G'day from Perth Matt. I did my apprenticeship as a machinist 1981 - 1984, best years of my life. I was with George Moss & Co., now known as GEMCO, making flameproof underground electric locomotives, rail wheels & tyres, drilling rigs (nowhere near your size), and other sundry bits & pieces. Come 1984-5 Australia had a massive economic downturn-home loan interest rates went to 18% and people were losing their homes left, right and centre, nearly all of us got laid off, so I followed my dad, his dad and his uncle and joined the WA Police, and still with it coming up 40 years now but I'd go back to machining in a heartbeat. With retirement looming (policing today is a young person's job, not the best fit for a 59 year-old!), a part-time gig in a machine shop, even just cleaning/maintaining machine tools, sharpening twist drills (are they still used?), basic turning/drilling and emptying swarf trays would suit me just fine. One thing - I've been a huge fan of C.E.E. for some time now, agree with you that Karen & Kurtis produce some of the best machining content I've found, and I've seen plenty, BUT - your channel is as slick as any I've seen, and I wait with bated breath for their and your new videos each week. Your production and editing quality are second to none, you should be rightly bloody proud of not only the work HHD is doing but also your YT video content, it's absolutely first class. Please keep it coming, and can't wait to see the megadrill at work!
Hi, like your comment. I was with Gemco for a while, '09 to '21. For a few years I was in the machine shop maintaining their lathes etc. All they do now is wheelsets, axles etc and maintaining SCT wagons. Also locomotive servicing and repairs, which I did as well. You would have known Kevin Brice, nice bloke. He retired a few years ago and is now "hunting gold" in his van mostly. Cheers
Mark thanks so much mate for the lovely comment. Yeah, I was just a little kid when that recession happened, but it nearly destroyed the company here too. We barely survived. I think we've weathered three full blown recessions now... You might want to do what Grandad did mate... he retired from being a driller at 60, then became a machinist! Not even joking. He just loved it so much. He was super old school and just love (and i mean LOVED) working. The idea of retiring never even entered his mind. I'd be very surprised if some place in WA wasn't willing to take you on. You're not even an apprentice - you're fully qualified. Just my two cents good sir. Age is just a number. Grandad ran the big lathe until he was 87!
Also from California. Agree that CEE is tops as is your channel. Would love to see Adam Savage (from my neck of the woods) make a surprise visit to you too!
@@halheavydutyK & K of CEE are indeed the gold standard. Karen’s editing and timing is consistently top notch. Enjoyed your video but kept thinking how Karen might’ve incrementally improved it. The two of them are a wonderful team, and like so many, I actively anticipate Friday’s and CEE. The US and its (dis)content creators simply don’t compare with their incessant product placement BS.
Hi from Las Vegas I am a retired tool and die maker and have been a fan of Kurtis and Karen since they started the channel and now I found you! I am sure that I will be an avid watcher, I already subscribed.
Greetings from the oldest town in Texas, USA, Nacogdoches. More nice machining videos with no background music, just lovely shop and machine noise. With all the unique names y’all give to your machines, I’m guessing that there won’t be a machine named Raygun!!😅
Way back in 1977, I designed an oil country lathe having 10 meters ABC and 15" spindle bore. These lathes were sold to oil pipeline industry for large dia pipes machining and threading. I designed other heavy machine tools for the company I worked in.
First, congratulations on 20K, well earned and deserved, no gimmicks, just great engineering, all engineering is great in my humble opinion 👍. "A Mouthful", love it, yes, CEE with Kurtis and Karen are YT gold, plus Max Grant, definitely Aussie rules in YT machining. Thanks again Matt for great content and editing, best regards John, from the Black Country in the UK 🇬🇧.
It all started with Kong. Little sucker just looked like an angry little gorilla arm 🤣👊 Me too man. I just want to see that big MEGADRILL turn out chips
Fitter machinist for 40 yrs now, heavy stuff too, building ships and I reckon you might do alright by looking at some vertical lathes and maybe a horizontal borer. When the work gets that big, its often easier to move the tooling in relationship to the work as opposed to moving the work with a stationary tool. Other than that, good operation there champ, I like a well oiled workshop, and the videos are a bloody good watch too - good formula.
During WWII my father ran a huge lathe that machined 16 inch naval cannon barrels. Designated as 50 caliber, that meant the barrel was 50 x 16”, or almost 67 feet long! I don’t know if that includes the free bore space for the projectile and multiple 200 pound bags of propellant plus the breech locking mechanism, as well. He said it took 2 large overhead cranes to position a raw forging on the lathe. He said the work wasn’t too hard except for the nights (he worked afternoon and midnight shifts) when they were putting a barrel on or taking it off the machine. Or when the engineers were trying out a variation on the steel formula. They told the operators very little, but the steel let them know when it didn’t like the established feeds & speeds and cutting tool geometry. My twin brother and I were two years old, and I clearly remember when our daddy came home in the morning because he would sit at the top of the stairs, we’d hear him and run from our bedroom, hug & kiss him and grab the package of Campfire Marshmallows he had for us in the breast pocket of his shirt. He told the details of his job when we got older.
I worked in a Naval Dockyard which had a lathe with a 12' (3.6m) face plate and the bed was about 15m. It was intended to repair main shafts of ships. I never saw it run in 20 years.
You are the first view on Friday morning (UK time). It is 1 of the few that I look forward to. Thanks Matt for the great content. Please remember that what is boring to you is of great interest to a lot of us. Have a good week & thanks.
First time here, when you said you liked CEE, I went straight to the subscribe button. You have some awesome equipment in your shop. Now I have two channels from my extreme south of the border buddies. Hello from Virginia (a California refugee) USA.
From Los Angeles. Did my share of machining (little stuff) working my way through school. Great to see you give a shout out to Curtis. Too many people in this world that try to convince everyone that they are the only ones who know how to slice bread.
Credit where credit is due man. CEE do a great job. I learn from all the different channels out there, but I find his particularly interesting. Man is a master of his craft. It’s relaxing to watch
Matt, you do all the hard work; I just get to sit here and enjoy it. I really look forward to seeing the progress of the mega-drill and your machines. If you and Kurtis ever teamed up, you could take over the world (the machining world).
I hope we get to do a collaboration at some stage. It'd be heaps of fun. I reckon he'd have a blast on the hulk... and I reckon he'd enjoy seeing the MEGADRILL up close before it goes for a trip down to the center of the earth!
