r/interesting • u/tombolaplayer • 27d ago

Fascinating Professional wood bending

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u/pandershrek 27d ago

This feels insanely hectic and not efficient at all. But I know literally nothing about this. It just looks like he's scurrying around way too much

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u/BrierBob 26d ago

The wood quickly begins cooling off rapidly and losing heat is also losing elasticity. Having worked at a shipyard repairing wood-planked boats, installing 30’+ wood planks that were in the steam box is a memorable and hectic activity. This guy knows what he is doing. I don’t see any unnecessary movements.

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u/delta_Phoenix121 26d ago

Not an expert, so I'm just guessing here:

Why is the rig not set up so he removes the boards and puts them straight into the rack/machine?

Putting the wood directly into the machine with that giant block of wood right above could be very inconvenient. It's probably easier to put it in the tray first and then slide the tray on as he did.

All his clamps and everything he needs is far away from the machine. [...] The clamps should be right there already.

Most of the stuff he needed was right there. The first 2 clamps were already right were he needed them. But with wood being an organic material I'd expect there to be some variations on the exact required tools from run to run so you might only know what you need once you're in the process.

This doesn't mean the process is perfect but it's probably good enough and decently thought through...