Dude I feel like this may be the LEAST practical or cost effective way to obtain kettle bells but I sure am glad you did it! This stuff is super cool and we all love these videos. If you can think of more impractical jobs I'm sure we'll all eat up those videos as fast as you put them out
It may have been a better option to make a concrete mold and pour in molten metal. But I do love the result. Only problem is you can really only make 1.
If you ever do this again (and for your sake, I hope you don't) program a registration hole in each slice. It will make alignment that much easier. You do a great job with these videos - it's like watching Frank Howarth with metal.
Yep, a huge advantage for a cut assembly that makes it possible. I have even done assemblies where aesthetically it wasn’t an option, so everything but the top and the bottom of the burger had locating holes and the ends were aligned by hand.
If he does make one he will need to make it out of wear plate like hardox 450 or 500 otherwise it wont last long. We had one where i work made out of mild steel and the drum wore out in a month due to all the banging around of peices inside and from the abrasion of the parts moving around. Rebuilt it with hardox 10mm thick and its still going strong now and that was 10 years ago.
@@rainfallprojects501 A good starting point would be heavy duty fuel barrels, which are a bit thicker than you standard, run of the mill, oil barrel. That, or a propane tank.
Those look a hundred times better than I thought they would. When I saw you were using sheet metal, I didn't see how you could pull it off. They turned out beautiful!
Holy moly what a ton of work. I thought for sure you weren’t going to grind it down to round. I kinda liked that plate-look, but kudos to your dedication
@@rainfallprojects501 It was so long ago, my memory isn't as focused. All I can remember was my amazing friend who I always told he should settle down with a gorgeous foreign beauty and have some kids, I remember saying to myself "a man that smart shouldn't be hiding underneath a car from Eugene's finest".
Impressive. The obvious is you could have bought them and would have been so much cheaper…but the satisfaction of knowing you made it is priceless. Nicely done
Picking up the 1/4" plate for my welding table today, just started learning MIG after years of watching videos like these and finally deciding to try it myself. Great job!
@@sungear absolutely. This is a much more insightful comment than most realize. In my experience (which is only stick and tig) after just my first dozen hours, I got that wind of confidence. And i have never ran into a weld I couldn’t make happen since. A lot of welding is overcoming adversity. Doing tough angles, blind welds, ect. once you get the fundamentals down, you can do those tricky welds. You just have to push yourself to spend the 5x as long as it should take a good welder, to trial and error your way to figuring out what torch config and hand positioning ect. makes it doable for you. And then push those skills for the next difficult weld you come across. Just my .02$. I could be totally missing the ball here
This is awesome to see! Well done. I think the only thing I would've done to make it a touch easier would be to put 2 holes on each layer so you could put a rod through. It would put everything in alignment. But that's about all I could think of how to improve it! You could also try oiling them if the clear coat doesn't hold up. Like they do to old patina trucks to keep them from rusting out too much.
I would have just left them as they were in the beginning, stepped and with the triple 1" welds... then just smoothed the handle and called it done. It would have saved a lot of time, a whole lot of welding and even more grinding... and look cooler, imo.
Yeah, he did an amazing job making them look just like normal ones you find at the gym. The slightly unfinished versions would have look more interesting.
They turned amazingly good looking. They were already looking good with the plates at plain sight, but anyway, you have us all envying all your building toys. Lol.
They turned out really nice. I liked the look of the plates with the wielded bit only. Til next time. FYI, one one your grinders is ready for a new front bearing. Be safe.
I’m so glad you’re back! I’ve rewatched every video and noticed y’all took your Instagram down and I thought you were gone for good.. hope all is well, love the content!
You really ought to wear sleeves while welding. It looks cool and all, but melanoma 10 or 15 years down the line isn’t. Nice work though. Edit: the fact you wear a mask is really smart too by the way.
Awesome way to end a long day at work. Thanks for these videos, my only wish is there were more, more often, but they’re all high quality and I understand they take time! Thanks again and have a great day 🤙
Another suggestion is to program them to be a little heavier than desired. Once happy with the surface finish, bore a hole in the bottom flat surface to remove weight bit by bit to hit the target weight
This is such a clear indication that you enjoy what you do Because if you didn’t like cutting welding and grinding this would be psychotic…these are badass though
I feel like this was one of those projects where in the beginning you are excited and you think you will like the work, but after a short time you realize that grinding for hours and hours and hours isn't as much fun as initially thought :)
It was the Wintergaten ring roller video that brought me to your channel. Your editing, music, and narration has a distinct style that is uniquely yours. If I could make a request it would be for more farming project videos. Really enjoy seeing the farm.
