watching this doc while parked in the parking lot overlooking the dam. As a visitor from abroad, props USA for this amazing success of engineering, collaborative politics and execution of construction companies!
I can tell you that a public works project of this size couldn't get built today, owing to the mountains of laws, regulations, and rules governing occupational health and safety, environmental impact, and the turf wars between political jurisdictions all looking out for their own interests instead of the broader public interest. Since Oroville Dam was built I can't think of a single project of that size that was successfully completed and still in operation today. We can't even get a replacement bridge built between Washington and Oregon! We've been at it for a quarter century and not one teaspoon of dirt has been excavated, after blowing about $200 million in taxpayer dollars on feasibility studies, design studies, engineering studies, environmental impact studies, jurisdictional turf wars, methods of funding, and being unable to persuade taxpayers to foot the bill as proposed. Our great monuments are now replaced by monuments to stupidity and political factionalism. I have little hope we'll ever be able to attempt a project the size and complexity of Hoover Dam ever again, quite honestly.
America hasnt had a golden age of growth and building of industry like this in some time. This stuff is timeless design, and still is blowing everything else away.
My grandfather worked on the Hoover Dam. I remember him talking about the sheriff meeting them when they got off the train. Sheriff gave the men a 5-foot X 10-foot area to pitch a tent. And told them they had one week to get hired. If they didn't, they had to leave town. My grandfather said the only way a fella could get on the job was if someone died or fired. Because nobody was quitting.
Proud!?!?!?!?!?! PROUD!?!?!?!? We fuc'd up mother nature on land that used to belong to the Natives!!!! We are living in the immediate aftermath of the largest genocide of people, probably ever. At least we got a cool damn that will bust wide open one day out of it!!!
Absolutely correct. Bunch of worthless schmucks these days that only care of themselves and they’re phones. No gratitude. ( Josefin g bein one of them ) Truely turning into a sad entitled society. There’s no way that could be built today. Unfortunately, Society has gone backwards.
It's a colossal . To build this in nowhere to provide electricity to several states and water to Vegas . Though the lake levels been dropping over the years .
no solidworks, no autocad, no lasers, no computers, no 3D printers, no 'special interest groups'. AND... completed 2.5 years ahead of schedule and i bet they were under budget too. Absolutely astonishing.
Back then when people care about what they were doing it was for the good of the country. Now a lot of people dont care about the country USA. The thing is the dont care but they dont want to leave either
Just returned from a Vegas and visited the Dam and went on the tour inside to see the turbine hall, one of the turbines was out for maintenance so was fortunate to see the repair in progress, absolutely amazing feat of engineering, would thoroughly recommend anyone to visit if they get get the opportunity.
I was lucky enough to tour the Dam before 911 when they let you go down into the tunnels above the massive water tubes and eventually I got to see the generators. It was truly amazing. What an incredible engineering feat.
For some reason I feel that we will not build something this impressive again. Politics have halted infrastructure progress in the U.S. for 20 odd years.
I just drove cross country last month. I-94 to I-90.. all the way to Boston.. roads were absolutely awful almost the entire way. I am amazed I didn’t break any tire linings.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 DC swamp wanna send $44 billion oversea to aid Ukraine while our infrastructure at home look like dog shit and they don’t give a damn.
Yeah! it's pretty amazing to imagine all that had to be imagined, drawn up, organized, put together, talked about, designed, coordinated, on and on......., just to get the project started! Big projects like that are "magical" in their execution.
@@franklinbarlow8020 Oh so you also have no concern for mother nature or the Natives. I hope you're proud 😞. Question: Do dams not have a tendency to malfunction from time to time?
Freakin incredible! Need something? Invent it! Need steel? Build a plant. Need concrete? Build a plant. Need machinery? Invent whatever they need!?! Almost 100 freaking years ago!?!?! Holy shit!!!
Yep, our great, great grandfathers really knew how to do it. That was what made America the industrial giant it was. Such a shame we lost most of that these days to outsourcing. we need to bring that all back home again.
This couldn't be built today. No way! Regulations! And good luck finding the workers.... Be all Mexicans...I guarantee it without a shadow of doubt. Ain't no more houses being built, all Mexicans have gone to the dam project.
