You've gotta love Dave's droll sense of humour. I've had the dry grins ever since the hydraulic teaspoon quip! I cannot see a mini or a micro excavator now without thinking of Demolition Dave!
Really enjoyed al the Garnite Road series watched most of them with my Grandson who likes them too. He loves to see the witness tubes go off he really likes it when you tape them to a stick so he can see them. Thank you for a good lot of bangs!!! Makes Grandpa’s day go a lot smoother!!!
Thanks James, you might enjoy these similar videos about another rocky housing estate development project - ua-cam.com/video/HC-MGK2JqOQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/hXl8DM1jjhE/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/-oIPRI7I3xg/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/0oyX5MUh1bg/v-deo.html
Good Morning Dave, You used every tool in your "toolbox" on this job. Hydraulic, expanding goo, AND boomers. Great results on every one! It was nice to see the BIG equipment came in to help - speed things up a bit. Got a good laugh when that heavy-duty trench safety device jumped in the air with the blast. Take Care, stay safe! Jim
A new challenge for blasters: "Flipping the bucket." One point for every foot in height, 1 point for every foot away from original location, 100 points for landing the bucket on it's bottom. 25 points if it lands on it's side and stands up. I reckon you got about 75 points on that shot.
Love those hydraulic units... basically, the force achievable with ''the wedge'' principle is staggering. That excavator bucket needed a thumb ideally. More nice work Dave, including the trenching. One of those last series with super deep holes looked as tho there was some ANFO, judging by color of the fumes. Time soon for a feature length movie - "Rocky, the Granite King" :)
Oh... the fumes... there was some wet holes and the ANFO was in 2 inch lay flat plastic sleeves, one of then must have been compromised by a sharp edge when going down the hole.
Thank God you got so many videos out I haven't seen the relatives are over and I'm hiding in the garage now I got something to do that they can't help me with I am watching demolition Dave
Thank you Dave. You judge the amounts to use perfectly. I had never seen Kobelco equipment before. Kubota Caterpiller and John Deere are mostly used here in Canada.
Kobelco is pretty common in the States here, generally for medium to large excavators. Often on the harsh applications where the machine gets beat up quickly and so you want something cheaper than a Cat but better than a Deere... Smirk
@@davidmunro1469 Not to mention the absolute shit fight farmers have to go through to diagnose a problem and the right to self repair their own machine.
Dave you really cracked some rocks up there mate. I wish I was living in Australia, it would make my year to work alongside you. Take care and stay safe 👍👍👍👍👍
the hardest thing i deal with when rockhounding is digging for amethyst crystals in aplitic pemagtites. When you reach the quartz core, just a big solid massive piece of quartz, its just a real pain to break through. dulls bits so fast.
So I just got done drilling through quartz at a quarry this past week and went through six semi ballistic 3.5 inch bits. I was told yesterday next time I'm there to try a flat head bit that has two giant holes in the center. My only concern is if I hit a seam I'll get plugged up easily. Not sure if you guys have access to the "flat head" bits and probably won't help the speed of the drilling but hopefully makes the bit last longer. Six bits for 2,000 drill feet gets expensive.
The hydraulic splitter is impressive. I worked a 200 ton psi turner press for ten years putting patterns in leather. Twenty inch rams can blow a press to pieces I have seen that happen.
General contractor: “We need to call the blaster because we can’t move these boulders” Also the general contractor: “Don’t blast these rocks” 🎩 Hats off to you mate, for doing such a tough job.
That was one of the toughest job sites I have seen you work. You should be able to retire after completing this job. Nothing was easy, nothing spectacular, just hard grunt work. Take care, be safe. Cheers.
Hi Dave, at 17:30 it appeared the drill was turning anti-clockwise, it may have been a trick of the video process. Do the drills turn anti-clockwise, and do all drills turn that way?
