Always had bailing wire around when I was a kid. My dad was a old farm boy so he used it for everything. You made me wonder were he got it. We lived in town. He always loved auctions or he had a lot of friends that were still farmers so maybe both. It held up a lot of exhaust pipe on my cars when I was a teenager. Thanks for your service.
My wife buys picture hanging kits and there is always a length of steel braided wire we never use. I use that wire for my old wooden file handles to fix or reinforce. Mr. Pete had something similar a few weeks ago, very cool to make your own tool. Happy Veterans Day everyone.
Great job on the hammer. Learned something new today...Your videos are more valuable that going to college for four years. This is something you can use in real life.
Saw these tools awhile ago and wanted to build one. Admittedly I like the one piece design that is available better (like at the start of your video), but the design you made is just so simple and easy to do. Amazing also how you keep all that random stuff so organized! Thanks for another educational video! 👏👏👏
I loved it! That story about salvaging copper from the dump genuinely made me punch the air here watching the video! I love that kind of thing! As a kid I loved digging though any kind of scrap pile/dump for bits of metal to play with, I’ve liked heavy metal stuff for as long as I can remember. I remember taking rebar drops (from the shear) from construction sites around where I lived, and using them to dig holes when I was a kid. It made some of the other kids with their plastic shovels quite jealous, because my steel tools (scrap metal) didn’t break like their toys😆
Scout you amaze me with the knowledge and the things you know. Your like the handyman encyclopedia. Great job on the hammer. And one service man to another. Thank you for your service my friend!!
One my best finds ever is a blue cable drum of galvanised soft iron wire. 18 gauge? It's on permanent standby in the garage and I use short lengths all the time for everything. Hanging a painted item to dry, tying nuts and washers back on to whatever they came off. A decent skein of it in the car to tie up an exhaust if needed etc etc. Been there 25 years now still got about a mile left! And you dead right about that little split in most small shafts
Baling wire is so versatile, for holding things together, for the garden, and I double a piece of baling wire to make pipe clips but instead of using the tool you made, just twisting with a pair of pliers does the trick, not professional looking but it holds and gets you out of trouble,
Liked your talk on bailing wire. Another use that was used when working on airplanes was safety wiring mount connections for electronic devices. I was in electronics and we used both twenty thousands or 32 thousands wire on all radio mounts to prevent loosening because of vibration. We had a wire twisting tool to twist the wire between the mounting wing nut and the mount itself. As you know you have to position the wire so the mounting nut cannot loosen. There is a backward way to safety wire something. Mostly used safety wire for securing cannon plugs on radio/radar equipment.
I really appreciate this video. My favorite carpenter hammer is a 16oz Plumb with a red wooden handle. I bought it over 40 years ago. Over the years of use it developed a crack in the handle just like your ball peen hammer. I’ve been wondering how I was going to fix it? You just solved my problem! Thanks ScoutCrafter! It well worth watching your videos! I really enjoy each of them!
Hi Randy. ....I bet you wish you had seen this before you started your cement mixer restoration - just think of the time you could have saved! (lol). From Army to Navy, thank you for your service. ;)
Hi Scout, first of all thank you for your service. Wire is great stuff ,before duck tape that's what most of us used to bind things together for a temporary /permanent fix , we have a saying, quote, ( it's held together whith spit and baling wire ) meaning a sketchy fix lol. Nice fix on the hammer, I've done the same type of thing whith twine whipping, then soak it all in superglue, it sets like concrete. Best wishes Scout.regards Stuart uk.
Good old baling wire. As far as I know hay bale hooks were designed because of baling wire. I worked a few loads of small round bales baled on the old Allis Chalmers Roto Baler. They were heavy and the wire ripped up your hands quickly especially a kid with uncalloused hands. Baling wire is where the term haywire came from. Rebar wire is handy. Glad you built the clamp rapper.
Once I used baling wire to jumpstart a truck. With bumpers touching ran a few strands of wire between battery posts used a piece of wood to keep wire off metal and it worked fine. Wire got a bit hot.
Bailing wire for the win! I always keep that stuff around. I want to make one of those wire clamp things. That hammer handle turned out great. Happy Veterans Day John and thank you for your service. Take care.
I have using heavy string to do the same type of handle repairs. After wrapping the string around the handle, I paint the string to bond it all together. That way if the string gets damaged, it does not unwind. That winding tool is neat, I need to make one also.
Your easy to make bailing wire tightening tool is a very simple tool idea that works ! Placing heat shrink tubing over the mechanical wire splice covers any sharp wire ends .
