URBEX | The downfall of a giant blast furnace HFB (2008-2020)
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In this episode we visit a favorite local place where we have been exploring in the past decade and saw the falldown of this giant blast furnace through the years. From a (semi-)active place to a no man's land and copper thief heaven.
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Te gekke video's maar jammer dat er van die onzin reclames in moeten!
@@matthijsdejonge3206 Zonder reclames geen video's :(
The cops are coming but we have beer. Legends. One should have supplies when exploring. Take care guys.
Haha thanks ! Luckily we had those with us... makes the waiting comfortable :D
Trespassing is a crime
Classic location. Such a shame that it has been trashed though in recent years :/ Great video btw!
Thanks mate! It's unbelievable yes.
It's still an unbelievable spot for any urbexer to go to. It's just so huge.
@@MrPatriickzz Never gets boring :)
MrPatriickzz the scale is just mind boggling, over one week I will have my fifth visit 😁
@@ForgottenBuildings sick I think I'll be going to soon. Before it gets demolished. One time we went it was all rain and the other time there was no sun hahaha. Still need a sunny hot visit.
I remember watching the live stream by accident. Can’t believe it’s two years ago. Always interesting to see how places change over time. Great vid, more longer length ones please! 👍
Coming up ! We have a new standard to record everything with a gopro for longer episodes :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Excellent, looking forward to it!
what a difference a couple of years make...i remember when you had your 100,000 subscribers party there. I usually que up and watch all your videos when i want to entertain myself for a couple of hours.
Beautiful and sad to see this place and his changeing over the years.
In Ostrava there is a blast furnace that has been preserved and restored and is open to the public. It is quite similar to this one and well worth a visit.
"The cops are looking for us, but we got ... beer, cheers!" That was epic :)
Loved this video! The before and after pictures are crazy!!!! Well done :D
Great explore guys! I would love to explore this massive Steelworks by myself, big industrial sites are like a playground for Urban Explorers. Good to see that they didn't caught you!
Stay safe while exploring
Greetings from Luxembourg:)
Go quick ! It will be demolished soon. I'll upload some other great big industrial sites soon :) Thanks for watching !
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath For real? I've been there 2 times already but really want to go once again.
Damn man! One of the better episodes I've seen so far! Nice to see the old and new pictures to see what has changed over the years. Also saw my mate Paul on 05:16. Keep it up Bob!
Yup, we still need to go one day :) !
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath hell yea!!
Wow, amazing place! Just imagine all the planning and work it took to build this site.. Loving the beers, we can see you're having fun :) Also, love the GoPro and drone shots, but the flashbacks make this one amazing!
Thanks lletan ! A lot more episodes like this are coming up :)
Seriously my favorite channel on CZcams. Keep up the good work!
Weer een super aflevering. Spanning, mooie beelden, vergelijk oud en nieuw en lekker lang. Ga zo door!
Thank god you guys documented a lot of the site! Sad but also interesting to see the pictures through the years... Keep up the great work! I hope to visit it one day, but I suppose I'll need to be rather fast...
So, this is post-lockdown material already, for what I understand? Cool to see you outside in action again! Keep up the awesome work!
Love what you guys do , watching your videos are great! Would love to come explore with you guys 👌🏼👌🏼😎
Very cool place! :) Weird how it goes from unused but protected to completely abandoned over time. You'd think someone would just scrap out buildings right away or give tours instead of dumping money into them to try to preserve them for nothing.
oh believe me, it is still protected to some degree. cops and security still patrol from time to time. A couple of guys I know almost got caught last weekend.
Imagine that beast at full steam! Great video guys.
Thanks for watching ! A complete different world yes ! would like to visit a live one too in the future
I was part of some big maintanance jobs in different live parts of the Tata steel factories in ijmuiden including the furnaces over there and the "continu giet machine". It is just a world on its own and every time I get there it is special.
Love your videos, I hope you never stop filming and uploading!
Only some police dogs could have added to that adventure. Every bit was outstanding, thanks.
Great video showing the evolution and timeline of this place, nice one Bob! I was very shocked to see the roof completely gone from that hall, wtf. If that was a proper theft, that's next level, damn.
een echt geweldig mooie plek zonde als dit afgebroken wordt . dit is al een sook plek maak je brand ook nog mee super sterk van jullie respect
Awesome video and effort, thank you 👍
I live in Maastricht ( you can almost see it from the top). And I was like I could bike there in an hour. Then I heard the siren, didn't knew Liège politie had 15 cars!!! Thanks for the video
I kind of feel bad for all the people who have to check on these buildings, especially at night.
