1600 TPH KOBELCO GYRATORY CONE CRUSHER, CRUSHING HARD IRON ORE

[@dbeekman9738]

I got to assist in rebuilding one of these a couple of times 1984-1985 at Tilden and Empire Iron mines in Marquette County Michigan. No one wanted to run the crane to lift out or move back in the 135 ton mainshaft and mantle, so I volunteered. One of the easiest physically and most nerve wracking jobs involved. I learned how to run the crane on the job 2 years earlier. "Here's the controls, play with it a while until you get comfortable." Then, moving a bucket the size of a pickup truck in between moving conveyor belts and rotating mills with bolts sticking out 3 inches as it rotates. So, I learned early how to control swing early and well. ---- Anyway dropping the 135 ton bell into the eccentric opening was the hardest. Six people down in the pit staying aside but all trying to give directions. I set the controls down and yelled at them. Pick ONE person to give directions. The only directions the other 5 of you can give is to STOP. Then I picked up the controller and asked them which one is giving directions before we proceeded. As a worker, I'd rather be running the crane confident in my skills than be down below trusting someone else's skill.

[@Mr_Go_Crazy]

Watch my channel's video

[@ValmerKill]

Замечательный рассказ. Ты все правильно сделал

[@djstatyk1540]

Smart man you are. Making sure no one gets injured or killed

[@jeffreysullivan4576]

My grammar n grammar live in national mine michigan

[@joeschmo7957]

Wow, Marquette county. That would be, you know... up north. Dress for the weather, surely. Lived "down south" a bit in Mio for 15 years.

[@kametak]

Whoever thought of this is amazing! I'm interested to see what the underside looks like.

[@valdinaramaro1231]

Pensei exatamente a mesma coisa

[@dannypierce3878]

The underside is ran on an eccentric, and has a bronz bushing thats about 40" tall ans 36" in diameter, the top is mounted in a flange that occasionally shears all of its big bolts and you have to lay out a new bolt circle by hand and re drill using a mag drill sitting a straddle of the cross member. And hand tap the holes. Its hard work. The gyro i repaired weighed 40k lbs.

[@marktucker208]

Show us

[@sandgrownun66]

What underside?

[@Suspicious259]

Hell

[@BigBadDodge4x4]

YOU GUYS CRUSHED IT!! I'm hooked now!

[@lpon9757]

That's a burning comment

[@haroldsmith45302]

Thanks for letting us "look over your shoulder" at work! Good videos.

[@ТатьянаПетренко-х9к]

Шайтан машина,камешки хрум хрум.Прикольненько.

[@svetlanesheva]

Шейтан е дяволска машина,ама преводът е лош.

[@dsbmwhacker]

I spent a few years of my youth working around and operating mobile crushers, Cone Crushers, Jaw Crushers, Roll Crushers, and Impact Crushers. Rebuilt and maintained many of them. Can be a quite dangerous business. I had MANY close calls.

[@Mr_Go_Crazy]

Watch my channel's video

[@carlphelps4098]

Same but different! Cleated conveyer at bottom constantly clogged. Jump in with a digging bar and just hope your feet don't get caught!

[@bwatt1383]

What kind of close calls? Any violations of lock out tag out those scare the hell outta me

[@Mr_Go_Crazy]

Watch my channel's video please 🙏

[@dsbmwhacker]

@@bwatt1383 On a sub zero Winter night, I was sent into screening plant during night shift to clean screens...morning shift came on and started screen plant when I was inside...I barely got out. No lock outs on controls. Another time, we were "picking" a huge boulder that was stuck in jaw crusher...old worn out chain snapped and a large chain fragment hit me in the neck, just grazed me, had a shallow gash on my neck...a straight on hit would have likely killed me. Another time they had us clear back a bit when they blasted in a quarry. "Fly rock" landed around us, destroying the hood of one of our cars. A rock the size of a VW rolled into the crusher site. An inexperienced co-worker tried to manually turn a conveyor, grabbing the v-belt...operator turned on conveyor at that moment and the kids hand was mangled in the multi belt pulley. These are just a fraction of close calls I witnessed. My first shift, a night shift, I was handed a shovel and a hard hat...that was my only instruction. No safety hints, no explanation of what my job actually was, nothing. Most belt guards were missing around the plant....it was a miracle I didn't get hurt the first night...in the dark.

