I once worked in a steel fabrication plant. The heat was unbearable. Those old factories were also very dangerous places to work. I once had an argument with a university academic, who said he thought steel workers were overpaid. I asked him if he had ever worked in a steel mill. He said no. Had he ever taken a tour in one? Again, he replied in the negative. I replied that if he had ever spent some time in such a place, he would not think that the people who worked there were paid too much. There was a worker who fell onto the rollers in the rolling mill. The worker survived only long enough to crawl up to the cab where the operators who controlled the mill sat. The injured worker knocked on the door, where he was found dead by the operators. This does not happen at your typical university or college. I am of the opinion that those who do the most physically hard and the most dangerous jobs should be among the most highly paid workers in our economy. But maybe that's just me.
How DARE that guy say such a thing. Just the physical risk alone is enough to make it warrant a good living wage. The heat, the hours, the physical labor & the KNOW HOW. My friend in Pennsylvania tries to describe what it's like to me & told me about the tests they have to study for & take; never mind the tests of patience when having a bad apple or two on the crew.
My father worked for USS at South Works in Indiana. He once told me that the standard work week for a steelworker before they unionized was 6 X 12. He also told me that once, one of the workers fell off a catwalk into a ladle that had just been emptied. The guy just bounced around in there for a few seconds, and was turned to ash.
@The Raging Gamer on PS4 that's nasty, I rather come home to an ac chilled room wearing comfy clothing under covers then be next to some hot musty skin yuck!
My husband retires next week from the steel mill he works at. Thank you God! 20 dangerous years. He stepped out of his shanty and barely missed a piece of metal the size of a Buick fell from the ceiling. If the acid and chemical don’t kill him he should have a long happy retirement. He is 55, healthy so far.
I worked in a steel mill 19.5 years, from the furnace, ladles, caster,cooling bed. The last 9 years run a overhead crane, loved that job ! Carrying 90 tons of molting steel you had to be very careful of your actions ! But diagnosed with m/s at age 31 and having to leave at age 38, I wasn't going to put those guys life in danger for my problem ! I miss those guys and loved that job !!
@@DrLumpy Nucor Steel supplies the vast majority of the steel General Motors uses. If you have a Chevy, Caddilac, GMC, or Buick that's where the steel used to manufacture it came from. Those mills have some of the best safety standards in the country. If you work there, the odds of you getting hurt are very low. It is also the largest scrap recycler in North America. Thay do not use iron ore. Their process of making steel is very different to the one in this video. It's all remelted scrap and pig iron. You were talking about cars. I thought you'd find that to be interesting.
Incredible, would love to visit a place like this someday. Worked in a cast iron foundry in France a few years ago, now working in an aluminium foundry. Absolutely love it. Love metals and all the transformation process I find it fascinating. Much love from France, good luck to all metal workers man...✌️
@@Shaker626 Sadly the two fouderies that I used to work on have closed (cast iron and aluminium). Both of them were producing engine blocks for Renault mostly and a few other makes, but the automobile industry isn’t doing very well at the moment…Changed job but I will miss working in the foundry with the lads for the rest of my life.
I worked with liquid steel for 29 years. One melt 350 tons. The plant produces about 10 million tons of steel per year. In case of danger, always run to the safe side and only then look back at what happened. Sometimes when going to work, an inner voice tells you that something is going to happen at work today... And it does. This is called intuition based on vast experience. At work, like a pilot in a dogfight, you must constantly turn your head and constantly monitor the situation around you. Greetings from Russia
I work at a foundry and just yesterday we had someone dump some scrap into the furnace to recycle it. Turns out some of it was made from square tubing that had developed cracks while sitting outside in the rain for a long time, so some of it was filled with water. Now, dripping water on top of molten metal is somewhat fine (with exceptions) because it just flashes off quickly, but when water turns to steam AFTER it's fully submerged that's a different story entirely. If you've seen footage of naval mines detonating I guess you can imagine the same kinda thing, but with a couple of tons of white-hot liquid iron getting flung sky high instead of water. And the air around the furnace immediately turned pitch black from a dense mist of tiny iron flakes. Everybody in the vicinity looked like Wile E. Coyote after his dynamite trap blows up in his own face, and you could feel the grit in your teeth for hours afterwards. Thankfully the guy working the furnace was behind a sturdy polycarbonate screen at the time, so he got away with just some ringing ears plus a coating of iron flakes and soot. Otherwise he'd have been showered with the wave of molten metal and quite possibly perished in screaming agony. So yeah, these places are absolutely no joke. We're a small operation (Denmark doesn't have much in the way of steel mills and foundries, but we're a historic site so it's kept running) but I can only imagine the kind of blast that would've happened in a bigger furnace like we see here.
