I'm glad Mr. Taylor picked up the torch when you retired. He appears to be a fantastic shop teacher. We didn't have anything like that program when I was in high school. Thanks to both of you for the tour!
Awesome to see high schools with these types of programs still available. A few of my uncles learned their trades in Tech in Omaha. One became a barber, another was printer.
I graduated from Crestview High School Ashland Co Ohio in 1969. My shop teacher was Kent Knaus. He and my Dad were my heroes. Today Mr. Pete is my hero. Anybody else want to chime in? Art
Great to see a school still giving due attention to vocational training programs. If anyone doubts the continued importance and relevance of these skills, they need only look at what's going on in Boca Chica, Texas, where they can observe welding, forming, riveting, and every kind of metal fabrication technique being used to build vehicles destined for Mars!
After hearing stories about your former place of employ, it's honestly exciting and very satisfying to finally see the place I've been slowly drawing in my mind. In addition, it's just nice to see something like this in a high school. As time marches forward, we seem to teach our children less useful knowledge and fewer useful skills. When they enter the job market, it quickly becomes apparent how successful our parental and scholastic methods have become... at utterly crippling the first-job--seeking youth. No one is "stealing" blue-collar American jobs. Those jobs being unscrupulously given to people who will outperform our under-educated young adults, and as a bonus, they will often do so for less than the legally mandated minimum wage the unskilled kid would have to command. I could keep going, but I just remembered my point. Fantastic video, as always I enjoyed and appreciate it. Thanks for putting in the work, sharing your knowledge, and helping to take up the educational slack I mentioned above.
This has to be my all-time favorite mrpete222 video. It brought back so many good memories. I am almost 70 years old and it made me think of all my old high school friends. Thanks so much, Mike T from NJ
Nice Shop. It is good to see some vocational education is still happening. If our young adults would follow that path we wouldn't have so many defaulting on student loans!!!
Its so nice to be able to still see ypur old schoole, as teacher or student. I was in 12th grade (our equivalent) when the 1976 earthquake left our school badly damaged and it was demolished for good. But we kept the momories.
I learned to weld in Vo-ag. That was 1978. We had 3 225 ac Lincolns and 1 ancient hand crank 180 amp Lincoln that I used most of the time. Also had 1 torch rig. I spent almost 30 years as a welder fabricator. Loved every minute of it Pete!
I paid $1.94 yesterday (December 15, 2020) and had a reward points that took another 10 cents a gallon off for a maximum of 20 gallons. Thanks for another great field trip Mr. Pete, I loved seeing the old high school where you worked. I got especially excited when you turned the corner and I thought we were stopping for ice cream. And then quickly became dejected that it was a gas station!! Again, great video and the walk down memory lane.
Most schools don't have vocational programs due to safety / liability issues. Very nice. My highschool didn't have it. I was fortunate that my gradeschool had a good industrial arts program. I learned a lot that helped me in my career as a mechanical engineer. You must have the patients of a saint. We were all ornrey little bastards.
I wonder if Mr. Taylor might have cleaned that shop up a little before Mr. Pete came to visit? In the shops where I worked we always had emergency cleanups when important visitors were expected.
Lol, you build the machine lift in 1976, when I was born Tubalcain, and I am no spring chicken. Great tour, its good to see such a nice HS shop. Tell Mr. Taylor, thank you.
Sure glad to see shop class still available. I remember Jim Bolinger stating a year or so ago that college education is great, but we also need people who can build stuff. We are paying $2.04 per gallon here in Huachuca City, AZ
Bitter sweet for me seeing the industrial arts shops, my high school I A was dismantled and turned into a computer lab, The school were I retired from the shop equipment all top notch was sold for pennies on the dollar and replaced in the new building with Craftsman junk. Now we are going full circle and the trades are being promoted in the schools again.
Thanks for the tour Mr Pete. Petrol (gasoline) is around £1.14/litre in UK. So with roughly 3.8 litres to 1 US gallon and £1 being about $1.34 right now, that makes it about $5.80 a US gallon.
Really enjoyed the tour. More kids need to learn skills like these, even if they don't use them, it expands their horizons to what is available in the real world. By the way we are paying $2.12 for 10% ethanol blend.
