Great video. It’s so amazing to see the machines people built and how well they work. And last for many years. Great gifts as well. Thank you for sharing
I'm glad the syrup arrived intact. Thank you again for the help and I hope you guys enjoy the syrup very much, it's just something small I wanted to do. Cheers
Every time I see a shop like this, I get flashbacks to my apprenticeship....1982....the radio station, the old machine tools! Adam, you are the man for showing us this and taking many of us back in time!
I'm the kind of guy that appreciates a hand made gift, or even a simple hand made card, over anything you can buy in a store. My kids are still young and they live with their mother most of the time so I told them I don't want them ever buying me anything for my birthday or Christmas and instead I'd love hand made cards from them. The cards they've made me are some of my most cherished possessions I have. It just means more when someone took the time to use their talent to make something rather than their money at a store, it's more personal.
Just something about the huge round surface grinders having done a little finish work on crane slew drive bearings can only imagine back in the early 40's, working on slew gear on battleships gun turrets at the navel yards. Back in the manual days anyway. Thanks for showing this workshop.
Largest lathe I ever saw was in Long Beach CA, in 1977. 27-foot diameter chuck. The bed was specially set and ground crane rail on which the tailstock rode. As I recall, and it's been a while, it was used primarily for turning very large shafting, presumably for ships, up to something like 160'. No idea how a shaft that long would be produced, given the manifold difficulties of dealing with a chunk of steel that large. I recall that the great diameter of the chuck was for accommodating large castings and the sort. The same company had literally hundreds of Swiss screw machines operating in a huge space, making all manner of brass fittings. These were all analog, cam-controlled machines. Watching them operate was quite the memorable event, each with about eight to twelve tools set, each doing its thing in turn. While I greatly admire the broad utility, precision, and repeatability of CNC machinery, there is a quality and character to manual machinery that is in some ways very different and singularly worthy of one's respect and affectionate regard.
When I was training as a tool grinder, my starting job in the crib was to grind all the drill bits. The company owned a drill grinder exactly like the one in the video and I ground hundreds of bits with it. Great machine.
Mercy.... the amount of knowledge and wisdom, not to mention the kindness in that room.... what I wouldn’t give to spend some time learning from all these guys!!
Stumbled across this video, and it got my heart pumping when you showed the Monarch EE ( known as tbe Cadillac of toolmakers lathe) and the other is a Monarch 60 lathe. I worked at Monarch as a Field Service Rep. In the 80's.
It's always fun to wander thru these shops with you. But I'm amazed at the vast number of very talented, well-educated and -trained folks that just have no regard for their eyes. God only gave ya' two of 'em. Best protect them from all that flying metal. Maybe because I've worn glasses all my life, I understand the value of seeing (and NOT seeing well!). Best of luck to all of you, sure hope I never have to meet you at the eye dr. office.
Certainly the biggest surface grinder i have ever seen. I have ran a Blanchard grinder like the 300" in this video. Using a magnetic crane to load the part on the table.
Thanks for the tour of a working shop that still uses the old machines , planers & shapers . I used to work in a small shop in Cincinnati with those & older machines , from the late 1800's & early 1900's
Love the tours you do. I myself am a machinery mover. But usually never see the machines working! Biggest I have been involved in moving was a 105,000 lbs cnc mill. 1 week to prep it and load it for shipping to Wisconsin.
Love the video Adam, great content. Some of those old machines are awesome, it's really cool to see the old stuff still being used today by true craftsmen, yourself included. Love what you do, keep it up.
Absolutely love that machine shop and the awesome gifts. I miss the smell of the cutting oil, coolant, the sounds of chips and the grown of the machines. When you add the killer classic rock and roll and the vintage machinery and place it in the great state of Texas, its like over the top goodness.
