biggest lathe on you tube? heavy engineering

[energyfinance]

too bad you did not show us further to the left, and you may have walk around the subject a bit too.

Overall, thanks for sharing your experience.

[d53smith]

thats not that big at all at alstom where i work we turn 300 ton nuclear generators we have an 80 foot mfd lathe with 2 steadys and a large center chuck is right under 7.5 feet in d and a 60 foot farrel lathe both cnc we hold the record for biggest machine on east coast

[sashokkamikaze]

в украине я и побольше видел

[randeddy]

I instantly recognize that as a scrap chopper grinder for plastic.I never worked on one that size though.

[madisonelectronic]

Barley mash mixer for distillery.

[Wa3ypx]

Thats a pretty big lathe alright.... however ECM has much bigger. Although this is much bigger than the one I have in my dining room.

[EDB0223]

Is this a cutter being turned? I see the welded area to be finished but that looks like 4 huge steel or carbide cutters on that rotor! What ever it is its pretty cool!

[AldoBr549]

Insert joke about Chuck Norris's nose hair trimmer here...

[dobypaw]

I work in Schenectady and have never seen a 400 ton steam turbine however I have machined a 250 ton nuclear mono block rotor. GE's has a lathe that can handle up to 400 ton. But has not machined a 400 ton rotor. Give you an idea how big a 250 ton mono block is... The wheel diameters are all about 100" and it is over 30 feet long.

[gonedeepseafishing]

General Electric Schenectady, NY has bigger, can hold 400 ton steam turbine rotors. But Korea Electric Power probably has the biggest now!

[pilotmountain1]

That is a pretty big lathe, there is one in Marion NC that is used to rebuild rock crushing equipment that was purchased after the war, it was supposed to be for turning naval gun barrels. They only use part of the "ways" due to it's size! Thanks for the post! mj

[kingswood87]

ive had bigger

[psychomikeo500]

i used to work at a shop that had a lathe with like6 or 7 foot capacity by like 30 feet long

[natekarr]

I'm not quite sure where the lathe startsand the part ends... not a huge machinery guy.

[7810turbo1]

looks like they are balancing a rotor from an impact crusher for crushing rock

[dougspair]

@7810turbo1 Well, the last place I worked I had to replace a shaft on a crusher rotor about this size, we had a lathe a tad larger too, about 8 foot by 45.

[dougspair]

@7810turbo1 My guess is they're centering it in the 4 jaw chuck, for machining the bearing area.

[7810turbo1]

@dougspair yeah looks that way alright , too much grease as usual :) ... nice price to replace them, someone up for a grilling when the cost of that is added up and fitted back in the crusher plus downtime :)

[dougspair]

@7810turbo1 The shop I worked at, Tri-C Machine & Welding, W. Sacramento, Cal. We did a lot of stuff for Teichert, a huge concrete/paving company, w/many types of rock crushers. The rotary crusher was similar to the one here, but shaft was removable. about 10" diameter, two double sperical roller bearings each end, with tapered clamp rings. I also repaired a jaw crusher, two 450mm OD bearings on that, $18K each, again, double sperical, from Sweden, special order stuff. 300mm shaft in that too.

[7810turbo1]

@dougspair only ever seen them go on a jaw crusher .. cost 16 k (euros)... boss supplied grease then :) said it was an added expense before it happened . Kleeman rotary crusher ,.. hammers alone are 1200 euro each and last about 8 weeks in the limestone here in Ireland ... abrasive stuff

[eazyethan187]

@7810turbo1 please try to make sense with you comments

[7810turbo1]

@eazyethan187 I was replying to "dougspair" comment . The video looks as if they are getting ready to repair the shaft where the bearings are gone , I replied to his comment saying I only saw bearings of this size replaced on a jaw crusher. Our boss did not agree with us, that the bearings needed to be greased at least once a day until the bearings collapsed , saying that it was an added expense to the firm. When they collapsed however, he saw our point :) regards

[electrogear]

Right he's got his head in it, turn it on quick!!