I recall another video on the building of the dam that mentioned they had to install refrigerated cooling lines through all of the blocks of concrete to keep it cool enough for quite a few years after it was finished
They did, that was the Modern Marvels video from like the early 2000's that's what I watched waaaaay back when. They just used the water to cool it through the pipes is all.
The pipes would of been used to control the concretes temperature. Concrete will generate quite a bit of heat. To much heat will cause it to lose moisture too quickly. The slower the concrete cures basically the stronger it will be(Just don't let it freeze).
You're right, sadly. Today there would be OSHA law suits, enviromental groups filing suits, all the "woke" groups filing suits about "there race, religion, sexual orientation....etc" not being represented. You name it.
As a Vegas native that has been to Hoover Dam more times than I count over my 40 years, I never get tired of the amazingness of the Dam. I am greatly sad how low the water level is now.
@@relaxed-epoach9195 most of the power of Vegas comes from a coal power plant. You’ll be surprised how little power from Hoover Dam actually goes to Vegas. Mainly the power runs to Boulder City and Southern Cal.
My grandpa showed me this when i was like 8. He had it on VHS. 4:12 Construction begins. Excavate 2 million cubic yds of debris and then pour it back in as 4.5 million yds of concrete. 9:06 pouring concrete 12:03 fabricating pipes. That cable operator is a champ. These guys were studs.
I have known most of the information that you have given me for many years however unfortunately at being 60 years old I have never seen the damn personally I do believe one of the greatest things we have ever done in United States
@@Galactis1 I've made far more money since Biden took over. I farm, and grain prices have tripled from what we had under trump. That idiot trump put tariffs on China and that caused huge loses for America's farmers. I love you Joe Biden. Laughing all the way to the bank.
@@Galactis1 well not with that attitude sunshine! Let’s turn that frown upside down and start doing something to right the ship. Sound good there sizzlechest?
This reminds me of grade school when the teacher wanted to take a break from teaching. She would put a film reel on a projector screen. I remember how she would set up the old film projector opening the film reel slipping the reel on the reel arm, then t taking the reel film inserting it through the projector out to the rear reel arm where an empty reel wheel would collect the film spinning it around and around until the entire film passes through and is all wound up onto the other film reel wheel. Sometimes, the film would get tangled up on the projector and would need to get untangled and reset before proceeding again. Then when the teacher got ot running properly, she would go back to her desk and turn on her little lamp on her desk and correct some homework papers while we were watching films like this Hoover Dam movie. Ah the good old days when life was simpler and going to school was as safe as can be.
Watching a film like this was a rare treat in school for me! Otherwise school was very boring! I'm 61 and still remember my best teachers, most of which were men!
@@colinleatham9143 No one uses CRT anymore and it is no one elses business if someone's kid likes wearing dresses. Too many people out there these days who stick their nose in other people's personal business.....
Back when Americans had a reason to be proud of our country, we were actually leading the world. It makes me sad thinking about how great we could be, but uncontrollable greed has taken over every bit of our government and corporations. We deserve so much better. We could do so much better.
The concrete is still curing today! 87 years later... From the time of construction, pipes where embedded in the concrete and water was pumped through the structure to dissipate the heat produced by the curing concrete. Over 582 miles of cooling pipe. Lake Meads water level at the dam as of May, 18th 2022 was at 1,050 feet and dropping. The all-time high was in 1983 at 1,225 feet. Drought and regional demand are the reasons why it's at it's lowest levels since the 1930s...
They did experience such droughts and expected future ones, thus a reservoir of water for such occurrences. The arrogance of our hindsight. These men built this dam sans modern computers, autocad, etc. yet they anticipated so much. Don't short change them just because you have Google and listen to the Climate fear mongers. We'll be ok.
I don't know figures but you are right. Every hydroelectric project created the droughts and flooding because it messes with rivers natural course which usually helps with fertility since you need that water pressure to create electricity. As you read this you need this electricity so can't complain about it completely.
I hope and pray the wife's, girlfriend's of these men has got the most respect for the man in their life. THE BEST OF THE BEST. BRAVO to everyone who partook, men and their women. I salute all of them
I'm not American But I admire American Determination all the Times,this Country has always been a model of Achievement and Determination for the entire world. The determination to conquer the untamed world is by far the best I've always been attracted too..I love American Determination
People were so much smarter back then…With work ethic, foresightedness. As a proud American, who happens to be African American heritage, im sad where we are now….and I see us getting worse
The crazy part is now the southwest region out grew its water needs and before anyone says it , it has nothing to do with CLIMATE CHANGE... The dam is a modern marvel and unbelievable construction project even at todays standards. The dam has its pro and cons. The pros it worked out for a long time and it's whole idea behind worked as planned. The con is you shouldn't build something like that cause it's the primary cause of the population boom in that region. It's a desert and to try to sustain life there makes it hard on everyone and surrounding regions.
