7:00 Wow you've got a lot of stuff to work on. With plenty of time (rain) on your hands. Now lm really good on the B.S. so lm told lol. I admire your equipment assortment you have. Great video my friend. Look forward to future repairs.
Having diversity in our pile of vintage crapola, makes for an interesting hobby, and is also useful, as we use all our old equipment. Thanks for watching and nice comment.
I am glad your channel continues to grow. I look forward to your stories every week. Thanks for letting us know about the other channels. I watch most of them already but there's a couple I didn't know about.
Thanks for sharing Mr Obsolete. I really enjoy your videos. Your explanation for the things you're working on and how they work or straight forwand and easy to understand....👍🤙
My late friend, Mr. Floyd Daniel, of Madison, GA was an expert on those hit and Miss engines. Floyd showed me his collection some 30 years ago, including a demonstration how they worked. He lived right next to my father in Madison. He had a bunch of them and they had all been restored to like new condition. Since I did not know a lot about Hit and Miss engines - I did a lot of nodding and replying “yes” a lot of the time. Compared to the engines that I was used to - these engines were ancient.
Hit and miss engines made work on farms a whole lot easier. Jobs that originally had to be done by hand by a bunch of people could done by a few instead. A big change for the better. These old engines are fascinating to operate and repair/restore.
Thank you for the shout out, I really appreciate it! I always enjoy watching your videos. It seems like I learn something new every time I do. You have shown several hit-and-miss engines on your channel. I enjoy the videos and your detailed explanation on how they work. You may see one in my shop one of these days. Thanks again!
Thanks for the nice comment. Every junk engine collector should have a hit & miss engine in their collection. I used one to run my 22" buzz saw for about a 10 year period. cutting firewood less than 8"'s in diameter. It was much faster than a chainsaw, but had the disadvantage of having to bring the wood to the saw. I cut a cord of wood one time and only used a quart and a half of gas to do it, very economical, and entertaining too !
I agree with your way of thinking! I would love to see your buzz saw run with a hit-and-miss. What a fun way to cut firewood. That said, I can see how bringing the wood to the saw could get old, real quick. It would still be cool to run it every now and again. A cord of wood on a quart and a half of gas is definitely tough to beat. You do have fun, I'll tell ya that!
I quit using my buzzsaw only because the blade got too worn to be sharpened. A neighbor had a BELSAW saw sharpener, who sharpened it every spring. The last time I went over, he said the blade was just too worn out to sharpen anymore. He sold his sharpener and moved shortly thereafter, and that was the end of my buzzsaws adventures. I still have the saw, and I have found a source for a new, but very expensive blade. I will probably have it up and running next fall. I would cut the logs into 6 ft. lengths, cut off the branches and tow them to the saw site with one of my vintage tractors, so I would get some playtime on the old tractors as well. Double fun !
I always look forward to firewood season. If I had your setup, I would have been counting down the days till firewood season. More fun than a barrel of monkeys! I look forward to your upcoming video on the buzzsaw and its new blade!
Getting firewood, mowing the lawn and other chores are just that, chores. But doing the chores with vintage equipment changes these basic jobs into an adventure ! YEAH !!!!!
I saw your Mantis. Mine has already had quite a workout this Spring. It has zero rated my yard and tilled up my garden prior to planting. We have had a cool Springbuild a trellis for the. It took me a while to get my peas and beans in the garden. Some of this delay was my fault and the other was due to all the rain we have gotten this winter and spring. I still need to build a trellis for my peas and beans - Kentucky wonders.
First it was too cold to do my garden work with the Mantis, and now it is too wet, but good weather is just around the corner, and it will get a good workout soon.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 that’s kind of what happened to me. I lost my first 72 compartment seed tray when it got washed out. I finally have beans and peas in the ground and my tomatoes in their big plastic pots.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 my Mantis started on the second pull after a six month hiatus.. I run my standard Stihl fuel in it - 50:1 Stihl ULTRA, ONE GALLON OF PREMIUM, NON ETHANOL GAS AND ONE OUNCE OF FUEL STABILIZER. I ALSO ASRORATED THE YARD WITH MY AEORATION TINES THAT that I HAVE FOR THE MANTIS.
