HAL Heavy Duty Machining Australia
Welcome to our heavy duty machine shop. We specialise in the drilling industry and are located in Central Qld, Australia.
My name is Matt, and in a nutshell we make super heavy duty gear that drillers typically love breaking.
Hydraulic cylinders, drilling crossover subs, drill bits, recovery gear... the list goes on. If it's drilling related, we do it.
WHY HAL?
We chose to name the channel after my late grandad Hal.
After working on a drill rig since the age of 14, Grandad then "retired" from drilling at age 60 to "the machine shop" ... and then proceeded to work until his 87th birthday.
THE CHANNEL
This little channel is just about sharing some of the weird and wonderful gear we get to make in the machine shop... and how drillers manage to break it.
I upload once a fortnight (or weekly if possible...) and really appreciate all the comments from around the world. You guys are awesome. Thank you.
Мы сняли БЕЗУМНЫЕ кадры спасения гигантской нити.
Спасение ОГРОМНОЙ заготовки (после того, как буровая установка УМЕРЛА!)
Обработка и установка ОГРОМНОГО резьбового соединения.
Тестирование нашего нового сверлильного станка MONSTER весом 200 кг, изготовленного в мастерской
Мы сделали ОГРОМНУЮ расточную оправку (из ОСИ ПОЕЗДА!)
Изготовление ГИГАНТСКОГО 80-тонного вертлюга (и его ИСПЫТАНИЕ!)
Агрессивное удаление более 100 кг металла (БЫСТРО!)
Использование токарного станка для обработки 1000-фунтового бурового переводника
Переработка уродливой переработанной стали в ПРЕКРАСНУЮ деталь!
Can We Use The Lathe Like a SHAPER For This Part?
Machining Case Hardened Steel To a Mirror Finish
Machining and Installing GIGANTIC Bronze Bushes
This Gigantic Water Swivel Is in TERRIBLE Shape
This Tool Is a NIGHTMARE To Run (But It Saves Time & Money!)
Repair Jobs are Flooding In (And They're MASSIVE!)
Making a GIANT Non Return Valve (With Shop Made MONSTER Tools!)
We Attempted To Run Kennametal’s BIGGEST UDrill (in the Mill!)
Machining a GIGANTIC V Pulley (It BARELY Fit In The Lathe!)
Resurrecting Grandad's Old Soviet Era Shaper (For a MASSIVE Pulley Keyway!)
We Finally Test the Giant HTS Drill (CNC vs Megabore!)
I Accidentally SMASHED A New Tool Making This Mast Pulley
Repairing DAMAGED Drill Heads (So Relaxing To Watch!)
We Removed over 150 lbs of STEEL (so Satisfying to Watch!)
Manually Threading a 30ft Drill Rod (It Weighs a TON!)
Machining a Casing Drive Sub (from 100kg of SOLID steel!)
Repairing a BROKEN Stabiliser (They SNAPPED It Off Down The Hole!)
My Top 10 List from AMW2025 (#1 has me SOLD!)
Machining 0-Ring Grooves (To Fix a GIGANTIC Leaking Water Swivel)
The Carbide Inserts We Use (And WHY!)
Machining a Haul Plug (So Satisfying To Watch!)