I once worked in a steel fabrication plant. The heat was unbearable. Those old factories were also very dangerous places to work. I once had an argument with a university academic, who said he thought steel workers were overpaid. I asked him if he had ever worked in a steel mill. He said no. Had he ever taken a tour in one? Again, he replied in the negative. I replied that if he had ever spent some time in such a place, he would not think that the people who worked there were paid too much. There was a worker who fell onto the rollers in the rolling mill. The worker survived only long enough to crawl up to the cab where the operators who controlled the mill sat. The injured worker knocked on the door, where he was found dead by the operators. This does not happen at your typical university or college. I am of the opinion that those who do the most physically hard and the most dangerous jobs should be among the most highly paid workers in our economy. But maybe that's just me.

@jama5191

2 жыл бұрын

And the most needed without steel basically everything made of it can be more expensive.

@boomerang6130

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. This is very dangerous hard work.

@lahaza6515

2 жыл бұрын

How DARE that guy say such a thing. Just the physical risk alone is enough to make it warrant a good living wage. The heat, the hours, the physical labor & the KNOW HOW. My friend in Pennsylvania tries to describe what it's like to me & told me about the tests they have to study for & take; never mind the tests of patience when having a bad apple or two on the crew.

@SpacePoolNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine the hardships workers went through before unionization, and being paid pennies on the dollar too.

@wboquist

2 жыл бұрын

My father worked for USS at South Works in Indiana. He once told me that the standard work week for a steelworker before they unionized was 6 X 12. He also told me that once, one of the workers fell off a catwalk into a ladle that had just been emptied. The guy just bounced around in there for a few seconds, and was turned to ash.

This soundtrack had no right to go this hard 🔥

@THEBEASTNAT3ERMW2

11 ай бұрын

On God

@Ravver

10 ай бұрын

lol fr fr

@user-fc8xw4fi5v

4 ай бұрын

When I heard Fatboy Slim I died

Watching this in bed while eating ice cream ofter an 11 hour shift is hitting just the right spot

@yungdrab

3 жыл бұрын

Dude your comment is hitting the right spot

@yungdrab

3 жыл бұрын

Oh and im eating wing stop 😂

@davida2725

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@bambangparisukonandi2934

3 жыл бұрын

and you work for steel furnance

@JaxkGoesHeavy

3 жыл бұрын

@The Raging Gamer on PS4 that's nasty, I rather come home to an ac chilled room wearing comfy clothing under covers then be next to some hot musty skin yuck!

only people who actually worked here would understand this job is no joke! shout out to all my fellow USS workers!

@machinerydoctor

3 жыл бұрын

To all steel works employees arond the world Past Present Future

@tomstaniech9233

2 жыл бұрын

National Tube Mckeesport PA 70s Loved it

@elonlovesyou

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct. The minute you drive through the gate, anything can happen.

@williamphillip9749

2 жыл бұрын

I thought all your jobs are gone by now due to greedy ass Wall Street guys

@elonlovesyou

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamphillip9749 Nope!

I worked in a steel mill 19.5 years, from the furnace, ladles, caster,cooling bed. The last 9 years run a overhead crane, loved that job ! Carrying 90 tons of molting steel you had to be very careful of your actions ! But diagnosed with m/s at age 31 and having to leave at age 38, I wasn't going to put those guys life in danger for my problem ! I miss those guys and loved that job !!

@CraigLumpyLemke

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for making the steel that makes the stuff that fills my garage..🙂

@DudeWhoSaysDeez

Жыл бұрын

sorry to hear about your diagnosis

@timothyroatenberry1274

Жыл бұрын

LOL, we had a guy in the scale house that checked scrap trucks we called lumpy ! 👍✌

@Mrbfgray

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for poignant story. I come from metals mining/milling background plus two brothers worked underground coal for few yrs. Love heavy industry.

@UltraMagaFan

Жыл бұрын

@@CraigLumpyLemke Nucor Steel supplies the vast majority of the steel General Motors uses. If you have a Chevy, Caddilac, GMC, or Buick that's where the steel used to manufacture it came from. Those mills have some of the best safety standards in the country. If you work there, the odds of you getting hurt are very low. It is also the largest scrap recycler in North America. Thay do not use iron ore. Their process of making steel is very different to the one in this video. It's all remelted scrap and pig iron. You were talking about cars. I thought you'd find that to be interesting.

