@MerlinsOldSchoolGarage and Makay are back in the shop but this time they aren't up to the usual shop builds... You don't want to miss this special episode!
Doing a little research among experts turns up some Ford specs using Shagbark Hickory. Others say Redoak, but the general consensus tends to agree, it's Hickory. 🙂
Have you ever read the history of Kingsford Charcoal? "Ford Motor Company sold more than one million Ford Model Ts in 1919. Each one used 100 board feet of wood for parts such as frame, dashboard, steering wheel and wheels. Because of the amount of wood used, Henry Ford decided to produce his own supply. He enlisted the help of Edward G. Kingsford, a real estate agent in Michigan, to locate a supply of wood. Kingsford’s wife was a cousin of Ford.[2] In the early 1920s, Ford acquired large timberland in Iron Mountain, Michigan, and built a sawmill and parts plant in a neighboring area which became Kingsford, Michigan. The mill and plants produced sufficient parts for the car, but generated waste such as stumps, branches and sawdust. Ford suggested that all wood scraps be processed into charcoal." --- From Wikipedia
Now I would ask, did you read it? Ford and Kingston joined in 1919. Building the Model T started in 1908. Between 1908 and 1918, approximatel 2,714,939 Model T designs emerged from Ford's factories. I will assume the majority of them had wheels, and that the majority of the wheels had spokes made of wood. That was the original question, and not how Kingsford charcoal briquettes came about. I'm sure that even certain types of wood were preferred for use as dashboards, and another may have been preferred for carriages, and yet another may have been preferred for wheel spokes. In all, more than 15M Motel T vehicles were built in an era that ended in 1927.
You're either a certified genius, or stark raving mad! Great engineering Merlin! Next time I roll through AZ, I really want to stop and turn some wrenches with you, brother!
Makes me really appreciate living in the woods of Tennessee and being able to walk out front and pick up hickory wood off the ground for the old smoker lol
I'm from Michigan and most of my family worked for GM and my Grandfather worked for Chrysler and Continental motor company. I really appreciate you saving this part of history.
Merlin reminds me of my own grandfather, owned an auto repair shop, and could fix anything. In the afternoon sometimes his buddies would stop bye and see what was going on and see what pop was working on today.
Just the best thing EVER!! A bit of work, a bit a food & lots of laughter !! Yes, I've burnt Model T wood before! It definitely smells different to the Chevy Stuff!! 🤣
Wishing everyone a Blessed Easter Sunday morning to everyone!! ✝️ Thanks Merlin for the video 🪛🔧🔨 Don't forget everyone Jesus Christ is the answer through it all ✝️🙏👍💪
This is off topic but, ili was just watching Vice Grip Garage and you drove a 10 hour round trip to help Derik and Bayley out with the 9" gear set. Absolutely amazing act of generosity.
When I was 20 yrs old my dad ,brother and i restored a 1929 model A Huckster. That had a lot of wood parts over 50 yrs old. as dad made new parts in our ranch house basement. mom lived with saw dust and paint fumes she kept a better homes and garden type house upstairs. But one winter our fire place was down in basement and dad decided it was safe to rid himself of the old wood pasterns as new ones were on model A upstairs in garage. He put them in the fireplace. Burned like they had been soaking in fuel so much caught the lining of the chimney on fire ( like a turbo charger ) we quickly shut the air off and it burned out with out taking the house with it!
Great video! I can almost taste those ribs! LOL!! Love all the model A stuff you do. Taking all those different parts and pieces and putting them together to make something different is amazing. Keep up the good work Merlin!! Special "Howdy" to Makay too!! Tell Deseri she can make me some of that desert!! 🤤
Most of the body frame is hard maple although sometime elm got in the batch. White oak on the top bows because it can be steam bent. Not only it that dried for a century but it is also old growth wood that is rarely found these days if at all.
Back in the early 50's my cousin and I Used parts from my uncles worn out model A's in the back lot, to build a, what's known today as an ORV. We found that to climb out of the canyons, we would turn around and back up the grade. It worked out pretty well. We also built a square box on the back and loaded a couple hundred lbs of sand. For Traction. Lots of great days running around the Canadian river canyons. Now Lake Meredith takes up all of our playground.
