2/13/2006: Splashing molten metal as folk art

Undertoad · 02-13-2006, 10:35 AM

I wish this shot were larger. It would be much cooler-looking if it were about twice this size. But the most amazing thing is what the guy is doing: he's splashing molten iron into the air.

He's only wearing a wet sheepskin coat to protect himself, too. It turns out this is a folk art called "Dashuhua", and it's performed here to celebrate a lantern festival.

moonspider666 · 02-13-2006, 10:50 AM

ppl do strange things

glatt · 02-13-2006, 11:18 AM

Cool picture.

I wonder where you get a bucket of molten iron? I assume the festival is not held inside a steel mill.

SeanAhern · 02-13-2006, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

I wonder where you get a bucket of molten iron?

The microwave ovens around my office would probably suffice. At least, it feels like I'm drinking molten iron when I use them to heat my coffee, soup, etc...

Trilby · 02-13-2006, 12:17 PM

The steelworkers are NOT gonna like this.

glatt · 02-13-2006, 12:55 PM

Xinhua - English Version has a little more information and a small slide show:

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A man performs Dashuhua, a traditional folk art with a history of some 300 years to celebrate the Lantern Festival, in Yuxian, a county in east China's Hebei Province, on Feb. 11, 2006. The performer wearing a sheepskin coat and a wet terai scoops out molten iron with a special wooden spoon and slosh it on the rampart, splashing colorful sparkles.

Trilby · 02-13-2006, 01:00 PM

Oh! This is China! No OSHA worries, then! Carry on!

(the lantern festival bit really should have tipped me off, but it didn't.)

capnhowdy · 02-13-2006, 05:02 PM

hmmmm.... 'art' these days.......

Wombat · 02-13-2006, 05:24 PM

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hmmmm.... 'art' these days.......

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a traditional folk art with a history of some 300 years

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xoxoxoBruce · 02-13-2006, 06:35 PM

WaPo.

Aliantha · 02-13-2006, 06:49 PM

I don't think workplace health and safety would allow that here...

smillie · 02-13-2006, 07:24 PM

You can get a very similar effect by throwing a snowball into a pot of molten metal. The steam explosion can empty the pot. One guy put an ingot of aluminum into a pot without properly warming it. When it got hot enough to turn the moisture inside the ingot to steam, we got an aluminum coated ceiling plus aluminum rain. Only the guy loading the pot was nearby and his burns luckly turned out to be minor. The metal went mostly up instead of at him. He got a few pieces of rain on his head which gave him some unusual bald scars.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-15-2006, 06:20 PM

Lead too.

Found another WaPo picture.

zippyt · 02-17-2006, 07:28 PM

You can get a very similar effect by throwing a snowball into a pot of molten metal. The steam explosion can empty the pot

I do Lots of work at a few steel mills in this area , I can atest to Aluminum poping with moisture , and I have see some one throw a full can of WD40 in to a slag trough ,
big boom !!!
But the All time best I have see was a LARGE slag pot dumped in the winter at nite , oh did I for get to mention that the operators had put a full gallon jug of water in the hole where the moltent slag was dumped , follow me here , cold ground , moltent slag and a jug of water , the slag covers the water that super heats and the steam has no where to go untill the slag gives way from the pressure , I was about 1/2 mile away and had to duck flying stuff , HELL of a lite show and a BIG BOOM !!!

wolf · 02-18-2006, 12:42 AM

OSHA would be appalled. But it does sound cool. From far away.

02-13-2006, 10:35 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	2/13/2006: Splashing molten metal as folk art I wish this shot were larger. It would be much cooler-looking if it were about twice this size. But the most amazing thing is what the guy is doing: he's splashing molten iron into the air. He's only wearing a wet sheepskin coat to protect himself, too. It turns out this is a folk art called "Dashuhua", and it's performed here to celebrate a lantern festival.

02-13-2006, 10:50 AM	#2
moonspider666 Complex Simpleton Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: wv,usa Posts: 18	ppl do strange things __________________

02-13-2006, 01:00 PM	#7
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Oh! This is China! No OSHA worries, then! Carry on! (the lantern festival bit really should have tipped me off, but it didn't.) Last edited by Trilby; 02-13-2006 at 01:04 PM. Reason: lantern

02-13-2006, 05:02 PM	#8
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	hmmmm.... 'art' these days....... __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

02-13-2006, 06:35 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	WaPo. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:54 PM.

02-13-2006, 11:18 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Cool picture. I wonder where you get a bucket of molten iron? I assume the festival is not held inside a steel mill.

02-13-2006, 12:17 PM	#5
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	The steelworkers are NOT gonna like this.

02-13-2006, 06:49 PM	#11
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I don't think workplace health and safety would allow that here... __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-13-2006, 07:24 PM	#12
smillie Romantic Necromancer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan Posts: 29	You can get a very similar effect by throwing a snowball into a pot of molten metal. The steam explosion can empty the pot. One guy put an ingot of aluminum into a pot without properly warming it. When it got hot enough to turn the moisture inside the ingot to steam, we got an aluminum coated ceiling plus aluminum rain. Only the guy loading the pot was nearby and his burns luckly turned out to be minor. The metal went mostly up instead of at him. He got a few pieces of rain on his head which gave him some unusual bald scars. __________________ dyslexic's untie

02-15-2006, 06:20 PM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Lead too. Found another WaPo picture. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:54 PM.

02-17-2006, 07:28 PM	#14
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	You can get a very similar effect by throwing a snowball into a pot of molten metal. The steam explosion can empty the pot I do Lots of work at a few steel mills in this area , I can atest to Aluminum poping with moisture , and I have see some one throw a full can of WD40 in to a slag trough , big boom !!! But the All time best I have see was a LARGE slag pot dumped in the winter at nite , oh did I for get to mention that the operators had put a full gallon jug of water in the hole where the moltent slag was dumped , follow me here , cold ground , moltent slag and a jug of water , the slag covers the water that super heats and the steam has no where to go untill the slag gives way from the pressure , I was about 1/2 mile away and had to duck flying stuff , HELL of a lite show and a BIG BOOM !!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

02-18-2006, 12:42 AM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	OSHA would be appalled. But it does sound cool. From far away. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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