That oven was being "charged" with coal not "oven push"
@yakacm
Ай бұрын
don't know why, but I really like these 2 videos of Monkton. God knows how I even found them, I had no idea at first what I was even looking at, I mean I knew what coke was and how it was made, but I just didn't understand which bit was doing what.
@aladslife7963
5 ай бұрын
Amazing scale model with moving parts, even the human figures look real. LOL.
@briansmyla8696
7 ай бұрын
I love the smell of coke ovens. I spent my early years living in the shadow of the American Brake Shoe plant in Mahwah, NJ, where my grandfather worked. The smell of coke baking while I walked to school on crisp winter mornings in the mid 1970s is permanently etched in my memory. Those were great times in American history.
@leenderonde8723
7 ай бұрын
Interesting to watch all what is going on
@leenderonde8723
7 ай бұрын
What is that blue thing with a conveyer on top with a open fire burning next to it?
@HanzelikR
7 ай бұрын
In Hunedoara, almost all the furnace doors were leaking fumes from the coking process.
@HanzelikR
7 ай бұрын
Imagine the smells of a coking plant. I've grew up in Hunedoara, Romania with the coke and chemical sector smell that was coming from the Integrated Steelworks of Hunedoara. The plant operated till 1998.
@yakacm
9 ай бұрын
They should make a game, if they haven't already, Coke Plant Simulator, lol it'll sell a million.
@stevecrossan2824
11 ай бұрын
i worked at Avenue Coking Plant Chesterfield UK this plant seems to be a lot smaller plant than what we had a Avenue ...loved every minute working there from 1979-1992 when it sadly closed
@rikardogibola1312
Жыл бұрын
Whoever took this video, should be banned for life of ever touching a camera again.
@alwinlongden6959
Жыл бұрын
You didn't show an actual oven push
@gregozzy
Жыл бұрын
That’s in the other video
@IHVA-ir9gp
Жыл бұрын
Worked USS Clairton 7-9 Battery Startup in 1984. Remember 7-9, 1-3, the big block and B battery (super battery). Thanks for the video
@davorlekenik9563
Жыл бұрын
Flare is 🔝🔥
@paulnolan1352
2 жыл бұрын
Haha, Spunkton Coke!, used to go there for Machinery servicing. Had to sign in upstairs in the time office and what a Hitler they had in there. Told him my name once as he was being a twat..........JR Hartley!, never heard the last of it!. Hargreaves had it then.
@HaraldFinster
3 жыл бұрын
This was an amazing little coke plant. I spent several nights an the public road running along the site and took photographs. In the morning one of the managers passed by and asked me what I was doing. He invited me for a spontaneous visit and gave me an extraordinary guided tour. The staff and management were the kindest people and I wonder what they might have done after the plant was closed and demolished.
@davorlekenik9563
Жыл бұрын
I remember coke plant (closed in 1994) in the bay of Bakar near Rijeka ,Croatia (ex Yugoslavia)....at night looking like vulcano-inferno because of monster flare 🔥🔥
@billsmith7815
3 жыл бұрын
be nice if an explanation of whats going on. This is about as interesting as watching grass grow
@onesixfive
3 жыл бұрын
you are looking down at the top of an oven battery, a giant 'building' with about 75 (looks lke) individual ovens inside. The lids are removed on top so the larry car (the big black soot stained vehicle that rides on tracks) can portion coal into the holes, and down into the ovens. it bakes inside for 18 hours in a sealed enviornment and then the coal has become coke. eventually, it is pushed out from left to right (from the viewers perspective) into a waiting quench car. as the coke is now exposed to oxygen it bursts into flames. so it is brought to the quench tower (tall building on far end, right side) where thousands of gallons of water are dumped onto it to stop the burning process.
@1940limited
8 ай бұрын
I wish there was more emphasis on the charge car.
@WAL_DC-6B
3 жыл бұрын
I have a relative that use to work as an attorney for Inland Steel (now Arcelor Mittal) which has a fully integrated steel mill in East Chicago, Indiana, U.S.A (part of "da (Calumet) region"). She told me that one of the worst places you can work at the mill are the coke ovens due to the toxic chemicals in the air you were constantly exposed to. It was a true "low man on the totem pole" job union, seniority wise. This was back in the days when there wasn't much in the way of any air filtration breathing devices to prevent workers from inhaling the fumes and dust. Nice showing how the ovens are emptied of coke and filled with coal. Man, that looks like dangerous and incredibly hot work, especially on a hot July day. Thanks for sharing this "dirty, gritty" industrial video especially now that this operation is shut down!
@yakacm
9 ай бұрын
This plant was in Yorkshire, it doesn't get hot that often even in July, maybe high 70's low 80s F, now and again.
@mikemacmillan778
3 жыл бұрын
I worked on Number 7 battery in Stelco Hilton works as a contractor in the mid 90s . I remember on my birthday in July 97, it was 50 C degrees topside at 0630. The lead hand said if it got any hotter we’d put in a work refusal . But he just stopped checking the temperature instead, I’m sure it got hotter, but the salt pills helped I guess
@Fredboot1
4 жыл бұрын
Olbi Olbi Olbi
@Fredboot1
5 жыл бұрын
A bet hepple n pogley are on the tops.
@Fredboot1
3 жыл бұрын
No it's not, just seen olbi olbi olbi
@1940limited
5 жыл бұрын
I ran the charge car at Allied Chemical's Ashland, KY, coke plant back in the early 70s. It was quite an experience. The coke was shipped out by rail from that facility. It was a big operation, extinct now.
@gregozzy
5 жыл бұрын
This plant is extinct now. Only 2 left in the UK now.
@1940limited
5 жыл бұрын
@@gregozzy Too bad.
@Fredboot1
5 жыл бұрын
This was the last British independent coke plant, it was almost 140yrs. old.
@lewiemcneely9143
5 жыл бұрын
I never cease to be amazed how HUGE an operation like this is. GOOD video as is the other. Thanks!
@Punxsyjumper
5 жыл бұрын
Cool vid. I used to work at the USS coke plant in Fairless Works, PA. I was the Spellman so I ran all the machines. Both door machines, hot car, larry car and the pusher. Great to see it again
@georghieronymus9935
4 жыл бұрын
I always wonder when I look at these machines. There's so many components and parts. Do they need a lot of maintenance? Who does that? How do they design and build these things?
@Fredboot1
3 жыл бұрын
Same here, trained up on all Machines, this plant closed in 2014.
@Mck499
Жыл бұрын
I currently work at the Clairton Coke works, sad to see all the coke plants shutting down anymore. Especially because we just shutdown 1-3 battery at the end of March
@tapaskumartahal9757
6 жыл бұрын
But our coke Oven has 2 sided a.p hole pusher side & coke side
@tapaskumartahal9757
6 жыл бұрын
A.p hole one side their,
@tapaskumartahal9757
6 жыл бұрын
These coke Oven have 4 charging hole ,
@1940limited
5 жыл бұрын
The ones I worked at Allied chemical had three.
@Fredboot1
5 жыл бұрын
Yes mate we used to sequential charge the ovens 1&2 pull off & seal 1&2 then back on to fill no4 pull off & seal no4, back on to fill no3 whilst leveling.
@thenekom
6 жыл бұрын
Cool video! When was this filmed?
@gregozzy
6 жыл бұрын
2014
@Fredboot1
5 жыл бұрын
This coking plant shut on the 16/12/14 :-( last oven to be pushed was oven No17.
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