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.
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.
I genuinely thought this was going to be a Blender rendering just based on the way the noodles moved in the preview before clicking. Also 0:34 would be an insane weapon for defending a base. 4:01 how badly was that dude injured from that? It literally knocked him over. Also the dude that stayed to pull him away is a real one.
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.
😢😮 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.
The scary thing is that these are a lot heavier than they look given how they move so fluidly. The burns would probably be the least of your worries if this hits you.
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 )
I know from first hand how cobbles happens outta no where. I used to work in steel mill called AK Steel in ohio now called Cliffs. Was working in what's called Hot Strip where 72 ft long by 5ft wide steel slabs comes out the oven at 35 to 45 k like glowing orange. As it goes down the roll line between rollers that flattens it untill it comes out from last roll line to 8 gage and sent down to coilers to roll up . We'll I witnessed about 4 cobbles and it's deafening sound..and a mess that hell won't have, guys had to pull out long cutting torches then try straight sheets out to remove them or cut into pieces and cranes picks them up and set aside for inspection. But yes..cobbles are very dangerous and always be aware of your surroundings.
Not sure what I'm seeing. Is this when a steel mill produces huge metal wires but the machine breaks? Or what exactly are those glowing hot things, I just assumed they were red-hot-steel-spaghetti. I actually thought working in a steel mill seemed like a pretty chill job, until now.
Rebar mostly. Concrete is the number one building material in the world by an order of magnitude and much of that concrete needs rebar. So these mills roll the bars down from gigantic fat billets (sp?) that the foundry sends them. They are maybe 6 feet across sometimes and need to get taken down to just half an inch
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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.
Forbidden spaghetti.
Hahah
Laser pasta.
Good with those spicy meatballs!!!
never forgetti
That spaghetti will give you Schwetti balls.
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
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.
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
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!
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!!
I am a servant of the Secret Fire wielder of the flame of Anor the dark fire will not avail you flame of Udûn
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Actual footage of what it felt like to learn to write cursive in 1988.
4:30 An heroic man we should all aspire to emulate
The one at 5:19 is so neat and elegant; the result should be displayed in a museum with the name of that machine as artist!
The slinky of death was pretty cool
A big salute to real life heroes almighty god bless dear ones ❤❤❤❤
That looks absolutely terrifying
As bad as an accident is, I gotta admit that looked freaking cool AF. I almost thought it looked kinda CGI too.
5:30 damn didn’t know steel was chill like that
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.
Crazy that its so hot but it still holds its shape
4.20. A genuine hero. Good man.
0:38 A guy just casually walking around the catwalk above
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
In the lightsaber factory:
"Oh, boy! Someone's getting force-choked for sure when the boss comes back and sees this mess!"
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
“So sorry, folks. Just having a wee moment.” 🥺🤭
The *_motion values_* on those cobble attacks must be insaaane.
3:45 That looks like some really fun silly string.
Wow, that´s pretty rad and expensive rave party!
I want to see videos of the clean up😮
Why are so many of these being filmed by hand? Is it maybe some insane drill meant to test workers or safety equipment?
It's so satisfying to watch it but terrifying 😂
Where's the E-stop?!?
But that giant glowing 🍝
8:00 has fast spaghetti and dried pasta
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
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.
Okay. These things need to have their own horror movie. _Attack of the Killer Spaghetti_ or something.
☄️🍝🔥
As an amateur blacksmith, watching that white hot metal flailing around like silly string gave me angina.
Honestly that one at 3:40 was BEAUTIFUL.
I'm curious of why it happens. Is it malfunction of the machines or human error (forgot to open something) or maybe both ?
I genuinely thought this was going to be a Blender rendering just based on the way the noodles moved in the preview before clicking.
Also 0:34 would be an insane weapon for defending a base.
4:01 how badly was that dude injured from that? It literally knocked him over. Also the dude that stayed to pull him away is a real one.
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.
How is this even cleaned up?
It just cools down and you cut it
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
Nice sculptures!
And WHERE in all of this are the emergency stop buttons??!!??
funny eye emoji
😢😮 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.