You did an amazing job. Did you keep track of your time on each phase of cutting, welding 1and grinding? I'm wondering if you built these bells out of a solid piece of steel, what would be the total time difference? Considering the amount time that went into this project and if you was building these bells to sell, how much would you ask?
Cost benefit analysis... Welding wire, 1/4" plate steel, electricity, wear and tear on equipment, flap wheels, grinding discs, on and on. But hey, you made them yourself!!!! Great project brother, keep on with your awesome creativity... Colorado in the house. Made the $10 donation. Thanks!
these kbs you handcrafted are absolutely a work of art.. no doubt about that. it is definitely the least practical way of making them, but then again - it’s for personal use. if you were to sell those however, the time and the effort invested in the process would in the end result in rediculously high product price...
Put a magnet on a stick and lift them parts out of the metal blank man. Slick as anything. I used to run a laser cutting machine (Cincinnati 707) and that’s what we used.
Unreal the work that went into those. Just suggestion - I saw the dumbbell video did really well and I bet the video title helped a lot. Maybe consider changing the title of this one to be closer to the dumbbell video? I think the idea of having used scrap metal was pretty cool for people.
Missed opportunity for clear powder coat. Would definitely struggle with things that heavy. But the clear enamel will get damaged and slowly oxidize, then re-coating will capture/control the aging; which could be a nice touch
how does the clear coat treat your hands on high rep swing sets? I would think that is would be a touch slick and tear blisters...don't know till you try though...
No really? Making your own kettlebells like that? What patience and skills you have! Incredibly beautiful to look at. I don't want to know how many hours you worked on it and how much it cost you on welding wire. Probably the most expensive kettlebells on the market if you count working hours. But really something to be proud of! I wish I was more handy and definitely more patient. Great video!
So... I'm thinking a squat rack, barbell, and a set of plates next? Given how ridiculously expensive the weight plates are, it could make a lot of sense to make them yourself.
Dude you are just so awesome, absolutely mind blown by these kettle bells. The is always an easier way to to do things, but they look so cool am the build quality is as usual second to none. Stay humble buddy your channel is amazing to watch, so easy to chill
If you ever attempt making more workout equipment, it would be cool to see if you could incorporate some kind of knurlng pattern into the grips. Could even do it manually with some random pattern, or use an angle grinder of sorts to do a diamond pattern... would make them look even nicer and more "store bought' if you will.
Amazingly done, next time i would have cut two holes in each section. Then you could set up two pieces of rod of that diameter en put all pieces over it, that way you could weld everything in one go without needing to manually center. Also an possibility would be to transfer the numbers on the outside all the way through the kettlebell that would be something impossible with the conventional production method.
That was incredible! I’d love watching do a ton more kettlebells and see you make them in pairs all the way up to 60s. I personally prefer using kettlebells on every and any lift that you’d traditionally use dumbbells for. I find the way it stretches your muscles is far superior to dumbbells. To get a better idea of what I’m talking about then watch John Meadows videos on kettlebells.
lovely job and as a fellow maker I know its not about that, but I still gotta ask and its an honest question: wouldn't it have been way cheaper to just buy some? did you make a rough estimate? I make a lot of my furniture myself and usually with one or two special design features I want, its actually cheaper or relatively equal to what it would cost me to buy it (and obviously sometimes its not even available)... but on stuff that I find directly for sale, I usually never match the price...
Dude I feel like this may be the LEAST practical or cost effective way to obtain kettle bells but I sure am glad you did it! This stuff is super cool and we all love these videos. If you can think of more impractical jobs I'm sure we'll all eat up those videos as fast as you put them out
Thinking exact same thing!
Crazy.
Impractical.
Expensive.
Too much work.
And AWESOME!
Great job.
It may have been a better option to make a concrete mold and pour in molten metal.
But I do love the result. Only problem is you can really only make 1.
If you ever do this again (and for your sake, I hope you don't) program a registration hole in each slice. It will make alignment that much easier. You do a great job with these videos - it's like watching Frank Howarth with metal.
Big brain I like it
Yep, a huge advantage for a cut assembly that makes it possible. I have even done assemblies where aesthetically it wasn’t an option, so everything but the top and the bottom of the burger had locating holes and the ends were aligned by hand.
