Another forest road upgrade project, Dave and Greg Drill and Blast their way through numerous Granite bumps in the road. Please like and subscribe, don't forget to follow us on Face Book
I like that bit towards the end where the road crew had spread and tracked in the gravel right next to a rock Dave still had to lift. So long as the road guys are paid by the day and not for the job, I guess it doesn't matter.
That was impressive in slow-mo: like an invisible giant gently tossing a handful of sand. Seeing all that coarse gravel patter down like hard, hard rain made my scalp tingle a bit.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast And below in fine print: " 'You don’t have to run fastest to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.' doesn't apply to explosions."
When I was a teen, my dad taught me how to remove tree stumps from farmers' fields using dynamite. Then I was trained as an 18C in the Army. I absolutely loved demo. There is something about blowing shit up that is soooo satisfying.
Hi David I've been watch your videos for the past 2 weeks! My Father did what you do for a living! He got his training in the Army! 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle! Unfortunately he Passed away at the ripe old age of 42! He never physically or mentally recovered from being taken prisoner in the Bulge and spending a year tn captivity! I was only 12 years old when he passed! He was a master mason, Master stone cutter and a demolition man like you! Like you he was truly a wonder to watch at work with with explosive or shims and wedges! I am a mason and stone cutter myself! Thanks for sharing and bring back some memories I had long forgotten of my dad and uncles work every day in the quories and mine
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast my aunty was a Nun, i remember a trip with my parents to Mary's Mount (then a convent) when i was maybe 6, stepped inside the building on a scorching hot summer day and was instantly shivering, the walls were 2 foot thick stone, don't remember much else about the visit with aunty, but that memory stuck. a quick search produced the following: 1945 Estate & Homestead of the old Convent " Mary's Mount " ( the homestead is now an aged care facility called " The Conault " in Balwyn) apparently at one point my grandad was a groundskeeper and lived with his family on the grounds for a short time.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast Not to mention that paying the heating bill is a challenge. The only real way to provide any sort of heating in the century old Chapel at the school I work at, was to lift parts of the flooring and install underfloor hydronic heating panels with reflectors underneath. The piping was then plumbed out of the building, under a pathway and under the floor of a nearby classroom that we happened to be rebuilding due to rot and termites, and through to a nearby plant room space under a stairway. I should mention that the footings were large bluestone slabs which had to be cored through to provide sub-grade access to both buildings. Never a dull moment putting modern facilities into century plus old buildings.
It just never gets old, watching Dave do what he is good at, reducing big rock, to small rocks, and doing it in style with explosives. Any bomb sniffing dog would go into a seizure around Dave, and his clothing. It would be worse than a cat with catnip. Always enjoy your videos, and the spectacular explosions when working out in the bush. Take care, be safe. Cheers.
In 1960, my parents bought property in a new housing development near San Luis Obispo California that the builders found out had huge granite types of rocks. They were blasting for several weeks to get all of the home sites cleared. It was great fun for a 7 year old me to go with my Dad and sit and watch the work.
I absolutely enjoyed your videos on your channel I’m from America western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains have always wanted to come to Australia such a beautiful country and people and the kind of work that you get to do I just can’t imagine very skillful but very enjoyable. Thank you sir for your post I will look forward in the future to watch in more you have a good day I reckon.
Hello Demo Dave, thank you for the blasting we were all able to enjoy 😉. There was very little noise from those blasts I can’t see any reason for complaints from people nearby. Keep them coming, watching from Perth.😀👍🇦🇺
Thanks for watching Peter, the blasts were very mild on the noise because of the crushed rock we heaped up on top, I can assure you that uncovered it would be a very different story. Often uncovered blasts that use det cord echo around the hills for more than 15 seconds, have a listen to some of these ones - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-beGlT5R9RCg.html
31 minutes of stuff flying. Style points for the near quarry quality slabbed off blocks (great explanation too). And you have a new business line - gravel spreading. 8 out of 10 on the patented "That Blowed Up Real Good" scale.
You are right there Brian, wet clay soil has a very high sound wave propagation speed, speed of sound in rock is much higher again, around 5000m/s. Speed of sound in air by comparison is 337m/s
That's what i call , precision , experience and knowledge 👌👌 gravel flying everywhere and not a single piece of rock hits his camera's .. Well done sir 👌
Beautiful fracturing I like theses topics, I find them interesting to watch, it’s a pity people have to complain about the noise, but it still made a interesting video, just like a said before,some 40 years ago down on the farm with my grandpa getting rid of the tree stumps,
I can' decide if you are a cinematographer or an actual contractor. Those slo-mo scenes are awesome. Binge watching your videos for three days now, nice one fella.
The fact that escapes their notice is that without blasting there would be no mining or quarrying of hard rock and that would mean no concrete, no steel, copper, silver, gold, Etc, etc.
That's a lot of drilling and holes! Looked super windy on first shot day, and even later - great slo-mos as usual. Gravel cover was a new method to see. Some really nice slabs at times. Another great video Dave. :)
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast I was thinking about that Dave. If you got yourself a skip truck with a Palfinger and claw bucket, you could self load the skip and drop it off at home. Reload with a fresh empty skip for the next day. Then on a quiet off day you can sort through the rocks for sale or crushing.
Very nice Ka-boomin, Me Aussie amigo! I always think that you're going to dig some lost and mysterious object. Maybe one day.......Love your work buddy!
