Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham Alabama
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- Sloss Furnaces located in Birmingham Alabama is a National Historic Landmark.It was in operation from 1882-1970 making it the longest continually running blast furnace in Birmingham’s history, and once the largest manufacturer of pig iron in the world.
This video is about my visit to Sloss. I was amazed and intrigued with every step there. It's an absolute industrial art paradise to see, photograph, and film. It was great to learn about the processes and materials used here to create and pour iron. You should definitely come and see this place for yourself!
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i would recommend taking the class. I spent the first half of my life working in a foundry along with most of the men in my family it was a true feeling of Pride helping to build what made this country what it is today.
great video thank you
If walls could talk...... what an excellent video, and trip. Envious, lol.
I appreciate you showed this kind of stuff.
Thank you, this was a special treat for me. I love the industrial stuff. I find myself thinking of the brick layers who helped make all of that magic happen. My dad was a locomotive engineer, beginning with shoveling coal as fireman and ending with diesel electric engines. I love anything big and old. Earl
Poppi2006 Lots of great looking brick work there.
What a great tour of that place. Wonderful choices of music, too! I've heard about it all my life, but never got there. I grew up northwest of Gary, Indiana and worked at Inland Steel Mill one summer. Beside for scrap steel we used pig iron in the production of special grades of steel. That is hard, back-breaking work and you sweat so much you can hardly drink enough to keep hydrated. I imagine nowadays that most of that is automated, and it is a good thing. If you have a chance, read about James Sloss. He was a very interesting man, with little formal education, but a lot of savvy.
Birmingham was one of the few places in the Confederacy where coal and iron ore are in close proximity to each other. During the war it was called "The Arsenal of the South.because It was the only furnace or smelter where they could cast cannons. The name "Birmingham" is in reference to the English industrial city of the same name. The Sloss Furnaces are to new to have been used in the Civil War but they were indispensable during WWI, WWII and the Korean War.
The wood working tools were great to see. That jointer beside the saw is a monster! it looks like it could handle some mean sized beams. The disc grinder and spindle sander combo was also really cool. The tool you're looking at at 28:54 is a thickness planer, belt drive!
ThrowingItAwayy
Mills like this is what made America great.
Awesome! Glad they had enough sense to save and preserve this piece of history!
We do we ain’t dumb
@@juliusbonner7458 Too many things like this have been scrapped across the country. Glad it’s been saved for all to enjoy.
Growing up in a steel mill town myself and not having the chance to see the works in person before they ripped them all down, this was just so cool to see. Great job on this, Adam...thanks for posting it up.
I will have to state if nobody else has, even if they have... this is the coolest place you have traveled yet... (my opinion). I like to see old school and how it was, because old school is way better than how it is now... Then it took talent and skill... today its OMG that"s dangerous and don"t do it..
I am old school.... I work hands on.... I don"t have a lot of modern tools but try and produce and fabricate what clients want...
Kudos Adam... nice job
This is an old comment but still, two weeks ago, a guy at the mill I work at was run over by a front loader and crushed to death. It’s not old school and it’s not cool. The workers are worth more than the product that comes out. Nobody wants to die or get maimed at work. Safety comes first. People who don’t practice safety at our mill and put other people’s lives and families at risk are immediately fired.
The Fay and Egan woodworking tools are awesome. It was a jointer, combination disc and spindle sander and Planner. I'm originally from Bama and I have driven by there so many times and never knew anything about Sloss. Thanks for sharing!
Best of my favorite two things!! ABOM meets urban exploration!!! Awesome!!!!!
George Swindoll Jr. It’s something I really enjoy!
The wood working equipment was used in these old smelters to make patens (Patterns) for sand casting. Most of the old smelters made their own parts and pieces hence the need for woodworking and machining equipment. The piece of equipment with the large disc is a disc sander and a drum sander on the other end. I believe the machine that was not identified was actually a shaper for cutting continual profiles in wood.
I have been to a zinc and copper smelter in Flin Flon Manitoba which was built around 1930 and was still in operation until 2010. They had much of the same kind of machinery shown here. Much of the smelter in Flin Flon is made of wood that was harvested from the local boreal forest as the mill was built. They hauled in two sawmills and cut the lumber to size on site. Some of the original posts and beams were 24" x 24". They were still using a couple of truckloads of oakum every year and had barrel coopers on site to oakum the seams in the tanks and chutes on site made out of 3" x 12" rough sawn spruce with barrel hoops. Some of the tanks were around 40' across and contained sulphuric, nitric, and hydrochloric acid used in the smelting process. The entire line was designed in stages that run down a shallow hill side so they can use gravity to move things through the process. There were two Millwrights hand lapping a bronze pump casting they had just cast to get it to fit the pump body. The pump was so old that replacement parts had to be made from scratch.
