RESCUING OLD IRON ~ Two Anvils & a Flat Belt Pedestal Grinder ~ Episode 2 ~ The Abandoned Dairy Farm
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In this episode, we'll head to The Abandoned Dairy Farm as well as another quick stop, and see if anything is still left to be found! I'll warn you, this place is a HUGE mess.
Pardon the SHAKY UNSTABLE FOOTAGE at the beginning, I need to get a better camera for getting great footage while I walk around properties like this! If you want to SKIP THE SHAKY FOOTAGE, go to 8:41 in the video ( • RESCUING OLD IRON ~ Tw... !
The big items we rescued are:
305 lb Peter Wright Anvil
157 lb Trenton Anvil
Flat Belt Pedestal Grinder
5 1/2" Leg / Post Vise
The owners have been trying to clean out this place for YEARS, and were glad to sell me the items I found! I only wish there was more I could rescue more, but in reality they need at least 5 full size dumpsters to deal with all the TRASH that has accumulated there!
In this series "Rescuing Old Iron" here at Salvage Workshop, I'll show you where I discover MANY amazing old machines that have been there for 10, 30, or even 100 years! Everything you see me haul back to the workshop has been purchased from the owners, and now has a new lease on life! We'll talk about the history of the places I take you to and have a little fun PICKIN in search of burred treasures!
Do you ever wonder WHERE all the Old Rusty Tools & Machines being restored on RUclips come from? For some, they find them on the Bay, or FB Marketplace, CL, or from friends, but that's always AFTER someone else has already DISCOVERED them!!
I'll take you on an adventure where we'll discover these old tools & machines right where they've been living for a LONG time! If you love machines like these and you enjoy adventures, then I hope you enjoy this new series here at Salvage Workshop!
I am always on the hunt for amazing OLD iron Machines! Finding these gems, & meeting the incredible people along the way that have had them is truly a PASSION of mine!
Join me as I Rescue OLD Iron here in the Midwestern United States!
I'd love to know your thoughts on this adventure!
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For those that are interested, here is a short list of the types of machines I'm always searching for.....(by no means is this a complete list!)
- VISES!! I LOVE vises! Big, Small, Weird, BUT ALWAYS quality OLD ones!
- Metal Working / Machine Shop Machines - Lathes, Shapers, Milling Machines, Grinders, Presses, Metal Cutting Bandsaws, Benders, Brakes, Welders, Drill Presses, & all related tooling!
- Large Woodworking Machines - Bandsaws, Planers, Jointers, Sanders, Shapers, & all related tooling!
- Blacksmithing Tools - Power Hammers, Anvils, Forges, Mandrels, Swage Blocks, Post Vises, and ANYTHING related!
- Print Making Machines - Printing Presses, Old metal or wood type sets, Screw presses, Book binding tools, and related tooling!
- UNIQUE machines that arent seen very often!
Who knows what else we may run into when we're out there Rescuing OLD Cast Iron!
If you're in the Midwestern United States, & you or someone you know has a place with old machines that you'd be interested in showing us here on the channel, please feel free to contact me: SalvageWorkshop@gmail.com I'd Love to speak with you!
If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments, please leave them below!
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Saw that anvil and literally gasped. Find of a lifetime.
You and me BOTH my friend! I NEVER thought I'd come across an anvil like that! I even asked the owners if they had any anvils, and they said no, until I found that one!! I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
On the grinder, there is a special fiber packing that you load with a thin grease/oil then bed the shaft and cap onto it and set the cap pressure. The little loose rings inside are called "Wicking rings", they should have a little sheet metal reservoir underneath them (probably rusted away) that you fill with oil and as the shaft is turning, it with spin the rings around and sling oil up on the top of the packing to keep the shaft lubed and smooth running and lower heat from any friction. We had two of these in the shipyard Blacksmith shop i worked in back in the 70s. You can run them with either an overhead line drive setup or a heavy motor and wide belt underneath and adjust the tracking by adjusting the cap pressure and elevation of the shaft with shims. This is awesome stuff you found and will NEVER be made this well again. Also in the first shed was a rare red Farmall tractor tool box that collectors pay up to $400 for.
I too, could move or pick up anything I could get a hold on. Now, I'm 87 and can't stand straight. Lota pain too. 💔
The pots were indeed for melting lead but were used primarily by plumbers to install "bell & spigot" cast iron sewer pipe. The pipes were slip jointed, an oakum strip was wrapped around the smaller pipe with an opening at the top. The ladles were then used to pour molten lead into the pipe joint. After the lead cooled sufficiently the oakum was removed and then it was packed into a tight seal with a tamping tool. My father was a plumber and I helped him install the sewer line to our house circa 1955 using this method.