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast I would suspect that if you cleaned them up really nice, maybe hand ground off the pointy stuff, and took it to a local machine shop, they could surface grind it pretty easily. It would depend on how proud they were of their work if it would be a reasonable cost lol
Dave, love your videos. You know UA-cam is not promoting your videos. Happy to see 2 recently pop up In my feed. UA-cam sucks. Mirror your content elsewhere. Cheers
I have a new appreciation for you. It took me 2 12 hour days to hand drill 8 holes 2.5 inches in diameter 11 feet deep in granite. Just sat there for hours sitting on the drill like you do. Idk how you drill so quickly. Wrong diameter
@@TheMetsman41 idk. I'm a lineman, normally we have a drilling crew do it but it was an emergency and had to get done. It was a button head with carbide teeth, and you screwed the rods together to increase your length.
Right, I think I see your problem when I read - "you screwed the rods together to increase your length" these are whats called Rope thread drill rods, can't recommend them when using a hand drill because it can be very difficult to get the threads to tighten up and stay tight, recommended for a drill mounted on a mast with a chain feed. Also 2 1/5 inch with a hand drill is a shocker! most of my hand drilled holes are inch and a half (38mm) and 35mm, sometimes 32 mm for very short ones. Did you really need holes that large??
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast usually we use a grasshopper drill to make our holes, but we didn't have one at the time and had to make it work. And it was for rock anchors for the conductor on a transmission line. So we put a metal rod in it and then grouted around it. And it had to test to at least 42000 lbs of force. It's job was to hold the weight of the conductor along the entire run.
Not mine 42, I got this guy in because we had to get through >2 meters of soft wet ground before we hit the rock, we needed a large diameter hole and a lot of flushing air. In this location opening up the excavation by benching was not an option because of parallel services and all of the trees.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast Thought it was an expensive piece of kit to have when it's only rarely needed. The plastic tubing was to line the soft stuff down to the hole in the rock itself for insertion of the charge & stemming?
If you gave me that option, I would tell you that you could use the bangs if you let me watch the process and use the detonator, otherwise you can jackhammer for weeks and I will go on vacation! Bonus points if you skip the cover, I can replace windows easily enough ;)
They are a little bit faster if you have enough of them to cover the whole shot in one go. I have a heap of them but they are not often used these days and as a result I no longer spend my weekends fixing them and no longer have to take an extra load to the job because the soil is already there... and get a lot fewer noise complaints using soil cover.
I remember living in a Brisbane apartment and they were using machine hammers every day to dig out a foundation/underground parking for an apartment block across the road for 12 months. I wished/prayed for them to use explosives to clear it even if there was a danger of shfting other buildings.
All just to put a poo pipe in. I had to get 10 foot excavated for a poo pipe where I live , the ground was wet most of the way down they lowered a mini down the hole to dig the trench . luckily no blasting.
They really should take down those trees between that trench and the road. Given just how close that trench is, the root system has likely been seriously compromised. If they don't die outright, the likelihood that the wind will blow them over has seriously increased.
The joys of construction. How to add shit loads of dollars to your house build.buy a block that sits on a granite outcrop.😲.i can hear the back pocket screaming out in pain.
Dave, i don't get how the cracking goo works! it seems like with the hole open at the top it'd just squirt out the top and not break the rock up! and what kind of impatient moron starts laying pipe before the blasting is done?
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast still it seems with no resistance on top it would just expand upward even after it hardens, but it works that's all that matters! if just seems like it ought to be topped/tamped like a charge to hold the force in
You've gotta love Dave's droll sense of humour. I've had the dry grins ever since the hydraulic teaspoon quip! I cannot see a mini or a micro excavator now without thinking of Demolition Dave!
Really enjoyed al the Garnite Road series watched most of them with my Grandson who likes them too. He loves to see the witness tubes go off he really likes it when you tape them to a stick so he can see them. Thank you for a good lot of bangs!!! Makes Grandpa’s day go a lot smoother!!!
Thanks James, you might enjoy these similar videos about another rocky housing estate development project - ua-cam.com/video/HC-MGK2JqOQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/hXl8DM1jjhE/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/-oIPRI7I3xg/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/0oyX5MUh1bg/v-deo.html
When it comes to cracking rock, Dave's the man.