One of the strange and somehow sad things about the place was in an area where they removed the zinc from the anodes that collected it in solution. There was a manpowered railroad that bought cart of the anodes to a worker at a table. He picked the anodes off the cart and hit them with a small hand sledge which broke the zinc off, flipped it over and did it again on the other side. The anode went on another cart while the zinc went to a third. There was a structural column directly behind the table and I noted some writing on it. It said, and I am paraphrasing here as I don't remember the exact dates, "first snowfall October 21 1947. First snowfall September 30 1948. First snowfall October 12 1949." This went on until 1989 when it suddenly stopped. I asked my guide what it was all about. He said, and I quote, "Well it's self explanatory isn't it. First snowfall in 1947 was October 21st. First snowfall in 48 was September 30th." I asked him why they had stopped doing it (I was there in 1992.) He said, and his exact words were, "Well he retired......" The same man had worked at that station for 42 years doing that mindless job day after day after day. You might want to think about that before you start complaining about how bad your job is.
Awesome tour!!
Thanks Alec!
What an interesting trip to this huge abandoned facility. I wonder if Hollywood has ever rented this place for a spooky type movie? I can just see a chase scene in one of those long alleys with the victim ducking into the wet underground tunnel to hide. The sound effects are just perfect.
Yeh they were playing shows early 2000s and they had the music festival there over the weekend
At 28 minutes you were in the pattern makers shop where they make wooden copies of the particular abom size castings required for anything great vid thanks
Very cool, I was the security manager at AK Steel (Ashland works), formerly Armco, until it closed and is now being demolished.
Very reminiscent to what I used to work around just on a smaller scale. You're like me and find that old industrial stuff fascinating.
I work at the butler plant (now cleveland cliffs). Some very cool stuff to see down there.
I find the old industrial landscapes fascinating too
One of your best videos Adam, I don’t normally comment but this was sick!!!
Matt Simpson Thanks Matt! Lots of work went into this one.
Adam....the first machine is a jointer with no fence, the next was a disc sander with tilting table. Next to it was a spindle sander, the last machine with the cover is a "square head" thickness planer. I'm betting on all this was for fabricating the wooden patterns for the sand casting molds. Many wooden patterns were made from mahogany. Thank you for sharing everything you do with your spare time. Tom
So much history behind all that place.
Many tears too when that place closed.
Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Best regards.
Hi Adam, that was a large disc sander which is very useful in pattern making as each surface needs the proper 2 degree "pattern draft" so that the pattern will pull out of the sand mold. Pattern makers love the disc sander because they can set the table for the 2 deg. angle and easily sand all sides of the pattern quickly. Thanks for the great video!
A lot of people today would cringe at the sight of the industry that allowed them to exist, survive and thrive today. I only hope we continue with technological development into the future and leave behind our legacy of what we created to help future generations. Thanks for the video!
I worked on relining the stoves that heated the air for the blast furnace in New Boston, Ohio. They had insulation then a fire brick lining. After we got the lining so high we took up the platform we worked from and laid what we called checkers that had holes in them that had to be kept in line so air could pass through them as it was super heated. When the air reached the top it left the checkers and was directed in to a shaft we called the well and went down to large tubes that carried the hot air to the blast furnace. The air entered the furnace though water cooled nozzles called tweers (excuse the spelling). I got to work on sealing around those nozzles. It was very interesting to work on the stove walls, checkers, and the dome on top as well as around the blast furnace. Similar to what you were visiting, old style but was around here till the late 1900's. Thanks for the visit and sights, Greg.
Another comment from me: The blast furnaces had a couple of bell shaped 'valves' at the top of the furnace. To charge the furnace, initially both bells would be closed by pulling them up to the seat; the material (hauled up by the skips) would then be loaded onto the top of the top bell. The bell would be dropped sufficiently to allow the material to be dropped on to the second bell. the first bell would be closed, and the second opened and the charge would drop in to the furnace. The bells acted like an air lock (long before NASA came along!). BHP in Wollongong, Australia (still going!) used these types of furnace and the bells eventually wore out and had to be resurfaced. They used a really big jig to set the side of the bell horizontally at the top and rotate it; a really big LPG burner heated up the bell and when hot enough, they had 2 x 1200 Amp Lincoln Submerged Arc welders in parallel and used quite thick wire (1/8" to 1/4"?) to go down in to the flux to reface the bells (sound familiar, Adam?). The leftover flux fell off the bottom as the bell rotated and was recycled to be used again. Fascinating stuff!