Many lost hopes and dreams left behind by someone who clearly wasn't afraid of hard work and blood necessary to try to accomplish them. So much sadness and sorrow emanating from the site you found the first anvil. Much respect to you for seeing the beauty & worth of these once loved & proudly used tools. I'm sure there is a soul resting a little more at peace knowing that at least these few pieces are now in reverent hands & that they and some part of those hopes and dream imbued within them, will live on! Would love to hear about any of the history behind your finds, if you know of any and would be willing to share them. I imagine a good number of your other viewers would love to know as well. Reverence and respect for tools from our past are almost always accompanied by reverence & respect for those who forged & used them, who are no longer with us to tell their tale. :-)
Amen, @Killianwsh
Killianwsh lost hopes and dreams, how true and how sad
Just scavenging anything of worth for himself and doing nothing for the property/community.
@@linmal2242 He paid for it, idiot
At 5:15, the machine you thought was a manure spreader, I think you'll find it was a hay loader. I'm 78, and when I was about 5 or 6, I spend several months of an old farm owned by an elderly couple that worked it with a team of horses. When they did the haying, I'm pretty sure this was hooked behind a wagon, and would pick up the hay and dump it on the wagon. When the wagon was full, it was disconnected and left in the field. The horses pulled the wagon back to the barn. There they were unhooked from the wagon and hooked up the hay fork and they pulled the hay up into the barn,until the wagon was empty. At that point, the whole process was started all over again. I haven't though about that time of my life in years...Thanks
A part of me desperately loves to explore places like this, it's nice to live vicariously through videos. Love your work and videos!
Me too!! It's SO much fun! I'm glad you enjoy! I have more like it planned, so stay tuned! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
My friend, you are remarkable. You find amazing treasures of ''rusty gold'' and I am quite I awe. You found it all, you loaded all of it, then unloaded all of it. And you are still walking upright. Incredible, but now it is time to give yourself a gift. You have the equipment, the material, and the means... to build a gantry hoist for your van. It will save you time in loading to enable you to discover more and ease your unloading. Thus saving your back and perhaps extending your life. And then we get to see more of you.
Oh IDK about remarkable... I'm not the only person capable of all that! I do agree that some sort of a crane or something to load things into the van would be helpful, but it could also get in the way... Maybe I could make one that could use the hitch as a mount... The problem is not when I get home, it's when I'm at places that don't have tools or PEOPLE to help load thing (MOST PLACES)! Although I will say I do know how to properly lift things using my legs, finding better ways to do it is a great idea! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
You might want to make a simple metal ramp for your van, that you can take with you and use in the "field". Maybe add a manual cable system to the van too, to pull things up the ramp. 👍
@@SalvageWorkshop Save your back!!
Look at getting a winch, mount it to the trailer hitch by using tube steel, makes it removeable, Then add a fold away pulley at the top of the van, you will have a removeable snatching system, that also lifts!
When finished, it stows away With your amazing skill sets, it will be a piece of cake. Mine saved my butt, literally many times
My back hurts just watching this. He’ll be in tough shape in 10 years
That's what I say now I'm retired: 10 years ago I pulled out tree, now I look for someone to do it for me, or take my 4x4 with 6Ton winch.
i believe that anvil attachment is an anvil bridge. The Anvil Bridge is designed to make getting into tight corners much easier and is beneficial for splitting and forging hinges and scrolls.
You are exactly right about it being a hardy hole bridge anvil. I use one quite often. I made mine myself. It should be one of the first hardy tools you get. I know people who don't have one and don't believe them to be needed. Once you have one you will never want to give it up. My anvil is only 105 pounds. It's a Columbian cast steel and I've had it about 20 years. I absolutely love it. I'd certainly like to have a larger anvil for my shop but there really isn't anything I can't do with the anvil I have. This little Columbian anvil I can still carry to my truck and take it to our blacksmith club meetings.
I think it's a hold-down, Mark. Lay something on the hardened face, put that 'bridge' over it with the guides over the anvil's face, and hammer the extension into the hardy hole. You'll find hold-downs in use on most good workbenches.
When I was young, I enjoyed searching places like that for art materials. This place is one that I could have spent a month gathering an sizing down things and gone home happy, dirty and full of artistic dreams. Thanks for sharing!
