[Music] pretty cool magnets magnets like science class but bigger so bulk equipment they handle all of the equipment maintenance and they own a lot of the equipment in the steel mill we're at today so they basically uh service all of the equipment on a seven day a week basis repair anything that's broken and then they have multiple machines to guarantee 100 uptime so in case one goes down they have another one ready to step right in but in the steel making process you need heavy equipment whether that be reach stackers or the slab carriers or
the 988s or hall trucks or whatever it is to do different things around the steel mill on a daily basis [Music] all right so behind me is a cress slab carrier it can haul 200 tons of steel slabs from one part of the mill to the other so in the steel making process they take all the ingredients and basically produce these large steel slabs they need the slabs then move from one part of the plant to the next where they roll them out into coils and that's where this thing comes in it's a highly specialized
piece of equipment and you don't see them very often what size truck tires are these how are these going oh in a mining application yeah maybe like a 793 really yeah they're massive i mean this tire brand new is 30 000 is that right [Music] this is a 988 loader that's modified for hot work so it has smooth tires steel chains steel braided hoses all the plastic lights are removed ballistic glass custom bucket high heat hydraulic fluid camera systems a hook on the back end in case it gets stuck in the in the hot work
you can get pulled out the thing is built to work in 2000 degree plus slag very specialized piece of equipment probably one of the coolest machines i've ever seen the tires deteriorating so they're going to change it out but before they can change the tire they have to take the tire chains off to take the tire chains off you gotta torch them off [Music] they're getting new tires delivered right now for their 988 loaders they use slick tires because they wrap them in chains due to the heat because the loaders are digging in the slag
and the tires are oftentimes in the molten material for short periods of time the chains help preserve the tire life and since they have chains on them they don't need any kind of tread or anything on the tires so they use these these slick tires and they actually just explain to me that they wrap it in additional rubber so that the heat doesn't cause the sides to start separating prematurely pretty sweet [Music] behind me we have a slag pot carrier and this thing carries the pots out of the steel mill full of swag it carries
the pots from inside the plant to where they process the slag dumps out the slag we have produced some pretty sweet footage [Music] you
