Grizzly T27978 - 50-Ton Air/Hydraulic Shop Press 

I've been tossing around purchasing one of these presses for a week. You have helped very much. THANK YOU!!! Awesome Video!

I just purchased a very similar press and the manual clearly states that the pump has to be filled and bled before using it. I don't know if you did that but that ratcheting sound might be air pockets resonating through your lines. The fact that it bends your bed plates proves that the machine is powerful and that you are simply abusing this equipment. The press is engineered to press on material that will move under the load applied by the ram. The bed plates are mild steel so will bend and not shatter, otherwise would be extremely dangerous. You not only bent the plates but the bed as well. I am a machine builder/ fitter by trade for about 30 years and have worked with everything from 1 ton hand presses up to 200 ton hydraulic presses. Respect all machines for what they were designed to do, maintain them and always be prepared to make your own improvements if necessary. When I got this for my home shop I fully expected to modify it, I paid about the same as you did and am very happy with it. Your negative comments on this machine are unjustified.

Good review. Electric over hydraulic is the way to go with a 10.000 psi pump with hand control and foot control.

Great demonstration! Thanks for the video! Thumbs up!

Looking at the effect on 1" steel, one can have an awed appreciation for the engineering behind a heavy equipment semi-trailer.

your gauge is in METRIC tons. so, 45 metric tons is almost 50 SAE tons

Fantastic comprehensive review

Sooooooo, why wouldn't you rewind the cable so that you can spin it the other way to lift it?

it sounds like your air setup isn't putting out enough flow ie cfm

also the blocks are probaly sent soft so hobbyists dont turn them into grenades

Man Richard your shop is getting cooler and cooler 👍

Use the hand pump you'll get there faster that air over hydraulic unit is garbage on all of these

Can you tell me the type of C-Channel they used for the carriage and top part? The height, width, and web thickness. I am planning on making my own press. Thanks!

Thank you for your video. This thing is, as we say in Aust. 'not worth two squirts of piss!' What a waste of one's hard earned money. Many thanks for your appraisal. Is there a sticker saying 'Made in Hurry'? I certainly won't be in a hurry to buy one.

Maintain the good work and bringing in the crowd!

At those kinds of pressures it's probably a good thing it's slow.

Looks like I may need to rethink my 50 ton air assisted bottle jack forging press.....

Of course you bent it. You cant put that kind of pressure over such a small area. Spread the load.

Thanks for the video.

Take that boat winch off there and replace it with a worm drive winch that sells for about $10 more. Lots more power but slower of course.

Just to let you and everyone else know, it bent because you're using it incorrectly. each plate on any press is rated to half the ton power. youre supposed to use both plates at the same time, and put the thing youre compressing in the middle of the 2 plates side by side, down the seam. then the weight is evenly distributed and nothing bends. cheers.

Puts hand out to pad the metal object about to hit him in the face!!

Great video ! Do you think overall a 20 ton press will it be enough?

jesus christ this guy is gonna seriously injure himself

I have that exact same machine, except I paid $1500 for mine, that didn't include the the bottle jack, I had to drag it home myself. As for the cost of an actual punch press machine, you're probably looking at closer to 5k for a very old machine, that most likely runs on 550 v 3 phase, which is industrial, most shops won`t have that, so you would most likely need a phase converter another $1500 plus shipping for a decent one, then you have to hire a machine mover, easy another 2 k, then you have to set it up, you may need a thicker floor with a rubber mat. This is a chinese el cheepo, but it's a solid little press, we use it daily pressing steel parts, for what it is & it`s low cost, there`s nothing to complain about. You will need to modify it to what you need, it does have its limits. You don't buy the cheapest Hyundai car, believing it`s a top of the line Mercedes. You want a digital all hydraulic cnc press, your into hundreds of thousands. It`s slow, the cylinders will leak if you use it hard, in less than a year, you buy a new one for $130 .... I`m sure you could build a better heavier duty press yourself, cost you way more just doing that. You can go buy a custom sized piece of tool steel, or you can scrounge something from your local scrap yard for a few $$$$ .... It's all relative

This press is dangerous. I have a Stenhoj 25 with none of the described problems.

👍Nice press

Looks like a pretty nice press but it can't help it if it's subjected to fantasy expectations. So you deliberately bent a nice new tool by doing something that no one would ever do to one of these in real life? Sorry I stopped here.

That whole SHEBANG is a pile of garbage and dangerous as hell! And using your hand to shield your face is NOT SAFE? Where is your common sense???

This is very dangerous what you do without safety PPE

Awesome, 1st Comment!

Harbor freight 50 ton is heavier

Good or bad, you aren't taking it back. Just an excuse to make a video and pick up a few bucks having others buy one.

It's really unstable. I think it should be more stable if your not going to lag it to the floor maybe find a peice of heavy steel plate big enough to make it stable and stich weld it so it can sit flat on the floor.

100000lbs of force and your talking shit that it bent?

Dzieki

Send it back minds harber fright keep it away from children’ 500 pounds could heart someone bad if it fall on them

Bk

Hahaaa

This guy is a triggered snowflake; just what did he think he was going to get for$750.00? It's well known that Grizzlies cheap stuff is a kit in a box. Potentially a good starting point, but it'll need work. One of my neighbors swears by their top end woodworking equipment, but freely acknowledges that it costs more for the results.