Awesome video, really nice clamp idea. The hammer turned out really nice,, I'm going to find an old hammer now to do that. Love the look. Happy Veterans day, thanks for your service pal, SF.
Hello Todd! I was thinking of you while making this video! I thought "I bet Todd has some awesome Bailing wire stories and tips" I'm a city boy but the farmers really know all the tricks! =) Thanks!!!!!!
@@ScoutCrafter Dad and I would use the wire a lot during trapping season too! 70s and 80s furs were going for great prices. Always had "fenceing" wire pieces in the tractor's tool boxes... they were the quick and poor guys cotter pins in a crunch (wagon hitch pins) too.
Man the hammer came out great I have never seen the wire clamp system before im gonna have to try it myself so many uses I bet great video John happy Veterans Day by the way thank you so much for your service god bless 👍🇳🇿🔧
I grew up in a family that had lots of plasters. In plaster and stucco you use “Tie Wire “ to attach metal lath or edging called Millcore it would come in bails. It was like bailin wire we used it for just about anything even tie loads on to a pickup. Good show
Excellent video. It’s ingenious some of the things you come up with and God bless you, you save everything!!! My father was in the construction industry and he always had cracked wooden handles on his hammers and he used good old black tape. He would have loved watching your videos!! I’ll bet you brought your copper wire to Labretti brothers.
Hi Frank! Black tape is a fine fix for those splits! A few wraps around and the hammer is as good as new! There definitely is a design flaw with that split always happening right there! =)
I just put a spool in my car for the winter months. That same night, A coworker's wheel-well plastic was falling off. I told her, "I can fix that!' (I was a Hero that night.)☺
Great video, I learned quite a lot, I'm going to try out that clamp someday soon I hope. I hat it when people enter my driveway too, it gave me the best laugh of the day when you showed the antenna's. You are so right about the weekend going fast, so many odd jobs and obligations in those two days. I'm going to keep my head up (with a little help from your videos) the next four days and it will soon be weekend again! :) Thanks a lot John!
Good practical repair on the hammer with the wire. I suspect you could have used the 17 fence wire more easily (fewer wraps). I have a spool of stainless steel lock wire I use for random things like this. I have had it since I was a kid. I don't remember where I got it, but there is still about half left. Among other uses, I have used it to "sew" broken plastic things back together like a go-cart body, dirt bike fenders, things like that. I bet it would work great for the wire hose clamp set-up. My father has always been involved with aviation, and I think the lock wire is used on special fasteners (like castle nuts) on things that can not come apart in the air. Fun quote: There are OLD pilots. There are BOLD pilots. But there are no OLD, BOLD pilots!
James, The wire I used wrapped on the handle like string, very easy. The 17 Ga. is very hard to wrap easily and requires a lot of pulling force to lay flat on the handle... Kevlar is a great alternative!!!!
Cool😎 love the Sears branded hammer. For most of my life, I've been a Craftsman tools guy and also liked the Sears branded tools when they were made here. I sure do miss the Sears of yesterday 🙁 Great show as usual. 👍😎🤠
A handy use for bailing/mechanics wire is for quickly making small one time use tools for delicate work. The wire can be easily flattened on an anvil with a ball peen and then bent, ground or filed to a special shape. For example often just the thing to make a tool to hook or unhook a spring in a small mechanism. Cheers from NC/USA
Interesting thing is, my wife and I care for my in-laws chickens and rabbits and they go through bales of hay every month or two and the new hay is wrapped with a heavy nylon cord and we save that cord too and repurpose it as well and I find it lasts many years, even exposed to the elements and never breaks. It’s heavier than the cord you see at the Home Depot that they give to people to tie things to their cars. But even that cord is great too. I always grab dozens of feet of it and even keep hanks of it in my trunk in case I need to tie something down. On RUclips there’s a guy named Vinnys Day Off and he uses it for bushcraft purposes and dragging materials around and it’s very lightweight and durable.
Finally something I beat you to! I made the type of tool with the thread and you turn the end to tighten, gets you more working room but more fiddly, great for airline hoses as you handle them at the join, better than jubilee type clamps
Hi Scout , Baling Wire Looks Good ! Beats the Old Electrical Tape ! 😂 I Used Electrical Tape on One Hammer at Least ! Of Course They Have Those Rubber Pieces for Axes and Sledges ! The Baling Wire Like Lead I Always Used to See On Wire Fences ! Nice and Easy To Undo When You're A Kid !!!
