I grew up wandering around my Grandfather's wood shop in Vermont, and marveling at all the well-warn tools lining his walls. I loved figuring out what each tool was used for! We also teased him for his trips to the dump where he'd find old tools that were "just too good to toss out". Thank you for this fascinating visit to little-known tools we "need". :) He also showed me block planes that produced contours that were the trademark of the craftsman.
Here in Oklahoma. We call it a cotton scale. The weights come in different sizes for different weights. The weights are called peas here in southern Oklahoma. I enjoy your channel so much.
8:58 horizontal set. Used in wheel setting. You are correct that it hangs from a chain, however you don’t bash things with it. The flat end is beat up because you hit that end with a hammer after positioning the taper end where you want the force to go. This allows you to drive wheels onto axles, etc. source: 3 generations of railroad engineering
@ sometimes the ballast shifts and the sleepers (aka ties, aka cross-ties) shift the rail. Each railroad would have their own story stick for both laying and maintaining their rail lines. I collect old railroad maintenance tools. If the story sticks shows your off, you’re going to need to get out the tie plug punch, a box of tie plugs, a spike puller, and hammer. After pulling spikes, shifting the rail, plugging any holes where the spikes will be reset, you set the spikes (replaced if too warn) and be on your way
Long time viewer from Bulgaria here. I was pleasantly surprised to see the tesla, it's pretty ubiquitous around the Balkans. It was the go to tool for my grandfather, just because it allowed him to hammer nails and chisel wood with the same instrument. Not the most precise tool but quick and convinient for rough work.
The second item is probably a wheel/ tire gauge, the distance between the center of the rails is 48.5 inches. So that tool would be a go-no-go gauge for train tires and flanges.
I was thinking the same thing, I vaguely remember such an item being mentioned during rail car inspection training about 35 years ago for my job unloading rail cars at my work.
Hey Scott! Thanks for another Great Video, all these tools are very interesting. I like old tools also. I have a scale like the one you have, here in Georgia they were known as "Stillyard Scales". You are correct that it did have a weight. Mine is pear shaped, probably cast iron. It was used on farms in the south to have a quick weight to pay day laborers. It could be used for most anything. in my experience it was most often used for weighing cotton. When I was about 5-6 ? yrs old, my parents who lived through the Great Depression wanted me to have the experience of picking cotton. My Mother sewed me a child-sized "pick sack" and after school and after supper, we went to the only farm in our area which still raised cotton. I was just a kid and didn't really want to pick cotton. We picked until dark. The farmer's stillyard scale hung from his porch roof. He weighed my little sack of cotton and said "15 cents"... wonder of the triple=gauge with the pins might be for checking the wear on train wheels ? Just a thought.
Regarding your Mammoth tusk, I also own somethings that came out of the ground. They're fairly worthless in the UK, but as a bricklayer I've pulled countless Roman coins out of the ground. Chucked loads back that were unrecognisable but have kept, cherished and had dated all the clearer examples. Oldest was dated at AD. 49, six years after the invasion of Britain.
I’m a machinist at University of Alaska. Several times I have cut Mammoth tusk lengthwise so then they can do sampling lengthwise inside the mammoth Tusk, for carbon, nitrogen and strontium, and strontium is interesting because that tells the migration of where the mammoth was living and eating Over its life
Seeing your door closer reminds me of a problem we had in the kitchen of our previous house. one cabinet door, forehead high for my 10 year old daughter, opened into the doorway and was stopped by a fixed wall. That door took her to the floor enough times that I had to come up with a reliable automatic closer. I came up with a cord, fishing weights, a plastic pulley, and gravity to make sure it always closed. My daughter reminded me of it recently, 25 years later.
I believe that square bar with the pins is a gauge for the couplers on rail cars, or like a “go-no go” inspection tool for the wheels. I was a switch man (conductor) for a few years. I could see that fitting in between couplers or over certain wheels of old rail cars. Just a guess though
@@BCVS777 I had a horse years ago who needed a twitch everytime we trimmed his hooves. Used properly they are very effective and do not harm the animal. It places the animals entire attention on the nose. He eventually didn't need it.
Great job. I also love old tools as well as old stuff my grandmother used on the farm. Many aren’t used anymore but I still have them. Great stuff from a buy gone era. Thank you 😊
That is a steelyard scale. I think the original weights were cast iron roughly spherical with a loop to fit over the beam. The one I saw in use the weight was a scrap of pipe with a U shape of wire welded on it. To make it work, the loop portion has to be filed quite sharp and be a very easy fit over the beam. To calibrate, hang known weights and adjust the beam weight with a file. If you measure it carefully, you should be able to work out the ratio for the levers.
what you called a pitch fork we called a grape in Scotland mostly used for forking out cow dung mixed with straw the provide natural food for potatoes to grow in. Ones with more flat rather than square section tines (teeth) were actually used to harvest the potatoes as they lifted rather and pierced the spuds !
