I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that’s okay.
In Leicestershire, at @johntaylorsbellfoundry, there’s fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano. Also, several questions about cheese. ▶️ Episode 2 is on Nebula right now! https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-they-can-fly-200-miles-with-no-fuel-heres-how – 🔔 John Taylor’s have a behind-the-scenes video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39tFNsHjEWI
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@TomScottGo
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
I've been away so long I forgot to set a pinned comment before upload. I'm out of practice. Hope you enjoy the new format! Also, all these videos are one week earlier and ad-free on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/tomscott
@lunzie01
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Thank you for closed captioning for those of us in the States! I had no idea what y'all were saying half the time. 😊
@oliversnow
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
These guys are great. Love the good humo(u)r. Hard work but a dream job for sure.
@rhyguy6260
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Watched a video of them making bells the old way all of these steps used to take like 20 people and take way longer
@rhyguy6260
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
The old bells are like salmon coming back to the river to come home
@NiktheGreek7
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
if you were cheese what cheese would you be…teenagers in adults bodies playing with fire…I'm soooooo in the wrong line of work lmao xD
@mrktz
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Im a little disappointed that they dont show the unmolding…
@theicelandicnationalist2.023
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
As a person that works a fair bit around and with molten metal, Sam saying “it’s warm back here” is quite the understatement…
@Isaac-qu3wl
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
This new format is so much worse than before
@blastlightstar
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
SILKSONG
@robheathcote8561
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Sam could be Caleb's brother from Clarksons farm hahahaha
@sasha01198
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
I know those lads are strong and work hard but honesty didn't expect bells to be that brittle 😅
@king_salamander3938
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
this lot seems so lovely, and the foundry really seems like a really nice place to work – very physically demanding – but really nice. awesome to see the process !
@joehepworth8497
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
"learned ro driver the forklift now he thinks he's the big cheese" Most true statement about anyone who is forklift cerified ever
@MrPedros1989
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
I'd like to think that I'd make better job with the sledgehammer… I'd like, but I know it is a hard work
@Ant3CC
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
That workshop badly need a hydraulic press.
@SusBedStain8
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but this same factory created Hell’s Bells used by AC/DC
@danielbrown9368
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
These two workers are so fun and charismatic. Seem good blokes.
@NSR_VoidTm
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Tom is definitely a goats cheese
@Pr3sarioVSU
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
What lovely skilled guys. I bet they love working together.
@ArchangelExile
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
21:10
That's the cutest excavator that I've ever seen.
@geronimo5515
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Love how quick-fire they all are about the cheese question. As though it's a question you just ask yourself one day when waking up, and have the answer ready since
@erpne
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Amazing to see you back!
@pampoovey9
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Brokeback bell makers. I ship it.
@feyn.69
June 6, 2026 at 1:29 pm
yow man, love the vids, but the home scripted cuts with the low quality on-site filming make the video feel so… idk, low effort in a way, and they're still you in a bit but like, they're missing something
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