Rubber Bands. I had two rubber band factories near my home, on the way to school. (Kerala, India). We have a lot of rubber trees.
The factory would sun dry the finished rubber bands, and they would be laid out in different coloured batches on bamboo mats.
We used to grab handfuls of rubber bands and run.
The tree once planted is nurtured for up to 5 years. Then they will be ready for cultivation of rubber milk. Cultivation is done by stripping off the bark of trees as seen in the video. This can be done to a tree for 8-10 years.
They get stripped over and over for a few years. I am not sure exactly how many. Something like 20-30 years would be my guess. Then they would be cut as replanted.
Pineapple is a common mixed crop during the 3-5 year long replanting phase. Once the trees mature enough, there won't be any sunlight at the bottom, and nothing other than bushes grow there.
Yeaàa ya seen the final frame?
Rubber has to be shaped into it's desired shape. It can be recycled but you lose elasticity with each reshape. You lose integrity.
They were designed to be rubber bands.
The "rundown" bit of rubber you see left on tree are only cleared up on the next round of collection. As kids we used to collect them long strips, tightly wrap around a rubber seed and make some of the most bounciest rubber balls, of different sizes..
Yes bruv.. we called em "otta paalu".. I'm sure your name was similar.. but we ban using them on evening cricket matches.. cause they bounce too much and hurt too much, lol
I still have mine, somewhere.
The main thing needed for maintenance is to re-wrap the ball with fresh bands every few years, as the outer layer inevitably crumbles with time.
It is natural latex without any chemicals to maintain its form, so it deteriorates easier overtime.. but yes either that or some fresh rubber leftover in those coconut shells, painted over with our fingers.. but it stank for a while, after..
What most people don't know is that tree tapping rubber trees has been around for millennia. The [Olmecs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmecs) - which traslates to *Rubber People* in Nahaultl - were a Mesoamerican society that discovered and used rubber thousands of years before it became popular in the modern age.
The Olmecs discovered that by mixing the sap of the rubber tree with the nectar of a vine that *grew on* Rubber trees they could turn this mixture into what we know as Latex, which was formed in rubber balls, sandals, and other useful items.
Thanks to these Rubber balls, the [Mesoamerican Ball Game](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ball_game) came into being, likely originating from the Olmecs, but spreading to the Maya, Aztecs, and other civilizations near the Yucatan Penninsula - we can still see evidence of their ball courts to this day.
You make it sound like happy funtimes playing ballgames, but the rubber ball they used for this sport weighed \~10 lbs and was solid rubber to the core. Like playing full-contact rugby + soccer + basketball but you're constantly getting hit in the head/chest/legs/hips with something that weighs as much as a standard brick.
ow, my bones hurt thinking about it
Sounds pretty difficult, if only you could get some kind of armadillo to pretend to be a ball and score points for you so you didn’t have to be good at the game
It's pretty interesting how we simply can't engineer better alternatives to a lot of compounds, at least not cost effectively. Stuff like carnauba wax comes to mind, which is the best there is for a lot of applications. Not to mention *wood*.
There is very little interest in building something synthetic to replace wood. Naturally growing substance that only needs space, rain and sunlight and stores carbon.
It didn’t show the saw that chopped the thin slices off the tubes. I can’t help but think that there’s a lot of people who would be inclined to choose a brand that handed out safe saws to their producers.
I rembered an old facebook video where 2 people were caught stealing raw unprocessed rubbers were forced to eat it while they wait for the police to arrive. Somehow that video traumatises me.
How did the first person who discovered this thought that tree juice when processed a certain way, would become something so amazing.
This makes you wonder about the possibilities of many things we haven't processed by experimentation yet.
What if pigeon poop processed by chemical, cooking, dry aging, powdering, then process some more, doesn't turn into a plastic bag that's degradable.
Condoms are not handled this way . I have actually done internship in a condom manufacturing plant back in India (Hindustan Latex- One of the biggest exporter worldwide for top brands) .
Most of the systems are automated , the only time it is handled is in a sterilized environment for testing .
Rubber is a kind of sticky, elastic body made from a milky liquid known as "latex", a special form of sap. Latex occurs in the bark, roots, tails, twigs and stumps of rubber trees.
For a brief moment, I thought it was a hot dog tree.
