They went straight from the blast furnace that makes the iron to the caster and skipped the area that turns the iron into steel. I worked Electronics, Instrumentation and Controls maintenance at the Q-BOP furnace that did that at US Steel Fairfield.
I used to work for one of US steels’ transportation companies (Transtar), Warrior & Gulf Navigation. I used to travel to Gary once or twice a year to participate in a quality audit of their railroad. It was always super interesting and the people were super cool. Sadly, they closed down Warrior & Gulf in 2013-14, after having operated continuously since 1940. So sad....tragic really. It was the best job I ever had, USSteel was THE BEST company to work for. Such terrific people, particularly in the group of transportation companies. It is a national tragedy that our steel industry has declined to its current state. It doesn’t foretell good news for our future as a country.
It’s May of 2023. I currently work at USS-UPI, formerly POSCO, in Pittsburg, California. We are shutting down this year after over 100 years. I’ve only been here since 2020 but I’m proud to have been part of a mill as historical as this one. RIP Rich Carlson
Born and raised in Gary , My Father worked at US Steel until he retired. Was a nice town to live in. Went to Emerson School and it was a school of imigrants, blacks, ++++ So sad of what has happened. I hope it will have a revival with the great economy that is growing in our country!
@@markmccastle7932 No you couldn't, I grew up and have lived in Northwest Indiana and Chicago land my whole life . I lived in Valpo, Merrillville, and Griffith and never smelled the steel mills and those places are closer than 35 miles . You must have been smelling your upper lip .
@@oldgoat50 theirs about 5000 US steel employees, plus their are thousands working for contractors like IMS/TMS, Central teaming, Beemsterboer, Fritz enterprise, Songer to mention a few . Theirs also outside contractors like Howell Tractor, Altorfer CAT, Roland machinery, Alta to name a few . Plus the venders that service US Steel and all the contractors . Their is so much employment that revolves around Northwest Indiana and Chicago land industry it's unreal . Hopefully it stays that way and China Joe doesn't ruin it .
Just found this video and enjoyed watching it. I worked 16 years in the 84 inch Hot Strip Mill when I was a youngster. The HSM is one of the best in the world and it brought back many fond memories. Gary Works is the USS flagship plant and they continue to put money into it. I was a control electrician (Motor Inspector) and it is truly amazing what it takes to make the hot rolling process work. I grew up in the Brunswick area of Gary and it saddens me to see how far Gary Indiana has fallen. Hopefully, better days are coming for Gary and it's citizens. I see that my old school, Gary Edison, will be torn down, but at least a new trucking company with jobs is being built on the Edison site.
I have hauled those steel and aluminum coils all over the USA on flatbed for several years.. and I loved them, they are easy loads and usually only get one weighing around 40,000 to 45,000 pounds..tarp it and off you go.
Did you even watch the video? You heat it up until it melts, they said that. it's not rocket science it's literally a process that humans have been doing for thousands of years.
Very impressive info. for my learning interest especially about Gary, Indiana that I have not visited yet. Thank you, I couldn't believe this is an old YT clip I just came across. 👍✌️
A cousin of mine use to work there in PUEBLO, COLO, manufacturing, a few different products, like man hole covers, and 1/4 mile rails. I think it's closed for good, they kept closn it and opening it, I've never been there for awhile now. Thanks for sharing this with me 👍
Just finished wiring a C line mold at my place of employment a month or so ago. I have been to Edgar Thompson a few times, but never to the Gary Works. All very interesting work.
I hope this place is still operating full bore as shown here. Gary, IN has become somewhat of a ghost town despite this huge industrial complex. Our country was once dotted with factories like this, but we let it all slip away.
This is an AWESOME informational video. Especially that hunk at the 7:28 portion of the video! :) Thanks Bob for the morning laugh. Seriously though, it was a great video!!!
@@oldgoat50 The "Heppenstall" tongs, we do have those but only for red hot slabs that need to be backed out of the furnace. I unload the railcars with a Taylor 92,000 lb. forklift with a diesel generator powered double magnet on the forks... We can't use the cranes to unload the rail cars, we dont have a track siding that goes under any craneways....
Can't, we've never made flat screen TVs in the US and initially we'd be crap at it. You could bring back automotive, steel, industrial, and other transportation manufacturing if your wanted to though. Your political ideology is unrealistic.
