Mike Rowe explains the struggles of producing salt
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Mike Rowe shows the daily grind of salt workers on ‘How America Works’.
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Just have to love how the second a camera crew gets on site, everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Fox news is owned by Disney, which also coincidentally owns ABC. To the media elite politics is just a demographic to placate. But when it really counts they will turn coat and misuse their ill gotten influence and prestige to advertise, misinform, and shill for profit. Another interesting fact about Disney is that they get a significant amount of funding from the Chinese communist party. So that taints their journalistic integrity as well.
@@SF-dy6hn Fox News was not part of the sale to Disney. Get your facts straight bud.
@@xzavior21Looks like you got your buddies to change the Wikipedia. sorry bud I know the facts
Come visit the Carey Salt mines here in Hutchinson, Kansas. It's shutdown and a mindblowing experience. Check out the website.
@@SF-dy6hn UA-cam blocks my comments when I include links but try searching for "fox-corporation-becomes-stand-alone-company-as-disney-deal-set-to-close". If the source itself isn't good enough, tell me what sources you trust and I'll find an article for you in that political sphere.
Love how you gave a background for each employee lets us know there the real deal. Thanks mike you do great work.
Yeah.. real deal high school diploma baby.
@@sooocheesy Yeah, what kind of an idiot thinks a college degree is a good investment still?
@@brentiers It always will be, but the problem is that you need to apply that degree into the field you are going into. Want to work in a salt mine? Don't need a degree. Want to work on a nuclear fusion reactor? Get a degree.
@@SteelOfLegend I actually worked with a guy who worked at NIF (the nuclear fusion reactor at Laurence Livermore national laboratories). He loaded the fusion target called a hohlraum into the reactor before each shot.
Yeah.. well, I make more money than him and only have a high school diploma.
@@brentiers lol i've done the tax returns of hundreds of people who brag about making 6 figures without a degree. Yeah sure tons trade clowns do Gross over a 100k a year but then you factor in expenses and they take home 40k like every other blue collar clown that brags about making money without a degree. Meanwhile I sit in my cushy office that's bigger than your trailer and make bank.
Mike Rowe could recite the schematics of the space shuttle and I would listen with admiration and love.
I can't imagine how dififcult it must be to keep that equipment operating in such a corrosive environment.
Plastic: light, does not corrode, cheap.
It must help that it's in New Mexico. I should think the aridity reduces the penetration of the salt.
@@memyselfandi2475 This is a front end loader. It looks something like a Cat 988 with a lift capacity of about 12 tons. And you are going to supply a plastic plunger retainer on the hydraulic cylinder that handles that weight? I hope you are trying to make some sort of joke.
@@louisc.gasper7588 you are thinking too small and you are only focusing on one aspect of contact between the salt and the susceptible material on the tractor. I could break it down for you but they don't pay me to do so.
@@memyselfandi2475 I'm focusing on the one the video focused on. Certainly there are parts that are suitable for fabrication from some kind of plastic or composite; this isn't one of them, but it's the one the rest of us are looking at.
It is awesome seeing people that have been doing this for 40+ years along with folks as young as 21. Kinda restores my hope...
A foreman at 21 with two years experience is amazing
@@MrWc867 I thought the same thing
It's really not that uncommon in the skilled trades. Well, it's uncommon for someone THAT young to be a foreman, but it's not uncommon to see people across the board in all sorts of positions.
Thank you to those dedicated workers who produce this essential product. I was glad to see young workers also in this business. These are the kinds of videos should be shown in our schools. Most of us don't think about the processes of where and how our products come from and also about the people involved who serve us everyday.
Yup, very interesting how it’s harvested !
Thank you very much for the appreciation!
@Mr. Cool very very true. I still have student debt for Engineering. But that's solely my debt to pay. No one else's
There has always been great opportunities in American industries, straight out of high school if you like with excellent pay after you make yourself indispensable via experience, ethics and skills. Today even more than ever the pay can be excellent as we have foolishly stigmatized any job that doesn't require a college diploma therefore creating shortage of good men in the trades. Salt may not be the most interesting but machinery maintenance skills carry across industries and around the globe.
