a few of the assumptions the narrator makes about things are wrong but he does a good job of showing a lot of things

The 2 bays opposite each other he describes as a mirror image are the Casthouse Floors and machines do not export material out of the ends the runners he shows you just the slag runners going to the slag pits and granulator the Iron (Not Steel as he keeps saying) went down to the rocker bays and into 350 tonne Torpedo's for transportation to the BOS Plant to be turned into Steel. The 4 Big Pipes he mentions are The Hot Blast Stoves which provide the Hot Blast to the Furnace usually at 1,000 - 1,200 deg c

Great video !! but it's obvious that the guys did not have a very good grasp of how blast furnaces operate. If you are interested in these giant pieces of technology there are plenty of KZfaq videos that describe in detail how they work. There is a fantastic blast furnace museum in Volklingen, Saarland, Germany. Almost the entire blast furnaces, coke ovens, giant hall containing the air blowers etc. Is accessible and the entire process of iron making is fully explained and interpreted. Well worth a visit if you really want to get an understanding and feel for for these amazing industrial plants.

@@jackb8682 This place looks absolutely awesome and it is on my to do list.

@@person.X. Yes do it if you possibly can. Make a special trip.... You won't be dissapointed !

I was brought up in the next village and at 5mins, 25 seconds the majority of the land you can see is actually slag. I remember as a kid I'd see the red hot mounds of 'earth' smouldering. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ea-Vfr2F17PRqX0.html

and then stick your hand in those pipes to check if temperature is good - that's how britain worked in past century, no safety regulations at all, no instruments to do that safety - like a caveman. Brexit was the right choice - 6 years later Britain feels aftermath of it, lol.

@@1sonyzz cope and seeth hahah

So sorry dude, you'll hopefully move one day.

Is this part of ICI and that whole industrial area running along the cleveland coast?

Now theyve gutted the industry they can build housing on the site for immigrants.

Great comment Mathew awe inspiring memories of the type of thing we were first at and great at , in the 70s there was a brilliant kids animation on itv called " Chorlton And The Wheelies " btw

@@thomascook8541 Kind of. ICI was/is much further inland but it's a shadow of what it used to be. The whole industrial region was largely classed as ICI but contained many different companies.

All part of a 100+Yr old plan to destroy western civilization from the inside out.

Keep raising steel prices to support artificial wage structures and insulating tariffs to depress imports. Hmmm at some point steel becomes too expensive and the problem solves itself. Nonsense…more on these boards should pay attention in school when economics is taught.

Protectionism cannot solve the problems UK steel production faces. This plant was surplus to requirements when Corus was taken over by Tata Steel.

You are absolutely right. Such a disgrace.

A Chinese company Bought British steel does this include redcar site

The station is called "British Steel Redcar" and also "Redcar British Steel" depending where you look! Whilst the station is still open, no trains now call there, and as Stereoman says, all the surrounding land is private, and monitored by security. So in theory there will now be no visits to it. It could only happen in Britain - station open, but you cannot get to or from it and no trains stop there! Sounds like something from Monty Python. If there is a plastic chair in the Saltburn bound shelter, I put it there before it closed.

@@MrMikeanthorn Sad to say, the chair is gone: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7dzdZmGydLShqs.html

They use the slag in roads now when mixing with asphalt

Well said.! 👍👍

Chris I used to live in South Bank. The closure of the steelworkers both at Cargo Fleet and Redcar was devastating

The Blast Furnace is being blown in a couple of weeks...I've worked down there in various stages of its demolition this past year ....I imagine it's very sad for the people of Teeside .

Its criminal how the accountants and politicians have got away with destroying all the imperical knowledge gained over the years. This criminality will come back and haunt the decision makers

They're trespassing with no knowledge. But I love the views.

I recall the hoo-ha of Alien 3 being linked to Redcar steelworks! :)

No huge profits made thats why it closed

We'll this comment didn't age well 😞

@@pauldavies7251 indeed😣

Perfectly spoken! - So sad to see. Having worked for British Steel in the Rolling Mill Side as Shift engineer and Shift Manager - Its in the blood, the camaraderie to get the job done - Never experienced it since in any place of work its unique - similar to mining. I'd go back tomorrow and do it all over again if i could. I rem walking around this BOS plant in the early 90's - glorious site and smells!