Anything International was usually pretty well made. That little hit and miss probably ran a corn sheller or buck saw, but could be used on anything that was belt drive. John Deere started that no oil change crap, but the idea has hung around for a few years.
IHC made some of the best equipment ever made in the past. My little engine is actually throttle governed. We have a McCormick (IHC) corn sheller that we will demonstrate in a video sometime this summer. As far as no oil changes in power equipment goes, that is one of the dumbest ideas that corporate fools could ever come up with.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 I have always been a Gord man. My father likedIHC but my maternal grandfather was strictly big blue, so I grew up driving a Ford and never changed. With cars my father like Cadillacs utother than that he was IHC.
Ford made some really good tractors. I have a 1918 FORDSON tractor and a 1972 Ford backhoe, and drive an old F350 dually pick up, so Ford's are part of our fleet.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 I will bet that Fordson is hard to start - they all were. My grandfather had a 2N that threw me about ten feet when I was about ten.all of his other tractors were electric start except for the Johnny that he kep around to shell corn and run his buck saw. What is the 72 model, a 3000?
Our Fordson has an upgrade to a real magneto with the impulse coupling and starts easy. The original setup with buzz coils worked fine when in perfect condition, but most were not kept up to snuff and were hard and dangerous to start. My Ford backhoe is a model 5550, based on the 5000 series tractor.
I do not miss the rain in western Washington for sure but i traded rain for hot summers and cold snowy winters! Ive been pondering selling my property here and going back though! Colville is absolutely beautiful and amazing people but the winters are getting old! I watch about 75 percent of the channels you do and am subbed but ill check out the rest. Dan will most likely be here for Tazapolusa again so ill see him there and Richard is awesome. I always used red armor or vp 2 stroke oil that tested excellent but after he did the motorcycle oil i was sold so started using the Belray h1r. Smells better too! Good video as always you really have some sweet stuff theres no doubt! See ya next week!
The rain gets pretty tiresome here in western Washington for sure. I hope to have a better work place set up before next fall so I can get more of my vintage junk fixed and operational over the winter, and can use and display it at some of the shows, and do more videos. Another excellent motorcycle oil is Golden Spectro. We have used it in our vintage dirt bikes for years. It is very expensive compared to red armor, but so far the red armor has worked great in the saws. We like our old junk for sure !
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 back in 79 I had a Yamaha yz 250 and I used golden spectro because bel ray fouled the plug! Definitely good oil bit its not available here in Colville.
Nice shout outs and channel props, that oil you like seems on my end very difficult to find, if i heard you correctly you said bardahl vba oil where do you buy it? seems to be in the UK mostly
Bardahl VBA 2 cycle oil hasn't been sold in the US for a very long time. When they announced that it wasn't going to be available in the US, I bought all the stock that was left in the warehouse in Seattle. This was a very long time ago. The VBA they sell in Europe is a full synthetic I believe, not partial synthetic like the original VBA. ECHO RED ARMOR seems to be a close modern substitute, and have been using it as a replacement with great results.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 yeah i have heard red armor is good, i went with maxima K2 giving that s try dang oil is expensive, the good ones. forgot to mention i have an old compressor pump made by gardner denver in the mid fifties talk about heavy and big i drove three hours to save it from the scrap pile, it looks so cool model ADO 1003 got to love quality vintage
Gardner-Denver, now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time. I used to see that equipment used by the railroads and mining operations. Some of the best stuff made I believe. Good save !
Love The Channel Mr&Mrs Obsolete and The Other Channels You Suggest 😊😀❤️ 😀 I Also Like That Vintage Marvel Mystery Oil Can on Your Bench 👍🏼
Thanks for your nice comments. It would just be wrong to use a plastic bottle of Marvel Mystery Oil.
7:00 Wow you've got a lot of stuff to work on. With plenty of time (rain) on your hands. Now lm really good on the B.S. so lm told lol. I admire your equipment assortment you have. Great video my friend. Look forward to future repairs.
Having diversity in our pile of vintage crapola, makes for an interesting hobby, and is also useful, as we use all our old equipment. Thanks for watching and nice comment.