Awesome video Adam, you never know when that stuff is going to turn for the last time, it looks like it was a busy place at one time and fed alot of families.
Thank you Adam for taking us along with you for the tour of this amazing place.
Great music you choosed for this!
Hands down your best short film yet! I could almost “feel” the history watching it. Thank you for taking the time to produce this.
Abom, you have a real special talent for this stuff. Your extreme humbleness, experience in your field, and methodical, thoughtful way of doing your work and explaining things is genuinely second to none. Your lack of pretentiousness, with your good old boy nature is a real pleasure to watch. Keep it up and you are assured MUCH deserved success not only in youtube land but with your own career and other endeavors. Thanks for the content. You are easily my favorite youtuber.
Thanks for the great comments!
Couldn't have said it better! Adam is the best, not only in his trade but also behind the camera and microphone. Would have made an awesome journalist.
what an unbelievable journey thank you for taking me alone
Imagine that place at it's peak. Hundreds of men around the clock stoking the fires, running the machinery, moving material. It's great they keep it around and at least do something with it. Nice music choice on the video too.
Yes! What a great video. Awesome place. I can imagine that place going full steam with hundreds of people working. A wonderful monument of bygone days. Thanks for bring us along. And the rain, perfect.
Adam, as cool as that is (and it is VERY cool), if you're ever near the upper penninsula in Michigan, you HAVE (absolutely HAVE) to stop into Fayette State Park. It was a town that was built near the docks of Escanaba to produce pig iron. They had been shipping ore to lower Michigan to be smelted, but were losing 40% in volume during the smelting process. Was quite costly to ship that 40% that was worthless. So, with the abundance of hardwood and lime stone needed to smelt the ore into pig iron right there in the U.P., it was a natural choice to just build a smelting operation near the ore mines and only ship the pig iron south.
It operated for 24 years, but in 1891 when the charcoal iron marked fell out, everyone just left. It is awesomely amazing to not only be able to walk around the smelter, ovens to turn wood to charcoal, etc., but they left a ghost town. You're able to walk through the houses and buildings and are able to find the equipment, machines, school, theatre, etc. Almost feels like they just turned the town off like a light switch. There are still boring bits stuck in the limestone where they broke off in the quarry.
All throughout the town are plaques describing what you're looking at and explaining. To top that, it is set in what has to be the most beautiful harbor in all of michigan (IMO) with tall, tree-topped limestone cliffs poking out into the lake! In the fall, first couple weeks of October, it is absolutely stunning with fall colors!
www.exploringthenorth.com/fayette/town.html (i'm not affiliated with that site or fayette or the state of michigan in any way, other than living here and loving it :)
man that brings back memories. i spent 20 yrs in the pitts steel mills back in the 60's and 70's. watching them tap those furnaces was quite an experience. we used to pour iron into subs ,special built rail cars that looked like submarines and could gross out at around 800,000 lbs when full of molten iron. you havn't lived until you had to rerail one of those beasts. nice video adam.
The machine in the power house that you first referred to as a planer is called a jointer. The second "planer" is a thickness planer. The machine with the large disc and a drum sticking up through the table appears to be a combination disc/drum sander. the drum likely oscillates as it turns to wear the sandpaper more evenly. My guess they either used the power house as a pattern shop or they moved the contents of the pattern shop in their for safe keeping. I would love to have a wood shop outfitted with such wonderful machines.
Loved it!
All the best!
Mike
That was so awesome. Adam. Thank you. Coming down in May. Might stop there. Seeing my sister in Milton. Maybe we could meet up. Brad
great photography set to very unique music.... Top Notch....! Thanks for taking us along....!
Bill Berry
Thank you very much.... Outstanding Video!
great video! awesome choice of music at the end, really fitting to the mood of the place, thank you so much, your the man!
You deserve a Oscar for that video abom!!!! Thanks for sharing what you see !!!! Respect 👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks!
One of your best videos yet. Amazing rivets, rust ,and rain , tunnels and tools, and tubes, and of course, " This is nothing but industrial art!" Thanks
Great video Adam takes me back to when I worked at the Bilston Steel Works about 10 miles from Birmingham in the UK as a electrician I carried out repairs in any part of the works Blast Furnace ,Melting Shop, Rolling Mill etc. I worked on the Bilston blast furnace Elisabeth and did 2 furnace reline these happened about every 4 years were the top of the furnace was removed the brick work inside the furnace stripped out then reclined with new refractories 'bricks' the process took around 30 days not only was the furnace relined but all the associated plant was maintained as when the blast furnace was producing iron it did so 24/7 x 365 for 4 years !
