Environments: Zug Island: Drone Footage (River Rouge, Michigan)
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2021
- Zug Island is a heavily industrialized island within the city of River Rouge at the southern city limits of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located where the mouth of the River Rouge spills into the Detroit River.
Filmed on: October 2, 2021 - Розваги
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Zug Island had four blast furnaces running, at it's peak. "A", "B", "C" furnaces were located along the north side of the island, along the channel for the Rouge River. "A" furnace is (along the Rouge River) furthest from the much larger Detroit River. "D" furnace is by itself in the middle of the island and is the largest furnace. At the end it was the last furnace operating.
Levy Co. had a contract for the "waste slag" by product. This was used for roadways, concrete block and other construction projects throughout the midwest.
I worked there, as a union Boilermaker, for many construction firms, on numerous relines.
I also worked there on the coke battery.
We used to joke that if the earth had an asshole, it was Zug Island.
cool, thanks for sharing.
that is a hardcore place to work.
I've been on zug a couple times to work on small a/c units. Right before the bridge to cross onto the island I think they were selling crack out of an old ice cream truck. Third world America. Wild place.
Missing one blast furnace and many coke ovens. Must say it looks much cleaner than the early 70s. Thanks for flying over Zug. 😊
Yeah, just the hearth is left for C furnace. B2 and D4 were last running. A's been down since around 06'. Obviously all are idled since 2020 now... Came up quick. B2 just got done with a reline, and its still full of coke, ore and limestone from after the last outage. Never been fired since relining.
At the end, both B2 and D4 were making 50% over nameplate ironmaking capacity every day. Somewhere around 13,000 tons of iron as a pair.
3 and 4 battery were torn down years ago.
You'll notice they have a ton of stored grain hoppers and railcars on the lines. USS makes money off of letting the railroads store unused cars there.
I work at the main plant, and have been to the Island several times in the past couple years. Its amazing how quickly everything turned to crap once noone went there every day.
I have to ask, do you guys just not use the steel mill there anymore, like what's going on? Zug island used to be bustling.
Worked there in the mid 90s for 3 long years 😮
My husband and I live in metro Detroit. Forty-three years ago, when we started dating. We'd often drive onto Zug Island at night. It was amazing.
It's such a mysterious place. Fire shooting up from stacks on rooftops, a constant fog hung in the air. Loud noises emitting from buildings.
Ten years later, we would take our young sons for a ride on the island. They too thought it was a really neat place.
I guess about 5 years after that, we could no longer go on the island. Huge metal fences and gates wouldn't allow any outsiders to enter.
It's a testament to hard working men and the dangerous work they did in these factories. It's industrial history museum.
I have very much enjoyed your video of the area via a drone. Thank you.
That's cool.
There's an oddly Gruesome Beauty about Zug - - - something akin to a Witches Castle in a Haunted Land
I spent about ten years on Zug working for two different environmental companies. My nickname became Zug Island John.I even had a personal license plate for a long time that said Zug.Memories.
Thanks for making this video! It's amazing to see this area from above. It's also interesting to see the Gordie Howe Bridge under construction.
I filmed a total of 12 videos in this general area during a windless weekend… stay tuned for more cool locations.
The waterway around the island is called Shortcut Canal, I used to fuel tugboats there. The warm water discharge from the steel mill is an excellent place for walleye.
Great video,I grew up right down the street from Zug Island first time seeing it thank you. The truck's that would come from Zug Island with steaming slag would stink like hell
I actually would live on Zug Island if I could have my way. I'd have a house built on the most remote wooded area of the island. That would be pretty awesome.
spent decades wishing for a look inside zug & here it is! very nicely done. thanks for taking the time. new sub.
I plan on doing a updated look at it this spring. This is probably the most popular video on my channel so a follow up is needed. I have a better drone now.
A company I work for drops off piping to the facility on Zug Island. I drive commercial trucks through there all the time.
Such a dark place.
