My pappy always said, "son, don't stand on the downhill side of the slag pot." Purt much always tried to heed that advice.

To think of all the Harbor Freight tools that could've been made!

@Atownforevilones

7 жыл бұрын

Hahaa, pretty spot on there.

@laochnasolais5520

6 жыл бұрын

HAh right

@OneRoomShed

4 жыл бұрын

😂 right on!

@WineScrounger

3 жыл бұрын

C H I N E S I U M

@davidgriffith598

3 жыл бұрын

Nahhh. They got some guys that go out there with chisels after the slag solidifies to break chunks off for the saw blades. The amount of chiseling determines the number of teeth. It's not a complete waste.

The late 1800s called, they want their steam engine back.

@keithm5224

6 жыл бұрын

I know this is a joke and stuff, but in case anyone wants some trivia, the Pennsylvania railroad officially retired their steam locomotives in 1957, not as long ago as you may think.

@ajaxengineco

6 жыл бұрын

British Railways, all one company stopped steam locos in 1968

@nikolaibelinski3433

4 жыл бұрын

@@ajaxengineco im surprised some countries still used steam trains i mean its was awesome until diesels came and took those poor steam engines jobs

@Genius_at_Work

3 жыл бұрын

West Germany retired them in 1977 and actually completely banned Steam Locomotives everywhere for about ten Years; even on Heritage Railways and for other historic Purposes. East Germany couldn't do without them until Re-Unification so the newly found Deutsche Bahn (the Shitstain of a Railway we have today) still ran Steam Locomotives for a short Time in 1994, mostly around Berlin.

I believe the technical name of that is "Choo-choo" train.

@OneRoomShed

4 жыл бұрын

David Ryder lmfao! 😂😂😂😂

@davewright522

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

@yourdrummer2034

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is, dude!!!

@halsinden

3 жыл бұрын

(can confirm)

@nikerailfanningttm9046

Жыл бұрын

the technical name for the locomotive is *"FUKING 2-6-4 ADRIATIC"*

Wow! Thanks for sharing this. Based on the vid of the locomotive in motion, it looks like a wide area was used for slag tipping over a long length of track. Neat to see steam power still in use. My mind ponders whether the molten slag could somehow be used to charge the boiler, but a working solution probably adds way too much complexity. Amazing video.

Interesting. I bet that the pour is really impressive at night. The now defunct iron smelter at Birmingham, Alabama (Sloss Furnaces) used to make for an amazing night show as seen from the viaduct back in its day. Interesting too that the slag is potted instead of continuously tapped...

@internationalsteam

7 жыл бұрын

There's a separate video showing the evening operation, for some reason it's nothing like as popular as this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5tqu8x8j7K4fco.html Enjoy!

@thekraemer1757

Жыл бұрын

Ghost Adventures had an episode there. They climbed up the old rusting outside steps that was the scariest part.

China is one big environmental disaster area, and is that a steam train?

@RazgrizKnight

7 жыл бұрын

yea, it's a steam locomotive, but it looks like it's in terrible condition... Looks like it's being kept just alive enough to move, and no other reason than that.

@kimpirihi

7 жыл бұрын

***** Yes but the west is learning and are changing, hopfully for the better. Somehow I donot think China doesnot even care.

@hallerd

7 жыл бұрын

Destroying your environment is not a necessary step in an industrial revolution, despite the mythology that has arisen around that idea.

@mysticvirgo9318

6 жыл бұрын

while we are at it , lets just stop using anything even remotly resembles any form of technological progress.. Honmey, ya can't ahve steel, or aluminum or any other advanced materials without some form of pollutant.

@jimsmoter4510

6 жыл бұрын

Christie Malry Yes because it's just the republicans who use steel .. Moron

I would say that they are not dumping enough slag, the last Stainless steel pot I bought that was made in China rusted.

@kamitorrorga4568

3 жыл бұрын

This is for a copper smelter. Sorry for necroposting but just had to say something.

@xnopyt13

3 жыл бұрын

Kamitorrorga is this part of the production or are they dumping waste? I couldn't find much online about this.

@victordansereau8444

3 жыл бұрын

@Alexander Allen i get it but why its liquid i melt copper but thé slag flot to the top why its liquid if its slag

@RashaKahn

Жыл бұрын

Lol the name of the pot was probably “stainless steel”, not the material.

