SAVED FROM THE SCRAP HEAP!!!! Century Old Canadian Made John Bertram and Sons Metal Planer Recovery!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Who Loves Old Tools?? We Love old tools as much as the cars! Let's go on a tool Safari! We found a Rare 1900's Metal planer that was destined for the scrap man! Its been procured and is now safe again in the Shop and ready to be restored and put back into service for another 100 years!
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50+ years ago I went to a high school in Peoria Illinois that had the best machine shop course of all the cities' schools. The school itself was opened in 1931 and the shop was equipped with 16 engine lathes, three milling machines a metal shaper and a planner both of which I learned how to use when I built my own drill press. Along with the machine side we also had a forge and a casting foundry which we used to pour aluminum. Most of the machines were donated by Caterpillar Tractor and were originally line shaft driven but converted over when installed in the school. Later on I went to work for Cat and used quite a bit of what I learned in three years of shop even after running CNC machines the original knowledge was quite helpful. I even used my dad's original toolmaker apprentice tools he bought in 1938 until I retired as an engineer.
A RUclipsr named "Jonathan W" has some steam boilers and runs machines like that. He has a generator running his Christmas lights this year. ALL steam powered. I appreciate the way they did things back then. Simple, strong. really set the foundation for what we have today.
Excellent channel, I've watched him for years, I don't think there's much he can't do tbh!
yeah, these guys would love Jonathan's stuff...and does old cars to!
Keith Rucker (Vintage Machinery) restored one a little while ago.. with a self contained line-shaft driven by an AC motor. Finished up nicely.
Cheers,
@@Roger-hq1yt When they start the Mars colony they need to send Jonathon W or someone like him to repair whatever may break down.
Yes he does! Fantastic channel. Check it out, folks!!!
Next to all those truckers and a bearded cold war car dealer you two are my favorite Canadadians.
Ding ding YEAH!
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Best clickbait thumbnail on RUclips! It certainly had me fooled!
What a beautiful machine, thank you for keeping history alive.
Nothing like good family and friends 💓
Nice old machine
Awesome video guys. See you Friday
great glad you saved the old girl
Love all this old stuff. The Car's are GREAT but all the other stuff is just as cool. The purpose built tooling is incredible. 😁👌
Sweet !!! 🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩
Nice Boys! My machinist runs most of his equipment off a belt system that runs through his entire building. His father opened for business in 1922 ( I think ) and has never changed location, which is downtown Los Angeles! I believe they did work for Plomb Tool Company and some of their buildings still exist. Nicest man ever BTW.
I think there’s a harmony between old machines and you guy are the masters of saving these classics.
pretty cool stuff!!
Love old tools. I always wonder how people made stuff before there's was anything made. Kind of like the chicken and an egg which one came first.👍🤠
Brilliant effort guys and gals. That's a beaut.
What a terrific save! The main upright castings are just lovely. I thought you were gonna skim the top of your coffee cup there during the demo! Can't wait to see it back in action... Cheers, gentlemen!
My late father was a machinist for 52 years starting out in the 1930’s. I used to go into work with him on weekends occasionally. I was amazed watching him turn those wheels making adjustments in the mils. The shop where he worked had some old belt driven, some hydraulic ones and of course more modern electric motors driven ones. As a child I was fascinated by machinery and fabrication. Seeing this machine brings back some very good memories of my childhood. Thanks boys for rescuing this beautiful piece of work, cannot wait to see you restoring it and using it. Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and mine.
Happy Christmas to you both and your family's from the UK 🇬🇧
I was at a motorcyclist gathering and was taken to a machinest museum in Meadville PA. He has an entire small shop completely set up as it was in its original location. All units still run off belts and actually work. Fascinating place.
Ahh, you got a baby planer. In the mid 70's when I was just started out as a machinist I ran a planer with a 12ft table on a 25ft bed, 8ft between the uprights and 6ft under the rail. It ran a 25 HP electric motor. Quite the thing for a novice machinist. The foreman said if I could learn to run that I could run anything. Great memories. Good luck with yours, they are handy if you are patient.
I’d love to see one in action in a 1800’s factory.
Be interesting to know if anything machined on that planner when it was first made exists in or on any structure or machine still in operation today.
