For those wondering about emergency stop and why the thing seems to keep running: safety equipment varies from mill to mill, third world is less safe than first world. When a cobble happens, the next bar out of the furnace will not go into the rolls. But the bar that is already in there usually needs to keep moving; stopping and letting it cool and harden inside the machine would not be good. A bar that comes out of the furnace 12" in diameter and 20 feet long might exit the rollers 1/2" in diameter and 2880 feet long, so a lot of steel can wind up on the floor. Many mills have "cobble shears" at one or more spots along the line that can be activated in an emergency. They chop the bar into short lengths and divert it into a pit where it can cool. The clip starting at ua-cam.com/video/QFt1IO9hvf0/v-deo.html is a perfect example because the cobble happened just downstream of the shear and the shear is in-frame. Notice the yellow railing on the right side of the image. That railing is around the cobble pit; the cobble shear is in the background behind the pit. At 1:45 the cobble happens and rod starts shooting out onto the floor. By 1:48, the cobble shear has been activated and you can see a bunch of rods maybe 3-4 feet long being diverted into the pit. By 1:49 the cobble has stopped moving, but the rod keeps coming and is being chopped into the pit throughout the rest of the clip. (Source: I used to work as an engineer for a company that designed control systems for these machines.)
I worked in a rolling mill one summer before college, and saw a miss roll once that summer, but there was a containment cage next to each roller input side to catch the derailment. We’d have to cut up the tangle with a torch and put it back for the melt shop to recycle. Once there is a miss roll, they just wouldn’t feed the next steel billet in until the mess was cleaned up.
How long does that take? Some of these look like they end up on different pieces of equipment, I can only imagine the amount of damage to hose lines and other non metal parts of these machines. The one with the tangle stuck on the rafters looks like a real tough job to clean up.
@@JaredWeiler Yea, I’m sure those examples took a while to fix and clean up. The one I saw wasn’t as bad as the ones in the video, because most of it was caught in a cage.
@@princealbertz They can't afford to shut the machine down for a few hours a week to keep it from degrading. It's just not in the maintenance budget (of 0$). However they *can* afford to have the machine completely broken for a few days a month due to failures caused from lack of maintenance!
It's almost certainly better to let the machines finish piling up the stock, however they please - rather than having to pull solid steel out of machines that were damaged in the freeze-up.
😢😮 boy I wouldn't want a job like that working with dangerous machines like that. That's hot steel coming out of those machines and everything. Very dangerous job with those machines. I wonder if this is in this country or another country. Boy OSHA wouldn't like that. They shut them down and make them correct that before they could run those machines and someone have a job. Thank you! Very dangerous God someone could get second to third degree burns with them that hot steal.
5:20 It’s just so well behaved lol. Camera guy is just like yeah I could save the company thousands in terms of NPT and reprocessing material to clean it up by stopping the mill right away. But f*** it I’m just gonna watch instead. 🤤
You cannot stop the mill as the steel would harden inside the rollers and be impossible to move without disassembling every roller, just have to let it fly.
Absolutely terrifying. Praise God for those who understand mechanical engineering and appreciate certifications and qualifications. Genius saves lives °~•.☆.•~°
We have a steel plant here in town that makes rolls. I learned a lot about these possibilities that do happen. In this mill, it's usually a jam up when it hits the coiler. That shit folds up fast and violently. There's a lot of math involved as the metal is reduced, it picks up speed as it's lengthened. It goes from walking speed to IDK what but It's zipping at the end.
I could almost feel that when the fella was slapped down in the work station by the molten hot metal coming out of the machine ( it didn't look like he walked away from that )
There's a few videos showing many deaths of workers ...mostly filmed abroad . I don't know how they allow it Thought I was just watching accidents ..then they say these people died One was a close up of a young lad .. Terrible stuff ..and so sad Hope the lived one's are compensated Many accidents could be avoided
That guy? Almost certainly made it. He was beginning to get his act together as he was being dragged out; busted ribs, some nasty burns, but nothing unrecoverable.
