00:00This sheet of high carbon steel is heated past 1800 degrees
00:04Fahrenheit, glowing incandescent orange.
00:07At this temperature, the molecular structure
00:10softens into plasticized metal.
00:13With a single stroke, a multi-ton hydraulic forging
00:17press drives down into the hardened die.
00:20Flakes of burning mill scale explode off the surface
00:24as the press forces the flat plate
00:26into a curved shovel blade.
00:28The entire transformation takes less than two seconds,
00:32forged under pure mechanical force.
