"Test Firing" an Old School Antique Ingersoll Rand Anthracite Coal Mining Compressed Air Drill! ðšðē ðŦĄ
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This is just a quick look at a vintage, antique, American made Ingersoll Rand mining drill. It runs on compressed air and has seen better days! It's all frozen up now (or so it seems anyway). I just give a quick walk-around of this cool piece of American history. These weren't just used in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Coal Mines, they were used all throughout the United States & the world.
I'm not an expert of such equipment as this drill. I've never used one, nor have been in the presence of one. I picked this gem up for only $20! It'd be interesting to restore this beast... I may just do that one day (we'll see). If you have any information on this cool piece, please share it in the comments section. I'm greatly lacking in the knowledge department when it comes to this drill.
Be sure to watch up until the very ending, as I attempt to "fire" this drill up!
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Mega shout-out to my awesome Son for filming the final scene. What a great little guy, they grow up so fast. (I'd NEVER let my son explore abandoned mines btw, luckily he has no interest in doing so too, I tell him all of the scary stories I've encountered to dissuade him).
Excellent cinematography by junior!
â@@chrisl9466 hahahaha. Thanks. He actually is so tech savvy that I may have him start editing my videos ðĪ. He was laughing because I was just in my yard going "ahhhhhhhhh, yahhhhhhhh, get some!" Lol
Hilarious and very instructional as well. Well done!
Hahaha. Thanks. I had to "John Wayne" it at the end.
Me yelling at the TV "20 DOLLARS!!!"
So good! Good restoration piece too.
Hahahaha. Ikr? $20 was great. Mark, the old owner of Plains Antiques is a great guy. He's a big car enthusiast too. He has a Hellcat.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I know him. Not super well but used to go in a lot when I was married. Solid dude for sure.
@@MikeOrkid that's funny. You know what....I saw you there I believe. No joke. Are you kind of taller?
@@MikeOrkid only reason I know what you might look like is because of your TH-cam videos!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories 6"2' We used to do a little bit of antiques dealing and yard sales back in the day so we were in and out occasionally.
Hi Jude, Iâve used a drill like that in the past. In my experience it was never water that came out that small hole in the bit, but actually air. When the drill stops advacing down, there is a a lever that you push to shoot a burst of air down the steel through that little hole which expels the rock dust up and out of the hole. Very dirty job!
Hey Chris! That's cool that you've used a similar one. Geez. That sounds terrible! So bad for the lungs...ðŽ I wonder if I could get this operating again, seems to be frozen up, I'd like to hear it and see it go!
Yeah, it just may be still work. Probably try pouring some light oil in the air connection wouldn't hurt. You would need to find an industrial compressor to connect it to. Lots of contractors have them. Thankfully I only ran one for training purposes, but never actually used it on the job, but I remember it worked really well.
@@chrisl9466 thanks for the information, I have someone in mind now. I kind of did get it fired up in the end if you saw the last clip of the video ð
@@chrisl9466 Oil was alimented by a small tank at the end of the compressed air pipe before the air valve. In Italy were named " onions"
@@laurencedarabia2000 In the US we call those oilers "pigs". I might have to start calling them onions, there's a certain resemblance...
When I was a child, machines like that were the only drilling tools for mine holes, they were also used for tie rods and rock nails in consolidations. I've seen entire road tunnels dug with 6 Atlas Copco Pumas similar to that one. One piece is missing, the servo support, it was a pneumatic piston, connected to the machine with a joint and one end pointed to the ground. It was powered by the same compressed air and was regulated with a valve. In large tunnels, drillers with machines worked on a mobile scaffold on various floors
This one is a sinker drill, the T-handle grips are a dead giveaway. A jackleg (with the feed leg you described) has D-handle controls that are designed to be run one-handed once the hole is collared.
Even now, a lot of mines still use them. Jumbos are expensive and high-maintenance, so jacklegs have their place. We run several and use them to drill all of our blastholes.
Thank you so much for the comments. So interesting. How old would you say this may be? It seems pretty frozen up too? It'd be cool to see it restored. Again, great information and thanks.
