Glad you enjoyed it 55, I had to be a bit conservative with this one to make sure most of the rock was left on the road as they want to use it for erosion control works near by.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast Could you not have directed it to land exactly in the erosion control location Dave? I'm sure they'd have paid you a bonus for doing that. 😉
It never ceases to amaze me how it's a mere nanosecond from the time you stomp the control til the blast happens! And all the different camera angles are really fun to watch!
Dave. Sir, You are a Master at your craft. I've been hooked on big bangs since way back in "1974". When I helped my best friend and his Aussie step dad. Lay and set off 150m of high drive to make a ditch just outside of Alexandra. In Central Otago, NZ. Thank you for your great content
👍👍👍 .. impressive! Listening to the ripping sound of those dets zipping off .. takes me back to my past career in the South African Gold Mining Industry.
3:10 is that a vacuum system on the drill that’s pulling out the cuttings? Do you collect the cuttings? Are they large enough to use for hole stemming?
The cuttings are pushed out of the hole by the flushing air that travels down the hole in the middle of the drill rod, when they reach the top of the hole the vac system sucks them up. The big bits land in the blue cyclone separator and the very fines in the plastic bag on the bottom of the vac. If you were to sieve the contents of the separator there would be some pieces big enough to use as stemming. Nasty stuff to handle though, best left alone.
The Blues Brothers, famous line spoken by Elwood. I see that you are a man of fine taste in movies. It was good to see you back out in the bush doing what Dave does best, blowing up big rocks...raw. This was a true Thanksgiving Holiday treat. Thank you, thank you. I wish you and your family a blessed Thanksgiving and may your path be smooth and level in the coming year. Cheers.
MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼……………………………….Your opening was HILARIOUS , LOL, one of my favorite movies. AND uncovered blasting with rocks FLYING, ANOTHER one of my favorite things!!!
That’s what we like to see! That was a nice one, Dave. Love the shadows, Beautiful shot of the delays at 8:35.. THAT ROCK IS WHAT PUTIN DREAMS ABOUT AT 7:57 IN Slo-MO ON TH-cam's 0.25 SLO-SPEED. ONE DAY THAT ROCK WILL BE PUTIN, NOT A THREAT, BUT KARMIC TRUTH.
Hi Dave, Awesome video! Uncovered blasts are the best! Beautiful scenery. Hopefully some of those trees will start to regrow soon. Mother Nature is a tough cookie - she'll make it right! Take Care! Stay safe. Jim
ANYONE with the knowledge can drill & blast, but the videography is absolutely spectacular, it makes the whole process come alive. You guys rock the break!
Spectacular... not sure about that, it is 100% unscripted, single take, on the fly stuff. I have put a lot of effort into the slo-mo bit getting the audio right was a bit of a challenge. Thanks for watching.
Truly, the sheer moving power and overall efficiency of modern explosives is not to be underestimated. With a few pounds of high grade modern explosives, literally days of bulldozing and big shovel work is avoided. You guys are really top notch pro at your job.
Hiya Dave, Great video, thank you so much. Hurrah for the Red, White and Blew!!! I really love the country road blasts where you don't have to cover up the site but can let the fur fly where it will... Good to see you back in red overalls again, I've missed your signature colour. Wonderful blasts, thank you for the spectacle. Stay safe, Steve...
Gorgeous country. Any mountains here in California would be happy to have that much snow on them. The precision and force of the charges you set never fails to amaze. It's as if a giant sleeping underground suddenly woke and kicked upward with all his strength. Stay well, Dave.
Mr D -6-1/2 hour drive to turn rocks into pebbles - and film it for us - you certainly graft hard for your beer tokens - much appreciated -please stay safe and well 👏♥️x
The first shot was very much as I expected, on the second I had up'd the hole diameter because this softer type of granite tends to soak up the blast energy, really thought that it would have been more violent.
Back in my younger days I got to play with a lot of tnt, c4 and 40lb shape charges in the army. It was always fun doing the set up then watching your moment of BOOM occur. Nice drone footage and nice slow mo work.