I agree with you! Lot's there that could be repurposed into some AWESOME art! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
It would be worth a trip back. Those old beams are worth a mint.
You obviously keep your horseshoes where the sun don't shine.I have never found an anvil in my life and you find two in a day.WOW !!!! great vid. THX
good thing he's still young, after seeing him wrestle all that steel my hernia and cahonies were hurting!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds rough!
The pins are drill blanks, used to inspect (gage) a drilled or reamed hole. Also often used to line up first hole, when drilling another.
I figured it was something along those lines! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
I worked for a rancher that had what I think was a starter kit for a homestead . He was using the bench vice , like the one you found & the anvil & later while looking for some scrap metal out behind the shop there was the hand crank drill press , the pipe or rod vice like you had , some tongs were in the shop but the forge hand crank blower was out back ! I've seen this set in a 1910 Sears & Roebuck catalog for less than $100 !!!!!! How times have changed ! I've looked for a good anvil for years and saw one In a ranch driveway holding a shop door open , asked if they wanted to get rid of it & he said no , what would hold my door open !!!! :-) thanks for the video and you Damn sure get an A+ for effort !!!!!! :-)
Some Folks have them as an Ornament in their Driveway and won't budge with them for all the Tea in China, due to sentiment..⁉️🤔🤦♂️
It´s really a shame to see the whole farm rotten down, the house, the garage, the barns, everything. What kind of personal tragedy must have happened there that nobody rescued it before it was to late?
I was wondering the same thing, but I do agree, some sort of personal tragedy definitely happened there!
This is what happens when children go to college and get jobs working elsewhere making good money and don’t have time to help on the family farm. Then eventually the parents get too old to take care of the farm. Being that the farm and house etc were bought and paid for over time and not mortgaged there was no bank to take over the property and no reason for the children to have to sell it to pay off debt and the children were elsewhere and didn’t have time to worry about the old houses and stuff and just keep up with the property taxes to hold on to the property they inherited.
I agree... That said. Did you tell the home owner you found those anvils too, and hand over 1000$ more? Or just wave as you went past?🤔 sorry had to ask.
Very good finds, you might want to try and switch the mandrel caps around on the grinder and be carful of the oil rings which appear to be in good shape. I about went crazy over all that barn wood some good material there.. Peace..
I agree on the caps, I need to take another look at those! The oil rings are in GREAT shape! Ya I wanted some of those large beams, but I wasn't prepared to haul it away, and this wasn't the safest place to be cutting things up, so I just decided against it!
Great stuff! I’m having my engineering students watch your videos to appreciate common sense craftsmanship!
Thank you my friend! Never thought my projects were good enough for the classroom, but I appreciate the compliment! In all honesty, I only know enough to be Dangerous, but man am I DANGEROUS! lol...I truly appreciate the support!
Try swapping the to bearing covers, they fitted before so they should still fit if correctly assembled.
Yessir ... my thoughts exactly... could also be the shaft as well... which I was thinking as he was taking things off and not taking better notes where they came from...
@@marktorrey Yes I noticed as well but the shiny shiniest end of the shaft went back in the shiniest end of the bearing housing. Must be the caps I thought?
It looks like the big holes were on the inside best I could tell from the video before you took ther covers off, i agree maybe swaping them around might work.
Awesome anvil score.
That was a loose hay loader to gather mowed hay laid in wind rows on to the wagon, seeing an old farm stead left to ruin breaks my heart, I spent my summers on my grandparents horse powered farm I would never trade those summers for what kids have now.
I didn't know that! It looked to be in pretty good shape! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
was fixing to type the same thing :-)
@@SalvageWorkshop Any Amish in your area, They would kill for that. Not literally.
I have a picture of my Grandfather(died 1938) and Great uncle on a load of hay, with 4 horses up front and the hay loader in back. I also have 2 other pictures of the same hayloader being pulled by Dad's first tractor(a 1947 C Allis Chalmers), one with Mom driving and my Uncle loading, the other with Dad driving and Uncle loading.
Great video! I really enjoyed it. That farm machine you thought was a manure spreader was instead a horse-drawn, (but later tractor-drawn), hay raiser. The hay was in windrows on the ground, you pulled the machine along behind them and all the tines fastened to the wooden "sticks" grabbed the hay and sent it up to the top where it would fall onto a flat-bed trailer and workers would pitch-fork it to the back and top of the trailer-flat-bed...until you got a huge pile laid on. Next you ran it over to a pile of hay on the ground and in the winter fed it to the livestock....or sent it up to the barn...or sent it over to the threshing machine to sort out the grain, wheat or oats, etc... that was part of this harvest. My dad had one or two of these and we still used it into the 50s. Worked swell. He used to farm with horses. Had about 50 of them. We had lots of older machines that were originally horse-drawn.