Working at Neapco in Beatrice, NE I've used the rotary hobbing machines, the broaching machine, and that drill bit grinder before. All were pre WW2 and came from the original plant of Neapco from Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Adam you are looking great my man.I can't believe how much different you look .I absolutely love the content you provide to youtube.you are truly a artist both at machine work but also with the video making. I would also like to thank abbey because I know she spends a lot of time helping you make this all possible. Please keep it up guys.
Thanks Adam for giving this Texas boy a tour of stuff in my own backyard that I was not aware of. Hope to see you in Texas again soon. Meeting you and your lovely wife at The Good of the Land Fest was a real treat.
That wooden case is beautiful Gotta love a wooden box with a lid :) Love the painting too. We all have different skills it’s fabulous that fellow sent you a painting. Get a nice frame for it >]
That big grinder reminds me of my carnival days it reminds me of the Wall of death with the motorcycles in it.. it was in a big round walled up thing like that..... that was an awesome tour thanks for sharing Adam and Abby.. and those gifts are really cool... Have a Merry Christmas guys and a happy and prosperous New year 🎉
The only thing there is more of in that shop than tools and tooling is knowledge. America is losing that at a horrific rate. Guys like these are the last bastion.
@@Stuff_said_ Planning to find work at a local machine shop to learn some of the machinery. Not in the USA, but I think the loss of hands on knowledge is pretty ubiquitous
Oak and walnut very nice combination... I have a tool box that I won in a raffle that was homemade from a wood pattern maker and it was made completely out of mahogany when I received it, it was so dirty it looked black so I took a Scotch-Brite and wax and going with the grain I polished it till the true finish shined through what a beautiful piece of work
This spring we had a Richard King scraping class in Springfield Vt right behind the old Fellows Gear Shaper plant. It is shuttered now, sadly, but the guy who let us use his shop used to be a repair tech for them and now he rebuilds them and upgrades them. He showed us one operating. What was really remarkable is the tooling requirements. These are production machines and can turn put gears like crazy, but you need custom $$$$ tooling. It kind of reminded me of the endless shelves of tooling in this video. Buying the machine is only the beginning. The broaches cost a fortune. He was a fascinating dude and has forgotten more about gear mfg than I’ll ever know. Very nice man too.
Same goes for most any other machine tool. I tell people to look at my walls and see the shelves and tool boxes full of tooling that support the machines.
We watch and look at Big 200 + ton dump trucks, massive machinery even the big Aircraft carriers etc. But we never really think of the Equipment used to make or service these Giants, Not until as you have shown the 300" turntable Grinder etc. Well done and thanks for the tour
I spent a lot of years sharpening tools for machines.. Single point and multi point. I worked for GE in Schenectady,Ny building turbines and generators. I watched the drill grinder video and wondering if it has a way to refresh the web in the drill? We did most of the sharpening of tools on a Cincinnati #2 and #3. The three was a contour grinder and used cams and a follower to get what you needed.That is the two that we used the most. How ever we had several machines for hob grinding and ball end mill grinding etc. Most were manual until later in my career. It was still great to see the upgrades. Have you run across these grinders? Changing the geometry on any tool can help. I have all this in my head and not on paper. I'll give you one as an an example.. Hard stock cutting end mill or single point less than 001 per 1/16 inch over a 32/second land.Hope to hear from you on grinding machines.
Adam thanks so much I'M still drooling over the 2 shops and all the machines that first shop had a couple of lathes I would love to have not to large just the right size for my shop. LOL The painting is awesome. You and Abby have a merry Christmas!
what's amazing about the shop is how clean it is. they take pride in their workplace. I heard once that you can't make tomorrow's masterpieces in yesterday's waste.
Adam, very nice gifts and labor of Loves made out of respect for a metal artist such as yourself . If I could paint like that , the one I would paint would be your closing photo of 3 generations of machinist . That would be a nice addition to your office or shop, or a waiting room. I feel, one of your best days, has to be, is when you met Abbie.
@abom79 I wish I had known you were coming man! The welded beams on that surface grinder at Commerce at 18:53 are beams for our waterjets at American Machinery Group! Super cool to see them in your video!
