Hard Rock Versus High Explosives 

your first ever, that i've seen, speaking direct to camera, normally its only a voiceover. appreciated, thanks Dave.

So much more satisfying to watch when it doesn't have to be covered.

What a beautiful shot. Imagine those rocks were once molten minerals under the surface, those were violent times.

It's great to see a uncovered shot go off

That is so cool when the current gets to the blasting caps. Thank you and have a great day.

Don't ya just love it when you can see all the NONEL tube fire!!

That slow motion stuff is just so dam cool ! 😊 Appreciate your effort in bringing this to us! Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍 👍

Awesome video Dave! It's always fun to see an uncovered shot!

I love watching rocks explode, high explosive will almost always win.

Stuff wet dreams are made of (almost) :D Explosive mayhem, just rubble at the end of the day. Fantastic work and thanks for sharing Dave. Cheers.

Loving the production quality! Top work.

Won’t have any trouble digging that out, understatement of the whole week.

Love it when you don’t have to cover it up

"won't have any trouble diggin that out " nothing left in the ground after that one, no digging needed, great work Dave.

The only lovely Monday is an exploded Monday. I envy your job.

First time seeing a blast uncovered. TRULY AWESOME!!

That is a canny sized boulder Dave, you make the job look easy but that is hard work, all that drilling.

Nice shot. I’m a fellow blaster here in Alaska and I had to subscribe. Just because I like the blasting.

Nice now that's how you turn big rocks into little rocks. That makes for an easy removal easy gradable. Sometimes I miss this kind of work then I remember how hard it was to run those hand operated jackhammer drills on a hot day. Now that I don't miss.

Nice work. No over burden.

Another great video Dave. I really liked the slow-motion one where you could see the blasts walking through that big one. Take care.

one of your best videos thanks very much

Love the slow mo of uncovered rock blasts! Cheers!

Love seeing the electric arching!

Your drilling to the side of that rock reminds me of the road to his mine my grandfather made. I was told he drilled the blast hole for it hanging off te cliff with an old school jack hammer. My grandfather was a tough man wiry and sometimes damn mean. Miners neede to be, especially old West Virginia. You do amazing work,. Thanks for sharing your life down there. God Bless and Protect you, Sir. I had to add,You Rock the Rock!!

Big chunks, putting it mildly! Well Dave - that was beyond satisfying - excellent result. Excellent video. Slo-mo, drone etc - brilliant. :) (Had to indulge in several watches of that - yummy.)

What a breakup , You did not scatter it all over the place , hard to do without covering it . Well done David

When there's something hard, in your wanna-be neighbourhood, who can you call? Rockblasters. Blastin' makes me feel good....

Bought a smile to my face... love the slow-mo.

Dave, As usual a very shot! Your really getting some fantastic video with that slo-mo that is just awesome!!!! But now with the drone shots, it's over top...... BTW the breakage was perfect without too much fly rock.... Cheers Dave

What a way to start the day with a BANG lol. THANKS Dave 👍👍

Did you see the Sasquatch moving all the trees around behind you at 2:47 mark? LOL

The slow-mo is really good Dave

I liked the aerial shot.

Love your videos......................Keep on "Rockin" 👍👍👍👍

Oh yeah, doesn’t get any better than watching the fly rock blast off. Amazing Dave, great video. Top of the day to ya

You did a good job Dave. Reminded me of myself and brother teaching each other in the goldfields of Western Australia 40 plus years ago. I knew nothing about dynamite and my brother made two so satisfied with our credentials we went ahead. It worked too, though now thinking back I wonder how we didn't kill ourselves.

Great Video Dave... been a fan of yours for some time... the video work is getting great! Hello from Kelowna British Columbia

WOW! That was Brilliant Dave. Thank you.

Dave you have had a lot of school for doing what you do I've had a lot of respect for guys who blow thing up since I was a kid watching the workers at the Quarry and in the military. I just gripes my backside when they give you to little of an excavator to move rock, I but I've got away to motivate the folks that do that to you!! Great Video

Pure class this one Dave. Like the way you showed us all a little bit more of the process making the bang. I reckon someone should send you a sacrificial camera so you can sit it a few feet from the action. Cheers.

Beautiful work . Loved how you still have a wind up per charge system,instead of a battery pack charge system

The slo mo on this one was awesome!

That should take of that rock problem lol. Good to see you getting more work.

As always a great video, thanks for sharing. The more and more i watch your videos the more it makes me want to add blasting to my licence

Awesome video! It is very hard work running a jack hammer! Thanks!

..good job, have a bang up week..lol...stay safe....

OH MAN….THAT WAS AWESOME 🧨‼️

That was awesome!

WOW, I just love the uncovered shots👍👍😁😁

Excellent content Dave! Love your work. Thank you for taking us along.

Love the drone

Thank you Mr D for showing all the work that you put in to prepare the blast - I noticed that you are quite methodical by putting the stick into the next hole that you prepare - mind you you have to seeing as you send rocks into outer space - please stay safe and well sending regards to you and yours 👏❤️😁xx

Like Ken Gamble wrote, the slow motion stuff is the best. I guess sometimes you have to be a bit of a mountaineer to get up onto the rocks.

Another Top Job !...What Bloody Rock ?...BOOM !🤣🤣🤣👍

a great way to start the week.excellent camera work dave.a couple of rocks like them would make good gateposts on a driveway.no worries about careless drivers then.thanks for the entertainment.