Good Morning Dave, You used every tool in your "toolbox" on this job. Hydraulic, expanding goo, AND boomers. Great results on every one! It was nice to see the BIG equipment came in to help - speed things up a bit. Got a good laugh when that heavy-duty trench safety device jumped in the air with the blast. Take Care, stay safe! Jim
I like the end page credit! Sweet. Hard Rock.... ACDC
The piece of music is actually - Remembering her face by Silent Partner - ua-cam.com/video/pgFIxHB4FpI/v-deo.html
Good morning Dave that is very big project. 👍👍
It was. Biggest job of the year.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating...and the proof of the shrapnelized granite is in the digging. Nicely done.
You got it.
Nice touch there with the flying bucket!
Thanks!
A new challenge for blasters: "Flipping the bucket." One point for every foot in height, 1 point for every foot away from original location, 100 points for landing the bucket on it's bottom. 25 points if it lands on it's side and stands up. I reckon you got about 75 points on that shot.
That was a bit of a surprise.
Love those hydraulic units... basically, the force achievable with ''the wedge'' principle is staggering. That excavator bucket needed a thumb ideally. More nice work Dave, including the trenching. One of those last series with super deep holes looked as tho there was some ANFO, judging by color of the fumes.
Time soon for a feature length movie - "Rocky, the Granite King" :)
Oh... the fumes... there was some wet holes and the ANFO was in 2 inch lay flat plastic sleeves, one of then must have been compromised by a sharp edge when going down the hole.
Thank God you got so many videos out I haven't seen the relatives are over and I'm hiding in the garage now I got something to do that they can't help me with I am watching demolition Dave
Top comment.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast not to my wife relative my wife was banging on the door what are you doing in there I acted like I was sleeping
Always a pleasure to watch these videos Dave
Thanks Frank.
Sure is some rocky content you put out Dave lol.
Good to see you are staying busy making little rocks out of big ones.
2021 we've seen more rocks Fly & bite the dust with Dave & crew the Slowmo's are cool when the rocks fly
Take care may 2022 be a good year
Thank you Dave. You judge the amounts to use perfectly. I had never seen Kobelco equipment before. Kubota Caterpiller and John Deere are mostly used here in Canada.
Oh... Kobelco is HUGE here, Japaneses made.
Kobelco is pretty common in the States here, generally for medium to large excavators. Often on the harsh applications where the machine gets beat up quickly and so you want something cheaper than a Cat but better than a Deere... Smirk
@@ke6gwf Yes JD is expensive complicated and not user friendly . The computers are a virus creating hidden repair costs.
@@davidmunro1469 Not to mention the absolute shit fight farmers have to go through to diagnose a problem and the right to self repair their own machine.
Thanks Dave. That goo sure works good. When I see goo on boulders I think Australia has large sea gulls. LOL
Somebody said it is "Snail Dynamite"
Always enjoyable to watch! 👍
Thanks for the visit GJ.
Well done.
No bangs but still got it all split.
looking. good, nice job. keep safe...
Thanks, will do!
oh yeah! another video!
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast
Hi and thanks for the new episode. 😎💥
I wonder wath will hapen if you load to litle to crack the rock..?
@@janne65olsson If the load is too small to break the rock it all just shoots out the top of the hole.
Nice job Dave
Thanks Andy.
i will never get tied of watching your vids dave, what a shame about those 3 big peaces ,they wouldve looked nice in my backyard ,3 flat peaces .
I'll post them to you Paul.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast hahaha ,good onya mate
13:50 i 😂😂😂 when i saw the cap flying off of the pipe , great video Dave .. Greetings from USA
Yeah, I knew the pipe was done when I saw that.
Dave you really cracked some rocks up there mate. I wish I was living in Australia, it would make my year to work alongside you. Take care and stay safe 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Lee, your welcome to drill some holes for me.
G'day Dave great video mate
Glad you enjoyed it Murphy.
MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼
I don't know what a good Friday after work is for you but you surely earned it after a week like that.
Afew beers is good on a Friday Jim.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast Fair enough, we're halfway to Friday already.
Nothing like blowing things up on a Wednesday LOL
the hardest thing i deal with when rockhounding is digging for amethyst crystals in aplitic pemagtites. When you reach the quartz core, just a big solid massive piece of quartz, its just a real pain to break through. dulls bits so fast.