Very nice👍 I've worked in a machine shop for 30 years and seen it change from manual machines to CNC machines and can appreciate that old machine from the 1800's still in working order. Great fined guys. Love seeing you guys use those old machines. Cheers from Michigan
me to, never liked nc, or cnc
that feed reverse is such a neat way of doing it. I've spent a lot of time on Dave RIchard's steam powered machineshop youtube watching his huge planer. so satisfying to watch.
Channel is getting better and better.
Matt. Jim, the technical points of your show and the knowledge that you both have are impressive.
Thank you for sharing. Loved it. See you Friday. Cheers from Ohio
I was a young sailor back in the 1970's at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. We were sent to a huge machine shop to clean up one day and it was all line driven machinery from the turn of the last century. It was fascinating seeing all the machinery. This ancient Chief showed us around and how it all worked.
Very cool! I love seeing those old machine tools saved and working.
Strong's garage quickly becoming my favorite channel. Keep up the good work!
Your shop and the tools and equipment in it is a real treasure! My grandfather emigrated to Canada from Sweden in the teens and went to work on the Welland Canal - one of his jobs was belt splicer; it was fun to get a flavor from your video what those belts could do!
Absolutely loved all the equipment. For all y'all I used to make antique radiators for model A's model T's and Willy Jeeps and we made the same way they did and Henry Ford's Factory even had some of the original tooling the newest machine I had in there was from 1914 everything else was earlier than that. One thing you guys would appreciate it was my spot welder it wasn't one of those little handheld ones. No this thing had a six foot throat you could spot with anything. I built the toolbox using that and some turn plate steel filter like they would when they built my last toolbox was all spot rolled together. As always cheers another amazing video and some very talented guys.
Great that you're saving that planer, when we actually built "stuff". Thanks.
As a teenager I worked for a time in a machine shop. Learned a lot of lessons I still use today. In particular the lathes we used were all about 100 years old (this was 45 years ago). I think it was Matt who said these machines are made to be rebuilt. Very true. The machinist I worked for was old school and could, and did, make anything. He also kept those old machines alive. Excellent find on the metal planer!
I spent 31 years as a Tradesman in the Hydramatic plant (originally the Willow Run Bomber plant). We had a massive toolroom, and smaller toolrooms all over that huge place, but I never saw one of these at all, or if I did, didn't know what it was. I ran a shaper as part of my apprenticeship, so I imagine I could figure this machine out. I hope to see this one in action some day!
Nice , will be great to it running on a overhead line shaft again.
nice score guys... i too appreciate the canadian link to the past... i am sure you are aware of the other you tube channel that ties in nicely with your planer... "the Old Steam Powered Machine Shop" of Dave Richards... he recently found and restored a planer for his shop... and his shop is set up mostly as a line powered steam shop circa 1925
also... FYI .. i live in dundas and a number of the old Bertram buildings still stand in Dundas... repurposed now... but nice to see the architecture still survive..
That's really cool. Hope to see it in action.
Keith Rucker restored a nice older planer and has a lot of videos explaining the process and how they work in more detail. Good find!
Quite amazing. In the US, all of this stuff was water driven. Factories and mills were built where the water was to capture the energy of the moving water.
Seeing a waterwheel in action powering machinery is something to behold and puts the power of fossil fuels in perspective. There are videos of this on youtube. It is amazing how big the water wheels were and how much power they produced. I've seen 7hp water wheels the size of a house and then all of the locks and stuff required for all the water. The entire building vibrates. They can be replaced with a single small electric motor.
They use wooden gears to connect the wheel to the line shaft. The wooden gears act like a sheer pin in a modern system. It could take weeks to get it repaired should anything jam and cause the gears to get sheered.
There is a video on youtube of a textiles mill from the 10th or 11th century still up and running, though I don't recall if they actually still used it for commercial purposes.
cool tool
Just a superb and cool episode about a tool that has found new life in your shop. I am looking forward to seeing this beast put to work and fab the sorts of things you need to bring old rides back to their former glory. What you men do is nothing short of awesome, that we can take the tools of yore and put them back to work because, frankly, we can. Cheers!!!
