Mighty Machines: Producing the Goods [DVD] - Very Good

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Episodes: "Bringing In the Harvest" A field of tomatoes may be vast but Harvester can handle it! He can gather the plants, separate the tomatoes from the vines and then carefully move them to big trailers pulled by tractors, all at the same time! At the factory millions of tomatoes are flushed out of the trailers by water and carried up a conveyor belt. Theyre on their way to being made into ketchup, spaghetti sauce and tomato soup. At the grape harvest, Clipper takes off the leaves to let the sunshine ripen the grapes while Grape Harvester drives down the rows of plants in the vineyard gathering the grapes. Its a fine harvest this year. "At the Steel Mill" Making steel is complicated, but Slab Hauler knows everyone at the steel mill and has offered to take us on a tour. Well meet a ladle crane, an electro-magnetic crane, a turbo train and even a fire quencher. It takes a whole team of special machines to produce steel. Making steel is a lot like baking! Dozer works with Scraper to send coal off to the coke ovens where it is turned into coke. Coke is put into a blast furnace along with iron ore and limestone, and that makes iron. Iron goes into the steel mill where it is mixed with scrap in another oven. Now turn up the temperature and presto! It turns into big, red-hot slabs of steel. Moving the slabs of steel is Slab Haulers job, and he loves to show his strength by picking up stacks of them all at once. "Hot Off the Press" Ever wonder how a newspaper is made? Charlie the printing press is three stories high and as long as a city block! He prints the newspaper, folds it and sends it to customers by truck. But Charlie cant do everything himself. He works with a team of robots! When Charlie needs more paper all he has to do is send the robots a message and one of them delivers a fresh roll. They run all over the plant delivering new rolls of paper and taking finished newspapers to delivery trucks. The robots even talk to one other and Charlie. The machines at the newspaper plant know what teamwork is all about! "Laying Down the Pipeline" Pipelines carrying oil, gas and other petroleum products are buried underground all over the world. Did you ever see the machines that build and bury the pipelines? Big excavators have to dig deep trenches hundreds of kilometres long. Each section of steel pipe has to be welded together into one long piece and the welds have to be checked so theyll never leak. Inspector makes sure of that. Bulldozers that lay the pipe in the ground have to be especially strong so they can lower it gently down into the trench. They work together as a team to get the job done, quickly and safely. This pipeline crew has a special machine called a Skagit. Hes a river digger who helps bury the pipeline at the bottom of a river. Now thats a mighty machine worth watching!-----Les machines de la rcolte Vous tes-vous dj demand comment les fruits et les lgumes sont rcolts ? Regardez comment Moissonneuse recueille les plants dans un champ de tomates. Scateur travaille avec la Machine vendanger pour ramasser les raisins dans le vignoble. Les plants sont ensuite livrs lusine o ils sont transforms en vos aliments prfrs ! Lacirie La production dacier ncessite toute une quipe de machines spcialises dont une grue pour poches, un turbotrain et mme un extincteur dincendie. Chenillette et Dcapeuse travaillent ensemble pour apporter le charbon, le minerai de fer, la pierre calcaire et la ferraille vers les fourneaux o de grandes dalles dacier rouge feu sont fabriques. Puis Transporteur de dalles dplace les piles de dalles dacier. Le journal Vous demandez-vous parfois comment les journaux sont fabriqus ? Charlie, la presse imprimer, fait trois tages de hauteur et un pt de maisons de longueur ! Charlie imprime le journal, le plie et lenvoie aux clients par camion. Il travaille avec une quipe de robots ! Les machines de limprimerie de journaux savent ce quest le travail dquipe ! Les gros tuyaux Les pipelines transportant du ptrole, du gaz ou dautres produits ptrolifres sont dissimuls sous la terre partout dans le monde. Dimmenses pelles mcaniques creusent de profondes tranches qui ont des kilomtres de longueur afin que les robustes bulldozers puissent dposer les gros tuyaux doucement dans le sol. Ils font quipe afin de bien faire le travail, rapidement et de faon scuritaire.

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