Antique Drag Saw [Restoration] - Part 1: Problem Solving 

Wow thank you so much!

I'm also impressed you typed this all and didn't have to edit anything. Good job.

@@HandToolRescue No..Thank You HTR for providing such good watchable and enjoyable content, you never fail to impress.

Well said. It’s always worth waiting for the next project. (Expect HTR to slip you a nice bonus)

This is the best possible way one could word it. But I have something to add to this statement. HTR i do have to point out that you have been doing well to slip in small jokes here and there were other tubers would have made it feel out of place so well done sir

I have lived in Miami county since 1996. I went to college in Ottawa, KS. I would love to know where in Ottawa these things were built and if the old factory building is still there.

Haha, I am only narrating for this tool.

He saves that for Patreon.

some sickle mowers use wood, still sell them at our farm store

Andrea B yep my sickle mower for my farmall cub has wood, you sell online? I could make one but I have zero time

Agreed, it was an early safty feature to keep the machine from tearing itself apart in case of a stoppage.

He guessed that right in the video.

Just like the soft aluminum key in a lawnmower flywheel. When you hit a stump with the blade, you shear that key off, instead of breaking the flywheel.

No, no, I watch his videos not only because I can learn something but there is something about the silence of no talking where all you hear is hand tool rescue’s work, whether the pounding, the hammering the turning etc….. it just seems to have a soothing effect

I like the silent ones better.😁🇳🇱

I think that is the reason for the wooden part, when I was a kid helping on my grandparent’s farm mow hay with an old style cyclebar mowing machine they had a wooden pitman arm that transferred the power to the fingers that did the cutting , like a pair of hair clippers. It would break if you hit something that couldn’t be cut, it kept from breaking the cutting teeth off.

@@johnpierce1720 we still have one with Massey Ferguson 35. Had to replace wooden bar when someone had tossed iron wire to bush and it snapped. Also had to replace 2 blades, but nothing major

something i learnt recently, things with designed fail points are much better than ones without, (in the sense that if the thing breaks, it'll break on a replaceable part, rather than destroying something unreplaceable. like an accessory belt on a car, if the accessory seizes up, the belt breaks, and not the brackets, bearings or the internals, sure you could have a steel belt/chain, and never have your belt snap, but something else certainly will in its place

What is being described for sickle bars we called ‘Pittman arms’, and prevented breaking the sickle components. Always had a spare made on hand, as they always seemed to break when you were trying to get the field cut before rain.

Well even workin a steam train, I never knew it was called a pitman arm. I heard the term but after 25yrs, I finally know what it is. Things fail, if you can control that failure, youre ahead of the game

Mustie1 I love seeing one of my favorite RU-vidrs comment on another of my favorite RU-vidrs videos.

Thanks! It shall live.

@@HandToolRescue А ты на русском не умеешь говорить)?

@@kotborka I doubt he knows Russian cyrillic.

@@rverro8478 there is always google translation, if you want know all commands.............. i love it, it opens complete internet, and there ways to let it translate complete automatic, had intrest in something in spain , so you can look also on spanisch sites, of if you love chinees of from japan, , al you need is translator, here there can say whatever there want, but so you can look on a local newssite as example , withouw you need learn chinees or russia, ............... else is "A said to hear from B that C was xxx... and know for sure dat "D" was there and E.........................and at end you still not know who tell the truth of them all but use you a translator, you can say" the local news said.........xxx and you have more , that a know from b that c .............. once you know how to translate you no longer need to trust elite that there tell you wat really happens , you look direct to there sites, ........ you can even make a translated youtube from site from there and no "a b c d story where al sais "i told the truth it where the others that now you can say, here is local news and all lied.......... or so and so you can see also what sites can be trusted to translate what there really said, its like the so " true" story, but " changed in a love story.............. as example, in orginal king arthur, there was no queen guinivere, of "camelot" ......... so there was no cheating wife that betray the king ......... there so much crap that none know, but translation is same, is as go to a museum to look orginal text and it not maters if it is un rusia or latin, you make your translation and meaning of it, and none tell you a lose translation to "keep story intresting, to find out , nothing what was said is in the story......... you see so you know all members , and not only your enlisch followers

Lol!

Braizeception

Yo, dawg, I heard you liked brazing so...

"Yo Dawg" I heard you liked Brazing Bronze Blazed Brozne....."

It sounded clear as mud to me 😂

Ikr lol.

When I am sad I watch his intro and I feel so much better.😄

Agreed! He should mention narratives under his patreon link!

@@rosemarshall1219 reminds me of 8bit guy I think same track

Defs not same track on 8Bit. But the into is the best, true that :D

@@LordPrecision Wasn't there a case where they found code in the chipset of a drill (i'm saying drill, but it's been a while so i don't remember what exactly it was, cordless hand tool, anyways)that would "disable" the battery after a certain number of uses?

Yes, but the clutch also slipped when the saw binds for safety.

my guess would be weight savings. Replacing this piece of wood with metal of the same bending/shear strength would significantly increase the weight of the piece. This would then need to be counterbalanced with larger weights to offset vibrations etc. In the end it would significantly increase the weight of the machine without providing much benefit to improve the overal functionality. We also have to keep manufacturing abilities and capabilits of the 1920ies in mind when this machine was made and cutting a price of wood was simply easier and a lot more cost effective than fabricating a piece of metal.

I think it would also absorb any shocks and smooth out the stroke. Plus field replaceable.

@@silentepsilon888 That was my thoughts. That would be big heavy piece of metal flying around otherwise.

Only took 3 years!

My thoughts exactly you beat me to it because you got the video 24 hours before I did

Doug MacLean. Thanks Doug, that’s a great tip that I will use from now on. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺

Cool tip.

Funny you should mention good old "soap and water". I was installing cabinets at a veterinary office. We use permanent marker on the laminate and clean it off with lacquer thinner. We clean EVERYTHING with lacquer thinner. Lol. There was a brown stain on the white melamine inside that I scrubbed, and scrubbed until I broke a sweat, with little results. My boss, Mr Experience, starts chuckling at me and tells me to get soap and water. Wiped of effortlessly. A bottle of Dawn now resides in my shop chemical cabinet. He watched me scrub, hard, for 10 minutes. Some days being the greenhorn sucks.

Soap is a surfactant & so is wd-40 & diesel. All will work for cleaning

Automatic transmission fluid also works well. Highly detergent, and stuff doesn't rust immediately after cleaning.

It's borderline blasphemy.

@@HandToolRescue HERESY! BURN THE WITCH!

Wait.. so it's not from Ottawa, Ontario?

@@MiFFiL that's what i thought, too.

it's GLORIOUS. Absolutely GLORIOUS

Thanks!

Honestly I figured he was maybe from another country and didn't speak good English but I'm surprisingly impressed by the quality of the narration so I think I'll become a patron

and a very calming voice at that

Those titans are awesome. Almost looks like a steam engine with the barrel radiator.

Sounds like you're talking about treadle bicycles? Technically they have treadles, not pedals.

@@mattgies Well, yes, but the part in question is similar in function.

You can breathe

Akella socially distant pile of garbage on the floor is narrating.

@@MarquisDeSang op een beetje beetje beetje 🤏🤏 pppppppppppppppppp

@@MarquisDeSang ñpintura nbn

@@daniloschell2949 stroke?

We use a fluid film spray for the atvs and dirt bikes we tear apart

You can also pack it with grease

Glad to help!

Aw

Unpredictable 😂😂

SURPRISE!

He has a really nice and calm voice. I hope it's OK to say it 😁

Only if you pay him!

😂😂😂😂😂