Comments on: How tennis balls are made in a Pakistan factory

By: markedup2

markedup2 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:50:25 +0000

Wayne, thanks for that link. That is more or less how I envisioned a tennis ball factory.

In the original, aside from playing “count the OSHA violations”, I wondered what that place smelled like.

By: TL

TL — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:12:45 +0000

Not a lot of safety guards on the equipment there.

I especially liked the guy using an exhaust valve in a drill press to abrade the seam between the two halves.

By: pawn

pawn — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:34:11 +0000

Mr. Wright,

I’m not sure anybody moved production there. It looks like that place has been making tennis balls since tennis was invented.

By: JhonB

JhonB — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:12:27 +0000

And I only saw one bandaid.. Similar to what someone else said, In the good old USA, they would shut down the shop and put the owners in jail. I don’t usually watch long videos, but I did watch this one in its entirety.

By: Shallow Minded Reader

Shallow Minded Reader — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 03:48:16 +0000

Enjoyed the video. As one who has visited Cigar factories in Brazil, shirt factories in Slovakia, Macau and Bulgaria, not surprising at all.

Did you notice in the Penn tennis ball video, not a single white, black or latino. Gosh, where is that factory?

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 03:04:04 +0000

And a curse be upon the businessmen who moved the production there.

By: wayne

wayne — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:50:05 +0000

“Master Hands” (1936)
Mass Production of Chevrolet Automobiles
https://youtu.be/Pr8rCNaASlc
31:48

By: Cotour

Cotour — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:24:59 +0000

The Wuhan lab?

By: Alton

Alton — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:10:53 +0000

Andi their first nuclear weapon was a EXACT copy of the Chinese CH-4 model.

? Wonder where that came from ?
Ha ?

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 20:14:55 +0000

Fascinating, and, I agree with Cotour, I respect their effort.

By: Andi

Andi — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 18:47:37 +0000

Wow – and this is the same country that built nuclear weapons.

By: Phill O

Phill O — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 18:04:14 +0000

OSHA not a problem there! Little wonder companies relocate out of AmeriCanada.

By: Cotour

Cotour — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 14:53:27 +0000

And they do things like this, and they machine metal, and they fix trucks, and they machine and weld, and they cut wood, with no work benches for the most part, in the dirt, in what looks like their pajamas, and wearing sandals or bare foot.

It’s like the 14th century meets the 21st century.

You gotta give them some hard-working respect.

By: Dr. Coyote

Dr. Coyote — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 13:25:49 +0000

In some ways, not all that different than the hot metal printshop I worked at here in the U.S. 40+ years ago. The one thing that stands out is the lack of tables and chairs in the video. Everything’s being thrown onto a floor, and the workers squat or sit next to the pile and get to it. Lots of wasted effort lifting back up to haul things to the next production stage, and I can’t even imagine how stiff the workers must be by the end of a day.

By: wayne

wayne — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:54:13 +0000

“Industrial Production of Penn brand Tennis Balls”
2012
https://youtu.be/3YrsqS8xhzg
5:24