These old homes ..we call them antebellum around here..old with history and date plaques in the yard..I once saw a plant that made bricks ,on a large scale, and this Sloss Plant reminds me of that big grand scale of architecture in the olden days..enjoyed the tour,thanks
So cool to see slos again I lived in Alabama for 14 years and for 7 of those years I did local deliveries in Birmingham. I had several customers around slos and have seen it many times from the outside. This was my first look inside so interesting thanks for sharing
Dude, love your channel. I grew up near Bessemer, and most of my male relatives worked at the steel mill. I even worked there a short time after high school, but decided it wasn't the place for me. I like constructiin and went t work with my grandfather. ANYWAY...I almost fell out when I heard you say "dusploscy". My mother said that, as did I...hilarious. Keep it up brother!
Excellent video, looking at those scoopes etc, look how far we have come in just under 100 years!. We have Never had a time in history where so many advances have been made in such a short period of time. Thanks for sharing some history.
EA- Wow, a century of service. Imagine where we would be today if it weren't for places like that. Interesting. Many thanks to you and your Bride for sharing. Best from CA US
Exploring Alabama & the Mrs. this is so INTERESTING... Thank Y'all for sharing this with Us.. America has so many places that have stories to tell of Days Gone Bye.. Where I live in Rural/Central Indiana.. (In the middle of Corn/Soybean Fields.. Not a lot of old Buildings left around here in our Little Town (Stilesville Indiana).. We Love it here.. HAPPY HOOISERS PROUD AMERICANS.. 🇺🇸❤🌽🚜👀
I feel a yarn coming on. In 1951 my family lived in an apartment in St Louis that was across the street from a steel foundry. I guess that is what it was. We called it Skull and Steel but that was only what the name sounded like not its real name. Anyway, 24/7 I could watch out my window and see the sparks fly, the hot red glow through the windows of the plant and hear the amazing sounds of all kinds of huge machinery. Horns honking from inside and such. I guess the horns were warnings that something was about to happen. So much has changed there. Huge cross country highways are cutting right through the city. Many lanes of highways going through where a little community once stood. Ray and I were there in 1985 and the building were still there, a very long somewhat narrow series of rusty buildings. Just now I tried to find them on Google earth and they are gone. Replaced by parking lots.
The item you called a seismograph was a chart recorder. A circular paper chart went behind the glass with the pen arms on top of the paper. Probably measured fuel gas.
That was awesome! Thanks for showing it! I love industrial relics! Very steampunk..ish...love all the patina! The big iron flywheel is more than likely cast iron...dont think they were forged. I think you would really enjoy that metal art program they have at this place. Blacksmithing is a lot of fun!
LoL, you're near my grandfather's old house, some of those houses last I checked they wanted too much for. I'd love to repair some of them, but sadly most people these days think people are made of money. There are tons of old places up there, especially back in the woods hidden from public due to defense land owners whom don't even live in the state (some do), which is understandable when in the past people have gone onto property and gotten hurt then sued even though it was their own fault. And all that old equipment and stuff. I loved this video. XD
Actually from Bessemer Alabama and the Sloss Furnace is where they've had Sloss Fright Furnace... They used to have concerts there I've seen Tenacious D there and the Ghost Adventures was there Season 1... there's actually an abandoned morgue this part of a catacombs.. it's actually built into side of a mountain Going Underground not far from where I live... ..keep up the good work & stay safe Exploring Alabama!!!
I worked at the Haunt Sloss Fright Furnace 2001-2011. Good times. And... I was on some goofy show at Sloss. Spectre Journeys.. I think that what it was called. 😹
I think the furry globs were owl poo. The piles of dirt you looked at looked a lot like what was left after coal was burned in the coal furnace. Thanks so much for the share. This was very interesting, I have no clue what I was looking at but it was fun. Stay safe.
