The Largest Lifting Eye We've Ever Built (Machined From SOLID!)

In today's video, we're machining the largest lifting eye we've made in 60 years! This will be a one-off component used exclusively to lift the 22 ton MEGADRILL in and out of the hole, so we're making it out of a 300kg piece of solid 4140 billet... and they need it YESTERDAY!

Join the whole team as we remove some serious metal in both the Colchester Alpha CNC and the big white mill (Godzilla).

Enjoy!

About HAL Heavy Duty:

We're a real life machine shop for 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 (A 3m Drill bit that...  
   • Big Rig Drive Sub | Megabore Lathe | CNC M...  
   • Mega Drill Rods Getting Torqued Up To 65,0...  
   • We Built a 3m (10 ft) MEGADRILL That Weigh...  
   • Machining a 1000lb (450kg) Auger Drive Sub...  

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