Always had bailing wire around when I was a kid. My dad was a old farm boy so he used it for everything. You made me wonder were he got it. We lived in town. He always loved auctions or he had a lot of friends that were still farmers so maybe both. It held up a lot of exhaust pipe on my cars when I was a teenager. Thanks for your service.
Great job on the hammer. Learned something new today...Your videos are more valuable that going to college for four years. This is something you can use in real life.
I loved it! That story about salvaging copper from the dump genuinely made me punch the air here watching the video! I love that kind of thing! As a kid I loved digging though any kind of scrap pile/dump for bits of metal to play with, I’ve liked heavy metal stuff for as long as I can remember. I remember taking rebar drops (from the shear) from construction sites around where I lived, and using them to dig holes when I was a kid. It made some of the other kids with their plastic shovels quite jealous, because my steel tools (scrap metal) didn’t break like their toys😆
Saw these tools awhile ago and wanted to build one. Admittedly I like the one piece design that is available better (like at the start of your video), but the design you made is just so simple and easy to do. Amazing also how you keep all that random stuff so organized! Thanks for another educational video! 👏👏👏
My wife buys picture hanging kits and there is always a length of steel braided wire we never use. I use that wire for my old wooden file handles to fix or reinforce. Mr. Pete had something similar a few weeks ago, very cool to make your own tool. Happy Veterans Day everyone.
Scout you amaze me with the knowledge and the things you know. Your like the handyman encyclopedia. Great job on the hammer. And one service man to another. Thank you for your service my friend!!
Hi Randy. ....I bet you wish you had seen this before you started your cement mixer restoration - just think of the time you could have saved! (lol). From Army to Navy, thank you for your service. ;)
I really appreciate this video. My favorite carpenter hammer is a 16oz Plumb with a red wooden handle. I bought it over 40 years ago. Over the years of use it developed a crack in the handle just like your ball peen hammer. I’ve been wondering how I was going to fix it? You just solved my problem! Thanks ScoutCrafter! It well worth watching your videos! I really enjoy each of them!
Awesome video, really nice clamp idea. The hammer turned out really nice,, I'm going to find an old hammer now to do that. Love the look. Happy Veterans day, thanks for your service pal, SF.
Hello Todd! I was thinking of you while making this video! I thought "I bet Todd has some awesome Bailing wire stories and tips" I'm a city boy but the farmers really know all the tricks! =) Thanks!!!!!!
@@ScoutCrafter Dad and I would use the wire a lot during trapping season too! 70s and 80s furs were going for great prices. Always had "fenceing" wire pieces in the tractor's tool boxes... they were the quick and poor guys cotter pins in a crunch (wagon hitch pins) too.
One my best finds ever is a blue cable drum of galvanised soft iron wire. 18 gauge? It's on permanent standby in the garage and I use short lengths all the time for everything. Hanging a painted item to dry, tying nuts and washers back on to whatever they came off. A decent skein of it in the car to tie up an exhaust if needed etc etc. Been there 25 years now still got about a mile left! And you dead right about that little split in most small shafts
Baling wire is so versatile, for holding things together, for the garden, and I double a piece of baling wire to make pipe clips but instead of using the tool you made, just twisting with a pair of pliers does the trick, not professional looking but it holds and gets you out of trouble,
Hi Scout, first of all thank you for your service. Wire is great stuff ,before duck tape that's what most of us used to bind things together for a temporary /permanent fix , we have a saying, quote, ( it's held together whith spit and baling wire ) meaning a sketchy fix lol. Nice fix on the hammer, I've done the same type of thing whith twine whipping, then soak it all in superglue, it sets like concrete. Best wishes Scout.regards Stuart uk.
Liked your talk on bailing wire. Another use that was used when working on airplanes was safety wiring mount connections for electronic devices. I was in electronics and we used both twenty thousands or 32 thousands wire on all radio mounts to prevent loosening because of vibration. We had a wire twisting tool to twist the wire between the mounting wing nut and the mount itself. As you know you have to position the wire so the mounting nut cannot loosen. There is a backward way to safety wire something. Mostly used safety wire for securing cannon plugs on radio/radar equipment.
Excellent video. It’s ingenious some of the things you come up with and God bless you, you save everything!!! My father was in the construction industry and he always had cracked wooden handles on his hammers and he used good old black tape. He would have loved watching your videos!! I’ll bet you brought your copper wire to Labretti brothers.
