Much appreciated. In the early 80s there were quite a few power tools available. Old carpenters would always prefer the old ways. One guy I knew fitted 3 doors including mortise locks in an hour and a half. Another cut through an RSJ using a hacksaw blade wrapped in rag in a hour. !!!
@@mriggst Thanks for watching and comment. Yes when you grew up using hand tools, power tools seemed clumsy and inaccurate. scribing a piece of wood with a circular saw or latter a jigsaw, was crude by comparison to a hand saw. The early power tools were heavy and not as refined as today.👍
life from the tool bass .great vid i started in 68.apprentiship at the co-op did 5 years of making coffins the first year then making shop fronts couters formica work allround maintenance in the shops.met my wife at the main store ,got married in 73 then went house bashing with the exact kit you showed.as someone said the sandvic panel saw was dogs bollocks in those days. dis a year on accomadation moduels for north sea oil riggs in the boro. then on to smiths dock shipyard south bank for 6 month insulating refrigerated ships.tried to follow the money,next came shuttering in the ici and british steel in teeside,even acouple of month on a cooling tower. in 78 it was off to ausie on assisted with my wife 2 suitcases and said tool bass.toolbox and bigger things came by ship 3 month in those days. different building game over there alltogether. power tools were the go,mainly subbies so i had to kit out with circular saws elec planer radial arm saw nail guns the lot.mainly house framing .but every house had a power pole and a portable dunnie.it was all a shock at first but loved it ,got natuarlised in 82.they just pick you up by youre ankles and bash yer head against a tree then youre one of them in 1990 we came as my wifes mam was dying. we stayed here till now after building and glazing for 16 years when i retired in 2016 to look after my wife who got alzheimers who passed in 2021.i now just work in my shed making bits for charity and riding my bike. sorry for the long story but that video took me all the way.
@@IanWaller-c3x Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your story, your tool bag took you on quite a journey. I’m sorry to hear you lost your wife to Alzheimer’s it’s a cruel illness. Hope you have a safe and peaceful New Year. 👍
My god! How things have changed. I’m 57 still at it after 41 years! I used to fit all my gear in a canvas bass and go to work on the bus! Now you need £9000 worth of kit and a van to cope with a job round the corner! I remember it would be about 1986 and there was a joiner working on a site with about half a dozen others, he had a few power tools and we used to take the mick and one of the things we’d say was how you gonna level that wall plate? Where you gonna plug your spirit level in? Ha ha nowadays we actually have electric levels!! I still think back then was no harder than it is now we just tell ourselves it is! Thanks for this video it’s brought back fond memories for me. I’ve still got my old hand tools but the bass went a long time ago!! 😊👍
@@deltamike.8061 Thanks for watching and comment. I work as a bench joiner now with four other joiners our side of the trade has got heavier as the years have passed lol. With double glazing the window section have got heavier nobody wants soft wood and the sapele these days is like red concrete. Everyone seems to want oak stairs ect,and all of us are over 56 years and feeling it. Happy New Year.👍
@ thanks I’ve been thinking about the early years of my working life since watching this, and another memory I have is I used to have to make the tea for the blokes on the job, every single day I’d make a cuppa for this plasterer and he’d come to get it when the teabag was still in the cup and he’d say “ooh f**kin hell kid,,, look, there’s a shark in me cup!” Used to get on me nerves but looking back, so funny! Yes it’s a hard game, but I couldn’t ever have worked in an office 😊👍
Happy memories of starting as a apprentice joiner in 1971 and starting building college where everything was made using these hand tools retired in 2018 and now into woodturning thanks for sharing🔨🪚👍
Your video has brought back lots of memories of when I was apprenticed (1965 - 70) after leaving school at 15. As you said most sites didn't have electric back then so everything was done by hand tools. I always carried 2 marking gauges so that you could mark both sides for cutting in butts etc. Also 2 sliding bevels for roofing work/cuts but of course later trusses came in and cut roofs were a thing of the past, always carried my Stanley roofing square even after trusses became the norm. A Diston (American if possible) handsaw and Spear and Jackson panel saw, Record planes plus a rabbet one and Marples chisels. Still got some of those tools and use them occasionally in my workshop but not my brace and bits as electric drills are so much easier. Equally my old axe hasn't been used in many a year.. I still think of those days when tea was drank very hot in a half pint enamel mug using condensed milk as there were no fridges on sites then - it tasted a lot better (from memory) than now - Brook Bond Divie tea with 5 shillings back from the divie stamps collected on a card. Later Marvel powdered milk came in which tased naff in comparison. Oh happy days, 1/9d per hour at 15 to 16 years old, then a pay rise to 2/6d per hour until 17 when another rise etc until reaching about 8/11d at 20 which was full tradesman's rate in 1970.
I was working as a joiner in 1977, I carried the same tools as you in a self made wooden box. I used a bow saw as it was quicker to cut joists and rafters. Carried my tools to the site the bus and walking. There was rarely electricity on site so all work was done by hand. Some good memories
I’m 40 , I remember the odd occasions when younger taking tools on buses or friends that didn’t drive using buses to get around with tools , feel so sorry for them while seeing them hours tool box’s , now I have a van full of power tool boxes and struggle for space . Great video
@@johndavid6199 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes carrying your tools on the bus today would probably get you arrested lol 😂. I work in a small old city and the jobs mostly commercial restoration’s were close together so would carry my tools on my shoulders through street’s of shoppers different times for sure. Will share one memory this has reminded of, some times in the summer we would start work early. One joiner I worked with as an apprentice didn’t drive and walked everywhere with his tools,was walking through town at 6.30 am and was stopped by a police officer and questioned on suspicion of burglary lol. (He probably was) only joking 🙃 . Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Hi, i am a bench joiner, and fit what i make on site. Apart from cordless drill/ driver replacing braces and hardpoint saws replacing sharpenable ones, i still carry and use literally everything you have there, as well as carrying other power tools. There are so many tasks better carried out with these tools, but i think fewer people seem to grasp that now. I really enjoyed watching you basically unpack my tool bag!
@@Scott-lt9dr Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I’m the same some cordless tools to make life easier but I still prefer to use hand tools because that’s what I’ve always used. 👍
This is amazing Chris . Don't go back as far as 1977, but I do remember using a brace and bit circa 1987. To think that you used to fix skirting with wooden plugs. I do remember fixing MDF skirting into dense block - with 4" cuts doubled up every foot and a half - that would have been around 1999. The cut nail was a proper fixing, specially going into dense blocks. Used them for fixing door linings too. Don't need to mention that it's all cordless power tools nowadays - not to mention the butane powered nailer.
@@Elconbrioso Thanks for watching and comment. Yes my house has the skirting nailed with cut nails no way will they pull out I have to break them off lol.👍
Loved watching this video. I have inherited my dad's and uncle's tools. Some are exactly the same as you have shown us. I am trying to remember how my dad used them and what I was taught at school and like to tinker with little DIY jobs. Far away from being skilled with them but it is enjoyable. In comparison, the battery powered tools of today are convenient but short lived. I have three that are scrap now because the battery pack is no longer available. The drill bodies look brand new. Such a waste. My grandads electric drill however still runs fine. Probably 50 years old at least! The hand drills are very convenient. Thanks for the video.
@@Checker63 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Yes I still enjoy using my hand tools. Just a thought depending on the make of your cordless tools that the batteries are no longer available for you can get adapters that fit into your old tools to take newer type batteries, they’re available on EBay and I use them myself and they work well. 👍
This brought back memories I have exactly the same kit as you , I served my apprenticeship in the late sixty’s early seventies, still got all my old tools, great video.
@@anthonywilliamson7323 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. All the messages I have received have rekindled memories of good times. Thank you. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Thanks for this. I'm in my mid-30s and I've begun retraining as a site carpenter. Its surprisingly difficult to get into the trade at my age - I've been shocked at the outlay of all the power tools we must bear the cost of. I expect it will be around 2 years before I take a real wage, partly because so many disposable elements need constant replacement. I got into woodwork as a handtool enthusiast so all of these tools are familiar to me, including sharpening saws by hand, and its wonderful to hear how they were used on site - in a big bag, like the Mary Poppins on carpentry. I'm nowhere near affording a van, and have to haul my tool trolley on the bus or tube, and I'm treated as an oddity, even from passers by. Its amazing to think fellas did that everyday, plus a full day of sawing and hammering by hand. I have the utmost respect for your generation. Would love to find someone that I can learn from that's seen it all, as at this point I haven't found an apprenticeship. All the best
@@adventuresofpete7098 Thanks for watching and comment . Thank you. This is the most inspiring message I’ve received. You obviously have a passion for the trade and your determination and hard work will I have no doubt pay off. Carrying your tools on public transport today must be quite a challenge. When I left school in 77 the UK jobs market was in turmoil there were a lot of strikes and discontent. I left in June 77 and lived out in the sticks and couldn’t find any job and was unemployed for 3 months. I then got a temporary gardening job through a friend but had to travel 22 miles one way on my moped. I really wanted to be in some kind of woodworking and wouldn’t give up on that. Chasing any jobs and knocking on doors but to no avail. In the Autumn my temporary job was coming to an end. I managed to get an interview with the CITB . Construction Industry Training Board who would fill any empty positions on college courses for six months to try to get more joiners trained. The competition for these positions was fierce. In that time you had to find an apprenticeship or be chucked out. I worked hard and got lucky and was taken on by a local building company who had about 40 men of mixed trades. I wish you all the very best and good luck for the New Year and beyond. Respect 🫵👍.
Very cool👌 Ive been a power tool woodworker for 4 years now. A while back, we lost power for 5 days due to some bad weather, and since then I've been slowly putting together a hand tool kit so I can work with no power. I've been a bit obsessed since I took my first shaving. After I hunt down a good plough plane, I'll have pretty much everything I really need to quietly work by candle light if need be. 😊 Very cool to see your essentials. Sometimes I wish I could have lived in those times. Things are so crazy these days. Thanks for sharing! Stay safe out there 🙏
@@slowburnwoodworks7626 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes it’s occurred to me that our world seems to be becoming more fragile with so much reliance on electricity and tech makes me think we may need hand tools for unforeseen events. Hope you have a safe and prosperous New Year. 👍
I have exactly the same kit, I was apprenticed in 76.All the 12 carpenters I worked with carried almost the same with slight variations. I ended up as a carpenter /joiner.With a big workshop and apprentices of my own. They could never get over how us old fellas could do a job without 15 grands worth of festools. They spend all thier time looking for a fully charged battery, by which time ive cut 1/2 inch off the bottom of a door and planed it with me block plane. Today my kit is much the same exept with a cordless drill, so no brace or wheel brace or yankee.