ELWOOD: This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect city police auction last spring. It's an old Mount Prospect police car! They were practically givin' 'em away. [Mt Prospect is a NW suburb of Chicago.] JAKE: Well, thank YOU pal! The day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car. [Fog horn] ELWOOD: You don't like it? JAKE: No, I don't like it. [Elwood jumps the drawbridge.] JAKE: This car's got a lot of pickup. ELWOOD: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant. It's got cop tires. Cop suspension. Cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. Whaddaya say? Is it the new Bluesmobile or what? [Jake lights cigarette and throws the lighter out the window.] JAKE: Fix the cigarette lighter. Elwood: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses." Jake: "Hit it."
Great work. The big chunk cartwheeling towards the camera was a great image. It's very sad to see those huge burnt areas. Too bad that young fuds with PHDs stopped the small seasonal burns the indigenous folk practised for millennia and now their idiocy is being exposed big time with infernos with huge fuel loads. Regards from Scotland.
Always great to see uncovered blasts - but wow, that was a long drive to get there! Sad to see all the effects of wild fires. VERY satisfying blasts Dave - and that last one from last camera angle - phew, the large chunk got awful close! Great job.
Self-extracting for the win! :) The few hundred metres of 'cable'(?) that goes from your foot to the shot zone, is the "consumed" on a shot, or can that bit be wound up and re-used?
This shot was fired with signal tube, also called shock tube, very safe and reliable but not reusable. But you can use it in a line trimmer and "101 other house hold uses".
Hi Dave, nice bangs there mate, , looks like middle of nowhere, is that a new track under construction ? . Good to see you again mate , thanks for the video, stay safe guys, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
NICE. You would always have to remember to have your vehicles parked on the homeward side of the blast site. Otherwise you will be there a lot longer than expected, moving all the broken rock.
When you have drilled the rock if you go all the way through! Do you have to partially plug the hole so the force doesn’t go down into the ground. Also do you stagger the blast or does it fire off all at once in the rock.
Yes, if you drill through and you don't want to waste all of your blast energy you would use some screened crushed rock stemming material to back fill the hole a little way before loading the charge. Best results are obtained when the holes are time spaced by a few milliseconds, this improves the fragmentation a lot and decreases the felt ground vibration.
In the 60s my father worked for a rd construction firm out of Mitcham Vic. working on the Donna Buang rd.I have no idea how much rock was bulldozed over the edge after each blast. The old man brought home some free floating boulders for the front yard. they still show up on the satellite view of the old place.
8 out of 10 on TC patented "that blowed up real good" scale. (And for those not in the know, one must use....uhh..special material and implosion, to break the 8 point barrier). Extra style points for the excellent shatter and throw, not to mention the bonus where you all but paved that forest road with the rubble. Loved those slo-mo shots - that last one, I though we were going to see a Go Pro getting knocked over, but that big chunk turned last minute. The ripping sound on that shot....oh yeah. Extra humor points for the wonderful intro homage to the Blues Brothers.
I know nothing about blasting but it's cool to watch. I also had a job that took me to remote places to do maintenance on Sodar units and meteorological towers. Some were near the peaks in the Rocky Mountains and others were in the middle of vastly huge Kansas crop fields! It was definitely a job that required a 4 wheel drive truck, because some of those old roads were almost vertical and lots of them forded creeks and small rivers.
BTW, I've often wondered what happens when you drill through the bottom of the rock. You mentioned drilling through to clay in the bottom of the rock. You said something about filling the bottom of the hole, I'm assuming to keep the explosive within the rock. What do you fill the bottom with? Does the filler keep the explosion from blowing out the bottom or the rock?
it may take a while but it'll grow back bush fires down there and forest fires here are nothing that's not supposed to happen here and there just part of nature's cycle!! looking at the road in you missed a couple spots that could have used some of your attention Dave!! 11 hours round trip driving not counting drilling and popping i guess you got home about 11;00 maybe midnight? shock tube with a toadstool or slammer as we call it on this one, can't say it's one of my favorites! there just something about slamming that plunger handle down or cranking the handle on a 10 cap hell box i can't resist!
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast It might make an interesting video to explain why and how time delay is used to achieve desired results when blasting. Thanks again for great videos. Jess
Glad you enjoyed it Bruce - the little DJI Osmo slo-mo cameras are a lot closer than they look, the extreme wide angle lens gives the illusion of greater distance.