Awesome part of industrial history and showing an age before all the modern tech we are accustomed to. If only the walls could talk.Thanks for taking us for the ride Adam ;-)
Really good work on this video man. I really liked music selection, the rain and your commentary.
My family moved to Birmingham in 1968. I BARELY remember those blast furnaces in operation when I was a little kid. My father was a professor at UAB downtown and I remember accompanying him to his genetics research lab many summer days. We often drove past SLOSS at my request to see the "smokestacks". They sure put out the smoke. I took a welding class there a few years ago (we made art projects). And, yes they do use it for concerts and events.
I work for the company that used to make all the no bake, and phenolic resins for big casting companies. We hardly make any of those resins anymore, what was once sold by the ton is now sold by the bucket. Our plant looks a lot like Sloss, old and tired, and we still have many of the testing equipment buried around that used to test the resins for QC. We are located in not far from Cincinnati, and its likely we supplied materials used to make many of these Cincinnati castings. It was cool to see all this old equipment, the connection it shared to the company I work for. Thanks for sharing!
They used to have some great concerts there back in the 90's! Been to a many of them...really cool place!
I saw HUM here in 2003!
Let's see. At Sloss I've worked Slipknot, Ministry, Gov't Mule, STS9, P.O.D., Disturbed, O.A.R., The White Stipes and a few more.
As a patron I was at the original Furnace Fest. I've seen Danzig, Marilyn Manson, Six Feet Under, Kittie, Disturbed, Stone Sour, Mudvayne.
loosing all our steel factory's was bad enough but the day we lost Bethlehem steel was the day america died for me. it was the last of the big steel plants in the country and when it shut down it put a nail in our country's ability to be self sufficient . I remember working at the steel plant in my home town and when ever we got in Bethlehem steel the old boys would beam with pride working with it because a lot of them got started at Bethlehem steel and learned the trade on the shop floor there.
Unreal! Fantastic video. The as tools were the pattern shop. The patterns were placed in the molds, and sand rammed around...then removed for the good to be filled with iron. The hooded machine was a thickness planer... rough lumber first went over the counter (flat bed machine) to flatten one side, then they the planer to come out with two parallel sides, of a desired thickness. The machine with the large disk was a disk sander, and an oscillating spindle sander beside it. The lathe was a ww pattern makers lathe. I think Keith still has a Faye & Scott
I was fortunate to take part in a tour of the USS Fairless works in the late 1970s as part of a boyscouts safety merit badge project. A member of our scout troop was a executive with USS and got us access. It was mind blowing to see the blast furnaces in operation. The coke ovens were another stand-out experience. Feeling the heat radiating from ingots on rail cars several hundred yard away was awe inspiring. The rolling mills were equally impressive. When I recently looked on google earth, it is pretty much all gone now. The site has been dismantled. Sad.
Oh man that is just sad to hear.
A video of the construction of the plant.. Quite another time.
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Adam, Thanks a Million for sharing this!
That site is awesome! Sadly most young people today have no idea what it took to build our great country. Out here on the west coast it's all laptops and lattes. Really nice to see a community that can appreciate the importance of industry and the work skill we once had. Great job capturing it on video.
Thanks Again!
-Dean
Hi Adam
Congratulations! You nailed this video big time!! The dramatic music, the historical content of site, letting viewers absorb the atmosphere---loved it.
thank you for taking us with :-)
warm regards
vic
Thanks Vic!
Watched every second of it. Wow .Great job. I may go visit it when Im down in Florida. Worth the drive over to Burmingham
Love the old iron and the technology from our industrial past. Thanks Adam for sharing this piece of our national history ....
Thanks Adam. My late wife and I lived just north of there in the early 70's and it was off limits. We so wanted to tour it just as you did. Thanks again, now I got my tour. Just as awe inspiring as I imagined back then.
Yea I believe they opened it up to the public in the early 80's. Now is the right time to visit.
Two comments: 1) You've got a gift for documentaries. Just you, your GoPro, and some well-selected music, and you created a segment as captivating as any I might see on Discovery Channel. 2) That looked like a great place to get attacked by zombies.