[honeybunchickens]

what are they turning anyway?

[honeybunchickens]

DAAAAMMM!! I bet the electric bill isn't cheap to power that bad boy

[VEMWMIKE]

That makes my Logan 200 look like a matchbox car.

[cartmancart250]

man i wanted to see that bitch spining at like 5000 rpm

[speedy02]

They make bigger

[sjmunoz]

that is the biggest automated potato peeler i ever saw !

[AndrewV12208]

There is one at yanke machine in boise idaho that is 5 times that size

[SansP3ur]

It's not that big, those are just very tiny people.

[djplace16]

what the fuck is that thing

[akcabrera08]

@djplace16 This is the rotor assembly for a horizontal impactor (rock crusher). Not sure what machine but it looks as though its getting built up and machined back where the main bearings go onto the shaft.

[ipadize]

HAHA i want to see it at 6000 rpm :D

[PHY104]

max speed 30 rpm?

[yewwoodturnover]

i have one like this for bowl turning i am goning to get a bigger one soon

[mikero1369]

This is actually a normal sized lathe with really small men.

[ductrungdkt30]

may tien khung nhi

[ductrungdkt30]

cai may tien khung nhi

[hoogmolen]

that's a tiny one mate, i've seen em 10 times bigger that this tiny one

[anthonybeers]

You will find many machines of epic proportion Hiding in 200 year old factories here in the rust belt

[xwphx814x]

ive seen bigger!!!

[BobsOldSocks]

That's nothing. I've seen one that can rotate a neutron star at close to the speed of light while playing "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys. Noobs.

[darkyoda]

One of my very first jobs was tending a lathe at the Ingles Shipyard. At the time we were turning propeller shafts. In any case I would come on shift, clock in, sit down on a chair and watch the lathe slowly turn as it worked to chip off tiny shavings of steel off the shaft. Best job (bit boring mind you) I ever had.

[needleonthevinyl]

How fast will it turn at max speed?

[MrJdsenior]

In the US we have one at Michoud that turns the Shuttle external tank. The entire first Wright brothers flight could have happened inside that tank! THAT'S BIG.

[QuaziGNRLNose]

sanvich *poink*

[mormanman13]

How big is this one. I think i used one bigger. But thats the biggest engine lathe. I use VTL

[speedy02]

Ive seen bigger.

[russotragik]

i'm happy with my chinese precisionless lathe of 25mm x 140mm...

[whackitov]

@russotragik pmsl! prescisionLESS? that good huh?

[russotragik]

@whackitov ok it's have no precision, the motor broke twices, but it's cheap and ideal for making stainless steel bullets...

but you wiil lose your barrel "spirals"(rifling) soon, cause isn't too soft as lead...

[MrRoccstar]

I have a maschine Ø 3500 x 14000 mm

[technoman53]

Holy crap.

[Kachoo01]

Not the biggest lathe anymore

[drive1786]

mannnnnnnn i would love work this shit , chop some iron off this bitch ;)

[memorylane1980s]

I used to run this stuff even bigger swift Lathes and by myself!!

[drive1786]

@memorylane1980s .......where r u working location and can u hook me up with a job strigh up ......thanks

[memorylane1980s]

@drive1786 I am retired now sorry,

[drive1786]

@memorylane1980s ,OH man u must have all the gravy a machinist used to have back in the days now its all about production ,before bosses used to look for machinsit to hire now machinist is looking for bosess or any inside connection ,which is all bullshit the world is change big time my friend now i am a machinist who is doing plumbing and home electric to keep up with the bills :) even thinking of makeing that switch since nice big job comes once in a while an its all rush they want want lol

[memorylane1980s]

@drive1786 You MUST make a switch as heavy Eng.is FINISHED over here in the U.K. its finished as well, all the places I have worked are closed.The money is in the aircraft game or computers! we had 14ft, 18ft and 25 ft boring mills all gone GEC in Trafford park manchester employed 34,000 guys!! huge VTLs and swift lathes so big they were sunk in the ground! ALL GONE even the buildings have been pulled down. The machines have all gone to India and I cant believe we give them MILLIONS in aid 300!

