Agreed, but this was the only way; I suspect you know this, but looking back with 2017’s technology isn’t fair. It was interesting to see some of the automation in the frame assembly. In some steps the guys are there to place a few pins or rivets and then step back while the spot welder/rivet robots* do most of the work.
Love the manual forging video; I fall down Youtube ratholes watching these.
I was cringy at first due to the lack of PPE, but jumped when the two guys hopped onto the ring and started wailing away on the inner and outer edge of the ring… miss and the guys on the floor are eating those 16 pound sledges.
* very simple “bang-bang” robots are “robots” in my book.