Hi from Michigan USA, Fell in love with machining about 5 years ago. big or small when a person can take a raw steel and turn it into a usable part is the best. just a hobby for me Thanks Cheers P.s. Every shop needs a good shop dog.👍
I'm a retired "Time Served Skilled Centre Lathe turner"; wow, what a mouth full 🤣. I used to have the pleasure of working on a Binns & Berry 35' lg lathe with TWIN saddles. Made turning steady bands so much easier. There was a total of 6 machines of the same length, but all different makes. I don't think the one I used hade the same headstock bore as yours, but we didn't need it purely because of the length of the bed and our steady rests 😀. If we did encounter chatter, we had long strips of rubber that we would wind along the tubes! Wishing you and yours all the very best. Cheers.
That is a big ass lathe, and while there are much bigger ones in the world, the general youtube audience doesn't have a lot of access. You have given us close up access to the workings of one in a daily shop environment. You are bordering on pretty unique in the machine shop world on youtube. Because of that the channel has a lot of potential for growth.
Thanks for that mate. I think we do some pretty unique stuff in the ship, so it’s really quite humbling how many other people seem to get a kick out of it too!
You can clearly see that you’ll be putting in a crane for these big projects. Well done and I totally agree with you on cutting edge engineering they have the best UA-cam channel.
I'm a retired automotive machinist i did crankshaft grinding in one of the biggest grinders .grinding cat crankshaft and tug crankshafts. I had extremely interesting career. Love your Chanel and kertis Chanel one after the other today. High regards to the both of you. ❤
In the oil business if you get machines twice as big as you currently require they will shortly be half the size you need. I recommend you start looking at a new larger (taller heavier floor) shed/building or enlarging the one you have! You are already at capacity on your largest lath. Also the shop crane at 20T seems too small for the jobs you already take on. Nice to see security well taken care of. Ray
You clearly know your stuff (or you've got a crystal ball haha) We have maxxed everything out. Everything. We need a bigger shed, lathe, mill... way thicker concrete. I'm pretty confident we'll end up moving locations next time there's a downturn. Building a massive shed with meter thick concrete for the machines. We just cant really expand any more here. And we need (NEED) a 40t crane ASAP. That 20t franna and our two 8t wobbly's just cant do it properly.
@@halheavyduty Thanks for taking time to respond. Suggest if you build that you pitch the floor under your laths to a drain on operator side so you can recycle the collant and minimize the mess from using collant on giant parts and save money on coolant trays and splash guards and recover the most coolant possible while keeping work area spotless. Love your videos, I also watch and enjoy CEE.
Cheers mate. Yeah, my plan is to go on a 'holiday' to Europe and the USA next year and check out a bunch of shops that are already on the level I want to be. I reckon that's the best place to find good ideas! No point in re-inventing the wheel. CEE is great. Endlessly watchable.
Came from CEE and was not disappointed, I love watching any and all types of machining and i have a feeling this new monster machine is going to great to watch.
I’m viewing from Ohio, the Buckeye State! I’m a huge follower of Kurtis and Karen and I’m sure I’ll be one of your followers, as well. I’m not a machinist, I just tinker on my little lathe. I am a retired auto diesel tech, working on research vehicles.
Curtis has a video where he makes adapters to fit lathe chucks to the tailstock of one of his lathes. It's the first episode in his "shop made tools" playlist.
Hello from Winnipeg Canada, you are a very humble person I must say. I subscribe to Cutting Edge and this is how I got onto your channel after seeing his latest video. All the very best on your endeavors in the coming new year, and now I have a new channel that I have subscribed to.
Cracking video ! The Hulk is a stunning piece of kit. The energy when that thing is rotating at 400 RPM with its jaws full must be something else. Love the hound as well. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to create these videos. 😊
So many great engineering shops on youtube now. From Here in Oz to the USA, Canada, NZ, the UK even Pakistan. We are spoilt for choice. Im glad youtube recommended this channel. Im subscribing & looking forward to your content. Damn this was interesting. Rock on Bro.
The only Pakistani ones I've seen are those ones where safety boots are sandals with three strips of leather over the foot instead of a big toe loop and ankle strap! lol and mud floors
So glad I've found your channel. There are a handful channels on my favorites list and yours is right up there. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, and I wish you continued success on this channel. It's definitely worth watching! Cheers!
Hello Matt, Mark from the U.S. I just found your channel and was glad to hear you give a shout out to CEE. I've been following them for a while now, and enjoy their channel. I've subscribed to yours, and can't wait to see your videos. Have a great Holiday!
Back in the day when i was in the thick of it, one of the ones I ran was a Bullard 36" Vertical lath. I was working for Martin Sprocket and Gear. So just under a meter chucking size for yall. It was perfect for facing the large sprockets before adding a hub to them. It was more like a humongous mill with a lath chuck.😉🙃
Truly enjoy watching you work on such large parts. I'm a Gunsmith in Texas and regularly turn parts in the .050 to .060 range. I doubt you have a hard time finding a part out of the lathe that you've dropped. Keep up the good work.
Greetings from the UK Matt . Yup that's some toy you got in the hulk I reckon my little southbend 9 would fit in the bore lol .. found you a couple of days back I'm liking what I see . Great to hear you compliment kurtis and Karen at CEE been glued to them for a couple of years . Really enjoy watching the repairs on the big lathes so I guess I'll be binge watching your previous videos
Hi mate - I'm new to your channel, but really enjoying it. Are you sure you didn't buy a tunnel boring machine, lol. That's some bit of kit!. Fair play for giving Kurt & Karen such a nice shout out. You are all doing Australia proud. Well done & good luck!
you guys are CRAZY!!! 😂when I saw your tooling and your depths of cut I was smiling like a kid in a candy store. That machine is glorious! All the best from Italy
I'm an old time manual machinist that's worked in many areas (60 years). If you have large scale milling to do, I used to run a Cincinnati Hydrotel, a massive vertical milling machine. They are super powerful and accurate. I used to work both for the Cincinnati Milling machine Co (Now Milicron) and for Leblond Machine tool company (where I ran the Hydrotel). I've run nearly every kind of lathe and mill there is. The Hydrotel, if you need a larger vertical milling machine can't be beat.
Love the content, Matt. You need a large gantry crane over that monster. Have a look at some old railway engineering photos. Wheel lathes were monsters! How they made the castings used in some of the old works is mind boggling. Colchesters rule in my book. A colchester student will take a 10mm cut with a good sharp tool of the right geometery. There is a video on u-tube of them testing one in the factory doing just that. Congrats on 20k. Keep the chips flying! G'day from Tasmania
You're not wrong there! We did look at getting a big gantry, but the shed is too low. I'll have to check out that video on the Colchester. Personally, I really like them. All machines have pros and cons, but for me the pros well outweigh the cons with the Colchesters.
