"MODERN PAVING TECHNIQUES W/ ASBESTOS FIBER " 1960s JOHNS-MANVILLE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION FILM 99054
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Johns-Manville presents a 1960’s color movie called "Modern Paving Techniques with Asbestos Fiber in Asphalt Mixes." The purpose of the film is to show how asphalt can be strengthened through different mixing techniques, including using asbestos -- a natural fibrous mineral that was later banned due to its terrible health effects. Asphalt presented significant risk to workers prior to the 1970s when asbestos was commonly added to asphalt used to construct roads. Asbestos added strength to asphalt which was especially important in colder climates where roads break down more easily. Workers who constructed those roads were put at risk of inhaling asbestos fibers. Today, workers and residents who live near these roads may be at risk as older, asbestos-containing asphalt roads are broken down for repaving.
The film opens with a car driving down the highway. Different roads are shown, 1:00. Traffic in the city, 1:20. Weathered roads that are cracked, 1:47. Potholes, 1:55. Different defaults in the asphalt are shown, 2:05. Pothole at a bus stop, 2:18. Plane lands on runway, 2:35. Old car on mud road, 2:50. Old Model T Ford car stuck in the mud, 3:00. Cars get stuck in 1 lane traffic, 3:15. Old footage in the city with cars buzzing, 3:40. Modern road with heavy traffic, 3:55. Asphalt being laid and flattened, 4:15. Asbestos is added to asphalt and laid on the ground. Ratios of asbestos to asphalt are shown, 4:41. Adding asbestos causes no loss of stability, 4:55. Asphalt is mixed, 5:03. Asbestos is mixes from bags into asphalt, 5:22. Asphalt is laid by crew and rolled, 5:50. Asphalt mix is flattened, 6:08. United States map is shown - over 150 authorities are evaluating asphalt pavement, 6:30. The Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos Quebec, Canada, 7:00. The Jeffrey Mill, 7:18. Asbestos fibers occur in veins in the rock, 7:31. Individual asbestos fibers, 7:38. Asbestos under the microscope, 7:55. Floor tiles, 8:17. Roofing with asbestos, 8:25. Roof decks, joint fillers, bridge planks, 8:40. Large trucks, 9:03. Trucks go up the mountain, 9:32. Johns Manville research center, 10:05. Scientists test asbestos properties, 10:24. Representative from Johns Manville research center, 10:35. Asbestos graphic, 11:00. Scientists administer tests, 11:10. Man talks to camera, 11:34. Weathering tests, 11:55. Cracking tests are administered, 12:25. The scientists run varying tests on asbestos mixed with asphalt, 12:50. Test results are revealed, 13:00. Pavement sections made under laboratory control, 13:30. Wheel machine goes around on a turntable to test asphalt, 13:50. Durability testing, 14:10. Man continues to talk to camera, 14:40. Test strip in Manville, New Jersey. Constructed in 1959. Side by side with standard pavement is an asbestos/asphalt surface, 15:15. Side by side comparisons of standard asphalt versus asbestos/asphalt mix, 15:35. Cracked asphalt, 15:54. Side by side testing results, 16:10. Thin overlays, 16:24. Tight impermeable asphalt surfaces, 16:45. Beautiful neighborhood roads, 17:05. Fifth wheel assembly, 17:18. Wet roads are created, 17:30. Men lay asphalt for a bus stop, 17:51. Extruded curbing, 18:00. 340 degrees Fahrenheit, 18:15. Durability. Bridge decks, 18:40. Coal patch maintenance, 18:48. Vinton A. Savage, Engineer of Primary Highways of the Maine Highway Commission, 19:20. Mr. Savage speaks to the camera, 19:45. Paul Martin, General Crushed Stone Company, Easton Pennsylvania. Mr. Martin speaks to the camera, 20:30. Mr. Curtis B Watrouse of the Peckham Road Corporation White Plains, NY. Mr. Watrouse speaks to the camera, 21:25. Asphalt is rolled, 21:51. Men working on the road, 22:10. Asbestos helps to reduce weathering, flexural fatigue, raveling, flushing, shoving, rutting, 22:27. Highway scene, 22:40. Use asbestos for heavy duty pavements, joint fillers, cold patching, curbing and thin overlays, 22:50. Johns-Manville, Paving Engineers.