You fellas saving some of that squarish elephants for diamond sawing wet table tops benches looks like nice hard granite.i like the shear shots .can you shoot water for those great bits through your Steels,good for dias. Silicon carbide, love the sound of your powder! On top of your drill I call it balling the jack ..your body weight adding to the bit good! A good stone mason could stack you good dry walls in situ. Sharp crushed one inch minus granite gravel for high strength mix concretes.
It sorts out the workers from the watchers but like anything, you get used to it, I averaged 40 meters a day on this job, you know you have done a days work but plenty of times I have done 60m/day in similar rock.
Good Morning Dave! You're freezing & I'm melting. 113 F in Phoenix yesterday. It's 4:30 am right now and it's still 90 degrees. 2 more months of this H***. I don't remember you ever using gravel as a cover? It did a great job on the noise. Great video! Stay safe. Jim
Nice weather and blowing up rocks in the middle of nature, what's not to like? Amazing how you managed to partly blow up that particular rock and leave a flat surface....
Amazingly straight fracturing on a lot of those blocks. Probably have some far future post-human pseudo-scientist blathering on about "ancient astronauts". And the digger operator is skilled too: makes handling that massive machine look easy.
There was some farms nearby and we had to keep the noise down a bit. A shot fired with det cord and no cover is very offensively loud, this was quite mild.
I generally find that the most efficient way to spread gravel on a road is to chain the dump truck tailgate a crack open and then drive. This however looks MUCH more fun! Lol And I wanted that slab...
thats some nice homogenous rock, must be great not having to worry abaut fault lines cracking and venting in a unwanted way i attempted blasting some rock , some blew up into some really nice small pieces while some others just cracked a little
There doesn't appears to be a lot of topsoil over the crust of Australia. Just a big slab of rock as far as you can see in any direction. You picked a good place to set up shop. Blow up a big rock, crush it into little rocks and use it to fill in the hole where the big rock was.
You rock man, you found a new technic to spray pils of gravel in the backyard !! lol Sometime i watch vidéos from the loiseau's familly, on controled demolision on a tv show, and one time they talk about head pain at the end of a day when they place explosives all the day long in a construction, do you have the same problem, or it depends on what kind of explosives you use ? Thank you for the vidéo, it's realy satisfying.
You know, for road levelling I would think braking the granite down to much smaller pieces would be preferred, making it easier to level the road surface.
Two videos on this topic - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jg83MLOe5Q8.html and - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xpd1STz8C_0.html
Just uncover it a bit and have a look at the shape of it, if it is just taking a bit off a huge lump you will need a bit more in each hole than if it were a stand alone floater.
Seems like you've put a lot of cost and effort into making some very nice rip-rap. Shame it would cost more than it's worth to transport it to a nearby culvert or streambed.
Afternoon Dave, I am asking this because I don't know, But do you get rocks that Heave like from Frost, Hell I don't even know if you get Frost in Australia. Anyways, Rocks will be pushed up by the ground freezing or by just time. Good example, When I bought our place 25 years ago, We did not have any rocks crowning. Last year I had to rent a Backhoe and pop the rocks out of the ground to smooth it back out so the horses wouldn't brake a leg. Enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing.
I'm working on it Bruce, in the mean time... Have you seen this one? Not much of a story but plenty of action - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VCMjaYfUgKQ.html
Dave, with the number of holes required on this job would the use of your mini with the drill head been quicker and easier on you? Looks like the wind doesn’t stop blowing where you were working. Thanks and say safe.
Yes, absolutely Rich, I did not take it on the first day because, I had not checked out the job and did not know what the road in would be like for my truck access, being cautious because it had been very wet recently, and by the second day we were more than half drilled.
How would that granite hardness compare to what i would be familiar with. Monument, and road curbing mined in Vermont. Known as grey ghost granite. That looks especially tough. Very interesting techniques. Thanks.
Good question! It is very tough stuff Greg, I have been thinking about an easy way to comparatively measure rock hardness, only real way I have to measure at the moment is drilling time.
Great video. I see you wear a decent respirator even when working outside and having the dust sield and vacuum. How much of a health issue is granite, or any other stone dust? On another safety observation - should you be more concerned about not just hand/arm but whole body vibration? I ask because drilling holes all day seems high enough risk but when you also need to hold the drill down with your leg it makes me think it's a potential big issue long term. Not sure how you'd fully mitigate it. Add weights to the drill? Stand on anti-vibration matting? Stay safe.
Granite dust contains a very high level of crystalline silica, real bad stuff, yes the full face respirator is a bit of an overkill but it also serves Two other useful purposes not immediately apparent, 1/ the air that comes out of the drill exhaust is very oily - I add extra oil to the airline to get the most life out of the hammers. The organic vapors canister block out this, and 2/ the full face cover does a great job of keeping stone chips out of my eyes, this used to be a constant problem before the full face masks were implemented.
@@demolitiondavedrillandblast thanks for the reply, very interesting. I can definately understand the eye protection - my eyes seem to attract all kinds of debris and that has meant several visits to eye casualty. I now make a point to wear safety glasses for every job where debris can get airbourne...and remembering to put the glasses back on when completing tasks, even if only for ten seconds! Sod's law exists - I can confirm it. I hadn't realised about the oil in the air line at all and hadn't looked into granite dust. Thanks for teaching me something. Sounds like the full face respirator most certainly is needed.