[@gragra3070]

Мощное зрелище ! Можно смотреть на это часами ! Медный колчедан или железная руда ? А внизу доменная печь .

[@Sergtyt]

железная) в названии видео IRON ORE.

[@sonshinelove6181]

This is horrifyingly spectacular. I would like to see the underground part.

[@acefreely3556]

There is something about this machine. It seams alien like, horrifying, powerful, destructive and the strange noises and vibration must make it an eery experience to be around.

[@tilerman]

Very well put. For some reason i find it quite mesmerizing watching stones being crushed by a giant machine that i have no clue how it works. Very strange indeed.

[@БорМалей-г1р]

Vogans creat it

[@TheMANN757]

@@БорМалей-г1р was that a hitchhiker guide to the galaxy reference???

[@acefreely3556]

@@TheMANN757 No. I Haven’t seen that movie.

[@changsangma1915]

Yet designed by humans with the knowledge of engineering. The people responsible for making everything you depend your lives on.

[@bishnuprasad431]

Its soo satisfying to watch please make another video like this we want to enjoy the view and asmr

[@eustaquiopereira4267]

I'm senior mechanical engineer and always passionate for engineering. Great job. Congratulations !

[@ryanjones7681]

This is literally a machine version of that sand worm pit thing from star wars.

[@colindavis2113]

The sarlac pit 👍 😁

[@FREEEDDOOMM]

The sarlac pit took years and years to digest you. This I'm thinking not so much.

[@SunSimLord]

This one would hurt worse.

[@SunSimLord]

@@FREEEDDOOMM I forgot about that. Maybe this would hurt worse.

[@chadwells7562]

Probably what inspired it

[@kuziac2132]

) я работаю в такой-же жопе, не очень давно установили молотобой ( гидравлическая стрела с отбойником) не понял по видео что они дробят у нас железная руда и наша в дроблении жёстче. По крюку конструкция интересная конечно, у нас до гидравлики использовался просто большой крюк по форме рыболовного.

[@Барсик-г1р]

А чьё производство дробилка?

[@kuziac2132]

@@Барсик-г1р код 700 есть украинская и есть импортная NZ и ещё две буквы точно не помню если важно напиши буду на работе посмотрю

[@Барсик-г1р]

@@kuziac2132 спасибо. Мне было очень интересно узнать, что такие монстры есть и в России.

[@dmitriyv4557]

Железную руду тут тоже дробят

[@SunSimLord]

I occasionally mow the lawn.😁🙃

[@jamesb.9155]

So satisfying to hear the unstoppable munch munch munch munching away of those big pieces of iron ore by that big Kobelco cone crusher!

[@Kwodlibet]

A busy day in a Cone Crusher's life: ...munch, munch, munch, munch, munch...

[@haroldishoy2113]

I have watched this entire vid in amazement, this is better than watching county road crews fix roads.

[@randywl8925]

County road crews can fix roads? .....oh, get outa here. 😁

[@dimassmaster9]

Впечатляют размеры дробилки ! Из белаза как из совка в ведро, из белаза! Ни какой нибудь там камаз 20 кубовый. Интересно какая фракция на выходе?

[@cybergothika6906]

Kudos for the brains that did all the machinery and the courageous balls that operates them. Good job guys.

[@sandgrownun66]

"courageous balls". Can a ball be courageous?

[@djstatyk1540]

@@sandgrownun66 to go where no man is willing to go? A testicle can certainly be courageous

[@zottek2]

Brains?? A flat hook, dangling from a crane, is the worst tool to remove rocks that are stuck in a poorly designed pit. The hook cannot even be turned around. What a waste of productivity.

[@cybergothika6906]

@@zottek2 Hey you still gotta have lots of guts and nerve to try creating machinery of this size. Not to mention operate them, fix, install, uninstall, it is no easy task you dumb fool. That's why I said brains, it is also required and it works. What else you need?

[@MegaLojay]

Whoever runs that hook must be the most frustrated person on this planet

[@BeeRich33]

Check out the videos with this crazy Lego hook in it. Everybody's frustrated.

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

Yeah, but he kills it plucking plush toys with the grapple...

[@jeffstrains4014]

I agree it seems to be really under powered! I know those rocks are bigger then they look on camera. Would be $$ but an intergraded arm with hydraulic hammer would speed it up a lot.

[@nathansauve1153]

🤣

[@mamyrammer1603]

@@BeeRich33 best comment ever, you owe me a bite of burrito i spit out laughing.

