It was actually a bet in a german game show called wetten dass... if a blacksmith can strike a piece of iron so hard that it gets hot enough to light a match or cigarette, was about 40 years ago or so
@@DannyGruesome no, like seen in the video, stretching out the iron till it gets hot enough ua-cam.com/video/-59SuYjfKmc/v-deo.html if i remember right it was this bet, sorry its only in german
I knew this was possible, but I had no idea it would happen so quick! I thought you would have to be striking it for like an hour (maybe not actually an hour, but my point is I thought it would take a while, like to the point of pure exhaustion on the part of the smith). In the first half of the video it took ~38 strikes until it began to glow and in the second clip it was around 19 strikes. Incredible!
oh its how they keep steel hot when rolling in a rolling mill all the energy put into it keeps it hot so they dont have to reheat if anything they have to cool it down to keep it from getting too hot and damaging the equiptment or messing up the chemistry of the steel est veritates
it actually makes sense. because of high temperature difference, heat is quickly dissipated. to get a red glow, you have to use big enough hammer, and strike little enough material to give it kinetic energy faster than it can dissipate through heat
Super late reply but I only watched the video now. I heard striking a piece of metal like this is a bit like a blacksmiths match. They would hit the rods until red hot, like in the video, and then use them to light their forge.
@@iEnergySupply I thought I should say that the forge wasn't always lit this way. Fire was everywhere in the middle ages and any other time periods where blacksmithing was ubiquitous. You could easily light a stick in a nearby fire and use that but sometimes it was faster to hammer a piece of metal until it was red hot
My cousin had a full blacksmith shop on his farm, his father and grandfather had been trained blacksmiths and farriers. He got a piece of rough iron hot enough with a hammer to light a cigarette with, then gave me a machine formed wire nail and told me if I couldn't get it red hot I was a wimp. I worked on it for at least 30 minutes and it never got red hot, I just realized why after 40 years.
@@secondarycontainment4727 I'm pretty sure I wasn't the first gullible mark to fall for this, he probably learned it from his dad or grandfather. On the bright side, after I joined the military I was far less likely to fall for tasks like fetching a roll of flight line, or a tube of suspension line grease!😄
I tried to do this with a nail when I was like 15. It worked, but the nail gave out eventually and pretty much exploded. Some of the shrapnels hit some of my fingers but nothing too serious, I just took them out. Well, after it healed I noticed a strange discoloration around my index finger's PIP joint. It turned out one of the shrapnels had gone pretty deep so it wasn't noticeable at all initially. The discoloration was literally the shrapnel being visible through the skin. By then, the skin was already healed so it couldn't be removed without surgery. However, I didn't really want to tell my parents because my mom would definitely freak out, so I just let it be and watched for any possible signs of sepsis. Eventually, I told them but they didn't believe me. Until I stuck a magnet to my finger. Pretty neat party trick. After like half a year of living with it, I ended up surgically removing it myself with a few needles and a cosmetics kit. In conclusion, I was (still am) an absolute dumbass.
when i was a kid, while my father was setting up a new house for his parents, i would always play with discarded fencing and bend it repeatedly until the curved part turned black (and sometimes a really dull red). Cool to see this on a larger scale !
I’m trying to picture the type of fencing you’re taking about. Was it chain link fence pieces, bending the steel wire, or was it more like sheet metal?
@@davidswanson5669 i think it was chain link? if it wasn’t, they were just steel wires used for chicken coops, makeshift farms, and other things (my grandpa is from provincial philippines)
@@davidswanson5669 Any metal/wire that is soft/thin enough to bend quickly but hard/thick enough to not snap fast has potential to glow. If you carefully start the bend in the middle of a longer piece the leverage helps. You can get a paperclip hot enough to burn yourself and discolour slightly. But similar to above there were various wires in my dads shed that would get super hot or glow, fencing wire being one.
Back when I was in school we had cheap thin metal dinnerware, and we would flex them back and forth until they got super hot, then touch someone's arm and make them jump out of their chair. They didn't get anywhere near red hot, but they could leave a bit of a welt akin to a paintball hit. Obviously this wasn't something you'd do to just anyone, only your friends that you knew were cool with that level of ribbing. Nowadays I think they all use plastic dinnerware, and that's probably more to do with jerks straight up shanking each other if you give them metal forks.