Hi everybody. I’m blown away with how popular this particular video has become on my channel. If you’re interested in seeing a little more of Zug Island I have another video below featuring it: ua-cam.com/video/ayTlmiX6WzM/v-deo.htmlsi=chH3q38FkuZVUWXO
Hi, greetings from Australia. Just stumbled on your video. It's amazing. Down here we can't fly over steel mills and the like as it is restricted airspace. Awesome footage and fascinating to watch. I'm a subscriber now. Keep them coming.
its crazy if you try to get pictures of the island the used to have armed guards that would stop you.
one of the oddest places i ever tried to photograph
Zug Island was closed at this time as far as pig iron making but #5 coke oven was open to feed coke gas the DTE power plant on the south side of the Rouge River @@nickboss597
Thank you for the "grand tour". In the 1950's, Zug Island used to be the Meca for ringneck pheasants in this part of the state. I wounder how they're faring there now?
The background music makes the island seem at lot more ominous than it really is. Then again, if they painted all the buildings a bright green that would really help matters!
Plant plants like cabbage on part of the land to clean it up.cabbage is a member of the brassica plant family.these plants might absorb some chemicals in the ground.
Made some of the best memories EVER with my Dad on this island,relining refractory brick in"A"furnace for "Graycor"under big Pat Keely!! Own a 3XL orange,black and white"Zug Island Last Cast" shirt,and a customized matching white cap with orange embroidered letters reading:"Zug Island forged and tempered". Didn't know exactly what my Dad meant by:"Man,leave them broads alone and get some SLEEP,;they're about to"tap" "A-furnace" and Pat Keely gonna' be running "7-12s"into June!!" I learned from an excellent book called:"Zug Island;A Detroit Riot Novel" that to"tap"a furnace,means to drain all the slag and limestone out of it!! I'll never forget the first day the relining for"B"furnace started in '95,when big Pat told my Dad:"No offense Cyrus,but your boy don't LOOK like much."My Dad replied:"None taken;he might NOT look like much,but he's strong as an OX,and will outwork ANY of those jack-legged chumps you had working out here last spring on the "C-furnace" tear-out!!!" Noboy's mentioned the mettalic RED dust that won't be removed from your cars' interior,or your clothes?!? The back of my customized"Zug Island"cap reads:"Red dust Isle."
@@Geardrive427-ip8vj No,I comment like a man who has GREAT memories of Zug Island and the life-lessons I learned working with experienced, wayworn men from 1960s' Detroit!! Apparently YOU have never worked an 84-hour workweek tearing out old,pulverized refractory brick or you'd know where I'm coming from sissy- boy!! 😐
I ain't lonely at all;I just wield fond memories of working 84 hours a week RElining blast furnaces with refractory-brick sissy- boy!! SomethingYOU could never do is swing a NINETY pound sledgehammer over a 12-hour shift!!! You probably work sales at the mall!! 😐
Maybe no one else saw it but I saw what looked like a lion face in the landscape at 1 minute into the video !
The view south on the river was sublime and where was the nest of seagulls near the island, there are literally thousands of birds in that nest will you get that next time ? ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Worked at zug in the coke oven, as a summer job while I was going to school. Pretty nasty place, you were just caked with coal dust and god knows what else by the end of your shift. People were nice though: even the plant superintendent, who invited me and another guy to play golf with him, when he found out we played. One day,at noon, my girlfriend picked me up in her white convertible, caused quite a sensation. Like I say, the guys were nice…
Looks like the soil had just reached the proper oil saturation level. Just wow, but think about all those Fords. The Rouge and Friends.
Also, what are they doing with the coke oven gas?
Great "Downriver" scene...
Oh btw, how come the Canadian side of the river looks a lot greener than the US side ... I mean a lot more trees ?
In that particular area, the Canadian side is a better area/city. The US side is kind of a ghetto in this general area, unfortunately.
@@thismetalsky Thanks for your feedback Michael
Because Zug Island is on the American side.
I think I see a tunnel opening at the end of Windsor salt mine.
Very cool footage! What model drone was used?
This video was filmed with a DJI Mini 2
QUESTION -- What make and model of drone were you using in this episode??
What are those loaded coil gon railcars there for?
this is incredible footage. I'm looknig to put together a historical video on Zug island. Can I use this footage for B-roll?
That’s fine. No rules that I could find saying zug island can’t be flown over
@@thismetalsky place is terrifying - Thank you!
