Chinese Steam 2011 - Beitai Steelworks 3

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  • @mondobobdog
    @mondobobdog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for filming and posting. Soon no one will be using steam engines anywhere and videos like this will be the last ones shot in high resolution color. People may not appreciate that now but in a hundred years they will.

  • @TrainLordJC
    @TrainLordJC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great camera work to show steam locomotives still at work in high resolution. It won't be the same once the diesels take over. So this is recorded for posterity. Well done!

  • @docilehostile
    @docilehostile 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’d love to see the engines preserved. These workhorses have been through a lot. They belong in a museum!

    • @farmcentralohio
      @farmcentralohio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They use these every day. Steam engines are still made in china.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@farmcentralohio Sorry, not true. Only Sandaoling in Western China still uses a few JS class until late next year. The last steam locomotive was built in China in 1999.

    • @farmcentralohio
      @farmcentralohio 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackthorne57 Oh good for you, you figured out how to google something. Congrats.

    • @docilehostile
      @docilehostile 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      farm.central. ohio C’mon man that’s a bit rude. You got something wrong and he corrected you for it. No need to fight

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@farmcentralohio I am writing from first hand experience. I have visited China seven times to film and photograph the steam locomotives at work. I am also in contact with recent visitors. Please be polite it will do you no harm

  • @blackthorne57
    @blackthorne57  12 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The slag tapped from the bottom of the Beitai blast furnaces is not basic slag. Basic slag used a fertiliser is a by-product of steel making by the basic version of the Bessemer process.

  • @bobjohnson2800
    @bobjohnson2800 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Superb video. I hope more rail fans explore your videos. Steam hard at work, dirt and grime at its best. Your video captures the real nature of steam.
    👍🏼👍🏼

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Bob Johnson Thank you

    • @malikaferdous4896
      @malikaferdous4896 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +blackthorne57

    • @blackbirdgaming8147
      @blackbirdgaming8147 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wen Chu Never. It’s rare to see really any kind of steam in the US, let alone it hard at work and earning money for a railroad.

  • @DelayInBlockProductions
    @DelayInBlockProductions 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Incredible. Great work!!!

  • @kpadmirer
    @kpadmirer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    What Pennsylvania used to look like.

    • @naggersgonnanag
      @naggersgonnanag 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      you can still see the leftover in Altoona or Pitts right?

    • @rosesmellpoo
      @rosesmellpoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      O o f

    • @Honeydwarf85
      @Honeydwarf85 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a resident of PA, I'm glad it doesn't anymore.

    • @naggersgonnanag
      @naggersgonnanag 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thatguyontheinternet the things you see in the video no longer exist in China as well

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@naggersgonnanag Uh, the pollution still does....

  • @pakan357
    @pakan357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Ah, so this is where the raw materials for my eco e-scooter, LED bulbs and electric car are made!

    • @mememachine5244
      @mememachine5244 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No.

    • @southerncanadiancoins757
      @southerncanadiancoins757 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mememachine5244 yes

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, this is what they coat children's toys with...

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ffjsb What do you mean? This is a steelworks. Please don't post daft comments.

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackthorne57 You're an idiot if you don't know that a LOT of hazardous materials show up in Chinese made goods. That's just a fact, even though the comment I made THREE YEARS AGO was sarcasm....

  • @DetroitLove4U
    @DetroitLove4U 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's nothing "counterfeit" about the hard work these Chinese people perform.

  • @hgl1001
    @hgl1001 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Beautiful camera work and sound, and very interesting subject.

  • @sergei7746
    @sergei7746 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    От такой работы лёгкие свои выплюнешь

  • @Mr.Killjoy95
    @Mr.Killjoy95 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Pittsburgh has definitely come a long way since the early 1900s. You can still see the scars left from slag dumps and steel mills decades after they've been torn down.

    • @ratking948
      @ratking948 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is there any sites that show pics of that?

  • @1940limited
    @1940limited 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Absolutely amazing! The Chinese are such hard working and industrious people exhibiting such fine examples of human ingenuity. I admire them for retaining steam motive power well into the 21st century. Despite the advantages of diesels, use of steam hasn't seemed to adversely effect China's competitive edge.

