This Weather Is INSANE (and It's Not Done Yet)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- It's been a WET week in the Machine Shop!
In today's video we're machining up a big 'bowl' to help centralise rods on The Big Rig. To do it, we need to make a few alterations to "Tiny" - the largest boring bar in the shop. At nearly 1m long and 150lbs (65+kg), this big shop made tool needs a crane to get hoisted into place.
You can see how we built the Boring Bar here... • Making a MONSTER Borin...
Enjoy! And thank you ALL for your support.
We just hit 40,000 Subscribers.
It's incredibly humbling to know that so many people get a kick out of what we do.
So thank you.
Especially you Keith.
Legend.
ABOUT HAL HEAVY DUTY
We're a real life machine shop for DEPCO Drilling - a 60 year old drilling company located in Central Queensland, Australia. Our job is to keep rigs running in the field - fixing all the stuff drillers break and creating all the custom gear they need to get the job done!
We run two CNC's, manual repair lathes, a few mills and a big green Megabore Lathe we call "THE HULK"... and are constantly having to make weird and wonderful tools for odd (usually oversize) jobs.
We're a little shop that takes on big projects, and the latest is our MEGADRILL project where we're manufacturing a 3.0m (10 foot!) drill bit that'll weigh upward of 20 tonnes and we're getting ready to send it 250m (800+ feet) deep.
If you want to catch up on the progress... here's the latest on the project.
• The Megadrill Project ...
• Big Rig Drive Sub | Me...
• Mega Drill Rods Gettin...
• We Built a 3m (10 ft) ...
• Machining a 1000lb (45...
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I am glad we got to 'meet' Hal. Our northern brothers do have a special love for their pancakes.
He was such a grand old man, and a real gentleman. Worked until he was 87 and had his pancakes almost every Friday without fail. I reckon he'd get a hoot out of how crazy his channel has gone.
He just loved to work, and especially spin a lathe.
Nova Scotia Canada. I always like siting in the barn listening to the rain on the steel roof.
Hello from Yorkshire! Must be petrifying dealing with all that rain while your all upside down! Good thing you get the day off 💦😂
You’re doing fine Matt. Your video capabilities are very adequate. Steady as she goes. 😎👍👍 (Southern California)
Cheers good sir! 👊🙏
I'm glad to hear you're all ok. I've been thinking about you guys all week. So sad for the rest having terrible floods, lets pray for their health. 🙏 great video under the circumstances, thanks.
The last part with dad and family was an awesome touch. Thanks for showing something very private. it was so touching, I bet that table could tell a few tales 😉makes it so real. I love pancakes & they look so soft and fluffy perfect 😋.
Best channel ever.
Cheers my friend. Keith sending that syrup really touched everyone over here. Such a generous and completely random thing just made everyone’s day.
It was nice that dad & grandad made an episode. Those two were thick as thieves for the better part of half a century
Always interesting videos 👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
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Sunny Queensland, beautiful one day flogging down the next. 😂
Looks like you got all the rain NSW missed out on last week, got a few decent showers but nothing like that here.
Pancake friday sounds like an awesome tradition, more employers should get onboard with that.😁
Agreed 💯 🥞
Matt.. you look particularly smooth and shiny this morning!! had to put on sunglasses
All polished up like Tiny 🤣🤣
1,562 👍's up HHDMA thank you for sharing 🤗
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Hello from Texas Matt!
Keep up the great videos.
Cheers mate!
Water water everywhere & not a drop to drink , Matt honesty is the best policy & I was playing STEELY DAN , DO IT AGAIN, while the Tiny was being modified
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Love Steely Dan. Dad always had it playing when we were kids
Is Ron Boswell the brother or Ron Jeremy. Did you know Steely Dan was a woman's toy.
@ronski499 next time I'll tell Matt to play TAB BENOIT muddy water blues
We love your channel here in Baltimore Maryland. 👍👍
Gday, congratulations on 40K subs, well done mate
Cheers Matty! Appreciate it mate.
Connecticut maple syrup... Way down there!
From Texas. USA...