Love this. I would also love to see some footage of all those little islands near Grosse Isle if you can do some videos: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Detroit_River
I’d love to do more over in that area.
It’s on my list for this year
"Welcome to US Steel... and here is the breakroom. You can go outside too if you want."
"Nah, breakroom's fine."
Are there tunnels and bunkers underneath?
Possibly some tunnels… but I’m not sure
Does anybody that worked there still remember Joe's Coffee Pot Cafe?
I love this video!
I’d love to work there
They are hiring now. Can't guarantee a job on the island, but they are accepting apps
@@Khaymen223 What's the Company doing the hire?
I can tell you from personal experience it's not a fun place to work
I worked there from 77-82 Sinter plant and coke ovens
Does this place get tested by the epa
epa would be there daily when it was running , But all they did was issue fines .
I don't know if there's any truth to it. But I heard that island was made from slag
you drive north on I75 going north toward Detroit and once you hit the bridge it stinks to high Heaven because of this place. don't know how people live around there.
Learned from"Zug Island;A Detroit Riot Novel"that the stench you smell near the island is from the SLAG,which gets dried,crushed-up and used on roads and in flooring for playgrounds.
Indian burial ground back in the day I heard........😎
😳 really?
@@danalarose846 yes, it gets dark trust me
@@GT47179 I enjoy that kind of stuff, especially being born and raised in Michigan. Do you know of anything that I can read on that? Thank you for replying by the way.
@@danalarose846 no problem, start with Catholic missionaries landing on grosse point in 1700....all Detroits problems started right there, the indian wars here like everywhere else were very brutal I have no material to direct you too.....only my 15 years of study
GT47179;you heard right!! It became rather swampy at one point,when Samuel Zug bought the land for a private family resort. He sold it,after the mosquitoes became too much for him. He then dug a canal across one end of it turning it into an island!! Henry Ford eventually bought the property and widened and deepened the canal to allow ships carrying ore easier,quicker access to his immense Ford/Rouge Complex!! Later on down the line, three of the nations' largest blast furnaces were constructed on the island!!
Most unsitely and dangerous place on the Detroit River. My hopes that one soon it shuts down, and the multi year environmental cleanup can begin
The music is ominous. If a Green New Deal advocate saw this they would have a heart attack.
What did they do on this island
Cooked coal into coke! Coke is mixed with scrap and other metals to make slabs for rolling mills!
@@williamyekin8639 ;coke,iron and limestone are put into a blast furnace,and superheated using natural gas. The heat IGNITES the coke,the coke melts the iron and liquifies the limestone. I have a 10-pound bag of coke pellets from July 14,1995,to commemorate shoveling about a ton of coke into hoppers at the Biddle Road coke battery in Ecorse for sixteen hours,while working 20 feet over a giant VAT of steaming,bubbling MOLTEN metal on an 100 + degree day!! I need to discover what makes all the metallic red dust on Zug Island.
I don't see a future for the USS mill either, the entire Zug plant seems vacant, whereas the coke battery limelights the island
Couldn't they plants that are members of thebrassica family like cabbage clean some of that up
And to think, many decades ago this was the private estate of a super rich guy named Samuel Zug. Think how beautiful and pristine the grounds were. Thousands of large trees, deer, rabbit pheasants, birds like maybe the American Eagle, woodpeckers, and owls occupying the area. Now in the 1970's, the Guinness World Book of Records cited Zug Island as the most polluted land mass in the U.S.A.. What an achievement in industrial technology.