I still have a metal tea spoon I stole from school in yr3 (2nd grade for Americans 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💵💵💵$$$$) I’m currently in my final year of secondary school in yr11 (sophomore)
This is really a beautiful idea about opportunity, demonstrated here rather poignantly. This is used to traditionally start the initial lighting of a Japanese charcoal forge for steel making. However, I don't entirely agree with your physics explanation. Nitpicking, but the iron isn't really in the form of "molecules", per se. the oxide on the outside would be molecules, so I'll let it slide. It's really just iron atoms. There's more going on than "compacting" of the atoms (that's not even really happening very much, the metal is drawn out following poisson's ratio precisely because it's mostly incompressible). The opportunity to keep glowing runs out because on the one hand as the work piece becomes thinner, it cools faster, requiring more energy to stay glowing, and on the other, as the cross section diminishes, the number of atoms available to generate heat through internal friction also diminishes. Heat transfer out of the work goes up, and heat production internally through friction goes down, and you can never again get it red hot from striking by hand alone.
The only reason it happens at all is because he's smashing a very tiny rod of metal. This effect is negligible at best when you're working with larger pieces for things such as sword or armor due to the good heat conductivity of iron/steel. I always found this quote amusing since if you tried doing this with iron/steel from the medieval ages when anvils were most used, they'd almost certainly shatter semi reliably due to the relative metallurgy compared to what we begun using in the 19-20th century.
I've known this quote for ages but I've never, until just now, thought that it was something you could really do. This has been illuminating, to say the least. Thank you.
Super cool. I once burnt myself on metal I was trying to fatigue snap ( by bending it over and back again and again) didn't realise could get it red hot though.
I think it’s really funny that in Civilization 4, the quote for iron working is “you should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot” then in Civilization 5 (the next game) the quote is “do not wait to strike until the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking”. Literally the exact opposite advice.
Wouldn't the combination of these two advices be: "do not wait to strike until the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking, and when it is glowing hot you should hammer your iron" - it seems like these hammer people like to strike that iron in all circumstances
Technically it says it recommends you strike while it's glowing hot optimally but also, that you should be proactive and not just wait for that "perfect" time. As you can reach that point with your own hard work. If it stated "do not strike while the iron is cold" then it would be contradicting.
This is awesome. It's been a very long time since seeing a video of something brought me genuine joy. I subscribed and i hope to see anything else you might want to post.
You can experience a similar effect at home. Find a soft piece of plastic like the ones that come on new clothes and bend it back and forth rapidly. The cloudy seam that develops will eventually become hot to the touch. Not as cool as this, but a similar concept.
Friction is a really underrated way of heating stuff up. Most people immediately think about fire, cooking, or even electricity when asked how to make things hot quick, but not friction. Have you tried dragging your finger on carpet very fast? Only 2-3 swoops is enough to make a first degree burn! (depending on how fast you’re doing it ofc).
thats awesome. this reminds me of being in art class in highschool and we were making a wire frame for a sculpture, and I had the bright idea of drawing the wire quickly on the edge of the table until it was red hot. it was so hot, it caught the edge of the wood table on fire for a couple seconds. if youve never tried this, you should do it, its awesome. it was a stripped electrical wire, so it was copper.
Wow, Saugus Ironworks is my favorite foundry in both fiction AND real life- that's pretty cool. Not important to anything, but pretty cool. Loved the call out to you guys in Fallout, one of my favorite locations- cuz big industrial steel and ironworks are cool as heck.
I counted around 85 strikes from the hammer to the iron bar. It's impressive what anyone can accomplish by focusing on striking with all their might and effort.
9 years ago. This video was made 9 years ago back when I was so much younger, but could've still happened upon it just like I did tonight. This video, made 9 years ago, that existed after me, that I could've stumbled upon just the same. This video from 9 years ago that will exist for so much longer, but did not exist for years... I know this must not make much sense, that maybe there was no point in writing it, and maybe you'd be right. Maybe this is just a foggy mind rant made at 2:30 in the morning. But still, I'm glad I found this video. For no more profound reason than it made me happy.