@@1paparico Thanks for watching and comment. If I could only pick one electric hand tool it would be a cordless drill they have made work much easier. Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Thanks for posting, bought back a lot of early memories, when I was apprenticed, to a small building firm, as a Painter, Decorator & Signwriter, in 1980. Because the firm was so small, all the trades would muck in together - I learnt so much, from the bricklayers, plasterers, chippies & plumbers etc. When I eventually finished my apprenticeship, I left & set up on my own as a self employed Decorator. Mostly heritage & restoration work. I became multi-trade, over the years - still working on my own, but was able to do all my own repairs to windows, hang doors fit skirtings, architraves etc - mainly all second fix & light side building work. So, seeing all your hand tools, I have all of them. The saws, I used ‘disposable’ ones. I still have & use, my full set of Marples shatterproof handle, chisels which I have had since 1987 & yes, the old Yankee pump screwdriver, too! I still buy secondhand carving chisels & gauges, when I see them. My decorating kit, too, I still have all my paper hanging brushes, knives & scissors, plus an enormous array of of signwriting brushes & gold leaf kit etc. Usually, amongst the signwriting fraternity, when one of us dies, it’s ‘left’ to the fraternity, to distribute the kit box amoungst themselves, more often than not, it goes to the upcoming youngsters, to help give them a leg up into the trade.
@@speciallion1135 Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your story. Sign writing is an art form and a skill and looks much better than the usual printed signs of today. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
Lovely vid, took notes. I'm living pretty small and doing carpentry jobs off my bicycle. Remarkably similar tool kit, aside from the saws being swapped for a circ saw or two. May bring hand saws back into the picture. Thanks-
My dad carried virtually the same gear, but his second saw was a tenon saw, his plane was a Marples X4. plus a small block plane, and one thing we both swore by, which isn't in your bag.... A butt gauge. These were the days when he got dropped off at a job, and the only tools he had were those in the bag. He might have been left a Hilti gun for drilling masonry. No gloves, face masks, ear defenders or goggles to be seen.
@@66oggy Thanks for watching and comment. Interestingly I never saw a butt gauge I must have been too far out in the sticks lol. Very little attention paid to health and safety then. We would be cutting up Asbestolux which we were told was safe and in fact is worse with a handsaw no mask in a confined space we were like snowmen. And a wood preserver called Solignum which was used to treat buildings with dry rot and was far more potent than today which the guys spraying it were dressed like spacemen and we would be working underneath them and it would be dripping on us. Oh well we’re still here at the moment lol.👍
back in the day we carried everything, lifted everything , put screws in, drilled holes all by hand , when we got home we were knackered, we didn't go to the gym ,we'd been there in one form or another all day at work. one of the newer breed of tradesmen offered to carry one of my tool bags and was shocked when he tried to lift it ,especially as he'd seen me come in earlier laden like a pack mule. probably why we need new knees and hips . he called me a liar when I said when I was your age cement , plaster and sand all used to be in 100cwt bags not these little bags ,and the site labourers used to carry them 2 at a time .
@ Thanks for watching and comment. This is very true. I’m 64 now and work as a bench joiner, occasionally I venture out to help assemble and fit stairs I’ve made. The younger joiners can’t believe it when they see me ripping a floor board down by hand lol. Talking about the weight of cement bags ect. My dad who is 100 now and still lives independently worked in farming and as a young man remember’s taking corn to the local water mill with a horse and cart the sacks were 2 hundred weight just over 100kg and the miller would take one on his back and carry it up stairs, it’s hard to believe but true . Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Great post pal i was a plumber 50 odd years started my appy ship mid 60s i can relate to your post the job i hated most was the old rawl plugging tools and the old fibre rawlplugs what a change it was when the boss brought a 250v hammer drill yup brace and bits happy days
Thanks, it was interesting. I was never a professional woodworker, but started to acquire tools in my late teens (1960 ish ). I was an engineering apprentice. Many are so familiar, identical and of course I've still got them. My first saws were Sandvik too - something about them felt right. Happy New Year.
As a painter and decorator myself I still have the tools I bought weekly as a apprentice and still used daily today papering sissors hanging brushs seem rollers ect. Every use clean washed look after your tools and your tools will look after you. In my case 40 years down the line. My uncle was a chippy and he made me a wooden tool box that I still have and use sadly he's no longer with us he was old school and a true craftsman I worked on many jobs with him his work was outstanding and he had the long kit bag and a long wooden tool box.thanks for the vid some lovely old well made tools not like the tat they churn out today all the best.😊
@@johnwilson230 Thanks for watching and comment. When I started working as a youngster and buying tools I didn’t realise they would last me lifetime. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
@@StephenBond-g7m Thanks for watching and comment. It’s interesting for me to hear from tradesmen around the world who have used the same tools. I learned something new from your comment EA Berg chisels are something I’ve not seen before I’ve looked them up and they seem rare in the UK. One of my Uncles emigrated to Australia on a £10 ticket after serving in North Africa during the war he never returned to the uk so we never met sadly no longer with us. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
@chrisfinn1162 good to hear from you, Berg chisels were the premium brand here at the time and are still coveted by serious craftsmen. The Eskituna Sweden brand may be more familiar in England
@@StephenBond-g7m Thanks for your reply. From what I can find it seems the red handle ones were sold here as early Bahco. I use a set of modern Bahco at the moment along with other brands. 👍
@@StephenBond-g7m Hi have done a bit more research and it seems EA Berg were quite a small company and I think we missed out on their products they were taken over by Bahco and then they in turn by Sandvik seem very rare in the UK. Thanks it been interesting to find out more about this company. 👍
Watching all these tools come out the bag is both nostalgic and familiar, they are more or less all the tools my dad had in his toolbox, which I now have in mine… don’t use the brace and bits much these days, but the small hand tools like the planes, chisels and gauges get almost daily use. Thanks for sharing!
I am a retired electrician and my family were an assortment of plumbers and carpenters and plasterers . During my working years I saw the transition to power/cordless tools and I wonder how we ever got by without lasers and cordless screwdrivers and power planes and SDS drills. Some time ago my Father passed and in his shed I found loads of wonderful old tools that nowadays have been made obsolete by cordless tools. Sadly I could not find a new home for them and regretfully took them to the re-cycling centre and threw them in the scrap metal skip.
@@garypautard1069 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes it is hard to imagine working without electrical tools but that was just normal then. I won’t be around but I wonder what things will be like in another 50 years and whether they will be unrecognisable from today. Hope you have a good and peaceful New Year. 👍
@@chrisfinn1162 world war 3 is looming so think about it power tools will be useless. (E.m.p. No power ) your hand tools will be worth their weight in gold. I have aquired many neglected and rusty tools ⚒️ over the years I have refurbished them was going to sell them but had second thoughts will keep them in storage
Thanks so much for taking the time to share that. Interesting to see how skirting board was fixed on. As you say not all that long ago but it shows tools and techniques that were in use for a considerable time. I am no expert in this subject but it seems to me the modern use of quick fix chemicals and techniques makes a house harder to repair and make changes to.
@@andywilson3560 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes when you’re young and haven’t experienced all of life’s ups and downs you can think you know it all until you don’t 🤔. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
Born in the 80’s and after COVID hit, I realized we cannot rely on businesses to provide everything. So I bought pretty much everything you showed and have learned to use them. The craft is not dead - I have many friends that are hand-tool woodworkers. I own a CNC and have not turned it on more than a couple times in the past couple years because hand tools are so much more satisfying
@@RafterSkills Thanks for watching and comment. Yes the Sandvik saw’s held their edge a little better than Disston but it was a divisive subject between the two camps each maintaining their’s was the best. Have a great Christmas. 👍
Afternoon pal , think i can speak for a lot of us when i say thank you for posting this i started my apprenticeship in 86 and like most of us have pretty much the same kit no jack plane but always had a rebate plane , remember when we first got the Hitachi green cordless drill, thank god we all thought no more drilling locks out by hand 😂, funnly enough iv gone back to all the old tools as i now do all our repairs for our antique shop and the customers and myself love the thought of using old tools on old furniture just like it used to be , thank you Kind regards drew 👍
@@drewwhite5601 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. It’s been great hearing from all trades people and enthusiasts from all around the world when I posted this video I didn’t think anyone would be interested. The response has been a pleasant surprise for me. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Very nice to see your old tools looking so well maintained. Much of the stuff available now is chuck away quality so I can’t see many of them being around in 50 years for someone to display. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too.
@@tonyalways7174 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes sadly modern stuff is made with a limited life span. Sadly companies can make more money selling something that is cheap and crap by the thousands than making something good and only selling it in the hundreds. It’s a wasteful world. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday and new year. 👍
I inherited pretty much the same set up from my Dad! I got some idea of how to use them from doing a few courses and lots of experimenting during the lockdowns. Thanks for sharing.
I started my apprenticeship in 1990. Had a very similar kit in a green canvas bag. I also used to strap it to my motorbike. I remember seeing one of the chippy's with a makita cordless drill and thought i got to get one of those! Haven't stop buying since, now need a large ven to carry everything around.
Ha.. your tool bag is like the cartoon Petes pockets!! Great video bought back happy memories I still have and use all of these. Thank you and stay lucky
@@paulmaryon9088 Thanks for watching and comment. Pete’s pockets great. I didn’t know what this was so had to look it up lol. Hope you have a great and blessed New Year. 👍
Hi Chris, thanks for a look see at your tool kit, I'm not a joiner but started building up nearly the same kit as your's when I got married in1974, money was tight so only added things when I realy needed them, still have most of it, and will pass them on to the grandkids when they buy a house, they made things to last in those days,lol. Merry xmas and best wishes for the new year mate. Stuart Uk.