Now that's cool! Can't wait to see you deck the block of a model T. Hot rod her up with a little compression, and relive the ports, sweet thank you ALL stay safe
Hey Guys, nice work, I'm enjoying the channel.
I have an old yard stick from H.D. Strong Hardware in Bruderheim. Coincidence?
It was my grandpa's, it says "H.D. Strong , the home of good hardware, phone 20"
Keep up the good work, it's cool that you're local...to me anyway .. :)
This is a very plain video yet intensely interesting 🤔
Very interesting! That's what I enjoy about this channel. Some down to earth guys working on old car and trucks with vintage tools. Like you say, so much of that knowledge is gone forever if it went for people like you. Thank You
Thank you for providing with a treasure trove of historical knowledge. Very entertaining!
Wishing you all a Merry and Blessed Christmas and a Happy and Blessed New Year
The car ride to pickup the planer looks pretty much the same as small town North Dakota where I grew up.thanks for the memory
Thank you so much for saving this wonderful piece of history. I restored a much smaller piece of machinery from 1891 that originally ran on a line shaft. It's an 8x12, Chandler & Price jobber letterpress, made in Cleveland Ohio. It too was converted to run on an electric motor in the 1940's (I think... based on the look of the motor). fortunately it retained it's treadle so that I could run it by foot power. I still print with It and it works beautifully and prints really well. Thanks again for all that you both do to educate and entertain!
Thanks!
Very cool guys!
Love seeing you have enough room to save this equipment, I love seeing it, but have no way to save it. glad you guys are doing just that and I hope your you tube channel will grow enough so you can make some money to continue
You have to watch David Richards and his 1920s steam powered machine shop. The best channel on RUclips and that's coming from somebody who watches Allan millyard!
My most treasured tool is my dads 40 yr old windscreen fitting tool kit and my 35 yr old snap on panel hammer set I got just before I married my wife
That is a serious mill and….made in Canada. Getting this one up and running should be good for a few episodes.
You guys make the best videos for gear heads. The info on all those old tools you guys own and use is almost lost to this current society that needs things done instantly with little or know physical labour expended. i am amazed that a cupel of young guys like you two are so up on these old methods. Thank you and keep them coming.
Great content gents.
And we all want to be over your shoulders as you plane the first head.
That's a fancy finger masher, there! ☺️ Thanks for explaining how it works. It's a big ol beast and I'm happy you saved it!
Love these plain simple videos can’t wait till the next one. Thanks and take care.
Fascinating stuff as usual. It's great to see your shop growing. Excellent.
An amazing piece of machinery. We had a blacksmith shop that had the pulley system that ran the different machines. Used to love watching those belts work.
I had "hands on" experience with one of those planers back in the mid 60's. High school machine shop. As I remember it looked very similar to that one you guys have.
LOve the old planer! Thanks for the demo and thanks for saving it!
I have been an employee of Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company. I think back 🤔 about the compressed air and the tools made available for the many tasks. I was looking here,... very interesting to see something like this.
I thought about the surface rust, . A situation not a wish to have,.... and I thought of a pneumatic scaler. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company made a rust remover,....a Scaler. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company made many tools and compressors.
Merry Christmas 🎄 to you!!!
Thank you!!!!
SG, cool video guys! It looks like you may need to replace or refurbish the idler pully. I'd love to see how you do that sort of job. Thanks!
I love everything about this wonderful machine. Great save.
Nice machine! All you guys need are a few more and you can make the parts needed for fixing/restoring more of the older machines that you work on!
Hi chaps, way back in 1967 I got a job rebuilding engines in an old engineering work shop near the navy dock yard in portsmouth U K , the entire machine shop was run from line shafts driven by an 1867 steam engine it was still running the entire works the last time I saw it in i972
Great episode. Well done boys. Friday will be fun. I'll be there.
I love the right guys found this. Thanks for doing these videos for us!
That is a cool milling machine. It will pay itself back in the future for sure. I can imagine milling Ford T and A blocks and maybe some inline 6 engine blocks in it. Before someone comes telling that you need modern precision machines for such work. I will say for the antic things you work with. That machine is very precise.
Another way scraping to look forward to watching.
Great machine!!!!!!! "Made to be rebuilt" how true that is compared to the junk they sell today. And complain about being green. Good luck with her guys.
