I work at a steel mill, the pot carrier for slag is pretty cool cause you have to speed out of the mill to go pour the ladle before it cools off. very hot work even with ac in the carrier!
@@Mystic73424 The ladle would be scrapped but pot hauler is unaffected. You’d ideally try to “beach” it by dumping it in a pit (which is later crushed up by a crane dropping a massive ball on it then scrapped or reprocessed)
@@Mystic73424 If it doesnt get dumped in time it will harden and u have to either lance the slug out in pieces or in some cases the pot can be a total loss. we have welders than can fill 4 inch wide cracks that are 6-8 inches thick on pots. The ladles inside the steel mill are around 1 million dollars a piece so the slag pots are probably half the cost not as big etc..
@@haidandurham8630 That depends. Most people hire in as a entry level laborer. At that rate, working straight 40hr weeks, you'll be sitting between $60-70k. If you're willing to have no life, no sleep, and work 112hrs a week, you can break $200k. Keep in mind that this doesn't include insurance, benefits(dental vision, etc,) pension, aannnd the likelihood that you'll die 5-10 years earlier than most people.
@@licktin1091 Watched a kid get hired in at 18. He doubled 7 days a week for the entire year then quit. He had enough cash for a new car and most of his college.
This is literally the cool stuff everyone likes to see when they're age 5......but in reality they still want to see it at 55 or 75. This channel should be alot bigger. Kinda like Mike Rowe in Dirty Jobs show, except all it's equipment instead of the job itself. Don't be afraid to show some more enthusiasm and passion for the cool equipment, people need that to understand exactly how cool and specialized this stuff really is.
I used to do tire work on those pit loaders every week almost. They're a beast of a machine and get put through a lot. Thanks for the video. I'm going to show it to people when they ask about my OTR service days
@@kishascape No, they most certainly are not, making armour-grade steel plates in thicknesses required for battleships is essentially a lost art and it would take a lot of time and effort to regain it. Thickness is by far the smallest problem when it comes to naval armour plate, techniques used to create the perfect amount of hard and ductile material are no longer in use when it comes to plates often more than a foot thick.
@@Tass-h7t while it's true that is is no need for battleship-thickess armour plating and therefore no such production capability exists right now, I wouldn't call it a "lost art". Our understanding of metallurgy has improved a lot. While it would certainly be more expensive today due to rising labour and steel costs, I'm sure we could produce even more of it if we had a need as urgent as it was in WW2.
Never been to a steel mill, but I have worked on a stretch of railroad where special hot cars frequently rode by. It's a normal freight train locomotive pulling a handful of football-shaped train cars designed to be tipped once they reach their destination. You can see out the top where the lid is is typically glowing with molten steel inside. If you're close enough you can actually feel the heat radiating off the cars.
I love seeing machines like anyone else but I like seeing how everything is done. Would have loved to see them change that tire: taking the chains off, wrapping it in extra rubber, putting the chains back on..
Back when we had the big brown out our local steel mill (Nanticoke works) lost a pot in mid poor They managed to lance out the chunk and save the pot We came in with a Demag A/C 700 to load it out came in around 230ton pretty impressive/expensive lift for a blob of scrap
Simply amazing display of human ingenuity. Everything shown here was produced entirely, first, in the minds, then by the hands, of mere men. Truly astonishing creatures we are, thank you so much for the upload and for the work you do.
I used to build cooling towers at steel plants all up and down the east coast. Nucor mainly. The heat produced from the furnace was so hot it would raise the outside temperature a couple of degrees while they were pouring and we were over 1000 yards away from the smelter. The slag pot carriers were absolutely massive machines too and very impressive to watch them work.
NUCOR just doubled the size of their GHENT KY mill. It's HUGE. Their building another mill southwest of Louisville in Breckenridge county KY. I haul into North American Stainless in Ghent KY. A small river town half way between Cincinnati and Louisville.
This is very very impressive. I used to work at a steel processing center, we got the material from places like this. Now I rebuild hydraulic cylinders. It's pretty cool to see these machines in action, and to see the process of what it takes to get it all done.