Great idea!
Cualquier trabajo . Por eso son tan caras
Why do you hope he doesn’t? What’s so unsafe about not having the registration holes? Honest questions
You should build a giant deburring tumbler! For the parts that come off the plasma cutter. I think that would be a really cool project to see.
If he does make one he will need to make it out of wear plate like hardox 450 or 500 otherwise it wont last long. We had one where i work made out of mild steel and the drum wore out in a month due to all the banging around of peices inside and from the abrasion of the parts moving around. Rebuilt it with hardox 10mm thick and its still going strong now and that was 10 years ago.
Man ya that would be great to have. Save so much time. Adding it to the list, thanks Sean
I second this idea.
@@rainfallprojects501 A good starting point would be heavy duty fuel barrels, which are a bit thicker than you standard, run of the mill, oil barrel. That, or a propane tank.
@@rainfallprojects501 a fatboy propane tank would work nicely.
YOU TRIP ME OUT! Your patience is something to be desired. Awesome!
Holly cow! As a novice fabricator, I can't believe the approach you took and the results you were able to achieve. Amazing work my friend.
This is insane. The amount of work, patience and skill is amazing
I was gonna say that I can't believe you did this but then I realized that a set of kettlebells is probably worth their weight in gold right now.
Those look a hundred times better than I thought they would. When I saw you were using sheet metal, I didn't see how you could pull it off. They turned out beautiful!
Holy moly what a ton of work. I thought for sure you weren’t going to grind it down to round. I kinda liked that plate-look, but kudos to your dedication
I liked the plate look also. Make the handle round
Both versions were cool
Kinda cool but not that practical when it comes to scnathes ;) or for pretty much most of the exercises your lower arm wouldn't be happy about it
Is this the case "if you have a hammer, every thing looks plasma cuttable"
Really a ton of work. I can't even imagine. 😎
I'm a simple man. I see a Rainfall Projects video and I click that like button.
Any tally on how many pounds of welding wire were consumed?
I suppose it started raining again. Good to see you back.
these are beautiful but I really like the look of the stepped ones before you smooth them out
The only fabrication series I like. Your work is awesome and you are very humble. Keep it up!
Looking forward to the conclusion of the van build!
You're the most incredible engineer I've ever ran from the Eugene PD with, it was an honor to be in the presence of your greatness.
Uh, you must have the wrong Justin Chambers...
@@rainfallprojects501 It was so long ago, my memory isn't as focused. All I can remember was my amazing friend who I always told he should settle down with a gorgeous foreign beauty and have some kids, I remember saying to myself "a man that smart shouldn't be hiding underneath a car from Eugene's finest".
Missed opportunity to get into casting. 10/10 determination though :P
If it makes you proud, nothing else matters! Great job!!
I don’t know anyone but you that would sign up for that much grinding lol. Cool project!
Impressive. The obvious is you could have bought them and would have been so much cheaper…but the satisfaction of knowing you made it is priceless. Nicely done
Picking up the 1/4" plate for my welding table today, just started learning MIG after years of watching videos like these and finally deciding to try it myself. Great job!
Good luck! That was my first project to. Still have and use it, with a few modifications
Love that! Warning, it’s all very addictive!
You'll soon find you can do amzing stuff once you have confidence welding, which will come quickly.
@@sungear absolutely. This is a much more insightful comment than most realize.
In my experience (which is only stick and tig) after just my first dozen hours, I got that wind of confidence. And i have never ran into a weld I couldn’t make happen since. A lot of welding is overcoming adversity. Doing tough angles, blind welds, ect. once you get the fundamentals down, you can do those tricky welds. You just have to push yourself to spend the 5x as long as it should take a good welder, to trial and error your way to figuring out what torch config and hand positioning ect. makes it doable for you. And then push those skills for the next difficult weld you come across.
Just my .02$. I could be totally missing the ball here
Wow! WOW! I couldn't even really conceive how you were going to approach this before I watched. Thank you for sharing.
This is awesome to see! Well done. I think the only thing I would've done to make it a touch easier would be to put 2 holes on each layer so you could put a rod through. It would put everything in alignment. But that's about all I could think of how to improve it! You could also try oiling them if the clear coat doesn't hold up. Like they do to old patina trucks to keep them from rusting out too much.
These are absolutely gorgeous. What a fantastic project. Can't believe how they turned out.
Good to see you upload again! Did not expect you to fill it all in, they came out really nice!
