One Man CNC Machine Shop Tour..................
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Average day in the shop..............mostly myself, but I have a few part timers for help. Last two years have been the best ever in my 22 years of running the shop...................
My story can be found on Practical Machinist............................
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I made this vid for a customer just to get a feel for my shop...................I threw it up on the You Tube for the heck of it and now it has hit 100K views? How the????? Thanks for watchin'..............
It'd awesome man!
Crazy how that machine was just spitting out parts.. I get too nervous to leave my machine to trust tools or inserts not to break
Nice setup, get that mulah. Love to see American made and guys throwing chips. Only been in this field 3 years but seems cutting metal will be my career
I’ve been teaching CNC programming and how to do basic set-up and operation including setting offsets. Also inspection and GD&T, We teach while running actual jobs so the students get on the job training. I would love to have a small shop like yours but here in California it is virtually impossible. Keep up the quality work and post more videos!
The algorithm picks em I just watch em brother. Nice shop!
The chip output per person is incredible.
it's called COPP, a known measure of output lol
The house, the fields, the view, the workshop, the machines....dude, you´re blessed, congrats!! You´re living the dream of most men. Congrats
It’s funny. You say: Shop is nothing special....but it’s actually nicer, better laid out, and better equipped than the place I work. You should be proud of what you are accomplishing!
Totally agree. I work in a company that's just been bought over and given a new building, custom made and its a complete shit hole.
@@richiejbhoy1888 What the hell, do we work at the same company ?
@@stoxic74 possibly. 👀
What country do you work? 👀
Exactly like 8 expensive machines
Holy cow man!!! For being a one man operation, you're doing an incredible job. Thanks for sharing some awesome motivational material man, this is dream material for me.
So I added a link up in the description. It's a thread of the history of my shop on Practical Machinist
Pin your comment to the top so people can see it. I assume you get a decent amount of help form the part timers. All those parts in buckets, super impressive output. Keep up the good work. Small owner operator " real machinist " run machine shops are the future.
Are you the practical machinist member from MN that built the house and shop about 10 years ago? Loved following that build if it is you.
@@nfcorrie9713 That’s me
@@oknean Glad to see everything is still going well!
Hats of to you sir.
Running those machines by yourself is multitasking, running your butt of, answering the phone, ordering materials, take in materials... Oh man!
I quit machining because i wanted to be my own boss. Starting an cnc shop is expensive, so i started as an fabricator/welder.
I do have an manual mill and lathe, didn't really need them, but you can't do without after you have worked with them. It's in the blood, machinist are a different breed;)
Incredible shop AND music choice! I love it
Hi from Argentina, I'm an IT professional but I have a electromechanical background and I'm slowly filling up my cnc workshop mostly for hobby. I watched the video taking mental note about every machine and tool at display, finding if I have an equivalent one and daydreaming about my next purchase. Anyway thanks a lot for the shop tour its truly nice.
Sweet little shop. You can never have too many vises and soft jaws!
Impressed with your layout and amount of machines in that space. Shop has to be in the country with material rack outside. Were my shop is, that material and scrap bin would be stolen every night. Miss the days of working solo, now I have to come in on Saturday or Sunday to work alone.
This seems to be the way to do it. Small but neat space, only a few employees, very streamlined and efficient. I bet it makes MONEY!
stumbled across this. Be very proud of what you got going on there. very impressive
20 year old machinist, been working in machine shops since my sophmore year of tradeschooll. This is my dream
Awesome shop, and that line at 5:03 ... right on man!
Amazing!! Keep up with the good work! Good luck
I'd love to build a shop like that one day!
Very impressive for a one man shop! Looks like you have been very successful.
As soon as the tractor and Amada came into frame, I was pretty sure I knew I had seen your place over on PM. I think the shop looks smaller on video than in pics...
SO nice, I am not alone, to be alone!
Oh man, would you please give me a good reason not to hate you ? Congrats ! It's really inspiring !
Very nice shop!!
im just a guy with a HAAS VF2 stuck in his garage right now..i hope to have a shop like yours some day. congrats.
Thats a fortune to equip. Great shop and tour.
You must work 100 hours a week. Dude you are SENDING IT!
Love the shop, looks awesome, well done man, an Inspiration for us aspiring self employed
Outstanding shop!
Fricken awsome set up!
Pretty sweet setup! And digging the Amada bandsaw
Amazing One Man shop ! Congrats
Nice. Where can I send some files for quotes?
Your shop is amazing! I love your location outside. Which state are you in?
Thanks for sharing! How do you like the brother machine?
good stuff dude. i hope i can get a cnc someday.