Taking a coffee break from machining small (10 mm) copper holders for thermocouples and watching this video really puts things in perspective. Great to find and subscribe to your channel!
Another CEE sub here, happy to see you’re not in competition. Some 20 years ago I delivered stainless steel to various workshops and I was especially fascinated with the gigantic lathes some of them had - one was literally the size of my Scania truck and sometimes I delivered single billets of stainless so huge that I couldn’t believe it when they would throw it in the lathe. I can’t remember how heavy they were, could it be possible that they were more than 1,5 metric tonnes? And the chips on the floor in that place, they were the size of my hand. Still love that smell. Keep up the good work
Cheers mate. Yeah, I definitely don't see us in any form of competition with Kurtis and Karen. They have the cutting edge side of it totally nailed. We are pretty old school by comparison... just straight up heavy duty shit for drillers to destroy lol.
Just found your channel watching you all the way from the uk, I am a massive fan of cutting edge engineering and hope to be a fan of yours as time goes on keep up the amazing work, the dialogue is also great.
Congratulations on the Hulk purchase and reaching 20K subscribers! Great job on the camera angles and commentary. Seeing you wrestle around with "Mad Dog" put a smile on my face. Great stuff!! Cheers from Tennessee, USA.
When I was an apprentice, some 50 years ago, we mixed cutting oil and water up in a bucket and poured that into the Colchester lathes we used. It smelt lovely.
Just found your channel 🙂 First thought was, bloody hell now I'm never gonna leave for work on a Friday😂 Really like your positive friendly demeanour 😃 Looking forward to catching up on your past vids 😃
a real video of making large parts like I did before opening my manufacturing company. I really miss this kind of work! now I make medium-sized parts and I miss it 😊 but you have to know how to adapt to the customer's needs! I hope to return to this kind of manufacturing one day!
So true. We only do stuff this big because it’s gotta be done. I’m enjoying it though. I’ve really fallen in love with the big stuff on the MEGADRILL project
I’ve run a really big lathe in paper mill that you climbed a ladder about 8 feet up onto the carriage. The operator station (with a chair) was on the carriage and you road it back and forth up and down the bed. Was used to resurface huge rollers for paper making machines.
I’ve got a friend in Melbourne who runs machines like that! Absolutely unreal. One of these days I’d love to visit the USA & Europe and see some of the Super HD gear in really big shops. It’s astounding to me the vast range of sizes within the machining profession.
Hi, Matt. One spaniard here, like The Hulk, also owning a lathe made in Spain (FERVAL, two foot between points) only that it weighs less that one of Hulk's chucks 😁 Also an avid follower of Curtis and Karen (and Homey), I've just discovered and suscribed your channel. Good job!
Great video Matt. The Hulk is a bit of gear for sure. I used to work in the Midland Workshops in WA. You would have loved a stroll thru the machine shop and the Flanging shop - some big presses in there. Cheers mate
Youre not wrong there! I just find big equipment so fascinating. As I kid I got to head over to NASA and check out the crawlers for the Saturn V. Couldn't drag me away haha
Watching from Seattle, USA. I love watching how operators figure out how to get the job done. I watch CEE, too, and I wonder how something is going to get done, because of the oddball requirements of the jobs. Keep up the good work, and I will continue to watch.
Largest lathes I've run was a Hwacheon Mega 130 and a Hankook. Hwacheon had a 1M chuck and 6M long bed. Hankook had 800mm chuck and 6M long bed both were CNC machines. Both had good and bad things I liked about them. Also had a go at running a Doosan DBC 130 CNC Horizontal borer for the same company. Very solid machine. Biggest manual lathes the company had were a Geminis and some old Russian lathe. If you want to go bigger than the Hulk I'd suggest looking at oil field and hollow spindle lathes. Also if you get a manual one having rapid feed on the carriage and cross slide is a life saver. Seeing your guys winding the Hulk back by hand I'm sure they would appreciate it as well. Keep up the good work mate.
I know of ESP Pty Ltd , they used to be on Frances St Brooklyn. Company I once worked for called Andritz in Geelong had an old Chinese universal mill sold to Andritz by esp. they were kind enough to supply some detailed electrical info they still had from the 90’s in their data base. I had to repair the mag clutches and get feed running again. Love your work, keep it coming Matt. I also worked for Godfrey hurst in Geelong as a fitter, they had one of those large bore lathes with forward and rear chucks. We would machine the journals on large carpet pinch & idler rollers. The name of it I’ve forgotten but it was made in India. Currently retired to my hobby shed where I have an old Aussie made lathe, a 3 phase Nuttell made by Kirby NSW 1975. And various other small metal machines where I’m making 2 wombat steam locomotives, 5” & 7 1/4” gauges.
Very creative crew you have. Beautiful work I'm in Georgia USA, I'm retired/disabled from the automotive industry and a lifelong hot rodder and fabricator. In my home shop I have a South Bend heavy 10 lathe which would be lost in your shop 😁 and I'm looking for a mill but I'm glad I can still work on my cars.
My green Grizzly tools 7x14" with the chucks, steady rest, follow rest, face plate and all the tooling I have for it don't weigh as much as that 'tiny' boring bar. I have a new respect for change gears, the SIEG 7x lathe designer must have seen this Hulk prior.. Great Video.
Cheers mate! That’s gold 🤣 yeah, the hulk is a mad bit of gear. Still small by “big lathe” standards… but bloody big enough for us. The 40t crane barely got it in the shed… there were warning sirens blaring 🤣🤣 I think the Chuck weighs 400kg.
I have no interest in machining butvfeally enjoy seeing how real world problems are solved. Your style is fun and engaging and the duration ideal for a cup of tea.
Oh boy another Australian heavy machine shop! I think UA-cam suggested your channel to me just now since I never miss an upload by Kurtis, Karen, & Homeless over at CEE. Needless to say you got a new subscriber. Looking forward to your 100k Subs party and more!!
No problem with your limited 'commentary'....those of us familiar with any machine shop can see from your excellent video exactly what's going on. ! I'm here in Northern California and have seen ads selling old shipyard machines...lathes with 300 inches swing and 60 feet of carriage travel. Nice deal on that 'Hulk'...not a bunch of broken parts you gotta' fix before you can use it. I just found your channel today, but definitely the same quality as CCE...!
Like your trepan . Looks like what we use at my place of employment. Ours screws onto a tube of various sizes from 6-18” also it’s about 16 feet long. Used to make the rough barrels of cannons during WW2.
