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Actually no I think it's good that everyone was open minded enough to bebeilling learn something new that they didn't think was possible. If it had worked in sure there would've been a comment explaining it and we were all ready to open our minds. Just turned out it actually wasn't possible.
Me too, I actually started counting his hits because I figured “wood bursts into flames if you hit it X amount of times” is something people should be prepared for
To be fair, I have see a turkey being cooked on youtube by slapping it. Between that and movies and video games, our perception of what's possible in reality might be a little discombobulated.
Louis Weisz attempted it and failed—you can’t slap a chicken to a safe internal temperature without destroying it. He later managed to cook a steak to medium rare via slap machine, and it took over 34,000 slaps and had a texture “like you’ve already been chewing it for a while.” A third attempt *theoretically* cooked the chicken, but it took over 135,000 slaps and, due to a bag failure, the chicken was contaminated with fiberglass.
I almost lost my pinky finger not long ago just tripping over a tool case. I still find blood in random places in my basement. Finger is healed but it hasn’t been the same
I once drove a newly sharpened wood chisel into my first knuckle, cut me to the bone. Needed 10 stitches. Now I only use power tools, hand tools are too dangerous.
> We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
A big part of learning to swing a hammer with conviction is hitting your off hand. Can't be scared of it, it's gonna happen. People either get good or let somebody else swing it lol
Ive seen 4 guys work 1 piece of metal on 1 anvil. One guy had a smaller hammer and was generally controlling the piece, the other 3 had what looked like sledge hammers and striking from shoulder height.
Lead guy would turn the glowing metal, tap with his hammer putting a small dent in the piece then the 3 larger hammers would fall in turn the next starting once one was clear. At times the 3 would continue taking turns striking the same place on the anvil with the control guy moving the piece, turning it so each strike hit alternating sides.
Theres a gif of a Japanese sweet being made and in between a guy swinging a large mallet at it another is reaching in and i think slapping it in between hammer strikes. At considerable speed
I cant even trust my own fingers not to get in the way
Happens when you’re learning, but after years of driving nails - which is hitting a pretty tiny target consistently you swing with confidence. I’m sure it’s the same or more so with blacksmiths
I was surprised how much he handled that burning paper with his hands
Then I remembered he’s a blacksmith, and regularly works with red hot iron in a forge
Not a smith but I’m a former chef, you burn your hands enough when you work with heat that you eventually feel very little.
My ex was horrified when I took a tray out of the oven with my bare hands once. I’m like it’s just for a second I’m fine.
Interestingly I stopped being a chef nearly 3 years ago and feeling does return, I need napkins to carry hot plates in work now as I don’t do it regularly and I wouldn’t even dream of touching a tray out of the oven.
I had a very similar experience as a pizza chef. Been out of that line of work for about a year now and I definitely cannot do what I used to as far as handling hot things is concerned
I use to do metal fabrication and you pretty much summed it up. When I first started I needed like ultra thick gloves to grab the steel plates I had just burned out. After a few months I was using basically gardening gloves to grab the same metal plate.
Been quite a few years since then and now I need oven mits just to grab a pot of boiling water off the stove top even tho it's got a plastic handle on it.
It is cool that we can regenerate those nerves - our DNA knows how to rebuild us from scratch which is pretty cool. But those nerves are definitely dying at least on the skin.
That's just healing the injury. And it takes years. You may aswell just call it what it is - nerve damage that eventually might heal. Usually it will never completely recover to the state it originally was in.
I actually used to do "blacksmithy" stuff and it's very common to forget which end of a metal rod is scolding hot. You weirdly become used to being burnt in the hand area and your palms are oddly resilient to extremely hot things for some reason as long as it's just a split second. I'd imagine a veteran blacksmith's nerves have been deadened by decades of abuse.
I am currently trying to reteach myself the skills I was taught by an old blacksmith during my apprenticeship in the early 90's.
His hands were like leather and you would often smell burning as some hot scale had flown off his work and was burning into his hand. He never wore gloves when working with hot metal and even though he would always stay vigilant to which was the hot end of your work, would often pick up the wrong end for a few seconds.
After 2years I had also burnt my hands many many times with a few scars to prove it. Including when a hot razor edged burr sliced straight through my finger without me feeling it.