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Hello, I am watching from from Denmark, and i like your videos very much, very exiting stuff - look forward to more videos in the future 🙂
I am from Denmark too 🙂
(Ja den mand kan noget med hans maskiner vi andre kun kan droemme om.) 😉
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i live in Hamilton. Ontario
@ Hejsa, ja - de er dygtige og deres indhold er spændende. Jeg bor i Løsning imellem Vejle og Horsens
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That's raining 🌧 like it means it😂
Few years ago, the outfit I was with almost had a ship sink because of heavy rain. It was in a graving pier (drydock) and was having an engine replaced through a "soft patch" hole in the side of the ship 🚢 and a hurricane dumped an extraordinary amount of rain so a nearby river overflowed it's banks by more than 2 meters. The water pouring into the graving pier looked like a waterfall surrounded the ship but by a miracle, and every pump available, we kept the water level below the point where the ship would have come off its blocks and sank in the pier, potentially severely damaging the ship.
Every time I see rain like that, that's what I think of.
Love the video and look forward to my CEE and HAL double feature 😊
Damn, that sounds like a wild situation.
Coming from a climate (Montana, USA) that averages 10-16” of moisture annually, in a good year, I can’t comprehend that kind of rain! Hang in there and keep up the great work! Love your videos!
Cheers mate! Yeah it's a bit wetter than usual here that's for sure.
I came from a wheat growing area 10 miles North of Horsham, down in Victoria. Our farm averaged 18" per year. Now I have retired to my wife's family village in rural West Java (6.5 degrees below the equator), where they grow 2 crops of rice per year. Last year we had almost exactly 4600mm (181.1") of rain. The previous year I set up my weather station on April 4th. It was a much drier (a drought by local standards) year. I recorded 1008mm (39.7"). So I don't know what the average year will look like yet. All I know is that a drought here still has twice the rain of the wettest year I saw back on the wheat farm (36" in 1973).
Massive amounts of rain are a revelation. Standing water is inevitable. Which means mosquitoes are too. Which means frogs. Which means snakes. But the place is so verdant you can just about watch plants growing. That is such a contrast to dry land farming. I imagine that with that rainfall in your area of Montana, you are not cropping. It would be ranching?
I can tell you that the humidity here is miserable. 90% average for the year. 95% average some months. This points to my weather station on Wunderground www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IPANDE7 Check those numbers to see what I mean. The "Feels Like" temperature has peaked at 49.7C (121.1F) so far this year, and 53.7C (128.7F) last year.
More than forty years ago we started visiting Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and Gold Coast, initially around New Year, with our two toddlers.
Late every afternoon the dark clouds would roll in, the lightning / thunder would arrive, and the torrential rain would descend in bucketfulls!
We would stand in the shelter of the balcony and watch the mayhem on the roads below... a staggering number of people drove into the gutters, and they are VERY deep for obvious reasons! Entertaining for us... not so much for them!
@@PiefacePete46 Ah yes. They have what I refer to as monsoon drains where I live. Commonly about 2 feet across and 3 feet deep. If you get too far off the side of the road into that, it is going to be a bad day. The first time I visited Indonesia for work, in the early '90s, I was driven along a major highway (West from Jakarta toward the ferry crossing to Sumatra) that was, when you got far enough from Jakarta, one lane each way. Not too far off the shoulder of the road, on each side, was a monsoon drain. Not too bad so far. But then there was the traffic. Being a major highway there were large coaches overtaking trucks, and local minibuses stopping randomly to let passengers on and off. Those minibuses didn't want to drop their passengers in the drain, so they didn't completely get off the road when they stopped. So other vehicles were forced partly into the oncoming lane to get around them. In that lane was a truck being overtaken by a huge coach barreling at you. The monsoon drain sometimes looked like an attractive option. In South Korea, I thought I was going to die. In the Philippines, I thought I was going to die. In Thailand, I thought I was going to die. In Indonesia, I KNEW I was going to die. Later, a colleague told me a tale of a trip to India illustrating how it was so much worse there. I'm not going. The main highway West from Jakarta is now a (minimum) dual lane each way, separated carriageway, toll road. Much safer. Having retired here, my earlier thought, that I was going to die in Indonesia, turns out to have been prophetic.
@@recumbentkoala : We vacationed at Coconut Island, off Phuket, a couple of years ago. The walk to our villa took us over a footbridge across a pond. The frog sounds were so loud we needed ear-protectors! It got nicknamed "Gribbit Grove"!
