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Thanks for the video Kurtis great job on the 🐈 drive hub just awesome 👍❤❤. Man and his machines getting it done 👍✅ all good 💯😊.❤. Take care of yourself and family and friends and Homey 🐕 and be Blessed ❤️.
I am a mechanical engineer in China. I will brew myself a cup of tea before 3pm every Friday, and then wait for you to upload the latest video by 3pm. This is the most anticipated and relaxing time of the week for me.
Karen! My dear.... THANK YOU for the few minutes of peace in the beginning with Homie, Jeoffrey and George. Just exactly what I needed without me really knowing or realizing it. You are amazing. Thank you!!!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering I'd really like it if that could be the chill moments for just SOME of the mornings at the workshop Im at. Instead its often the case that some dude gets in to work half an hour before everyone else and starts blasting some god awful music through the speakers
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering how about a video with these 3 only? We would love to see a 30 mins Homie and the gang episode once a month. Cheers. BTW, we here in India too do not subscribe to the daylight savings.
Kurtis, you remind me of my father. He’s guy that has worked his whole life, using his hands and his brain. His hands are hard but his heart is pure gold. Seeing you with Homie, Jeffrey, and George was very touching and just shows your gentle nature. God bless you brother. Karen, thank you, sincerely, thank you for capturing those moments and letting us see the gentleman that you love. Much love and respect to both of you!
This is such high level work. It’s incredible that we low level novices are able to see such a master at work. TH-cam is cool, but it’s still unique that a master craftsman/fabricator/machinist/welder/business owner…just happens to have a wife/business partner/office manager/photographer/videographer/editor/social media manager/wildlife wrangler…posts their videos, so we can see how this all works.
Kurtis you have taught me the wise practice of not hurrying things along. Your attention to details and clear thinking are testimony to the cutting edge work you do. Thanks from the US.
@@rjung_ch they are probably that expensive because these machines arent produced as much as cars and I am pretty sure they are very labour intensive to produce and therefore will be more expensive per unit and shipping all that to australia cant be cheap either.
@@zef1097 Exactly, they don't make hundreds of thousands or millions of vehicles per year, for 6 years of essentially the same car... they are made in the hundreds or thousands of units tops. Add in the sheer size and engineering of the parts to withstand the abuse they have to take.... they are EXPENSIVE.
Because of the GoldRush show I know most of these big machines in mining. Because of Curtis and Karen I know the value of competent machinists who can put and keep these in service. Well done cheers from Texas!!!
Those Butcherbirds really do have a beautiful song, the sound you expect to hear in tropical forests. Thank you Karen, Kurtis and Homie, have a great weekend guys.
They are super smart and can make wonderful wild neighbours that will visit you everyday. Hand feeding is easy. They love puppy food with all those vitamins & minerals. A very endearing critter with the glorious and loud calls.
In my younger days I worked on a horizontal borer in an aicraft repair facility. The comment that you made about the component belonging to the customer and any mistakes and consquent financial compensation would be born by you reminded me of the occasion when I'd carried out a modification on a customer's main undercarriage leg of a large aircraft only to find that the slot I'd milled was in the wrong place - aargh!!! Mainly sleepless nights followed but the situation was saved after the stress engineers and draughtsmen re-wrote the modification plan - phew!
Working in the Aerospace industry in the USA for 25 years. The forgings of the parts being made were 200-400 thousand before I even made a chip. Yes, had to be really careful especially taping 3/4 x 16 threads for heli coils. We had very special tooling. Many different size and lead taps just for one hole. All the parts were inspected by in house and government inspectors. Worked on the space shuttle solid rocket motor housings.I did my own rigging and moving of the parts. I found it to be a lot of fun.
This production, as usual, is first class. Starting with George, Jeffrey and Homey was brilliant. Kurtis displaying his fantastic skills and attention to detail and Karen's videography and editing makes it thoroughly entertaining, unmissable! Best channel on TH-cam!
Very much appreciative that you include the animated explosive views of parts to be repaired. Gives a whole new perspective. You can see what's going on. How beautiful the bird song. Thanks you two.
As a kid, I worked with large, heavy equipment and steel structures. And while your videos have encouraged me now, as an older man, to purchase a 10L 1949 South Bend lathe to make chips, when I watch the size of the pieces you work on and look at my tiny 6" chuck, I really appreciate the thought and responsibility it takes to make or repair such large, expensive items. You are a great machinist, and although my parts are tiny in comparison, I learn from your experience. I look forward to your videos every Friday morning. When it's snowing and blowing up here in upstate NY, USA, and I can't fish or golf, your videos inspire me to go make something.
I used to hang around in a guy's shop made crossbows and he made virtually everything for those crossbows even the bolts holding on the sights. Now I want to lathe but I'm going to be moving later this year
@@nickcollins1528 Apparently the channel gets $3.60 out of the $5 sent. That's better I guess than what they get from Premium members. I don't mind paying $5 every week, it's not a huge amount and I donate to BigstackD as well. $5 super thanks each every week.
