From my take on what I see. Most of what you showed is vitrified clay tile with the bell ends used in municipal water and sewage applications. We have a 48" vitrified water line that skirts the back of our property that most likely came from this facility. It was installed by hand with labor from the WPA program and later finished with the invention of the Buckeye ditcher. Vitrified is clay-shale, most drainage tile is only clay. Off to your left at 19:08 in the video is a square tile with 6 runs used for utility cables buried in the city. At 19:19 the square 3 hole is chase for electrical used by masons, a good example in use is the Michigan Train Station being renovated by Ford. Vandals would smash the tile and remove the copper wiring. From the video I did not see any farm field drainage tile, majority is clay and vitrified used in municipal applications. Off to the left at 29:19 is a pile of gaskets. Bedding the pipe is crucial for longevity as rigid pipe only carries the load on the Top & Bottom. For bell end pipe you would under cut grade, usually bed with 4" of stone to accept the bell end. Did I say I'm old.....😁

I watched the tour first. Wow! There are so many of those pipes in that yard! Sure wish we had some here in Washington!

Man that is really cool! There's something so interesting and spooky about a ghost factory. How could so much activity have happened there for so long and now it's just empty. I can't imagine the amount of money in material and labor that's still laying in that pipe yard! Thanks for taking us on the tour.

They are still produced over here, called company called Hepworth makes them, I presume the same way as used to be done there..... These are straight pipes joined by a simple plastic coupler with a rubber gasket to create the seal. Shame the plant was forced to close, some call it progress..... Looking forward to seeing the rest of the video Mike 👍🇬🇧

That was an interesting view of the factory that made the pipes. Very heavy stuff. 😊

We have and old brick plant up here .. Last time I was in there the buildings were full of mililions of old tires, some one has a sawmill in one of the buildings. Same buildings etc.. There was a plan to shred the tires and make asphalt For roads. They never did. If you can picture buildings that big with tires to the rafters. West of Brazil ind. Brazil is a coal town. Early 1900s underground tunnels and none mapped. Surprise sink holes from collapsing tunnels. A sink hole swallowed both lanes of the old national road. Hiway 40. Hehe. Brazil now surrounded by strip mines... Indiana has some interesting history for sure. I've recently completed 80 trips around the Sun. Lots of miles.

I gotta give it to you. You are one Hell of a truck driver!!!

Great backing up through a maze of clay pipes & old buildings. Heck of a deal on clay pipes.

That was interesting. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for sharing.

Also nice work to Chris with that New Holland little bit of two-wheel action there LOL thanks

I have to say your backing skills with the Mack are very good! Keep up the good work! Love the video's!

Imagine if the county sold most of the pipe. Put the money towards county projects and do some heritage work for the old clay factory. Turn it into a history park for tourism with samples of all the pipes and products that were produced there.

Great video. Great history. In its day u was a bread winner for many families it's a shame they can't get some help to restore some of it and give tours wonderful opportunities for all ty hope to see more g bless

Big thanks for all the varied content and adventures you've been taking us on with the detail of what we see. Allows us (me anyway) to feel like I'm actually there to witness what you're showing. This one, with the walk all throughout the factories and plants to the finished products, provided a realization of how time does not stand still. Like you said about a time capsule as you walked around made me think of the people actually pouring sweat within the confines of that place to make a deadline - and now look! Looking forward to the next video to learn even more. Thank you again for the walk back in time! Sonny (CT)

Probably a bunch of good people who have great memories of working there this place provided for an unbelievable amount of families I greatly appreciated how you respected them thanks Mike then again we pretty much know you and you have a bit of respect in ya lol thanks again no idiot comments and I guarantee that you will find a great story for us thumbs up my friend

So interestng! Thanks for sharing this! Love the history! PS, get some fork extensions for future use, ya never know!

First off, confession, when I saw the title to this video, in thought, "whatever boring" hahaha. This video was a real treat for me. I am a "geek" about the background on manufacturing of products and process(s) like this. I am eagerly looking forward to the next video, regarding the history. It appears that this product and process, just ran its' course and died out... Something new came along "concrete", most likely... Kinda of sad for the community and owners. Thank you very much Mike.

Wow! Cannelton, IN. I haven't been through there in years. Used to spend a lot of time in Tell City. Worked at the St. Meinrad monastery for a while.

Best one,yet! Thanks

Thanks for sharing the video. I am sitting on pins waiting for the next one. That will be really interesting to watch. It will be cool to hear about that place. It is fun to step back in time dealing with places like that. So much history is there. So cool to find and talk to someone that was there for so long. Thanks again.

