A seriously scary place to work

trevskoda said:
And thats why we cannot make any money, no risk no gain.
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Who takes the risks?
Who takes the money?

One of my uncles was cut into three pieces when a steel rope snapped just as he was finishing his final shift in a coal mine.
Some of my family lived in Consett and I was always amazed at the amount of red dust from the steel works which covered every inch of the town.

I've visited many of the heavy industrial sites on Teesside and I'm glad that I no longer live there.

Gordon
 
I used to work at a steel works that had a rolling mill and the working of steel billet to bars of all shapes was carried out similarly, all manhandled through rolling mills each piece picked up with manual tongs and lifted into the next reduction roll, the rolling mills were continuously moving so as not to waste the heat from the reducing sections during each pass.All the men ,"rollers " usually wore clogs and leather gaiters and arm shields.
It was one of my jobs to check the temperature of the furnaces and the billets that were presented for rolling .
Warm work , the good old days.The steelworks( Bredbury steelworks) is now a housing estate.
 
Jimbohorlicks said:
I used to work at a steel works that had a rolling mill and the working of steel billet to bars of all shapes was carried out similarly, all manhandled through rolling mills each piece picked up with manual tongs and lifted into the next reduction roll, the rolling mills were continuously moving so as not to waste the heat from the reducing sections during each pass.All the men ,"rollers " usually wore clogs and leather gaiters and arm shields.
It was one of my jobs to check the temperature of the furnaces and the billets that were presented for rolling .
Warm work , the good old days.The steelworks( Bredbury steelworks) is now a housing estate.
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I was about to post that was Britain not so long ago!
 
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