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Dieselman 63
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Reminds me of this video
@Parm would have a fit!
Skip to 6 mins for the bit I am on about - imagine if one of those fiery snakes took a loop around you
Sadly safety wherever that is looks years behind that of this 1960s video.
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Dieselman, thanks for the memories...
two things
notice the HEMP rope slings...!!!!!!
went a train works poss Swindon as a school boy...remember the whole train picked up on a overhead crane....amazing...
two things
notice the HEMP rope slings...!!!!!!
went a train works poss Swindon as a school boy...remember the whole train picked up on a overhead crane....amazing...
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at the museum I volunteer at we show a video of "rod rolling" which is used in the early stages of wire making, its scarier than the video you posted and was the process used by local companies in years gone by. I'll see if I can get some pics from it at the weekend.
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I started to work for Dorman Long in 1965 (yes I’m an old g*t) & a lot of the rolling gear they used was Krup made, seized from the the Germans as war reparations.
No6 rod mill featured a non reversing mill of the type shown in the video. A ‘looper’ would catch the end of the first ‘pass’ swing it through 180 degrees into the second pass roll. As stated very scary stuff with a red hot piece of steel rod all round your body. Although we did have accidents, don’t remember a ‘looper’ being among them. No HASAW then.
When No6 Mill was eventually closed it was replaced by No 10 rod Mill on an adjacent site.
The mill had roll stands which increased in speed as the rod reduced in section along the mill. By the time the rod reached the end of the mill it was travelling as fast as a speeding car. Occasionally, something would go wrong & huge loops of red hot steel would ‘cobble’ across the mill floor.
The mill was equipped with reinforced safety refuges that the mill operators would race into when the mill ‘cobbled’ More modern than No6 mill but in one way more dangerous in another as all the mill operators were exposed to the hot metal.
Different times!!
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No6 rod mill featured a non reversing mill of the type shown in the video. A ‘looper’ would catch the end of the first ‘pass’ swing it through 180 degrees into the second pass roll. As stated very scary stuff with a red hot piece of steel rod all round your body. Although we did have accidents, don’t remember a ‘looper’ being among them. No HASAW then.
When No6 Mill was eventually closed it was replaced by No 10 rod Mill on an adjacent site.
The mill had roll stands which increased in speed as the rod reduced in section along the mill. By the time the rod reached the end of the mill it was travelling as fast as a speeding car. Occasionally, something would go wrong & huge loops of red hot steel would ‘cobble’ across the mill floor.
The mill was equipped with reinforced safety refuges that the mill operators would race into when the mill ‘cobbled’ More modern than No6 mill but in one way more dangerous in another as all the mill operators were exposed to the hot metal.
Different times!!
RonA
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I went to collect some car panels from a company called Broadway stamping in mk a few years back
I asked for a tour as I’m a nosey bugger and they had a 300T press that as tall as it was 100ft possibly taller it was double the depth in the ground
You could feel your bones moves as it came down and the chap said that was only 60T
The nearly all male staff did 12 hour shifts you couldn’t think let alone hear the person next to you
I asked for a tour as I’m a nosey bugger and they had a 300T press that as tall as it was 100ft possibly taller it was double the depth in the ground
You could feel your bones moves as it came down and the chap said that was only 60T
The nearly all male staff did 12 hour shifts you couldn’t think let alone hear the person next to you
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When I was an apprentice in Dorman Long steel works in Grangetown Cleveland the rod rolling was exact;y the same. No particular safety methods, but everyone totally experience in their particular job, the skill involved in "catching" a speeding red-hot rod coming through the rolls with tongs and whipping it round to enter the next bank of rolls for further reduction in diameter, mesmerising to watch, but in those days just all in a days work, Just the same on a larger scale was RSJ ,railway lines and angle rolling, Red hot metal snaking along the mill floor and huge circular saws cutting the red hot steel to length showering glowing cuttings all around, A really good place to be an apprentice, all parts needed for repairs were made in-houe, All shafts, gear cutting and fabrication and even brass casting of split bearings, All this experience and they paid me £3-9s-1p a week at age 16years old,
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What year did you start Gordon? You missed that hearing protection wasn’t considered a priority either? We must have been like ships in the night. Although we have met since then RonA
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Hello Ron, I started at the steel works after leaving school at 15yrs old in 1959, My first year was spent as an "office boy" on the North steel plant, Then starting serving my time as an apprentice fitter and turner in the "Top shops" The only "safety" measure when working on anything was to hang a DANGER board on the switch handle,
When you mention Dorman Long, here's how they made steel during the early 1930's I think Ive posted it before
and how the Tyne Bridge was made in the late 1920's
FROM RAW MATERIAL TO FINISHED PRODUCT
Industrial film produced in 1932 that records the process of steel production, from the quarrying of ironstone and limestone to the manufacture of steel a...
www.yfanefa.com
and how the Tyne Bridge was made in the late 1920's
BUILDING THE NEW TYNE BRIDGE
A promotional film made by Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd showing the various stages in the construction of the Tyne Bridge from 1926 until its opening on October 10...
www.yfanefa.com
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Hi Gordon, you must have been coming out of your ‘time’ when I joined the company. I was with the Fuel department & for the first two years was assigned to plants all over the Cleveland site. After first two years I was allowed to go to the then Constantine college, returning to Lackenby site in 1970.
I think we may have met as we often visited the ‘top shops’ on various tasks.
I echo your comments on the then safety standards (or lack thereof) I think I still have my personal Danger board somewhere in the garage.
You are certainly correct in the assertion that everything was done ‘in house’ We even had our own screen printing facility for making warning signs. RonA
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but they had got safety pyjama's onI noticed that not one of them was wearing 'safety flip-flops'!
Let's not forget that India has a very ancient history of iron and steel making. Much prized by the Romans.
Although that video I posted could well be Pakistan.
en.wikipedia.org
Also the famous Iron Pillar - made around 400AD and very little corrosion after all that time!
en.wikipedia.org
Although that video I posted could well be Pakistan.
Wootz steel - Wikipedia
Also the famous Iron Pillar - made around 400AD and very little corrosion after all that time!
Iron pillar of Delhi - Wikipedia
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Shows how little those blokes earn - it's cheaper to pay four of them with big hammers than to buy extra gas for the torch.
@Parm would have a fit!
Skip to 6 mins for the bit I am on about - imagine if one of those fiery snakes took a loop around you
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Far too arty-farty.