While growing up my dad and uncle would bring farm machinery parts to be repaired at the machine shops that were local. There where line shafts running things, sometimes converted to electric motor. If there was original steam power - it was long gone or hidden. All but one remain now, the others sold at auctions. I just didn’t have the $ while I was in High school to save anything.
But a kids park I went to in the mid 60’s (Sioux Falls,Sd Lollie Pop Park) still had a steam driven or pony motor merry go round and a small scale steam locomotive that ran around the park.
Thank you for showing how the line shafting works and good luck on the restoration. I'm sure that you will find many things to do with the planer. Take care.
Cute little shaper. I have my eye out for one as well. Thanks for sharing!
Dear Strong's Garage guys.
👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! What a great, big and heavy monster. Congrats for purchasing it. I can hardly wait to see it in action. As other viewers already mentioned, Johnathan W. does a lot of steam engine stuff. There is also the famous Phillips brothers steam sawmill and a channel called "The old steam workshop" (David Richards). Maybe one of them is able to locate pulleys and a main drive shaft for you?
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you. Have some nice Christmas days and a plaster free time afterwards.
That is a great find! Useful too! Good Luck getting it working again. Love the channel!
Love the old stuff.
So cool, I love the juxtaposition of watching century old machinery on modern technology of RUclips. I can’t wait to see it running. Have you watched Johnathan W’s steam engine collection he has been restoring? You could heat the shop and run the equipment with a steam boiler
Outstanding my fellow rebuilding crew !!
Very exceptional piece you have there !! I love your thorough content and look forward to seeing much more of your stuff guy’s !!
I worked at barrhead machine and welding for years.I spent many an hour running that very planer.We mostly used it to regroove grain rollers
There's an old restored gristmill near me with a line shaft drive throughout the place powered by the waterwheel outside. Its main job is of course to grind the corn that's brought in which the mill then sells as stone ground corn meal, but other items on their line shaft include a pair of wool carding machines that were restored to operation earlier this year.
Cars look good, that machine looks better.
What a great find. It's my dream to own one of these. Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers guys!
Good score. Bertram made wood planers also.
Awesome save. I expect to see you guys using it in a couple of weeks. Well, maybe three, thanks to Matt's ankle and the holidays. Oh yeah, Merry Christmas to you and yours!
What a cool old machine!
Very cool piece of equipment! Looking forward to seeing it work.
Fantastic to see another engineering heirloom saved and cherished. Love the videos, the range of subjects and skills portrayed. Merry Christmas and a happy new year
I’m extremely inspired by your shop. I want to do something very similar for myself.
Looking forward to the livestream! Thanks for sharing this amazing content! You guys are one of a select few channels I subscribe to.. You are appreciated.
What an awesome piece of old iron!!!! I have a case of the tool bug myself. my main milling machine base was cast in 1917. Love the old lineshaft stuff though i don't have the overhead room to put one up. most of my stuff is 1930's into the 40's and 50's Can't wait too see your new find up and running. I recently scooped up an old 1940's carbide grinder to add to my shop. Restoration now in progress. Also snagged up a souix valve grinder that needs some love. I don't know how much time you have for perusing youtube but if you don't have him on your list already Check out dave richards and old steam powered machine shop. And careful moving her into her new home. we don't need both of you on crutches lol. hope recovery from the injury is going well too. And if anyone ever questions the tool and car collecting....tell them it's medically necessary....We have an iron deficiency you know. :D
That machine is cool I bet it weighs like as much as five big block Chevys I love the 41 Lincoln Continental I was a kid in the sixties I had a 41 Lincoln Continental slot car souped it up I can beat a lot of cars unfortunately I don't have it anymore thanks for the video have a great day now you can machine all Scott stuff
What magnificent piece of machinery. That was a great find. Merry Christmas guys.
Great find, I especially liked the the switchback mechanism. I have one converted to hydraulics and it needs a different set up as it can double back and go the wrong direction on me. I have been looking for ideas and this maybe the way to go so I don't have to worry all the time of that very occasional flip-flop-flip-end of travel panic situation.
Subscribed awhile back, l sure enjoy how you guys are keeping history alive. I'm an owner of many antique cars.