Hi Frank! Black tape is a fine fix for those splits! A few wraps around and the hammer is as good as new! There definitely is a design flaw with that split always happening right there! =)
I just put a spool in my car for the winter months. That same night, A coworker's wheel-well plastic was falling off. I told her, "I can fix that!' (I was a Hero that night.)☺
Bailing wire for the win! I always keep that stuff around. I want to make one of those wire clamp things. That hammer handle turned out great. Happy Veterans Day John and thank you for your service. Take care.
Cool😎 love the Sears branded hammer. For most of my life, I've been a Craftsman tools guy and also liked the Sears branded tools when they were made here. I sure do miss the Sears of yesterday 🙁 Great show as usual. 👍😎🤠
Awesome video as always. I'm so sorry that I missed out on the hammer challenge. I wasn't able to come up with anything and ran out of time. Such as life.
Good old baling wire. As far as I know hay bale hooks were designed because of baling wire. I worked a few loads of small round bales baled on the old Allis Chalmers Roto Baler. They were heavy and the wire ripped up your hands quickly especially a kid with uncalloused hands. Baling wire is where the term haywire came from. Rebar wire is handy. Glad you built the clamp rapper.
Man the hammer came out great I have never seen the wire clamp system before im gonna have to try it myself so many uses I bet great video John happy Veterans Day by the way thank you so much for your service god bless 👍🇳🇿🔧
Great video, I learned quite a lot, I'm going to try out that clamp someday soon I hope. I hat it when people enter my driveway too, it gave me the best laugh of the day when you showed the antenna's. You are so right about the weekend going fast, so many odd jobs and obligations in those two days. I'm going to keep my head up (with a little help from your videos) the next four days and it will soon be weekend again! :) Thanks a lot John!
I have using heavy string to do the same type of handle repairs. After wrapping the string around the handle, I paint the string to bond it all together. That way if the string gets damaged, it does not unwind. That winding tool is neat, I need to make one also.
I grew up in a family that had lots of plasters. In plaster and stucco you use “Tie Wire “ to attach metal lath or edging called Millcore it would come in bails. It was like bailin wire we used it for just about anything even tie loads on to a pickup. Good show
Finally something I beat you to! I made the type of tool with the thread and you turn the end to tighten, gets you more working room but more fiddly, great for airline hoses as you handle them at the join, better than jubilee type clamps
..i have a roll of that wire in the shop,when i was a kid it was always great for tying up a broken exhaust hanger on my old jalopies ..lol..great vid..
When I was young, baling wire was suggestive of a quick and dirty repair job. It seems today that duct tape has filled that need. I remember the phrase: "Held together by spit and baling wire".
Once I used baling wire to jumpstart a truck. With bumpers touching ran a few strands of wire between battery posts used a piece of wood to keep wire off metal and it worked fine. Wire got a bit hot.
Good practical repair on the hammer with the wire. I suspect you could have used the 17 fence wire more easily (fewer wraps). I have a spool of stainless steel lock wire I use for random things like this. I have had it since I was a kid. I don't remember where I got it, but there is still about half left. Among other uses, I have used it to "sew" broken plastic things back together like a go-cart body, dirt bike fenders, things like that. I bet it would work great for the wire hose clamp set-up. My father has always been involved with aviation, and I think the lock wire is used on special fasteners (like castle nuts) on things that can not come apart in the air. Fun quote: There are OLD pilots. There are BOLD pilots. But there are no OLD, BOLD pilots!
James, The wire I used wrapped on the handle like string, very easy. The 17 Ga. is very hard to wrap easily and requires a lot of pulling force to lay flat on the handle... Kevlar is a great alternative!!!!
Hi Scout , Baling Wire Looks Good ! Beats the Old Electrical Tape ! 😂 I Used Electrical Tape on One Hammer at Least ! Of Course They Have Those Rubber Pieces for Axes and Sledges ! The Baling Wire Like Lead I Always Used to See On Wire Fences ! Nice and Easy To Undo When You're A Kid !!!
This is the best channel on RU-vid, thanks for all the tips and tricks. How do you store your silicone tubes so they don’t harden after use? I stick a nail in the tube but it still hardens. Cheers 🇨🇦
Happy Veterans Day! It’s just amazing that almost every video you put out lately has to do with some obscure thing that I recently had experience with! When I moved into my house there was a huge bundle of bailing wire in the garage. I use it often for many things. Last week I used some to secure sash chains to the weights for some windows I repaired. And just a few vids ago....you showed a whole mess of sash chain you bought...lol
Interesting thing is, my wife and I care for my in-laws chickens and rabbits and they go through bales of hay every month or two and the new hay is wrapped with a heavy nylon cord and we save that cord too and repurpose it as well and I find it lasts many years, even exposed to the elements and never breaks. It’s heavier than the cord you see at the Home Depot that they give to people to tie things to their cars. But even that cord is great too. I always grab dozens of feet of it and even keep hanks of it in my trunk in case I need to tie something down. On RU-vid there’s a guy named Vinnys Day Off and he uses it for bushcraft purposes and dragging materials around and it’s very lightweight and durable.