Glad you released another video. Its been awhile. I was begging to worry.
Wow! thats really cool! I like how you got it close to the weight.
This is one of the most 'hard way' projects I have ever seen.
Yeah fusion weld would have been 10x faster
I’m astounded by your ingenuity!
My favorite UA-cam channel love all the hardworking and projects you do. Keep it up!
Something that works great on rounded interior surfaces is a pneumatic or electric dynafile. We use them for handrails at my job.
Whew! What a workout (talking about all that welding and grinding). Such an interesting project--it came out great.
I ve got to say I am really impressed with the work. The material and the time you put into this is incredble. And so much cooler than buying these...
I could just imagine the amount of welding and grinding he made just to make those steps into a perfect round.
Just found the channel. Second video I watch. First was the dumbbell video. I love to see the way you use steel sheets!
I was thinking about you yesterday and that I hadn't seen any of your videos in a while.. Glad to see u recording again.. Very nice work...
Holy crap!! That’s like 40hrs of work!!
Glad you are back. Great video.
best damn channel on UA-cam.
Just finished the video and yes confirmed he’s an absolute legend
watching your video is always a highlight of my day! Thank you
Really been missing your videos! Can’t wait to see what’s next…
Complete crazy approach, great result anyway
I would have just left them as they were in the beginning, stepped and with the triple 1" welds... then just smoothed the handle and called it done. It would have saved a lot of time, a whole lot of welding and even more grinding... and look cooler, imo.
Yeah, he did an amazing job making them look just like normal ones you find at the gym. The slightly unfinished versions would have look more interesting.
Nothing wrong with a few calusses on the hands, eh
Nah, your forearm wouldn't thank you for that, even smooth KBS sometimes crush them pretty hard when you press
They turned amazingly good looking. They were already looking good with the plates at plain sight, but anyway, you have us all envying all your building toys. Lol.
Videos like these are what society needs more of :D Subscribed.
They turned out really nice. I liked the look of the plates with the wielded bit only. Til next time. FYI, one one your grinders is ready for a new front bearing. Be safe.
You should make an electro magnetic stand to hold stuff while you wire wheel it. If you made it foot pedal operated, it would be even easier to use.
It would only work on very flat things. But good idea for those.
I’m so glad you’re back! I’ve rewatched every video and noticed y’all took your Instagram down and I thought you were gone for good.. hope all is well, love the content!
Those look great! Very satisfying to watch all the pieces go together!
Wow, that's dedication! Not exactly big brain time but dedication!
Metal art in the form of kettlebells!
Interesting shape for the handles.
Let’s go! Love Rainfall!
I have that same model for falcon van in the background lol. I love the thing.
You really ought to wear sleeves while welding. It looks cool and all, but melanoma 10 or 15 years down the line isn’t. Nice work though. Edit: the fact you wear a mask is really smart too by the way.
you need a 2x72 belt grinder in your shop! Would be a great project to see you do.
Awesome way to end a long day at work. Thanks for these videos, my only wish is there were more, more often, but they’re all high quality and I understand they take time! Thanks again and have a great day 🤙
Very entertaining to watch. Haveyou ever done a cost analysis of materials used and man hours spent on a project like this?
This is baller! You've got patience!
Another suggestion is to program them to be a little heavier than desired. Once happy with the surface finish, bore a hole in the bottom flat surface to remove weight bit by bit to hit the target weight
This is such a clear indication that you enjoy what you do
Because if you didn’t like cutting welding and grinding this would be psychotic…these are badass though
I feel like this was one of those projects where in the beginning you are excited and you think you will like the work, but after a short time you realize that grinding for hours and hours and hours isn't as much fun as initially thought :)
It was the Wintergaten ring roller video that brought me to your channel. Your editing, music, and narration has a distinct style that is uniquely yours. If I could make a request it would be for more farming project videos. Really enjoy seeing the farm.
These are sick, in the best way possible.
You did an amazing job. Did you keep track of your time on each phase of cutting, welding 1and grinding? I'm wondering if you built these bells out of a solid piece of steel, what would be the total time difference? Considering the amount time that went into this project and if you was building these bells to sell, how much would you ask?
Best thing is, when you are done with the grinding, you're already jacked.
You are crazy! Love the diy attitude. Keep up the great work
Cost benefit analysis... Welding wire, 1/4" plate steel, electricity, wear and tear on equipment, flap wheels, grinding discs, on and on.
