Hulett Unloaders since their creation in 1898 revolutionized the handling of iron ore by reducing labor costs and unloading times of lake boats. Their unique look and awkward movements were described as a "grasshopper leg" or "dinosaur" eating. By the early 1990s Huletts were rendered obsolete due to technological advancements in the processing, shipping, and offloading of iron ore. All have been scrapped except for two dismantled ones on Cleveland's Whiskey Island. They are slowly rusting away while buried in foliage and are nearly forgotten.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
00:36 Iron Ore
02:15 Early Methods of Unloading Ore
07:09 Huletts

Sources used in this video:

Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collecti...

Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divi...

Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/coll...

Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection
https://cpl.org/aboutthelibrary/subje...

Cleveland State University Special Collections
https://www.clevelandmemory.org/

Great Lakes Maritime Collection, Alpena County Library https://greatlakeships.org/search

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