I am glad your channel continues to grow. I look forward to your stories every week. Thanks for letting us know about the other channels. I watch most of them already but there's a couple I didn't know about.
Thanks for watching and commenting, we appreciate it.
Thanks for sharing Mr Obsolete. I really enjoy your videos. Your explanation for the things you're working on and how they work or straight forwand and easy to understand....👍🤙
Thanks for the really nice comment.
Leon’s great for IPL’s and obsolete parts. He’s put a lot of work into cataloguing all that stuff.
His how to videos and parts for Homelite saws is a real benefit for the vintage chainsaw enthusiast.
My late friend, Mr. Floyd Daniel, of Madison, GA was an expert on those hit and Miss engines. Floyd showed me his collection some 30 years ago, including a demonstration how they worked. He lived right next to my father in Madison. He had a bunch of them and they had all been restored to like new condition. Since I did not know a lot about Hit and Miss engines - I did a lot of nodding and replying “yes” a lot of the time. Compared to the engines that I was used to - these engines were ancient.
Hit and miss engines made work on farms a whole lot easier. Jobs that originally had to be done by hand by a bunch of people could done by a few instead. A big change for the better. These old engines are fascinating to operate and repair/restore.
Nice video thank you for the shout out
Well I hope it helps with your channel. Thanks for the nice comment.
Thank you for the shout out, I really appreciate it! I always enjoy watching your videos. It seems like I learn something new every time I do. You have shown several hit-and-miss engines on your channel. I enjoy the videos and your detailed explanation on how they work. You may see one in my shop one of these days. Thanks again!
Thanks for the nice comment. Every junk engine collector should have a hit & miss engine in their collection. I used one to run my 22" buzz saw for about a 10 year period. cutting firewood less than 8"'s in diameter. It was much faster than a chainsaw, but had the disadvantage of having to bring the wood to the saw. I cut a cord of wood one time and only used a quart and a half of gas to do it, very economical, and entertaining too !
I agree with your way of thinking! I would love to see your buzz saw run with a hit-and-miss. What a fun way to cut firewood. That said, I can see how bringing the wood to the saw could get old, real quick. It would still be cool to run it every now and again. A cord of wood on a quart and a half of gas is definitely tough to beat. You do have fun, I'll tell ya that!
I quit using my buzzsaw only because the blade got too worn to be sharpened. A neighbor had a BELSAW saw sharpener, who sharpened it every spring. The last time I went over, he said the blade was just too worn out to sharpen anymore. He sold his sharpener and moved shortly thereafter, and that was the end of my buzzsaws adventures. I still have the saw, and I have found a source for a new, but very expensive blade. I will probably have it up and running next fall. I would cut the logs into 6 ft. lengths, cut off the branches and tow them to the saw site with one of my vintage tractors, so I would get some playtime on the old tractors as well. Double fun !
I always look forward to firewood season. If I had your setup, I would have been counting down the days till firewood season. More fun than a barrel of monkeys! I look forward to your upcoming video on the buzzsaw and its new blade!
Getting firewood, mowing the lawn and other chores are just that, chores. But doing the chores with vintage equipment changes these basic jobs into an adventure ! YEAH !!!!!
I saw your Mantis. Mine has already had quite a workout this Spring. It has zero rated my yard and tilled up my garden prior to planting. We have had a cool Springbuild a trellis for the. It took me a while to get my peas and beans in the garden. Some of this delay was my fault and the other was due to all the rain we have gotten this winter and spring. I still need to build a trellis for my peas and beans - Kentucky wonders.
First it was too cold to do my garden work with the Mantis, and now it is too wet, but good weather is just around the corner, and it will get a good workout soon.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 that’s kind of what happened to me. I lost my first 72 compartment seed tray when it got washed out. I finally have beans and peas in the ground and my tomatoes in their big plastic pots.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 my Mantis started on the second pull after a six month hiatus.. I run my standard Stihl fuel in it - 50:1 Stihl ULTRA, ONE GALLON OF PREMIUM, NON ETHANOL GAS AND ONE OUNCE OF FUEL STABILIZER. I ALSO ASRORATED THE YARD WITH MY AEORATION TINES THAT that I HAVE FOR THE MANTIS.