@@MRbug_423 chest first. And yes, he was knocked out. Now, watch the NEXT few seconds. As he's being dragged away, he begins to move and try to rise to his feet, even as he's being hauled out. Do pay attention.
Understatement. Huge props to the guys that rescued their fellow workers!
cant mock them if theyre dead
They are probably instructed to rescue people first and machines second.
❤
4:28 Wow that man was very brave
Yeah that was crazy.
@@tyson9419 selfless
Omg i hope that man is ok after that
@@Wagonball_Z I would think he'd survive I hope
Metal workers want our comrades to be safe
They need to sack that cameraman because where ever he goes they seem to have an accident.
@@klashnacovak47 they should hire him for an insurance commercial
Dammit, you beat me to it!
Lol
Made me chuckle
He's the Allstate Mayhem man
Forbidden spaghetti.
Hahah
Laser pasta.
Good with those spicy meatballs!!!
never forgetti
That spaghetti will give you Schwetti balls.
For those wondering about emergency stop and why the thing seems to keep running: safety equipment varies from mill to mill, third world is less safe than first world. When a cobble happens, the next bar out of the furnace will not go into the rolls. But the bar that is already in there usually needs to keep moving; stopping and letting it cool and harden inside the machine would not be good. A bar that comes out of the furnace 12" in diameter and 20 feet long might exit the rollers 1/2" in diameter and 2880 feet long, so a lot of steel can wind up on the floor. Many mills have "cobble shears" at one or more spots along the line that can be activated in an emergency. They chop the bar into short lengths and divert it into a pit where it can cool. The clip starting at ua-cam.com/video/QFt1IO9hvf0/v-deo.html is a perfect example because the cobble happened just downstream of the shear and the shear is in-frame. Notice the yellow railing on the right side of the image. That railing is around the cobble pit; the cobble shear is in the background behind the pit. At 1:45 the cobble happens and rod starts shooting out onto the floor. By 1:48, the cobble shear has been activated and you can see a bunch of rods maybe 3-4 feet long being diverted into the pit. By 1:49 the cobble has stopped moving, but the rod keeps coming and is being chopped into the pit throughout the rest of the clip. (Source: I used to work as an engineer for a company that designed control systems for these machines.)
Thanks 👍
Thank you for the clear and detailed explanation!
Nice, clear write-up of the process. Thanks, man.
Thanks! I was wondering about that!
Probably a good thing in this case for that particular operator. He came close to making physical contact with the cobble.
I worked in a rolling mill one summer before college, and saw a miss roll once that summer, but there was a containment cage next to each roller input side to catch the derailment. We’d have to cut up the tangle with a torch and put it back for the melt shop to recycle. Once there is a miss roll, they just wouldn’t feed the next steel billet in until the mess was cleaned up.
How long does that take? Some of these look like they end up on different pieces of equipment, I can only imagine the amount of damage to hose lines and other non metal parts of these machines. The one with the tangle stuck on the rafters looks like a real tough job to clean up.
@@JaredWeiler Yea, I’m sure those examples took a while to fix and clean up. The one I saw wasn’t as bad as the ones in the video, because most of it was caught in a cage.
Why does this happen? Is it poor maintenance on the machines? Not properly cleaning them?
@@princealbertz They can't afford to shut the machine down for a few hours a week to keep it from degrading. It's just not in the maintenance budget (of 0$). However they *can* afford to have the machine completely broken for a few days a month due to failures caused from lack of maintenance!
As a blacksmith, I find this very interesting yet terrifying.
Even if the stuff pushes you away, you would sizzle on it for a bit.. ouch
As a non blacksmith, I too find this very interesting and terrifying.
As a non blacksmith French Canadian, I too find this very interesting and terrifying.
As an I.T. Professional, I find this very interesting yet terrifying as well.
As a human, I I find these comments interesting and hilarious.
People are remarkably calm in these lightsaber factories. Disney really has taken the power out of them
wut
Protosabers, you mean
NOT perfectly f-ing vertical
The dude at 4:06 does NOT agree with you.