If you ever get tired of wresting the Roo, try this; 2.5 meters of 15 mm good rope, and a 100 rope coupler. Slide coupler onto rope, Tie a loop on each end to go over handles. After a good collar, put foot in rope/coupler at comfortable height. Rope can be criss crossed over handle for varying height adjustment. After the good collar, just put as much weight as you want on drill via weight shift. As usual, make sure you have a clean surface so you don't slip. Good balance a must. Much less tiring than holding onto it, plus you won't develop carpal tunnel as fast.
What is the reason for the charges going off sequentially with a small delay in-between, as opposed to all at the same time? Does it just make less mess, or does it actually help break the rock better?
Good question Matt. The small delay in-between gives much better fragmentation for the same size hole spacing and charge mass, when all the holes fire together as when fired using det cord you get big blocky pieces. If the big rock with the deep holes was configured this way the yield would have had a lot of oversize and considering that they wanted to use some of the stone this method was not desirable. Thanks for watching.
Excellent, I have 4 gas powered rock drills. One that I purchased for the time that you need to drill a few holes and you can not get the compressor close and the other 3 because the were almost new in the boxes and so cheap that I could not resist. I should do a video about them some day. I have feather and wedges also Matt, love them, from tiny ones that go in a 14mm hole all the way up to hydraulic ones for 48mm hole.
The Blues Brothers reference at the beginning was cool. Great shots! Thank you.
Thanks for watching Brian.
I like the uncovered blasting in remote areas. The slo-mo shots of huge chunks of rock flying through the air is so impressive. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it 55, I had to be a bit conservative with this one to make sure most of the rock was left on the road as they want to use it for erosion control works near by.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast half of shot number 2 went down the sloop that should help right. L0l
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast Could you not have directed it to land exactly in the erosion control location Dave? I'm sure they'd have paid you a bonus for doing that. 😉
Loved the Blues Brothers reference at the beginning!! I guess you were on a mission from God!?!
And we're putting the band back together!
It never ceases to amaze me how it's a mere nanosecond from the time you stomp the control til the blast happens! And all the different camera angles are really fun to watch!
Dave, the shot of that one big chunk cartwheeling towards the camera and then peeling off just yards away....fantastic! Love the uncovered blasts!! 👍
Thanks for watching Pat.
"Hit it". Blues Brothers one of the all time best movies.
Excellent show and in the words of the late lamented Blaster Bates "Watch out for the Bits".
Yes... always watching out for the bits!
First 👍's up demolition Dave does it again thank you very much for sharing
Good work champ!
Gotta love any video that starts with a Blues Brothers reference.
Thanks for watching Ian, "We were on a mission from God".
Dave. Sir, You are a Master at your craft. I've been hooked on big bangs since way back in "1974". When I helped my best friend and his Aussie step dad. Lay and set off 150m of high drive to make a ditch just outside of Alexandra. In Central Otago, NZ. Thank you for your great content
Thanks for watching Ian, back in 1974 my young mind was thinking about this kind of stuff - I was only 9 back then.
That mushroom igniter is my Favorite. I don’t need it anymore I’m fully retired. Keep up the good work !
Thanks AP.
👍👍👍 .. impressive!
Listening to the ripping sound of those dets zipping off .. takes me back to my past career in the South African Gold Mining Industry.
Brrrrp.... Booom!
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast 👍Yep 😊.
3:10 is that a vacuum system on the drill that’s pulling out the cuttings? Do you collect the cuttings? Are they large enough to use for hole stemming?
The cuttings are pushed out of the hole by the flushing air that travels down the hole in the middle of the drill rod, when they reach the top of the hole the vac system sucks them up. The big bits land in the blue cyclone separator and the very fines in the plastic bag on the bottom of the vac. If you were to sieve the contents of the separator there would be some pieces big enough to use as stemming. Nasty stuff to handle though, best left alone.
A man after my own heart! Hit it Elroy!
GREAT intro !!! Thought I was on the wrong channel at first ... bit further to Chicago and all ... LOL
Lovely stuff - can't beat uncovered blasting for audiovisual effects.
Thanks Dave.
Nothing quite like it #42
Absolutely sorted those pesky rocks out ! Fantastic to watch an uncovered blast ! And the sound reverberating round the hills is awesome !