My paternal grandfather was a coal miner for 31 years. Men like him, along with steel workers, rail workers, construction crews, and many others are what built America and keep it running. Without their hard work, we’d be without a lot of things we take for granted every day.
I live in Detroit. I used to haul steel coils for selman transportation trucking. I seen all of the Detroit based Mills like Dearborn steel plant. Like mini cities with their own railroad. Lots of overhead cranes. Massive. Big props to the steelworkers of America!
There is no better demonstration of our dominance over nature than iron melting. I work in an iron foundry and it's breath taking every time I see it. On the flip side modern processes are still very crude, I guess we've haven't been able to completely tame nature.
US steel is know for high quality steel that more than meets my factory's product requirements. We used Chinese steel too, but we usually regret it later, we get more warrantee claims from Chinese steel, so back to US Steel or Mexican Steel, but you can count on the bean counters to be bean counters looking to pinch pennies wherever they can.
Excellent video! Love the history of USS too with Judge Elbert H. Gary as the first CEO and J.P. Morgan as the underwriter of the $1.4B stock offering in 1901! Best of wishes to all the great people at USS. Great Americans doing REAL work to add value to society!
A nice introduction for the people that didnt know of that process . When I did my apprenticeship at Port Kembla steel works NSW Australia , there was the soaking pits for ingots and the open hearth , the slab caster was only a few years old , not a place I'd like to work at again . No 6 blast furnace produces 1100 metric ton / day . Australian hematite from The Pilbara and Hamersley are some of the purest grades that can be arc welded together . Illawarra NSW coal has extremely low ash and sulphur being the best for metallurgical coke used in steel production .
They failed to mention that 22 year old college kids are trying to boss around 60 year old steel workers with 30+ years of experience and it doesn’t go well.
Not just in the steel industry. In my opinion, the MBA degrees ruined America. Nothing like book-smart people telling workers how to do their job. I have 2 degrees in geology and there is nothing like field work, getting dirty, followed up by lab work. I had so many managers quiz me about "how do you know?" and I wanted to scream. It's my job!!
@@g1sokool669 well yea we can reuse it im just saying theres an underlying thing here that this is how we treat everything there are things we cant just easily reuse
And this is why US Steel is the best they have been cooking steel in Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg Valley since Andrew Carnegie their founder opened the mill 1873 and fired up the massive furnaces in 1875 and the first beam was made and shipped to its customer and used to build our buildings and bridges. This is why US Steel is the best they make our world.
To actually see how important the work I do in the steel industry is beyond fascinating! Makes me realize the impact I have on the world on a daily basis.
A "Great Story" for all students and professionals to see the basics of steel-making operations. THANKS! T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Technology Instructor & Consultant
I worked as a steel hauler in Michigan and those plants are no joke. When the Ford's owned there mill in Dearborn that place was a death trap if you didn't know what the heck you were doing. Sometimes those coils would still be hot on my truck taking them down to Spartan steel off exit 18 on I-75. I use to do 5 loads a day! Shout out to all the mill workers and rest in peace to the ones we lost in the mills!!!!
You can use hydrogen which can be made from water using renewable electricity. All you need is an element with a higher electronegativity than iron that can get oxidized.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:5)
it's one of the processes that really made the industrial revolution possible, more efficient iron/steel making. The first process that really harnessed the power of coal.