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"Asbestos requires no special handling"
Oh.
Ok.
Requires? Maybe not... But respirator, goggles, gloves and perhaps a protective suit; is still probably a good idea!
The funny bit is, they knew asbestos causes fibrosis way before this video was even made.
tbf the actual laying of the asphalt was probably the safest part, all the asbestos was tied up into the asphalt. The poor sucker putting it into the mix wasn't so lucky.
@@volundrfrey896 He needed a mask, same as fiberglass. People act like it goes in through your skin like freaking VX.
The problem is you bring it home. It gets in your clothes. Over several years little by little it kills you. Once it's in your lungs it stays there.
Narrator: "If these techniques provoke a smile today, what will our present techniques look like 50 years from now?"
50 years later: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to compensation.
If Trump gets reelected, he'll probably try to reintroduce asbestos.
@@koriko88 what a stupid comment
@@koriko88 asbestos is an awesome product. As long as you never get it in your lungs. Which is impossible unless you only use robots to make it and install it.
@@Zhertzpro it's sad when people have no idea how good Trump has been for America. They can never back up their hate with facts. Trust me I ask. And never get any honest reply.
@@lostintime8651
He hasn't been super great either. He isn't Herbert hoover level, but he isn't a Abraham or Eisenhower
I remember all the stuff he very clearly said was going to be done in his first year.
Tear up the ACA.....not quite
Trade deals.........no
Wall........no
We will be prosperous......eh, well see.
That guy splitting bags of asbestos is definitely dead.
Poor bloke, he would have had no idea. Funny thing is it doesn't kill everyone who is exposed, even highly exposed people wont get it for sure.
Or most of the people featured in this video
Ed Plays Drums Asbestos exposure plus smoking cigarettes is the highest cause for mesothelioma and or lung cancer.
Yes , dead , considering otherwise he would be nearing 100.
It’s possible, but not everyone who is exposed to asbestos is killed
Somewhere a lawyer is looking at this like it's porn.
Whoever at Johns Manville (best know now for their NON-PINK home insulation materials) greenlighted this doc back then was like those advertising companies that put those Dutch Boy LEAD ads decades before (did it with DISREGARDS for THE HEALTH of the people).
In both cases decades ago THE COMPANIES KNEW some of the UNHEALTHFUL consequences on the use of both LEAD and ASBESTOS.
PS: (5:10) The MOST UNHEALTHFUL part of this use of ASBESTOS is shown AT PLAIN SIGHT, as in INHALING THE FIBERS while mixing it with the asphalt... (today CONCRETE is used to reinforce BUS STOPS rather than HD ASPHALT)
Sir, unfortunately not one compensation claim has been...or will be..successful in Australia.
People involved in cleanup are not able to make claims also.
@@88njtrigg88 - WHAT AN EFFED UP SYSTEM OF DELIVERING JUSTICE!
@@syxepop The Australian legal system is draconian. Needless to say l didn't complete the Asbestos course @ $1000 for 2days.
Training, learning & living in Australia is expensive & draconian too.
Hahhaha
5:09 The poor guy is literally cracking open a bag of asbestos dust and dumping it into a hopper without a mask or any type of breathing protection... just his bare hands and a pair of overalls. I can imagine he was probably dead from respiratory failure or lung cancer by age 55.
Don Prather that’s how I watched the whole thing, none of these people could have lived very long being in this business!
The style of the time and the "good old days" some people pine for.
@@albear972 Life is a series of risk decisions. If you want a risk free lifestyle, never leave mom's basement.
@@ronlynquist9183 Death wish? Now that's a great strawman! Are you hoping to scare away the crows with that? 🤣
@@PhaQ2 Dunno, some moms are pretty dangerous...
Adding asbestos makes EVERYTHING better...roads, flooring, insulation, salad dressing, underwear...the list goes on and on. Oh asbestos, what would we do without you?
I add some to my cereals every morning, so I can become fireproof.
@@oleskool4413 😆
Makes my underpants itchy though
I love my asbestos oven mitts.
Russians used asbestos in their gas mask filters
I do litigation support, meaning my job requires me to be present at a number of depositions and witness (often victim) interviews. I'll never forget one gentleman and his wife. He was near the end but came into a conference room for his testimony which required 2 days since he could only go for a few hours at a time.