This video showed up on my feed so I watched it. Awesome looking place. To bad you wasn’t able to find some old pictures or something like that and add the history of the plant into the video.

That’s cool . I like checking out old things like that!!

Thanks for another good video you know I like to hear the Mack running down the road it was a good memory about the factory thank you for that good operating the skid loader Putting the pipe on The trailer be safe my friend

Love the thru the pipe camera angle 😀 Be interesting to see your next video and learn a bit of history about the place - can't believe it shut down and didn't sell off the stock at the time? Also can't believe farmer Chris isn't buying more - farmers here would buy and horde the whole lot for the next 50 years 🤣 Great vid - fun watching something a bit different 👍

Always fascinating to see old buildings and learn about there history.

A days worth of exploring, lucky guys

Me and the wife love skulking around abandoned places like that! Now let's see if you can lift any of them LOL halfway through the video.

Very cool Mike!

Another great video 👍

I'm originally from Cook County Illinois and we have some cool old buildings probably not sending anymore but back in the day but the older the bigger the better that's what makes us kids still 😳😛

Well we have Captain Kleeman, and now we have Captain Claypipe Man, Very interesting video, That must have been some massive place when it was in full production, Nice one Mike.......

what a cool place. would be very fun to touch everything there and examine the machines

30:31, probably one of the coolest selfies ever

Didn’t know that place was that big ! Been down that way several times, awesome drone footage , seen some of good ol Hawesville keep the great videos coming !

That factory had enough clay to line Lake Superior! Thinking about finding that much purified clay makes my thinking muscles ache..🥴 In a former life, I was in nearly 100 factories. They covered the gamut from steel mills to food manufacturers. While it is interesting to look at the finished product and imagine how it was made... actually seeing the complicated processes that come together to produce the product is the real money shot for me. Thanks for the walking tour. Can’t wait for the guided tour! Excellent film production on your part too!

This reminds me of when I was small kid and my grandpa showed me the old buick city plant

Cool video that old plant helped raise a lot of kids in its day! Sorry to see it gone!

Awesome Video!!

That was a very cool video.

I'm not sure what surprises me more; how much is still standing or how little has been vandalized. That much over grown fence line has to have a few holes in it.

Great video. I loved the tour of the old clay tile plant.

That bottle with the world's longest name! It was probably the fancy name for red dye!

Super cool video Mike! Always hated digging around that stuff but it has a certain beauty to it 👍🏻

About 2hrs away from where I live is an old factory the same not as big, it had the supply conveyor that runs underneath the state highway to the other side. It's not in use now but they do tours around it so you see how those are made great place to visit, look forward to your video of that one Mike.

I eagerly await the next video. I love seeing places like this and hearing how they functioned. As for the Metha cryloxy propyl trimethoxy silane. It chemically interesting. It will boil at 130*C but it’s flash point is 128*C. Extremely irritating to eyes but commonly used in the dental industry now.

Another awesome video! I love old factories.

Yay good to see the old town Cannelton again my how it hadn't changed much

I rember seeing load,s of clay pipe on the road long time ago!

Hey mike, i just wanted to say that I really enjoy watching your videos, you always have different content its never the same stuff over and over again. Also you try your hardest to explain what your plan of execution is going to be and what your thinking . I know once in a while you get your words twisted,or get tongue tied and have a hard time explaining yourself but I think that most of the people watching have grown to enjoy those tongue tie moments its kinda funny. Anyhow your an awesome person an awesome father and as far as a husband well we will leave that up to Mrs. Dirt perfect that would be her area of expertise lol. Have a great day keep the great content coming thanks again. Shane s

Those large tiles, cut,make great outside table bases.

I absolutely LOVE old american factories like this... Its so sad to see them in that state but being able to see videos like this is just awesome... Very cool video.

Cool video, love history of manufacturing.

Excellent backing Mike! We've removed your rookie trucker status, and awarded you an urban status! Upgrade complete

It’s been a big operation back in the day ,old jimmy Australia

Cool tour back in time thanks

This video reminds me of some of the videos where people explore abandoned buildings. That's a cool old factory, I'd like to explore it too.

Kleeman would be in his element 👍

Love the video's!

