If this is around Pittsburgh It could have been my 5th Great grandfather's wellheads. John E. Carnahan was born on the old Carnahan homestead which has now been in the family possession for more than ninety years and is at present owned by him, located near Leechburg, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. His father was John Carnahan. When a boy Mr. Carnahan left school and made himself useful as well as secured a valuable discipline by working on his father's farm. He continued to look after his father's interests until the early '70s, and then bought a farm of his own. His land was underlaid, as it proved, with several veins of coal. In 1895 he began drilling for and found gas. That was the beginning of his extended operations in the oil and gas industry, and eventually from that into the broad field of manufacturing and finance. In 1895 Mr. Carnahan leased thousands of acres of land in Armstrong County, and subsequently located the great Schellhammer gas well, and from that time forward was engaged in drilling and developing gas and oil properties for himself and for different corporations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He has large oil holdings in those states, and his operations in those fields still continue. In the meantime Mr. Carnahan had turned his attention to the iron and steel industry. With other parties he was interested in the Mesta machine plant at Homestead, Pennsylvania. Mr. Carnahan in 1897 located in Canton and build a plant in that city, known as The Canton Roll & Machine Co. Thus in 1897 Mr. Carnahan's broad experience and great resources began operating for the welfare of this industrial City of Stark County. The Canton Roll & Machine Company was organized and built its plant. Two years later the business was sold, and Mr. Carnahan entered into an agreement not to engage in the same line of business east of the Rocky Mountains for a period of fifteen years. Shut off from this line of enterprise, in 1899 he organized the Carnahan Tin Plate and Sheet Company, of which he became president and has since continued the chief executive of that large and important industry. This company has had perhaps as prosperous a career of development as any local industry of Canton. The plant has been enlarged from time to time, and it is now one of the most extensive in the Canton industrial district. Its management has likewise been exceedingly successful from the standpoint of dividends. The plant is equipped with six knobling furnaces, with hammers and bar mills to roll the iron into bars, and the product is made under patent processes controlled by the company.
The part of the rail you said is coming apart is called overflow it occurs as the rail head is beaten down by the rail wheels And the myth about not being able hear the train is not a myth Not so much on a diesel line but on an electric rail line the trains are right on top of you before you hear them an experienced rail worker generally would hear the ring in the rail just be careful and use your head keep up the awesome videos 👍
Those balls are taconite pellets. Thats a form of iron ore. Youre on the Bessemer & Lake Erie RR. Those pellets came from Minnesota and were transported by lake boat to Conneaut, OH and shipped to the Edgar Thompson works in Pittsburgh.
REALLY COOL !! My family is from Uniontown PA . Mostly coal miners. Then my family moved to western ny. I love the history of places and relics of old that told the stories of the era
Mitchell, yourself and Logan give me hope. I thought after my generation that people weren’t very exploratory. You love history be it race cars or Americana. Logan, is a special girl that enjoys so much. You guys are a match. Thank you for the content that is real and different than others. As someone who has left you comments before, keep it coming brother. Taylor from Nashville, actually from Nashville, not some hippy that moved here.
My grandpa was an oil driller around the turn of the century working on equipment just like you saw. You found the bull wheels, but originally they would have been covered with wood over the steel. Been awhile since I have seen one of these--most of them here have been torn down. Thx!
Thanks...you know, I actually enjoyed this video...when I was a kid (I'm now 80), we still had a few wooden oil derricks in my area...Thanks again for posting
Theirs a ton of interesting old engines for wells all over that area... I grew up in titusville and always enjoyed finding random well sites burried deep in the woods!
Gotta make a correction here if you are in front of the train you will not hear it coming unless it blows the horn. Railroaders call it the death cone. Noise travels out on an angle behind it like a plane in the sky.
Looking at your frame setting there it was a truck turned in to a stationary power unit and that round pulley on the right used a big flat belt to turn something out there maybe a oil well pump or transfer pump or even a generator
what a neat video that area has so much more oil drilling history im sure.you have a really cool sister to tag along and her friend to see what you were talking about.my sister would do the same cause she likes old machines they can tell us so much.thanks for sharing
That was a great find! That’s what I used to love searching for back hiking in the woods over in New jersey. Looks like you had a great time. I’m just like you and look at manufacturers names and number.
