World's Largest WOOD Propeller Factory: How It's Made
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This is trippy to watch, my 1st job out of high school was here. I haven’t seen the inside of this building in like 25 years. Looks like Don & Steve are still there. I made drone props & ran the shipping & my brother worked in glue ups. I am assuming that open bed CNC replaced the equipment I used. When I was there, we had just started making composite props. I can literally smell things in this video lol, the wood, the glue, it’s just missing 98 Rock & Bubba the Love Sponge 😂
Sylas is not so little anymore! Woo Hoo!
and how did they balance it after the soldering.
Gotta love a free prop!
Buy it for only $19.99 (it´s a joke) 👍👍
Thanks for not putting any obnoxious music over the machining parts, or skipping needlessly through the process. It was pure bliss of industrial ASMR
I’ll second that mate 👍✌️🇬🇧
After 30 years of working in a window factory operating milling machines, moulders and tenioner machines. Excuse Google's spelling. Prior to that, 4 years in the Air Force loading weapons on aircraft and then listening to the engines spool up as they're ready to take off for a sorti, add to that many years of carpentry and woodworking using routers, planers and saws, for extra money and as a hobby, I rather enjoy the music instead of the mind-numbing drone of all these tools. But to each his own. Have a nice day.
If you were that annoyed with what you did for 30 years that you felt the need to complain about it in some random video when nobody asked then this video isn't the problem
@@aerialbugsmasher
Exactly.
I stop watching videos because of that. This is reality based
This is the best How is it Made episode yet!
His rough cut is better than my finish cut would be
That`s why he`s qualified for airplane props and you`re qualified for caskets.
@@REDMAN298 loooooool
My two boys worked there when they were in high school. I have a Sensenich prop hanging on the wall in my den. Raised my family and got my pilot’s license in Plant City. Haven’t been there in 20 years. My boys actually made some of the wooden propeller props for the movie Pearl Harbor.
That’s pretty cool
Were they prop props?
I’ll see myself out…
@@TheStewdansby Indeed they were! (7:
@@privatepilot4064props to them for making prop props. 😂
Jimmy, you are giving your son an education the way it should be done. He is going to be so knowledgeable and what you’re giving him money can’t buy. God bless you and keep doing what you’re doing. P.S. thanks for the great video. I always love seeing how things are made!
workmanship and craftsmanship!
Watching that guy install the brass leading edge was the icing on the cake, simply amazing
You should look into Culver props. They are a small bespoke prop maker and have some fascinating techniques as well.
Small prop builder in Missouri. Her father designed air planes, taught her how to build props. Family business.
Thank you.....Now I don't have to brag on Culver, who is IMO is more impressive.
Yes I think her process is more interesting to watch.
why a wooden prop in this day and age? we have metal.
@@lcfflc3887 wood is cheaper and lighter.
My first prop was a wooden wonder from Sensenich. Smooth, beautiful and indestructible. I then purchased Sensenich's Carbon ground adjustable prop. Still fly with it now, ZERO issues...! My wooden prop is hanging from my wall inside my house, BUT , I could take it down and bolt it on any time to my RV4, as it's still in perfectly serviceable condition...! Go Sensenich...!!!
Each wooden propeller is a true work of art.
Thank you for taking me on this tour, very informative
Really like his gas heated soldering iron. No need to constantly be placing the iron back in the heater/furnace to stay at working temperature. Very nice shop❗
Thanks for posting.
Each propeller they make like that is a work of art. The craftsmanship is off the scale. I only hope that new craftsmen are being trained and that it doesn't become a lost art.
Wow, what a combination of modern manufacturing CNC with real deal old world craftsmanship. Outstanding content!
So cool! I love that they go from a hundred year old machine to a modern cnc. Such a cool mix of technology and skill.
That’s some of the coolest things I’ve ever watched. Most people have no idea the craftsmanship that still goes into some things these days. Thanks for sharing that!
Thanks for letting us see this process! Honest to goodness, I have wondered for years how new props are made! I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined this process! WOWZERS, that is AMAZING!!!
It's awesome to see craftsmen pour their love into the product. It doesn't get any better than that.
Wow, what a process! That is some real American craftsmanship.
Wonderful craftsmanship and a pleasure to watch it all come together. Thank you for these insights.
That was absolutely awesome.
Having been a machinist and a pattern maker in my past life I can appreciate the talent in both the equipment design and the operator’s skill.
The finishing is as much an art as a skill.
Beautiful!