Glad you enjoyed it Dave.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast most definitely 👍 thanks
The Blues Brothers, famous line spoken by Elwood. I see that you are a man of fine taste in movies. It was good to see you back out in the bush doing what Dave does best, blowing up big rocks...raw. This was a true Thanksgiving Holiday treat. Thank you, thank you. I wish you and your family a blessed Thanksgiving and may your path be smooth and level in the coming year. Cheers.
Thanks #62, glad you enjoyed it. A smooth path would be great.
...fix the cigarette lighter.
You're on a mission from God!
Sunday afternoon, nice pot of tea, a couple of french fancies and Demolition Dave blowing stuff up, perfect. Thanks mate.
Sounds like you have it all sorted Coop Coop
MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼……………………………….Your opening was HILARIOUS , LOL, one of my favorite movies. AND uncovered blasting with rocks FLYING, ANOTHER one of my favorite things!!!
Glad you enjoyed it 77 - I was on a "mission from God".
Wife: Oooh, one of these without all the dirt on top! The slow mo shots are super satisfying. Thanks.
Glad you like you all like them.
Beauty shots. Very nice
Thanks Sam.
Loved it Dave i know how much you like the bush blast’s with no cover. That drone shot was the best Dave! Thanks again mate.
Thanks Kev, sadly there was no drone video for the second shot as the SD card was full.
Howdy Demolition Dave, another good video
Hey, thanks Tugboat. Lots more jobs on the radar... If it stops raining for long enough!
Doesn’t get much better than this.👍👍
LMAO Jake and Elwood Blues. One of the funniest and crazy movies ever made. Cheers!
Sure is Oso.
That’s what we like to see! That was a nice one, Dave. Love the shadows, Beautiful shot of the delays at 8:35.. THAT ROCK IS WHAT PUTIN DREAMS ABOUT AT 7:57 IN Slo-MO ON TH-cam's 0.25 SLO-SPEED. ONE DAY THAT ROCK WILL BE PUTIN, NOT A THREAT, BUT KARMIC TRUTH.
Great work and Awesome video. Top quality videos from multiple views. Keep up the great work.
Glad you enjoy it!
I got excited at the start when I saw it was a remote site perfect for uncovered blasting 👌. Great video Dave thanks for posting.
You and me both!
I got excited too and then when he said they had to add more bang because they went all the way through, that really got me excited
Hi Dave, Awesome video! Uncovered blasts are the best! Beautiful scenery. Hopefully some of those trees will start to regrow soon. Mother Nature is a tough cookie - she'll make it right! Take Care! Stay safe. Jim
It does grow back but there was a distinct lack of wild life on this job also, that was pretty sad.
ANYONE with the knowledge can drill & blast, but the videography is absolutely spectacular, it makes the whole process come alive. You guys rock the break!
Spectacular... not sure about that, it is 100% unscripted, single take, on the fly stuff. I have put a lot of effort into the slo-mo bit getting the audio right was a bit of a challenge. Thanks for watching.
Truly, the sheer moving power and overall efficiency of modern explosives is not to be underestimated. With a few pounds of high grade modern explosives, literally days of bulldozing and big shovel work is avoided. You guys are really top notch pro at your job.
Thanks for watching.
Hiya Dave,
Great video, thank you so much. Hurrah for the Red, White and Blew!!! I really love the country road blasts where you don't have to cover up the site but can let the fur fly where it will... Good to see you back in red overalls again, I've missed your signature colour. Wonderful blasts, thank you for the spectacle.
Stay safe, Steve...
Glad you enjoyed it Steven, I can see that I really need to find some more red overalls.
I always like your videos , they are usually a blast.
He he he...
LOOKIN' GOOD, NICE JOB, KEEP SAFE AND WELL..
Thanks, will do Bob.
Great fun as always!
Beautiful scenery too!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed it Paul.
That was a rock ballet, the slo-mo was great! That is very beautiful countryside, nice one dave.
Glad you enjoyed it #66
Nice! Thanks for bringing us along!
Any time Steve
Great Dave, hell of a long drive for you. Nice work!
Sure was a big drive.