I would have liked to have been around during WW2 when this place, along with the Steel mill in nearby Ecorse, and the Ford Rouge Steel department was going gangbusters helping being "The Arsenal of Democracy". Spitting out Steel to make tank's, jeeps, ships, guns, helmets, bullets, military trucks, and anything else made of metal. Think about the tobacco factories spitting out cigarettes by the boat load for the soldiers, and civilians as well. PHEW. Everybody was employed, even the family dog, parakeet, and goldfish. Now it's all gone. Hope that China or Vladimir Putin doesn't declare war on our country. We are just sitting crows on a fence, and fish in a barrel - easy targets for a country take over. This country hasn't won a war since WW2. I think the remaining American Indians can easily take back their country the paleface stole from them. As easy as walking to the neighborhood dairy queen, and get an ice cream cone. And all this started by some "Dumb Americans" buying the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Honda Civic. Buying foreign cars, and other foreign crap. A big Thank You to our American Dupa Yash relatives and neighbor's. Boris and Natasha for buying cheaper quality products from our country's enemy. Don't blame the unions or corporate greed, take a good look in the mirror, and point your fingers at yourself's. I lived next door to a guy who came to this country via Ellis Island with only a suitcase. Worked on the assembly line at the G.M. Clark Street plant in Detroit. Put his 2 daughters through Catholic school and College. Once they both got a job, guess what? They both bought Japanese cars. When his daughter's came to visit at mom and dad's home, this proud American yelled at his girl's to park their foreign car in the street- at the curb, not in his driveway.
This proud immigrant from Poland came to our country with all his worldly possessions in a single suitcase, willing to work his ass off for a piece of the American pie. Went to a nearby Catholic church to learn our English language, and became more of an American that those of us who were born here. And what did his two female children do? Buy the foreign products, after their father worked so hard, using American dollars to put a roof over their heads, put food on the table, paid tuition at Catholic schools. and used American dollars to give them a college education. His daughters are ungrateful bitches. I'm real glad he yelled at his girls to park their Jap Crap off his property. All the plants, the stores and other empty buildings in your area, are caused by you Stanley and Zelda's of this country who buy foreign made JUNK. If you're out of a job, or nearly out of one - blame yourself. Pat yourself on the back & head dumbass.
Keep buying something 5 cents cheaper, and made overseas. You deserve to be living under a freeway overpass, and standing on a street corner with a piece of cardboard in your hands, with the words: HOMELESS PLEASE HELP.
Oh, hello fellow Capitalism hater! Before the economy collapses and the banks renege on your mortgage, I suggest you look up the BBC documentary "HyperNormalization" by Adam Curtis so you can better understand and cope with why you too will be homeless soon.
@@Coopersville Hello Coopersville. Obviously you were born brain damaged,, or you were hit too hard many times in the head with a baseball bat. I am not a Capitalism hater. If you knew how to read English. you would decipher that I'm against so called "Americans" like you dickweed, who buy foreign products giving good American currency to our economic enemies. By the sight and sound of your criticism of my comment, you're more than likely sending your "American" money to Daddy Vladdy and helping him assassinate the people of Ukraine. Unlike you Dupa Yas, I don't have to worry about the bank closing and being out of money. I also don't have to worry about the bank reneging on my mortgage. I don't have a mortgage.
My 4 homes have been mortgage free for decades, and I have a positive monthly income where I won't have to worry about living next to you under a freeway overpass. WHY WHY do you ask moron???? Because I always purchased "Union" produced "American" made products - where the money I spend stays in the American Company's bottom line. And as for watching some foreign made video by a foreigner from England telling his version of USA Capitalism, I would rather spend my valuable time picking my nose, and trimming my toenails. So Communist Comrad, keep buying your Japanese, German, Vietnam Nam, Chinese, Korean, Mexican, and Venezuelian consumer goods. Sending your "American" dollars into their Swiss Bank Accounts, and to help our country's enemies build a military force to make war against the USA.
Everything you just described is a Era long over with. You're living in the past hoping for the past to return but it never will. Instead of bitching and complaining, like all of you do, maybe just give up and accept change. Everyone's so hellbent on outdated beliefs and morals. Guess what corporates are fucking everyone and every person is a slave to the machine. You wanna blame individuals for the end U.S. industrial era maybe look back at yourself and realize it started with your generation of greedy, narcissistic, sociopathic people and corporations. It will never end; just an endless cycle of the same bullshit until well all die.
you make some wonderful points about this area's contribution to helping us win WWII, but then dive into a gross oversimplification of what happened in the years after which does nobody any favors.
@@DanS-dc5vu frederic chopin
I worked here one day and quit 🤣
I’ve heard it’s a toxic place to be
What a loser 😂
Why did you quit
The mysterious island what secured by homeland security.