One morning when I was a little kid, I went into the kitchen for breakfast and dad was sitting at the breakfast table all red in the face and looking the most angry I'd ever seen him. Mom told me to keep my mouth shut. I stood up on a stool 'cause my mom told me to look out to the barn yard. All dad's horses were laying on the ground 'cept for two. (They had died somehow.) The remaining two horse were standing next to each other head to tail. Looked like a two-headed horse, I told my mom. But as I looked, one of the horses fell against the other one beside him and then they both fell to the ground. They died there...the last two of the near 50 he'd had.
Later that day a neighbor came over, dug a big hole in the pasture with a very old Cat and buried all the carcasses of the horses. Bones came up out of the ground the whole time I was growing up on that farm. Hand club with some friends and we call it the "Boney-Woney-Dinosaur Club. " What imaginations we had then....with no tv or cell phones or computers..
The next few days were interesting. Another neighbor came over and sold dad a metal-wheeled squat John Deere tractor of some kind. That is how my dad entered the machine age. We called the new tractor the Frog as it was kinda looking like that. It was one of the original John Deers….it's two cylinder motor made the famous PUT-put-put-put-put...Put-put..etc…. Each cylinder was the size, almost, of a 5 gal. bucket.
Thank you for sharing that ! !
It’s called a bridge, it’s for getting around details and stuff like that so you don’t damage what you’ve already done, I’d love to have a bridge and anvil that nice
I am lucky that in my youth there was a blacksmiths shop where I worked.
Just to watch a blacksmith working with his “striker” was a joy.
It’s sad to see the waste and destruction left at old sites like that. I bet if the people who worked their entire life to build that back in the day were alive today they would be sick.
Even though I enjoy picking through these places, I couldnt agree with you more! That's why I'm out there trying to save what I can!
someone owns this property he is nothing but a crook.
@@crazycat1345 Read the description before throwing out such extreme allegations?
Alcurve Forge he obviously has permission to be in these places. Grow up.
@Alcurve Forge Lol Somebody's jealous or can't read or both me thinks.
That Peter Wright anvil is a real beauty. Great find and glad you rescued this valuable artifact. Put it to work, man!
Nice find! Circa 1910-1925 ish. “England = 1910 +”. PW started adding serial numbers just a few years prior to going out of biz 1930 ish. 👍
I'm from the Netherlands, 31 years, a guy from a different place, but with the same passion as you. I look at your video's and your reactions to rusted metal and i see myself. Same piece of mind!!
The tool in the Wright Anvil (what a Found man, its gorgieus!!) Thats called a bridge or anvil bridge. So there is room for the workpiece (mostley U shaped) to go over and under and work to the decired shape. If there is no place or room to work on the anvil.
I think this bridge also can lock the work piece on the face of the anvil. So a hold down.
Leave the anvil as is please!?! Dont undo time. Whirewheel it and massage it whit oil..
If the leg vice has JB on it, on the left or the right on the legs, then its a John Brooks.. Also from the UK.
Would be a Nice fit.
Greetings Luuk. Keep up the fine work!
AWESOME! I knew I wasn't the only one who loves discovering this old "JUNK"! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
I love old metal antiques. They have such a unique style. What USA was all about back in the day.
I also like the anvils the best. You hit the motherlode of all jackpots finding TWO. I am currently using railroad rails for my grandson and my forge. He's 12 and I am 64 so we are limited as to what we are able to just buy outright. But I think I may have a lead on an anvil because of the location of your find. I recall a couple of farms I loaded hay for two brothers who had two dairy farms in the late 70's. Maybe we can check out them for some goodies. I also have worked in a lot of places in maintenance where they used a LOT of the equipment that you are restoring. I like that you are bringing abandoned equipment back to life. Old Man Andy.
According to the book "Anvils In America", the serial # on the Trenton is from 1909.
AWESOME! I figured someone would know! I need to get my hands on a copy of that book, I've heard good things about it! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
@@SalvageWorkshop My pleasure! The book is a bit pricey but well worth it. Keep on salvaging!
Ask your library to use inter library loan to get it to you. You get 2 weeks to read it. I think the one I read came from Carbondale , Ill.