The hardness of metal has to do with "grains". Heating it up changes the grain sizes. Quenching has a role to play too. It's not density. It's the arrangement of molecules. It does NOT get denser.
I’m surprised more people didn’t know this, I remember back in elementary school I would bend either plastic or metal pen caps back and forth super quick until they got super hot at the bend
🤯 wow love that! I'd never thought that far ahead to what would happen if one was to keep working a bit of iron with a hammer. Because most know that working and manipulating metal causes it to heat up, however like I said I'd never thought what would happen if you kept working that bit of metal! I appreciate the insight, cool video cheers!
I used to do something similar in school with the zipper on my pencil bag. I would rapidly zip and unzip until it would get hot and then I would get people to touch it and we would burn ourselves.
The density of the metal doesn't increase markedly (and only if it had a lot of impurities) by striking it. Instead the reasons for this behaviour are threefold: 1. As the metal becomes thinner you are transferring more of the kinetic energy of the strike into the anvil instead of the metal rod. 2. Due to the flatter piece the ratio of surface to volume increases, which increases heat dissipation. 3. Due to the increase in malleability, the strike isn't stopped by the metal rod. Instead again there's more energy 'lost' into the metal.
When I was 13, I needed to make a screwdriver quickly. I went to my dads anvil, and flattened it out. For some reason it touched it and I couldn’t see it was hot, because it was a sunny day, but in the matter of one small touch, I burned through my skin. I was fine,but I guess I learned that the hard way?
This actually works faster than most firelighting methods.
If you're lost in the woods remember to bring your hammer, anvil and steel bar with you.
There's never a day I am without my trusty iron anvil. It's like my second wife. As for my first wife, that's my hammer.
@@ferociousmaliciousghostmy wife is the anvil
@@ferociousmaliciousghost ...you hit your wives?
+2@@ferociousmaliciousghost
@@ferociousmaliciousghost Please don't tell me what the steel bar is...
"Hey bro, can I borrow your lighter?"
"Sure"
*Hands him a hammer*
"Hey bro thanks or the hammer, don't worry I brought my own steel bar and anvil" 😂
It was actually a bet in a german game show called wetten dass... if a blacksmith can strike a piece of iron so hard that it gets hot enough to light a match or cigarette, was about 40 years ago or so
Who talks like that? Idiot
@@Hans-Yolowith one strike? What are the rules?
@@DannyGruesome no, like seen in the video, stretching out the iron till it gets hot enough
ua-cam.com/video/-59SuYjfKmc/v-deo.html if i remember right it was this bet, sorry its only in german
"mikaeli, you've hit metal 17 times, you are now proud owner of this photograph of motorcar"
I am happy
“but property is theft so you are under arrest”
fair enough@@Licktenstienisnotaword8005
@@Licktenstienisnotaword8005fair enough!
@@costin9991 you can't say fairer than that.
I knew this was possible, but I had no idea it would happen so quick! I thought you would have to be striking it for like an hour (maybe not actually an hour, but my point is I thought it would take a while, like to the point of pure exhaustion on the part of the smith). In the first half of the video it took ~38 strikes until it began to glow and in the second clip it was around 19 strikes. Incredible!
oh its how they keep steel hot when rolling in a rolling mill all the energy put into it keeps it hot so they dont have to reheat if anything they have to cool it down to keep it from getting too hot and damaging the equiptment or messing up the chemistry of the steel est veritates
it actually makes sense. because of high temperature difference, heat is quickly dissipated. to get a red glow, you have to use big enough hammer, and strike little enough material to give it kinetic energy faster than it can dissipate through heat
Super late reply but I only watched the video now. I heard striking a piece of metal like this is a bit like a blacksmiths match.
They would hit the rods until red hot, like in the video, and then use them to light their forge.
@DesidiosumCorporosumHominis wow that us super interesting and cool way to start a fire!
@@iEnergySupply I thought I should say that the forge wasn't always lit this way. Fire was everywhere in the middle ages and any other time periods where blacksmithing was ubiquitous.
You could easily light a stick in a nearby fire and use that but sometimes it was faster to hammer a piece of metal until it was red hot
I genuinely thought this was going to either be a meme post or he would use an automated hammer. no idea the guy was just gonna raw dog that rod
Same!