This is very similar to foundry wood pattern making craftsmanship. Finest craftsman I've ever had the honor of working with were old school foundry pattern makers. Their final exam was making a ship's propeller pattern which was incredibly difficult all by hand before CNCs. Hats off to the team at Sensenich for continuing the craft!
Working from drawings
Takes me back….my Dad worked for Hamilton Standard during WW2 making props at the Windsor Locks location..he tried to enlist ( Army) with his brother but was told to stay with the Defense industry as the prop was more important …I still have a piece of prop he gave me that came off the line
UN FREAKIN REAL !!!!! - So glad to see the machine stop & watch the "real" artists at work... Love it, and to think that used to be all be done by hand !!!! - Thank you Jimmy !!!!!
Outstanding and awesome as always.Thamks for sharing and taking us along
This is an awesome video. It's like a "How it's Made" episode crossed with Jimmys World
Woodworking, metalworking, finishing - it all comes together.
Thanks Jimmie, that was awesome.
Best episode of How It's Made I've ever seen
Simply, the pride and high quality of an American made product, amazing ❤
Watching this you sure can see the reason why Wood Propellers cost so much, stunning craftsmanship.
They cost quite a bit less than a metal propeller ! !
The only craftsmanship, was right at the end with the final finishing…….
@@johnnunn8688 ...and the spoke shaving, and the brass work.
@@commentatron , you don’t know what ‘final finishing’ means, obviously?
@@johnnunn8688 Apparently, not. I have flaws. Between your bedside manner and my reading comprehension, we have work to do. I propose we hold a self-imposed moratorium on commenting for the next 20 minutes as penance.
Very Cerebral sound to a wood worker. My wood prop is a Maple Laminate, a lot like this one... just an old beauty on my wall... glowing, refinished without changing a thing... preserved and ready to use ! Mine is a 16 layer Laminate. It is Gloden Hard Maple / 42X20 pitch.
Ok. So now it's Jimmy's turn to make his own propeller.
Just kidding. We just watched many years or decades of experience at work. That was nice of them to allow Jimmy in to watch.
Thanks Sensenich.
Great video Jimmy! There is something magical about watching true craftsmen do their job to the utmost. Fantastic!
Amazing the craftsmanship to make a propeller like that.
That was a proper job by master craftsmen who excell in their trade knowledge wisdom and trickery. Nice one Jimmy
I'm just glad this still exists. Love seeing craftsmanship like this.
When I was very little my father, a high school social studies teacher had a wooden propeller of around two feet wide. He also had a half-completed wooden boomerang made by a student. As I recall…and it could be my brain searching back well over fifty years…he kept those objects on his classroom desk. Dad loved working with wood, dreamed and planned to learn cabinetry in retirement…and though retired, never lived out his plans…
I think of him when I see certain practical objects carefully made!!
Awesome to see some true craftsmen at work
One of your best Jimmy.
I like this type of video from Jimmys, different perspectives.
Wow what amazing craftsmen! Their talent is astonishing.
Jimmy! This is one of the coolest videos. I love watching how they make a complex process look easy. Thanks so much for sharing.
Another very cool not seen enough of great handcrafted beauty. Really looking forward to seeing this one fly.
Thanks again for sharing.... bob
That bowl turned out awesome, the figuring is absolutely stunning. You sure can pull the beauty out of a block of wood.
Wow the finished product is a work of art.
A wonderful record of the human ingenuity, and process.
I proudly own one of these Sensenich brass-edged propellers!!
The brass looks beautiful, the whole look of a wooden prop is the finishing touch to an airplane.
@@volvo09 Until 20 min. ago, I never knew how exactly it was applied to the prop. Made my day!
Amazing craftsmanship!
Now I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed this episode.
Work of art Jimmy😮❗
Relatively new subscriber and am addicted to your channel ..the best part for me is that you include your son in it. I think it's awesome. He does a great job recording everything! From what I've seen of him, he seems to really enjoy it all.
Great job Dad!!
Awesome! Thank you!
The soldering of the screw/rivets heads was a truly satisfying final step. Until then, it all seem sketchy... but soldered in.... perfect.
I had no idea how much skill and effort it takes to manufacture a wood propeller
Fascinating to watch! Computer’s do the heavy lifting on the props but it takes the skilled hands of a craftsman to bring it all together!
Love the brass work
I'm gonna keep my comment simple: quality content. Enough said.
Fascinating. What a beautiful piece of work...
Really impressive...
Thanks for taking your time to present it.👍
fantastic work, thanks for showing us the brilliant product. cheers NZ
This has to be one of the most, if not the most, amazing videos I've ever watched.