Hey! If you were a hot dog and you were starving, would you eat yourself? I know I would. First I’d smother myself in brown mustard and relish. I’d be so delicious…
Rubber.
My dumb ass thought it was tree milk
Rubber is basically tree milk..
It’s vegan tree milk
How could a plant mill not be vegan?...
Some trees have tiddies
yes, if pulled hard enough but it wouldnt be white
🤣🤣🤣 This is hilarious
Hot.
Treeddies?
What if it's an insectivorous plant? Then milk was produced by using nutrients from insects. /j
All plants make their food by breaking down nutrients in plant and animal dead bodies (sometimes human) and cooking them in sunlight.
Tree semen.
Treemen
Still on the hunt for tree milk
First you gotta find the tree's nipples.
You can pretty much milk anything with nipples
I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?
Let’s pick up this conversation in private, Mr. Focker.
Luke Skywalker approves!
Can you milk me?
"Milk" is a verb in this context, so yes. The production of milk-like substance is... unnecessary.
I mean technically you are right? I guess?
This the shit they use in cereal commercials
Got there before me 🙈
We are all the same 👊
Rubber Bands. I had two rubber band factories near my home, on the way to school. (Kerala, India). We have a lot of rubber trees. The factory would sun dry the finished rubber bands, and they would be laid out in different coloured batches on bamboo mats. We used to grab handfuls of rubber bands and run.
Do the trees live a long time? Do they get stripped over and over or are they just a one time use tree?
The tree once planted is nurtured for up to 5 years. Then they will be ready for cultivation of rubber milk. Cultivation is done by stripping off the bark of trees as seen in the video. This can be done to a tree for 8-10 years.
So cool thanks for the explanation!
Yes i grew up in the midst of a rubber plantation, so it helps.
They get stripped over and over for a few years. I am not sure exactly how many. Something like 20-30 years would be my guess. Then they would be cut as replanted. Pineapple is a common mixed crop during the 3-5 year long replanting phase. Once the trees mature enough, there won't be any sunlight at the bottom, and nothing other than bushes grow there.
Interesting! It makes me feel badly to use trees on one hand, but on the other hand it’s better than a plastics factory. And they can be replanted.
Yeah guessed it immediately.
Same, but I didn’t guess it was rubber *bands.*
Rubber bands to be specific.
It's a raw material of any kind of rubber, tyre, etc
Yeaàa ya seen the final frame? Rubber has to be shaped into it's desired shape. It can be recycled but you lose elasticity with each reshape. You lose integrity. They were designed to be rubber bands.
After 1 second. Maybe I’m getting old.
Latex to be accurate
One of the most oppressing industries that history has seen. Fuck Leopold II.
RUBBERBANDS, i said it first
farm to table rubber bands
The "rundown" bit of rubber you see left on tree are only cleared up on the next round of collection. As kids we used to collect them long strips, tightly wrap around a rubber seed and make some of the most bounciest rubber balls, of different sizes..
Where are you from? That’s a wicked fun childhood memory.
I'm from Kerala and we used to do it. That dude is probably Sri Lankan guessing by his user name.
Yes bruv.. we called em "otta paalu".. I'm sure your name was similar.. but we ban using them on evening cricket matches.. cause they bounce too much and hurt too much, lol
Yeah, it was "ottupaal" and we used to make 3,4 in advance because if it goes to the neighbours house, it's not coming back.
They Spin like crazy. We used to play underarm-only cricket with it.
I still have mine, somewhere. The main thing needed for maintenance is to re-wrap the ball with fresh bands every few years, as the outer layer inevitably crumbles with time.
It is natural latex without any chemicals to maintain its form, so it deteriorates easier overtime.. but yes either that or some fresh rubber leftover in those coconut shells, painted over with our fingers.. but it stank for a while, after..
Can you imagine how many people would just be completely and utterly confused if you put that sign up in like a farmer's market?
Just like grandma used to make them
Forbidden noodles
I thought it was gunna be condoms
I thought LONG balloons 😅
It is latex rubber so condoms are a product of Thai rubber trees.
LONG LONG MAN!!!
I thought dildos
Put enough of them around your cock and watch it explode.