I’m a union electrician and helped build a steel mill for Nucor in FL in 2020. They make rebar there now. It was very interesting to see the production process. They take this big piece of stock, maybe 1’x1’x10’, and they heat it up until it’s bright glowing hot. Then they send it down a conveyer and into “rollers” And each roller squeezes the hot piece of stock down into a smaller and smaller but longer piece. As the stock gets squeezed, it picks up speed. I remember one day they were testing the machines and everyone was told to stand far back away from the rollers. Well, as the steel picked up speed, it missed the opening on one of the rollers, hit the side of the roller machine, and the bright hot steel “string” went flying up into the air, looked like silly string. After they shut everything down, they had to wait for the steel to cool off so they could cut out the wadded-up steel from inside one of the rollers. Looked like a big, weird ball of yarn stuck inside the machine. I left that job before they test fired the arc furnace though. Would have loved to see that in person!
Sweet, I'm also in the ibew as an apprentice and working at another Nucor plant in Kentucky. It's absolutely fascinating seeing the arc furnace running, the noise that it makes is kinda horrific and awesome because of how much amps you know are firing through that. We have to do cleanings every now and then when they do shutdowns to clean the rectifier room. It's incredible, they have the big dc smoothing reactor in the middle, which is water-cooled, and it's roughly 40'x40'x20' maybe. It's just really cool to see electricity on such a big scale, really blows your mind to see the capabilities. I was also working underneath it when it kicked on and the magnetic field it produces is like nothing I've experienced before, I could get all my tools to stand straight up and balance on the top of a 10 footer and holding them out with your hand and feeling that magnetic pull is crazy. People don't like to work there because of the conditions but I think it's fascinating. Always keeping safe though.
Man I worked at Nucor Steel Mill for Memphis Mill Service for a year. I operated the Kress Pot Carrier, 988, Haul Trucks, Lattice Boom Crawler Crane, Backhoes and Crusher Plant....all for a whopping $15 bucks an hr....what a fun job for slave wages. Contractor pay...I even went to Heavy Equipment College of Georgia and they still couldn't give me $18 an hour...
That's because it's NON UNION. This is a prime example of why the working man needs to pull together to demand more. He'll, even IUOE apprentices aren't getting paid $15 to $18 an hour.
It's interesting to see how different everything is done in other parts of the world. Here in the Netherlands we do almost everything with trains and cranes. Slabs and slagpots are loaded onto trains with cranes, and the slagpots get tipped by a crane as well.
It’s amazing to see what steel workers do, I’ve been a heavy equipment mechanic for years. Granted the closest thing I’ve come to working on is construction scrapers, graders, loaders, etc. I can’t imagine what it’s like working with these guys. Y’all steel workers, operators and supporting crew (got you gear heads) are awesome, and not to mention everyone in the comment section is just sharing information without all the typical bicker. I admire y’all
I work at a Worthington processing plant in Michigan, I work on a 60” slitter which is permitted for 25 gauge to 300 gauge steel, we are just starting to test run aluminum at our tension leveler and 72 inch slitter. I have never been so fascinated with the whole steel process or let alone just my job, I love working with steel and I stumbled on a job I didn’t know was my dream job, the mill portion is just a fraction of what the process is.
I am a contractor a commercial diver to be exact and I spend a lot of time in different steel mills it’s always blows my mind when I’m in US Steel Gary Works and I’m watching these front end loaders drive into the slag pits and they are being sprayed with hoses and they go in and out. They we CAKED in slag. The slab haulers are extremely interesting and crazy to watch coming around corners on the crazy mill roads. It’s going to be interesting the next 10-20 years because every time we are in a new spot diving in the mill that we haven’t before we are seeing more and more of missing blue prints and knowledge of where we are working because all the old guys who knew everything are either fired, retired or dead early from the hard work lifestyle as they are taking the knowledge and mental blueprints with them
Hey !! I work here haha yes them 988 are some piece of art and them steel slabs as soon they make them they put them Outside and if you drive by them let’s say 10-20 feet it’s some extreme heat
something to keep in mind about the slagpot carriers, you got the weight of the slagpot and then the contents all in the back. the fact that the carrier doesnt tip ass over backwards is amazing. unlike cranes, they dont put down extra 'feet' because most times the soil isnt compact enough, so there is a whack of extra weight upfront
Grew up in Homestead PA. Thought I would end up in the mill. They were starting to close when I graduated in 1980, joined the Navy, then after that spent 37 years with the Corps of Engineers. Had a few little stints working with refractory work when we got laid off in the winter. Great career I had.