Awesome video as always. I'm so sorry that I missed out on the hammer challenge. I wasn't able to come up with anything and ran out of time. Such as life.
Happy Veterans Day! It’s just amazing that almost every video you put out lately has to do with some obscure thing that I recently had experience with! When I moved into my house there was a huge bundle of bailing wire in the garage. I use it often for many things. Last week I used some to secure sash chains to the weights for some windows I repaired. And just a few vids ago....you showed a whole mess of sash chain you bought...lol
Scout, Rebar tie wire is pretty much identical to baling wire that you would find on a bale of alfalfa and it's very reasonably priced compared to the shiny "baling" wires that the home improvement stores sell. As for the clamp tool, who ever figured that out is pretty smart.
Happy Veterans Day John!! What a fantastic episode! This is one of the things about your channel, it doesn't matter what the subject is, you're always able to make it interesting. I had heard about these wire clamps before, don't remember how but I've known them for a while, and when I was about to ask if you thought the Kobalt was better than the Craftsman, BANG! You pull one up! I first saw one on Abom79's channel, they look really handy, I'll try to get my hands on one! Take care!!!
This is the best channel on RUclips, thanks for all the tips and tricks. How do you store your silicone tubes so they don’t harden after use? I stick a nail in the tube but it still hardens. Cheers 🇨🇦
..i have a roll of that wire in the shop,when i was a kid it was always great for tying up a broken exhaust hanger on my old jalopies ..lol..great vid..
When I was young, baling wire was suggestive of a quick and dirty repair job. It seems today that duct tape has filled that need. I remember the phrase: "Held together by spit and baling wire".
Baling twine was a big part of my childhood crafting and woods bumming. It's great stuff, but it's not baling wire. Baling wire was gooooood stuff. The farm I grew up on had transitioned to twine, but there was a new spool of baling wire forgotten under my dad's work bench. Good stuff! I'd come across it in junk heaps and dumps in other farms too, I miss those days.
Thats was very cool scout. Love the wire clamp tool. Could you demonstrate how a simpler tool could be made with out any kind of milling like with hand tools
The only tools I used to make that tool was a hack saw, belt sander, round file and drill press.. The hardest part of that built is drilling a hole in the middle of 1/4" stock... It's so easy to go crooked! =D
@@ScoutCrafter scout i dont wanna speak out of turn. But ive been looking i to hack knives. And they are listed places ive found as cable sheath splitting knife or sheathing cutter knife also youde think they were easier to find almost everywhere i have looked they are out of stock. I guess its my hang up but i cannot shop on those suspect websits ive been checking tool supply houses. I like to talk to the person once i verify its a legit business .anyway i hope you guys all have a fantastic weekend 😀
I wanted to revisit this I forgot why you put that mechanics wire on the handle, and mentioned it recently. I love those Vaughan made ball peens with the ribbed heads.
Can a person use this to secure that rubber boot that seals the drum on Front Load washing machine? The boot is over a foot in diameter and it is held by two clamps.
Used it and duct tape quite often while working at a steam generating station ( Power Plant ) .Often it was a temporary fix until we had the time and parts to make a permanent repair ..
The hose clamp idea is interesting. Glad we didn't have to do those at the foundry. The place was made of air hose. Having to assemble the wire loops and then thread the wire and fixture to tighten it all while standing over red hot castings would have been miserable. The accountants would have loved it, but the maintenance crew wouldn't. 😆😎
Id say you been I a scuffle or two! Wasn't Easley directed in other words. This country's went soft as a grape, nowadays days. Looks like lots of direction coming! Anyway think I'll make one. Appreciate ya man Liked your style.
I made the same design you made and one just like the ones sold and on that works like a backward pliers that open when you squeeze to stretch the wire that is loop around the tube twice then one twist and remove from the pliers. l use Harbor Freights stainless wire about .032 wire very malleable.
any photos of great grandpa etc,...you could give a quick flash of him every time you talk about his vice I would like that,..and I am nearly normal so others probably would like it too,....you are luck to have known them and have souvenirs
Most don't realize amount of effort wrapping 16' of small wire around anything and yours is neat. Been there done that. I am curious how your anchored the wire ends on the hammer handle fix ? Looks like you poked ends through the wood. If so did you use #40 drill for holes ?