At the conclusion, he addresses everyone in the room and thanked us for being so kind. He said this not only to the legal team representing him, but also the opposite side who had grilled him about any and every possible exposure he might have had from other sources. He wished us all his best and hoped we would stay happy and healthy. He slowly left the somewhat quieter room. I found out he passed away just a few days later.
What else can you say after witnessing that...
You could say: I hope he pre-paid his bill.
Having watched this, I thought of the "joys" of living in the Gary-Hammond Indiana area in the 50's and 60's:
Asbestos from pavement with asbestos additive
Asbestos from the automotive brake linings
Asbestos in floor and ceiling tiles
Lead from the vehicle exhausts
Lead in the paint
High percentage of adults participating in unrestricted tobacco smoking
Plus all the toxic chemicals belched out by the local refineries and steel mills. (This provided beautiful sunsets.)
It's almost as if some diabolical science experiment was taking place measuring the resilience of the human body.
Awesome Username. I'll meet you at The Berghoff.
Now, they just all sit around getting high on the new asbestos...marijuana. Just like the tobacco and asbestos industries, the negative effects are kept close to the industry breast pocket and like the OBiden Regimes, all negative reports suppressed.
Its not a diabolical science experiment, its called unregulated capitaalism.
Asbestos in roads. The best idea since lead in gasoline!
More asbestos in EVERYTHING!
Both come under the heading "Seemed like a good idea at the time."
Probably not a single person died from it and who knows how many driver's lives were saved by it. A ledger has 2 sides, you know!
tarstarkusz why are you lobbying for the asbestos industry? Lol
I guess if we put it in everything people gain immunity
my uncle used to work for johns manville in the 50's and 60's and 70;s He used to come home from work every night covered in asbestos fibers at one of
the LA plants. Last time i saw him was in '03 before he died of mesothelioma.. After working all those years, he lost his retirement because of the bankruptcy. He said the company owner or one of them would come in sometimes with a young bimbo on his arm. He said the guy pissed away the company with all the bimbo's. He was pretty bitter about the whole situation. He only got a small settlement from the lawsuit
I knew Tommy Manville was a womanizer and constant bridegroom.
When the guy was tearing open asbestos bags and dumping it in I about died. Asbestos is amazing stuff, too bad it's so dangerous.
He died 2 weeks after the film was made.
No mask, no gloves, no arm covering.
@@peteri8924 Then his ashes were used in an asphalt mixture.
@@rogerNOmore Trouble was his body would not burn! Had to bury him!
@@GaryNumeroUno win
I'm getting mesothelioma by just watching this.
You may be entitled to compensation
@@AltimaNEO can we start a class action?
It's your money, and you want it now?
I have an annuity and I need cash now!
The most 1960’s thing I’ve ever seen - Just Add Asbestos! ;)
OMG. The dangers of asbestos may be slightly exaggerated today, but watching that guy cut open and dump bales of fiber into the mix is horrifying.
There were probably safe ways of handling the stuff (it's actually much less dangerous than the butter-flavored stuff they sprinkle on popcorn today), but companies like Mansville had already exposed so many people to it that they were afraid that adopting reasonable precautions would be an admission of prior negligence, so they just went on letting people poison themselves. Human nature can be a nasty thing sometimes.
Or that red fingernailed hand model picking through that asbestos as if it were cotton.
@@pcno2832 ahhhh, popcorn lung, my favourite flavour.
@@ronlynquist9183 It is. With the proper handling its safe.
Yes, it was banned for a reason, despite its usefulness. But the precautions taken when encountering old uses of it now border on the hysterical.
We must all do asbestos we can.
Funny
Lame but funny
Ha ha very funny
Highly underrated comment
Thanks, Dad,
All the men in this film, or their loved ones, may be entitled to compensation.
I read that in the adverts voice!
It just shows how overblown asbestos hysteria is. This stuff is EVERYWHERE! If it were anywhere near as dangerous as people think it was, there would be many millions of deaths every single year. Yet, remarkably, in the UK, where asbestos was used very heavily in building construction, a mere 2,000 people die a year because of it. At least 1/2 of the UK population has had significant exposure.