I'm curious how much maintenance has to take place or is it just so well built it's like changing the oil on an old engine year after year. Definitely a wonder of the world.
I hate this world we live in today. Back when this took place, politics took next to no hold on it. No one complaining about “environment impact”, no unions demanding things the union bosses would abuse, no OSHA BS to put up with, no Twitter BS complaints about it being evil, just men working their asses off grateful to have a job that provided for their families when the economy was destroyed. Families just grateful for opportunity, not even realizing they were making history the entire time. No clue one day I’d be watching this on my iPhone in Gilbert, AZ envious of what THEY had. I used to visit this dam as a kid. Back then, the water was actually at the right level.
Yes and without that we have all the problems that the damn created. Almost made Vegas go fucking bankrupt, and surrounding towns thousands began to die from dehydration. Everything that exists exists for a reason, remember the phrase "safety regulations are written in blood", well all that "shit" we have today is too, because without it pipe dreams like this end up fucking a lot of other things up and causing a lot of problems that could have been avoided had we had a little thing called a thought process and thinking things out.
Seriously though, who wrote this narrative? Referring to the Colorado river annually destroying farmland, homes...cities?!? There seems to be a curious need to create the persona of the river as an evil villain that all man must fight in order to justify building the dam.
The people who built this monument lived and worked in a desolate neighborhood. That perserverenc, toughness, and resolve likely won't happen ever again.. The humans who built Hoover Dam, are now ancestry to the new breed of builders. A.I. will be building their own infrastructures, The techs, mathematicians designers - known as TOOL & DIE GUYS, They never get a mention!! No Glory, or acknowledgment. , THEY are the humans that are first in line , because THEY first have to create a mold, creat a casting , make sure its precise, for every part used in construction. SOo thanks to all the humans that made Hoover Dam Possible - If not for T & D humans, this Dam wouldnt exist. We humans are regressing rapidly, as A.I. is progressing rapidly, and already replacing us in millions of jobs around the world. Guess it's about time I hat up. You dig?
On a tour of the dam back in 2005 the guide said that he had had someone ask how they got the white line around the reservoir. He told them that they hired the boy scouts each year to come out and whitewash it. 🙂
He said each of the big pipe section weighed 150 ~ 184 tons. Then he said after the pipe section was transported to the canyon rim at the dam site, a 150-ton cable way lowered the section to the canyon floor, then moved into it's intended position. So how many cable ways snapped I wonder.
If you've ever been there, that original crane going across the canyon is still there. I'd like to know how they got the pipes into their proper location with them weighing 150-184 tones. Mind boggling.
They don't mention that the 'high scalers' the ones setting the explosives on the walls were actually professional circus acts from Vegas! No engineer would touch that job.
@@Crow_Man918 oh ofcourse. And don't get me wrong, every on site job in this had a risk of losing your life. But those trapeze performers setting holes, guiding lines, and explosives...that's something else!
More of the younger generation really needs to watch things like this so they can understand what makes this country so great. You need to give them a balance of the anti-America stuff they're learning in school today.
A sky scraper a day goes up in this country thanks to the modern generation. And now that skyscraper has a fire suppression system doesn't cook the enhabitants in the event of a fire. We have regulations so that some idiot doesn't end up poisoning half a city because he decides to build a factory on top of a residential area. We actually think things through instead of building a dam in a vital river causing thousands to be without water, crops to dry up, cities die; and now the plant sits nearly derelict as the river dries up and its generators built with little safety regulations in mind begin exploding. The structure continues to crack and deteriorate from the limited use of rebar. I'm sorry that the modern generations try to make our world a better place to live, and that we don't just start building random walls to bolster propaganda. I'm sorry that we're trying to fix the fucked up hellscape that your generation created.
watching this doc while parked in the parking lot overlooking the dam. As a visitor from abroad, props USA for this amazing success of engineering, collaborative politics and execution of construction companies!