@@alec4672Why I believe we can example#1 American Bill Gates developed the worlds most successful computer system, EX#2 Steve jobs = Apple #3 the world wide space race to the moon who won...USA all with components brain stormed built and made by Americans in the USA. as far as my political views, study Khrushchev threat to take down the USA without firing a shot, we are nearly there.we do not manufacture, we shame our youth if they work with their hands (when some of the greatest minds in american history did) our infrastructure is going to crap because almost all of our mills are mines are shutdown, so steel, "for rails and bridges " lumber "for building homes, forming concrete, making paper, toilet paper" copper mines for copper wire "phone and power lines", cable "communication and internet" Now are all astronomically priced thae crap from overseas works but quality is terrible. so, in short our highways and bridges power grids and anything that needs timber to up keep are deteriorating and in dire need of repair.
@@DIESELMAN8V92 are you nuts? I live in the north of the Midwest and there's two plywood factories and a dimensional lumber factory less then 5 miles from me. Go another 40 and LP wood products is in Hayward Wisconsin. I can drive 3 hours and see taconite trains unloading at the Marquette oar docks. Highschools in the Midwest allow you to go to the local technical college for half the day your senior year, we spent just as much on our shop department as we did our sports department. Sorry your state is crap probably the south east of the country you're in but most everywhere is still doing great. Shoot a new cooper mine just opened in utah a few years ago. Oh and by the time the Apple 2 was being made most of the components were manufactures in Mexico. The United States doesn't manufacture electronics, we haven't since the 70s we develop electronics.
What year was this filmed? It’s interesting to see this. My uncle just retired from US Steel a few months ago. I think his job was testing in a lab. He originally started out at Inland (Mital) in East Chicago.
Very impressive. No wonder we won't WW II. We were able to outproduce any other country. We had just about all of the materials to make and run the machines.
Now you make the common misstake of assuming the next war will be fought as the last. WW III will not be about whos producing the most steel for gigant battleships.
@ old goat So which mill did you work at? And what did you do? I was at the Tube mill across from ye olde Coke plant. I ran a manual tube straightener called a gag press. It feels like a by-gone age.
@@oldgoat50 l had an uncle in the slab mill. My dad worked in the "big mill" as a pipefiter, and grand pa came from Slovakia to Aliquippa PA. then transferred to Gary as a millwright. I was on the Gag Press, at the far east end of Tube Works just a 1/4 mile away from the Lake Michigan breakwater. On a " No material" night l sat on the breakwater, watching the smoke stacks belch flame. A twilight world...
The Ravenna Arsenal in Ohio, where bombs were made by the millions during WWII was bigger. It covers 25,000 acres, and during the war was home to 15,000 workers. One end of the property was a gigantic railyard where the bombs were loaded and transported to various ports. Today is is largely abandoned, given back to woodland. A few areas are off limits, due to toxic industrial waste.
I would like to thank you for all you do to make steel. I have been a welder from the age of 21 I am 48 now been in this trade from my first job. I have always wanted to see a steel mill so I went to U.S. STEEL The Carrie Blast Furnaces. and Bethlehem both were amazing , so much history it makes my heart ache to see both places in this state . I would have loved to be a part of this history making trade . Thank you for all you do to keep it going !!🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪👍👍
Good video Joe; when did the Gary Steel Works plant shut down? Or does it still operate? We (USA) used to have a 'hard fix' on producing steel until we (USA) started to buy outsourced iron and steel, albeit cheap inferior crap, from foreign countries. Closed steel plants across the country meant loss of jobs, economic slumps, high unemployment and worse.
+Joe Cera - US Steel Gary works Coke plant is shut down. They shut down the coke plant in late April of 2015 and idled there Tin Plate works too.The rest of the mill is still open and pumping out steel... Check out the article.. www.nwitimes.com/business/steel/u-s-steel-starts-layoffs-of-up-to-workers-at/article_a2368734-c52f-5ee2-8761-2b9f03734c30.html
+Joe Cera Are you related to Tom Cera? I worked at Gary Works for 30+yrs. Stumbled across this video when I was searching for info on how steel is made for some friends who know nothing about it.
Most steel production is made from remelted scrap, and iron ore is mainly used for new production high quality steel that isn't contaminated with alloying agents like carbon, chromium, etc..