Imagine being told, "hey we saw some guys around this abandoned super sketchy building... take your flashlight and check it out!"
Wow I just discover your channel!! It is awesome!!😍 subscribed!
I love the longer videos. I'll be exploring next week too, maybe we will go and see this one then aswell :)
like cathedrals of the Industrial Might and Power of the nation.... such a shame to see them trashed and neglected.....I recall driving past these areas in the late 1970's when the sky was lit-up by the flames of the furnaces - it was awesome to see!
Bedankt voor de uitstekende video en de fantastische locatie. =)
Zeer vette locatie !! De boel is wel flink kort aan het gaan.. net een speeltuin voor volwassenen :p
As long as you have beer, all is good - i see it was Juplier - as the saying goes "Mannen weten waarom"! (Men know why!) As for Liege, i grew up in Brussels for 25 years - from 1979 onwards - but am Irish; Liege was always a shite place, full of slag mountains, dirty, shite bars and the only good thing was the karting nearby!!! Drive in and out and leave it behind - smelly place. On the other hand, as kids in Kortenberg (Brabant) we used to explore an old post war explosive factory; great fun, man traps all over and chased by the varkens all the time!! Great vid lads
Another amazing video!
Impressive explore. Thanks!
Amazing amazing video. Wonderful to see the evolution of the place, lucky you living around there! I was planning to go this summer, do you know when it will be demolished?
Amazing guys Eploring the Unbeaten Path 👌👍⚠️💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
Zoveel herkenning. Ik werk zelf bij Tata Steel.
Weer een geweldige aflevering!
Cool! Thanks for your time!! Awesome footage bro!
Hey guys, just to let you know this was a great video. Was thinking what a cool place to visit, then I heard you say it was going to be demolished. Yea, sad to see it go.
*"The power station"*
I keep expecting *the Dark One* to be hiding there somewhere. (very obscure reference to an '87 movie)
Great followup btw.
Following the channel some years Now.. Yet antoher "Blasting" video! Amazing! Keep up the good work!
Thankas a lot mate🤗
In summer 2018 the roof and much of the piping in the casthouse were still there. Last year we tried but too many people were on the site and we had to run
Awesome explore! I really like seeing the differences in time.
fijne vid zoals altijd,welke straf staat er op als ze jullie zouden pakken?uiteindelijk zijn jullie geen dieven,ze zien toch dat julllie alleen exploren!
Het ligt eraan wie je tegenkomt!🤔
Had them just like that here in the U.S. also. When those facilities shut down, the entire region goes with it. Was this one of the last coal operated facilities in the country? I've never seen rail cars with full loads of coal just sit around like that.
Great explore. Well done.
How was the roof stolen? Was it removed legitimately by the company or city, and then stolen after disassembly? It seems like that much mass should be very difficult to remove and steal except through some sort of corruption.
maybe the intense heat from the fire destroyed it
No the fire was in another building a few hundred meters from the blast furnace
Just cut it up with power tools and take it away...
Men. That's one hell of a place!
Good show. Lads.
From Craig.
19:56 damn, you’ve even found the hole my friend Nearly died in last year 😂
oops ! :O
Such a sad beautiful place, should be retained for future generations...
crazy how some factorys are so big they need their own power plant to get enough power to run them. you can thank tesla and his ac power and the generators he built. edison wanted to use dc power and have a power plant on every block smh.
Hi guys. I think the powerplant is actually a turbine hall which provided the BF's with cold blast that would be heated in the stoves to make the hot blast. Why do you think it is a powerstation?
Very Very COOL .
An European classic. Nice place to visit. Easy access from railtracks on the back. Not demolished yet (11/2022) Nearby is also a small street with prostitutes like you don t see anywhere anymore... another relic of that period.
Always wanted to visit this place but seeing the trasformation make me sad
Too bad to see how destroyed it beacame...
Why elevator still working?
Older footage☺️
Always good job ...and pleas more
they are copper and metal thieves, they burn cables to recover copper and this for years, there were when I went in early December 2020
Incredible to see this place but it changed a lot
Did you ever find out what this 'raid' was about? Maybe someone started a fire on site? It's hard to believe they would send multiple fire trucks and police cars on the site just to catch people trespassing right? They usually don't really seem to care and are well aware of the hundreds of people visiting the site every month. I went there Thursday, and did not see any security, only some workers. Also they don't seem to care about the holes in the fences, since the same hole has been open now for almost a year.