Your easy to make bailing wire tightening tool is a very simple tool idea that works ! Placing heat shrink tubing over the mechanical wire splice covers any sharp wire ends .
The hose clamp idea is interesting. Glad we didn't have to do those at the foundry. The place was made of air hose. Having to assemble the wire loops and then thread the wire and fixture to tighten it all while standing over red hot castings would have been miserable. The accountants would have loved it, but the maintenance crew wouldn't. 😆😎
Happy Veterans Day John!! What a fantastic episode! This is one of the things about your channel, it doesn't matter what the subject is, you're always able to make it interesting. I had heard about these wire clamps before, don't remember how but I've known them for a while, and when I was about to ask if you thought the Kobalt was better than the Craftsman, BANG! You pull one up! I first saw one on Abom79's channel, they look really handy, I'll try to get my hands on one! Take care!!!
Most don't realize amount of effort wrapping 16' of small wire around anything and yours is neat. Been there done that. I am curious how your anchored the wire ends on the hammer handle fix ? Looks like you poked ends through the wood. If so did you use #40 drill for holes ?
Scout, Rebar tie wire is pretty much identical to baling wire that you would find on a bale of alfalfa and it's very reasonably priced compared to the shiny "baling" wires that the home improvement stores sell. As for the clamp tool, who ever figured that out is pretty smart.
Hi Joe! Yes! I just wrapped it very close and tight... Single wrap then coated it with epoxy and hit it with the heat gun so the epoxy would not show... =)
A handy use for bailing/mechanics wire is for quickly making small one time use tools for delicate work. The wire can be easily flattened on an anvil with a ball peen and then bent, ground or filed to a special shape. For example often just the thing to make a tool to hook or unhook a spring in a small mechanism. Cheers from NC/USA
Can a person use this to secure that rubber boot that seals the drum on Front Load washing machine? The boot is over a foot in diameter and it is held by two clamps.
Man what a great episode scout you knocked this out of the park since that one wooden hammer that was amazing what about doing wooden screwdrivers 🤔 for display only of course hope your back is better :D thanks Scout
Baling twine was a big part of my childhood crafting and woods bumming. It's great stuff, but it's not baling wire. Baling wire was gooooood stuff. The farm I grew up on had transitioned to twine, but there was a new spool of baling wire forgotten under my dad's work bench. Good stuff! I'd come across it in junk heaps and dumps in other farms too, I miss those days.
Thats was very cool scout. Love the wire clamp tool. Could you demonstrate how a simpler tool could be made with out any kind of milling like with hand tools
The only tools I used to make that tool was a hack saw, belt sander, round file and drill press.. The hardest part of that built is drilling a hole in the middle of 1/4" stock... It's so easy to go crooked! =D
@@ScoutCrafter scout i dont wanna speak out of turn. But ive been looking i to hack knives. And they are listed places ive found as cable sheath splitting knife or sheathing cutter knife also youde think they were easier to find almost everywhere i have looked they are out of stock. I guess its my hang up but i cannot shop on those suspect websits ive been checking tool supply houses. I like to talk to the person once i verify its a legit business .anyway i hope you guys all have a fantastic weekend 😀
I wanted to revisit this I forgot why you put that mechanics wire on the handle, and mentioned it recently. I love those Vaughan made ball peens with the ribbed heads.
Hi Virginia, It's funny you ask, I have about 30 hatchets- (different from Axes) and the danger is almost always not to the user but the person standing in front of the user! I wouldn't worry about my personal hatchet but couldn't trust a crack for the Scouts, in fact I used to add lanyards to some scout hand axes! =)
Hi Tyler! My favorite paint is Rustoleum Regal Red! (love that color) however many times like when wanting to stain the hammer handles I just take a little Red enamel paint and wipe it not he handle with a small piece of paper towel! It shows the grain of the wood and looks pleasing! =)
any photos of great grandpa etc,...you could give a quick flash of him every time you talk about his vice I would like that,..and I am nearly normal so others probably would like it too,....you are luck to have known them and have souvenirs
