27lbs 6oz I think

For what it’s worth, I enjoy your direct and honest way of showing your work. No need for giveaways for me.

Nice that you have an apprentice, it’s an investment in our country’s future and his future . Thanks to you for making the investment.

Good luck to your apprentice, I was a craft apprentice started back in '66. It served me well, and I never looked back. Oh and I'm still learning, it never stops... Thanks for passing on your skills

22lbs 8 oz. same as the biggest baby every born. I am in Kaukauna WI. I wish there was a shop like that around here for me to work at. I am lead fab at an upfitter shop in Little Chute WI. I have a tiny machine shop in the garage. Thank you for keeping me company in my home shop.

Outstanding, I cut some 4" with an old Airgas track torch set up a few years ago, 8 inches a minute... .#4 tip on a Victor torch. 8 acetylene and 40 oxygen if I remember correctly . it looked like a volcano coming out the bottom, I did not run a preheat pass, and the torch was a 3 line with 2 oxygen lines.... the kerf looked like it was cut on a band saw,,,,,,super smooth..... great video Josh.... Paul in Orlando Florida

32lbs 2oz. Good on you for hiring an apprentice.

So glad to see you have an apprentice. Apprenticeships are so very important to passing knowledge to the next generation. As a Journeyman of 30 years i have seen to much knowledge lost to time because companies are unwilling to put on enough apprenticeships to keep the knowledge base that is needed i blame greedy companies for the skill gap that is now common place in industry . I also blame the education system that tells young people that they have to go to college to earn a good living. If anyone reading this wants a better more eloquent proponent to this topic see what Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs has to offer. He has become an very Nationally outspoken champion for the skilled trades. I will climb down from my soapbox for today. Thanks again for supporting apprenticeships.

Nice project! You should clean up the edges on the remaining scrap, and you will have a 4th TM, just an inverse one.

I think it is very good that you also care about the interested youth! That is worthy of respect! Keep it up! 👏👍🛠😎 Best regards from Dresden! 👍🇩🇪❤🇺🇸😎

15 lbs and 4 oz. Nice video and very cool michine you got there.

Found your channel while browsing, some great stuff. I used to coordinate cutting machines (oxy torch multi head and plasma - some with NC retro fitted) here for a now closed steel company in Melbourne, Australia. We used to cut steel plate to around 60ish+ cm (can't remember now, it's over 20 years ago) thick. Looking back now I wish I'd learnt more from the machine operators. There were always battles between the NC programmers and the machine guys on using cut in keys, kerf angles between parts on the plate etc. Some guys used to do a trace (like you did with your second piece to see if it will fit), others could just look at the program on the display or a piece of paper and know if it was good or not. Some liked to preheat the plate too, some reckoned cold plates were best. Haven't seen a duplicator before, but what a great idea. So simple and elegant.

Nice video I really need to get a pattern torch. 26lbs 7 ounces

Wow, I’ve never cut anything thicker than 1/2-5/8” thick with manual torch. We had a rail torch at the shop I worked at in high school Vocational Industrial Clubs of America(VICA) and it made a beautiful cut when the torch and travel settings were correct. I did not see you really preheat the plate and suspect part of the reason each succeeding unit was cut was due to the heat in the metal. But to watch something cut through 4” thick carbon steel that fast was impressive. Glad you found a local person wanting to apprentice. Our shop was a welding/machine/ornamental iron shop. There wasn’t anything the boss would turn away from doing metal wise that would make a paycheck for him and the employees. Somethings were considerably dangerous just due to the inherent nature of what and where we had to work and our surroundings. I’m glad I got to do it all. But went into Army electronics: then the state of the art surface to air radar and missile defense system then came from Army and went into Commercial Nuclear Power in instrumentation & Control(I&C). Never lost the bug to learn and do machine and welding though. God will and I live long enough and body can handle it I hope to at least get a hobby machine and welding shop built. It won’t be high dollar new stuff but most probably WWII/Korean War era machine equipment or a Chinese unit I can afford and improve on. Good video. I would be interested to know what a plate that size and thickness would cost if purchased today. Hope you don’t get a job request any time soon where you could have used that plate in the job and have to buy a new piece $$$$ and as you mentioned shipping cost, lord have mercy an 18 wheeler couldn’t carry many full sections of that 4” thick plate.