I thought it would just be a reversed video of an already hot piece being hammered while it cools. I'm surprised and impressed
I did not see any raw, dog, nor raw dog. Not culinary, literally, nor suspiciously. That being said, I would advice anyone to not raw dog a metal rod.
@@ultimaxkom8728 Jesus christ this comment hurts to read
@@dannywhite132 Congratulations, that means you're still sane.
I love everything about this. The science, the philosophy, the poetry.
the hammer , the iron, the hitting
The mouth, the tongue, the talking
The rhythm
Me too, as I procrastinate on youtube, squandering my opportunity to make today a good day.
every day is a good day when you are alive @@Mirrale
My cousin had a full blacksmith shop on his farm, his father and grandfather had been trained blacksmiths and farriers. He got a piece of rough iron hot enough with a hammer to light a cigarette with, then gave me a machine formed wire nail and told me if I couldn't get it red hot I was a wimp. I worked on it for at least 30 minutes and it never got red hot, I just realized why after 40 years.
Your cousin found out that you had dedication.
@@secondarycontainment4727 I'm pretty sure I wasn't the first gullible mark to fall for this, he probably learned it from his dad or grandfather. On the bright side, after I joined the military I was far less likely to fall for tasks like fetching a roll of flight line, or a tube of suspension line grease!😄
@@owensomers8572
Or that age old “left-handed” screwdriver!!! 😂😂😂 Thank you for your service!!! Have a great day.
Damn, took you 40 years to realize you're a wimp?
@@owensomers8572Our favorite on the Army flight line was to sent newbies down to Artillery to pick up a "cannon report"!
Congratulations Ivan, you successfully hit metal 17 times!
and hes proud owner of dis photograph of motocar
@@ChristopherNoUnKing but the property is theft, so now he is under arrest
@@Madmx-vo4ev thats fair enough
You can't say fairer than fair enough
I am happy
I tried to do this with a nail when I was like 15. It worked, but the nail gave out eventually and pretty much exploded. Some of the shrapnels hit some of my fingers but nothing too serious, I just took them out. Well, after it healed I noticed a strange discoloration around my index finger's PIP joint. It turned out one of the shrapnels had gone pretty deep so it wasn't noticeable at all initially. The discoloration was literally the shrapnel being visible through the skin. By then, the skin was already healed so it couldn't be removed without surgery. However, I didn't really want to tell my parents because my mom would definitely freak out, so I just let it be and watched for any possible signs of sepsis. Eventually, I told them but they didn't believe me. Until I stuck a magnet to my finger. Pretty neat party trick. After like half a year of living with it, I ended up surgically removing it myself with a few needles and a cosmetics kit. In conclusion, I was (still am) an absolute dumbass.
That was the revenge of the iron.
If you taped the magnet to your finger it might have come out eventually
@@Henrix1998I wonder if this would work, someone please comment on this.
@@Henrix1998 yes, no, maybe with a giantic MRT magnet (lucks he didn‘t had a MRT scan that would‘ve ended badly)
@@libraryofgurkistan no, I mean just a normal fridge magnet. The cells replacing slowly would push it out
when i was a kid, while my father was setting up a new house for his parents, i would always play with discarded fencing and bend it repeatedly until the curved part turned black (and sometimes a really dull red). Cool to see this on a larger scale !
I’m trying to picture the type of fencing you’re taking about. Was it chain link fence pieces, bending the steel wire, or was it more like sheet metal?
@@davidswanson5669 i think it was chain link? if it wasn’t, they were just steel wires used for chicken coops, makeshift farms, and other things (my grandpa is from provincial philippines)
@@davidswanson5669 Any metal/wire that is soft/thin enough to bend quickly but hard/thick enough to not snap fast has potential to glow. If you carefully start the bend in the middle of a longer piece the leverage helps. You can get a paperclip hot enough to burn yourself and discolour slightly.
But similar to above there were various wires in my dads shed that would get super hot or glow, fencing wire being one.
Mikaeli, you successfully hit metal 17 times, so you are now proud owner of this photograph of motor car.
i am not happy
Congratulations Salem you have hit Metal 90 times so you are now proud owner of this Photograph of Motorcar
I am happy.