Slappy thats false . I work at gary works at the #1 bop steel facility on the steel floor of the shop . molten iron ore or " hot metal " as we call it is used for every heat . Carbon comes from the coke which comes out of the steel during the blow process. Alloys and other chemistries are added to the heat based on the grade of steel we make
USS makes so many avoidable missteps yet upper mgmt receives excessive pay and benefits while the worker bees get little and the lowest mgmt gets even less. $250M to $500M fiascos such as Carbonyx get swept under the rug and those responsible are allowed to retire with enhanced benefits and continue consulting for the company.
One last question. We had a boiling hot summer this year, by Irish standards, some areas had drought. As the works takes it's water directly from Lake Michigan, If there ever was drought in the lake Michigan area could Gary works accidentally drain the lake. Not meaning to be critical of Gary works, just curious.
That's a good point. I heard that the rising temperatures of the Great Lakes, due to higher temperature in the Hudson Bay region is having a negative impact ecologically speaking. Reduction in grasses on the Great Plains is being attributed to the steady climb in temperatures. I hope and pray they get the math right.
Remembering Fairless Hills steel mill in Pennsylvania all the new guys would come in and it would be so hot they would be hanging on the railing ready to pass out....Fun Fun when I worked there I had to wear about seven layers of clothes the one I accident I will never forget all the hot molten Steel exploded and everybody went running went through all the layers of my clothes and into my neck and shoulders by the time I got to the hospital it was still so hot they couldn't get it out of my body everytime I look at my scars I remember the good old days working at the steel mills when they didn't know the meaning of safety as far as my hearing maybe lost 70% I lost.. it was supposed to be a temporary job when I was going to school this way I wouldn't have to work in a place like that but once the kids come along now you get trapped in a job you don't want to do you can make tons of money that's about it....🤣🤣🤣
This was a steel mill to go to in Pittsburgh United States still shut all is steel Mills down in Pittsburgh they told people in Pittsburgh to go to Gary
was born and grew up in that area. moved away in 1988. nothing could ever get me to move back there. been living in Indianapolis and like it much better!
Train Nerd first, let me just say that your response has been “echoed” plenty of times and it’s the usual response I get from someone who doesn’t have a credible source which means you can’t explain your response or you probably don’t exactly understand how this works. The right side is and has been NOTORIOUS for cracking down on unions for decades and helping big companies ease the process of outsourcing helping eliminate the middle class. I’m not sure you understand how deep this goes but I’m open minded enough to listen to why you have to say.
Train Nerd I also understand how frustrating things have been lately for the past couple of decades. Just for the record I think what is happening with both the left and right is a shit show. Here’s why I think is the biggest problem in this country. Jobs.
Train Nerd I wish I could have a conversation with you in person so I can listen to you and give you my opinion and the chance to prove me wrong over a couple cold ones. But i guess a short conversation over CZcams will do. Continuing my last reply, I think the biggest issue in this country is the middle class is disappearing. Companies have been outsourcing for decades now and thus turmoil was bound to happen. Why tf are we buying imported steel, aluminum? Auto parts, plastic, paper, other computer software... because companies get greedy and want to create better numbers. We stopped giving a f about Americans back in the 80’s. Why don’t people look at the big picture instead of taking the bait on the rest of the bs happening now?
sky would glow at night out window attic blast furnaces casting B O F pouring south works granfathers worked there cut up narrow gauge locomotives. I broke foot and wrist in coke plant Gary works rust rot not compensate for. Used drive in Gary works with my father little runt Pollack tube works went back years later work on blast furnaces. Screwed that up. Was processing steel till l screwed that up places shutdown. First place shutdown 3500 of us lost job one day. Grandfathers brothers both sides was Carnegie steel then. Local 65 gave nice bible grandfather died south works steelworkers park now walls ore bridges ride still there its all like a strange movie girlfriend spent most time with her father head roller slab mill hillbilly. Old timers told me had no safety shoes hard hats safety glasses. Them tuff people turn of century in steel industry in 1800's and early 1900 them the real men of steel during war women went in. My older sister worked in mill. Grew up went school church everything holy water earns everything in Polish. They were Polish nice churches mass every morning before school. Always was pretty sight watch iron pour and rolling red hot steel feel lucky the short time worked furnaces mills lots of big stuff massive machinery.
