This is a great video. What an amazing place. It probably cleaned more garbage out of the river that would have harmed wildlife. So, I'm sure it's a wash. Thank you for documenting it all.

My wife’s iPad. I worked at that plant for 37+ years. I was up in the coal unloading tower for 26 of those years. That stainless steel lined hopper held 400 tons of coal. The bucket weighed 12 tons, it had a 12 ton counterweight, and could lift 12-15 tons of coal in each bite. Running at capacity, we could offload 1,000 tons per hr. We had 2 regular barges bringing up coal, the 7250 carried @ 6,000 tons, the 9250 carried @ 7,600 tons. Sad to see it torn down, still had years of life left in it. Home/job to many good people over the years, pleasure to work with some great folks. Great memories.

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you so much for leaving this awesome detailed comment! It makes going there and putting together this video Beyond worth it. I wish I got the chance to work at this plant when it was in operation. Would have been a dream come true! Certainly a shame to see it all torn down, but I'll be honest after going through almost every square inch of the place, it needed a lot of attention. In many sections of plumbing and vents I noticed rot and rust through. Even in some of the ductwork that was tall enough for me to walk through. I still have tons of random footage from all the other times I went there. I must have gone a total of 20 times in the last year just exploring. Very fortunate to have had the opportunity to do so. Next best thing from getting the chance to work there. Sorry for any typos in here I'm using speak to text. Really appreciate you dropping your comment though! Did you happen to see the other two videos on this plant?

@diannelogsdon6107

3 жыл бұрын

@@NoNonsenseKnowHow Yes, I did see them. I climbed half way up the stacks years ago, mid 70’s, but I knew if I was seen, it would be trouble, so I came down. The coal bucket had @ 1,100 ft. of 1” cable running through it. Feeding off a 5,000 ft reel, we would replace @ 100-200 feet every 10-12 barges, adding some and taking out the same amount. Did you get to the tunnels that ran under the coalpile? Couple long tunnels with the conveyer’s running from them. The plant would use @ 240 tons per hr. when at max operation. PSE&G was a great place to work. It got dirty, but that’s ok. We had laundry n showers. Tons of OT, which held pay the bills.

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

@@diannelogsdon6107 awesome! Yeah climbing those Stacks is something else! Spectacular. 37 years at the same job, must have been a great place to work for sure! And no I didn't get to see the tunnels with the conveyors. They were filled in by the time I discovered the place was being torn down

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

You said you would replace a couple hundred feet of the cable every 10 barges? you mean like actually disposing of the old cable? That seems like an insanely short life for wire rope. Or am I misunderstanding?

@diannelogsdon6107

3 жыл бұрын

@@NoNonsenseKnowHow Every 10-12 barges. Let’s say 10, that equals out to unloading @ 70,000 tons of coal. That’s a lot of work and wear on the 1” cable. The entire cable system in the bucket was @ 1,100’. We would pull out 100’, sometimes more, and slide new cable in. There was a 5,000’ reel of cable on the top floor. That would feed in the new. The main thing was to keep the bucket grease pins well greased, this helped to prevent wear on the cables.

I spent many hours working there as a union electrician IBEW 269 You brought back lots of memories

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome Al. And makes me really happy to know the video helped bring back some memories! Thank you very much for commenting!

Water 💦 Thumbs up 👍 salvage the metal 😀 I would love to see the progress of the clean up today 11 May 2023 😊

Just finished this series and I have to say you did an awesome job documenting the plant and it’s unfortunate demise. Even more exciting to see former employees find the video and explain its operation. I’m sure that plant kept hot foot on the table for many families over the years. I’d love a job at a plant as well, we have many Coal plants here in MO but I haven’t found an in yet.

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man and I appreciate you checking out the whole series. And yeah it was pretty neat that some former employees commented with credible info!

Glad you snagged a souvenir. I was pleasantly spellbound by the massive machinery and structures. Thanks for sharing with us.