@@Mike1941-r8y we had spades like flat shovels for turning over the earth..for potatoes for example you would dig out a trench to plant them in then the earth from the next row was turned over on top of the planted seed potatoes
When I was a kid, a cow wandered off of a neighboring farm and a few of us kids tried to maneuver it back home. After a getting nowhere, one of the dads in the neighborhood came over, stuck his thumb and forefinger in the cow's nostrils and led the cow back home without any struggle. While that showed that fingers do the the job, those nostril pliers probably keep the hands much cleaner. 🙃 In my experience, we'd call that "pitchfork" a manure fork. Our "pitchfork" was much more delicate with only three tines and was used to separate and pitch sections of hay from bales.
I agree, I LOVE old tools. May sound strange but it feels like they have a soul to them sometimes. I also just love the feel and the craftsmanship built into them. Spend a fair amount of time looking for them at yard sales, flea markets and such. Can never seem to have too many, ha ha. I'm guessing at that gauge but it seems like it could be a go - no - go gauge of sorts. Almost like the perfect dimension and the plus and minus tolerance dimension for a part.
Having moved away from Balkans i was missing the teslá on few occasions. Great to see you appreciating its ‘beauty’! To make a weight for the handheld scale just attach known weight at the business end and start adding heavy nuts on the stick starting from the matching marking. Weld them together. To make it short but thick add nuts on top of the nuts. To make it match perfect add smaller nuts. You’ll figure it out. Hope this helps.
I would wager, that last one is a go-no-go gauge for the more common tire sizes in that day. I wish I could go back in time and work in a roundhouse. Absolutely neat.
That old scale is 100% an old, I'd say late 1800s, beam scale. Also known as a cotton scale. You're missing the "pea"; which is the weight used to tell the weight of the thing you're weighing. Still an amazing piece! There's some folks that have taken high def pictures next to a ruler of them if you wanted to re-create the markings! and the "pea" weighs about 2.25 pounds if I remember correctly! Thanks for sharing, love the old tools! I'm also in Oregon! same as my father, both in construction!
As stated the steel gauge is a go no go for railroad gauge . In this day and age we have fancy tape rulers that have the gauge marks on them so they can be recorded . This was especially important in control points and yard switches . Trains on the ground are an expensive call …. Fun fact RR gauge was derived from Roman cart wheel gauge
The thing with the hooks is called Kantar here in Serbia, While we were under the bloody Ottomans, it's unit for measure was Oka. 1 oka was 1,28 kg. There are beautiful examples of Kantars with the ingrained art on it and the cross in the head of the Kantar. Yours is beautiful also... There are still old ladies here on our green markets in Belgrade who use this device very skillfully. Only in kilograms.
It is called a balance scale. It has two different sliding weights for different weights measuring. I can remember my grandfathers had those on there farms.
Center wall of the nose is a "septum" , all those kids with the piercings might not know tools but the know the names of every place you can jam a needle through 😂
I had a friend from the Medford area just give me 2 of those scales, along with some other neat old hand tools. When I started watching this video it made me think of the scales and how they actually worked! Now I know!
I have a complete set of weights for your scale in my shop at home. Came off the farm years ago. I'm no good with computers ,i have a better chance of useing the scale but will try to send you a picture tomorrow when I get off work😮
I would also add they might not be as old as everyone thinks. My family settled here in Nebraska in the 30's. The set I have was used around here even in the 50's you could weigh anything g you wanted anywhere you wanted. Heck my father used it in the 90's the weigh deer he shot. I'm sure someone will send youictures soon if not PM me and I will
Thanks for another great program. My great-grandfather was a machinist/mechanic for probably a railroad roundhouse in Kansas. Unfortunately none of his stuff made it to my generation.
I’m with you brother, tools have been my life. I’m 66 yrs old & God has blessed with the ability to work with my hands all of my career. I don’t take that for granted. Keep up the good work.
Some very cool tools in your collection. I think I’ll have to make one of those square fences. The nose tongs are not fool proof though. I’ve seen an animal tear them right out of their nose. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
Hello, I think that the item from the Round House is a hanging sledge used to upset the ends of the tubes inside a boiler. Each end of those tubes gets hammered over to create a seal for the steam pressure, as the fire roars through the tubes heating the water. Just my guess. Thank you as always you do great work, stay well.
I knew what the nose tongs were when I saw the rope on them. Grew up on a cattle farm, and I'm pretty familiar with using them. Ironically, our bulls were the most cooperative ones. It was the cows that needed the nose tongs!
The scale looks like a steelyard scale I see in the "Dictionary of American Hand Tools". The picture shows a weight hanging from a chain that moves along the arm.
