Machining HUGE 4 Ton Rock Drill Head with CNC machines
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Machining huge 4 Ton rock drill head from forged high strength steel using our huge cnc milling machine and huge cnc lathe for Tri-Mach Oy. If you need something like this made in Finland check out our machine shops websites www.vuohensilt... We do also challenging repair work and manufacture lot of prototype parts.
Definitely do more content of the projects going on in the shop!
Where that livestream at :P
Here Here, this was a cool video.
Yeah theres no way i wuld hav guessed u culd make sumthing like that , that big, in ur shop
Would also be nice to hear the machining sounds.. Slow speed slicing of the steel :)
AGREED!
"I think the video turned out to be really interesting...."
Uhm...this is absolutely interesting. Videos like this is what keeps UA-cam worth coming back to. There is no doubt that your channels have greatly improved UA-cam as a whole.
agreed!
I would love to see the rigging involved in getting the blank positioned before roughing the first face. I bet that would get some likes!
It was just One Finnish Guy lift Up and holding the big ass pice of metal with One hand and then screwed it on the milling machine with the other hand.
Finnish people are really badass People. 😂👍
@@mrolsen6987 This is true. That's why the Mortal Kombat video game always says "Finnish him!"
@@andycraig7734
Yepp, that is where that comment origin from. The Finnish badass People!
I'am a Swede who grown Up with some of those here in Sweden, so I have seen it My self.
At the age of 9 they can wrestle a brown bear down. True story! Yepp!
Twitch stream....
Annie lifted it into placement
I really like the little bit of cinematography of focusing on the forklift tire when it's picking up that heavy block of steel. Nicely done!
I forgot to say on the video but the face of the drill is full of small holes where you install small tungsten bits to do actual cutting. Here is also video about pressing the metal shavings with hydraulic press ua-cam.com/video/mAGU9WZv8sI/v-deo.html
how did the client find your shop? does finland need more machinists?
How do you know when a bit needs to be changed? Is there a sensor or something or do you use the sound it makes as an indicator?
Such an awesome video! Machining porn and also awesome Finnish accent. Made my morning!
@@xAeroSpaceKnightx sound and surface finish
How do you *accurately* place such a big, irregular formed and heavy thing? Like for the last step showed - how do you know the front rotation isnt off by x degrees and that the front is not tilted front- or backwards?
How accurate does the head and holder have to be? 1/10mm or less?
Me: Watches Press Channel just for interesting content
UA-cam: Thinks I'm in the market for professional industrial machining equipment and advertises tools I didn't even know existed.
Ditto....
pfistor I just bought a left handed Kanooda valve made from unobtanium from one of those ads, I don’t think I really needed it either
@@utubeadrianno lol half the stuff is like 40 grand too.
That's what happens when you use google damn spies
LOL, yup same here. I get ads for CNC machines that are as big as my house 🤣🤣🤣
The finnish is really nice on that piece!
lol... i see what you did there.
I think i'm the only one that caught this.
@@carlbraganza7712 it's not that difficult, have a slow clap if it makes you feel better
@@BoxxArt "I think I'm the only one that caught this"... case & point (lol).
(did you read the original comment that Carl-Emmanuel Trepanier left? then, after reading his comment, did you read MY comment? the fact that I'm having to explain this to you sort of defeats the purpose of my "I see what you did there" remark)
I honestly can't be bothered to try and explain it to you. Lemming.
@@carlbraganza7712 Everyone gets it. It's not that difficult [to get]. The 52 thumbs up prove my point.
@@carlbraganza7712 I got the joke. Not sure why some people get their panties in such a wad over it though.
You are correct, really large projects like this are not on youtube. I would love to see more of the these big projects.
I love this kind of heavy machining content. I honestly would love hour long videos of just the lathe work and all the steps. I find it super relaxing to watch the machining. More videos like this please
Master Procrastinator
Abom79
Same here! Thumbs up
The most amazing part to me are the jigs and clamps that hold everything. It seems like making the parts that hold the metal is a skill by itself.