    • @theblasphemousgospel6824
      @theblasphemousgospel6824 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sorry to say but non of the technology involved is originated or invented in China. But Chinese are very hard working people not sure why use steam is really polluting burning coal

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robert Haxor It's my understanding they don't, or didn't, have the technology to build diesel-electric locomotives. They know how to build steamers so they simply kept using them. They also wanted to reduce dependency on foreign oil. They have plenty of coal and are using it.

    • @abrahamcodpiece694
      @abrahamcodpiece694 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those locos look like the German ones captured during the War by the Russians and then sold to China.

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Abraham Codpiece Some of China's steam locomotives have an American look to them. I've been told some were built off American blue prints? I don't know if that's true or not but any steam is good steam.

    • @MIGASHOORAY
      @MIGASHOORAY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      g bridgman the WESTERN CIVILISATION were like that 2 or 300 years ago. HOW ELSE DID WE DEVELOP THE MODERN WORLD now we have given all that away.

  • @markpenn4831
    @markpenn4831 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely amazing thank you for sharing !

  • @Shunteration
    @Shunteration 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    They all have steam horns - that's clever, they need to be heard in such a noisy place.

    • @AaronR264
      @AaronR264 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      "steam horns"

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AaronR264 Yes, they're horns not whistles, as you would normally find on a steam locomotive. I think the Southern Pacific used horns instead of whistles in the US in the later years of steam.

  • @gregotte2680
    @gregotte2680 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The guy in blue at 10:11 is also seen in the recent report from BBC that showed the modern inner workings of the steelworks in 2019... thats crazy

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a strange comment! Many Chinese workers wear blue overalls. You have absolutely no evidence this person appeared in a recent BBC documentary. Your comments are welcome but not childish ones.

  • @kaybevang536
    @kaybevang536 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So do they send Bulldozers or something to pick it up once it cools down ?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes. The cooled slag is pushed to a conveyor then crushed to even size lumps for use in road building. You can see this after about 8 mins on this video.

  • @terryszabo8884
    @terryszabo8884 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting! I enjoyed the video very much. Thanks

  • @SMILEVIDEOTRAINS
    @SMILEVIDEOTRAINS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fantastic footage. thank you

  • @djdjerojr
    @djdjerojr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What are the slagcars made out of? Or lined with? Asbestos?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The slagcars are made of heavy gauge steel. There is no asbestos used in their construction.

  • @ModelingSteelinHO
    @ModelingSteelinHO 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have not disappointed. Excellent video !

  • @musicchemistry269
    @musicchemistry269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Realy old train :O director of this fabric is a vintage lover :P

  • @トラトラト
    @トラトラト 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    設備は近代化されながらも
    今でも現役バリバリなのがうれしいなあ

  • @RozdelovskeRozhledy
    @RozdelovskeRozhledy 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    00:55 This is Hell. Amazing. Nice video, thank you.

  • @sergeylatichev6971
    @sergeylatichev6971 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    8.50 - level 80 automated technology

  • @woodhonky3890
    @woodhonky3890 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder what that huge brown pipeline was used for.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      An interesting question. I do not know the answer but it may be for fuel for the blast furnaces, oil or natural gas. A lot of compressed air is also used but I think this was produced next to the furnaces. It anybody knows the answer please post here.

  • @jet936
    @jet936 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fascinating viewing, as always.

  • @spechtmeise9185
    @spechtmeise9185 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Steam everywhere, fascinating!!!!

    • @TheNemosdaddy
      @TheNemosdaddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A lot of that is toxic gasses like sulfur dioxide off the slag. Real shithole place to work.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheNemosdaddy The air temperature was very cold, hence the steam from the water that is sprayed on the slag to cool it down. As for sulphur dioxide, it has a very distinctive smell that I know very well from my years working in a laboratory, I did not smell any SO2 coming from the slag.

    • @terminal2004
      @terminal2004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SO2 comes from the coal, not the slag.