@HUGHMANN7

8 ай бұрын

@@RashaKahnbrilliant

Refilling the volcano.

TIL: There are still steam engines in use in the world.

@scootergrant8683

3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard of a preserved railway? Rarely are they used for actual applications but there are hundreds of thousands still running.

@jonathanbaird8109

3 жыл бұрын

@@scootergrant8683 The OP said "in use." I'm sure he's aware many steam locomotives are still running, but not "in use."

Hope you have more Steel Mill related videos,this one was perfect.

The video has pretty good quality considering this was like in 1914 or something

@mratsfrailfan1894

5 жыл бұрын

Aldo Giannone it is present they can’t use desiel fuel or locomotive it will catch on fire and explode

@scootergrant8683

3 жыл бұрын

You do realise steam locomotives weren't retired in many western countries until the 50's and 60's. Russia still had a few up until the late 20th century for cases of 'national emergency' like some other nations. If you want to read up about that look for S.S.Rs or strategic steam reserves.

@brucekitchura3680

3 жыл бұрын

It says in the description 2005

@catarmour4572

3 жыл бұрын

Sacrasm, do you get it now?

@VinaX2R

2 жыл бұрын

@@mratsfrailfan1894 lol whut?

Oh so that's where all the old locomotives went.

I remember the lava flowing down the slag hills in Pittsburgh growing up. Some of those hills were right inside Pittsburgh city limits. The steel mills are all gone from Pittsburgh and they've built condos on top of those hills. Not a place I'd want to live! What's funny about growing up there was that people were almost proud of the pollution. We had CRAZY sunsets from all of the pollutants in the air. Men's white shirts were gray by the end of the day. Sometimes they'd turn on the street lights in the middle of the day. There were certain mornings we'd wake up to go to school and the air REEKED of sulfur and the cars were covered with yellow dust. I miss it.

@KSmall109CAB

3 жыл бұрын

Health vulnerability is a high price to pay for a high standard of living.

@vice.nor.virtue

Жыл бұрын

tell us more about the sunsets?

Steam engine noise is so wonderful

@FRITZI999

3 жыл бұрын

it´s not noise it´s Music ;-) Mechanical Music

@FRITZI999

3 жыл бұрын

@RIDIN’ HIGH 5150 I´m 50 and love Steam Engines.... Diesel .... YIKES !!! They stink terrible and the Sound is awful. But hey, everyone hat their favourite ;-)

That old steam loco is still working hard, nice.

"Go dump it out back"

Amazing!

Love the Antique steam train

That steam powered and coal fueled locomotive looks like it was built 100 years ago although it's probably only about 25-30 years old. China was making these engines well into the early 2000's.

@internationalsteam

7 жыл бұрын

Not quite, the last known SY (1772) was delivered in October 1999: www.china.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/china35.htm It and 1771 were thought to have been put together mainly from spare parts lying around Tangshan Works.

Is no one else amazed they're using a steam engine?

@Divbro1

8 жыл бұрын

+ Bill Melater Coal was probable cheaper.

@theunderrated86

6 жыл бұрын

Bill Melater I am.

@datsunz152

5 жыл бұрын

We still use wheels and those were invented quite a while ago...

@classydays43

3 жыл бұрын

Diesel engine would explode from the heat. That's molten rock in those crucibles, and the heat coming off it is way hotter than anything you can think of.

Those heaps must be hard as hell, Ive had to try cleaning up the slag in a foundry it eats tools

Thanks again, Chinese... Always thinking about Mother Earth.

@bobboberson2024

7 жыл бұрын

I guess you're not speaking to me, Shane - because I never said anything about the U.S. This post is about CHINA. And if you want to challenge China's rather astonishing environmental abuse TODAY against America, knock yourself out. It would be futile.

@user-ee5he9oz3k

7 жыл бұрын

you're welcome

You could probably recover a pretty good amount of energy from this... by dumping it in water and powering a turbine of some sort...

@chrisw8741

8 жыл бұрын

mixing slag and or molten steel with water creates an explosion. Look up wet charging a furnace

@internationalsteam

8 жыл бұрын

Not, if it is done in a controlled manner. I have sen this done elsewhere in China (sorry, no video) - www.china.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/china192.htm

@krap101

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris W true.. you don't need to have it touch directly?