First question, that comes up - that dirt road, which leads to your shop... Isn't it causing any problems to those, who arrive after the chips and finished parts? Second question, that comes - when it becomes necessary to fully replace a machine to a new one - isn't it hard to pull outside the old one, and bring inside a new one in such a tight place?
LoL I am way of you. Just dream to have shope like yours. Even with half of the machines 😂
This is literally what I'm working towards putting in 65hr weeks at my job for the past 6 months I like working as a cnc machinist but I dislike having to follow orders and rules from people who have no clue what it takes to be a good machinist. I realize having a shop is no easy task and comes with a lot of stress but I rather take on that added stress for the reward of creating something I can be proud of. Care to do a video on how you accomplished having such an awesome one man shop?
That would either be the shortest video ever, or the longest one ever. He has a great setup, and looks like he was blessed with work ethic to earn that setup.
Gun parts Nice😀 I use to work in a shop doing upper and lower receivers for AR 15, looks like your ready to expand maybe get a contract for Barrett parts😀💪👍
Wow how did you get your customers at first??
Lots of machines for a small shop
I'd love to have a shop like yrs I love the layout
Waw waw its wonderful machine good good i m from morocoo i like this machine
Awesome. Could you say , how did you finance a start , which machine bring you most revenue , what type of jobs are to start with
Cool nice to see some made in China coming to the USA
Please more :)
Awesome shop!
You should promote your shop on UA-cam to gain more customers
Probably my future, I run a full shop with 6 cncs right now. zero operators
What's the dimensions on the shop ? That's looks to be a good size building!
This is awesome! Im currently building a 48x80 pole barn and plan to run my small machine shop from it. Did the power company make you pay for the 3phase pad mounted transformer? Im still working with my power company to see if 3phase is possible. If not ill go with a large phase converter.
What toolbox is that, the grey with green handles around 2:40?
Alot going on for one man shop. Looks like it might be time to hire a little help.
as a machinist how dependant are you on location? shipping / transportation costs?
i would like to potentially get into machining, but i'm very remote. a pallet costs $600 or a 7 hr drive to go from the nearest city.
also, in canada, so min package shipment cost is $20 flatrate for 5kg max.
the province has lots of mines, but the prices of materials is very high compared to say ontario. about twice as expensive. how much does material cost effect your operation costs?
So this is 22 year in the making?
What's your opinion on your haas lathe? I just bought one, older with low hours but making relatively low tolerance parts to start. I'm hoping my shop grows into something like this plus some 5 axis machines one can only dream. This investment is the proceeds of previous investments so it will continue to grow along side my other investments that will all feed in. I would love to see more but I can imagine you don't have a second to spare
Looks to be residential? Are you running converters for the power or 3 phase? It's obvious you are very productive and efficient with your time. Look forward to more vids.
Yep. Good.
Do you make your own product line or do work for others? Looks like pretty high quantity
i wanna work fulltime
I'm curious if you know what your average electrical consumption is? Ideally per day. After watching your video I was just curious if a smaller operation like that could be off grid or in an off grid location. Or even semi off grid? I imagine not but as long as we are talking about imagination watching your video just made me wonder about a similar shop remotely in the mountains.
I think you would be hard pressed to run all of that equipment off grid. I'm not really up on off grid power output these day but he is using quite a bit electricity
@@patrickjohnson7369 yeah that's why I was curios. knowing the average electrical consumption would be a good way to measure what if anything could be run.
What model doosan lathe is that and how much does it cost?
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wow
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Not what I was expecting from a one man shop… #humblebrag
Very interesting ...but you need to work on your camera work. When you pan around, far too fast.
It's a nice shop but far too crammed with equipment. There really is no area to move around. Pumping out parts and putting them into buckets. Are the buckets going to the customer like that? You mentioned one dimension at "half a thou"....surface finish? .....out of a "bucket"? How do you protect parts? How do you package parts? How do you ship parts?
I don't know much about the company details, but you would need to have a lot more than a couple of "part-timers" helping out. "Buckets" are not much of a way to handle parts ....unless those were scrap parts.
People seem to think the machines are impressive. It takes more than machines to make good parts.
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Nice job very impressed The video on the other hand I think I got dizzy watching. Kind of joking but not really It was like the camera was fixed to your eyeballs and we only saw everything on a downward slant. Trying really hard not to complain but if all your videos are like that... I will not be watching very many Sorry. Great job though One busy ass man. Definitely nobody can say you're lazy no way no how keep up the good work and take a vacation You earned it everyday.
i am experienced cnc machinist and want to job here
NICE SHOP AND OPERATION!
Pretty floors. Raise the camera.
I don't think you should have so much material laying around outside :D
You can never have to many vises.
