Makes me realise how much I miss watching David's channel. His old workshop was 20 minutes away from my place. Looking forward to seeing some heavy-duty trepanning again
Wow the modern tooling and lathes are a long way from what I saw back in the early 1960s of course the equipment was even older. I worked on an new underground project across London, UK called the Victoria Line, it had twin train running tunnels and stations platform tunnels enlarged after the running tunnel had passed through. It was the first time Tunnel Boring Machines had been used in London, these were made by two different construction companies. The company had two sections of the project that run on from one another and so a large site was set up at the join point. Spares for these machines were not off the self so an engineering shop was set up together with a blacksmith shop, electrician & carpenters shops. Downtime was costly so these shops worked 24 hours repairing failed items and making spares for often worn out ones. Very little was made by the TBM suppliers which did not please them. I just loved watching the machinist getting over problems using the old lathes and tools of the time. Your equipment is a wonderland compaired to there's. Thanks for showing and explaining the now tooling.
Oh wow. Thanks for sharing that good sir. How fascinating. I’m always humbled by what machinists could do back in the day with the tooling that existed. Those men knew how to get creative. Grandad was like that. He just figured stuff out and made it work… grinding up his own inserts. Remarkable
Beautiful work 👏😊 I'm not a machinist, but I tried many times to get into the T R a lot of times but management wanted me in set up and production process.
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada checking in. I am really interested in watching how all this stuff is going to be put together and watch it work. Love watching some heavy turning and chips rolling out like that.
Been watching for some time now . Very impressed with the size and quality of the pieces you turn out. Also the quality of the videos, always silky smooth. I am a retired heavy duty mechanic/ truck driver watching from Costa Rica. Cheers.
Matt….another banger. I am a truck (small off-road style) fabricator in beautiful Phoenix Arizona USA. I am fascinated with machining and have been giving serious thoughts to getting a small lathe for some tighter fit ups and the precision I really want on suspension parts. Keep up the knowledge transfer and I’ll keep watching.
Definitely get a small lathe. It’s actually pretty easy to machine stuff, and a whole lot of fun. That’s how HAL HD started. Grandad was a driller who got an old second hand lathe to machine up drill parts. The rest is history! 🇺🇸👊
Excellent seeing that insert explainer! We hear these insert types being mentioned all the time, but don't get an explanation of what each letter actually stands for. Going forward, perhaps you could flash up photos of that cheat-sheet each time you mention an insert, and those that are interested can pause your video to see the chart! (YT tip, use the < and > keys on your keyboard to move frame by frame, when paused). This allows everyone to learn new stuff, but doesn't interrupt the flow of your video! Win-win!
Excellent machining and these inserts do seem to perform really well. I'm happy to hear something new regarding turning inserts, which squeal, which last a long time and are heavy duty capable which I love the most, hate the weak inserts which last for couple parts and puts the tool itself at risk of breakage. Watching from Latvia, Northern Europe (more commonly known as Baltic states)
Awesome vid Matt ,so looking forward to the drill site, that last ending take wow all there drill teeth soldered on lot of work there ,thanks for showing us all there stuff going on too :)
Hi matt Good video! Interesting insert. I used to be able to buy pin lock inserts that look like an old school hand ground chip breaker, they were awesome for soft sticky steels. Unfortunately I no longer have a source for them tho I see some guys running them. Fifteen minutes into my day I slipped and fell of the table of our 6’ Webster & Bennet boring mill and landed on the sheet metal guard. Impressive bruise on my backside. Tomorrow is going to be rough. Cheers.
Just discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Now I get to watch you and Curtis early friday mornings. Both of you have great content, keep up the great work form West Virginia,US
Hi Matt, Kalgoorlie here. I deliver freight to mine sites, exploration camps and get to see inside workshops here in town so I've got a pretty good understanding of what you're doing. Great content and it's very interesting to see how stuff I cart actually gets made.
Hi Mat, these videos of yours have got me hooked 🤣😀🤣😀. I'm from the UK (probably told you that before). I can't wait to see the FINAL end result, and I hope it does what it's designed to do. Furthermore, I'm so glad I found your channel. All the best to you and yours 👍. Cheers.
Good morning! 0400 here on the East Coast of the US, sneaking this video watch while I have a lull in my overnight work load in Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey is my home.
That’s awesome! Grandad (Hal) Drilled up in the arctic circle in the 1950s Reckoned it was the coldest he’d ever been in his life. Something like -50 Celsius
@@halheavyduty As a very grey, but confirmed ginger myself, I can understand. However, if you want some of the cold and grey, you have to send us some nice 25°C weather.