Hey Merlin, You got some fun work done on a couple Model T's and had some home cookin and blueberry desert as well. I would call it a good day in Havasu. I guess I missed the part of a show where you cut part of the model T frame off to drop the frame for your Speedster. Maybe next show you can get back onto the Speedster build. Take Care
Great way to spend the day hanging out, a bit of car stuff, a bit of modification, some smoking and BBQ stuff and even some nice cake stuff, doesn't get any better than that.
Awesome music during the speed interludes. I wish I was one of your neighbors, I’d help a lot and provide many how not to do things examples. Love your program
Edward Kingsford was a real estate agent and a friend of Henry Ford. He used a process and a machine set-up designed by Thomas Edison to recycle the sawdust from the hickory wood used to build various Model T parts, and turn them into charcoal briquettes. So "Kings-Ford" is historically accurate.
'Happy Easter' ✝Amen for He Has risen... Amen At the last minute I see your Easter Greeting with the Cross and the old Chevy loaded with Easter Goodies. Also like the history lesson from one of your viewers on Hickory spokes and Ash framing on the old Model 'Tees'. I can recall my dad telling stories on how they kept the spokes tight in the wheels. They would park in a running stream to soak the spokes just enough to get a tight swell. I suppose they did this on hot summer days. My folks were originally from Ohio where wet weather was plenty full but surly dry spell were also reason to 'Soak the Spokes' from time to time.
Pretty much nothing better than the smell of Hickory burning 🔥 waiting on some good ribs! Love watching the work and driving those old cars and trucks. Thanks for the Sunday video.
My Grandpa called Ford's modified for farm use a Doodle Bug 😂 👍 . He had a couple we use to drive around the farm .. great fun 😉.. Keep up the great work Love them Doodle Bugs ✌️💙
Merlin, best fresh from the bush, no matter which berries, no comparison if they are in the cake. We used to collect blueberries as children in the Ore Mountains and eat them fresh, or as a cake with cream on top. Hhm, grandma made the best, super. A long, long time ago, unfortunately. Happy Easter and greetings from Frankfurt
Thank you so much Sir and crew and family you make this old man so happy I fought so hard to make America great thank you for living the american dream ✊🇺🇸😇
New name for Merlin old school and food garage. All the food looked amazing hopefully yinz had a good Easter. Keep up the great work and stay safe out there.
Happy Easter all at Merlin's! I was cracking up... Merlin, you never let go of that fork even tho you were eating with your fingers. I bet they were delicious
not likely the wood has preservative residue but just so you know, creosote was in commercial use in the early 1800's and copper naphthenate came available around 1890, so yes wood could be treated before 1900.
I shop vac the ashes out of my smoker when I BBQ on it. I didn't have to modify the smoker , the Shop Vac or the Ashes either. Although it advisable to allow the ashes to actually become ashes before the Shop Vac is added to the equation
Merlin,, I’m a priddy good shade tree mechanic myself but,, your ability to engineer and overcome absolutely AMAZE me !! Carry on my friend. Religious watcher. 👍🤠
Hickory was the only wood to use for spokes. Most other kinds of wood failed and people have died as a result of broken wooden wheel spokes. Some as recently as within the last 10 years.
Yeah hickory is a great wood to smoke meat with plus the smoker was probably seasoned to begin with which makes for a great flavor 100 years old not bad Take care guys oh and the car looks pretty cool too
I think they used Hard Maple on T Ford Henry Ford Company was founded and backed by lumber baron William H Murphy and other stockholders. a 1912 Delivery Car (a really rare original artifact) so I sent samples of the various body wood parts to the US Forestry service. They had a service that allowed the public to send up to 5 samples for analysis. They needed only a piece 1/4" x 1/4" x 1/2" which they would burn and then analyze the ashes to determine exact species. The body ribs and frame were all made from Hard Maple. Incidentally ALL of the wood blocks used to mount things to the frame such as steering wood block, Running Board blocks. Fender to running board blocks...etc were ALL made from Hard Maple and it says so on the factory drawings which I HAVE in my possession. The side rear door jambs on the Delivery Car were in fact Hard Elm but the forestry service stated that this species was often sold together with Hard Maple as the same species since its properties were nearly identical and it was difficult to separate the species if mixed. Incidentally Floor Boards for early T's through about 1915 were specified as ASH but by the black era and peak production years, almost any wood at all was allowed for floor boards including Linderman stock which was scrap wood of random lengths and widths that was glued together by a Linderman machine - not to be confused with plywood. White Oak was specified for top bows probably because white oak is the easiest wood of all to steam bend. Poplar was never used so far as any original cars I have seen but many people say it WAS used and I suspect that is because it is clear and sold cheap at any of the big box home improvement stores. Technically Poplar is not a hardwood anyway I don't think. I have a few brass cars and a 1923 Driver Touring car and all of the wood in those bodies used for framework is Hard Maple. I buy a lot of hard maple because ALL model T coils had finger jointed boxes made from Hard Maple and again that is on the drawings that I have here on file. Hard Maple is stable and smooth with not many knots but is difficult to steam bend when compared to White Oak but they did bend it to make top slats on the Delivery car and mild bends are not overly difficult to accomplish with it using regular steam methods.