[cobalt152]

dont forget to take the chuck key out

[myheartiswithher]

@indianguru69 racist price of shit! Racist ball sack poop pile! Keep your racist comments to the Klan meeting. Or did they kick you out?

[BekklerX]

the real question here is what exactly is a cutterhead that big used for?

[tryithere]

It's not moving, you must all be Lathey MF's. That is one big lathe.

[PooPusher007]

piss ant

[madisonelectronic]

Chuck Norris uses this to trim his toenails.

[barbarotico]

bah, I have one of this in my house.

[scottmtm]

Jelqing



[kowdie12]

mines bigger

[shipwright727]

You wanna go check out a ship yard mate. the ones in the yard i worked in were for turning Prop shafts and the gun barrels for the old battle ships. make this look like a hobby lathe in some ones shed.

[Smithyards]

seen bigger

[Ibringthetruth1]

boring. 

[xaropaleuw]

it's not the biggest!here in greece we have one lathe with 3 meters diameter chock:)

[427yenko67]

I ran one twice this size...it was a Gap lathe...because the ways had a gap in them so as to get a bigger swing...

[Dammes83]

boring and not big !

[smikules]

In Soviet Russia, lathe turn you!

[Tomtucka85]

Chicken scratch!! I've worked a bigger lathe in my sleep!! Litterally! CNC job with a 2 meter chuck and 6 meter bed. And in the same workshop we've got a lathe with a 3.5 meter chuck and 20 meter bed. Then theres the vertical borer! Six meter swing ;) We got some big stuff. I'll get some footage and post it. Then link you fellas

[kylep2]

If it's a lathe let's see some chips!

[mikerosew]

morgan engernering of alliance ohio has a lathe that will swing 11 fot. I know because i ran it for years

[carstereofanatic]

What in the sam hell would you use a lathe of that size for? Facing off the earth?

[k0ent]

"thats no lathe... THIS is a lathe!!"

[m8484]

Maschinenbau in all seiner Schönheit.

[floydy22]

you'd need a big ass die head to thread the fucker

[wingking077]

thats chuck right there in the yellow, get it chuck, chuck as in lathe chuck, haha shit

[chris37865]

@wingking077 Haha, i laughed : )

[virus56777]

nice blow bars

[sovereign126]

I did some work experience at an engineering shop in Queensland Australia, they had a CNC lathe with allowed for about 5m x 1.5m. i'm not sure about the weight however.

[AlchemistHawk]

now... lemme see how big your micrometer is lol

[warwickshovel]

i run one a bit bigger then this here in Indiana working with limestone blocks

[XF540]

I've worked with the biggest on the west coast, it was a Bernthienze with a 60+ft. chuck, vertical lathe. Sadly I couldn't get any pictures of it due to the closed nature of the shop. But it did the entire nose dome tooling assembly of a Sea Wolf submarine in one turning.

[aryesegal1988]

can it thread? ;)

[kyosho94]

ok what the fuck is that?

[Jesus45U]

Once the items you need to cut reaches a big enough diameter, horisontal lathes becomes somewhat difficult to work with, which is why vertical lathes are usually used for very large stuff.

Like this one :

watch?v=9kfNXbvsp_U

[azolox]

so ehh wat dus it do ?

[peepeevagi]

You could be uber wasteful and use it to make big ass trashcans out of solid blocks of metal.

[astrialkil]

what are they making a hammer mill?

[crv26]

plane engine?

[5777Sergey]

Good day!

Please tell me you are buying these machines?

can reply to e-mail ukreastindustry@yahoo.com

[pookypookypookypooky]

at my last job i was sometimes afraid i would lose my arm to our small centre lathe. this one i think can eat people whole.

[MWL4466]

Measure twice, cut once!!