Half of machining isn’t even making the project, it’s making the tools that MAKE the project
@@pacificcoastpiper3949 more like 80 percent time is wasted in 5th axis fixturing
Juan Hernandez whatever the case it’s still impressive
What people don't realize there is a lot of stress involved in just owning a business and trying to make a profit one bad cut and the part is scrap. It's amazing how you stay so relaxed about ,I know I wouldn't.
true, guy I know does this and pays a big insurance in case he fucks up
@@masoluboxD what there is a Fuckup insurance? I need this ;-)
Yea think of if the Long big drill boke of in the hole! 😰
Insurance and lots of prior experience. No independent business isn't without risks. Just got to be willing and able to give it a go.
Yeah, there's so many stages where they could ruin that piece. I was fascinated watching it and slightly worried...
It's cool to see the large, industrial equivalent of This Old Tony. Keep this up!
See also: abom79.
When your customer received this finished piece, he said, "Pretty goot!"
It's "finnished" ...😜
bellowphone hahaha that had me cracking up
That's cute😀
Prian Purche - I say that all the time ;p
As long as the customer doesn´t say "wat da faak", the world is safe.
This video is amazing! Never would have thought this is how a rock drill was made. The machinery used is extremely impressive.
This looks like the "pilot bit" for a large DTH hammer (for a company like e.g. Lännen Alituspalvelu if it is for horizontal drilling and for any of a large number of people who do foundations if it is for vertical drilling). It's not necessarily only intend for rock-drilling. Using DTH for advancing a steel-casing or steel-pile in coarse, stony, mixed material is very common.
This pilot bit will be drilled into to accept a large number of "hard metal", cemented tungsten carbide bits. In Finland, which has very hard rock like all the baltic shield countries, they will be the hemispherical kind of button bits; very smooth and not very sharp or pointy. This means slower drilling, but they do not wear down and break as fast as the pointier sphere-cone-shaped bits.
When drilling horisontally, the drill rod also has a large auger that neatly fits into the steel casing. Air from several large compressors (~20 bar-ish) is let through the drill rod to the hammer. The hammer hits this pilot bit, which hits the rock face or soil. In harder materials like rock, only the button bits hit the face; the much softer hardened steel is keept clean by the used air from the hammer, which is channeled to the face of the hammer, blowing away all the small stone chips or whatever is there. The air then is channeled away from the face, around the hammer and into the auger in the steel casing. The drill rod/auger is slowly rotated to remove spoils like an auger conveyor.
The pilot bit is slightly smaller than the casing, so a ring bit is used to ream a hole slightly larger than the casing (this is a wear-part, rather than a many-use-part). The pilot bit has a lot of inertia when it starts moving from being struck by the hammer, and it will hit the ring bit that is usually welded to the steel casing (sometimes there is a bayonett-style coupling). This drives the ring bit and casing forward.
The hammer is rotated slightly after each blow so that the button bits hit slightly different places each blow. They are also distributed on the face of the hammer so as to make almost concentric circles evenly spaced, so that no part of the rock face avoids being hit by the button bits. As the button bits hit the surface, they do exceed the compressive stress of the rock locally, causing crushing into powder; but outside the area hit by the button bit, the buttons cause bending stress. Rock is weak against bending (like unreinforced concrete) so some cracks radiate outward. Eventually different networks of cracks from adjacent hits line up and small stone chips come off the rock-face.
And then everyone has some PB&J and makes some necklaces from the rock chips before having a nap.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. It interesting to know how this will be used.
You said ream the hole
Thanks for taking time to explain this! Surely many people will learn a lot from this, I did anyway.
Thank you very much for this detailed explanation, soylentgreenb! Horizontal drilling fascinates me, and I struggle to wrap my head around all the physics involving bending of the drill string and resulting rotation speed differences. Feel free to keep explaining!
Ex-geotechnical driller here: this is drill bit of down-the-hole hammer, start od central hole must be on specific diameter because there is inserted plastic tube that open blowout valve on hammer body, lower holes are for flushing drill hole, and accorhing to size this looks like head for tower drills for blastholes in quaries
(Flies away in cloud of dust from drilling)
well if that thing gets outer rings i'd imagine the hole it makes to be atleast 1.5 -2 m diameter, for that to be a blasthole sounds like blowing up whole mountain at once and i don't mean just a layer of it.
Yea I was thinking that too. No way would you drill a hole that large for stuffing explosives in.
@@dickJohnsonpeter Well, no _conventional_ explosives.