I was just 10 in 77'. Always loved tools, My Dad was in aerospace but on the weekends He was always working on the House. He added and/or extended rooms complete with electricity and plumbing (if appropriate). He added patios and decks. My older Brother (10 years older) has worked with stained glass, furniture building, but ended up as an industrial pipe fitter. I remember the pit in My stomach I felt around that time when Sears Craftsman ended their lifetime warranty on power tools. For Me, being 'American' includes a legacy of building and creating. I suppose that's really a human thing though. I think the biggest and best difference from 'the olden days' to now is that 50lb bag was everything. Dull blades or bits are touched up as part of the job. Nobody is making a Home Depot run in the middle of the job.
@@littlejimmy7402 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you for sharing your memories. I’ve had a few comments from the USA it’s been great hearing from tradesmen and enthusiasts from another country. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
😂😂😂 ive still got all them tools, ill never forget my rawl plug tool and fixing Battens on 18 “ skirtings. That’s like an endless pit of a tool bag 😊 thanks for the memories.
Got almost exactly the same kit, bought at the same time. I had an Estwing hammer and axe, Spear and Jackson saws. Still got my two saw horses in the garage as well.
@@ianhall702 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes Estwing hammers were popular and you could use the shaft to split packers. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
Hey Chris 👊🏼 I'm 55, and been a carpenter most of my life. This certainly brought back memories, buddy 😁 How things have changed... Thanks for sharing, Gus 🍻
@@gadgetgus Thanks for watching and comment. Yes happy days life on site then was very different from today there was time for a bit of fun and nonsense and the old boys were genuine characters. 👍
My Dad God bless his soul, had all these but in a tool box that most joiners made themselves. Served his time on a shipyard on the Tyne. Good memories....
This video was great, I buy and sell a lot of old tools, I've seen that exact bag so many times, I've noticed that most joiners kits where the same, no bells and whistles, I've never been in the trades but I've always loved hobbie woodwork with old hand tools which lead me to start my own business selling tools exactly like this, I know how to use almost every you have, I prefer it over power tools, but this video was very interesting, thank you from this 90s millennial!
@@scotsman7626 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you for sharing your story. It’s good to hear that you are saving these tools and finding new home’s for them. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
@@macduff14 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes the tools were heavy to carry around. I had been working with my Dad who was a market gardener since I was a kid so it probably helped. 👍
Excellent mate👍. I thought you’d been in my workshop. I started work in 1967 and still have both my sandviks think I might sharpen them up after Christmas
I started in 1980. I had a couple of different things in my bag - but essentially the same. I carried a number 51/2 plane and a block plane. Never did get on with a number 4. I had a Black and Decker electric drill in the old white and gold colours, so I never had to carry a bit and brace or a wheel brace. Also carried a ball pein hammer - we used to sink plasterboard nails with the ball end of the head to recess them. Also a big wood rasp. First power tool I got after the drill was a black and decker "ripsnorter" circular saw. Used to take it on the bus from job to job til I got my driving license. Now I carry around way more than twenty grands worth of power tools in a van that cost about the same. Things have changed a bit...
@@fishbiscuit2000 Thanks for watching and comment. I had the brown and gold Black and Decker drill all metal and not double insulated light your self up like a Christmas tree lol. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
I am 70 and this brought back memories except for diston saws and spear&Jackson and i think it was sorby chisels. Then you spent 3 or4 hundred on tools now now its thousands before you start with a van etc.
@@edwardmurdoch1062 Thanks for watching and comment. I think the tools you need today / cost are similar given higher wages and relatively reasonable power tool prices unless you like your Festools lol . The van is the issue very expensive items. Hope you have a good New Year.
Cracking video grommit😄 I reckon I have most of those tools myself , dad was a builder, I'm more a mechanic myself but can turn me hand to diy when needed. Thanks for this, I really enjoyed it. Happy new year.
Yep , born in 65 and have pretty much the same set of tools. Never been a pro Chippie but learned most of the jobs watching my dad. Still like to do things the same way
@howardrogers1147 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes when you’ve done everything by hand it becomes natural to continue the same way I pick up my handsaw to rip down a board at work and the young lads say they can’t believe I cut things by hand. Watching them use power tools is amazing to me, to see what they can do with them but that’s all they have ever used so it just becomes natural. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
@@jamesbowie6925 Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your experience. I was only 5 then. I presume you left school at 15 then and your apprenticeship was 5 years. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
I started as apprentice joiner in 1974 i have just retired that is exactly what i had in my bag in the 70s all by hand no power tools by the end of my working life my van was full of power tools!
@@AlanMcEwen-c7p Thanks for watching and comment. Yes the job Is basically the same but the tools have made it quicker and easier thankfully. Hope you have a great New Year and enjoy your well earned retirement.👍
@@johnbullough6431 Thanks for watching and comment. I carried my empty toolbox I’d made at college home on my moped because there was no other option . Took the long way home to avoid the city centre and the old bill 👮 and nearly lost it on the first and only roundabout . Managed to get it home safely but never tried to carry it again. Hope you have a great and safe New Year.👍
@@emmetworkshop2829 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I think most tradesmen had a very similar tool kit. I suppose there wasn’t the selection of tools we have today. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
Used basically the same toolkit in NYC doing carpentry and renovations from 76 to 82. Only power tool was a refurbished Rockwell drill I’d picked up for $8 which seemed like a lot of money
@@liveoak4124 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you for sharing your experience it’s interesting for me to hear that joiner’s in the USA were using the same tool kit. My first week’s wage was £24 and a qualified joiner was £50. 👍
@@TerryManthorpe Thanks for watching and sharing. Thank you. The Estwing was a popular choice and you could use the shaft to split packers . An expensive item at the time and still not cheap today. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Been on the tools all my life. Started at 16 and have found a good set of tools like you have can do most things. The files are used to sharpen the bits for the brace as well as the saw. I have 2 gages most people would use the combination square to save carrying the extra 1. The brace is very clever you can set the depth of cut by counting every time you go 1 revaluation. In this way you can get the depth for a lock right first time every time.
@@richardwalker6082 Thanks for watching and comment. Well I have learned something new I used a bit brace for years and didn’t know you could measure the depth by counting the turns I used a piece of insulation tape on the bit. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
@@rabmcleod3508 Thanks for watching and comment. I use the hard point disposable ones now because they cut so well but it is a waste and I do wonder how long we can keep throwing things away and wonder if we will eventually go back to sharpening saws again. 👍
I grew up with my dad having an identical set up in a wooden tote box. By the mid 1980s he had a second box with a circular saw, Makita drill and a Wadkin branded Ryobi power plane with some 110v trailing leads and that was it. I wonder with the amount of power tool theft who had the right idea? I remember him switching to hard point saws and not regularly sharpening his own any more and going with him on a Saturday morning to Alan Lord tools in Brum to buy his first bosch SDS drill and 9.6v cordless cordless drill I’d say about 1988.
That brings back memories I was an apprentice 1966 same took kit plus rebate plane a tenon saw and a 3 fold rule ..2 blokes tool bags and a wooden nail box all go in the boot of a mini. 2 saw horses on the back seat let’s go to work
@@RonTandy Thanks for watching and comment. It’s been great hearing stories from around the UK and other countries. I had forgotten about the wooden nail boxes thank you for reminding me. My 3 foot folding ruler was yellow plastic long since broken. Hope you have a great Christmas holiday. 👍
@@waterhillwoods Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. I haven’t sharpened a hand saw for years and I was never really good at it just good enough to do the job. There are some videos on RUclips which help. Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Very interesting, reminds me of my Dad's tools when I was a boy; he had a Black and Decker drill but used the brace and bit more often. I'm of the generation of affordable lithium ion powered cordless kit, I doubt I'll be uploading any of it to RUclips in fifty years, there's no romance in a circular saw 😅
@@ElThomsono Thanks for watching and comment. You never know your power tools today will be vintage one day and will bring back memories to your generation. Hope you have a great and safe New Year. 👍
@@michaelsmith-mw9ki Thanks for watching and comment. I was thinking you may have left school at 15 I seem to remember when I started secondary school that year was the last to leave at 15. I remember thinking I’ve got an extra year in prison lol. Hope you have a good and safe New Year. 👍
Found this a really interesting, I'm a joiner with 22yrs and used to mix of hand tools and corded 110v power tools when started out. i find it amusing the few young trades that are out site now even fine the idea of carrying 110v transfers and extinction power leads old fashion.
Hi Chris I'm guessing you're around 63 or 64. I left school in 77. And was recruited by my dad to work on a building site. Mostly dormer roofs and flogging. The old bugger didn't even give me the six week summer holiday off. Happy days. I've got all his old tools now and treasure them greatly.
@@tomrobinson8384 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes you are correct I will soon be 64 and still on the tools but work as a bench joiner now. Do site work occasionally usually fitting a stair case I’ve made it’s easier to assemble something you have made than hand it over for someone else to sort out. Site work is a bit heavy for me these days but I did enjoy my time on site. I’m a workshop prisoner now. 😀👍 Hope you have a great Christmas holiday. 👍
I became a handyman cacarpenter in the 80s. I had two wooden tool boxes which wouldnt fit on back of a motorbike. Luckily i had car. Nearly every job i went to i discovered a tool i didn't have . The boxes got heavier after every job. A great experience though.
@@geoffb108 Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your experience. I think when you start collecting tools it never ends. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
Still got mine, everything you have shown, had Disston saws though, most people wouldn’t know what a plugging chisel is, or how to cut plugs, you didn’t show a Rawldrill, hours spent tapping and turning one
@@davidharris4062 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes a Rawldrill is something I remember being shown but never used one thankfully lol I remember thinking it must have been a joke played on an apprentice as I couldn’t believe you could drill a hole with that. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
I’m surprised that I, as an American, not only had (and still have) the same carpentry tools from the 70s but that they were made by the same manufacturers.
@@blacksquirrel4008 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes this has been a surprise to too me as well. To hear from tradesmen around the world who used the same kit. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Started serving my time in 92 and I have most of an can use these tools probably started my time just a wee bit before power tools took off .I thought a nobex frame saw and a Yankee driver were the greatest things
@@rcr76 Thanks for watching and comment. The Nobex frame saw was a revolutionary tool I still have one a bit worn but a great tool. Cutting cornices for kitchen’s a job that was tricky became easy. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
@@thethreemusketeers6045 Thanks for watching and comment. At that time I had a Yamaha FS1E moped then a Suzuki GT 125 and a Yamaha RD 125. I got a car at the end of 1979. I still kept an interest in motorcycles and had various bikes until 1995 at that time married with responsibilities and having lost a several friends to bike accidents and a friend aged 39 who left a young family I decided to stop and sell my treasured Honda CBR 600 and hang up my leather’s. Hope you have a great and safe New Year.👍
Interesting to see, I think the modern equivalent in power tools would be at least 5 systainers or similar, definitely not something you could take on the back of your motorbike. Merry christmas.
