying so much for train wheels!
If you buy these wheels you deserve to be ripped off.
Lol
And how much did they run you 🥴.
@HoodAdventuires to be honest
Who knows how . much it cost him
But the wheel needed to be replaced. Anyway
The Handcrafted Way of Making Train Wheels would be a more appropriate title.
We are far from modern and efficient industrial processes.
But I must admit that they are talented people, who are certainly not afraid to work hard in difficult conditions.
We must remember that this is what people in the Third World live with on a daily basis.
Saw a face shield though
I don’t see how that is a train wheel. Way too much material.
@@perrylc8812 The drop hammer forging sets up the appropriate microstructure within the steel. Once the rough forging bangs the material into roughly the right shape, it goes on a lathe and gets machined down to the final dimensions.
Resposta idiota de primeiro mundo!
Um analfabeto que se acha!
Many things are still drop forged today, it may look primitive but it's still how it's done.
Now we know why train travel is so expensive 😅😅😅😅
Engineer here. Not sure why there is so much doubt in the comments about what is being made here. All we are seeing is the forging process, so we have little indication of final shape. It would be nice to see the subsequent processes and the final product.
Thank you, Mr. Engineer.
I second that as an Engineer as well.
This is the rail system in Pakistan, not the US.
Not sure why engineers always have to tell everyone they're an engineer. You people sure like patting yourselves on the back.
This is You Tube... Everybody is an Einstein here.
Not a rail car wheel, but it is a good video.
Great forging skills but that's not a train wheel.
Maybe it’s for a very very big train .
If this is not a train wheel , what is it & do you know where this is & is this where train wheels are made ? This is very interesting.
I think it got lost in the translation from Mandarin to English.
I've been through a train wheel factory, and this isn't a train wheel. At that factory train wheels were cast, machined, and heat treated. They're close to the finished size straight out of the mold.
@@andersonautomotive They are most definitely not cast! As others have said they are forged.
As a safety guy, that video is interesting.
Not much of that over there.
HEY JOHN !!!! JOHN !!!!!!! , Your hearing test is today !!!!!. What ???? Your hearing test is today !!!!! My Herring Fish is Fillet ????? OK You Passed , Good job , I'll sign you off.
I take things for granted. "There goes a train" and not a thought goes into how much work/ labor/ time/ $$ goes into just making a WHEEL ! Then the bolts, rails, every other part on a train takes a lot of time, engineering, etc. Wow.
Train wheel has a life measured in 100's of thousands of miles...cost per mile aint so bad!
This isn't a train wheel but there is still a lot of work that goes into making them I'm sure.
I am still amazed, though familiar through videos, at these GIANT forging pneumatic (or however driven) hammers. I mean the ground must shake every time they hit with full force! It's just nuts to me how much power must be behind them.
Yeah, as a kid in Los Angeles I remember my baby sitter walking us past a foundry on Alameda Blvd., in the 1960s when we still had lots of industry here. The ground shook each time one of thoze giant hammers hit whatever it was hitting. As a kid it scared the F out of me...
@@JungleYT I can imagine. I'd love to see one in person now though
@@danielgoodman3578 Should not be too difficult... Just call around to various foundries and maybe ask for a tour? Might have to sign a waver, grease a palm or two, but eventually you could gain some access? Plus, some crews might be proud showing things off to you?
But why pound so much with a hammer? Can't they just cast it into pre-marked molds?
@@viktorl8 forging (shown here) and casting are different processes that produce different qualities in results. Casting is more liable to break if I'm not mistaken, at least in certain cases.
Respect for those men working in the same factory
I can't get over the sheer size of the forging hammer.
That's a pretty small one, as heavy industry goes :D
The purpose of forging as in this video is to get grain flow in the material. This is to promote strength in the finished component....It may look long winded compared to casting for example, but it serves a specific purpose....🤔😳🙄🇬🇧
Mesmerising, but what is it?
That’s 9 minutes and 48 seconds of my life I wish I could get back!
So you took another half minute to let us know. 🤣🤣🤣
Until now they steel making the same tire
Oh you poor thing .
These workers are very skilled at whatever they are making. I highly doubt they're making train wheels. But I would like to know what they are, in fact, making.
Yeah, some narration would be great.
Excellent tradesmen. Basic equipment getting the job done well ..I have respect for their skills
I Miss This Work. I Was A Heater.Best Job I Ever Had!!!
Excellent Job 👌👍
Thanks
Very amazing 😍
I bet these guys play 'Whack A Mole' in their lunch break
Wheels for train that’s go nowhere.
زبردست جناب 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
Thanks
That title kills me. Didn't even bother watching it. Came here just to say that.
I cannot believe that's how it is done today, one train alone has so many wheels.. This method will take forever ever just to complete one train.
I am not sure how many wheels do India and China need. They have so many trains. Probably hundreds of thousands of wheels. It should be done more efficiently.
@@Liboch Fortunately it is. Much faster and much more precise.
Steel casting..?
@@josephma9332 forging not casting
This Is Not Train Wheel
Very impressive ! 👍
Seems like a galactic amount of time to make just ONE wheel.
's how it used to be done everywhere, before computers and automation and machines to make the machines and whatnot.
I thought, a key is pressed on the computer and train wheels just popping out of a machine!
