Family, Texas and old machinery

[jnyork]

Some of you fellers that love good old machinery, family traditions and the American way will love this video, I sure did: http://www.youtube.com/embed/BckZ4i1BzF ... r_embedded

[.45colt]

Thank You. Great story..Aint THAT AMERICA. We are lucky to have an old Welding shop not 3 miles away,family run and if You want it fixed and right let them do it.

[M. M. Wright]

Man, that's so cool. Been kinda that way around here. Wonder what they power that shop with. Bet it ain't no steam engine, but it could be. I still use a Regal LeBlond lathe that was made in 1898. I still have all the change gears for it too, course it wears an old car transmission on top and runs off an electric motor now.

[pwl44m]

Thx Jnyork, totally cool. I haven' watched TCR in some time. This prompted Me to look for it on the Tube.
Perry
P.S. I couldn't watch just 1

[gamekeeper]

That was really interesting, thanks for sharing..

[C. Cash]

Thank you....wonderful stuff.

[bgmkithaca]

Liked it a lot, reminds me of the shops around here when I was a kid. I have my own shop in the garage but a lot more modern equipment and not near as much of it.

[Blaine]

Thanks

[JACKP]

Thanks for posting this video.

I was fortunate enough to work in a machine shop almost identical to this one for 10 yrs. I then moved on to a more modern one and now have my own. I have one long bed lathe that is a little over 100 yrs old. I also have a large horizontal mill that was made sometime before 1914 and it is still in excellent condition.

It is a real pleasure to run these old machines. I am now facing retirement and my oldest son worked with me for 15 yrs. and had to leave due to poor economy and it doesn't look like it will continue after I'm done. I love these old machine that were built back when we could take time to make things right. Now everything is in a hurry so we can make enough to pay for all the insurance and taxes that they didn't have way back when.

I have been a blessed man to do this all of my adult life.

[Chuck 100 yd]

Thanks, That`s neat!!! The old Webber machine works shop in Vancouver WA. was a lot like that in that the old machined and overhead shaft driving them all. I used to go in there as a kid and watch. That is probably what got me started in machine work. They had a lathe with a 24' bed ,used to make drive shafts for liberty ships during WWII.

[Marvin S]

Our antique engine club has a machine and blacksmith shop still run by a line shaft and hit and miss. Check it out. http://www.meridenthreshers.org/

[JHarold]

Thanks, That`s neat!!! The old Webber machine works shop in Vancouver WA. was a lot like that in that the old machined and overhead shaft driving them all. I used to go in there as a kid and watch. That is probably what got me started in machine work. They had a lathe with a 24' bed ,used to make drive shafts for liberty ships during WWII.

I remember Webber machine shop well, I think the building is still there, but is a surveyors office now?
took Machine shop in high school (Vancouver High) 1955 Teacher was Phil Myers?
He took us on a field trip there to see how it was done in the old days. I remember he also took us to Swift meat packing plant to watch the killing of cattle, told us to study hard so we didn't have to work in a place like that.