RTÉ documentary series exploring the craft traditions of Ireland. hands.ie/ A look at the work of the Power family in their metal foundry, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Filmed in 1989.
Glad to know that people with this kind of work ethic still exists. The generation of my folks. They're slowly fading away, and with it, the work ethic and leadership. My generation and younger don't want to even think about working this steadily. You watch men like these, men like my father who passed in 2015, and it really does sadden me to watch these strong male archetypes become less and less common. The kind of examples of how society at large sees a man today is disgusting and insulting. I'm not talking about being macho or chauvinistic. I'm just talking about good human beings who just worked hard for their families and if they had a craft or passion, they did the hard work to back it up. Maybe it's just because I miss my Dad and even my older brother but it still remains that guys like them are missed dearly today.
@@mmsizzlak3726 you are right . And if you try to explain it people think you are backward. But craftsmanship is still honorable. And good family men too. And you missing them means they were the people they worked hard to be. Cheers
This is better than any shite thats on telly today ! i was a hammer man in the knock out yard at our foundry in north east england and it was proper graft, especially swinging the 14lb mash hammer for a 10hr shift !.. i left school at 15 with no qualifications and went straight out stone picking after the open cast mines shut down, then got a job as a coal man humping 8 stone bags all day and i loved it.. the crack was hilarious. i done all sorts of backbreaking graft over the years, always stuck outside in all weathers and i enjoyed it, but im only 46 now but i feel about 70 .. So my advice to the teenagers of today would be to stick in at school and dont end up a slave because theres not enough money gets paid for breaking your back ..
Iam 48 , almost exactly the same story regards as the back and the cracke too. I did 10 years laying flag stones before splitting logs and grounds keeping alongside sone more rewarding work teaching green woodworking. Donkied myself untill the back gave out . 5 years unremitting pain. Regesterd disabled. Am not long back from Germany where I've had a double TDR Total disc replacement. Double lumber. Fingers crossed , a very ginger recovery seems to be occouring.
@@YanoshRagauld Hey fingers crossed you pull round mate.. back injuries are definitely the most agonising pain you can probably get. My half cousin who worked at the Nissan car factory got crushed between a heavy load and it smashed his lower back and he got emergency surgery..new discs in etc and thankfully he is fully mobile again thanks to modern day spine specialists, I mean imagine what it was like a couple of hundreds of years ago.. it must have been torture. I have severe arthritis in my feet and I got some tablets called Dihydrocodine.. it was a big mistake because they are virtually impossible to come off, the withdraw symptoms are terrible.. I'm assuming you will be on Morphine based meds or Pregabulin ? I think the painkillers stop working after long term use, but I suppose youve got to keep soldiering on.. Anyway best of luck with your recovery, hopefully you will be up and around soon.
Absolute brilliant craftsmanship ,no health and safety then but they have there own way of keeping safe,mammy checking on the pouring-sure were would u get it-fantastic work.I love watching these programmes ,thanks for uploading .DuzT
Fantastic seeing a look into the not-so-distant past of industrial craftsmanship, and a family business at that. Growing up in the city these days, businesses of great industry are so distant from the eyes and hands of kids that they're akin to magic. With no competition budding out of the grass to compete, it's no wonder big corps have no trouble taking over and stamping small and family businesses into dust. Thanks for these videos.
Great stuff, a real hands on approach! I immigrated to the US on my metallurgical/heat treatment background so it was all extremely interesting to me. Glad the dog knew when to steer clear! Thank you, I really enjoy HANDS. I was born in Clontarf, Dublin.
It’s refreshing to see people not enslaved to debt and possessions and being self-sufficient in their ways. Family & friends at the top of the list is number one, after that life falls into place
Small foundries are few and far between these days, there's one about an hour from me, and people drive hundreds of miles to have them make something, big foundries can't be bothered unless you're making enough quantity to make it worth their while.
Keeping the sand in good shape to mould with is an art in itself, they had a fair share of tear-ups to repair on the moulds, having a real muller would have helped indeed. Ret. moulder/ muller oper. Yes very enjoyable film.