Fantastic tour of that facility. Glad to see that sort of business still in operation in the U.S. I'd love to know the purpose for those long, ground pieces they produce. Like you, when I see a grinder like that, I think "lathe bed!"
Love the community urinal. That thing will accommodate 5 or 6 guys at the same time. Kidding of course. I saw a lot of these in news paper press rooms and shops.
My high school in Peoria, IL had that exact Cincinnati shaper, I swear to Zog. I was the only one to use it for a project the whole four years I was there. I got extra credit.
It's a shame you couldn't have got into the Allis Chalmers complex in West Allis, Wisconsin. It was the largest machine shop in the world, and built the largest products. Vertical mill that was 45' lathes at 100' able to spin 100 ton, the largest rolls in the world etc etc
I’m a CNC lathe machinist, 26 years old, I wish I could learn how to run some of these old machines. The shop I work at here in North Carolina doesn’t have many old machines left in it and it’s so hard to get anyone to teach you anything because we stay so busy keeping our jobs running. If I could find a place to go and learn off the clock I would in a heart beat.
Just subscribed to your channel.I really enjoy your videos! I've been watching for a few months now because I find them very interesting and informative. Thank you, keep up the great content.
Just came in from Keith Ruckers grinding job video on his camelback. Now this is some grinders ! Never even thought about they could be built that big. Really interesting video, thanks for sharing Adam 😊👍
Beautiful oak box for your parallels, a well made box like that will last and last. Let us know if the tannic acid in the oak affects the steel over time.
Next time you are passing thru East Texas there are two shops worth checking out. One in Longview, East Texas Machine Works, has a bunch of big CNC hbms and vtls. They do huge gear boxes you can stand in. The other shop is in Gladewater, P&M, has a bunch of gear hobbing machines and cool old stuff.
Lufkin Ind. in Lufkin is another good place to tour. I worked for Lufkin in the mid-90's in a Oklahoma City satellite shop and went down there for gear box training and a full tour of its very large plant and foundry , it was massive in size.
0:39 Wow, that looks like one of the old shapers that uses a mechanical drive instead of hydraulics. It's nice that you keep using your old equipment. Some of that old stuff is built a lot better than anything you can buy new nowadays. 4:30 That's a really nice drill sharpener. Do you ever have to thin the center part of the drill after sharpening? I find that after sharpening enough times it tends to get wider.
Those guys in the machine shop are living my dream job, if I was younger. You know they love the fact they are cross trained on all the machines. Makes them highly valued employees. Very nice parallel box. Do you have an address for the maple syrup. I love real maple syrup on pancakes and waffles.
Having all your employees trained across multiple machines, it's actually more beneficial for the owner rather than the employee. If you have 1 employee for each machine, and you fire one of them, that whole machine is down. So you're less likely to be fired if you work on one machine. They can fire and employee and any other employee can fill in their spot.
That big ass Farrel rotary grinder was originally made for GE in Lynn, MA for grinding the flange mating surfaces on steam turbines. The original machine did not have magnetic chucks installed.
Handsome gifts. Your viewers have a great variety of skills. One craftsman always appreciates the work of another.
Adam, I am so glad you like the painting and I appreciate you acknowledging my work. Thank you.
Chris, maybe you can persuade Adam to add the image to his tee shirt selections. Definitely cool enough to wear.
Beautiful painting!!
@@Hopeless_and_Forlorn Thank you for liking it that much.
@@Rubbernecker Thank you so much.
Rad of you
Glad you like the box, I enjoyed building it!
Cross Cut Vintage Designs Great job on that case Tabb! Thanks again!
Dude i love your box
The machines to make the machines to make the parts too make the product. I did not realize this stuff still existed in this country. Amazing.
Great video. It’s so amazing to see the machines people built and how well they work. And last for many years. Great gifts as well. Thank you for sharing
I'm glad the syrup arrived intact. Thank you again for the help and I hope you guys enjoy the syrup very much, it's just something small I wanted to do.