I've had 3 hernias repaired and 2 lower back surgeries last 1 was a two level fusion. I've always been a slow learner!! I'm in my 70's now so I watch a little closer how I do things. Really like your videos. Please keep it up.... Oh go in to have my left knee replaced next month....right one was done 10yrs ago !! Told you I was a slow learner...... Best wishes to you!!
when you go picking, carry a decent ramp and a come along or set up an electric winch to do the work. You're young now, but trust me busting your back like that will tell on you later.
Aint THAT the truth!
i call them war wounds ! :
@@trevelynbrown4444 yep, you can probably shrug it off now, but later in life it will come back to haunt you with a vengeance.
Gets kinda annoying seeing others bend over/squat/kneel with such ease. I try to plan well for anything at ground level..It takes a few minutes to get down and twice as long to get back up 😕. The joys of aging 😁
@@billbaggins oh yeah... I won't bend over for a penny anymore, a nickel, um well maybe, a dime,... it's a toss up... mostly it's a quarter or more these days.
8:55 Never underestimate a man on a mission!! Does that grinder have Babbitt bearings? I had to laugh when the plywood broke...saw it coming. Bravo, you got it. Found...a lot of hard earned treasure.
Yes the bearings are poured Babbitt, and are in great shape!
That is absolutely sweet. I’ve explored a lot of places like this but never seen one anvil. Let alone two. That first one was a monster. Both are beautiful anvils. The hardy tool on the big one has two purposes. Hold down bar stock mainly flat or as an anvil bridge.
It was TOTALLY unexpected for me too!! Both of them! I have now found 3 anvils like that! The first one (the Anvil Surgery video) was found in an abandoned machine shop I bought, and it was also totally unexpected! You gotta get out and LOOK, they are still out there! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
Salvage Workshop I already have a 70 lb fisher and a 150lb Henry wright so I’m not too worried about finding one but it would be cool that’s for sure
Cannot wait to see the restoration of that Peter Wright! What a find!!
I can't believe you passed up them two good recliners in the back of that old Ford truck!
I know! That brown one looked REALLY nice!!
@@SalvageWorkshop Go back and get those saddles. My oldest little sister used to collect antique saddles and they can be worth mucho dollars.
A little saddle wax and they'd look like new.
There's several online registries for old saddles were you can find out about them.
Maybe some famous old cowboy owned one of them 😎
You need to put a piece of 3/4” plywood down in the back of that van. Would help things slide a little better for easier loading and unloading.
That is not a bad idea! I've been planning to do a few other things to the van to make it better for what I'm using it for! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
Loving this series and style of what goes on "behind the scenes". Looking forward to more videos like this!
Awesome to hear! Ya these things being restored have to come from SOMEWHERE! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
That clamp drill at the end is a Canedy Drilling Machine #422569, patented on March 4th, 1890. The innovation there was having the feed wheel that put pressure on the bit be separate from the hand crank that turned the bit itself. You didn’t have to rely on body weight or muscle to put pressure on the bit. Basically a hand cranked portable drill press.
Canedy also made a bunch of other drill presses and post drills under the Canedy-Otto name.
AWESOME! I knew someone who was wiser than I would recognize it! Definitely a cool tool! I truly appreciate your comment with the info about it, Thank You!
I am reminder of the “ Little engine that Could “ .. and that’s nice 😊
Hi. Great finds you got. That shaft with the flat pulley and pillow bearings looks like it might have been the shaft from a wood saw used to buck firewood to length. We had one when I was young and we used the pulley drive on one of our tractors to power the saw.
I agree, the more I look at it, the more I agree... The side opposite the pulley even has a nut that can be removed to install the saw blade! Good call! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
Great video to watch on this cold winter morning!!! I envy your health and enthusiasm, but happy with my age!!! I think this video will replay itself out in around 50 years. I only hope your property doesn’t fall in disarray like that old farmyard!!!
I wish you all the best and thank you for such a great video!!!
Art
PS: that winch shaft with the gear on the end was for a hay loader that generally was mounted on the side of a barn and used to pull hay up into the hayloft. They were either used with horses or later a tractor!!!