I am not happy.
“You successfully hit metal 17 times”
Bros ot arrested after this video
Back when I was in school we had cheap thin metal dinnerware, and we would flex them back and forth until they got super hot, then touch someone's arm and make them jump out of their chair. They didn't get anywhere near red hot, but they could leave a bit of a welt akin to a paintball hit. Obviously this wasn't something you'd do to just anyone, only your friends that you knew were cool with that level of ribbing.
Nowadays I think they all use plastic dinnerware, and that's probably more to do with jerks straight up shanking each other if you give them metal forks.
I think it's gone for three reasons. Stabbings, stealing, and plastic is just cheaper than metal.
Probably use wood in CA
I still have a metal tea spoon I stole from school in yr3 (2nd grade for Americans 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💵💵💵$$$$) I’m currently in my final year of secondary school in yr11 (sophomore)
Lol
I’m impressed. Knew it could happen, never got a chance to play around with it in person. Cool to know
Not cool
You are now proud owner of this *dramatic music* photograph of motorcar
Mikaeli, you successfully hit metal 17 times
So, you are now proud owner of this photograph, of motorcar
@@anaveragesoviettankfromthe70sI am heppi
@@L_Ratio_01 but property is theft
fair enough...
I was looking for this...
Long story short he is really good at beating it.
This is really a beautiful idea about opportunity, demonstrated here rather poignantly.
This is used to traditionally start the initial lighting of a Japanese charcoal forge for steel making. However, I don't entirely agree with your physics explanation. Nitpicking, but the iron isn't really in the form of "molecules", per se. the oxide on the outside would be molecules, so I'll let it slide. It's really just iron atoms. There's more going on than "compacting" of the atoms (that's not even really happening very much, the metal is drawn out following poisson's ratio precisely because it's mostly incompressible). The opportunity to keep glowing runs out because on the one hand as the work piece becomes thinner, it cools faster, requiring more energy to stay glowing, and on the other, as the cross section diminishes, the number of atoms available to generate heat through internal friction also diminishes. Heat transfer out of the work goes up, and heat production internally through friction goes down, and you can never again get it red hot from striking by hand alone.
the number of atoms available to generate heat through internal friction also diminishes.
What I was thinking as well!
Silence you cow
@@t0kerc177😂😂😂Harsh. But yeah. Love that venom.👍🏼
@@t0kerc177I think you're replying to a dead person dummy
🤓
I had no idea that could happen so fast. I thought you were gonna put it under a super fast power hammer.
The only reason it happens at all is because he's smashing a very tiny rod of metal. This effect is negligible at best when you're working with larger pieces for things such as sword or armor due to the good heat conductivity of iron/steel. I always found this quote amusing since if you tried doing this with iron/steel from the medieval ages when anvils were most used, they'd almost certainly shatter semi reliably due to the relative metallurgy compared to what we begun using in the 19-20th century.
Fair enough. Maybe I'll win a photograph of a motorcar.
"Mikaeli, you've successfully hit metal 17 times you win this photograoh of motorcar"
"I am happy"
"you sucsesfully hit mettal 29 times, so you are now proud owner of this photographic motor car."
congratulations mikaeli, you have won a pictograph of car.
I've known this quote for ages but I've never, until just now, thought that it was something you could really do. This has been illuminating, to say the least. Thank you.
I didn't know this existed and now it's one of my favorite videos of all time. Brilliant. 👍👍
Super cool. I once burnt myself on metal I was trying to fatigue snap ( by bending it over and back again and again) didn't realise could get it red hot though.
This man is very wise. I feel like the karate kid now.
Hammer on, hammer off, stop, hammer time.
I love that you threw in the philosophy at the end!
You are now proud owner of this photograph of motorcar
But property is theft so you are now under arrest
Fair enought...
This was exactly how Japanese blacksmiths would ignite their fires get a rod red hot and viola! Frigging cool shit if you ask me.
Rozsa Miklos has a great Voila concerto, you should check it out 😂
more like hot shit
Source?
Give this guy his photograph of motorcar
“Mikaeli you have successfully hit metal 17 times!”