Since you've shown the pink lemonade, I've gone and got some. Does pretty good, but what I noticed is it leaves a protective coating behind. The chips in the pan don't rust and neither does the machine - great stuff
Exactly. Yeah it has pretty awesome rust prevention properties - which is why we love it. I haven’t noticed a reduction in tool life, so it’s kind of a winner for us.
Formerly in IT in Melbourne. Retired to Bakung (4km inland from Panimbang, on the West coast of Java), Indonesia. I find the machining videos very relaxing for some reason. I can imagine it is not relaxing for those on hand when something goes wrong with all that metal spinning. I really appreciate your explanations of what is being done, and why. I am another of the many looking forward to our field trip to see the big rig.
Thanks so much, I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! 👊 I’m itching to get out to the big rig myself. Almost got there this week, but it started pouring rain! Thanks for the feedback too. Much appreciated mate 👊
Thanks Matt. I’m really looking forward to your on-site video. I’m a Pom, ex-IT network engineer, stopped work early due to ill health. I’m now living in a small village in west Dorset, in the south west of England 🇬🇧. I’ve worked in upstream oil and gas in the North Sea and been to many offshore platforms there, as well as the Norwegian sector and the Caspian Sea; all pretty tough environments for drilling equipment, not to mention network hardware !
Man those North Sea rigs look BRUTAL! Freezing cold and crazy seas. I’d love to visit an offshore rig one day soon. Sounds like you’ve seen some really interesting equipment in your time mate!
I really enjoyed the explanation of the tip inserts on this video. It never gets old, to see Kong eat through a part! Another excellent video! I asked a few weeks back? Any chance will you share name ideas for this big monster your building? Thank you, stay well, see you next week. Will try for 1st place next😂!
Legend 👊🤣 We don’t have a name for the MEGADRILL yet… but the Rig is number 60 in the fleet. DK60 So we just started calling it Donkey Kong. (We only have about 30-40 rigs active, but they keep their numbers like basketball players 🤣)
Commenting to help the HALgorithm. Thanks for the video Matt!
Appreciate that mate! 👊
I'm from Quebec, Canada and I'm also a big fan of Kurtis from CEE
Nice to see a second machnining & fab channel from down under.
Cheers mate! Yeah those two are great. Gold standard for channels for sure
Makes me realise how much I miss watching David's channel. His old workshop was 20 minutes away from my place. Looking forward to seeing some heavy-duty trepanning again
We are definitely introducing more of it in the new year. I’m off to rewatch all his old videos over the break.
Such a wealth of knowledge
I always have a thirst for some nice cold pink lemonade after watching your videos... I don't know why.
Lol, bet that coolant would go straight through you 😂
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Why cold , try it hot
It's a glycol mix not far away from engine coolant. Help yourself
Keep it away from dogs, pups and glycol don't mix👍👌🇦🇺
Tuning in from Indiana. A fellow machinist that enjoys watching other tradesmen at their craft.
Cheers mate. Yeah, as a machinist I enjoy nothing more than watching another machinist at their craft
I AWLAYS learn something new.
9:12
Send it 😊
Sounds perfect
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Tuned in from the Netherlands, Haarlem
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Good stuff! I enjoy learning about the process for making custom parts.
Cheers mate!
I'm tuning in from Stockholm, Sweden. Love what you are doing. Keep up the great work!!
Awesome! Thank you! 🇸🇪
Thanks From Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
I look forward to your videos along with CEE❤
Awesome! Thank you! 🇨🇦❤️
Stoked you found david wilks's channel, some of those trepanning tools, just EPIC👍👌🇦🇺
Yeah he's the OG of trepanning. 💯
Love his channel.
He’s got some great tools
@@halheavyduty is he still aktiv on RUclips?
Hi There. I'm from Namibia. Like to watch you, Curtis and Abon.
That’s wonderful! Those two are fantastic.
A big g’day from across the pond mate 👊
You're right. David Wilks has a very interesting channel too. He's the grandmaster of trepanning.
He really is the OG
Wow the modern tooling and lathes are a long way from what I saw back in the early 1960s of course the equipment was even older. I worked on an new underground project across London, UK called the Victoria Line, it had twin train running tunnels and stations platform tunnels enlarged after the running tunnel had passed through. It was the first time Tunnel Boring Machines had been used in London, these were made by two different construction companies. The company had two sections of the project that run on from one another and so a large site was set up at the join point. Spares for these machines were not off the self so an engineering shop was set up together with a blacksmith shop, electrician & carpenters shops. Downtime was costly so these shops worked 24 hours repairing failed items and making spares for often worn out ones. Very little was made by the TBM suppliers which did not please them. I just loved watching the machinist getting over problems using the old lathes and tools of the time. Your equipment is a wonderland compaired to there's. Thanks for showing and explaining the now tooling.
