Making 12,000 lbs of Clear Ice a Day | PARAGRAPHIC

[@togetherwegrow8340]

I love it! Welcome to the family!!

[@authorcharlieboring]

I did this work in the 1950s and early 1960s. I was, (i say with great humility), the best iceman of the time. Our plant in Abilene Texas was on a larger scale with a tank of aluminum chloride dissolved water solution refrigerated by freon and flowing around cans containing 300 pound blocks of ice organized in six-can baskets.

[@tythebrainiac]

I feel like this is a seriel killer reference

[@dertythegrower]

you should do some tour videos of old factory and old guys you know still doing it

[@authorcharlieboring]

@@dertythegrower All of the old guys are now dead. There was the plant owner, Shannon P. Co, Jr. He was a great guy who worked at the plant also. There was Fred Doyle who was the wholesale delivery foreman. There was Jimmy Roberts who was from my hometown of Anson and a graduate of ACU, who was retail delivery manager. Then there as a guy name David Crook who delivered package ice; another unnamed guy who delivered delivered long-haul wholesale ice; two guys who ran the ice making shifts and a guy named Wallace who was our machine maintenance man. I was a jack-of-all-trades who lived in an apartment on top of the plant, while attending the university. When I returned to the US after a year in Vietnam, Mr. Cox offered to sell the business to me; but I had fallen in love with the military service and turned the offer down.

[@hegeliandianetik2009]

That was some operation

[@dertythegrower]

cannot believe this is a huge business... for fancy drinks

[@teknacious]

fukn derty !

[@CriticalThinker27]

It's all supported by the zionist cartels chains around everyone's necks called the dollar.

[@dertythegrower]

Cheers... happy croptober... hops and herb farms workin hard right now

[@dertythegrower]

oh, I have a good one you guys would enjoy a collab with... Sugarshack Music, and their 'artisanal way' of making music videos here 😅

[@ericmutnan6358]

My wife got me a Clearly Frozen kit. It makes 10 cubes at a time but there is a lot of waste. You get maybe 7 good ones, and the timing is very tricky. Cool for the house, but it's a pain and not feasible in a bar or restaurant setting. Kudos to this guy for building a business in this niche. Call me spoiled, but if the bar I'm at doesn't have this type of ice, I won't order an old fashioned or really any expensive liquor. Cocktails are too expensive these days to use plebian ice.

[@rjung_ch]

I don't drink drinks but this sounds really interesting and he makes some great points on the quality. Cheers 👍💪✌

[@GeraldNoethen]

Outstanding video and great company, American made ice, how cool

[@Tappants22]

This is super awesome 👏

[@ForumArcade]

I'm kinda surprised they don't use a conductive cutting tool instead of a saw. Fewer moving parts, less hazard to both employees and the ice I would imagine.

[@longsleevethong1457]

That saw is $20k

[@tylermallory2504]

you're likely to fracture the block that way

[@seeqr9]

Pretty cool…

[@lunkerjunkie]

icy what you did there

[@hugoortiz05]

How do you go from one machines to over 40? How did you even get started? Small business owner trying to get information.

[@tylermallory2504]

reach out to Clinebell equipment, they can build you your fist machine in just a couple days!👍

[@rafadacosta1675]

"5 to 6 days a week, 365 days a year." Well, the math just doesn't add up! Ice looks great anyway.

[@Avelanche]

He mentioned the time it takes to freeze ice being different amounts of days depending on the time of year, if it takes just 3 days or 2 days to freeze, that means you're probably doing the process of pulling and distributing ice twice a week at 5 or 6 day intervals. You are checking the ice or pouring water or maintaining the already pulled ice or taking inventory or responding to orders or doing any other sort of business inbetween that would account for the rest of the 365 days of the year. So they're making ice, all year round, pulling not every day because freezing duration is irregular and out of their control for the most part.

[@daveh9755]

I’ll have the Pappy Van Winkle with a half pound block of ice please.

[@ivangeorgiev9216]

if that young lady's only job is to hold the hose that would be hilarious

[@Southernsaucedaddy]

That chainfall is outdated, get ya an electric remote winch . Work smarter not harder. 💪 Ya biz looks cool, ya ice looks nice 😎

[@ethanwilson9406]

That looks like a lot of ice for one drink.

[@WhatSmellsLikeToast]

Have to justify the price tag lol

[@Avelanche]

It's ridiculous.

[@tylermallory2504]

11:30 your machines seem to be a little overfilled

[@amazoniaquedavignon8180]

Genuine question: is there any useful applications to making super clear ice? I am intrigued by so many people spending so much time and effort in doing this and documenting the whole process. My initial thought about this is kinda like cosmetic surgery for ice and might create discrimination against not so "perfect" ice. I love to know, especially from people who have tried making the "perfect" ice

[@theneonpython]

No its just an aesthetic for expensive bar cocktails

[@WhatSmellsLikeToast]

It's useful to convince rich people to spend more money

[@zoeyzeroo]

It's like when you are buying tomatoes. Everyone want smooth and round 1. Nobody want crooked 1

[@Charlie1821]

Why aren’t they covering their mouths or wearing hairnets?

[@adamsapple7193]

Stop being an idiot. I’m surprised you survived childhood

[@OGSAFUNKATEER1901]

Walking around the unfrozen product without a hair net just waiting for hair to land in the block and ruin the “artisan” ice.

[@butchhunt1737]

How much do they pay the workers?

[@אליאלבן-דן]

What they agreed to work for.

[@marktucker208]

You guys sure use a lot of electricity cords for a business that works with water

[@pepsiandrew16]

"artisan" ice. wake up

[@charlesstidham2788]

They are full of shit. Nobody is buying special ice. Haha

[@BasstoMouthFishing]

That sounds like something a poor would say.

[@charlesstidham2788]

@BasstoMouthFishing and that sounds like something a pedophile would say.

[@tylermallory2504]

we sell hundreds of machines a year at Clinebell equipment so someone is buying clear ice...

[@rrios283s73]

No thanks , that cube take up almost the entire glass

[@longsleevethong1457]

Ice block machines are about $5k each. That saw is $20k.

[@Lindtun]

plastic cubes

[@justintotech]

Doesn't look all that sanitary especially with the close handling of the product. Compare this to a water bottling factory where its clean like a lab and the product is not handled as much.

[@longsleevethong1457]

I’m surprised you survived childhood

[@adamsapple7193]

Stop being an idiot

[@qwerty112311]

lol

[@Evan-yp3oz]

they should be wearing hairnets

[@WhatSmellsLikeToast]

"It's the purest ice you can find!" *Cuts ice with a chain saw*

[@BasstoMouthFishing]

You think he was using it to chop pine earlier ?

[@WhatSmellsLikeToast]

@BasstoMouthFishing I think the chain has to be lubricated, I think little pieces of metal fall off the teeth

[@BasstoMouthFishing]

@ you don’t use bar oil on electric chainsaws. That’s like saying a serrated break knife leaves debris in bread. His place is obviously inspected and up to standard if it’s being featured here. That chainsaw is for ice only….

[@goodson77784]

Most people drink their drink within 10 minutes but let's say you don't. lol I like your style man.