@@nickcollins1528So instead of giving some to YT, you give some to the mfg of the merch and the shipping companies. How about just praising him for his kind donation instead of being negative?
Something that never ceases to amaze me is the flexion that happens on larger pieces of machinery, regardless of its composition. Duo cone ring, aircraft wing, they're all flexible - to a point! Hope the weather starts to cool down there. Thanks for another great video!
You guys have all the good stuff; monster lathes, radial drilling machine, mills, horizontal hone, jig borer, HELICOPTER. I never worked in a shop that had one of those.
I have been watching your work for a year now. No matter how big the work is, how massive the pieces are, you make it like is simple and somehow easy. But it is not. You only can achieve this level of performance when you know what you are doing, and that is priceless. One man job mate!
very brave owner of the shiny red helicopter parked in your yard ,with your curiosity of how things work its a wonder you havent pulled it to pieces would make a great video
In an early video Kurtis did make up a prototype component for a camera gimbals mounting underneath the helicopter. So Kurtis has been crawling around that helicopter at least once or twice!😂 Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Having broken many a tap in my day, I can appreciate the decision to finish the taps by hand. Nothing like spending hours trying to chisel out a tap, or even worse, trying to drill one out.
I always enjoy the birds and Homey. Thanks for starting your video(s?) with some nice comments by Jeffery the Magpie and George the Butcherbird! I enjoy hearing what they have to say.
Another no nonsense professional repair from CEE quality and service your customers can depend on, thanks for taking us along on the journey, have a good weekend
The B-roll in this was amazing. A complete neophyte like me was able to completely understand what you were talking about with the animated installations. Top notch editing!👍
Kurtis & Karen - this is just a quick note to tell you how interesting your videos are, and how satisfying it is to watch them. And it's not just one thing: The voiced introduction helps to get the viewer engaged by understanding why something is being done; the machines and the work they do and Kurtis' mastery of them are totally fascinating; love the short interruption for the birds; love Homeless; appreciate the comments during the video to explain the process. You have excellent videos that rival professionally-produced ones, and I look forward to each and every one. Cheers from Florida, USA.
You can tell a lot about people from how their pets behave. You two are so lovely. I love watching you interact with Homeless and your corvid friends. And you are both so talented! I love your channel. Thank you.
I still can't fathom how productive you have to be, for a one man shop to be able to make the economics work, with the millions worth of machinery employed. I bet they have a waiting list of clients, considering the high quality of work, coupled with the very well done video documentation of the whole process. Talk about peace of mind for customers. Probably will hit a million subs this year.
I don't know how many damaged seal retainers I have struggled with and somehow got by with over the years on smaller machines. That is a nice repair option.
A few thoughts: I'm impressed with the bird social skills. They respect separation when being fed. Who doesn't love a lather where the operator can walk upon it. 👍👍👍
Glad another video dropped from you guys. They're one of the few things that stave off the boredom being on medical leave from work! Always love the effort you put into the details of a job. When people neglect the small things it always drives me mad!
Another excellent video. 38 years in a nuclear plant makes me have a great appreciation for individuals that do quality work. Great job!! I really appreciate your videos.
The videos you an Karen release each Friday really makes my week. Your knowledge & methods, with Karen’s editing skill really does highlight the skill required to turn and fabricate metal parts. THANK YOU
I love how careful you are with both the parts and your tools. I see so many people on TH-cam getting frustrated and in a hurry ... and breaking things. You do beautiful work.
Kurtis, you make this look so easy but your Jatz Crackers were on the line for $28,000. Every step breathes real thought, knowledge and skill. I am an old applied mathematician who has actually worked in a defence context where I have seen all sorts of high precision stuff ( the Weapons Research Establishment actually sent a satellite up in 1967 (from memory) (called WRESAT) and we were the 3rd in the world to do that - most Australians have no idea about that). Your work is just top draw and commercially so attractive.
There are so many things I love about this channel. It starts with a bloke who so obviously knows his shit inside out, back to front and sideways. Add to that a woman whose camera work and production skills are top notch and a doggo who loves his hoomans and makes me smile whenever he appears on screen. Round it off with Kurtis and Karen’s feathered friends and it is simply some of the best content available. Bonzer guys, just fuckin’ bonzer. Keep doing what you’re doing. 🤟🏻
My Fridays are always completed by you guys. Love every aspect, Homeless, Birds, Engineering & the Funnies. Best channel in Australia without doubt. Billy J..... Q'ld.