  • @zerofox7347
    @zerofox7347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those trains are awesome, It has to be said.:-)

  • @zoltzoni
    @zoltzoni 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Camera work is beautiful.
    Excellent video!
    5*

  • @michaeltooth7276
    @michaeltooth7276 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well done. Salut from Poland.

  • @b43xoit
    @b43xoit 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is the material of the slag cauldrons?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Heavy duty steel. A release agent is sprayed into the cauldron to help the release of the slag.

    • @b43xoit
      @b43xoit 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How does the technique assure that when the slag is tapped or poured from the furnace, it is not hot enough to melt the cauldron?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@b43xoit Although still very hot after leaving the furnace, it starts to cool rapidly and is not hot enough to melt the thick steel of the cauldron.

  • @b43xoit
    @b43xoit 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How is tipping achieved?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      An electric motor attached to a cog wheel rotates the cauldron.

  • @rogernadeau3708
    @rogernadeau3708 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very Nice Vedeo !

  • @mikeschoeffter7420
    @mikeschoeffter7420 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Isn't slag basically just lava ?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lava is molten rock, slag is iron ore after the iron has been removed leaving the molten waste (rock) so I suppose they are more or less the same. A geologist may wish to correct me if I am wrong.

  • @dark2light96usaisa9
    @dark2light96usaisa9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Rip the respiritory systems of all of those workers...

    • @alexpearson8481
      @alexpearson8481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup. And now RIP the respiratory system of those with COVID.

  • @viktormolnar
    @viktormolnar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very nice and very interesting. I like steam engines very much but I dont understand Why? Why are they useing steam engines today? The diesels are more efficient. I think they could have a hudge reserve of coal. Free coal. Probably

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is now only one place in China (and the rest of the world) that steam locos are in regular daily use, that is the open-cast coal mine at Sandaoling in the west of China. You are correct, the coal was 'free'. Diesels are more efficient but more difficult to maintain. Another reason for withdrawing steam was said to be pollution but diesels are certainly not pollution free.

    • @docilehostile
      @docilehostile 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      blackthorne57 Do any of the steam locos in the video still exist?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@docilehostile ​ Parallel Music There is a large railway museum in Beijing with static exhibits of many loco types used on China's railways. A few QJ class are/were stored at Daban on the Ji Tong line in Inner Mongolia for use on tourist trains over the JingPeng Pass (I do not know if they still operate). There are also a few preserved lines that use C2 class 0-8-0 narrow gauge locos. There is probably more, China is a big country.
      There is still one place to see the very last real working steam in the world at Sandoaling open cast coal mine in western China, it will finish late next year.

    • @docilehostile
      @docilehostile 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      blackthorne57 Cool thx so much.

    • @huacai9536
      @huacai9536 ปีที่แล้ว

      the last steam loco engine of this video stop work in march 20223, now no more steam engines in wor

  • @stephenheath8465
    @stephenheath8465 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why the Chinese are using Steam Locomotives for Steel Mill Switching?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why not? Coal was freely available for the steelworks, the locos were realiable and easy to maintain. The old blast furnaces closed soon after my visit and the steam locos were then scrapped.

    • @ratking948
      @ratking948 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blackthorne57 why were the steam locos scrapped? The new blast furnaces were that different?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ratking948 Progress!! They were replaced by diesel locos. There are no steam locos anywhere in the world still working on industrial railways.

  • @josephinebennington7247
    @josephinebennington7247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Those horns are exactly the sound of the start of a game in ROLLERBALL!

  • @LifeforArt
    @LifeforArt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    8:50 so cool!

  • @balmesh
    @balmesh 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You have really caught all the action, George! Is this slag same as the "Basic Slag" that farmers used to spread on fields? Provided Phosphorus, I think.

  • @bg147
    @bg147 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How were they rocking the cauldrons?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The couldron is tipped by a cog wheel driven by an eectric motor. The rocking is caused by the motor being rapidly switched from forward to reverse.

  • @TheRantingCabbie
    @TheRantingCabbie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You get to work outside in the fresh air.

  • @Spalterbockl
    @Spalterbockl 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for sharing thiese videos. I still don't want to work there!