I agree great day to go there with the rain and the gloom of the day. So cool to imagine all those furnaces firing and all the heat and noise. So cool Adam. Thanks
Very appropriate music - melancholy for a time past. I grew up in the great lakes area and there was seemingly a steel mill in every town. Now the blast furnaces have been replaced by parks. I understand that's been the same for Birmingham - a town once a synonym for steel. I'm glad they kept Sloss for a museum. Keep up the good work!
I've been around a bit, live in California now but I'm from Western Pennsylvania. I'm 66 now, but in the 1970's I actually worked in a steel mill for about 6 years. Most of that was working as a Quality Control Inspector. But I've worked a little bit in all the units, including on the 100 ton electric arc furnaces making 100 tons of steel every 6 hours. YES, they did allow women back then, but believe me, you worked just as hard as any man. So lots of familiar sights. And Adam, the woodworking tools you saw came from their pattern shop, part of maintenance. Places like these repaired and rebuilt everything in house.
upstairs in the power house you saw what was a drum sander and disk sander combination. You also saw patterns and core boxes used to make castings. I saw patterns for wheels, large pulleys and pipe bodies.
Its really cool that they let you roam around the plant without any real restrictions or guides.
Holy shit this is the place I keep dreaming about, it's actually a place. Holy crap!!!!!!!
Holy shiiiii 😂
I just love those old industrial works. Great job on the video and photography. Loved it thank you.
Now I want to visit. I love places like this I have been into the old steam railroads and the machining sheds that built them. Thank you so much
Wow very nice to see this place Thanks and say hi to Abby !!
Super cool! Another source of information about Southern Iron Works is the Foxfire Series of books.
This place would make a badass video game level.
Adam, What a great video!!! I lived in Birmingham, Ala, from 1970 until the end of 1978. I was driven then drove past the abandoned Sloss Furnaces the whole time, but never "broke in" to explore. I learned later (early 1980s?) that the Sloss Furnaces had been made into a National Historic Landmark and a museum, but I've never been to it. I hope to visit there someday. Also, steel-wise, next to Birmingham is Bessemer, which was named after Sir Henry Bassemer, who developed the Bessemer process for steel making. It used to be a big-time steel making area, before, unfortunately, that kind of commerce left the U.S. Birmingham. Birmingham had and has lime, coal, and iron ore all around it, so it made sense to make steel in and around it.
I love seeing all the vintage stuff within these buildings. My ventures while in a tow truck has taken me all over the nation, I have seen all sorts of stuff like this, my mind goes nuts to think that millions of men lived & died building this great nation in places just like this... Thank you for showing this, I will have to add this to the list for places to possibly make contacts in efforts to walk through in the future if a run comes my way for the Birmingham area... Powerful stuff...!!!
My Dad bought a sizable amount of Metalworking Machinery from A Fabric mill. My favorite peice was an elaborate Tool Grinder with an enormous amount of diamond wheels.
If you get a chance go check it out!
G'day Adam,
Many thanks for the great trip down memory lane. It takes me back to my time at the blast furnaces in Newcastle, New South Wales. Australia. It was originally built in 1913 and had similar technology to that shown here. Alas the place has been demolished after closing in 1999. I understand your delight in seeing all this. I used to enjoy seeing the derelict parts of the steelworks such as the old coke ovens. Great fun to explore and try and understand all the equipment. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Adam! Grew up in South Chicago not too far from Wisconsin Steel Works so your tour was a trip down memory lane.
you are a super movie maker and defenitly very curious and intersting person. You give us, here, a big page of the industrial hitory of america. So many thing have been produced from the iron casted in this place. You give us a great travel back in history and in your passion for iron. You brave the rain and moisture to give us so many good footage of very impressive peace of production. A very special thumb up for your music choice, very adapted to the site. One of your best adventure movie, and the other one are good so this one is roots as mineral iron. Realy thanks for the charing. And there was some antique gearbox. When i was student i study wood modeling for casting, and have a three month session in metal shaping, casting and modeling to be selcted in what i supposed to be better. All this visit bring me back 34 years back when i was 14Years old. Can you give me the tittle of the music at 24 minute, i love it. Go on Adam you do so well!!!!!!!
Cool old stuff Adam , starting @ 26|00 You are in a pattern shop yes a wood lathe a big jointer a disk sander and spindle sander if you look they are set at a angle for the draft on the pattern so you can get it out of the mold. .Nice to see a few patterns still there.
Absolutely fascinating!
