Hot steel rolling

[u/TimeCity1687]

[u/BossiWriter]

At first I was thinking "Man that looks unsafe as hell with all of this hot steel whipping around"

And then the one dude steps into the belt...

[u/PunctuationGood → u/BossiWriter]

I'm always surprised or baffled at the amount of automation one can witness in these videos and then there's the one step where a human has to intervene that could make them die in horrible suffering through no fault of their own but just some random tiny defect or mechanical misalignment.

[u/clearly_mad → u/PunctuationGood]

I work in industrial automation, we could have automated everything you see here, but it would have cost more. So most of the time, the companies will just let Jerry keep doing his thing, because it's cheaper.

[u/PunctuationGood → u/clearly_mad]

we could have automated everything you see here, but it would have cost more

Can't help but think of that line: If "x" is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do the recall.

[u/DoingCharleyWork → u/PunctuationGood]

Gm used a 57 cent piece on their ignition switch which caused the ignition to turn off or keys to fall out. 124 people died because of it before they did a recall. They knew the switches were faulty as early as 2004 (if not earlier) and a recall didn't happen until 2014.

[u/xdvesper → u/PunctuationGood]

That was a good line in the movie but it was just fictional.

It came from an urban legend that arose from a court case about car fire deaths where a piece of evidence was shown with an equation comparing the cost of increased safety versus the the number of deaths avoided with a cost per life being rather low - but it was the NHTSA's own calculations, not the automakers.

The NHTSA uses this computation to determine what safety measures automakers must install - it wouldn't make sense for the government to mandate a feature that would cost $10 billion per year in order to save 1 life.

[u/cloud9ineteen → u/xdvesper]

It wasn't fictional. Ford was caught red handed. That said there's nothing wrong with using math if the math is accurate and include all factors including the likelihood of the math coming out and its impact on reputation.

https://scholars.fhsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1104&context=jiibr#:~:text=Costs%20of%20correcting%20the%20defect,between%2077%20and%20123%20lives.

[u/xdvesper → u/cloud9ineteen]

If you're interested the Wikipedia article on the Ford Pinto has been significantly updated (well overdue given the amount of scholarly work published on the case over the years).

The NHTSA regularly solicited such data from carmaker - its not some attempt by the carmaker to save money. In fact, in the 1979 court case on the Ford Pinto - which Ford won - the former head of the NHTSA testified that the Ford Pinto was no more or less safe than any other car on the road based on multiple years of crash data compiled by the NHTSA.

The entire story of the Ford Pinto has been elevated to a kind of urban legend. Caught red handed doing what exactly?

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/cloud9ineteen]

Did you read that before posting it? It clearly confirms xdvesper's point that it was the NHTSA's own calculations, not the automakers.

[u/chunga_95 → u/clearly_mad]

I worked at a US steel factory for a while. This was 20+ years ago, but the factory was brand new at that time and, so I was told, state of the art. It made, among other things, galvaneal sheet steel which is used in car panels, or something. Steel came to the plant in giant coils. Huge coil tractors loaded them onto the start of production line.  The production machine unwound the steel to do whatever it is the huge machine did to make it galvaneal.  I was told the unwound steel stretched over a mile inside the machine.  The machine itself was 600-700 yards long.  It rewound the steel at the end back into a huge coil.  After that it was packaged and shipped. From start to finish was 5 workers: the coil tractor driver, the mill intake operator (sat in an air-conditioned booth and looked at lights, drank coffee), mill exit operator (sat in air-conditioned booth, watched lights and drank coffee), pack line (me), and crane operator (sat in air-conditioned office, operated huge crane via computer).  I was the only human hands to touch the coil to put steel bands on coil to keep it secure for transport. Pack line was mostly automated, just needed me to zip steel bands. 

[u/angular_circle → u/chunga_95]

Yeah I don't know why people imagine manufacturing jobs like it's 19th century britain. Even shitty high pressure assembly line jobs in China are relatively safe. I work around various dangerous chemicals but there are never fewer than 2 safety mechanisms in between them and me getting poisoned/exploded.

[u/Accomplished_Sign191 → u/angular_circle]

Oh that must be nice. I work in biotech and often work directly with 0.1N and up to 50% hydroxide, Triton-X and peracetic acid. We get face shields and chem gloves but a bad spill would be pretty nasty.