Looks like its for driving casing, the bit is missing the ring cutter that attaches around the head when the string is rotated clockwise, and left at the bottom of the hole by rotating counter clockwise and pulled out thru casing
They don't air drill in the gulf of Mexico now do they? COMPRESSORS MUST BE MOST EXTREME MACHINES EVER!
I am a cnc programmer and these setups are impressive.
Fascinating to see how this big tool bit was made. It's equally impressive to see the amount of equipment needed and tool bits you wear out during the process. Thanks for posting the video!
0:31 Respect for giving credit to the folks who built it!
One thing that needs acknowledgement is just how well shaped the original forging was.
Yes but 4 times over-size ;)
i dont know anything about machining, but honest to god I figured they were dealing with a near "finnished" product (sorry, I had to).
@@tiamat_023 I mean the orignal thing is more or less easy to make, its hard to get precise with stuff like this. And thats what you need machining for... Especially today everything has to be pretty precise some parts of this size might even need to be 100th of a milimeter exact. Sorry for my bad english*
@@millomweb i was wondering the same thing, why didn't they start out with a precision casting, then to the forge, then to the machine shop...? it seems so much labor, and the best, hardest of the material was machined away, but i am only guessing.
It looks like shit before he machined it
Pretty cool! The shop my grandfather worked in was all marine components, like driveshafts, propellers and hydraulic stuff. The machining for the propellers was very similar to this, big, heavy and slow. This was a cool video, made me think of some really interesting times when I was a kid. Thanks.
I work in a machine shop and do parts up to 5 tons. I run a 120" Vertical Boring Machine. I feel like my job is un interesting, but yet you make it seem so interesting in the video. Great job. Definitly want more machine shop videos. Have a nice day.
Your job is NOT "un interesting", and very important, just not known as you are behind the scenes.
Lathe 5,000,000 :-D
There is something magical about seeing a rough piece of metal slowly transform into something complex and shiny.
I feel like that when I'm playing with my lathe too, just on a much smaller scale!
It's a ZEN moment.
This channel is a great story of UA-cam. Someone shares the joy of improper and safe use of expensive machines and then things get a bit out of hand to the enjoyment of all.
I like this and would like to see more, as you say, there isn't much of this on UA-cam with this size Machines. Would actually want so see more like how they set it up in the lathe etc but understand the time to be limited. You should mount a camera on each person's head with a battery backpack on their backs ;)
Indeed on smaller scale there’s some machinist on UA-cam
But they rarely work on big pieces like these.
Perhaps another secondary channel for this kind of job.
There's Abom79 doing big stuff at his workplace and smaller stuff in his home shop. I can recommend him as he explains every step he does very clearly. I would like more this kind of content from this channel too!
@@jarivuorinen3878 also came to plug Abom79.
@@jarivuorinen3878 yes I'm a subscriber of him but he does not use these size machines that I've seen and he also use imperial units. I also watch This old Tony (awesome funny channel, often do both imperial and metric units) , NYC CNC etc but this is indeed something that is not common on UA-cam.
Edge precision is really interesting too. Physically big work
This was a great video. I have been fortunate to work in and around some incredible machine shops, including one that made massive components for undersea oil
and gas wells. I hope this video and subsequent ones give more people an appreciation for the work machinists do.
I think Cody's lab needs that drill head for his Chicken Hole base.
Yea Robo Cody would make great use of that thing.
Cody will probably make his own equivalent using a couple of old barrels and a rusty anvil.
nahh he just mixes up some nitro glycerine
Agreed
He would just extract all the gold out of it.
It's always fascinating to see the transformation from a rough shape into a final tool. :)
As a CNC machinist I enjoy content like this. I'd love to see more of that part of your business!!
Excellent
More videos like this would be awesome! Always cool to watch how things are are actually made instead of just seeing a finished product.
This is some cool Beyond the Press content.
Agree.
I enjoy watching you guys do real life work on insane projects. excellent job on your channel, homey!
A masterpiece in metal, including the music track. The drill is massive.
The video obviously took a long time to make as it follows the process from beginning to end. Excellent job on making both the drill and the video!
my father and i sat down at lunch and watched the video. he and i were really impressed with the size of the job. well done on filming and im keen to see more
More content like this please!! So interesting seeing your process for large machining projects.