2:09 Here in Brazil, it is prohibited to remove these chains with a torch when the tires are inflated. There is a risk of explosion, there have been numerous fatalities with this type of activity.
Ya dude, you get around love what your doing I whould pay good cash to walk in your shoes for a week as a holiday , Don't get me wrong I can't even imagine the hoops, challenges,and bull you gotta go through to do this stuff so we can get a glimpse keep it up love your work dude
Work as a heavy equipment operator in the " slag" in Northwest Indiana. Very cool what you do.. it has been a great living for me and my family. My son now is in the business.. I wish we still had the old 992C and D models to dig the pits. Companies down sized to 88's.. go through many more tires.chains and especially buckets. Supposedly to save fuel. They eat 5 times more money in buckets bucket repairs and tires because the smaller machine has to so many more cycles to get the job done.. oh well their money . I dont dig pits anymore or work with any Hot stuff. Now Magnet Crane Operator. Much better for old timers.. anyway always enjoy your videsos.. awsome stuff.. stay safe!
I can't believe the amount of great material that was right in front of you to film like changing the tire and you just completely glossed over it like nothing. This place had so much potential for a long video. I feel like I was robbed of information that you could have provided. Shirley I'm not the only one that feel this way.
You're right, but you can't just freely run around a steel mill with cameras and were we supposed to stand there for the whole day as they changed the tire? Also... please don't call me Shirley
I work at Cleveland cliffs burns harbor Indiana. I work in the BOF steel production we spray the furnaces from burning through. Been there for 5 years and everyday you see something different. Nothing is ever the same!
AK Steel in Middletown Ohio , worked there as a union boilermaker , cool place dangerous as hell over at the blast furnace. I see that this video was taken before they blew the old stack down.
I worked in an Aluminum cast house for 3 years, it would have been nice if they had given us these for anything we had especially for the fork trucks we used to dump dross pots after cleaning the melter. With always going into the cast scrap house and people not being careful when running them out to the dumping area our tires were always worn to hell
Use to work a at steel frame manufacturing company. Where we would recieve the steel coils made from those huge slabs (did not know coils started out like that. Always wondered that). The company would then literally unwind that big ass coils and would ultimately make different sized frames (forge the pieces and assemble them). I worked logistics, so I only dealt with the end products but walking to and from the bathrooms/lunchrooms, you can see the evolution of that giant coil
I've only had a couple of visiting jobs on a steel works, so I've not seen everything but the slab carriers are my favourites. It looks so unlike anything I see in the wider construction industry.
I work in the iron ore mines in Northern Minnesota. Our 988K loaders we use to crush the taconite uses half slick tires to help reduce the amount of rocks that get stuck between the tread & carrying it elsewhere around the mine. You should try to get up to here sometime to do a video on the source of the steel.
Where I work we service a lot of metal recycling facilities in our city, pretty much all of them. One of them is a larger corporation that owns a couple Kawasaki 95Z7 hot slag machines. We have rebuilt one of them from the hydraulic pumps out(as in, just the hydraulic system mostly), and are in the process of rebuilding their other one. These machines get into the nasty and when run to shit, are hung up nasty as well. Gnarly to work on, but they get their work done. It's interesting seeing one of these with 16 thousand hours in pieces in the workshop, taken to its bones.
The truck drivers in the army used to complain about having to put chains on wheels during the winter. At least they didn't need a blowtorch to put them on or take them off.
This is cool we normally get either the B&P BTNC or PW1 train which hauls them steel slabs in special carrier cars from the AK steel plant in Butler Pa to New Castle for CSX
3:05 Spotted the IUOE Local 18 sticker on the helmet! Makes me pretty excited cause I have an interview coming up with that Local next month and can't wait to get in the heavy equipment operating field! I would love to do this kinda stuff later in my career when I get the chance. Wish me luck!
To me one of the coolest pieces of equipment that pot carrier of the hot molten steel that is so neat to see and I like the big 988 loader and the big modified excavator magnets
You talk about a satisfying steam cleaning ..man I’d love to tear into that loader and make it shine like new…used to do everything from 3500 hitachis 793s…994s..and bout everything in between with hotsys runnin 4k lb pressure…they got em 5k psi now
Remember, not everyone can drive one of those things! You'll need a class C license, no accidents for 6 weeks, you have to take a 2-hour training course, and find a special way to make the boss happy.