@@Porty1119 You're right, if you read me I mentioned the Puma Atlas because they were just as you describe them. Maybe I still have one in a warehouse, in a road construction company a portable machine for making a hole is always useful
Its crazy to see this kind of human History.
Yup. This was the next leap forward in technology back in the day. This revolutionized road construction too, engineering, etc.
Fun find. This is not a widow maker. The term widow maker comes from solid drill steels with no hole for water. The water kept the dust down, cooled the bit and cleared the bore hole. The dust is what killed so many miners causing silicosis from drilling in quartz and black lung in a mine such as this one. This is why you see air and water lines running together in many mines.
The bit is called a knock off bit. It can be removed and replaced with a sharp one quickly. The old steels without knock offs would have to be sent to the blacksmith for repair and sharpening.
The drill would also be used with a mount like a jack leg or column jack.ð
Thank you so much for the clarification. Yes, the silicosis is an issue. The mines here are bad (anthrasilicosis). My relatives have died from it here in Pennsylvania. I've explored for twenty years and probably even have some of it from all the coal dust I've kicked up!
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Sorry to hear of the toll mining has taken on your family. Yes, I read your 'about' section and understand that you have quite the mine and exploring history. I also noted that you take all the necessary precautions to make mine exploring safer, although it's never really safe. I've enjoyed both videos of yours that I've watched. I also understand that you are no longer entering mines. We are pretty much done, also. I'm getting a bit too old(I hate saying that, but it's true) to be able to safely do the physical things necessary for proper mine exploring. Plus, I keep getting minor injuries that take longer and longer to heal. Hopefully, you won't have any bad side effects from your exploring mines.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring thank you man! I probably will have issues...hahaha. For real, it's a whole different beast here with the coal. You know how that is being a hard rock guy. You've been on YT since 2007?! Amazing. I'm so looking forward to binge watching your videos, I'm currently sick as hell, so when I feel better. Maybe I can squeeze some in tonight though ð Thanks for the condolences with the family, I do appreciate it. Thanks too for watching my stuff! Do you know Frank from Exploring abandoned mines and unusual places? He invited me to come out to California and get out to some of those hard rocks to do a collaboration. I really want to do it. I'm pushing 40, I know all too well about bodily harm at this point, hah! It sucks! Army, mines, being dumb all ruined my body...
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories 40 years old isn't too bad yet. I'm 67.
Yes, I know Frank. We've been out several times. We don't see much of each other anymore.
Here is a playlist with some of our favorites. Hope you feel better soon.
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@@TomandJulieMineExploring thank you. Wow! 67, you look young man! Time flies man!
Nice bit here! I've seen UGI use like a Hydraulic or back then even like missile setup in the past. Very cool and very heavy!
I know right? Some heavy duty equipment. This would be fun to use I'd imagine.
The steel and bit are more modern. The hole down the center would allow water to be injected into the drill hole, cooling the bit that, in turn, made it last longer and most importantly it turned the cuttings into mud instead of the billowing dust that ground the earlier miners lungs into mush. The threaded tip on the steel allowed the miners to replace the bits when worn down.
Thanks. Was there a water hook up on this drill? So this drill steel didn't go to this drill?
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories In my opinion bit ad still are are suitable for the injection of water and compressed air but this machine is not designed for the injection of water
Also, not sure if you know, but that piece that looks like a coiled round bar should fold down and that is what holds the steel into the drill. The steel doesn't lock in like it does in a chuck on a normal hand drill. Also, that connection to air isn't the standard type that is used on "modern" ones of today. You would have to replace it.
Oh that's interesting, yeah I was playing around with that little coiled metal piece and it didn't seem to do anything which made me think that it was broken or something. That's cool about how the connection is so old. How old do you think that drill is then if you had to guess? I feel like a caveman trying to figure out fire for the first time when handling this thing. I'm not terribly mechanically inclined.
Wow, I have no idea how old it is. You may be able to search for the Ingersol Patent on google to see when it was first awarded? The normal air connection that I'm familiar with are called "crowfoot" or "claw" couplings and I believe have been in use for many decades.@@AnthraciteHorrorStories