Merlin, the next time Mo and I visit family in Havasu, we'll bring some GENUINE Mesquite wood for McKay's BBQ / Smoker. If you find a pile outside your house, you'll know you are using the real deal.
Those ribs, “spoke” for themselves.
For all us working folk, used to 35 years of being up at 4 or 5. Welcome at 6 am on a Sunday. While the house is still.
Merlin, it is really great to see Makay relaxed and having a good time being himself. Keep up the great attitude Makay.
Ford used hickory wood for those spokes. Hickory smells awesome and makes for good smoke in your meats.
Now who would've thunk that "useless " old wood would come in handy someday??? One man's junk is another man's lunch. Now I made myself hungry.
@@stephanusdutoit3796 So how much wood did Chuck Chuck? I’m confused 😂. God Bless & Happy Easter
Doing a little research among experts turns up some Ford specs using Shagbark Hickory. Others say Redoak, but the general consensus tends to agree, it's Hickory. 🙂
Have you ever read the history of Kingsford Charcoal?
"Ford Motor Company sold more than one million Ford Model Ts in 1919. Each one used 100 board feet of wood for parts such as frame, dashboard, steering wheel and wheels. Because of the amount of wood used, Henry Ford decided to produce his own supply. He enlisted the help of Edward G. Kingsford, a real estate agent in Michigan, to locate a supply of wood. Kingsford’s wife was a cousin of Ford.[2] In the early 1920s, Ford acquired large timberland in Iron Mountain, Michigan, and built a sawmill and parts plant in a neighboring area which became Kingsford, Michigan. The mill and plants produced sufficient parts for the car, but generated waste such as stumps, branches and sawdust. Ford suggested that all wood scraps be processed into charcoal." --- From Wikipedia
Now I would ask, did you read it? Ford and Kingston joined in 1919. Building the Model T started in 1908. Between 1908 and 1918, approximatel 2,714,939 Model T designs emerged from Ford's factories. I will assume the majority of them had wheels, and that the majority of the wheels had spokes made of wood. That was the original question, and not how Kingsford charcoal briquettes came about. I'm sure that even certain types of wood were preferred for use as dashboards, and another may have been preferred for carriages, and yet another may have been preferred for wheel spokes. In all, more than 15M Motel T vehicles were built in an era that ended in 1927.
Thanks for the support, Merlin! We want some of those ribs.
😂
You're either a certified genius, or stark raving mad! Great engineering Merlin! Next time I roll through AZ, I really want to stop and turn some wrenches with you, brother!
FYI- Those Model T spokes were most likely hickory wood. That's what Ford used for them. Hickory is the dream wood for fantastic smoked meat!!
Please do!
Hickory for the win 🥇 🔧😊🏁
Makes me really appreciate living in the woods of Tennessee and being able to walk out front and pick up hickory wood off the ground for the old smoker lol
Yep, same here in West Tennessee!!
I pay Walmart for hickory
Same I'm middle Tennessee. I work at a drying mill and get hickory drops. It smells amazing while it's cooking. Thanks for the video. Happy Easter.
No body does bbq better than good ole southern boys . I know my family in our Kansas ( Arkansas) git er dun
AMEN 🏁🔧😊🇺🇸
From spokes to smokes. Traditionally ash was used to frame old cars, so from ash to ashes works too. Enjoy.
As a Michigander it's great to see some of that 100 year old Upper Peninsula hard wood going to good use.