Thank you sir. Yes things have certainly changed. Merry Christmas. I hope you keep offering videos on repairs and thoughts on the tools. What kind of motorbike did you have in 1977? I saw you had a tin of small drills that had Bridgeport on it. Cheers.
@@ihrescue Thank you. Yes I started with a Yamaha FS1E moped and then Suzuki GT 125 and in Autumn 78 a new Yamaha RD 125 £750 I seem to recall. Living in the sticks I traveled 12 miles to the nearest small city to work in all weathers I was relieved to get a car in 79. 👍
I started in ‘83 and my original kit was very similar to yours. I used Sandvik saws and had a 5 1/2 jack (Record) and a 4 smoothing (Stanley) I remember my kit costing me about £250 With the exception of the saws and hand planes I reckon the other tools are cheaper now than 40 years ago. Thanks for sharing
@@99jorgey Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I think tools are more affordable now than way back then it was a financial burden to get your tools kit together. My sister was quite a bit older than me and bought me some tools to help me out. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
@ hope you have a great new year too, my friend. It was a summer of farm work in ‘82 that paid for my tools as my wage was £45 a week and a sandvik panel saw was about £55 from memory
Interesting info Dave! Bahco are great saws! 😝👊🪚🪚🪚 Have you tried the Silky Outback? You can change blades from soft wood to hardwood. The hardwood blades would be good for hunting if you needed a bone saw. Plus New Zealand 🌏🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🥝🥝🥝🌿🌿🌿 has alot of Hardwood species. I didn't know Bahco was military issue.👍🪖🪖🪖interesting.
Hmm ! '77 ? I wouldn't have carried the axe or the hand drill ,and I'd only have had one plane with me, and only one hammer. but that would have been a few years earlier. by '77 we'd always got a van and with that came power tools, namely the old immortal Wolf Sapphire hammer-drill and circular saw (I still have the saw). I never got on with the small yankee, always the big one. But the main thing about this trip down memory lane is how very much cheaper all these tools have become,comparative to earnings ! A new plane (no 4) had to be thought about, you might not have been able to afford one in one go,a lot of small ironmongers would give you credit because of this.
@@CrimeVid Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I think we were just at the end of only using all hand tools and the family owned company I work for was very traditional and there was a reluctance to change. About 40 guys in various trades and even when I left at the end of my apprenticeship in autumn 1980 power tools were still not available on all jobs and then only a hammer drill and skill saw . We must have been behind the times. The philosophy of if you’ve managed for the last 50 years you can now lol 😂 . Still the same philosophy where I work now unbelievable . Hope you have a great New Year.👍
Not a lot has changed really 62 year old joiner now my combi square and bevel are the one I had as an apprentice saws are all throw away now plainer and screw drivers are battery now good old days great bag too
Yup I remember this gear to. And do you know what we made more money then than we do now. These days I carry over 10 grands worth of kit. I remember when we all went out and bought electric screwdrivers, planers and drop saws. We made some good money for a month or so. Then head office sent the bean counters down to see why the carpenters cheques had all gone up. When Andy the site Forman said that we had all gone and invested in new gear the bastards said “cut the prices” So we were all back to square one but with bigger overheads. That was the movement I realised that it didn’t matter how hard you worked the big companies were always going to make sure you stayed poor. Of course this has got steadily worse.
The basic chippie kit for any site worker back in the day ( but that was enough to hump around from job to job on public transport) it was always a compromise between having the tools required and the weight of them all in the bag , but u know a lot of them hand tools r still required today squares bevels etc , but the battery tools available nowadays have made a chippies life much easier and quicker but the trade off is the expense of variants required, drills saws planers etc , no public transport with this lot today either ,u need a van , with some proper security features to stop the scum tool thieves getting their hands on them , but great to c some of them tools from a by gone era that r all still probably out there languishing ( and rusting away) in thousands of garden sheds or garages up and down the country
It’s quicker using hand tools than cordless on a one off job if you know how to use them. Job done by the time you’d set up power tools and packed away Estwing 20 oz hammer, plumb axe, stabila levels, everything else was Stanley for me
Chris ohh my friend you have about same tools as I used the axe was the tool I loved in Yorkshire all the walls are stone or cobbled axe was great for door frames ware you'd scribed and had lots to remove, the Yankee screwdriver put a cir clip on it to stop it rolling away 😊
@@petertiffney4413 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes an axe is a great tool and with practice is surprisingly accurate. You have just reminded about the circlip trick I used one on the larger Yankee when the twist ring broke and as you said it stops it rolling away. 👍
bathroom lock with a brace and bit ooohhh lol not easy, especially if it was a sapele door. used to hate them bugger's. nobex mitre saw. lot of effort required back in the day.
@@David-rr6sf Thanks for watching and comment. Yes sapele veneered doors I’ve been through the side of a few of those with my brace and bit. And splintering the veneer cutting the bottoms off lol , not to mention slipping with the pump screwdriver and putting a gash across the face happy days. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday and New Year. 👍
1977 is GenX mate, stop listening to the stupid youngsters. A proper boomer would have been my dad who had his own black handmade toolbox, and there was electrical tools onsite or gas powered as my dad somehow managed to pit a 6inch nail through his thigh with one of the nail guns, i think they were gas or petrol driven building the Shetlands oil terminal. This was before any real safety measures. I particularly liked the pump action screwdriver. You must have been a shuttering joiner, not one level in site lol 😂 just kidding pal.
@@stevenconnor4221 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes boomer refers to when you were born not when you started working. It sounds like you’re Dad worked at the higher end of the industry where there was more money for what then would be very expensive tools. The nail guns were powered by what was essentially a black power gun cartridge and you needed a shot gun license to buy one. I never saw one on the sites I worked. I did have the obligatory black tool box that most apprentices made at college but couldn’t carry that on a motorcycle. Lighting was 110v so called ferry lights that were a flat two core cable and you could move the bulb fittings along the cable and screw them on so they made a connection. Working on Shetland would have been a tough job the weather there can be harsh. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday. 👍
@chrisfinn1162 Have a good holiday yourself sir. My dad went on to become the shop steward / safety advisor as well as being a chippy for McAlpine construction and one of his abiding memories that he was proud of that not one person was killed during the construction of Torness nuclear powerstation. When told this I was like what!! It used to be regular thing back then on construction sites. God bless those poor souls who were only working to provide for thier families.
Time is money these days. Customers would not pay someone to use hand tools and take 10x as long to do a job... as a consequence the craftsmanship has gotten poor for the most part
Thank you all for sharing your memories and stories it’s been great and has reminded me of good times. Wishing you all a happy and peaceful New Year.👍
Much appreciated. In the early 80s there were quite a few power tools available. Old carpenters would always prefer the old ways. One guy I knew fitted 3 doors including mortise locks in an hour and a half. Another cut through an RSJ using a hacksaw blade wrapped in rag in a hour. !!!
@@mriggst Thanks for watching and comment. Yes when you grew up using hand tools, power tools seemed clumsy and inaccurate. scribing a piece of wood with a circular saw or latter a jigsaw, was crude by comparison to a hand saw. The early power tools were heavy and not as refined as today.👍
life from the tool bass .great vid i started in 68.apprentiship at the co-op did 5 years of making coffins the first year then making shop fronts couters formica work allround maintenance in the shops.met my wife at the main store ,got married in 73 then went house bashing with the exact kit you showed.as someone said the sandvic panel saw was dogs bollocks in those days. dis a year on accomadation moduels for north sea oil riggs in the boro. then on to smiths dock shipyard south bank for 6 month insulating refrigerated ships.tried to follow the money,next came shuttering in the ici and british steel in teeside,even acouple of month on a cooling tower.
in 78 it was off to ausie on assisted with my wife 2 suitcases and said tool bass.toolbox and bigger things came by ship 3 month in those days.
different building game over there alltogether. power tools were the go,mainly subbies so i had to kit out with circular saws elec planer radial arm saw nail guns the lot.mainly house framing .but every house had a power pole and a portable dunnie.it was all a shock at first but loved it ,got natuarlised in 82.they just pick you up by youre ankles and bash yer head against a tree then youre one of them in 1990 we came as my wifes mam was dying.
we stayed here till now after building and glazing for 16 years when i retired in 2016 to look after my wife who got alzheimers who passed in 2021.i now just work in my shed making bits for charity and riding my bike. sorry for the long story but that video took me all the way.
@@IanWaller-c3x Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your story, your tool bag took you on quite a journey. I’m sorry to hear you lost your wife to Alzheimer’s it’s a cruel illness. Hope you have a safe and peaceful New Year. 👍
My god! How things have changed. I’m 57 still at it after 41 years! I used to fit all my gear in a canvas bass and go to work on the bus! Now you need £9000 worth of kit and a van to cope with a job round the corner! I remember it would be about 1986 and there was a joiner working on a site with about half a dozen others, he had a few power tools and we used to take the mick and one of the things we’d say was how you gonna level that wall plate? Where you gonna plug your spirit level in? Ha ha nowadays we actually have electric levels!! I still think back then was no harder than it is now we just tell ourselves it is! Thanks for this video it’s brought back fond memories for me. I’ve still got my old hand tools but the bass went a long time ago!! 😊👍
@@deltamike.8061 Thanks for watching and comment. I work as a bench joiner now with four other joiners our side of the trade has got heavier as the years have passed lol. With double glazing the window section have got heavier nobody wants soft wood and the sapele these days is like red concrete. Everyone seems to want oak stairs ect,and all of us are over 56 years and feeling it. Happy New Year.👍
@ thanks I’ve been thinking about the early years of my working life since watching this, and another memory I have is I used to have to make the tea for the blokes on the job, every single day I’d make a cuppa for this plasterer and he’d come to get it when the teabag was still in the cup and he’d say “ooh f**kin hell kid,,, look, there’s a shark in me cup!” Used to get on me nerves but looking back, so funny! Yes it’s a hard game, but I couldn’t ever have worked in an office 😊👍
@@chrisfinn1162another!!! The Yankee screwdriver! The single most dangerous tool in the box!! Have your bloody eye out!!!
