CrashbotUS

Joke about the argument you two had on hog hunting. Also, you are SH's Official Representative of the SJW contingent, don't forget. Time to get offended, chop chop.

Since the girls and boys of that house weren't blood related, you know they were having tons of sex.

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What a bunch of CUCKS
 
REMOVE ANIMEA!
 
All Anime is shit.
 
Random drunken swearing.
 
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Is it just me or does Steve Bannon look like the kind of guy that reeks of bottom shelf liquor?

I still don't know who Lena Dunham is and feel really good about that. 

HIMARS

Some M551s


 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

HIMARS

I'm sure a few tiger tanks broke through some bridges...
 

Ya know, like, I dunno, like, you know?  
 
I hate how most people speak these days.  

No, we mean actually fun and good war movies, not melodramatic, preachy morality tales.

Looksee what I got today:


 

 
Serial number indicates it was made in early 1983.

Helmet 1, sword 0

Catastrophic failure. 

Welp. That looks like an expensive failure.

Catastrophic failure. 

Some M551s


 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

My understanding is that bog iron can be a pain in the ass due to the relatively high amount of phosphorous that can creep in. Generally they'd size and roast the ore thoroughly before the smelt to try and control that (and sulphur) a bit.
 
Apparently one of the weird things about high-phosphorous iron is that it work hardens well and forges beautifully - so smiths really like working with it. Just a pity that it goes brittle when the temperature gets under 20'C.
 
In your video; you can see the smelters consolidating the bloom (vigorously) while hot, and chopping it into pieces for further working. This would provide a more homogenous (structurally) product, while also allowing you to select higher-carbon parts of the bloom to make knives and swords out of. Recycling of slag, scale and break-aways from the bloom would probably also be done.
 
Edit: In the video I linked, you can see that the process is much the same. Here, however, the large bloom is cut but seemingly not consolidated, and the smithing process looks nothing like the western tradition in terms of equipment. It is noteworthy, however, that it always seems to be older dudes doing the lead smithing and younger dudes doing the pumping, carrying and sledgehammer work
 
Edit 2: So I went looking for more traditional African smithing videos, to see how knives and spears get made. Youtube is apparently happy to provide millions of katana forging documentaries and zulu dances, but nothing else

RIP Miss Cleo.
No one saw this coming...

It has been added. I have some others I should add, as well.