Watch as a man fixes a gate - or does he? Find out now in part 2! If you've enjoyed this video - feel free to buy me a beer via paypal - many thanks to those of you that have already :-) www.paypal.me/MaximusIronthumper
Great stuff, Its the sunday after a week of metal cutting bashing and welding to turn some old surface rusted C section into some girders and a trailer for the allotment. I've watched the racing and settle down to watch how to restore an old wrought iron gate. Sadly my fathers, father was 70 when I was born, he was a by trade a blacksmith and farrier and so by the time I was old enough to learn the trade he had sadly past away. But there is something in the blood and through lots of reading and trying I can fabricate much more than just metals these days. Its still nice to watch a man at his art knowing that the skill that is involved and the technology are still about.
Simply wonderful.. You are a jack of all trades,, when they made you you broke the mold.... Fred dibnah was another that comes to mind... You seem to do most tasks with grace and ease... Maximus you will be knighted one day I'm sure👑
I know this is an old video Max, but Ive done the the Land Rover videos and I like your easy going style, plus I do like watching a skilled man performing a sympathetic restoration of old items. It would have been wonderful to have had a picture of this in place to give even more context to your skills.
I have some decorative wrought Iron on my front porch from the early 1960s. Your video has inspired me to Not try this on my own! LOL WOW so much work. I have found a local place that will do it for me.
Max. The superlative regarding, good, great or even exceptional work is immaterial. The fun for us, the viewers, is enjoying your obvious desire to do "It right" for what it is. Superlatives aside, Fan bl**dy tastic job done there. I know it is no where near as easy as you make it look though I would love to give it a go.
Hello Maximus Just a new subscriber I have just recently found your channel and have been enjoying them very much. always great to see a master craftsmen at work. You have such a broad array of videos it shall keep me going for some time. I am a retired industrial carpenter from Canada retired to Chiang Rai Northern Thailand. Great work on the gate it good for a few more hundred years. good luck and thank you
Inspiring; if only my metal work teacher 60 yrs ago had of explained to me, as you have: I could have been a master craftsman but they didn't have mig welders then! oxyacetylene I was good at, but left school and became drivers mate going and collecting from the scary noisy mills and even scarier women that worked the looms. Reason if you said any thing that upset them your pants would be off and certain part placed in milk bottle, with one of the sat on your chest and showing you something that got you stuck in the milk bottle. Thank God some person invented the milk cartons. IT'S TRUE!
The more I watch this channel, the more I realize u r really super in your mastery of all that is tech!! And also the basics!! Thank u for sharing with us your great knowledge and experience.
superb work, a pic of before and after to finish would be good I nicked back to the previous to remind myself of how it looked you've done a great job there.... pretty impressive !
@@UhhhhOhhh It wouldn't be an original antique period gate that the owner wanted when this one was restored and I'd bet 800 wouldn't buy you a new English made hand crafted gate like this either. I helped out a blacksmith in school holidays and when I left school, when i lived in wales that made stuff like this from scratch 30 years ago. His work wasn't cheap back then, and there probably aren't as many guys still doing it either, he died a year or 2 back in his 80's. His son still has the business but I don't know if he carried on the old mans traditional blacksmiths crafts like this, or if he just does steel buildings and machinery repairs like when I worked there.
I have enjoyed both the gate vids. I am currently spending my spare time stitching replacement cills and floor under my old rover which is spark, wiggle, stop move along , repeat & do it again stitch type working. To watch someone working on some decent metal where a decent prolonged arc is used has been strangely pleasing. The customer has to be pleased with that result, a couple of months of weathering, Lovely job.