The days that are gone and sorely missed. It was a simpler time. Hard work and dangerous work but it was families...not like today with millennials thinking they run the world...I miss u Grandma Anderson and my wife’s families of Boyle’s form Donegal...bless u all...
I was born in 1990 but i don't consider myself a millenial, they are the biggest bunch of sissy whingers "Ooooh I find this offensive" crap they constantly come off with i want old ireland bought back a united socialist free from british rule and eu/foreign rule 32 county irish workers republic i see no merit in todays world yesterday was better than today and tomorrow combined, community and family were central and money wasn't so important and patriotism was there ppl actually watched gaa and fought for not just their flag not just their ppl but their country!
Grand lads making good castings , another fine video 👍🇬🇧 I've just had another look at this video and I hope they're still going doing a proper job and earning by the sweat of their brow . As the bloke said , " all metal to the powers " 👍
@Big Bill O'Reilly she might do manual labor you don't know just because shes a lady doesn't mean she cannot roll her sleeves up and get stuck in. she appreciates these hardworking mens work ethic typical of the time, now because of bankers and employers employing foreign staff due to paying out lower wages most ppl are on benefits
All these excellent works done to perfection and especially of the era,now we have robotic,computerised hardware that eliminates a lot of hands but that's evolution ,no matter if u think everything we have r see just keeps getting better and better r is there anything left for us to accquire ,it's all there!!!!!!
Have you uploaded the episode of Hands with the Irish Silversmith? I believe it's #22. I saw it sometime around 1986 or 87, way back when satellite dishes measured 10.5' in diameter. I would love to be able to see it again.
John Mullee, A Big Thanks for posting the Link to New Ross, Where the POWERS do restoration work...AND that Conservatory is AMAZING they Made the Iron for !!!! open the replies under KilosierraAlpha's post
A crazy thing here in America. Despite our ready access to iron and steel and tons of recycling always going on, I regularly see manhole covers made in India. So it means that it’s cheaper to bring a ship loaded with cast iron manhole covers from India than from right around the corner. We use round manhole covers because they found that square can allow the cover to fall in if it is turned on its side or diagonally. But round cannot.
same here in West Yorkshire, UK. Local company stopped making clay sewer pipes and now imports from China. Ridiculous situation. Bricks are still made in UK but for how long is anyone's guess.
never occurred to me as a nipper that the scrap metal collectors i used to see back then were running a foundry, back at base. never mind that they were making the man hole covers, grates etc which were all over town. ignorance is not bliss.
The internet brought a lot of good, but also exposed us to often untrue, well crafted, seemingly pretty things so we started to envy each others false picture. Now everybody is running around trying to find the next 'perfect happiness'. And in the process we just loosing the joy of simple things right around us. Hopefully we will learn to deal with this falsehood.
this is in county wexford not county antrim they don't have idiots like those there, unfortunately irish ppl in the 6 counties of north east ireland have to put up with them for now, but shankill flutebands are coming till their end and one day will no longer serve a purpose in a united ireland
I've never heard of it and would think it would destroy the clay bond in the moulding sand. Ordinarily in small iron foundries plumbago, or a chalk like parting powder would be used. Proprietary release agents were available and expensive but I doubt if they included diesel. It does seem to have worked though, those castings at the end of the film looked ok. @@BenedictHarris
And the old white enamel mugs with the blue rim, with super strong tea. My wife makes amazing Soda Bread, and i have to eat it with butter and super strong tea.
So, that beautiful victorian garden chair,,, now the person who commissioned it has two right sides! Hows he going to make a bench without propping one end up on something?
Clearly you never work a day of dangerous work in your life. Thanks to Health and Safety I retired after 40 years, not only alive and well but with all my body parts intact
I just looked them up. Still going!
Long may they last 👍
Sonny passed away round bout 10years ago. RIP
Glad to know that people with this kind of work ethic still exists. The generation of my folks. They're slowly fading away, and with it, the work ethic and leadership. My generation and younger don't want to even think about working this steadily. You watch men like these, men like my father who passed in 2015, and it really does sadden me to watch these strong male archetypes become less and less common. The kind of examples of how society at large sees a man today is disgusting and insulting. I'm not talking about being macho or chauvinistic. I'm just talking about good human beings who just worked hard for their families and if they had a craft or passion, they did the hard work to back it up. Maybe it's just because I miss my Dad and even my older brother but it still remains that guys like them are missed dearly today.