Yes and no. The professional bits are made in Australia 🇦🇺 but their drill bit sets at Bunnings vary. I would have to go back to Bunnings to tell you for certain, but I think that the Frost brand are imported. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Only bunnies purchase things in bunnings, 98 percent of they crap is made chinesium, usually the things you buy there break when first used or 1 day outside warrentyI always make sure if its Suttons it is marked Made in Australia, it wouldn't suprise me if some overseas company has decided to copy the Suttons name . @@markfryer9880
Those magpies are some of the most beautiful singing birds I've ever heard. And I see the camera girl is getting really good at her job with the split screen view. NICE
This is one of those channels where you TELL someone about the content and it's boring. But to watch it, and see both the humor and love - in your wife's voice, in your outtakes, in the befriending of the birds, in your and your viewer's treatment of Homeless, and of course your skill and expertise at machining. Respect.
I forgot about the time changing so I’ve been sitting here an hour flipping through old videos waiting, and then all of a sudden up pops homie-vision!!!!!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering yeah here in the states, it’s been an ongoing fight for the last 50 years and hopefully somebody will pull their head out of their ass and quit doing this goofy crap. Life is hard enough without changing the clocks twice a year and making everybody scratch your head and wonder why they’re either an hour earlier or an hour late for everything
I used to work at a small machine shop in Connecticut while in high school. I kept working there after graduating but ended up not being a machinist, so I joined the USAF to serve in Vietnam. Now retired in Arizona. I really enjoy watching you work, it brings back good memories of working at that shop in CT. Karen's video skills and editing are amazing. Of course, watching Homeless and the birds make it most enjoyable. Thanks!
This was just what i needed after getting home from a hectic final shift for the week. Love seeing those hot rainbow chips fly off the lathe! Best machining YT channel by far!
We used to weld the spindle seal ramp with stainless and re machine. For the hubs I had various diameter tubes rolled from 1.5" stainless plate and the but joint welded full pen with no defects allowed, we then machined press fit rings from the tubes, I worked with a very tallented group of tradesmen and mum and dad companies to bring this all together, some are still in business others have saddly passed or been swollowed up by bigger companies, the skill is to find others with as much skill and passion as yourself to partner with because you will never do it all yourself. If you pollish those high spots from the galling off the outer bearing saddle while it is in the lath your client will truely apreciate it.🍻
Thank you for sharing your birdy friends! Bird seed is part of my grocery bill each day. We have coffee time together every morning.you always make work look like fun time. Safe is easy in your shop.
Greeting from Belgium CEE team.... Loved the Homie intro 😃 (Thanks Karin for that - Have myself two Belgium malinois aka landshark). Every Friday morning i'm looking forward to see a new CEE video popping up. And Kurtis you are right removing a thread tap, it's a royal pain to remove (small or large), especially when it breaks off, within the workpiece. By the way.... Loved the massive shop radio in the background. Have a great weekend. It's beer time.
You do great work mate. Exceptional talent. Happy to see 3 pigeons friending the cute puppy dog. In every video, your lady is a plus. Together, you two are a riot. A Super friendship.
It’s been said countless times but I need to say it again. The right tools, the right expertise and the right man makes for a quality of work that is very hard to find. Such admiration for Kurtis and Karen. Wish I lived in Australia so I could shake their hands. They have become like family to me.
I would love to see a partial episode of all the shop made tools you have. Your expertise and knowledge shows in the work you do, it's one of the reasons why you have so many good customers and repeat business from them. I'm looking forward to more Franna crane episodes soon I hope.
One of the most satisfying and least time wasting channels on TH-cam by far! Just enough balance of precision machining, great camera and editing work and light heartedness to make me always come back. I have never seen one single video I was not glad that I watched! Cheers from the land of bananas!
Great vid - thanks 👍 Love the scale of the job - 450 Kg part, crane it onto the lathe, climb onto the lathe to get it in place and then bump it in to 0.0025mm (0.0001 🍌) - impressive 👍 All the best, Paul
Unless there was a lot of editing, it seemed remarkable how easily that huge bell was centred on the giant wheel. Even with the centred mount at the front which I guessing pushed it to mostly centred, it seemed crazy how quickly even an expert could get the whole thing in place.
hearing that birdsong at the beginning of the video made me so nostalgic for my childhood in Aus. I made the mistake of moving away 15 years ago, very much want to come back.
Same here. Been away from SEQ for 6 years and used to catch the train on occasions from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. Happy memories to hear the song of the magpies and butcher birds.
"Its Friday, its 09:00 o'clock (GMT), It must be time for, CEE." Every Friday, just before I get into the episode this runs through me scone. Its from a show called "Crackerjack". I watched it religiously as a kid, in the 70s, and it has the same effect as your channel. I get all excited and goose pimply. Love it...
@@SanchoPanza-m8m but I'm unconventional. I know this to be true because I don't care that you are , of course, correct and that my intent should be considered over and above grammatical English. Thank you. By the way, it's zero, nine, hundred if your being exact. Zero is the number, and oh is the letter.
I show up for the crazy machining, and get to see a handsome dog and beautiful birds. Their singing is really pretty, I couldnt help noticing the doggo tried to sing along near the end lol. Also, it never ceases to amaze me how a rusty, corroded, heavily used piece of metal shines like a jewel when you start working on it. Also, I would love to see one video with a couple of the screwups kept in, just completely randomly in there. Like all the serious work on tapping, and randomly you dropping one of them. It would be so unexpected.
