Hey Johnathan love all the videos. I miss the hardware store items you show and explain the history. Also miss the one day builds. Your collection is amazing. 😊❤❤❤
not far from you in ellerbe nc is a 4h camp called camp millstone, it has a granite outcrop and there are 13 broken stones that didnt make it. they were mined there
Looks to be a steam capstan or at least the powered part. Some were mounted horizontally, others beneath the decking. Several images available on the net.
NO, you are not paying too much for your engines, NOR do you have too many. As long as you are having fun and are happy, THAT is ALL that matters. Your videos are fun for us and give us entertainment. THANK YOU for all the neat things you buy and share with us👍
The history and the story is great! ( I have two tool boxes that came out of the Chevy plant in Baltimore....years passed and I took them to my storage which was an old Chevy dealership forty years ago.....Now the tool boxes are home ).
Tag grabbers: They'll enjoy them but their kids will throw the tags away. Nonsensical. You have great feelers out to find goodies for the collection and your area seems to be the remaining hotbed for steam engines. So very neat!
I believe boats had a thrust block on the shaft to isolate the blade thrust from the engine. A local marine contractor had a mess of those deck winches like that, for mooring ships with a few even converted to Detroit diesels. The whole yard went for scrap last year they were in business for 98 years I believe, but nobody was willing to pay over scrap for them. I really wanted one but up north in Michigan all scrap for WWII was easily transported on the lakes with most towns having a foundry, so there are no boilers and engines just left sitting.
Heave In and Pay Out is a leftover from the entire sailing ship's crew heaving in lines while singing pulley-hauley chantys. There are a bunch of them built around "heave away" and "haul away". Sailors would have been very excited when this engine, winch, and a donkey boiler was installed.
Jonathan . I am from Akron Ohio . My grandpa worked at the B.F. Goodrich plant in Akron from 1922 until 1964 , I'll bet he knew what that was for . Thanks for saving all that stuff . i dabble old Briggs & Stratton engines myself . I know what you mean about those blasted tag thieves #$%#@#$# .
I was born in Akron, my dad worked at B.F.Goodrich for 45 years. He took me into the downtown plant in the summertime when he was on vacation, to pick up his weekly check. Walking through the old steam plant there was a multitude of different steam engines to run some of the bias cutter lines, & the tube lines. I was fascinated by them then, & am thrilled to see some of the old equipment is still around…..thanks for saving what you can ! Thanks for sharing, too !!😊
Jonathan W you don't have to explain what you spend your money on! And the majority of us subs don't care what or how you spend your money! You earn it so it's your choice period
At least 2 years ago, there was steam still going through the lines at the old BFG plant location in Akron. The stacks were still standing. It is next to the Spaghetti Warehouse. You can hear the steam if you walk the tow path behind the Spaghetti Warehouse. They used to make rubber belts for conveyer belts in the Spaghetti Warehouse building.
Great as usual. Tag removers should have their tags removed. Thanks foe sharing your passion for engineering history which was the opposite of the throw away mindset.
Thanks for posting the video. I like the interesting engines that you buy and get running. Take care of yourself, because as we get older, the heat takes a toll on you sooner. All the best to you and your family.
It is most unusual to see an unfinished stone away from the quarry. They were completed where they were quarried to keep the weight down for transportation. Grist stone is one name, quern stone is another here in Britain.
Probably is a deck wench for loading and unloading cargo dockside. Maybe even used to raise and lower booms. Who knows, could have come of a whaler, to off load barrels of rendered oil. Steam power to operate the capstan. ?? The grist mill stone has special local interest in your area. Most were powered by water wheel.?
Hello Jonathan: that engine looks very similar to a bucket scoop Lift. I saw one at a small mine museum. I hope you can get it identified and back to running condition. Keep cool and keep the videos coming.
Your saving them, so, yeah, being a huge part of their history! I would guess marine winch on that one. Looks very old. Love the unfinished stone, right on brother,,,,,Love,,,DUBS,,,
was you going to say brake there screwdriver looks like it was used till the wheels felloff i love to see this kind of machinery working kept going by guy ,s like you jonnathan i take my hat off to eny one doing 😮🤓✌👍 old time conservation
Very cool. I went in the old goodrich plant in Akron to photograph it right at the start of demolition, there were indeed multiple engines and compressors left.
I'm not sure if what I'm saying is really true but I think probably most younger people aren't too interested in your steam engine videos but I can tell you that for myself and a lot of older folks who have been around many of these engines, they're all apart of the history of the United States of America. Steam is what we had in the beginning and it worked very well.
Everyone reads about these mill stones, but knowing how they are used by knowledge passed down is priceless. You just don't grind all day long with them. You have to keep those grooves and using them wears them down.
When I was growing up in southwestern New Hampshire in the late 40s and early 50s millstones commonly of about 4 foot diameter were a common site because people used them as steps outside their front doors. We unearthed one digging up the drywell into which our kitchen sink drained. The area was first settled in the mid 18th century.