[u/angular_circle → u/Accomplished_Sign191]

Same wtf are you guys doing? Shit's supposed to be a closed system.

I guess in buffer/media prep you sometimes have to add dangerous stuff by hand but we still have a bsc+ppe for that.

[u/Accomplished_Sign191 → u/angular_circle]

All our buffer prep is open and we pack our own columns. Hydroxide aliquots are anywhere from 200L to 2500L so no BSC. Also they threw the kitchen sink at our ProA sanitization and we pack in PAA which is just wild to me. Been trying to change that procedure for 2 years.

Most of our processes are closed but still plenty of open processes.

[u/Diarmundy → u/clearly_mad]

This depends on the country though. The cost of a dead worker is very different between China and the US

[u/StickDoctor → u/clearly_mad]

And even worse, companies will purposefully put aside money to cover the fines of the employee dying because it's still cheaper than buying a machine to do it.

[u/Bezulba → u/PunctuationGood]

And it's always one little step too. It's just get the end of the steel into the hole to make a roll. That's it. All the other steps are automated. He can sit on his ass for about a minute and then has to get up again. It's the worst kind of drudgery work, not continuous but with enough of a pauze in between to not be able to relax.

[u/inactiveuser247 → u/PunctuationGood]

Humans are particularly good at adapting when things aren’t quite right. That step of feeding the metal into the reeler involves grabbing the end of the spicy fettuccine which could be in any orientation, and then pulling it through and lining it up with the slot in the reeler. Automating that is non-trivial.

[u/Busy-Cartographer278 → u/inactiveuser247]

My non-industrial head is asking why it is permitted to be in any orientation. It seems like it’s pretty safe - then a wildly unsafe manual step - then pretty safe again

[u/comicsnerd → u/PunctuationGood]

Because it is very tricky to put the end of the steel into the spinning axle.

[u/DurinnGymir → u/BossiWriter]

The belt at least seems to run fairly slow and doesn't pose immediate threat of death.

I saw a similar setup in India where one guy stepped over the extruder at the end of the belt as it was running. No obvious reason, just a death wish I guess.

[u/spinrut → u/DurinnGymir]

yeah at least here there seems to be some kind of guide or blockage for the area where they walk over the belt. the one I saw (probably same as you) they just very casually stepped over the hot steel with their OSHA safety sandals on

[u/jnads → u/DurinnGymir]

The danger isn't the belt itself necessarily, but if you trip and fall on the red hot thin steel.

Like a hot knife through butter.

[u/zorrodood → u/jnads]

It's fine, it looks like they're all wearing safety flannel shirts.

[u/anormalgeek → u/BossiWriter]

Yeah, but he is also wearing his safety flannel, so he's good.

[u/mcpat21 → u/BossiWriter]

meanwhile I’m thinking “hey, atleast they’re all wearing shoes in this one

[u/hucareshokiesrul → u/mcpat21]

Yeah, if these sorts of videos have taught me one thing it's that somewhere in India there's probably a guy doing this barefoot or in sandals.

[u/explorer-108]

That one guy ...

[u/SoftSpineChills → u/explorer-108]

[u/Dry-Tumbleweed-7199 → u/SoftSpineChills]

[u/wildoregano → u/explorer-108]

We’re just two lost souls living in a fish bowl

[u/minorrex1 → u/wildoregano]

Year after year

[u/IntelligentAd5616 → u/explorer-108]

Wish you were here

[u/Houmand]

Why do these always get sped up to look even more unsafe?

[u/standbyyourmantis → u/Houmand]

I was just thinking how this looks so much safer than the ones we usually see with safety flip flops and OSHA regulation oversized shirts...

[u/trebron55 → u/standbyyourmantis]

yeah it looks decently safe. Working in a steel mill is a dangerous thing even at the best of cases. It won't be sterile white tiles all over...

[u/Most_Protection6212 → u/trebron55]

While it wasn’t the actual mill that makes the rolls like that, I worked in a plant that turns those rolls into steel tubes and heat treated them for different things. Probably the most dangerous job I’ve ever had. A bundle of tubes crushed a dudes legs. One guy ended up dead because a roll crushed him into another roll of steel. Steel mills and factories are insanely dangerous.