I can tell you that a public works project of this size couldn't get built today, owing to the mountains of laws, regulations, and rules governing occupational health and safety, environmental impact, and the turf wars between political jurisdictions all looking out for their own interests instead of the broader public interest. Since Oroville Dam was built I can't think of a single project of that size that was successfully completed and still in operation today. We can't even get a replacement bridge built between Washington and Oregon! We've been at it for a quarter century and not one teaspoon of dirt has been excavated, after blowing about $200 million in taxpayer dollars on feasibility studies, design studies, engineering studies, environmental impact studies, jurisdictional turf wars, methods of funding, and being unable to persuade taxpayers to foot the bill as proposed. Our great monuments are now replaced by monuments to stupidity and political factionalism. I have little hope we'll ever be able to attempt a project the size and complexity of Hoover Dam ever again, quite honestly.
Go home.
@@briane173 a bigger one is being built in canada right now
@@clatonblade2211 Eh?
All it took was killing 100 people.
These old schools docs are so amazing !
I love all of them
We were also shown this in grammar school. I appreciate them more now
Fred Dibnah
Why isn't there no great feats like this done anymore ? 😪
@@speedracer1945 Because people like you Speed Racer, because of people like you.
@@brianedgar3413 ease up that glass pipe.
I love how old documentaries sound and look. Nostalgic
Yep, they remind me of being back in school and watching those really old videos lol
I’m happy and proud of got chance to take care few of the crews and engineers of Hoover Dam in their late stages of life.
I salute them.
America hasnt had a golden age of growth and building of industry like this in some time.
This stuff is timeless design, and still is blowing everything else away.
My grandfather worked on the Hoover Dam. I remember him talking about the sheriff meeting them when they got off the train. Sheriff gave the men a 5-foot X 10-foot area to pitch a tent. And told them they had one week to get hired. If they didn't, they had to leave town. My grandfather said the only way a fella could get on the job was if someone died or fired. Because nobody was quitting.
Thanks for sharing
That’s great story from history
A absolute amazing feat of construction and engineering, all Americans should be proud of the Hoover dam
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Proud!?!?!?!?!?!
PROUD!?!?!?!?
We fuc'd up mother nature on land that used to belong to the Natives!!!! We are living in the immediate aftermath of the largest genocide of people, probably ever. At least we got a cool damn that will bust wide open one day out of it!!!
Absolutely correct. Bunch of worthless schmucks these days that only care of themselves and they’re phones. No gratitude. ( Josefin g bein one of them ) Truely turning into a sad entitled society. There’s no way that could be built today. Unfortunately, Society has gone backwards.
Why they didn't build it and it is still have a massive impact on the environment today. We should be removing megadams not celebrating them
It's a colossal . To build this in nowhere to provide electricity to several states and water to Vegas . Though the lake levels been dropping over the years .
Didnt realise there were so many other Dams below Hoover Dam !
Truly amazing use of a recource !
no solidworks, no autocad, no lasers, no computers, no 3D printers, no 'special interest groups'. AND... completed 2.5 years ahead of schedule and i bet they were under budget too. Absolutely astonishing.
Definitely no OSHA either lmao
Back then when everyone would show up to work everyday
Back then when people care about what they were doing it was for the good of the country. Now a lot of people dont care about the country USA. The thing is the dont care but they dont want to leave either
96 people died
Ok Boomer
Just returned from a Vegas and visited the Dam and went on the tour inside to see the turbine hall, one of the turbines was out for maintenance so was fortunate to see the repair in progress, absolutely amazing feat of engineering, would thoroughly recommend anyone to visit if they get get the opportunity.
I was lucky enough to tour the Dam before 911 when they let you go down into the tunnels above the massive water tubes and eventually I got to see the generators. It was truly amazing. What an incredible engineering feat.
I was lucky enough to see the tunnels and generators last week on a tour. I think they have been opened back up to the public.
I too took the tour in the 1980s. It was a masterful sight to see. I feel fortunate to have been able to take that tour.
Ones water 💦 stop CHAOS WILL COME LIKE EUPRATES RIVER😢😢😢😢
The Hard Hat tour was really the best! I did my HH tour in summer of '01. How lucky I was!!
I think I still have my hard hat, too!
Me too. I went in 1999. Took the hard hat tour.