This narrator doesn't know even one single proper name for any of the machines or subjects he was talking about. i love it when some one who doesn't have a clue has to narrate a video.
Its not a training video, its purpose is to give a basic rundown of the processes to people who may otherwise know nothing about them. Regular people are not going to understand nor care about the technical aspects of a mill
This is the kind of video we watched in high school when the teacher rolled in the tv /vcr cart.
😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀
you showing your age ..i use to love when the cart rolled in and i was sitting next to my girl
dont forget the quiz after that
Or when I was at school, the big old reel to reel movie projector and the movie screen rolled down over the blackboard..
And today they teach boys how to wear makeup and lipstick
It's amazing to drive past Gary works at night on the Indiana Toll Road.
They went straight from the blast furnace that makes the iron to the caster and skipped the area that turns the iron into steel. I worked Electronics, Instrumentation and Controls maintenance at the Q-BOP furnace that did that at US Steel Fairfield.
I used to work for one of US steels’ transportation companies (Transtar), Warrior & Gulf Navigation. I used to travel to Gary once or twice a year to participate in a quality audit of their railroad. It was always super interesting and the people were super cool.
Sadly, they closed down Warrior & Gulf in 2013-14, after having operated continuously since 1940. So sad....tragic really. It was the best job I ever had, USSteel was THE BEST company to work for. Such terrific people, particularly in the group of transportation companies. It is a national tragedy that our steel industry has declined to its current state. It doesn’t foretell good news for our future as a country.
Democrats killing jobs... what’s new
Big mistake buying anything from China
Could at the least , ban steel coils from China .
China is killing not only the American steel industry but many more.
Build back better
I remember seeing the Mills in Pittsburgh when I was a boy and have been enraptured by them ever since. This is so awesome!!!!!
Bear R America Steel
Hence why the football team is called the Steelers.
@@Mrcharles. LMAO this is in Indiana
are there any blast furnaces still operating in the Pittsburgh area ?
huge mistake buying stuff from communist China
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics Yes. US Steel's Mon Valley Works in Braddock. I agree with you about buying foreign steel!
It’s May of 2023. I currently work at USS-UPI, formerly POSCO, in Pittsburg, California. We are shutting down this year after over 100 years. I’ve only been here since 2020 but I’m proud to have been part of a mill as historical as this one. RIP Rich Carlson
Terrible shame and a big part of what's wrong with this counry.
Born and raised in Gary , My Father worked at US Steel until he retired. Was a nice town to live in. Went to Emerson School and it was a school of imigrants, blacks, ++++ So sad of what has happened. I hope it will have a revival with the great economy that is growing in our country!
Grew up about 35 miles south east of US Steel , when the wind was just right you could smell that place.
That's the Smell of Money
As of a Paper Mill
Insane I live in Kankakee. 14,000 workers wow!
Adam, l grew up in East Gary and nothing like coke fumes in the morning... only when the wind is juust right.
@@markmccastle7932 No you couldn't, I grew up and have lived in Northwest Indiana and Chicago land my whole life . I lived in Valpo, Merrillville, and Griffith and never smelled the steel mills and those places are closer than 35 miles . You must have been smelling your upper lip .
@@oldgoat50 theirs about 5000 US steel employees, plus their are thousands working for contractors like IMS/TMS, Central teaming, Beemsterboer, Fritz enterprise, Songer to mention a few . Theirs also outside contractors like Howell Tractor, Altorfer CAT, Roland machinery, Alta to name a few . Plus the venders that service US Steel and all the contractors . Their is so much employment that revolves around Northwest Indiana and Chicago land industry it's unreal . Hopefully it stays that way and China Joe doesn't ruin it .
Just found this video and enjoyed watching it. I worked 16 years in the 84 inch Hot Strip Mill when I was a youngster. The HSM is one of the best in the world and it brought back many fond memories. Gary Works is the USS flagship plant and they continue to put money into it. I was a control electrician (Motor Inspector) and it is truly amazing what it takes to make the hot rolling process work. I grew up in the Brunswick area of Gary and it saddens me to see how far Gary Indiana has fallen. Hopefully, better days are coming for Gary and it's citizens. I see that my old school, Gary Edison, will be torn down, but at least a new trucking company with jobs is being built on the Edison site.