@@deltamike.8061 I couldn’t have worked in an office either. I’ve enjoyed my job I just got old 😜👍
Happy memories of starting as a apprentice joiner in 1971 and starting building college where everything was made using these hand tools retired in 2018 and now into woodturning thanks for sharing🔨🪚👍
@@phillipbates2625 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. 👍
Your video has brought back lots of memories of when I was apprenticed (1965 - 70) after leaving school at 15.
As you said most sites didn't have electric back then so everything was done by hand tools. I always carried 2 marking gauges so that you could mark both sides for cutting in butts etc. Also 2 sliding bevels for roofing work/cuts but of course later trusses came in and cut roofs were a thing of the past, always carried my Stanley roofing square even after trusses became the norm.
A Diston (American if possible) handsaw and Spear and Jackson panel saw, Record planes plus a rabbet one and Marples chisels. Still got some of those tools and use them occasionally in my workshop but not my brace and bits as electric drills are so much easier. Equally my old axe hasn't been used in many a year..
I still think of those days when tea was drank very hot in a half pint enamel mug using condensed milk as there were no fridges on sites then - it tasted a lot better (from memory) than now - Brook Bond Divie tea with 5 shillings back from the divie stamps collected on a card. Later Marvel powdered milk came in which tased naff in comparison.
Oh happy days, 1/9d per hour at 15 to 16 years old, then a pay rise to 2/6d per hour until 17 when another rise etc until reaching about 8/11d at 20 which was full tradesman's rate in 1970.
@@bsabiker-d7z Thanks for watching and comment. Happy Days. Hope you have a great and safe New Year. 👍
I was working as a joiner in 1977, I carried the same tools as you in a self made wooden box. I used a bow saw as it was quicker to cut joists and rafters. Carried my tools to the site the bus and walking. There was rarely electricity on site so all work was done by hand. Some good memories
I’m 40 , I remember the odd occasions when younger taking tools on buses or friends that didn’t drive using buses to get around with tools , feel so sorry for them while seeing them hours tool box’s , now I have a van full of power tool boxes and struggle for space . Great video
@@johndavid6199 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes carrying your tools on the bus today would probably get you arrested lol 😂. I work in a small old city and the jobs mostly commercial restoration’s were close together so would carry my tools on my shoulders through street’s of shoppers different times for sure. Will share one memory this has reminded of, some times in the summer we would start work early. One joiner I worked with as an apprentice didn’t drive and walked everywhere with his tools,was walking through town at 6.30 am and was stopped by a police officer and questioned on suspicion of burglary lol. (He probably was) only joking 🙃 . Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
@@carlitobriganti9718 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes hard work but good times. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
Hi, i am a bench joiner, and fit what i make on site. Apart from cordless drill/ driver replacing braces and hardpoint saws replacing sharpenable ones, i still carry and use literally everything you have there, as well as carrying other power tools. There are so many tasks better carried out with these tools, but i think fewer people seem to grasp that now. I really enjoyed watching you basically unpack my tool bag!
@@Scott-lt9dr Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I’m the same some cordless tools to make life easier but I still prefer to use hand tools because that’s what I’ve always used. 👍
This is amazing Chris . Don't go back as far as 1977, but I do remember using a brace and bit circa 1987. To think that you used to fix skirting with wooden plugs. I do remember fixing MDF skirting into dense block - with 4" cuts doubled up every foot and a half - that would have been around 1999. The cut nail was a proper fixing, specially going into dense blocks. Used them for fixing door linings too.
Don't need to mention that it's all cordless power tools nowadays - not to mention the butane powered nailer.
@@Elconbrioso Thanks for watching and comment. Yes my house has the skirting nailed with cut nails no way will they pull out I have to break them off lol.👍
Loved watching this video. I have inherited my dad's and uncle's tools. Some are exactly the same as you have shown us. I am trying to remember how my dad used them and what I was taught at school and like to tinker with little DIY jobs. Far away from being skilled with them but it is enjoyable. In comparison, the battery powered tools of today are convenient but short lived. I have three that are scrap now because the battery pack is no longer available. The drill bodies look brand new. Such a waste. My grandads electric drill however still runs fine. Probably 50 years old at least! The hand drills are very convenient. Thanks for the video.
@@Checker63 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Yes I still enjoy using my hand tools. Just a thought depending on the make of your cordless tools that the batteries are no longer available for you can get adapters that fit into your old tools to take newer type batteries, they’re available on EBay and I use them myself and they work well. 👍
@chrisfinn1162 . Thank you. I'll take a look.
brings back memories, still got my stepdads tools virtually identical.
@@craigpadley3535 Thanks for watching and comment. 👍
This brought back memories I have exactly the same kit as you , I served my apprenticeship in the late sixty’s early seventies, still got all my old tools, great video.
@@anthonywilliamson7323 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. All the messages I have received have rekindled memories of good times. Thank you. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Thanks for this. I'm in my mid-30s and I've begun retraining as a site carpenter. Its surprisingly difficult to get into the trade at my age - I've been shocked at the outlay of all the power tools we must bear the cost of. I expect it will be around 2 years before I take a real wage, partly because so many disposable elements need constant replacement.
I got into woodwork as a handtool enthusiast so all of these tools are familiar to me, including sharpening saws by hand, and its wonderful to hear how they were used on site - in a big bag,
like the Mary Poppins on carpentry.
I'm nowhere near affording a van, and have to haul my tool trolley on the bus or tube, and I'm treated as an oddity, even from passers by.
Its amazing to think fellas did that everyday, plus a full day of sawing and hammering by hand.
I have the utmost respect for your generation. Would love to find someone that I can learn from that's seen it all, as at this point I haven't found an apprenticeship.
All the best
@@adventuresofpete7098 Thanks for watching and comment . Thank you. This is the most inspiring message I’ve received. You obviously have a passion for the trade and your determination and hard work will I have no doubt pay off. Carrying your tools on public transport today must be quite a challenge. When I left school in 77 the UK jobs market was in turmoil there were a lot of strikes and discontent. I left in June 77 and lived out in the sticks and couldn’t find any job and was unemployed for 3 months. I then got a temporary gardening job through a friend but had to travel 22 miles one way on my moped. I really wanted to be in some kind of woodworking and wouldn’t give up on that. Chasing any jobs and knocking on doors but to no avail. In the Autumn my temporary job was coming to an end. I managed to get an interview with the CITB . Construction Industry Training Board who would fill any empty positions on college courses for six months to try to get more joiners trained. The competition for these positions was fierce. In that time you had to find an apprenticeship or be chucked out. I worked hard and got lucky and was taken on by a local building company who had about 40 men of mixed trades. I wish you all the very best and good luck for the New Year and beyond. Respect 🫵👍.
Good for you (carrying your tools to work) I'm sure you'll go far with that enthusiasm.
Very cool👌 Ive been a power tool woodworker for 4 years now. A while back, we lost power for 5 days due to some bad weather, and since then I've been slowly putting together a hand tool kit so I can work with no power. I've been a bit obsessed since I took my first shaving. After I hunt down a good plough plane, I'll have pretty much everything I really need to quietly work by candle light if need be. 😊 Very cool to see your essentials. Sometimes I wish I could have lived in those times. Things are so crazy these days.
Thanks for sharing! Stay safe out there 🙏
@@slowburnwoodworks7626 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes it’s occurred to me that our world seems to be becoming more fragile with so much reliance on electricity and tech makes me think we may need hand tools for unforeseen events. Hope you have a safe and prosperous New Year. 👍
I have exactly the same kit, I was apprenticed in 76.All the 12 carpenters I worked with carried almost the same with slight variations. I ended up as a carpenter /joiner.With a big workshop and apprentices of my own. They could never get over how us old fellas could do a job without 15 grands worth of festools. They spend all thier time looking for a fully charged battery, by which time ive cut 1/2 inch off the bottom of a door and planed it with me block plane. Today my kit is much the same exept with a cordless drill, so no brace or wheel brace or yankee.
@@1paparico Thanks for watching and comment. If I could only pick one electric hand tool it would be a cordless drill they have made work much easier. Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Quality made tools to last, no made in China junk.
Thanks for posting, bought back a lot of early memories, when I was apprenticed, to a small building firm, as a Painter, Decorator & Signwriter, in 1980. Because the firm was so small, all the trades would muck in together - I learnt so much, from the bricklayers, plasterers, chippies & plumbers etc. When I eventually finished my apprenticeship, I left & set up on my own as a self employed Decorator. Mostly heritage & restoration work. I became multi-trade, over the years - still working on my own, but was able to do all my own repairs to windows, hang doors fit skirtings, architraves etc - mainly all second fix & light side building work.
So, seeing all your hand tools, I have all of them. The saws, I used ‘disposable’ ones. I still have & use, my full set of Marples shatterproof handle, chisels which I have had since 1987 & yes, the old Yankee pump screwdriver, too! I still buy secondhand carving chisels & gauges, when I see them. My decorating kit, too, I still have all my paper hanging brushes, knives & scissors, plus an enormous array of of signwriting brushes & gold leaf kit etc. Usually, amongst the signwriting fraternity, when one of us dies, it’s ‘left’ to the fraternity, to distribute the kit box amoungst themselves, more often than not, it goes to the upcoming youngsters, to help give them a leg up into the trade.
@@speciallion1135 Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your story. Sign writing is an art form and a skill and looks much better than the usual printed signs of today. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
Lovely vid, took notes. I'm living pretty small and doing carpentry jobs off my bicycle. Remarkably similar tool kit, aside from the saws being swapped for a circ saw or two. May bring hand saws back into the picture. Thanks-
@@Octopusbeak Thanks for watching and comment. Wishing you a great and successful New Year. 👍
My dad carried virtually the same gear, but his second saw was a tenon saw, his plane was a Marples X4. plus a small block plane, and one thing we both swore by, which isn't in your bag.... A butt gauge.
These were the days when he got dropped off at a job, and the only tools he had were those in the bag.
He might have been left a Hilti gun for drilling masonry.