And it was probably 50-100 years old when it was harvested, right? So technically it's wood that is 200 years old
I'm from Michigan and most of my family worked for GM and my Grandfather worked for Chrysler and Continental motor company. I really appreciate you saving this part of history.
Full circle, charcoal briquettes were made from scrap wood from Ford in Kingsford, Michigan
Merlin reminds me of my own grandfather, owned an auto repair shop, and could fix anything. In the afternoon sometimes his buddies would stop bye and see what was going on and see what pop was working on today.
Just the best thing EVER!! A bit of work, a bit a food & lots of laughter !! Yes, I've burnt Model T wood before! It definitely smells different to the Chevy Stuff!! 🤣
Wishing everyone a Blessed Easter Sunday morning to everyone!! ✝️ Thanks Merlin for the video 🪛🔧🔨 Don't forget everyone Jesus Christ is the answer through it all ✝️🙏👍💪
You can’t hide talent here folks!
This is off topic but, ili was just watching Vice Grip Garage and you drove a 10 hour round trip to help Derik and Bayley out with the 9" gear set. Absolutely amazing act of generosity.
Never a dull moment in that garage
When I was 20 yrs old my dad ,brother and i restored a 1929 model A Huckster. That had a lot of wood parts over 50 yrs old. as dad made new parts in our ranch house basement. mom lived with saw dust and paint fumes she kept a better homes and garden type house upstairs. But one winter our fire place was down in basement and dad decided it was safe to rid himself of the old wood pasterns as new ones were on model A upstairs in garage. He put them in the fireplace. Burned like they had been soaking in fuel so much caught the lining of the chimney on fire ( like a turbo charger ) we quickly shut the air off and it burned out with out taking the house with it!
Yep, 100 degrees in three weeks. Well, hi 80s/low 90s here in Cochise County, but it will be 100 by June. I like that Ruckstell axle!
Great video! I can almost taste those ribs! LOL!! Love all the model A stuff you do. Taking all those different parts and pieces and putting them together to make something different is amazing. Keep up the good work Merlin!! Special "Howdy" to Makay too!! Tell Deseri she can make me some of that desert!! 🤤
You know it's good, McKay isn't saying anything, just eating 🤩👍👌. Man looks like a fun day in the shop, wish I was there!!
Most of the body frame is hard maple although sometime elm got in the batch. White oak on the top bows because it can be steam bent. Not only it that dried for a century but it is also old growth wood that is rarely found these days if at all.
Back in the early 50's my cousin and I Used parts from my uncles worn out model A's in the back lot, to build a, what's known today as an ORV. We found that to climb out of the canyons, we would turn around and back up the grade. It worked out pretty well. We also built a square box on the back and loaded a couple hundred lbs of sand. For Traction. Lots of great days running around the Canadian river canyons. Now Lake Meredith takes up all of our playground.
You could tell by the dog licking it lips over and over that the blue berry cinnamon strudel was delicious. Merlin was just inhaling his.😂😂😂
Merlin and McKay. Thanks a lot. Now I have to go get blueberry muffins and ribs.
And find some wooden spoke wheels so I can have a barbecue.😅😅😅😅😅
Those old Fords are like giant Legos. Mix and match and they run the same day. I see why you love them soo much!!! You make me wish I lived closer.
Hey Merlin,
You got some fun work done on a couple Model T's and had some home cookin and blueberry desert as well.
I would call it a good day in Havasu.
I guess I missed the part of a show where you cut part of the model T frame off to drop the frame for your Speedster.
Maybe next show you can get back onto the Speedster build.
Take Care
Those wheel ribs look excellent! I can almost taste them through my phone. Dang it, now I need to go make some.
A Blessed Easter to All !!
@2:10 damn parts guy getting in the way like usual! Love ya pops 😂
Your commentary description on the ribs was priceless. Had me laughing so hard i started to run out of breath. Hahaha
Merlon Melinsky you are a real burner…you burn everything…. Tires, wood 🪵 everything……. So great and anytime relaxed and chilling…….
The ribs looked delicious and the BBQ time lapse cracked me up!
Great way to spend the day hanging out, a bit of car stuff, a bit of modification, some smoking and BBQ stuff and even some nice cake stuff, doesn't get any better than that.