Thank you for the tour. Shop class at the high school looks like it is now mostly welding. I didn't take any shop classes while in high school. Shop class could have benefitted my career. I taught some adult education through a local high school during a lull in my regular industrial maintenance employment. Last year I taught 17 home school boys fundamentals of electricity. We used my dining room for our classroom. We used my shop for labs that were not appropriate for the dining room tables. I really got a kick out of the boys. My student ages ranged from 7-17. Keeping subject material appropriate for my age range was challenging. My students included all of my grandsons in that age range. Today is a big day for me. Excavation for my new home shop building (85' x 60') is to begin. Concrete short walls and floor should be completed by the end of the year. We plan to erect the building in the spring.
I routinely donate machinable plastics to trade schools in my area. These are all cutoffs for the most part. I have gotten full sheet goods only a couple of times. This saves them money as they can prototype in plastic, and then if it works out, they can make it from metal. They made storage boxes from black UHMW, and lined it with velvet for putting calipers in. On one occasion, I was told I could get in the open-top dumpster and got several hundred dollars worth of sheet and round/square stock. They used to buy plastic for prototyping, but the costs kept rising, so they discontinued purchasing these items. Some materials are also used by other trades like electrical and plumbing shops.
HF has really cleaned up their act the last 5 years, I use many of there tools daily for work, Zero issues. Went by my old school for my 20th, the metal and wood shop gone. I don’t have a good explanation but it’s a shame. We use to pour molten aluminum into are sand cast molds.
Mr. Pete, I can hear and sense your melancholy. I get the same way when I use Google Earth to visit my Air Force bases that are shut down.I feel the years that have past.
I graduated in 1966 and whitnessed the closing of the foundry followed by the metal welding/Fab shops,the only shop we had was the wood shop that was converted to bacic electricity,the wood shop teacher taught us but sadly enough through no fault of his own was only a page or so ahead of that class.
Great video... Gas here in N Alabama was $1.85 yesterday, but was surprised when I filled up wife's Mini (requires premium) that the hi-test was over $2.40. Brings back the good old days when stations had a very obsolete philosophy of "gas wars". Remember filling up at a Gulf station in 1967 for $0.16 a gallon (Ann Arbor, MI)!!
Wow, I would have killed to have a shop like that at my highschool. I went to the largest high school in Oregon in the late 90's and we basically had a few benches, some mig welders and a few grinders. Sadly they have phased out all shop classes there now. So glad to see this is still going on, if we can ever get the kids back into the building...
I have one of those HF auto-darkening helmets and 7 years later it still works perfectly. Those old wooden doors should be a great source of kick plates if you can get them before the scrappers do. :-)
Good to see industrial arts is still alive, I can tell from the short time he was on David is a fantastic teacher, takes a great teacher to bring enthusiasm to make learning fun. I could hardly wait to get to my shop classes. Good to see Streator has had great industrial arts educators, and looks like the future is in good hands.
Mr. Joseph Rebman was the machine shop teacher at the trade school in Columbia, S.C. where I learned the trade in 1955. When I left his class for my first job at Wilson Machinery in Charlotte, he said, "Just tell Mr. Wilson an old Dutchman taught you,"
Loved the tours, having my 50th reunion this coming May, hope my old shoe teacher left some of his memories hanging in the shop. We have regular 87 here in Boyd 76023 zip for $185 ( was $1.69 last WK) and diesel @ $1.85. Merry and Happy Holidays to you and your viewers, and family.
Thanks for the shop tour MrPete. I found your channel a while back because I was searching for patternmaking and casting. I was in a patternmaking school here in Minnesota for a while in the mid 80’s. We had to square up all our stock from rough sawn wood with a hand plane. I dropped out of that school and went into electrical engineering since the economy and technology was changing so quickly. I hope you do some videos on patternmaking cores. I never got to that in my schooling but I am still interested in it. I recently watched a video of your tour of the Vaughn hammer factory. It was another really good video. If you ever come to St Paul MN you should tour the James J Hill house. Hill as you probably know was the founder of the Great Northern railroad which now known as BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe). His house was built on a massive scale. He also was instrumental in helping build the Cathedral of Saint Paul which is right across the street. The cathedral was built entirely by hand with massive blocks of granite that were hauled by ox cart from the same quarry that Starrett/TruStone use to make granite surface plates for machinists. Take care and God bless.
Thank you for that comment You're and I would love to see that mansion. Yes, I know who Mr. hill was, I read the history on the great northern . He must have been quite a guy
Great video Mr Pete, It's such a shame that some industries are shutting down and people don't seem to realise how far-reaching these closures are, like the pipe manufacturer in this video. As I'm in England I love these field trips, they give me an insight into American life, it's like England in the '70s when everybody working for a living was the norm instead of unemployable non-English speaking people in groups on street corners. Sorry for the rant, I'm passionate about our dying industrial heritage. Keep safe from the Chinese flu Mr Pete.