Grew up in B'ham, in the '30s and '40. Riding the street car, later the bus, over the viaduct we could look over at Sloss Sheffield furnaces and see the ribbons of molten iron ore. Fascinating. Birmingham had it's own smell! Going on into B'ham was the Red Diamond Coffee Co. And it smelled so good. I've done the tour, but yours was much more interesting.
I really enjoyed this! I think it was the Ghost Adventures that did a show at Sloss Furnace. It's haunted by a Foreman who had a bad attitude and I think he was killed there. Not sure, it was a long time ago. Again, I enjoyed the tour!
It kinda makes me sad to see an industry that huge just up and die. Because so many people invested their hearts, souls, money and sometimes even their lives to make that place run. Looking at it now and I can’t help but feel like this place is somehow represents what our country has been becoming for the last nine years. A dying breed of Americans. One industry at a time. Those houses in that neighborhood, abandoned and falling apart just like some of the American family core values. Iron and steel are now mostly made overseas. The coal industry is collapsing. The brilliant minds who built our country are slowly fading into a history that’s being aggressively erased. And it’s being replaced by lies, ignorance and progressive godless values. It’s like a cancer eating away at our faith, economy, work ethic, family values and it’s spreading across this country in every major city we can think of. It’s just sad. But I’m glad someone is trying to preserve this historic site there in Birmingham. Thank you for taking us along.
really cool.. I love your films.. I noticed in "advanced options" on the video upload thingy that there is now a "hold back stuff" option for comments.. I don't get why anybody would write nasty things about your films, but there are lots of idiots on this interwebz thing I guess.. Keep having fun.. that's why we come and enjoy exploring.with you guys :D
Many men died working this furnace. The most notorious legends surround "Slag" Wormword, a foreman at Sloss whose supervisory skill over his graveyard shift workers was less than stellar. Rumor has it, he either fell, or was pushed to his death, into a vat of molten ore, & has haunted the site ever since. His ghost is reported to have assaulted, burned, & even caused the deaths of, subsequent workers, visitors, & ghost-hunters. Pretty grisly history, even w/o the supernatural angle. I'd be scared to host a haunted house there, all things considered.
The past workers' deaths are not "Fake," but I never claimed the rest as "news." They are simply well-known, popular ghost stories connected to the Furnaces. Note the words "legends" & "Rumor."
You've got Birmingham Alabama but in England we've also got Birmingham and I think Columbus was the first person to name the city I might be mistaken but you never know EA
you have been walking over slag for your entire video what you thought was glass was slag anywhare in a old new steel iron works you cant help running into it
Don't you know that pig iron foundry was a hot place to work at in the summer back in the late 1800's. Can't even imagine.
beautiful old homes with the columns, nice to see them possibly get restored, being in a historical section.
These old homes ..we call them antebellum around here..old with history and date plaques in the yard..I once saw a plant that made bricks ,on a large scale, and this Sloss Plant reminds me of that big grand scale of architecture in the olden days..enjoyed the tour,thanks
So cool to see slos again I lived in Alabama for 14 years and for 7 of those years I did local deliveries in Birmingham. I had several customers around slos and have seen it many times from the outside. This was my first look inside so interesting thanks for sharing
Cool glad you liked it. It was very interesting
the 3 column house is so beautiful.
Thanks for reading out those boilerplates / dataplates. So much history is in those names.
Very cool place and a big part of our states history,especially Birminghams!
Dude, love your channel. I grew up near Bessemer, and most of my male relatives worked at the steel mill. I even worked there a short time after high school, but decided it wasn't the place for me. I like constructiin and went t work with my grandfather. ANYWAY...I almost fell out when I heard you say "dusploscy". My mother said that, as did I...hilarious. Keep it up brother!
A bunch of really cool old homes!
LOVE the old homes...i search out old abandoned homes here in WI too...have found spectacular ruins. Could spend hours exploring and usually do :)
break out the camera and lets see!
Excellent video, looking at those scoopes etc, look how far we have come in just under 100 years!. We have Never had a time in history where so many advances have been made in such a short period of time.
Thanks for sharing some history.