Always good to here the sounds and joy to watch you feed those pagpie's you two have a great relationship with them, but the view at 1:34 in video is good too, as always you have great videos, 👍
This repair put our recently repaired big lathe tailstock to the test, and it passed with flying colors! ☑ Plus, the shiny new digital readout scale and light made the job even more enjoyable. Upgrades all around! Let us know what you think in the comments! 😄👍
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Thanks guys, appreciate your work. Have a bonza weekend!
Brilliant video Kurtis, with the fine turning you do does it ever put you off when your wife is right beside you videoing you 🤔🤔🤔
i recall watching the big lathe tailstock repair and service vid. 👍
Thanks for the video Kurtis great job on the 🐈 drive hub just awesome 👍❤❤. Man and his machines getting it done 👍✅ all good 💯😊.❤. Take care of yourself and family and friends and Homey 🐕 and be Blessed ❤️.
Tailstock repair worked great. "Next Shop repair new breakers so we can turn the machine on in one button push instead of 6".
Are you guy's aware how much more interesting this channel is than ANYTHING produced by TV is?
Blessings and prayers from Sweden 🇸🇪
hey mate so glad you enjoy it!
Same here in NZ nothing good on tv so the new vid on a Friday night is great to sit down and watch
Its a great channel. Checkout soft white underbelly if psychology is something you like.
Could not agree more, greetings from another Swede!! haha
I am not a machinist, nor do I own heavy equipment, but I have been late for work watching these videos before. Lol
I am a mechanical engineer in China. I will brew myself a cup of tea before 3pm every Friday, and then wait for you to upload the latest video by 3pm. This is the most anticipated and relaxing time of the week for me.
Kurtis doesn’t like Chinese. He’s a USA fan. Like all us dumb Aussies we’re brought up idolising Americans. Propaganda at its finest.
Karen! My dear.... THANK YOU for the few minutes of peace in the beginning with Homie, Jeoffrey and George. Just exactly what I needed without me really knowing or realizing it. You are amazing. Thank you!!!
you're welcome it's a nice way to start the mornings here at the workshop I was hoping some viewers might enjoy that 🥰
And really nice the birds give a sing song in appreciation
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering I'd really like it if that could be the chill moments for just SOME of the mornings at the workshop Im at. Instead its often the case that some dude gets in to work half an hour before everyone else and starts blasting some god awful music through the speakers
Kurtis the disney princess, and your own personal dawn chorus was a beautiful moment, cheers.
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering how about a video with these 3 only? We would love to see a 30 mins Homie and the gang episode once a month. Cheers.
BTW, we here in India too do not subscribe to the daylight savings.
Kurtis, you remind me of my father. He’s guy that has worked his whole life, using his hands and his brain. His hands are hard but his heart is pure gold. Seeing you with Homie, Jeffrey, and George was very touching and just shows your gentle nature. God bless you brother.
Karen, thank you, sincerely, thank you for capturing those moments and letting us see the gentleman that you love.
Much love and respect to both of you!
This is such high level work. It’s incredible that we low level novices are able to see such a master at work. TH-cam is cool, but it’s still unique that a master craftsman/fabricator/machinist/welder/business owner…just happens to have a wife/business partner/office manager/photographer/videographer/editor/social media manager/wildlife wrangler…posts their videos, so we can see how this all works.
You said it! Absolutely high level stuff!
Couldn't have said it any better. Well done. 😊
Brother
Could you have given them any more job titles? 😅
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880
Probably I’m sure that there’s some more, I don’t know what they are but there’s more
Kurtis you have taught me the wise practice of not hurrying things along. Your attention to details and clear thinking are testimony to the cutting edge work you do. Thanks from the US.
Thanks mate for adding some cost perspective on these builds.....it gives us a greater understanding of the work you do.
no worries!
Looks like part prices for exotic supercars. Hugely expensive parts, like a monopoly. If you are the only one producing the parts.
@@rjung_ch they are probably that expensive because these machines arent produced as much as cars and I am pretty sure they are very labour intensive to produce and therefore will be more expensive per unit and shipping all that to australia cant be cheap either.
Engineer holding a specilised nut (about 6 bananas thread) You cn get a damn good car for the price of this.
@@zef1097 Exactly, they don't make hundreds of thousands or millions of vehicles per year, for 6 years of essentially the same car... they are made in the hundreds or thousands of units tops. Add in the sheer size and engineering of the parts to withstand the abuse they have to take.... they are EXPENSIVE.
Because of the GoldRush show I know most of these big machines in mining.
Because of Curtis and Karen I know the value of competent machinists who can put and keep these in service. Well done cheers from Texas!!!
