Metal turning / how to turn 3Ton Double Helical Gear smarter than others

To me, this is like relaxation therapy. I could watch this process all day, lol. Subscribed.

Love how you can go to work in your pajamas and slippers! Watch out for the toes, easy to loose them!

This machine is a Webster & Bennett, as an apprentice I worked on an almost Identical machine for 18 months, 5 days a week + saturday mornings...on rings of steel that weighed 1- 1/4 cwt. I still remember the smell & noise over 60 years later.

Somewhere, there's an OSHA inspector having an aneurysm watching this.

I thought that my job working in a restaurant/bar was really hard, but watching you fine gentleman, do your work you have made me realise my job is nothing but easy compared to yours. You guys work so hard and hand have done an excellent job. Congratulations well done on your hard work and greetings from India.

I don't care where its made, it takes a great deal of skill to machine parts on this scale. Especially using equipment this old. Very impressive.

I love the blue wires you manufacture in every of your videos :) But i also have great respect for what u are doing with that old equipment!

Old time modernisation!!!Simple but beyond someone’s thoughts!!!So great!!. It would be fascinating to get stats on work injuries..

In my Hometown 5 mins away in Duisburg (Germany), we have a Company making Industrial Gears, this size. The steps are pretty much the same. The machinery is like "Good old green and Heavy Duty", German Mechanics and Machinists known very well. Jobbed there as a Teenager a few Weeks.

Mis respetos para estos señores con la experiencia que hacen estos trabajos de mucha precisión y lo grande de las piezas que fabrican. Saludos desde Cúcuta Colombia bendiciones 👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐😎📐🔧🔨

Passionate people doing real work. Well done guys !

I love watching the old VTL (vertical turning lathe) make such huge chips. Those old W&B’s (Webster and Bennet) could really hog out the material so fast. Watching this is like a time machine back in the 20’s through the 50’s. Those old machines keep working after thousands of hours of use.

Good old Webster and Bennett machine. I'd say these guys are pretty skilled. It's not what you've got its what you do with it (as the actress said to the arch bishop!). Loved the way the guy marked it out with chalk, I remember doing similar when machining castings years ago. Putting it on the gear hobber and supporting the base with jacks made of nuts and bolts (been there, done that), using old components as clamping washers....Yes these guys know what they are doing alright. Where there's a will is a way. Goodness knows what these gears sound like when running, but these guys are very good at getting by and making the best of what they have available.

Lifting the finished piece with a steel chain on a machined surface? Their machining tolerances probably vary from "just about" to "that'll do nicely".

You men are just amazing to watch work. Can’t thank you enough for sharing.

Old time modernisation!!!Simple but beyond someone’s thoughts!!!So great!!. Muito bom .

At least you guys are not wearing flip flops, but proper sandals. 🙂 Great Job!

I'm impressed with the product, considering the equipment, no carbide tools or even compressed air .

I like the way of unloosening the nut in the end - let the machine do the work. A lot of people wouldn't have thought of that.

I visited a large gear turning shop in Sheffield about 10 years ago, which had several large horizontal lathes and milling stations for this kind of work. More sophisticated equipment in the main with CNC on some stations. It was fascinating. We wanted a replacement part made for an indexing unit used on our Bridgeport Mill. Once Sheffield was full of traditional places like this making and fixing parts for big machines, but it's harder to find them now. So many of the good machines were exported or scrapped when they closed down.