I get excited when I see a Bethlehem stamp on steel...they don't make steel quite as good anymore...you can tell by torch cutting quality steel and welding on it, it carries a great sense of pride.
@@JoshBevAdventures its just like any other job, you get conditioned for the role you take. I was contracted out to repair these dinosaurs, worked long hours and climbed alot of stairs...it really is an amazing process, it gives you a real prospective of life which no life could ever live in a fiery ladle. Wish more were around.
@@JoshBevAdventures Ya, the skip car takes the iron ore BBs, coke, limestone to the top bell, drops it into the furnace...then the bustle pipe(duct) goes around furnace on cast house floor pumps air/ gases into tuyeres(like a torch tip) that melts the ore...the cast house floor could be a cool adventure to climb around and up the shell of the furnace , alot of pipes for the water jackets are located there, take a flashlight...those big dome cylinder looking tanks, usually in 3, are called stoves, they feed the bustle pipe...damn, I miss working at a steel mill. Just watch what you step on, it may not hold.
It is SO SAD to see this once great facility in a non operating rusting silent state! This place, and many like it in the United States, should still be running at full force, and employing thousands of people! It is just a damn shame that this is where our Industrial strengths have ended up!!
@@JoshBevAdventures Yes, thousands of Americans made their livlyhoods at places like this, and because of outsourcing jobs, this option dosent exist anymore! Really ashame, I would like to see it return too, but sadly, a lot of greedy people would have to change their minds first.
Only 13? My father's first job in the US was at the Steel and countless more than that died in the 1980s alone. There were literally no safety regulations so workers would climb the furnaces with no harnesses or even hardhats. I'd hear the stories of injuries and deaths constantly growing up. The whole mill is a graveyard.
Wow I did not know that!!! That's what I came across while looking into it. I appreciate the Info!! Definitely different times back then. Thanks for watching!!!
Explored it years before they started changing things to take pictures of it and have to say having been close to the top and in the other builds was a really interesting place to explore
@@JoshBevAdventures when I went in the only surveillance was honestly the train that’d go by we had to count the time then squeeze through the fence and then we were good cause the vegetation covered the entrance.
Josh Bev Adventures Did You Know Bethlehem Steel Built the Golden Gate Bridge Here and In Bethlehem Steel In Pottstown Pa where I live near! It was taken out to the area by Railcar and assembled on site. I had friends as a Kid who worked on it that was America of My Time GREAT!
I was there in early August and have been going to the plant since 2005. It’s an amazing place, and you really don’t get to see anything like this anywhere in this country. I’ve been up in the furnaces, someday maybe we could meet up and check it out again my dude.
@@JoshBevAdventures yeah. They have a lot of cameras but I’ve gone very early in the morning at the break of dawn in late June. I volunteered back in 2007 and could kind of walk right in. I went back in 2015 or so and got in again and made it into all 5 cast houses, but I don’t what’s changed since then with their policing of the area
@@JoshBevAdventures Please do. The folks in the film work in a steel plant, before they get drafted to Vietnam. It IS a movie, that is rated to be among the top 100 films of our time.
@@JoshBevAdventures Sorry, but I HAVE to ask...: Are you a Millennial? Because EVERY OTHER generation knows about this movie. Anyway, PLEASE watch it. It is grand, scary, sad... All of the things, that make up a good film. And WITHOUT super heroes or Avengers, etc. It's a classic.... So yes. Do check it out.😀👍 Hugs from a 54-year-old friend in Denmark, Land of Hygge.😄🇩🇰
@@johanneabelsen1644 Im 30 years old. I just looked up a clip and saw the russian roulette scene. I think i vaguely remember it. Im sure my dad put it on when i was a kid.
I would love to explore that place, and be free to climb ladders and stairs at will. I'd even pay admission to tour the place. Such a shame that it closed. It is almost incomprehensible.
I wanted to explore the inside so bad. The rust was calling!! Haha But very high surveillance. Probably for a good reason though, you don't want to fall through decaying rust!!!
Certainly is a compelling structure; could have used a tad more info. Looks like there were plaques/signs by the fence describing what's what; oh well:/ Also seemed like some of those huge outside 'pipes' were cut off, like the cats on my van:((
Yeah I noticed that too. Those crooks going around your neighborhood too?...This one I got a little lazy on the info, but it was a fun explore. Glad you liked it!
Alotnof structures that connected too the furnaces no longer exist due too partial demolition. Just the furnaces themselves and half of their power plant remain
This process for winning iron from ore is obsolete......There are newer techniques that operate at lower temperatures and less polluting. The capital investment for an industrial facility to produce millions of tons of iron per year is staggering. Recycling ferrous scrap is more economical......Basically recycling that which these behemoths produced i years gone by. The ferrous metal production industry is now decentralized into smaller mills that produce a single product.
If the consumer wouldn't just buy the cheapest product, but instead domestically produced products at a higher price, things could still be produced in the west. The irony, it's the American consumerist-capitalist model and the idea of free markets that hit it's own industry the hardest. Americans are being told to be proud of their "powerful economy" (calculated as a high GDP per capita) but what's the point of that if this is earned by a lucky few but many are struggling to get by. But in a free economy, it's consumer choice. And as long as people keep buying the cheapest product available and don't care about the supply chain, there is no hope for industry in the west (except for high tech but Asia will catch up with that at some point). Manufacturing creates jobs and wealth for many, banking and finance industry only for few. It's in our hands, every day, what we spend our money for.
This reminds me of William Shatner as the voice of star trek,saying to boldly go where no man has gone before!.I'd love to go see this place in person.For a history buff like me,I'd have a field day here just merely standing by these ginormous steel stacks ogling it all,I'd really love this!.There's a true wealth of history here,all else I can say about this place is wow!.I'd also love to see a music event here like the Jess Novak band,which I understand has already performed here.This would be an exciting musical experience for me!.I'd just love to visit this place someday.John Guinto
It's just an old factory . Take it down and recycle it . Get a job if you want to explore. If you had to take those stairs day in and day out, you would not see it as you do.
It’s more than just an old steel mill, it’s a symbol of politicians and corporate greed selling out to the Japanese and Communist Chinese erasing good paying American jobs, thanks to Nixon opening the Pandora’s box of Red China, look what he did! We had a “war” in Vietnam, where Heroin was smuggled in caskets to Murica, could have been won if only the bombing continued, 56,000 American lives lost and many more maimed and destroyed lives, now Commie Viet Nam is our “ most favored trading Nation, good job LBJ and MCNamara, Thsnks a lot. Get with it sheep!
A lot of people put their heart and soul in steel making at Bethlehem including WWII shipbuilding steel and that means nothing to you. You get a job or take you down to be recycled for refuse!
I've taken stairs to the bailey valve with tools and all just like my grandfather and father did...there is a strong sense of pride in these places...I think they should be preserved these furnaces as monuments. Alot of love and money is in that dirt. It's to bad America let that generation slip away from teaching the next one to protect the country in future wars. Sparrows point was the biggest blast furnace I've worked on and notably the furnaces on Zug island. Great times.