Cheers
I'm a little freaked out. HTR has a voice and Jimmy is moving at 1/10 speed. It's also 10 minutes in and Abom hasn't indicated anything.
when you show what the viewer gifts you, that is one of my favourite part of your videos :) so humble :)
Wouldn't it be great if there were more people as sincere as this guy
Every time I see a shop like this, I get flashbacks to my apprenticeship....1982....the radio station, the old machine tools! Adam, you are the man for showing us this and taking many of us back in time!
I'm the kind of guy that appreciates a hand made gift, or even a simple hand made card, over anything you can buy in a store. My kids are still young and they live with their mother most of the time so I told them I don't want them ever buying me anything for my birthday or Christmas and instead I'd love hand made cards from them. The cards they've made me are some of my most cherished possessions I have. It just means more when someone took the time to use their talent to make something rather than their money at a store, it's more personal.
Just something about the huge round surface grinders having done a little finish work on crane slew drive bearings can only imagine back in the early 40's, working on slew gear on battleships gun turrets at the navel yards.
Back in the manual days anyway.
Thanks for showing this workshop.
They listen to some EXCELLENT music! Man, I have no idea what most of those machines do but they are pretty cool!
Largest lathe I ever saw was in Long Beach CA, in 1977. 27-foot diameter chuck. The bed was specially set and ground crane rail on which the tailstock rode. As I recall, and it's been a while, it was used primarily for turning very large shafting, presumably for ships, up to something like 160'. No idea how a shaft that long would be produced, given the manifold difficulties of dealing with a chunk of steel that large.
I recall that the great diameter of the chuck was for accommodating large castings and the sort.
The same company had literally hundreds of Swiss screw machines operating in a huge space, making all manner of brass fittings. These were all analog, cam-controlled machines. Watching them operate was quite the memorable event, each with about eight to twelve tools set, each doing its thing in turn.
While I greatly admire the broad utility, precision, and repeatability of CNC machinery, there is a quality and character to manual machinery that is in some ways very different and singularly worthy of one's respect and affectionate regard.
Really enjoyed your reaction at 2:10 to the increasingly common internet hyperbolic way of speaking. Lots of cool tools. And that sink, beautiful!
When I was training as a tool grinder, my starting job in the crib was to grind all the drill bits. The company owned a drill grinder exactly like the one in the video and I ground hundreds of bits with it. Great machine.
Mercy.... the amount of knowledge and wisdom, not to mention the kindness in that room.... what I wouldn’t give to spend some time learning from all these guys!!
Wow. Sharpening drill bits without safety glasses. Definitely old school.
Stumbled across this video, and it got my heart pumping when you showed the Monarch EE ( known as tbe Cadillac of toolmakers lathe) and the other is a Monarch 60 lathe. I worked at Monarch as a Field Service Rep. In the 80's.
It's always fun to wander thru these shops with you. But I'm amazed at the vast number of very talented, well-educated and -trained folks that just have no regard for their eyes. God only gave ya' two of 'em. Best protect them from all that flying metal. Maybe because I've worn glasses all my life, I understand the value of seeing (and NOT seeing well!).
Best of luck to all of you, sure hope I never have to meet you at the eye dr. office.
This is a shop in my taste.
Thank You for showing these places!
Certainly the biggest surface grinder i have ever seen. I have ran a Blanchard grinder like the 300" in this video. Using a magnetic crane to load the part on the table.
Holy Jesus, how many machines do they have there? It's definitely old school machinist's paradise to work in the shop like this one...
they really DO make things bigger in Texas!
Thanks for the tour of a working shop that still uses the old machines , planers & shapers . I used to work in a small shop in Cincinnati with those & older machines , from the late 1800's & early 1900's
I love shops like this, shelves that haven't been touched in 20 years. Time machine
Operated the same Oliver drill grinder in a tool and cutter grinding shop for 31 years , brings back memories
I think that's amazing . Such as old iron in shop
Greetings from germany
That's like the greatest background soundtrack ever! Sabbath, Zep....so good.