Loved the hoist, I may build a similar one. Those are nice shops, thanks for another tour! Seatbelt warning beeps... In here, it's about 3 US dollars/gal, about $0.85/litre, when it's cheap. Most places are close to $4/gal.
More children should have the opportunity to take such great classes like shop, welding or agriculture. But unfortunately many in the educational field believe if you do something like that you won’t make anything of yourself, sad.
Hey Lyle! @12:12 or so..."A clean shop..." Sort of like the adage about... "A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind..." I always wondered what an empty desk is a sign of??? ;
Thanks for the tour. I spent my highschool in the mechanic, machine and welding shop. We had beautiful programs back then, graduated 2001. Now most of shops are now closed. too bad, I'm afraid in a near future we won't have any manual labour workers. Price of gas here Ontario Canada, $4.895/ gallon, disgusting!!!
Nice to see your old haunts :-) Where I am in Fife, Scotland the prices are 111.9 pence per litre (£1.12 - yes they round it up) for petrol, diesel is 116.9 pence per litre (£1.17)
How do you home school welding class ? The way I did, learn by your Dads critique and showing you how, burn & learn he said ....... glad to see vocational shop being taught on campus.
Wow that brings back fond memories .I remember making a brass cannon the second year clases were making them we were just steps and threads. I fondly remember making a cannon I was not supposed to be yet .and I had almost finished and I felt this feeling looked over my shoulder .and my shop teacher caught me i will never forget that he did let me keep it after class .sorry had to share hope you don't mind long stories .thanks again for all you have done in your teaching carer And utube one .can we see a video of the ball cannon ?
Our Gas prices here in the UK are currently £1.12 per litre for petrol and £1.17 per litre for diesel. To get the price per gallon you need to multiply those by 4.5. So the price for petrol would be £5.04 for a gallon. Not dollars, but UK pounds, and that's at a supermarket petrol station where the prices are a bit lower. I can remember being a kid in 1971 when the UK changed over to decimal currency and a whole gallon was just 40 pence. When I fill a truck fuel tank nowadays I can easily pay over £200 so I always try to go to a supermarket filling station where I can collect points on a loyalty card. Oh, and not so very long ago the fuel prices were higher too.
Down here in south Texas, today's fuel cost was $1.899 18.4 cents of that to Uncle Sugar, and 20 cents to Sam Houston. And I home school machine shop, welding, home ec, chemistry, phsyics and a host of other subjects most every day!!
WOW WOW WOW WOW!!WHAT A NICE SCHOOL SHOP!! Our shop had 2 stick welders, one torch, One manual sheet metal brake for real thin tin and a roller...A resistance spot welder and several hand drills and a grinder.....a small assortment set of sae and metric sockets and combination wrenches.No metal lathes, no milling machines, No iron workers no plasmas,No machining tools what so ever...no foundry was ever even thought of here..NO donated metals from anywhere..Hardly even a vise worth putting anything other than a 1x4 wood in. So not much for metal projects ever made,Not much for engine works because our school board wouldn't buy us insurance to have 2 cups of gas in the shop to run a briggs and stratton with. We had mostly wood teachers.We did a little bit of drafting. The teacher I had wasn't too bad.Some couldn't sharpen a knife...I wasn't a model student.Btu definitely had most of the stuff there figured out long before i got into shop class.Really wanted mechanics and machine shop class because it sucks to weld a wooden 2x4. LOL! The rest was a very few wood tools and not much to work with there other than a table saw, and a band saw and jig saws and several routers and hand tools.. I Left there in 1980! Central North Dakota has almost NO industry. Thanks for the tour!
I bet the shop walk through Lyle brought back some fond MEMORIES ? You asked for fuel prices where I am December 17th 2020 Diesel near me in Western Australia is $1.22 CENTS PER LITRE or $5.46 a gallon you Americans have it cheap And I have a 100 litre fuel tank in my Toyota Hi-ace Van. Another enjoyable video Lyle, thanks mate (: Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
Here where I live, 30 miles SE of Seattle, gas is $2.659 at our 2 big chain grocery stores. I don't even pay attention to what Chevron, Shell or the other big name oil companies charge, but it is more than that. I believe our local Costco sells for $2.499 or so.
