Using a mini Jet thruster to drill rock is the most 1950s nuclear/jet age thing I’ve ever heard. Lol. I’m impressed that there is still an example like that in such good shape and pretty much complete. Rock drills don’t seem to rank very high on the preservation list.
What a blast from the past. I'm surprised they came out with a new model in 67. It must have been for the two east Range mines. It wasn't very long after that that even they converted to rotary drills. The key for rotary drills in taconite was the tricone rotary bit with carbide button inserts. The biggest problem, other than the logistics ofoxygen and water, was holding hole diameter. If they hit a fault or soft spot the hole would enlarge, screwing up the explosive loading.
Interesting drill rig.We had rotary rigs at the quarry where I worked.If your interested in checking out another machine Justin.There is a newly rebuilt Marion 7500 dragline outside of Lavelle.North of the Rt.901/54 traffic light.We drove up there the other weekend to get some pictures.She's a beauty.Also back the haul road is a Komatsu PC2000 backhoe and other equipment.
Love this old iron. Simple controls, back when operators knew how to operate a piece of equipment. Not like the lever pushers and gauge monitors so prevalent today. Some old timers would have their entire career on a single piece of equipment.
An entire career on a single piece of equipment? That’s more of a level puller than an operator since a real operator can operate everything. The future is now old man lol.
The old crusher was generator powered and just had a jaw, a cone and a shaker and a bunch of conveyors and a feeder. Had an old pony start Cat D8 or 9 pulling the generator. I got to fire it when he was gone and I dare say he probably could run anything to do with the whole operation. It was a portable plant and they moved all over to different crushing sites and he was the one that was boss over setting it up, running it, tearing it back down and moving it..Was past retirement age BUT was still catty enough so if he lost a hard hat or hammer head down through the jaw, he could go back over the jaw motor and catch it as it came out on the jaw conveyor and this was before there were hydraulic rock breakers on jaw crushers like now. I really liked him a site.@@astrorion6933
Amazing machine and it’s amazing someone hasn’t trashed it and gutted the copper and stuff out of it anytime something is abandoned it doesn’t take long be thieves and kids get to it 😢great video explaining everything about this old iron
I grew up near the Texas Gulf Coast. I know a little about drilling for oil and next to nothing about taconite mining. How were the ash and exhaust coming up out of the hole dealt with? How hot was the stuff coming up out of hole. At 2:09 that looks like a huge exhaust stack. Is that where the still hot material coming out of the hole was exhausted away from the machine? From your description this beast was powered by an external source of electricity. Where were the electrical connections? How large were the cables? What was the input voltage? How were the power cables dealt with? How long were they? Since a liquid oxygen tank was provided was a generator parked nearby also? How many holes were jetted out for each blast? How far apart were the holes? How long did it take to jet out one blast worth of holes? How far was the drill moved away from the blast which makes me wonder about why it doesn't have its own diesel engine - like a locomotive. I couldn't grasp the operation from your description. A 4300F jet of burning gas was created at the business end of the drill. How was the water pumped? In the annular space between an outer casing and the piping bringing the FO and O2 to the burner nozzle? How much pressure and flow did the FO pump provide? How many holes did 525 gallons of FO jet out? How much oxygen and at what pressure? 10x faster but only a 33% increase in hole productivity? Huh?
I honestly can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like that before!..I wonder if there are any still running in North America today?..very interesting video!👍
Your videos are so jam packed full of information and history and I've been watching them for a few years. If you were to invest a little bit into better production quality, I bet your channel would explode in viewership and subscribers! I only say this because I admire what you do, there is nothing else like it on UA-cam.
Thank you! :) I'm actually filming in 4K now. I'm just running out my stock of older 720HD videos. I never put up big money into cameras for making videos because frankly, I don't make much off of it. This is a hobby for me. And I have plenty of 1080p videos on here...that is not the answer to "more subscribers". The fact is this. This is a mining channel. Mining is not as popular as construction or small iron.
Away an fascinating and informative video. You just wonder??? Who thinks of these things or concepts???? You're sitting around the living room and your wife says. What are you thinking about??? His response, honey I'm going to drill a hole using fire to cut rock and thousands of pounds of pressure...I understand making improvements .. You can wonder how that idea is planned in his thought???
Could have had more information detail. I know looking at a panel it is the operating switches, It might have been more interesting to learn how an operator actually worked the machine.
I could do that but, it's just way more to remember when making these videos. And you do have Google that can spit out the conversion in a micro second 😉
Amazing it made it all these years unmolested. Must of been retired in a heck of a safe place. Great video!
Using a mini Jet thruster to drill rock is the most 1950s nuclear/jet age thing I’ve ever heard. Lol. I’m impressed that there is still an example like that in such good shape and pretty much complete. Rock drills don’t seem to rank very high on the preservation list.