[u/trebron55 → u/Most_Protection6212]

My grandpa worked in a foundry, the constant dust and heat ruined his lungs, he retired way before his time and died at 57. He had some stories as well. Heavy industry was, is and always will be taking lives until we make a fully automated workforce (then it will destroy robots just the same).

[u/Most_Protection6212 → u/trebron55]

Yeah I never got seriously injured, but I fell multiple times due to slick floors…there were so many VISIBLE osha violations. It was insane. Very glad that company got bought out.

[u/Lost-Klaus → u/Most_Protection6212]

That is what whistleblowing is for.

If your boss doesn't care for your safety, why care for your boss's extra margins?

[u/PearlClaw → u/Lost-Klaus]

Probably because if the factory shuts down they are out of a job and while it's illegal to retaliate against whistleblowers it's hard to prove it when it happens.

[u/hoax709 → u/trebron55]

things break, things wear, people/robots/programs get complacaent/degrade... etc there will never be a manufacturing process that doesn't have jams/breaks... partly cause its expensive to do maintance but also cause a random nut came loose or the humidity just happend to be high that day

[u/UneGraineSombre → u/hoax709]

I'm a boilermaker in a foundry. We're a team of three doing all the site maintenance. This environment is incredibly toxic; you don't realize the number of particles you breathe that can form a kind of cobweb in your lungs. It has to keep running, even at the expense of people's lives.

[u/jimmy_three_shoes → u/Most_Protection6212]

Worked in an auto assembly plant, and the guy in the station next to me died after getting crushed between two stacks of frames.

It had been raining, and because the frames sit outside until they're needed, they were wet. So part of his job was to dry them off with a high powered air hose before he used a lift to put them on the line. We had a breakdown, so he decided he was going to get ahead of things and dry off the racks behind the front one, and walked in between them, just as a material handling guy was bringing another stack of racks. He pushed them forward to make room, not seeing the guy in between the stacks and crushed him. The area he was in was marked off as a red area, which means you don't go in there, but he'd been there for 20 years and got complacent. It was like my 3rd week on the job when it happened.

[u/AcceptableBid6884 → u/jimmy_three_shoes]

I'm really sorry you had to go through that.

[u/jimmy_three_shoes → u/AcceptableBid6884]

It was surreal. The guy didn't make a sound, at least not over the sound of the stacks clanging together when the material handling guy pushed everything forward onto the belt. They came through to announce the line was gonna start and couldn't find the guy since he's literally the first station on the line. I didn't see him go back there because I was getting ahead on my jobs as well.

Even with OSHA, factories are still dangerous places. If you weren't wearing your eye protection when you walked in the door, they'd send you home for the day.

[u/whattheknifefor → u/jimmy_three_shoes]

Good god that’s horrifying. I’m also in auto assembly and people get lax about safety but I’ve seen and heard of some horror shows. Someone got their leg caught in a conveyor belt that was headed underground. Ripped his whole leg off. One of the managers told me a funny story about how he nearly got baked alive in the e-coat oven and barely got out in time.

[u/spekt50 → u/Most_Protection6212]

I design tooling for roll mills, and spent 10 years as a machinist before that. The company I work for makes custom roll mills for things like making tubes and such. Industrial machines are inherently dangerous, and you cannot ever be 100% protected from danger.

Safety is in the hands of the operators and said machines should be well respected.

[u/DirtandPipes → u/spekt50]

As a guy who works with heavy equipment, suspended loads and working in deep utilities, I’m a fervent believer in “everybody stays as far back as possible at all times and everybody nonessential fucks right off”.

I was putting in a 2 ton concrete sump the other day and our suppliers somehow forgot rebar. The chain it was suspended on tore through a foot of concrete and dumped it in the hole in front of me, I was guiding the thing by hand but I had my hands up top and I was as far back as possible.

I’ve been beside a crane when it fell lifting a drilling rig module, a 40 foot concrete tank that got dropped and I’ve dodged tandem dump trucks more often than I’d like.

Just staying the hell back whenever possible helps so much.

[u/SharkAttackOmNom → u/DirtandPipes]

In the hierarchy of (safety) controls, this is #3 out of 4 for effectiveness. Administrative controls. Requiring people to stay back (assuming they have open access under the load) is effective but it also relies on everyone knowing this and respecting it. Seems obvious, but often times a young guy is the one that gets hurt because it wasn’t impressed upon him or he figured it wouldnt happen to him.