Oh wow. Thanks for sharing that good sir. How fascinating.
I’m always humbled by what machinists could do back in the day with the tooling that existed.
Those men knew how to get creative. Grandad was like that. He just figured stuff out and made it work… grinding up his own inserts.
Remarkable
Beautiful work 👏😊 I'm not a machinist, but I tried many times to get into the T R a lot of times but management wanted me in set up and production process.
Cheers mate! Yeah, I kind of fell into it TBH. Had no goals to be a machinist, but I absolutely love it.
Thanks for the interesting content, Matt. Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 🇿🇦
🇿🇦👊 Thanks for watching!
Love from Ireland 🇮🇪
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Hello from Alabama, USA.
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Fort Wayne Indiana. Loved working 4140
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Sweden here, now wintering over in Thailand. those chips are so heavy I'm sure I could make some watch parts out of them on my watchmaker's lathe!
You probably could! 🤣
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada checking in.
I am really interested in watching how all this stuff is going to be put together and watch it work.
Love watching some heavy turning and chips rolling out like that.
Love it 🇨🇦👊
I can’t wait to get on site and show how it all goes together!
Loving the channel from here in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just beside Toronto to the west.
Cheers! 🇨🇦👊
Met a bloke, last Tuesday on a plane into Rocky. CW. I was pretty close to its use, this bloody big DRILL. Now I do know.😊
Nice!!! 😉👊
Love the videos tuning in for ontario 🇨🇦 keep up the nice work
Cheers bud, really appreciate your support! 🇨🇦👊
I really enjoy your channel watching from Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada. Thank you
Thank you 🙏🇨🇦👊
Been watching for some time now . Very impressed with the size and quality of the pieces you turn out. Also the quality of the videos, always silky smooth. I am a retired heavy duty mechanic/ truck driver watching from Costa Rica. Cheers.
Thanks so much for the kind words, I appreciate you watching! 🇨🇷👊
Love the crazy shapes the swarth makes
I find it mesmerising to watch!
Hello, from SW Florida, very nice work Matt. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Right back at you mate 🇺🇸👊
Tuning in from South Dakota, USA. I enjoy your content, those tools are impressively stout.
Cheers mate! 🇺🇸👊
Matt….another banger. I am a truck (small off-road style) fabricator in beautiful Phoenix Arizona USA. I am fascinated with machining and have been giving serious thoughts to getting a small lathe for some tighter fit ups and the precision I really want on suspension parts.
Keep up the knowledge transfer and I’ll keep watching.
Definitely get a small lathe. It’s actually pretty easy to machine stuff, and a whole lot of fun.
That’s how HAL HD started. Grandad was a driller who got an old second hand lathe to machine up drill parts.
The rest is history!
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THanks for sharing this with us. I could watch it all day - from near Flint, MI, USA
Cheers mate, really appreciate your support. 🇺🇸👊
Tuning from Leicester, England 🤙
Awesome 🇬🇧👊
That cut so beautifully. It was a pleasure to watch!
Cheers mate!
Greetings from BC, Canada!
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Hi Matt, watching from the other side of the planet in Kidderminster England.
All the best,
Paul
Cheers Paul! 🇬🇧👊
Love the videos mate, love from Germany
Thank you 🇩🇪👊
Another great video. Tuning in from New Brunswick, Canada
🇨🇦🙌 Thanks for watching!
Nice Heavy Cuts, greetings from Germany!
Hey mate! 🇩🇪👊
Long Island New York here, keep them coming!
Cheers mate! Love New York. Was there in Dec 2019… before the world went bananas.
Such an amazing state.
Excellent seeing that insert explainer!
We hear these insert types being mentioned all the time, but don't get an explanation of what each letter actually stands for.
Going forward, perhaps you could flash up photos of that cheat-sheet each time you mention an insert, and those that are interested can pause your video to see the chart! (YT tip, use the < and > keys on your keyboard to move frame by frame, when paused). This allows everyone to learn new stuff, but doesn't interrupt the flow of your video! Win-win!
Great suggestion, I'll see what I can do to include that in the future!