Hi Lyle...as of December 17th, we are paying $1.49 AUD per litre in Melbourne Australia... so that is about $1.13 USD per litre... and there's 3.785 litres in a gallon ... S o 91 octane unleaded is $4.24 USD per gallon....my Toyota 4.0 Ltd V6 takes 160 litres to fill from empty.... Cheers Rodney in Melbourne
Mr Pete, I wish fuel was that price here in the UK. at the moment we are paying £1.13 per LITRE ! or converted to US $6.95 per gallon. Too bad you can't email us a few gallons. Great tour, I liked the large Lincoln electrode oven there too, Nice shop.
As a retiree, I had to send back my "D" sized bottle of Argon, as I could not afford the annual rental. A bottle may last me for 2 years and not making any money from it. I then bought my own bottle and now it just costs the re-fill price.
Great welding and machine shops. Nothing like that at my high school in the day until I went to trade school in my apprenticeship. Great opportunity...
Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Up until last week gas in Ft Pierce Fl was $2.03 to $2.04 a gallon. All of a sudden Monday, everywhere is at least $2.19. No collusion,no way, just can’t be🙄
You have cheap gas. In LA it is around $3.50. I believe our high school shops have. Mainly disappeared. That Said, I went to a design school in Pasadena CA they had and still do have a very complete and nice shop. If you design something you really should be able to build it.
I'm a shop teacher, and that is a nice looking metals shop, but what's with most of the angle grinders missing the guards? That is fine at home, but if kids are using them they should have guards even with sanding discs.
Industrial arts was my favorite part of going to school. Got paid by my highschool to work during the summer printing class schedules for the next semester. Gave me a feeling of accomplishment and worth at a young age. Glad to see your old program is still running. We need people with those skills. Not everyone can be a computer programmer.
Kills me, growing up in the 80's in NY we had a few welding booths (no longer used), no metal working equipment, marginal wood shop some mechanical tooling. it was all about selling college loans
Wow what a neat school, those kids are very lucky. Of here ( NZ ) they would dream of having something like that, the kids might get burnt or cut themselves DoH! PC gone made. Great to see some places still know what useful education is
Props to Mr. Taylor - thanks for keeping practical skills alive and well!
I'm glad Mr. Taylor picked up the torch when you retired. He appears to be a fantastic shop teacher. We didn't have anything like that program when I was in high school. Thanks to both of you for the tour!
Wow, that's a high school! Amazing. Thank you for the tour Mr. Pete
Mr Pete, thanks for sharing. Im 50 years old and just last week took my first welding class, and Im hooked! So cool.
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Brings back memories of when I taught welding in southern Maryland in the 90,s Thank you
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Awesome to see high schools with these types of programs still available. A few of my uncles learned their trades in Tech in Omaha. One became a barber, another was printer.
I graduated from Crestview High School Ashland Co Ohio in 1969. My shop teacher was Kent Knaus. He and my Dad were my heroes. Today Mr. Pete is my hero. Anybody else want to chime in?
Art
Thank you very much
Great to see a school still giving due attention to vocational training programs. If anyone doubts the continued importance and relevance of these skills, they need only look at what's going on in Boca Chica, Texas, where they can observe welding, forming, riveting, and every kind of metal fabrication technique being used to build vehicles destined for Mars!
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After hearing stories about your former place of employ, it's honestly exciting and very satisfying to finally see the place I've been slowly drawing in my mind. In addition, it's just nice to see something like this in a high school. As time marches forward, we seem to teach our children less useful knowledge and fewer useful skills. When they enter the job market, it quickly becomes apparent how successful our parental and scholastic methods have become... at utterly crippling the first-job--seeking youth. No one is "stealing" blue-collar American jobs. Those jobs being unscrupulously given to people who will outperform our under-educated young adults, and as a bonus, they will often do so for less than the legally mandated minimum wage the unskilled kid would have to command.
I could keep going, but I just remembered my point. Fantastic video, as always I enjoyed and appreciate it. Thanks for putting in the work, sharing your knowledge, and helping to take up the educational slack I mentioned above.
This has to be my all-time favorite mrpete222 video. It brought back so many good memories. I am almost 70 years old and it made me think of all my old high school friends.
Thanks so much, Mike T from NJ
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I hope the kiddies know how fortunate they are to have a shop at all, let alone a sweet one like that and a good instructor who cares. Love the shop.