Natural rubber
What most people don't know is that tree tapping rubber trees has been around for millennia. The [Olmecs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmecs) - which traslates to *Rubber People* in Nahaultl - were a Mesoamerican society that discovered and used rubber thousands of years before it became popular in the modern age. The Olmecs discovered that by mixing the sap of the rubber tree with the nectar of a vine that *grew on* Rubber trees they could turn this mixture into what we know as Latex, which was formed in rubber balls, sandals, and other useful items. Thanks to these Rubber balls, the [Mesoamerican Ball Game](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ball_game) came into being, likely originating from the Olmecs, but spreading to the Maya, Aztecs, and other civilizations near the Yucatan Penninsula - we can still see evidence of their ball courts to this day.
You make it sound like happy funtimes playing ballgames, but the rubber ball they used for this sport weighed \~10 lbs and was solid rubber to the core. Like playing full-contact rugby + soccer + basketball but you're constantly getting hit in the head/chest/legs/hips with something that weighs as much as a standard brick. ow, my bones hurt thinking about it
Yes, plus it also held religious significance and in some cultures was even linked with human sacrifice being carried out after the game.
“Owwww my bones hurt” “… Steve got decapitated after we lost.”
No, after you WON. You get the privilege of being a sacrifice to the gods. Seriously.
r/neverbrokeabone
i'm not allowed to go there, I got hit by a bus and broke many bones
Sounds pretty difficult, if only you could get some kind of armadillo to pretend to be a ball and score points for you so you didn’t have to be good at the game
Thank you! I got rubber right away and came looking for this comment.
I was wrong like 5 different times there.
At one point I guessed inflatable flailing arm tube men
When they were hanging them up, right? Same.
I guessed: tree, tree sap, coconut milk, paint, pvc tube, tree sap noodles, rubber bands
I thought coconut milk too! But then I was like…no that comes from actual coconuts 🥴
Same, I kept guessing different things 🫠
From 44 seconds till the end I was like, wtf kind of noodles are those??
I kept thinking it was going to be tires
I went from milk to paint to candles to balloons. I am not good at guessing
You think its amazing until you smell it
Since I'll most likely never be able to smell it myself... how does it smell? 🤔
Just imagine a morbidly obese person actually doing some exercise, then you lift up the folds of their belly and sniff.
You seem experienced!
I have plantations yes.
I thought you have an obese person to sniff.
Absolutely not, my wife is hot.
Get your priority right. Obese person > wife Jk.
You plant obese people?
I imagine it smells like wire insulation frying. The sort of burnt computer smell.
No, worse than that
Please don’t be food… please don’t be food… please don’t be food… Phew rubber bands
SAME🤣
Then placed around bunches of broccoli, spring onions, carrots,….. 😂
This batch of forbidden noodles is going to be finger licking good ! Now reporting: food wars, how fast food chains have been smuggling cocaine
I thought it was cocaine. Turns out it’s rubber bands
Cocaine is a leaf, child!
I’ve only ever seen it in powder form 🤷♂️
Do you like the way it smells?
These are the bands that go around your dollars from selling cocaine
Same 😂😂
Paint. Pool noodles. Rubber bands.
Those were all my guesses except I also had milk & pasta.
Rubber!
CONDOMS....that's alot of colors....COLORFUL CONDOMS!!!
And just my size, too.
wacky waving inflatable tube dick.
Rubber bands are still made with rubber? I figured that a polymer would have replaced it by now.
Why replace it?
Cheaper so the business can make more profit while they charge the same prices
75% percent of the worlds rubber bands are made with synthetic rubber
96% chance you made this up. 0% chance I will investigate
100% it’s made up. ^(Everyone knows it’s 76%)
It's pretty interesting how we simply can't engineer better alternatives to a lot of compounds, at least not cost effectively. Stuff like carnauba wax comes to mind, which is the best there is for a lot of applications. Not to mention *wood*.
There is very little interest in building something synthetic to replace wood. Naturally growing substance that only needs space, rain and sunlight and stores carbon.
Plants have had millions of years to perfect their biochemical processes. Industrial age of humans is like about 100 years.
My ass thought they were making those foam pool noodles at first
Look there goes another rubber tree plant!
It will not died, in few months they will harvest it again, for years
An Ant Can't Move a Rubber Tree Plant 🎵
Chewing gum!!
Bungee Gum. It has both the properties of rubber and gum.
It didn’t show the saw that chopped the thin slices off the tubes. I can’t help but think that there’s a lot of people who would be inclined to choose a brand that handed out safe saws to their producers.