No gloves, face masks, ear defenders or goggles to be seen.
@@66oggy Thanks for watching and comment. Interestingly I never saw a butt gauge I must have been too far out in the sticks lol. Very little attention paid to health and safety then. We would be cutting up Asbestolux which we were told was safe and in fact is worse with a handsaw no mask in a confined space we were like snowmen. And a wood preserver called Solignum which was used to treat buildings with dry rot and was far more potent than today which the guys spraying it were dressed like spacemen and we would be working underneath them and it would be dripping on us. Oh well we’re still here at the moment lol.👍
back in the day we carried everything, lifted everything , put screws in, drilled holes all by hand , when we got home we were knackered, we didn't go to the gym ,we'd been there in one form or another all day at work. one of the newer breed of tradesmen offered to carry one of my tool bags and was shocked when he tried to lift it ,especially as he'd seen me come in earlier laden like a pack mule. probably why we need new knees and hips . he called me a liar when I said when I was your age cement , plaster and sand all used to be in 100cwt bags not these little bags ,and the site labourers used to carry them 2 at a time .
@ Thanks for watching and comment. This is very true. I’m 64 now and work as a bench joiner, occasionally I venture out to help assemble and fit stairs I’ve made. The younger joiners can’t believe it when they see me ripping a floor board down by hand lol. Talking about the weight of cement bags ect. My dad who is 100 now and still lives independently worked in farming and as a young man remember’s taking corn to the local water mill with a horse and cart the sacks were 2 hundred weight just over 100kg and the miller would take one on his back and carry it up stairs, it’s hard to believe but true . Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Great post pal i was a plumber 50 odd years started my appy ship mid 60s i can relate to your post the job i hated most was the old rawl plugging tools and the old fibre rawlplugs what a change it was when the boss brought a 250v hammer drill yup brace and bits happy days
@LawrenceTyson-l3u Thanks for watching and comment. I was lucky I didn’t get to use the Rawl bits but I do remember those awful fibre wall plugs. 👍
Thanks, it was interesting. I was never a professional woodworker, but started to acquire tools in my late teens (1960 ish ). I was an engineering apprentice. Many are so familiar, identical and of course I've still got them. My first saws were Sandvik too - something about them felt right.
Happy New Year.
@@normanbott Thanks for watching and comment. Happy New Year.👍
As a painter and decorator myself I still have the tools I bought weekly as a apprentice and still used daily today papering sissors hanging brushs seem rollers ect. Every use clean washed look after your tools and your tools will look after you. In my case 40 years down the line. My uncle was a chippy and he made me a wooden tool box that I still have and use sadly he's no longer with us he was old school and a true craftsman I worked on many jobs with him his work was outstanding and he had the long kit bag and a long wooden tool box.thanks for the vid some lovely old well made tools not like the tat they churn out today all the best.😊
@@johnwilson230 Thanks for watching and comment. When I started working as a youngster and buying tools I didn’t realise they would last me lifetime. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
Aussie carpenter started in 71, exact kit with the exption of disston saws and E A Berg chisels. Still using em at 70 years old
@@StephenBond-g7m Thanks for watching and comment. It’s interesting for me to hear from tradesmen around the world who have used the same tools. I learned something new from your comment EA Berg chisels are something I’ve not seen before I’ve looked them up and they seem rare in the UK. One of my Uncles emigrated to Australia on a £10 ticket after serving in North Africa during the war he never returned to the uk so we never met sadly no longer with us. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
@chrisfinn1162 good to hear from you, Berg chisels were the premium brand here at the time and are still coveted by serious craftsmen. The Eskituna Sweden brand may be more familiar in England
@@StephenBond-g7m Thanks for your reply. From what I can find it seems the red handle ones were sold here as early Bahco. I use a set of modern Bahco at the moment along with other brands. 👍
@@StephenBond-g7m Hi have done a bit more research and it seems EA Berg were quite a small company and I think we missed out on their products they were taken over by Bahco and then they in turn by Sandvik seem very rare in the UK. Thanks it been interesting to find out more about this company. 👍
Watching all these tools come out the bag is both nostalgic and familiar, they are more or less all the tools my dad had in his toolbox, which I now have in mine… don’t use the brace and bits much these days, but the small hand tools like the planes, chisels and gauges get almost daily use. Thanks for sharing!
@@PhilMakesThings Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
I am a retired electrician and my family were an assortment of plumbers and carpenters and plasterers . During my working years I saw the transition to power/cordless tools and I wonder how we ever got by without lasers and cordless screwdrivers and power planes and SDS drills. Some time ago my Father passed and in his shed I found loads of wonderful old tools that nowadays have been made obsolete by cordless tools. Sadly I could not find a new home for them and regretfully took them to the re-cycling centre and threw them in the scrap metal skip.
@@garypautard1069 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes it is hard to imagine working without electrical tools but that was just normal then. I won’t be around but I wonder what things will be like in another 50 years and whether they will be unrecognisable from today. Hope you have a good and peaceful New Year. 👍
@@chrisfinn1162 world war 3 is looming so think about it power tools will be useless. (E.m.p. No power ) your hand tools will be worth their weight in gold. I have aquired many neglected and rusty tools ⚒️ over the years I have refurbished them was going to sell them but had second thoughts will keep them in storage
Thanks so much for taking the time to share that. Interesting to see how skirting board was fixed on. As you say not all that long ago but it shows tools and techniques that were in use for a considerable time. I am no expert in this subject but it seems to me the modern use of quick fix chemicals and techniques makes a house harder to repair and make changes to.
@@reachforthesky1849 Thanks for watching and comment. Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Great video,started my apprenticeship in 76 been a joiner ever since …. most of the young ens talk to you like you know nowt… ah well……….regards Andy
@@andywilson3560 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes when you’re young and haven’t experienced all of life’s ups and downs you can think you know it all until you don’t 🤔. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
Born in the 80’s and after COVID hit, I realized we cannot rely on businesses to provide everything. So I bought pretty much everything you showed and have learned to use them. The craft is not dead - I have many friends that are hand-tool woodworkers. I own a CNC and have not turned it on more than a couple times in the past couple years because hand tools are so much more satisfying
@@devinteske Thanks for watching and comment. Good to hear from someone who appreciates hand tools. Have a great Christmas. 👍
@ I do. As well as Rob Cosman, Wood by Wright, Matt Estlea, Graham Blackburn, and more. Let’s keep the suggestions coming
Real chippy of Ireland 🇮🇪 here and I only use hand tools.....
Brings back memories, and that sandvik saw was a very popular choice!
@@RafterSkills Thanks for watching and comment. Yes the Sandvik saw’s held their edge a little better than Disston but it was a divisive subject between the two camps each maintaining their’s was the best. Have a great Christmas. 👍
Afternoon pal , think i can speak for a lot of us when i say thank you for posting this i started my apprenticeship in 86 and like most of us have pretty much the same kit no jack plane but always had a rebate plane , remember when we first got the Hitachi green cordless drill, thank god we all thought no more drilling locks out by hand 😂, funnly enough iv gone back to all the old tools as i now do all our repairs for our antique shop and the customers and myself love the thought of using old tools on old furniture just like it used to be , thank you
Kind regards drew 👍
@@drewwhite5601 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. It’s been great hearing from all trades people and enthusiasts from all around the world when I posted this video I didn’t think anyone would be interested. The response has been a pleasant surprise for me. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Very nice to see your old tools looking so well maintained. Much of the stuff available now is chuck away quality so I can’t see many of them being around in 50 years for someone to display. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too.
@@tonyalways7174 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes sadly modern stuff is made with a limited life span. Sadly companies can make more money selling something that is cheap and crap by the thousands than making something good and only selling it in the hundreds. It’s a wasteful world. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday and new year. 👍
Great video, my dad was a joiner and I remember him having the same tools in his tool bag. No power tools in those days like we have now.
@@alexandermccormack8675 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
I inherited pretty much the same set up from my Dad! I got some idea of how to use them from doing a few courses and lots of experimenting during the lockdowns. Thanks for sharing.
@@tompearce6312 Thanks for watching and comment. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
I started my apprenticeship in 1990. Had a very similar kit in a green canvas bag. I also used to strap it to my motorbike.
I remember seeing one of the chippy's with a makita cordless drill and thought i got to get one of those!
Haven't stop buying since, now need a large ven to carry everything around.
@@pauljohn6709 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I say you can never have too many tools my wife disagrees lol. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Ha.. your tool bag is like the cartoon Petes pockets!! Great video bought back happy memories I still have and use all of these. Thank you and stay lucky
@@paulmaryon9088 Thanks for watching and comment. Pete’s pockets great. I didn’t know what this was so had to look it up lol. Hope you have a great and blessed New Year. 👍
Hi Chris, thanks for a look see at your tool kit, I'm not a joiner but started building up nearly the same kit as your's when I got married in1974, money was tight so only added things when I realy needed them, still have most of it, and will pass them on to the grandkids when they buy a house, they made things to last in those days,lol. Merry xmas and best wishes for the new year mate. Stuart Uk.
@@stuartlockwood9645 Thanks for watching and comment. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
I was just 10 in 77'. Always loved tools, My Dad was in aerospace but on the weekends He was always working on the House. He added and/or extended rooms complete with electricity and plumbing (if appropriate). He added patios and decks. My older Brother (10 years older) has worked with stained glass, furniture building, but ended up as an industrial pipe fitter. I remember the pit in My stomach I felt around that time when Sears Craftsman ended their lifetime warranty on power tools.
For Me, being 'American' includes a legacy of building and creating. I suppose that's really a human thing though. I think the biggest and best difference from 'the olden days' to now is that 50lb bag was everything. Dull blades or bits are touched up as part of the job. Nobody is making a Home Depot run in the middle of the job.
@@littlejimmy7402 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you for sharing your memories. I’ve had a few comments from the USA it’s been great hearing from tradesmen and enthusiasts from another country. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
😂😂😂 ive still got all them tools, ill never forget my rawl plug tool and fixing Battens on 18 “ skirtings. That’s like an endless pit of a tool bag 😊 thanks for the memories.
@@jimgeelan5949 Thanks for watching and comment. Great 😜. All the best for the New Year. 👍
I started in 88 I had essentially the same kit with the addition of a bow saw with a clout nail at each end
@@130rw Thanks for watching and comment. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Got almost exactly the same kit, bought at the same time. I had an Estwing hammer and axe, Spear and Jackson saws. Still got my two saw horses in the garage as well.