My Mantis is always easy starting, even after extended storage. I wasn't aware that they had tines for airating the soil. Will have to check that out.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 they have several other accessories
Anything International was usually pretty well made. That little hit and miss probably ran a corn sheller or buck saw, but could be used on anything that was belt drive. John Deere started that no oil change crap, but the idea has hung around for a few years.
IHC made some of the best equipment ever made in the past. My little engine is actually throttle governed. We have a McCormick (IHC) corn sheller that we will demonstrate in a video sometime this summer. As far as no oil changes in power equipment goes, that is one of the dumbest ideas that corporate fools could ever come up with.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 I have always been a Gord man. My father likedIHC but my maternal grandfather was strictly big blue, so I grew up driving a Ford and never changed. With cars my father like Cadillacs utother than that he was IHC.
Ford made some really good tractors. I have a 1918 FORDSON tractor and a 1972 Ford backhoe, and drive an old F350 dually pick up, so Ford's are part of our fleet.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 I will bet that Fordson is hard to start - they all were. My grandfather had a 2N that threw me about ten feet when I was about ten.all of his other tractors were electric start except for the Johnny that he kep around to shell corn and run his buck saw. What is the 72 model, a 3000?
Our Fordson has an upgrade to a real magneto with the impulse coupling and starts easy. The original setup with buzz coils worked fine when in perfect condition, but most were not kept up to snuff and were hard and dangerous to start. My Ford backhoe is a model 5550, based on the 5000 series tractor.
Debbie and I always watch your tuesday night videos. We also have lot's of projects.
Thanks for watching. It is always good to have hobbies. Junk collecting is a great one !
You have some interesting projects coming up. I like your one video per week format.
A video a week is the right amount for us. Working on some new projects is always fun and challenging.
Very good video thank you for the video
Glad you enjoyed it
I do not miss the rain in western Washington for sure but i traded rain for hot summers and cold snowy winters! Ive been pondering selling my property here and going back though! Colville is absolutely beautiful and amazing people but the winters are getting old! I watch about 75 percent of the channels you do and am subbed but ill check out the rest. Dan will most likely be here for Tazapolusa again so ill see him there and Richard is awesome. I always used red armor or vp 2 stroke oil that tested excellent but after he did the motorcycle oil i was sold so started using the Belray h1r. Smells better too! Good video as always you really have some sweet stuff theres no doubt! See ya next week!
The rain gets pretty tiresome here in western Washington for sure. I hope to have a better work place set up before next fall so I can get more of my vintage junk fixed and operational over the winter, and can use and display it at some of the shows, and do more videos. Another excellent motorcycle oil is Golden Spectro. We have used it in our vintage dirt bikes for years. It is very expensive compared to red armor, but so far the red armor has worked great in the saws. We like our old junk for sure !
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 back in 79 I had a Yamaha yz 250 and I used golden spectro because bel ray fouled the plug! Definitely good oil bit its not available here in Colville.
Cycle Gear in Tacoma sells it and they ship also.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 Thanks
Nice shout outs and channel props, that oil you like seems on my end very difficult to find, if i heard you correctly you said bardahl vba oil where do you buy it? seems to be in the UK mostly
Bardahl VBA 2 cycle oil hasn't been sold in the US for a very long time. When they announced that it wasn't going to be available in the US, I bought all the stock that was left in the warehouse in Seattle. This was a very long time ago. The VBA they sell in Europe is a full synthetic I believe, not partial synthetic like the original VBA. ECHO RED ARMOR seems to be a close modern substitute, and have been using it as a replacement with great results.
@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 yeah i have heard red armor is good, i went with maxima K2 giving that s try dang oil is expensive, the good ones. forgot to mention i have an old compressor pump made by gardner denver in the mid fifties talk about heavy and big i drove three hours to save it from the scrap pile, it looks so cool model ADO 1003 got to love quality vintage
Gardner-Denver, now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time. I used to see that equipment used by the railroads and mining operations. Some of the best stuff made I believe. Good save !