Hands: Powers of the Metal

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• IM

  @ImRonniePickering · 1 year ago

  As of 2025 the foundry is operating

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• SA

  @samuell4775 · 2 months ago

  I worked in 1964-65 after graduation for Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna NY in the Blast Furnaces. Of course everything was automated.  The objective was to produce molten iron to be sent to the open hearth to be made into steel, not to make molds as is being done so effectively in this video.  When it was time to "tap" the furnace, the base of the furnace was burned into using oxygen at the end of a steel pipe.  We wore asbestos coats steel toe shoes and WELDERS GLASSES!!.   The molten iron flowed down dried sand coated runners.  The iron went into railroad cars for transport to the open hearth. When the iron finished, gates were closed and opened and the slag was sent down runners to slag rr cars.  Safety was stressed for everybody as it was a dangerous place.  My favorite part of the operation was to go to the ore docks to watch the iron ore and limestone  being unloaded by buckets and gantries from the long Great Lakes ore carriers.  At the end s Melroe Bobcat was dropped in to the hold to scoop out the last bit.

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• DA

  @danield679 · 6 years ago

  I just looked them up. Still going!

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• RI

  @ricbarker4829 · 4 years ago

  Sitting around listening to Mum sing, this is what we did before the internet.........god, I hope we never lose the internet.....

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• JA

  @jamescurtin413 · 7 years ago

  Wow. This family works so hard. Everything done by hand. Even the wood was cut hand. Brute labor mixed with precision!

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• DK

  @dkcorderoyximenez3382 · 3 years ago

  Videos like this help me appreciate the hard work of my ancestors...I feel I owe them everything...❤

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• JO

  @johnsonn9517 · 7 years ago

  Wisdom and passion, not often found in the same place. Long may they continue.

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• MW

  @mwnciboo · 7 years ago

  Safety gear...nil. makes me smile.

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• FE

  @FenrisTheMannis · 3 years ago

  Still in business 34 years later :D

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• PE

  @peanutheadslickerthanbadjo9740 · 7 years ago (edited)

  "He that hath a trade , hath an estate "- Ben Franklin adding this in  : awesome family Dynamics

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• GE

  @gerryduggan6821 · 7 years ago

  Butiful Ireland on the days gone bye<br>I love and am so proud to be irish when I see stuff like this <br>God bless them all

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• K-

  @K-Effect · 4 years ago

  It’s refreshing to see people not enslaved to debt and possessions and being self-sufficient in their ways. &nbsp;Family &amp; friends at the top of the list is number one, after that life falls into place

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