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does anyone know what this strang occupation is?
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Ian | Report | 15 Jul 2005 11:53 |
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Jody, Nothing strange about this occupation - it is just that it does not happen in the UK any more. Pig Iron these days is produced mainly in Brazil, Russia/Ukraine, India and China. It is an important commodity and shipped around the world, for steel making as the other replies have mentioned. By the way, the company I work for is a world-wide Pig Iron trader! Ian |
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Ian | Report | 15 Jul 2005 11:52 |
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Jody, Nothing strange about this occupation - it is just that it does not happen in the UK any more. Pig Iron these days is produced mainly in Brazil, Russia/Ukraine, India and China. It is an important commodity and shipped around the world, for steel making as the other replies have mentioned. By the way, the company I work for is a world-wide Pig Iron trader! Ian |
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Jody | Report | 15 Jul 2005 08:51 |
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Thanks very much guys!!! Very interesting!! |
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Jane | Report | 14 Jul 2005 22:58 |
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Guess he would work in an Iron Foundry and would think that he either would be stoking the fires or actually pouring the red hot liqid iron into forms to makethe'pigs' of iron There is a thread on here re old occupations Jane |
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Ann | Report | 14 Jul 2005 22:58 |
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hi jody i dont know if this will be much help but pig iron is used to make steel so he was at a guess a foundary worker best ann |
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Unknown | Report | 14 Jul 2005 22:57 |
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Found by googling: Pig iron is raw iron, the immediate product of smelting iron ore with coke and limestone in a blast furnace. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 4-5%, which makes it very brittle and not very useful directly as a material. Pig iron is poured irectly out of the bottom of the blast furnace into pots to form ingots. The ingots are then used to produce wrought iron or steel by burning off the excess carbon in a controlled fashion. The name is derived from the time when the iron ran into molds in sand beds fed from a common runner. The row of molds was said to resemble a litter of suckling pigs, hence the individual ingots were referred to as pigs and the runner was called the sow. nell |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 14 Jul 2005 22:55 |
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I bet it actually says blast furnace labourer, Pig iron is the iron which runs out of the blast furnace into troughs which looked a bit like pig troughs. This iron is very brittle, so once it was cool, it was taken away to be turned into steel, wrought iron etc. Linda |
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Jody | Report | 14 Jul 2005 22:50 |
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On the 1901 census the occupation for my great grandfather is Black Furnace Labourer Pig Iron. What the hell is that? |
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