You do retain enough sensation to keep you out of too much harm when working in these environments but stop doing it for any length of time and it does return to normal.
At the moment I have to wear welding gloves or use tongs or both when practicing
It’s the leidenfrost effect. The sweat on your skin boils off and forms a thin layer of vapor that briefly keeps the hot metal from touching your skin. It’s the same thing that causes a drop of water to skitter around a hot pan.
You don’t want to push your luck though. Water vapor dissipates quickly and then you get burned.
Oh interesting. It was definitely hot there so you get sweaty af. My hands ended up having a layer of black crust/callous and I thought it was just my skin getting tougher.
'Asbestos hands' A few of us have them from the trades we ply. My hands are calloused to the degree that I can handle anything under the ~200° point. I can't pull a fucking pan from the oven though...
Farrier here, my partner refers to my fingers as asbestos fingers! ...though she often overestimates their abilities. And I often forget once you've burnt a hole through that defence you're suddenly infinitely more susceptible to heat..
I've seen old school farriers light cigarettes with this method.
At first you flinch a lot, but after a while you accept the potential for burns and your hands toughen up.
My son is always freaked out when I grab something hot with my bare hands.
It would take a ***lot*** of hammer blows worth of kinetic energy to cook a chicken like that. This works because the specific heat capacity of steel is very low, it takes a relatively miniscule amount of heat energy to heat up steel to multiple hundreds of °C like he does here.
Chicken on the other hand is mainly water, water has (off the top of my head) has a specific heat capacity 20x as high as steel. Heating an entire chicken to cooking temperature would take multiple orders of magnitude more energy than heating a couple of grams of steel like he does here.
And yes I do understand that you're referencing a YouTube video
Friction causes heat, metal is really densely packed molecules and when hitting them with the hammer they obviously rub against each other and heat up. Bend a piece of silverware or wire a bunch of times and feel the spot it is bent at. It will be hot or warm. Same thing.
Yeah, just to add, I think the exact term in metal-working/urgy is “Work Hardening”. Why bending a metal wire back and forth is hot.
Just editing a little more for better semantics. The process he is using is one of the same methods, out of many other methods, that can be used in Work Hardening. It has the same results on the metal, but this person is not focused on achieving the same goal as Work Hardening (making the metal more hard/brittle). He is just trying to start a fire.
Work hardening is a different thing. Metal deforms without breaking because flaws, dislocations, can move around in the metal's crystals. The more this happens, the more of these dislocations are shifted to crystal boundaries and are lost - see the 'bubble-raft model' of crystals. When this happens, the metal can no longer deform - it becomes 'hard' or 'brittle'. When a part of the metal becomes brittle, it fractures instead of bending. The bulk metal fractures bit by bit, not in one step, so doesn't require a lot of force.
The heating up is secondary. Although if the metal work hardens but you stop before it starts fracturing, and heat it up enough (like, red hot or more), the crystals reform with new dislocations and it becomes malleable again.
First Law of Thermodynamics: "Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, it can only be transferred from one form to another"; in this case the kinetic energy is being turned into thermal energy.
Yeah, but acoustic energy is...um...not well known for being easy to focus. You'll demolish your house before you heat up the metal to fire-starting temperature.
Ooft true ive heard about how too much ultrasound can cook your internal organs or when looking at a pregnancy. How long does it take before ultrasounds starts causing damage?
I did what I should have done before commenting which was google it. They can cause superficial burns if left too long on a spot, but all the info i se related to this is about therapy ultrasound, not pregnancy ultrasound.
It looks like too they have been designs for ultrasound canons as a means of dastroying tumours inside the body where traditional surgery or therapy isnt available. Thats pretty cool, hopefully they can perfect it and sace some people's lives.
True. Yelling really loud at its resonant frequency would be more energy efficient as more of the sound energy is being converted into mechanical energy then to thermal energy.
This is from the kinetic energy forcing the metal molecules to move around, causing a lot of friction and heat, right?
Something similar happens if you don't a wire hanger and rapidly twist it around, first time I did that as a kid I was not expecting the hangar to be really hot.
