Thanks for sharing

Yep, they remind me of being back in school and watching those really old videos lol

I can tell you that a public works project of this size couldn't get built today, owing to the mountains of laws, regulations, and rules governing occupational health and safety, environmental impact, and the turf wars between political jurisdictions all looking out for their own interests instead of the broader public interest. Since Oroville Dam was built I can't think of a single project of that size that was successfully completed and still in operation today. We can't even get a replacement bridge built between Washington and Oregon! We've been at it for a quarter century and not one teaspoon of dirt has been excavated, after blowing about $200 million in taxpayer dollars on feasibility studies, design studies, engineering studies, environmental impact studies, jurisdictional turf wars, methods of funding, and being unable to persuade taxpayers to foot the bill as proposed. Our great monuments are now replaced by monuments to stupidity and political factionalism. I have little hope we'll ever be able to attempt a project the size and complexity of Hoover Dam ever again, quite honestly.

Go home.

@@briane173 a bigger one is being built in canada right now

@@clatonblade2211 Eh?

All it took was killing 100 people.

We were also shown this in grammar school. I appreciate them more now

Fred Dibnah

Why isn't there no great feats like this done anymore ? 😪

@@speedracer1945 Because people like you Speed Racer, because of people like you.

@@brianedgar3413 ease up that glass pipe.

I was lucky enough to see the tunnels and generators last week on a tour. I think they have been opened back up to the public.

I too took the tour in the 1980s. It was a masterful sight to see. I feel fortunate to have been able to take that tour.

Ones water 💦 stop CHAOS WILL COME LIKE EUPRATES RIVER😢😢😢😢

The Hard Hat tour was really the best! I did my HH tour in summer of '01. How lucky I was!! I think I still have my hard hat, too!

Me too. I went in 1999. Took the hard hat tour. Still the best man made thing I’ve ever seen.

Definitely no OSHA either lmao

Back then when everyone would show up to work everyday

Back then when people care about what they were doing it was for the good of the country. Now a lot of people dont care about the country USA. The thing is the dont care but they dont want to leave either

@@jayecheverria2454 to be fair, the country was in the midst of a full blown depression at the time so people were lucky to be employed at all, and officially 96 people died during the dam's construction, which likely means that the number is higher.

96 people died

I just drove cross country last month. I-94 to I-90.. all the way to Boston.. roads were absolutely awful almost the entire way. I am amazed I didn’t break any tire linings.

@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 DC swamp wanna send $44 billion oversea to aid Ukraine while our infrastructure at home look like dog shit and they don’t give a damn.

Not politics, demographics.

@@327thepeanut Both

This was indeed a golden era for America. In today’s era of trump however, america continues to go downhill, nothing to be proud of anymore.

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Proud!?!?!?!?!?! PROUD!?!?!?!? We fuc'd up mother nature on land that used to belong to the Natives!!!! We are living in the immediate aftermath of the largest genocide of people, probably ever. At least we got a cool damn that will bust wide open one day out of it!!!

Absolutely correct. Bunch of worthless schmucks these days that only care of themselves and they’re phones. No gratitude. ( Josefin g bein one of them ) Truely turning into a sad entitled society. There’s no way that could be built today. Unfortunately, Society has gone backwards.

Why they didn't build it and it is still have a massive impact on the environment today. We should be removing megadams not celebrating them

It's a colossal . To build this in nowhere to provide electricity to several states and water to Vegas . Though the lake levels been dropping over the years .

Yep, our great, great grandfathers really knew how to do it. That was what made America the industrial giant it was. Such a shame we lost most of that these days to outsourcing. we need to bring that all back home again.

Wait, didn't Obama say, "You didn't build that!"

@@DeploraBill59 Obama said a lot of bullshit.

God damn right brother!🤘🇺🇸

Yeah! it's pretty amazing to imagine all that had to be imagined, drawn up, organized, put together, talked about, designed, coordinated, on and on......., just to get the project started! Big projects like that are "magical" in their execution.

Dam straight

@@jamesdavis8542 OH SHITH!!!!!!! YOU DONE GONE AND WENT THERE!!!!$!$!$!$!$!!!!!$

engineering at its finest

@@franklinbarlow8020 Oh so you also have no concern for mother nature or the Natives. I hope you're proud 😞. Question: Do dams not have a tendency to malfunction from time to time?

I agree. They did a great job all the way around. Completely amazing.

What? WHAT YOU SAY???!!!!

This couldn't be built today. No way! Regulations! And good luck finding the workers.... Be all Mexicans...I guarantee it without a shadow of doubt. Ain't no more houses being built, all Mexicans have gone to the dam project.

Amazing what can be built when you throw human desperation at a project.