44 pounds 3 oz. Nice cutting. Thanks for the video sir

49lbs 12 oz Nice to see you willing to help a young guy out. Many people forget that they started out not knowing everything once. I have a 17 year old that is trying to navigate what he wants to do and I hope to put him in a similar situation of schooling plus internship

Very nice work, I always like to see these torch tracers cutting heavy plate. I am gonna guess around 18lbs, 2.5oz. Keep them coming!!🍻

Josh, Looks like your doing pretty good now with the machine. Good job Great to see a young man who wants to learn a trade. Very refreshing to me in this time and age!

I would say 18lbs. 3oz., keep up the good work!

28 lbs and 4oz, Another great video. It's great to see you passing on your knowledge.

26lbs, 9oz. Good to see someone taking on an apprentice and teaching him or her the skills to be a machinist. I would have loved to have worked for a good machinist, but too late, but I still enjoy watching good machinist at work... Keep up the good work...Love your channel.

Outstanding, great to see you doing so well....Paul

12lbs 9 oz .... im so happy you have a high school apprentice i was one and it set me up for life.. good work.. and thank you for doing this it will help him in his life i wish more shops would do this

42.11 lbs . Congratulations on taking on your young apprentice. We need a lot more of that these days. The skills are going away from the population.

23lb 9 oz great job guys.

Barry Fulcher I first saw this type of cutting done out in Billings Montana at a company that built large mining haul trucks . The man cut me a piece of steel 6" thick x6" wide x 12" long he told me he was using acetylene at 25 psi and oxygen at 100 psi and when it started cutting he turned off the acetylene as the oxy kept the heat up till it finished ,Amazing !! My guess is 52 lbs.6 and1/2 0z. I enjoy your vidios very much.

Sounds like you have a good lad there good to see you let him have ago at things

14lbs 2 Oz Thanks for the video.

You are getting to be a regular cut up eh? I remember back in the 70's I did cylinder boring for a chopper shop and they had a torch guide machine like that. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

15lbs 7 oz I did not know you could cut 4" plate with a torch. Guess that is why they call it the gas axe. Thanks Josh

Very interesting channel, I've learned some things on the machining shows. This one caught my eye because I was a metal pattern torch flame cutter at several factories long ago. We never cut this thick of metal except for a special torch that cut a special cam for beet harvesters. We were usually doing 1/4" to 1" thick parts that can't be made with other machines. The patterns look much like the parts and had to be protected by painting etc. Only they have the mounting hole and they are slightly smaller than the part due to the offset of the magnetic rotor of the travel motor. Very good job getting that good of cuts on a run of only 3 parts! Obviously you had a clue of what heat, speed and O2 pressure you were going to need. You didn't show a close up of the cutting grain but if the pressure is too low or the speed too fast the cut path wanders. With a clean tip and experience we could get all the slag to fly off so the parts needed almost no cleaning. We usually ran propane/O2 as it cuts cooler and the parts metal was in better condition, not hardened so much. We also did stack cuts of thin metal like 16-18ga of 10-12 parts at once. That needs a thicker top sheet and lots of clamping near cut paths. We actually ran quite low gas and O2 pressure for most parts, like 7 and 12 psi. It's quite a balance act of pressures, heat, speed and tip height. Any vibration shaking the torch messes it up too. Tx for the show.

Great video!! Thanks for sharing and happy to hear a youngster is pursuing a machining career!! 37 lbs 6oz!

19 lbs 15 oz Glad to see that there is a young man learning. It's a shame no high school's with shop classes any more. In high school the shop teacher had me help teaching the class because I was way beyond any One else and after high school went to trade school and a nother reapeat... this was back in 1973. Back then every once and a while I would run a cross one of them surplace Torch machines. I always thought it would be interesting to run one just never had the opportunity... PS Osom Job. Wear you located. I am over in MN.

This brings to mind a potential future topic for a video. How to identify different types of steel, iron, aluminum, etc.

It's just good you have a youngster that is willing to learn about the trade.I would love to pass on 45 years of knowledge to an interested young mind. Good job!

Great video I can not agree more on that being the only thing snow is good for trying to fix my house up so I can move away from it

It’s a beautiful job I always watch you all the time so be really nice to have thank you very much

I found with my track torch that the faster you can push it, the nicer the cut. 31 lbs.