Treasures,treasures,treasures! A great bunch of awesome tools! You are lucky having the chance to go to such kind of places to do your treasure digging! Not many places like these here in Greece..From your treasure collection, I definitely love the anvils, the vise, the hoist( I do remember restoring it) the melting metal stuff( a great hit) the electric drill and most of all that huge belt drive grinder! A jaw dropping tool for me! Being romantic with the steam age I would like to think of it being in a steam powered machinery shop! And of course I'm anxious to see you restoring it! A great perfect find! I also enjoy very much the history searching for each tool ! It's very nice when you are trying to search and find hidden tips trying to explain what they mean and where each tool coming from. What kind of history it carries through all these years of work and then abandoncy..All these tools are in great hands now and they will have more productive history with you as an owner! Great video and as always..many thanks for sharing(and many thanks it was a non cooking one :-) )
You got that right! I love the steam age machines as well, and have thought about setting up a workshop that was completely line shaft driven... not sure if I'd run it on a steam engine, prolly not, they are a lot of work and dont just flip on! I'm glad to have all these tools, and plan to either use them or get them into the hands of those who will also cherish them! As always, thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
So, old Egyptian trick. Put a board under one end. Tilt it up on the board and put one under the other end. Repeat and build up the stacks till you are high enough. Just make sure the stacks are very stable. Two stacks of 20" long 2x6 boards can help lift a heck of a lot. Cheers!
That must have been one of the best feelings in the world finding that anvil #Tremendous
It was an AMAZING feeling! A TRUE discovery for me! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
@@SalvageWorkshop what did you pay them for it?
Never ever tell a young man he can’t because that’s adrenaline in the making! Good job 👍
The first one you showed is for picking up hay. It was towed behind the hay wagon and it was piled up with pick forks. The tines on the bottom are high-grade steel. I have made gaff hooks from them. The chain can be used to saw duct drag for removing sawdust from a sawmill, but you are going to need the gears. Some great find!
I think that the rotten wood that you think is a pulley hub, is actually a half part of the brake system for the spooling operation of the winch pulley spool. Just a thought. Old Man Andy.
That could be! Not a bad thought!
Not sure if anyone has answered your question about the drill, but it looks like a vice used to drill the hole for the spindles in a wagon wheel. A wherlwright's drill press.
What a beast of an anvil! Great find.
Hi just found your channel. I enjoyed your solo struggling van loading lol brought back many memories. I used to do that over 30 years ago. Then I rigged two angle iron rails for a ramp, fitted a winch under the passenger seat and made a trolley. I've moved over half a ton on my own numerous times. It's a lot easier. Great video and great job your doing keeping these old machines and tools alive. Tony
Thank you Tony! I really like the winch mount idea! I'm DEFINITELY going to be adapting that to my needs! If you enjoyed this video, I'll bet you'll enjoy some of my others! Thanks for watching & supporting the channel! Lots more to come!
Man I can’t wait for you to start restoring your finds.
Lucky to find one anvil much less two!!!!!!!!! I need an anvil in my life! That would get me motivated to start building my own blast furnace!!!
Get out there and start asking people you know about them, I'll bet you can find one easier than you might think!
"There it is.... ahhh Baby" - When he saw the anvil
🤣🤣🤣
YEAH BABY!!!
That hammer with the sharp points is a stone masons hammer. Used for dressing stones. Specifically mostly used for dressing the large round grinding stones with the grooves for grain and other crops to make them into powder.
Interesting! I'll prolly never have a need for one, but It'll go with all the other hammer heads I don't need at the moment! Thanks for letting me know!
The barn wall with those pegged mortise and tenon joints. Wow that's the best. I hate all the trash everywhere. GOD bless you brother and keep you safe out there!
I feel guilty drinking my Sunday morning coffee, and watching you work so hard.
I love watching your videos and boy do you ALWAYS show where there's a Will there a Way your totally awesome
Lol... I'm not one to give up, that's for sure! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
I love watching you load up your van. You have the same sort of attitude that I have. Where there's a will there's a way. I still have my 1990 Ford F-150 4x4 and my bed has a bed liner. It makes it so much easier to load and unload the back of my truck. Back when they first started coming out with the spray-in liner I was very tempted to have it done to my truck. After helping a friend move a couple of everything and his bed had that spray-in liner. It made the job so much harder than it needed to be. So whenever a friend asked me to help them pick up something I insist that it is going to be picked up with my own pickup. When I saw you loading your van that brought back all those memories.
I can 100 percent bet you used the smallest hammer that anvil has ever seen or made in its life
Lol... yes I would have to completely agree with THAT!
When I was a kid, way back in the mid 1960s, my friends and I loved playing and looking around in a nearby junk yard.
I just wanted you to know that, man, I just wanted you to know.
Some pretty neat old finds. Going to be awesome to see the life brought back to them. And bless ya, that was one more tough wrestle to get them in the van. Haha!
What a treasure chest that old farm is... and those beams...