Nice to hear about the hulk. Known problem with buying machines in any size, when they arrive its just a matter of months before 'dam we should have bought the next size up'. I work in different machines,manual horizontal borer is my main. Also lathe Ø1000x8000 and cnc lathe Ø1300x4500 XYZC
HAPPY HD FRIDAY!! My shop is a bit chilly today, first snow of the winter here in Michigan in the states. Stay hydrated! The Hulk deep look was fun. 👍🏻🤘🏻✌️
Un torno Gurztpe fabricado aquí en España....y siguiendo trabajando en Australia. Me alegro mucho de que valoréis estás máquinas. Yo en concreto las he reparado y conozco bien si durabilidad y robustez. Me alegro por vosotros
Great vid Matt! Would love to come visit your part of the world someday...nice of you to give the props to Karen and Kurtis too...they are why I watch you too! Merry Christmas from Illinois, USA!
Many years ago as a young lad I started at an engineering company and the first machine I saw was a lathe that I couldn't even see over the ways and you needed a step ladder to get to the chuck it was massive
Cheers mate. Haha. We are anything but cutting edge in what we do. Just Heavy Duty and get'r done! Plenty of room on YT for all the different stuff out there. Kurtis & Karen have a bloody fantastic channel - love their work.
Hi Matt, first time watching your channel and I’m so glad to have found it. Now I have two favourite machining channels to watch and the fact that they’re both Australian is awesome. I’m in Canberra ACT and wanted to be a machinist when I left school but life took me in another direction. Now I’m retired I have been able to set myself up a nice workshop and do some machining as a hobby. I find channels like yours are really good for learning so a big thank you. Cheers, Stuart. 👍
I am a subscriber to your channel, CEE and Vanover machine shop in chicago, IL USA. I enjoy all of these. Each one focused on different kinds of projects. Keep up the good work. this is even larger scale work than CEE
Like your tool holder racks - great to see the tools neat & tidy -- those items are the bits of kit that cost a fortune & are often neglected . Interesting to see your set up , but after 45 years of it I don't get excited any more
Cheers mate. Yeah, I try and keep it all as organised as possible. Just makes the jobs so much quicker (and enjoyable) I can imagine that after 45 years it loses its excitement. I still enjoy it all… mostly because they keep dragging big stuff in the door.
That large flange in the mouth of the chuck reminds me of the dentist looking at my mouth with his instruments deep inside and he says, “ A little wider please.”
G'day from Perth Matt. I did my apprenticeship as a machinist 1981 - 1984, best years of my life. I was with George Moss & Co., now known as GEMCO, making flameproof underground electric locomotives, rail wheels & tyres, drilling rigs (nowhere near your size), and other sundry bits & pieces. Come 1984-5 Australia had a massive economic downturn-home loan interest rates went to 18% and people were losing their homes left, right and centre, nearly all of us got laid off, so I followed my dad, his dad and his uncle and joined the WA Police, and still with it coming up 40 years now but I'd go back to machining in a heartbeat. With retirement looming (policing today is a young person's job, not the best fit for a 59 year-old!), a part-time gig in a machine shop, even just cleaning/maintaining machine tools, sharpening twist drills (are they still used?), basic turning/drilling and emptying swarf trays would suit me just fine. One thing - I've been a huge fan of C.E.E. for some time now, agree with you that Karen & Kurtis produce some of the best machining content I've found, and I've seen plenty, BUT - your channel is as slick as any I've seen, and I wait with bated breath for their and your new videos each week. Your production and editing quality are second to none, you should be rightly bloody proud of not only the work HHD is doing but also your YT video content, it's absolutely first class. Please keep it coming, and can't wait to see the megadrill at work!
Hi, like your comment. I was with Gemco for a while, '09 to '21. For a few years I was in the machine shop maintaining their lathes etc. All they do now is wheelsets, axles etc and maintaining SCT wagons. Also locomotive servicing and repairs, which I did as well. You would have known Kevin Brice, nice bloke. He retired a few years ago and is now "hunting gold" in his van mostly. Cheers
Mark thanks so much mate for the lovely comment. Yeah, I was just a little kid when that recession happened, but it nearly destroyed the company here too. We barely survived. I think we've weathered three full blown recessions now...
You might want to do what Grandad did mate... he retired from being a driller at 60, then became a machinist! Not even joking. He just loved it so much. He was super old school and just love (and i mean LOVED) working. The idea of retiring never even entered his mind.
I'd be very surprised if some place in WA wasn't willing to take you on. You're not even an apprentice - you're fully qualified.
Just my two cents good sir. Age is just a number. Grandad ran the big lathe until he was 87!
@@halheavyduty Here's to you. Getting by each and every day means getting more done with fewer resorses now. Gooder on you bud.
I second that. For a relatively new channel they're doing bloody well !
@@samrodian919 The beard fella sure is having a bubch of fun making these videos and loving what he does. That will have me coming back and forth eh.
From California. I've been watching Kurtis Engineering for several years.
Your content is also amazing.
Thanks very much mate.
Also from California. Agree that CEE is tops as is your channel. Would love to see Adam Savage (from my neck of the woods) make a surprise visit to you too!
@@halheavydutyK & K of CEE are indeed the gold standard. Karen’s editing and timing is consistently top notch. Enjoyed your video but kept thinking how Karen might’ve incrementally improved it. The two of them are a wonderful team, and like so many, I actively anticipate Friday’s and CEE. The US and its (dis)content creators simply don’t compare with their incessant product placement BS.
Hi from Las Vegas I am a retired tool and die maker and have been a fan of Kurtis and Karen since they started the channel and now I found you! I am sure that I will be an avid watcher, I already subscribed.
Greetings from the oldest town in Texas, USA, Nacogdoches. More nice machining videos with no background music, just lovely shop and machine noise. With all the unique names y’all give to your machines, I’m guessing that there won’t be a machine named Raygun!!😅
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If I call a machine Raygun, it’ll be the useless lathe no one wanted 🤣
Way back in 1977, I designed an oil country lathe having 10 meters ABC and 15" spindle bore. These lathes were sold to oil pipeline industry for large dia pipes machining and threading. I designed other heavy machine tools for the company I worked in.
The Hulk is a bloody brilliant machine!!
We love the big boy. No idea how we survive without it.
The ZZ Top of machine work.
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First, congratulations on 20K, well earned and deserved, no gimmicks, just great engineering, all engineering is great in my humble opinion 👍.
"A Mouthful", love it, yes, CEE with Kurtis and Karen are YT gold, plus Max Grant, definitely Aussie rules in YT machining.
