As of 2025 the foundry is operating

I worked in 1964-65 after graduation for Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna NY in the Blast Furnaces. Of course everything was automated.  The objective was to produce molten iron to be sent to the open hearth to be made into steel, not to make molds as is being done so effectively in this video.  When it was time to "tap" the furnace, the base of the furnace was burned into using oxygen at the end of a steel pipe.  We wore asbestos coats steel toe shoes and WELDERS GLASSES!!.   The molten iron flowed down dried sand coated runners.  The iron went into railroad cars for transport to the open hearth. When the iron finished, gates were closed and opened and the slag was sent down runners to slag rr cars.  Safety was stressed for everybody as it was a dangerous place.  My favorite part of the operation was to go to the ore docks to watch the iron ore and limestone  being unloaded by buckets and gantries from the long Great Lakes ore carriers.  At the end s Melroe Bobcat was dropped in to the hold to scoop out the last bit.

Sitting around listening to Mum sing, this is what we did before the internet.........god, I hope we never lose the internet.....

I just looked them up. Still going!

Videos like this help me appreciate the hard work of my ancestors...I feel I owe them everything...❤

Still in business 34 years later :D

Wow. This family works so hard. Everything done by hand. Even the wood was cut hand. Brute labor mixed with precision!

It’s refreshing to see people not enslaved to debt and possessions and being self-sufficient in their ways.  Family & friends at the top of the list is number one, after that life falls into place

Safety gear...nil. makes me smile.

Wisdom and passion, not often found in the same place. Long may they continue.

Butiful Ireland on the days gone bye
I love and am so proud to be irish when I see stuff like this
God bless them all

Small foundries are few and far between these days, there's one about an hour from me, and people drive hundreds of miles to have them make something, big foundries can't be bothered unless you're making enough quantity to make it worth their while.

"He that hath a trade , hath an estate "- Ben Franklin adding this in  : awesome family Dynamics

Fantastic seeing a look into the not-so-distant past of industrial craftsmanship, and a family business at that.

Growing up in the city these days, businesses of great industry are so distant from the eyes and hands of kids that they're akin to magic. With no competition budding out of the grass to compete, it's no wonder big corps have no trouble taking over and stamping small and family businesses into dust.

Thanks for these videos.

So hard and dirty handcrafted work - respect !!

Absolute brilliant craftsmanship ,no health and safety then but they have there own way of keeping safe,mammy checking on the pouring-sure were would u get it-fantastic work.I love watching these programmes ,thanks for uploading .DuzT

It's the family interaction that's the key to happiness simples 😁

This is an excellent record of the 1970s, was a kid in England used to hear of this way of life in Ireland, its actually fascinating to see how metal is cast

This HAS to be a huge inspiration for the movie snatch.

Old Jonny Doyle he was a great man