Hi from Norwell, MA USA
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Watching from the middle of the thumb, Michigan USA
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Watching from East Anglia UK.
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Pittsburgh, PA
I'm a couple blocks from US Steel Mon Valley. Thanks for the David Wilks pointer!
Awesome. Yeah David is the OG for trepanning. Such a great channel 🙏
Can't wait until I see this puppy dig a hole! Thank you Matt and God Bless to all in this Advent season.
Me too late! Me too 👊👊
Hey, Redmond, Oregon, USA checking in here.
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Good stuff. Watching from Western Wisconsin USA.
Cheers! 🇺🇸👊
Good videos, I work metal in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. 👍
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Watching from east midlands UK
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South Africa 🇿🇦
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I'm tuning in from Utah, USA... good video, please keep it up
Love Utah 🇺🇸👊❤️💯
Tuned in from Sheffield, UK👍
Awesome 🇬🇧👊
Greetings from the Great Beyond aka South Dakota U.S.A.
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Another great vid Matt, always enjoy the content. Best wishes from the north east coast of UK.
Cheers good sir! 🇬🇧👊
Thanks for sharing your work, from Welches, Oregon, USA
Most welcome. Thanks for tuning in mate 👊🇺🇸🙏
Excellent machining and these inserts do seem to perform really well. I'm happy to hear something new regarding turning inserts, which squeal, which last a long time and are heavy duty capable which I love the most, hate the weak inserts which last for couple parts and puts the tool itself at risk of breakage.
Watching from Latvia, Northern Europe (more commonly known as Baltic states)
Agree with you. We just go for good solid inserts (usually ISO) that will hold up under average conditions.
Try to keep it really simple in the shop.
Greetings for the state of Mississippi in the USA
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The big chips are the Devils toe nail clippings, The Shaky Isles across the ditch
Nice! Haha. Devils toenails indeed 👊🤣
Awesome vid Matt ,so looking forward to the drill site, that last ending take wow all there drill teeth soldered on lot of work there ,thanks for showing us all there stuff going on too :)
Most welcome mate.
I’m itching to get out to site and see all the hard work come to life in the field.
Thanks for the great content. Keep it up... Detroit, Michigan USA
Cheers mate, much appreciated! 🇺🇸👊
Hi Watching from Manchester uk good content with clear useful information.
Cheers mate! 🇬🇧👊
Hello HAL team, tuning in from the province Limburg of Belgium.... Love this channel, keep up the good work.
Thanks mate! 🇧🇪👊❤️
HAL I am tuning in from France. -4C and 15cm of snow.
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Hi matt
Good video!
Interesting insert. I used to be able to buy pin lock inserts that look like an old school hand ground chip breaker, they were awesome for soft sticky steels. Unfortunately I no longer have a source for them tho I see some guys running them.
Fifteen minutes into my day I slipped and fell of the table of our 6’ Webster & Bennet boring mill and landed on the sheet metal guard. Impressive bruise on my backside.
Tomorrow is going to be rough.
Cheers.
Oh damn! I hear you. One slip and it’s a shitty start to the day 🤣👊
Tuning in from Scotland
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Enjoying Watching you play with the Big CNC lathes..... From the Central Valley, California USA
Cheers mate! 🇺🇸👊
Coeur D Alene, Idaho, USA. Can't wait for the tour of the drill rig. Keep up the good work!
Cheers mate! I’m itching to get on site and see it myself 👊💯
Checking in from New Zealand on a Saturday morning here while having breakfast
Good morning from Australia! 🇳🇿👊
Tuning in from just outside Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦
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Just discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Now I get to watch you and Curtis early friday mornings. Both of you have great content, keep up the great work form West Virginia,US
Cheers mate! Thanks so much for tuning in 👊🙏
Sharpsburg Georgia USA
Amazing finish and beautiful chips especially for that depth of cut using a boring bar.
I was really happy with how it turned out. Cheers mate.
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Texas baby!
Love it! Grandma was a full blood Texan and absolutely NO ONE messed with Texas 👊🤣🇺🇸🙌
Hello from Des Moines, Iowa, USA. I enjoy watching Your Work!!
Keep It Up!! Good Job!!!
Thanks mate!
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Watching from Germany.
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Thank you!!!!❤❤❤❤ from california 🎉🎉🎉
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Hello from Alabama USA :)
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Good Stuff👍
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Ahhh Snappp! Second place is the first lower! I'll take 2nd place this week.
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Hi Matt, Kalgoorlie here.
I deliver freight to mine sites, exploration camps and get to see inside workshops here in town so I've got a pretty good understanding of what you're doing.