Thanks again Matt for great content and editing, best regards John, from the Black Country in the UK 🇬🇧.
Cheers John. I totally agree re Max Grant. He's such a natural at teaching and endlessly enjoyable to watch.
Kurtis has one thing you'll never have, a yard crane in pieces
Bahahaha. You’re gonna LOVE next week bro 🤣🤣🤣
@@halheavydutyyou’ve never met Kurtis because he’s a prick. Your shop is better.
Oh really? That's surprising. He's been really helpful and good to me (at least on the phone). I guess I'll never know until I meet him in person.
He's rebuilding the Franna from the ground up to suit his needs.
The Franna will rise again better than before. It's like Harry Potter!
I love the fact that you've named all you machines and tools. I can't wait to see the drill go vertical.
It all started with Kong. Little sucker just looked like an angry little gorilla arm 🤣👊
Me too man. I just want to see that big MEGADRILL turn out chips
Greetings from Alaska USA. Started watching Curtis at CEE
and found your page. Awesome.
Cheers mate! I'd love to visit Alaska one day. Grandad worked up there in the 50s drilling for GSI. Coldest place on earth he reckoned!
Fitter machinist for 40 yrs now, heavy stuff too, building ships and I reckon you might do alright by looking at some vertical lathes and maybe a horizontal borer. When the work gets that big, its often easier to move the tooling in relationship to the work as opposed to moving the work with a stationary tool.
Other than that, good operation there champ, I like a well oiled workshop, and the videos are a bloody good watch too - good formula.
Cheers brother. Yeah we are definitely looking at a horizontal borer. Stuff is getting too big to throw into a lathe
During WWII my father ran a huge lathe that machined 16 inch naval cannon barrels. Designated as 50 caliber, that meant the barrel was 50 x 16”, or almost 67 feet long! I don’t know if that includes the free bore space for the projectile and multiple 200 pound bags of propellant plus the breech locking mechanism, as well. He said it took 2 large overhead cranes to position a raw forging on the lathe. He said the work wasn’t too hard except for the nights (he worked afternoon and midnight shifts) when they were putting a barrel on or taking it off the machine. Or when the engineers were trying out a variation on the steel formula. They told the operators very little, but the steel let them know when it didn’t like the established feeds & speeds and cutting tool geometry.
My twin brother and I were two years old, and I clearly remember when our daddy came home in the morning because he would sit at the top of the stairs, we’d hear him and run from our bedroom, hug & kiss him and grab the package of Campfire Marshmallows he had for us in the breast pocket of his shirt. He told the details of his job when we got older.
That’s so cool. Thanks for sharing good sir. Sounds like he was one hell of a guy
You know you've made it when a troll appears. Love it.
I worked in a Naval Dockyard which had a lathe with a 12' (3.6m) face plate and the bed was about 15m. It was intended to repair main shafts of ships. I never saw it run in 20 years.
You are the first view on Friday morning (UK time). It is 1 of the few that I look forward to. Thanks Matt for the great content. Please remember that what is boring to you is of great interest to a lot of us. Have a good week & thanks.
Cheers Colin. That's lovely to hear.
I second that! Cheers from the UK
First time here, when you said you liked CEE, I went straight to the subscribe button. You have some awesome equipment in your shop. Now I have two channels from my extreme south of the border buddies. Hello from Virginia (a California refugee) USA.
Cheers brother! 🇺🇸👊
High praise to the videographer. Fascinating work. Thanks
Cheers mate!
Just another good thing about this channel. 🙂
Congrats on 20k. You earned it mate.
Thank you 🙏
From Los Angeles. Did my share of machining (little stuff) working my way through school. Great to see you give a shout out to Curtis. Too many people in this world that try to convince everyone that they are the only ones who know how to slice bread.
Credit where credit is due man.
CEE do a great job. I learn from all the different channels out there, but I find his particularly interesting.
Man is a master of his craft.
It’s relaxing to watch
Matt, you do all the hard work; I just get to sit here and enjoy it. I really look forward to seeing the progress of the mega-drill and your machines. If you and Kurtis ever teamed up, you could take over the world (the machining world).
I hope we get to do a collaboration at some stage. It'd be heaps of fun. I reckon he'd have a blast on the hulk... and I reckon he'd enjoy seeing the MEGADRILL up close before it goes for a trip down to the center of the earth!
Hi from Michigan USA, Fell in love with machining about 5 years ago. big or small when a person can take a raw steel and turn it into a usable part is the best. just a hobby for me Thanks Cheers P.s. Every shop needs a good shop dog.👍
Well said good sir!
Finding your channel just after watching crazy Uri make a rose engine for his jewelers lathe. The scale is simply awesome!
Its nuts how the size differences are in machining hey
I'm a retired "Time Served Skilled Centre Lathe turner"; wow, what a mouth full 🤣. I used to have the pleasure of working on a Binns & Berry 35' lg lathe with TWIN saddles. Made turning steady bands so much easier. There was a total of 6 machines of the same length, but all different makes. I don't think the one I used hade the same headstock bore as yours, but we didn't need it purely because of the length of the bed and our steady rests 😀. If we did encounter chatter, we had long strips of rubber that we would wind along the tubes!
Wishing you and yours all the very best. Cheers.
That's awesome. I would have loved to see that workshop! Cheers mate
Where was your shop, in the UK or the US? Binns and Berry is a very English pair of names lol
@@samrodian919 I was working in the UK. Sadly, both factories are gone 😢. Cheers.
That is a big ass lathe, and while there are much bigger ones in the world, the general youtube audience doesn't have a lot of access. You have given us close up access to the workings of one in a daily shop environment. You are bordering on pretty unique in the machine shop world on youtube.
Because of that the channel has a lot of potential for growth.
Thanks for that mate. I think we do some pretty unique stuff in the ship, so it’s really quite humbling how many other people seem to get a kick out of it too!
You can clearly see that you’ll be putting in a crane for these big projects. Well done and I totally agree with you on cutting edge engineering they have the best UA-cam channel.
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I'm a retired automotive machinist i did crankshaft grinding in one of the biggest grinders .grinding cat crankshaft and tug crankshafts. I had extremely interesting career. Love your Chanel and kertis Chanel one after the other today. High regards to the both of you. ❤
Thanks mate. Yeah wow. Tug crankshafts would be pretty bloody big to grind!
@@halheavyduty yes the grinder is as big
Your lathe it was in Perth .I was one of 2 that run it .very close tolerance.
I would love to visit your work shop on day it's amazing.
I reckon we'll have to throw a 100k subscriber party. It'd be lit.