Another great video Matt!!!
Don't discount your welding skills. That weldup looked spot on! (And the line about getting moonburn...😂)
Those pancakes looked delicious, and with real maple syrup, mmmmmm...
Looking forward to next weeks video!!
Take care.
Cheers Alan! I can weld, but the guys over in the boiler bay leave me for dead. I'm grateful to be a machinist...
Welders are like mini-suns in my opinion (the mortal enemy of gingers worldwide!)
Saint Joseph, Michigan, USA Thanks Matt. I always learn something.
Cheers mate! 🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I remember rains in the coal fields. Lightning, thunder and getting wet where the roads (if you can call them out) were all but impassible. Then I still had to load dynamite and powder with that 30 foot mast in the air on one of the highest peaks in the county. Always felt indestructible because lightning never struck the drill.
Yeah wow. Wild!
Awesome videos. I am from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Cheers good sir!
Were your rig rims chrome plated
Hard to imagine that volume of rain. Can't wait to see the footage of the Megadrill! Keep your powder dry.
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A good time to give Murray a bath, don't you think??? 😆😆😆
Congrats on the 40k subs with many more to come mate 👍
His “find a dead possum and roll in it” game is strong…
His “find a dead possum and roll in it” game is strong…
After the quick glimpse of the big rig and air line, now I'm wanting to see the compressors/mud pump as well!👍
Tuning in from the The Netherlands, you make great content!!!
Thank you good sir 🙏 🇳🇱
Keep kicking ass!! That rain is insane 😮
Great video can't wait to see the drill rig. But watching that mill cut that deep is impressive . Nice work on the hulk you almost need a ladder and remotes to freehand those cuts. Constant big rain drops beating that roof like a drum make you nuts trying to talk to someone...Stay dry _( So Cal USA )
Cheers mate!!! Yeah, we can’t jest bugger all in the shed right now 🤣👊💯🇦🇺
Matt, you are wet up there. We are on fire down here. About 150,000ha has been burned in the Little Desert and the Grampians areas.
Great stuff you show us , love it. cheers, Butch.
Cheers Butch! Yeah, we need to pipe you some of our water 💯
For boring the sized holes you guys do, I'd make a bolt on type of tool post, with like 4"x4" solid arm, slot the end to take a turning holder.
More rigid and will take much heavier cuts.
We’re building a big solid custom toolpost at the moment. Gonna be one right sucker
Watching from Iceland (the country, not the supermarket). Keep up the good work. Amazing channel!
Cheers mate! Love it haha
Enjoy your video in Iowa USA
Thanks mate!
Hello from Norcross, Georgia. USA. We love your videos. They are very informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work. Beth and Pat 😊
Cheers guys! 🇺🇸👊🙏❤️
Im watching from Illinois in the USA. I watch you guys and Curtis (hope i spelled his name correctly) of CEE engineering. Can learn a lot from you folks 👍😊
Cheers mate! Kurtis is a legend 👍
And in South Australia,dust!!!!!
It’s crazy
You have a meter of rain, here in the province of Saskatchewan Canada have had temperatures as low as -35 deg C and about 1.85 meters of snow accumulated. I very much enjoyed your videos as someone who had plans to be a machinist and ended up as an electrician / millwright
Oh man. That's COOOLLLLLD. Wow. Grandad reckoned it got down to minus 50 in the arctic circle drilling. Waaaay to cold for me.
Here in the state of Victoria, we've had days in the +40s.
I'll trade some of our heat for some of your cold 😅
Morning Matt, lovely weather you're having mate, I'm sure its not karma for being so warm whilst it actually got down to 0⁰C in my shop this week 😂 fingers crossed the rainy season is kind to you mate, looking forward to seeing the BIG RIG! best wishes to you and yours Ralfy
Cheers Ralfy! 🥶
Another glimpse of the big rig!
It’s a bloody weapon hey.
Matt I thought you were on Rocky not Townsville. It looks like the rain you showed is the same amount of rain as we are getting here. Some areas around Townsville has had close to two meters of rain in 1.5 weeks. Stay safe and regards from a wet Townsville.
Damn! That’s crazy Andy. Yeah we’ve gotten a bit, but nothing like you guys.
