Super interesting!

This was filmed at Whitefriars glassworks. The gaffer was making one of their well-known swans. Note the rippled edges on top of the swan's body.

@sarahlouise7163

3 ай бұрын

cheers! i recognised the swan! man, what a job! the heat!

Pot furnace: Also known as crucible furnace, this is one of the oldest types of glass furnaces. It consists of a ceramic pot or crucible placed inside a furnace chamber. The glass batch materials are melted in the pot, and the molten glass is then drawn out for further processing. Pot furnaces are commonly used in small-scale or artisanal glass production.

@joshschneider9766

5 ай бұрын

There are many varieties of pot or crucible furnaces still used to this day, although the beehive style multi pot furnace in this video is mostly ancient history. Few in India and China but nowhere else I'm aware of

Respect for these people wow cant imagine the heat while they're all wearing jackets!

@JoKiR90

7 ай бұрын

Look up the 1900 Big Game Disaster. Talk about not being able to imagine the heat! Such a sad story.

@joshschneider9766

5 ай бұрын

Ew don't traumatize people lol that was horrible 😂

@joshschneider9766

5 ай бұрын

People sat on the roof of a glass factory to catch a baseball game and we'll, it gave way and they died. Best you just don't ask how.

@mc4661

4 ай бұрын

They often wore wet newsprint inside their coats and under their hats. The heat really was enough to melt glass, and it would have been impossible to approach wearing lighter clothes.

Before the days of aluminium heat-proof volcanologist suits

I thought this was a Python sketch at first ! Crazy compared to now. Great video

All this heat, and they are all wearing jackets

@HamStrains

3 ай бұрын

Trust me, you'd rather a jacket on that feel that direct heat on your skin or indeed have your skin exposed even to the light off it for too long. I've made two mistakes similar and neither was pretty, one was thinking I could get away with running about half a meter of MIG weld without my arms and hands covered, that earned me peeling skin on my arm which turned red like a really bad sunburn and the other was spending an afternoon on the footplate of a locomotive in shorts, opening the fire box doors to chuck coal in was enough to end up with similarly sun burn like effect on the exposed legs. This is why they're holding the gloved hand up over their face to avoid too much exposure and wearing something all over even with the heat, can't imagine how painful it would be given how much more heat that furnace is pumping out compared to the things I experienced. It also smells, you walk around for about a week after smelling like burning flesh and hair, even if you shower the smell is there. It's gross 😂

His safety equipment is a trilby! 😅 OK, yes, I do see he also has gloves.

What a shame about the crazy music.

Haven't they ever heard of tongs?

Fancy clothes for the camera

@mc4661

4 ай бұрын

Not at all. I worked here in the 1960’s and witnessed this process many times. Their hats and jackets were often padded with wet newsprint because of the tremendous heat emanating from the column of fire in the centre of the structure. Regardless of how it looks, this was a highly professional and well-trained team.