Still the best man made thing I’ve ever seen.
That's what The United States needs, a Hoover Dam attitude!!!
God damn right brother!🤘🇺🇸
For some reason I feel that we will not build something this impressive again. Politics have halted infrastructure progress in the U.S. for 20 odd years.
I just drove cross country last month. I-94 to I-90.. all the way to Boston.. roads were absolutely awful almost the entire way. I am amazed I didn’t break any tire linings.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 DC swamp wanna send $44 billion oversea to aid Ukraine while our infrastructure at home look like dog shit and they don’t give a damn.
Not politics, demographics.
@@JacketVEVO Both
This was indeed a golden era for America. In today’s era of trump however, america continues to go downhill, nothing to be proud of anymore.
Amazing to see thank you for putting this on RUclips.
the infrastructure needed and built for the sole purpose of the dam is more impressive than the dam itself.
Yeah! it's pretty amazing to imagine all that had to be imagined, drawn up, organized, put together, talked about, designed, coordinated, on and on......., just to get the project started! Big projects like that are "magical" in their execution.
Dam straight
@@jamesdavis8542 OH SHITH!!!!!!! YOU DONE GONE AND WENT THERE!!!!$!$!$!$!$!!!!!$
engineering at its finest
@@franklinbarlow8020 Oh so you also have no concern for mother nature or the Natives. I hope you're proud 😞. Question: Do dams not have a tendency to malfunction from time to time?
Man you can make anything so good with the right spin on things
Rip to the 96 brave hard workers that died
Freakin incredible! Need something? Invent it! Need steel? Build a plant. Need concrete? Build a plant. Need machinery? Invent whatever they need!?! Almost 100 freaking years ago!?!?! Holy shit!!!
Yep, our great, great grandfathers really knew how to do it. That was what made America the industrial giant it was. Such a shame we lost most of that these days to outsourcing. we need to bring that all back home again.
Wait, didn't Obama say, "You didn't build that!"
@@DeploraBill59
Obama said a lot of bullshit.
That had to of been a SOB working there at that time! The workers did a great job everything came out really good 👍🏻
I agree. They did a great job all the way around. Completely amazing.
What?
WHAT YOU SAY???!!!!
This couldn't be built today. No way! Regulations! And good luck finding the workers.... Be all Mexicans...I guarantee it without a shadow of doubt. Ain't no more houses being built, all Mexicans have gone to the dam project.
Amazing what can be built when you throw human desperation at a project.
Many died unfortunately 😮
amazing video.....I have been on the tour, but never got this much information.......thank you for showing.....
That was a fabulous upload and for me Hoover Dam isn't just one of the greatest civil engineering achievements of its time, but of all time!
I recall another video on the building of the dam that mentioned they had to install refrigerated cooling lines through all of the blocks of concrete to keep it cool enough for quite a few years after it was finished
They did, that was the Modern Marvels video from like the early 2000's that's what I watched waaaaay back when. They just used the water to cool it through the pipes is all.
You haVe?
The pipes would of been used to control the concretes temperature. Concrete will generate quite a bit of heat. To much heat will cause it to lose moisture too quickly. The slower the concrete cures basically the stronger it will be(Just don't let it freeze).
I believe they do that to prevent cracks as the concrete cures but once it's hardened it gets backfilled with the slurry
@@Galactis1
Yep. That was a good series. I e been looking for it, but can’t find it.
Visited Hoover Dam in 2004 and it is a magnificent sight.
Only at this channel right now because Hoover Dam had an explosion just the other day.
It's wild. I don't think we could build the hoover dam again today with my generation. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
@Nap Time Is the Three Gorges Dam a Ticking Time Bomb?
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You're right, sadly. Today there would be OSHA law suits, enviromental groups filing suits, all the "woke" groups filing suits about "there race, religion, sexual orientation....etc" not being represented. You name it.
Literally a sky scraper a day goes up in this country. We do this every day on a scale 100 times this.
What is it with the old US documentaries... The narrator voice, the background music and the ''negative HD'' image quality... I love it!
As a Vegas native that has been to Hoover Dam more times than I count over my 40 years, I never get tired of the amazingness of the Dam. I am greatly sad how low the water level is now.