Hi Joe! Yes! I just wrapped it very close and tight... Single wrap then coated it with epoxy and hit it with the heat gun so the epoxy would not show... =)
Hi Tyler! My favorite paint is Rustoleum Regal Red! (love that color) however many times like when wanting to stain the hammer handles I just take a little Red enamel paint and wipe it not he handle with a small piece of paper towel! It shows the grain of the wood and looks pleasing! =)
Hi Virginia, It's funny you ask, I have about 30 hatchets- (different from Axes) and the danger is almost always not to the user but the person standing in front of the user! I wouldn't worry about my personal hatchet but couldn't trust a crack for the Scouts, in fact I used to add lanyards to some scout hand axes! =)
Happy Veterans Day!!! 😃👍
Scout
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Happy Veterans Day Gyrene, Semper Fi ( Sister Mary Numchuck sends her best too)
Right. Happy US day!
Happy Marine Corps birthday too!
1st Bn 25th Marines 4th MARDIV 2002-2010. 🇺🇸
Hi Scout , I Hope you had A Great Veterans Day Too !
Always had bailing wire around when I was a kid. My dad was a old farm boy so he used it for everything. You made me wonder were he got it. We lived in town. He always loved auctions or he had a lot of friends that were still farmers so maybe both. It held up a lot of exhaust pipe on my cars when I was a teenager. Thanks for your service.
I salute all the men and women who have served and are serving in the military. I raise my hand to salute you... thanks for your service. ...Art
Thanks Art!!!
Hi Scout. ...thanks for putting this together. Great Grandpa still comes in handy! !!! From Army to Marines. .....thank you for your service.
My wife buys picture hanging kits and there is always a length of steel braided wire we never use. I use that wire for my old wooden file handles to fix or reinforce. Mr. Pete had something similar a few weeks ago, very cool to make your own tool. Happy Veterans Day everyone.
Great job on the hammer. Learned something new today...Your videos are more valuable that going to college for four years.
This is something you can use in real life.
LOL! You are so right, I read somewhere that today it takes at least 20 years to recover from a College education! =)
Saw these tools awhile ago and wanted to build one. Admittedly I like the one piece design that is available better (like at the start of your video), but the design you made is just so simple and easy to do. Amazing also how you keep all that random stuff so organized! Thanks for another educational video! 👏👏👏
Awsome vid!!! Ive seen tools wrapped in wire but never done it.as far as the wire clamp, INGENIOUS!!!
I loved it! That story about salvaging copper from the dump genuinely made me punch the air here watching the video! I love that kind of thing! As a kid I loved digging though any kind of scrap pile/dump for bits of metal to play with, I’ve liked heavy metal stuff for as long as I can remember. I remember taking rebar drops (from the shear) from construction sites around where I lived, and using them to dig holes when I was a kid. It made some of the other kids with their plastic shovels quite jealous, because my steel tools (scrap metal) didn’t break like their toys😆
I always liked rebar! It was super tough and heavy for the size! =)
ScoutCrafter It would always rust like crazy!
Harbor Freight sells a 1lb coil of stainless wire at a fair price. Comes in a cool blue dispenser too.
One of the top best videos.
That clamping system with related jig is pure genius that only Scout Crafter could show to us!!!
👍👍👍
Thanks Pasquale!
My dad always had some bailing wire in the garage! I can’t even count how many times I’ve used it. I have a roll at all times! It’s like duct tape!
"When people use to park in my driveway, I use to take their antenna." LOL.
Scout you amaze me with the knowledge and the things you know. Your like the handyman encyclopedia. Great job on the hammer. And one service man to another. Thank you for your service my friend!!
Thanks so much Thomas!!!!
One my best finds ever is a blue cable drum of galvanised soft iron wire. 18 gauge? It's on permanent standby in the garage and I use short lengths all the time for everything. Hanging a painted item to dry, tying nuts and washers back on to whatever they came off. A decent skein of it in the car to tie up an exhaust if needed etc etc. Been there 25 years now still got about a mile left! And you dead right about that little split in most small shafts
Got to take that if you move!!! =)
Baling wire is so versatile, for holding things together, for the garden, and I double a piece of baling wire to make pipe clips but instead of using the tool you made, just twisting with a pair of pliers does the trick, not professional looking but it holds and gets you out of trouble,
Yes! Tony this was the original tool- clamptitetools.com
Liked your talk on bailing wire. Another use that was used when working on airplanes was safety wiring mount connections for electronic devices. I was in electronics and we used both twenty thousands or 32 thousands wire on all radio mounts to prevent loosening because of vibration. We had a wire twisting tool to twist the wire between the mounting wing nut and the mount itself. As you know you have to position the wire so the mounting nut cannot loosen. There is a backward way to safety wire something. Mostly used safety wire for securing cannon plugs on radio/radar equipment.