I once came across a nomenclature tag in a mixed lot auction that read Crocker Wheeler,Roebling NJ.I believe it once belonged to a dynamo.I put it on an eBay auction and ended up selling for a crazy amount of money.I would’ve never thought something like that would sell for what it did.Goes to show you things like that are sought after.
I think you are definatly part of the history. Of these engines. How are you fixing the cast. I have seen good results using tig brazing using bronze rod. Id like to try it some day.
Thanks for the ride I always enjoy a trip to the Dinosaur farm. Do you have an idea how they cut the stones. My best guess is hammer & chisel don't know. Thank you four time. Paul
Jonathan I feel that you do not have to justify what or how you decide to spend your own money. You earned it yourself for yourself. Just my 2 cents... oh wait we don't have pennies in Canada anymore so is just my nickel :D
Its been a minute now since I have posted and doubt you would remember me. I look at this types of engines as a doomsday survivor. If everything went to heck in a hand basket, this would still make power for anything you choose to do so. So that said, value is relative to its needs. I know that north Carolina suffers with all kinds of weather conditions, and you have lost power for a long time. I live in alaska where you just don't see steam engines around anymore. I tho have been out of circulation because a long time injury... I still suffer and because of not exercising even tho I felt it hurt too much, am now a cripple from my own stupidity. I loved being a mechanic, fabricator, and fair welder. Too bad my decisions were my own undoing. Wishing you much success in this type of thing as I find it important in a good many instances
U have riden an old steam boat on a chain of lakes in northern Wisconsin. It seems the engine was similar size upright with flywheel on the side like that. The single cylinder. It seems I remember the captain using his foot to help spin flywheel when changing direction maybe I am wrong there.
Hi Jonathan! If it's ok I'd like to talk 'bout the elephant in the room, so to speak. I'm actually stunned that no one else seems to have picked up on it. At round'bout the 2:50 mark, when U start showing us the "Acme" engine, U very casually mentioned "air conditioning". Please excuse the expression but, WTF, Jonathan? Just kidding, obviously, but really, what's up, is that a separate lil' building (hardware store) U've got to work in when it's just too hot in the main shop (long time subscriber here, I 'member the old International pick-up/Chevy frame swap)? I get it, believe me. I'm down here in Central Louisiana where the heat and humidity tend to get a bit oppressive. I'm SO SO grateful for my lil' 900sq.' shop, even tho it looks like a bomb went off in there. I've been hanging onto a 3ton HVAC system for years, God only knows if I'll ever get 'round to puttin' it in.
Yes part of B.F. Goodrich is near Summit world headquarters. Summit is on the north side of the highway and B.F.Goodrich is on the south. My niece lives in Summit, county so we drive by there. AL B.
@@jonathanw4942 There was 2 and a bunch of hit and miss engines that my uncle sent to Mcfaddens. I used the steam engines 30 some years ago. They were on 2 old Ireland hay winches in my grandfather's barns. The winches were originally powered by horse treadmills them as my grandfather phased out the horses and started using a John Deere h in the 30s and 40s he ran the winches off the steam engines and 2 homemade woodboilers he made from 2 old heating heating steam coal boilers that came from NYC. The boilers and engine ran the hay winches on around 60 pounds of pressure so the boilers used very little coal because you didn't have to have a big roaring fire 6-8 shovels of coal went just about all day. I had the boilers up until 2 years ago, I wasn't ever planning on using them ever ago so they went to an antique engine show ground in Gallopville NY where one sits in a barn and the other they use to run an old donkey engine during the show. I still have the 2 hay winches still working a few weeks a year but now ran with electric motors because I still put loose hay in the barns every years but now instead of feeding cows with the loose hat it's fed down hay chutes and into 2 balers when someone orders hay. It's a lot less work and quicker for me to put up loose hay and them bale it out of barn instead of having to stack it on wagons as it's baled and then turn around a handle it 2 more times to get it stacked in barn.
I think I’ll cook me up some grist for breakfast. Dukes of Hazard style! LOL I agree that the BFG markings adds to the story value of that small engine. I wonder what job in the factory it was providing power for?
Jonathan great to see another great video from you you have some interesting stuff to teach us about but please be careful with the heat we and your family need you to stay healthy
I bet many of the tag removers are doing it because it's made from brass or copper and they take them just for scrap weight. One time i was cashing in some pop cans and some aluminum rims there was a box that had a bunch of machinery tags and things in it I was tempted to buy it of the scrapper but I knew they would not sell it because another time I was there someone brought in a whole bunch of solid Brass animals and ornaments and there was a lot and tried to buy it because it was some nice stuff but refused to sell it too me and I could not believe someone would sell a collection of brass animals and ornaments for scrap price it had to be someones collection that died and they did not want t so they sold it to the scrap dealer for peanuts.