@@Mrbfgray Yes, not everyone has the interest, the means, or the opportunity to go the college path. My dad when he was in high school (maybe even younger) here in Northern Va the students had the choice of also taking shop or home economics. The educational system took shop away. I don't know if it's back. This area is what you described as the foolish and I will add in so many of their ideas. We need to support and thank those who are the real workers getting the things done that the foolish take for granted. The machinery maintenance skilled hard working people we cannot do without. Let's educate them about real world trades. Bless them and their families.
I really enjoy the sound of Mike's voice. It's soothing to my ears
Thank you Mike. Pride in your work can be lost, this brings a much needed visibility.
Time to give Mike Rowe and permanent position on Fox.
Raul's seems like the kind of guy who would be walking to get the fire extinguisher when his house is on fire while everyone else is running around panicking
I worked for Raul for about a year at an underground mine. That guy is as cool as a cucumber!
Mike, thanks for all of what you do to make America understand that regular people make this country run. Hard workers make our lives
I'll never look at a salt shaker in the same light ever again.
You'll be looking at them from dim lights, in the brothel from now on!
Educating Americans where salt comes from is important. I've seen arguments and conversations for over a decade and a lot of people don't know how important salt is or where it comes from. Documentaries like this are like relearning the fundamentals how civilization works for adults but with facts instead of opinions. The public education system has been a failure since I was a kid.
Humans have killed and gone to war due to salt ,it's that important
Is it really important though? I'll bet you have no idea where the silicon in your phone comes from but that's pretty important too.
More than 90% of the Earth's crust is composed of silicate minerals, making silicon the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust (about 28% by mass).
@@sooocheesy- I can live without my phone.
@@expletivedeleted6424 But what about all the other electronics you use on a day-to-day basis?
It's nice to listen to stories based on truth and facts for a change.
Seriously!!!
You should see the MSNBC version!
@@joegotz1971 your absolutely right, can't believe this is on FOX NEWS??????wtf
@@joegotz1971 you got a link?
The truth is, salt is not produced, making this title fake news.
I want to see the whole show! It looks like it left off at a crucial moment. I love listening to Mike. Even better watching him - *Mike Rowe, is a fine producer and and host! Additionally...He is a fine human being!*
i love how it cuts out after the operator breaks something both times
Politicians need to work in a hard reality job!! that would save our world from some of their idiotic decisions!
Using a 12 point chrome socket on an impact....some real cowboys there!
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, “The Salt Must Flow”
Had no idea how not alone in this world I was
Our salty memes made ABC! It seems this show found where lefties recycle their used tears, at least it can help others.
Fire the meme cannons! Plentiful ammo.
the salt mines are rich today
Love this series. You can tell it's an honest company he's filming at, because they didn't demand censorship of the failings of systems. Luckily any plant dealing with salt that doesn't have malfunctioning equipment, is only possible if thier out of salt
P.M.C.S. is absolutely critical for any business using heavy equipment.
(Preventative Maintenance Checks & Services) Army left me with many habits lol
Cewg. Cover everything with grease.
Yeah nothing like taking off in a duece without brakes and rear ending your buddies truck lol
a reacquiring thing a the company i work for is them not wanting to make time for pm. all i tell them is if you don't plan downtime for the equipment it will plan it for you. it just recently bit them last week, 8 loaders went down in the same day
real everyday working Americans, with no time for the lunacy going in the country everywhere. They get it done.
I promise each and every one makes time for drama, it's human nature
He'll yeah
Lmao theyre humans doing the same jobs others do. Real patriots to our planet doing an easy job thanks to tractors. Real tractors doing most of the work, no time for human lunacy
Heck ya
I am in textiles. We use a lot of salt for reactive dyeing of cotton. And to treat our water. The supply chain is screwed right now on dyes and chemicals, but the salt is still flowing as always thanks to these guys.
I can't imagine how much that stuff rusts coming in direct contact with all that salt, for us living here in Florida on the ocean everything disintegrates from the saltwater and I mean everything.
Imagine being blessed with a job where one can correctly complain “I’m off to the salt mine”!
Good one!!!
I say it every day 😂 I work in the mine next to United Salt in Carlsbad
Cool..!
But remember… (At 0:00)
Salt “maybe” the bedrock of life… (As, we all need a little salt to survive”
However, It’s definitely not the bedrock of modern civilization.