[@billh1471]

Everytime i watch I'm amazed that with all the $ and capabilities that must be present at this site, the best they could come up with is the world's slowest hook for free-up the jams.

[@jaye1967]

I suppose, considering they need something that can manipulate car sized boulders and lasts forever might put some limitations on their options. It would also be pretty heavy and have to reach quite a ways. Given that those dump trucks are 20 feet high, about 25 feet wide and 40 feet long, I would guess it's over 100 feet to reach the mouth of the crusher.

[@alissonperez6694]

Que increible maquina mis respetos

[@raimundoramirez9424]

Donde es ?

[@desertchild3550]

Me sit and watch this. From the kitchen come a voice. --You want tea maybe -- Me, yes,thank you -- then come the question,--what do you watch--me, nah too complicated to explain. hehehjehehehehehe

[@SBMGroupSH]

good video it is big than our gyratory crusher

[@Flashahol]

Now I know where George Lucas got the inspiration for the Sarlacc. What I really want to know, however, is what makes this thing move? We're talking about some titanesque forces here!!!

[@jkocol]

The top of the big cone is in a fixed position, but the bottom is attached to a point that moves around the center point so the entire thing rocks around in a circular motion. There is lots of leverage to the point the rocks get pinched and crushed.

[@panzerceremoniaire8359]

Watching this hook is SO FRUSTRATING! Nice video ❤

[@masterofbreaking6370]

Я работал на такой дробилке. И теперь я пойду на пенсию в 45 лет, а другие пиджаки будут работать до 62-65 лет

[@JusticeforLiberty]

Back in my day , we didn't have these high tech - new fangled rock crushing machines. We did all the work ourselves, and if you didn't work , you didn't eat. We didn't have any of them fancy shmancy hammers either. We used our fist and when our knuckles was all busted up and our bones was showing we used our heads and when we had so much blood in our eyes we could no longer see old man smithy ,the town drunk would lead us over to the new pile of rocks waiting to be smashed , and dog gone it, we liked it.

[@randywl8925]

......and that's the way we liked it! 😁

[@flathead8534]

Fred Flintstone is that you?

[@randywl8925]

@@flathead8534 Look up Grumpy old man, SNL, Dana Carvey It's an old SNL character back when SNL was funny. It was funny then, .......and that's the way we liked it.

[@CrniWuk]

Did you also wore an onion on your belt?

[@Pon-farrLovin3]

My uncle and I ran the Gerry Shaft crew on a Schmidt P5000. Every three days we'd have to strip it down and recalibrate the Kimble. It was hard work but I do miss those days.

[@joaquimjulio2644]

Máquina top de extração de ferro

[@edinardoafonso.8716]

Creio que ouro também é retirado aí nesse monte terra...

[@Mr_Go_Crazy]

👍👍👍

[@WetAdek]

Is the iron instantly smelted after crushing? Cause I see something glowing down there.

[@ed-gw3ov]

The ore will be processed into pellets and then shipped by rail or boat to a steel mill for smelting into steel.

[@EmilyAllan]

I thought that too but if you watch other videos they posted you learn its an orange light bulb. No fire.

[@robertwolfe2971]

I bet some of those rocks get in the right squeeze position between 2 other rocks they would come shooting straight up like popping a pimple.

[@189951]

I don't dare to imagine the nightmare if a man falls into this machine! It's a bit like a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom!😱😱😱

[@johns9543]

This basically is a giant version of the claw game!! This would be the perfect job for me!

[@emadeldinhessain3272]

Super.

[@picklerix6162]

What a great place to film your your final fight scene, atop the giant cone crusher.

[@barrymayson2492]

That hook is like the machines that you operate to get a prize!

[@kenknerr7226]

How is it that something so boring can be so satisfying and relaxing?

[@BeeRich33]

Check out drainage videos. Hilarious.

[@andersjohnson9565]

It's like ASMR, but more masculine.

[@Most_Trustworthy_Weasel]

That chomping noise is money!

[@RockCrusher110]

Amazing process of stone crushing

[@AuroraGuide]

Vídeo hipnotizante.

[@Cloonmar9473]

It’s cool to see the sparks when rocks hit the concrete 💥

[@ElSWVisitor]

Impressive and terrifying!