My memory is a bit frazzled because I may have been three or four when my granddad told me and my Dad what that one thing was. The large weight with a loop attached and huge round head and long tail. It was used by the old wagon makers who seldom had help - to knock those hot pins into the tongues and other wagon parts. No way to fit them to a drill and too big to drill by hand. A red hot piece of steel like a railroad spike or larger could be driven through those big logs to make holes for the tongues and whiffletrees on the massive cargo wagons. It burned its way through with a little help from that heavy iron being swung on a chain or heavy rope hung through that loop from a tree or other device rigged to hang it just right. Didn't take ten men - just one ingenious man,, a helper and a lot of sweat. I was fascinated and for such a young child actually listened to most of what granddad said but ... There were other ways it could be used but I forget most of it. It all involved using that hoop to hang it and swing it with.
The tusla is actually a specialality tool it was used in Israel in the early part of the last century for on site ,in the orchard, building of packing crates for citrus produce you would have a bundle of thin slats that you would cut to length with the adze edge then flip it around to hammer the nails at the corners thus making a crate for shipping to market. I have a few of them and was told this by the old folk who used them.
You do realise that a window weight looks exactly like another part ....... it might make her even more uncomfortable! Definitely do not combine the two or yT will be banning you!
I was living with a young lady back in the eighties. We had a bathroom door that wouldn't close by itself. I rigged up a cloth bag with some rocks in it, some cord and a pulley. It was set up so it would close the door softly. I was an over the road truck driver and she was a nurse. While I was out on a load to Milwaukee she did some house cleaning and put that dusty old bag in the washer and laundered it. The bag had been used to carry my parents ashes to the top of a mountain they had climbed the day after they met at a Halloween party in Ogden UT. My dad was a young Lieutenant, fresh out of Marine Corps OCS. My mom was a young co-ed from Lander WY studying nutrition science. I scattered their ashes from the top of the mountain and it got dusty as a result of my actions. I left it that way as a kind of keepsake. My lady friend wanted to know why I was unhappy, and because we trusted each other I let her in on the secret. We didn't wind up married but we are good friends to this day..
I do love old tools, inherited a few from 'up on the farm' in Maine, want to use a few of them, just to see what it was like, but I have no desire to hay an entire field with a scythe, or go ice farming on the lake . . .
A clean room style shop is definitely not my style either. I like to be surrounded by tools that I use, old tools that are worn and used, and materials. That is what gives me inspiration in the shop. Any chance you or anyone else reading this has a link to that hammer? Would love to get one. You can never have enough different types of hammers!
The scale is not a steelyard scale, those have a moveable handle, I do not know what it is called in english though (only swedish) but if you picture search for ’ pyndare ’ you can see what the weights are supposed to look like.
I think the word you wanted was septum. Those weights to close the door reminded me of the South American throwing weapon whose name I can't call t mind!
I believe that scale is called a "sheep scale" or at least thats what my uncles called my grandfathers. My grandfathers is gone, but the weight for the counterbalance was extremely heavy.
Just trying to remember and figure out what looks like a 1/2 scale track guage, If my memory is any good track width is based off of the original wagon trails with a 54-inch inside width of track made by 2 oxen side by side pulling a cart that follows in their foot path. there are two or three different somewhat standard track widths based on that basic 54-inch number also several different top of track profiles. All of this information was presented to me in the early 80's as a factory trained railcar mover technician
I’ve seen a beam scale like that before, and the counterweight looked like an iron bell designed to hang from the detents along the arm. One suggestion is to provide ChatGPT with every detail, including markings, dimensions, and other unique features. With enough information, it might be able to identify the scale’s origin or help you figure out how to replicate the missing counterweight.
Scott while you're correct that the "battering ram" hangs from a chain you are incorrect about its use and you got it backwards, first it's for setting train wheels I can't remember the name but you hit the mushroomed end with a sledge and the tappered end placed against the wheel or whatever you're trying to set. Also the square bar is a go no go gauge for train wheels. Edited for spelling
I’m just a certified arborist but I love tools too I got enough to build a home from the up. Including the plumbing n drywall and electrical ya some or all have a little rust BUT they all get used here and there . Joe
Your 100lb battering ram is exactly that. A swinging monkey. Precurser to the drop hammer. Your railroad gauge at a guess is radii of the drive wheels on a locomtive. An indicator for wear and a limit before replacing the tires. Western loco's wheel diameter's were 40 - 60 inches for freight so maybe ?
Scott, you try and lead a bull with that nose restraint and you are going to get smashed into the ground!! Those used to restrain a bovine's head that is already in a head stanchion. This for doing medical procedures on the head and upper neck. These devices do not maintain constant controlling pressure without hard and secure tie down. Trying to lead with it is impossible, the minute the rope is slackened for a second, the clamp falls out and the rodeo begins. I have worked with cattle for 60 years. Your story is entertaining , but wrong.
