This is probably the best factory tour I have seen. When workers take their work seriously and are proud on what they do, this is how the quality is really produced. Thanks Adam sharing this with us.
Awesome tour, lots of different technologies, and it's always a treat to see some of the older automated machines doing what they do. I found that point grinding machine in particular to be very clever. Real slick the way this stuff was engineered.
Thank you Adam and Abby for making and sharing this video with us, I really enjoyed watching how the drills, taps and mill cutters are made plus the coatings. Very interesting ! ! !
Hi Adam, thank you so much for producing this video. For someone who doesn’t already know all that goes into making these tools it is very helpful to be able to see how much equipment and labor go into each tool. Now when I buy one of their tools I’ll have a much better appreciation of what it takes to get it in my shop. Thanks again.
Hey Adam, thank you so much for making this amazing documentation. Knowing how these tools are ground in theory and actually seeing the machines at work making them are two entirely different things.
Great tour Adam, great video. Thanks Greenfield for allowing Abbey and Adam tour and video your plant it was very interesting. I've used a lot of Greenfield taps over the years. Thanks for sharing.
I worked for Lavallee & Ide in the late 70s flute grinding reamers and making expansion reamer bodies. Some similar operations here. Good to see USA made on this type of tooling. Greenfield quality has always been very good.
Hey thanks for sharing this with us Adam and Abbey , really enjoyed the tour . Great to see a little bit of how these precision tools are made . Good to see that there’s workers taking good pride in their job . Glad that Quality tools are still being made - I have plenty of Greenfield taps and dies , beautiful tools that last ! From my experience cheap drills just don’t work well in serious work , ( might be okay for the home handyman ) Thank you very much From New Zealand 🇳🇿 👍
So cool to see the mix of new tech, old tech & stuff that real people just do better than any machine. Awesome tour !!! Thanks to Adam & all the Greenfield people who made this happen.
That roller door opening is a real, wow! Im fascinated by the chuck on that pointing grinder, never seen that before. Really enjoyed that tour thank you
I am a rhode island guy, retired after 50 plus years making chips. While working in Mass many years ago, just by chance I drove by a Greenfield shop. the next day an old timer who had worked there told me they made tons of taps and chasers including thousands of the tools we had on hand in the shop. The name GREENFIELD marked on a tap saved me hours of troubleshooting time. Whatever the trouble, it NEVER was a poorly made tool!
Great plant tour Adam and Abby! Thanks for the Greenfield folks for having you in for a visit and video tour. You always talk reverently about Greenfield, especially your coveted Greenfield Tap Handles. Good to see some real American cutters getting made by Americans. The bled of old school and the modern machinery nice to see. You gotta love those old Iron single purpose machines, they are just so cool the way they handle parts and run not for years but just keep cranking out parts for Decades with proper maintenance and an appropriate overhaul now and then. Great Stuff! Right up there with Shaper Porn in terms of a satisfying viewing experience but more interesting.
The base material and geometry recipe for CL drills, make for an ideal drill in "hard use" applications. Great selection! We are very proud of the legacy behind Chicago Latrobe. "Hobby guys" like yourself have been relying on CL for a long long time. We love to be a part of that!
That hazy air sure brings back memories. I spent 7 years working for New York Twist Drill in the 80s. Lots of grinding with oil kicking off a nice mist and lots of stinky smoke.
@@tomrogers9467 a lot of people got a lot diseases where I worked. The smoke settles up in the roof beams and coagulated back to oil and drips on your head. Not too mention the floor gets really slippery. I don't miss that environment.
My first disclaimer is I am certainly not a machinist or even mechanic, but a general homeowner and hobbyist that only maintains and repairs my personal items. My family bloodline had the machinist and mechanical qualities. Excellent and impressive tour of Greenfield Industries. I have never seen this process before. I have an old tap and die set of my grandfathers that I still use from time to time. (I am 71 years old) Still excellent quality tooling. And it's housed in the old and worn original wooden box with the original logo/label on the top. I had to go to my shop to look at it again. It is a Little Giant tap and die set made by Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation in Greenfield Mass. Their website said Greenfield originated in Ohio in the late 1800''s and future acquisitions made changes in location. I didn't see anything connected to Greenfield Mass. Did you get any history during the tour? Same company, but only moved operations? Really curious. Thanks.
Great video! Always wondered how these were made. I worked in a big steel stamping shop in Ohio in the late 1980s, then a Mom & Pop sheet metal fabrication shop in Michigan, then (my favorite) I ran two CNCs in Colorado making knife-edge seals for clean rooms. Now, after an enlistment in the USMC, I manage environmental consultants in California, and I like it. But I sure miss the people in those shops, the smell of oil, the sounds, the quality control, and and the satisfaction of making physical things that keep the world running. I salute you and all the men and women at Greenfield.