[@jasongross4124]

We rebuild lots of crusher parts where I work. That piece that spans over the top of the cone is called a spider, and the cone is called the main shaft. The most worn-out spider I ever worked on was twenty feet across and had arms worn so thin that we were burning holes through it when we started welding on it to build it back up to oem size. We put thirteen 1000lb barrels of 1/8 inch diameter weld wire on it and probably 15-20 33lb spools of 1/16th wire on it, all by hand plus several hundred more pounds by machine to build up the bores and fits so that it could be re-machined to size.

[@BubupatianD]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@RPKGameVids]

It's like something out of one of my nightmares.

[@PaulieTheDude]

- Honey..let's go to bed... - Can't. I'm watching: GYRATORY CONE CRUSHER, CRUSHING HARD IRON ORE

[@nealrcn]

I read the comment below. Please do a video of maintenance and refurbishment.

[@johnr5545]

Wow god bless

[@calvinevans8305]

11:00 that hook reminds me of myself, big, slow, and inefficient.

[@chesterpanda]

So basically this is a very large and powerful blender or food chopper, but for rocks/ore?

[@TheKingsapostle]

Pestle

[@ivanlandivar1741]

How does that monster works, and what material is it made of. It gets hit by tons of rocks every time, and in the lower part there is like lava.

[@ohmygosh6176]

I have so many questions like: what is the center cone made out of? How is it moving? And what is it's power source?

[@TheKingsapostle]

The pestle is most likely hardened steel. The motor is in the sphere at the top I don't know this for certain but it most likely works like the vibration motor in your phone. There's a shaft that goes from the top to the bottom, inside the pestle, and as it spins, it causes it to shake back and forth, grinding the ore.

[@FrozenHaxor]

@@TheKingsapostle Totally false, the top is only a bushing, motor is supplying the bell through a shaft from the side at the bottom.

[@Agregatus]

Все 25 минут не отрываясь, смотрел :)

[@FlyTV1]

Чудо-машина!

[@МаксимТабачинский-г3х]

@@FlyTV1 а что это и зачем и куда это?

[@FlyTV1]

@@МаксимТабачинский-г3х перемалыватель грунта, видимо

[@landkm]

色々な破砕機があるものですね、月面で建設資材を作る場合にも必要な機械ですね❤

[@GREENMAYNE]

True Grindcore!

[@merlinck1976]

Looking at the cut of the hopper as well as the amount or type of bulk material that is filled into the hopper, I have a very bad feeling about the thought that there could be gear damage in the grinder. I imagine the repair and its preparation to be extremely costly.

[@dbeekman9738]

The built up material is to prevent wear on the metal hopper. The engineers figured out that it is better to wear out rock than to wear out metal bins and chutes. There are wear bars bolted or welded onto the walls but really the only time they are exposed is when the sides are cleaned out for maintenance. The only real wear is to the bell shaped mantle and the concave where it is narrowed down by the mantle and of course the spider that holds the top bearing. After being crushed to size it lands on another bed of built up rock and then overflows onto a conveyor belt.

[@michaelnash9970]

Thars a fire 🔥 in the belly the Beast!!!

[@amtk415w]

Nice to see the Sarlacc has a roof over it's pit, and braces for it's teeth.

[@J_Braz_]

Is that what ate Bobba Fett.

[@ponkkaa]

Looks like the Great Pit of Carkoon, home of the almighty sarlac.

[@BeeRich33]

Master Blaster

[@supojfongnam1165]

@@BeeRich33 ？

[@BeeRich33]

@@supojfongnam1165 A film reference

[@rallyscoot]

Is it possible to film on the underside of the crusher?

[@harleypiper]

Seen something similar at a quarry plant at Roger's city,MI

[@ankurpatel4624]

Wow amazing machine

[@kevinshockey2765]

What a piece of equipment.

[@saulsandoval2313]

That's impressive, very intelligent. human advancement rules 👏

[@TheKingsapostle]

I don't know this for certain but it most likely works like the vibration motor in your phone. There's a shaft that goes from the top to the bottom, inside the pestle, and as it spins, it causes it to shake back and forth, grinding the ore.

[@knobsdialsandbuttons]

Which do you think is better, the gyratory crushers or the 'jaw' style rock crushers ?

[@NEOSOLAIRIS]

I have never seen this before wow😮

[@dumdiversaspapalbull1452]

What in the Prometheus is that?

[@luizoliveira3983]

Famosa Gaiola, derrubando as horas produzidas do britador.

