Steel city--Roanoke, VA???
Dec 11, 2014 08:58:24 #
Gained access to a bar rolling mill using recycled materials. Hope to go back with permission to shoot workers as I was requested NOT to do so on this tour.
Dec 11, 2014 09:03:22 #
Dec 12, 2014 09:19:48 #
Nice shots. I used to work in the steel industry. I spent 22 yrs in a stainless steel plant as a mechanical designer. Got to see some amazing things happening all the time.I was involved in just about every aspect of the steel making and finishing process. Never a dull moment.
Dec 12, 2014 10:57:32 #
Thanks for taking a look. It is really an amazing process with really complicated controls to operate and drive the mechanization. Found it downright bizarre that we had something like this in the good ol" South!
Dec 12, 2014 11:01:59 #
lightandshadowjourney wrote:
Thanks for taking a look. It is really an amazing process with really complicated controls to operate and drive the mechanization. Found it downright bizarre that we had something like this in the good ol" South!
Love the last one. Was this at Roanoke Electric Steel when it was in Salem Va.?
Dec 12, 2014 11:06:25 #
It is now Steel Dynamics off Westside Boulevard in Roanoke. Great recycling of waste metals. That second pic is the explosive sparks created when they "stir" the cast with these enormous electrodes. The last is of rolled steel that has been cut with a torch and they are of different temps, hence the color differences.
Dec 12, 2014 11:09:37 #
lightandshadowjourney wrote:
It is now Steel Dynamics off Westside Boulevard in Roanoke. Great recycling of waste metals. That second pic is the explosive sparks created when they "stir" the cast with these enormous electrodes. The last is of rolled steel that has been cut with a torch and they are of different temps, hence the color differences.
Interesting stuff, that steel!
Dec 12, 2014 21:47:34 #
Visited Roanoke Electric probably close to 30 years ago and conducted physical tests on theirs and many other manufactures rebars.
Dec 13, 2014 11:22:39 #
Swamp-Cork wrote:
Visited Roanoke Electric probably close to 30 years ago and conducted physical tests on theirs and many other manufactures rebars.
That is ironic! Let me know of any particular shots you would like to suggest or see and I will do my best to get them for you. They still are making rebar. I was able to tour with several retired GE engineers who have built plants in Brazil, Germany and France. They really knew what they were seeing.
Dec 13, 2014 19:19:42 #
Impressive images! I love that they are about light and shape and form and you don't really have to know what is going on to appreciate the artistic value. Loving all 6 images,this very last one, i think is powerful.
Dec 15, 2014 11:45:07 #
Thanks, Carlysue, from what I have seen of your images, I am really pleased that you like these!
Dec 15, 2014 11:46:14 #
RJNaylor wrote:
The second one is very interesting and the third one is really good!
Thank you, so much. Here are a couple more from a really exciting shoot!
Dec 15, 2014 16:12:36 #
lightandshadowjourney wrote:
That is ironic! Let me know of any particular shots you would like to suggest or see and I will do my best to get them for you. They still are making rebar. I was able to tour with several retired GE engineers who have built plants in Brazil, Germany and France. They really knew what they were seeing.
Thanks, I appreciate your offer, but have been retired for many years. I spent my career with VDOT in the materials testing division. One section that I was employed in, tested such steel items as rebars, guard rails, prestressed cable,iron castings and stainless steels, as well as and the physical properties of almost any other other material used in highway construction. As I remember Roanoke Electric was a modern, very progressive well run plant,better able to cope with the foreign competition at that time than some others.
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