All I can say is WOW!
I do wonder if, in the first part, if the balance process if they have ever had a piece that was perfectly balanced?
Thanks for sharing, Jimmy.
Even with the initial cutting machine, there is so much skill involved in getting propellers shaped and balanced. Excellent video. Thank you.
Amazing skill fitting the brass leading edge!
Absolutely gorgeous work.
When something is good, the work that goes into making it is also beautiful. Thank you for the nice video.
Thanks for posting and great to watch
That was a video iv been waiting for, i’ve often wondered how they got the shape of a wooden propeller and how they balanced it so simple really great video.
Ol' Archimedes would be proud of the advancement of His
Screwy invention....
On the other hand, this Video has some killer ASMR with that
CNC Router visually hypnotizing movements of cutting perfection.
This is preservation of an Art that time has forgotten, but those of Us Stick , Rudder, Wood, Wire and Fabric Old Timers can appreciate.
Fantastic Content...!
Beautiful manufacturing process. A kind of art! Thanks!
Wow thanks Jimmy loved watching the process of hand making a wooden prop!! It amazes me that people designed and built props like that and still do to this day!
Thank you for sharing this. A lot of craftsmanship goes into making the propellers.
Many years ago, I worked at a FBO at LNS right across the street from Sensenich. Every time I had to take a prop to them for repair, the hardest thing was leaving. I could have watched them work all day. Back then there was more hand work. CNC was still in it's infancy..
I have an un-flown Sensenich wooden prop proudly displayed on top of my entertainment center. It was gifted to me by a retired employee.
True craftsmanship amazing job
What a beautiful piece of art awesome craftmanship
That propeller is such a work of art! I love thw finish on it!
Just awesome video Jimmy.....thank you so much for the great field trip....😊
these guys have a nice Shop , i m a retired Professional Woodworker and at one point or another I’ve worked with most of the exact Equipment they have my Trade was CustomCabinetry and we haveAutomated Clamps designed Specificlly for Clamping different parts of Cabinets our were Old but not as Old as the Propeller Clamps in this Video !
I remember when Sensinich was in Pennsylvania years ago and having to fly up there with props from our school planes. It was so interesting to watch this being done before computer tables.
@0:39 pretty cool trick having the ear protection on the saw instead of the ears. Makes it a lot easier and more convinient.
Probably one of your best videos Jimmy, nice job👏🏻💯
Now this was a nice one - craftsmanship at its best - Very good Doccy - Thanks Jimmy
It's quite the shop there! Did you happen see my awesome looking prop they have been working on? It's about ready to ship! The STOL(ish) Clipper is going to be looking great at Oshkosh with it!
That's the one they let me try.... they had to make it again.... ;)
@@therealjimmysworld No wonder the price went up! lol
There is a wooden propeller shop at the Wings of History Air Museum in San Martin, CA. It was originally the Ole Fahlin propeller shop in Mountain View, CA. They have a significant library of templates for building propellers.
The vast amount of respect I have for these gentlemen in this craftsmanship is unparallel for when I am trying to straighten a crooked piece of wood on my home planer and jointer. Hours just for accuracy!
Seriously, thinking of buying a propeller just to put on the wall as a reminder of the countless hours it takes to reach perfection!
Jimmy What a great video showing the detail that goes into making a wooden propeller ! I had a wide blade Sensenich prop hanging on a 540 Lycoming on my airboat. Had great power and would climb hills in Lake Kissimmee and Hatchineha. Always loved looking at that big wide blade prop and it was finished great like a work of art LOL
Great video, really enjoyed watching the entire process from start to finish, and learning something new!!!!!
That manufacturing process is absolutely therapeutic to watch!!
Thank you so much for allowing us, the general public that has no clue, to capture a glimpse of the engieneering and craftmanship perfection needed to bring forward one of the most important elements since the beginnings of aviation, and that, amazingly, still is manufactured in the same way for some models. I am impressed with the video productions as well. Superb documentary.
Craftsmanship at its finest! Fantastic video Jimmy!
Wow! That was awesome to see the whole process! Very interesting!
I think your Son has grown a foot this last year! Handsome lad!
Thanks Jimmy!!!
I think so too!
A work of art and years of skill and knowledge great video
awesome and informative my guy. one of the best videos on this entire platform
Nice one Jimmy. Something of a different flavor for a change. Thanks digger!
Hypnotic process. Magical . That is a very nobel pursuit.
