I know, seems strange to see happy workers in these conditions. The land can no longer support the amount of agriculture needed to sustain the population, the eels are gone, the water is filthy, the air can't be much better...

@@looper9264 trust me I used to live in shanghai and the air is filthy, most stores you see are just stands, and the schools look like prison

@Zechariah Justin Scam.

This video needs more love. It deserves to be front page.

@@jimmydcricket5893 I reported him

i feel bad for laughing but lmao, its like the pits in isengard lol.

Sauron /ˈsaʊrɒn/[1] is the title character[a] and main antagonist[3] of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. In the same work, he is identified as the Necromancer, mentioned in Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. In Tolkien's The Silmarillion (published posthumously by Tolkien's son Christopher Tolkien),[4] he is also described as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that the Ainur, the "angelic" powers of his constructed myth, "were capable of many degrees of error and failing", but by far the worst was "the absolute Satanic rebellion and evil of Morgoth and his satellite Sauron".[5]

One does not simply walk into Mordor. The ground is fire and the air is a poisonous fume. All while the eye of Sauron gazes down on you.

And the Eye of Sauron surveils everything ......

It’s where Luke burned himself

His wife was pretty fine too

The overly positive outlook is beautifully obfuscatory. I'll take mindless self indulgence, over stark raving reality, any day, though. So, I guess, keep it up...

From what I hear, steel mills are fullfilling jobs , death is only of greater sadness than a live without fullfillment

I work at a foundry celebrating their 125th anniversary. Five generations of steel. And the furnaces light every night. And the cranes keep flying over head. ...a lot of effort goes into environmental remediation and recycling, now, though.

China alone produce 53% of World's total steel.

@@Sammy58328 afraid so its near that acording to forge magazine, even with the downturn from the world wide pandemic the industry still managed to grow most of this carried on the back of chinas steel production, but its not often as high quality as japanese or western micro batch steels, or that in the west there isn't new equiptment being put into service, sdi is putting in what will be the widest thin roll mill in the world in texas, and many of the largest presses or steel making equiptment is made in germany at schuler, sheffield forgemasters, or danali bridai of italy, you also have places in the usa though that make presses though like ajax ceco chambersburg erie, beckwood, and minster to name a few, and national machineery, as well as morgan engineering of ohio.

Not all steel is made thr same tho. Thats why the whole world imports German or US steel. Sometime projects need extremly high quality steel. It would be interesting to know if China can produce this high quality steel as well now.

@@sblbb929 some of it yes, not all of it is garbage, and they are getting investers from of course western companies because of the cost of production and large amount of workers, and they are building some of the largest forging equiptment, like largest forging presses, and seamless ring rollers, though the largest works and blast furnace is in korea, though I belive the second largest integrated mill is one in Alabama or Georgia, at least that is the information that google gives, and there is the larest thing roll plate operation is in texas being brought online by steel dynamics, which was born and raised from right here in north east indiana most of the large equiptment makers though for the largest furnaces are in europe, like danali bredai, and sms group, though there are places here in the usa as well as other parts of the world that build differant sorts of presses, types of furnaces or heat treat sorts of stuff, and large presses often have parts that are usually found to be cast by forgemasters in sheffild england, or china, but there are as you say a few companies that can pour the super large parts in steel foundries, we have the largest foundry company in the world though as far as amount of people employed and that would be wapaca which has plants all over including one in tell city indiana which is somewhere in southern indiana I think in the heel of indiana across the river from kentucky, they mostly make auto and brake parts they cast though, and I think stuff for john deer actually indiana lead the nation in steel production for the last 2 years I think

@@sblbb929 China use almost 96 percent of their steel. Those mega structures in Beijing are made with Chinese steel. Their warships , cargo ships, bridges , skyscrapers they all use Chinese steel.

The quality of the steel she produced has gone downhill.

@@thomaslewis7855 Of course it has. The Chinese have a different understanding of quality than we do.

@@DLT-po6to no they just dont care as much about quality.

@@toddcolclough3177 They do. But they only try to get the quality just good enough and and not as good as possible.

yes agreed , but the mentality toward manual work and the production of products between Germans and the Chinese could not be more different, so your open mindedness toward the mill being torn down and shipped to china surprised me a lot. i see no continuation in it. to me its not the same mill at all. Would most Germans see it the way you do?

dressed up for 15 minutes of fame on KZfaq

Poor in China buy second hand clothes. Winters are harsh and poor cannot afford suits. Second coat jacket might be 10 RMB about $1.5.

@Sheridan Isashitstain I was just saying how I like him doing it dressed up it be cool if everyone always was for their job dont be so defensive I love living in the usa is pretty nice

Moved to Shanghai dressed like a fisherman to catch eel. Now he's fishing for iron dressed in a suit. Capitalism.

