{"id":72359,"date":"2012-12-11T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=72359"},"modified":"2022-12-16T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:01:02","slug":"lifting-bundles-of-pig-iron-with-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=72359","title":{"rendered":"Lifting Bundles of Pig Iron with Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1-04-Lifting-budles-of-pigs-with-crane-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72226\" width=\"768\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1-04-Lifting-budles-of-pigs-with-crane-001.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1-04-Lifting-budles-of-pigs-with-crane-001-300x279.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1-04-Lifting-budles-of-pigs-with-crane-001-323x300.jpg 323w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1-04-Lifting-budles-of-pigs-with-crane-001-150x139.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1-04-Lifting-budles-of-pigs-with-crane-001-400x372.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>On the sand bed in front of the furnaces, a slinger guides a lift of pig iron. It was normal to use a flap of leather looped over the wrist to protect the hand from the still hot pig iron. The sand bed is cool enough to not need the wooden clogs normally worn; behind the slinger the impressions of the sow and pig channels can be seen in the sand bed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image (from a Glass Plate Negative) courtesy of Dave Mcgill.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the sand bed in front of the furnaces, a slinger guides a lift of pig iron. It was normal to use a flap of leather looped over the wrist to protect the hand from the still hot pig iron. The sand bed is cool enough to not need the wooden clogs normally worn; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironsteel-works","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72363,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72359\/revisions\/72363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}