The drone footage was awesome.

733👍's up thanks again for taking us all to work with you for the day Awesome job

That was just awesome 😁 no need for digging it out, it flew out 😅

drone view excellant.

Wow, very impressive Dave, thank you.

G'Day, mate!! Hope you're well. Thanks for the upload!

Beautiful. Now ya talking !

Now this looks like a job for me

Great Slow - mo edit! I love the way you capture the lightning like wire fire; that's detonation cord right? Seems like the delays are programmed to create a shock wave through the rocks. Good on you for catching up this job after bad directions.

Perfect shot and great vision Dave thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺👀

That was satisfying! Good to see blasts without the dirt covering. What are the bright streaks before the charges go off- det cord?

Stupid Amazing, As always....

Wow! Out Fracing Standing.

I used to work under ground in the gold mines and used to handle the amfo and charges etc for the drilles

Alot of hard yakka for a few milliseconds of fun, sounds like marriage! hahaha

Shredded rock!

Nice boom , Dave! You seem to be putting a bit more time into these videos- music, drone, multiple cameras, etc. I like it, though I know you won't be able to do all this stuff on every job.

Amazing video!

Awesome.

Nice! You converted that big bread loaf into a quasi-random scattering of crumbs! Your "ignition" box: is that a DC generator charging a fat capacitor? And I like the intro piece - it sets the scene for what we're about to see. BTW, you didn't get "lost" - you were "temporarily geographically indeterminate"!

If you had the time, that would have made a great stone wall. Carved up into building blocks. Yeah I know. you cant beat a big bang on a Monday morning. Kinda sets you up for the rest of the week.

Agape dude. And as a concreter of 32 yrs.... i know your back pain. Ouch

Good fracture on those nuggets no going back to giving them a second pop.

Ok Dave here is a bottle of glue put them all back together !

Rock that shatters like glass. However, the smallest rock required the largest number of holes.

I love your DIY belaying point Dave. I noticed that last week when you were blasting the large shelf of rock for the garage that you went down to nearly 4 metres. Do you ever drill much deeper than that?

Dave, I had a wonderfully brilliant idea that may be a bit stupid and you might want to try. Have you ever seen those baby reveal videos where they pop a balloon and colored powder goes everywhere? Okay, so you get some of that powder in different colors and stuff it in the holes with the packing material you use. Try to draw something with it and see if the drone view could/can pick it up when it blows. For instance, don't tell the other people there with you that you filled a hole with some blue powder, when it goes off and there is blue smoke hanging in the air- if someone asks about it, just tell them "Must have been a smurf hiding in that one; it happens" or something to that effect. I don't really know what the ramifications of adding said powder into the holes might do for the charge, hence why I asked/told you about it. Have fun with it if you can, thanks for the videos.

that last bit at the end was done with a drone? very steady over uneven terrain. what kind do you use? i have a dji mavic mini 2

Brilliant but how do you get what looks like a delay in the firing sequence?

Grinding away day after day on that rock drill looks like the hard part. How long does it take you to drill a metre or a yard of hole then?

How do you measure the strength and hardness of the rock so the proper explosive can be chosen?

What kind of explosives are used? I mean ANFO, DYNAMITE, EMULITE..? The initiation materials??? Electric detonators, nonel?? It is interesting but we need to know more about it. Thanks and best regards

What is the geology of that area? Those boulders look like geologic erratics. Was that terrains ever glaciated. Assuming you are in Australia.

Excellent work!! The Blasting work was pretty good too... Lol You are getting good at this video production thing! I wish the pros were half as good for the TV shows... lol Thank you for the shot of the awesome hand crank blasting machine. That's nearly as cool to watch as the explosion itself lol And it's smart using the crank as a key, and to disconnect the wires. Nice safety feature. We would love a look at it, maybe with its history and specs. Just keep it away from Big Clive unless you want to see the innards lol Is your siren just mounted in the ammo can with a battery? Handy setup. I assume that for these open shots you need to get a lot further away, so you use a long cable, and then have an electric cap near the charges to initiate the Non-el system? Watching the shot progress like that is just awesome. Oh, and I have sympathy for you running the drill horizontal lol A few years ago I was using an 80 pound (36 kg, largest common size) jackhammer on a vertical rock face while preparing the footings for a 120 foot (37 m) monopole antenna tower (old gas station sign towers stacked and welded), which I have climbed a few times since to install, adjust and replace antennas and feedline. It was fun at the top, if you put the top of your head against the pole, (about 6 inches, 152 mm, in diameter at the top) and rocked a little (or that time when the wind was blowing... Lol... Sheesh), you could see the wave traveling down the tower, reflecting off the base, and coming back up to you, just like when you shake a tight rope. Visual SWR, with a very high impedance mismatch at the bottom, and me at the other end! It was on top of a ridge above the Napa Valley, and the view was worth it!

2:06, put a padded seat on that thing...

that sounds like pretty hard rock why with excavators on the job they didn't hammer it up

I was wondering if you found the tip of the drill bit that broke off in the other video?

G'day mate

What kind of explosive u have use

How do you judge the depth to drill?

Dave, just curious, have you ever found any gold or diamonds while your blasting?... ;-)

Hey Dave, love the videos. Had a question though, how do you go about a misfire? In the Military we would give it an hour before we approached to investigate. Usually a rock would be the culprit but I was just curious how you go about it.

Dave, what drone are you using for your aerial shots?

Why do you have to clean the rocks before demolition?