Could it be they have just a huge firedrill and use this location to practice?
Prety sure
When was this filmed? When did this raid happen?
I've heard about raids like early this year, maybe end of last year.
january 2020
50 police cars for a bunch of urban explorers .... they’re afraid to go and fight real crime ? Oh wait .... this is Belgium 😂🤣😂🤣
Great video desde brasil
Damn raids shadow legends got him too
Beer always helps !!!!!
Love that Z you’re driving you should do a video on that
Adrenalín 👍
wow, the elevator was still left running?
I hate people that think stealing and or destroying things is cool
1st in my lifetime wow
Nice !
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath wow thankyou for like and to show us crazy places ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Absoluut schitterend ! Jammer dat er zoveel wordt gestolen en vernield.........
Oh wow
Would of been helpful if you said at the becoming where it was and where you traveled from .Noticed Dutch number plates
Located in the “ South of Liege”. I say in the beginning😊
I think I passed this factory when I was going to chateau de noisy
It's so huge u would know.
AWESOME 😎 GUYS AWESOME 😎
Why we have to watch these advertisements,get on with the subject. I visited this factory 40 years ago when it was running as part of my work, it’s very sad to see the plant like it is today.They don’t make blast furnaces anymore they have been replaced by more modern technology Electric Ark Furnaces, blast furnaces are too expensive to operate.
15:29 what were these deep basins? Coal storage? And in which video can I see that coastal ghost town at 0:25?
Storage basin for ships to load / unload raw materials for the furnace. Probably cokes and ore. Stuff like that.
@@halfpipefreak Thanks.
Do you ever run into homeless people living in these places ??
Vette video alweer Bob!
Please call let’s explore the world
I wonder there is alarm from motion sensor...
They wouldn't summon 15 cars for such
that is the name of this city :)
Nice 350z guys
Looks like the Chernobylite game
How does setting things on fire benefit the thieves?
Easy way to get the copper out of the cables and other stuff😄
Have You Went to any Abandoned Paper Mills, and Paper Machines?
Wij dachten eerst dat die bus beveiliging was hahahahhaha. Maar achteraf zagen we dat hij gewoon een lekke band had. En nu zit ie zelfs vol met grafitti.
Ik ben de laatste keer dat ik daar was achterna gezeten door een politiehelikopter op de hoog oven haha
So, where's my AliExpress package?
Funny!
Is it still there?
NEEEEE. Helaas ben jij ook al geïnfecteerd met reclames in de videos (ik snap het wel). Wel mooie en goede video zoals altijd!
Dit is de eerste.. dankzij deze reclames kunnen jullie gratis videos kijken😉 Zonder reclames kan ik geen afleveringen meer maken
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Ja ik snap het zeker. Vind het alleen jammer van me CZcams Premium. Maar heb het liever dan helemaal geen nieuwe video's van je :)
Where's the article that its going to be demolished?
How are the statusnow of blast furnace b? Is it demolished ?
I was there yesterday.. demolition works started. They are now emptying buildings
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Too bad, such a amazing industrial place. It would have been a great museum instead.
In Ukraine, if a plant stops, then the seekers of non-ferrous and ferrous metal begin to slowly cut it. And this plant is still standing. Living standards in Belgium are high enough
How does raid sponsor EVERYTHING i seem to watch?
There's a video about this, wish I could remember it. Probably going to cancel my patreon membership because of this.
Ik ga er zaterdag heen kan niet wachten
11:00 Welcome to Belgium 🙄
in 6min it's not a power station, it's the turbine room that delivered the hi pressure air for the hole company, get the facts right when you do these things. 21min the plates are not stolen, our devision went there to take them out so they could be recycled or reused in other sites. And it would not hurt if you consider that when the factory closed, that more then 50 people committed suïcide when they lost there job. A few of them even went to the factory to end there lives there. You might next time thank about that and pay your respects to that. Don't get me wrong, i like the urban explorer stuff and really enjoy the pictures you take. Just do some extra research before you make statements or talk tech without knowing what you say. Greetz Bensh
Sorry to hear that! Well on the internet there’s not much to find beside some newsarticles
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath if any questions always here as a source, i work in a other site of te dame company
Thanks a million! Appreciated.. might have some questions soon :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath that’s what research is all about, find good and reliable sources, like that you get the correct info 2 your followers. I’m a industry guy so any factory research needed just give us a call and I’ll be glad too help
@@benshke Thanks a million,
I'm editing an episode about this building: goldophoto.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/les-ateliers-centraux-ougree/
Do you know something about it?