It’s great seeing somebody young wanting to learn a trade and I think it’s also awesome that you’re going to help him with that. My guess is 46.43 on the weight. Good luck everybody.

That is such a cool torch and a guy I watch in California has been using one for years. Nik Colyer. That project for the rookie is an awesome way to teach patience and concentration on your work. Appreciate the chance to win one. 27.7 lbs

My guess is 18 lbs 11 oz on the piece. Great job Connor!

22 pound even. Can’t imagine how much shipping will be

I have no idea so will just throw a number out there for fun. 42 pounds 2 ounces. I'll probably miss it by a mile but I sure enjoyed the video. Good luck to your apprentice, it is nice to hear a young person wanting to be in the trades.

12.76 lbs. Josh. Another great video. Kudos to Connor for wanting to learn a valuable trade. Thanks for sponsoring him.

64 Lbs. 14 oz That was a neat process, Thanks and congrats to your new apprentice.

You sound a lot like my mentor when you talk about Connor. It's great to hear of some one enjoying their apprenticeship and his obviously having a talent for what you do too its going to be an amazing journey. (I am in the UK) (edited because I am a clutz and called your apprentice Josh)

Most magnanimous of you to take on an apprentice, they will learn so much. All the best Connor, learning a skill in engineering helps you in so many areas of expertise. Nice bit of burning, thanks for sharing.

13 lbs 7 oz. By the way... I'd be happy with just some of the scraps 😉👍

26lb 5 oz. nice to watch someone who knows how to get things done

Watch every video & love your approach to solve problems in a practical manner to keep the shop from going in the red. We need more guys like you to help America get back to work & off the dole. Part should weigh 27 lbs. 2 oz. Thanks again for putting out the vids.

13lbs 8oz It’s great to see you passing your knowledge to an eager pupil.

quite and opportunity to learn from you and this craft, he should be very grateful for this, I know I would have been at that age. hope we can see some of his projects.

Interesting tracing around the paper pattern When I made a paper pattern and wanted to transfer it to metal I’ve just glued it on personally I find it easier to see the lines Can always sand it off after

Great videos as always, I use to watch my dad cut 18 inch thick steel plate into bars with almost the same Victor torch body on a track torch, that brings back a lot of memories. 10 pounds 4 ounces.

G'day Josh. That big old "gas axe" made short work of that big chunk of steel. Very impressed mate. Cheers, Aaron.

I feel bad that you had to do so much work cutting your pattern. I would have been glad to draw it up in CAD and then cut it on my CNC plasma cutter. I am real glad that you have a helper and that you are able to teach him things. I worked in steel fabrication since 1990 but it was only sheet metal and I was just a button pusher on a laser. I have never seen 4" steel being cut before. The price of the steel and gas must have cost you a lot of money. I would guess the weight would 14 lbs. 7 oz. The shipping cost would be high so I would just take the two hour drive and pick it up myself. It is always good to see you at work. I am glad that you took on the challenge.

I always enjoy your videos. Great content. 9 lbs, 14 oz.

I love watching your videos. May I offer one tip that I use all the time. Rather than cutting the pattern with the scissors, just tape it down on a clean piece of steel, with a piece of carbon paper under it. Then carefully trace the pattern with a ball point pen. The carbon paper will transfer the pattern you want to the steel.

Nice Job! I never would have even thought that it would be possible to cut anything that thick with a torch, WOW! 6.173lbs.

Awesome job with the torch cut. My guess is 23 lbs 11 oz on the piece

24lbs and 9oz I love watching all that this shop and you do!!!!!

3lbs 5oz. It’s awesome that the next generation is rearin to go.

Well done taking on an apprentice. Loved the video. That contour machine is a gem.

28 pounds 6 oz ... keep the videos coming! great Job!

What a educational experience for your apprentice. Your shop and your experience will serve him well.

I was an IBEW apprentice working at the Lima, Ohio Army tank plant in 1980. I helped install the flame but system used to cut the steel plate. Tanks were made from steel up to 6" thick. Only one piece was that thick, the part that the cannon sticks out of. Some of the tank was 5" thick. Until now, that was the only thick steel I have ever seen cut with a torch. I live in the Philippines now but am guessing your logo weighs 35 pounds, 7 ounces.

