Raw Material Processing: Cutting and Punching

all right guys let's go for a ride we're going to load up a big fat piece of sheet metal on the under the the blah blah blah arm [Music] now this now this will get cut yep into all of the parts for the mle boards for the side wings for everything yeah mboard side frame everything yep we run all sorts of thicknesses on this machine from 16 gauge all the way up to 1 hey wait what was that Simon we got our flat bar the same place when ours get to Lumber drink so you do the the Big G of the whole assembly right in this one spot yeah you guys we are on to the next station but this machine Cuts all of your plats off yep but it does something pretty cool yeah so this machine is our fiber laser cutter this machine uses a laser beam as well as nitrogen gas to cut the parts the cool part is we're making the nitrogen gas here ourselves out of thin air yep air is 78% nitrogen and we're pulling it out with these babies and pump it in the machine okay so you're not making you're not importing nitrogen you're creating it out of the atmosphere with this yep yep this all this is is tubes filled with burnt coconut shells you pump them with pressurized compress air from a shop air compressor let it sit for a short amount of time and when you drain these out you get pure nitrogen and the rest of the byproducts get exhausted burnt coconut sh yep that's all it is all right you also make your own welding gas here yes we do yep we mix carbon dioxide and argon we've got a gas mixing system right here we've got big holding tanks outside and all of this lets us control the materials coming in and the welding process that makes the sectional soflow all right and we're going to go inside of the machine now with Brandon and I I was giving him crap cuz I said does all your buddies say hey let's go Brandon yes absolutely they do and uh we're going to see how this goes now you said this machine Brandon is so violent that if you were in it when this is operating if it hit you it would eject you all the way into the parking lot oh yeah oh yeah it's pretty fast pretty fast all right well let's crawl inside and see what Brandon's talking about [Music] Nick what does this machine do here all right so this machine is our bulk CNC saw so not only does the machine have CNC capability it clamps the material it moves it forward it's keeping track at the length but it lets us cut as many bundles of tube as we can fit in this clamp at once so we can cut enough tube for 10 frames in one