Oil/Fuel/Energy comes first…!
Because without modern day Oil/Fuel/Energy First, we couldn’t even dig up the salt, ship it, or distribute it…
Fred, I beg to differ. Read your history on salt. Without salt long range maritime exploration would not be possible. Salt was used to preserve food for stores and then it was used to preserve fish opening up fisheries by cultures like the Basque who made it to Newfoundland.
@@chrisperry7538 Absolutely... I agree..
However, I was talking abut modern day influences.
I've hauled thousands and thousands of pounds of salt out of SLC, doesn't pay crap, only like 98 cents a mile, but it's like a vacuum out there, nothing else to haul out of there.
This show is so awesome thanks Mike
imagine how often they need to repair equipment and how much it would suck to with all that rust. they probably go through a lot of equipment
i know they have something they can spray on the equipment to prevent rust. I spray my outboard with it evry time i go out and rinse it
Plastic.
@@memyselfandi2475 even that gets destroyed
@@nothuman3083 everything gets worn down eventually when you take sand paper to it.... Except maybe diamond but that's not cost effective. You were only worried about the rust
It is nature - thermodynamics - all metals are combined and man as a biological animal extacts metals - but only for a short time until nature takes them back into compounds.
The constant chase for salt. The struggle every ibex knows so well.
Do you write for David Attenborough haha
This was really cool. I feel like it was cut short or something like there was more to this episode
Used to an hour of Mike, not just 10 minutes
Exactly like did kelly fix the leaky salt drier?
This is just a clip the whole episode is about an hour
That socket was already broken. 9:16
Did anyone notice how clean his hard hat and gloves were?
As someone who helps harvest Corn each year in the fall, this is surprisingly comparable to what happens there with Grain processing. From the heavy machinery maintenance, to the systems that handle the drying, the augers, the bins, all of it. Change the payloaders to Combines and Tractors, it's the same thing basically lol.
The things I take as granted! Love that Mike Rowe feller!
WE have oceans on both coasts, plus Salt Lake in Utah. We hope we can mine some from various USA locations. Working with our geologists, who could help us identify possible place for salt. Many doctors say salt raises our blood pressure. This precious mineral adds flavor to foods. God bless America.
Huge salt deposits under the Great Lakes too.
NO BIDEN WILL SAY NO 2 USA n YES 2 EVERYONE ELSE!!!
@@christy1768 no what you need is iodine which is in our foods. Not all our salts have iodine. Especially processed foods.
@@mstewartgay76 no. You need sodium.
@@terrylynn7396 You were right.
I grew up about five miles from what was then the largest salt mine in the western hemisphere at Retsof, New York, about 30 miles south of Rochester. It spread underground all over the valley. At 16, I got the chance to go down 1500 feet and when the elevator stopped, the first thing I saw was a Jeep driving past. The office was carved out of salt, lights everywhere. Obviously, have never forgotten.
I come from a city in NY with a massive underground salt deposit that is no longer even mined here.
I spent my summers at a salt plant in Salinas Ecuador that my uncle managed in the 70s....good fishing and swimming in the pre salt ponds, good memories...Morton Salt owns grand ignaua island in the bahamas....another place my old man would go for good fishing
9:17 you can clearly see him look at the broken socket, then next scene “it broke” lol no it was broke. That said I do like watching the salt flats from up in the Carlsbad mountains when we go ride dirt bikes, wish I could share some pictures here.
Nice one Mike. Good to know you are still KICKING around. Love ya man. 😎 USA1ST 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Very interesting and informative. God bless this hard working guys. Uk😀
Check out Redmond minerals where salt is mined in Redmond Utah
Mike's entire job series need to be mandatory education for all colleges. So these kids can get an understanding of how the country really works.
🤣🤣🤣🤣good luck with that idea, today's college grads believe salt comes from magical salt fairies 🧚♂️🧚♀️
@@JC-cm9bn and food just magically shows up in grocery stores.
So true !!!
Problem with that is no way to spin it!
And a mandatory "apprentice week" each semester where - like what Mike does - college students spend a week shadowing a "blue collar" worker. Each semester, a different "blue collar" placement...
Very interesting!