As you said the engine is chrysler. Probably replaced the t engine in 1940. The diff looks like a t but with the pinion so low its a worm drive. Probably a tt truck.
If you had of taken your drone could have sent it up to find it 😂 good exercise 😂 great find thanks for taking us along 🎉 and thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
Reminds me of a local mercury mine. We had a large mercury mine in the hills not far from town. There are relics of that mining you can visit. Not many people knew about this and when I was a kid and we got to climb all over a huge ore plant. It’s since been fenced off. If you know where to go there are still parts of rail tracks. I’m sure there are many places like you found and not well known. Cool adventure.
Yep secrets are Best Kept secret when it's best. There's less destruction in it. Well congratulations on finding a piece of insignificance. And that concludes our history lesson today. LOL
More people than you think have laid eyes on that beauty 😏 and we would have climbed it just to say we did. No cell phones, no pics, just personal satisfaction. The good old days 4 sure
I'm from Titusville Pennsylvania and currently live there. Lots of Oil history here. First oil well drilled near Titusville by Edwin Drake in 1859. Drake well museum here has lots of original equipment and stuff from the oil boom days. Pennzoil refinery in Rouseville near Oil City is gone now. Everything moved to Texas.
Jennings Motors on you tube gets Motors like this running all the time, Give me 2 Days it will be free turning and ready to start That motor is in the open, So I would have know Problem Putting My Chain binder on the front with 8 foot Pipe, Bring a small torch setup Remove the Plugs and head Put a oil mix in it ,set for 2 days and try and turn it.Thats what you should do for a Video.
Sadly, that old Plymouth is a boat anchor. With the carburetor open to the elements like that, the cylinders are certainly full of water and rust. Locked up tighter than a drum.Cool find though.
Its weird RUclips suggested I see this instead of your main channel . I had not watched your main channel, and that is more my kind of stuff, I will check more of it out. There was no link here to your main, I had to hunt. This was cool video though.
It's sad 😢 but true, anything people would be interested in seeing, people have to destroy, for entertainment, so noone else can have the enjoyment of seeing it, thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
If the tracks are on a slope the little “iron balls” very well could be a from trains sanding the track for traction either for climbing the incline or braking on the decline. The sand will melt because of pressure and friction and combine with iron/steel particles that is transferred from the rails. Additionally the “pieces of rail” could also be the same melted sand and iron particles that the “iron balls” are made of. That said that stretch of track could use the sleepers (railroad ties) replaced or refurbished (plug any/all spike holes with epoxy, the tracks reset and ballasted. As for the oil well it would interesting to figure out how the well was run (was it pumping 24/7 or for a set period of time each day as well as what did they do with the product after it was pumped from the ground (was it stored in a tank and then pumped to a rail car, was there a road of some sort that could be driven to with a tanker truck, or was it pumped via a pipeline to a refinery/tank farm. Lastly it would be interesting to find out who owned or still owns that well and if there is enough oil in the well to make it commercially viable to operate again and if not then the well should be properly plugged (drill pipe removed and filled with grout) to prevent a possible oil spill/environmental hazard especially with that large stream/river so close to it.
Would be surprised if someone doesn’t reach out to you with the location of one of these legacy wells, that is still active, as I’ve seen some videos of these wells, that are family owned, in the past. Need to spin some lore for drama, of the mysterious loss of cell signal, and the something in the brush, watching y’all, if y’all wanna get on Discovery Channel…😂 Good stuff. Thanks for sharing y’all.
At least the RR is still there my WNC town turning 20 miles into a 15 million bike/ walking path. Train hasn't run in 20 years after they shutdown all the factorys it kept busy. 😢
dodge and Studebaker sold thousands of 6cyl flatty's as industrial engines to run pumps saw mills gold mines anything that required remote location power ..could be bought in sears catalogs as well as Eatons(canada)
John D Rockefeller in 1877 shut down all the Oil wells near Pittsburgh, just to break the Rail roads monopoly on transporting the oil. He then built Pipe lines and fired them back up.
@@stapleton42extra I'm pretty sure they did. I was an oilfield operator in Alberta, and I had worked with antique installations that used this method. Often " oilwells" are better described as gas wells...wherein any oil production has fallen off, yet the casing gas still flows.
