At the 3 minute mark, Senior can be glimpsed in the background, appearing to shake his head in disbelief and distancing himself from his children's foolishness :)
*You guys need to buy some life insurance. @**10:53** the undercut 12 ton crusher is balanced on three tiers of wood as someone kicks the top tier and supports himself on the top of the wheel. Where I live they'd shut down huge jobsites if they saw something even half that dangerous.*
The way you and your dad value each other's opinion is awesome. I lost my father when I was 20. Still hadn't deserved the right to give my opinion yet hahahaha. But seeing you both work makes me wonder how great of a team my father and I could have been!
Lon, I'm with you there. Dad had me on the smart-end of the tape setting up pole buildings and working the paycheck book (including taxes) when I was 13. Serve the guys a beer and write checks after figuring. Years after his death, still miss him greatly. Squatch and Senior are a formidable pair. Happy for them.
That's my great-grandfather's company. Relatives still live two blocks up the road from where the factory used to reside. East Main is still called Acme Road. We have several wooden "patterns" from the casting shop and quite a few sales brochures. Very cool. Looking forward to sharing your video with my father. Thanks!
I am very happy with the new project on your channel. It's good to see the two of you working together! Greetings to Mr. Senior and to you Squatch253! Greetings from Poland!!! Marcin
The felt cap reproduction is the easy part, welding/brazing up and cutting the eccentric main shaft and flywheels, that will be the interesting part. Brian Block, in Kentucky, has the lathe the size of which, is capable of working on these parts. He might help out in a collaboration? Commercial job shop, OUCH!
@@johndowe7003 yeah, but the bearing cap to hold the Babbitt is missing. That doesn’t look as easy to make. Maybe you could cut a pipe in half and weld on some ears.
@@glennstasse5698 yea that would work , knowing this guy he'll bring out his steel foundry from behind the shed and cast his own flywheels and bearing caps😂
Some of the best moments in life are father and son moments,,,great to see you two enjoying working together,,,,miss my dad,,died in 1984,,was strong as a horse til Parkenson's came...great video!!
That should be fun to use when you get it up and running - and the rock that is crushed can be used as decor/landscaping around some of your future planned areas. Or, it could be sold to fund those areas!
The felt pad lubrication was much like friction journals seen in railroad car practice prior to roller bearings. All of the shaft load was on one side leaving the opposite side for lubrication. Railroad practice used a cotton and wool yarn wad saturated with oil later used woven pads. The felt used the wool for springy quality and cotton for absorbency.
What a wonderful surprise. It is always good to hear from you, but I especially enjoy hearing from senior as I am a senior as well. I am very excited to see the rock crusher come to work. You grow such beautiful rocks! Thank you so much for all your fine work.
Man that thing is massive! Glad is going to a great home! Man is great to watch you and your dad work together as one unit! No bickering or disagreements! Just working well together!👌😎👍great job Squatch and Senior!
Awesome! A friend of mine had a rock crusher he used to bring to shows And crush rocks. It was pretty cool. He passed away a few years ago but it was bought by a member of our Club, One of our friends.
We saw this being hauled in on Rick’s trailer.. been waiting for the story.. Very cool old iron. Amazing the book is still with it. This will be fun to watch you find or make the missing bits, and get her making little stones again.
You need a nice big ACME anvil to go with your jaw crusher. Something tells me you are going to be doing a fair amount of hammering and thrashing on this one. I have an old cart mounted Jeffries 10"x16" jaw crusher/pulverizer all in one unit. Throw a limestone rock in the jaw, and it goes right into the pulverizer to make lime dust. Could also make sand with this unit or just bypass the pulverizer and just have the crusher run stone. Your ACME would look nice on a steel wheel cart. Have fun!
Nice thing, looking forward to see it running again! I hope c-channel on the front where you put the jack on was bent that way from factory...the I-beam cutouts in the base was what I was worrying about, let's hope that the base beams are still straight and parallel, maybe because of their crookedness the whole thing is blocked... Great job so far, had some smiles about Senior's comments... 😂👍👍
Looking forward to the project. And thanks for not giving us the typical headline: "I Bought the Cheapest Rock Crusher on the Internet! Will it Start?!"
Looking forward to the videos of this project. Lots of irons in the fire, but I hope you get started on this project soon. Missing parts, no problem. " So I made a foundry...."
Dont know why, got a chuckle out of "patent applied for" being cast right into the metal like that, really shows you how slow those legal processes are when things like this are being invented/manufactured
Get a big belt, and run it off of 5J 1113, bonus is no undercarriage wear. What kind of jack is that? Some kind of railroad jack? You are going to need a bigger shop crane to horse those big parts around.
Looks like someone has already attempted to move it, considering the bent "C" channel up front. But, with what? A tank? The chain mail thing at the opening may have been to prevent breaking rock from EXITing the crusher. Thanks.
The bearing caps might be kinda hard to find, although if push comes to shoe, then having some made might be the ticket if you can find the specs for such pieces. That aside, what has me thinking of how to get such a thing around. Probably a devoted trailer/cart, I'd think steel wheel like an old prairie tractor. Still though, a nifty piece.
I am so glad you bought it. I was thinking about going to that auction and that is one of the things I liked when I read the list. It will have a great home.
Glad to see you on a new project. I saw a crusher in operation here but it was only crushing limestone for a museum. Hope you can get that one to crush granite boulders.
Great to see new content. Hope you can get crusher going, you have enough rocks for it. Hope you post at least 20-30 min of video each time on crusher , we can wait till you have enough content. Good picture & sound quality. Lookin forward to next crusher episode.
I live in Oregon. I’m sure you know resources for parts if possibly available. However here in the NW there is a great mining equipment company that mnfg parts for crushers. Mbmmco mount baker mining and metal co. A possible resource.
Really interesting piece of historicle equipment there. I've absolutely no doubt that your going to get it restored to working condition and put it to work on the farm turnin' rocks into gravel. Thanks for some entertainment with your Dad there assisting Sir.
Very interesting. We used to have a gravel screen with a Wisconsin engine, it's was loads of fun, always wanted a rock crusher, but never got one. Have fun.
You need very large concrete blocks as that sucker will fly off the blocks in two seconds ! Worked on many crushers this needs an adequate foundations there will be lots of vibrations too need an equal and opposite reaction to surprises this !
I bought a good roads rock crusher a few years ago. My crusher was on 1 wheel the other 3 were broke off. It also has bucket elevator on it . Took me a few years to get it working .It is very worn out but it still works. . Got two of them for 850 dollars and sold one. I have it at our tractor show grounds. My crusher weights 5 ton when we put it on the scale. Good luck getting it working
anybody that has as many rocks as you do has need of a rock crusher an I'm sure any part not there you can make this is looking like the perfect project
OK… just found y’all’s channel. The first thing I saw was Squatch and the second I saw was the 253! Washingtonians I expect. Always good to see on here! We are in the cascade foothills and it’s nice to meet y’all!! Definitely a sub
I understand wanting old Caterpillars and Farmalls. Of course, a plow or two and an end loader seem right, too. But, frankly, it never occurred to me to want a rock crusher. Maybe after seeing you do something with this one, I'll get it. In any case, since you wanted one, glad you got it and got it at a right price.
Definitely bought yourself a project very cool old machine I hope you can bring it back to life worse comes to worse you can scrap it and get most of your money back so what the hell
I watched one being fed by a clam shell on another channel it was all steam powered with exception of the Montauk they were loading the cone crusher with steam powering it lots of old iron working there and yes I was thinking of you and your huge rock piles out yonder great video looking forward to what's to come