I was on Zug Island, worked recovery, damage control ect. The island was like something straight out of a sci-fi movie it was absolutely insane, but awesome, I've been from 2 stories below Zug Island and all the way to the tops of A&B furnaces. I did a lot of wild and crazy things on Zug Island and unless you've been there, you could never even imagine. Loved it.
I work in one as a casting grinder 8 hours standing with this big angle grinder in your hands. I’m grateful I have the job though as I’m only 19 and not really sure what I want to do yet.
The University of Minnesota saved the iron mining industry in the Great Lakes region by developing the method to remove the iron from taconite rock as the reserves of natural iron ore began to fail. At the end of the benefaction process you get taconite pellets that are about 60% iron plus the limestone added in when the pellets are baked. US Steel divested the mines it owned around the Great Lakes and the logistics chain of trains and ships it used to transport the iron ore. Cliffs mining (Arcelor) owns the mines now and Canadian National owns the railroads and a good part of the shipping used to get the ore to the mills. Iron mining is a boom-and-bust business in the U.S. because there is huge competition among ore suppliers all over the world. The world is not going to run out of iron ore any time soon.
Seriously, I have heard a few stories through my life and I wish they would be published somewhere. Unbelievable stuff. Dangerous but fascinating work.
I was a millwright at a steel mill for almost 10 years. I worked the 80" rolling mill, EAF /BOF, cold strip, and even did a short tour of the coke plant. It was a hot dirty job. The guys I worked with is what made the job so great. I was a 3rd generation steel mill worker. It was a really good job.
There is a conception menial/ manual/jobs are low grade accoring to uni graduates. Most finish their studies utterly incompetent and thus eligible for jobs they despised
I worked in a rubber extrusion plant a few summers. Always thought it was hot around 110 in the summer, but I can imagine this is pushing the limit of what's allowed by law. If the steel is 2700 degrees in some places that air would be hot enough to melt skin if you're within a few feet I bet. Thankfully I have a nice air conditioned workplace now courtesy of my overpriced degree
A bow and arrow can defeat steel, in such a way that it would be better to have wood armor. But, when treated properly, it can be made into a cannon, that shoots a steel miles away. That is the divergence, of Knight, to Yeoman... less steel, of a higher quality. They didn't realize that high carbon blade steel makes bullet proof armor, until about 1917. The heat of constant firing will anneal the barrel of a steel cannon. Enter the age, of rediscovery, of Egyptian metal casting techniques... in 1850
How may years on the job does it take to learn to correctly spell your job title? (Critical, yes, but yours was more than a typo, and after twelve years?)
Thank you SO much for causing a hum that disturbed most of South Western Ontario with your Arc furnace.. way to be an good neighbor. Say.. how is Zug Island doing? Still leaching giga tons of toxic waist into the great lakes?
The holes in Northern Minnesota, seen from space, saved us from certain annihilation in World War 2. I just wish now that Japan owns US Steel, they would fill those holes back in. After all, they attacked us first. It hurts the ecosystem here, still to this day as that is raw materials in open air, a once pristine wilderness!
I used to work for US steel you missed a step they go to the soaking pits before being processed I got to see everything except the coke works and blast furnace and USS was a very political company against some mills and now it is owned or going to be owned by the Japanese
Honestly, this is one of the worse mini documentaries that I have seen on the subject. It feels much more like a promotion reel than anything else. It lacks details. A lot of steps only get a single sentence when there's so much more that could be said.
This is the most incredible documentary on the steel making factory ,love seeing this get goosebumps thinking of how this originated in Pittsburgh., Wow I'm taken back at this.
I was a contract rigger, did stints at Llanwern in Wales and Redcar in N England. Top quality. British, American and Swedish steel by far the best, but peeps opt for the Chinese 💩 as it's cheap, but fails.
@@Nino_J Small world, I start an internship at Gary works on the 11th, I'm searching the internet for any kind of clue what I'll be doing as part of my job but I just can't find anything.
This was a totally random video. So interesting. We really do not appreciate all that goes into the convenience that we have available to us on a daily basis.