I also subscribe to Cruising The Cut. And on there, the guy visited a small workshop in the Midlands which still produce the Lock Gates using all the same Victorian methods, and in many instances tools too. The gates should last well into the next century. So when the Boss isn't looking , these guys stamped their names on a side that would only be revealed during a restoration. I suggest you do the same, and somewhere stamp your signature on the pieces you may create. For 18 yrs l handmade bricks at the Godlingston Works in Swanage. And for about 9 months of the year, a bead of sweat would form on my forehead/ eyebrows, roll down my nose , and drop onto each bricks struck face l had just cut with a bow wire. To this day l still feel proud of this. I went on to live in a block of flats made of Swanage Brick, in Swanage ,because it was deemed to be in a Conservation Area. My hope is that being a Conservation Area, many years from now , someone who may not even be born yet, will one day research this for local history's sake. And they will discover that someone born in Swanage, worked at the local Brickworks, made those bricks with his hands, and also lived in one of those flats too, at the same time. And if he was to join all the dots up he will see exactly what it took to work there.
Why would ANYONE give you a Thumbs Down - (Weirdos). Super project, well explained, filmed and edited and I am somewhat jealous of your skills. What is your background - Engineering, Machinist, Welder or Self Taught?
Great video as always, thanks for taking the time to show us. You have a good skill for making things work, no matter the odds. When i win the lottery i'm going to buy you a shiny new arc welder of your choice, that two-stroke unit is just crazy, i can't imagine what it's like to use all day. I keep expecting a small scooter to drive through the workshop.
Thank you for posting! I’ve been looking forward to this on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Love the channel & your work. You certainly are a man of much knowledge.
I love watching these videos. Great skills, huge patience and Max I T has a great voice for narration/commentary. Thanks Maestro. I sent the video link to my Mom in Evesham. I am in New Zealand. Mom's Dad worked with steel at Neale's Foundry in Smethwick from the age of 14, to raise his orphaned siblings, until a fire destroyed the factory. Grandad would have loved your videos. Thank you for your inspiration and expertise. You are a good egg, Sir. Hope you and family are thriving during a very hot Summer. Best wishes Mate.
Another fascinating project to watch. I think finding your channel has given me more enjoyment this past year than anything else on RU-vid. Looking forward to that story for another day
Very well done again. Looks really nice. Would have loved to see it installed. Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health.
Excellent film Max, production and editing is going from strength to strength. I use a good deal of linseed oil paint in my work, and make it myself quickly and easily, I imagine it would work really well as a top coat for this project.
it'd be grammar police really, and every time i see Cibie's profile picture i do cringe a little bit, so i empathise with Ogri but i also sympathise with Cibie, as there is no kind way to correct someone's spelling or grammar, only a kind way to take it.
I am so sorry i make you cringe Mikail, but from all of us here we would like to say a big thank you for a great laugh we have had sharing this around.
It is the notion as well that everyone speaks English as their first language...I am not a native English speaker, and I do make mistakes from time to time because I speak more than one language and the English Grammar is very different from the Swedish. There are more important issues in this world that needs addressing than just using the wrong grammar. I also think until you speak more than one language there is no need to point out errors that may exist. His message was wonderful and true. We are all here because we love his videos!
Thank you Tanja that means a lot, we are all here for Max and we have to deal with this nonsense just not fair. as you say there are far more important things than these people to deal with so lets just ignore them so they can carry on making a fool of them self's. when i think of all these people who leave negative comments to you tubers and not much is said yet i post a polite thank you message to Max and you get hassle very funny the more i think about it. take care Tanja.
Lovely job, always nice to see things being restored rather than scrapped... :) Though I have to say, that generator-welder, the noise that thing makes would drive me potty if I had to use one!!! :S
Very interesting build, I would have thought you would need a load of fancy jigs to make them scroll’s but now I have seen you work I think that I may give this style of work a go. Thank you
Well done that man, considering you didn't use a scrolling tool on your anvil. i was taught bits about blacksmithing in 1980 onwards, as a quarry mechanic taught me with him being a blacksmith as well.
When I'm not pottering around my "Mancave", as can be seen by my many "Fail" vids, I always look forward to your Videos coming out. I wish I could live like you do..Well done that Man.
All too often people see things and put a nominal value on them. This video shows exactly how much value has been put into the gate (let alone what it was worth beforehand). Did you think about using copper sulphate as a base coat? It has the effect of being wet so would flow into all the cracks and also converting any surface rust into an inert substance that will no longer allow rusting to continue! A great video ;0)