They are very fortunate. But It is not the nature of a child to appreciate anything. It will take him a long time to appreciate great parents.
@@mrpete222 amen to that. A-men. Here here.
Nice Shop. It is good to see some vocational education is still happening. If our young adults would follow that path we wouldn't have so many defaulting on student loans!!!
Shop teachers are the unsung hero’s of modern America. No one realizes it.
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Its so nice to be able to still see ypur old schoole, as teacher or student. I was in 12th grade (our equivalent) when the 1976 earthquake left our school badly damaged and it was demolished for good. But we kept the momories.
I learned to weld in Vo-ag. That was 1978. We had 3 225 ac Lincolns and 1 ancient hand crank 180 amp Lincoln that I used most of the time. Also had 1 torch rig. I spent almost 30 years as a welder fabricator. Loved every minute of it Pete!
Wow that's a fantastic high school metal shop. Those kids are mighty lucky.
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I wish more school shops were as nice as that one.
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A good welder always has work. Boys, take heed.
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I paid $1.94 yesterday (December 15, 2020) and had a reward points that took another 10 cents a gallon off for a maximum of 20 gallons. Thanks for another great field trip Mr. Pete, I loved seeing the old high school where you worked. I got especially excited when you turned the corner and I thought we were stopping for ice cream. And then quickly became dejected that it was a gas station!! Again, great video and the walk down memory lane.
Most schools don't have vocational programs due to safety / liability issues. Very nice. My highschool didn't have it. I was fortunate that my gradeschool had a good industrial arts program. I learned a lot that helped me in my career as a mechanical engineer. You must have the patients of a saint. We were all ornrey little bastards.
Nice tour. Love it. I wish my high school was as well equipped as this one is.
I wonder if Mr. Taylor might have cleaned that shop up a little before Mr. Pete came to visit? In the shops where I worked we always had emergency cleanups when important visitors were expected.
Must be kinda nice to see to see the old work place.
Lol, you build the machine lift in 1976, when I was born Tubalcain, and I am no spring chicken. Great tour, its good to see such a nice HS shop. Tell Mr. Taylor, thank you.
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Sure glad to see shop class still available. I remember Jim Bolinger stating a year or so ago that college education is great, but we also need people who can build stuff. We are paying $2.04 per gallon here in Huachuca City, AZ
I wish I had this kind of set up when I was in school
Bitter sweet for me seeing the industrial arts shops, my high school I A was dismantled and turned into a computer lab, The school were I retired from the shop equipment all top notch was sold for pennies on the dollar and replaced in the new building with Craftsman junk. Now we are going full circle and the trades are being promoted in the schools again.
Yes, I have seen this happen in many schools. Then they make a token attempt at replacing the shops with Chinese junk tools.
Gas in Southern California, Nov. 2020 is $3.35 per gallon. Thanks for the tour Mr. Pete, it brought back good memories of my school days.
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Mr. Pete, was 222 an old room number. I enjoyed your tour of the school where you taught.
Nope, that would be 36
Thanks for the tour Mr Pete. Petrol (gasoline) is around £1.14/litre in UK. So with roughly 3.8 litres to 1 US gallon and £1 being about $1.34 right now, that makes it about $5.80 a US gallon.
OMG how this reminds me of my HS Industrial Education Classes.
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Oh how I wish they offered this when I was in school,would have paid much more attention.
Really enjoyed the tour. More kids need to learn skills like these, even if they don't use them, it expands their horizons to what is available in the real world. By the way we are paying $2.12 for 10% ethanol blend.
Thank you for the tour. Shop class at the high school looks like it is now mostly welding. I didn't take any shop classes while in high school. Shop class could have benefitted my career. I taught some adult education through a local high school during a lull in my regular industrial maintenance employment. Last year I taught 17 home school boys fundamentals of electricity. We used my dining room for our classroom. We used my shop for labs that were not appropriate for the dining room tables. I really got a kick out of the boys. My student ages ranged from 7-17. Keeping subject material appropriate for my age range was challenging. My students included all of my grandsons in that age range.
Today is a big day for me. Excavation for my new home shop building (85' x 60') is to begin. Concrete short walls and floor should be completed by the end of the year. We plan to erect the building in the spring.
I wish I would’ve taught some shop classes to my grandson’s homeschool group.