I once worked in a steel fabrication plant. The heat was unbearable. Those old factories were also very dangerous places to work. I once had an argument with a university academic, who said he thought steel workers were overpaid. I asked him if he had ever worked in a steel mill. He said no. Had he ever taken a tour in one? Again, he replied in the negative. I replied that if he had ever spent some time in such a place, he would not think that the people who worked there were paid too much. There was a worker who fell onto the rollers in the rolling mill. The worker survived only long enough to crawl up to the cab where the operators who controlled the mill sat. The injured worker knocked on the door, where he was found dead by the operators. This does not happen at your typical university or college. I am of the opinion that those who do the most physically hard and the most dangerous jobs should be among the most highly paid workers in our economy. But maybe that's just me.
And the most needed without steel basically everything made of it can be more expensive.
I agree. This is very dangerous hard work.
How DARE that guy say such a thing.
Just the physical risk alone is enough to make it warrant a good living wage.
The heat, the hours, the physical labor & the KNOW HOW.
My friend in Pennsylvania tries to describe what it's like to me & told me about the tests they have to study for & take; never mind the tests of patience when having a bad apple or two on the crew.
I can't imagine the hardships workers went through before unionization, and being paid pennies on the dollar too.
My father worked for USS at South Works in Indiana. He once told me that the standard work week for a steelworker before they unionized was 6 X 12. He also told me that once, one of the workers fell off a catwalk into a ladle that had just been emptied. The guy just bounced around in there for a few seconds, and was turned to ash.
only people who actually worked here would understand this job is no joke! shout out to all my fellow USS workers!
To all steel works employees arond the world
Past
Present
Future
National Tube Mckeesport PA 70s
Loved it
You are correct. The minute you drive through the gate, anything can happen.
I thought all your jobs are gone by now due to greedy ass Wall Street guys
@@williamphillip9749 Nope!
Watching this in bed while eating ice cream ofter an 11 hour shift is hitting just the right spot
Dude your comment is hitting the right spot
Oh and im eating wing stop 😂
Same
and you work for steel furnance
@The Raging Gamer on PS4 that's nasty, I rather come home to an ac chilled room wearing comfy clothing under covers then be next to some hot musty skin yuck!
My husband retires next week from the steel mill he works at. Thank you God! 20 dangerous years. He stepped out of his shanty and barely missed a piece of metal the size of a Buick fell from the ceiling. If the acid and chemical don’t kill him he should have a long happy retirement. He is 55, healthy so far.
dont smoke, exercise, laugh a lot, and love him, he'll live a long happy retirement im sure. best wishes, dude
How's his retirement going? 😊
I worked in a steel mill 19.5 years, from the furnace, ladles, caster,cooling bed. The last 9 years run a overhead crane, loved that job ! Carrying 90 tons of molting steel you had to be very careful of your actions ! But diagnosed with m/s at age 31 and having to leave at age 38, I wasn't going to put those guys life in danger for my problem ! I miss those guys and loved that job !!
Thanks for making the steel that makes the stuff that fills my garage..🙂
sorry to hear about your diagnosis
LOL, we had a guy in the scale house that checked scrap trucks we called lumpy ! 👍✌
Thanks for poignant story.
I come from metals mining/milling background plus two brothers worked underground coal for few yrs.
Love heavy industry.
@@DrLumpy Nucor Steel supplies the vast majority of the steel General Motors uses. If you have a Chevy, Caddilac, GMC, or Buick that's where the steel used to manufacture it came from. Those mills have some of the best safety standards in the country. If you work there, the odds of you getting hurt are very low. It is also the largest scrap recycler in North America. Thay do not use iron ore. Their process of making steel is very different to the one in this video. It's all remelted scrap and pig iron.
You were talking about cars. I thought you'd find that to be interesting.
Time to make steel at home, thanks for the tutorial!
Odd thing is you can make small batches of steel in your back yard, seen it done.
