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DREDGE CABLE FOR STEEP ROCK LAKE
JL-70 16mm
Color
Industrial
1970s
Color 1970s The story of the manufacture of the cable (almost 6" in diameter and 27 pounds a foot) for the world's largest dredges. Two electrically powered hydraulic pipe line dredges were the cables destination at Steep Rock Lake in Ontario. The result to drain the lake and get at the Iron Ore deposits in the lake bottom 01:24:57:00 Color 1970s cs Cross section of the cable 01:25:36:00 Color 1970s ms Wrapping machine 01:26:40:00 Color 1970s ms Piles of coiled copper wire 01:26:55:00 Color 1970s ms Copper wire dipped in a solution 01:28:38:00 Color 1970s ms Wire being woven into cable 01:29:46:00 Color 1970s ms Cable being coiled on large drum 01:31:08:00 Color 1970s ms Length of rubber? moving out of machine 01:32:16:00 Color 1970s ms Running strips of rubber thru various tests 01:33:00:00 Color 1970s ms Machines wrapping tape? around cable 01:33:20:00 Color 1970s ws ms Huge weaving machines for thick cable - then wrapped on drum 01:34:36:00 Color 1970s ms Machine wrapping material around cable 01:34:45:00 Color 1970s ms Man wipes thick cable as it is wrapped around drum 01:35:45:00 Color 1970s ws ms Large weaving machine wraps wire? around cable 01:37:41:00 Color 1970s ws Series of shots of the lake and the draining arrangements 01:43:18:00 Color 1970s ws Drained material spews out of large pipe - man checks flow 01:43:58:00 Color 1970s ws High pressure water streams hit shore
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