I really appreciate this video. My favorite carpenter hammer is a 16oz Plumb with a red wooden handle. I bought it over 40 years ago. Over the years of use it developed a crack in the handle just like your ball peen hammer. I’ve been wondering how I was going to fix it? You just solved my problem! Thanks ScoutCrafter! It well worth watching your videos! I really enjoy each of them!
Wayne, Years ago the old timers always tried to fix before replace... =) Sometimes fixed tools work better!
You are such FUN! What a character and very creative one at that. Love our video and plan to watch more of them if you makem..
Very cool hammer resto, and the best/simple/easiest hose clamping tool on YT.
Happy Veterans Day to you and all . Love that wire clamp tool. Will need to make one. Thanks
Nice wire demo, enjoyed. Great repair and I love those type of hose clamps they work great. Thanks Scout.
Hi Randy. ....I bet you wish you had seen this before you started your cement mixer restoration - just think of the time you could have saved! (lol). From Army to Navy, thank you for your service. ;)
@@johncrable3349 I don't know if I could of bought enough wire.
Hi Scout, first of all thank you for your service. Wire is great stuff ,before duck tape that's what most of us used to bind things together for a temporary /permanent fix , we have a saying, quote, ( it's held together whith spit and baling wire ) meaning a sketchy fix lol. Nice fix on the hammer, I've done the same type of thing whith twine whipping, then soak it all in superglue, it sets like concrete. Best wishes Scout.regards Stuart uk.
Hi Stuart! I learned to tie flys in the scouts, after that I was wrapping all sorts of stuff with thread and twine! =D
Good old baling wire. As far as I know hay bale hooks were designed because of baling wire. I worked a few loads of small round bales baled on the old Allis Chalmers Roto Baler. They were heavy and the wire ripped up your hands quickly especially a kid with uncalloused hands. Baling wire is where the term haywire came from. Rebar wire is handy. Glad you built the clamp rapper.
Hi Philip- You are so right, wire can easily expose tender skin!!!! =)
Once I used baling wire to jumpstart a truck. With bumpers touching ran a few strands of wire between battery posts used a piece of wood to keep wire off metal and it worked fine. Wire got a bit hot.
That hose clamp is a great idea, people's ingenuity amazes me sometimes. Great video!
Thoroughly enjoyed that!! "Make sure you open that crack up good"!! Happy Veterans Day Mate!!☺
805ROADKING 😂😂😂
Hey Devil Dog, hope you had a great day. From one vet to another thanks for your service.
Thanks Mike! This is always a great holiday because they show great movies on TV! =D
Bailing wire for the win! I always keep that stuff around. I want to make one of those wire clamp things. That hammer handle turned out great. Happy Veterans Day John and thank you for your service. Take care.
I have using heavy string to do the same type of handle repairs. After wrapping the string around the handle, I paint the string to bond it all together. That way if the string gets damaged, it does not unwind. That winding tool is neat, I need to make one also.
Boy, are you going to have a fun time packing up all of your stuff when you move to your new home.
LOL I dread it everyday!
Thank You For Your Service, John!
Nice fix Sout looks good, those hose clamp tool are handy to have will get you out of trouble. To all are veterans thank you Merci R22eR.
Your easy to make bailing wire tightening tool is a very simple tool idea that works ! Placing heat shrink tubing over the mechanical wire splice covers any sharp wire ends .
Happy veterans day and happy birthday to the USMC yesterday thanks for the tips on bail wire
Awesome video, really nice clamp idea. The hammer turned out really nice,, I'm going to find an old hammer now to do that. Love the look. Happy Veterans day, thanks for your service pal, SF.
Hello Todd! I was thinking of you while making this video! I thought "I bet Todd has some awesome Bailing wire stories and tips" I'm a city boy but the farmers really know all the tricks! =) Thanks!!!!!!
@@ScoutCrafter Dad and I would use the wire a lot during trapping season too! 70s and 80s furs were going for great prices. Always had "fenceing" wire pieces in the tractor's tool boxes... they were the quick and poor guys cotter pins in a crunch (wagon hitch pins) too.
Saw bailing wire as a kid. Never saw it since. Nice demo on the wire clamp.