DIY
this dude is gonna own the industry in 10 years
This soundtrack had no right to go this hard 🔥
On God
lol fr fr
Incredible, would love to visit a place like this someday. Worked in a cast iron foundry in France a few years ago, now working in an aluminium foundry. Absolutely love it. Love metals and all the transformation process I find it fascinating. Much love from France, good luck to all metal workers man...✌️
👍👌😁✌
They still have dedicated cast iron foundries? I thought that work had been taken over by steel mills.
@@Shaker626 Sadly the two fouderies that I used to work on have closed (cast iron and aluminium). Both of them were producing engine blocks for Renault mostly and a few other makes, but the automobile industry isn’t doing very well at the moment…Changed job but I will miss working in the foundry with the lads for the rest of my life.
@@Shaker626I work at a cast iron factory where we make tractor parts for a major tractor company.
Damn the song is bopping hard.
I worked with liquid steel for 29 years. One melt 350 tons. The plant produces about 10 million tons of steel per year. In case of danger, always run to the safe side and only then look back at what happened. Sometimes when going to work, an inner voice tells you that something is going to happen at work today... And it does. This is called intuition based on vast experience. At work, like a pilot in a dogfight, you must constantly turn your head and constantly monitor the situation around you. Greetings from Russia
I work at a foundry and just yesterday we had someone dump some scrap into the furnace to recycle it. Turns out some of it was made from square tubing that had developed cracks while sitting outside in the rain for a long time, so some of it was filled with water. Now, dripping water on top of molten metal is somewhat fine (with exceptions) because it just flashes off quickly, but when water turns to steam AFTER it's fully submerged that's a different story entirely. If you've seen footage of naval mines detonating I guess you can imagine the same kinda thing, but with a couple of tons of white-hot liquid iron getting flung sky high instead of water. And the air around the furnace immediately turned pitch black from a dense mist of tiny iron flakes. Everybody in the vicinity looked like Wile E. Coyote after his dynamite trap blows up in his own face, and you could feel the grit in your teeth for hours afterwards.
Thankfully the guy working the furnace was behind a sturdy polycarbonate screen at the time, so he got away with just some ringing ears plus a coating of iron flakes and soot. Otherwise he'd have been showered with the wave of molten metal and quite possibly perished in screaming agony. So yeah, these places are absolutely no joke. We're a small operation (Denmark doesn't have much in the way of steel mills and foundries, but we're a historic site so it's kept running) but I can only imagine the kind of blast that would've happened in a bigger furnace like we see here.
My paternal grandfather was a coal miner for 31 years. Men like him, along with steel workers, rail workers, construction crews, and many others are what built America and keep it running. Without their hard work, we’d be without a lot of things we take for granted every day.
I think about this every time I hear a woman say they don't need men
American workers take pride and vote accordingly
I live in Detroit. I used to haul steel coils for selman transportation trucking. I seen all of the Detroit based Mills like Dearborn steel plant. Like mini cities with their own railroad. Lots of overhead cranes. Massive. Big props to the steelworkers of America!
The fact people somehow take the earth and magically transform it into a totally different thing is beyond imagination
There is no better demonstration of our dominance over nature than iron melting. I work in an iron foundry and it's breath taking every time I see it. On the flip side modern processes are still very crude, I guess we've haven't been able to completely tame nature.
It took us thousands of years just to get the carbon out of iron the right way. 😂
US steel is know for high quality steel that more than meets my factory's product requirements. We used Chinese steel too, but we usually regret it later, we get more warrantee claims from Chinese steel, so back to US Steel or Mexican Steel, but you can count on the bean counters to be bean counters looking to pinch pennies wherever they can.
@Mr Garcia Mexican steel is racist? I didnt know that, i'll breing it up with our bean counters.
Excellent video! Love the history of USS too with Judge Elbert H. Gary as the first CEO and J.P. Morgan as the underwriter of the $1.4B stock offering in 1901! Best of wishes to all the great people at USS. Great Americans doing REAL work to add value to society!
My great grandfathers brother was James Farrell who led the Corporation for almost 30 years. Different breed of men back then
A nice introduction for the people that didnt know of that process .