@firebad0

7 жыл бұрын

I'n most geothermal plants they have workers cup the molten slag with their hands and dump it into the process so that the slag is not added in too fast

@krap101

7 жыл бұрын

lol

I often wonder whether we could have used steam more effectively over time, especially for some slower train journeys, Also what improvements could have been made.

@taylorb5681

7 жыл бұрын

crush art steam punk is the art still around today. But no matter how you spin it, they're are much more efficient ways to power a train. A nuclear train would be ideal. But it's hard to contain the radioactivity on such a small vehicle. Ultimately a train having unlimited fuel is ideal. What's not ideal is a train consuming 200 gallons of diesel/hour.

@lucianene7741

6 жыл бұрын

But we use steam on a large scale right now: all coal/gas/nuclear power plants use steam turbines to generate electricity.

@Tonyx.yt.

Жыл бұрын

@@lucianene7741 steam turbine are much more efficient, that's why

I fail to understand why I watched this video. Slag fascinates.

@jaysnehpandey7089

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@KSmall109CAB

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda like man-made lava.

I don't know, what's wrong with the steam loco. It's not in mass use, and compared to the waste of the facility, it's really just a sand grain in the desert. However, this old kid excels in robustness and (not easy, not simple, but cheap and low-tech) maintenance, it will run into the hell on his own boogies, with his own steam, so it's still a good choice for the poor areas, where a newer diesel engine just suffer from bad maintenance and poor reliability over a short period of time. It has very bad efficacy, but in this respect, not the loco itself is the point, but the whole facility.

And there goes the environment...

I wonder what that place looked like before they started dumping slag there

@drewtoli2353

8 жыл бұрын

probably desert

@fireutility21

8 жыл бұрын

drewtoli thank you

@bootlip11

6 жыл бұрын

It was a quit neighborhood, now the kids burned in the slag are no longer screaming

They melted alot of slaaaag Now they gotta dump it all All aboard the STEAM TRAIN choo choo

WTF a steam train? ahah awesome!

Im getting that Osha is nowhere nearby vibe

That was COOL

I think something like this is the actual source of the "Lava Rock" i keep finding...

Nice.

I’ve heard of cow tipping but not slag tipping. Seriously though interesting video 👍

Okay so here i m leaving my comment, as this video will be in everyone's recommendation..... so see you soon!!

It makes sense to use the steam engine because presumably they have plenty of coke/coal around.

that looks hellish

hey and hello, is that whole area (the ground) all metal now ?

Amazing, but what effect does this have on the environment?

@taylorb5681

7 жыл бұрын

Cephas Martin terrible effects. Chinese method. Baiyin is very much polluted today. Even the Chinese acknowledge that. Idk if china will ever get with the program on being more environmentally safe.

It would be very useful for everyone in the world to know what technologies are key to our survival, old school still in use, in flux and changing, new and up and coming replacing old, and the forward looking we are going to make it happen.

Mercury for everybody!

a natureza agradece

perfect way to get rid of rapist and pedophiles oh and corporate crooks

I assume that the steam engine would be cheaper to run for repetitive short hauls. Would it also be safer than diesel due to its operating environment?

@internationalsteam

8 жыл бұрын

You'd better ask the economists. Basically steam has survived in pockets in China where the operators can't afford the capital cost of a diesel, tempered with the fact that the steam to diesel transition leads to a loss of jobs. That's a simplification no doubt but it's a good starting point.

so what will happen to the land they spill on? is it gonna be so many layer of copper?

@internationalsteam

7 жыл бұрын

Well, as anyone who has ever been to Baiyin will know, it's hardly the Garden of Eden now, but frankly it never was before. Doubtless, like many mining towns round the world it will be abandoned in due course. The slag with its locked in heavy metals is the least of their problems, the air pollution is appalling and the nearby Yellow River is suffering too, Search the web for "Baiyin Pollution", even the Chinese admit there are issues. Check out this link for a horror list of problems: english.caijing.com.cn/2007-12-20/100042456.html I doubt if things have greatly improved since it was written. Our taxi driver had sent her daughter away to avoid the pollution and we never went back again.