Man the hammer came out great I have never seen the wire clamp system before im gonna have to try it myself so many uses I bet great video John happy Veterans Day by the way thank you so much for your service god bless 👍🇳🇿🔧
I grew up in a family that had lots of plasters. In plaster and stucco you use “Tie Wire “ to attach metal lath or edging called Millcore it would come in bails. It was like bailin wire we used it for just about anything even tie loads on to a pickup. Good show
Excellent video. It’s ingenious some of the things you come up with and God bless you, you save everything!!! My father was in the construction industry and he always had cracked wooden handles on his hammers and he used good old black tape. He would have loved watching your videos!! I’ll bet you brought your copper wire to Labretti brothers.
Hi Frank! Black tape is a fine fix for those splits! A few wraps around and the hammer is as good as new! There definitely is a design flaw with that split always happening right there! =)
I do believe that hose clamp thing you made was first developed for the aircraft industry. Great vid. Happy Veterans Day to you sir
David- I first saw the original tool and loved it... clamptitetools.com
That is a nice fix on that hammer. I've replaced handles on multiple ballpein hammers for that same reason.
I just put a spool in my car for the winter months. That same night, A coworker's wheel-well plastic was falling off. I told her, "I can fix that!'
(I was a Hero that night.)☺
Great video, I learned quite a lot, I'm going to try out that clamp someday soon I hope. I hat it when people enter my driveway too, it gave me the best laugh of the day when you showed the antenna's. You are so right about the weekend going fast, so many odd jobs and obligations in those two days. I'm going to keep my head up (with a little help from your videos) the next four days and it will soon be weekend again! :)
Thanks a lot John!
the hose clamp was a great idea but i would've liked to of seen how you did the hammer
Hi Warren, Sorry I was running a bit long... I'll have to show it on another tool! =-D
The wire wrap on the hammer came out nice!
Good practical repair on the hammer with the wire. I suspect you could have used the 17 fence wire more easily (fewer wraps). I have a spool of stainless steel lock wire I use for random things like this. I have had it since I was a kid. I don't remember where I got it, but there is still about half left. Among other uses, I have used it to "sew" broken plastic things back together like a go-cart body, dirt bike fenders, things like that. I bet it would work great for the wire hose clamp set-up. My father has always been involved with aviation, and I think the lock wire is used on special fasteners (like castle nuts) on things that can not come apart in the air. Fun quote: There are OLD pilots. There are BOLD pilots. But there are no OLD, BOLD pilots!
James, The wire I used wrapped on the handle like string, very easy. The 17 Ga. is very hard to wrap easily and requires a lot of pulling force to lay flat on the handle... Kevlar is a great alternative!!!!
Cool😎 love the Sears branded hammer. For most of my life, I've been a Craftsman tools guy and also liked the Sears branded tools when they were made here.
I sure do miss the Sears of yesterday 🙁 Great show as usual. 👍😎🤠
Me too Jim! Their Sear line was still decent quality but without the lifetime warranty and a much lower price! They made some great stuff! =)
Awesome! Thanks, loved your spirit and ingenuity…
Hmm Hose Clamp maker. OK you convinced me. Special Tool # 659 will be on the workbench this afternoon.
Happy Veterans Day to you also...enjoyed the hammer repair.
A handy use for bailing/mechanics wire is for quickly making small one time use tools for delicate work. The wire can be easily flattened on an anvil with a ball peen and then bent, ground or filed to a special shape. For example often just the thing to make a tool to hook or unhook a spring in a small mechanism.
Cheers from NC/USA
They say #9 is very common but stiff!
just take my word for it,...time picks up speed when you're over the hill! I think someone sold me defective calendars,...the pages keep flying off!
That’s funny and you are so right!
70carlton You are so right! 😃👍
What Happens is You're Over the Hill , So You're Going Down the Other Side !
Interesting thing is, my wife and I care for my in-laws chickens and rabbits and they go through bales of hay every month or two and the new hay is wrapped with a heavy nylon cord and we save that cord too and repurpose it as well and I find it lasts many years, even exposed to the elements and never breaks. It’s heavier than the cord you see at the Home Depot that they give to people to tie things to their cars. But even that cord is great too. I always grab dozens of feet of it and even keep hanks of it in my trunk in case I need to tie something down. On RUclips there’s a guy named Vinnys Day Off and he uses it for bushcraft purposes and dragging materials around and it’s very lightweight and durable.
Joe- I bought the box of twine just recently! The same white nylon twine that Home Depot gives away they also sell by the 6000 ft box! =D
Finally something I beat you to! I made the type of tool with the thread and you turn the end to tighten, gets you more working room but more fiddly, great for airline hoses as you handle them at the join, better than jubilee type clamps
I think the preferred wire for these clamps is Stainless Steel... They do work very well!