My husband retires next week from the steel mill he works at. Thank you God! 20 dangerous years. He stepped out of his shanty and barely missed a piece of metal the size of a Buick fell from the ceiling. If the acid and chemical don’t kill him he should have a long happy retirement. He is 55, healthy so far.

@overzone666

2 жыл бұрын

dont smoke, exercise, laugh a lot, and love him, he'll live a long happy retirement im sure. best wishes, dude

My paternal grandfather was a coal miner for 31 years. Men like him, along with steel workers, rail workers, construction crews, and many others are what built America and keep it running. Without their hard work, we’d be without a lot of things we take for granted every day.

@patrickfreeman8257

3 ай бұрын

I think about this every time I hear a woman say they don't need men

Damn the song is bopping hard.

I worked at Bethlehem Steel in the 70's and 80's. I worked in Homer Research Labs in Bethlehem PA. Projects. I worked on were at Lackawanna Plant (Buffalo NY), Bethlehem PA Plant, Sparrows Point Plant (Baltimore MD), Burns Harbour (Chicago), Johnstown PA Plant. These videos bring back many memories, Thanks.

Time to make steel at home, thanks for the tutorial!

@John-100

3 жыл бұрын

Odd thing is you can make small batches of steel in your back yard, seen it done.

@gvs6462

2 жыл бұрын

DIY

@DROGOC0P

Ай бұрын

this dude is gonna own the industry in 10 years

I live in Detroit. I used to haul steel coils for selman transportation trucking. I seen all of the Detroit based Mills like Dearborn steel plant. Like mini cities with their own railroad. Lots of overhead cranes. Massive. Big props to the steelworkers of America!

I worked as a steel hauler in Michigan and those plants are no joke. When the Ford's owned there mill in Dearborn that place was a death trap if you didn't know what the heck you were doing. Sometimes those coils would still be hot on my truck taking them down to Spartan steel off exit 18 on I-75. I use to do 5 loads a day! Shout out to all the mill workers and rest in peace to the ones we lost in the mills!!!!

I've seen many industrial "corporate" videos, and this one right here among the few I've seen that's actually pretty damn cool.

A nice introduction for the people that didnt know of that process . When I did my apprenticeship at Port Kembla steel works NSW Australia , there was the soaking pits for ingots and the open hearth , the slab caster was only a few years old , not a place I'd like to work at again . No 6 blast furnace produces 1100 metric ton / day . Australian hematite from The Pilbara and Hamersley are some of the purest grades that can be arc welded together . Illawarra NSW coal has extremely low ash and sulphur being the best for metallurgical coke used in steel production .

Excellent video! Love the history of USS too with Judge Elbert H. Gary as the first CEO and J.P. Morgan as the underwriter of the $1.4B stock offering in 1901! Best of wishes to all the great people at USS. Great Americans doing REAL work to add value to society!

@trentbateman

Жыл бұрын

My great grandfathers brother was James Farrell who led the Corporation for almost 30 years. Different breed of men back then

NONE of this is possible without your local scrap dealer. Support honest, hardworking, self motivated individuals.

Incredible, would love to visit a place like this someday. Worked in a cast iron foundry in France a few years ago, now working in an aluminium foundry. Absolutely love it. Love metals and all the transformation process I find it fascinating. Much love from France, good luck to all metal workers man...✌️

@timothyroatenberry1274

Жыл бұрын

👍👌😁✌

@Shaker626

Жыл бұрын

They still have dedicated cast iron foundries? I thought that work had been taken over by steel mills.

@lew1074

Жыл бұрын

@@Shaker626 Sadly the two fouderies that I used to work on have closed (cast iron and aluminium). Both of them were producing engine blocks for Renault mostly and a few other makes, but the automobile industry isn’t doing very well at the moment…Changed job but I will miss working in the foundry with the lads for the rest of my life.

@catsaregovernmentspies

4 ай бұрын

​@@Shaker626I work at a cast iron factory where we make tractor parts for a major tractor company.