@@tarstarkusz mere 2000. ...
@@tarstarkusz 2,000 is OK ?
@@Hanzyscure Obviously not. But there are 2 sides to ever ledger. Is 40,000 people dead a year from driving OK?
We have collectively decided that 40k people a year dead is a price worth paying to drive. There are undoubtedly more people saved every year by the fact that we drive.
In the early 70's I had a part time job where I worked in the false ceiling of the Topanga Mall in Woodland Hills, CA. Years later while working at a different job, I stopped in the Topanga Mall just to look around and there was a massive construction project with plastic barriers covering a new false ceiling under the old one where they were removing the one I worked in. Found out it was full of asbestos. I thought for sure I was going to die. Fortunately, 50 years later I have suffered no ill affects of the asbestos I used to crawl around in. I did loose a lot of sleep back in the day worrying about how it would affect me. Guess I'm just lucky!
No most people can be exposed to any amount of asbestos and suffer no ill effects. Only some people are affected and no one knows quite why.
2/3 of lung cancers caused by tobacco and it's totally not needed, stupid thing.
th-cam.com/video/m9TFUzWzgOo/w-d-xo.html It going strong.
@@hckyplyr9285 its only dangerous if its fibers are inhaled or ingested, like if you breathed in dust or had it on your hands and ate or smoked or something and were exposed to/doing that for long periods of time. If you touched solid pieces it dosent do harm like it would if you breathed it in or ingested it.
It's asbestos dust that's bad, during application and removal mainly, when in solid form it's no harm at all
Latensee period is 30 - 40 years for asbestos, I have removed it for over 20 years in NYS, cost $500.00 to get certified and its $150.00 per year to keep it.
"To the eyes, the asbestos mix looks like standard mix, to the lungs of this guy doing the mix..."
The bestest highway is an asbestos highway.
... and so say all of us!
As bestos as can get!
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What will our roads look like in 50 years time? Not very good is the answer.
I was thinking "yea uh, it's 50 years later now... Looks the same honestly."
wont need any. anti grav is just around the corner.
PAY ATTENTION!
Are you kidding? I remember the roads when I was a kid, 50 years ago. The stuff we have today is a dream side of that old stuff. The road outside of my house is 30 years old. Not one pot hole, it holds up to semi traffic and looks fine. The 30 year old roads 50 years ago had to be replaced or filed down to the cement under it and re-laid in the 1980s after just 20-25 years of use. Those roads laid in the 1980s today are fine.
Actually at 3:26 his question is about the _techniques_ in use at that time.
@@robertthomas5906 and how many roads were laid in the 80's? Ah right, basicly none! They all were made in the 40-60's
There's something soothing about watching these old informative films.
Sort of irrelevant, but @2:41 we see an Eastern Boeing 720 (yes 720, a short-haul edition of the 707) in an unusual pre-"hockey stick" livery. There were only 15 of these jets and they only carried the livery seen here for a couple of years (1961-2). The side says "FLY EASTERN AIR LINES" which was later shortened to just "FLY EASTERN". This was the only Eastern aircraft to have this scheme, so this is a somewhat rare video for aviation nerds. The jets were retired in 1969.
When I was an apprentice in the mid-1970's there was a wall plug material called Phillplug used for preparing holes for screws. The experienced guys would put a plug in their mouth and chew it to make it soft and pliable. It was asbestos based. I use the new plastic plugs, which is why probably why I am still alive and in good health.
I still have some!
Ingesting it isn't as deadly as inhaling it. When it becomes airborne and the micro fibers enter your lungs. The fibers never leave.
Hanzy Scure True, but a significant number of people got peritoneal mesothelioma from ingesting the stuff. Less deadly doesn’t make it ok.
Holy shit! LOL
These existed also under the name 'Rawlplug'
Make Asbestos Great Again
Very very funny comment!!
you sir win the internet!
You have achieved comedy!
Quality 😂
Don't give the Whitehouse any ideas - they seem determent remove any law and regulation that could possible stand between a business and making profit!
10:06 - I remember when they tore down that building in Manville NJ. Seeing all those people in hazmat gear and the thought of there being this toxic stuff in there that was giving everyone cancer, creeped me out so much when I was a kid. They put a Walmart where that building is now. People in town actually got sick from breathing in the asbestos because the factory put it out into the air.
