Exploration Of The Bethlehem Steel Stacks...13 People Were Killed Here!

Рет қаралды 16,985

2 жыл бұрын

This video has alot of rust and alot of epic footage. Sit back and enjoy.
Instagram: Joshbev_adventures joshbev_adv...
#exploring
#urbex
#abandoned

Пікірлер: 64

@MandrakeRoots Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

I can only imagine how hard it is to work at a steel factory/furnace! Gotta be tough for that job!

@MandrakeRoots Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@MandrakeRoots Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@mikec7176 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

It really is a shame. Whole towns relied on factories like this. Maybe one day our industries will rise again!

@mikec7176 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@chrisfusco3009 Жыл бұрын

yeah, we decided to shut it all down and let some other country do the polluting and then we can say we are green. 😞

@mikec7176 Жыл бұрын

@@chrisfusco3009 How bout it !

@LuisMorales-te3qz Жыл бұрын

@JoshBevAdventures America sold out for the cheap stuff. Government sold us out. The big ones,gone forever.

@DefCantGame Жыл бұрын

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

@MayorFuglycools Жыл бұрын

Miss that factory. A lot of quality steel was made there ! Mayor Fuglycool

@mezmerizer0266 Жыл бұрын

You can see an entire city looking like this up in Northwest Indiana. Steel is made there.

@JoshBevAdventures Жыл бұрын

Wow, ill definitely have to check that out 👊

@TeeMackAttak 9 ай бұрын

Gary Works in Gary, Indiana. 7 miles long by 4 miles wide...Still cranking out steel

@Kinseydsp 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@JoshBevAdventures 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that really is a fascinating site. Also ive read its one of the reasons why we won WW2!

@Kinseydsp 2 жыл бұрын

@@JoshBevAdventures YES MY FATHER was in WWII

@JoshBevAdventures 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kinseydspthats awesome 👊😎

@Dave-co1cv Жыл бұрын

Actually, it was transported by train to a ship, which then transported the bridge via the Panama Canal to San Francisco.

@HanzelikR 6 ай бұрын

It's interesting that it haven't been yet scrapped.

@me-ev3kz Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Excellent video. Hope you make more.

@JoshBevAdventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!! There is more coming!!! Just been real busy with work 😎🛠️

@onkyomitsu4765 11 ай бұрын

Looks like a scene from Batman Arkham City Video game for PS3. lol. love it tho. nice footage

@JoshBevAdventures 11 ай бұрын

It does look like that!!

@Dave-co1cv Жыл бұрын

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.

@goglowdaddy1686 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Same here! Nice to know some others' have this desire too. Thanks.

@mistergoodcitizen9914 Жыл бұрын

Blame you government. Taxed over seas.

@johanneabelsen1644 Жыл бұрын

Can't stop thinking about The Deer Hunter, when I see this...

@JoshBevAdventures Жыл бұрын

Never seen that ill have to check it out

@johanneabelsen1644 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

@@johanneabelsen1644 oh wow, seems interesting. Ill look it up now! 👍

@johanneabelsen1644 Жыл бұрын

@@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.😄🇩🇰

@JoshBevAdventures Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@UQRXD Жыл бұрын

Well no more pumping poisons in the air for that place.

@MayorFuglycools Жыл бұрын

Yeah now chinesium has taken the lead Mayor Fuglycool

@MrCodysVideos Жыл бұрын

My great grandfather used to work there

@brianstratton8767 Жыл бұрын

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:((

@JoshBevAdventures Жыл бұрын

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!

@lorumipsum1129 7 ай бұрын

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

@jimhenry6844 Жыл бұрын

Scrap the steel works ,bulldoze it flat, build a new state of the art armor plate steel mill. Steel is in short supply, make our own. Finally.

@user-cr5yy4te3i 5 ай бұрын

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.

@computername Жыл бұрын

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.

@kathyguinto4585 3 ай бұрын

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

@kevinbraden9445 Жыл бұрын

No fun if you worked there

@user-cr5yy4te3i 5 ай бұрын

From what i understand, a lot of Beth Pa. houses had special washrooms in the basement, to clean off the grime from the mill......

@douglasroberts6316 7 ай бұрын

Democrat Congress ....

@gordonday1273 Жыл бұрын

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.

@apocyldoomer Жыл бұрын

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!

@johnjackson8401 Жыл бұрын

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!

@BlackstoneValleyOrganist1887 Жыл бұрын

Be quiet you uncultured swine of a human

@MandrakeRoots Жыл бұрын

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.

@timbrady6473 Жыл бұрын

Sorry Gordon,sounds like you haven’t a soul ,you’ll do fine in the future of “you will own nothing and will be happy “.