Love the tours you do. I myself am a machinery mover. But usually never see the machines working! Biggest I have been involved in moving was a 105,000 lbs cnc mill. 1 week to prep it and load it for shipping to Wisconsin.
Love the video Adam, great content. Some of those old machines are awesome, it's really cool to see the old stuff still being used today by true craftsmen, yourself included. Love what you do, keep it up.
Absolutely love that machine shop and the awesome gifts. I miss the smell of the cutting oil, coolant, the sounds of chips and the grown of the machines. When you add the killer classic rock and roll and the vintage machinery and place it in the great state of Texas, its like over the top goodness.
Adam keep up the good work on the videos. I enjoy watching the content of things my body will no longer let me do.
Working at Neapco in Beatrice, NE I've used the rotary hobbing machines, the broaching machine, and that drill bit grinder before. All were pre WW2 and came from the original plant of Neapco from Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Saturday night is now complete for me!! Thanks Adam.
The scale of machinery that’s out there never ceases to amaze me.
And where else would see it other than on Abom79.
Another 30 minutes of excellent entertainment. Thanks for sharing.. Ant, Cid & the Pooch crew.
Those were some really nice, hand made gifts especially the painting that will keep you forever young.
Adam you are looking great my man.I can't believe how much different you look .I absolutely love the content you provide to youtube.you are truly a artist both at machine work but also with the video making. I would also like to thank abbey because I know she spends a lot of time helping you make this all possible. Please keep it up guys.
Thanks Adam for giving this Texas boy a tour of stuff in my own backyard that I was not aware of. Hope to see you in Texas again soon. Meeting you and your lovely wife at The Good of the Land Fest was a real treat.
20:36 isn't that a big double headed bridge mill you skipped over? That painting and box both were really cool. They have talent.
bcbloc02 yeah, that waldrich coburg looked interesting, they still make huge machines in germany.
Love the box👍🏻
Syrup on vanilla ice cream 👍🏻👍🏻
Nice painting 👍🏻
Really love these videos where we get to see other shops and the cool stuff they have!
Great video Adam, that painting is out of this world it looks like a photo on my end.
Took a minute to realize I recognized the first shop and have been in it many times. Great group of guys. Drove by it today actually
Adam & Abby, Awesome tour of both shops and content thanks for sharing.!.!.!.
That wooden case is beautiful
Gotta love a wooden box with a lid :)
Love the painting too.
We all have different skills it’s fabulous that fellow sent you a painting. Get a nice frame for it >]
You fill like a child in an ice cream parlor. Wanderful machines with great stories. Thankyou for sharing.
The most awesome thing about the shop is how every where you go it is very clean and organized. Hop you got the drill sharpener
That big grinder reminds me of my carnival days it reminds me of the Wall of death with the motorcycles in it.. it was in a big round walled up thing like that..... that was an awesome tour thanks for sharing Adam and Abby.. and those gifts are really cool... Have a Merry Christmas guys and a happy and prosperous New year 🎉
I'm not a patron or anything - and I have had a few beers... - but I really appreciate you acknowledging the gifts from your fans.
20:01 - Waldrich Coburg still exist. Im live near to the town Coburg. Greetings from Germany.
The only thing there is more of in that shop than tools and tooling is knowledge. America is losing that at a horrific rate. Guys like these are the last bastion.
Rv4 Guy your so right we need to encourage future generation to go trade schools
@@Stuff_said_ Planning to find work at a local machine shop to learn some of the machinery. Not in the USA, but I think the loss of hands on knowledge is pretty ubiquitous
Oak and walnut very nice combination... I have a tool box that I won in a raffle that was homemade from a wood pattern maker and it was made completely out of mahogany when I received it,
it was so dirty it looked black so I took a Scotch-Brite and wax and going with the grain I polished it till the true finish shined through what a beautiful piece of work
That was Jimmy Diresta and Handtool rescue, right?