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah I cleaned it off and put it on my coffee table. Happy to hear you found it as interesting as I did. Spellbound is it good word choice. I'll have to add that to my daily vocabularry usage. It's like I forgot it existed

I am a few years late but this was fascinating, I worked for a fabricator that built the pollution control for the Mercer plant. Sad to see the plant be demolished not that long after that pollution control was installed.

@gmjunky87

Жыл бұрын

I remember delivering pebble lime and picking up fly ash out of that plant

@48jimj

Жыл бұрын

Talk about stupid is as stupid does..

Awesome video man. I'm liking this series. Good narration, great editing, great topics.

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Thank Alex I appreciate the kind feedback

This reminds me of the fisher body plants in Detroit. Great video

The big tank you referred to was the steam drum,each boiler had their own. The blow off valve you referred to was actually a stop valve, it was used for turbine protection had the unit tripped they slammed shut preventing the turbine from taking off all all steam flow would then be vented off to atmosphere and the condenser. Had alotnof great memories working there and when it ran was quite a site to see,ashame its reduced to nothing now

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff I appreciate clarifying about the steam drums. And wow, that's a big blow off valve! Makes sense now though. Wish I had the opportunity to see this place in operation.

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

I agree it's definitely a shame did it was shut down and demolished. Im very happy to have had a chance to explore the facility and get some footage before it was gone for good though

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Was it common to have a unit trip? And what would cause that? Grid overload?

@jeffiwanicki460

3 жыл бұрын

Unit trips weren't all to common usually was caused by a ruptured tube in the boiler,there was times when the screens out by the river would plug with leaves and carry into the condenser you explorered and if we couldn't get in there to clean them fast enough and get them back in it would create a high back pressure in the condenser and the unit would trip.There was alot of safety equipment to protect the turbine since they were really rhe reason for everyrhing else in the plant to exist. Plus as you saw before they were cross compound turbines that spun at 3600 rpm. Even a .5 mil vibration was enough to get things shaking a bit

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffiwanicki460 interesting. So if a tube ruptured in the boiler, did that reduce how much steam was available for the turbine and thats why it would trip? So when the condenser started getting plugged up you guys would leave the turbine running when you cleaned it out? I went inside of the condenser hatch doors as well. I noticed it had a grate on the river inlet side to prevent large debris from coming it. Did that thing ever get clogged up as well? Or maybe that grate was just there to prevent somebody from falling into the tube. Neat stuff. Really appreciate all the info

No issues with closing all these power generation plants UNTIL electrical power costs a fortune.

That was way cool!👍

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so. Most people probably not into this kind of thing but I love Urban exploration

@MyDIYAdventures

3 жыл бұрын

Those tunnels were creepy as heck!

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah for sure! Scary being in there when you know they disappear at high tide

😯 that brass and copper 💰💵💰💵 Do they have plans for new construction on this site when they are done demolishing it all?

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

I know right! That's a fat chunk there. Yeah they are building warehouses

WHAT IS THE SONG AT 8:55 PLEASE GOOD SIR

Whole lotta NOPE!!! in there. Oh hell no!

so is there anything in its place, or just bare??

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

7 ай бұрын

Amazon warehouse

Alex Metz is being held hostage/critical condition/in abandoned warehouse

What'd security do when they caught you?

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing really, he was cool and just said I can't be there.

ты там по осторожнее, у нас один такой блогер доснимался, теперь сидит в сизо по подозрению в госизмене

@NoNonsenseKnowHow

3 жыл бұрын

Im not sure what that says. translate?

@TheOtherBill

9 ай бұрын

@@NoNonsenseKnowHow I don't speak Russian, but I was curious so I got it translated. It's a warning: "Be careful there, we have one such blogger who was filmed and is now in jail on suspicion of treason". At least you were only told to leave.😄 Did you save any of those pulverizer balls that were scattered all over the ground? I imagine there's a drawerful of them stored in your garage.

Dude Chris, you're going to have a short life, my man if you keep this kind of life style.