When I did my apprenticeship at Port Kembla steel works NSW Australia , there was the soaking pits for ingots and the open hearth , the slab caster was only a few years old , not a place I'd like to work at again .
No 6 blast furnace produces 1100 metric ton / day .
Australian hematite from The Pilbara and Hamersley are some of the purest grades that can be arc welded together .
Illawarra NSW coal has extremely low ash and sulphur being the best for metallurgical coke used in steel production .
They failed to mention that 22 year old college kids are trying to boss around 60 year old steel workers with 30+ years of experience and it doesn’t go well.
Not just in the steel industry. In my opinion, the MBA degrees ruined America. Nothing like book-smart people telling workers how to do their job. I have 2 degrees in geology and there is nothing like field work, getting dirty, followed up by lab work. I had so many managers quiz me about "how do you know?" and I wanted to scream. It's my job!!
Ctfu. You should’ve made better decisions with your life.
I've seen many industrial "corporate" videos, and this one right here among the few I've seen that's actually pretty damn cool.
Hubby has been with USS for 38 years. Very cool to see how steel is made.
My Granpa worked there too for 25 years
Crazy how fast we burn through our limited resources nowadays
relax, earth is big af
@@juniorautopecas6724 It's really not that big :/
@@juniorautopecas6724 so u saying the earth have limited resources???
Steel is the most recycled material in the world!
@@g1sokool669 well yea we can reuse it im just saying theres an underlying thing here that this is how we treat everything there are things we cant just easily reuse
And this is why US Steel is the best they have been cooking steel in Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg Valley since Andrew Carnegie their founder opened the mill 1873 and fired up the massive furnaces in 1875 and the first beam was made and shipped to its customer and used to build our buildings and bridges. This is why US Steel is the best they make our world.
As a person who has worked on a casting floor for several years much respect to those who have felt the heat from hell coming from those kettles.
It's pretty easy now. Technology made it easier. I hired in at Gary Works in 76 there 30000 people working there now there 5000.
4:00 music switch up who started dancing? 😂🕺💃
To actually see how important the work I do in the steel industry is beyond fascinating! Makes me realize the impact I have on the world on a daily basis.
Do you still work at this plant?
A "Great Story" for all students and professionals to see the basics of steel-making operations. THANKS!
T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Technology Instructor & Consultant
NONE of this is possible without your local scrap dealer. Support honest, hardworking, self motivated individuals.
I work at tenaris running hot metal crane. Get to here the cracking of the eaf upclose n personal.
I'm a little late to the party but this was a very well produced video!
I worked as a steel hauler in Michigan and those plants are no joke. When the Ford's owned there mill in Dearborn that place was a death trap if you didn't know what the heck you were doing. Sometimes those coils would still be hot on my truck taking them down to Spartan steel off exit 18 on I-75. I use to do 5 loads a day! Shout out to all the mill workers and rest in peace to the ones we lost in the mills!!!!
Someone should tell woke millennials and zoomers you can’t make steel from solar panels or windmill farms. It’s coal or nothing at all.
You can use hydrogen which can be made from water using renewable electricity. All you need is an element with a higher electronegativity than iron that can get oxidized.
@@caspernicus5822 wrong, wrong, wrong!!
I work in a heat treating plant with a small foundry. Shits unbearable in the winter and summer but we make do💪.
"We work hard, we play hard. " 🎶 Everybody dance now! 🎵
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:5)
Amazing process, amazing part of our industry over the past centuries.
@Chere Koelle wow! No one gives a fuck!
it's one of the processes that really made the industrial revolution possible, more efficient iron/steel making. The first process that really harnessed the power of coal.
Thanks for all the metal, guys.
I was on Zug Island, worked recovery, damage control ect. The island was like something straight out of a sci-fi movie it was absolutely insane, but awesome, I've been from 2 stories below Zug Island and all the way to the tops of A&B furnaces. I did a lot of wild and crazy things on Zug Island and unless you've been there, you could never even imagine. Loved it.
I was part of the b2 furnace demolition and rebuild.I worked for Natioal Industrial maintenance. and Inland Waters.
