Farleigh Mill Tour - How sugar is made

This detailed video shows nearly all the steps in the production of sugar from sugar cane. It is still to be made fit for consumption at a refinery. That includes the 'raw sugar' which we buy.
Despite what we hear on the video, the Reeforest tour guide is easy to hear during the tour.
The blue page at the end starts with "WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO"

[@faisal7044]

What a beautiful explained and demonstrated. Very informative video. Supper Automatic systems cane delivering, weighment and cane price payment. Excellent double shaft driven mills and sugar processing. The ancient time steam engines with tractors for cane delivering system is amazing👍👏

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍. Thanks. I’m pleased you enjoyed it and presumably learnt something from it.

[@faisal7044]

@@tressteleg1 Thank you sir & hope you will keep on sharing like these videos 👍

[@tressteleg1]

@@faisal7044 Here are all my Sugar videos: Sugar Cane Railways Qld Australia kzbin.info/aero/PLLtOIHp49XND6bcwLgbtsBFKmh_DsS_yl I know that John Phillips has also been up that way and taken videos as well, so you may be able to find them on his channel.

[@mayaawanofficial5071]

It was a really informative video .. thanks for sharing

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@railroad9000]

Great video and very informative! Thanks for sharing. The rotary "bin" dumpers are similar to what is used here in the States to unload coal. Only difference some sites use cars with rotary couplers so never uncoupled.

[@tressteleg1]

Some of the sugar mills use rotating couplers so bins don’t have to be separated but most use automatic couplers which are opened and closed automatically as I think you would have just seen. Queensland has considerable coal mining and trains are used to transport the coal to ports. Much of the network uses electric locomotives as you will see in this video. Originally they used tipplers to empty the wagons but these have been superseded by wagons with bottom line discharge doors. These are opened and closed automatically as the train moves through the unloader at a slow speed without stopping. Track gauge is 3‘6“ and overhead voltage is 25,000 V. Electric Coal Trains kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3TKhmyHbK9_Y9k

[@railroad9000]

@@tressteleg1 Thanks for the clarification. Always been interested in trains and I'm pushing 79!

[@tressteleg1]

I have quite a few more videos taken locally but also have covered trams/streetcars etc on several trips to the USA in earlier years. You are only 4 years older than me.

[@railroad9000]

@@tressteleg1 Great! Keep them coming

[@tressteleg1]

If you do a KZbin search ‘tressteleg1 Playlists’ and you will find some of my lists of videos. Hopefully you will find some subjects of mine to your liking.

[@slycat1939]

That was very interesting. Lost me though after crushing. Oh not you or your video. Just would still need to see a sugar mill sometime. Very interesting. But doubt that I will get that chance. I actually learned lots from this. Thanks for sharing. God bless.

[@tressteleg1]

It is an interesting process of which there probably were bits which I did not fully understand myself but the point is that the process is very much more complicated than milling wheat into flour. 3 years ago only 2 mills still had tours like this. I don’t know if they still do tours. For the rest, it was simply too much trouble. They charged nothing for the tour but I think the guides were approved volunteers, not mill employees.

[@mygiahbrown1603]

I love trains 🚜🚂

[@tressteleg1]

😊👍

[@gladstonengcobo4015]

The transportation system is one of the best. Where is this Mill

[@tressteleg1]

Farleigh mill is a little north of Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

[@gladstonengcobo4015]

I am looking for a company that builds sugarcane crushers. Any referrals.

[@tressteleg1]

@@gladstonengcobo4015 I’m only a cameraman. I suggest you contact any of the mills. Somebody there would know. It is the cane season at present so all will be working.

[@ryannorth6799]

nice vid tressteleg1 I went here twice very interesting

[@BigSkyCurmudgeon]

who made the mill housings, rolls, and gear drives?

[@tressteleg1]

I have no idea.

[@lipmifo7019]

Most of the mills at Farleigh were of a WALKERS Limited mill design. Walkers Limited was taken over/merged with Bundaberg Foundry to form BundabergWalkers.

[@faisal7044]

Different eng companies do this job

[@tressteleg1]

I expect that different companies make different aspects of the sugar production process.

[@faisal7044]

@@tressteleg1 You are true . I Agreed

[@verniepeart2040]

Saw the Cane and have to say, the cane joints are too numerous and the juice sections too short, which must give a high fiber content

[@tressteleg1]

I have no doubt that experts chose the most viable length for the bits of can, billets I think they may be called.

[@BigSkyCurmudgeon]

when you have multiple roll units it really doesn't matter how big or small the chopped pieces are. a good milling process will finish 97-98% moisture free. then then refuse[bagasse] is channeled into the ovens to be burned to generate steam to power the equipment.

[@tressteleg1]

I think it was decided that 18” was about the best but the cane had to be processed within a few hours before the sugar content begins to decline. Full length cut cane can survive very much longer before processing.

[@lipmifo7019]

Agree. Thou sugar cane plant in video is an old variety and used to display sugar cane plant

[@tressteleg1]

OK. Both your comments noted.

[@reidensamio562]

😭😭😭

[@tressteleg1]

What is there to cry about? You can’t hurt sugar by processing it 😀

[@faisal7044]

Why are you weeping dear ?