@@halheavyduty most big ships they grind em in place. there is a company in Singapore that does it. they come to you.
In the oil business if you get machines twice as big as you currently require they will shortly be half the size you need. I recommend you start looking at a new larger (taller heavier floor) shed/building or enlarging the one you have! You are already at capacity on your largest lath. Also the shop crane at 20T seems too small for the jobs you already take on. Nice to see security well taken care of. Ray
You clearly know your stuff (or you've got a crystal ball haha)
We have maxxed everything out. Everything.
We need a bigger shed, lathe, mill... way thicker concrete.
I'm pretty confident we'll end up moving locations next time there's a downturn. Building a massive shed with meter thick concrete for the machines. We just cant really expand any more here.
And we need (NEED) a 40t crane ASAP.
That 20t franna and our two 8t wobbly's just cant do it properly.
@@halheavyduty Thanks for taking time to respond. Suggest if you build that you pitch the floor under your laths to a drain on operator side so you can recycle the collant and minimize the mess from using collant on giant parts and save money on coolant trays and splash guards and recover the most coolant possible while keeping work area spotless. Love your videos, I also watch and enjoy CEE.
Cheers mate. Yeah, my plan is to go on a 'holiday' to Europe and the USA next year and check out a bunch of shops that are already on the level I want to be.
I reckon that's the best place to find good ideas! No point in re-inventing the wheel.
CEE is great. Endlessly watchable.
Came from CEE and was not disappointed, I love watching any and all types of machining and i have a feeling this new monster machine is going to great to watch.
Kurtis and Karen would love to have this big bore lathe.
Cheers mate! Glad you enjoyed it 👊
I’m viewing from Ohio, the Buckeye State! I’m a huge follower of Kurtis and Karen and I’m sure I’ll be one of your followers, as well. I’m not a machinist, I just tinker on my little lathe. I am a retired auto diesel tech, working on research vehicles.
Cheers from Malaysia, CNC machinist in the Oil & Gas industry since 2016 🤘
Nice work! love it
That chuck on the outer end is a nice feature!
Lots of times I wish I'd had that on a smaller lathe!
It's so useful for the kind of work we do. Same thing on HAL (the big CNC). Makes a huge difference.
Curtis has a video where he makes adapters to fit lathe chucks to the tailstock of one of his lathes. It's the first episode in his "shop made tools" playlist.
Hello from Winnipeg Canada, you are a very humble person I must say. I subscribe to Cutting Edge and this is how I got onto your channel after seeing his latest video. All the very best on your endeavors in the coming new year, and now I have a new channel that I have subscribed to.
Cracking video ! The Hulk is a stunning piece of kit. The energy when that thing is rotating at 400 RPM with its jaws full must be something else. Love the hound as well. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to create these videos. 😊
Thanks for tuning in mate. Very much appreciated. Having a blast catching all the fun stuff we get up to 👊🤣
So many great engineering shops on youtube now. From Here in Oz to the USA, Canada, NZ, the UK even Pakistan. We are spoilt for choice. Im glad youtube recommended this channel. Im subscribing & looking forward to your content. Damn this was interesting. Rock on Bro.
Cheers brother!
The only Pakistani ones I've seen are those ones where safety boots are sandals with three strips of leather over the foot instead of a big toe loop and ankle strap! lol and mud floors
Same 🤣
Machine tools are amazing bits of kit, nothing beats new machine day. Like a kids a Christmas
100%
Love the the content Hal and you are a very clear precise presenter of interesting shop stuff.
Thanks Craig!
You are nailing it on the sounds, the speeds and the turning shots! Oh and the quality of work!
Thanks mate 👊
So glad I've found your channel. There are a handful channels on my favorites list and yours is right up there. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, and I wish you continued success on this channel. It's definitely worth watching! Cheers!
Thanks heaps, appreciate the kind words mate! 👊
Same here!
Congratulations on 20K Mate!
Thanks for watching mate! Appreciate the support 👊
Hello Matt, Mark from the U.S.
I just found your channel and was glad to hear you give a shout out to CEE. I've been following them for a while now, and enjoy their channel.
I've subscribed to yours, and can't wait to see your videos.
Have a great Holiday!
Back in the day when i was in the thick of it, one of the ones I ran was a Bullard 36" Vertical lath. I was working for Martin Sprocket and Gear. So just under a meter chucking size for yall. It was perfect for facing the large sprockets before adding a hub to them. It was more like a humongous mill with a lath chuck.😉🙃
Nice work!
Truly enjoy watching you work on such large parts. I'm a Gunsmith in Texas and regularly turn parts in the .050 to .060 range. I doubt you have a hard time finding a part out of the lathe that you've dropped. Keep up the good work.
Nice one. Love it Stan.
Greetings from the UK Matt . Yup that's some toy you got in the hulk I reckon my little southbend 9 would fit in the bore lol .. found you a couple of days back I'm liking what I see . Great to hear you compliment kurtis and Karen at CEE been glued to them for a couple of years . Really enjoy watching the repairs on the big lathes so I guess I'll be binge watching your previous videos
Cheers mate. Yeah those two are great. Top quality content from top quality people.
Welcome to the channel good sir
Fellow southbend owner, I know the struggle haha.
Hi mate - I'm new to your channel, but really enjoying it. Are you sure you didn't buy a tunnel boring machine, lol. That's some bit of kit!. Fair play for giving Kurt & Karen such a nice shout out. You are all doing Australia proud. Well done & good luck!
Haha. It’s a wild setup. Thanks for the kind words mate. Much appreciated 👊
you guys are CRAZY!!! 😂when I saw your tooling and your depths of cut I was smiling like a kid in a candy store. That machine is glorious! All the best from Italy
Cheers mate!
Just found your channel and really like it as a 40 year retired machinist, manual and CNC.
Thank you good sir! Means a lot when someone with your level of experience tunes in and finds it enjoyable.
I'm an old time manual machinist that's worked in many areas (60 years). If you have large scale milling to do, I used to run a Cincinnati Hydrotel, a massive vertical milling machine. They are super powerful and accurate. I used to work both for the Cincinnati Milling machine Co (Now Milicron) and for Leblond Machine tool company (where I ran the Hydrotel). I've run nearly every kind of lathe and mill there is. The Hydrotel, if you need a larger vertical milling machine can't be beat.
Thank you so much for the tip good sir! I’ve heard really good things about those mills. Great to hear it from someone with your level of experience.