As an unfortunate who is stuck using hand tools and jackhammers, watching Dave blast rock to kingdom come brings me a lot of joy!
You need to get yourself a rock drill and some plugs and feathers and some chemical cracking agent Boo
" Our lady of blessed fragmentation , don't fail me now" Always enjoy the uncovered blasts, lovely slow mo work as well. Cheers from the US.
"Our lady of blessed fragmentation" - Love it!
Wow! The last slo mo shot was awesome! Also loved the Blues Brothers opening!
Thanks Glenn, check in again soon.
always fun watching nice music selection
Thanks Ken, and thanks for watching.
Impressive skills at 11:53, getting that piece of rock to roll towards the camera to give a moment of jeopardy was excellent 😉
It was a bit close.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast just get a new braver 1 😜 in a steal box with padding crow yes 😊😁
Great and controlled blasting. Chapeau.
Thanks for watching, please like and subscribe.
Gorgeous country. Any mountains here in California would be happy to have that much snow on them.
The precision and force of the charges you set never fails to amaze. It's as if a giant sleeping underground suddenly woke and kicked upward with all his strength. Stay well, Dave.
Sounds great, we have got so much water everywhere here just at the moment.
Awesome work sir.
Your skill showed in the last blast when a chunk of rock landed just short of the camera.
Thanks 👍
I like how the rubble cleared itself down the slope. The rest are a lot more manageable. Nice 4723
I did! They wanted to rock for use just down the road a bit so good thing it did not all go over the edge.
Perfecct. Famous quote from the " Blues Brothers"........
- "We were on a mission from God"
Mr D -6-1/2 hour drive to turn rocks into pebbles - and film it for us - you certainly graft hard for your beer tokens - much appreciated -please stay safe and well 👏♥️x
Thanks MLE, it was a bit of an epic job.
Nice layout, well shot. I too was surprised there weren't more flyers. Cheers, Billy in B.C., Canada
The first shot was very much as I expected, on the second I had up'd the hole diameter because this softer type of granite tends to soak up the blast energy, really thought that it would have been more violent.
I love the opening line, a movie classic for sure.
One of my favorite movies.
Creativity from the best photography💯
Thanks for dropping by.
Dave, loved the Blues Brothers reference in the intro! Beautiful area.
Thanks Rich, "we were on a mission from God".
Been a fan for some time now. Absolutely love the different view points, of the same shot, and in slow motion included. : )
Thanks Vaughn.
I think what amazes me the most is how much the dirt actually contains the blast.
It sure does a good job.
Back in my younger days I got to play with a lot of tnt, c4 and 40lb shape charges in the army. It was always fun doing the set up then watching your moment of BOOM occur. Nice drone footage and nice slow mo work.
See the flash and feel the wack moments later... yeahhh..
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast : We got to fire off those LAW rockets, too. Very satisfying.
Always a great feeling to relieve someone of “the object of their anger” …love it
Sure is, thanks for watching and contributing DS.
No camera was harmed during the blast. Well done.😂
Not this time anyway Tom.
ELWOOD: This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect
city police auction last spring. It's an old Mount
Prospect police car! They were practically givin' 'em
away. [Mt Prospect is a NW suburb of Chicago.]
JAKE: Well, thank YOU pal! The day I get out of prison, my own
brother picks me up in a police car.
[Fog horn]
ELWOOD: You don't like it?
JAKE: No, I don't like it.
[Elwood jumps the drawbridge.]
JAKE: This car's got a lot of pickup.
ELWOOD: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant. It's got
cop tires. Cop suspension. Cop shocks. It's a model
made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on
regular gas. Whaddaya say? Is it the new Bluesmobile or
what?
[Jake lights cigarette and throws the lighter out the window.]
JAKE: Fix the cigarette lighter.
Elwood: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses." Jake: "Hit it."
- "We were on a mission from God".
8:48 beauty of life flying through all that destruction. What a contrast. 😊
Great video showing the difference between Det Cord and shock tube with time delay! The Det cord is not sparkly but way more impressive!!
And the Det cord is loud+++
Great work. The big chunk cartwheeling towards the camera was a great image. It's very sad to see those huge burnt areas. Too bad that young fuds with PHDs stopped the small seasonal burns the indigenous folk practised for millennia and now their idiocy is being exposed big time with infernos with huge fuel loads. Regards from Scotland.