I came to the comments to find this

Their value system disallows individual distinction. Even though he owns part of, maybe even the whole place, the only thing that matters is the growth of the system. He had his own space away from the other houses, sure, but 750sqft. It's like my living room and family room. That's a tiny house. Sure the workers make a small take home salary, but not wage level. Most of it is, what we would call, taxed. The community springs up around the needs of the families working the plant. As the plant gets bigger, and more people are needed, the community naturally grows and integrates. I feel like it has its pros and cons. Like, I assume, not much ladder climbing. Gentrification, as the plant complexifies, new skilled workers must be brought in to maintain steady work flow. This would change the balance of locals and legacy staff members who have lived there longest, as managers and new teams would be from other places. I also assume that education, and what you are allowed to do, are engineered. So to speak... Like in the movie the Truman show, does not-knowing make that reality any less special? After he knows, does it do him any good to understand that he ultimately has no other options? 🧐

And it was transported to china in 2002, 18 years already, at that time i was just a little boy in kindergarten, now i’m a mother with 2 kids xD

@@mingmingzhao3518 So,the question is :Are you a boy or a girl

We will see it again in 10 years !!

@@liyz7142 *Are you stupid she already said she is a mother*

LI YZ oh, im absolutly a man, haha, its a meme on chinese internet. Teenagers use it to express how fast time flies and things change

Edward Duran 📠

This is how Chinese factories get there steel.

Edward Duran 👀

I've never seen any harbor freight sell steel?

@@user-yg2up4lg3r Pittsburgh Tools aren't actually made in Pittsburgh, they're made in China. Fine if you're just looking for a prybar, don't get anything serious like a ball joint press. Couldn't figure out why it kept pressing my ball joints in sideways...take it off, look at it, the C clamp has now opened up to more of an L clamp bc the steel is absolute shit.

These eels are very healthy, rich in iron! lol That's most industrialized countries. All were built on the backs of farmers and rural people drawn to the big cities and industry.

lolol why is this not the top comment

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Chinese steel sucks eels have way more iron content than chinese steel.

.. "it's good I don't have to steal"!

A lot of jobs in your hi tech America aren't much better than that get a grip on reality before you open your yap.

Michael Mark Martin III just shut the fuck up idiot

Whats your job?

@@unemployedgringo 😂😂😭😭😭😭

Yes you are right, these Tramp Elements makes steel WEAKER, But i believe its the responsibility of Companies Procurement Department to purchase Quality Equipment, they must have Technical Guys along with them who guide them. Its clear that Cheap price brings low Quality Equipment.

if you want quality pay the quality price. But fuck hole like you don't want to pay the price but expect to top notch quality products. The Chinese not suppose to eat?

You can make good steel from electric arc furnaces but the Chinese don't care about quality. Nothing like warped Chinese brake rotors one month after you buy and install them. Thanks GM and China for ending my Engineering Design career. As my grandmother taught me; its not how much you pay but what you get for what you pay, " don't be penny wise & pound foolish" . Your products are cheap enough but still aren't worth paying for.

I'll never forget using a drill bit from China. It bent into a j!

@@vincentconti3633 Most of the drill bits that I got from China just snapped in half or the tips broke. I try and avoid Chinese bits now.

Wages only make up around 7 percent of the cost of producing Chinese steel

Hol up!! There's something wrong here

@@nickgehr6916 sex change? 🤣😂

@@vicsantana7116 no it's a Chinese meme about how time flies

What?

@@vicsantana7116 hy

The same for people all over the world, as large corporations are more important than the people in most countries. This is why many of the bad things are happening world wide.

Yet Europe are importing more migrants and refugees to leech of of European tax payers. More immigrants and refugees mean less competition from employers. Employers can have their pick of workers with more immigrants. Employers don't have to pay higher wage either as workers have to compete for jobs now. Supply and demand.

@@terriesmith8219 Yes, and we have that problem here as well. You probably see it from your home as well when you get out. I hope that you have been safe from the fires recently. Also my focus lately has been my wife, if you are the person by that name and not too far from the 78, you probably know her. She has had problems with her hands due to neuropathy and has not used pencils for sometime, then about week before thanksgiving and the snow had heart attack. If you are the same person she was with a friend of hers at your place and she used to draw dragons and other things and 3d as well. I have a link on this account if you want to contact me, as I'm not on FB very much.

@@Paul-gz5dp Yup. We have a big immigration and refugees problem here, that's why our wages are stagnant. Our wages hasn't risen since the late 80s. We have so many immigrants and refugees in our country that it's ruining the middle class. The middle class has pretty much disappeared. Gone. Tax payers are paying for refugees and migrants homes, foods, medical, schools. ALL paid by tax payers, yet the real citizen end up homeless because all the housing goes to immigrants and refugees first. Real citizens are a last priority. These globalists leaders are actively trying to destroy Europe and America. They want to destroy the West so they can rule over everyone. We'll become serfs by then.