"John's Mansville and the American Oil Company: The best of both worlds!"
Asbestos, agent orange, ddt, leaded gas, lead paint, etc... and the entire time somebody knew it was all dangerous to human health.
Profits, folks. It’s all about the profits.
But Hitlers the enemy, not the military Indus.....
Like Obamacare but with less victims.
www.cato.org/publications/commentary/bring-back-ddt
I lost my step dad due to asbestos. I work in road construction and wonder how many roads still contain asbestos today. I’ve never seen a test.
It's unlikely any of them still exist. They would've been rebuilt long long ago.
The answer to the How will it look 50 years from now is: Cancer
Went to school from 4th grade until 8th that was built in 55. The ceilings were abestos. Pencils and penny’s were stuck all over in it. The school still stands today after being closed for 30 years. No one will tear it down.
In Texas we have roads paved with crushed glass (they sparkle at night) and chopped up tires (they show rust stains)
I never noticed sparkling roads. Also rusty roads due to the steel wire in tires I didn’t see either.
Couple of the roads here are red. Lots of red granite here so it got used as filler.
Glass on roads hmmm...
@@juliogonzo2718 Red granite is actually the best, much than asphalt made with limestone gravel (that looks gray as the road becomes older and wears out much faster). Didn't even know Texas had granite.
@@pauloja5091 I'm in Canada along the boreal forest. We got lots of granite :)
Nice Corvette @ 18:35
Asbestos sounds great! Think of all the other uses for this product we could find!
I Was Born In The Late 60s So I Love Anything About That Time✌️
It's got best right in the name so what could go wrong?
Right now, somewhere, an osha handbook just burst into flames.
WOW! This asbestos stuff is a miracle! Let's use it EVERYWHERE!
Sad to think about those people working directly with asbestos, and that even before this film was made these companies already knew asbestos was dangerous to your health
"Look how I read these cue cards… you can trust me, I'm at a desk!"
Asbestos was good stuff for some things; tough, rot-proof, fire-resistant.. But it was probably overkill for this, especially with all the dust kicked up by traffic on even a tough road. But when they took the asbestos out, they left us with roads that are continuously falling apart and they still seem too brittle today. We should be putting fiberglass, mineral wool, maybe even old clothes, into the asphalt to make it more flexible; what they use now, at least in the north-east, isn't working.
I kinda doubt that the asbestos in asphalt pavements really gets kicked up as dust. And do we have any evidence that asbestos ever became a common additive in asphalt?
"In 1981, Johns-Manville Corporation was renamed simply "Manville". In 1982, facing unprecedented liability for asbestos injury claims, Johns Manville voluntarily filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11"
Working today… to create health problems of the future!
It's natural. So it must be okay....
It is nowhere near as dangerous as people think. I wouldn't huff the stuff, but the danger is massively overblown in the US.
Just like arsenic or cadmium!
Don't forget radon, hemlock,
tarstarkusz the rock isn’t dangerous. When it’s worn tiny fibers, then it is.
@@lightdark00 The fibers are dangerous only when inhaled though, its not like some nuclear waste thats dangerous being next to
“Requires no special handling”. Mans famous shortsightedness.
Teflon - another industry innovation now biting us on the ass!
An interesting segment from the late 50's to early 60's... Very interesting testing process. It is amazing how people were handling the pure asbestos with their bare hands and no masks being used at all... What happened to those who worked at the mines where this material was processed? I wonder if they had any idea of what the effect of asbestos fibers are to the respiratory systems of people and animals back then? And , what has been used to replace asbestos? The intent of using asbestos for so many things seemed to be very well accepted and positive back then, but I guess, we learn as time goes on... The 60 year old footage was very cool !!! Thank you for presenting this!!!
I can't answerr all your questions but I can tell you what Asbestos has been replaced with. There's 5 main replacements (depending on where exactly it's being used)
1. Amorphous Silica Fibres - These are used mainly for insulation and heat proofing in industrial settings.
2. Cellulose Fibre - This again is mainly insulation but this is used in domestic settings, like house insulation.
3. Polyurethane foam - This is a spray on insulation used in roofing, floatation devices, car upholstery and seating and prop making in movie/theatre sets.