I routinely donate machinable plastics to trade schools in my area. These are all cutoffs for the most part. I have gotten full sheet goods only a couple of times. This saves them money as they can prototype in plastic, and then if it works out, they can make it from metal. They made storage boxes from black UHMW, and lined it with velvet for putting calipers in. On one occasion, I was told I could get in the open-top dumpster and got several hundred dollars worth of sheet and round/square stock. They used to buy plastic for prototyping, but the costs kept rising, so they discontinued purchasing these items. Some materials are also used by other trades like electrical and plumbing shops.
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Enjoyed the tour. Gas in central California $2.85.
HF has really cleaned up their act the last 5 years, I use many of there tools daily for work, Zero issues.
Went by my old school for my 20th, the metal and wood shop gone. I don’t have a good explanation but it’s a shame.
We use to pour molten aluminum into are sand cast molds.
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Mr. Pete, I can hear and sense your melancholy. I get the same way when I use Google Earth to visit my Air Force bases that are shut down.I feel the years that have past.
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I graduated in 1966 and whitnessed the closing of the foundry followed by the metal welding/Fab shops,the only shop we had was the wood shop that was converted to bacic electricity,the wood shop teacher taught us but sadly enough through no fault of his own was only a page or so ahead of that class.
Great video... Gas here in N Alabama was $1.85 yesterday, but was surprised when I filled up wife's Mini (requires premium) that the hi-test was over $2.40. Brings back the good old days when stations had a very obsolete philosophy of "gas wars". Remember filling up at a Gulf station in 1967 for $0.16 a gallon (Ann Arbor, MI)!!
I paid 18 or $.19 per gallon when I was going to college. The gas war lasted for years in Bloomington. That was the mid 60s
Wow, I would have killed to have a shop like that at my highschool. I went to the largest high school in Oregon in the late 90's and we basically had a few benches, some mig welders and a few grinders. Sadly they have phased out all shop classes there now. So glad to see this is still going on, if we can ever get the kids back into the building...
I paid $1.79 / gal when I filled up Sunday. Enjoyed the video.
The cleanest safest shop you'll ever work at is the metals lab at school! I wonder where one goes to train for a Walmart job?
Thanks for taking us along Mr. Pete.
I have one of those HF auto-darkening helmets and 7 years later it still works perfectly. Those old wooden doors should be a great source of kick plates if you can get them before the scrappers do. :-)
I still have several kick plates
Good to see industrial arts is still alive, I can tell from the short time he was on David is a fantastic teacher, takes a great teacher to bring enthusiasm to make learning fun. I could hardly wait to get to my shop classes. Good to see Streator has had great industrial arts educators, and looks like the future is in good hands.
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Best videos I have viewed. Would like to send some pics of tools for your opinion.
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Mr. Joseph Rebman was the machine shop teacher at the trade school in Columbia, S.C. where I learned the trade in 1955. When I left his class for my first job at Wilson Machinery in Charlotte, he said, "Just tell Mr. Wilson an old Dutchman taught you,"
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Loved the tours, having my 50th reunion this coming May, hope my old shoe teacher left some of his memories hanging in the shop.
We have regular 87 here in Boyd 76023 zip for $185 ( was $1.69 last WK) and diesel @ $1.85. Merry and Happy Holidays to you and your viewers, and family.
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Thanks for the shop tour MrPete. I found your channel a while back because I was searching for patternmaking and casting. I was in a patternmaking school here in Minnesota for a while in the mid 80’s. We had to square up all our stock from rough sawn wood with a hand plane. I dropped out of that school and went into electrical engineering since the economy and technology was changing so quickly. I hope you do some videos on patternmaking cores. I never got to that in my schooling but I am still interested in it.
I recently watched a video of your tour of the Vaughn hammer factory. It was another really good video. If you ever come to St Paul MN you should tour the James J Hill house. Hill as you probably know was the founder of the Great Northern railroad which now known as BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe). His house was built on a massive scale. He also was instrumental in helping build the Cathedral of Saint Paul which is right across the street. The cathedral was built entirely by hand with massive blocks of granite that were hauled by ox cart from the same quarry that Starrett/TruStone use to make granite surface plates for machinists.
Take care and God bless.
Thank you for that comment You're and I would love to see that mansion. Yes, I know who Mr. hill was, I read the history on the great northern . He must have been quite a guy
Great video Mr Pete, It's such a shame that some industries are shutting down and people don't seem to realise how far-reaching these closures are, like the pipe manufacturer in this video. As I'm in England I love these field trips, they give me an insight into American life, it's like England in the '70s when everybody working for a living was the norm instead of unemployable non-English speaking people in groups on street corners.