I retired from the slab yard in 2000. Had my 30 years in and went. Today 12 -29-2023 is 24 years since my last day at the Sheet &Tin.😊
I have hauled those steel and aluminum coils all over the USA on flatbed for several years.. and I loved them, they are easy loads and usually only get one weighing around 40,000 to 45,000 pounds..tarp it and off you go.
Lol wtf
Driving past the Gary US Steel works on I-80 took several minutes. It was huge!
I like how they talk about the process of making steel without at all explaining how steel is made.
Did you even watch the video? You heat it up until it melts, they said that. it's not rocket science it's literally a process that humans have been doing for thousands of years.
Very impressive info. for my learning interest especially about Gary, Indiana that I have not visited yet.
Thank you, I couldn't believe this is an old YT clip I just came across. 👍✌️
I've been fortunate enough to visit Great Lakes Works, Mon Valley Works and Lorain Tubular through my job. Always wanted to visit Gary Works, though.
exceptional video, thanks for sharing.
Awesome video. I did some high temp video inspections on their blast furnaces. Brings back memories
A cousin of mine use to work there in PUEBLO, COLO, manufacturing, a few different products, like man hole covers, and 1/4 mile rails. I think it's closed for good, they kept closn it and opening it, I've never been there for awhile now. Thanks for sharing this with me 👍
I believe that plant is now called Evraz. Back in the day it was Rocky Mountain Steel.
Just finished wiring a C line mold at my place of employment a month or so ago. I have been to Edgar Thompson a few times, but never to the Gary Works. All very interesting work.
Sms? Oil city?
@@markjakubowicz2728 Yes. We have another one in-house right now.
great video of steelmaking I miss my job at former Newcastle steel works
My family has a very long history of iron and steel. All of the women in my family iron and all the men steal.
Blackhatter ok
lol
Good one.
😂😢
In 1966, I was born in Fontana, when Kaiser Steel was a thing...
Truly incredible
I hope this place is still operating full bore as shown here. Gary, IN has become somewhat of a ghost town despite this huge industrial complex. Our country was once dotted with factories like this, but we let it all slip away.
My fiber kicked in this morning and I'm feeling better now
This is an AWESOME informational video. Especially that hunk at the 7:28 portion of the video! :) Thanks Bob for the morning laugh. Seriously though, it was a great video!!!
Hubba hubba
We roll slabs from Gary Works here in Portland , along with ones from all over other places. Stamped GWO, I unload them from railcars.
@@oldgoat50 No, magnets....
@@oldgoat50 The "Heppenstall" tongs, we do have those but only for red hot slabs that need to be backed out of the furnace. I unload the railcars with a Taylor 92,000 lb. forklift with a diesel generator powered double magnet on the forks... We can't use the cranes to unload the rail cars, we dont have a track siding that goes under any craneways....
i wish we get back to industry like this get people back to some long time work
There's plenty of heavy industry in America today, it's just not concentrated in a few cities liked it used to be.
China killed the manufacturing and heavy industry in America.
I wonder if The Late Great Edmund Fitzgerald ever unloaded there ?
Just got a job here!! Love it!!
How much $ do they start at?
From when The Learning Channel actually was about learning
I worke at us Gary works 1 caster. Ive seen most of these departments. When I hired in. I was in labor gang. And saw the east and west of US Steel
God Bless USA jobs Bring all our manufacturing back home.
Are you serious?
Can't, we've never made flat screen TVs in the US and initially we'd be crap at it. You could bring back automotive, steel, industrial, and other transportation manufacturing if your wanted to though. Your political ideology is unrealistic.
@@fngaming5064 100 percent. manufacturing and farming is how wealth is created
@@alec4672Why I believe we can example#1 American Bill Gates developed the worlds most successful computer system, EX#2 Steve jobs = Apple #3 the world wide space race to the moon who won...USA all with components brain stormed built and made by Americans in the USA. as far as my political views, study Khrushchev threat to take down the USA without firing a shot, we are nearly there.we do not manufacture, we shame our youth if they work with their hands (when some of the greatest minds in american history did) our infrastructure is going to crap because almost all of our mills are mines are shutdown, so steel, "for rails and bridges " lumber "for building homes, forming concrete, making paper, toilet paper" copper mines for copper wire "phone and power lines", cable "communication and internet" Now are all astronomically priced thae crap from overseas works but quality is terrible. so, in short our highways and bridges power grids and anything that needs timber to up keep are deteriorating and in dire need of repair.