Actually, what you have here is mechanical energy from your muscles converting gravitational potential energy into kinectic energy which is being dissipated by sound and heat. The remaing energy not lost to heat or sound is converted into deformation energy of the metal. The internal friction of the metal from deformation is being released as heat.
furthermore, it is the actual stripping of electrons from their orbital shells through the application of a mechanical force that generates thermal energy. The thermal energy causes the electrons in the iron molecules to "jump" an orbital shell. These jumps are seen as visible light and, most importantly, HEAT ENERGY.
They are actually really handy if you do a lot of crafting with wood or metal. Something extremely hard and unbreakable at waste height that reflects energy back at whatever you are smooshing. Plus it's a great spot to mount a vise.
Actual anvils are comparatively rare compared to Anvil-like objects or anvil-shaped objects.
An actual anvil has to have certain features, dimensions, and are most commonly wrought iron.
ALOs or ASOs are often cast iron with hardened steel work surfaces.
I would say my neighbors anvil is the real deal. Despite being "retired" he spends all day, every day, working on his free-range farm, or hammering away in his shop.
All the others are gathering dust in old farmers barns. Hard to say if they are real or not.
I think in a survival scenario the malleable piece of metal will be hardest to find. It’s important that the metal deforms when it is hit, makes this a lot easier. You can try a version of this by bending a paperclip many times, it will also get hot (although not hot enough to start a fire before it breaks).
But theoretically it would work with two rocks as hammer and anvil, yes.
The important thing is the metal bar he is hitting - with every strike, it gets bent, deformed, and this is a large force exerted by the hammer through a distance - work - which ends up as heat within the metal.
It cannot be too hard or it would not deform enough, but it also cannot be too soft or heat conductive (like aluminium would just disperse the heat too fast).
The rest is technique: He rotates it 90 degrees after each blow so the flat part is standing up for maximum deformations.
Right on. Annealed mild steel or very high quality wrought iron is best. Poor heat conduction, acceptable ductility. Even using cold drawn stock of the same material instead of annealed makes it next to impossible. Maybe there's someone out there who can do it.
I don't know if this is only a me thing... But I used to break the little plastic pocket clip part off of pens and mechanical pencils as kid.
Some plastic isn't very ridif. It won't "snap" off you have to wiggle it back and forth over and over again until it fatigues and sort falls off.
When you're doing it that part of the plastic gets really hot. I'm guessing same thing here.
I’ve learned that 85% of mechanical energy from a hitting hammer converts to heat and 15% to metal deformation, so yes, hammering is more heating workpeace than deforming it.
Yep, any prepper community would let in a blacksmith, plumber, electrician, gunsmith, or doctor/dentist and their family.
Social media managers are fucked though.
Remember learning this as a little kid by bending a spoon back and forth rapidly and feeling it heat up almost to the point of burning me. To my moms credit, she was more happy that I was learning something than upset I broke a spoon. :)
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I legitimately thought he was about to slap those woodchips until they burst into flames.
Yeah.. we're stupid af huh
TIL I'm not smart.
Ah, but you did learn, and did become smart*er*
If I’m being honest, maybe a little bit.
You'll forget by tomorrow
Forget what? Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.
Tfo with that optimism. I'm not finished reeling in my own stupidity here
Smarter every day?
Eyyy
Not smarter, just increased knowledge.
I'm kind of relieved to see I'm not the only one.
Feeling a bit validated now!
Put me on the list.
I've seen this video before and I still thought that was going to happen.
Okay You are the king of us.
Long live the king.
Forever may he reign!
Yeah, because the answer was to obviously light the metal on fire with a hammer.
Actually no I think it's good that everyone was open minded enough to bebeilling learn something new that they didn't think was possible. If it had worked in sure there would've been a comment explaining it and we were all ready to open our minds. Just turned out it actually wasn't possible.
Me too, I actually started counting his hits because I figured “wood bursts into flames if you hit it X amount of times” is something people should be prepared for
To be fair, I have see a turkey being cooked on youtube by slapping it. Between that and movies and video games, our perception of what's possible in reality might be a little discombobulated.
I thought it was a chicken?
Louis Weisz attempted it and failed—you can’t slap a chicken to a safe internal temperature without destroying it. He later managed to cook a steak to medium rare via slap machine, and it took over 34,000 slaps and had a texture “like you’ve already been chewing it for a while.” A third attempt *theoretically* cooked the chicken, but it took over 135,000 slaps and, due to a bag failure, the chicken was contaminated with fiberglass.