"So you are now proud owner of zis, fotokraff of motorkar"
"But property is theft so you are under arrest"
@@Ixarus6713 "Fer enogh"
i knew it would get hot never knew it would go as far as red hot. learn something new every year
The quote at the end really hit me thank you
Mikaeli, you successfully hit the metal 17 times so you are now proud owner of zis photograph of motorcar
Fair enough
I just learned that Fallout 4 got the name of the foundry from this institute.
Mikaeli, you've successfully hit metal 17 times, so you are now owner of this photograph of motorcar.
Was looking for this 😭
@sigesikhs181however property is theft so you are now under arrest
I think it’s really funny that in Civilization 4, the quote for iron working is “you should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot” then in Civilization 5 (the next game) the quote is “do not wait to strike until the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking”. Literally the exact opposite advice.
I think it works since its a different interpretation. Dont waste the chances and create your own chances
Wouldn't the combination of these two advices be: "do not wait to strike until the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking, and when it is glowing hot you should hammer your iron" - it seems like these hammer people like to strike that iron in all circumstances
Technically it says it recommends you strike while it's glowing hot optimally but also, that you should be proactive and not just wait for that "perfect" time. As you can reach that point with your own hard work. If it stated "do not strike while the iron is cold" then it would be contradicting.
"Mikaeli you successfully hit metal 17 times"
A wise man once said “Mikeali you have successfully hit metal 17 times”
This is awesome. It's been a very long time since seeing a video of something brought me genuine joy.
I subscribed and i hope to see anything else you might want to post.
Mikaeli would be proud
That is a very hot subject and cannot be debated without getting warm under the collar
* hammers iron so it becomes red-hot *
The iron: DREAAAM OF CALIFOOORNICAAAATIOOON
DREEAAAAM OF CALIFOORNICAAATIOOOONNN
You can experience a similar effect at home. Find a soft piece of plastic like the ones that come on new clothes and bend it back and forth rapidly. The cloudy seam that develops will eventually become hot to the touch. Not as cool as this, but a similar concept.
Copper or stell wire, can make this too, just be careful, or you can burn yourself.
Is this how some started to believe that slap cooking a chicken was possible?
Lmao that experiment was hilarious.
If slap cooking worked...i would have no butt left after all the spankings i got growing up ;)
I just know UA-cam finna show this in everyone’s feed sooner or later 😂
until now i thought its a myth.
Lazy Strike
Naaa....in the middle ages it was a common way to light fires or torches.
Came for the red hot iron. Stayed for the life lessons.
Friction is a really underrated way of heating stuff up. Most people immediately think about fire, cooking, or even electricity when asked how to make things hot quick, but not friction. Have you tried dragging your finger on carpet very fast? Only 2-3 swoops is enough to make a first degree burn! (depending on how fast you’re doing it ofc).
Feel like I just got a combo meal of knowledge, wisdom and skill
started the video to see the piece getting hot, ended the video with 203 additional brain cells
mikaeli you successfully hit metal 17 times
Congratulations! You have now reached level 6 smithing.
thats awesome. this reminds me of being in art class in highschool and we were making a wire frame for a sculpture, and I had the bright idea of drawing the wire quickly on the edge of the table until it was red hot. it was so hot, it caught the edge of the wood table on fire for a couple seconds. if youve never tried this, you should do it, its awesome. it was a stripped electrical wire, so it was copper.
Wow, Saugus Ironworks is my favorite foundry in both fiction AND real life- that's pretty cool. Not important to anything, but pretty cool. Loved the call out to you guys in Fallout, one of my favorite locations- cuz big industrial steel and ironworks are cool as heck.
getting this recommended after 9yrs
youtube videos back then>>>>>>
I never expected to learn a life lesson from a video of a dude hitting iron on an anvil with a hammer
I counted around 85 strikes from the hammer to the iron bar. It's impressive what anyone can accomplish by focusing on striking with all their might and effort.
Glad to find this 9 years later
The algorithm knew I needed to see this to fall asleep
mikaeli. you have successfully hit metal 17 times
Fair enough
Man outright compressed a solid
never in my life could I have realised this, thank you
How am I so motivated at 3 am while watching this video?