Those Butcherbirds really do have a beautiful song, the sound you expect to hear in tropical forests. Thank you Karen, Kurtis and Homie, have a great weekend guys.
Just don't look up their eating habits, kinda gruesome.
They are super smart and can make wonderful wild neighbours that will visit you everyday. Hand feeding is easy. They love puppy food with all those vitamins & minerals. A very endearing critter with the glorious and loud calls.
They sound very similar to Magpies only slightly different in their song.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Accompanied by homie's whining, it's just beautiful lol.
@@scottmclennan6114 They're in the sub-tropics. The Tropic of Capricorn is about 8 hours drive north from there.
Unbelievable! After 71 years on this planet, Im learning new things all the time...especially from Kurtis!
In my younger days I worked on a horizontal borer in an aicraft repair facility. The comment that you made about the component belonging to the customer and any mistakes and consquent financial compensation would be born by you reminded me of the occasion when I'd carried out a modification on a customer's main undercarriage leg of a large aircraft only to find that the slot I'd milled was in the wrong place - aargh!!! Mainly sleepless nights followed but the situation was saved after the stress engineers and draughtsmen re-wrote the modification plan - phew!
Dang that's not the best flashback to be getting 😅 Glad the stress engineers worked their magic in the end!
Can only imagine the bottomless pit in your stomach after that realization😣😅
So you were boring horizontally... you wouldn't have made much money if you started working as an escort then!
Working in the Aerospace industry in the USA for 25 years. The forgings of the parts being made were 200-400 thousand before I even made a chip. Yes, had to be really careful especially taping 3/4 x 16 threads for heli coils. We had very special tooling. Many different size and lead taps just for one hole. All the parts were inspected by in house and government inspectors. Worked on the space shuttle solid rocket motor housings.I did my own rigging and moving of the parts. I found it to be a lot of fun.
May I just say, Mrs CE is a really talented cinematographer. The detail shots and slomos are great. What a team!
This production, as usual, is first class. Starting with George, Jeffrey and Homey was brilliant. Kurtis displaying his fantastic skills and attention to detail and Karen's videography and editing makes it thoroughly entertaining, unmissable! Best channel on TH-cam!
I have to agree, no one does it better
got to agree mate@@pablocruzgilmour
Very much appreciative that you include the animated explosive views of parts to be repaired. Gives a whole new perspective. You can see what's going on.
How beautiful the bird song.
Thanks you two.
Seven minutes online, what an honor to catch it early. Kurtis and Homeless and the birds singing in the background.
thanks for taking the time to watch and being one of the first!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering lucky me 😁✌️
How good was that! Thanks Karen.
Making those birds sing for their supper.
As a kid, I worked with large, heavy equipment and steel structures. And while your videos have encouraged me now, as an older man, to purchase a 10L 1949 South Bend lathe to make chips, when I watch the size of the pieces you work on and look at my tiny 6" chuck, I really appreciate the thought and responsibility it takes to make or repair such large, expensive items. You are a great machinist, and although my parts are tiny in comparison, I learn from your experience.
I look forward to your videos every Friday morning.
When it's snowing and blowing up here in upstate NY, USA, and I can't fish or golf, your videos inspire me to go make something.
It going to 30 degree here tomorrow in Melbourne, 1500K south from where Kurtis is, its shorts and tee shirt weather here for awhile longer.
I used to hang around in a guy's shop made crossbows and he made virtually everything for those crossbows even the bolts holding on the sights. Now I want to lathe but I'm going to be moving later this year
I suspect he has the same problem the home machinist has, the machine is not quite big enough for the job so he has to do some thinking.
Build your self a cannon
From an exartilleryman.@@dill5500
Due to the time shift I can watch it in morning in Poland - what a perfect way to start a day :)
Good morning to you over there!
Poland is watching :)
Bravo to the customer that washed it off for you.
Nice work Kurtis! Good to hear George singing for us again! I could listen to that all day.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Better off buying merch if they offer it instead of giving youtube a cut of the money
@@nickcollins1528 Apparently the channel gets $3.60 out of the $5 sent. That's better I guess than what they get from Premium members. I don't mind paying $5 every week, it's not a huge amount and I donate to BigstackD as well. $5 super thanks each every week.
@@nickcollins1528So instead of giving some to YT, you give some to the mfg of the merch and the shipping companies. How about just praising him for his kind donation instead of being negative?
Hey mate, as always - we appreciate your support! We hope you had a great weekend too!
Something that never ceases to amaze me is the flexion that happens on larger pieces of machinery, regardless of its composition. Duo cone ring, aircraft wing, they're all flexible - to a point! Hope the weather starts to cool down there. Thanks for another great video!
Pop always said..”Pride will earn you a living...or cost you a living. It’s your decision on which one.”
that's a good saying, wise man!
Thank you I want to use that, thank you Sir
What a great saying!
work of a metal surgeon captured on video by an Oscar worthy videographer
That’s interesting, what exactly did he mean by that?
