I was lucky enough to sork in gray iron foundry in the mid 70’s and work with guys like this who were around during the war. The stories they told of that time. Guys would come to work and not leave the plant for 3-4 days at a time. Ate there, slept there. Round the clock production. So many molds to pour that they stacked them up on the sidewalk in front of the plant and guys would run out with 50 lb ladles of iron and others would shake them out as soon as possible. One guy helped pour a crankshaft for the battleship Missouri. They dug the mold out of the ground and poured directly into it
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I missed operating overhead cranes in a foundry. Pouring the “heat” takes a lot of skill. The guy operating the ladle is a seriousness I have not witnessed in a long time.
Right out of high school I was paid $6.77 an hour July of 92 when I left in December 00 I was at $9.25 an hour. Honestly a much smaller operation but it was ridiculously hard and insanely dangerous!! We had some dudes get hurt pretty bad on occasion. Fortunately the two worst accidents happened before my time in the foundry.
It's a wonder steel is as cheap as she be. They have to let the cauldrons cool. Furnace as well. It's an actual job hand cleaning cauldrons and furnace weight!
I worked for several years in a factory that made train wheels. Two furnaces, each producing 90 tons of molten steel, took turns to supply steel to the hydraulic presses of the forge. The steel was poured into huge ingots 10 feet high by 2 feet in diameter. Each casting produced a dozen ingots, which when cut into 5 blocks, produced the steel for +/- 60 train wheels, depending on their diameter and weight.
This is a stupid question but could you tell me what something like that smells like? It's got to be unique. Also, when the metal cools, does it glow red?
@@olgathehandmaid Sorry to disappoint you, but your question is absolutely not stupid. As for the smell, as I remember, the heat given off during the pouring was so intense that it seemed as if even the molecules giving off the smells were instantly burned. The smell that wafted through the factory was more hydraulic oil than any other smell. As the ingots were unmolded, they seemed to glow a red tinged with orange and yellow, like huge Star Wars lightsabers. They remained orange-red for a few hours (6-8 hours), while gradually darkening as they cooled. It was more during the machining of the wheels that the particular smell of steel could be felt, despite the continuous flow of cooling oils to cool the carbide cutting tools.
@@thepragmatic6383 Thank you so much for your insight and description. It's men like you that keep the ceiling of the world standing, but I'm glad you're not working in those conditions anymore!
I don’t know if it’s the same guy but I heard he was on the job 9 days. I’ve seen shit go south fast but what was someone with no experience doing in a position that dangerous!! He was getting iron to test I heard. We tested our as it hit the main ladle with a 4 foot handle on the cup!!
@@bbkyjohnson only 9 days on the job. Dang, that's so sad. Thank God it only took a second to "transition" and he most likely didn't feel anything. I seriously doubt, the brain is aware of what's happening with your physical body in that moment. Just a horrible tragedy.
I don’t know about feeling nothing? Up until contact with that much metal I’d imagine the sensation of burning is extremely intense. Get a sunburn and stand in front of your oven at about 400 degrees. That temperature isn’t even close to what we dealt with.
My ladle was honestly much smaller. The biggest was probably holding a little over 3000 pounds. It had a big wheel and we turned it by hand. You were almost always with 2-3 feet of 2500-2700 degree iron. Got burned up a lot. Working after getting sunburned was the worst!! lol
People would look at me like I was crazy working in the steel mill , 90 degrees with long johns on under your uniform ! Your clothes would burn you if you didn't !
I hated wearing the green jackets. Our place was pretty lax on safety. T-shirt and jeans with the leather leggings and slip on steel toed boots. Don’t make the mistake of wearing a shirt with a plastic design it would feel like it’s melting to your chest!! lol
@@kingmiller1982 We were the second world country (Warsaw pact) and since 1999 we are the first world country (NATO member), but the safety standards are questionable at best :-D
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Nice video of an iron (steel?) casting being poured. Thanks for sharing! I wouldn't want to be so near that hot metal ladle just in case a cable broke or a trunnion failed on the ladle itself.
I worked in a cast iron foundry in Ohio for 8 years. I’ve seen some crazy shit happen. Fortunately nobody ever died but we did have some guys get messed up bad. I’ve been next to 2000-2500 pounds of 2700 degree iron and the heat rolling off of it is unlike anything most people will ever be able to understand. The place I worked was a much smaller operation than this one. Our biggest casting was maybe 1500 pounds and our main ladle held just about 3000 pounds and I’m betting this was about 10 times that amount. Made me nervous just watching those guys!!
it is ok, because all the cable is anti-high temperature cable, and the design for the casting crane is if one of the cable broken, the others can lift the ladle for one working cycle. it must be like that.