There is some documentary video about japanese blacksmiths and he was showing that this is how they used to light up furnaces, very interesting method
9 years ago. This video was made 9 years ago back when I was so much younger, but could've still happened upon it just like I did tonight. This video, made 9 years ago, that existed after me, that I could've stumbled upon just the same. This video from 9 years ago that will exist for so much longer, but did not exist for years... I know this must not make much sense, that maybe there was no point in writing it, and maybe you'd be right. Maybe this is just a foggy mind rant made at 2:30 in the morning. But still, I'm glad I found this video. For no more profound reason than it made me happy.
you started weak but ended strong. like the metal. good job.
Coolest video I've seen in a while⚒
Fair enough, you cant say it fairer than fair enough
I thought this was gonna be something like slapping a chicken until it is cooked, didnt know this was possible. Very interesting
Wow! I would have thought you'd need a machine to hit fast/hard enough to heat it! Incredible!
Now I finally understand why I sometimes got my fingers burned on nails that got unexpectedly hot while bending them to get them out of wood
The molecules don’t get any more compact they just shift around. You’re not changing the density by hitting it with a hammer.
🤓 🤡
you can absolutely compress metal alloys. that`s how bronze swords became usable!
The hardness of metal has to do with "grains". Heating it up changes the grain sizes. Quenching has a role to play too.
It's not density. It's the arrangement of molecules. It does NOT get denser.
This is basically the smithing equivalent of twisting the stick of a plastic hanger and touching the white part to feel it's hot.
That explains why the tools I have to "improvise" get so warm
Ah, Civilization 4/5. They taught me so many great quotes, this one included. Thank you for this presentation.
Got the Peter griffin fit
The ritual lighting of a Japanese swordsmith’s forge is done using a hammer-heated piece of iron.
I think of this as a useful fire starting method if you have some basic items.
I like that the name is Saugus Ironworks and thats the name of the raider smelt factory in Fallout 4
Love the cutprotection para-aramid gloves
that's pretty cool never seen that on a Survivor show
I’m surprised more people didn’t know this, I remember back in elementary school I would bend either plastic or metal pen caps back and forth super quick until they got super hot at the bend
🤯 wow love that! I'd never thought that far ahead to what would happen if one was to keep working a bit of iron with a hammer. Because most know that working and manipulating metal causes it to heat up, however like I said I'd never thought what would happen if you kept working that bit of metal! I appreciate the insight, cool video cheers!
This video was so eloquent for a giy beating a piece of iron with a hammer
congratulation, you hitted metal 17 times
Congratulations!!! Youve reached the end of UA-cam.....
Who do i see about getting my time back??😮
A few times during summer I made fire spark when I struck wood with my ax, cool to see always
That pun at the end, difference between success and failure are few degrees. 😂
I used to do something similar in school with the zipper on my pencil bag. I would rapidly zip and unzip until it would get hot and then I would get people to touch it and we would burn ourselves.
"Mikaeli you successfully hit metal 17 times."
The density of the metal doesn't increase markedly (and only if it had a lot of impurities) by striking it. Instead the reasons for this behaviour are threefold:
1. As the metal becomes thinner you are transferring more of the kinetic energy of the strike into the anvil instead of the metal rod.
2. Due to the flatter piece the ratio of surface to volume increases, which increases heat dissipation.
3. Due to the increase in malleability, the strike isn't stopped by the metal rod. Instead again there's more energy 'lost' into the metal.
Thank you for this, was looking for a better explanation
Always noticed metal would be hot after giving it a few good wacks very cool
Mikeli, you successfully hit metal 17 times, you’re now the proud owner of this, photograph of motorcar
but property is theft
@@One_Soldier64127 so you’re now under arrest
@@richardtrager7125fair enough
@@richardtrager7125fair enough
Lmao, I saw this video appear after finished watching Blue Eye Samurai few days ago 😂
Is this mikaeli referance?????
this is also a fun bit of physics that shows just how much energy is tossed around on a day to day basis
When I was 13, I needed to make a screwdriver quickly. I went to my dads anvil, and flattened it out. For some reason it touched it and I couldn’t see it was hot, because it was a sunny day, but in the matter of one small touch, I burned through my skin. I was fine,but I guess I learned that the hard way?
my man made this a lesson in philosophy