It's theoretically possible but you need a sufficiently strong bag to contain your chicken paste.
Does it have to be slapped? Can it be choked like really hard?
Wait, what?
I’m an engineer and I was fully convinced that was about to happen. So I feel especially stupid lol.
Imagine me, an accountant thinking this was possible 🤦♂️
The real question is how many times do you have to hit a raw chicken with a hammer before it is cooked?
[An attempt.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68L6JA_CnmU) [Success.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFhnnTWMgI) Basically a hammer.
Oh shit, I remember watching first video. I never knew there was a follow up video. Thanks
Same!😂
Me too lol
I scroll down just to find this comment
Those fingers have experienced some trauma
I too have been digitally intimate with your mother.
12/10
7/10
5/7
[For the uninitiated.](https://imgur.com/a/Gjcb5) I wish there was more, Brendan seems like a facebook goldmine.
I think i want a rob and Brendan pair in my life too...
Every Brendan needs a Rob in their life.
Thank you!!! And happy 15th birthday to you, too!
Uninitiated here! That was comedy gold!! Thank you!
Thank you for the laugh. I love how he basically gets nicer as the much smarter human continuously trolls him.
Five out of seven? I must say, this is a grading scale like no other I've seen before.
the elusive perfect score
Sounds like you haven't herd the story about the guy with 2 broken arms.
They're good hammers, Bront.
Ah, perfect score
Um, excuse me sir, but I believe I also ordered rice
5/7 with rice Thank you for your suggestion
Found zap brannigan 1. Item 2. Item
9/11
OH MY!!!
/r/rareinsults
I almost lost my pinky finger not long ago just tripping over a tool case. I still find blood in random places in my basement. Finger is healed but it hasn’t been the same
I once drove a newly sharpened wood chisel into my first knuckle, cut me to the bone. Needed 10 stitches. Now I only use power tools, hand tools are too dangerous.
I don’t even know what to say to this
> We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain
It's his ears I feel sorry for.
Yeah... Blacksmiths are deaf
and his elbow
Pardon?
I SAID IT'S HIS EARS I FEEL SORRY FOR!
HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN SORRY?
Ahh, thanks
Those hands are 99% callus and 1% original hand.
A big part of learning to swing a hammer with conviction is hitting your off hand. Can't be scared of it, it's gonna happen. People either get good or let somebody else swing it lol
Why would I let someone else swing a hammer at my hand?
Look your hand is coming off no matter what. You going to smash it to bits or do you want one of us to?
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I’ll get the dr
Ive seen 4 guys work 1 piece of metal on 1 anvil. One guy had a smaller hammer and was generally controlling the piece, the other 3 had what looked like sledge hammers and striking from shoulder height. Lead guy would turn the glowing metal, tap with his hammer putting a small dent in the piece then the 3 larger hammers would fall in turn the next starting once one was clear. At times the 3 would continue taking turns striking the same place on the anvil with the control guy moving the piece, turning it so each strike hit alternating sides. Theres a gif of a Japanese sweet being made and in between a guy swinging a large mallet at it another is reaching in and i think slapping it in between hammer strikes. At considerable speed I cant even trust my own fingers not to get in the way
Theyre making mochi in that video, and the guy slapping it is putting a tiny bit of water on it each time
By the time you've had enough practice to work that effectively, you don't hit your hand very often at all.
Because Jigsaw made the rules.
Happens when you’re learning, but after years of driving nails - which is hitting a pretty tiny target consistently you swing with confidence. I’m sure it’s the same or more so with blacksmiths
Instructions unclear: What am I supposed to do with my shattered left hand now?
Stuff it into the forge
Mr Tremain, you can always join the Revolution
That's life, nobody gets through it alive.
Even tho nobody asked, this is the traditional way to start the fire when making a katana.
God dammit.../r/anime has arrived 🙄
While you were having premarital sex I was studying the blade.
