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.
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 !!
@@DrLumpyDMus 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.
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 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.
@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 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 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!!!!
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!
I worked at Bethlehem Steel in the 70's and 80's. I worked in Homer Research Labs in Bethlehem PA. Projects. I worked on were at Lackawanna Plant (Buffalo NY), Bethlehem PA Plant, Sparrows Point Plant (Baltimore MD), Burns Harbour (Chicago), Johnstown PA Plant. These videos bring back many memories, Thanks.
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!
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
There's always other opinions on those steel qualities. Chinese steels are made to global Standards just like USA steels are to ASTM and ISO Standards. The closeness of the Standards for like grades varies very little. Chinese modern day processes were advanced over USA processes due to their more modern plant and willingness to upgrade regularly. Chinese also use much higher purity of Iron Ore hence reducing smelting times. Australian and Brazilian ores have around twice the concentration of Iron as the grade stated here.
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.
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
Seriously, I have heard a few stories through my life and I wish they would be published somewhere. Unbelievable stuff. Dangerous but fascinating work.
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.
@davedalton--My Father used to work at a Steel Mill. He did this for over 40 years. Lost a lot of his hearing. Even tho he did wear ear plugs they didn't help much. He used to operate a Huelette and then he was a pipefitter and he worked around the Blast Furnaces. He would work 8, 12 or even 16 hour days just to provide for our family. He would get up every morning at 4:30 am to do this nearly every day. He used to pre-wash his work clothes in an old ringer washer before he would wash them in the regular washer. He passed away 2 years after my Mother at the age of 81. He told us some stories of how men died there. One man had his arm ripped completely off by a machine and another man fell to his death. My Mother would always pray that he would come home safe every day. Really enjoyed this video and reading your comment. Have a blessed day to everyone!! 😊😊😊😊
So much incredible footage went into this, but the quick-cut editing looks like a videography student's first-year final project where they inevitably get told that it's not necessary to use every wipe and transition in the software within a single project.
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?
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.
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
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!!
Has been done for decades using the Electric Arc process which remelts scrap steel BUT we run out of scrap at some time if primary / virgin steel is not produced. The Electric Arc furnaces use massive amounts of energy.
@@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.
Took a high school summer job at a lumber yard…..them forklift operators couldn’t be trusted always hurting or getting hurt…. Can imagine the Trust it takes to work in a foundry of your co worker’s …Flesh and Molten Lava don’t mix. Hats off to anyone retiring with all their fingers and toe’s…
@@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
I've worked in industry and this is like the video they show to the group of new hires who will be taught to press like 4 buttons and half of whom will leave in a month
The industry has an excellent track record of doing exactly that for the past few decades but there is still much to do. You have to understand the chemistry of the process and products to realise that.
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
Good video full of useful information. Wish it had been longer and more detailed, but I am sure they want to be a little careful what they reveal about proprietary manufacturing processes...
Can someone get on OT? Lol/JK. The steel prices in the US are f’in insane right now. Never in 40 years did my company need to quoted on raw materials DAILY. Please tell me the industry is on the up and up.
IIt varies with the process used. Older Open Hearth furnaces used recycled coke ovens and blast furnace gases, BOS furnaces gain their heat from heavy Oxygen blasts and Electric Arc furnaced use heaps of electricity.
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
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.
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.
@@DrLumpyDMus 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.
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? 😊
NONE of this is possible without your local scrap dealer. Support honest, hardworking, self motivated individuals.
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.
Cool ❤❤
I love steel i love Košice and Šaca
@@PikkaBirdthat's crazy...
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!
This soundtrack had no right to go this hard 🔥
On God
lol fr fr
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 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
This is exactly Why all old vehicles and so forth should be preserved and restored whenever possible.
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!!!!
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!
I worked at Bethlehem Steel in the 70's and 80's. I worked in Homer Research Labs in Bethlehem PA. Projects. I worked on were at Lackawanna Plant (Buffalo NY), Bethlehem PA Plant, Sparrows Point Plant (Baltimore MD), Burns Harbour (Chicago), Johnstown PA Plant.
These videos bring back many memories, Thanks.
I've seen many industrial "corporate" videos, and this one right here among the few I've seen that's actually pretty damn cool.
Damn the song is bopping hard.
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
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
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...✌️
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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.
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. 😂
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 .
Hats off to the working
individual of the steel
mill.😐👍🏾👍🏾
Hubby has been with USS for 38 years. Very cool to see how steel is made.
My Granpa worked there too for 25 years
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.
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.
The proper term for the railcars is "torpedo cars"............cheers from a retired Alberta Steel guy.
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.
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?
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 😊
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
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.
There's always other opinions on those steel qualities. Chinese steels are made to global Standards just like USA steels are to ASTM and ISO Standards. The closeness of the Standards for like grades varies very little.
Chinese modern day processes were advanced over USA processes due to their more modern plant and willingness to upgrade regularly. Chinese also use much higher purity of Iron Ore hence reducing smelting times. Australian and Brazilian ores have around twice the concentration of Iron as the grade stated here.
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.
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
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.
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.
4:00 music switch up who started dancing? 😂🕺💃
I worked 38 years at Stelco in Hamilton. I've been retired for 15. It was the best time of my life.
@davedalton--My Father used to work at a Steel Mill.
He did this for over 40 years.
