Steel making, the first steps

[Music] steel Skyline looms before us a Skyline made up of blast furnaces tall Sentinels of the steel plant which Changs the or into molten iron and here the cycle of Steel making really begins with a first step in the making of iron an 8 tonon skip hoist dumps into the blast furnace a rich mineral stew of ore Limestone and Coke you're getting up speed now Down Below on the casting floor the stage is set at intervals of 6 hours the charge smelted down under in fense heat is withdrawn and here comes the signal to tap ready for their end of the job these fellas stab an oxygen torch through the hole piercing a plug of clay and here it comes a writhing stream of molten iron 2600 de hot