Thank you so much for your kind words! We are proud of what we do, and the people we get to do it with. We are also amazed with what folks can do with our tools. Semper Fi to you!
Very well organised operation . Very interesting to watch . As a retired machinist i appreciate the hard work and production techniques as advertised . Thank you very much Adam,and Greenfield Industries ,for the easy to understand advice . On what is, a complicated process . 👍👍😢
Adam, please never stop tryying to get these amazing manufacturing videos. I absolutely love them, and they are full of priceless old machines that people may never have an opportunity to see like that again. Great video man!
Adam and Ammie, sure glad you shared this visit with us, I have always been curious and interested in drill and mill making, my father worked for Morse Twist Drill in New Bedford, Massachusetts before WWII......and Cleveland Twist Drill is my favorite brand.......
❤ I would have loved to see the processes of making a 2 inch drill from a blank piece of tool steel. Just to see the 60 year old machines doing their work. Some industries are still using 100+ year old machines as the backbone machines for manufacturing tools. Enjoyed watching the process of "American Made" but I think the company is owned by another country. Don't know if it China or another country. I enjoyed watching the tour.
Interesting insights to a cool company! Thanks for the tour! Although I kind of wonder about the air quality in there. I mean that must be tough on the staff in there...
I'm surprised to see #80 (and their ever so tiny cousins) are actually manufactured! I thought they just hired a bunch of magicians to make those things! 🤫 I know there is no trick to breaking those size bits, all I have to do is think about using one and it breaks!! 😱😳🤭🤣
Hey! Im one of the workers at this exact plant!! Very nice video you made here! It was an absolute pleasure having you visit our plant!
What an incredible visit and amazing video! It was an honor to have you at HQ. Come back anytime :)
This is probably the best factory tour I have seen. When workers take their work seriously and are proud on what they do, this is how the quality is really produced. Thanks Adam sharing this with us.
Adam, thank you for that tour. Greenfield Industries, thank you for allowing Adam to take us on a tour vicariously.
This is some cool stuff. We take for granted that we can just hop on the internet and buy these extremely high-tech tools for the shop.
Great video! Thanks for taking us on the tour! 🤓
Always a joy to get a video off you about how specific items of your tooling is made!
Great to witness all the Australian Made Anca Grinders in action.
Nice to see 'Made in America'.
Awesome tour, lots of different technologies, and it's always a treat to see some of the older automated machines doing what they do.
I found that point grinding machine in particular to be very clever. Real slick the way this stuff was engineered.
Adam I thoroughly enjoyed this video ! I have used Greenfield and Cleaveland bits for over 40 years they are the best !
Great to hear!
Thank you Adam and Abby for making and sharing this video with us, I really enjoyed watching how the drills, taps and mill cutters are made plus the coatings. Very interesting ! ! !
Hi Adam, thank you so much for producing this video. For someone who doesn’t already know all that goes into making these tools it is very helpful to be able to see how much equipment and labor go into each tool. Now when I buy one of their tools I’ll have a much better appreciation of what it takes to get it in my shop. Thanks again.
Greenfield some of the best I've ever used in the Machining world durable with a lifetime's use if used correctly
Hey Adam, thank you so much for making this amazing documentation.
Knowing how these tools are ground in theory and actually seeing the machines at work making them are two entirely different things.
Glade to see that there is still some American industry to be proud of.
I'll never complain gain about the cost of a drill set... Great post!
45:20 I ground that shank and barrel. Great video! Thanks for coming out! 🫡👏👏
I may have been the person who ground the point on that drill. Thank you for visiting Greenfield Industries.
Super interesting video.
Thanks Greenfield and Abom.
I could spend a week in there soaking up how things are done.
very informative, Thank you. Of course you had your best video operator with you, well done Abby
I appreciate the shout out! 😉-Abby
Great tour Adam, great video.
Thanks Greenfield for allowing Abbey and Adam tour and video your plant it was very interesting. I've used a lot of Greenfield taps over the years.
Thanks for sharing.
It was our privilege! Amazing folks to hang with.
Great tour, Adam! Thanks for taking us along.
That was interesting, I was amazed at how many variations of cool were used, I did try to count them but my cool counter broke down.
David
Thank you Greenfield Industries!
I always wondered when they were heat retreated and when the flutes went on.
What an amazing operation!
I worked for Lavallee & Ide in the late 70s flute grinding reamers and making expansion reamer bodies. Some similar operations here. Good to see USA made on this type of tooling. Greenfield quality has always been very good.