I loved the bow and songs of gratitude from the birds, excellent video as always.
You guys have all the good stuff; monster lathes, radial drilling machine, mills, horizontal hone, jig borer, HELICOPTER. I never worked in a shop that had one of those.
IIRC, the Helo is the landlords. Still a great shot, though.
Yeah, I know. @@alithemagicbum
I have been watching your work for a year now. No matter how big the work is, how massive the pieces are, you make it like is simple and somehow easy. But it is not. You only can achieve this level of performance when you know what you are doing, and that is priceless. One man job mate!
The bird calls at 1:25 . . . and safety manager's obedience. . . remarkable. I love everything you present, these are just special. God bless you all.
very brave owner of the shiny red helicopter parked in your yard ,with your curiosity of how things work its a wonder you havent pulled it to pieces would make a great video
In an early video Kurtis did make up a prototype component for a camera gimbals mounting underneath the helicopter. So Kurtis has been crawling around that helicopter at least once or twice!😂
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880Your signature makes me wonder where people are watching from.
@@gorillaau With CEE, they are everywhere all over the world.
Having broken many a tap in my day, I can appreciate the decision to finish the taps by hand. Nothing like spending hours trying to chisel out a tap, or even worse, trying to drill one out.
The colors that metal goes through as it's removed on the lathe is amazing!
Kurtis is a wizard. I’m convinced. He makes metal move when he waves is fire-breathing wand.
I love the 3d art and drawings when you're describing something. Really helps the layman follow along. Thanks.
I've been watching this channel for a year and a half now. Don't think I've missed a week, yet it's the first time I've seen the radial-arm drill!
I always enjoy the birds and Homey. Thanks for starting your video(s?) with some nice comments by Jeffery the Magpie and George the Butcherbird! I enjoy hearing what they have to say.
Power tapping a hole on a $28,000 part is crazy, I'd hand tap it also. Nice work as always
Didn't notice the time change but just realised I have never finished a can of beer while I'm watching you on Friday after work. From Victoria
Another no nonsense professional repair from CEE quality and service your customers can depend on, thanks for taking us along on the journey, have a good weekend
The B-roll in this was amazing. A complete neophyte like me was able to completely understand what you were talking about with the animated installations. Top notch editing!👍
28:53 Sutton the best tools are picked by one of the best machinist.
Keep it up, just brilliant work.
Thanks for all your input.
Kurtis & Karen - this is just a quick note to tell you how interesting your videos are, and how satisfying it is to watch them. And it's not just one thing: The voiced introduction helps to get the viewer engaged by understanding why something is being done; the machines and the work they do and Kurtis' mastery of them are totally fascinating; love the short interruption for the birds; love Homeless; appreciate the comments during the video to explain the process. You have excellent videos that rival professionally-produced ones, and I look forward to each and every one. Cheers from Florida, USA.
It's always satisfying watching a master at work
You can tell a lot about people from how their pets behave. You two are so lovely. I love watching you interact with Homeless and your corvid friends. And you are both so talented! I love your channel. Thank you.
*Cutting Edge Engineering Australia* Always a pleasure to see another video, thank-you for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
I still can't fathom how productive you have to be, for a one man shop to be able to make the economics work, with the millions worth of machinery employed.
I bet they have a waiting list of clients, considering the high quality of work, coupled with the very well done video documentation of the whole process. Talk about peace of mind for customers.
Probably will hit a million subs this year.
I don't know how many damaged seal retainers I have struggled with and somehow got by with over the years on smaller machines. That is a nice repair option.
Thats a ton of work to stop a seal leak. Must be a smart owner to be that careful wirh his dozer.
A few thoughts: I'm impressed with the bird social skills. They respect separation when being fed. Who doesn't love a lather where the operator can walk upon it. 👍👍👍
Glad another video dropped from you guys. They're one of the few things that stave off the boredom being on medical leave from work!
Always love the effort you put into the details of a job. When people neglect the small things it always drives me mad!
Another excellent video. 38 years in a nuclear plant makes me have a great appreciation for individuals that do quality work. Great job!! I really appreciate your videos.
The videos you an Karen release each Friday really makes my week. Your knowledge & methods, with Karen’s editing skill really does highlight the skill required to turn and fabricate metal parts.
THANK YOU
It is a real pitty you do not have the time to dedicate to an apprentice. You would be a fantastic teacher.
Either machining or videoing
I love how careful you are with both the parts and your tools. I see so many people on TH-cam getting frustrated and in a hurry ... and breaking things. You do beautiful work.
Kurtis, you make this look so easy but your Jatz Crackers were on the line for $28,000. Every step breathes real thought, knowledge and skill. I am an old applied mathematician who has actually worked in a defence context where I have seen all sorts of high precision stuff ( the Weapons Research Establishment actually sent a satellite up in 1967 (from memory) (called WRESAT) and we were the 3rd in the world to do that - most Australians have no idea about that). Your work is just top draw and commercially so attractive.
