The open hearth furnace #steelmaking

now we have molten iron the first step in the production of Steel this liquid iron goes for a while into huge storage tanks called mixers we'll come back to this iron soup a little later but first the Open Heart furnaces of [Music] Steel by far the greatest amount of Steel produced in the United States is made in Open Hearth furnaces such as these the ravenous Open Hearth is never on a diet it devours good scrap metal odds and ends of antique Fliers and chunks of old rails axles that may yet roll again even chicken wire and up on the charging machine you see the operator handle a huge piece of Machinery so agile that it picks up an 8,000lb charging box of scrap thrusts it into the furnace twists and turns and Rams and charges at the touch of a hand upon a switch