Mighty Machines

An oil truck has tipped over and needs help getting back on his wheels. A brand new tow truck is put to the test to see if he knows what he's doing. Can the new Tow Truck do it?

Making steel is complicated, but Slab Hauler knows everyone at the steel mill and has offered to take us on a tour. We’ll 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 Hauler’s job, and he loves to show his strength by picking up stacks of them all at once.

Stretch is a crane and his job is to lift things onto the top of very high buildings. He’s attached to a truck so he can drive to jobs, but he’s so tall that he has to be taken apart in order to fit through the streets. It takes a friend, Yellow Crane, to help Stretch assemble again! The two cranes work together and it’s not long before Stretch is taller than a thirty-storey building and ready to work. He picks up a huge air-conditioner off the ground and raises it up, up, up to the roof of the high-rise. Now that is a big lift! Cranes are not the ones who can lift heavy objects to the top of high buildings. Meet Gipsy Lady, a helicopter who specializes in difficult lifting jobs. Have you ever seen a crane that’s also a helicopter? Gipsy is a spectacular “air-crane,” with a jet engine and huge rotor blades! Watch while she lifts very heavy objects one after another to the roof of a factory.

Atlantis the submarine takes people on trips under the sea in the Caribbean.

Forks keeps busy with all the junk cars that arrive by tow truck.

The control tower keeps a watchful eye and regulates the loading.