Haha, I know, right! Very wild idea
Amazing find! Looks surprisingly complete. Wonder when it was last used?
Yea, I'm surprised someone didn't gut it for anything valuable.
What a blast from the past. I'm surprised they came out with a new model in 67. It must have been for the two east Range mines. It wasn't very long after that that even they converted to rotary drills.
The key for rotary drills in taconite was the tricone rotary bit with carbide button inserts.
The biggest problem, other than the logistics ofoxygen and water, was holding hole diameter. If they hit a fault or soft spot the hole would enlarge, screwing up the explosive loading.
I would imagine the constant hole size fluctuation was a huge issue with perfecting a blast. Thanks for the interesting input! Cheers!
This one looks like it was bought for one of the large pilot taconite plants on the central Range.
Very interesting! One of your best documentaries. My uncle worked for Linde Air in Buffalo.
Oh no kidding, that's cool! Which, I should have checked, I believe it's pronounced Lind"e". Too bad UA-cam don't let you make changes lol
That's a lovely piece of history right there!
Ought to be restored as it looks fairly complete and original.
Absolute amazing piece of equipment😊
Well that's one of the coolest operator panels I have ever seen
I havent seen a jet piercing Mashine like this before...realy intersting .
Thank you for showing us 👍😉😊
You're very welcome :)
Iv never even heard of this type of drilling rock or busting it ..but I know it's cool thanks 👍👍👍
Haha thanks!
Interesting drill rig.We had rotary rigs at the quarry where I worked.If your interested in checking out another machine Justin.There is a newly rebuilt Marion 7500 dragline outside of Lavelle.North of the Rt.901/54 traffic light.We drove up there the other weekend to get some pictures.She's a beauty.Also back the haul road is a Komatsu PC2000 backhoe and other equipment.
Oh yes I'm familiar with that machine, I was just on it last week during it's swing test. Look for a new reel on it this week! And thank you!
Interesting. Never heard of these type of drills. 👍👍🇺🇸
Neither had the fellow who posted this.
thanks for sharing. I learned something
Love this old iron. Simple controls, back when operators knew how to operate a piece of equipment. Not like the lever pushers and gauge monitors so prevalent today. Some old timers would have their entire career on a single piece of equipment.
An older guy that came to help us set up a rock crusher ran that same plant for 25 years.
An entire career on a single piece of equipment? That’s more of a level puller than an operator since a real operator can operate everything. The future is now old man lol.
The old crusher was generator powered and just had a jaw, a cone and a shaker and a bunch of conveyors and a feeder. Had an old pony start Cat D8 or 9 pulling the generator. I got to fire it when he was gone and I dare say he probably could run anything to do with the whole operation. It was a portable plant and they moved all over to different crushing sites and he was the one that was boss over setting it up, running it, tearing it back down and moving it..Was past retirement age BUT was still catty enough so if he lost a hard hat or hammer head down through the jaw, he could go back over the jaw motor and catch it as it came out on the jaw conveyor and this was before there were hydraulic rock breakers on jaw crushers like now. I really liked him a site.@@astrorion6933
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When I heard jet drill , I thought water jet. Who knew? Museum Piece for sure.
Haha! It definitely is!
i grew up by taconite mining, I remember the unique sound that these made, you could hear it at night ...great memories of my youth.
They should repair bring museum at bucyrus-Erie.thanks great find and video.😊
Thanks PA intresting machine and technolgy
Such an amazing machine. I've never heard of this typ of drill rig. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it and learned a lot from it! Thanks!
Never got around one of these but it sure would be interesting! Thanks and hope yall had a wonderful Thanksgiving. God Bless Yall!
Thanks buddy, same to you!
Glad you get to be around all the good stuff and I do through you since I'm out of the loop. BLESSINGS to ALL Yall!@@PAmining
Amazing machine and it’s amazing someone hasn’t trashed it and gutted the copper and stuff out of it anytime something is abandoned it doesn’t take long be thieves and kids get to it 😢great video explaining everything about this old iron
Got the depth indicator
'souvenir ' likely, but hope it was needed on another machine...
This was a really cool video! I really loved seeing all these old drilling machines, and the best part is that it was narrated by Elwood Blues…….
Thank you very much!
That’s some amazing equipment!!!!!
Old iron is so interesting. Thanks
Hey you really know ur stuff sir. That old machine does have some interesting history. Good video. Thank u. 😁👍
I grew up near the Texas Gulf Coast. I know a little about drilling for oil and next to nothing about taconite mining.
How were the ash and exhaust coming up out of the hole dealt with? How hot was the stuff coming up out of hole. At 2:09 that looks like a huge exhaust stack. Is that where the still hot material coming out of the hole was exhausted away from the machine?