When you said 3 feet of wire I was thinking 'MILES'. Nice fix, clamps and RED HANDLE! Hi Smiley and CS!
Lewie! LOL I was way off!! I started wrapping and was about 1/3 down and realized I needed more wire! LOL
@@ScoutCrafter There you go, Buddy! Hi to Smiley!
Hi Scout , Baling Wire Looks Good ! Beats the Old Electrical Tape ! 😂 I Used Electrical Tape on One Hammer at Least ! Of Course They Have Those Rubber Pieces for Axes and Sledges ! The Baling Wire Like Lead I Always Used to See On Wire Fences ! Nice and Easy To Undo When You're A Kid !!!
Yes! That soft wire was so easy to undo! LOL What were they thinking? =D
Awesome video as always. I'm so sorry that I missed out on the hammer challenge. I wasn't able to come up with anything and ran out of time. Such as life.
Jesse! This is always a busy time! Looking forward to seeing a roaring fire in that (like) new stove!!!!!
Happy Veterans Day!
It’s just amazing that almost every video you put out lately has to do with some obscure thing that I recently had experience with! When I moved into my house there was a huge bundle of bailing wire in the garage. I use it often for many things. Last week I used some to secure sash chains to the weights for some windows I repaired. And just a few vids ago....you showed a whole mess of sash chain you bought...lol
I'm hoping to show the younger generation all the great stuff so often forgotten! =D
Awesome! Will have to try the hose clamp. Looks like it works well. 👍 I have always liked the ballpeen hammers. 🔨
Me too! Ball Peen are always fun to use!
Scout, Rebar tie wire is pretty much identical to baling wire that you would find on a bale of alfalfa and it's very reasonably priced compared to the shiny "baling" wires that the home improvement stores sell.
As for the clamp tool, who ever figured that out is pretty smart.
Happy Veterans Day John!! What a fantastic episode! This is one of the things about your channel, it doesn't matter what the subject is, you're always able to make it interesting. I had heard about these wire clamps before, don't remember how but I've known them for a while, and when I was about to ask if you thought the Kobalt was better than the Craftsman, BANG! You pull one up! I first saw one on Abom79's channel, they look really handy, I'll try to get my hands on one! Take care!!!
My buddy Steve just bought one at the tool show, I told him he will love it! Really a great tool for cutting all types of stuff! =D
This is the best channel on RUclips, thanks for all the tips and tricks. How do you store your silicone tubes so they don’t harden after use? I stick a nail in the tube but it still hardens. Cheers 🇨🇦
..i have a roll of that wire in the shop,when i was a kid it was always great for tying up a broken exhaust hanger on my old jalopies ..lol..great vid..
Bob Joncas LOL! How many exhaust systems were fixed that way! 😃👍
When I was young, baling wire was suggestive of a quick and dirty repair job. It seems today that duct tape has filled that need. I remember the phrase: "Held together by spit and baling wire".
Yes! Somewhere in there I think was chewing gum too! LOL
Love MMM. I always look forward to it. Great channel and thanks for the kind words on my Wilton vise I emailed you about recently.
I showed my GF and she just loved the color! =D
Good video.I have a number of small rolls of metal wire. Thumbs up !
Thank you for your service, John.
What a neat Mosh! Thanks for sharing this good information and techniques.
Baling twine was a big part of my childhood crafting and woods bumming. It's great stuff, but it's not baling wire. Baling wire was gooooood stuff. The farm I grew up on had transitioned to twine, but there was a new spool of baling wire forgotten under my dad's work bench. Good stuff! I'd come across it in junk heaps and dumps in other farms too, I miss those days.
Great wire project, I use wire for all kinds of stuff after having some leftover on a ag fence project.
On those hammer handles I use JB weld . Amazing stuff . also check out JB epoxy putty .
Thats was very cool scout. Love the wire clamp tool. Could you demonstrate how a simpler tool could be made with out any kind of milling like with hand tools
The only tools I used to make that tool was a hack saw, belt sander, round file and drill press.. The hardest part of that built is drilling a hole in the middle of 1/4" stock... It's so easy to go crooked! =D
@@ScoutCrafter scout i dont wanna speak out of turn. But ive been looking i to hack knives. And they are listed places ive found as cable sheath splitting knife or sheathing cutter knife also youde think they were easier to find almost everywhere i have looked they are out of stock. I guess its my hang up but i cannot shop on those suspect websits ive been checking tool supply houses. I like to talk to the person once i verify its a legit business .anyway i hope you guys all have a fantastic weekend 😀
I wanted to revisit this I forgot why you put that mechanics wire on the handle, and mentioned it recently. I love those Vaughan made ball peens with the ribbed heads.