Fairly sure the frame is a Model A. It will be there until someone removes it. Model A frames were made with a pinch of vanadium. If you"d look closely, you'd see the original mfg grind marks on the frame. In other words, Ford built a vehicle in which the frame would last hundreds of years, without knowing it. Steel mfg wasn't old enough to know how long different blends would last. Adding vanadium is really strange. Metalugically, it makes steel stronger & more flexible & as you see, lasting a verry long time. All of which the steel industry had decided is incompatible with consumer markets. In the US, for about 10 years, there was a push to make things from vanadium steel. My grandfather used to work for Vanadium Corp of America during this time. He helped shutter the plant ... too good a product. Ran it out of town thru industry collusion to not buy vanaduim ...such is part of the real history of the US. So, you didn't realize you had visited a relic of the steel industry in the heart of the steel industry, a major decision NOT to provide the best product to consumers with the blessings of the labor unions & the titan's of steel. Thanks for sharing. P.S. That uneasy, society going the wrong way feeling you've described in other vids has, socially, always been there. What's different today is the ability, thru the internet, to research whether the correct historical decisions were made and question the decisions of today. My take is, we are living in a short period of time where much of today's history will be erased and access to the internet will be limited. Controled by pricing to eliminate the social problems of NOT following the edicts of so-called powers that be. Enjoy this life while you 2 fine young people can. My age bracket is being targeted, which is why I drone on, sharing this info while I can & you are willing to listen. Best of luck.
I thought you were born in the North Carolina area ? So then, what city are you actually born in , in Pennsylvania ??? I myself was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and our family has been involved in open wheel racing since 1955, and still going.
Oh yeah, cool video. Never feel like you sound stupid or like a Yankee, you sound like regular southern gentleman, in your actions and words. Going out and finding a oil well sure beats playing video games. Good thing it wasn't summer, flippin' tin is a fun way to find snakes. Fun Fact, back in the day they welded that pipe and everything else with acetyline/oxygen bottles and wire or coat hangers. Basically they welded with the cutting torch.
Thanks man. To me Pittsburgh doesn’t fall into Yankee land. It’s very different than the eastern side of the state. I think my homeland area has more in common with parts of Missouri than Philadelphia
Walking tracks is Trespassing. In 2023, there were 1,410 pedestrian rail trespass casualties (including both fatalities and injuries) across the United States. Specifically: 738 of these incidents resulted in fatalities. 672 individuals were injured while trespassing on railroad property 2.
Why didn't you take Hobo (your puppy?), hope he's/she's okay. You know they test drilled for oil all over the place, but when they didn't find anything they cut the pipe off 6-8 feet underground. They used a dowsing rod, a "Y" shaped wire they held with both hands when a guy felt something pulling down on the third wire he would proclaim, "drill here"! They said water was slightly magnetic? Gifted folks could feel the pull? Probably just dumb luck. I will warn you about the rail road, never hunt or pick up the nails, plates bolts or rails for scrap metal to sell,rail roads are federal government property. Scrap yards won't buy it, and if you shoot at a deer down the rail road, it's against the law. I used to get down in a trestle to deer hunt until someone warned me about it. Did you see the thing about the still under North Wilksboro raceway bleachers? A sink hole washed out, was on the local news today.
The iron balls I believe are iron ore . The car wizard and questionable garage Jared are hard to listen to with their sing song voice like just talk normal .
You're standing on ground JD Rockefeller stood on Mitch, I swear if Jordan had a couple of Cresent wrenches and some gas, she'd get that old truck in running shape in no time...lol.
If this is around Pittsburgh It could have been my 5th Great grandfather's wellheads. John E. Carnahan was born on the old Carnahan homestead which has now been in the family possession for more than ninety years and is at present owned by him, located near Leechburg, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. His father was John Carnahan. When a boy Mr. Carnahan left school and made himself useful as well as secured a valuable discipline by working on his father's farm. He continued to look after his father's interests until the early '70s, and then bought a farm of his own. His land was underlaid, as it proved, with several veins of coal. In 1895 he began drilling for and found gas. That was the beginning of his extended operations in the oil and gas industry, and eventually from that into the broad field of manufacturing and finance.
