And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I'm sure it has a much more technical name, or perhaps just a letter-number designation in the company's sales brochures, but "Giant hot thing grabber" works for me. It's perfect.
Only the Germans could have something so big and knarly and keep the whole place so clean.
ReplyDeleteWho's going to work on this stuff when the lockdown generation is in charge? Hat tip to The Derb.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it has a much more technical name, or perhaps just a letter-number designation in the company's sales brochures, but "Giant hot thing grabber" works for me. It's perfect.
ReplyDeleteI have been around the forge shop a few times I think we just called them a crane. But I do know that a vacuum melt ingot that it is moving.
ReplyDeleteCOOL!
ReplyDeleteThere a really cool vid somewhere on YT of them actually using it to make something, a main shaft for something large and marine, IIRC.
ReplyDeleteWorth a watch.