  • @TrainLordJC
    @TrainLordJC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I do hope that geologists have come to this location to take rock samples of each of the rock layers to help interpret the fascinating geology of the area demonstrating sea level changes, massive tectonic shifts of this continent over millions of years as well as analysis of the coal showing its Carboniferous era. I hope that it is somewhere accessible on TH-cam even though I have yet to find it.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am confused by your comment, please explain the connection between a time-expired blast furnace and geology.

    • @TrainLordJC
      @TrainLordJC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackthorne57 sorry that you are confused about my comment. Of course I am absolutely enjoying your wonderful videos of steam trains. I have a strong additional interest in geology and I find it interesting to look at at the various strata layours of the open cut coal mine and to think about its geology as I watch your videos.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TrainLordJC Thank you for your kind comments. My confusion relates to the fact there does not appear to be any mines at Beitai (as far as I am aware). I think coal was mined nearby when the steelworks was established but I think the nearest mine is now about 50 km away. All geologists are likely to find in the vicinity of Beitai is a lot of contaminated soil. I would be happy to be corrected on this.

  • @djdjerojr
    @djdjerojr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Toyota Prius production plant?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  ปีที่แล้ว

      The Toyota Prius is a Japanese car.

    • @djdjerojr
      @djdjerojr ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackthorne57 Yes and Apple is an American company haha, doesn't say anything about production really

  • @TheGamingMatthew
    @TheGamingMatthew 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Found it interesting that they are using steam engines! Amazing

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly the old blast furnaces and the steam engines finished shortly after my visit.

  • @starguard4122
    @starguard4122 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder why the Old Steam engines we used to use here in the U.S. were so loud and noisy, while the ones the Chinese use in this video are so quiet

    • @Varinki
      @Varinki 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Starguard ! The engine is not working very hard.

    • @starguard4122
      @starguard4122 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Varinki Oh. Thanks!

    • @computername
      @computername 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Starguard ! Also, steam engines tend to get less noisy, when they start to get dirty. Once everything is covered with dust, grease, burnt oil, coal dust etc. a lot of the mechanical and steam induced noises are damped (and so is the efficiency). For a brand new steamer with everything in perfect condition, everything sounds a bit more sharp, edgy and therefore, louder. The effect is very small and you probably can´t hear the difference from a video though

    • @MIGASHOORAY
      @MIGASHOORAY 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its quiet BECAUSE YOU HAVE your volume turned DOWN. Im deaf almost and i have to keep the volume down

    • @MIGASHOORAY
      @MIGASHOORAY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      6.08 THE CAULDRONS OF HELL.

  • @ZeroG
    @ZeroG 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ahhh... so THIS is where Chitanium was made. I always wondered.

    • @Max_R_MaMint
      @Max_R_MaMint 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think this is chinesium ore.

    • @terminal2004
      @terminal2004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes it is. EVERYTHING is made in China. So is Chitanium,

    • @Stepinup
      @Stepinup 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @johnbrown9092
    @johnbrown9092 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Superb video.

  • @ZeroG
    @ZeroG 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And yeah, fantastic video.

  • @sebastianfs3825
    @sebastianfs3825 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know this is really hazardous for the enviroment, but man this looks cool af, steam punk vibes

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Less of an envioremental problem now. These old blast furnaces and the steam locomotives have be replaced by much less polluting facilites.

    • @ratking948
      @ratking948 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackthorne57 they upgraded everything at once? There must be some of these steam engines and old blast furnaces going now.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ratking948 Sorry, no steam locos working in China now. This is true worldwide, preserved/heritage railways yes but no everyday working steam.

    • @ratking948
      @ratking948 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackthorne57 damn these videos are amazing! I had no idea these had been working up until recently.

  • @lucassilvaoliveira4029
    @lucassilvaoliveira4029 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excelente vídeo

  • @peckelhaze6934
    @peckelhaze6934 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very nice.

  • @АрсенийСавин-ь8т
    @АрсенийСавин-ь8т 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Почему они в 2011 ездят на паровозах? почему не купили новый современный локомотив?

    • @dzmitrynavasad2611
      @dzmitrynavasad2611 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Горы. На высоте тепловозы теряют мощность. Паровые машины нет. Электричество дорого тянуть. Все просто.