In 1895 Mr. Carnahan leased thousands of acres of land in Armstrong County, and subsequently located the great Schellhammer gas well, and from that time forward was engaged in drilling and developing gas and oil properties for himself and for different corporations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He has large oil holdings in those states, and his operations in those fields still continue.
In the meantime Mr. Carnahan had turned his attention to the iron and steel industry. With other parties he was interested in the Mesta machine plant at Homestead, Pennsylvania. Mr. Carnahan in 1897 located in Canton and build a plant in that city, known as The Canton Roll & Machine Co. Thus in 1897 Mr. Carnahan's broad experience and great resources began operating for the welfare of this industrial City of Stark County. The Canton Roll & Machine Company was organized and built its plant. Two years later the business was sold, and Mr. Carnahan entered into an agreement not to engage in the same line of business east of the Rocky Mountains for a period of fifteen years. Shut off from this line of enterprise, in 1899 he organized the Carnahan Tin Plate and Sheet Company, of which he became president and has since continued the chief executive of that large and important industry. This company has had perhaps as prosperous a career of development as any local industry of Canton. The plant has been enlarged from time to time, and it is now one of the most extensive in the Canton industrial district. Its management has likewise been exceedingly successful from the standpoint of dividends. The plant is equipped with six knobling furnaces, with hammers and bar mills to roll the iron into bars, and the product is made under patent processes controlled by the company.
The part of the rail you said is coming apart is called overflow it occurs as the rail head is beaten down by the rail wheels
And the myth about not being able hear the train is not a myth
Not so much on a diesel line but on an electric rail line the trains are right on top of you before you hear them an experienced rail worker generally would hear the ring in the rail just be careful and use your head keep up the awesome videos 👍
The ladies doubted you but unlike Geraldo Rivera you actually found it. Great job Mitchell. Jordan always gets right into it.
😂 thats funny. Also her name is Logan but solid effort either way
I caught it shortly after hitting send sorry Logan. 4 strokes throws my mind off once in a while.
I’m from Bradford, PA. Lots of oil history around here too.
Those balls are taconite pellets. Thats a form of iron ore. Youre on the Bessemer & Lake Erie RR. Those pellets came from Minnesota and were transported by lake boat to Conneaut, OH and shipped to the Edgar Thompson works in Pittsburgh.
Taconite: the Edmund Fitzgerald took it to the bottom of Lake Superior!
REALLY COOL !! My family is from Uniontown PA . Mostly coal miners. Then my family moved to western ny. I love the history of places and relics of old that told the stories of the era
Mitchell, yourself and Logan give me hope. I thought after my generation that people weren’t very exploratory. You love history be it race cars or Americana. Logan, is a special girl that enjoys so much. You guys are a match. Thank you for the content that is real and different than others. As someone who has left you comments before, keep it coming brother. Taylor from Nashville, actually from Nashville, not some hippy that moved here.
My grandpa was an oil driller around the turn of the century working on equipment just like you saw. You found the bull wheels, but originally they would have been covered with wood over the steel. Been awhile since I have seen one of these--most of them here have been torn down. Thx!
Thanks...you know, I actually enjoyed this video...when I was a kid (I'm now 80), we still had a few wooden oil derricks in my area...Thanks again for posting
@williamward what city were you from in Pennsylvania where there was still wooden oil rigs ? I’m from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
@@wildman318 Not Pennsylvania...actually Tatums Oklahoma...in the Tatums Sand....
@@williamward7707 I use to go to Oklahoma for the Chili Bowl midget races in Tulsa.
Theirs a ton of interesting old engines for wells all over that area... I grew up in titusville and always enjoyed finding random well sites burried deep in the woods!
Looks like you landed in Renfrew. Interesting video, thanks for taking us along for the hike.
Gotta make a correction here if you are in front of the train you will not hear it coming unless it blows the horn. Railroaders call it the death cone. Noise travels out on an angle behind it like a plane in the sky.
My father always said that Pennsylvania oil was better quality then Texas oil. Pennsylvania oil had more viscosity
Pennsylvania crude was the best oil in the world.