How will vegas get power if they shut Hoover dam down
@@relaxed-epoach9195 about half an hour outside Vegas there’s this flat land completely covered in solar panels that stretch out very far
@@relaxed-epoach9195 most of the power of Vegas comes from a coal power plant. You’ll be surprised how little power from Hoover Dam actually goes to Vegas. Mainly the power runs to Boulder City and Southern Cal.
Visited there, and it is amazing. Also amazing is this video took me back to Third Grade again. It felt good.
My grandpa showed me this when i was like 8. He had it on VHS.
4:12 Construction begins. Excavate 2 million cubic yds of debris and then pour it back in as 4.5 million yds of concrete. 9:06 pouring concrete 12:03 fabricating pipes.
That cable operator is a champ. These guys were studs.
What I find very awesome is that batch plants haven’t much changed 🤙
Luv watching these classic clips! Enjoyed this videos!
i could only imagine the pride the men involved in this feat mustve had till the day they died 🙏👍🏻
Considering the amount of electricity and water the dam has provided and continues to provide it was a great investment.
This video is pure Americana, God bless the 🇺🇸.
I've Been across this dam. Amazing!
I have known most of the information that you have given me for many years however unfortunately at being 60 years old I have never seen the damn personally I do believe one of the greatest things we have ever done in United States
Thanks for the great uploads!
I remember sitting for what seemed like hours in grid-lock trying to make it past the dam. Just hoping the a/c or car wouldn't give out.
Respect for The science and those who worked there
I hope one day America will be this great again.
We already are, now that we've gotten rid of trump.
@@GermanShepherd1983 o really
It won't, it's in decline.
@@Galactis1 I've made far more money since Biden took over. I farm, and grain prices have tripled from what we had under trump. That idiot trump put tariffs on China and that caused huge loses for America's farmers. I love you Joe Biden. Laughing all the way to the bank.
@@Galactis1 well not with that attitude sunshine! Let’s turn that frown upside down and start doing something to right the ship. Sound good there sizzlechest?
it's amazing how quick engineering evolved in during this time.
A beautiful, impressive dam, and no damn water.
That took me back to grade school. I can almost hear the clackity hum of the reel to reel.
Amazing to watch this build. Sadly Lake Mead is losing water at a alarming rate (2022)
Yes, it is sad. And the reason I found this video. Standing on this gives me horrible vertigo.
Yeah you gotta get that bomber out of there
This reminds me of grade school when the teacher wanted to take a break from teaching. She would put a film reel on a projector screen. I remember how she would set up the old film projector opening the film reel slipping the reel on the reel arm, then t taking the reel film inserting it through the projector out to the rear reel arm where an empty reel wheel would collect the film spinning it around and around until the entire film passes through and is all wound up onto the other film reel wheel. Sometimes, the film would get tangled up on the projector and would need to get untangled and reset before proceeding again. Then when the teacher got ot running properly, she would go back to her desk and turn on her little lamp on her desk and correct some homework papers while we were watching films like this Hoover Dam movie. Ah the good old days when life was simpler and going to school was as safe as can be.
Fallout New Vegas taught me that after the nuclear apocalypse, the hoover dam will be one of the last remaining examples of human construction.
Awesome see an old video like this. Just the kind of thing I might have seen in class as a kid.
The technology has not been changed lots of people working in these older docramentries .new factories no people
Watching a film like this was a rare treat in school for me! Otherwise school was very boring! I'm 61 and still remember my best teachers, most of which were men!
Same for me.Now it's CRT and gender nonsense.All a crime against children
@@colinleatham9143 No one uses CRT anymore and it is no one elses business if someone's kid likes wearing dresses. Too many people out there these days who stick their nose in other people's personal business.....
Im mind baffled that this was done almost 90 years ago
American's have lost sight of what makes America Great. It's projects like this one. Keep America Great!!
Absolutely amazing
Dang whenever the water was that high, now it's so low it's sad
Documentary writing used to be so much more dynamic.
Go watch how it's made silly
Jjjb
Hoover Dam, one of many impossible Dreams, that US taken into Reality!!!. Thanks for posting.
Back when Americans had a reason to be proud of our country, we were actually leading the world.
It makes me sad thinking about how great we could be, but uncontrollable greed has taken over every bit of our government and corporations. We deserve so much better. We could do so much better.
Frank Crowe was the superintendent of general construction of the dam. He may have been the only person in America able build the dam so efficiently.