That chicken door counter weight looks a little too light to fully close that door. Could probably use a long cylindrical weight in-between the two spherical weights, then it might be perfectly balanced.
That tool that you showed before you went to the task looks like some kind of measuring distance on tracks my son is working for a train novelist he has old steam trains and I noticed that those tracks are much closer than the freight trains we have running across the country so coal mine trains would be a lot smaller and the tracks would be closer I'm wondering if it is a measuring device to make sure your tracks are always consistently at the same distance I am going to ask him about that see if he has something in his shop that is similar to what you have.
In the animal husbandry vein, my grandfather farmed his grandfather's farm in SW Pennsylvania. He raised many different animals, mostly sheep and dairy cattle, but also beef cattle, horses (both draft and riding), hogs (during the depression), chickens for eggs and meat and turkeys. One tool we used while handling certain horses, mostly. while the farrier was working, was a "twitch". It consisted of a piece of oak about 1-1/2" in diameter and about 12" long. The wood had a 1/2" or so hole drilled near one end. A piece of baling twine was fished through the hole and a granny knot secured into a simple loop, about 10'" in diameter. To use the twitch, while standing next to the horses head, you put your hand through the loop and grabbed the horses snout, below the nostrils, above their upper lip. Then you slid the loop up onto the snout and began twisting the wood. The loop would tighten around the horse's snout, causing the horse a certain amount of feeling, which I am sure was pain. While the twitch remained tight, the farrier could do all his work in relative peace. Once the work was complete, the twitch was relaxed and not a mark was left on the horse. Was the twitch humane to use? Most of the horses did not require the use of the twitch. But for the nervous ones, the twitch made the farrier's work pretty routine. Thanks for another good video.
In french its called a " balance romaine" the weight is often atatched in different ways, often a smal square plate or a smal round plate with a round or square hole with smal chain and a cast iron weight
I've got one of those scales but intact with the weight on the long bar. I'll take some pics (have to go find it). Should I send to your channel email?
The nose tongs are more humane than a bloodless castrator. It would be easy to make a counterweight for the beam scale. Hang the scale by it's suspension hook Then take a fishing scale and put it on the beam at the zero mark and then pull down until the scale is balanced. Then note the reading on the fish scale. That's how much the counterweight must weigh. Check it by adding known weights on the hook where the goods would hang, and then move the new counterweight to equalize the balance.. Try making the counterweight with a lump of lead and a screweye.
I grew up wandering around my Grandfather's wood shop in Vermont, and marveling at all the well-warn tools lining his walls. I loved figuring out what each tool was used for! We also teased him for his trips to the dump where he'd find old tools that were "just too good to toss out". Thank you for this fascinating visit to little-known tools we "need". :) He also showed me block planes that produced contours that were the trademark of the craftsman.
Here in Oklahoma. We call it a cotton scale. The weights come in different sizes for different weights. The weights are called peas here in southern Oklahoma. I enjoy your channel so much.
The older I get the more I appreciate old tools! Thanks for sharing Scott!
8:58 horizontal set. Used in wheel setting. You are correct that it hangs from a chain, however you don’t bash things with it. The flat end is beat up because you hit that end with a hammer after positioning the taper end where you want the force to go. This allows you to drive wheels onto axles, etc. source: 3 generations of railroad engineering
That was my guess. I was thinking a hanging drift and something to do with measuring for the track gauge.
@ sometimes the ballast shifts and the sleepers (aka ties, aka cross-ties) shift the rail. Each railroad would have their own story stick for both laying and maintaining their rail lines. I collect old railroad maintenance tools. If the story sticks shows your off, you’re going to need to get out the tie plug punch, a box of tie plugs, a spike puller, and hammer. After pulling spikes, shifting the rail, plugging any holes where the spikes will be reset, you set the spikes (replaced if too warn) and be on your way
Long time viewer from Bulgaria here. I was pleasantly surprised to see the tesla, it's pretty ubiquitous around the Balkans.
It was the go to tool for my grandfather, just because it allowed him to hammer nails and chisel wood with the same instrument. Not the most precise tool but quick and convinient for rough work.
The second item is probably a wheel/ tire gauge, the distance between the center of the rails is 48.5 inches. So that tool would be a go-no-go gauge for train tires and flanges.
I was thinking Go/No Go gauge but did not know the application.
I was thinking the same thing, I vaguely remember such an item being mentioned during rail car inspection training about 35 years ago for my job unloading rail cars at my work.