I worked the Zug Isand bull gang and later at the 80 inch mill
Retired in 2017
I work in one as a casting grinder 8 hours standing with this big angle grinder in your hands. I’m grateful I have the job though as I’m only 19 and not really sure what I want to do yet.
Do you still work at this plant?
Get higher education while you're young. I'm in my fifth year of engineering but I'm still expected to graduate within six.
The University of Minnesota saved the iron mining industry in the Great Lakes region by developing the method to remove the iron from taconite rock as the reserves of natural iron ore began to fail. At the end of the benefaction process you get taconite pellets that are about 60% iron plus the limestone added in when the pellets are baked. US Steel divested the mines it owned around the Great Lakes and the logistics chain of trains and ships it used to transport the iron ore. Cliffs mining (Arcelor) owns the mines now and Canadian National owns the railroads and a good part of the shipping used to get the ore to the mills. Iron mining is a boom-and-bust business in the U.S. because there is huge competition among ore suppliers all over the world. The world is not going to run out of iron ore any time soon.
My father, grandfather, uncle and MOM all worked in Pittsburgh steel mills in the 70s-80s. The stories they told me about those places... Scary shit.
You could say the same for Armco steel company in Butler PA also
Seriously, I have heard a few stories through my life and I wish they would be published somewhere. Unbelievable stuff. Dangerous but fascinating work.
I was a millwright at a steel mill for almost 10 years. I worked the 80" rolling mill, EAF /BOF, cold strip, and even did a short tour of the coke plant. It was a hot dirty job. The guys I worked with is what made the job so great. I was a 3rd generation steel mill worker. It was a really good job.
This feels very early 2000s
U.S.STEEL Košice Hot strip mill 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Hello I am work at Krakatau Steel
5:44 seems like a safety violation to me. But I just had safety training in a steel mill today so my brain is kind of looking for violations now.
Trump 2024. I pray that more steel will return to the US and make the Rust Belt great again!
0:47 It's hard to believe it all starts with dirt.
Lmao .. I was hot metal crane operator... I miss it
Wow, I'm going to try to start a steel business like this at home.
A cheese grater to make the ore pellets, a soup ladle to dip the hot iron, and a rolling pin to process the slabs. Doesn't sound too hard to do.
There is a conception menial/ manual/jobs are low grade accoring to uni graduates. Most finish their studies utterly incompetent and thus eligible for jobs they despised
Get better university friends please.
I don't have friends for that matter, nor I have made any during my 6 month wasted time university experience @@FirstPeterr
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i didn't expect the music to be so radical in a video about metallurgy
Hats off to the working
individual of the steel
mill.😐👍🏾👍🏾
This is how they made the Iron Man suit
This jobs pretty freaking metal (pun intended)
I appreciate my work. Iron casting JPN
I worked in a rubber extrusion plant a few summers. Always thought it was hot around 110 in the summer, but I can imagine this is pushing the limit of what's allowed by law. If the steel is 2700 degrees in some places that air would be hot enough to melt skin if you're within a few feet I bet. Thankfully I have a nice air conditioned workplace now courtesy of my overpriced degree
Hopefully it will be sold to a American manufacturer like Powers Steel or Schuff Steel.
My dad works at us steel
And workers here make less than half the money than people working in the office sitting on a chair in an air-conditioned room.
Not at US Steel
What's your point?
I ran a few tube mills for General Motors this is a great comfy watch lol
Was a employee of thirty two years at flow con or later Vesuvius !
Machining Baby ! Let the chips fly !!
You would like AVE then.
The proper term for the railcars is "torpedo cars"............cheers from a retired Alberta Steel guy.
A bow and arrow can defeat steel, in such a way that it would be better to have wood armor.
But, when treated properly, it can be made into a cannon, that shoots a steel miles away.
That is the divergence, of Knight, to Yeoman... less steel, of a higher quality.
They didn't realize that high carbon blade steel makes bullet proof armor, until about 1917.
The heat of constant firing will anneal the barrel of a steel cannon.