EA- Wow, a century of service. Imagine where we would be today if it weren't for places like that. Interesting. Many thanks to you and your Bride for sharing. Best from CA US
Exploring Alabama & the Mrs. this is so INTERESTING... Thank Y'all for sharing this with Us.. America has so many places that have stories to tell of Days Gone Bye.. Where I live in Rural/Central Indiana.. (In the middle of Corn/Soybean Fields.. Not a lot of old Buildings left around here in our Little Town (Stilesville Indiana)..
We Love it here..
HAPPY HOOISERS
PROUD AMERICANS..
🇺🇸❤🌽🚜👀
I know exactly where this is in the beginning! Historical Norwood! 31st! I’ve always wanted to go to sloss! Great video.
it's pretty cool, you will like it, thanks for watching my videos
I believe I have watched something about this place, that it's one of the most haunted places in the USA!
Beautiful old homes! Would love to have one like that but the climate in Alabama would kill me! Interesting tour through the foundry. Thanks!
I feel a yarn coming on. In 1951 my family lived in an apartment in St Louis that was across the street from a steel foundry. I guess that is what it was. We called it Skull and Steel but that was only what the name sounded like not its real name. Anyway, 24/7 I could watch out my window and see the sparks fly, the hot red glow through the windows of the plant and hear the amazing sounds of all kinds of huge machinery. Horns honking from inside and such. I guess the horns were warnings that something was about to happen.
So much has changed there. Huge cross country highways are cutting right through the city. Many lanes of highways going through where a little community once stood. Ray and I were there in 1985 and the building were still there, a very long somewhat narrow series of rusty buildings. Just now I tried to find them on Google earth and they are gone. Replaced by parking lots.
Same with this one, highways surround it now
The item you called a seismograph was a chart recorder. A circular paper chart went behind the glass with the pen arms on top of the paper. Probably measured fuel gas.
Always wanted to see that place. Thanks for a great video.
That was awesome! Thanks for showing it! I love industrial relics! Very steampunk..ish...love all the patina! The big iron flywheel is more than likely cast iron...dont think they were forged. I think you would really enjoy that metal art program they have at this place. Blacksmithing is a lot of fun!
Pretty amazing for the year it was built,what a complex of machinery! Did it say what it cost to build it back then?
LoL, you're near my grandfather's old house, some of those houses last I checked they wanted too much for. I'd love to repair some of them, but sadly most people these days think people are made of money. There are tons of old places up there, especially back in the woods hidden from public due to defense land owners whom don't even live in the state (some do), which is understandable when in the past people have gone onto property and gotten hurt then sued even though it was their own fault. And all that old equipment and stuff. I loved this video. XD
Nesat tour. Thanks for sharing with us.
Actually from Bessemer Alabama and the Sloss Furnace is where they've had Sloss Fright Furnace... They used to have concerts there I've seen Tenacious D there and the Ghost Adventures was there Season 1... there's actually an abandoned morgue this part of a catacombs.. it's actually built into side of a mountain Going Underground not far from where I live... ..keep up the good work & stay safe Exploring Alabama!!!
Dude, wish you'd go exlore the old #6 Ore Mine in Moscoda. My dad worked there.
I worked at the Haunt Sloss Fright Furnace 2001-2011. Good times. And... I was on some goofy show at Sloss. Spectre Journeys.. I think that what it was called. 😹
Wow amazing, thanks for sharing
Thank you too
I think the furry globs were owl poo.
The piles of dirt you looked at looked a lot like what was left after coal was burned in the coal furnace. Thanks so much for the share. This was very interesting, I have no clue what I was looking at but it was fun. Stay safe.
Grew up in B'ham, in the '30s and '40. Riding the street car, later the bus, over the viaduct we could look over at Sloss Sheffield furnaces and see the ribbons of molten iron ore. Fascinating. Birmingham had it's own smell! Going on into B'ham was the Red Diamond Coffee Co. And it smelled so good. I've done the tour, but yours was much more interesting.