This burn destroyed 3.3 Million acres, no animals to be seen anywhere.
Always great to see uncovered blasts - but wow, that was a long drive to get there! Sad to see all the effects of wild fires. VERY satisfying blasts Dave - and that last one from last camera angle - phew, the large chunk got awful close! Great job.
It did get close, the camera is a lot closer than it looks, you can see the little camera nearly take a hit from another angle @ 10:18
hi there looks like fun . thanks john
It was!
Self-extracting for the win! :) The few hundred metres of 'cable'(?) that goes from your foot to the shot zone, is the "consumed" on a shot, or can that bit be wound up and re-used?
This shot was fired with signal tube, also called shock tube, very safe and reliable but not reusable. But you can use it in a line trimmer and "101 other house hold uses".
Hi Dave, nice bangs there mate, , looks like middle of nowhere, is that a new track under construction ? . Good to see you again mate , thanks for the video, stay safe guys, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
It's an old track from the last time the area was logged (as you can see by the trees, it was some time ago) that will be re used.
NICE.
You would always have to remember to have your vehicles parked on the homeward side of the blast site. Otherwise you will be there a lot longer than expected, moving all the broken rock.
Learned that the hard way a long time ago Peter.
Love the shadows cast by flying boulders at 10:52!
Thanks for watching the action.
I haven’t watched your vids for awhile. What terrific quality and interesting videos. Really good stuff , different angles and views. Great vid !
Welcome back Peter! there is about 200 blast videos on the channel now.
When you have drilled the rock if you go all the way through! Do you have to partially plug the hole so the force doesn’t go down into the ground. Also do you stagger the blast or does it fire off all at once in the rock.
Yes, if you drill through and you don't want to waste all of your blast energy you would use some screened crushed rock stemming material to back fill the hole a little way before loading the charge. Best results are obtained when the holes are time spaced by a few milliseconds, this improves the fragmentation a lot and decreases the felt ground vibration.
In the 60s my father worked for a rd construction firm out of Mitcham Vic. working on the Donna Buang rd.I have no idea how much rock was bulldozed over the edge after each blast. The old man brought home some free floating boulders for the front yard. they still show up on the satellite view of the old place.
There would have been a bit of blasting on that road Lindsay.
there certainly was.@@demolitiondavedrillandblast
totally awesome, Dave! Cheers from Up Over! 👍👍👊👊
Thank you! Cheers!
roflmao love the blues brothers opening, hahaha, nice job!
Love the views and the booms! Smashing video!
Thanks.
8 out of 10 on TC patented "that blowed up real good" scale. (And for those not in the know, one must use....uhh..special material and implosion, to break the 8 point barrier). Extra style points for the excellent shatter and throw, not to mention the bonus where you all but paved that forest road with the rubble. Loved those slo-mo shots - that last one, I though we were going to see a Go Pro getting knocked over, but that big chunk turned last minute. The ripping sound on that shot....oh yeah. Extra humor points for the wonderful intro homage to the Blues Brothers.
Thanks for your patronage TC.
Fantastic job as always Dave thanks for sharing 🦘👍
Glad you enjoyed it Kerry.
I know nothing about blasting but it's cool to watch. I also had a job that took me to remote places to do maintenance on Sodar units and meteorological towers. Some were near the peaks in the Rocky Mountains and others were in the middle of vastly huge Kansas crop fields! It was definitely a job that required a 4 wheel drive truck, because some of those old roads were almost vertical and lots of them forded creeks and small rivers.
it's often a challenge working in remote areas Jim, as you well know by the sound of it.
Did you see the Butterfly @8:59 - 9:10 ? slow it down, right in the middle.
the rock tumbling down the hill smashing into the trees was pretty great
You could here that it went a fair way.
BTW, I've often wondered what happens when you drill through the bottom of the rock. You mentioned drilling through to clay in the bottom of the rock. You said something about filling the bottom of the hole, I'm assuming to keep the explosive within the rock. What do you fill the bottom with? Does the filler keep the explosion from blowing out the bottom or the rock?
Yes, I use the same material that I would stem (back fill above the explosive). It is largely successful most of the time Tim.