Can a person use this to secure that rubber boot that seals the drum on Front Load washing machine? The boot is over a foot in diameter and it is held by two clamps.
Cool trick! The last time I tried to buy baling wire it took three different stores before they knew what I was talking about LOL
LOL! That's why I really like Tractor Supply Co. it has all that great stuff!
Very neat.Never have heard of this type of thing.Very useful.thx
Used it and duct tape quite often while working at a steam generating station ( Power Plant ) .Often it was a temporary fix until we had the time and parts to make a permanent repair ..
I bet you have some awesome stories! Working in a steam plant! How awesome is that!?!?
The hose clamp idea is interesting. Glad we didn't have to do those at the foundry. The place was made of air hose. Having to assemble the wire loops and then thread the wire and fixture to tighten it all while standing over red hot castings would have been miserable. The accountants would have loved it, but the maintenance crew wouldn't. 😆😎
Id say you been I a scuffle or two! Wasn't Easley directed in other words. This country's went soft as a grape, nowadays days. Looks like lots of direction coming! Anyway think I'll make one. Appreciate ya man
Liked your style.
wish i could of see the footage of the hammer fix/wire spooling...good stuff
Will Do Tom!
Thank you for your service. Happy Veterans Day.
They use that type of hose clamp a lot in the avaition industry becuase it will never vibrate loose. You would have made an awesome shop teacher.
I never thought of the vibration aspect! Awesome! Thanks!!
I made the same design you made and one just like the ones sold and on that works like a backward pliers that open when you squeeze to stretch the wire that is loop around the tube twice then one twist and remove from the pliers. l use Harbor Freights stainless wire about .032 wire very malleable.
Hi Ed! I think the Stainless wire is a much better choice for the hose clamps! I will have to hit HF and get some! Thanks!!!!!!!!
Homemade laundry soap & lubricants and now PVC flutes and Hose clamp tool! Good for a night of insomnia.
any photos of great grandpa etc,...you could give a quick flash of him every time you talk about his vice I would like that,..and I am nearly normal so others probably would like it too,....you are luck to have known them and have souvenirs
Thanks great video and old # 9 wire is a little hard to bend.
Yes! But it really holds stuff great! =)
Ha! I fixed my neighbor's mower throttle with a little wire. Good stuff!
Most don't realize amount of effort wrapping 16' of small wire around anything and yours is neat. Been there done that. I am curious how your anchored the wire ends on the hammer handle fix ? Looks like you poked ends through the wood. If so did you use #40 drill for holes ?
Great episode! That wire tightening tool is great....i gotta make one. Ill have wire wrapped around everything 🤣🤣🤣. Happy Veteran's Day. Cheers
THANK YOU...for sharing. Watched and enjoyed.
Thanks for your service, John!
How did you wrap the hammer wire? It looked like a different method than the hose clamp apparatus.
Hi Joe! Yes! I just wrapped it very close and tight... Single wrap then coated it with epoxy and hit it with the heat gun so the epoxy would not show... =)
One of those close quarter wrenches would have made an attractive handle for your tool.
Looks great and thanks for the lesson. Oh and happy vetrans day!
Hey scout! I noticed you paint a lot of your tools . Could please tell what type of paint your using?? Thanks!
Hi Tyler! My favorite paint is Rustoleum Regal Red! (love that color) however many times like when wanting to stain the hammer handles I just take a little Red enamel paint and wipe it not he handle with a small piece of paper towel! It shows the grain of the wood and looks pleasing! =)
Thanks! And great work!
Hello John. Would you trust that wire fix on a hatchet? Or just replace the handle?
Hi Virginia, It's funny you ask, I have about 30 hatchets- (different from Axes) and the danger is almost always not to the user but the person standing in front of the user! I wouldn't worry about my personal hatchet but couldn't trust a crack for the Scouts, in fact I used to add lanyards to some scout hand axes! =)
Regular house wire (Romex) is one of my favorites.
I love seeing a dumpster in front of a house that is renovating or putting on an addition! Always lots of scraps of wire and such in there!
Really enjoyed this !...
Great video. I have to build on of those tools for me.👍🏻🙂
Happy Birthday yesterday John.
Thanks David! Established 10 November 1775 Tun Tavern, Pa. =)