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  • Опубликовано: 12 мар 2013
  • I actually operated everyone of these giant engines at Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem..They are monsters & were very dangerous to be around..I had to climb up on them & grease fittings with a small grease gun & my arms came within inches from being crushed by the giant valves & moving parts..Also the gas they ran on was everywhere & deadly to breathe.. very hazardous place to work..also the noise of these giants was deafening all the time.they were like having 2 house trailers alongside each other with a giant flywheel in the middle...there were many of them in this building

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  • @rudyf7647
    @rudyf7647 9 лет назад +11

    We used to check the basement for gas leaks and drain water from the gas lines on a daily basis. The wind tunnel in the AC side was brutal in the winter

    • @riverposie
      @riverposie  6 лет назад +3

      Yes I work there when I started 1973

  • @joshuasutherland6692
    @joshuasutherland6692 2 года назад +5

    Amazing. Absolutely terrifying industrial-age machines. Thanks for the vid.

  • @christopherkessell5196
    @christopherkessell5196 9 лет назад +11

    Wow fantastic engines!! Just a shame it was recorded with a potato!! Better than nothing I guess and thanks for posting!

    • @riverposie
      @riverposie  Год назад +3

      who cares

    • @Lucianrider
      @Lucianrider Год назад +1

      @@riverposie Its embarrassingly bad!! Not worth posting actually....

    • @riverposie
      @riverposie  Год назад +1

      @@Lucianrider you are a jerk so i will block you jerk

    • @jamesdavis5096
      @jamesdavis5096 Год назад

      Nope this was filmed with a Russian potato. Look at those Chernobyl colors

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 Год назад +2

      It’s entirely possible that a “bad” camera was what was available. Better to use it than do without.

  • @stormlord5500
    @stormlord5500 11 лет назад +3

    Those turbo-blowers seem to make way more noise than the old horizontals do.

  • @yeahitsme3799
    @yeahitsme3799 Год назад +2

    It's difficult to understand what they look like. Are they similar to the Snow gas engines? They look much bigger.

  • @sqr2024
    @sqr2024 3 года назад +1

    The 450 PSI steam really makes these boosters whine.

  • @pierreklee2479
    @pierreklee2479 Год назад

    what year was this filmed?

  • @anoymousjoe5957
    @anoymousjoe5957 Год назад +1

    Did these run on natural gas or flue gas?

    • @arthurmario5996
      @arthurmario5996 7 месяцев назад +1

      i think they ran on the "blast-furnace gas" that was a by-product. mostly carbon monoxide?

  • @clineshaunt
    @clineshaunt Год назад

    I'm curious, what was the purpose of the flywheel?

  • @superadio1
    @superadio1 Год назад +2

    Should been recorded with 16mm analogue film. This is suppose on magnetic tape

    • @riverposie
      @riverposie  Год назад

      who cares

    • @superadio1
      @superadio1 Год назад

      @@riverposie I care!

    • @Lucianrider
      @Lucianrider Год назад

      @@superadio1 Thank you!! So do I! The poster is a dick apparently....

    • @riverposie
      @riverposie  Год назад

      @@superadio1 get lost jerk..i am blocking you jerk

    • @gvi341984
      @gvi341984 Год назад

      Oh these videos can easily be fixed now

  • @riverposie
    @riverposie  11 лет назад +1

    yes this was true..

  • @Tekwyzard
    @Tekwyzard 7 месяцев назад

    Are the engines shown in this video ruclips.net/video/Eba_mUJF81I/видео.html, the same ones you feature on this video? I wondered what that building must have sounded like with everything running, versus the silence of now. Must have been very poignant the day that silence started creeping across the various buildings as stuff was shut down for the last time, or possibly the only time it ever was, for things that'd been running for ever.