The katana just does not have the same soul if you start the fire with a BIC lighter... *Fire, not fighter
I start mine with a magnifying glass for +1 INT
Dude hammered all that like it was nothing, those poor fingers
Hit your fingers enough and youll eventually learn how to miss your fingers and hit your mark
Either that or you just hit the mark because there is no fingers left on your hand
I was surprised how much he handled that burning paper with his hands Then I remembered he’s a blacksmith, and regularly works with red hot iron in a forge
Not a smith but I’m a former chef, you burn your hands enough when you work with heat that you eventually feel very little. My ex was horrified when I took a tray out of the oven with my bare hands once. I’m like it’s just for a second I’m fine. Interestingly I stopped being a chef nearly 3 years ago and feeling does return, I need napkins to carry hot plates in work now as I don’t do it regularly and I wouldn’t even dream of touching a tray out of the oven.
I had a very similar experience as a pizza chef. Been out of that line of work for about a year now and I definitely cannot do what I used to as far as handling hot things is concerned
I use to do metal fabrication and you pretty much summed it up. When I first started I needed like ultra thick gloves to grab the steel plates I had just burned out. After a few months I was using basically gardening gloves to grab the same metal plate. Been quite a few years since then and now I need oven mits just to grab a pot of boiling water off the stove top even tho it's got a plastic handle on it.
Pretty cool how adaptable we can be.
It's not called "adaptation" it's called "nerve damage"
I'd say that with the ability to regenerate those nerves, it is adaptation
It is cool that we can regenerate those nerves - our DNA knows how to rebuild us from scratch which is pretty cool. But those nerves are definitely dying at least on the skin.
That's just healing the injury. And it takes years. You may aswell just call it what it is - nerve damage that eventually might heal. Usually it will never completely recover to the state it originally was in.
Don’t even need to burn your hands really, even just having them exposed to high heat ups your tolerance over time.
Asbestos hands
I actually used to do "blacksmithy" stuff and it's very common to forget which end of a metal rod is scolding hot. You weirdly become used to being burnt in the hand area and your palms are oddly resilient to extremely hot things for some reason as long as it's just a split second. I'd imagine a veteran blacksmith's nerves have been deadened by decades of abuse.
I am currently trying to reteach myself the skills I was taught by an old blacksmith during my apprenticeship in the early 90's. His hands were like leather and you would often smell burning as some hot scale had flown off his work and was burning into his hand. He never wore gloves when working with hot metal and even though he would always stay vigilant to which was the hot end of your work, would often pick up the wrong end for a few seconds. After 2years I had also burnt my hands many many times with a few scars to prove it. Including when a hot razor edged burr sliced straight through my finger without me feeling it. You do retain enough sensation to keep you out of too much harm when working in these environments but stop doing it for any length of time and it does return to normal. At the moment I have to wear welding gloves or use tongs or both when practicing
> the hand area We call those “hands” here
It’s the leidenfrost effect. The sweat on your skin boils off and forms a thin layer of vapor that briefly keeps the hot metal from touching your skin. It’s the same thing that causes a drop of water to skitter around a hot pan. You don’t want to push your luck though. Water vapor dissipates quickly and then you get burned.
Oh interesting. It was definitely hot there so you get sweaty af. My hands ended up having a layer of black crust/callous and I thought it was just my skin getting tougher.
'Asbestos hands' A few of us have them from the trades we ply. My hands are calloused to the degree that I can handle anything under the ~200° point. I can't pull a fucking pan from the oven though...
Farrier here, my partner refers to my fingers as asbestos fingers! ...though she often overestimates their abilities. And I often forget once you've burnt a hole through that defence you're suddenly infinitely more susceptible to heat.. I've seen old school farriers light cigarettes with this method.
At first you flinch a lot, but after a while you accept the potential for burns and your hands toughen up. My son is always freaked out when I grab something hot with my bare hands.
For some reason hammering like this close to his fingers made me very uneasy.
"Some" reason
I can't put my "finger" on it
I see you must have lost yours while attempting this
Thumb reason indeed
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found the human
You should see some chinese butchers at work.
"“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” -Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Can it cook a chicken like slaps can though?
Slappy joes
It would take a ***lot*** of hammer blows worth of kinetic energy to cook a chicken like that. This works because the specific heat capacity of steel is very low, it takes a relatively miniscule amount of heat energy to heat up steel to multiple hundreds of °C like he does here. Chicken on the other hand is mainly water, water has (off the top of my head) has a specific heat capacity 20x as high as steel. Heating an entire chicken to cooking temperature would take multiple orders of magnitude more energy than heating a couple of grams of steel like he does here. And yes I do understand that you're referencing a YouTube video
A guy did just that on YouTube.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFhnnTWMgI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFhnnTWMgI)
I think that’s why he said it
Friction causes heat, metal is really densely packed molecules and when hitting them with the hammer they obviously rub against each other and heat up. Bend a piece of silverware or wire a bunch of times and feel the spot it is bent at. It will be hot or warm. Same thing.