Hey Scott! Thanks for another Great Video, all these tools are very interesting. I like old tools also. I have a scale like the one you have, here in Georgia they were known as "Stillyard Scales". You are correct that it did have a weight. Mine is pear shaped, probably cast iron. It was used on farms in the south to have a quick weight to pay day laborers. It could be used for most anything. in my experience it was most often used for weighing cotton. When I was about 5-6 ? yrs old, my parents who lived through the Great Depression wanted me to have the experience of picking cotton. My Mother sewed me a child-sized "pick sack" and after school and after supper, we went to the only farm in our area which still raised cotton. I was just a kid and didn't really want to pick cotton. We picked until dark. The farmer's stillyard scale hung from his porch roof. He weighed my little sack of cotton and said "15 cents"... wonder of the triple=gauge with the pins might be for checking the wear on train wheels ? Just a thought.
I totally agree this man could write a book on his life and travels and all the in between
Yea, before America became communist and he mooched off the most productive and efficient time in human history.
Would be great as an audio book. Scott has a radio voice that rivals anyone out there!
Regarding your Mammoth tusk, I also own somethings that came out of the ground. They're fairly worthless in the UK, but as a bricklayer I've pulled countless Roman coins out of the ground. Chucked loads back that were unrecognisable but have kept, cherished and had dated all the clearer examples. Oldest was dated at AD. 49, six years after the invasion of Britain.
Wow, for us in the US, that sounds incredible! I'd love to have even an unrecognizeable one!.....
That door closer really has some balls behind it!
I’m a machinist at University of Alaska.
Several times I have cut Mammoth tusk lengthwise so then they can do sampling lengthwise inside the mammoth Tusk, for carbon, nitrogen and strontium, and strontium is interesting because that tells the migration of where the mammoth was living and eating Over its life
I love to find old "whatcha-ma-call-it tools and items and finding out what they are and how they were used. Thank you for sharing.
Seeing your door closer reminds me of a problem we had in the kitchen of our previous house. one cabinet door, forehead high for my 10 year old daughter, opened into the doorway and was stopped by a fixed wall. That door took her to the floor enough times that I had to come up with a reliable automatic closer. I came up with a cord, fishing weights, a plastic pulley, and gravity to make sure it always closed. My daughter reminded me of it recently, 25 years later.
Great video. I have some of my dad's Crescent tools, Proto, S-K . Priceless to me. I've added more to my collection. Thank you ! 👍
I believe that square bar with the pins is a gauge for the couplers on rail cars, or like a “go-no go” inspection tool for the wheels. I was a switch man (conductor) for a few years. I could see that fitting in between couplers or over certain wheels of old rail cars.
Just a guess though
Those nose tongs are usually called a "twitch". They do work.
I've been tempted to try 'em on a few humans during my lifetime!
A twitch is a similar device but used for restraint in horses. Tongs for cattle, twitch for horse.
@@BCVS777 I had a horse years ago who needed a twitch everytime we trimmed his hooves. Used properly they are very effective and do not harm the animal. It places the animals entire attention on the nose. He eventually didn't need it.
Great job. I also love old tools as well as old stuff my grandmother used on the farm. Many aren’t used anymore but I still have them. Great stuff from a buy gone era. Thank you 😊
Scott, I think the missing counter weight for your scale was in the shape of a pear, made from cast iron/ steel.
That is a steelyard scale. I think the original weights were cast iron roughly spherical with a loop to fit over the beam. The one I saw in use the weight was a scrap of pipe with a U shape of wire welded on it. To make it work, the loop portion has to be filed quite sharp and be a very easy fit over the beam. To calibrate, hang known weights and adjust the beam weight with a file. If you measure it carefully, you should be able to work out the ratio for the levers.
Check Wikipedia for "Steelyard".
A great way to spend 12 minutes on a cold rainy Saturday. 🇺🇸👍
what you called a pitch fork we called a grape in Scotland mostly used for forking out cow dung mixed with straw the provide natural food for potatoes to grow in. Ones with more flat rather than square section tines (teeth) were actually used to harvest the potatoes as they lifted rather and pierced the spuds !
Another thing the fork could be is a “Spading” (spade-ing) fork for digging up the garden to prepare for planting.
@@Mike1941-r8y we had spades like flat shovels for turning over the earth..for potatoes for example you would dig out a trench to plant them in then the earth from the next row was turned over on top of the planted seed potatoes
When I was a kid, a cow wandered off of a neighboring farm and a few of us kids tried to maneuver it back home. After a getting nowhere, one of the dads in the neighborhood came over, stuck his thumb and forefinger in the cow's nostrils and led the cow back home without any struggle. While that showed that fingers do the the job, those nostril pliers probably keep the hands much cleaner. 🙃
In my experience, we'd call that "pitchfork" a manure fork. Our "pitchfork" was much more delicate with only three tines and was used to separate and pitch sections of hay from bales.