Love the content, Matt. You need a large gantry crane over that monster. Have a look at some old railway engineering photos. Wheel lathes were monsters! How they made the castings used in some of the old works is mind boggling. Colchesters rule in my book. A colchester student will take a 10mm cut with a good sharp tool of the right geometery. There is a video on u-tube of them testing one in the factory doing just that. Congrats on 20k. Keep the chips flying! G'day from Tasmania
You're not wrong there! We did look at getting a big gantry, but the shed is too low. I'll have to check out that video on the Colchester. Personally, I really like them. All machines have pros and cons, but for me the pros well outweigh the cons with the Colchesters.
Taking a coffee break from machining small (10 mm) copper holders for thermocouples and watching this video really puts things in perspective. Great to find and subscribe to your channel!
Welcome aboard! Thanks for subscribing mate 👊
Wowzers…that boring bar is incredible.
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Another CEE sub here, happy to see you’re not in competition.
Some 20 years ago I delivered stainless steel to various workshops and I was especially fascinated with the gigantic lathes some of them had - one was literally the size of my Scania truck and sometimes I delivered single billets of stainless so huge that I couldn’t believe it when they would throw it in the lathe. I can’t remember how heavy they were, could it be possible that they were more than 1,5 metric tonnes? And the chips on the floor in that place, they were the size of my hand.
Still love that smell.
Keep up the good work
Cheers mate.
Yeah, I definitely don't see us in any form of competition with Kurtis and Karen. They have the cutting edge side of it totally nailed. We are pretty old school by comparison... just straight up heavy duty shit for drillers to destroy lol.
Just found your channel watching you all the way from the uk, I am a massive fan of cutting edge engineering and hope to be a fan of yours as time goes on keep up the amazing work, the dialogue is also great.
Thanks heaps mate! Much appreciated
Congratulations on the Hulk purchase and reaching 20K subscribers! Great job on the camera angles and commentary. Seeing you wrestle around with "Mad Dog" put a smile on my face. Great stuff!! Cheers from Tennessee, USA.
Cheers mate! Yeah old Murray needs a bloody bath 💩 🤣
When I was an apprentice, some 50 years ago, we mixed cutting oil and water up in a bucket and poured that into the Colchester lathes we used. It smelt lovely.
The good stuff!
Im in Darwin and found you thru Chris and Curtis. Not a machinist just enjoy watching people with the skills to work metal
Cheers mate!
Just found your channel 🙂 First thought was, bloody hell now I'm never gonna leave for work on a Friday😂 Really like your positive friendly demeanour 😃 Looking forward to catching up on your past vids 😃
Cheers Mark!
a real video of making large parts like I did before opening my manufacturing company. I really miss this kind of work! now I make medium-sized parts and I miss it 😊 but you have to know how to adapt to the customer's needs! I hope to return to this kind of manufacturing one day!
So true. We only do stuff this big because it’s gotta be done. I’m enjoying it though.
I’ve really fallen in love with the big stuff on the MEGADRILL project
I’ve run a really big lathe in paper mill that you climbed a ladder about 8 feet up onto the carriage. The operator station (with a chair) was on the carriage and you road it back and forth up and down the bed. Was used to resurface huge rollers for paper making machines.
I’ve got a friend in Melbourne who runs machines like that! Absolutely unreal.
One of these days I’d love to visit the USA & Europe and see some of the Super HD gear in really big shops.
It’s astounding to me the vast range of sizes within the machining profession.
Hi, Matt. One spaniard here, like The Hulk, also owning a lathe made in Spain (FERVAL, two foot between points) only that it weighs less that one of Hulk's chucks 😁
Also an avid follower of Curtis and Karen (and Homey), I've just discovered and suscribed your channel. Good job!
Here from Canada glad i found your videos
Great video Matt. The Hulk is a bit of gear for sure. I used to work in the Midland Workshops in WA. You would have loved a stroll thru the machine shop and the Flanging shop - some big presses in there. Cheers mate
Youre not wrong there! I just find big equipment so fascinating. As I kid I got to head over to NASA and check out the crawlers for the Saturn V. Couldn't drag me away haha
You have a great channel and such interesting machinery! Cheers from Arkansas USA!
Thank you good sir! 🇺🇸👊
Thank you good sir! 🇺🇸👊
Watching from Seattle, USA. I love watching how operators figure out how to get the job done. I watch CEE, too, and I wonder how something is going to get done, because of the oddball requirements of the jobs. Keep up the good work, and I will continue to watch.
Cheers mate! 🇺🇸👊
Largest lathes I've run was a Hwacheon Mega 130 and a Hankook. Hwacheon had a 1M chuck and 6M long bed. Hankook had 800mm chuck and 6M long bed both were CNC machines. Both had good and bad things I liked about them. Also had a go at running a Doosan DBC 130 CNC Horizontal borer for the same company. Very solid machine. Biggest manual lathes the company had were a Geminis and some old Russian lathe. If you want to go bigger than the Hulk I'd suggest looking at oil field and hollow spindle lathes. Also if you get a manual one having rapid feed on the carriage and cross slide is a life saver. Seeing your guys winding the Hulk back by hand I'm sure they would appreciate it as well. Keep up the good work mate.
Nice. I've checked out the Hankook lathes but haven't run one. There's some mad gear out there.
I know of ESP Pty Ltd , they used to be on Frances St Brooklyn. Company I once worked for called Andritz in Geelong had an old Chinese universal mill sold to Andritz by esp. they were kind enough to supply some detailed electrical info they still had from the 90’s in their data base. I had to repair the mag clutches and get feed running again. Love your work, keep it coming Matt.
I also worked for Godfrey hurst in Geelong as a fitter, they had one of those large bore lathes with forward and rear chucks. We would machine the journals on large carpet pinch & idler rollers. The name of it I’ve forgotten but it was made in India.
Currently retired to my hobby shed where I have an old Aussie made lathe, a 3 phase Nuttell made by Kirby NSW 1975. And various other small metal machines where I’m making 2 wombat steam locomotives, 5” & 7 1/4” gauges.
I just love that they're called Wombats! Sounds like you've got a great little setup there good sir!
Very creative crew you have. Beautiful work
I'm in Georgia USA, I'm retired/disabled from the automotive industry and a lifelong hot rodder and fabricator. In my home shop I have a South Bend heavy 10 lathe which would be lost in your shop 😁 and I'm looking for a mill but I'm glad I can still work on my cars.
Wonderful that you have a home shop. It’s so good when you can tinker with stuff and keep busy on projects.
Every man needs a shed
That’s just rock “n” roll mate. Second vid in & your showing off the big stuff. I can see this is gonna be an exciting channel to be at. 👌👍😎
Cheers mate. Glad you’re enjoying it all.