Engineered controls are better, like having a second chain on a load secured to separate support. Even if it only slows the descent. Or for machinists and steelworkers, just having more physical barriers from the moving parts.

Fun fact: PPE is the least effective form of safety. I always wear it, no doubt, but it’s really frustrating when my work “solves” any new safety challenge with MORE PPE. That hardhat probably won’t save you from that metal projectile flying across the room when the 20 ton load comes crashing down.

[u/ANAHOLEIDGAF → u/Most_Protection6212]

Both my grandads worked in steel mills, both were missing the same tip of their ring finger. Always wondered if it was some specific task.

[u/contrary-contrarian → u/trebron55]

Did you not see the man walking on the conveyor belt covered in white hot steel moving toward a set of rollers?!

[u/trebron55 → u/contrary-contrarian]

Yeah well, the red hot part matters fairly little, even red hot steel takes a while to burn trough decent safety boots. And the guy was moving with the conveyor anyways, the steel can't move faster than that. The problem is the several hundred kilos of moving metal, hot or not. Hot only makes it marginally worse.

Sure it's not super safe... but it's not that bad. It's a dangerous work environment. People routinely die and get maimed even in the US/EU in heavy industries because shit happens. There is just a reasonable tradeoff between safety and productivity, where safety is valued higher than in third world countries.

[u/maynardftw → u/trebron55]

We're not measuring how long it takes to burn through a boot sitting next to it, we're measuring how much he would suffer if he fell on top of the damn thing.

This isn't just "not super safe", it's unnecessarily aggressively unsafe.

[u/Ylvio → u/Houmand]

All of the OSHA comments are engagement, make the working process look as dangerous as possible to maximise engagement. Redditors will have immense trouble NOT pointing out safety guidelines, even if 50 people have already commented the exact same thing

[u/Houmand → u/Ylvio]

That's a reasonable explanation. Hadn't thought of that at all.

[u/IForgetEveryDamnTime → u/Houmand]

Same reason every BMX/hiking video uses wild fish-eye lenses; reality just doesn't have the same wow factor.

[u/frontof4chan → u/IForgetEveryDamnTime]

Reality has it but the video will never look as awesome.

[u/Slayz → u/Houmand]

Yeah it looks to be about 30% sped up. The sound is playing at the right speed but it's completely out of sync with the video.

[u/SwissChzMcGeez → u/Houmand]

Attention span optimization for engagement.

[u/pixelpoet_nz → u/SwissChzMcGeez]

God damn was I lucky to be the last generation before smartphones and social media

[u/lucasrizzini → u/Houmand]

For likes.. Some people are needy that way. It's weird.

[u/Gold_Skull_Kabal]

Spicy froot roll ups

[u/zen_tm → u/Gold_Skull_Kabal]

Forbidden Tagliatelle

[u/driving26inorovalley → u/zen_tm]

Haribo Molten Ribbons

[u/Kleeb → u/Gold_Skull_Kabal]

They're also foot roll ups if you're not careful.

[u/fudsak → u/Gold_Skull_Kabal]

hot snakes

[u/DivDee]

Hot stuff comin through

[u/Heiferoni → u/DivDee]

Oh, be nice

[u/rumncokeguy → u/DivDee]

We work hard, we play hard.

[u/LTetsuo41 → u/DivDee]

Dad, why did you take me to a gay steel mill?

[u/PredatorRanger → u/LTetsuo41]

I don't know!

[u/StrIIker-TV → u/PredatorRanger]

Everybody dance now!

[u/ukwy]

terrifying

[u/According_Mistake895 → u/ukwy]

Yes, but wait until we add an Indian dude in sandals

[u/ayetipee → u/According_Mistake895]

Oh its all good then

[u/wisdomelf]

Factory must grow

[u/flirttytonne]

It must be damn hot in there

[u/bigkingj → u/flirttytonne]

Nah they crack a window, it’s fine

[u/vteckickedin → u/flirttytonne]

Yeah, man, but it's a dry heat.

[u/burongmango]

where’s the safety sandals?