Lost a lot of his hearing.
Even tho he did wear ear plugs they didn't help much.
He used to operate a Huelette and then he was a pipefitter and he worked around the Blast Furnaces.
He would work 8, 12 or even 16 hour days just to provide for our family.
He would get up every morning at 4:30 am to do this nearly every day.
He used to pre-wash his work clothes in an old ringer washer before he would wash them in the regular washer.
He passed away 2 years after my Mother at the age of 81.
He told us some stories of how men died there.
One man had his arm ripped completely off by a machine and another man fell to his death.
My Mother would always pray that he would come home safe every day.
Really enjoyed this video and reading your comment.
Have a blessed day to everyone!!
😊😊😊😊
cant imagine how stupidly hot it would be in a steel factory
So much incredible footage went into this, but the quick-cut editing looks like a videography student's first-year final project where they inevitably get told that it's not necessary to use every wipe and transition in the software within a single project.
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.
That's metal asf.
This jobs pretty freaking metal (pun intended)
This feels very early 2000s
I'm a little late to the party but this was a very well produced video!
Can you please make the music louder? I can almost hear the narrator.
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 😊
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?
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.
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?
10 year old me : This is boring
36 year old me: How did humans come up with this? Amazing!
"We work hard, we play hard. " 🎶 Everybody dance now! 🎵
The Simpsons lol
Thanks for all the metal, guys.
I remember J.L steel in Cleveland Ohio in the 70s.
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.
Homestead Works alumni here, Instrument Repairman apprenticeship 1978-1981.
Thanks for keeping Granite City, online.
I work in a heat treating plant with a small foundry. Shits unbearable in the winter and summer but we make do💪.
Was a employee of thirty two years at flow con or later Vesuvius !
Machining Baby ! Let the chips fly !!
You would like AVE then.
I worked for Nucor Steel for about 14 years. Quit last year and don’t miss it one bit.
As a coremaker in a grey iron foundry for 45+ years I loved my job. But this my friends is the big leagues.
i didn't expect the music to be so radical in a video about metallurgy
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
Great video !! Informative
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.
Definitely enjoy this stuff I am metal former at a metal company I get the sheets after processing thanks for the vid 👍
Do you still work at this plant?
i got a couple of flat bar pieces in my toolbox from an autobody project and theyre the coolest things in there.
How far away are we from making steel without coal?
Not chemically possible.
Has been done for decades using the Electric Arc process which remelts scrap steel BUT we run out of scrap at some time if primary / virgin steel is not produced. The Electric Arc furnaces use massive amounts of energy.
I ran a few tube mills for General Motors this is a great comfy watch lol
0:47 It's hard to believe it all starts with dirt.
Where is this?
Saving vid for later.
I was expecting to see the terminator somewhere in that factory
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.
"Cutting edge, value added, steel" Just to remind you this is an ad they put in some random ass buzzwords for no reason
Hopefully it will be sold to a American manufacturer like Powers Steel or Schuff Steel.
Took a high school summer job at a lumber yard…..them forklift operators couldn’t be trusted always hurting or getting hurt….
Can imagine the Trust it takes to work in a foundry of your co worker’s …Flesh and Molten Lava don’t mix.
Hats off to anyone retiring with all their fingers and toe’s…
I work at tenaris running hot metal crane. Get to here the cracking of the eaf upclose n personal.
Now that I think about it, this could've been a great way to mass-produce steel for katakana swords...
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
Lmao .. I was hot metal crane operator... I miss it
How does one get started in opening a steel production plant? Any help would be appreciated
It takes hundred of millions if not billions of dollars to build a steel plant.
Why are they focusing on the most dull parts?
This is something more then impressive.. This is beautiful, what human can create..
I’m curious what do they burn to create steel.
Coke
Very well explained in this video.
"Iron golems were discovered in 2015"
People before 2015:
I've worked in industry and this is like the video they show to the group of new hires who will be taught to press like 4 buttons and half of whom will leave in a month
Make the steel industry more sustainable!! Very impressive but the future lies in reducing the CO2 emissions. Hope the industry can keep up!
The industry has an excellent track record of doing exactly that for the past few decades but there is still much to do. You have to understand the chemistry of the process and products to realise that.
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
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
I spent a lot of time doing environmental clean up at U.S.steel zug Island Detroit , Mich.
Good video full of useful information. Wish it had been longer and more detailed, but I am sure they want to be a little careful what they reveal about proprietary manufacturing processes...
Can someone get on OT? Lol/JK. The steel prices in the US are f’in insane right now. Never in 40 years did my company need to quoted on raw materials DAILY. Please tell me the industry is on the up and up.
No video on American steel mill looks newer than 20 years old some videos look 45 year's old
My Dad used to work at US Steel outside of Pittsburgh
Out of curiosity, why are sheets the most common product?
You can stamp a lot of things out of them like one of those things that punch shapes out of paper
Why did the video creator think we didn't want to hear all the sounds associated with steel production????
so... just how much ENERGY is required to make a ton of steel? Incredible HEAT ..?
IIt varies with the process used. Older Open Hearth furnaces used recycled coke ovens and blast furnace gases, BOS furnaces gain their heat from heavy Oxygen blasts and Electric Arc furnaced use heaps of electricity.
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
🎉 thanks a bunch
Hello I am work at Krakatau Steel