The concrete is still curing today! 87 years later...
From the time of construction, pipes where embedded in the concrete and water was pumped through the structure to dissipate the heat produced by the curing concrete. Over 582 miles of cooling pipe.
Lake Meads water level at the dam as of May, 18th 2022 was at 1,050 feet and dropping. The all-time high was in 1983 at 1,225 feet. Drought and regional demand are the reasons why it's at it's lowest levels since the 1930s...
These amazing documentaries I watched all through school ..
No one involved with these projects could have imagined the sustained droughts we face today.
They did experience such droughts and expected future ones, thus a reservoir of water for such occurrences. The arrogance of our hindsight. These men built this dam sans modern computers, autocad, etc. yet they anticipated so much. Don't short change them just because you have Google and listen to the Climate fear mongers. We'll be ok.
America needs to plants trees and clean up areas around lakes rivers and streams , water is life!
Stop spending 1900 gallons/1 lb of almonds produced California....seriously! Your farming practices suck.
I don't know figures but you are right. Every hydroelectric project created the droughts and flooding because it messes with rivers natural course which usually helps with fertility since you need that water pressure to create electricity. As you read this you need this electricity so can't complain about it completely.
"No more floods no more droughts"...yea they didn't quite do the research necessary, did they?
I was just there two week ago and it’s beautiful but water it’s getting pretty low but amazing piece of art tho
I hope and pray the wife's, girlfriend's of these men has got the most respect for the man in their life. THE BEST OF THE BEST. BRAVO to everyone who partook, men and their women. I salute all of them
Amazing how the 30 ft pipes were built.
Old but technically ahead. Appreciation to designers and engineers building a wonder
My Grandfather Delphi Billings worked there. He was part of Morris & Knudson.
Amazing what we can do when health and safety aren't involved.
Fuck off soy boy, tend to your paper cuts and solarcells.
lmao yes,yes indeed
and when Western Man is left to create without impediment from parasites and certain political ideologies.
ANYTHINGSSS POSSSSIBLEEEE (Kevin Garnett voice ) lol
You must be British. We don't have health and safety in America we have Labor and industries.
Ah, the calming sounds of old documentaries.
I remember the day I bought some dam bait and caught some dam fish good times.
i love this kind of pioneer stuff
TRUE MARVEL OF MODERN INGENUITY INNOVATION RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OPENED THEN SAD 😔 CLOSED AS OF THIS KEY STROKING 🔝
Great video thank you ❤
I'm not American But I admire American Determination all the Times,this Country has always been a model of Achievement and Determination for the entire world. The determination to conquer the untamed world is by far the best I've always been attracted too..I love American Determination
Watching this video is like been in elementary school again.
People were so much smarter back then…With work ethic, foresightedness. As a proud American, who happens to be African American heritage, im sad where we are now….and I see us getting worse
The crazy part is now the southwest region out grew its water needs and before anyone says it , it has nothing to do with CLIMATE CHANGE... The dam is a modern marvel and unbelievable construction project even at todays standards. The dam has its pro and cons. The pros it worked out for a long time and it's whole idea behind worked as planned. The con is you shouldn't build something like that cause it's the primary cause of the population boom in that region. It's a desert and to try to sustain life there makes it hard on everyone and surrounding regions.
I hope this video dispels any myths of workers falling in and being left in the structure during the construction.
The Infrastucrure created is phenomenal for the time.
I'm curious how much maintenance has to take place or is it just so well built it's like changing the oil on an old engine year after year. Definitely a wonder of the world.
I hate this world we live in today. Back when this took place, politics took next to no hold on it. No one complaining about “environment impact”, no unions demanding things the union bosses would abuse, no OSHA BS to put up with, no Twitter BS complaints about it being evil, just men working their asses off grateful to have a job that provided for their families when the economy was destroyed. Families just grateful for opportunity, not even realizing they were making history the entire time. No clue one day I’d be watching this on my iPhone in Gilbert, AZ envious of what THEY had. I used to visit this dam as a kid. Back then, the water was actually at the right level.
Yes and without that we have all the problems that the damn created. Almost made Vegas go fucking bankrupt, and surrounding towns thousands began to die from dehydration. Everything that exists exists for a reason, remember the phrase "safety regulations are written in blood", well all that "shit" we have today is too, because without it pipe dreams like this end up fucking a lot of other things up and causing a lot of problems that could have been avoided had we had a little thing called a thought process and thinking things out.