Isn't this the thing the Balrog was using on Gandalf?
Only the finest quality can be found here
Fly, you fools!
Youuuu shalll not pass!!
Damn that guy at 4:10 is a hero
Definitely a legit badass, but I wonder what happened to the worker he saved it looked like he took a chest full of the molten metal
@@Fishmanglitz no joke looks like both got hit hard. Definitely severe burns.
4:20 Hats off to you.
Hard hats stay on.
Workplace safety, after all.
@@happydemon3038 I'm old and retired and OSHA can pound sand..
that 1:44 moment where death reaches out and puts a hand on that guys shoulder.
Do these machines not have E-Stops????
😂😂😂😂
They do but thats alot of momentum abd weight, takes a minute
It's almost certainly better to let the machines finish piling up the stock, however they please - rather than having to pull solid steel out of machines that were damaged in the freeze-up.
Only America has estops
Bro... That IS the E-Stop.
0:38 A guy just casually walking around the catwalk above
The slinky of death was pretty cool
5:30 damn didn’t know steel was chill like that
Actual footage of what it felt like to learn to write cursive in 1988.
As bad as an accident is, I gotta admit that looked freaking cool AF. I almost thought it looked kinda CGI too.
Crazy that its so hot but it still holds its shape
In the lightsaber factory:
"Oh, boy! Someone's getting force-choked for sure when the boss comes back and sees this mess!"
The best part was the end when they show the aftermath. I was wondering about that
I wanted to see the cleanup for the one in the rafters 20M up.
It's so satisfying to watch it but terrifying 😂
I lost it at the “air quotes”😂😂😂3:40
How, uh, graceful
As someone working with rebars, now I appreciate these things, though we would tend to take them for granted for being too common in our field
Machines like: Is anyone hungry for some SPAGHETTI?!?!?
😢😮 boy I wouldn't want a job like that working with dangerous machines like that. That's hot steel coming out of those machines and everything. Very dangerous job with those machines. I wonder if this is in this country or another country. Boy OSHA wouldn't like that. They shut them down and make them correct that before they could run those machines and someone have a job. Thank you! Very dangerous God someone could get second to third degree burns with them that hot steal.
5:20 It’s just so well behaved lol. Camera guy is just like yeah I could save the company thousands in terms of NPT and reprocessing material to clean it up by stopping the mill right away. But f*** it I’m just gonna watch instead. 🤤
Those figure 8’s were impressive
You cannot stop the mill as the steel would harden inside the rollers and be impossible to move without disassembling every roller, just have to let it fly.
Absolutely terrifying.
Praise God for those who understand mechanical engineering and appreciate certifications and qualifications.
Genius saves lives °~•.☆.•~°
4:30 An heroic man we should all aspire to emulate
I want to see videos of the clean up😮
Wow, that´s pretty rad and expensive rave party!
Nice sculptures!
3:45 That looks like some really fun silly string.
The truth compels us!
Terrifying yet satisfying
The *_motion values_* on those cobble attacks must be insaaane.
Damn... that looks hazardous
its
Looks like a fun place to work
Who knew light sabers were so dangerous to make.
Protosabers*
@@eins2001🤡
Molten death strings!🎉 Yay!
As an amateur blacksmith, watching that white hot metal flailing around like silly string gave me angina.
So pretty 🪨 🔥🤩
That one that hit the hot-rail, geez...
The one at 5.30(ish) was so polite about it-almost like it was saying “excuse me, pardon me, aww geez im so embarrassed” while stacking itself neatly
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Honestly that one at 3:40 was BEAUTIFUL.
Memorable work day.
Some of the rope ones make it look like the Ghostbusters are there, lol!
We have a steel plant here in town that makes rolls. I learned a lot about these possibilities that do happen. In this mill, it's usually a jam up when it hits the coiler. That shit folds up fast and violently.
There's a lot of math involved as the metal is reduced, it picks up speed as it's lengthened. It goes from walking speed to IDK what but It's zipping at the end.