I'm more here for the tires than anything. I work for toyo and looking at the tires like this its mind boggling to me the thought of making such big tires
You should really check out Glama Manipulators. My shop has the worlds largest free roam Glama manipulator. Crazy machine, can lift 300,000 pounds 25 feet in the air and the jaws can rotate 360 degrees. It weighs in at over million pounds with all the fluids in it and 1100 gallons of diesel
988 is pretty big we run a lot of 998’s in the mines but yea massive equipment and those tires ain’t cheap and we have tire yards to keep spares on stand by from skid steers to 998
What's the coolest piece of heavy equipment operated in steel mills?
I don’t know it’s all pretty cool! I like the e magnets too
I was hoping you would show the whole process to change the tires
@@ejharvey2764 next time. It takes a while
The fan
The automatic french fry machine they had in the canteen room never seen one like and they were delicious 👌🏻
I work at a steel mill, the pot carrier for slag is pretty cool cause you have to speed out of the mill to go pour the ladle before it cools off. very hot work even with ac in the carrier!
@@mikek3951 gerdau
You better not have a truck parked in front of one or cut one off either theyll flaten a fullsize pickup.
what if someone forgets to dump it
@@Mystic73424 The ladle would be scrapped but pot hauler is unaffected. You’d ideally try to “beach” it by dumping it in a pit (which is later crushed up by a crane dropping a massive ball on it then scrapped or reprocessed)
@@Mystic73424 If it doesnt get dumped in time it will harden and u have to either lance the slug out in pieces or in some cases the pot can be a total loss. we have welders than can fill 4 inch wide cracks that are 6-8 inches thick on pots. The ladles inside the steel mill are around 1 million dollars a piece so the slag pots are probably half the cost not as big etc..
I'm a maintenance mechanic at the largest blast furnace in the western hemisphere.
I don't care how old I get, giant equipment never gets old.
Damn man, how much you make a year if you dont mind me askin
@@haidandurham8630
That depends. Most people hire in as a entry level laborer. At that rate, working straight 40hr weeks, you'll be sitting between $60-70k.
If you're willing to have no life, no sleep, and work 112hrs a week, you can break $200k.
Keep in mind that this doesn't include insurance, benefits(dental vision, etc,) pension, aannnd the likelihood that you'll die 5-10 years earlier than most people.
@@mephInc perfect job for a single person in their 20s. Work as hard as you want as long as you want. Nobody at home telling you to stop.
@@licktin1091
Watched a kid get hired in at 18. He doubled 7 days a week for the entire year then quit. He had enough cash for a new car and most of his college.
@@mephInc it wouldve been smarter for him to stick with the trade, since college degrees are not really worth much anymore
This is literally the cool stuff everyone likes to see when they're age 5......but in reality they still want to see it at 55 or 75.
This channel should be alot bigger. Kinda like Mike Rowe in Dirty Jobs show, except all it's equipment instead of the job itself. Don't be afraid to show some more enthusiasm and passion for the cool equipment, people need that to understand exactly how cool and specialized this stuff really is.
It’s our little secret!
38 yr old female , I concur everyone wants to see this.
He's about to blow up... The reason I know is because I'm here and I have no common videos with this watched
@@ILoveBluePeople the algorithm has been beckoned. Lol
@@ILoveBluePeople we're only getting going!!!
I used to do tire work on those pit loaders every week almost. They're a beast of a machine and get put through a lot. Thanks for the video. I'm going to show it to people when they ask about my OTR service days
Those steel slabs at 1:11 are incredibly cool. Reminds me of reading how US Mills were once able to produce thick steel slabs for Battleship armor.
It’s wild huh
Were?! They still are.
@@kishascape No, they most certainly are not, making armour-grade steel plates in thicknesses required for battleships is essentially a lost art and it would take a lot of time and effort to regain it. Thickness is by far the smallest problem when it comes to naval armour plate, techniques used to create the perfect amount of hard and ductile material are no longer in use when it comes to plates often more than a foot thick.
@@Tass-h7t at least some of that institutional knowledge still exists with the steel made for submarine hulls.
@@Tass-h7t while it's true that is is no need for battleship-thickess armour plating and therefore no such production capability exists right now, I wouldn't call it a "lost art". Our understanding of metallurgy has improved a lot.