On the grinder, I would go back and either try swapping the saddles or look close at the video and see if they are in the wrong spot. I have some similar tools that the sides will not swap.... every location was apparently was machined separately.
Use a snatchblock between wrench and load to guide the load
48:30 a well pulley for use with water bucket on farm water wells. Round grove on the pulley was for about a one inch rope.
I know a skilled blacksmith and when he is forging something he will often make extra taps on an anvil with his hammer to sort of time his strokes.
It makes a very pleasant sort of musical accompaniment to his work.
Love how the sexy music started playing when you found the anvil 😂
The piece of horse drawn equipment around 5:20 is for loading loose hay. You pulled it behind the wagon and ran straddling the winrow. It picked it up and fed it up over the back standards. Nice video and good on you for getting that loaded and home.
Those anvils were a serious nice find!
your enthusiasm, knowledge and willingness to share are very very impressive. needless to say i thoroughly enjoy your vids.
That wood block is a true snatch block. I had them on board our ship in the USN, for fairleading line (rope) across the deck. The hammer with the edges is a stone hammer for facing stone slabs. Good picking day! Regards, Solomon
I have to say I love the entire video first !! WONDERFUL !!! I love when you make videos of your finds !! This is so cool !!! Its just as good as the restorations themselves so important to me to know about a tools past, where it came from , or who used it I will anxiously be waiting for the restoration of theses I really hope you do more of these types of videos just love it keep up the excellent work !!!👍👍
I truly appreciate that! It helps that people are enjoying these videos, I don't really see anyone else showing where all these tools that need restoration are coming from! I LOVE the history of these old tools as well! I will ABSOLUTELY be making more videos like this one, It's a lot of fun and I'm already doing it anyway! The video quality when walking around will get better, I can guarantee that! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
This was my favorite video. Lots of projects for you. I could only dream to see these items
The pedestal grinder has babbit bearings. The ladles are for repouring the bearings. I have poured and scraped babbit bearings for old planers.you might find a tutorial on how to pour the caps and bases. If you don't completely close the blocks the floating rings will pump all of the oil out in a matter of seconds. You will not be able to shim them as you said. Great find. Peter Wright anvils are wonderful. Green with envy!!!lol.
Great haul! That round grain bin at the old dairy farm would make an excellent smithy. I have seen these disassembled, moved and re-assembled and repurposed into a variety of cool outdoor structures.
49.00 That little swivel ladle was used to solder wires for electrical boxes. The old wiring was asphalt insulation with a fabric cover that we call rag wire. They would twist the wires, dip them in solder and tape them with the old friction tape or the old ceramic wire nuts. Replaced a lot of that old stuff.
That Peter Wright was a nice find. Well worth wrestling that big horn into the van.
Agreed! I wasn't leaving without it! Could you tell?
Reality is in most places this would be called criminal trespass and theft as whether the farm is abandon or not it is still private property.
Damn, the saddles where cool. I think someone could do something pretty cool with them, they looked fairly intact.
I agree! It there is one thing I'd go back for it's those saddles and bridles... I think there was even an lasso that I saw when going through my video footage!
I'd think that unless the leather is rotted, the saddles and harness could be rejuvenated. Saddle soap first, then some good oil and wax. Work it slowly to prevent cracks and splits. Rawhide riatas had tallow used on them to keep them supple. Contact a reputable saddle maker for advice. Some old saddles are worth $$$.
I woulda took them 1st but then I'm a horse freak. Bet there were bridles in there somewhere and plow gear.
I salute you for what you do.
A real nice find. I could bet you that their are just tons of great stuff in old run down barns across this great country. You are one lucky fella for sure. The knee vice is just in perfect shape, look at the overall condition. They are really hard to find for sure. Nice job and great muscles too.
I sure hope there are! I intend on finding as many of them as I can! These tools deserve to be brought back to life! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
@@SalvageWorkshop Thank you for showing us all on RUclips with your adventures. Good day.
I saw the particle board ramp fail coming!
I assume you have every tool that has ever been invented (maybe in duplicate or more)....pack a come-along or a winch just to save your back...even a simple tripod, pulley, and chain for lifting. That is some brutal work and brother we do care about you. Best wishes.
O' man, a come-along??? What kind of video would that make? .... However, Salvage Workshop (SW) I have to agree with Dr. Skip here. I too use to be a superman so I worked strong most of my life. Now those feats of strength, pulled tendon, twisted and smashed bones are coming back to byte me. I would never tell you to stop making videos, you have a gift. I'd just say, stay nimble footed and think ahead because it hurts when a superman meets his kryptonite. Be safe work safe.