A steam locomotive? What century are we in again?

Not sure id want to be that close.

It appears the train drive wheels got to close, they appear red hot.

Copper slag is often crushed,then recycled as a sandblasting grit. Great to see the steam locos in service,reminding us of our recent technological advances.

I wonder how they remove slag in this quantity from the copper production. Will they use this for something else or is it just left like this ?

@internationalsteam

7 жыл бұрын

Copper slag has different properties from steel slag which is often used as a base for roads. According to Wikipedia it can be used as an abrasive, but whether it is economic to recover it from this site, who knows? Baiyin as a city is horribly polluted in every sense, I guess in due course it will be abandoned...

Steam train? Seriously? I guess it is a step forward from the horse carriage.. lol

@PLATOON72

7 жыл бұрын

what's the problem?? They are amazing!

@xplore7359

7 жыл бұрын

If it aint broke don't fix it.

@SpotTiger

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. Especially when it's a "developing" country. steam trains are good in places where there is an abundance of coal. They can also be converted to run on natural gas or (!)less refined oil(!) that isn't yet ready to be used in diesel locomotives. There's also the fact that refining oil would take a lot more coal than the steam locomotive will use. Steam trains are more economical in areas where the market for refined fuels is minimal or non existent. There were even projects to supply third world countries with newly designed steam locomotives for that exact reason.😊

@Neojhun

7 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing Solid fuel like coal or wood boiling water is safer than a tank of liquid fuel like Diesel moving giant vats of burning hot slag.

@PLATOON72

7 жыл бұрын

Neojhun they must have a way to deal with it...

Nice

Why do the train pour molten metal on the ground?

this is filmed from the village nearby that has to deal with this shit every time they plant crops "OK the strawberries should come in arou-AWWWW SON OF A BIIIIITCH!!!"

I had tried to figure out actually where did this train dump this residual, but unfortunately for a first try I did not figured out exactly, due that it an industrial location, but its has only a few railways., according to your video background, it is in the reddish far as the eyes can see dunes, parallel to a tar road.

@internationalsteam

Жыл бұрын

Mt recollection is that the area was to the south-east of the city.

@Nico-rw1uo

Жыл бұрын

@@internationalsteam thanks, I will look for this Mount

but is normal pour out this material in nature ?

西方傳媒，真是用心良苦呀！

Is this how ipads are made?

wow...how much usefull heat would be in this...!

@klixtrio7760

8 жыл бұрын

Not as much as you would think.

@benlawton5420

8 жыл бұрын

not much considering once it cools you have to move it

@aslanburnley

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you move it with the train...

@rochr4

7 жыл бұрын

TNT.

@lucianene7741

6 жыл бұрын

And no way to extract it.

Worked in the slag industry not much changes dangerous work the steam engine was cool .

"The hill is lava."

is that a steam locomotive???

What happened to the video quality? First few seconds it was clear as a bell and then after the title came up it went to crap...

@internationalsteam

7 жыл бұрын

Ask Google. I've just checked and I can''t see the change in quality.

@sammylw7694

7 жыл бұрын

+Rob Dickinson well now it's seems ok. Must have been my service or something

what type of liquefied material were they dumping and why?

@internationalsteam

8 жыл бұрын

It's the waste product from smelting copper, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_slag. There's nothing special or unusual about metal smelting producing a slag. These days most smelters pour the slag on to water which makes for a material which is easier to handle for hard core / road base (steel) or as described in the article above. However, it is far less spectacular and just produces clouds of steam.

Waiting for a western film with that train...

Wow. Didnt think anyone but rail tours still used steam locomotives.

@internationalsteam

2 жыл бұрын

Well the video dates from 2005 and now (2022) there's just one place in China (Sandaoling) where you can see big steam like this.

Slag is the waste, the leftovers - what do you figure is in that stuff?

@ajaxengineco

6 жыл бұрын

the stone left over after extracting the copper melted down

0:53 why was the engine puffing when it was sitting still?

@internationalsteam

3 жыл бұрын

That's an air pump for the brakes. The pressure in the reservoir must be maintained or the loco will be unable to move when required.

slags in a time machine- interesting

What is the point of dumping? just for trash? or to cover land?