While it would certainly be more expensive today due to rising labour and steel costs, I'm sure we could produce even more of it if we had a need as urgent as it was in WW2.
Never been to a steel mill, but I have worked on a stretch of railroad where special hot cars frequently rode by. It's a normal freight train locomotive pulling a handful of football-shaped train cars designed to be tipped once they reach their destination. You can see out the top where the lid is is typically glowing with molten steel inside. If you're close enough you can actually feel the heat radiating off the cars.
Those are very neat too
I love seeing machines like anyone else but I like seeing how everything is done. Would have loved to see them change that tire: taking the chains off, wrapping it in extra rubber, putting the chains back on..
I’d imagine it could take some time, as in man-hrs. Is it a process that spans days?
Back when we had the big brown out our local steel mill (Nanticoke works) lost a pot in mid poor They managed to lance out the chunk and save the pot We came in with a Demag A/C 700 to load it out came in around 230ton pretty impressive/expensive lift for a blob of scrap
It's still sitting by the pizza hut
That’s crazy to think of. I used to lance out 50 ton dump pots, that was enough for me!
Simply amazing display of human ingenuity. Everything shown here was produced entirely, first, in the minds, then by the hands, of mere men. Truly astonishing creatures we are, thank you so much for the upload and for the work you do.
thanks for Watching Sean
I used to build cooling towers at steel plants all up and down the east coast. Nucor mainly. The heat produced from the furnace was so hot it would raise the outside temperature a couple of degrees while they were pouring and we were over 1000 yards away from the smelter. The slag pot carriers were absolutely massive machines too and very impressive to watch them work.
NUCOR just doubled the size of their GHENT KY mill. It's HUGE. Their building another mill southwest of Louisville in Breckenridge county KY. I haul into North American Stainless in Ghent KY. A small river town half way between Cincinnati and Louisville.
@@jerrykinnin7941 ten 4, I gave up the construction aspect about 5 years ago. I'm now trucking as well.
I'm a local intermodal trucker I'm around big stuff all day long. 3 railheads 5 different depot's where the m/t boxes are stored fun stuff.
This is very very impressive. I used to work at a steel processing center, we got the material from places like this. Now I rebuild hydraulic cylinders. It's pretty cool to see these machines in action, and to see the process of what it takes to get it all done.
awesome. Thanks for watching
I’m a union electrician and helped build a steel mill for Nucor in FL in 2020. They make rebar there now. It was very interesting to see the production process. They take this big piece of stock, maybe 1’x1’x10’, and they heat it up until it’s bright glowing hot. Then they send it down a conveyer and into “rollers” And each roller squeezes the hot piece of stock down into a smaller and smaller but longer piece. As the stock gets squeezed, it picks up speed. I remember one day they were testing the machines and everyone was told to stand far back away from the rollers. Well, as the steel picked up speed, it missed the opening on one of the rollers, hit the side of the roller machine, and the bright hot steel “string” went flying up into the air, looked like silly string. After they shut everything down, they had to wait for the steel to cool off so they could cut out the wadded-up steel from inside one of the rollers. Looked like a big, weird ball of yarn stuck inside the machine. I left that job before they test fired the arc furnace though. Would have loved to see that in person!
that's fantastic
Sweet, I'm also in the ibew as an apprentice and working at another Nucor plant in Kentucky. It's absolutely fascinating seeing the arc furnace running, the noise that it makes is kinda horrific and awesome because of how much amps you know are firing through that. We have to do cleanings every now and then when they do shutdowns to clean the rectifier room. It's incredible, they have the big dc smoothing reactor in the middle, which is water-cooled, and it's roughly 40'x40'x20' maybe. It's just really cool to see electricity on such a big scale, really blows your mind to see the capabilities. I was also working underneath it when it kicked on and the magnetic field it produces is like nothing I've experienced before, I could get all my tools to stand straight up and balance on the top of a 10 footer and holding them out with your hand and feeling that magnetic pull is crazy. People don't like to work there because of the conditions but I think it's fascinating. Always keeping safe though.
Man I worked at Nucor Steel Mill for Memphis Mill Service for a year. I operated the Kress Pot Carrier, 988, Haul Trucks, Lattice Boom Crawler Crane, Backhoes and Crusher Plant....all for a whopping $15 bucks an hr....what a fun job for slave wages. Contractor pay...I even went to Heavy Equipment College of Georgia and they still couldn't give me $18 an hour...