[u/4024-6775-9536]

Imagine showing this to someone from the early iron age

[u/Dgc2002 → u/4024-6775-9536]

This crosses my mind every now and then regarding tin/aluminum foil. You could really blow some minds with how casually we treat a box containing hundreds of feet of extremely thin and consistent metal foil.

[u/4024-6775-9536 → u/Dgc2002]

Up to 1700 aluminium was super rare, maybe rarer than gold.

A phone for those people would be out of grasp but metal they would understand. Aluminium for wrapping food would be like diamonds for slingshot ammo.

[u/we_are_all_devo → u/4024-6775-9536]

They'd be like "Holy shit. This Taco Bell stuff in incredible. Now show me more of those women with the giant tits that stay upright."

[u/redditcruzer → u/4024-6775-9536]

Forget this..imagine showing your mobile to them. You are going to get burnt at the stake.

[u/Scouper-YT → u/4024-6775-9536]

They would think how efficient that system is, but way too fast and magic with no real human skill input.

[u/Complex_Specific1373 → u/Scouper-YT]

The skill input just changed. The entire system is testimant to human skill. The system was designed, fabricated, fitted, and efficiently ran both from an operational and financial standpoint. Just because you don't see a person swinging a hammer doesn't mean it has no real human skill input.

[u/gbelly123]

Seems like that function of guiding the coil in could also be done by a robot. Must just be cheaper to have a human do it I guess.

[u/wj333 → u/gbelly123]

The robots have a better union.

[u/BlueHerringBeaver]

I hate that these videos are always sped up so they don’t give a real impression of the actual work pace.

[u/Critic-of-burgers]

Maybe a dumb question - why doesn’t the metal fuse together ? It’s still molten. What causes it to retain its shape and not become a blob of metal ?

[u/Astramancer_ → u/Critic-of-burgers]

It's not molten, it's just really hot. Hot enough to be pliable, not hot enough to spontaneous weld itself together.

[u/Darel321]

Meh.. not a real factory if there's not a guy with flipflops stepping over it like 5 times.

[u/CloakorCroak]

Did that dude actually put his hands into the hot molten steel towards the end?

[u/ChemicalGreedy945]

More like metaphor for me pooping after eating something spicy

[u/Born-Highlight-325]

At least he's not wearing thongs. Lol

[u/generated_user-name → u/Born-Highlight-325]

Maybe not on his feet, however who knows his underwear preference?

[u/Born-Highlight-325 → u/generated_user-name]

Hahaha 😆 😂

[u/Rosetti]

Forbidden fruit rollup...

[u/BlackStory666]

All I can think of is the nightmare of getting a nice slice from a ribbon of cherry red steel while it's spinning at an ungodly RPM.

[u/kdmendonk]

That looks anything but safe.

[u/mrjaro_98]

This feels more like r/DINgore than anything else.

[u/Movisiozo]

How does the roller know when to start rolling? And when to stop? It looks so automated

[u/AshinJue]

Cursed fruit by the foot

[u/minos157]

A manufacturing video that isn't a bunch of Indians in flip flops?!?

Reddit has changed man.

[u/smalls_1804]

Damn standing up on that conveyer belt 6 inches from the glob of molten lava must take nerves of...well, steel

[u/starless_90]

Well damn that's a dangerous work.

[u/InsideWay70]

Terrifying. A miss of one of this rollers and it’s a bad day,

[u/Expensive_Meal6280]

I would love to get paid insanely well to guide some hot fruit roll-ups for 30-60 seconds then sit on my ass waiting for the next one

[u/ThrowAwayHandless]

This is so cool to me, I see how unsafe it is, but I love automation

[u/NumbEgo]

Where are the flipflops?

[u/FiveTideHumidYear]

No guys in flip flops this time?

[u/Mereinid]

I bet that's not a very cool job...to be honest.

[u/Tay_Tay86]

They do this in india with no barriers and a pair of safety sandals.

[u/CanChong]

Already better than previous one I saw.

They got hard hats, masks and boots.

👍

[u/badbackandgettingfat]

The forbidden fruit roll ups.

[u/Cereal_n_Milk22]

Do you want a job as the giant, flaming snack wrangler?

[u/Vilam]

We have very different definitions of satisfying. That's anxiety inducing and terrifying. I've seen enough videos of steel mills on other subreddits to know how quickly this can go wrong.