@@mmsizzlak3726 you are right . And if you try to explain it people think you are backward. But craftsmanship is still honorable. And good family men too. And you missing them means they were the people they worked hard to be. Cheers
Awesome
Sitting around listening to Mum sing, this is what we did before the internet.........god, I hope we never lose the internet.....
Videos like this help me appreciate the hard work of my ancestors...I feel I owe them everything...❤
Wow. This family works so hard. Everything done by hand. Even the wood was cut hand. Brute labor mixed with precision!
This is better than any shite thats on telly today ! i was a hammer man in the knock out yard at our foundry in north east england and it was proper graft, especially swinging the 14lb mash hammer for a 10hr shift !.. i left school at 15 with no qualifications and went straight out stone picking after the open cast mines shut down, then got a job as a coal man humping 8 stone bags all day and i loved it.. the crack was hilarious. i done all sorts of backbreaking graft over the years, always stuck outside in all weathers and i enjoyed it, but im only 46 now but i feel about 70 .. So my advice to the teenagers of today would be to stick in at school and dont end up a slave because theres not enough money gets paid for breaking your back ..
Iam 48 , almost exactly the same story regards as the back and the cracke too. I did 10 years laying flag stones before splitting logs and grounds keeping alongside sone more rewarding work teaching green woodworking. Donkied myself untill the back gave out . 5 years unremitting pain. Regesterd disabled. Am not long back from Germany where I've had a double TDR Total disc replacement. Double lumber. Fingers crossed , a very ginger recovery seems to be occouring.
@@YanoshRagauld Hey fingers crossed you pull round mate.. back injuries are definitely the most agonising pain you can probably get. My half cousin who worked at the Nissan car factory got crushed between a heavy load and it smashed his lower back and he got emergency surgery..new discs in etc and thankfully he is fully mobile again thanks to modern day spine specialists, I mean imagine what it was like a couple of hundreds of years ago.. it must have been torture. I have severe arthritis in my feet and I got some tablets called Dihydrocodine.. it was a big mistake because they are virtually impossible to come off, the withdraw symptoms are terrible.. I'm assuming you will be on Morphine based meds or Pregabulin ? I think the painkillers stop working after long term use, but I suppose youve got to keep soldiering on.. Anyway best of luck with your recovery, hopefully you will be up and around soon.
Butiful Ireland on the days gone bye
I love and am so proud to be irish when I see stuff like this
God bless them all
Wisdom and passion, not often found in the same place. Long may they continue.
Absolute brilliant craftsmanship ,no health and safety then but they have there own way of keeping safe,mammy checking on the pouring-sure were would u get it-fantastic work.I love watching these programmes ,thanks for uploading .DuzT
Fantastic seeing a look into the not-so-distant past of industrial craftsmanship, and a family business at that.
Growing up in the city these days, businesses of great industry are so distant from the eyes and hands of kids that they're akin to magic. With no competition budding out of the grass to compete, it's no wonder big corps have no trouble taking over and stamping small and family businesses into dust.
Thanks for these videos.
So hard and dirty handcrafted work - respect !!
Great stuff, a real hands on approach! I immigrated to the US on my metallurgical/heat treatment background so it was all extremely interesting to me. Glad the dog knew when to steer clear! Thank you, I really enjoy HANDS. I was born in Clontarf, Dublin.
Dogs are often smarter than people!
"He that hath a trade , hath an estate "- Ben Franklin adding this in : awesome family Dynamics
It’s refreshing to see people not enslaved to debt and possessions and being self-sufficient in their ways. Family & friends at the top of the list is number one, after that life falls into place
Still in business 34 years later :D
Safety gear...nil. makes me smile.
Good job they have a fireman in the family when they drop the foundry....excellent program.
Small foundries are few and far between these days, there's one about an hour from me, and people drive hundreds of miles to have them make something, big foundries can't be bothered unless you're making enough quantity to make it worth their while.
Thanks so much for the upload! Been looking for this one for a while.
Loved every minute!!