[joek0617]

@MWL4466 other way around,approximate once, cut as many times as needed

[ServingBongs]

@MWL4466  HAVE THE REST OF THE DAY OFF NOW.

[Jimse74]

Hey allistairc123. Here is a link.....: Biggest Lathe.wmv ..........from year 1933. Try to find it.

[Jimse74]

IN DENMARK WE HAVE ONE WHO TAKES Ø 4200 MM, 12 METERS AND 100 TON. WATCH IT HERE ON YOUTUBE

[Jimse74]

In Denmark, we have one who takes Ø 4200 mm, 12 meters and 100 ton . watch it here on you tube

[allistairc123]

@Jimse74 cool ,do you have a link?

[bryce995]

@Jimse74 go denmark

[MrKaddan]

@Jimse74 hvor i landet er den? 

[Nillerzen]

@Jimse74 kan du lægge et link?

[iceman27406]

@Jimse74 that is not as big as the lathe used to turn the propeller shafts for the aircraft carriers in newport news shipyard in Virginia

[QBMan]

dont forget to pull off the key :D

[santhoshmnal]

this is not the biggest lathe.ther is a lathe in chennai (india) is the biggest lathe in asia.

[doormagic]

What is this?Vacum pump?

[conspiracy777]

I have one of those in my shop.

[guilhermeaugustomade]

que empresa é essa, num da luva, capacete, oculos, protetor auricular,

vai machucar mano sai fora daí

[ptwolfe99]

I know where this is, I won't tell anyone.

[allistairc123]

@ptwolfe99 its not confidential. how do you know?

[sensiseed84]

@ptwolfe99 northernwards <north ireland. Entreprise name's "cooke bros"...what a secret!!!!!

[sensiseed84]

@ptwolfe99 northernwards <north ireland. Entreprise name's "cooke bros"...what a secret!!!!!

[UKMxV3N0M]

@ptwolfe99 so do i haha i work there

[penner08252]

hmm not the biggest but one of the oldest lathe on youtube ;)

[Shazee083]

wow safety shoes on this heavy engineering one mistake your leg is gone even dead not good thing going to happen

[sumit272182]

When i was in L&T (India) i waken on the Asia's most bigget horiontal lathe I f ogot it's name. It's chuck dia was around 12 to 14 meters. Larsen & Tubro Powai Woks has some of the most biggest monster machines with them. I took my taining as a Millright Mechanic over there.

[TheAkash99]

@sumit272182 hey L&T at which place in india?? Delhi?

[mikethemachinist1]

I ran Lathes manufacturing Large Steam Turbines for General Electric that make this lathe, albeit a nice machine, look like a Hardinge Collet Lathe. We are talking about 168" swing over the carriage! and 430" long. Also, as rydmyrice stated, in the US there are some seriously LARGE LATHES out there, however, most do if fact machine parts for high security sectors and cannot be posted. I only wish I could post our POREBA. IT is HUGE

[schlusselmensch]

@mikethemachinist1 Well, I ran a lathe on which we turned asteroids and some one off celestial objects, a few of which you have no doubt seen from your back garden.

And that was just in the prototyping shop in the corner!

[daenumen]

"wheres the chuck key gone??!"

[VirtRampage]

cmon crank it up to 2000 rpm

[RReaper100]

damnit you boring bastards again , to the video , kooks like the slowest bloody lathe on youtube aswell

[allistairc123]

@RReaper100 how would you read the clock to line it up any faster??

[RReaper100]

@allistairc123 Firstly I would get rid of those hidiously ugly yellow overalls and then if the clock said 12 I would bugger off to lunch

[unclemcpeanut]

@allistairc123 lol thats a dial test indicater it measure the difference of diameter. you use it to find the center and you adjust the object at the chuck

[loveunderlaw]

@RReaper100 Good Lathe work is meticulous, & painstakingly slow. It's NOT about

being fast, & full of action. It's ALL about precision man!