As a person who has worked on a casting floor for several years much respect to those who have felt the heat from hell coming from those kettles.

Hubby has been with USS for 38 years. Very cool to see how steel is made.

@dawncittadino1928

2 жыл бұрын

My Granpa worked there too for 25 years

To actually see how important the work I do in the steel industry is beyond fascinating! Makes me realize the impact I have on the world on a daily basis.

@user-pz9xn5qs7y

Жыл бұрын

Do you still work at this plant?

The fact people somehow take the earth and magically transform it into a totally different thing is beyond imagination

@NP-rh3dt

2 жыл бұрын

There is no better demonstration of our dominance over nature than iron melting. I work in an iron foundry and it's breath taking every time I see it. On the flip side modern processes are still very crude, I guess we've haven't been able to completely tame nature.

@Shaker626

Жыл бұрын

It took us thousands of years just to get the carbon out of iron the right way. 😂

I was a millwright at a steel mill for almost 10 years. I worked the 80" rolling mill, EAF /BOF, cold strip, and even did a short tour of the coke plant. It was a hot dirty job. The guys I worked with is what made the job so great. I was a 3rd generation steel mill worker. It was a really good job.

And this is why US Steel is the best they have been cooking steel in Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg Valley since Andrew Carnegie their founder opened the mill 1873 and fired up the massive furnaces in 1875 and the first beam was made and shipped to its customer and used to build our buildings and bridges. This is why US Steel is the best they make our world.

The proper term for the railcars is "torpedo cars"............cheers from a retired Alberta Steel guy.

I worked with liquid steel for 29 years. One melt 350 tons. The plant produces about 10 million tons of steel per year. In case of danger, always run to the safe side and only then look back at what happened. Sometimes when going to work, an inner voice tells you that something is going to happen at work today... And it does. This is called intuition based on vast experience. At work, like a pilot in a dogfight, you must constantly turn your head and constantly monitor the situation around you. Greetings from Russia

"We work hard, we play hard. " 🎶 Everybody dance now! 🎵

That's how it is done Boyz.

My father, grandfather, uncle and MOM all worked in Pittsburgh steel mills in the 70s-80s. The stories they told me about those places... Scary shit.

@NAVYMEDIC610

Жыл бұрын

You could say the same for Armco steel company in Butler PA also

@lisk3822

Жыл бұрын

Seriously, I have heard a few stories through my life and I wish they would be published somewhere. Unbelievable stuff. Dangerous but fascinating work.

Hats off to the working individual of the steel mill.😐👍🏾👍🏾

Fascinating to say the least!!

A "Great Story" for all students and professionals to see the basics of steel-making operations. THANKS! T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Technology Instructor & Consultant

I was on Zug Island, worked recovery, damage control ect. The island was like something straight out of a sci-fi movie it was absolutely insane, but awesome, I've been from 2 stories below Zug Island and all the way to the tops of A&B furnaces. I did a lot of wild and crazy things on Zug Island and unless you've been there, you could never even imagine. Loved it.

@johnmaclachlan6818

11 ай бұрын

I was part of the b2 furnace demolition and rebuild.I worked for Natioal Industrial maintenance. and Inland Waters.

@DanielVasquez-hb5um

8 ай бұрын

I worked the Zug Isand bull gang and later at the 80 inch mill Retired in 2017

Great video !! Informative

The University of Minnesota saved the iron mining industry in the Great Lakes region by developing the method to remove the iron from taconite rock as the reserves of natural iron ore began to fail. At the end of the benefaction process you get taconite pellets that are about 60% iron plus the limestone added in when the pellets are baked. US Steel divested the mines it owned around the Great Lakes and the logistics chain of trains and ships it used to transport the iron ore. Cliffs mining (Arcelor) owns the mines now and Canadian National owns the railroads and a good part of the shipping used to get the ore to the mills. Iron mining is a boom-and-bust business in the U.S. because there is huge competition among ore suppliers all over the world. The world is not going to run out of iron ore any time soon.

This is the most incredible documentary on the steel making factory ,love seeing this get goosebumps thinking of how this originated in Pittsburgh., Wow I'm taken back at this.