That was actually interesting
Salting the roads waste millions of man hours, billions of dollars in rusted out vehicles. They could just use sand.
Sand is a lubricant
@@mitchellscales8846 That's why I sprinkle sand on my machine bushings and put some in my vehicle's differential.
Sand clogs drain and sewer pipes. Your choice salt the roads or repair the sewers pipes
@@michaeltewes7833 Salt destroys concrete, causes spalling etc.
sand shortage
WTF, the video ends mid sentence...
Half of this country over the age of 18 wouldn't last one shift doing Manuel labor.schools need shop class back and work permits all of these hard working people are dying off
I worked I a die cast facility had a lot of temp some didn't make it to 1st break let alone end of shift pool last a day if they lasted over a couple of weeks hired with nice bump in have the ones that lasted late 20s+ the ones out door fast just out of high school collage kids on break some of the best workers moms on 2 second the jobs are there they can be hard&dirty & today u get good bucks to start they can buy u aNEW car/truck &house kids braces etc & there is satisfaction in u help get the product out the door it's worth it yes it is!!👍👍👍
Mike Rowe is the salt of the earth!
I used to work at this plant! Hi Vince! Lol
Cool seeing y'all on TV!
We got our own salt mine 36 miles south of Rochester NY.
Hauled salt for years.
Tough job. Real tough.
They make it look easy on this show.
That's what editing does.
Haven't been in that one but have been down several times in the Lansing Cargill mine. Agree - VERY tough job and conditions.
@@KCIREDERF10 thank God strong men defied a government to better pay
Id just like to thank the political theatre for all your hard work producing salty tears , your service to the salt industry is well appreciated
Salt has been important for millennia, mostly as a food preservative in the days before refrigeration. It was so valuable that it could be used as currency. Roman soldiers were often paid in salt, the reason why we have the term "salary". The old saying, "He's worth his salt" is another throwback to when salt was so essential it could be used as pay. The ancient monarchs always had their salt, plus gold, silver, empires and whatnot, but for the ordinary people salt was worth more than any of those vain baubles.
Mike rowe part of the backbone of America
9:16 already broken socket, but still for the camera, he tried to use it, and said "it broke"
Or the high paid, office guys come out to get their time on camera, only to break the mechanic's tool and embarrass themselves, unable to loosen a single bolt. But ya, it probably was already broken or just slipped off
@@Upgraydez or they had to redo it, but on camera.
"Well, go ahead and try it." Uhhh, that socket already had a giant crack through it. Trying it was a waste of time. If you pause at 9:16, you can see it.
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN MIKE ROWE👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Wearing a hardhat on top of a baseball caps a real big brain move
These are so good, Mike is awesome at narrating this
Can’t tell you how much I would love to never see it again on the road
Thank you Sr.
I like your document.
These people are a mess! It's amazing they manage to not injure themselves or eachother, never mind produce salt! If thats the foreman, who's the owner?
Lol his dad?
I'm a Contractor here in the States, 2 yrs ago we did work on a probably $1.5M home of a guy that owns a salt mine in Africa, so it must be very profitable. He & his wife were 2 of the rudest customers I've ever had, the guys didn't even like showing up every day. When the wife tells your guys her chandelier is worth more than their cars, they're not to eat their lunches at the bar on lower level, which was one of the areas we were working, they were to eat their lunches outside, 8hrs a day wasn't enough, he wanted them there 12hrs a day, etc...
Great work Guys!
Mike is what we need!
Most people today think products come from the shelf at the store, and there is no more thought than that.
No, they dont.
Lmao the amount of things go wrong when camera is in the building is amazing
ow yeah Great education and of course with the Great Mike Rowe entertaining and fun - thanks Mike
More precious than gold.
This is awesome. Maybe AOC needs to watch these shows.
I don't know why we don't have more desalination plants removing salt from sea water, you get the benefits of drinking water and salt.
Agreed. I don't know either. I just know desalination and building those plants is expensive but I don't know why all that salt isn't put into storage and sold. It reminds me of the story of when back in the day gasoline was an undesired byproduct of distilling diesel and gasoline was dumped as a waste product. Eventually gasoline became popular and the market for gasoline kept growing.
@@purplespeckledappleeater8738 and they keep touting that sea salt is better for you.