@@ianhall702 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes Estwing hammers were popular and you could use the shaft to split packers. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
thanks for sharing your kit and the history.
@@cameracoughlin Thanks for watching and comment. Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Hey Chris 👊🏼
I'm 55, and been a carpenter most of my life.
This certainly brought back memories, buddy 😁
How things have changed...
Thanks for sharing,
Gus 🍻
@@gadgetgus Thanks for watching and comment. Yes happy days life on site then was very different from today there was time for a bit of fun and nonsense and the old boys were genuine characters. 👍
My Dad God bless his soul, had all these but in a tool box that most joiners made themselves. Served his time on a shipyard on the Tyne. Good memories....
@@macducati2304 Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
A tool box was my first year project as an apprentice joiner!
This video was great, I buy and sell a lot of old tools, I've seen that exact bag so many times, I've noticed that most joiners kits where the same, no bells and whistles, I've never been in the trades but I've always loved hobbie woodwork with old hand tools which lead me to start my own business selling tools exactly like this, I know how to use almost every you have, I prefer it over power tools, but this video was very interesting, thank you from this 90s millennial!
@@scotsman7626 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you for sharing your story. It’s good to hear that you are saving these tools and finding new home’s for them. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
I was just away to start my apprenticeship in 78. I remember I couldn't lift my journeymans tool bag .
@@macduff14 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes the tools were heavy to carry around. I had been working with my Dad who was a market gardener since I was a kid so it probably helped. 👍
Excellent mate👍. I thought you’d been in my workshop. I started work in 1967 and still have both my sandviks think I might sharpen them up after Christmas
@@allansnape416 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
Great post started in 74 what memories I'm sure all us old wood butchers watching this will be smiling ear to ear 😂😂😂
@@ConThomas-d1r Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Hearing about people’s experiences has been great. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
I started in 1980. I had a couple of different things in my bag - but essentially the same. I carried a number 51/2 plane and a block plane. Never did get on with a number 4. I had a Black and Decker electric drill in the old white and gold colours, so I never had to carry a bit and brace or a wheel brace. Also carried a ball pein hammer - we used to sink plasterboard nails with the ball end of the head to recess them. Also a big wood rasp. First power tool I got after the drill was a black and decker "ripsnorter" circular saw.
Used to take it on the bus from job to job til I got my driving license.
Now I carry around way more than twenty grands worth of power tools in a van that cost about the same. Things have changed a bit...
@@fishbiscuit2000 Thanks for watching and comment. I had the brown and gold Black and Decker drill all metal and not double insulated light your self up like a Christmas tree lol. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Hi Chris, I started my apprenticeship in 83, tools are pretty much the same as I had back then.
@@nathancrowther4890 Thanks for watching and comment. Hope you have a great Christmas.👍
I am 70 and this brought back memories except for diston saws and spear&Jackson and i think it was sorby chisels. Then you spent 3 or4 hundred on tools now now its thousands before you start with a van etc.
@@edwardmurdoch1062 Thanks for watching and comment. I think the tools you need today / cost are similar given higher wages and relatively reasonable power tool prices unless you like your Festools lol . The van is the issue very expensive items. Hope you have a good New Year.
Cracking video grommit😄 I reckon I have most of those tools myself , dad was a builder, I'm more a mechanic myself but can turn me hand to diy when needed. Thanks for this, I really enjoyed it. Happy new year.
@@iandennis7836 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. More cheese Wallace 😜👍. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Yep , born in 65 and have pretty much the same set of tools. Never been a pro Chippie but learned most of the jobs watching my dad. Still like to do things the same way
@howardrogers1147 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes when you’ve done everything by hand it becomes natural to continue the same way I pick up my handsaw to rip down a board at work and the young lads say they can’t believe I cut things by hand. Watching them use power tools is amazing to me, to see what they can do with them but that’s all they have ever used so it just becomes natural. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
Started my apprenticeship as a joiner in 1966 in the Gorbals of Glasgow, used to carry one of these bags or an ex army haversack😊
@@jamesbowie6925 Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your experience. I was only 5 then. I presume you left school at 15 then and your apprenticeship was 5 years. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
I started as apprentice joiner in 1974 i have just retired that is exactly what i had in my bag in the 70s all by hand no power tools by the end of my working life my van was full of power tools!
@@AlanMcEwen-c7p Thanks for watching and comment. Yes the job Is basically the same but the tools have made it quicker and easier thankfully. Hope you have a great New Year and enjoy your well earned retirement.👍
Yes brings back memories to what was available to us then. I had a bag I’d put on back of motorbike to. 👍
@@johnbullough6431 Thanks for watching and comment. I carried my empty toolbox I’d made at college home on my moped because there was no other option . Took the long way home to avoid the city centre and the old bill 👮 and nearly lost it on the first and only roundabout . Managed to get it home safely but never tried to carry it again. Hope you have a great and safe New Year.👍
Yep. I inherited pretty much everything there from my joiner grandad/builder dad from their 70s heydays. Almost down to the specific models shown.
@@emmetworkshop2829 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I think most tradesmen had a very similar tool kit. I suppose there wasn’t the selection of tools we have today. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
Used basically the same toolkit in NYC doing carpentry and renovations from 76 to 82. Only power tool was a refurbished Rockwell drill I’d picked up for $8 which seemed like a lot of money
@@liveoak4124 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you for sharing your experience it’s interesting for me to hear that joiner’s in the USA were using the same tool kit. My first week’s wage was £24 and a qualified joiner was £50. 👍
@ I started at $92 wk. off the books and a hair below minimum wage at the time
Thank you for that , I had the same except the hammer as I had a estwing leather handle
@@TerryManthorpe Thanks for watching and sharing. Thank you. The Estwing was a popular choice and you could use the shaft to split packers . An expensive item at the time and still not cheap today. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
@ happy new year to you from Haywards Heath Sussex
Been on the tools all my life. Started at 16 and have found a good set of tools like you have can do most things. The files are used to sharpen the bits for the brace as well as the saw. I have 2 gages most people would use the combination square to save carrying the extra 1. The brace is very clever you can set the depth of cut by counting every time you go 1 revaluation. In this way you can get the depth for a lock right first time every time.
@@richardwalker6082 Thanks for watching and comment. Well I have learned something new I used a bit brace for years and didn’t know you could measure the depth by counting the turns I used a piece of insulation tape on the bit. Hope you have a good New Year. 👍
Iam still using my old sandvik 288 and 271 saws to this day, they get a quick run over with the file every two weeks.
@@rabmcleod3508 Thanks for watching and comment. I use the hard point disposable ones now because they cut so well but it is a waste and I do wonder how long we can keep throwing things away and wonder if we will eventually go back to sharpening saws again. 👍
I grew up with my dad having an identical set up in a wooden tote box. By the mid 1980s he had a second box with a circular saw, Makita drill and a Wadkin branded Ryobi power plane with some 110v trailing leads and that was it. I wonder with the amount of power tool theft who had the right idea? I remember him switching to hard point saws and not regularly sharpening his own any more and going with him on a Saturday morning to Alan Lord tools in Brum to buy his first bosch SDS drill and 9.6v cordless cordless drill I’d say about 1988.
That brings back memories I was an apprentice 1966 same took kit plus rebate plane a tenon saw and a 3 fold rule ..2 blokes tool bags and a wooden nail box all go in the boot of a mini. 2 saw horses on the back seat let’s go to work
@@RonTandy Thanks for watching and comment. It’s been great hearing stories from around the UK and other countries. I had forgotten about the wooden nail boxes thank you for reminding me. My 3 foot folding ruler was yellow plastic long since broken. Hope you have a great Christmas holiday. 👍
Great video, would you be able to do one on sharpening a hand saw?
@@waterhillwoods Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. I haven’t sharpened a hand saw for years and I was never really good at it just good enough to do the job. There are some videos on RUclips which help. Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Very interesting, reminds me of my Dad's tools when I was a boy; he had a Black and Decker drill but used the brace and bit more often. I'm of the generation of affordable lithium ion powered cordless kit, I doubt I'll be uploading any of it to RUclips in fifty years, there's no romance in a circular saw 😅
@@ElThomsono Thanks for watching and comment. You never know your power tools today will be vintage one day and will bring back memories to your generation. Hope you have a great and safe New Year. 👍
Thank you for sharing this, really interesting
@@joerobinson88 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday. 👍
i started my apprenticship in late august 1972 and still working by choice just to keep active and the grey matter in use
@@michaelsmith-mw9ki Thanks for watching and comment. I was thinking you may have left school at 15 I seem to remember when I started secondary school that year was the last to leave at 15. I remember thinking I’ve got an extra year in prison lol. Hope you have a good and safe New Year. 👍
Found this a really interesting, I'm a joiner with 22yrs and used to mix of hand tools and corded 110v power tools when started out. i find it amusing the few young trades that are out site now even fine the idea of carrying 110v transfers and extinction power leads old fashion.
@@joinertanner Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks have a great Christmas 👍
Hi Chris I'm guessing you're around 63 or 64. I left school in 77. And was recruited by my dad to work on a building site. Mostly dormer roofs and flogging. The old bugger didn't even give me the six week summer holiday off. Happy days. I've got all his old tools now and treasure them greatly.
@@tomrobinson8384 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes you are correct I will soon be 64 and still on the tools but work as a bench joiner now. Do site work occasionally usually fitting a stair case I’ve made it’s easier to assemble something you have made than hand it over for someone else to sort out. Site work is a bit heavy for me these days but I did enjoy my time on site. I’m a workshop prisoner now. 😀👍 Hope you have a great Christmas holiday. 👍
I became a handyman cacarpenter in the 80s. I had two wooden tool boxes which wouldnt fit on back of a motorbike. Luckily i had car.
Nearly every job i went to i discovered a tool i didn't have . The boxes got heavier after every job.
A great experience though.