@helenarusso

8 ай бұрын

Hello George how are you doing 😊

I ran a few tube mills for General Motors this is a great comfy watch lol

This feels very early 2000s

Thanks for keeping Granite City, online.

i didn't expect the music to be so radical in a video about metallurgy

This jobs pretty freaking metal (pun intended)

Thanks for all the metal, guys.

US steel is know for high quality steel that more than meets my factory's product requirements. We used Chinese steel too, but we usually regret it later, we get more warrantee claims from Chinese steel, so back to US Steel or Mexican Steel, but you can count on the bean counters to be bean counters looking to pinch pennies wherever they can.

@John-100

Жыл бұрын

@Mr Garcia Mexican steel is racist? I didnt know that, i'll breing it up with our bean counters.

Definitely enjoy this stuff I am metal former at a metal company I get the sheets after processing thanks for the vid 👍

@user-pz9xn5qs7y

Жыл бұрын

Do you still work at this plant?

🎉 thanks a bunch

I used to work at the Fairless Hills plant in Pa. In Plant Protection. Greatest job i ever had until the Mill was closed in 2001.

@bigdsteeltrucker

2 жыл бұрын

Part of Fairless Hills is back open. I loaded there a lot in 2018.

@bldnblackman1879

2 жыл бұрын

34 good years @ Irvin works,80" hot strip mill I was a millwright at the coiler,retired 20 years ago West Mifflin PA. Love seeing 0

@billjoang

Жыл бұрын

I went there for high school field trip in early 1980s.

@helenarusso

8 ай бұрын

Hello Brian how are you doing 😊

Amazing process, amazing part of our industry over the past centuries.

@EdwardJamesKenway...

3 жыл бұрын

@Chere Koelle wow! No one gives a fuck!

@Ensivion

Жыл бұрын

it's one of the processes that really made the industrial revolution possible, more efficient iron/steel making. The first process that really harnessed the power of coal.

cant imagine how stupidly hot it would be in a steel factory

Very cool

I like this video a lot 🙂👍

Homestead Works alumni here, Instrument Repairman apprenticeship 1978-1981.

Very nice

5:44 seems like a safety violation to me. But I just had safety training in a steel mill today so my brain is kind of looking for violations now.

So much incredible footage went into this, but the quick-cut editing looks like a videography student's first-year final project where they inevitably get told that it's not necessary to use every wipe and transition in the software within a single project.

I work in a heat treating plant with a small foundry. Shits unbearable in the winter and summer but we make do💪.

Metal af

As a coremaker in a grey iron foundry for 45+ years I loved my job. But this my friends is the big leagues.

@davedalton--My Father used to work at a Steel Mill. He did this for over 40 years. Lost a lot of his hearing. Even tho he did wear ear plugs they didn't help much. He used to operate a Huelette and then he was a pipefitter and he worked around the Blast Furnaces. He would work 8, 12 or even 16 hour days just to provide for our family. He would get up every morning at 4:30 am to do this nearly every day. He used to pre-wash his work clothes in an old ringer washer before he would wash them in the regular washer. He passed away 2 years after my Mother at the age of 81. He told us some stories of how men died there. One man had his arm ripped completely off by a machine and another man fell to his death. My Mother would always pray that he would come home safe every day. Really enjoyed this video and reading your comment. Have a blessed day to everyone!! 😊😊😊😊

Was a employee of thirty two years at flow con or later Vesuvius ! Machining Baby ! Let the chips fly !!

@elonlovesyou

2 жыл бұрын

You would like AVE then.

Nice video!

0:47 It's hard to believe it all starts with dirt.

That's the lava factory from Terminator 2

How does one get started in opening a steel production plant? Any help would be appreciated

@tylerterry1289

2 жыл бұрын

It takes hundred of millions if not billions of dollars to build a steel plant.

4:00 music switch up who started dancing? 😂🕺💃

Lmao .. I was hot metal crane operator... I miss it

Now that I think about it, this could've been a great way to mass-produce steel for katakana swords...

I work in one as a casting grinder 8 hours standing with this big angle grinder in your hands. I’m grateful I have the job though as I’m only 19 and not really sure what I want to do yet.

@user-pz9xn5qs7y

Жыл бұрын

Do you still work at this plant?