@@terriesmith8219 That is true, and from what I know of history it is not the first time they have done this.They were behind the destruction of Egypt, Rome, Greece, Persia, and many others as well. Some of this is in Robert Greene's books. Other places as well. Even Caesar had a problem with them.

hahahaha, yes they did!

They have their own sh*tty formula.. its called chineseium....

I work for an engineering company and we pretty much have a constant presence in chinese steel factories supervising and testing their steel to ensure its to standard. They try to divert attention away and hide their corner cutting. As soon as you turn your back, they will attempt to rip you off and give you sub standard steel. We have sent entire shiploads of steel back to china for failing standards. I wish the world would wake up, the chinese culture is 'fuck everyone else, beg, lie, steal' anything to take over and when they do, they opress. The world will not benefit from a powerful china.

slickstrings I wish more people understood this. We also need our governments to incentivize local manufacturing . This would create higher quality products

@@slickstrings I think the world has not benefit from anything "too powerful" never ever. Not a Germany, not a France Not a USA. The problem is that the so-called "developed world" is getting lazy and complacent. They forget that most of the processes that have made this "modern" life possible rely on many hands on the floor and cheap labor. Once these processes become too polluting to be feasible in the US, they are outsourced to some poor buggers in China. Let them breathe the bad air instead of us, now its their problem. All that will fall back on US when China is becoming so powerful that they outsource THEIR polluting production to... {your guess}

@@OttoDeCalumnias China already exports their fluoride from aluminum plants in China to be added to our water supply here in the USA.

Trust but verify... especially when lives depend on it eh

When you're green you grow, when you're ripe you rot.

Phillip Lopez every empire falls eventually, even America will fall someday.

Well, China has been around continuously for over 4000 years, maybe they are an exception.

AntonioR Software China has hardly been an empire the entire time. That’s like saying Rome has been an empire for thousands of years lol.

economies will fall yes,... but only when people stop working,. and place tariffs on those that do,...

The steel industry workers eat new born babies for their stem cells to regrow their hearing

that was cooling water. The fuel tank still has the cap on.

@@nickopedia5669 i know, they are different colors. i still had to rewatch it when i saw it the first time because i'm not used to seeing that setup.

bruh that's for the cooling system, ain't no combustion engine could run with the slightest moisture.

@@default2591 You should search out Stanley Meyer's water car LOL

@@jerrypeevey Fueled by snake oil and clickbait loL

Hi I-ron . I'm I-ran 😂😂 and you are a friend, yes?

Lad-dles, full of pick i-ron.

Most annoying narrator ive ever heard

@@JUSJAK I thought it was Christophe Waltz...

@@JUSJAK I'd like to hear you speak german

You forgot about us in Aust Cindy; but then we SouthernHemispherans don't really count, do we?

Upside down lives matter! 😄👍

I don't know about that, but low alloy steel no matter where made rusts away. The equipment left here to go to China and along with it the ability to make it here. Used to have one in Fontana and it is now a distribution center. It would have been much smarter to have made the plant operate cleaner, and the same for the one at Jorgensen in Lynwood. They would need all new equipment along with buildings to start production again. Investment should be here at home, as it is very stupid for any country to rely on other countries for its materials. If they cut you off you are at their mercy, and a great way to win a war without even fighting. If the equipment is broken down and can't get or make parts it is rather stupid on our part.

I mean you are correct about chinesium, but don't forget it's the business owners that push for more low quality chinesium to put in everything. its *not* like its the actual foundry workers who purposely make the steel shitty for their own gain.

How is it not smelting by definition ? Melting and smelting are two different chemical terms that describe two different processes. The maindifference between meltingand smelting is that melting converts a solid substance into a liquid whereas smeltingconverts an ore to its purest form.and they do both ...

I'm sure they will be hearing that noise soon. Haven't you heard, the sweet n sours are buying up Scunthorpe :)

Aj Pool 🏊 you kinda answered your question . But taking iron ore / dirt and turning it into iron pellets is called - smelting . Taking good steel and melting it back into liquid steel is Not called smelting

cheng8881 - looked up the story . China 🇨🇳 is going to try to keep British steel running ? Japan 🇯🇵 tried the same thing in the USA in the 1980s . 🇯🇵 were way to polite . They got totally forked . will be interesting to see how Chinese do in Britain 🇬🇧

@@psychiatry-is-eugenics No one negotiates better than the Chinese. Indeed it will be fascinating to watch it all unfold.

Arch Stanton that’s old

Thanks!