@Keys879

7 жыл бұрын

Most slag is useless to the refining industry. We've found uses in the road sector and concrete industries but only with specific slags. So the usual practice is to dump it. Many places have banned it in the World though because of the long-term effects on the environment (ground poisoning). However China still has no bans.

it's steam are generated by the warm slag

that was cool.

@zeppelinl6275

8 жыл бұрын

no, it was HOT

@chadgdry3938

8 жыл бұрын

it was so hot that it was coolllllllllllll..... but I get your point. Nice video..

makes great road base that stuff.

@internationalsteam

8 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought until I looked it up on Wikipedia. Copper slag is very different from steel slag which is indeed great hardcore. Turns out it's a great abrasive for scouring...

This is on the moon...I think.

What grandpa would have seen in his day ,look at that!

What’s the point of this process ?

steel slag you can buy cheap.. it gets ran through a kiln to remove sharp edges,and can be used on your driveway..

why they do that?

whatbis that is that a melted metal or what pls comment below guy I wanna know

@pyroman6000

5 жыл бұрын

No, it's what's left of the ore after the copper has been removed.

Why is this being done?

OLD STEAM ENGINE!!! OMG ALL THE CHEMICALS

Why I remember mortal combat ps2?

cool train

was this shot in 144p? its excusable considering this was filmed in the 19th century

Are we able to actually build things from slag?

@rochr4

7 жыл бұрын

I can not think of a process that would turn this toxic useless mess into anything useful and still make a profit, hence Chinese dumping it, if Chinese throw ANYTHING away it is a good indication that it is REALLY useful for nothing ;)

@d.jensen5153

7 жыл бұрын

slag is typically impure calcium silicate. it can be blown to make rock wool insulation. in some ways it is actually superior to fiberglass insulation. why the Chinese don't bother to do that, I don't know. certainly much of China experiences cold winters.

Another excellent example of human unrespect toward mother nature

@vice.nor.virtue

Жыл бұрын

A) no it's not B) the word you're looking for is "disrespect"

was this all the 'waste' from the factory just poured into the enviroment?

@internationalsteam

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was dumped in a designated area and was standard for all Chinese smelters I visited. By its solid nature it was probably less harmful compared to a lot of the heavy metal waste which ended up in water courses, particularly the Yellow River not so far away. As I said before, if you want to read the detail check out this: ttp://english.caijing.com.cn/2007-12-20/100042456.html

What is slag? I know its whats left over but is it just dirty metal

@zoidburg5844

7 жыл бұрын

Impurities

Это, на какой планете?

I'm assuming they dump the slag and after awhile come back and reuse it. Is that right?

@internationalsteam

7 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, it depends whether it has a value for reuse and from the discussion below concerning copper slag it's not in that great demand. The whole area east of the town with the smelter and the dumping area was a bit of a wasteland when we were there and there was a toxic yellow cloud above which meant you didn't hang around afterwards! Check out www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Baiyin,+Gansu,+China, zoom in and use satellite view. It's easy to spot the area!

@cpepper5702

7 жыл бұрын

Rob Dickinson Wow you really can't miss it. Very fascinating! Thank you for sharing!

@jamesbaril4178

7 жыл бұрын

So what exactly is this slag stuff? and sorry but I dont see that yellow cloud? Is it that thing above that highway G109?

@wildturkey5838

7 жыл бұрын

"Slag from steel mills in ferrous smelting, on the other hand, is designed to minimize iron loss and so mainly contains oxides of calcium, silicon, magnesium, and aluminium. Any sandy component or quartz component of the original ore automatically carries through the smelting process as silicon dioxide." (Wikipedia)

Why??

Environment? What's rhat

Anyone else notice all the people coughing throughout this?

паровоз?

Surely thats not all just slag?! The 2nd crucible is full when they tip it. Must be excess or something wrong with the mix

@kg4boj

6 жыл бұрын

There are different components of slag, some are lighter lower melting silicates, others are heavy and have carbon born etc other glassy like compounds that come out of the steel when it's melted down.

o que é isso q eles jogão?

Hello Rob Dickinson Looks more like tomato soup to me.

I like the circa 1905 locomotive

@internationalsteam

8 жыл бұрын

Actually it was built in the 1970s.

@AnnoyingName999

8 жыл бұрын

Built with 1905 technology....