this was the biggest lathe on YouTube 

I worked for a company here in Australia that had the largest lathe in Southern hemisphere which used to be owned by the Vickers Cockatoo Island dockyard, it was used for turning ships prop shafts and power station generator armatures from all over Australia and south-east Asia I thoroughly enjoy your videos thanks for sharing 👍

All I remember from our entry into what became the EU was one boss telling us they can buy the parts from Spain cheaper than we can buy the steel to make them, and then a career change. Someone screwed the small engineering companies in N.I. and the UK and now the places I used to earn a living in are Charity warehouses or Gyms.

you have the biggest balls mills in Ireland I understand....great video Allistair....cheers from Florida, Paul

Don't you love how 'renewables' rely almost exclusively on geological oil?

what an outstanding treat to find on Sunday. Great Video

Turning on a grand scale!

Very impressive stuff.

Wow, what an amazing process!

AWESOME ! ,...LET THERE BE ROCK !,...and overtime Mike

Where was the gold mine (ball mill job) located?

How often do you go on-site vs customer bringing jobs to the shop?

Amazing monsters, thanks for sharing

Awesome 👍

Holy cow!

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Tar plant drier ain't a lathe of Any size. Video FAIL.

Maybe Trump can help...

When that big impact rotor was chucked up and spinning I couldn't help but picture a comically oversized dial indicator going on the tool post. That live center is a stud. Lol

Drier lifters - horrible job! But Decent sized one to work in at least

Great video, wonderful and unexpected ending. Wow. Always a treat to see the big tooling at work. I greatly appreciated your framing the work relative to economic forces - never would have made the connection had you not shared this !

I enjoy all these workshop vids so interesting and seeing your scale model collection great stuff appreciate your time sorting through and sharing a snippet of your content 👍

Incredible big lathe. Thanks for sharing. Sometimes you just wonder how to tackle this job.

Fantastic footage . Big scale engineering. Impressive skills . What was the ending poetry ? Lovely touch btw . Guess that’s why young people shy away from our trade these days . Nobody under 45 in our shop .

That's not a big lathe there just small men lol sorry

I I was working in southern Ireland working on all the new roads in the boom times

go by a pint and take care of your ballmills......cheers, Paul

Even Gerry Adams got a mention @5:26. Super engineering at another level.

Does your shop still work on large mining equipment?

Them were the days .

Fantastic again Allistair, I worked both welding quarry plant in the factory, and doing on site repair back in the 80's happy times

Bloody hell, that's a big bugger!! Massive machines made by small humans always looks impressive. The power of humans working together.

Amazing! There are very few sources where we can see the Large Industrial side of machining. Lots of moderate size machine shop stuff, and a few larger machines like Brian Bloc's big Monarch lathe, but nothing on the scale you just showed!!! Incresible! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

I think only General Electric and General Dynamics in the US have as large and larger lathes ,but not on RU-vid HaHa !

Class, i was up quite a few years ago now to see if i could buy any offcuts of EN24, can’t remember who i got talking with but he showed me some of your machines, they are even more impressive in person. Engineering on a serious scale!

Thank you for taking the time to share these; it's a fascinating look at recent history.

@ 5:00 Spent many hours in asphalt plant dryers like that one. Replacing and repairing flights. Just so cosy and homey !! Hello from the USA !

I love the poem! Great vid too! Thank you :)

Brilliant footage bud

Flat cap in the workshop them were the days

I am tired just by watching

This is a cool video, I ran a Churchill VTL with an 8' table/Chuck

That impact rotor was awesome.

Super stuff

brilliant video

Good stuff. You get all the fun jobs. Did you ever do any shipyard work?

Working in one of them and welding, like being in hell

And a bit of welders lament. Tractors Lathes and poetry, a special channel. Cheers

Jeez, the live center head on the tailstock of that lathe is bigger and the guns on some capital ships!!

now that is a big lathe ,, it will not fit in my garage it's 30 by 40 but it will fit in the barn it's 30 x 80 ft ,, neat to see the older footage of what went on back a few years ago .

Loving all your recent uploads

Awesome 👍

Thank you sir, may I have another? 😂

Hi

Gold mines in Ireland?