@@DIESELMAN8V92 are you nuts? I live in the north of the Midwest and there's two plywood factories and a dimensional lumber factory less then 5 miles from me. Go another 40 and LP wood products is in Hayward Wisconsin. I can drive 3 hours and see taconite trains unloading at the Marquette oar docks. Highschools in the Midwest allow you to go to the local technical college for half the day your senior year, we spent just as much on our shop department as we did our sports department. Sorry your state is crap probably the south east of the country you're in but most everywhere is still doing great. Shoot a new cooper mine just opened in utah a few years ago. Oh and by the time the Apple 2 was being made most of the components were manufactures in Mexico. The United States doesn't manufacture electronics, we haven't since the 70s we develop electronics.
2014 , wonder if it’s making as much steel today .
It’s 2 other liquid steel mills are shut down , Great Lakes and Granite City
Gary still going .. I work there
Grandfather worked there 25 years from 1955-1980
AWESOME
I flew over this descending to Chicago midway. I was wondering what this plant was
What year was this filmed? It’s interesting to see this. My uncle just retired from US Steel a few months ago. I think his job was testing in a lab. He originally started out at Inland (Mital) in East Chicago.
I remember my dad working there.
I wonder what year this program aired on TLC...1995?
Very impressive. No wonder we won't WW II. We were able to outproduce any other country. We had just about all of the materials to make and run the machines.
Now you make the common misstake of assuming the next war will be fought as the last. WW III will not be about whos producing the most steel for gigant battleships.
@ old goat So which mill did you work at? And what did you do?
I was at the Tube mill across from ye olde Coke plant. I ran a manual tube straightener called a gag press.
It feels like a by-gone age.
@@oldgoat50 l had an uncle in the slab mill. My dad worked in the "big mill" as a pipefiter, and grand pa came from Slovakia to Aliquippa PA. then transferred to Gary as a millwright.
I was on the Gag Press, at the far east end of Tube Works just a 1/4 mile away from the Lake Michigan breakwater. On a " No material" night l sat on the breakwater, watching the smoke stacks belch flame.
A twilight world...
WE WORK HARD
WE PLAY HARD
The Ravenna Arsenal in Ohio, where bombs were made by the millions during WWII was bigger.
It covers 25,000 acres, and during the war was home to 15,000 workers. One end of the property was a gigantic railyard where the bombs were loaded and transported to various ports. Today is is largely abandoned, given back to woodland. A few areas are off limits, due to toxic industrial waste.
My grandfather work there and retrired there.
Heavy industrial wowee
Aaaahhhh! My former home ( retired)
Inland Steel 1976-2016
WOW very impressive,.
Spent a lot of time in the hot strip motor room!
Been there done that arcelormittal/bayou steel. Worked sucked. But worked with some of the best people ya could ever work with
I like the narrator whispering, lol
I work here, south blast furnace !
I would like to thank you for all you do to make steel. I have been a welder from the age of 21 I am 48 now been in this trade from my first job. I have always wanted to see a steel mill so I went to U.S. STEEL The Carrie Blast Furnaces. and Bethlehem both were amazing , so much history it makes my heart ache to see both places in this state . I would have loved to be a part of this history making trade . Thank you for all you do to keep it going !!🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪👍👍
I work on 14 ramp loading the transfer cars
How does one get a job at a place like this? Easy as applying?
@@scraphaulin do they still use the employment office at the Virginia Street gate?
Good video Joe; when did the Gary Steel Works plant shut down? Or does it still operate? We (USA) used to have a 'hard fix' on producing steel until we (USA) started to buy outsourced iron and steel, albeit cheap inferior crap, from foreign countries. Closed steel plants across the country meant loss of jobs, economic slumps, high unemployment and worse.