Can’t believe they actually made the Hoover Dam from New Vegas
Seriously though, who wrote this narrative? Referring to the Colorado river annually destroying farmland, homes...cities?!? There seems to be a curious need to create the persona of the river as an evil villain that all man must fight in order to justify building the dam.
Wow! Truly an engineering marvel!
Why did they line the tunnels with concrete 3' thick when they would never be used again ?
Base on what the narrator said. The man in 14:11 and 18:10 is the same!? Amazing!
The people who built this monument lived and worked in a desolate neighborhood. That perserverenc, toughness, and resolve likely won't happen ever again.. The humans who built Hoover Dam, are now ancestry to the new breed of builders. A.I. will be building their own infrastructures,
The techs, mathematicians designers - known as TOOL & DIE GUYS, They never get a mention!! No Glory, or acknowledgment. , THEY are the humans that are first in line , because THEY first have to create a mold, creat a casting , make sure its precise, for every part used in construction. SOo thanks to all the humans that made Hoover Dam Possible - If not for T & D humans, this Dam wouldnt exist.
We humans are regressing rapidly, as A.I. is progressing rapidly, and already replacing us in millions of jobs around the world. Guess it's about time I hat up. You dig?
Beautiful.
Look how high the water used to be
On a tour of the dam back in 2005 the guide said that he had had someone ask how they got the white line around the reservoir. He told them that they hired the boy scouts each year to come out and whitewash it. 🙂
My Grandfather worked on the “Boulder” Dam from beginning to end. We always referred to it as Boulder Dam,or, Grandpa would severely chastise you!
My grandfather worked on it also. He’s long passed now but use to tell us stories. Hope one day I can visit it.
I did not see rebar put in the concrete during the pour. Was rebar used or not?
21:18 What's the blue stuff in Lake Mead?
Just amazing
*Simply Amazing!* 💡👍
Respect! God bless *America~*
I visited the Hoover dam many times during my travels collecting bottle caps.
He said each of the big pipe section weighed 150 ~ 184 tons. Then he said after the pipe section was transported to the canyon rim at the dam site, a 150-ton cable way lowered the section to the canyon floor, then moved into it's intended position. So how many cable ways snapped I wonder.
That's RIGHT!
Maybe thats just how much the cable way weighed and not how much it could hold
If you've ever been there, that original crane going across the canyon is still there. I'd like to know how they got the pipes into their proper location with them weighing 150-184 tones. Mind boggling.
@Max Powers right... Yep.... SMH.
Wasn't Megatron in here
Thank You Mr Savage. WHO LOVES YA CHAMP !
They don't mention that the 'high scalers' the ones setting the explosives on the walls were actually professional circus acts from Vegas! No engineer would touch that job.
Yea that’s crazy but without the engineers and infrastructure they wouldn’t even be up there in the first place
@@Crow_Man918 oh ofcourse. And don't get me wrong, every on site job in this had a risk of losing your life. But those trapeze performers setting holes, guiding lines, and explosives...that's something else!
They do say acrobatic workman
They said “acrobatic”
Yep, bunch of clowns..
More of the younger generation really needs to watch things like this so they can understand what makes this country so great. You need to give them a balance of the anti-America stuff they're learning in school today.
It fully demonstrates the need to desalinate sea water.
People these days SAY they work hard, lmfao 🤣 no these men worked hard, i bet that was one ass busting job! Hats off to everyone that did it..
I love how they portray, nature doing what it is supposed to do, as bad.
Their generation created world wonders. Todays generation creates safe spaces.
A sky scraper a day goes up in this country thanks to the modern generation. And now that skyscraper has a fire suppression system doesn't cook the enhabitants in the event of a fire. We have regulations so that some idiot doesn't end up poisoning half a city because he decides to build a factory on top of a residential area. We actually think things through instead of building a dam in a vital river causing thousands to be without water, crops to dry up, cities die; and now the plant sits nearly derelict as the river dries up and its generators built with little safety regulations in mind begin exploding. The structure continues to crack and deteriorate from the limited use of rebar. I'm sorry that the modern generations try to make our world a better place to live, and that we don't just start building random walls to bolster propaganda. I'm sorry that we're trying to fix the fucked up hellscape that your generation created.