For sure, does not get much harder than quartz.
So I just got done drilling through quartz at a quarry this past week and went through six semi ballistic 3.5 inch bits. I was told yesterday next time I'm there to try a flat head bit that has two giant holes in the center. My only concern is if I hit a seam I'll get plugged up easily. Not sure if you guys have access to the "flat head" bits and probably won't help the speed of the drilling but hopefully makes the bit last longer. Six bits for 2,000 drill feet gets expensive.
The hydraulic splitter is impressive. I worked a 200 ton psi turner press for ten years putting patterns in leather. Twenty inch rams can blow a press to pieces I have seen that happen.
I make sure that I don't stand near this thing ore the hoses any more than I have to when it is building pressure David More than 8000 PSI.
"shrapnelized" I learn new words everyday!
That would make Dave a Shrapnelizer
Dave did you purchase that T35 rock drill nice machine.
No, not mine Bob.
General contractor: “We need to call the blaster because we can’t move these boulders”
Also the general contractor: “Don’t blast these rocks”
🎩 Hats off to you mate, for doing such a tough job.
That was one of the toughest job sites I have seen you work. You should be able to retire after completing this job. Nothing was easy, nothing spectacular, just hard grunt work. Take care, be safe. Cheers.
It was challenging at times, we have had so much rain this year.
Dave, Have you taken dirt and rock samples to see how much gold is in the ground?
No gold in these parts NM, but more than a bit where the most recent video was made.
Hi Dave, at 17:30 it appeared the drill was turning anti-clockwise, it may have been a trick of the video process. Do the drills turn anti-clockwise, and do all drills turn that way?
All rock drills turn anticlockwise TTK, why??? good question.
Would it be possible to have the plugs & feathers machined or ground to remove the scoring, or are replacements less expensive?
I have been thinking just that 42, the replacements are reasonably priced unlike the German unit that this one is a copy of ($2500).
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast I would suspect that if you cleaned them up really nice, maybe hand ground off the pointy stuff, and took it to a local machine shop, they could surface grind it pretty easily.
It would depend on how proud they were of their work if it would be a reasonable cost lol
Dave, love your videos. You know UA-cam is not promoting your videos. Happy to see 2 recently pop up In my feed. UA-cam sucks. Mirror your content elsewhere. Cheers
Thanks Reese, I think I will.
Okay, okay, didn't know Dave is part of AUS space program at 14:00 minute mark. 🤣
Tricky Job all the way tho.
Have actually fooled around a bit with rockets - ua-cam.com/video/PjGN6OSCBKE/v-deo.html
I have a new appreciation for you. It took me 2 12 hour days to hand drill 8 holes 2.5 inches in diameter 11 feet deep in granite. Just sat there for hours sitting on the drill like you do. Idk how you drill so quickly.
Wrong diameter
his holes often seem more like 1 to 2.5 inch bits, which goes a bit quicker then 5 lol. was your bit sharp enough to drill effeciently?
@@TheMetsman41 idk. I'm a lineman, normally we have a drilling crew do it but it was an emergency and had to get done. It was a button head with carbide teeth, and you screwed the rods together to increase your length.
@@TheMetsman41 and I'm sorry I was just looking at that and it's supposed to be 2.5 inches not 5. I don't think you can hand drill 5 inches.
Right, I think I see your problem when I read - "you screwed the rods together to increase your length" these are whats called Rope thread drill rods, can't recommend them when using a hand drill because it can be very difficult to get the threads to tighten up and stay tight, recommended for a drill mounted on a mast with a chain feed. Also 2 1/5 inch with a hand drill is a shocker! most of my hand drilled holes are inch and a half (38mm) and 35mm, sometimes 32 mm for very short ones. Did you really need holes that large??
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast usually we use a grasshopper drill to make our holes, but we didn't have one at the time and had to make it work. And it was for rock anchors for the conductor on a transmission line. So we put a metal rod in it and then grouted around it. And it had to test to at least 42000 lbs of force. It's job was to hold the weight of the conductor along the entire run.
T40 Smart Rock big boy drill
T35 it was, worked well.
