Steve so amazing this young man is. As I commented earlier I was a welder for 30 years. I always tell the young fellers what I know today I learned by making a lot of mistakes. Al B.from Ohio.
Yes I do it's a great story. Interesting things can happen when dads not there....saying "I can make one" at 11 and starting it out without dad is definitely at the top end of that scale. It'll be interesting to see what he does in years ahead. Thanks for sharing
Steve, you could do a great job with PBS stuff as far as interviewing folks. You are GOOD at it. And whatever Don says is just Don. All his stuff has been rehearsed for years. Nice steam powered hacksaw you had there too. GBWYou! And Mark is a NEAT young guy!
Man oh man, I see a lot of me in the young man that you introduced us to. I started at a young age, not able to really put a finger on how old but before double digits... I wanted to be around other people and so there were men in our shop but no kids in that area and my brother was too little to be a person I could throw a ball or ruff house with so those guys showed me different tools and how to use them, and to get me out of their hair would have me take something apart just to find out that I had to put it back together again. When I was ten, I had saved enough money to buy a 36 chevy one and a half ton truck that wasn't running but could and I got it home, hid it from the folks I thought and spent all my time taking apart and fixing on it to put it back together. What got me caught was me a fixing a bicycle tire pump so it would make air and I made the mistake of taking my dads cork shoe tongue out for the seal for that pump. My dad was mad and went looking for me to find me pumping up the tires on this old truck and I had it setting there running and it was fairly quiet so I heard him come up on me. He grabbed me and trashed my hind end hard enough to break a bone in my backside plus a rib from me trying to get free of this man who stood six foot seven inches and weighed three seventy plus. He didn't know his own strength and hurt me several time before and I wasn't going to take it anymore and when he turned me loose, I picked up a pick handle and swung with all my might... I knocked him plumb out. When he come to, he told me that he had that one coming as he didn't mean to hurt me but he was mad cause his foot suffered all day without that tongue in his shoe so I fixed his shoe and we were square. I was emancipated at the age of fifteen as he did hurt me many times and the judge seen I was big enough and smart enough to go on my own so I did. I paid cash for my first house at fifteen. There is a good story about that too. I went to work in a shop one town away as that man knew of me and my talents. I wasn't a master of anything nor even a good mechanic but I drove that truck to work and he figured if I could make it run then the crew buses should be fine in my care. I never looked back till I got drafted in 66 and that fall went into the service at age seventeen. I come home fall of 69 and in seventy, got married the first time that lasted six months. Stayed single for a few years then let a girl talk me into marriage again.... she was sweet as honey for seven years and the night before was no different with us having fun together and the next day when I got home from work, she told me she wanted a divorce and under no circumstances was she to be talked out of it. I never even thought of marriage after all that as women were poison to me. Many years went by and she calls and said she was sorry and wanted to try it again... I wanted no part of it. I had left for alaska as soon as the divorce was final and never went back.
Anyone who enjoys old machinery isn’t cheap, we might be thrifty with our money yet we don’t cheat those we buy from or sell to. One really nice young man, hope he sticks to his trade
How many rebuild projects do you have going in your shop, and yet you get more!?! I think Don is right....I'm sure there is a 12 step program somewhere that can help you. Don't end up the way the Collier brothers did.
You buy them when you can and the price is right... Now is the time to buy all you can or want... Manual machines will be getting scrapped and going to Mexico... It's a buyers market and I'm getting while the getting is good :)
@@10swatkins my guess is about 10 years. 10 years from now you wont be able to buy a manual machine from upgrading or liquidating businesses. Whatevers left will be owned by individuals or 1 man shops.
Don lets this little thing about work get in his way.... I also went to another home shop a lady is selling and a shop selling other tools that he missed. :)
Steve so amazing this young man is. As I commented earlier I was a welder for 30 years. I always tell the young fellers what I know today I learned by making a lot of mistakes. Al B.from Ohio.
Like you I also learn by making mistakes.... Hopefully Mark will not have to make so many :)
Good deal. Enjoyed hearing his story of getting into the business. Could be a rising star. Thanks for the look.
You can tell this young fellow has a strong mind.
Yes I do it's a great story. Interesting things can happen when dads not there....saying "I can make one" at 11 and starting it out without dad is definitely at the top end of that scale. It'll be interesting to see what he does in years ahead. Thanks for sharing
Keep pounding em out!
I see what you did there.... :)
Amazing Young Man, Thanks for sharing his story.