G'day Jimmy,
YAY TEAM...!
This is a great Video, mate.
I've paused at the point where you're showing off the Clamp collection on the Laminated Blank.
That Glue is called
Resorcinol, it's a Phenolic Resin that gets catalysed with Formaldehyde...; originally formulated for Boat-building, it's also
Boilproof.
Glue two bits of wood together with it, and boil the glued piece in Water, and the Glue stays stuck.
Australian Hardwood takes to Resourcinol better if not fine-finished before glueing, to better enable the Resin to bond.
I first used the stuff in 1974, at age 13, making a Centreboard Case for a Rowboat-to-Sailboat conversion, and by 17 I was making laminated Propellers (ornamental wall-hangers) with it.
In the 1980s I started making Wind Turbine Rotors with Resorcinol glued Laminations, and 2 of them are still spinning on my front Lawn today, as a Destruction-Test...; after 39 years the Estapol has all flaked off and yet the Laminae are all still stuck together !!!
In the 1990s, I flew behind 2 different Propellers that I designed, cut, laminated & carved from Tasmanian Oak.
The first one was overpitched, and it did 10 hours of Taxi tests & Ground Runs, before 5 hours of Test Flying, and it survived to hang over my Hut Doorway, still.
The second one, finer pitched, flew much better - to the tune of climbing so much better that I landed in a too-small Paddock while playing Biggles ; and in the attempt to take off Downwind..., the Propeller broke on the Fencepost which I failed to clear.
So it's Hub is now displayed in the Out-House, along with a shattered Wind-Turbine Totor, a Prop. with one Blade broken off, and a Wooden Hub broken across the Hub-Bolts when my friend spun in after stalling on approach back in 1995, and his Engibe's Cooling-Fan with his Throttle-Cable still wrapped around it - which was what caused his Engine to fail...
His Cooling Fan winched the Cable clean out of the Carburettor of his Rotax-377 (!).
About 5 years ago I bought a "Stove-Fan", with a little Electric Motor powered by a Peltier-Decice to push Hit Air around - using Heat from the Woodstove's top to make Current to drive the Fan...
Abd the Fan featured Fkat Sheetmetel Blades, not even cambered, with flat Pitch, not Helical...(Grrrrr !).
So in my
"Personal Aeroplanology..." Playlist, as well as in my
"Mad Scientist Videos"
Playlist, there's a Series of Videos showing how I
Designed and planned and cut, laminated, carved, balanced and Estapol-ed a series of three different little 8-inch Diameter by 6-inch Pitch, 4-Laminae Airscrews - all with absolutely perfectly Helical Pitched Blades all the way in to the 1/2-inch diameter Hub...
Australian Red-Cedar (Toona australis) and Casuarina Sub-Rosa (Mountain or Black Oak)...; Black Oak & Radiata Pine...; and Cedar with Stringybark...
All with different Aerofoil Sections.
For Stovetop use at not much more than 800 RPM, my feeling is that one may as well have the technically best and most efficient Propeller it's possible to build ; because there isn't a lot if power goung into the Shaft - so none can afford to be wasted.
Backtrack me to my recent Videos, to see some Smoke-Trail Studies of Sheetmetal versus Carved Laminated Helically-Pitched Wood...; and backscroll a few weeks to see coverage of how Propellers respond to Gyroscopic Precession when spinning in a Test-Rig which permits them to alter the Orientation of their Axis Of Rotation in response to being peturbed in the Yaw-Axis.
It's QUITE the
Rabbit-Hole, actually...;
So I've found.
But, anyway, I posted the Series so that anyone who wants their Stove-Fan to have an actually functionally-efficient Propeller to copy what I did (using my grandfather's Century-old Wheelwrighting Tools) ; to cobble up their own Home-grown DIY version.
I knew what I was doing, at real world scale, so my first attempt at a miniature is still functional and in use...; Copycats might reasonably expect to be (as I am) much happier with the third one tested than the first...(!).
The first one took me 25 hours, the thirrd ine only 12 - but I bought a $250 Drill-Press & a $250 Power-File whike making # 2...(!).
And every time I put the Fan atop my Potbelly I get a
Warm Inner Glow
From being in the know,
And having an actually
Helical Airscrew
Spinning away on my
Stovetop...
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Awesome edit, thanks for sharing
Even though I am old and retired, it's good to see CNC machines being used. When I used to work on machines in industry, I was only called when they were broken. Went all over the world fixing them as an OEM field service engineer.
Absolutely amazing.
Beautiful work, well presented.