There are so many things I love about this channel. It starts with a bloke who so obviously knows his shit inside out, back to front and sideways. Add to that a woman whose camera work and production skills are top notch and a doggo who loves his hoomans and makes me smile whenever he appears on screen. Round it off with Kurtis and Karen’s feathered friends and it is simply some of the best content available.
Bonzer guys, just fuckin’ bonzer. Keep doing what you’re doing. 🤟🏻
cheers mate glad you enjoy it and thanks for the support
My Fridays are always completed by you guys. Love every aspect, Homeless, Birds, Engineering & the Funnies. Best channel in Australia without doubt. Billy J..... Q'ld.
Your videos had got me used to seeing a huge lathe spinning half a tonne of metal, but your "bench drill" was a remarkable sight.
It just blows me away to watch one man with this much knowledge move and repair parts that weigh so much. Well done.
I can't get enough of Sutton products, they are awesome quality, and Aussie made woot...
right on!
Yes and no. The professional bits are made in Australia 🇦🇺 but their drill bit sets at Bunnings vary. I would have to go back to Bunnings to tell you for certain, but I think that the Frost brand are imported.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880”Sutton Tools are proudly manufactured from local facilities in Melbourne, Victoria.”
Only bunnies purchase things in bunnings, 98 percent of they crap is made chinesium, usually the things you buy there break when first used or 1 day outside warrentyI always make sure if its Suttons it is marked Made in Australia, it wouldn't suprise me if some overseas company has decided to copy the Suttons name .
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You're an all-around TH-camr joy to watch thank you very much.
Good morning Cutting Edge Engineering Australia, greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 !
Those magpies are some of the most beautiful singing birds I've ever heard. And I see the camera girl is getting really good at her job with the split screen view. NICE
This is one of those channels where you TELL someone about the content and it's boring. But to watch it, and see both the humor and love - in your wife's voice, in your outtakes, in the befriending of the birds, in your and your viewer's treatment of Homeless, and of course your skill and expertise at machining. Respect.
I forgot about the time changing so I’ve been sitting here an hour flipping through old videos waiting, and then all of a sudden up pops homie-vision!!!!!
😭 pretty sure we are the only place the time doesn't change. It's always 5pm on a Friday for us 😅
It's 7 am actually😂
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering yeah here in the states, it’s been an ongoing fight for the last 50 years and hopefully somebody will pull their head out of their ass and quit doing this goofy crap. Life is hard enough without changing the clocks twice a year and making everybody scratch your head and wonder why they’re either an hour earlier or an hour late for everything
A small portion of the North American continent is 30 mins different. 😂 time zones are a mess. Toss in time changes and it’s an even bigger mess!
My notification was @ 9:15pm. HST Thursday night 🏝 👍🏼🎉
I used to work at a small machine shop in Connecticut while in high school. I kept working there after graduating but ended up not being a machinist, so I joined the USAF to serve in Vietnam. Now retired in Arizona. I really enjoy watching you work, it brings back good memories of working at that shop in CT. Karen's video skills and editing are amazing. Of course, watching Homeless and the birds make it most enjoyable. Thanks!
This was just what i needed after getting home from a hectic final shift for the week. Love seeing those hot rainbow chips fly off the lathe! Best machining YT channel by far!
the thought of standing near a 1000# chunk of spinning steel is terrifying to me!!!!! Your videos are great! Thanks to both of you!!!!
I thought that too, I mean just look at the size of it on the freight pallet!
I think the birds are putting the word out about the free snacks...they are telling their mates.
Thanks guys and see you next week. Cheers.
I like your confidence that all the bolts will line up without a test fit after the tapping. Great job.
We used to weld the spindle seal ramp with stainless and re machine. For the hubs I had various diameter tubes rolled from 1.5" stainless plate and the but joint welded full pen with no defects allowed, we then machined press fit rings from the tubes, I worked with a very tallented group of tradesmen and mum and dad companies to bring this all together, some are still in business others have saddly passed or been swollowed up by bigger companies, the skill is to find others with as much skill and passion as yourself to partner with because you will never do it all yourself. If you pollish those high spots from the galling off the outer bearing saddle while it is in the lath your client will truely apreciate it.🍻
Thank you for sharing your birdy friends! Bird seed is part of my grocery bill each day. We have coffee time together every morning.you always make work look like fun time. Safe is easy in your shop.
Greeting from Belgium CEE team.... Loved the Homie intro 😃 (Thanks Karin for that - Have myself two Belgium malinois aka landshark). Every Friday morning i'm looking forward to see a new CEE video popping up. And Kurtis you are right removing a thread tap, it's a royal pain to remove (small or large), especially when it breaks off, within the workpiece. By the way.... Loved the massive shop radio in the background.
Have a great weekend. It's beer time.
Cool tools, cool wife, cool dog and cool birds to feed. The perfect job that you can enjoy. Much love from virginia, USA.