"The plant is still operating at the same rate as it was when the video was produced." - Thomas Cera
+Joe Cera - US Steel Gary works Coke plant is shut down. They shut down the coke plant in late April of 2015 and idled there Tin Plate works too.The rest of the mill is still open and pumping out steel... Check out the article.. www.nwitimes.com/business/steel/u-s-steel-starts-layoffs-of-up-to-workers-at/article_a2368734-c52f-5ee2-8761-2b9f03734c30.html
+Joe Cera Are you related to Tom Cera? I worked at Gary Works for 30+yrs. Stumbled across this video when I was searching for info on how steel is made for some friends who know nothing about it.
+Mark Seaman Yes. I posted this video from my Dad's archives. I'm glad it was useful!
Tell your dad "Hi" from me. Currently snow birding in FL.
My Dad spent 30yrs in the 210 plate mill.
So damn what!
@@oldgoat50 were you there in 1976 when they let families tour the plant for the bicentennial?
The video doesn't capture the danger of men working on the industrial floor there, lookup: "steel mill cobble".
"a mild 1100 degrees"
I wonder does any of that iron ore come from Tara mines ireland, we dig it up and export the ore you guys turn it to steel
I think US Steel gets most of it's ore from mines in Minnesota.
Most steel production is made from remelted scrap, and iron ore is mainly used for new production high quality steel that isn't contaminated with alloying agents like carbon, chromium, etc..
Slappy thats false . I work at gary works at the #1 bop steel facility on the steel floor of the shop . molten iron ore or " hot metal " as we call it is used for every heat . Carbon comes from the coke which comes out of the steel during the blow process. Alloys and other chemistries are added to the heat based on the grade of steel we make
@@pyroman6000
Yes us steel owns a iron ore(taconite) mine in hibbing mn
My disgrace... Shit job, good money... Hot as hell.
Dude was over exaggerating when he said over 50 miles of track for the ceiling cranes lol
I worked 2 summers at Stelco in the good years but then Us steel bought Stelco and killed it. They only wanted lake Erie works
USS makes so many avoidable missteps yet upper mgmt receives excessive pay and benefits while the worker bees get little and the lowest mgmt gets even less. $250M to $500M fiascos such as Carbonyx get swept under the rug and those responsible are allowed to retire with enhanced benefits and continue consulting for the company.
I worked at stelco in 1967. I was a groundsman on one of the ore docks. it was the old dock. I have good memories of that place.
One last question. We had a boiling hot summer this year, by Irish standards, some areas had drought. As the works takes it's water directly from Lake Michigan, If there ever was drought in the lake Michigan area could Gary works accidentally drain the lake. Not meaning to be critical of Gary works, just curious.
The warm water is returned to the lake. They estimate lake Michigan holds a zillion gallons so they're good.
@@Nathan-pw7dothanks again.
That's a good point.
I heard that the rising temperatures of the Great Lakes, due to higher temperature in the Hudson Bay region is having a negative impact ecologically speaking.
Reduction in grasses on the Great Plains is being attributed to the steady climb in temperatures.
I hope and pray they get the math right.
Thank you coal miners!!
Tom Cera the plant manager is hot.
Pink Bobby Jenkins is that why you watch videos like this?
Fiancee works there
_Tons of electricity_
Well, electrons do have mass, so technically, it isn't really wrong.
Is this narrated by Steven Baldwin??
Conveniently avoided any mention of air pollution created by these processes.
guy on thumbnail 4:24 is a samuraï
Wonder what Gary's capacity is versus Granite City?
Granite City is now producing Pig Iron
Remembering Fairless Hills steel mill in Pennsylvania all the new guys would come in and it would be so hot they would be hanging on the railing ready to pass out....Fun Fun when I worked there I had to wear about seven layers of clothes the one I accident I will never forget all the hot molten Steel exploded and everybody went running went through all the layers of my clothes and into my neck and shoulders by the time I got to the hospital it was still so hot they couldn't get it out of my body everytime I look at my scars I remember the good old days working at the steel mills when they didn't know the meaning of safety as far as my hearing maybe lost 70% I lost.. it was supposed to be a temporary job when I was going to school this way I wouldn't have to work in a place like that but once the kids come along now you get trapped in a job you don't want to do you can make tons of money that's about it....🤣🤣🤣
This was a steel mill to go to in Pittsburgh United States still shut all is steel Mills down in Pittsburgh they told people in Pittsburgh to go to Gary
Is this mill still operational?