    • @Gooseff83
      @Gooseff83 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Они поди уголь из карьера таскают. Получается для паровоза топливо на халяву. Только воду подливай.

    • @ПротосВАР
      @ПротосВАР 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Потому что там нет "эффективных" менеджеров. Если так выгодно, значит все идут на хер. Мы так СССР сделали мировой державой, Китай так выдвигает себя. А с новым локомотивом придет куча проверяющих и охранителей прав человека, с которыми все производство и загнется. Как у нас

  • @cambridgeh.lutece6658
    @cambridgeh.lutece6658 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Surprised they actually still use Steam Engines. Probably because they can't afford anything else in the rural areas.

    • @aleksankazakov
      @aleksankazakov 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      no, because the operating cost of steam loco is significantly lower than the cost of diesel or electric loco not even taking into consideration the fact that they also dig the coal and water from the same ground where they operate and steam loco has low maintenance cost , no oil change, no engine rebuild nothing like that.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      China has the fastest high speed trains in the world, many more than the US

  • @charleyzimmer2505
    @charleyzimmer2505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Man, no wonder the Chinese have to chew they're air.

    • @SFtruckerWolf
      @SFtruckerWolf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Belgie places what looks nowadays the same.

  • @tadheath5856
    @tadheath5856 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    It would be great in the winter.......what kind of metal/waste what ever it is???

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is called slag. It is what is left over when iron is extracted from iron ore in the blast furnace. The slag from Beitai was crushed and used in materials for road building.

    • @tadheath5856
      @tadheath5856 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackthorne57 oh ok....thank you for the information.......that's what I find interesting...people.do stuff different all over.the world....I like to learn stuff like that....thank you for responding!!!

  • @dwil8263
    @dwil8263 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That sounds more like a horn than a whistle

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are correct, Chinese steam locos had air horns as well as steam whistles.

  • @pakopepefdez185
    @pakopepefdez185 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Coalbrookdaole, UK, or Rhur zone, 1856, colorized.

  • @joshice5876
    @joshice5876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    greta thumberg APPROVED!

  • @georgsanctus8233
    @georgsanctus8233 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Это какой год?

  • @유로유庾路冇
    @유로유庾路冇 ปีที่แล้ว

    내화재 제거 정말 효율적인듯..
    기가 막히네 이래 쉽게 제거가 되.

  • @aleksankazakov
    @aleksankazakov 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is all about efficiency, they dig coal from the ground, get water from the ground and with the help of a low wage person power the transport sending product where it needs to go. From business stand of view no other way is cheaper than this not speaking of absolutely zero or close to it of cost of maintenance. Insurance? Forget it common thats only in the Bureaucratic States Of Corporate America

  • @henerymag
    @henerymag 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This children is where you go if you don't say your prayers each night.

    • @michaelf6232
      @michaelf6232 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is where you go to have fun if you like these monster machines like the person taking the video. OR.
      This is where you go to have a job and take care of family. Personally I'd pray to have a job that means my families would be taken care of. A little hard and dirty work is nothing to be scared of, I'd prefer that over a cushy office job any day.!!!

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michaelf6232 Well said

  • @TheDAT9
    @TheDAT9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Send Greta there to sort them out. She could lecture them on the error of their ways. I'm sure they would be only too please to follow her advice.

  • @robertopozo2308
    @robertopozo2308 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Que manera de contaminar el suelo y el aire. Espero que el producto final, no sean "vainas de balas". º)

  • @essayibcs8528
    @essayibcs8528 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Its mordor

  • @rukindou
    @rukindou 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    really????

  • @Jungleland33
    @Jungleland33 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Can someone please remind me again why we pay carbon tax?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No Idea! The old blast furnaces, coking plant and steam locomotives have all been replaced by modern more environmentally friendly alternatives. Without steel your life and everybody else's would be very different.

    • @Unknownrobloxdude
      @Unknownrobloxdude ปีที่แล้ว

      Because we don’t live in China

  • @Rickimusic
    @Rickimusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dante's inferno.