Nice dude. God is indeed awesome. Ask Him for a robot! lol. just one! and repost vid please. lol. no. srs. very cool shop, it looks like fun.
this is not a shop, this is a guy freelance business.
Mumbling and swinging camera around so you cannot focus-
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Impressive setup you have there. Its good to see a small shop that not afraid to invest in itself. Good luck to you.
Keep that head on your shoulders, you are doing wonders in utilizing the space and functionality.
I love to see someone that is keeping this trade alive especially in this day and age of just passing it offshore which doesn’t help our economy.
Your hard work is shining through, I wish you all the best.
Yep. Bring those jobs back to the USA.
Well done! You had those spindles hummin! Thats impressive, how does one man (even plus a couple hands haha) have the time for the setup?! I'm impressed.
Great shop, love the entrepreneurialism. I run a shop with 220 employees, we do cool stuff but get limited on administration when scaled up. We have a dozen small shop suppliers like yours, but yours is clean, nice lighting, machines taken care of. Keep it up 👍
"Nothing special" dude, your shop is awesome! I'm just a young guy trying to make a small CNC Mill to make some money on the side while I'm in college but I'd love to have a shop with half the machines you have, just maybe different ones lol (I really want a Mazak 5-Axis machine with a pallet pool down the line for one-man operations).
This is way nicer than the 4 man family shop I work for. Just goes to show what can happen when someone invests in their company and cares about the work they do.
Yeah God blessed you for sure. I'm particularly amazed at the volume of parts you're making without bar feeders or mill- turn. I'm kind of shocked you would want to reduce your cycle time by 2 minutes considering how many machines you need to operate
Super cool!
If you film this again, consider pointing the camera up a little more (less floor) and possibly telling us (if you can) what those parts are going to be used for/in
It may be intentional to not show much detail of the parts he's making. Lots of parts being made that's for sure!
@@RJMachine62 maybe! But still could be vague, like "this goes inside an industrial machine used in a factory"
1st rule of machine shop products. Don’t ask about the products.
@RJMachine Machining is a cutthroat business, anyone with that name RJMachine should understand that, and it sounds like your fishing to cut him out of his income.
@@stansienicki392 What??? I'm the one said not to pry. It's kind of stuff you keep close to your chest. Why would you even think I was asking him to divulge information?
Thank you for letting us into your shop! Looking back on your shop and how you've grown what would you say was the best improvement you've made in your shop?
@2:30 And a Colt percussion revolver, the most important. :)
I saw that. .
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Impressive shop and impressive commute time to work. The way man is intended to live.
Not enough - minutes in a day, sleep at night, or days off. Priceless to be you though. You are living my dream. I'm green.
Thanks for the tour. A tad quick but it shows some of the capabilities. That metal on the racks might be worth more unmachined right now :)
Nice shop. I am a 1 man shop too but only 2 years and 2 machines in so far. I hope to have 5-7 machines like this one day too
One man shop checking in here. Thats a beutiful shop, beutiful parts and awesome machines. 👌👌
Really nice well equipped clean shop . Just enough room for what you need and cleanliness is awesome . Very hard to keep a CNC shop clean . Great video .
Not good decision to work in solo!!! Team work isn't matchable!! In our language a quote is common: 1 is 1 and 2 equals to 11!! I'm hobbyist, student not a manufacturer but done many paid projects of electronics, mechanical, robotics, machine design or system design and making... Being solo I don't think I can perform much work!! even a technician or little bit skillful person can boost the ability, efficiency unmatchable as compared!! So try to increase productivity and earn 48 hours in 12 hours by using little helping hand!!
For one man shop this is insane man.. nice arsenal of machines you got there, wish you good luck!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Curious if you started out on your own or came from a background of similar when you launched your own shop?
I'm getting dizzy and not sure why. Nice shop. I bet your automatic choke is still on after that long drive to work. When are you adding on to your building? I have a one man shop on my home property also. The only way to go. Keep up the Good Work.
Agreed. I was getting nauseous watching this video. Like when playing first-person shooters 20 years ago.
Nice shop!
If all this is running by one man and some part timers, some of the machines shouldn't work all the time. I guess...
How many hours do you do weekly?
Dang man that is very good for a one man shop. You have made some great connections apparently. I’m lucky to have one job a day.
You must be hopping more then a one armed Newfie keeping two woodstoves fed running all those machines as a one man shop.
What was your first order and how did you find that customer?
Thanks for the tour Dave!
A twin spindle mill-turn machine would work wonders with these parts.
THIS just got a doosan lynx 2600 SY with bar feeder. you could save yourself a bunch of time and handling.