As a kid in the 1940s my family would drive past the steel mill in Pueblo, CO (Colorado Fuel and Iron). Around 1969 I was privileged to tour the Sparrows Point mill (Baltimore, MD) while it was operating. That was a lot of heat and noise. Unfortunately, it has been destroyed. Like the Roman Empire, we are destroying our country from the inside, making way for foreign influences to take over (Russia, China, etc.).
Boy Adam that brought back memories of my time at the local iron works we had 6 furnaces. I looked after the old works set of three , we had 3 parsons turbo blowers and two turbo alternators , I was a sparks just out of my time and was on shift . Little bit of info the charge was put in though a bell system little and large as shown in the poster ,these keep it gas tight at the top , the large round pipe around the furnace is lined with fire bricks and called the wedding ring . It was no fun at the casting plant when the crane broke down with a 75 ton ladle on the hook and you had the go up top to sort it out
Adam, thank you so much for teaching, and educating "the youtube community". you are doing everyone a great service.
Could you imagine the "noise" when this was fully operational !!!! ???
Definitely a good representation of American Historic industrial might!
Gives you a yearning for the past to come back - great video
They should be paying you for giving them the exposure!
Looks like you were walking through the pattern shop at one point.
Thanks,
John
Adam, I thank you. This video was just so awesome. The rain did contribute to the video. The music you chose enhanced it even more. You are and artist, it is plain to see. I see your passion in all you do. I admire you.
Hi Adam, Great video. Absolutely the rain and the music you edited in made this great. I clicked the link to the classes and they are very reasonable. Hopefully more of the old industry will be preserved and opened up like this and not torn down to avoind the property taxes on "improvements".
Extremely cool video! Fun to see an old line digger too! Most of 'em where running with open clutches and often with asbestos for friction plates. The good stuff!
Absolutely amazing love all you videos and the work you do. Keep up the amazing work and videos.
Awesome video, Adam! Yes, the rain and cloudy skies made for a very dramatic video. You're really getting this video stuff down! Great work! Thanks so much for sharing!
Have a good one!
Dave
Wow. Thanks for the great tour. 👍👍👍
Adam i am from the Bessemer /Birmingham areas thank you so much for making this video it brings back so many fond and cherished memories
WOW!!! What a COOL place to visit. You maybe have chosen the best day for shouting. The clouds and rain add something dramatic to the scene. Contrasts are soft and allows to catch details in the shades AND highlights, something that is very difficult or even impossible to catch on a sunny day unless you bring a couple of 4kW bullet spotlight. :-)
Awesome Adam. This is the first time I ever saw such a thing as this!! You did a fine job filming it. I could just think about the men who had worked there under those conditions. How many wee hurt or lost thier lives trying tp make a living for thier familys. This must have been way before OSHIA. Thank you once more and God Bless you sir,
I'm sure through the years that place was running quite a few lives were lost. No OSHA back than. Thanks for the tour. Keith Rucker will appreciate the that old joiner and thickness plainer I bet.
Man this was awesome, great filming... Thank you much!
Boy, that is a neat place. Thanks for the tour.
My wife and I love this place. We took one of the classes together there and it was an awesome experience. Super cool place, I definitely recommend it.
Magic video Adam it would be supper cool to see that place working back in the day.. Thanks again..
Those machines in the powerhouse are all woodworking, looks like they were for pattern making, one is the combination drum and disc sander, yes that's a planer
Blast furnaces work by having a fire in the bottom, they pour coke, iron, flux etc in the top, the 'tubes' are for blasting air into the bottom, you would normally see flames shooting out the top when the blowers are running.
It's worth searching for videos about it, there's a few in the UK that still use the blast process.
That type of furnace was replaced by the 'Bessemer process' if i remember.
great vid Adamhave 50 years in the heavy engineering/petrochemical industries so great to see this kind of place and imagine the heat noise and smell when these plants were operating at full chat.cheers JB
Great video, Adam. It reminded me when I started work at Campbell Wyant and Cannnon Foundry in 1963. I was in casting layout but would sneak over to the foundry pour room and watch the action. Everything was going all at once.and I would hear a loud siren and look out for the huge ladle traveling by on the bridge crane dripping hot molten iron. It was absolutely fascinating!
I am glad you filmed this for us.
Wow.. That was very special for me,.My father and grandfather worked in the steel industry here in Birmingham during the 30s and 50s. and 70s.. I grew up only 3 miles away from Sloss , been there several times for concerts but never there for its history.. I have seen things there that I never knew was on the site,, I must go back and spend a few hours there and enjoy that moment in history..I work here as and Welder / Artist ,,,Thank you for sharing ..