Hey thanks for sharing this with us Adam and Abbey , really enjoyed the tour . Great to see a little bit of how these precision tools are made . Good to see that there’s workers taking good pride in their job . Glad that Quality tools are still being made - I have plenty of Greenfield taps and dies , beautiful tools that last !
From my experience cheap drills just don’t work well in serious work , ( might be okay for the home handyman )
Thank you very much From New Zealand 🇳🇿 👍
We agree Joe! Long live quality cutting tools, and the proud teams who produce them.
Yea American Made + Both the tools and you! Well done! thank you and them
So cool to see the mix of new tech, old tech & stuff that real people just do better than any machine. Awesome tour !!! Thanks to Adam & all the Greenfield people who made this happen.
Awesome, Adam. I really love all these tours you do of tool manufacturing facilities. Really awesome stuff man, thanks for what you do brother. :)
Most excellent. I really enjoyed seeing how cutting tools are made in this day and age.
That roller door opening is a real, wow! Im fascinated by the chuck on that pointing grinder, never seen that before. Really enjoyed that tour thank you
I am a rhode island guy, retired after 50 plus years making chips. While working in Mass many years ago, just by chance I drove by a Greenfield shop. the next day an old timer who had worked there told me they made tons of taps and chasers including thousands of the tools we had on hand in the shop. The name GREENFIELD marked on a tap saved me hours of troubleshooting time. Whatever the trouble, it NEVER was a poorly made tool!
That looks like top quality drill bits ! 👍
Enjoyed thanks for sharing
cool video man!! what an impressive facility
Great plant tour Adam and Abby! Thanks for the Greenfield folks for having you in for a visit and video tour. You always talk reverently about Greenfield, especially your coveted Greenfield Tap Handles. Good to see some real American cutters getting made by Americans. The bled of old school and the modern machinery nice to see. You gotta love those old Iron single purpose machines, they are just so cool the way they handle parts and run not for years but just keep cranking out parts for Decades with proper maintenance and an appropriate overhaul now and then. Great Stuff! Right up there with Shaper Porn in terms of a satisfying viewing experience but more interesting.
Really enjoyed the tour, just as I did for the Starrett one--many thanks!
Fantastic. As a hobby guy I've made many of my tooling purchases based on info I glean from your vids. Chicago Latrobe are my favorite drills.
The base material and geometry recipe for CL drills, make for an ideal drill in "hard use" applications. Great selection! We are very proud of the legacy behind Chicago Latrobe. "Hobby guys" like yourself have been relying on CL for a long long time. We love to be a part of that!
You do this work down to the atoms❤
now THAT was interesting
That hazy air sure brings back memories. I spent 7 years working for New York Twist Drill in the 80s. Lots of grinding with oil kicking off a nice mist and lots of stinky smoke.
That can’t be good for,the worker’s lungs. Oil in your lungs will block the exchange of gasses between the lung tissue and the air.
@@tomrogers9467 a lot of people got a lot diseases where I worked. The smoke settles up in the roof beams and coagulated back to oil and drips on your head. Not too mention the floor gets really slippery. I don't miss that environment.
My first disclaimer is I am certainly not a machinist or even mechanic, but a general homeowner and hobbyist that only maintains and repairs my personal items. My family bloodline had the machinist and mechanical qualities.
Excellent and impressive tour of Greenfield Industries. I have never seen this process before. I have an old tap and die set of my grandfathers that I still use from time to time. (I am 71 years old) Still excellent quality tooling. And it's housed in the old and worn original wooden box with the original logo/label on the top. I had to go to my shop to look at it again. It is a Little Giant tap and die set made by Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation in Greenfield Mass. Their website said Greenfield originated in Ohio in the late 1800''s and future acquisitions made changes in location. I didn't see anything connected to Greenfield Mass. Did you get any history during the tour? Same company, but only moved operations? Really curious. Thanks.
Great video! Always wondered how these were made. I worked in a big steel stamping shop in Ohio in the late 1980s, then a Mom & Pop sheet metal fabrication shop in Michigan, then (my favorite) I ran two CNCs in Colorado making knife-edge seals for clean rooms. Now, after an enlistment in the USMC, I manage environmental consultants in California, and I like it. But I sure miss the people in those shops, the smell of oil, the sounds, the quality control, and and the satisfaction of making physical things that keep the world running. I salute you and all the men and women at Greenfield.
Thank you so much for your kind words! We are proud of what we do, and the people we get to do it with. We are also amazed with what folks can do with our tools. Semper Fi to you!
Nice to see the tools we use how they are created
Awesome, nice to see some quality manufacturing
The best tools are made in USA! Thanks Adam.