I agree, I LOVE old tools. May sound strange but it feels like they have a soul to them sometimes. I also just love the feel and the craftsmanship built into them. Spend a fair amount of time looking for them at yard sales, flea markets and such. Can never seem to have too many, ha ha. I'm guessing at that gauge but it seems like it could be a go - no - go gauge of sorts. Almost like the perfect dimension and the plus and minus tolerance dimension for a part.
Having moved away from Balkans i was missing the teslá on few occasions. Great to see you appreciating its ‘beauty’!
To make a weight for the handheld scale just attach known weight at the business end and start adding heavy nuts on the stick starting from the matching marking. Weld them together. To make it short but thick add nuts on top of the nuts. To make it match perfect add smaller nuts. You’ll figure it out. Hope this helps.
I would wager, that last one is a go-no-go gauge for the more common tire sizes in that day. I wish I could go back in time and work in a roundhouse. Absolutely neat.
That old scale is 100% an old, I'd say late 1800s, beam scale. Also known as a cotton scale. You're missing the "pea"; which is the weight used to tell the weight of the thing you're weighing. Still an amazing piece! There's some folks that have taken high def pictures next to a ruler of them if you wanted to re-create the markings! and the "pea" weighs about 2.25 pounds if I remember correctly! Thanks for sharing, love the old tools! I'm also in Oregon! same as my father, both in construction!
As stated the steel gauge is a go no go for railroad gauge .
In this day and age we have fancy tape rulers that have the gauge marks on them so they can be recorded .
This was especially important in control points and yard switches . Trains on the ground are an expensive call ….
Fun fact RR gauge was derived from Roman cart wheel gauge
The thing with the hooks is called Kantar here in Serbia, While we were under the bloody Ottomans, it's unit for measure was Oka. 1 oka was 1,28 kg. There are beautiful examples of Kantars with the ingrained art on it and the cross in the head of the Kantar. Yours is beautiful also... There are still old ladies here on our green markets in Belgrade who use this device very skillfully. Only in kilograms.
It is called a balance scale. It has two different sliding weights for different weights measuring. I can remember my grandfathers had those on there farms.
Center wall of the nose is a "septum" , all those kids with the piercings might not know tools but the know the names of every place you can jam a needle through 😂
Every time I see a young woman or man with a nose ring I just shake my head in wonder.
@@Mike1941-r8y I often wonder if their friends clip a leash on them.
Outstanding today EC love it
I had a friend from the Medford area just give me 2 of those scales, along with some other neat old hand tools. When I started watching this video it made me think of the scales and how they actually worked! Now I know!
Great video! I’m really into old tools.
Great video! I could sure use a battering ram every so often.
I have a complete set of weights for your scale in my shop at home. Came off the farm years ago. I'm no good with computers ,i have a better chance of useing the scale but will try to send you a picture tomorrow when I get off work😮
I would also add they might not be as old as everyone thinks. My family settled here in Nebraska in the 30's. The set I have was used around here even in the 50's you could weigh anything g you wanted anywhere you wanted. Heck my father used it in the 90's the weigh deer he shot. I'm sure someone will send youictures soon if not PM me and I will
Thanks for another great program. My great-grandfather was a machinist/mechanic for probably a railroad roundhouse in Kansas. Unfortunately none of his stuff made it to my generation.
That scale is called 'steelyard balance'. The weight on it would look just like those fishing weights on the door.
Hi Scott That scales we call it a stillard I have one a bit more modern used it to weigh carcase meat great channel
I’m with you brother, tools have been my life. I’m 66 yrs old & God has blessed with the ability to work with my hands all of my career. I don’t take that for granted. Keep up the good work.
Scott gives us all another 7 reasons to get away from our electronics
square fences have been around a long time. This got forgotten but they are good
Well, at least you don’t have those weights hanging from the back of your truck!
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Some very cool tools in your collection. I think I’ll have to make one of those square fences. The nose tongs are not fool proof though. I’ve seen an animal tear them right out of their nose. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
Hello, I think that the item from the Round House is a hanging sledge used to upset the ends of the tubes inside a boiler. Each end of those tubes gets hammered over to create a seal for the steam pressure, as the fire roars through the tubes heating the water. Just my guess. Thank you as always you do great work, stay well.
I knew what the nose tongs were when I saw the rope on them. Grew up on a cattle farm, and I'm pretty familiar with using them. Ironically, our bulls were the most cooperative ones. It was the cows that needed the nose tongs!
Awesome stuff
I enjoyed that very much
The gauge with multiple lenghts. Just a guess but possibly gauge for wheel roundness?? As always great work.
I'm guessing that gauge was for assembling something with a critical center to center dimension.
Great episode! Thanks.
The scale looks like a steelyard scale I see in the "Dictionary of American Hand Tools". The picture shows a weight hanging from a chain that moves along the arm.