But hey, you made them yourself!!!! Great project brother, keep on with your awesome creativity... Colorado in the house. Made the $10 donation. Thanks!
these kbs you handcrafted are absolutely a work of art.. no doubt about that. it is definitely the least practical way of making them, but then again - it’s for personal use. if you were to sell those however, the time and the effort invested in the process would in the end result in rediculously high product price...
You have so much patience
Incredible. No other words expect incredible
Put a magnet on a stick and lift them parts out of the metal blank man. Slick as anything. I used to run a laser cutting machine (Cincinnati 707) and that’s what we used.
Unreal the work that went into those. Just suggestion - I saw the dumbbell video did really well and I bet the video title helped a lot. Maybe consider changing the title of this one to be closer to the dumbbell video? I think the idea of having used scrap metal was pretty cool for people.
awesome job bro, and damn you must have a lot of free time on your hands haha
That computer assisted cutting machine is impressive, how much are they does anyone know please. Very talented young man well done.
This project was so cool, make me want to make me a set
These would be fun for a trebuchet project :)
Those are awesome I wish I could make them like you do but if you were to ever sell them how much would you charge for each weight?
Do you have a tube bender? You might have been able to make the handles from steel pipe/tube and just weld them on to the "ball".
I wonder what it would cost to have these bells cast in iron or bronze. You could make the handles of tube. Very little welding for sure.
These are mass produced in iron. A set like this is less than 200 bucks on amazon. Not the point though, he wanted to make them.
Wouldn't it be easier to make a kettle bell mould and pour in melted down scrap metal? Or would the kettle bells be brittle doing it that way?
Great job bro. You the Best 💪🙏🙏
Missed opportunity for clear powder coat. Would definitely struggle with things that heavy. But the clear enamel will get damaged and slowly oxidize, then re-coating will capture/control the aging; which could be a nice touch
how does the clear coat treat your hands on high rep swing sets? I would think that is would be a touch slick and tear blisters...don't know till you try though...
No really? Making your own kettlebells like that? What patience and skills you have! Incredibly beautiful to look at. I don't want to know how many hours you worked on it and how much it cost you on welding wire. Probably the most expensive kettlebells on the market if you count working hours. But really something to be proud of! I wish I was more handy and definitely more patient. Great video!
So... I'm thinking a squat rack, barbell, and a set of plates next? Given how ridiculously expensive the weight plates are, it could make a lot of sense to make them yourself.
Dang and I thought you were crazy for doing those dumbbells
Dude you are just so awesome, absolutely mind blown by these kettle bells. The is always an easier way to to do things, but they look so cool am the build quality is as usual second to none. Stay humble buddy your channel is amazing to watch, so easy to chill
Holy shit! That's awesome! How does that white shirt stay so clean!?!?
It´s not always about the time or cost of something you make. It's the satisfaction of "Yes, I made that"..
If you ever attempt making more workout equipment, it would be cool to see if you could incorporate some kind of knurlng pattern into the grips. Could even do it manually with some random pattern, or use an angle grinder of sorts to do a diamond pattern... would make them look even nicer and more "store bought' if you will.
Nice work, those are really nice. You will be able to use them the rest of your life. Very cool!
Amazingly done, next time i would have cut two holes in each section. Then you could set up two pieces of rod of that diameter en put all pieces over it, that way you could weld everything in one go without needing to manually center. Also an possibility would be to transfer the numbers on the outside all the way through the kettlebell that would be something impossible with the conventional production method.
That was incredible! I’d love watching do a ton more kettlebells and see you make them in pairs all the way up to 60s.
I personally prefer using kettlebells on every and any lift that you’d traditionally use dumbbells for.
I find the way it stretches your muscles is far superior to dumbbells.
To get a better idea of what I’m talking about then watch John Meadows videos on kettlebells.
Amazing work brother!!! You are one super duper craftsman!
I admire you knowledge and skill
lovely job and as a fellow maker I know its not about that, but I still gotta ask and its an honest question: wouldn't it have been way cheaper to just buy some? did you make a rough estimate? I make a lot of my furniture myself and usually with one or two special design features I want, its actually cheaper or relatively equal to what it would cost me to buy it (and obviously sometimes its not even available)... but on stuff that I find directly for sale, I usually never match the price...
Excelente como siempre, nose si sea lo mas practico pero nos has demostrado q tambien podemos hacerlo con nuestras propias manos