336 Comments Posted by Dark-Star

Daaaang those are big gears!

Ballsy. This is a very risky abandonment.

Holy cow. That's like something out of a videogame where you go "What the heck, an open channel of toxic waste/lava/etc going right through the plant? Who would ever do that?"

I really never thought I'd see something like that in real life. But there it is in living color. Ho. Lee. Cow.

I wouldn't go to this place without a climbing rope with a grappling hook at the end.

@ Rekrats - frankly there was only so much you COULD do to make a place like that safe. Extra scary stuff.

So what exactly does this mean? That there's a safety seal that could blow out instead of something blowing up and you'd better not linger in case that happens?

@ Rekrats -LOL, that's terrible!

@ Ian - thanks for the info. It really is eye-opening to see the uber-dangerous stuff they have to do to make the steel we use for so many things!

Treadwell was indeed the company name, bobo.

Back in the day you couldn't have dragged me close to those wires. 120 volts (household current in the USA) can kill you, 480 is industrial grade power and will FRY your a** like a bug.

Screwy, I never knew they did stuff like that in a steel mill!

Ack! I have acrophobia so bad I get it from videogames and pictures like that! Nerves of steel, Motts!

@STL girl - and likely run into a sharp rusty end at the bottom.

This is why Motts is posting these pictures and I am not. I get a fear of heights on a freaking ladder nevermind climbing up this place.

I see three spaces for fuses, either for 3-phase power or various parts of a machine.

Redneck escalator! ROTFLOL!!!