Making a whetstone in the Chr Hort sandstone quarry/ stone masonry

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Herstellen eines Schleifsteins in der Sandsteingrube Chr. Hort
• Herstellen eines Schle...
Making a whetstone (for grinding/sharpening tools) in a German sand stone quarry with old school methods, including tool maintenance and repair.
Neidenbach 1971 - 52 min (SW)
Recording/editing/commentary: Gabriel Simons
Grindstones for the iron industry in the Bergisches Land are extracted from the sandstone quarry in the southern Eifel. The stone cutters loosen the blocks from the rock with shot hammers, wedges and lifting irons and work the surfaces of the whetstone.

[@randytucker3083]

Thanks so much for the wonderful quarry videos. Those men seemed to be supermen. No worn out joints???? Way cool. Yahoo

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Damn. This a pleasant surprise, but at 3am? Dude, you're killing me. 🤘😝🤘

[@JamesBond-fc9wr]

Amazing, and all done by half a dozen mid age men. Not a young muscle bound lad amonst them. Speaks volumes what smart work can achieve. Great find of a clip. 👍

[@rfn74]

First aliens, then Alan's facts...damn

[@Simon-fm8yc]

Stayed in The Eifel a couple of years ago and toured round on our motorcycles. Nice place.

[@Vandal_Savage]

Excellent film, thanks for the upload! 🙂

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Ain't never seen anyone working iron use their hands like that and forego tongs. Handling pieces to put in the forge by hand is one thing, but removing and working the tools whilst hammering .... admittedly, just touching up the point, ...... 🤯
The heat, even at the end of the pieces would still be hot enough to burn and blister modern, soft hands.
This guy must have a remarkable tolerance to heat, of straight out asbestos hands.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Callouses 1 inch thick. The hot steel was terrified of them

[@Vandal_Savage]

I thought the same! Retouching the pickaxes was one thing (there's a big mass of metal to heat up and would act as a heatsink) but when he does the wolfsteeth combs - I thought 'ooh, ow, hot, hot,hot!'

[@mattmoore1311]

I do forging as a hobby. I may try a similar size bar, from cold to a hot enough tip, using a small, hot fire like that. I suspect the reason he's able to do it is the small, hot fire. He's only heating the tip long enough for one forging, and one heat treatment, as well as heavy calloused hands.

[@Chris.Davies]

Notice how the men work, so that they can work all day: The lift their tool, then simply drop it, swinging it to land in the desired location.
I watched a video the other day, of a really strong young guy try to knock down a concrete block wall with a 10lb sledge. He swung the thing like crazy hitting with huge force, but less than 5 minutes later he was wrecked, but less than 20% of the wall was down.
Then the old slow guy picks up the sledge hammer, and lets it swing like a pendulum, coming up into the wall, and just letting gravity do most of the work, and without doing much. Ten minutes later, the whole wall was down.

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Those old timers never had it easy. They'd be called fat today, but you realise it was just massive core strength. They are all strong through the hips, waist and chest. Probably swinging hammers and picks their whole lives, so they had the body and technique covered.
The picks they were swinging before the blacksmith were mentioned to be 8-9 LB, and the sledge to hammer in the wedges was much more solid. I'd reckon close to 18-22 lbs (about 10kg). To them it was nothing. You'd be very hard put to find anyone able to do that today.
Only a few times did they look like they were exerting themselves, such were the techniques they had.
Beautiful to watch.

[@varyolla435]

Blacksmith hammering on an anvil = HIT........tap tap tap......HIT.... tap tap tap....... = maintains the rhythm and hence momentum of the weight for the least amount of effort exerted.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

🤠 see , all in a days work, no worries

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

back when men wore suits and hats to the quarry instead of t shirts and jeans

[@johngibson2884]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded Menonites most likely

[@ninthheretic2498]

@@johngibson2884 i think not necessarily, just them dressing fine because camera. Back in the day...

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Working mans clothes. Everyone wore them. Wool trousers to keep them warm, and provide a little insulation against the cold stone.
It said the suffered rheumatism in their legs whilst they were knee deep cutting that trench. Wouldn't doubt it.

[@kn1b1s95]

very comfy video :)

[@horatiotelmah8597]

Ты ещё спрашиваешь, как строили пирамиды?

[@88vok]

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