We just get stressed when it starts coming through the river system a few weeks later.
We legit flood when it’s blue skies!
I'm watching from Oregon, in the USA
Wonderful. I'd love to visit Oregon in the future. It looks so beautiful. I'll take teddy out Sasquatch spotting haha.
Hey, me too! Oregon and the PNW is a really magical place in the world
Hi Matt, I am probably the closest one to you based in Brizzy but from South Africa been here for just under 20 yrs, Did a Trade in SA called a Millwright which consists of a few trades in one, Fitter Machinist, Electrician, Hydraulics, Pneumatics and basic Toolmaker. Yes Been around the shop a bit, Love your channel Keep it up Cheers Mate
Nice work Tyrone!
You can free hand a nice radius by setting up a sample from the bed and running a dial from the compound, Great vid as always
Great tip thanks man!
Loved seeing your Grandad, nice to put a face to the legend. So the hand grinding was to Mk 1 eyeball tolerances?
It didn’t quite make the cut for a Ron Boswell… but close 🤣
Typical winter weather for Scotland. We are used to it over here.
Personally I love the rain. Pretty sure my ancestors are Scottish
@@halheavyduty I bet you dont ride a motorcycle then 🙂
YOUR HOLE IS OUR GOAL 🤣
My favourite hat.
I hope the crew enjoyed your pancakes Matt! Tuning in from Essex, UK
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Tinny actually lookin pretty good after a little "reconstructive surgery" and polishing!
He scrubbed up alright hey!
Jeez man thats a scary storm your going through there, I hope your okay!
We’re all good so far… it’s up north that’s getting smashed!
Looking good Matt, looking forward to next video on drill rig 👍
Cheers Todd. Me too mate. Me too.
Well I will tell you Matt. You got the rain. I live on Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada. We are known to have the mildest weather in Canada.
If it didn't get down to -12 last night.
Crazy weather.
When you were showing the big drill a few episodes ago and talking about the air to clean the hole I was wondering how big the compressor woutl be. Never thought it would be 4 monster compressors.
Can't wait to see this contraption next week.
Thanks for sharing. Love seeing things that i would not have the opportunity to see otherwise.
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Quincy FL. USA Stay safe 👍 ✌
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Nice upgrade on Tiny! I had to make a tool today to remove the fan off of my water pump. On my old Dodge Van. It took me 3 hours. If I had a shop like yours. I probably couldn't have it done in 20 minutes. Say hi to Vader and Moorray.
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From Guatemala, not missing a minute of your sharing. Pancakes are on saturday. Cheers.
Long live pancakes, whatever day they may be eaten
Matt thanks for the weekly window. Best wishes from a Pom in France.
Most welcome mate! 🇬🇧👊
I am from Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA 🇺🇸
Hello from Canada. Thanks for the great videos.
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Congratulations on 40k subscribers. You took Tiny to the next level with the fab work.
Cheers mate. Yeah, he needed a tickle up. Was looking pretty average since we built him. Much better now!
lots of rain be careful mate love your videos
Cheers Ernie!
Thanks Matt for another awesome video! See ya in the next one.
Cheers buddy!!
Looking forward to the next video here in West Central Missouri in the USA
Me too! I cant wait to start editing the footage tomorrow. It's been a wild week.
Greetings from Belgium, HAL team.... Typical Queensland rain I would say 🙂. Looking forward to the onsite video of the big rig and see those big chips produced as you showed us. Another job well done... Looking forward to next Friday's video.
Big paw from Sadie & Rønne
Cheers mate! Big hello back to you guys 🇧🇪
Orlando, Florida USA Love your videos. Where there's a will there's a way.
WOW lots of rain ☔
Send half that rain to Western Victoria if you like Matt.
Gladly!
I'll second that !
Flaming awesome Matt.
Happy days from kiwi land.
Cheers mate
LOL, You don't have to be the best machinist in the world Matt and I would venture you don't want or need to be. When something new comes in or different comes my way for repair, I look at it as someone made this thing I can fix it. Necessity is truly the mother of invention when it comes to weird shit! It appears you fellas do the same. That's why I watch. I am eagerly anticipating the report form the field. Cheers Matey
I love how all of your machines and tooling get persona. Very cool, very unique.