I fully expected a testicle to roll out of his pants leg at any moment....
@@Fatamus You're absolutely right....I mean he gets a knick, cuts himself, gashes something and throws dirt on it to heal....great video adventures.
@@leeroyholloway4277 As tough and bold as I was in my youth, I understood enough about human anatomy to stop myself before trying to lift anything (including women) weighing 300 lbs.!!
Lol... I have a few tools, yeah! I had a come along with me, you can see it in the milk crate at 10:25, I just didn't see it helping on this one! I have been moving things like this safely for over a decade, but I agree some way to lift things into the van when away from my shop would be worth having... I have a few ideas, we'll see what I decide to go with! I do appreciate the concern, and it's not being ignored, trust me I don't want to get hurt being prideful either! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
you need to get a hitch receiver crane and a heavy duty slider for inside the van. cool vid
That is a great idea.... hmmmmmmmmm
Isn't it amazing what us guys will go through when we find toys we love?
YES, it truly is!
nice finds, and another great video, my back was screaming just watching you lift that stuff, one wrong move is gonna get you for the rest of your life mate, take care
As the kids say I'm super jelly I wish we had as many spots here in AZ like everyone over there has. Awesome as always man!
Outstanding find I use to have both of the vices
Great Haul! When you were talking about your pulleys the one you were calling decorative is a pulley for a water well typically the rope was pulled around it for the bucket that goes down in the well.
This dude loves old stuff...great passion
Great fines my friend! Thank you for taking us alone on your picking adventures, I really enjoy them.
Man am I envious! Around my area an abandoned place like that would have been picked over (long before the roof fell in) and nothing left but bent nails.
This place WAS pretty well picked over, but the garage was packed full and no one had the balls to venture into it! Then I showed up! I'm glad I'm BOLD, never would have found it otherwise!
I once removed tons of debris from an abandoned Civil War-era building that lay atop a 280 pound anvil and a pair of huge wrenches. I learned later that it was a repair depot for steamboats and locomotives.
That is AWESOME!! I Love stuff like that! The history of the place and what was done there makes it even better! Thanks for sharing that!
I admit..i'm too jealous to watch this successfully.....you got a great deal.
Sad to see a place like that. A family’s heart and sole went into building that place. Ashes to ashes dust to dust.
A station (ranch) owner once told me that a horse shoe with nails still in it was an almost sure sign that a horse had not been properly shod.
Apparently this is because normally a well made and fitted shoe should wear out on a hoof it was attached to at which time it would be removed by a farrier when a new shoe was fitted.
So to find a shoe with nails still in it meant that it had probably fallen off prematurely.
I remember showing my Cattleman friend a shoe I found by some old derelict yards that still had nails still in it and him saying "my old man would be farting blue flames if he found a shoe like this because it means the horse wasn't shod properly, he was capable of applying a stock whip to the arse of any man responsible if he found out who it was".
He was a wealth of information regarding how many things you could tell about a horse and what it was used for by various aspects of a shoe incorporated when a farrier fitted it.
I'd of got the tool box that was on the wall above to anvil too
It might be a good thing that we're not neighbors cuz we'd be in a lot of trouble. Funny how determined we get you want to bring something home It's going to get into the back of your vehicle Somehow someway some form of way. Sorry, I laughed a little bit when the plywood broke. The good thing the Plankton break or snap up when you Unloaded the big anvil Thanks for the videos.
Ya that thing was coming home with me, come hell or high water! I'm glad you laughed, I did too, that's why I didn't cut it out of the video! Thanks for watching & commenting! I truly appreciate the support!
Loved watching him drag the anvil right by the dolly
Great finds. Evidence says that at one time that place was a fine operation. Someone tried to hold on to the life they knew way too long.
I agree! It was probably an amazing place in it's day! Would have loved to see it then!
I think that hardy tool on the big anvil is called a bridge, and could have been used to make hinges, or other things that needed a tight angle on them. It's probably made on that same anvil long ago. I found a couple anvils along some railroad tracks in Georgia many years ago, I never want to drag anything that heavy that far ever again. I should have kept them but I knew a guy with more use for them than I had. Maybe I'll find another one that's easier to get someday
I was going to say that same thing lol I bet it is mainly for making steel strapping and hinges and latches etc.. Especially if they were in the horse drawn equipment era they would have used that tool a lot.
Start carrying two loading ramps and 2 farm Jack's 👍The grinder awesome! Ths Vicw superb find👍
I am impressed with your industry. Be well, Tom.