  • @howellmiller428
    @howellmiller428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it is no wonder there is so much smog in china

    • @Alice_20246
      @Alice_20246 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and that's why china wants to Industry upgrade, energy upgrade.

    • @stephenhill8790
      @stephenhill8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      we had it in Britan for a hundred years untill the rich people in the city of london started to die then laws came out to change things

  • @douglassteiskal9097
    @douglassteiskal9097 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    We did this in Cleveland & Lorain Ohio just a few years ag

  • @stevieb931
    @stevieb931 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think this would be my dream job.

  • @mr.l6615
    @mr.l6615 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That place looks like a model example of proper environmental techniques. Said no one ever. Rofl. It actually looks like a terribly bad place fully of dangerous working conditions and toxic air.

    • @brianwillis8447
      @brianwillis8447 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      This shouldn't even be legal.

    • @ericperkins3078
      @ericperkins3078 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Watch the engineer chain smoking to clean the air he has to breathe

    • @stephenhill8790
      @stephenhill8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      much like any other industrilsed country over the last 200 years

  • @BearOnTheOcean
    @BearOnTheOcean 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    нормально, наверняка там на угле всё производство, не нужно думать о дизельном топливе, задачу свою выполняют

  • @donaviscencia3208
    @donaviscencia3208 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    no Brasil é assim se roubar tem direitos atribuídos pela constituição

  • @sequoyah59
    @sequoyah59 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not the beautiful modern and new china the chicoms want us to see. Industry on this scale though is impressive to see.

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shortly after my visit in 2011, the old blast furnaces at this steelworks were shut down and new, much less polluting furnaces put into use. Steam locos also finished at the same time. They were already using a completly enclosed coking furnace.

  • @whiteknightcat
    @whiteknightcat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Diesels? We no need no stinkin' diesel rocomotives!

  • @donaviscencia3208
    @donaviscencia3208 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    este país é muito bom em extensão mas ordem o povo indiciplinado os políticos do maior ao menor só pensa em roubar

  • @Antagraber
    @Antagraber 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2020. European Union is still fighting the global warming . LOL.

  • @ジョンジョン-p9i
    @ジョンジョン-p9i 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    何捨ててるの?

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      高炉で鉄鉱石から鉄が抽出された後に残った溶融スラグです。
      it is molten slag, left over after the iron has been extracted from the iron ore in the blast furnace.

  • @torar_
    @torar_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    People care about planting trees and electric cars and China be like: "Fuck it, no economy for that."

    • @stephenhill8790
      @stephenhill8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      china planted more trees than any other country in the world and spends more per capita on green energy reserch than the whole of the west they are cleaning up their country big time I,ve seen it

    • @torar_
      @torar_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephenhill8790 You can't be serious...

    • @stephenhill8790
      @stephenhill8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@torar_ I AM I HAVE BEEN OUT AS A ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT SO I DO KNOW

  • @donaviscencia3208
    @donaviscencia3208 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    é um país tem milhares de leis mas não são obedecidas é um país cujos seus administradores são corruptos

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Você deve publicar em um fórum de assuntos atuais para seus discursos políticos. Meus vídeos não são declarações políticas, mas para todos desfrutarem.
      You should post to a current affairs forum for your political rants. My videos are not political statements but for everybody to enjoy.

  • @boris9189
    @boris9189 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    крутая техника

  • @SomeGuyInSandy
    @SomeGuyInSandy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The US Economy will never withstand this onslaught.

  • @tinorudolf150
    @tinorudolf150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jetzt weiß ich endlich, warum ich meinen Diesel verschrotten soll.🤔

    • @noobgamer-qb3gq
      @noobgamer-qb3gq 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Da sieht man es mal wieder dass Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz und andere Mitteleuropäische Länder nicht das Problem sind. Deutschland produziert nicht mal 0, 5% der Treibhausgase, sollte man mal bei den Asiaten Kontrollieren, und nicht uns unsere Dieselautos Wegnehmen damit wir und wieder neue(!) Autos kaufen können.