My memory is a bit frazzled because I may have been three or four when my granddad told me and my Dad what that one thing was. The large weight with a loop attached and huge round head and long tail. It was used by the old wagon makers who seldom had help - to knock those hot pins into the tongues and other wagon parts. No way to fit them to a drill and too big to drill by hand. A red hot piece of steel like a railroad spike or larger could be driven through those big logs to make holes for the tongues and whiffletrees on the massive cargo wagons. It burned its way through with a little help from that heavy iron being swung on a chain or heavy rope hung through that loop from a tree or other device rigged to hang it just right. Didn't take ten men - just one ingenious man,, a helper and a lot of sweat. I was fascinated and for such a young child actually listened to most of what granddad said but ... There were other ways it could be used but I forget most of it. It all involved using that hoop to hang it and swing it with.
The tusla is actually a specialality tool it was used in Israel in the early part of the last century for on site ,in the orchard, building of packing crates for citrus produce
you would have a bundle of thin slats that you would cut to length with the adze edge then flip it around to hammer the nails at the corners thus making a crate for shipping to market. I have a few of them and was told this by the old folk who used them.
That Tool, most likely used for setting engage on track inside a switch so the rails are consistent so the train don’t fall off
you should hang a window weight between those two fishing weights. it would work faster, and maybe? she would be more comfortable with it?
You do realise that a window weight looks exactly like another part ....... it might make her even more uncomfortable! Definitely do not combine the two or yT will be banning you!
@totherarf pretty sure that was funny point he was making.
@@stevenschneider7443 Yeah .... but only the bottom half! ;o)
I was living with a young lady back in the eighties. We had a bathroom door that wouldn't close by itself. I rigged up a cloth bag with some rocks in it, some cord and a pulley. It was set up so it would close the door softly. I was an over the road truck driver and she was a nurse. While I was out on a load to Milwaukee she did some house cleaning and put that dusty old bag in the washer and laundered it. The bag had been used to carry my parents ashes to the top of a mountain they had climbed the day after they met at a Halloween party in Ogden UT. My dad was a young Lieutenant, fresh out of Marine Corps OCS. My mom was a young co-ed from Lander WY studying nutrition science. I scattered their ashes from the top of the mountain and it got dusty as a result of my actions. I left it that way as a kind of keepsake. My lady friend wanted to know why I was unhappy, and because we trusted each other I let her in on the secret. We didn't wind up married but we are good friends to this day..
I do love old tools, inherited a few from 'up on the farm' in Maine, want to use a few of them, just to see what it was like, but I have no desire to hay an entire field with a scythe, or go ice farming on the lake . . .
A clean room style shop is definitely not my style either. I like to be surrounded by tools that I use, old tools that are worn and used, and materials. That is what gives me inspiration in the shop.
Any chance you or anyone else reading this has a link to that hammer? Would love to get one. You can never have enough different types of hammers!
The scale is not a steelyard scale, those have a moveable handle, I do not know what it is called in english though (only swedish) but if you picture search for ’ pyndare ’ you can see what the weights are supposed to look like.
I think the word you wanted was septum.
Those weights to close the door reminded me of the South American throwing weapon whose name I can't call t mind!
nice set of door weights
I think your fork is actually a muck fork used for mucking out stalls, primarily dairy stalls.
The person I respect for knowledge of old tools is Graham Blackburn. At least for woodworking tools.
I believe that scale is called a "sheep scale" or at least thats what my uncles called my grandfathers. My grandfathers is gone, but the weight for the counterbalance was extremely heavy.
Scott! Whoever convinced you to start your RUclips journey, please give them a hug and a high five from me. Love what you do
Repeat that for me!
Just trying to remember and figure out what looks like a 1/2 scale track guage, If my memory is any good track width is based off of the original wagon trails with a 54-inch inside width of track made by 2 oxen side by side pulling a cart that follows in their foot path. there are two or three different somewhat standard track widths based on that basic 54-inch number also several different top of track profiles. All of this information was presented to me in the early 80's as a factory trained railcar mover technician
I’ve seen a beam scale like that before, and the counterweight looked like an iron bell designed to hang from the detents along the arm. One suggestion is to provide ChatGPT with every detail, including markings, dimensions, and other unique features. With enough information, it might be able to identify the scale’s origin or help you figure out how to replicate the missing counterweight.
cool stuff
Can you please do a update shop tour and a tour of your tool box in your shop
Nice.
Scott while you're correct that the "battering ram" hangs from a chain you are incorrect about its use and you got it backwards, first it's for setting train wheels I can't remember the name but you hit the mushroomed end with a sledge and the tappered end placed against the wheel or whatever you're trying to set.
Also the square bar is a go no go gauge for train wheels.