That's because it's NON UNION. This is a prime example of why the working man needs to pull together to demand more. He'll, even IUOE apprentices aren't getting paid $15 to $18 an hour.
I build these tires for a living.. it's a rough job. Cool to see em in action.
so you never get tired of it
@@tinhinnh boooooo
If I was to spend $30k for a tire that thing had better be able to survive re-entry.
Do you have access to tire molds?
@@Anonymous..VQ3.5Lg35 Yeah, but it's a different department..
It's interesting to see how different everything is done in other parts of the world. Here in the Netherlands we do almost everything with trains and cranes. Slabs and slagpots are loaded onto trains with cranes, and the slagpots get tipped by a crane as well.
that's amazing. Maybe we can visit one of these days!
@@AaronWitt You definitely should!
Here in italy we have Kamag or Kirow
We have one of those 'hot working' 988s at Finnings. She's definitely put some hours in!
It’s amazing to see what steel workers do, I’ve been a heavy equipment mechanic for years. Granted the closest thing I’ve come to working on is construction scrapers, graders, loaders, etc. I can’t imagine what it’s like working with these guys. Y’all steel workers, operators and supporting crew (got you gear heads) are awesome, and not to mention everyone in the comment section is just sharing information without all the typical bicker. I admire y’all
agreed. Thanks for the comment Tyler
I work at a Worthington processing plant in Michigan, I work on a 60” slitter which is permitted for 25 gauge to 300 gauge steel, we are just starting to test run aluminum at our tension leveler and 72 inch slitter. I have never been so fascinated with the whole steel process or let alone just my job, I love working with steel and I stumbled on a job I didn’t know was my dream job, the mill portion is just a fraction of what the process is.
Which one? I know of the one outside of jackson Michigan
@@jeffreykielwasser3637 im in taylor, we just got re-bought out by worthington so we’re not a joint venture with us now
Steel mill worker from 89 till 09, Miss this very process ! It was Amazing !
Nobody else going to mention the production qaulity and camera work done in this video? Absolutely bonkers for a small channel, very well done 👍
Thank you!!!
I am a contractor a commercial diver to be exact and I spend a lot of time in different steel mills it’s always blows my mind when I’m in US Steel Gary Works and I’m watching these front end loaders drive into the slag pits and they are being sprayed with hoses and they go in and out. They we CAKED in slag. The slab haulers are extremely interesting and crazy to watch coming around corners on the crazy mill roads. It’s going to be interesting the next 10-20 years because every time we are in a new spot diving in the mill that we haven’t before we are seeing more and more of missing blue prints and knowledge of where we are working because all the old guys who knew everything are either fired, retired or dead early from the hard work lifestyle as they are taking the knowledge and mental blueprints with them
it's going to be interesting for sure. Seems the industry is going more and more toward the mini mill model
Equipment designed to solve one specific problem or to fulfill a single job are some of the coolest pieces of engineering the world has to offer.
Hey !! I work here haha yes them 988 are some piece of art and them steel slabs as soon they make them they put them Outside and if you drive by them let’s say 10-20 feet it’s some extreme heat
something to keep in mind about the slagpot carriers, you got the weight of the slagpot and then the contents all in the back. the fact that the carrier doesnt tip ass over backwards is amazing. unlike cranes, they dont put down extra 'feet' because most times the soil isnt compact enough, so there is a whack of extra weight upfront
Grew up in Homestead PA. Thought I would end up in the mill. They were starting to close when I graduated in 1980, joined the Navy, then after that spent 37 years with the Corps of Engineers. Had a few little stints working with refractory work when we got laid off in the winter. Great career I had.
2:09 Here in Brazil, it is prohibited to remove these chains with a torch when the tires are inflated. There is a risk of explosion, there have been numerous fatalities with this type of activity.
Ya dude, you get around love what your doing I whould pay good cash to walk in your shoes for a week as a holiday , Don't get me wrong I can't even imagine the hoops, challenges,and bull you gotta go through to do this stuff so we can get a glimpse keep it up love your work dude
I really appreciate it thank you
Thousands of year in the making - today you have the perfect worker-human class.