Many died unfortunately 😮

They did, that was the Modern Marvels video from like the early 2000's that's what I watched waaaaay back when. They just used the water to cool it through the pipes is all.

You haVe?

The pipes would of been used to control the concretes temperature. Concrete will generate quite a bit of heat. To much heat will cause it to lose moisture too quickly. The slower the concrete cures basically the stronger it will be(Just don't let it freeze).

I believe they do that to prevent cracks as the concrete cures but once it's hardened it gets backfilled with the slurry

@@Galactis1 Yep. That was a good series. I e been looking for it, but can’t find it.

@Nap Time Is the Three Gorges Dam a Ticking Time Bomb? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aeBpfptjv7zIfXU.html&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures

You're right, sadly. Today there would be OSHA law suits, enviromental groups filing suits, all the "woke" groups filing suits about "there race, religion, sexual orientation....etc" not being represented. You name it.

Literally a sky scraper a day goes up in this country. We do this every day on a scale 100 times this.

Yes, it is sad. And the reason I found this video. Standing on this gives me horrible vertigo.

Yeah you gotta get that bomber out of there

How will vegas get power if they shut Hoover dam down

@@relaxed-epoach9195 about half an hour outside Vegas there’s this flat land completely covered in solar panels that stretch out very far

@@relaxed-epoach9195 most of the power of Vegas comes from a coal power plant. You’ll be surprised how little power from Hoover Dam actually goes to Vegas. Mainly the power runs to Boulder City and Southern Cal.

Go watch how it's made silly

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They did experience such droughts and expected future ones, thus a reservoir of water for such occurrences. The arrogance of our hindsight. These men built this dam sans modern computers, autocad, etc. yet they anticipated so much. Don't short change them just because you have Google and listen to the Climate fear mongers. We'll be ok.

America needs to plants trees and clean up areas around lakes rivers and streams , water is life!

Stop spending 1900 gallons/1 lb of almonds produced California....seriously! Your farming practices suck.

I don't know figures but you are right. Every hydroelectric project created the droughts and flooding because it messes with rivers natural course which usually helps with fertility since you need that water pressure to create electricity. As you read this you need this electricity so can't complain about it completely.

"No more floods no more droughts"...yea they didn't quite do the research necessary, did they?

The technology has not been changed lots of people working in these older docramentries .new factories no people

Watching a film like this was a rare treat in school for me! Otherwise school was very boring! I'm 61 and still remember my best teachers, most of which were men!

Same for me.Now it's CRT and gender nonsense.All a crime against children

@@colinleatham9143 No one uses CRT anymore and it is no one elses business if someone's kid likes wearing dresses. Too many people out there these days who stick their nose in other people's personal business.....

We already are, now that we've gotten rid of trump.

@@GermanShepherd1983 o really

It won't, it's in decline.

@@Galactis1 I've made far more money since Biden took over. I farm, and grain prices have tripled from what we had under trump. That idiot trump put tariffs on China and that caused huge loses for America's farmers. I love you Joe Biden. Laughing all the way to the bank.

@@Galactis1 well not with that attitude sunshine! Let’s turn that frown upside down and start doing something to right the ship. Sound good there sizzlechest?

My grandfather worked on it also. He’s long passed now but use to tell us stories. Hope one day I can visit it.

On a tour of the dam back in 2005 the guide said that he had had someone ask how they got the white line around the reservoir. He told them that they hired the boy scouts each year to come out and whitewash it. 🙂

That's RIGHT!

Maybe thats just how much the cable way weighed and not how much it could hold

If you've ever been there, that original crane going across the canyon is still there. I'd like to know how they got the pipes into their proper location with them weighing 150-184 tones. Mind boggling.

@Max Powers right... Yep.... SMH.

Fuck off soy boy, tend to your paper cuts and solarcells.

lmao yes,yes indeed

and when Western Man is left to create without impediment from parasites and certain political ideologies.

ANYTHINGSSS POSSSSIBLEEEE (Kevin Garnett voice ) lol

You must be British. We don't have health and safety in America we have Labor and industries.

A sky scraper a day goes up in this country thanks to the modern generation. And now that skyscraper has a fire suppression system doesn't cook the enhabitants in the event of a fire. We have regulations so that some idiot doesn't end up poisoning half a city because he decides to build a factory on top of a residential area. We actually think things through instead of building a dam in a vital river causing thousands to be without water, crops to dry up, cities die; and now the plant sits nearly derelict as the river dries up and its generators built with little safety regulations in mind begin exploding. The structure continues to crack and deteriorate from the limited use of rebar. I'm sorry that the modern generations try to make our world a better place to live, and that we don't just start building random walls to bolster propaganda. I'm sorry that we're trying to fix the fucked up hellscape that your generation created.