Happy Easter Merlin and Desiree and Rand
Great Day always when watching your experience and knowledge
Have a Great Day 👍
Awesome music during the speed interludes. I wish I was one of your neighbors, I’d help a lot and provide many how not to do things examples. Love your program
Happy Easter to those Who Recognize, Keep It Safe Out There
Edward Kingsford was a real estate agent and a friend of Henry Ford. He used a process and a machine set-up designed by Thomas Edison to recycle the sawdust from the hickory wood used to build various Model T parts, and turn them into charcoal briquettes. So "Kings-Ford" is historically accurate.
Happy Resurrection day guys those hickory wheel smoked ribs looked awesome I'm sure that they tasted fantastic too.
'Happy Easter' ✝Amen for He Has risen... Amen
At the last minute I see your Easter Greeting with the Cross and the old Chevy loaded with Easter Goodies.
Also like the history lesson from one of your viewers on Hickory spokes and Ash framing on the old Model 'Tees'.
I can recall my dad telling stories on how they kept the spokes tight in the wheels. They would park in a running stream to soak the spokes just enough to get a tight swell. I suppose they did this on hot summer days. My folks were originally from Ohio where wet weather was plenty full but surly dry spell were also reason to 'Soak the Spokes' from time to time.
Pretty much nothing better than the smell of Hickory burning 🔥 waiting on some good ribs! Love watching the work and driving those old cars and trucks. Thanks for the Sunday video.
Just watching the video, I think I was starting to smell the smoke. LOL
Good morning Merlin and Desiree! Happy Easter!
Makay knows ribs are better when cooked according to the calendar and not the clock! ❤
Too cool for school! I reckon Model T wood would be bloody awsome for lunch Mate.
Top show👍
I bet the ribs were delicious! Hickory spokes like you said all natural, can't get any better than that! Catch you on the next. ✌️ 😊
My Grandpa called Ford's modified for farm use a Doodle Bug 😂 👍 . He had a couple we use to drive around the farm .. great fun 😉..
Keep up the great work
Love them Doodle Bugs ✌️💙
Merlin, best fresh from the bush, no matter which berries, no comparison if they are in the cake. We used to collect blueberries as children in the Ore Mountains and eat them fresh, or as a cake with cream on top. Hhm, grandma made the best, super. A long, long time ago, unfortunately.
Happy Easter and greetings from Frankfurt
Thank you so much Sir and crew and family you make this old man so happy I fought so hard to make America great thank you for living the american dream
✊🇺🇸😇
thank you for your service sir🇺🇸🏁😊🔧
Makay's old school cooking 🤤🤤🤤🤤
Ready for a side business: Makay's Spoke 'n Smoke BBQ. Happy Easter Merlin & family!
That was probably Hickory but if you want a good smoke too, use some Cherry wood.
Just another awesome day in the shop with friends.
Very cool video.
For the first time watching MOSG, it made me hungry! Smoked Ribs using old car parts, who would have though.
Derek from VGG sent me over here and I am not disappointed!
Merlin's wheels n meals!!✌️🇺🇲
great video drop as always Merlin, your knowledge on those old Fords is next level. thanks for sharing
They look so good I can taste them from here in Ohio happy Easter Marilyn and God bless you and your family
New name for Merlin old school and food garage. All the food looked amazing hopefully yinz had a good Easter. Keep up the great work and stay safe out there.
Happy Easter all at Merlin's! I was cracking up... Merlin, you never let go of that fork even tho you were eating with your fingers. I bet they were delicious
That is a nice vintage Brooks and Dunn shirt, respect!
McKay, once your fire glows red and the smoke dies down, open that chimney flute so you don't over smoke the meat.
not likely the wood has preservative residue but just so you know, creosote was in commercial use in the early 1800's and copper naphthenate came available around 1890, so yes wood could be treated before 1900.
Always good to see Desiree!
The wood from old wine barrels works good too.
That’s great!!! Enjoy the oak wood, love it!!!
I need to bring you a truck load of mesquite wood.
I'm watching this at 7:00 AM and now I'm going to be craving ribs ALL DAY! Damn you guys! lol
Happy Easter Remember He is Risen This Day 🙏
He is Risen Indeed!!!!
Model T spokes, if the hub was painted red, were hickory wood. Great wood for smoking…..!