[YoDaPro]

@RReaper100 seems like you have no clue of machining... big part=slow speed...

[newcomer9747]

@RReaper100 i'm guessing you need to run it on low rpm as well for successful cutting. wise, the surface speed will reach too fast for the cutter to take it.

[RReaper100]

@newcomer9747 yes 

[astaschak]

@RReaper100 you'd have to have it that slow to turn parts that big.

[r338u4t]

@RReaper the bigger diameter work piece you have the higher your surface speed so less rpm, clearly your are not an engineer

[SPUPRR]

@RReaper100 Larger the part the slower the RPM.You want Surface Feet at the cut not RPM at the middle.

[agt155]

That's just a midget standing on a normal lathe.

[laurentprodz]

thats chuck norris dremel tool

[canuckleheadlimey]

My cock is bigger than yours!

Youtube "Expert" Machinists and their comments....love it!

[revorocks123]

lol the chuck is like 7 feet tall! Insane.

[allesinmetaal]

honestly: this is a serious lathe, but multiply this by 20 and you're pretty close on meeting the big guys...

[thesandonbar]

wow really good, the machine did one full half of a revolution, really top vid, NOT

[JtotheROC]

that is one HUGE-ASS LATHE!!!

[lamoonaniteowl]

not big lathe-tiny guys!

[calsonick]

Fuckin unbelievable. That would be one heck of a lathe to have in your garage at home. How would you even set up a job on something like that

[tyjc87]

That is fucking insane! I knew my mini lathe was mini, but damn!

[knutfheifer]

the man is making pizza, thats what he is doing, setting the dough mixture

[matgonjinn]

thats tiny, i wunce workd on a lath that was so big, it was biger than yur face!

[COD5252]

is that a magnetic or hydraulic chuck?

[stockcar4d]

bla bla bla,,thats a big fukin lathe man...nice

[fordhastalamuerte]

la verdad que es bastante grande per oconozco mas grandes todavia que de peso entraba en un galpon de medidas normales

[chevytruckjerry]

Yeah, uh, for those that think there is "no such thing as a vertical lathe" (lmfao) our shop has one, a Dorries Scharmann model, not huge, but i think the tables measure 7 or 8 feet in diameter. Go ahead and check it out, we're online, Walco Tool and Engineering. We have pictures.

[MrGilburt]

theres no such thing as a vertical turning lathe..........its called a vertical and horizontal boring machine.......if there was such a thing it would have to have a tailstock suspended from the ceiling

[loadervid]

I saw a tv show about building nuclear reactors, and there was a machine in Japan they called the "Super Massive CNC vertical Lathe/Mill "! It was machining the cover dome of the reactor from a solid billet. I think it was some type of stainless steel. The dome had all sorts of portals and features around it which they didn't trust to be fabricated.

[piggelinpojken]

have a lathe in the same size at my work:P if not even bigger..

[theoutfielder40]

i hav not yet operTE THE LYK OF THIS BIG LATHE,,

[MrGilburt]

this is a craven lathe but not a very big one

[MrGilburt]

no its not the biggest lathe on utube have a look at craven brothers manchester

[theoutfielder40]

YUP, BUT HOW BIG IS THE MICROMETER THEY USED,,xd,,,

[MrGilburt]

no its not the biggest lathe on utube have a look at  craven brothers manchester

[wardog1889]

it s a rotor of horizontal stone crusher

[nocrap62]

Be a good machine to turn pocket watch stims with. Just kidd'n. I love these big old lathes. Thanks for the video.

[domyaska]

thanks a lot

[theHippy86]

does anyone know what they r turning? looks like a cutterhead for a planer

[gattosub]

I've been to a shop that had an 18 foot Diameter lathe. A hoirizontal lathe but could turn up to 20 foot diameters

[joemark200]

very interesting...please down more parts i have a problem regarding with my subject ..thanks more power to you..

[1903A3shooter]

Nice machine, I ran one at Newport News

ship that had a 110" chuck. A very old machine but it did the job. Dave