Marching To a Different Drum

This video follows the installation of a new wooden tanning drum at Red Wing Shoe Company’s S.B. Foot leather tanning facility. Tanning drums are huge round containers used to tan leather via chemical reactions that involve soaking leather hides in various tanning solutions within a slowly rotating drum. The tanning process takes several hours, or even days, inside a drum that weighs up to six tons without the hides.