Easy!
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I wonder how often their neighbours go postal from that noise.🤣
Fascinating…….thanks for sharing !
That would be an exspencesive wheel with that much work being done
Great job 👍 उचित पगार आणि सुट्टी मिळावी या सर्व कामगारांना
Great Forging work is carried out in Foraging shop by Pneumatic Hammer but I think this is not a Train Wheel & safty Precautions are not using by the Workers, But this is Very essential as a safety Precautions. THANKS.
I work at SGL Carbon for forty years and we made the molds for train wheels ( griffin wheels
Very amazing 👏 👌
Very interesting, but it did not show how trains wheels are made.
Explain how they made them in 1905. Now that would be interesting material right there
They had the same equipment in the early 1900s. The power hammer in my shop was made in 1912 and the hydraulic press was made right around 1900.
Thats a lot of work to make something. But if that's a train wheel, thats going to be a wild ride.
What train wheel?🤔💚💛❤️
always thought Krupp made the best ? Thanks dangerous work interesting machiner
That"s why I wrote,the elder Krupp was spinning in his grave ...
Really? I am not an expert but at this rate we would have no trains at all.
What? Are they making train wheels for the Flintstones?
Could be making a happy meal at McDonald’s 🧐🧐🧐???
Very Hard mehnat
Really awesome. 🤭🤭👍
AWESOME??? -- nope: AWFUL ...
Pretty Amazing... The Timing of the Workers to Make it All Happen. and Nobody Got Hurt. A Tremendous Amount Heat and Pressure being applied to Move These Large Pieces of Raw Metal into Shape
Not only shaping, but manipulating the underlying crystalline structure along the way. Looks like it will be the casing for a large bearing, like for a ship propeller shaft, is my guess.
Upsetting it
My ! My ! My !...the feats of man and machine !... that artist on that fork lift grapple should be called "feather fingers !...I've been exposed to a lot of equipment & equipment operators...but this soul takes the cake !!..."damn !"...👍😳👍😮👍🤓👍...🇺🇸
These souls that operate this fork lift grapple to those serving that beast of driving force hammer are legend's... they'll never have problems finding work !!... unimaginable feats and skills as a team...👍🇺🇸👍🙋👍
Nonsense.... This is not a rail wheels making process.... But whatever they did Excellent job....
Giant bushings for ships.
Was my guess...some sort of flange bushing for massive assembly pivot point, which will probably have a brass or bronze sleeve installed. Idk
The dude operating that claw is next Level
Ive always loved how red hot steel gets that crust/skin.
These dudes are metal asf
I don’t know what there making. But I do know it’s definitely not train wheels.
Brutal and fantastic.
That’s 10 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. 😢
That manipulator operator sure had some good skills! Also, good teamwork shown here.
3:22... Saying so doesn't make it so.
That is a very archaic method of making a train wheel...
Would be If it were a train wheel ... 😱😱😱
A well equipped fabrication factory can make these in a fraction of the time.
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Yup, just need a few hundred million or more dollars for a well equipment right? Can you give them that money so they can make it in fraction of time?
Machine vs skilled labour. Lazy man's way of thinking.
@@lazzynur Correct! Just go out and purchase a 5000 ton hydraulic press and a dedicated ring roller! And, don’t forget to buy the spares to keep them running.
For the city of Bedrock not bad.I think Fred and Barney had the day off.
Sangat menegangkan .👍👍👍👍❤️
Video should be: Jobs we use to have in America.
Very amazing
Mantap video nya 👍❤🇮🇩
I think these guys might have done this before :P
I used to work on a 200 Ton forge. They have a very skilled crew here.
I remember the last truck load of train wheels leaving Verona Pennsylvania back in the 90's.
Good video
Where???
The title of this video, "train wheel how are made in the factory", is gramatically incorrect.
Corrected title: "wheel factory are train how the in made"
It's like watching a dance. The movements are so precise and coordinated. I wonder what it is that they are making, strangest looking train wheel I ever saw.
Cool. Whatever it is.
Is there a better, modern approach to make Rly wheels. This looks crude and absolute.
Whoever provided the blueprint for those roughly circular shapes has never seen one single train wheel in his life ,😱😱😱👎👎👎
Good 👍
When do we got to see the train wheel?
0:14 That can't be good for the forklifts tires right?
Hot metal definitely wears solid rubber tyres away however there is a lot of rubber. Kress's (large machines that carry massive slag ladles uses pnuematic tyres & occasionally get set on fire) . Saw that at glenbrook steel mill in Auckland New Zealand. Point being is rubber is used where hot metals are
This 100 years ago Manufacturing process !
😂
Factory ?
You are OUTSIDE !
This is ALL Automated in America with Computer and Robots .
By the time it takes you 5 guys to make just one single item America can make 10 😂
That hidraulic hammer!!! The worker must feel it through the bones.
Yah how long could you do that for ?
Very very nice 👍
Hope that thru hole didn’t need to be on center… lol
No train wheels were made in the making of this film.
Not film my friend
Must be a really big Train 😲🤔😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Ha ha ha ha 🤣😂
Mighty process! Paninis for lunch every day.
I do this all the time in my shop, although I only use the 900 pound ingot, as I'm just making flower pots for my wife.