My pleasure!
Steve, you could do a great job with PBS stuff as far as interviewing folks. You are GOOD at it. And whatever Don says is just Don. All his stuff has been rehearsed for years. Nice steam powered hacksaw you had there too. GBWYou! And Mark is a NEAT young guy!
Thanks.. All I do is ask questions :)
@@10swatkins The RIGHT ones!
Great video very inspirational.
Man oh man, I see a lot of me in the young man that you introduced us to. I started at a young age, not able to really put a finger on how old but before double digits... I wanted to be around other people and so there were men in our shop but no kids in that area and my brother was too little to be a person I could throw a ball or ruff house with so those guys showed me different tools and how to use them, and to get me out of their hair would have me take something apart just to find out that I had to put it back together again. When I was ten, I had saved enough money to buy a 36 chevy one and a half ton truck that wasn't running but could and I got it home, hid it from the folks I thought and spent all my time taking apart and fixing on it to put it back together. What got me caught was me a fixing a bicycle tire pump so it would make air and I made the mistake of taking my dads cork shoe tongue out for the seal for that pump. My dad was mad and went looking for me to find me pumping up the tires on this old truck and I had it setting there running and it was fairly quiet so I heard him come up on me. He grabbed me and trashed my hind end hard enough to break a bone in my backside plus a rib from me trying to get free of this man who stood six foot seven inches and weighed three seventy plus. He didn't know his own strength and hurt me several time before and I wasn't going to take it anymore and when he turned me loose, I picked up a pick handle and swung with all my might... I knocked him plumb out. When he come to, he told me that he had that one coming as he didn't mean to hurt me but he was mad cause his foot suffered all day without that tongue in his shoe so I fixed his shoe and we were square. I was emancipated at the age of fifteen as he did hurt me many times and the judge seen I was big enough and smart enough to go on my own so I did. I paid cash for my first house at fifteen. There is a good story about that too. I went to work in a shop one town away as that man knew of me and my talents. I wasn't a master of anything nor even a good mechanic but I drove that truck to work and he figured if I could make it run then the crew buses should be fine in my care. I never looked back till I got drafted in 66 and that fall went into the service at age seventeen. I come home fall of 69 and in seventy, got married the first time that lasted six months. Stayed single for a few years then let a girl talk me into marriage again.... she was sweet as honey for seven years and the night before was no different with us having fun together and the next day when I got home from work, she told me she wanted a divorce and under no circumstances was she to be talked out of it. I never even thought of marriage after all that as women were poison to me. Many years went by and she calls and said she was sorry and wanted to try it again... I wanted no part of it. I had left for alaska as soon as the divorce was final and never went back.
Anyone who enjoys old machinery isn’t cheap, we might be thrifty with our money yet we don’t cheat those we buy from or sell to. One really nice young man, hope he sticks to his trade
Awesome...Thanks for bringing us along !
thank you for interesting history.
Brian Berzil is from Wisconsin and was a naber of mine when I was a kid. Never got to learn from him
How many rebuild projects do you have going in your shop, and yet you get more!?! I think Don is right....I'm sure there is a 12 step program somewhere that can help you. Don't end up the way the Collier brothers did.
You buy them when you can and the price is right... Now is the time to buy all you can or want... Manual machines will be getting scrapped and going to Mexico... It's a buyers market and I'm getting while the getting is good :)
@@10swatkins In my life I either have the space, and no money or money and no space...I am glad you have both!
@@andrewd.1113 AND I only have 8 machines that need work :)
@@10swatkins my guess is about 10 years. 10 years from now you wont be able to buy a manual machine from upgrading or liquidating businesses. Whatevers left will be owned by individuals or 1 man shops.
@@10swatkins Then get Crackin' on them. . . Geez!
Made about 35-45 miles from me.
Sorry about the cheapskate commet how come you left Don at home waiting to see that power hammer working.
Don lets this little thing about work get in his way.... I also went to another home shop a lady is selling and a shop selling other tools that he missed. :)
@@10swatkins He'll come out from hiding under the bed to eat sometime. Probably when you get a motor on the hammer and he don't feel so threatened.
@@lewiemcneely9143 I am not retired yet, still have a 9 to 5 job, I’m a litigation manager for a large insurance company.
@@dmadere1,I’m glad someone is out there making the world go around!
@@dmadere1 No wonder Steve is so nervious around you!
Straight peen hammers are the best.