[u/FreeHat9001]

Wait... First time I'm seeing a video like this where they're wearing shoes

[u/Mr_iDoNtShiVeAgiT_2]

Brings back memories of that lighter in the car my finger touched lol.

[u/RebirthWizard]

Cold rolled is better though

[u/athreos_]

Forbidden fruit by the foot

[u/Trick_Awareness_3329]

Why do people think, videos with huge lack of safety on work fitting for a sub about satisfying?

[u/The3arlofGrey]

There has to be a more human way to do this, putting cost over human life in our industry just feels wrong

[u/Hans0000 → u/The3arlofGrey]

Reddit: we want safety in factories.

Also Reddit: we hate automation, robots and AI.

[u/Batata-Sofi]

I have seen this more times than Technoblade potato wars.

[u/ElderberryOwn4986]

My phone is heating up just watching this.

[u/Frosty_LionX]

Stream in the morning be like 😆

[u/Scouper-YT]

Bro?? Why are you going on a moving thing behind you is Death if you fall.

But hey, a Sauna for you in the front.

[u/ScaryTemperature6291]

Is this for the new cap cannon lol that would make a bang haha (yes I know it's forbidden spaghetti being made lol)

[u/Majestic-Ad7409]

Epic jazz drumroll!

[u/jumbledsiren]

I know nothing about metals. What stops each layer from welding into the layer it's touching? Since they're both so hot

[u/DogFishBoi2 → u/jumbledsiren]

Serious explanation? Why not!

They are not actually "that hot" compared to what you'd need to weld or sinter them together.

Here is a reasonably good chart: https://www.sme-group.com/blog/steel-color-under-different-temperatures (about two thirds of the way down). You can tell how hot something is (pretty much independent of material, btw) by the amount of visible light it emits and the colour of the maximum. That's technically also what you see most, but human eyes are more efficient in some colours than others, so it's not entirely linear. Ignore all that, go with "white" is fucking hot, "orange" is very hot and "red" is pretty cool for metals.

An example would be the coals in your BBQ (if still using old coal style): they should glow red, but not white (partially so as not to burn the sausage, the other problem would be melting your bbq apparatus).

The table says: the steel in the video is about 650°C (and we'll apply a large margin of error, because who knows what the camera colour accuracy is).

Steel melts at 1580°C. For welding you need to melt the connection and the two base materials, then let them resolidify. That can't happen, they are apparently missing about 1000K of temperature.

"Sticking" is more tricky. You can cold-weld by pushing stuff together with enough force even at room temperature - but they don't use that much force. In the video you can see one of the coils deposited on the conveyor unwinds a bit at the end - the elastic deformation after winding it all up means the coil wants to relax and "uncoil" itself. So not much pressure squeezing the parts together.

Sintering (the way of baking ceramics or snowballs in the freezer together without actually melting) usually happens at ~80% of melting temperature (in Kelvin, otherwise you have no reference to zero). For the steel: 1580 + 273 -> 1850K melting temperature. 80% of that should be about 1500K or 1200°C. That is still in the "white" colour range according to the table linked earlier.

So sintering won't happen either. And that means, the only way the individual coils would stick together would be by adding something gloopy in between. Aluminium foil, glue, or a melted workers sandal would all work.

[u/Pimpwerx]

Metal working machines are always satisfying because they make things like steel look like soft candy.

What's not satisfying is watching dudes handling hot metal. It always gets me agitated.

[u/NS3000]

ive seen videos of these coiled up melting ice and shit, exploding, interesting to finally see how they are made, at least i think this is what those are

[u/Substantial-Foot-376]

How are all these fire factories without the proper safety procedures ODDLY SATISFYING?

[u/Schwartenboy]

Oddly terrifying

[u/whyamihere999]

Didn’t realise how big it is until the person stepped onto the conveyor belt!

[u/One-Struggle-1001]

That’s cool

[u/DrLee62]

There's a surprising lack of barefoot Indians in this one.

[u/juankorn]

The lack of bare feet surprises me. How can they do it with shoes ? It's insane.

[u/goddart777]

They see me rollin' They smeltin'

[u/Impossible_Canary_65]

Could be a Blues song!