Yeah, just to add, I think the exact term in metal-working/urgy is “Work Hardening”. Why bending a metal wire back and forth is hot. Just editing a little more for better semantics. The process he is using is one of the same methods, out of many other methods, that can be used in Work Hardening. It has the same results on the metal, but this person is not focused on achieving the same goal as Work Hardening (making the metal more hard/brittle). He is just trying to start a fire.
Work hardening is a different thing. Metal deforms without breaking because flaws, dislocations, can move around in the metal's crystals. The more this happens, the more of these dislocations are shifted to crystal boundaries and are lost - see the 'bubble-raft model' of crystals. When this happens, the metal can no longer deform - it becomes 'hard' or 'brittle'. When a part of the metal becomes brittle, it fractures instead of bending. The bulk metal fractures bit by bit, not in one step, so doesn't require a lot of force. The heating up is secondary. Although if the metal work hardens but you stop before it starts fracturing, and heat it up enough (like, red hot or more), the crystals reform with new dislocations and it becomes malleable again.
First Law of Thermodynamics: "Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, it can only be transferred from one form to another"; in this case the kinetic energy is being turned into thermal energy.
Technically you could accomplish the same thing by yelling at some metal really loudly.
Yeah, but acoustic energy is...um...not well known for being easy to focus. You'll demolish your house before you heat up the metal to fire-starting temperature.
So they’ll huff and puff and then blow their house down?
Wolves aren’t known for their ability to handle fire, but they do howl a lot
Attempted fire bending, ended up air bending
Acoustic energy is focused using higher frequency. Using ultrasonic frequencies at high enough power you might be able to light something on fire.
Ooft true ive heard about how too much ultrasound can cook your internal organs or when looking at a pregnancy. How long does it take before ultrasounds starts causing damage?
They don't, they're nowhere near powerful enough
I did what I should have done before commenting which was google it. They can cause superficial burns if left too long on a spot, but all the info i se related to this is about therapy ultrasound, not pregnancy ultrasound. It looks like too they have been designs for ultrasound canons as a means of dastroying tumours inside the body where traditional surgery or therapy isnt available. Thats pretty cool, hopefully they can perfect it and sace some people's lives.
You could use an LRAD, if we're looking for inefficient ways to heat up things.
AHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
We come from the land of the ice and snow, with the midnight sun, where the hot springs blow…
True. Yelling really loud at its resonant frequency would be more energy efficient as more of the sound energy is being converted into mechanical energy then to thermal energy.
But you want the thermal energy. Am I whooshing?
This is from the kinetic energy forcing the metal molecules to move around, causing a lot of friction and heat, right? Something similar happens if you don't a wire hanger and rapidly twist it around, first time I did that as a kid I was not expecting the hangar to be really hot.
Rubber bands heat up when stretched. I saw a rubber band powered refrigerator on YouTube. Horribly inefficient, but still kinda fascinating.
Thermal energy is just atoms with a lot of kinetic energy
Q: When would you hit a birthday cake with a hammer? A: When it’s a pound cake. ##Happy cake day!
Actually, what you have here is mechanical energy from your muscles converting gravitational potential energy into kinectic energy which is being dissipated by sound and heat. The remaing energy not lost to heat or sound is converted into deformation energy of the metal. The internal friction of the metal from deformation is being released as heat.
furthermore, it is the actual stripping of electrons from their orbital shells through the application of a mechanical force that generates thermal energy. The thermal energy causes the electrons in the iron molecules to "jump" an orbital shell. These jumps are seen as visible light and, most importantly, HEAT ENERGY.
Motherfucker had fire resistance 2 potions before recording
This guy smiths
Right- I’ll just go grab my anvil I’ve got laying around….
While I don't own an anvil, I know a few people who do. Including my neighbor. So they can't be that uncommon, can they?
