Pouring (casting) a 4.5 ton lead keel >Amateurs/Wood Mould/ W H A T ?

[OS OK]

This video is just one of a series following two friends who have joined forces to build a wooden sailing vessel...they fall the trees, cut the logs, sticker the wood...on and on. It's a great series of American Ingenuity of a couple of our young generation going old school, lot's of thought & lot's of elbow grease.

This video is pouring a lead keel....10,000 pounds of wheel weights and a couple of smaller keels that get recycled for this ginormous keel.
Wood mould, moisture & a moderate bonfire under an old compressor tank...what could go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1cpJBtWnQg <Pouring a 4.5 ton lead keel -Acorn to Arabella

If interested and you want to see more of these two brave individuals here's their work in videos from their You Tube site...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiDWnTP0WB1xCp6uuUo0VA <Acorn To Arabella


EDIT: We have all talked about recycling a keel into cast boolits, lots of postulation about the simplicity and/or insanity of of a project like that...lots of effort etc., how would you manage? Here's a sample of what these two lads went through to get their first recycle keel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rerPVyZFgZs <Chapter 11: Heavy Metal - Acorn to Arabella

[Bzcraig]

My brother in law and his partner build a 30' trihull sailboat that my bill sailed to Hawaii solo in. I sailed with him on day trips but that was it.

[Flailguy]

Now that's a lead pot. I think everyone on this site would love to have that "ingot" in their back yard.

[sawinredneck]

Subscribing to watch this later, I’m quite curious!