Great skill Very hard work 100% respect
What a gem ........................Cheers for putting this up
Fantastic. 👍
Loved the U.S style singing ,what great films these are been watching them all loved the Dublin working horse one having trad cobs my self .
That was so complicated - brilliant guys
Thanks for the upload!
It's the family interaction that's the key to happiness simples 😁
A truly happy family ,i enjoyed watching
Amazing casting in your back yard!
I enjoyed that; thank you for posting it.
These videos are brilliant
as a moulder to trade that was a trip down memory lane keep up the good work keep the trade alive
Keeping the sand in good shape to mould with is an art in itself, they had a fair share of tear-ups
to repair on the moulds, having a real muller would have helped indeed.
Ret. moulder/ muller oper. Yes very enjoyable film.
Thanks for the video, I loved it - keep 'em comin/
that was great ,my kind of people
A couple of Pints is always necessary after a day in the foundry , thanks .
20:38 Aww, such a beautiful moment, bless!!
Lovely! Thank-you!
The days that are gone and sorely missed. It was a simpler time. Hard work and dangerous work but it was families...not like today with millennials thinking they run the world...I miss u Grandma Anderson and my wife’s families of Boyle’s form Donegal...bless u all...
I was born in 1990 but i don't consider myself a millenial, they are the biggest bunch of sissy whingers "Ooooh I find this offensive" crap they constantly come off with i want old ireland bought back a united socialist free from british rule and eu/foreign rule 32 county irish workers republic i see no merit in todays world yesterday was better than today and tomorrow combined, community and family were central and money wasn't so important and patriotism was there ppl actually watched gaa and fought for not just their flag not just their ppl but their country!
Hard working strong tough family men,I would be proud to know them.
fascinating.....very rewarding work
They're still casting and "having a couple pints" after they're threw.
From Ireland all the way to the back woods of Georgia USA.
Grand lads making good castings , another fine video 👍🇬🇧 I've just had another look at this video and I hope they're still going doing a proper job and earning by the sweat of their brow . As the bloke said , " all metal to the powers " 👍
I love how hard they work. I love manual labor
@Big Bill O'Reilly she might do manual labor you don't know just because shes a lady doesn't mean she cannot roll her sleeves up and get stuck in. she appreciates these hardworking mens work ethic typical of the time, now because of bankers and employers employing foreign staff due to paying out lower wages most ppl are on benefits
catherine rossi cool your cool
@Big Bill O'Reilly i love it lol i've painted murals but had to hold things down like ladders but i'd love to do this mo chara
@@johnjames5587 _You're_ not "your" cool.
Its a real insight ,very skill full
All these excellent works done to perfection and especially of the era,now we have robotic,computerised hardware that eliminates a lot of hands but that's evolution ,no matter if u think everything we have r see just keeps getting better and better r is there anything left for us to accquire ,it's all there!!!!!!
Excellent Presentation,
I first thought he was baking a cake for lunch
🤣,,so did i
Old Jonny Doyle he was a great man
Damn good work!
Excellent...
I hope there is someone in ireland still doing this
The Powers are still at it.
Good Man yourself:)
BRAVO !!!
Very good family !
Excellent
Many a tyrant nations tried to beat down old Ireland but they is tuff and genuine.
Have you uploaded the episode of Hands with the Irish Silversmith? I believe it's #22. I saw it sometime around 1986 or 87, way back when satellite dishes measured 10.5' in diameter. I would love to be able to see it again.
I'm afraid I don't have that one.
You could order it from the makers: hands.ie/product/a-dublin-silversmith/
What a treat
Brilliant
9:35 A “Record” No.36 vise on the right of the picture! I have two. MattF brought me here.
John Mullee, A Big Thanks for posting the Link to New Ross, Where the POWERS do restoration work...AND that Conservatory is AMAZING they Made the Iron for !!!! open the replies under KilosierraAlpha's post
15:14 little doggy looks sad on his way to the furnace.... 😉😅
Nice! Singing a little Kris Kristofferson at the end there
A crazy thing here in America. Despite our ready access to iron and steel and tons of recycling always going on, I regularly see manhole covers made in India. So it means that it’s cheaper to bring a ship loaded with cast iron manhole covers from India than from right around the corner. We use round manhole covers because they found that square can allow the cover to fall in if it is turned on its side or diagonally. But round cannot.
thats cuz turing a circular disc around doesent change its diameter.
india isnt raped by health and safety nazis so of course its cheaper unfortunately
Google: Neenha Foundry located in Wisconsin, we make 100'S of manhole covers and
storm grates everyday and have been for decades.
the India stuff is cheaper because they are still allowed to use people as an ingredient.
same here in West Yorkshire, UK.