@@geoffb108 Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your experience. I think when you start collecting tools it never ends. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
Great video, I enjoyed it! 👍😎🤠
@@jimzeidler3829 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you 👍
@chrisfinn1162 You're welcome, sir 🤠
Like the video, like the comments, provoked by the video. All the tools are still relevant to skilled fellows. Thank you. Peace and goodwill
@@martinwarner1178 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Hope you have a good and peaceful New Year. 👍
Still got mine, everything you have shown, had Disston saws though, most people wouldn’t know what a plugging chisel is, or how to cut plugs, you didn’t show a Rawldrill, hours spent tapping and turning one
@@davidharris4062 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes a Rawldrill is something I remember being shown but never used one thankfully lol I remember thinking it must have been a joke played on an apprentice as I couldn’t believe you could drill a hole with that. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
@ Thanks for watching and comment. Thanks for sharing your story. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday.👍
I’m surprised that I, as an American, not only had (and still have) the same carpentry tools from the 70s but that they were made by the same manufacturers.
@@blacksquirrel4008 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes this has been a surprise to too me as well. To hear from tradesmen around the world who used the same kit. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Started serving my time in 92 and I have most of an can use these tools probably started my time just a wee bit before power tools took off .I thought a nobex frame saw and a Yankee driver were the greatest things
@@rcr76 Thanks for watching and comment. The Nobex frame saw was a revolutionary tool I still have one a bit worn but a great tool. Cutting cornices for kitchen’s a job that was tricky became easy. Hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
I remember on site in early 80's with a chippy's bag of tools like that....
@@babylonsburning1 Thanks for watching and comment. Happy New Year. 👍
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. 🇦🇺👴🏻
@@PeanutsDadForever Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you. Hope you have a great Christmas. 👍
It is interesting to see tools that lasted this long, what motorbike did you have and do you still ride motorbikes
@@thethreemusketeers6045 Thanks for watching and comment. At that time I had a Yamaha FS1E moped then a Suzuki GT 125 and a Yamaha RD 125. I got a car at the end of 1979. I still kept an interest in motorcycles and had various bikes until 1995 at that time married with responsibilities and having lost a several friends to bike accidents and a friend aged 39 who left a young family I decided to stop and sell my treasured Honda CBR 600 and hang up my leather’s. Hope you have a great and safe New Year.👍
Interesting to see, I think the modern equivalent in power tools would be at least 5 systainers or similar, definitely not something you could take on the back of your motorbike. Merry christmas.
@@michael.knight Thanks for watching and comment. Yes definitely need a van. Thanks 👍
Great Video
@@bobbyranger4164 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you hope you have a great New Year.👍
Thank you sir. Yes things have certainly changed. Merry Christmas. I hope you keep offering videos on repairs and thoughts on the tools. What kind of motorbike did you have in 1977? I saw you had a tin of small drills that had Bridgeport on it. Cheers.
@@ihrescue Thank you. Yes I started with a Yamaha FS1E moped and then Suzuki GT 125 and in Autumn 78 a new Yamaha RD 125 £750 I seem to recall. Living in the sticks I traveled 12 miles to the nearest small city to work in all weathers I was relieved to get a car in 79. 👍
@@chrisfinn1162 Yep the car make things a bit more comfortable and keep the tools in the boot.
I started in ‘83 and my original kit was very similar to yours. I used Sandvik saws and had a 5 1/2 jack (Record) and a 4 smoothing (Stanley) I remember my kit costing me about £250 With the exception of the saws and hand planes I reckon the other tools are cheaper now than 40 years ago. Thanks for sharing
@@99jorgey Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I think tools are more affordable now than way back then it was a financial burden to get your tools kit together. My sister was quite a bit older than me and bought me some tools to help me out. Hope you have a great New Year.👍
@ hope you have a great new year too, my friend. It was a summer of farm work in ‘82 that paid for my tools as my wage was £45 a week and a sandvik panel saw was about £55 from memory
Interesting info Dave!
Bahco are great saws! 😝👊🪚🪚🪚 Have you tried the Silky Outback?
You can change blades from soft wood to hardwood. The hardwood blades would be good for hunting if you needed a bone saw. Plus New Zealand 🌏🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🥝🥝🥝🌿🌿🌿 has alot of Hardwood species. I didn't know Bahco was military issue.👍🪖🪖🪖interesting.
Hmm ! '77 ? I wouldn't have carried the axe or the hand drill ,and I'd only have had one plane with me, and only one hammer. but that would have been a few years earlier. by '77 we'd always got a van and with that came power tools, namely the old immortal Wolf Sapphire hammer-drill and circular saw (I still have the saw). I never got on with the small yankee, always the big one. But the main thing about this trip down memory lane is how very much cheaper all these tools have become,comparative to earnings ! A new plane (no 4) had to be thought about, you might not have been able to afford one in one go,a lot of small ironmongers would give you credit because of this.
@@CrimeVid Thanks for watching and comment. Yes I think we were just at the end of only using all hand tools and the family owned company I work for was very traditional and there was a reluctance to change. About 40 guys in various trades and even when I left at the end of my apprenticeship in autumn 1980 power tools were still not available on all jobs and then only a hammer drill and skill saw . We must have been behind the times. The philosophy of if you’ve managed for the last 50 years you can now lol 😂 . Still the same philosophy where I work now unbelievable . Hope you have a great New Year.👍
Not a lot has changed really 62 year old joiner now my combi square and bevel are the one I had as an apprentice saws are all throw away now plainer and screw drivers are battery now good old days great bag too
@@paulconnor2261 Thanks for watching and comment. 👍
i'm in the U.S. that's crazy no power . started in 1977 the most important tool was and is a 7 1/4 power saw.
@@jamessullivan9992 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes hard to believe now how things have changed. Hope you have a great New Year. 👍
Yup I remember this gear to.
And do you know what we made more money then than we do now.
These days I carry over 10 grands worth of kit.
I remember when we all went out and bought electric screwdrivers, planers and drop saws.
We made some good money for a month or so.
Then head office sent the bean counters down to see why the carpenters cheques had all gone up.
When Andy the site Forman said that we had all gone and invested in new gear the bastards said “cut the prices”
So we were all back to square one but with bigger overheads.
That was the movement I realised that it didn’t matter how hard you worked the big companies were always going to make sure you stayed poor.
Of course this has got steadily worse.
@@jonathannorris8992 Thanks for watching and comment. True ☝️. Hope you have a safe and prosperous New Year. 👍
When did you break into my workshop?😁
@@brendangallagher732 Thanks for watching and comment. lol 😜 Have a great New Year.👍
The basic chippie kit for any site worker back in the day ( but that was enough to hump around from job to job on public transport) it was always a compromise between having the tools required and the weight of them all in the bag , but u know a lot of them hand tools r still required today squares bevels etc , but the battery tools available nowadays have made a chippies life much easier and quicker but the trade off is the expense of variants required, drills saws planers etc , no public transport with this lot today either ,u need a van , with some proper security features to stop the scum tool thieves getting their hands on them , but great to c some of them tools from a by gone era that r all still probably out there languishing ( and rusting away) in thousands of garden sheds or garages up and down the country
I still use all of them.
It’s quicker using hand tools than cordless on a one off job if you know how to use them. Job done by the time you’d set up power tools and packed away
Estwing 20 oz hammer, plumb axe, stabila levels, everything else was Stanley for me
Diston phili saws
Chris ohh my friend you have about same tools as I used the axe was the tool I loved in Yorkshire all the walls are stone or cobbled axe was great for door frames ware you'd scribed and had lots to remove, the Yankee screwdriver put a cir clip on it to stop it rolling away 😊
@@petertiffney4413 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes an axe is a great tool and with practice is surprisingly accurate. You have just reminded about the circlip trick I used one on the larger Yankee when the twist ring broke and as you said it stops it rolling away. 👍
thanks - v interesting
@@griffgriffiths9982 Thanks for watching and comment. Thank you.👍
bathroom lock with a brace and bit ooohhh lol not easy, especially if it was a sapele door. used to hate them bugger's. nobex mitre saw. lot of effort required back in the day.
@@David-rr6sf Thanks for watching and comment. Yes sapele veneered doors I’ve been through the side of a few of those with my brace and bit. And splintering the veneer cutting the bottoms off lol , not to mention slipping with the pump screwdriver and putting a gash across the face happy days. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday and New Year. 👍
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@@AlanMcEwen-c7p Thanks for watching and comment. Hope you have a good New Year.👍
Can you come and hang me some internal doors
@@golfr604 Thanks for watching and comment. Best comment so far. 👍
should have been 26 years building and glazing was always shit at sums
Yer…it was that basic. You’d be on price using this type of kit. Can you believe it!
@@markdavis9990 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes things have certainly changed. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday. 👍
1977 is GenX mate, stop listening to the stupid youngsters. A proper boomer would have been my dad who had his own black handmade toolbox, and there was electrical tools onsite or gas powered as my dad somehow managed to pit a 6inch nail through his thigh with one of the nail guns, i think they were gas or petrol driven building the Shetlands oil terminal. This was before any real safety measures.
I particularly liked the pump action screwdriver.
You must have been a shuttering joiner, not one level in site lol 😂 just kidding pal.
@@stevenconnor4221 Thanks for watching and comment. Yes boomer refers to when you were born not when you started working. It sounds like you’re Dad worked at the higher end of the industry where there was more money for what then would be very expensive tools. The nail guns were powered by what was essentially a black power gun cartridge and you needed a shot gun license to buy one. I never saw one on the sites I worked. I did have the obligatory black tool box that most apprentices made at college but couldn’t carry that on a motorcycle. Lighting was 110v so called ferry lights that were a flat two core cable and you could move the bulb fittings along the cable and screw them on so they made a connection. Working on Shetland would have been a tough job the weather there can be harsh. Hope you have a good Christmas holiday. 👍
@chrisfinn1162 Have a good holiday yourself sir.
My dad went on to become the shop steward / safety advisor as well as being a chippy for McAlpine construction and one of his abiding memories that he was proud of that not one person was killed during the construction of Torness nuclear powerstation. When told this I was like what!! It used to be regular thing back then on construction sites. God bless those poor souls who were only working to provide for thier families.
@ Yes construction has always been a dangerous game and is still one of the most risky. Thanks for the reply. 👍
Nowadays its all battery operated saws, nail guns and grab adhesive and where it doesnt fit, silicone and caulking!
Time is money these days. Customers would not pay someone to use hand tools and take 10x as long to do a job... as a consequence the craftsmanship has gotten poor for the most part