Constructing the 1,215-foot Garfield Smokestack.

Buy my new book Bingham Canyon, help keep Bingham’s history alive. Built in 1974 part of the $175-million smelter emission control program. We show pictures and talk about building this mammoth stack, tallest free standing structure West of the Mississippi. Information and pictures from the Kennescope Magazine, special thanks to James Belmont, his train photos show the smokestack in the background.

[@schitthe]

Very interesting, great explanation!

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Thank you for saying that.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Needed Fred Dibnah. He'd ladder climbed the side of it.

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

That would be scary.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

@@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339 Google him up. He was in the U.K. and flatly amazing!

[@williambarry8015]

Fred was an absolute legend Fred was. He was equal to Jim Bishop.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

He was that!@@williambarry8015

[@Tailspin1]

I worked on the stack from 8’ high to completion. We did not have Saturday and Sunday off. We worked straight through the week, 3 8 hour shifts, 7 days a week. Somewhere there is a picture of me , Danny Hanoven, Rodney Goodfellow and James Tweed at the 1021’ level. It was raked by a professional photographer.

[@Tailspin1]

I would post the copy of the picture if I could.

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

What a great comment, I would love to see the picture. If you want, you could e-mail it to me. [e-mail]

[@ttownsend7940]

I can't wrap my head around how they got the cement up to 1k+ feet. 🤔

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

I have a picture cement being brought in by a helicopter. @@ttownsend7940

[@erikhemmingsson1188]

I was actually thinking about Isengard just before you mentioned it!

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

I Know, it pops in my head every time we drive by.

[@johncamp2567]

Extremely interesting!! Nicely presented and documented!👍

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Thank you for saying that!

[@hmw-ms3tx]

I grew up in a small copper smelting town in Canada. In 1974 a new stack (825' high) was built to replace the two old stacks (250' & 150' high). It made a large difference for the air quality in the town. I'm surprised the stack had a fibreglass liner, ours was stainless steel and it normally operated with a flue gas temperature of several hundred degrees. The diagram showing the comparison of the tallest chimneys is missing one of the tallest in the world. The Vale (formerly INCO) stack in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada is 1250" high making it the second tallest in the world. Ken

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

What a great comment, Thank You!

[@FoundSounds51]

I remember the days long concrete pour for the base. 24 housrs a day for at least a week. Every cement truck in the valley was probably running to that job.

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Yes, I was crazy, thanks for your comment.

[@Detsteve]

That is amazing! It is incredible what they can accomplish. Thank you.

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Thanks for the comment.

[@elainejo1645]

That’s a crazy amount of work for the smoke stack

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

So true, a lot of work, thanks!

[@darrinmcneill534]

Wow

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

You are right about that!

[@ryanc8188]

Always wondered how big that stack actually was. Thanks 👍

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Thank you, it's a tall one.

[@DiggerEvans]

That was really interesting

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Thank you, Digger!

[@markbowles2382]

Boy mr.Tim, 2"+ size rebar and 4500psi concrete at those dimensions.....It took some serious teamwork to pull that off - those cats had to be experianced dam constructors to work with that collossal amount of material, no time for bricks on that stack, they're actually chimneys, one of the toughest structures created by man used for lighthouses (or were - like your Isengard☺️) and tunnels and pipe.... but that big boy boggles the mind ... I gotta get to the maps now and see how far the Garfield smelter was from old Bingham, then Ive got some learning to do to understand that scrubber operation and how the fiberglass/composite pipe fits in to that operation.... before I retired, JEA was installing bio filters and composite pipe and coverings on the clarifier tanks to totally take the smell out of sewer treatment plants, but they were tiny compared to that 24 ft. Dia monster, and we laid 42" and 48" composite pipe replacing some outfalls and that stuff was tricky to work with in a deep trench ..
I can't imagine the difficulty trying to "hang" that big composite stuff, it's much heavier than you would expect, anyway, thanks again mr.Tim for a blast from the past.... "ALL ABOARD THE COPPER KING RR MINE AND TIME MACHINE " ...

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Thanks Mark, another great comment, thanks for your interest in my Channel.

[@KerleyExpress]

hi that is one big smoke stack have you ever seen it in person before

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Thanks Dwight, I have seen it many times.

[@mbush545]

There’s one almost that tall in Hayden Arizona

[@larrypolk2378]

What is the purpose?
Love your channel.

[@binghamcanyonandcopperking6339]

Back when it was built in 1974, it was used to put the smoke higher in the atmosphere, they say the smelter doesn’t need it anymore. Thanks for liking my channel and commenting,