Homie is such a good boy! he knows the birds are part of the family.
8:44 That's the truest dial indicator I've seen on ANY of the machining channels I follow! 11/10, Kurtis!
It might be 3am here in the states but by god night shift gets easier with CEE vids
I'll drink to that
Alright, back to work 😊
I know how you feel . I work 12 HR shifts in nights and on the enda I work I look forward to these video's .
You do great work mate. Exceptional talent.
Happy to see 3 pigeons friending the cute puppy dog. In every video, your lady is a plus. Together, you two are a riot.
A Super friendship.
It’s been said countless times but I need to say it again. The right tools, the right expertise and the right man makes for a quality of work that is very hard to find. Such admiration for Kurtis and Karen. Wish I lived in Australia so I could shake their hands. They have become like family to me.
That is a whole boatload of spinning mass. But you make the part pretty again.
To me, everything about the D series dozers is beautiful.
It's frightening how much I enjoy watching people at work.
I’m not afraid of hard work I can watch others do it all day
Can definitely tell you’ve done this a time or two 😂 love watching a master at work!
I would love to see a partial episode of all the shop made tools you have. Your expertise and knowledge shows in the work you do, it's one of the reasons why you have so many good customers and repeat business from them. I'm looking forward to more Franna crane episodes soon I hope.
It's always a good day when you get a new video from Homeless. 😀
One of the most satisfying and least time wasting channels on TH-cam by far! Just enough balance of precision machining, great camera and editing work and light heartedness to make me always come back. I have never seen one single video I was not glad that I watched! Cheers from the land of bananas!
Kurtis is a pretty impressive guy! Business man, machinest and Disney princess!
Good work, I really enjoy the videos!
Your shop crane is worth its weight in GOLD!!!
Great vid - thanks 👍
Love the scale of the job - 450 Kg part, crane it onto the lathe, climb onto the lathe to get it in place and then bump it in to 0.0025mm (0.0001 🍌) - impressive 👍
All the best,
Paul
hahaa cheers mate, when you put it like that it does sound pretty impressive. Appreciate your support as always!
Unless there was a lot of editing, it seemed remarkable how easily that huge bell was centred on the giant wheel. Even with the centred mount at the front which I guessing pushed it to mostly centred, it seemed crazy how quickly even an expert could get the whole thing in place.
It's incredibly satisfying too watch someone do things correctly soo consistently and with care.
hearing that birdsong at the beginning of the video made me so nostalgic for my childhood in Aus. I made the mistake of moving away 15 years ago, very much want to come back.
Same here. Been away from SEQ for 6 years and used to catch the train on occasions from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. Happy memories to hear the song of the magpies and butcher birds.
Your menagerie sitting with Homie is SO cool! The audio is fab too. Thanks for sharing!
UK engineering dude here. Great vid as usual. nice to watch while having breakie too.
I'm happy for your clients. They are very lucky to have contacted you.
nice to see all the boys at the morning briefing hehe 😄👍
12:59 The split view showing the work and what he is doing is super cool! Nice job! 😁
"Its Friday, its 09:00 o'clock (GMT), It must be time for, CEE."
Every Friday, just before I get into the episode this runs through me scone. Its from a show called "Crackerjack". I watched it religiously as a kid, in the 70s, and it has the same effect as your channel. I get all excited and goose pimply. Love it...
By convention, you can either write nine o'clock AM, or 0900 (pronounced oh-nine-hundred hours). There is no oh-nine o'clock.
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Get a life, we really don’t care about the nict picking
@@SanchoPanza-m8m but I'm unconventional. I know this to be true because I don't care that you are , of course, correct and that my intent should be considered over and above grammatical English. Thank you.
By the way, it's zero, nine, hundred if your being exact. Zero is the number, and oh is the letter.
I really appreciate when you mention the cost of the parts and the cost of the work you do. Thanks for making videos.
Karen, love the close-up camera work!
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I show up for the crazy machining, and get to see a handsome dog and beautiful birds. Their singing is really pretty, I couldnt help noticing the doggo tried to sing along near the end lol. Also, it never ceases to amaze me how a rusty, corroded, heavily used piece of metal shines like a jewel when you start working on it. Also, I would love to see one video with a couple of the screwups kept in, just completely randomly in there. Like all the serious work on tapping, and randomly you dropping one of them. It would be so unexpected.
Another amazing video and Curtis working the Disney princess vibe at the beginning to prove he's badass.
I love the animation showing the location of the drive on the bulldozer. And as always love your videos. Keep them coming.
A happy Friday with the entire gang (birds included). Great way to get ready for the weekend.
It’s incredible how a few degrees in temperature can make such a difference and make things fit so accurately!👍😎
Mark from Scotland.😀
Straight off, I love the back hand chisel whack.
Always good to here the sounds and joy to watch you feed those pagpie's you two have a great relationship with them, but the view at 1:34 in video is good too, as always you have great videos, 👍