@@keziasarah Nice words. I've always gone to work and got my hands dirty, noisy workshops etc. Nothing like this though and I've always had lots of respect for the men that did/still do it. The cameraderie you mention, you're never going to get that sat at a desk on a computer are you?

I filmed a torpedo being filled in 1998 from the Gare rd. Have a look here. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7KaZ7CA1a3Gg4E.html

I remember this too, used to go and watch the trains with my grandad. sometimes there would be an odd one left on a siding because it was on fire 🔥

Could actually feel the heat from them as they trundled by ! In winter the ground with a the slag dumped on it towards the beach would steam lol . Magical place.

There is a place like that in Duisburg (based there for a bit). They turned it into a kind of post-industrial garden.

14m hearth and capable of 11,000 tonne a day

To add to Mark's insights; the four large cylinders you walked around were the hot blast stoves. Theses are unique, to me at least, as they have external combustion chambers. They are filled with honeycomb shaped silica bricks which cold air is passed through after being heated up in order to supply the "hot blast" to the furnace... also all material is supplied via the large conveyor belt into the furnace. The large pipes at the top are basically for evacuating waste gas which is then used to heat the stoves... most of the complex piping you saw was basically just cooling water inlets and outlets for various cooling plates implanted in the furnace's carbon brick lining... awesome video, and such a shame to see this beauty in this state

@@johnr3310 you ended that with"sutch a shame"? Personally, it's switch a shame, we have people who would see themselves out of work, in the name of climate crises, all the while, building up the economy of an enemy state, while they have NO type of control for their pollution, and a tiny bit cheaper, for that same reason! People spend over half their lives, building, a small retirement, just for it to be taken away, for lunacy.

@@markturner6240 Hello Mark. This complex was designed in Stockton -on -Tees by Davy Ashmore / Davy McKee where I worked for 8 years. The furnace used the Paul Wurth Bell-Less top , Paul Wurth being a Luxembourg company . I believe it enabled the furnace to operate at higher pressures than the older Bell design…. These older Bells were turned in the Ashmores works in Stockton, on what I believe was the largest lathe in the U.K.

@@californiadreamin8423 You noticed, I called it a "bell tower"? It wasn't because of who invented what? It was because that what we, in the south, call it. It's just "slang", for SOME of us in the steel industry. That's cool information, thank you.

@@markturner6240 Traditionally the “bell”, because it looked like one, was conical in shape, with a machined face to form a seal to prevent gases escaping from the top of the furnace. Before that , the material was simply poured into the top, by hand cart….dangerous…. and it was open, like a tall chimney. Then the bell-less top ( furnace top) was developed, fed by conveyor, rather than the “skips” on the “skip bridge”, the steeply sloping structure taking the material to the top. At the base of the furnace, the reheated air from the “stoves” is pumped to “the bustle main’ and then through the “tuyeres” ( a French word ) into the furnace. To extract the “hot metal” , the tap hole is drilled with “the tap hole drill”, and fully opened up with an “oxygen lance”. Originally the hot metal was run into sand moulds , which have the appearance of a pig feeding its piglets. That is why it is called “pig iron”. Modern practice is to pour the hot metal, via runners, into a “torpedo car”, a massive cigar shaped vessel on a rail carriage, which takes it to the “oxygen steel making plant”…..or the “open hearth “ furnace. When the tap is complete, the tap hole is plugged with a “clay gun”. This is like a cannon, filled with special clay, and forced into the tap hole , by a hydraulic cylinder/piston fixed to the cannon/barrel . The tap hole drill, and clay gun, were mounted on a tank like turret so that they could rotate into position and then swung out of the way once they’d done their job. Well all that is British jargon. I left the company designing these plants ( my boss was headhunted to a senior job in Pittsburg) in the early 80’s and went into aviation !! I’m surprised that I’ve remembered so much, and the names of those I worked with. ( My heavy duty electric arc welder leads, were “won” by our site engineer at Redcar, and look as if they’re going to outlast the furnace !! )