My lightsaber when padme comes out that gown
Ok it's dangerous and all
But you have to admit, it's pretty cool looking
It's like the devil itself came up and vomited all over these factories.
You should get that uti checked. . .
HERO
not only red hot but FUCKING HEAVY
Аварии на заводах по производству световых мечей джедаев😂😂😂.
Но очень опасно! Рабочии берегите себя!
Darth Vaders infinite supply of swords !
When the sith screw up red light saber production.
4:00 is wild af, dude rly got lit up by a lit up piece of metal 😮💨
everyone gangsta until the fabricator starts spitting out lightsaber spaghetti
0:34 "as soon as you finish you can go home."
I could almost feel that when the fella was slapped down in the work station by the molten hot metal coming out of the machine ( it didn't look like he walked away from that )
0:34 the ghosts the Ghostbusters caught escaped. 💀
1:48 I did not know steel could have a personal vendetta on someone.
How TF do they survive these encounters?
They often don’t.
This is the way the flying spaghetti monster takes revenge on you whenever you cut your spaghetti before eating it.
No! Its the lasso of burning truth.
Wonder Woman has lost it completely
This is how Skynet cooks "spaghetti a la human."
Looks tasty
Worker: Only one hour more...
That guy: Everything is going well!
Machine:____~00o0000ooo
Some Star Wars business here
Ah yes, Silly String's estranged uncle: Scary String
I ran Overhead crane at the 8" & 12 Bar Mills at Republic Steel ! 🥵 I saw many of these in 32 years
Can you explain what kind of safety features are used in production? It seems like the machines would have sensors to stop the process.
@ropewash4432 thanks for reply. makes sense.
My grandpa retired from Republic steel
Isn't there like a lock out tag out safety procedure instead of just recording the death lace?
Where are the sensors that automatically stop the machines??
This milling equipment was built back in the 1950s...
Chinese
They see me rollin, they hatin
1:45 They call him Ray... Ray of light!
0:46 When your slinky just never returns to its original form.
Very dengurse miss rollse
Why are so many of these being filmed by hand? Is it maybe some insane drill meant to test workers or safety equipment?
Scary
Imagine one of those happening that's the dimensions of a railroad rail. They're scary as hell
Looks like downstream from the extruder problems with all of these. Some of these are so unsafe. Wow.
0:34 I told you not to let Walter Peck near the containment unit
Shit came out so fast the camera couldn't catch it properly.
0:34 What's that?
Seems different from others.
So this is how lightsabers are made.
What I'm missing in all of these is the sound of some sort of warning siren.
The forbidden angry spaghetti
They look so tasty, i want to eat them so bad😢
And WHERE in all of this are the emergency stop buttons??!!??
funny eye emoji
I never thought I'd actually see someone die on UA-cam
😂 You must be new here.
There's a few videos showing many deaths of workers ...mostly filmed abroad .
I don't know how they allow it
Thought I was just watching accidents
..then they say these people died
One was a close up of a young lad ..
Terrible stuff ..and so sad
Hope the lived one's are compensated
Many accidents could be avoided
That guy? Almost certainly made it. He was beginning to get his act together as he was being dragged out; busted ribs, some nasty burns, but nothing unrecoverable.
@@lairdcummings9092 bro, that literally hit him in the face. And you can't force your body to go limp like that
@@MRbug_423 chest first. And yes, he was knocked out. Now, watch the NEXT few seconds. As he's being dragged away, he begins to move and try to rise to his feet, even as he's being hauled out.
Do pay attention.
mmmm neon spaghetti yum
The common man must risk his life so that the billionaires can billionate.
4:29 real hero
Talk about coming in hot!
Almost looked like a neon sign
4:00 after I get out of the hospital one guy is taken care of for the rest of his life and one guy is eating only soft food for a year.
That second factory didn’t even clean up their first fuck up lol
A.I. 😆HAVING FUN WITH THE HUMANS 😂😂😂😂😂😂