My green Grizzly tools 7x14" with the chucks, steady rest, follow rest, face plate and all the tooling I have for it don't weigh as much as that 'tiny' boring bar. I have a new respect for change gears, the SIEG 7x lathe designer must have seen this Hulk prior.. Great Video.
Cheers mate!
That’s gold 🤣 yeah, the hulk is a mad bit of gear. Still small by “big lathe” standards… but bloody big enough for us.
The 40t crane barely got it in the shed… there were warning sirens blaring 🤣🤣
I think the Chuck weighs 400kg.
I have no interest in machining butvfeally enjoy seeing how real world problems are solved. Your style is fun and engaging and the duration ideal for a cup of tea.
Cheers mate. Much appreciated
What a Sweet Machine!
It’s a beast. 😎
Thank you Matt, I really look forward to seeing your work every week, kind regards.
Thanks Peter
Oh boy another Australian heavy machine shop! I think UA-cam suggested your channel to me just now since I never miss an upload by Kurtis, Karen, & Homeless over at CEE. Needless to say you got a new subscriber. Looking forward to your 100k Subs party and more!!
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No problem with your limited 'commentary'....those of us familiar with any machine shop can see from your excellent video exactly what's going on. !
I'm here in Northern California and have seen ads selling old shipyard machines...lathes with 300 inches swing and 60 feet of carriage travel.
Nice deal on that 'Hulk'...not a bunch of broken parts you gotta' fix before you can use it.
I just found your channel today, but definitely the same quality as CCE...!
Cheers mate. Appreciate the kind words 👊🇺🇸
From Montana enjoying your work and the skills you have
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I really wanna come to Australia and work with you guys absolute masterpieces of machining
Cheers man. We're really lucky to be doing this crazy project. It's fairly standard otherwise - but never boring (unless we are literally boring haha)
Watching from Scotland cracking lathe great video
Cheers mate!
Like your trepan . Looks like what we use at my place of employment. Ours screws onto a tube of various sizes from 6-18” also it’s about 16 feet long. Used to make the rough barrels of cannons during WW2.
Holy wow! That’s cool man
Nice to hear about the hulk. Known problem with buying machines in any size, when they arrive its just a matter of months before 'dam we should have bought the next size up'. I work in different machines,manual horizontal borer is my main. Also lathe Ø1000x8000 and cnc lathe Ø1300x4500 XYZC
You should start a UA-cam channel ! 😊
Sounds like some bloody big equipment. I like it already.
@@halheavyduty Shure big enough for a couple of months..😄
Hahahaha 100%
yeah like sheds. the collection of "stuff" grows to suit the shed.
& your videos are improving every new episode, and getting better! Congrats.
Cheers Enrico!
HAPPY HD FRIDAY!!
My shop is a bit chilly today, first snow of the winter here in Michigan in the states. Stay hydrated! The Hulk deep look was fun. 👍🏻🤘🏻✌️
Cheers mate! I'd love to visit Michigan one day!
Great Beard Mate !!!! Mine is more of a Santa Beard, white and long at 74.
Great video, mate. Maybe Karl (Kurtis) could visit and take speech lessons from ya. 🤪😝 Couldn't resist that poke as I subscribed.
Hahaha. I love watching his videos. He’s way more polished than me 🤣
I just have a good ol chat.
Un torno Gurztpe fabricado aquí en España....y siguiendo trabajando en Australia.
Me alegro mucho de que valoréis estás máquinas.
Yo en concreto las he reparado y conozco bien si durabilidad y robustez.
Me alegro por vosotros
It’s such a solid and reliable machine. We see really happy with The Hulk.
Employee of the year 💯
Nice to see the machine being installed and running
Very happy with it
Great vid Matt! Would love to come visit your part of the world someday...nice of you to give the props to Karen and Kurtis too...they are why I watch you too! Merry Christmas from Illinois, USA!
Cheers mate! Thanks for watching 🇺🇸👊
Many years ago as a young lad I started at an engineering company and the first machine I saw was a lathe that I couldn't even see over the ways and you needed a step ladder to get to the chuck it was massive
Holy crap. that's massive!
Very informative and great machining demonstrations. Great job!
Thank you 🙏👊
'Cutting Edge' competitor? Yes but more the better ! Go , HAL .
What a monster! Makes my little woodworking lathes look like toys !
Cheers mate. Haha. We are anything but cutting edge in what we do. Just Heavy Duty and get'r done! Plenty of room on YT for all the different stuff out there. Kurtis & Karen have a bloody fantastic channel - love their work.
Hi Matt, first time watching your channel and I’m so glad to have found it. Now I have two favourite machining channels to watch and the fact that they’re both Australian is awesome. I’m in Canberra ACT and wanted to be a machinist when I left school but life took me in another direction. Now I’m retired I have been able to set myself up a nice workshop and do some machining as a hobby. I find channels like yours are really good for learning so a big thank you. Cheers, Stuart. 👍
Great stuff Stuart. Well done on the home shop mate. Love it!
Really appreciated the story, nice.
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Love this stuff. Also a Kurtis fan. Sunshine Coast Qld.
I am a subscriber to your channel, CEE and Vanover machine shop in chicago, IL USA. I enjoy all of these. Each one focused on different kinds of projects. Keep up the good work. this is even larger scale work than CEE
Thanks for tuning in! I really appreciate it 🙏
Like your tool holder racks - great to see the tools neat & tidy -- those items are the bits of kit that cost a fortune & are often neglected . Interesting to see your set up , but after 45 years of it I don't get excited any more
Cheers mate. Yeah, I try and keep it all as organised as possible. Just makes the jobs so much quicker (and enjoyable)
I can imagine that after 45 years it loses its excitement. I still enjoy it all… mostly because they keep dragging big stuff in the door.
Great channel, always interesting & learn so much. Keep up great videos.
I am not a machinist, but I still enjoy watching your channel. Congratulations on reaching 20k subscribers.
Thanks Jose! Appreciate it mate.
Congrats on 20k!! Love the content 🇬🇧
Cheers!
New sub from Bakersfield, California.
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love these videos,we non machinists learn a lot.
Cheers mate! Glad you’re enjoying it.
Hobby machinist here. I enjoyed the video very much, subscribed today! Wishing you good fortune in all your endeavors!
Thanks so much for the subscription. Much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed the video mate
That large flange in the mouth of the chuck reminds me of the dentist looking at my mouth with his instruments deep inside and he says, “ A little wider please.”
Why do they always want to have a convo 🤣🤣
That new machine looks like a very good rebuild.
It’s in really good condition and machines beautifully