😂

I'm eating a hot pocket in the kitchen. It's 1.04am and your comment made me chuckle

Well this was filmed in 2002-2004 so get on with the times little boy.

And apparently it's entirely illegal to clean up the river...

Other way around, only in China do they find a way to make money from cleaning up their rivers.

@pegan farm They are so used to be stepped on they believe 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week with no safety equipment is a damn good life.

@pegan farm yes, the shoes melting....

They got 3 billion people - you cannot kill enough of them at any speed.

@@rabidfarmer9765 what??

So are these.

The early 2000s were good times indeed my friend.

any Era is much much better than now... except maybe for 1900something when the great plague, or the last ice age...

It's from 2004.

@@iannens3316 that is old

It's a good informative thing to see now though. Cuz enough time has passed that when there's even a moderate earthquake, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapses because of the Chinese steel they used on it, we'll all at least think hey we knew about this

I'd agree with that. I've lived in China for many years now and originally did some work with the foundries over here. I gave it up for reasons of personal ethical considerations. However, people are wearing personal protection equipment in the video which they sure didn't ten years ago, but that could be for the cameras. The rest definitely is consistent with your view in my opinion. I mean, look at the state of the place generally, it isn't a modern foundry by any means.

2004 was a looong time along

It came out in 2004

Nicely done. I was there in ‘01 and remember this old Shanghai, right on the cusp of explosive growth.

@God Bless us all It's not illegal to clean up the water. It is illegal to "work" without proper registration. He is from a different area. And in China you can only work and go to school legally in your home province or town. That is communism for you.

@@DanielButlergungfu1967 It is all about control. That is communism for you, total control over the individual, with no deviation from the party line( except for the leadership of course)

Timmy Jones - us steel cutting back it’s Detroit works to . Doesn’t look good ; can’t compete with China 🇨🇳

You will see it again every 10 years !!

Looks nothing like America

16 years

The documentary is from 2004. It's turning 17 here in 2021

Who else can do this wearing flip flops and short shorts?

That is why they are hiring so many people.

Accursed Nature - most people who learn the truth are not able to communicate . Really helpless minority , alone , divided .

That's why they are kicking our asses. They don't the restrictions the west does.

@@MichaelWilson-dm4gz by restrictions you mean labor laws and workers rights?

Back then it actually would cost more to ship the scrap across the country then ship it to China. Until fairly recently that was also part of the reason e-waste and recyclables mostly went to China. Crazy but true do to the shipping arrangements most countries have with China and the huge amount of export China ships.

China doesn’t have much concern for the environment.

@@thomaslewis7855 that honestly was only part of the equation. The shipping aspect was massive. China has been cutting back on waste shipments more recently. As a result much of our recyclables are not being recycled at all. E- waste is headed to West Africa, India and Bangladesh these days.

Thomas Lewis China would to like to concern but white countries give it too much pressure. China is too weak to resist.

Frank Mill 👌

*They can't film bad stuff today, so they use old stuff*

Dont think it has got any better

Spark creates documentaries for television and has been releasing all of it's old docs to KZfaq. So, of course you won't find a new doc here.

Haha, right!

You have given your economy to the chinese by chinese guys who bought a favtory in Dortmund ?

@@juliusraben3526 you’re an idiot if that’s how deeply you think on the subject

@@Girtharmstrong69 ........... maybe watch the clip again

@@juliusraben3526 his comment isn’t exclusively about the purchase of a Dortmund refinery dumbass

Our economy is still larger, our leaders have decided to let China endure the environmental degradation. The West can still do it cheaper and more efficiently, but not with pollution control. China is like the West in the 20th century, no concern for the environment.

Me 2 is fucking class

ah yes! I was tucking my hands when I saw this.

right?! i was like jesus people, one strong gust of wind...get you freakin hands outta there!!

The sucker with the Lance and a cloth over his face and they say that it's very hot almost 100degrees.more like 1000.

steel workers are a breed of their own. worldwide.

@Yee Vang Yes, that will be the excuse they give.

Very creative solution! I thought it was funny when he was complaining about copper..scrap steel = $0.06 per lb, scrap copper = $2+ per lb

It takes capitalism to figure that out. There's no incentive in a communist economy to do anything better.

This was a documentary about economic change and how manufacturing is moving from the west to China. And pig iron was merely a semi finished product for them. That is a steel plant.

No factory workers In the United States can afford that either.🇺🇸

Boss, does this music sounds like a Chinese music? Ehh, who cares! Just put it in

lol

Lmao, I was scrolling down the comment section to see if I would find a comment just like this,,,and if anyone else noticed why the Narrator kept on saying #IRON ,, I-RUN ,,,lol!!! nice job #peteb2.

Plus we R using the "Last Samurai" Them Music

I earn (us) or eye in (uk)

People always go where the money is.