To me the most amazing aspect of this type of work is that there is no room for an error.
If something gets set wrong or a bit snaps off you have a giant piece of scrap metal.
So that's where my former dentist gets their equipment from.
Haha!
my, grandma, what big teeth you have!
Also my proctologist.
William Stark my, grandma, what a big .......... nevermind
If he made it, I'd use it.
Wow that’s definitely my favourite video you guys have done in the last 6 months for sure. I really enjoyed the commentary and explanation.
Pretty goddamn good. A small shop in Finland getting famous on UA-cam for crushing stuff with a hydraulic press making badass parts for mining and tunnel drilling.
Please do more of this! Really cool to see steel being shaved off like that. As well as the whole process around it.
Wow, to turn that chunk of steel into that beautiful piece is amazing...I've been around machinist and machine shops for almost a half century...It just never stops amazing me the talent and ingenuity involved in manufacturing things like that cutter head...You do amazing work and no wonder they brought it to your shop...Awesome shop too, it looks like a working area and not some sterile clean room facility...
I didn't know that lathes of that size existed! Thanks for sharing this with us.
Yes, do more videos of these big projects, if affordable! And show more steps if you can.
Alot of people disliked this because they don't like machining, but I like this one alot. It's really cool to see large machining jobs!
I'm impressed you turned that project out in a week.
Especially when you consider the stress involved in the machining I mean when you fuck up it's not just a matter of cutting a new piece of the rod stock.
The shot of the forklift tire was brilliant. Looked awesome and a great thing to think of filming.
I definitely want to see more “machining 5 000 000” videos and similar content.
Hell yeah! Thank you for documenting the process, I have encountered many big forgings, big CNC-machines and big machined components, but I don't think I've ever seen how such a large forging is actually machined. Im a materials engineer, and whenever I work on making the toughest possible tool steel in the future I will be thinking of what a pain it will be for all the machine operators :)
"The it goes to the heat treating facility"... Dude, get some footage of bringing THAT out of the oven, and into the quench!
Holy fireball Batman!!
Right ? Which lake did they dump it in ??? 😂
@@GodzillaGoesGaga Quench in oil.
I would guess the heat treatment on a piece like this is done with induction
It is mostlikely slowly cooled
from the USA; thank you for a very good video. Well done on the Drill Head and the making of the video. 👍
Having worked in both automotive and aerospace machining, I love seeing you work on large industrial stuff.
Been a machinist for more than 40 years , nothing surprised me ,but I still found it to be quite interesting .
Excellent machining, by the best machinsts in Tampere 🤗. My employer is world leader in Friction welding of API and Geo Thermal drill pipes, we weld the tubes to the Pin and Box connectors. Atlas Copco, Sandvik, Driconeq are just a few Scandinavian companies that have our machines.
Impressive forging, guessing € 15,000 just for the material, ouch!
Many thanks for sharing.
Much respect. That’s an incredible custom machine shop, tools and a talented team. Stay awesome,
Now THAT'S Heavy Metal. 👍
This is still one of my favorite videos from the BTP channel!
Awesome that for what seems like a small shop that you can handle machining such large pieces.
Huge projects like this are super cool. Thanks for sharing the process!
Yes, more like this would be fun.
I'd love more videos like this, watching the big machines in action is super interesting!
Large items like this are incredible to watch. That's a LOT of steel to move around and machine.
Makes you think about the size of the lathe they must have used to machine the titanic, that's right they cut it from one big block of steel
This is the stuff that I've been dying to see from this shop!!!! Awesome!
People can make some amazing machinery that we take for granted. Always fascinating to see...
Several years ago my wife and I hauled a huge bit that was almost as wide as our trailer and around 20 ft. long from a foundry in Duluth, Mn. to a mine on a mountain in the middle of New Mexico. It wasn't machined like this though, unless it was done at the mine later on. I think it was for production in the mill because the business end was rounded like it went into a huge bowl and not shaped like a rock bit and the "shaft" was like a screw conveyor. Everything in that mine was huge. I doubt one of the haul trucks would even notice running over a pickup truck.
