Popular Post Further Posted May 18, 2019 Popular Post Share #1 Posted May 18, 2019 Spent the day in the melt shop, got a few pics of steel being born Overall of the melt bay Charge bucket headed to arc furnaceAOD furnace flaring Pouring from AOD30 tons of fresh steel 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 18, 2019 Share #2 Posted May 18, 2019 I only worked in a rolling mill and that place was dangerous. This is nutz. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted May 18, 2019 Share #3 Posted May 18, 2019 That looks dangerous. Be careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #4 Posted May 19, 2019 Reminds me of my days as a laborer in a taconite plant..less fire however..we just cooked the taconite...huge long furnace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #5 Posted May 19, 2019 25 minutes ago, petitepedal said: Reminds me of my days as a laborer in a taconite plant..less fire however..we just cooked the taconite...huge long furnace Did you only work on Tuesdays 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #6 Posted May 19, 2019 I had to back my trailer up next to a ladle full of hot steel to load some equipment one time in a steel mill. I had to guide the crane and and unhook the cables. My tires were smoking and the lenses on my marker lights melted off. I was glad the tires didn’t blow while I was standing on the trailer. I got the heck out of the building before I chained down my load. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #7 Posted May 19, 2019 Yoopers mine iron ore. That's all. We can't handle that much heat! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post onbike1939 Posted May 19, 2019 Popular Post Share #8 Posted May 19, 2019 I worked in an iron foundry during my breaks from University barrowing loads of sand/soot to the moulding machines which were up a series of ramps. All the extractor fans not working and lunch was taken sitting on a huge pile of sand/soot. I was so tired I couldn't eat my dinner at the end of the day.....and all this for slightly over a dollar an hour. I gave it all up when I was offered a job modelling men's Jockey undershorts.......................the last bit's a lie. 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #9 Posted May 19, 2019 3 minutes ago, onbike1939 said: worked in an iron foundry You win, working with hot steel is dirty work but the foundry jobs are the worst. Did you wear a respirator? Did you do any chipping? Driving truck I got to see it all and I decided I didn’t want a foundry job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted May 19, 2019 Share #10 Posted May 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, Longjohn said: You win, working with hot steel is dirty work but the foundry jobs are the worst. Did you wear a respirator? Did you do any chipping? Driving truck I got to see it all and I decided I didn’t want a foundry job. No........I did nothing but do my best to breath and dodge the hot sparks from the molten steel as it was ladled into the moulds. No safety stuff for legs or any sissy stuff like that and most old hands had burn scars all up the front of their legs. Guys sent up from the Labour Exchange would walk past and out when they saw us working without taking off their lunch satchels. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #11 Posted May 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, onbike1939 said: No........I did nothing but do my best to breath and dodge the hot sparks from the molten steel as it was ladled into the moulds. No safety stuff for legs or any sissy stuff like that and most old hands had burn scars all up the front of their legs. Guys sent up from the Labour Exchange would walk past and out when they saw us working without taking off their lunch satchels. That’s how they get students to stay in school. If they gave the summer help all the good jobs they would be tempted to drop out of school and just work for a living. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted May 19, 2019 Share #12 Posted May 19, 2019 1 minute ago, Longjohn said: That’s how they get students to stay in school. If they gave the summer help all the good jobs they would be tempted to drop out of school and just work for a living. These sort of experiences are certainly an incentive to stay and study for qualifications. My workmates were a guy from the local mental hospital, another who couldn't get a job given he had been charged with manslaughter and a Nigerian student. The mental patient came up tops as he found another Foundry job which provided him with overalls and a shorter working week. This gave us some food for thought I can tell you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #13 Posted May 19, 2019 I thought the steel mills were all gone from Pissburgh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 19, 2019 Share #14 Posted May 19, 2019 I need a good charge bucket for my arc furnace. What does a good one go for? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted May 19, 2019 Share #15 Posted May 19, 2019 Very cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted May 19, 2019 Author Share #16 Posted May 19, 2019 5 hours ago, donkpow said: I need a good charge bucket for my arc furnace. What does a good one go for? Many, many tens of thousands of dollars. We used to make a grade that the raw materials for a twenty ton heat was 750,000 dollars, no idea what they sold it for. They are much more secretive with the financials now a days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted May 19, 2019 Share #17 Posted May 19, 2019 That looks scary, but uniquely beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 19, 2019 Share #18 Posted May 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Further said: Many, many tens of thousands of dollars. We used to make a grade that the raw materials for a twenty ton heat was 750,000 dollars, no idea what they sold it for. They are much more secretive with the financials now a days. Lowes should have it, shouldn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 19, 2019 Share #19 Posted May 19, 2019 I was in Home Depot the other day and as I was looking at some products one of the store people asked if I needed help. I said, Yeah I'm looking for X thing in small package size. He says we have this X and that X. So I say I'm looking for smaller qty. He gets a little huffy and says something about these are commercial type products. Well, I smiled and engaged in little tete a tete. After I got home, I'm thinking, So the guy at Home Depot is looking down his nose at me because I'm not looking for commercial product and packaging. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted May 19, 2019 Author Share #20 Posted May 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, donkpow said: Lowes should have it, shouldn't they? Might have order it, probably take a couple days. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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