That one that hit the hot-rail, geez...
Looks like a fun place to work
You should get that uti checked. . .
The truth compels us!
Memorable work day.
What I'm missing in all of these is the sound of some sort of warning siren.
The scary thing is that these are a lot heavier than they look given how they move so fluidly. The burns would probably be the least of your worries if this hits you.
These guys are not getting payed enough for this.
not only red hot but FUCKING HEAVY
Terrifying yet satisfying
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 )
Looks like downstream from the extruder problems with all of these. Some of these are so unsafe. Wow.
I know from first hand how cobbles happens outta no where. I used to work in steel mill called AK Steel in ohio now called Cliffs. Was working in what's called Hot Strip where 72 ft long by 5ft wide steel slabs comes out the oven at 35 to 45 k like glowing orange. As it goes down the roll line between rollers that flattens it untill it comes out from last roll line to 8 gage and sent down to coilers to roll up . We'll I witnessed about 4 cobbles and it's deafening sound..and a mess that hell won't have, guys had to pull out long cutting torches then try straight sheets out to remove them or cut into pieces and cranes picks them up and set aside for inspection. But yes..cobbles are very dangerous and always be aware of your surroundings.
Not sure what I'm seeing. Is this when a steel mill produces huge metal wires but the machine breaks? Or what exactly are those glowing hot things, I just assumed they were red-hot-steel-spaghetti. I actually thought working in a steel mill seemed like a pretty chill job, until now.
Rebar mostly. Concrete is the number one building material in the world by an order of magnitude and much of that concrete needs rebar. So these mills roll the bars down from gigantic fat billets (sp?) that the foundry sends them. They are maybe 6 feet across sometimes and need to get taken down to just half an inch
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Ahh, makes perfect sense! Thanks. It's spelled billet yeah..
Ok it's dangerous and all
But you have to admit, it's pretty cool looking
They don't have a STOP button?
How TF do they survive these encounters?
They often don’t.
There has to be a better way of shaping metal than just a high speed, super long rod of molten silly string
I lost it at the “air quotes”😂😂😂3:40
How, uh, graceful
Molten death strings!🎉 Yay!
Damn... that looks hazardous
its
any follow up story on the 4:00 mark?
My lightsaber when padme comes out that gown
How often does this happen
0:34 the ghosts the Ghostbusters caught escaped. 💀
Imagine one of those happening that's the dimensions of a railroad rail. They're scary as hell
No! Its the lasso of burning truth.
The guy who got hit with it. Did he make it?
@@latenightwizard6892 l was wondering the same thing. I don't intend any humor when I say he most likely got a horrible branding.
Probably. He was beginning to move on his own after being dragged out of the way - probably some nasty burns and a few busted ribs.
Those light saber factories are really dangerous
0:19 Looks like this isn't the first time for this place...
I wish cheese wiz or cheese in a can glowed like this like quantum Nuka Cola
4:40 Double bass clef
Who knew light sabers were so dangerous to make.
Protosabers*
@@eins2001🤡
Resect for the guy who helped his colleague instead of fleeing 👍
No veo mujeres trabajando ahí...que oportunidad para ellas
Аварии на заводах по производству световых мечей джедаев😂😂😂.
Но очень опасно! Рабочии берегите себя!
Some of the rope ones make it look like the Ghostbusters are there, lol!
Machines like: Is anyone hungry for some SPAGHETTI?!?!?
0:22 very long bendable neon tube light
It's like silly string
The one at 0:35 looks straight up computer generated, but i know it isn't
Talk about flying noodle of death! Hate to be the clean up crew.. cant imagine how each one of these mishaps causes in downtime and damage.
So pretty 🪨 🔥🤩
I don't how these rolling mills operate at all, when the slightest deviation causes them to go haywire.
Is that the light saber facto
I believe they don't stop it is because it's even worse if it cools down and gets stuck in the machinery.
Gonna br a pain to clean up once it hardens
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
HEFTIG! And the production loss was probably also deducted from the wages of the workers involved :(
When the sith screw up red light saber production.
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.