@Shaker626

Жыл бұрын

Get higher education while you're young. I'm in my fifth year of engineering but I'm still expected to graduate within six.

I work at tenaris running hot metal crane. Get to here the cracking of the eaf upclose n personal.

This is how they made the Iron Man suit

I feel like I just watched a 7 minute ad😂 Nicely done very interesting

All the energy neededa for the production😱

I worked in a rubber extrusion plant a few summers. Always thought it was hot around 110 in the summer, but I can imagine this is pushing the limit of what's allowed by law. If the steel is 2700 degrees in some places that air would be hot enough to melt skin if you're within a few feet I bet. Thankfully I have a nice air conditioned workplace now courtesy of my overpriced degree

It's pretty easy now. Technology made it easier. I hired in at Gary Works in 76 there 30000 people working there now there 5000.

My Dad used to work at US Steel outside of Pittsburgh

Where is this? Saving vid for later.

I remember J.L steel in Cleveland Ohio in the 70s.

Hahaha..glad I work in the rollshop. Looks to hot in there

I worked for Nucor Steel for about 14 years. Quit last year and don’t miss it one bit.

Good video full of useful information. Wish it had been longer and more detailed, but I am sure they want to be a little careful what they reveal about proprietary manufacturing processes...

wow so cool where can i get some

Hopefully it will be sold to a American manufacturer like Powers Steel or Schuff Steel.

Took a high school summer job at a lumber yard…..them forklift operators couldn’t be trusted always hurting or getting hurt…. Can imagine the Trust it takes to work in a foundry of your co worker’s …Flesh and Molten Lava don’t mix. Hats off to anyone retiring with all their fingers and toe’s…

Crazy how fast we burn through our limited resources nowadays

@juniorautopecas6724

3 жыл бұрын

relax, earth is big af

@erynbuckle973

3 жыл бұрын

@@juniorautopecas6724 It's really not that big :/

@user-bo1ej5im9t

3 жыл бұрын

@@juniorautopecas6724 so u saying the earth have limited resources???

@g1sokool669

2 жыл бұрын

Steel is the most recycled material in the world!

@shmapple29

2 жыл бұрын

@@g1sokool669 well yea we can reuse it im just saying theres an underlying thing here that this is how we treat everything there are things we cant just easily reuse

Thank you

I spent a lot of time doing environmental clean up at U.S.steel zug Island Detroit , Mich.

Why are they focusing on the most dull parts?

Hello I am work at Krakatau Steel

US Steel's got some banging music in this video.

I feel like there will be a steel mill in hell, 'cause it's like hell in a steel mill.

@cpufreak101

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Hell is just one giant steel mill

Wow, I'm going to try to start a steel business like this at home.

@bellowphone

Жыл бұрын

A cheese grater to make the ore pellets, a soup ladle to dip the hot iron, and a rolling pin to process the slabs. Doesn't sound too hard to do.

Man of Steel

They failed to mention that 22 year old college kids are trying to boss around 60 year old steel workers with 30+ years of experience and it doesn’t go well.

@lisk3822

Жыл бұрын

Not just in the steel industry. In my opinion, the MBA degrees ruined America. Nothing like book-smart people telling workers how to do their job. I have 2 degrees in geology and there is nothing like field work, getting dirty, followed up by lab work. I had so many managers quiz me about "how do you know?" and I wanted to scream. It's my job!!

@MikeySlou

9 ай бұрын

Ctfu. You should’ve made better decisions with your life.

And workers here make less than half the money than people working in the office sitting on a chair in an air-conditioned room.

@TheOnlyreezybeezy30

Ай бұрын

Not at US Steel

@Ed0Carnby

8 күн бұрын

What's your point?

250 tons of steel in less than 45 minutes.

"Iron golems were discovered in 2015" People before 2015:

There is 2 types of mill witch is steel mill and saw mill if im right

I’m curious what do they burn to create steel.

@danielthoman7324

9 ай бұрын

Coke

I appreciate my work. Iron casting JPN

SpaceX says YES

The proper way to make steel

I was a contract rigger, did stints at Llanwern in Wales and Redcar in N England. Top quality. British, American and Swedish steel by far the best, but peeps opt for the Chinese 💩 as it's cheap, but fails.