Edited for spelling
For me in the south it's not a pitchfork. It's a tater fork. For digging potatoes. Thanks.
I’m just a certified arborist but I love tools too I got enough to build a home from the up. Including the plumbing n drywall and electrical ya some or all have a little rust BUT they all get used here and there .
Joe
my grandfather worked in a roundhouse on the L&N in eastern KY.
We called it a potato fork.
I, too, have an old scale like that mine also are missing the sliding wt.
Mine hangs on my exterior garage wall with a few other old tools
Scott…. Make a counterweight…. Hang 50 pounds… and just add and subtract weight until it levels out… 😊
Your 100lb battering ram is exactly that. A swinging monkey. Precurser to the drop hammer.
Your railroad gauge at a guess is radii of the drive wheels on a locomtive. An indicator for wear and a limit before replacing the tires. Western loco's wheel diameter's were 40 - 60 inches for freight so maybe ?
That is a cotton scale. Used to weigh the pickers sack as thy picked by the pound. My grandparents had several of them.
Scott, you try and lead a bull with that nose restraint and you are going to get smashed into the ground!! Those used to restrain a bovine's head that is already in a head stanchion. This for doing medical procedures on the head and upper neck. These devices do not maintain constant controlling pressure without hard and secure tie down. Trying to lead with it is impossible, the minute the rope is slackened for a second, the clamp falls out and the rodeo begins. I have worked with cattle for 60 years. Your story is entertaining , but wrong.
Holy smokes! Of course you are right! Thank you so much! I should have talked to Cy Swan about this before I made that video!
Those scales are called a steel yard here🇬🇧 pre 1900
When you find out what the last measuring device was used for please post an update
Either a cotton or tobacco scales
I don't know exactly what your unidentified tool is but taking a guess I would say it is some sort of go-no go gage. What for, who knows.
That chicken door counter weight looks a little too light to fully close that door. Could probably use a long cylindrical weight in-between the two spherical weights, then it might be perfectly balanced.
That tool that you showed before you went to the task looks like some kind of measuring distance on tracks my son is working for a train novelist he has old steam trains and I noticed that those tracks are much closer than the freight trains we have running across the country so coal mine trains would be a lot smaller and the tracks would be closer I'm wondering if it is a measuring device to make sure your tracks are always consistently at the same distance I am going to ask him about that see if he has something in his shop that is similar to what you have.
A beam scale.
In the animal husbandry vein, my grandfather farmed his grandfather's farm in SW Pennsylvania. He raised many different animals, mostly sheep and dairy cattle, but also beef cattle, horses (both draft and riding), hogs (during the depression), chickens for eggs and meat and turkeys.
One tool we used while handling certain horses, mostly. while the farrier was working, was a "twitch". It consisted of a piece of oak about 1-1/2" in diameter and about 12" long. The wood had a 1/2" or so hole drilled near one end. A piece of baling twine was fished through the hole and a granny knot secured into a simple loop, about 10'" in diameter.
To use the twitch, while standing next to the horses head, you put your hand through the loop and grabbed the horses snout, below the nostrils, above their upper lip. Then you slid the loop up onto the snout and began twisting the wood. The loop would tighten around the horse's snout, causing the horse a certain amount of feeling, which I am sure was pain. While the twitch remained tight, the farrier could do all his work in relative peace. Once the work was complete, the twitch was relaxed and not a mark was left on the horse.
Was the twitch humane to use? Most of the horses did not require the use of the twitch. But for the nervous ones, the twitch made the farrier's work pretty routine.
Thanks for another good video.
In french its called a " balance romaine" the weight is often atatched in different ways, often a smal square plate or a smal round plate with a round or square hole with smal chain and a cast iron weight
The top of the square opening in the square weight is angled to a point on the lower edge
4:50 the concretejungle babys that say anything else are free to travel to pamplona spain and be in run of the bull ^_^
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The patina of use 👈
I held a lot of bulls by the nose as dad turned them into steers.
What kind of button down t-shirt are you wearing in your logger pants video ? And where can I buy them ? Thank you
I've got one of those scales but intact with the weight on the long bar. I'll take some pics (have to go find it). Should I send to your channel email?
The nose tongs are more humane than a bloodless castrator.
It would be easy to make a counterweight for the beam scale. Hang the scale by it's suspension hook Then take a fishing scale and put it on the beam at the zero mark and then pull down until the scale is balanced. Then note the reading on the fish scale. That's how much the counterweight must weigh. Check it by adding known weights on the hook where the goods would hang, and then move the new counterweight to equalize the balance.. Try making the counterweight with a lump of lead and a screweye.
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The issue is they need to be made of brass.
Hi is there a particular way to post a picture in the comments section ,we do have a scale with the original weight on it as you ask for
This tesla is from Bulgaria :)