Work as a heavy equipment operator in the " slag" in Northwest Indiana. Very cool what you do.. it has been a great living for me and my family. My son now is in the business.. I wish we still had the old 992C and D models to dig the pits. Companies down sized to 88's.. go through many more tires.chains and especially buckets. Supposedly to save fuel. They eat 5 times more money in buckets bucket repairs and tires because the smaller machine has to so many more cycles to get the job done.. oh well their money . I dont dig pits anymore or work with any Hot stuff. Now Magnet Crane Operator. Much better for old timers.. anyway always enjoy your videsos.. awsome stuff.. stay safe!
I can't believe the amount of great material that was right in front of you to film like changing the tire and you just completely glossed over it like nothing. This place had so much potential for a long video. I feel like I was robbed of information that you could have provided. Shirley I'm not the only one that feel this way.
You're right, but you can't just freely run around a steel mill with cameras and were we supposed to stand there for the whole day as they changed the tire? Also... please don't call me Shirley
@@AaronWitt I just want to let you know good luck, we’re all counting on you!
I work at Cleveland cliffs burns harbor Indiana. I work in the BOF steel production we spray the furnaces from burning through. Been there for 5 years and everyday you see something different. Nothing is ever the same!
That’s a very cool mill
AK Steel in Middletown Ohio , worked there as a union boilermaker , cool place dangerous as hell over at the blast furnace. I see that this video was taken before they blew the old stack down.
Yep I drive around these pot carriers alot. Pretty impressive.
Really wow impressive work👍
Just found your channel Aaron that is such a cool video I love big iron worked it for 30 years before I retired God bless you sir thank you
Thank you Jonathan glad you found me!!
I worked in an Aluminum cast house for 3 years, it would have been nice if they had given us these for anything we had especially for the fork trucks we used to dump dross pots after cleaning the melter. With always going into the cast scrap house and people not being careful when running them out to the dumping area our tires were always worn to hell
Use to work a at steel frame manufacturing company. Where we would recieve the steel coils made from those huge slabs (did not know coils started out like that. Always wondered that). The company would then literally unwind that big ass coils and would ultimately make different sized frames (forge the pieces and assemble them). I worked logistics, so I only dealt with the end products but walking to and from the bathrooms/lunchrooms, you can see the evolution of that giant coil
that's really cool
I've only had a couple of visiting jobs on a steel works, so I've not seen everything but the slab carriers are my favourites. It looks so unlike anything I see in the wider construction industry.
I work in the iron ore mines in Northern Minnesota. Our 988K loaders we use to crush the taconite uses half slick tires to help reduce the amount of rocks that get stuck between the tread & carrying it elsewhere around the mine. You should try to get up to here sometime to do a video on the source of the steel.
that's awesome
If theres a problem... Theres a solution. Thats the motto to live by !
That's the toughest looking loader I've ever seen. Puts anything in Mad Max to shame.
Sure wish these videos were longer, just teasing us with this content!
all future videos are. This one was shot many months ago
This is probably the coolest video I've seen all year...
Stoked you enjoyed it!!
Thats fascinating that there's enough recoverable metal dust that they can run a electromag and recover that dust for processing
Where I work we service a lot of metal recycling facilities in our city, pretty much all of them.
One of them is a larger corporation that owns a couple Kawasaki 95Z7 hot slag machines. We have rebuilt one of them from the hydraulic pumps out(as in, just the hydraulic system mostly), and are in the process of rebuilding their other one. These machines get into the nasty and when run to shit, are hung up nasty as well. Gnarly to work on, but they get their work done. It's interesting seeing one of these with 16 thousand hours in pieces in the workshop, taken to its bones.
Massive respect to those steel workers, gotta be hella risky to work around molten metal all day
For some reason I thought I would get more info on the manufacturing of them and how they're produced but I guess it's still cool to see them
we'll go back and show all that
i retread these types of OTR tires. pretty cool seeing some of the work they perform.
awesome
Awesome video! I recognized some of the machines from Bulk's Instagram, also love seeing US steel and industry!
The truck drivers in the army used to complain about having to put chains on wheels during the winter. At least they didn't need a blowtorch to put them on or take them off.
3:00 so to make steel you need All that steel
I have insane respect for these guys! Those are real men!
Oh man that slag dropping from the carrier just tickles me in the right way, cool video dude!
thanks for watching!
can't help wondering what color it was originally painted.
Search 988 loader - yellow
This is cool we normally get either the B&P BTNC or PW1 train which hauls them steel slabs in special carrier cars from the AK steel plant in Butler Pa to New Castle for CSX
This video is awesome one of your best. Thanx BW
thank you!!
