The Algorithm threw this video at me and I had to watch it. Now you shall watch it too.
It’s not clear where the video was made…Pakistan? I liked the look of the truck to start, but then they haul the tire to a shop where they completely rebuild the wheel. I don’t think we could do any of that where I live. There’s a whole massive body of infrastructure in those communities to keep machinery running.
I don’t think “tariffs” will bring that back to the US.
Probably Pakistan or its near neighbors. I’ve seen a bunch of similar videos, and it is indeed impressive what they can do with machinery that seems old and worn. The shop here has a bit more sophisticated machinery than some of those shown, and I suspect there are not many places that do the same thing they do. A lot of those small shops seem to be specialists in some field of manufacture or repair. I saw one in which they were amazingly rebuilding engine blocks with huge chunks out of them. Another where they were making wheelbarrows, others making components for small engines and the like. Others involve often complex jobs like machining crankshafts and specialized industrial parts out of huge hunks of scrap, probably from ship breakers.
I’ve also seen a bunch of videos in which the most miserable and beat up old tires are repaired and rebuilt. It’s fun to see how skill and necessity combine to reconstitute tires that here would end up either in shreds, piles, or holding the tarps town on silage pits.
Whoever is doing these videos seems generally to be doing a very good job of editing, combining cuts with speedups to keep what is undoubtedly a much longer and more boring process into something addictively watchable.
About abilities of other countries, here is a character from the TV series Newsroom. (This guy is basically channeling PZ):
“Can you say why America is the Greatest Country in the World?”
.https://youtube.com/shorts/O_a7DV36hcw
Make America Great Again.
Like is was when it was pre-industrial.
Better learn how to subsistence farm again…
For a long time I’ve had the philosophy of “only own stuff that you can repair”, but American consumer culture has made that increasingly difficult, and in many cases, near impossible.
Maybe I need to get a 3D printer.