4. Flour Fibres - These are mainly crack and crevice fillers and to some degree, insulation.
5. Thermoset Plastic Flour - This is mostly used to create moulded products and sometimes electrical insulation.
I am watching this while in quarantine for the coronavirus pandemic....
"What will our present techniques look like fifty years from now?" Well, funny you mention that...
Martin: In a sample taken in this very classroom,
a state inspector found 1.74 parts per million of asbestos!
Bart: That's not enough! We demand MORE asbestos!
Rest of the class: MORE ASBESTOS! MORE ASBESTOS!
When this video was made the health risks from asbestos were already known. JM didn’t care so long as they sold more product.
This film is so cheery and excited about the future and yet: "During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, [Johns-Manville] faced thousands of individual and class action lawsuits based on asbestos-related injuries such as asbestosis, lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma. As a result, the company voluntarily filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1982. At that time, it was the largest company in United States history to have done so." -- Wikipedia
That shit was literally everywhere and in everything , started in a steel mill millwright gang in the 70's and we had rolls of it on our picnic table cutting it into smaller rolls to wrap hoses on the furnaces to protect from heat never being told of the dangers. It was even used in cigarette filters. Kent cigarettes used to have magazine ads boasting of their micronite filters. Floor tiles, car brakes, house siding,insulation, protective heat clothing the list goes on .
There are probably still places in the USA with decaying asbestos roads.
Without question. There's a small forgotten 2 lane blacktop with asbestos waiting to be discovered!
Asbestos is an amazing product with many wonderful properties and uses; except one.
Every now and then I watch a TH-cam video primarily to read the comments. The acerbic wit of a few hundred dips**ts gifted with the keen insight that only 50 years of 20/20 hindsight and frequent media drumbeat can provide. Magnifique!
If only TH-cam had been around to warn them...
😳WOW! Makes it all better with such a soothing voice...
I miss asbestos highways.
So do I.
As a small kid in the early 60's I had my head out the window on one side of the car and the dog was hanging out the other side, just breathing it all in. Lol...….
in 1960, a new miracle
today, it kills
Today, with the aid of this film, I learned that there is an actual place called Asbestos, Canada.
Great entertainment during this in-house prison called COVID-19, keep these great ones coming, please!
You mean CONVICT-19 as we are all under god damn house arrest. I don't know where about's you're from but up here and Canada our government as made an APP that you download to keep you safe and away from people that have the Chinese Virus. The only only thing is it wants 100% access to your entire phone and uses bluetooth, wifi, and your provider to get precise GPS of where you are and who you're with. So far you can download on your own if you're a idiot. Prior to that Justin wanted the government to pass this to make it mandatory without the owner of the phones permission BUT thank god it was thrown out...but he did try. Just like he tried to pass a bill where he could tax the hell out of whoever he felt made enough money to take from you and give to all the welfare recipients and all the other pie in the sky social programs, like safe injection sites where they give junkies actual government approved heroin. Sorry about going so off topic but things are absolutely crazy right now.
@@michaeljohn9263 You are correct, Michael John, it IS CONVICT-19!! I don't know much about Canadian ways or politics (I'm down here in Ohio), but, from what you just said, sounds like a total nightmare up there!
@@Nunofurdambiznez The worst part is when you read the CBC and check out the comments from fellow readers. It's like these people are loving being stuck at home and not able to work. Justin said a couple days ago that is could last for 12-18 months or until a vaccine is made, and these morons almost seem excited that the won't have to work!! I don't understand where they think all this money is going to come from because with the way are going with all these special bailout packages the country will be broke by September/October...yet these assholes think it's a holiday! All I know is it's going to be a LONG, COLD, WINTER if this shit drags out. Not only that but all the businesses that are going to go bankrupt, all those people that are going to lose their jobs...next thing you know there are going to be a ton of people defaulting on their mortgages will be losing their homes. If people thought the 1920s depression was bad..well...the 20s will be a cake walk compared to what is coming if people don't get back to work by September...and so many people don't even seem like they have thought that far into the future. How are things around your neck of the woods?