From what I can remember as a kid with a man across the street built a few of those cars, and it was Birch Maple, and maybe some ash
Merlin...wishing you, the Mrs and your crew a Happy Easter in Havasu
He said next he knew he was done on the jet sky. Great job cooking and eating them I would have helped you had I been there.
6:55 Im soo glad that we don’t have to hand start our vehicle !
The only thing you have to worry about on the wheel wood is Asbestos dust in it!
Great friends, great cars and great food!..what more could you want?
That is going to be a sweet speedster, hope to get a chance to see and hear it run on person.
Henry Ford used a mix of maple, Birch, and, basswood in his factory.
Great BBQ, thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
It's great hardwood ,nobody can get any thing better I garenty
Your dog always reminds me of Falcor the dragon from The Neverending Story
Dang it Mccay.....my mouth is all a water now .....❤️🇺🇸
I shop vac the ashes out of my smoker when I BBQ on it. I didn't have to modify the smoker , the Shop Vac or the Ashes either. Although it advisable to allow the ashes to actually become ashes before the Shop Vac is added to the equation
nice to see you with Derick😀😀
Merlin,, I’m a priddy good shade tree mechanic myself but,, your ability to engineer and overcome absolutely AMAZE me !! Carry on my friend. Religious watcher. 👍🤠
Take a vacuum and clean out ashes works great easy peasy
I love you guys keep it up thank you for all you do on an off camera
Mm That's Pretty Good. Just a head shake!
Love that T speedster pick up!
And some of the Ford company also used Oak wood for its production aka Kingford oak
Hickory was the only wood to use for spokes. Most other kinds of wood failed and people have died as a result of broken wooden wheel spokes. Some as recently as within the last 10 years.
Good show as always thank you kindly
Yeah hickory is a great wood to smoke meat with plus the smoker was probably seasoned to begin with which makes for a great flavor 100 years old not bad Take care guys oh and the car looks pretty cool too
HA PPY EASTER to you & family, Ribs looked good. Love your show.
you have grown to one of my favorite channels.
Henry's smiling in his box😆😆😆
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you all guys, model T bones.
I think they used Hard Maple on T Ford Henry Ford Company was founded and backed by lumber baron William H Murphy and other stockholders.
a 1912 Delivery Car (a really rare original artifact) so I sent samples of the various body wood parts to the US Forestry service. They had a service that allowed the public to send up to 5 samples for analysis. They needed only a piece 1/4" x 1/4" x 1/2" which they would burn and then analyze the ashes to determine exact species. The body ribs and frame were all made from Hard Maple. Incidentally ALL of the wood blocks used to mount things to the frame such as steering wood block, Running Board blocks. Fender to running board blocks...etc were ALL made from Hard Maple and it says so on the factory drawings which I HAVE in my possession. The side rear door jambs on the Delivery Car were in fact Hard Elm but the forestry service stated that this species was often sold together with Hard Maple as the same species since its properties were nearly identical and it was difficult to separate the species if mixed. Incidentally Floor Boards for early T's through about 1915 were specified as ASH but by the black era and peak production years, almost any wood at all was allowed for floor boards including Linderman stock which was scrap wood of random lengths and widths that was glued together by a Linderman machine - not to be confused with plywood. White Oak was specified for top bows probably because white oak is the easiest wood of all to steam bend. Poplar was never used so far as any original cars I have seen but many people say it WAS used and I suspect that is because it is clear and sold cheap at any of the big box home improvement stores. Technically Poplar is not a hardwood anyway I don't think. I have a few brass cars and a 1923 Driver Touring car and all of the wood in those bodies used for framework is Hard Maple. I buy a lot of hard maple because ALL model T coils had finger jointed boxes made from Hard Maple and again that is on the drawings that I have here on file. Hard Maple is stable and smooth with not many knots but is difficult to steam bend when compared to White Oak but they did bend it to make top slats on the Delivery car and mild bends are not overly difficult to accomplish with it using regular steam methods.
great info thank you for that 🔧😊🏁
Merlin, the next time Mo and I visit family in Havasu, we'll bring some GENUINE Mesquite wood for McKay's BBQ / Smoker. If you find a pile outside your house, you'll know you are
using the real deal.
Sounds great!
Happy Easter Gang 👍😎✊
I NEED smell-o-vision.........
Bet they mostly used hard woods for the framing.