💪
Did you hire the Atlas or is it something you have yourself for when deep drilling's on the cards?
Not mine 42, I got this guy in because we had to get through >2 meters of soft wet ground before we hit the rock, we needed a large diameter hole and a lot of flushing air. In this location opening up the excavation by benching was not an option because of parallel services and all of the trees.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast
Thought it was an expensive piece of kit to have when it's only rarely needed.
The plastic tubing was to line the soft stuff down to the hole in the rock itself for insertion of the charge & stemming?
I just used the Orange conduits to prevent any stuff falling in and blocking the holes.
If my house was that close to a construction site with rock I’d much rather have them blast then listen to a jackhammer for days on end.
That is exactly the line of reasoning that I used with the lady - a second of rumble and a bit of a jolt or a weeks bang, bang, bang.
If you gave me that option, I would tell you that you could use the bangs if you let me watch the process and use the detonator, otherwise you can jackhammer for weeks and I will go on vacation!
Bonus points if you skip the cover, I can replace windows easily enough ;)
@@ke6gwf Dave doesn't need any problems with his insurer or anyone else's for that matter.
@@markfryer9880 party pooper!
you should grease the spring and feather with gaphite grease , wipe off excess
I have had lots of advice on this topic, much of it differing Priz. I have just purchased the Darda White grease.
do you ever use cover matts instead of dirt. Don't know what they cost, but seems like they'd be faster
They are a little bit faster if you have enough of them to cover the whole shot in one go. I have a heap of them but they are not often used these days and as a result I no longer spend my weekends fixing them and no longer have to take an extra load to the job because the soil is already there... and get a lot fewer noise complaints using soil cover.
I remember living in a Brisbane apartment and they were using machine hammers every day to dig out a foundation/underground parking for an apartment block across the road for 12 months. I wished/prayed for them to use explosives to clear it even if there was a danger of shfting other buildings.
This kind of thing happens way to often, there are also other faster ways forward that do not include explosives.
All just to put a poo pipe in. I had to get 10 foot excavated for a poo pipe where I live , the ground was wet most of the way down they lowered a mini down the hole to dig the trench . luckily no blasting.
Dave another great video .
The wife would like that rock @ 10:01 in the yard .
Think you could post it to me ?
ROTFLMAO !
It's "purchaser to remove"
246👍's up demolition Dave is up early in the morning sending rocks wherever they may land
I thought I seen the bucket hit the pipe and break it up at the bottom Dave I don't believe it was you
@@bigredracer7848 I expected that It would be broken worse than it was BRR.
Gold
Plenty more on this channel Brian.
Part 2 seem to be popular - ua-cam.com/video/2gLPc3SH4Gc/v-deo.html
Its gonna yield shortly. Wish my kids would
he needs a new bit on that hammer, im surprised it got through that rock...
It is a bit second hand, but it's a big hammer.
They really should take down those trees between that trench and the road. Given just how close that trench is, the root system has likely been seriously compromised. If they don't die outright, the likelihood that the wind will blow them over has seriously increased.
There are to be removed.
Good Old Dexpan for expansive agent
It was Expando in this case - similar stuff.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast Dexpan does not work in freezing weather where the rock is at a frozen temp, don't ask me how I know.
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Man, if you added a bit more ANFO, you could compete with Elon Musk for space launches!
Dave the Shrapnelizer strikes again!
It was funny watching the top of the pipe shoot up into the air
I knew the pipe was done when I saw that.
The joys of construction. How to add shit loads of dollars to your house build.buy a block that sits on a granite outcrop.😲.i can hear the back pocket screaming out in pain.
Oh yeah.
It is terrible that the excavator operator has to pay for the cover material.
He did not really have to pay for it, he just rolled his eyes when I asked for it before the rubbish went on top.
Dave, i don't get how the cracking goo works! it seems like with the hole open at the top it'd just squirt out the top and not break the rock up! and what kind of impatient moron starts laying pipe before the blasting is done?
OK... the goo hardens and then expands.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast still it seems with no resistance on top it would just expand upward even after it hardens, but it works that's all that matters! if just seems like it ought to be topped/tamped like a charge to hold the force in