Brings back memories. I worked on a crew using one of those. I'm guessing not many of your viewers will even know how they were used. The track was extended out of the loft under a roof bonnet on a old side rack barn. Team lifted the stack off of wagon with the fork/tongs up to the rail/trolley where it was pulled back into the loft then tripped. It was a very hot dusty job. Mind you I was shirtless, barefoot and wearing short britches. My task was baling well water and carrying the water bucket from the house to the barn for the men at my grandfather's farm. Payment was supper. Only worked on the fork crew a couple of years then my uncle bought a wire tie hay baler. Dang it was still hot & dusty and I was still carrying that water bucket. By the time I was big enough to handle hay we had a twine baler. When I moved from home daddy started round baling. Duh. Daddy's 96, mother's 87, they still live on the farm and lease out the grazing rights.
Been there done that. I also was there the day the big rope broke, the farmer went next door got the older farmer and he sat on a bale of hay and used a single edged razor blade cut and undo the braids of the rope and braided it back together, good to go. Still usable 50 years later. These were fist used for loose hay and some farmers used them for round bales from the Alice Chalmers Roto-baler. the small square bales from other balers would fall apart when dropped from the top of the inside of the barn. this was used when the farmer did not have an elevator to get the bales from the wagon up into the hay loft
I know how they were used. I was born & grew up on a New Hampshire dairy farm in the 1940's. That pulley system (maybe bigger) hung from the hay loft with hay hooks and block & tackle. To me it was a miraculous, fascinating, device. I wish I had salvaged it, but the farm is gone.
My dad just turned 80 and they used this system with both loose hay and bales. With horses and later a tractor. Grandpa had a dairy. And here in California, the barns didn't have a hay loft. The entire center of the barn, from ground to rafters was filled with hay. Along the length of the barn were mangers on each side with locking stanchions. With the loose hay, a hay say was used to saw down a section to be fed off leaving a ledge to stand on. Unfortunately, in the early 1990s one of the original barns burned down due to a lightbulb resting on the hay. The trolley system was still in there at the time. It was really a day. Luckily they were able to save all of the calves.
Your videos are wonderful my friend. Truly wonderful. They are an oasis in a world of hatred and depression. They hold no political ties, no opinions, not malice, not anger; they merely exist within a space of occupancy and shine brightly. Thank you for this moments rest.
As a citizen of Milwaukee, I approve of this tool rescue. Well done!! Some day I hope for a Hand Tool Rescue/This Old Tony collaboration. It would cause much rejoicing
I had an old barn I played in, from about 6-18 years old. Was even a good place to get away when I had to move home in my 20s. They tore it down, and burnt it recently. Not much was left, even the glass had melted. The trolly is fully intact though...and I plan on hanging it in my kitchen one day , repurposed as a light fixture. From the bottom of my heart, thanks for this video.
My dad used to bale hay in the summer. My mom used to play in the hay loft. Apparently she swung from one of these once and got injured. This video has brought up all the memories in this house. Like a shot of pure nostalgia.
Great work and Thank You for showing up close the enamel marker. I see others use that exact same colour but you are the first to show the brand. Again. Great work as always.
Hey HTR. Have you ever thought of doing a live restoration? It can be something small and you could give us your thought process on how you take down these old tools. I think it’ll be a cool livestream to watch. Thanks for the great videos!
I’m a small farmer in south central Indiana, and I was finding these everywhere in barns I had purchased and couldnt figure out what they were. Now that I know, I’ve been trying to clean them, and I’m putting them back into my barns as I repair the roofs.
William Figueroa Jr. I merely thought it was humorous until he uncapped one of the bottles, at which point I thought he was going to show he'd run out, but when he then sprayed into the spray bottle I died cackling!
