Posted by INCase on January 14, 2019 at 08:00:32 from (209.221.240.193):
In Reply to: Bethlehem steel plant posted by larry@stinescorner on January 12, 2019 at 17:07:06:
I would love to see that. Would never get the wife to stop there. >reading/watching the background and history of steel making process thru the innovations and building is pretty neat stuff. from the basics of steel making when Bessimer invented the blast furnace to Carnegie building his steel empire and being on the fore front at the right time and place in history. Those plants including the ones built along the lake in NW Indiana are impressive. the books on how the Indiana Steel mills were built is amazing.
family is from NE Ohio and when i was going to school in Youngstown there were a couple blast furnaces still standing. they were neat but kinda creapy/ghostly landmarks. i think they've knocked them all down now. i remember alot of the "lost" pensions being in the news. Pensions aren't really guaranteed. i know some wanted GM to go bankrupt to let them get out of some of the union contracts and pension loads. not right but we cannot trust the goobberment to "take care" of the pensions either. save it for yourself. THat's what my company does. they put 5% of my pay in a "pension" account that is kinda like a 401k (has a different 401? number) that i can take with me. I know i'm a lucky one.
even going to a "small" modern casting plant is impressive that they can heat, melt, control content and quality and then pour that iron like it was water into the sand molds.
i was watching them load the cupila (sp) they would put some iron ore, some scrap iron, some scrap steel a little of this and that. saw the magnet in the scrap area pick up a complete snow plow mount from a pickup and put it right in the furnace. hoses, motor, headlights the whole thing.
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