From your description this beast was powered by an external source of electricity. Where were the electrical connections? How large were the cables? What was the input voltage? How were the power cables dealt with? How long were they? Since a liquid oxygen tank was provided was a generator parked nearby also?
How many holes were jetted out for each blast? How far apart were the holes? How long did it take to jet out one blast worth of holes? How far was the drill moved away from the blast which makes me wonder about why it doesn't have its own diesel engine - like a locomotive.
I couldn't grasp the operation from your description. A 4300F jet of burning gas was created at the business end of the drill. How was the water pumped? In the annular space between an outer casing and the piping bringing the FO and O2 to the burner nozzle?
How much pressure and flow did the FO pump provide? How many holes did 525 gallons of FO jet out? How much oxygen and at what pressure?
10x faster but only a 33% increase in hole productivity? Huh?
I want to ride my bike up those hills.
I honestly can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like that before!..I wonder if there are any still running in North America today?..very interesting video!👍
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! And no, none of these drills are in operation today
Flow international here in Washington State High pressure water cutting systems very popular😊
Rarely do we have modern tools that are as exciting to describe as the good old ones.
You come across the coolest stuff! It’s too bad you can’t haul it all home and have a museum. It would be the informational museum in the world!
Your vids are awesome , man. Keep em coming ! 👍
Thanks man! I appreciate it 😃 there will be more!
5:42 lemme guess,those levers for crawler tracks?
Amazing
I wonder if there's any operator's of this drill still about?? Now that would be a very interesting conversation 🤔
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Talking about L O U D ! A churn or C/P drill wouldn't even be running beside THIS rig!
Interesting technology cool
Your videos are so jam packed full of information and history and I've been watching them for a few years. If you were to invest a little bit into better production quality, I bet your channel would explode in viewership and subscribers!
I only say this because I admire what you do, there is nothing else like it on UA-cam.
Thank you! :)
I'm actually filming in 4K now. I'm just running out my stock of older 720HD videos. I never put up big money into cameras for making videos because frankly, I don't make much off of it. This is a hobby for me. And I have plenty of 1080p videos on here...that is not the answer to "more subscribers". The fact is this. This is a mining channel. Mining is not as popular as construction or small iron.
I’d like to see it restored and running!
Away an fascinating and informative video. You just wonder??? Who thinks of these things or concepts???? You're sitting around the living room and your wife says. What are you thinking about??? His response, honey I'm going to drill a hole using fire to cut rock and thousands of pounds of pressure...I understand making improvements .. You can wonder how that idea is planned in his thought???
Haha I know right!!
She deserves to be .restored to brand new
What a cool old best! Love the huge, manual knobs, levers, and such on that thing. The jet blast technology is really neat, too.
Very automic age isn't it! Thanks!
I know what id be doing if i ever won stupid lotto money. Really nice that you had enough respect for the old girl to shut the door back.
Could have had more information detail. I know looking at a panel it is the operating switches, It might have been more interesting to learn how an operator actually worked the machine.
I leave that part open for the real operators to chim in and explain....if any are even still alive
Must have used a big liquid oxy tank with a big evaporator on it. Any idea how much oxy they went through in a day?
Man talk about overbuilt,,,this thing looks like the inside of a WW2 submarine,,,
That's actually what the inside reminded me of lol
I wonder what Year that's from?
1956
And what about the lights???? I couln't see a y headlight in that Machín to work at night.
wow olddy
suppose it has nothing to do with "Linde" the very big german forklift maker
The Linde industrial gas producer now known as Praxair.
What a great machine more like something made by jules werne.😊
Fire it up😂
Huh, I order gas bottles for my vet hospital from Linde. Echos and all that.
I want that thing!!!!!
Promo sm 😌
come on dude, fix it at least, make it run and crawl
Could you, when stating sizes, also mention the metric values? 69 feet means nothing but 21 meters is a huge beam.
I could do that but, it's just way more to remember when making these videos. And you do have Google that can spit out the conversion in a micro second 😉
@@PAmining Hee, I have to multiply these stone age units by 0.3 and that's a lot of work.
Did you say just over twenty were produced? If that's the case this could be the last one in good shape or at all left.
Interesting machine! Hey, are those old tailings from a mine behind that machine? Regards
Yes they are! Thank you :)
Interesting video indeed 👍👍👍
A new one for me. Only ever come across rotary blast hole drills...
Haha how about it! That's why I filmed it, it's very unique
Seems that there is noemgine on this machine. Only a transformer so i must assume it must be hooked up to the mains to operate.
does anybody still make these type of units
How do you find all this stuff??
Haha! It's what I do