22lbs 14oz. That's great to see some young interest in the trade Josh and you taking the time to teach him. Not everyone gets an opportunity to apprentice like that. I ran a torch just like that one you have, and I have to say if you really take the time and get everything set right, it would make some wonderful cuts. I wouldn't mind having one in my shop at all.

42 lbs. Nice you are keeping the manual trade alive!

I have never seen a torch machine like the one used here. Great video! 14.5 lbs

What a fourtante youg man to be able to learn on apreantceship. Neat cuts on the 4" plate. 33.7 Thanks Boe

Thank you for the entertaining and informative videos. I'm guessing the cutout weighs 17lbs, 13oz. Keep up the good work.

The kids estimated the weight as 30lbs - 4.7oz. A great video, awesome watching you cut through 4 in plate.

22lbs 5oz. It's always nice to see a big block of metal cut.

I was wondering what would happen to the support steel. Now I know: it gets messed up! Fun job.

That is a thick chunk ,

38lb 8oz, came out great...great video Josh, keep'um coming..

20 lbs 6 oz. That was pretty cool. Congrats to your apprentice for all he is learning.

To get a good clean burn you need plate heaters to get the steel up over 400 degrees......We used to use high intensity IR heaters (Red Heads) on thick plate a few hours before we burned it (Back in the days of Optical Tracers) And alternate way is to build a charcoal fire in the slag pan and put more charcoal over the top and cover it with fiberglas insulation. - Make sure you have excellent ventilation though. Charcoal emits carbon monoxide. Lots of it. When the plate is hot as you can make it clear the ashes off the top and drag it over away from the ash pile. It will cut smooth as glass. - Clean plate (No rust either side) + As much preheat as you can get=perfect parts in thick plate

That is one hell of a paperweight, I'm amazed that you can cut through 4" like that with a gas axe, glad the young guy is working out for you 👍

34lbs and 8oz. The way talked about your apprentice was pretty cool.

I'm not in the US, But I bet it's flipping heavy.

Nice work Josh. Keep the young man interested in what he is doing and tell him to ask questions about things he sees. 23lbs 6oz Joe

23 lbs, 7 oz. Glad to see a young man pursuing a skilled trade. Thank you for helping guide him on the way.

To save a butt load on shipping you can use the USPS flat rate shipping. That should fit in a medium box just fine. If not maybe it will fit in an envelope and just tape the crud out of it. I used to ship cast lead bullets and yes you can get more than 75lbs in a flat rate envelope with lead bullets.

Very cool man. Glad to see you passing on your knowledge. Id have to say that its about 60 lbs.

So far in foothills N C no snow this year which is a blessing. 46.66 lbs

I figure 21 lbs, 9 ounces. Send it in a USPS one rate box! Just need to reinforce it with an internal plywood box!! That torch setup works really well. And Connor is learning some good stuff from a good teacher. Thanks for the contest!

Cool - er- ah - hot project! I’m gonna guess 28 lbs 1 oz. Thanks for being willing to teach the next generation! Even if the young guy doesn’t take up a career in this line of work, the experience an the body of knowledge will be there for the rest of his life.

38lbs 4oz. Thanks for the excellent content. Great that you are teaching the youngster.

24lbs 10oz Josh, snow has another use it's to keep those after work Beers ice cold. 😂👍👍 [edited] bc my original guess was the same as another commenters guess.

18lbs 2oz is my estimate on piece weight, I agree totally on part cooling only good thing snow is for.

56 lbs, 10 ounces. That duplicating machine is such a cool piece of low tech brilliance.

17 pounds 9 ounces. Very cool tool!

48 pounds and congradulation to the young man for learning from an old schooler

Realistically, this job is better done with a CNC-controlled water jet cutter. But props for doing it with a torch and the duplicator.

27lbs great channel, i am sure your apprentice will do great.

Josh - like your torch and videos, please keep'em coming. I'll venture 24 lbs, 4 oz on the logo.

That was a cool video! I think it's great you have invested in Connor your apprentice--good job. I guess 8 lb 12 oz.

23 lb 8 oz. Very cool the double camera takes!

32 lbs 14 oz good to see a young person learning your trade !!!!!