Enter the age, of rediscovery, of Egyptian metal casting techniques... in 1850
cant imagine how stupidly hot it would be in a steel factory
Where are all the dwarves
That's how it is done Boyz.
I'm Laddel Operator 12years Experience I want job in us steel
no
How may years on the job does it take to learn to correctly spell your job title?
(Critical, yes, but yours was more than a typo, and after twelve years?)
ANDREW CARNEGIE
10 year old me : This is boring
36 year old me: How did humans come up with this? Amazing!
Thank you SO much for causing a hum that disturbed most of South Western Ontario with your Arc furnace.. way to be an good neighbor.
Say.. how is Zug Island doing? Still leaching giga tons of toxic waist into the great lakes?
Too bad the music is blaring
250 tons of steel in less than 45 minutes.
The holes in Northern Minnesota, seen from space, saved us from certain annihilation in World War 2. I just wish now that Japan owns US Steel, they would fill those holes back in. After all, they attacked us first. It hurts the ecosystem here, still to this day as that is raw materials in open air, a once pristine wilderness!
I feel like there will be a steel mill in hell, 'cause it's like hell in a steel mill.
Maybe Hell is just one giant steel mill
Make the steel industry more sustainable!! Very impressive but the future lies in reducing the CO2 emissions. Hope the industry can keep up!
I used to work for US steel you missed a step they go to the soaking pits before being processed I got to see everything except the coke works and blast furnace and USS was a very political company against some mills and now it is owned or going to be owned by the Japanese
How far away are we from making steel without coal?
Not chemically possible.
Steel gang #vitards
so... just how much ENERGY is required to make a ton of steel? Incredible HEAT ..?
I remember J.L steel in Cleveland Ohio in the 70s.
Honestly, this is one of the worse mini documentaries that I have seen on the subject. It feels much more like a promotion reel than anything else. It lacks details. A lot of steps only get a single sentence when there's so much more that could be said.
Thanks for keeping Granite City, online.
I feel like spend more time at job and then at home...
Now that I think about it, this could've been a great way to mass-produce steel for katakana swords...
I worked 38 years at Stelco in Hamilton. I've been retired for 15. It was the best time of my life.
This is the most incredible documentary on the steel making factory ,love seeing this get goosebumps thinking of how this originated in Pittsburgh., Wow I'm taken back at this.
Hello George how are you doing 😊
U. S. Steel = Japanese Steel
✕ Japanese Steel
○ Nippon Steel
Vote for Harris and you will all be out of a job within 30 days! MAGA
"Iron golems were discovered in 2015"
People before 2015:
Why does every video have to be ruined with irritating sound effects in the background?
No video on American steel mill looks newer than 20 years old some videos look 45 year's old
Why is everything Americans make so hyperbolic?
🎉 thanks a bunch
I was a contract rigger, did stints at Llanwern in Wales and Redcar in N England. Top quality. British, American and Swedish steel by far the best, but peeps opt for the Chinese 💩 as it's cheap, but fails.
The video itself is good, but the music sucks, and way too loud.
I used to work at the Fairless Hills plant in Pa. In Plant Protection. Greatest job i ever had until the Mill was closed in 2001.
Part of Fairless Hills is back open. I loaded there a lot in 2018.
34 good years @ Irvin works,80" hot strip mill
I was a millwright at the coiler,retired 20 years ago
West Mifflin PA.
Love seeing 0
I went there for high school field trip in early 1980s.
Hello Brian how are you doing 😊
AJax steel mill.
They work hard, they party harder.
How do I get a job at US steel
Apply
G1 Sokool I have, several times. I live about 15 minutes from Gary works. I guess I have to know somebody to get in
They average 900 applications a day at gary works alone, or so I'm told. So I imagine you have to apply more than once.
Chris Wilkey I have a buddy that works at Accelormittal
@@Nino_J Small world, I start an internship at Gary works on the 11th, I'm searching the internet for any kind of clue what I'll be doing as part of my job but I just can't find anything.
This was a totally random video. So interesting. We really do not appreciate all that goes into the convenience that we have available to us on a daily basis.