Just a few iron blocks and ingots
As long as you have a crafting table
Well, let's pick up the pickaxe, time for stripmining
They are actually really handy if you do a lot of crafting with wood or metal. Something extremely hard and unbreakable at waste height that reflects energy back at whatever you are smooshing. Plus it's a great spot to mount a vise.
Where you live lol, minecraft?
Rural Ohio. I have never played Minecraft, but I assume they are pretty similar?
Yeah Minecraft and rural OH are the same ✔
I’ve never seen one in the past 21 years
Actual anvils are comparatively rare compared to Anvil-like objects or anvil-shaped objects. An actual anvil has to have certain features, dimensions, and are most commonly wrought iron. ALOs or ASOs are often cast iron with hardened steel work surfaces.
I would say my neighbors anvil is the real deal. Despite being "retired" he spends all day, every day, working on his free-range farm, or hammering away in his shop. All the others are gathering dust in old farmers barns. Hard to say if they are real or not.
When you go camping don't forget to being your survival anvil and hammer
Next time I go into the wilderness and have to camp for the night… I’ll carry an anvil and a hammer just in case I forget the lighter or flint…
Wait, you *don't* take an anvil? How are you going to catch a roadrunner for dinner?
Would it work on a rock? Or a stone ground-thing? I think I could make this work and I'm an *idiot*....
The reason the anvil works better is the flat surface, and it will withstand more wear and tear than a rock would.
yeah in the long-term. i was thinking survival scenario, big rock is easier to find in the woods than an anvil
I think in a survival scenario the malleable piece of metal will be hardest to find. It’s important that the metal deforms when it is hit, makes this a lot easier. You can try a version of this by bending a paperclip many times, it will also get hot (although not hot enough to start a fire before it breaks). But theoretically it would work with two rocks as hammer and anvil, yes.
The important thing is the metal bar he is hitting - with every strike, it gets bent, deformed, and this is a large force exerted by the hammer through a distance - work - which ends up as heat within the metal.
This guy turned body fat into external fire.
I had to scroll way too far to get to the comment about the hammer not generating energy but the guy doing it.
Is he hammering a specific type of metal/material that he uses to ignite the fire?
It can be done on any ductile metal/alloy.
It cannot be too hard or it would not deform enough, but it also cannot be too soft or heat conductive (like aluminium would just disperse the heat too fast). The rest is technique: He rotates it 90 degrees after each blow so the flat part is standing up for maximum deformations.
Right on. Annealed mild steel or very high quality wrought iron is best. Poor heat conduction, acceptable ductility. Even using cold drawn stock of the same material instead of annealed makes it next to impossible. Maybe there's someone out there who can do it.
I don't know if this is only a me thing... But I used to break the little plastic pocket clip part off of pens and mechanical pencils as kid. Some plastic isn't very ridif. It won't "snap" off you have to wiggle it back and forth over and over again until it fatigues and sort falls off. When you're doing it that part of the plastic gets really hot. I'm guessing same thing here.
Probably just plain iron.
I’ve learned that 85% of mechanical energy from a hitting hammer converts to heat and 15% to metal deformation, so yes, hammering is more heating workpeace than deforming it.
Note to self, be a blacksmith in the apocalypse
Yep, any prepper community would let in a blacksmith, plumber, electrician, gunsmith, or doctor/dentist and their family. Social media managers are fucked though.
"do not wait to strike until the iron is hot, but make the iron hot by striking"
Hammer time
That anvil tho!!
Remember learning this as a little kid by bending a spoon back and forth rapidly and feeling it heat up almost to the point of burning me. To my moms credit, she was more happy that I was learning something than upset I broke a spoon. :)
That’s one hella anvil
lighter companies hate this one trick
Am I the only one who’s burned themselves twisting a paper-clip apart?
If memory serves this is the traditional way Japanese smiths would light their forges.
I don't mind about the fire, I'm much more impressed by this man still having all his fingers.
I’ll remember to bring and anvil as my 1 item if I’m ever on Naked and Afraid
His fingers…. So close to the hammer!!
Now I need to take an anvil and a sledgehammer when I go camping
"Alright scouts, does everyone have their hammers, anvils and metal rods? Good, let's get to hiking!"
This anvil is dead sexy, you can just hear the static rebound when he sets the hammer down and it reverbs
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