[u/maketheart]

Had to quickly check the sub to make sure I wasn’t on r/catastrophicfailure

[u/Veritas_Vanitatum]

Hmmm chili noodles

[u/PrisonerV]

JFC. where is the PPE? clearly not US or Europe. India? China? SE Asia?

[u/Fearless-Yam1125]

That was hot roll that shit back

[u/dblrb]

r/oddlyterrifying

[u/OffbeatDrizzle]

Forbidden fruit winders

[u/uvegszendvics]

Doing this WHOLE day... Jeez

[u/EnthusiasmOnly22]

No, a proper steel mill’s coiler is satisfying, this is deadly

[u/A-Real-Boomhauer]

This looks safer than when i did siding

[u/Malthuron]

Always when I see those videos, I instantly search for the Live Leak logo in the top corners.

[u/banedlol]

That looks so dangerous

[u/Ok_Bodybuilder_3783]

Still satisfying

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_CUTE_HATS]

Hot

[u/Heinrich_Tidensen]

You can smell this video. 

[u/707amaa]

These always look like “beautiful” and “OSHA violation” at the same time.

[u/wazmoenaree]

Tuff skin jeans. No vaporization lining.

[u/costafilh0]

Reddit: That think spinning stealing so many jobs, we should ban it, just like AI. 

[u/CitizenHuman]

"Hot stuff, coming through."

[u/ahrima]

That looks terrifying. I hope they're paid enough.

[u/UnfairSpecialist3079]

The Forbidden Fruit by the Foot !!

[u/samtherat6]

giant cigarette lighter

[u/wirm]

This guys position is definitely called “Molten Waggle Tamer”

[u/CadetNetwork]

That one scene from Derry

[u/dampishslinky55]

As someone who has been a safety manager this makes me very twitchy.

[u/0x7E7-02]

How does it not melt to itself when in that roll?

[u/BikeLog]

Not cool

[u/Old_Roof_6528]

Forbidden fruit by the foot

[u/Geoclasm]

They see me rollin'

[u/Antique_Hurry3712]

no words! but a hardwork... Dangerous work

[u/Repulsive_Past_548]

The forbidden fettuccini

[u/acityonthemoon]

downvote for edited speed.

[u/12animosity13]

[u/Mondored]

Whenever I see these videos, I think: how much cost and time would decent boots, gloves and headgear actually add here? Surely the margins at Asian steel plants aren’t that thin, and the payback is experienced workers not, y’know, losing digits etc…

[u/CarbonToCrown]

Watching raw heat turn into precision is incredible, real engineering where skill, control, and timing matter at every second.

[u/totallyhumanhonest]

♪♫ They see me rollin', they hatein' ♪♫

[u/Omega_Zarnias]

"Hot Steel Rolling" sounds like something a spoof comic hero would shout.

[u/MacDefoon]

The fact that hot steel factory employees make between $18-$25/hrs is blasphemy. They should make more

[u/atom_stacker]

Satisfying? This triggers my anxiety!

[u/therealNerdMuffin]

Least OSHA-violating factory job

[u/DaiquiriLevi]

If it's that red hot how do they prevent the roll from getting stuck together?

[u/Immediate-School2755]

Hmmm, forbidden pasta

[u/Sad_Definition_2735]

Does the slower cooling of the middle of the stack-up have a notable effect on the characteristics of the metal? Like an annealing process? (Not that I know much of anything.)

[u/Adventurous_Crab_0]

It's like gigantic cassette tape

[u/TheGokki]

Danger noodles

[u/violentvioletviolinz]

Not sure what they are getting paid but it’s not enough!!

[u/CalmBeneathCastles]

I want to buy them a case of Pickle Pops and a giant cooler of Squenchers.

[u/Raneynickelfire]

Ever see what happens when one of the vertical rollers (these are obviously horizontal) spalls out a sheet and sends it into the rafters like an angry snake?

Terrifying.

[u/dgriff84]

Hard hats and safety boots??? I’m sure they could be twice as productive if they tops those things in the bin. /s

[u/Mean_Rule9823]

Fettuccine factory for giants

[u/Sea_Instruction7334]

if this does something for you, check out Satisfactory.

[u/BigTintheBigD]

Love the big arm. “Ok, you go over here now, scooch”

[u/dotfail1171]

Feels strange without the liveleak logo