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

[@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

[@mahavakyas002]

1950s Texas eh? how was life back then? Is Abilene a rural area? Was it back then?

[@togetherwegrow8340]

I love it! Welcome to the family!!

[@GeraldNoethen]

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

[@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 😅

[@Tappants22]

This is super awesome 👏

[@rjung_ch]

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

[@LoganDavis-1776]

My guy gets it.

[@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

[@nsglcck]

@@longsleevethong1457the chainsaw they use is less than $100..

[@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.

[@unsaltedskies]

Would be paired well with Whale Tail Gin too ;)

[@ausername7470]

You'd be surprised at the different aspects of the culinary world.

[@seeqr9]

Pretty cool…

[@lunkerjunkie]

icy what you did there

[@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.

[@Southernsaucedaddy]

That chainfall is outdated, get ya an electric remote winch .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

[@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.

[@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!👍

[@ausername7470]

Advertising and bringing your products into different business' to try for for free. That gets you known but the key after that is competitive pricing. Generally going up against titans of an industry you're not going to be making much money if any at all at the start, hence why most of these industry giants had multiple jobs and worked 120+ hours a week. It's grueling but if you have the passion and dedication, it can be done.

[@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

[@daveklein2826]

NOT necessary..... Get educated

[@ausername7470]

Because it's generally not necessary. Simple as that.

[@90texas]

@@daveklein2826I bet you went to a university. You must have a vast amount of knowledge

[@ivangeorgiev9216]

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

[@kyzor-sosay6087]

🤣😂🤣

[@daveh9755]

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

[@Brickktopp]

Love the taste of chainsaw oil in my cocktail 😂

[@daveklein2826]

Very stupid comment

[@ethanwilson9406]

That looks like a lot of ice for one drink.

[@WhatSmellsLikeToast]

Have to justify the price tag lol

[@Avelanche]

It's ridiculous.

[@pepsiandrew16]

"artisan" ice. wake up

[@marktucker208]

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

[@daveklein2826]

So?

[@marktucker208]

Just a comment about risk mate

[@OGSAFUNKATEER1901]

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

[@daveklein2826]

Get a life

[@tylermallory2504]

11:30 your machines seem to be a little overfilled

[@daveklein2826]

You know nothing

[@tylermallory2504]

And exactly how many of these ice machines have you built? and how many ice machines do you have in your ice plant? last year pulled, cut, and shipped about 2000 blocks. now what's your experience again?

[@ericwilliams2786]

Idk im not seeing any of them actually crystal clear all the way through

[@rrios283s73]

No thanks , that cube take up almost the entire glass

[@butchhunt1737]

How much do they pay the workers?

[@אליאלבן-דן]

What they agreed to work for.

[@DesertDweller1]

My son, daz mae son...he leeft ice

[@Evan-yp3oz]

they should be wearing hairnets

[@daveklein2826]

Not necessary

[@Evan-yp3oz]

@ you want hair released into your drink when the ice melts because someone leaned over the water while it was freezing?

[@ForTheLongCon]

dude tries to hard to justify his product. Twice he mentions dilution and high end drinks bullshit😂. Any fridge can make clear ice with the right methods, snake oil salesman.

[@daveklein2826]

You know nothing

[@bombman1599]

first of all, clear ice melts slower, so it'll dilute drinks less, and yes, anyone can make clear ice with a cooler and freezer, but at the scale needed for multiple bars and restraunts? good fucking luck

[@Kx0195]

​@@bombman1599exactly. Guy has a passion for his product, he's not coming across like a snake oil salesman.

[@GruvenHaus]

Pff I've NEVER seen a fridge make clear ice or any ice outside of frost..

[@RionPhotography]

PARAgraphic… careful w that name

[@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...

[@longsleevethong1457]

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

[@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

[@Lindtun]

plastic cubes

[@goodson77784]

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

[@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….