🙌🙌🙌
@@GFIICuttingTools Are the blanks made in the USA? Considering their critical role in the manufacturing process, the supplier deserves a mention.
Amazing and most interesting on how taps and dies and drills are actually made! Hope you got some freebies out of that tour! :)
Neat-o Adam and Abby! Thanks for the tour!
Great one, Adam!
one of your best tour...
Excellent video,Adam.Thank you.
Awesome tour. Awesome American workers
speaking country is a real skill
Great Tour; Great People ! Made in USA / America First ! ..... for 150 years !
Excellent stuff. It's really good to see how these tools are made.
Very insightful video.
Thank you for sharing
That's a operation there thanks 4 tour adam
FANTASTIC!
Great video!!
Thank you so much! Great tour, excellent camera/editing work. Made for a very interesting and enjoyable Saturday afternoon.
I love greenfield tooling
🙏🙏🙏
7:30 Abom with the Abang's u love to see it, cheers Adam!
Fascinating. Great job guys. Thank you 😊
awesome stuff! Hope to do some factory tours too sometime
This is so cool 😎
I have tons of old Cleaveland Twist Drill bits. my favorites. also have 2 of their old cast bronze drill bit holders.
Awesome vid!! Loved hearing a robot can't compare the human touch!
Adam, thank you for the tour. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Very well organised operation .
Very interesting to watch .
As a retired machinist i appreciate the hard work and production techniques as advertised .
Thank you very much Adam,and Greenfield Industries ,for the easy to understand advice .
On what is, a complicated process .
👍👍😢
I see the CleLine drills at HD or Lowe's and so happy to see American made bits at a big box store. Maybe they will add the threading tools
Nice tour 👍
Thank you for another Great video. Cheers
One of these days I'm going to get around to knocking out some custom end mills. Yep, I'm here for insight. 😁
Great video, thanks.
That must be such an amazing smelling place. ❤
It was!
Wow. That is a cool tour. Impressive.
Adam, please never stop tryying to get these amazing manufacturing videos. I absolutely love them, and they are full of priceless old machines that people may never have an opportunity to see like that again. Great video man!
Thanks, will do!
That was very cool.
Adam, you ever make one of those old school diamond shaped drill index holders ill buy one. Take my money
That ships wheel arbor press was cool. I have had excellent luck with Greenfield stuff.
Such an amazing video tour!!! These are the things that you might only get to see once in a lifetime. Thank you for bringing us along.
this was nice, thanks :)
Super great video! Those drills and taps are keeping the country moving - salute to all the blue collar workers! Go USA!
Drill in the sky.... keep on turning! 🙏
Quite a few Australian made Anca grinders.
I have an Australian made CNC Lathe that has an ANCA control on it. Odd thing is, the servo motors and some of the electronics are made in the U.S.A.
looks like a cool place to work, I would do it.
Thank you. Very cool tour, a History Channel idea.. but much betterer.. 😁
Thank you Adam!
All very clever but who designed and made the machines to make the tools,some clever people about. 🇬🇧
Adam and Ammie, sure glad you shared this visit with us, I have always been curious and
interested in drill and mill making, my father worked for Morse Twist Drill in New Bedford, Massachusetts
before WWII......and Cleveland Twist Drill is my favorite brand.......
Back when NB had factories, the good ol days...
thats amazing great stuff,your time spending its super useful,keep that energy (Y)
❤ I would have loved to see the processes of making a 2 inch drill from a blank piece of tool steel. Just to see the 60 year old machines doing their work.
Some industries are still using 100+ year old machines as the backbone machines for manufacturing tools.
Enjoyed watching the process of "American Made" but I think the company is owned by another country. Don't know if it China or another country.
I enjoyed watching the tour.
Looks like it is owned by Dalian Far East tools a Chinese based company
@@woodymd1 Thanks for the information. I thought it was China but wasn't for sure.
Really was hoping to see some Morse taper drills being made. Might have been easier to see what was being done on larger sizes.
Proudly owned by Walter Surface Technologies!
Super treabă ❤
I love how the techs running the machine talks about their specific machines process
That’s always our favorite too!
Interesting insights to a cool company! Thanks for the tour!
Although I kind of wonder about the air quality in there. I mean that must be tough on the staff in there...
It's not bad at all to be honest, they do a pretty decent job keeping it ventilated and cool.
Cool video!
Great time
I can smell that grinding floor even through TH-cam.
I'm surprised to see #80 (and their ever so tiny cousins) are actually manufactured! I thought they just hired a bunch of magicians to make those things! 🤫 I know there is no trick to breaking those size bits, all I have to do is think about using one and it breaks!! 😱😳🤭🤣
Just brilliant