[tet68]

Unfortunately, I don’t know which bridges they
went into. These were 3/4s and 1” + bent into
a 4” radius cold. Sometimes it would fall on a
hard spot in the bar, a place that chilled a little
fast in the rolling process and pow it would snap.
Since we were bending them cold by hand, it took
two men and a 10’ lever, and sometimes we would
take a spill.

Of course now one never knows where steel comes from,
China, Pakistan, India. We used to gripe about Bookuk
steel from South Korea, but now it is probably better
than some.

Not in the business now, retired so not sure.
Enviromental regs throttled the steel industry
so now we have these fine imports.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

In many cases working or machining steel cold is better than hot, steel follows a grain that cold forging (forcing the steel to follow) produces a stronger result than heating it.

You and probably everybody reading this already knew that however.

[generally]

Thanks for the info.

Sounds like you were doing a tough job. Shortage of men who can handle that these days.