Sorry for the rant, I'm passionate about our dying industrial heritage.
Keep safe from the Chinese flu Mr Pete.
Great minds think alike
Loved the hoist, I may build a similar one. Those are nice shops, thanks for another tour! Seatbelt warning beeps... In here, it's about 3 US dollars/gal, about $0.85/litre, when it's cheap. Most places are close to $4/gal.
More children should have the opportunity to take such great classes like shop, welding or agriculture. But unfortunately many in the educational field believe if you do something like that you won’t make anything of yourself, sad.
Hey Lyle!
@12:12 or so..."A clean shop..." Sort of like the adage about... "A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind..." I always wondered what an empty desk is a sign of???
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Thanks for the tour. I spent my highschool in the mechanic, machine and welding shop. We had beautiful programs back then, graduated 2001. Now most of shops are now closed. too bad, I'm afraid in a near future we won't have any manual labour workers.
Price of gas here Ontario Canada, $4.895/ gallon, disgusting!!!
Nice to see your old haunts :-)
Where I am in Fife, Scotland the prices are 111.9 pence per litre (£1.12 - yes they round it up) for petrol, diesel is 116.9 pence per litre (£1.17)
How do you home school welding class ? The way I did, learn by your Dads critique and showing you how, burn & learn he said ....... glad to see vocational shop being taught on campus.
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Our gas back in November was in the $1.50 range. South of Houston.
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Great video! Both of you are wonderful teachers!
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Thank You Mr Taylor..... Thank God for Shop Teachers......
Wow that brings back fond memories .I remember making a brass cannon the second year clases were making them we were just steps and threads. I fondly remember making a cannon I was not supposed to be yet .and I had almost finished and I felt this feeling looked over my shoulder .and my shop teacher caught me i will never forget that he did let me keep it after class .sorry had to share hope you don't mind long stories .thanks again for all you have done in your teaching carer
And utube one .can we see a video of the ball cannon ?
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Our Gas prices here in the UK are currently £1.12 per litre for petrol and £1.17 per litre for diesel. To get the price per gallon you need to multiply those by 4.5. So the price for petrol would be £5.04 for a gallon. Not dollars, but UK pounds, and that's at a supermarket petrol station where the prices are a bit lower. I can remember being a kid in 1971 when the UK changed over to decimal currency and a whole gallon was just 40 pence. When I fill a truck fuel tank nowadays I can easily pay over £200 so I always try to go to a supermarket filling station where I can collect points on a loyalty card. Oh, and not so very long ago the fuel prices were higher too.
Lyle, December 16, Ventura County California, discount gas is $3.199/gallon. Thanks for the video. Jon
Down here in south Texas, today's fuel cost was $1.899 18.4 cents of that to Uncle Sugar, and 20 cents to Sam Houston.
And I home school machine shop, welding, home ec, chemistry, phsyics and a host of other subjects most every day!!
Very nice tour, thank you very much,
WOW WOW WOW WOW!!WHAT A NICE SCHOOL SHOP!! Our shop had 2 stick welders, one torch, One manual sheet metal brake for real thin tin and a roller...A resistance spot welder and several hand drills and a grinder.....a small assortment set of sae and metric sockets and combination wrenches.No metal lathes, no milling machines, No iron workers no plasmas,No machining tools what so ever...no foundry was ever even thought of here..NO donated metals from anywhere..Hardly even a vise worth putting anything other than a 1x4 wood in. So not much for metal projects ever made,Not much for engine works because our school board wouldn't buy us insurance to have 2 cups of gas in the shop to run a briggs and stratton with. We had mostly wood teachers.We did a little bit of drafting. The teacher I had wasn't too bad.Some couldn't sharpen a knife...I wasn't a model student.Btu definitely had most of the stuff there figured out long before i got into shop class.Really wanted mechanics and machine shop class because it sucks to weld a wooden 2x4. LOL!
The rest was a very few wood tools and not much to work with there other than a table saw, and a band saw and jig saws and several routers and hand tools.. I Left there in 1980! Central North Dakota has almost NO industry. Thanks for the tour!
Sorry to hear all that these kids are really lucky
I bet the shop walk through Lyle brought back some fond MEMORIES ?
You asked for fuel prices where I am
December 17th 2020
Diesel near me in Western Australia is $1.22 CENTS PER LITRE or $5.46 a gallon you Americans have it cheap
And I have a 100 litre fuel tank in my Toyota Hi-ace Van.