3:05 Spotted the IUOE Local 18 sticker on the helmet! Makes me pretty excited cause I have an interview coming up with that Local next month and can't wait to get in the heavy equipment operating field!
I would love to do this kinda stuff later in my career when I get the chance. Wish me luck!
air con in steel mill machines has to be stupid strong i bet. i know we can't operate machines in the mines without AC due to dust.
This looks like its straight out of starwars! So cool!
Never grew up ...my sand box and toys just got bigger and better. 10 years haulin slag pots so far.
Love it. Thanks for watching David
I love your TikToks. And your UA-cam does not disappoint!!!!
thanks billy I appreciate you following along!!
To me one of the coolest pieces of equipment that pot carrier of the hot molten steel that is so neat to see and I like the big 988 loader and the big modified excavator magnets
I work at one ! i am a hot pit operator and it is pretty interesting and cool how everything is done
that's awesome!!
First time watching one of your vids, awesome work and such high quality for a smaller channel. Just subbed :)
thanks for watching David!!
That 588 is sick looking. That thing looks like it can survive anything.
The slag pot machines at the mills I've been at are massive. 122k for one tire.
This is like adult mighty machines, idk why this was recommended for me, but this is amazing
glad you're here
This is proper equipment. I love it.
Man that skull cap on the slag bucket was so satisfying to watch
I fricken want that, Also that better have fricken good AC lol
Also I would love more footage of this place
Had no idea- those are crazy awesome machines (the pot carrier would be a killer giant Lego set!!)
I just found my favorite channel on UA-cam. Love it
But where are the Dwarves?
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I love how you nerd out on this stuff. My kids and I love nerding out on it with ya!
Come to Topeka KS goodyear plant. See how its made step by step
We have one of those 988G loaders on our tear down yard with chains on it. Now i know what the chains are for.
Keep it up. Wish the vids were longer! Very interesting, all info, no fluff. Great work.
Thanks we needed a channel like this
You talk about a satisfying steam cleaning ..man I’d love to tear into that loader and make it shine like new…used to do everything from 3500 hitachis 793s…994s..and bout everything in between with hotsys runnin 4k lb pressure…they got em 5k psi now
Everyone gangsta during the apocalypse until they see this drive out of a volcano
The Kress pot carriers are wild, I love driving past them at Stelco
love the channel man! would like a bit longer videos from time to time great work though
Remember, not everyone can drive one of those things! You'll need a class C license, no accidents for 6 weeks, you have to take a 2-hour training course, and find a special way to make the boss happy.
I'm more here for the tires than anything. I work for toyo and looking at the tires like this its mind boggling to me the thought of making such big tires
What a wild piece of equipment. Only followed by the wild maintenance.
Crazy.
It's great to see more content about heavy mechanic and equipment most people don't even know we exist xd 😂😂
Coolest video ever Aaron, those machines are freaking tough 🇺🇲🇺🇲💪💪
thank you for watching!
4:28 I just noticed the label on that ladle says Signal which is the company that I work for in Texas called signal metals lol
This video would give T-1000 nightmares :D
Worked as an operator in that exact same green magnet tractor. And in a foundry pouring ladles. It's awesome work. But HOT. VERY hot
The slag dump was so awesome! Great shots!
thanks for watching!
Not sure who is filming for you, but whomever it is, keep up the fantastic work!
it's a few folks and they all do a kickass job!
You should really check out Glama Manipulators. My shop has the worlds largest free roam Glama manipulator. Crazy machine, can lift 300,000 pounds 25 feet in the air and the jaws can rotate 360 degrees. It weighs in at over million pounds with all the fluids in it and 1100 gallons of diesel
Someone needs too get this thing too WhistlinDiesel !!!!
Fascinating
I used work at the magnet manufacturer (Winkle). It's about 5min from where I live.
awesome
We use slick tires at the rock quarry gets better grip on the pit floor
I work at a scrap yard and i operate a sennebogen 830e and its just really satisfying
I subbed after 3 seconds when you looked into my eye and said.. "bulk equipment"
welcome aboard
988 is pretty big we run a lot of 998’s in the mines but yea massive equipment and those tires ain’t cheap and we have tire yards to keep spares on stand by from skid steers to 998