    • @tinorudolf150
      @tinorudolf150 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noobgamer-qb3gq Danke , dass ich nicht der einzige bin, der hier nur Dampflokokomotiven sieht.👍

    • @David-cy5zu
      @David-cy5zu 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      noob gamer 1) hat Diesel nix mit Treibhaus zu tun. 2) pro Person produziert China weniger an Schadstoffen 3) die produzieren CO2 für dich mit. 4) dieses Abgas ist nicht im Wohngebiet. 5) dein Name ist Programm

    • @noobgamer-qb3gq
      @noobgamer-qb3gq 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@David-cy5zu In China wird doch auf die Umwelt geschissen, so einen Blödsinn brauchst du mir nicht erzählen

  • @watchyMCFCwatchy
    @watchyMCFCwatchy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Steam locos with air horns. No No No!

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree it takes a bit of getting used to! Except for one isolated location, there are now no working steam locos in China, not even a few with air-horns.

  • @kenkenrd1
    @kenkenrd1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Human life seems to be so cheep in this place.

    • @喜樹-l1b
      @喜樹-l1b 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      kenkenrd1 that’s your thought

    • @RU-zm7wj
      @RU-zm7wj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cheep like a bird.

    • @kenkenrd1
      @kenkenrd1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RU-zm7wj yep

    • @stephenhill8790
      @stephenhill8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      much like Britan during the indusrial revolution childern working in cotton mills to make some people very rich

  • @diariodeumportuguesnasuica
    @diariodeumportuguesnasuica 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Schreibe bitte in mein Kanal TH-cam

  • @ประคองู-ข2ฎ
    @ประคองู-ข2ฎ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ใหญ่มาก

  • @kudatyzero
    @kudatyzero 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    hell on earth

  • @patricknoveski6409
    @patricknoveski6409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whst global warming? This. Is insane.!

    • @blackthorne57
      @blackthorne57  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Within a year of my visit the old blast furnaces and coking plant at this steelworks were replaced by new, cleaner and more efficient facilites, even the steam locos have gone. Enjoy the video for what it is, a record of industrial processes of days gone by.

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Uh, the world has heated and cooled LONG before man's time....

    • @dez1989
      @dez1989 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ffjsb How true! But if you say that, you are an ignorant naysayer today. Global warming/cooling/ climate change is simply a new way to control the modern world. It will lead to the taxing of air.

  • @matteoorlandi856
    @matteoorlandi856 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    watch this greta.

  • @torbenhansen8539
    @torbenhansen8539 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ROCAM 37

  • @twingo7000
    @twingo7000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    und in Deutschland würd man sagen Umweltschutz !

  • @davefroman4700
    @davefroman4700 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just another industry ripe for disruption in the next 5 years.

  • @fltriflhrc
    @fltriflhrc 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    いいな

  • @PrimetimeNut
    @PrimetimeNut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Lot of male privilege in this vid

    • @doshwhop
      @doshwhop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The privileged males don't work in coal mines sweetheart.

    • @PrimetimeNut
      @PrimetimeNut 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hooha888 why?

    • @PrimetimeNut
      @PrimetimeNut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      DoshWhop do you even understand my comment? I certainly don’t understand yours.

    • @redDL89
      @redDL89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PrimetimeNut He's probably implying that, in China, the privileged males are the owners/CEOs of the steel mills, while the people toiling in the video are the *underprivileged* males. The underprivileged females are probably working in the steel mill's canteen, while the privileged females (CEOs' wives) are at a shopping mall in Shanghai.

    • @doshwhop
      @doshwhop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@PrimetimeNut I guess it's a failure of understanding on both sides, please allow me to elaborate: male privilege does exist, however it is a privilege afforded to and by males in privileged positions in society. People who work in coal mines, steel mills and in similar industrial settings are often not the privileged people I had assumed you were referring to. The work is often dangerous, hard, hot an dirty.
      I myself have worked in similar environments alongside many men AND women who work hard in tough environments and circumstances on a daily basis.
      I am well aware however that I am fortunate enough to not be doing this type of work in a country like China where this video apparently originated from and where worker's rights are pretty much non existent. I apologise for the condescending tone of my first comment but fail to see exactly where the male privilege is you speak of.

  • @shootback5477
    @shootback5477 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    hot