It is a 6 cylinder Chrysler engine, the rear axle T Ford truck worm drive used to power the rig
i always look at old maps, its interesting to see all the changes, I also live in south western pa
Hi Mitch and Logan Cool seeing the Sister Funny How Logan and her joke around
Cheers Mate, thanks for content.
I believe that powerunit is some kind of jeep heritage. I seem to recall there were early jeeps with that timken split housing axle.
I live in pleasantville and have an auto repair shop in oil city. I'm right next to McClintock well. It's the oldest producing oil well.
Looking at your frame setting there it was a truck turned in to a stationary power unit and that round pulley on the right used a big flat belt to turn something out there maybe a oil well pump or transfer pump or even a generator
what a neat video that area has so much more oil drilling history im sure.you have a really cool sister to tag along and her friend to see what you were talking about.my sister would do the same cause she likes old machines they can tell us so much.thanks for sharing
Very interesting great content no telling what's in those woods thanks for sharing ❤
Hey Mitch. Locate some of those old whiskey steels in NC and report on those. I would like to see Juniors the most.
Another Awesome Video Mitchell 💯
That was a great find! That’s what I used to love searching for back hiking in the woods over in New jersey. Looks like you had a great time. I’m just like you and look at manufacturers names and number.
Really like this type of thing! Find more!
As you said the engine is chrysler. Probably replaced the t engine in 1940. The diff looks like a t but with the pinion so low its a worm drive. Probably a tt truck.
If you had of taken your drone could have sent it up to find it 😂 good exercise 😂 great find thanks for taking us along 🎉 and thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
i have that same engine sitting on a run stand in the shop. just finished rebuilding it ;)
What a cool find, history is cool, too bad I didn't understand that in HighSchool...
Reminds me of a local mercury mine. We had a large mercury mine in the hills not far from town.
There are relics of that mining you can visit.
Not many people knew about this and when I was a kid and we got to climb all over a huge ore plant. It’s since been fenced off.
If you know where to go there are still parts of rail tracks.
I’m sure there are many places like you found and not well known.
Cool adventure.
Great content thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it John!
Yep secrets are Best Kept secret when it's best. There's less destruction in it. Well congratulations on finding a piece of insignificance. And that concludes our history lesson today. LOL
More people than you think have laid eyes on that beauty 😏 and we would have climbed it just to say we did. No cell phones, no pics, just personal satisfaction. The good old days 4 sure
I'm from Titusville Pennsylvania and currently live there. Lots of Oil history here. First oil well drilled near Titusville by Edwin Drake in 1859. Drake well museum here has lots of original equipment and stuff from the oil boom days. Pennzoil refinery in Rouseville near Oil City is gone now. Everything moved to Texas.
I've been to Oil City before I didn't know about this, pretty cool
Great video! Thank you for the content.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Jennings Motors on you tube gets Motors like this running all the time, Give me 2 Days it will be free turning and ready to start That motor is in the open, So I would have know Problem Putting My Chain binder on the front with 8 foot Pipe, Bring a small torch setup Remove the Plugs and head Put a oil mix in it ,set for 2 days and try and turn it.Thats what you should do for a Video.
Lots of industrial and agricultural machinery was powered by repurposed automotive and motorcycle internal combustion engines. American ingenuity!
I live in Western PA!
Also that Texaco barrel...that logo was used from 1966-1981.
Sadly, that old Plymouth is a boat anchor. With the carburetor open to the elements like that, the cylinders are certainly full of water and rust. Locked up tighter than a drum.Cool find though.
Its weird RUclips suggested I see this instead of your main channel . I had not watched your main channel, and that is more my kind of stuff, I will check more of it out. There was no link here to your main, I had to hunt. This was cool video though.
Thanks man! That is very interesting! There is a link to the main channel in the description of every video here
More cool stuff, as usual!
It's sad 😢 but true, anything people would be interested in seeing, people have to destroy, for entertainment, so noone else can have the enjoyment of seeing it, thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
I grew up between Titusville n Oil City.....a lot of history there.....unfortunately we had to leave and move to America....
If the tracks are on a slope the little “iron balls” very well could be a from trains sanding the track for traction either for climbing the incline or braking on the decline. The sand will melt because of pressure and friction and combine with iron/steel particles that is transferred from the rails. Additionally the “pieces of rail” could also be the same melted sand and iron particles that the “iron balls” are made of. That said that stretch of track could use the sleepers (railroad ties) replaced or refurbished (plug any/all spike holes with epoxy, the tracks reset and ballasted.