Love the video looking forward to more great stuff thank you Mike and Chris

Mike you're showing your age. Knowing about those phone lines. Lol God bless

I love exploring old factories. The machinery is incredible. Huge pieces of cast iron that seem much bigger than they needed to be. And 0 safety. These folks worked right next to giant pumps and generators and flywheels. And that's just the way it was. The sloss furnaces in Birmingham Alabama is an awesome place. You wonder how people didn't die from machinery accidents every day. But there were 2 deaths the whole time it was in operation when a steam pipe burst and scalded them.

Wow, have to say you started explaining this like we were hearing a rendition of Boomhower!

Very interesting!! visiting old factories, that's a lot of pipe going to waste, too bad you don't have a place so stock up on them.

That is f’in marvellous ! I love that stuff (the plant) If I lived round there I’d be looking for stuff to do with that pipe, seems like cheap almost immortal material, and the bricks,good lord the bricks, I don’t know how well the mortar adhered to them,but you can hand clean a lot of bricks a day, you could build a small hurricane proof town with the stuff in that yard. That bird got it’s head out of the way quickly !

Good call on passing on the big one. Heck even with those medium-sized ones I could just feel the Kubota wanting to take a nosedive if you hit a pothole or something LOL nice work man

Great video. interesting, be nice if they can repurpose them. Water features maybe? Can't wait to see more.

Good vidja !

Great seeing that old factory and will be good to get the story.

Gosh Mike. What did you do before you had a skid steer? Its got to have opened up so many job opportunities. How can you not love it? Steer Perfect shirt! Cool old factory! Cheers DP.

I have never seen anybody back up a trailer as well as you do! Please teach me how to back up my 26 foot camper.

You can tell you have a passion for the history of this country's industrial development. It sure doesn't hurt that you have a nexus with your dad working there. Years ago with all the closing of the military bases here in California, a friend and his two brothers and I had the opportunity to go on Mare Island and explore several of the buildings and dry docks. It was much like what you experienced in this video, the remains/decay of what once was the life blood of this country, not much different then what you witnessed. Look foreword to your interview with the former employee.

Great content, industrial history. Thank you.

A heard of goats would clean up that yard PDQ. They love weeds.

Very cool video

Methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane is mainly used to improve the adhesion between the surface of organic material and inorganic material, such as the glass fiber of glass steel and plastic, rubber, paint, coatings of siliceous filler materials, as well for adhesive to increase bonding properties.

Can't wait for the tour

I was waiting for the pipe to start to roll Great video 👍.

Super cool vidjeo. Can’t wait to get the walkthrough

You would think that a salvager would contact that number and agree to take down all of those buildings for all of the pipe. That would be a win-win for the city and probably for the salvager. Of course if there are ordinances against clay pipe and I’m sorry you’re SOL.

Very interesting video. Like going back in time.

This was another great video can't wait to hear the history, many years ago we had a tile factory in our small town long gone now. Keep he vids coming,stay safe.

Very cool video thank you for putting this up

Mike you should reach out to mystic lubricants for a sponsorship for grease. Great video you are getting creative on camera placement.

can't wait till the tour video.

She's a beaut Clark lol love national lampoon's

Yep that is one big word.

I was waiting for you to drop thru that slatted floor!😫 It appeared to be a wooden floor from what i was seeing.Great video. Thanks!

really cool vid.

Mike I've hauled pipe out of there on the semi what a load to haul. Very strict on loading an tie it down. They would only load air ride truck an trailers there. But we was hauling many miles away

very cool look at that old factory

We had clay tile plants in this area,central Iowa,but not that big.Call me weird, but I could send days or weeks looking around that plant. Worked a traveling job for 32 years used to be a clay tile plant in operation in Pittsburgh, Kanas last I knew. 👍👏

For the larger tile, how about the forks on your end loader???

The video was great can't wait to c next one

With this much product how did they go under?

about 1550 leaning up against the wall is the spoon for kleeman you can say you found a spoon

Holy crap that’s a lot of clay pipe

A nice addition to the skid steer would be one of those grease gun holders. Then put a backup gun in there. I’m gonna get one for my loader just because.

When you said at start of video that were going to steal some pipes of been funny as hell if you bust through the gate like the snowman and farmer Chris in a trans am escorting you captain kleeman could be sheriff Beaufort t justice QUE MUSIC Jerry Reed EAST BOUND AND DOWN LOADED UP AND TRUCKING! interesting place the amount of labour that went into building that place alone been good times for bricklayer its a pity the factory didn't convert to concrete and pvc pipe to save jobs

That’s a good price on that pipe! What’s the lengths on them? And do they have any way of loading shipping them or is it more of you come pick what you want?

Can't wait for the video