Another enjoyable video Lyle, thanks mate (:
Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
Here where I live, 30 miles SE of Seattle, gas is $2.659 at our 2 big chain grocery stores. I don't even pay attention to what Chevron, Shell or the other big name oil companies charge, but it is more than that. I believe our local Costco sells for $2.499 or so.
Neat tour.
Thanks!
Great to see!!
Hi Lyle...as of December 17th, we are paying $1.49 AUD per litre in Melbourne Australia... so that is about $1.13 USD per litre... and there's 3.785 litres in a gallon ...
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o 91 octane unleaded is $4.24 USD per gallon....my Toyota 4.0 Ltd V6 takes 160 litres to fill from empty....
Cheers Rodney in Melbourne
I LOVED this video! Like to more of them. I LOVED seeing where our internet shop teacher worked. :-)
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Mr Pete, I wish fuel was that price here in the UK. at the moment we are paying £1.13 per LITRE ! or converted to US $6.95 per gallon. Too bad you can't email us a few gallons.
Great tour, I liked the large Lincoln electrode oven there too, Nice shop.
As a retiree, I had to send back my "D" sized bottle of Argon, as I could not afford the annual rental. A bottle may last me for 2 years and not making any money from it. I then bought my own bottle and now it just costs the re-fill price.
I bought my own tank as well but I have a title
Nice tour Mr Pete. Reminiscent and respectful for new additions and changes. Thanks to Mr Taylor
Great welding and machine shops. Nothing like that at my high school in the day until I went to trade school in my apprenticeship. Great opportunity...
In San Diego California the cash price for regular 87 octane gasoline is $3.05 to $3.59 per gallon. We call that the "Sunshine Tax".
That was an excellent tour Mr. Pete. What a nice weld shop.
Thanks for the tour and the memories.
Looks like there is some hope for our youth. They have a similar setup at the high school in my area.Thanks for taking us along down memory lane
Nice to see where you worked again! I saw Active Atom's sticker on your board, do you know what happened to them???
No, They just disappeared
Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Up until last week gas in Ft Pierce Fl was $2.03 to $2.04 a gallon.
All of a sudden Monday, everywhere is at least $2.19. No collusion,no way, just can’t be🙄
Lots of booths my school had 9 booths
$1.35 L in Australia Great Tour
.......or 3.60 US$ per US gallon.
memories,so many fond memories!
$1.79 here in Texas
Gas is 1.99 at the Costco in Phoenix AZ
You have cheap gas. In LA it is around $3.50. I believe our high school shops have. Mainly disappeared. That Said, I went to a design school in Pasadena CA they had and still do have a very complete and nice shop. If you design something you really should be able to build it.
Such a wonderful shop and program. Very rare nowadays. I hope the youth appreciate it.. Thank you for the video.
Nice field trip! Paid $1.69 today for regular gas in Waco, TX.
I'm a shop teacher, and that is a nice looking metals shop, but what's with most of the angle grinders missing the guards? That is fine at home, but if kids are using them they should have guards even with sanding discs.
Industrial arts was my favorite part of going to school. Got paid by my highschool to work during the summer printing class schedules for the next semester. Gave me a feeling of accomplishment and worth at a young age.
Glad to see your old program is still running. We need people with those skills. Not everyone can be a computer programmer.
THANK YOU...for sharing. Enjoyed.
in vic bc, canukada, we are currently paying 119.9/ltr.
Pretty close to what I am paying in Western Australia per litre!
(I spent 3 months in Comox back in 96 and loved it dearly)
Thank you Lyle . I’ll say it again wish I could of had you for a teacher . Great video of the school shop
Thanks
Really like the video Lyle, that's a nice welding shop. Nice pictures at the end😁
Glad you liked at Steve
I just filled up, $2.99 a gallon @ Union76 in Norco, Ca.
Kills me, growing up in the 80's in NY we had a few welding booths (no longer used), no metal working equipment, marginal wood shop some mechanical tooling. it was all about selling college loans
You mean the loans that they are still paying on?
@@mrpete222 in many cases I'm sure they are!
Wow what a neat school, those kids are very lucky. Of here ( NZ ) they would dream of having something like that, the kids might get burnt or cut themselves DoH! PC gone made. Great to see some places still know what useful education is
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Filled up today at 1.29 a liter (That's in Aus dollars). That equates to approximately 3.75 USD to a US gallon !!
I think we are around £5 plus per gallon in the uk!!