Great content and it's very interesting to see how stuff I cart actually gets made.
Cheers brother 👊
Love those Kennametal drills
Can’t wait for that 110 HTS to get here! See if the big alpha can run it.
Wow, that's a nice lathe. Great bit of machining as always. Watching from the UK 🙂
Thank you very much! 🇬🇧👊
Hi Mat, these videos of yours have got me hooked 🤣😀🤣😀. I'm from the UK (probably told you that before). I can't wait to see the FINAL end result, and I hope it does what it's designed to do. Furthermore, I'm so glad I found your channel. All the best to you and yours 👍. Cheers.
Thanks so much mate. I suspect we will have a few teething issues… but we’ll sort them out for sure 👊
Tuning in from Pakenham, Victoria love watching 👀 you Peel Steal keep em coming.
Cheers mate!!!
A good interesting one. Good luck!
Thanks, I appreciate it! 👊
Good morning! 0400 here on the East Coast of the US, sneaking this video watch while I have a lull in my overnight work load in Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey is my home.
Love it! Cheers mate 👊🙏
Tuning in from North Pole Alaska
That’s awesome! Grandad (Hal) Drilled up in the arctic circle in the 1950s
Reckoned it was the coldest he’d ever been in his life.
Something like -50 Celsius
@@halheavyduty Prudhoe Bay is brutal not for the weak in winter. Enjoying the videos and content keep them coming.
Good video.... From South Wales over in UK.......... ❤
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Nice. From a wet, chilly, misty Yorkshire, UK 🇬🇧.
Oh how this readhead roasting in 40 degree Aussie sun would LOVE some misty, rainy cold!
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@@halheavyduty As a very grey, but confirmed ginger myself, I can understand. However, if you want some of the cold and grey, you have to send us some nice 25°C weather.
Great videos from BC, Canada.
Thank you 🇨🇦🙏
Well g'day Matt, must be Friday again 🎉 happy days buddy, hope you're keeping well, have a great one 👍
Hey Ralfy! Hope alls well on your side of the world mate 👊👊
Since you've shown the pink lemonade, I've gone and got some. Does pretty good, but what I noticed is it leaves a protective coating behind. The chips in the pan don't rust and neither does the machine - great stuff
Exactly. Yeah it has pretty awesome rust prevention properties - which is why we love it.
I haven’t noticed a reduction in tool life, so it’s kind of a winner for us.
Formerly in IT in Melbourne. Retired to Bakung (4km inland from Panimbang, on the West coast of Java), Indonesia. I find the machining videos very relaxing for some reason. I can imagine it is not relaxing for those on hand when something goes wrong with all that metal spinning. I really appreciate your explanations of what is being done, and why. I am another of the many looking forward to our field trip to see the big rig.
Thanks so much, I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! 👊
I’m itching to get out to the big rig myself. Almost got there this week, but it started pouring rain!
Thanks for the feedback too. Much appreciated mate 👊
It maybe the best drilling tools in your workshop
It actually is. Cuts like a dream and doesn’t make a peep.
Hi from Bridgeville Delaware, USA. Great content, love to see the chips fly !
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Hi Matt great content. Denmark Western Australia
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Thanks Matt. I’m really looking forward to your on-site video. I’m a Pom, ex-IT network engineer, stopped work early due to ill health. I’m now living in a small village in west Dorset, in the south west of England 🇬🇧. I’ve worked in upstream oil and gas in the North Sea and been to many offshore platforms there, as well as the Norwegian sector and the Caspian Sea; all pretty tough environments for drilling equipment, not to mention network hardware !
Man those North Sea rigs look BRUTAL! Freezing cold and crazy seas.
I’d love to visit an offshore rig one day soon. Sounds like you’ve seen some really interesting equipment in your time mate!
Great content as usual! I am from Massachusetts, USA
Cheers mate! 🇺🇸👊
I really enjoyed the explanation of the tip inserts on this video. It never gets old, to see Kong eat through a part! Another excellent video! I asked a few weeks back? Any chance will you share name ideas for this big monster your building? Thank you, stay well, see you next week. Will try for 1st place next😂!
Legend 👊🤣
We don’t have a name for the MEGADRILL yet… but the Rig is number 60 in the fleet.
DK60
So we just started calling it Donkey Kong.
(We only have about 30-40 rigs active, but they keep their numbers like basketball players 🤣)
@halheavyduty Donkey Kong! I love it 😀!
From Louisiana, U.S.A.
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Nice work! CT, USA.
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