[@lazarobarajas1774]

Esta sorprendente.makina.destructora

[@transportinfo154]

Amazing

[@9Antonian]

I don’t know why but I watched the whole thing…..like sitting at a campfire and staring at the flames…

[@ralpha112233]

What are the tiles made of that are covering the crusher? Ceramic?

[@hectorpascale1013]

It´s not space shuttle tiles for reentry heat dissipation nor they need to be an electrical isolator. Think twice! What happens when you drop your dishes to the ground? It´s brittle. So throwing tons of stones onto brittle Ceramic wouldn´t be a good idea IMHO. The Panels are made out of steel and are covered with dust, therefore the ceramic look.

[@TheBigdog868]

I like how they made it look like a disco ball

[@KingNelo]

The call of the crusher, once more brought me back here.

[@MXVDJ]

what is the air raid siren for?

[@calvinevans8305]

I turned the playback speed up and it was fun to watch, like watching a fire in my fire pit with a beer.

[@Omega9935]

That's eating everything. 🤩

[@BC-kx5zb]

Looks like theirs a furnace below it? They are definitely refining ore.

[@musasizigodfreydixion6231]

Watched this for close to 25 minutes only because I'm stressed & planning to start a small quarry plant.

[@Fe2O3Fe3O4MiningProcessing]

👍👍

[@Mr_Go_Crazy]

👍👍👍

[@biok2006]

More videos!! Bigger rocks!! Thnaks

[@alvarogilabert9698]

Thanks for uploading!!! 💓

[@artmonin1071]

This looks alian !!!!

[@RonWinter335]

That is some sci-fi madness!!

[@joevanisacroatia3967]

I am Filipino new friend

[@golekrejekimancing6159]

Asalam mualaikum wr wb hadir mas bro

[@guod911]

is there a camera down below in the grinding area?

[@billspill]

what kind of metal is that cone crusher,and why the sparks,and whats all that red in the background,,is that a furnace,,thanks,,wicked !!!

[@hectorpascale1013]

Crusher is made out of steel. The Iron in the Iron-Ore is sparking. Think of all the sparks grinding some ferrous material. You can sometimes spark hitting a chisel with a hammer as well. The orange glow is probalby just a sodium vapor lamp on the lower level at the conveyor belt.

[@billspill]

right on,,now i get it ,thats awesome

[@robmcguire9756]

You need a couple of air vibraters on the hopper to shake the the fines so they don't stick they use them in cement plants a lot

[@zachreyhelmberger894]

How does it generate such large crushing forces?

[@partsmanjames78]

Now THAT, is entertainment!!! For size comparison, how big (estimation) was that first stuck bolder?

[@The_Kiosk]

Just guessing, an adult could probably stand inside the hook toe to head.

[@PlisskensRun]

This thing is BAD ASS ! ! !

[@timetraveler_0]

What are the sidewalls made of?

[@sacch6579]

some kind of ceramics i guess

[@sabrinaf4514]

it will be some kind of thick wear steel. like Hardox

[@eduffy4937]

550brinnel sheet.

[@tinkertailor7385]

500 Brinall grade abrasion resistant steel

[@Mr_Go_Crazy]

👍👍👍👍

[@ВладимирИванников-в3э]

Смотреть можно бесконечно. Работа сирены что означает?

[@kvpillai]

Chomp chomp! So satisfying.

[@Beak3er]

What is underneath the crusher? Looks like flames but can't tell

[@Fe2O3Fe3O4MiningProcessing]

Watch Iron ore crushing plant video.

[@mikelellsaesser1320]

So what kind of ore are you crashing. And is this the only time it gets crashed. Are aloud to so us more of the operations u have there.

[@stevetortola1682]

PURE GENIUS 💯🇨🇦

[@arksurvivalevolvedforever8985]

What’s under there the red orange glow

[@SarahAParis]

This Cone crusher is a really cool machine!😍 How big is it?

[@Thomas_D_NZ]

That machine is something from a star wars movie.

[@sergeroitman5017]

all in all, very clumsy

[@АндрейЯкунин-п3с]

Is there a glowing stove down there? What kind of rock is this and why do you need a furnace in a stone crusher? 

[@hectorpascale1013]

Iron ore as it´s said in the video title. Probably just a sodium vapor lamp in the basement area for the hellish orange light. A furnace would only make sense for iron ore pellet drying after refining. But thats a long way of sorting, chrushing, grinding ...