Big Rig, Big Rig, Big Rig! 😄
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Hey you all need to send some of that rain to us here in Kansas USA we need several inches of rain
Same here in the southern states of Australia.
We're parched.
Matt Keep doind the good work Monroe Louisiana USA
Cheers good sir!
Love it so much keep it up as always 💘
Cheers mate. Thank you!
BIG rig YES!!!!
Finally!
We'll take some of it in SA. We've had 5.5mm since the beginning of December.
Yikes.
@halheavyduty While you're drowning in it, we've had I think less than 200mm in the last 12 months.
It's real dry here at the moment.
Leeds, UK. Love to see your big stuff. Retired machinist.
Awesome!
Your repair of the coolant turned out beautiful, that face mill really cuts. Hope ya rain stops and ya don't flood, cheers from SW Florida, US
Cheers mate!
Shop project idea, how about a tool post grinder for the Hulk? Could probably get away with as little as 15 or 20 horsepower.
That's a great idea.
Thanks for sharing guys, have a great weekend.
Cheers mate. You too!
The rain couldn't have been that bad, it was coming straight down. Call back when it's horizontal. :)
Also, Tiny cleaned up real nice!
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I'm stuck on a coal mine in burton rained out bloody boring.
Watching from Abbotsford BC Canada and gotta say pretty intriguing Matt. As a welder myself you did a pretty good job bud 😊
Keep them coming
Hi from Cape Town, South Africa
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Enjoy the pancakes, lovely job on the tool bit came up well. We’ve had our usual rain but chuck in strong winds that want to sit you on your rear as your out trying to feed the pigs. Rain flys sideways with hailstones that want to sand blast your face off, all in a days work lol. Have a cracking weekend roll on the next video. Thanks
Checking in from Western Oregon, USA - you're just a little diagonal trip across Pacific Ocean away! I'm a computer / electrical engineer by training, but have an interest in machining, and I keep taking in cast off CNC machines to save them from the scrapper!
Oh nice! That’s great
Quick Hello from Estonia, been watching few months now, well done!
Congratz to 40k subs! Its a good and interesting channel so it will keep on ticking, blessings from Sweden! :D
Cheers mate! 🇸🇪
I just discovered your channel a few weeks ago and have enjoyed it very much. I have been retired out of a machine shop over nineteen years but I still love to see the chips fly. Thanks, Bob
Love the videos from Tabusintac,New Brunswick Canada.
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What a mate you are sharing the maple syrup with all the guys. 9:00 PM here USA time and your making me hungry.
Panama, New York, USA, very western side of New York State. About 450 mile west of New York city. Our county, Chautauqua County, boarders Lake Erie, one of the great lakes. Lots of maple syrup produced here too. Its called sugaring in the spring when maple sap is boiled down to make maple syrup. About 40 gallons of sap (152 liters) make 1 gallon (3.8 liters) of syrup. I enjoy your channel. Keep going!
Looking good monster man
Cheers mate!!
Them chips off the mega drill is unreal its looks more like rock blasting than a drill
The big auger is carving up phone books 🤣🤣
Good episode really enjoyed that.
Cheers mate 👊
40K! 🎉🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congrats from the UK
Cheers mate! 👊🇬🇧🇬🇧
This was a pretty epic video. Congratulations!
Cheers mate! Much apprecaited.
Small world, met a bloke in Clifton who worked on the rig in Pittsworth..
Oh nice! Small world indeed. Tim did a great job on the big rig.
I’m thinking at 40K subscribers you’re somewhat under-subscribed. Always interested in the scale of things you do in this shop. Looking forward to the next video for sure. Good stuff.
I've been watching the news on the floods and hope everyone's going to be alright, but the next job for you guys might be building an Ark. 1,2 meters of rainfall is some serious amount of water, I sincerely hope you'll keep your feet dry.
Good stuff as ever, keep em coming.
Thank you.
Most welcome
Thanks from the great state of Mississippi in the USA.
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Matt, remember that what is boring to you is most likely all new to us, it only becomes boring if you keep showing the same thing again & again (this doesn't happen on this site). Thanks for the show.
Cheers mate! I try to mix it up as much as I can… and keep it all 100% authentic to what we actually do in the shop too.