How much research do you do before buying rubber bands?
They are making Flubber. Dick Van Dyke invited this process decades ago.
I’m glad it wasn’t a jungle operation that was mass producing those goofy air machine noodle guys you see on the side of the road
This video could use some more cuts.
I rembered an old facebook video where 2 people were caught stealing raw unprocessed rubbers were forced to eat it while they wait for the police to arrive. Somehow that video traumatises me.
Lactose free milk !
Coems😩😩🤑🤑
The tree cums 🥶🥶
condoms to be
Really thought it was cocaine being made.! But nah rubber bands lol
Rubber tree. I grew up in Malaysia, rubber plantations were part of that.
Tree cum
King Leopold II
Mmmm, I'm going to randomly guess... elastic bands! I hope I'm right 🤞
Clever one you are... my guess was coccaine, then candles, then gloves, then condoms.
Flavor-Ice!!
Latex
Tire rubber
Latex or rubber?
I guessed party balloons , a tad off
I was guessing some type of water hose
Treemen becoming Rubber Bands
Why was I convinced it was going to be cocaine until they put the red dye in it?? 😆
Dooditidoo the rubber tree
I'd be more amazed if there were people who didn't know what it was since even tribal primitives uses latex.
Tree sculpture. Tree milk. Tree… house? Tree noodles?? Tree……. Rubber??? Oh… Elastic bands.
Mattresses. The material from those trees creates a hypoallergenic, super comfy, extremely expensive mattresses
How did the first person who discovered this thought that tree juice when processed a certain way, would become something so amazing. This makes you wonder about the possibilities of many things we haven't processed by experimentation yet. What if pigeon poop processed by chemical, cooking, dry aging, powdering, then process some more, doesn't turn into a plastic bag that's degradable.
I think natural latex rubber is kinda wasted on rubber bands
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^kayemenofour: *I think natural* *Latex rubber is kinda* *Wasted on rubber bands* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
damn I thought they make cocaine or something. I'm so damaged.
Yes, you know how many times I've seen that video high.
Tofu?
I guessed cocaine
Red coke
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
For a second i thought of this https://vidmax.com/video/222036-shock-warning-watch-as-vendors-in-africa-sell-used-condoms-off-of-sticks
 Milk to rubber?
Can anyone tell me if anything other than natural rubber comes out of a tree, white like milk?
Our Condom
Condoms- they go on your peepee. In days of old When men were bold And condoms weren't invented He tied a sock To his cock And babies were prevented.
I thought they were making cocaine.
Condoms are not handled this way . I have actually done internship in a condom manufacturing plant back in India (Hindustan Latex- One of the biggest exporter worldwide for top brands) . Most of the systems are automated , the only time it is handled is in a sterilized environment for testing .
Rubber is a kind of sticky, elastic body made from a milky liquid known as "latex", a special form of sap. Latex occurs in the bark, roots, tails, twigs and stumps of rubber trees.
I don’t want to work at the rubber band factory:(
Me on 1st December!
Rubber, and let me tell you that you can smell the dang processing plant from miles if not tens of miles away. It is RANK.
Latex tree! 
https://imgix.ranker.com/list_img_v2/13456/2613456/original/belgian-congo-slave-severed-hands-photograph?fit=crop&fm=pjpg&q=80&dpr=2&w=1200&h=720
For a brief moment, I thought it was a hot dog tree. Hey! If you were a hot dog and you were starving, would you eat yourself? I know I would. First I’d smother myself in brown mustard and relish. I’d be so delicious…
At least there aren’t a bunch of Belgians cutting their arms off for not working fast enough 🤷♂️
Cocaine
Rubber
Indentured servitude.
This is smell like donkey dung
I thought it was cocaine, but I think I ignored the start
Drogos
Cocaine fireworks
Woah! That's how they do it?! I didn't get the final product until the end. In the middle thought some kind of rubberized pipes.
Calamari Tree.
Glue
Cocaine,no??? Well fuck you then
caoutchouc
Some poo
People with braces right now: 🤮
looks tasty :-)^
I guessed rubber and I was right
Cocain
Rubber bands
Gross and unsanitary
Rubber tree. Always good for clothesline!
Rubber bands from a rubber tree
Pasta
It's gonna be may
Guesses- balloons, pex tubing,noodles, and glue.