@@Nunofurdambiznez Also I know a lot of people don't care for Trump BUT at least he banned flights from China January 30th, and got called a racist for it, but at least he got on shit right away. Trudeau, as of the other day I checked incoming flights to BC and China flights are STILL coming in!
@@michaeljohn9263 every single one of your comments is absolutely spot-on correct!!! Here in Ohio, it's not TOO bad, but yes, people need to get back to work or we're ALL gonna be in a world of hurt here soon!
22:04. This is why OSHA happened. Seat belts? Hell, we don't even use seats!
Whew! It's hot work putting down this asphalt with asbestos. Time to take a break and light up a Lucky Strike cigarette.
When I was a kid, my grandma had three big chunks of asbestos in her rock garden. We used to break pieces off and play with that crap. I guess we were lucky, because none of us have ever had any lung issues.
This video is fantastic! The style, the footage and the content.
Asbestos...the miracle fiber!!
Somehow my mother worked for John's Manville in the mid to late 50s as a secretary and she escaped all the asbestos related issues that her Co workers ended up dying early in life from even in the offices in Manhattan, the bosses would be in and out of the office constantly checking in on products and production coming back into the office probably full of asbestos fibers on their clothes and person. They would handle the stuff back then like it was 100Xs safer than fiberglass, not knowing what they were doing or inhaling. My grandfather was an engineer in boiler rooms on ships during WW2 and afterwards worked inside schools heating systems down in NYC. Somehow the man survived to the age of 84 and eventually was caught up with asbestos related throat cancer from handling the stuff like it was Nothing more than a harmless rock substance. It's ingrained in the family here! My house is insulated with John's Manville fiberglass insulation as well lol. But yes they really had no clue back then what they were doing to themselves!
Does that fiberglass insulation contain asbestos?
Asbestos, a natural wonder! Not only for roads, it makes a great loaf of bread too!
dont forget cookies and pies....
Only one child is missing who in front of the camera says "I like asbestos !!!" and the mother who replies "here take a piece and play with it"
Or that guy with the hat saying:"That's right, Timmy! Asbestos is the future - TODAY!".
Asbestos had excellent qualities and in most all products after it was added was not dangerous unless airbourne, asbestos tiles are everywhere today and completely safe unless you break and crack them up. Today there are substitutes that do the same and don't kill you 20 years later when you breath it in.
Really? Can you name one product that has the same positive properties as asbestos, im very curious
@@PilotAwe There aren't any, not at the same cost and with the same ease of processing, range of capabilities, etc.
Which only makes it a bitch producing it and destructing it, but I guess using it should be ok then?
This video aged like fine wine
Asbestos really is a wonder material…. To bad for the health risks
So many lungs, so much asbestos.
2020: plastics roads and solar freakin' roadways👀😳
Plastic roads sounds like a pretty bad idea. Cars would driver over it, and micro plastic goes everywhere, including into water, lol.
plastic roads are absolutely the modern equivalent of asbestos roads
@@mrbisshie Wait until you hear about tires degradating by rolling
All of which failed miserably
To all the naysayers, there has NEVER been a fire in any roads paved with asbestos infused asphalt.
Modern day Nano tech is the same as this was back then. 60 years from now they will say all this nano stuff was bad for us. OMG the lady handling that stuff with bare hands and inhaling it, classic. All natural, so good for you? lol
2:44 I've seen this footage so many times in so many films. I wonder what the original use of it was.
insulation, brake pads filler for any thing look up libby montana
"Asbestos floor tiles" uhh i have definitely ripped up tiles with fibers in it... also the house i grew up in had asbestos siding and roof tiles and i remember playing with broken tiles and being intrigued by the crystals lmao. Whoops.
Ah yes, the times when everything had asbestos
look at all thos beautiful trucks!!
18:05 nothing like the smell of asbestos infused asphalt in the morning
When this film was made, the Atomic Energy Commission was proposing to add enough radioactive material to pavements to eliminate the need to plow the snow! Just imagine what our cancer rate would be if that idea had been put to use.
Good gravy. How times change.
Let’s make America great again
How many such harmless, miracle, indispensable things we have nowadays? By the way, in the past best cigarette filters to save our lungs were asbestos ones... so good luck folks ;)
We have plastic, fantastic today.
Asbestos in your roads, asbestos in your brake pads, asbestos in your insulation, asbestos in your lungs.