Another time we hauled a steam turbine shaft from a power plant near Henderson, NV to get rebuilt in NC. It was driven by steam produced by a natural gas fueled jet engine similar to an F-16 engine, I was told, and had had one of the turbine blades go through it. It was 30 ft. long and weighed 20,000 to 30,000 lbs. The precision of that thing was amazing and the General electric plant we hauled it to had others that weighed over 100,000 lbs and had to be transported on train flatbeds.
having a giant fricken lathe helps a lot.
Nice to finally see some heavy machining on youtube. Thank you
A lot better presentation than "how it is made". Seeing this video heals me.
You're absolutely right - there isn't a lot of content like this on UA-cam. I've actually looked for footage of large industrial lathes, and there's very little to be found. Most of that is pretty low-quality, as well. Honestly, Lathe videos can be quite satisfying simply through the process of taking a chunky oblong thing and making it perfectly round :)
Brilliant intro, showing the forklift tire squashing down as the load comes on.
That was awesome! You guys do some really big and interesting projects in the shop. Thanks for sharing
That's an immediate like.
Very cool. I am a cnc machinist but I have never done anything like this. A very huge project. Please make more videos like this!
That must have taken ages to edit and to film thank you so much for taking the time I really enjoyed it!! 👍👍
Alec Steele was so exited about his own milling machine, even saying he loves big machines. I´m pretty sure he´s green with envy when he sees this.
Dude, I'm sure Abom79 is nodding his head. Ace content!
All of his videos are good. Their both cool people. His old man REALLY knows some good stuff.
Yes!!!! Please more of this! Blowing shit up is fun to pass the time but, BUT!!! This shit is way more interesting! The vid and commentary were great! Thanks😎
Yeh baby more like this.... I am a precision cnc senior engineer/foreman of over 20 years. But ever thing i do is aerospace and NDA so can not show what i do. Nice work thanks and make some more please..
Music fits to content: heavy metal 😉
I really enjoy machining videos, definitely would like to see more jobs like that
That's exactly what i do at work \m/
Greetings from a mechanical engineer from switzerland 😁
Totally agree with your comment about there aren't many other channels that highlight large machining projects, hope you do post some since it is interesting to see how shops manage large heavy projects. Cheers!
Never in my life would have though that a skid could hold 4 tonnes of steel.
Ive seen more on a pallet if you could believe it.
They move containers taht are like 40 tons in the harbor
Well done. Really makes you appreciate what was made a century ago when they didn't have all of this specialized equipment.
I felt bad for the cutters cutting through that forge scale haha, awesome vid 👌
Feel worse for the operator that continually has to index the inserts. Probably doesn't dare turn his back on the machine.
Nice video
Please consider videoing more like this
On UA-cam you see the big machine but never the pieces that make them work
Hi Lawrie and Annie , from Tasmania . love your shows .
This was really cool! I have seen a little small-scale machining but never anything this huge. I would love to see more.
Fascinating. Suffering from a lack of TIMO though! ;)
Wow! You guys have amazing capability. This video is worth watching just for the set ups alone. Thank you of doing this.
Now that's a manly drill!
That's just the tip :)
@@airgunbubba2505 you 2 compare shank size?
Make more machining videos. I watch these when I want to chill and calm down after a HECTIC SHITTY day.
It's like staring at a fish tank, it soothes you.
Love this serious content more than your usual shenanigans.
I just smash the like button. Every time. Then I watch the video. Then I make sure I smashed the like button. Works perfect.
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For sure we want more videos of machining big things with big tools !! I love that shop where the smallest tool is 100 mm in diameter :-D
Hardcore machining. Much respect.
Yes I would love to see more big parts being made =) Your right there are so few good videos of such large items on UA-cam. Most of them are 1min or so where you only see part of one tool path and nothing close to the full project. Thank you for sharing.
2:00 I use the drill to drill the drill.
Yo dawg, I herd you like drills.
I was thinking they are using drill with coolant to drill a coolant hole in a drill
Drillception...
You know the drill?
Wow, this is really interesting. It never occurred to me that these would be machined from a single piece. It makes sense in retrospect, but wow! Incredible seeing it come together.
Really interesting stuff. Would love to see more things like this. You guys make great content that's always different and interesting. Cheers
That was awesome!!!!!!!! Love seeing huge chunks of metal machined down into something, whatever! just the process is amazing to see how it done.