Local company stopped making clay sewer pipes and now imports from China.
Ridiculous situation.
Bricks are still made in UK but for how long is anyone's guess.
15:16 remember doing this
Really interesting
"There's a grand job." Indeed XD
never occurred to me as a nipper that the scrap metal collectors i used to see back then were running a foundry, back at base. never mind that they were making the man hole covers, grates etc which were all over town. ignorance is not bliss.
Hard work for little money I suspect! Great video!
This is facinating. Thanks for posting. Am I right in thinking this is late 60's early 70's ??? Tobesure
1989
Family unity
The internet brought a lot of good, but also exposed us to often untrue, well crafted, seemingly pretty things so we started to envy each others false picture. Now everybody is running around trying to find the next 'perfect happiness'. And in the process we just loosing the joy of simple things right around us. Hopefully we will learn to deal with this falsehood.
Huh. It looks like this company still exists. There's a Power Seamus Ironworks in Wexford. Good for them.
Wow. I just started watching this series. So good. Have you seen "Fred"? about the steeplejack? ruclips.net/video/QTv1a_nACCs/видео.html
hard men.no gloves,no eye goggles,no face masks.
The power of The steel!
Bonny lads!
Health and Safety ROFL, Brilliant.
Where are ones on Hat and Whiskey making?
interesting video
is the foundry still there?
Where in wexford are they from
New Ross
health and safety didn't fair well then bit scary to watch but very interesting. tfs
7:49 Is that Shankill Protestant Boys flute band?
They wouldn't be tough enough for these boys.
this is in county wexford not county antrim they don't have idiots like those there, unfortunately irish ppl in the 6 counties of north east ireland have to put up with them for now, but shankill flutebands are coming till their end and one day will no longer serve a purpose in a united ireland
Are they still in operation today?
Yes
"Has King Alfred burnt the cakes?" 😄
Old Ireland descent hard working people plying there craft
1:03 Tommy comes over for a WHAT???
Who needs OSHA when you have supervisory matriarchs 👍
Mum's watchful eye is the only safety measure most of us ever need.
Osha is a U.S. operation
Diesel on the pattern Jesus Christ.
Is that bad?
I've never heard of it and would think it would destroy the clay bond in the moulding sand. Ordinarily in small iron foundries plumbago, or a chalk like parting powder would be used. Proprietary release agents were available and expensive but I doubt if they included diesel. It does seem to have worked though, those castings at the end of the film looked ok. @@BenedictHarris
@@davidallen4712 the mans being doing it probably 50 years and seemed to work fine for him
I genuinely hope the place is still going@@1989Chrisc
@@davidallen4712 it is.
0:05 was that "memories" from cats?????
Did anyone noticed Tommy "who lives down the street" which mean homeless in those parts?
Good aul corn beef sandwiches
And the old white enamel mugs with the blue rim, with super strong tea. My wife makes amazing Soda Bread, and i have to eat it with butter and super strong tea.
So, that beautiful victorian garden chair,,, now the person who commissioned it has two right sides! Hows he going to make a bench without propping one end up on something?
Not to worry.. It'll be grand..
Have you permission to reproduce this material?
Kings of Iron
i bet their neighbours loved them
Proper hard and dangerous work, these days health n safety is ridiculous, but l do think these guys should have worn safety spec's.
Clearly you never work a day of dangerous work in your life. Thanks to Health and Safety I retired after 40 years, not only alive and well but with all my body parts intact
@@tommypetraglia4688 oh I've definitely done dangerous working as coded welder, and motorway work, just think health and safety is OTT
19:13 who else rewinds this multiple times lol
no osha there?
You are some HR dummy I bet.
Does anybody else pronounce this channel snadhaggus?