As for the oil well it would interesting to figure out how the well was run (was it pumping 24/7 or for a set period of time each day as well as what did they do with the product after it was pumped from the ground (was it stored in a tank and then pumped to a rail car, was there a road of some sort that could be driven to with a tanker truck, or was it pumped via a pipeline to a refinery/tank farm.
Lastly it would be interesting to find out who owned or still owns that well and if there is enough oil in the well to make it commercially viable to operate again and if not then the well should be properly plugged (drill pipe removed and filled with grout) to prevent a possible oil spill/environmental hazard especially with that large stream/river so close to it.
Dude I lived in Titusville my pap worked for frontier foundry when it was up and running idk if you remember the powder horn
I made a replica steam tractor out of a tank just like that one ..the rivets make it look authentic. yard ornament along the highway..
Would be surprised if someone doesn’t reach out to you with the location of one of these legacy wells, that is still active, as I’ve seen some videos of these wells, that are family owned, in the past.
Need to spin some lore for drama, of the mysterious loss of cell signal, and the something in the brush, watching y’all, if y’all wanna get on Discovery Channel…😂
Good stuff.
Thanks for sharing y’all.
Very interesting video
this was hella cool!
Bet Jennings motorsports can get that engine back running lmao
At least the RR is still there my WNC town turning 20 miles into a 15 million bike/ walking path. Train hasn't run in 20 years after they shutdown all the factorys it kept busy. 😢
90% of the oil is still in the ground!😳
Please tell me you climbed the Derrick. I've climbed many of them
Based on the shape of that differential I'd guess that's from a 1920-30's truck.
Nothing is worse than the voiceover for the curse of Oak Island…… and oil rig could it be!!! Part of the treasure of the curse of Oak Island?!
Damn good video, thanks for sharing!
Tank of that construction would be a pressure vessel..
air tank, water tank, ..
As the late great Spock would say, fascinating. 🖖
Where at in Western PA is that
I have seen Chrysler Stright 8 Industrial engines in small cranes.
dodge and Studebaker sold thousands of 6cyl flatty's as industrial engines to run pumps saw mills gold mines anything that required remote location power ..could be bought in sears catalogs as well as Eatons(canada)
Looks like old motorcycle Forks assembly found after oil drum
I'm sure we'll see it on eBay in a couple of weeks 😂
oh thats cool i live in pa
John D Rockefeller in 1877 shut down all the Oil wells near Pittsburgh, just to break the Rail roads monopoly on transporting the oil. He then built Pipe lines and fired them back up.
The ladies were good sports. The Allpar site could help you date the engine if you chose to.
It's a shame that no one can save that engine and frame it's just going to rot away
I believe that was a Conoco barrel..
Those little balls are pig iron used in the making steel
14:03 they probably ran it with natural gas. Coming from the well? I dont know if they did that in the 1900’s.
I don’t either
Often times the engine will be run off the produced gas from the well...in otherwords..methane gas.
I wonder if they could do that in the early 40s
@@stapleton42extra I'm pretty sure they did. I was an oilfield operator in Alberta, and I had worked with antique installations that used this method. Often " oilwells" are better described as gas wells...wherein any oil production has fallen off, yet the casing gas still flows.
I am reasonably sure the barrel was Conoco.
Alot of the oil wells were operated by the natural gas produced from the well . This was a gas not a liquid like gasoline .
My great-grandfather was killed by a train while walking the tracks in Arkansas.
Until a train has snuck up on you, you won't believe it's possible.
That’s not a model T Jeanette looks like an old dodger Wisconsin engine. Plus it’s a six cylinder model. T were all four.