What about the pet drive on this asphalt? Asphalt deteriorates as you drive on it, thus releasing fibers into the air.
Exposure due to driving wear was probably minimal, but during production or removal it was certainly bad.
@@evilassaultweaponeer Except for that fact that the friable shit gets everywhere. It's like radioactive fallout from a roadway, for tens/hundreds of miles.
@@charlesbonkley Exposure levels still minimal compared to the workers, but certainly widespread and over a long period. It certainly wasn't fully inert.
We need more asbestos roads!
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This stuff is great. Let's put it into everything!
I wonder if there’s still traces of asbestos in roads today from where they reuse old asphalt.
surprised they didnt use it to fill pillows
Hey, That’s a Great idea. Why didn’t I think of that. I’m going to call Mister Pillow right now.
Well, what the hell do you think the 'my pillow' guy is stuffing his dumb pillows with?
They did, look it up was marketed as fireproof pillows and quilts
They also used asbestos for cigarette filters (blue asbestos!), in talcum powder, in fake snow, in loose insulation that was blown in to insulate pipes, attics etc, as insulation in toasters and hair dryers (blowing asbestos fibres straight in your face while in use), as a mild abrasive in tooth paste, instead of rawl plugs (as a kind of asbestos cement powder that the construction workers would suck on and knead with their fingers to fix mistakes), in gas mask filters, it was used in just about any construction material you can think of from vinyl floors, to "popcorn" ceilings to asbestos cement flower pots and sidings. It was a very good material; cheap, effective, but quite dangerous to handle in a loose or friable state.
Go back another generation or two and people used opium to treat baby teething problems. Invented and marketed heroin as a "non-addictive" substitute for morphine. Used radon and radium for good health.
Go back another generation and they used cadmium to line tinned food. Painted absinthe alcohol a desirable colour of bluish green using copper salts (that's a lot of copper; very dangerous). Used arsenic in paint, which could became gaseous and kill people by the action of mold.
Asbestos used to be used in mattresses
America!...Hell yeah!
It’s part of a healthy balanced breakfast.
I've just watched them build a 'highway to hell'. The car in front will be flicking up minute particulates and throwing them into the following car's ventilation system for all to enjoy! Man there must be some mesothelioma deaths in the States.
We also had asbestos in brakes also.
@Barnaby Jones Yeah I forgot about that. Worked at a dealership in the late 90's. Remember a few of the older parts guys talking about that now.
Don't forget, Kent used it in their 'micronite' filters for their cigarettes. It was also used in air filters for respirator masks in and around WW2.
I wonder how much asbestos can still be found in US roads today.
Probably next to none. How many 50 year old roads are you driving on?
Yes, but how many years was asbestos added to asphalt. Once they started adding it, it would have been very hard to stop. Hundreds of thousands of miles of highways, freeways and city streets have been put down. If you travel in your car to any place in the U.S., you are traveling on asphalt. The new roads put down today deteriorate much faster then ones put down just 25 years ago. It would be interesting to see what the number of cancer cases reported each year were before the use of asbestos in asphalt. Compared to after the use of asbestos in asphalt.
@@JohnMichaelson In Rhode Island, a surprising number. They just redid a major state highway last summer with pavement from the 60s. Not because it lasted this long though. It was beyond shot when I first drove on it over 15 years ago. They just patched the cracks, poorly, when they got wide enough to swallow a narrow tire.
@@JohnMichaelson have you been to Detroit?
@@JohnMichaelson The asphalt is the same asphalt its 100% recycled since the beginning of road making.
Things are Way~Better today!.
Morgan & Morgan is salivating.
"Asbestosis makes breathing excruciatingly painful and leads to death from lung or heart failure; the victim essentially suffocates"...…..a terrible way to die....
Yeah, but asbestosis victims (or thier heirs) had been winning lawsuits against Johns-Manville since the 40s. Just as long as the victims signed a non-disclosure agreement, so Manville could keep their dirty little secret.
asbestos .....its not just for breakfast anymore
For further road protection coat it with any lead-based paint. According to Wiki the US has not completely banned asbestos. Also in 2020 the town of Asbestos Quebec changed their name to Val-des-Sources meaning "Valley of the Springs" .