Yep.
This spring we had a Richard King scraping class in Springfield Vt right behind the old Fellows Gear Shaper plant. It is shuttered now, sadly, but the guy who let us use his shop used to be a repair tech for them and now he rebuilds them and upgrades them. He showed us one operating. What was really remarkable is the tooling requirements. These are production machines and can turn put gears like crazy, but you need custom $$$$ tooling. It kind of reminded me of the endless shelves of tooling in this video. Buying the machine is only the beginning. The broaches cost a fortune. He was a fascinating dude and has forgotten more about gear mfg than I’ll ever know. Very nice man too.
Same goes for most any other machine tool. I tell people to look at my walls and see the shelves and tool boxes full of tooling that support the machines.
We watch and look at Big 200 + ton dump trucks, massive machinery even the big Aircraft carriers etc. But we never really think of the Equipment used to make or service these Giants, Not until as you have shown the 300" turntable Grinder etc. Well done and thanks for the tour
Thanks for the video Adam. You look like you are having fun.
I spent a lot of years sharpening tools for machines.. Single point and multi point. I worked for GE in Schenectady,Ny building turbines and generators. I watched the drill grinder video and wondering if it has a way to refresh the web in the drill? We did most of the sharpening of tools on a Cincinnati #2 and #3. The three was a contour grinder and used cams and a follower to get what you needed.That is the two that we used the most. How ever we had several machines for hob grinding and ball end mill grinding etc. Most were manual until later in my career. It was still great to see the upgrades. Have you run across these grinders? Changing the geometry on any tool can help. I have all this in my head and not on paper. I'll give you one as an an example.. Hard stock cutting end mill or single point less than 001 per 1/16 inch over a 32/second land.Hope to hear from you on grinding machines.
Wow the machines made to make tools to make our world move or work.
This is art.
Adam thanks so much I'M still drooling over the 2 shops and all the machines that first shop had a couple of lathes I would love to have not to large just the right size for my shop. LOL The painting is awesome. You and Abby have a merry Christmas!
i think i need to rethink my life after seeing this that was some beautiful machinery.
Loved seeing the old iron still being put to good use.
‘We’re just looking’ is the first step to buying haha
what's amazing about the shop is how clean it is. they take pride in their workplace. I heard once that you can't make tomorrow's masterpieces in yesterday's waste.
Some other genius just wrote a comment about how dirty and cluttered it is.
Godawful nice parallel storage box. Good on Tab for making it. Beautiful!
The Guy from Hand Tool Resque is also there. His channel is realy good.
I subscribed to him before I discovered Abomb.
Thank you for showing these wonders.
Adam, very nice gifts and labor of Loves made out of respect for a metal artist such as yourself . If I could paint like that , the one I would paint would be your closing photo of 3 generations of machinist . That would be a nice addition to your office or shop, or a waiting room. I feel, one of your best days, has to be, is when you met Abbie.
@abom79 I wish I had known you were coming man! The welded beams on that surface grinder at Commerce at 18:53 are beams for our waterjets at American Machinery Group! Super cool to see them in your video!
Really enjoy these shop tours
Me to, hey jam👋
Those hinges on the parallel box are amazing!!
Fantastic tour of that facility. Glad to see that sort of business still in operation in the U.S. I'd love to know the purpose for those long, ground pieces they produce. Like you, when I see a grinder like that, I think "lathe bed!"
Now THAT was a SHOP TOUR.... Good Stuff....!
You NEVER open an old fridge if you don’t know it’s in use...some smell like death
A&E Machine sure has a nice supply of well cared for tools
@23:00 that guy put a ton of hours of ultra-fine precision woodworking in that box.
and here i am, cutting my boards for my work bench with a chainsaw lol
@@johndowe7003 that guy that built that box probably also cut the boards for his work bench with a chainsaw.