It’s a Chrysler engine I don’t know what the frame is though
You would be surprised I bet you could get that motor to run if it spin over
Fairly sure the frame is a Model A. It will be there until someone removes it. Model A frames were made with a pinch of vanadium. If you"d look closely, you'd see the original mfg grind marks on the frame. In other words, Ford built a vehicle in which the frame would last hundreds of years, without knowing it. Steel mfg wasn't old enough to know how long different blends would last. Adding vanadium is really strange. Metalugically, it makes steel stronger & more flexible & as you see, lasting a verry long time. All of which the steel industry had decided is incompatible with consumer markets. In the US, for about 10 years, there was a push to make things from vanadium steel. My grandfather used to work for Vanadium Corp of America during this time. He helped shutter the plant ... too good a product. Ran it out of town thru industry collusion to not buy vanaduim ...such is part of the real history of the US. So, you didn't realize you had visited a relic of the steel industry in the heart of the steel industry, a major decision NOT to provide the best product to consumers with the blessings of the labor unions & the titan's of steel. Thanks for sharing.
P.S.
That uneasy, society going the wrong way feeling you've described in other vids has, socially, always been there. What's different today is the ability, thru the internet, to research whether the correct historical decisions were made and question the decisions of today.
My take is, we are living in a short period of time where much of today's history will be erased and access to the internet will be limited. Controled by pricing to eliminate the social problems of NOT following the edicts of so-called powers that be. Enjoy this life while you 2 fine young people can. My age bracket is being targeted, which is why I drone on, sharing this info while I can & you are willing to listen.
Best of luck.
I thought you were born in the North Carolina area ? So then, what city are you actually born in , in Pennsylvania ??? I myself was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and our family has been involved in open wheel racing since 1955, and still going.
The transmission isn’t there. You are looking at the bell housing.
Show us the iron balls that you keep talking about ??? lol
they're all over the ground just real tiny
Oh yeah, cool video. Never feel like you sound stupid or like a Yankee, you sound like regular southern gentleman, in your actions and words. Going out and finding a oil well sure beats playing video games. Good thing it wasn't summer, flippin' tin is a fun way to find snakes. Fun Fact, back in the day they welded that pipe and everything else with acetyline/oxygen bottles and wire or coat hangers. Basically they welded with the cutting torch.
Thanks man. To me Pittsburgh doesn’t fall into Yankee land. It’s very different than the eastern side of the state. I think my homeland area has more in common with parts of Missouri than Philadelphia
As a a MO resident, I appreciate that!
yaya
814!!
Walking tracks is Trespassing.
In 2023, there were 1,410 pedestrian rail trespass casualties (including both fatalities and injuries) across the United States. Specifically:
738 of these incidents resulted in fatalities.
672 individuals were injured while trespassing on railroad property 2.
How many of those people were cracked out on another planet lol
Why didn't you take Hobo (your puppy?), hope he's/she's okay. You know they test drilled for oil all over the place, but when they didn't find anything they cut the pipe off 6-8 feet underground. They used a dowsing rod, a "Y" shaped wire they held with both hands when a guy felt something pulling down on the third wire he would proclaim, "drill here"! They said water was slightly magnetic? Gifted folks could feel the pull? Probably just dumb luck. I will warn you about the rail road, never hunt or pick up the nails, plates bolts or rails for scrap metal to sell,rail roads are federal government property. Scrap yards won't buy it, and if you shoot at a deer down the rail road, it's against the law. I used to get down in a trestle to deer hunt until someone warned me about it. Did you see the thing about the still under North Wilksboro raceway bleachers? A sink hole washed out, was on the local news today.
We saw several deer stands back there. Bunch of rule breakers 😂
Got to provide meat for family.
trespassing on the RR not cool
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Anyone who wants to adventure into the woods, should wear the proper clothes and boots for their simple protection
The iron balls I believe are iron ore .
The car wizard and questionable garage Jared are hard to listen to with their sing song voice like just talk normal .
It is trespassing to be walking on railroad tracks, by the way.
LMAO the History guy drinking game! Every piece of rusted metal tells a story………ya bone head it is an indistinguishable rusty piece of metal!
You're standing on ground JD Rockefeller stood on Mitch, I swear if Jordan had a couple of Cresent wrenches and some gas, she'd get that old truck in running shape in no time...lol.
Your in my area there
LMAO the History guy drinking game! Every piece of rusted metal tells a story………ya bone head it is an indistinguishable rusty piece of metal!
LMAO the History guy drinking game! Every piece of rusted metal tells a story………ya bone head it is an indistinguishable rusty piece of metal!