Yes but not all of it. My dad worked here in the blast furnace in the 80s
All furnaces are running ... coke plant has been shut down and coke is now shipped in by rail
I should move back to gary-hammond it's where I belong
was born and grew up in that area. moved away in 1988. nothing could ever get me to move back there. been living in Indianapolis and like it much better!
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Individual transportation is a huge mistake .
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6:19 I do the same every morning.
It is very impressive having seen it myself
How come the coal doesn't turn to Ash in a coke oven.
There no oxygen
There's
@@Nathan-pw7do thanks. I was curious about that
No oxygen. High vol/Low vol mix
480p 😮💨
Forced/ rehearsed smile @2:15
Meanwhile back in Detroit 1500 people are losing their jobs in April 2020.
They are closing union plants all over the place. There’s also no unity, company runs all over them now days.
Train Nerd explain.
Train Nerd first, let me just say that your response has been “echoed” plenty of times and it’s the usual response I get from someone who doesn’t have a credible source which means you can’t explain your response or you probably don’t exactly understand how this works. The right side is and has been NOTORIOUS for cracking down on unions for decades and helping big companies ease the process of outsourcing helping eliminate the middle class. I’m not sure you understand how deep this goes but I’m open minded enough to listen to why you have to say.
Train Nerd I also understand how frustrating things have been lately for the past couple of decades. Just for the record I think what is happening with both the left and right is a shit show. Here’s why I think is the biggest problem in this country. Jobs.
Train Nerd I wish I could have a conversation with you in person so I can listen to you and give you my opinion and the chance to prove me wrong over a couple cold ones. But i guess a short conversation over CZcams will do. Continuing my last reply, I think the biggest issue in this country is the middle class is disappearing. Companies have been outsourcing for decades now and thus turmoil was bound to happen. Why tf are we buying imported steel, aluminum? Auto parts, plastic, paper, other computer software... because companies get greedy and want to create better numbers. We stopped giving a f about Americans back in the 80’s. Why don’t people look at the big picture instead of taking the bait on the rest of the bs happening now?
Coke... Snorting or drinking kind? lol
The grow the fuck up kind
The fuel a blast furnace kind stupid. Guess we know which one your using...and it ain't the soda pop!
sky would glow at night out window attic blast furnaces casting B O F pouring south works granfathers worked there cut up narrow gauge locomotives. I broke foot and wrist in coke plant Gary works rust rot not compensate for. Used drive in Gary works with my father little runt Pollack tube works went back years later work on blast furnaces. Screwed that up. Was processing steel till l screwed that up places shutdown. First place shutdown 3500 of us lost job one day. Grandfathers brothers both sides was Carnegie steel then. Local 65 gave nice bible grandfather died south works steelworkers park now walls ore bridges ride still there its all like a strange movie girlfriend spent most time with her father head roller slab mill hillbilly. Old timers told me had no safety shoes hard hats safety glasses. Them tuff people turn of century in steel industry in 1800's and early 1900 them the real men of steel during war women went in. My older sister worked in mill. Grew up went school church everything holy water earns everything in Polish. They were Polish nice churches mass every morning before school. Always was pretty sight watch iron pour and rolling red hot steel feel lucky the short time worked furnaces mills lots of big stuff massive machinery.
Why did hearing that this place using 300 years worth of house hold water supplies everyday make me so grossed out.
@J oseph, Gary Works has a water treatment facility.
All the water used is treated before being returned to the lake or the river.
I'm curious why they don't reuse the treated water? Thanks.
@ 7:10 -- 500 million gpd/ 347k gpm of water. Is Gary Works permitted for this? Better call IDEM.
Is it just me or does that voice kind of sound like the Baldwin brother that tried to push his religious image? ha
Kinda sounds like Rob Lowe.
This narrator doesn't know even one single proper name for any of the machines or subjects he was talking about. i love it when some one who doesn't have a clue has to narrate a video.
Its not a training video, its purpose is to give a basic rundown of the processes to people who may otherwise know nothing about them. Regular people are not going to understand nor care about the technical aspects of a mill
Yes, thank you. Staying away from company/industry jargon is a rule in communicating to a general audience.
The narrator isn't just saying what comes into his head. He will have a script. Blame whoever wrote it
when tlc was actually the learning channel
LMAO satans vacation spot 😂😂😂😂😂
My fiber kicked in this morning and I'm feeling better now