🎵 up up and away my beautiful blast🎶😎😍
Thanks scruffy.
You love working in the snow.... BETTER THAN FLIPPIN MUD N RAIN
We have worked in the snow - th-cam.com/video/DrIgZ6eo1Dg/w-d-xo.html
The bird shot was very cool, but what a mess you made! :) Thank you and have a wonderful week.
I am a very messy worker Dennis.
Yes!!!! Uncovered blasting. My fave Dave. Love it man.
Mine too!
6:47 I am wondering what the purpose of the siren is. It doesn't give anyone much time to say stop or find cover.
Legal formality only, there was nobody within a very very long way. Thanks for watching Raymond.
3D jigsaw puzzle making at its best. Job well done... Safety first.... Then BIG bang.
Thanks for watching Drew.
Chemistry at work. The drone shots were nice!
Thanks Matt, plenty more drone blast video on this channel.
it may take a while but it'll grow back bush fires down there and forest fires here are nothing that's not supposed to happen here and there just part of nature's cycle!! looking at the road in you missed a couple spots that could have used some of your attention Dave!! 11 hours round trip driving not counting drilling and popping i guess you got home about 11;00 maybe midnight? shock tube with a toadstool or slammer as we call it on this one, can't say it's one of my favorites! there just something about slamming that plunger handle down or cranking the handle on a 10 cap hell box i can't resist!
We stayed an extra night so we could start out fresh next morning. I'll have to take my old rack bar "blasting machine" out on another job soon.
OK, who else heard the guitar riff in their head at the end of the Blues Brothers reference?
Thanks for sharing Dave!
Nice video. I had a real blast watching it.
Glad to hear it! 200 more blast videos on this channel.
I was looking at the scenery , looks like Walhalla in Victorian high country, where the fires went through
This was South of Corryong Vic.
Looking at the snow on the mountain 1/2 way through November and think, big deal, then I remember its in the south side... :)
Correct, every thing is opposite Down Under
Great video. Thanks. Did you use any time delay to help loft the mass toward the downhill side of the road?
Sure did.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast It might make an interesting video to explain why and how time delay is used to achieve desired results when blasting. Thanks again for great videos. Jess
Spectacular ! ! !
Mount Kosciuszko?
Nothing Demolition Dave and a few bangers couldn't fix. 😉
Nah... Too cold for me up there.
Thanks Dave, I do so love the unloved blasting!
Glad you enjoyed it, me too!
Beautiful blast looked well designed.
Thanks William.
Fantastic work Dave, a lovely job 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it Luke.
an excellent video Dave,some great blasts.i like how you place the camera so it almost gets clobbered!!
Glad you enjoyed it Bruce - the little DJI Osmo slo-mo cameras are a lot closer than they look, the extreme wide angle lens gives the illusion of greater distance.
If you ever get tired of wresting the Roo, try this; 2.5 meters of 15 mm good rope, and a 100 rope coupler. Slide coupler onto rope, Tie a loop on each end to go over handles. After a good collar, put foot in rope/coupler at comfortable height. Rope can be criss crossed over handle for varying height adjustment. After the good collar, just put as much weight as you want on drill via weight shift. As usual, make sure you have a clean surface so you don't slip. Good balance a must. Much less tiring than holding onto it, plus you won't develop carpal tunnel as fast.
What is the reason for the charges going off sequentially with a small delay in-between, as opposed to all at the same time? Does it just make less mess, or does it actually help break the rock better?
Good question Matt. The small delay in-between gives much better fragmentation for the same size hole spacing and charge mass, when all the holes fire together as when fired using det cord you get big blocky pieces. If the big rock with the deep holes was configured this way the yield would have had a lot of oversize and considering that they wanted to use some of the stone this method was not desirable. Thanks for watching.
Bravo..........I'm a stone guy.....feather and wedges.......gas powder rock drill...cheers..
Excellent, I have 4 gas powered rock drills. One that I purchased for the time that you need to drill a few holes and you can not get the compressor close and the other 3 because the were almost new in the boxes and so cheap that I could not resist. I should do a video about them some day. I have feather and wedges also Matt, love them, from tiny ones that go in a 14mm hole all the way up to hydraulic ones for 48mm hole.
You should post some video Matt.