That first house was, I think, a beautiful Craftsman style house. I bet the interior woodwork was exceptional.
Great video and nice old house 🏡
Good job
Awesome
That was really awesome walk about
That's the Snort! From "Are You My Mother"
I really enjoyed this! I think it was the Ghost Adventures that did a show at Sloss Furnace. It's haunted by a Foreman who had a bad attitude and I think he was killed there. Not sure, it was a long time ago. Again, I enjoyed the tour!
It kinda makes me sad to see an industry that huge just up and die. Because so many people invested their hearts, souls, money and sometimes even their lives to make that place run. Looking at it now and I can’t help but feel like this place is somehow represents what our country has been becoming for the last nine years. A dying breed of Americans. One industry at a time. Those houses in that neighborhood, abandoned and falling apart just like some of the American family core values. Iron and steel are now mostly made overseas. The coal industry is collapsing. The brilliant minds who built our country are slowly fading into a history that’s being aggressively erased. And it’s being replaced by lies, ignorance and progressive godless values. It’s like a cancer eating away at our faith, economy, work ethic, family values and it’s spreading across this country in every major city we can think of. It’s just sad. But I’m glad someone is trying to preserve this historic site there in Birmingham. Thank you for taking us along.
The Halloween attraction is called "Sloss Fright Furnace"
cool place
Where is the cemetery for the workers?
what a cool place.. just wondering if you are going back to metal detect that coal mining site this year when the leaves have gone.
If they let me. I will find out. Thanks for watching
really cool.. I love your films..
I noticed in "advanced options" on the video upload thingy that there is now a "hold back stuff" option for comments.. I don't get why anybody would write nasty things about your films, but there are lots of idiots on this interwebz thing I guess..
Keep having fun.. that's why we come and enjoy exploring.with you guys :D
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Kills me to see the Norwood homes that are collapsing. Sloss is interesting.
1918, my grandma was 18 years old as she was born in 1900
When finder the pig iron
the fuzzy stuff on the floor were ghost terds lol
Very interesting place. Just imagine the man hours and man power to build that place...
You conceal carry?
Many men died working this furnace. The most notorious legends surround "Slag" Wormword, a foreman at Sloss whose supervisory skill over his graveyard shift workers was less than stellar. Rumor has it, he either fell, or was pushed to his death, into a vat of molten ore, & has haunted the site ever since. His ghost is reported to have assaulted, burned, & even caused the deaths of, subsequent workers, visitors, & ghost-hunters. Pretty grisly history, even w/o the supernatural angle. I'd be scared to host a haunted house there, all things considered.
The past workers' deaths are not "Fake," but I never claimed the rest as "news." They are simply well-known, popular ghost stories connected to the Furnaces. Note the words "legends" & "Rumor."
So sweet of you to turn that girls stuff in......Florida girl
Have you ever got a magnet stuck and not get lose
you are such a beautiful couple .
Звуки такие, будто завод и сейчас работает
You've got Birmingham Alabama but in England we've also got Birmingham and I think Columbus was the first person to name the city I might be mistaken but you never know EA
Turning in that driver license might not be a bad idea. The young lady, herself, might have expired in 2016.
Go back and detect the sidewalk strips
Are you my mother? He asked the Snort.
It's crazy how once affluent neighborhoods are now scummy ghetto neighborhoods
No suck thing as haunted places sloss was just a bad dangerous job
Whatever happened with the purse? That was frightening. There's only one reason women's purses address discarded in places like that.
Please at the very least two me you let the police know just in case
And yes it is haunted as well slagg died on one of stacks and roams the place hope he didn't go home with u I love going here
you have been walking over slag for your entire video what you thought was glass was slag anywhare in a old new steel iron works you cant help running into it
Lots of asbestos in that place
Ya know this place is haunted and one man was killed in the furnace's.....watch Ghost Adventures episode about Sloss Furnace
I used to conduct 'paranormal' tours at Sloss.
Never encountered anything spooky except for a few of the tourists.