Letting the water evaporate from the salt is free. Desalination takes energy and raises the cost.
The amount of heat required to desalinate is really expensive. Solar evaporation is the best option.
$$$$$$$
When I see these shows with their fake, induced-drama... it makes me picture the place when the film crew leaves and there's just this horrendous mess that they don't usually have because they aren't usually purposely trying to break things. But then the camera guys are gone and they're just like.... crap... now we have to clean all this up.
Nice 👍
This seems like a lot of work when they could just go to Twitter and get all the salt they would ever need
My guess is that everyone of those workers normally work in the office
Great work.
Mr. Rowe how you doing? Thank you sir. I love salt!!! Let's go Brandon! Lets go Brandon!
you gotta get a bunch of sea water and let it evaporate..super hard work..
I haul alot of feed salt out of Grantsville utah every week
“Oh sh!t”… what a great ending to the episode 🤣
Where can I get the full episode?
I believe we should sand the ways, and reuse what we can When we brush it off the ways again.
Salting destroys so many cars and pollutes the environment next to the road.
got to love reality tv where is you still frame the socket being put on the breaker bar you can see the cut they made so it breaks on cue for tv
To all the salt making companies, we appreciate your work. You are important to the world. God bless you in Jesus name
God bless you, in gods name?
@@jamesbizs ney. Gott has many namen. Some ist Yahweh, Spirit, and Jesus. His namen ist ein Trinity. So Yahweh, Spirit and Jesus are alle different Folk er People (? I think that's the right word)
Mike Rowe for President! 🇺🇸
Thank you working Americans!
Desalinating sea water at a low cost and high productivity is the new motivation for high level engineering students and environmentalists from universities worldwide.
When the air-wrench fails - Giant Breaker-Bar!
NOTE - Alot of states are getting rid of the use of Salt on roadways and using other more environmental friendly types to Deice the roads. Go back 20 to 30 years ago Salt was the Primary use to Deice roadways. But, with newer methods that are environmental friendly and just overall better on the roads and not ruining the roads to fast States are making the switch. Alot of the States so far have cut the use of Salts by 40 to 50% with mixing of Sand or smaller sized Gravel instead of 100% salt. Or using a Deicing Liquid instead.
and they dont work well when it is cold. my state had a VERY COLD WINTER HAD HAD TO USE SALE FOR THE 1ST TIME IN APX 20 YEARS
That fancy "deicing" material is even worse on our cars and doesn't work when it's too cold. :‐/
"so your job today as a writer is to figure out how many rail cars it would take to hold 42 million tons of salt."
Your standard bnsf railcar is allowed hold 21tonns....
Pity these episodes are heavily edited and shortened. So much effort in getting these stories recorded only for it to be limited.
Why not make these available as full episodes. Quality stories like this are few and far between.
Pass by this place all the time
Is this show’s other episodes available anywhere or just in 10 minute segments on UA-cam
This is America at its best.
We need to come up with something other than salt for our roads. It causes billions on dollars in damage to roads, bridges and vehicles
So much salt in this comment section
@@canon-de-75 haha
instead of dischaging salt brine after desalination of sea water.Lets put it on the flates to harvest it..This will save the oceans from over saltization.
go Mike you are a legend
Seems like there is a need for an invention of hydraulic cylinder flexible covers to keep the salt off the cylinder pistons. Sort of like a rubber accordion-like boot/sleeve that can extend and contract with cylinder extension and retraction.
the word "Salary" actually comes from the roman word for Salt. There is a Chapel carved out in a Salt Mine in Poland that dates from the 13th Century. How is a dude with 2 years of experience a Forman while a guy with 35+ years isnt?
Very cool, wonder if there are different processes when handling salt for consumers.
As a worker from this company. Yes human consumption salt is a much finer, more refined finness process. But still a very messy and rusty process to get it. But all of this salt is lab tested repeatedly to specific health standards. Except for the road salts. It has different standards to be met
@@Kevin-twisted Human consumption salt has iodine added to it to prevent scurvy.
@@imontime77 yes indeed. Also upon further questioning of the lab techs here. Most table salts go through multiple chemical/water treatments and drying to get the desired product. The salt at this mine does not go through the additional chemical/water cleaning process.