@@jiveturkey9993 he prolly cut them with a japanese saw or some other fancy thing :P
Bill Barry looked like walnut inlay
Love the community urinal. That thing will accommodate 5 or 6 guys at the same time.
Kidding of course. I saw a lot of these in news paper press rooms and shops.
My high school in Peoria, IL had that exact Cincinnati shaper, I swear to Zog. I was the only one to use it for a project the whole four years I was there. I got extra credit.
Thank you for you hard work
Adam,
Another exceptional and enlightening video.
Thank you.
Eric
It's a shame you couldn't have got into the Allis Chalmers complex in West Allis, Wisconsin. It was the largest machine shop in the world, and built the largest products. Vertical mill that was 45' lathes at 100' able to spin 100 ton, the largest rolls in the world etc etc
Beautiful machines, beautiful hand made gifts and your signature tune. Happy Holidays.
Awesome tour. I was happy to see some of the small stuff i own, some stuff i want and lots of stuff ive never seen in my life.
I’m a CNC lathe machinist, 26 years old, I wish I could learn how to run some of these old machines. The shop I work at here in North Carolina doesn’t have many old machines left in it and it’s so hard to get anyone to teach you anything because we stay so busy keeping our jobs running. If I could find a place to go and learn off the clock I would in a heart beat.
Just subscribed to your channel.I really enjoy your videos!
I've been watching for a few months now because I find them very interesting and informative.
Thank you, keep up the great content.
I would never leave this work shop!
Lots of cool stuff 👍
Just came in from Keith Ruckers grinding job video on his camelback.
Now this is some grinders !
Never even thought about they could be built that big.
Really interesting video, thanks for sharing Adam 😊👍
Beautiful oak box for your parallels, a well made box like that will last and last. Let us know if the tannic acid in the oak affects the steel over time.
Next time you are passing thru East Texas there are two shops worth checking out. One in Longview, East Texas Machine Works, has a bunch of big CNC hbms and vtls. They do huge gear boxes you can stand in. The other shop is in Gladewater, P&M, has a bunch of gear hobbing machines and cool old stuff.
Lufkin Ind. in Lufkin is another good place to tour. I worked for Lufkin in the mid-90's in a Oklahoma City satellite shop and went down there for gear box training and a full tour of its very large plant and foundry , it was massive in size.
OKIE CHOPPER I’ll have to check that one out if I’m ever down there. I haven’t been to Lufkin since high school baseball.
Wow, that 1st shop had some interesting machinery and the drill sharpener never seen before.
0:39 Wow, that looks like one of the old shapers that uses a mechanical drive instead of hydraulics. It's nice that you keep using your old equipment. Some of that old stuff is built a lot better than anything you can buy new nowadays. 4:30 That's a really nice drill sharpener. Do you ever have to thin the center part of the drill after sharpening? I find that after sharpening enough times it tends to get wider.
The United States of America...........The biggest/best machine shop in the world 👍
That Turnmaster was interesting. Looks like someone took a Colchester Mascot 1600, some tracing paper and "designed" a good looking lathe. :-)
Loving the music in the background.
Ohh dude what a great machines, thanks for showing☺
outstanding!!! happy holiday's everybody!!!
Those guys in the machine shop are living my dream job, if I was younger. You know they love the fact they are cross trained on all the machines. Makes them highly valued employees. Very nice parallel box. Do you have an address for the maple syrup. I love real maple syrup on pancakes and waffles.
Mature Patriot / Vernon Currier come to Canada, we’ve got it fresh on tap here😜👌🏻
Having all your employees trained across multiple machines, it's actually more beneficial for the owner rather than the employee. If you have 1 employee for each machine, and you fire one of them, that whole machine is down. So you're less likely to be fired if you work on one machine. They can fire and employee and any other employee can fill in their spot.
I'd love to see the 300" rotary grinder in action. I can't see any videos of it working.
That big ass Farrel rotary grinder was originally made for GE in Lynn, MA for grinding the flange mating surfaces on steam turbines. The original machine did not have magnetic chucks installed.