LOL, brings back old memories when I set a hay fork to bring in loose hay up to the hay loft. Our job, as kids, was to set the fork and trip the rope when the guys in the mow wanted the load dropped. Team of horses, on the opposite end of the barn, pulled up the load and we pulled it back to the end of the track and the fork would drop for another load. The team had to back up when we were pulling back. Those trollies were a wonderful invention and every barn had one. Hudson made them also. ( Hudson sprayers) Nice restore, Cheers, Lee
Grandpa had them for loose hay and peanuts.....pitchfork loose hay peanuts off the ground onto a wide hay frame on a two horse wagon and headed for the barn.....all his implements were horse powered; sickle bar, rake, plows, wagon, sled. Hay and peanuts were lifted to second floor and through winter loose hay and peanuts were pitch forked to first floor hay feeders. Remember seeing a bird fly off the ground in front of the sickle bar and losing most of it's wings....it was sitting on a nest...I struggled with the event.
Hey, HTR, Want a life hack to have bigger parts? Get a big drum. Put a thick bag in it. Pour evapo rust in it. Put parts in. Pour water in the drum OUTSIDE the bag. The water will squeeze the bag into the part, and raise the evaporust level. : )
As I said, Thick bag. The only *real* problem you could have is if the bag sticks "too" well to the parts and prevents the rust remover from accessing those surfaces. So some stirring may be required. Hey, HTR, I got a lot of cool tips. Just name a problem or nuisance, I'll engineer a solution for it. Really, don't be shy. :U
You could just use a second bag with a layer of polyfill or similar so the second bag would stay intact even if the inner one failed. You could also use a vacuum cleaner to pull the bag around the parts and keep the rust remover in contact. Sort of like vacuum marinating them.
I just bought an old hay lift. I have seen "restorations" where they painted the hay lift, and they look like crap. I like this restoration. Doesn't destroy the originality of it
Omar Jones - Yeah... Until you are watching one of his videos almost asleep and he adds in bomb range alarm sounds because "delicate parts". I swear it took a year off my life!
Yes, loved the humor in the intro. These vintage videos take me back to a whole different life that my grandparents lived through. I used to love going into my grandfathers garage. It was a treasure trove of old tools.
Bravo Sir. Either my Grand Father was too cheap to install one of these or just didn't know where to get one (I'm voting for the prior), tossing bales of hay from the wagon to the barn loft sure did put a hitch in your get-a-long after a full day of it, this would have been much appreciated.
Funny thing, a few days ago I was looking at the one I have under my workbench waiting for a restore, and here you go and restore one. Mine doesn't have that double pulley at the bottom, single pulley. Also it's missing the center pulley that locks in and drops down. Looking on ebay for a similar style center pulley. Plan to do the same, hang it above the dining table on steel tracks with vintage style lights hanging from ropes. Excellent job.
This is the only channel I watch that can make me drowsy. Not in a bad or boring way, but in a calm and soothing one. The clanking and odd noises relaxes the heck outta me. Another great job as usual.
It worked well for everything on this tool, which is exactly the real-world test result I was hoping for! I do still want to see what the maximum capabilities are though. AvE has offered to max one out on his wrench tester.
If there’d been computers and 3D printers in those days I wonder what machines would you have been taking apart and restoring. Makes you wonder. Regards.
A local (rural) antique store had a table full of 'misc. barn iron' for a dollar apiece. Amongst the bits & bobs on the table were several trips for different hay trolleys. They are indeed hard to find -- until one day they are not 😉 -- now you need a set of forks to go with your awesome trolley!
I really like your vids. You should REALLY be wearing chem resistant gloves when you use Toluene. I'd like to see more vids down the road... but that stuff will absorb thru the skin & causes permanent organ & nerve damage.
I know this isn’t a hand tool but the *Heidelberg windmill* printing press is an interesting piece of 1930’s technology. The machine is intricately designed and has lots of interesting gizmos. Restoring one of those would make an awesome set of videos!
No yapping as well. I watched a vidyo earlier that was supposed to show the making of a bench. 45 minutes of yapping and no bench was made. Lesson: Be very leery of vidyos that have a part 2.
I'm always so amazed to see how you remember how to to reassemble things and remember where all the tiniest of shit goes. Your the patient mind we all thrive to have
It does help that he looks up the patents...and makes a video of the whole process 😂💖 Not sarcasm, it SERIOUSLY must help when he's trying to remember where everything fits!
Liked the Danish Oil part. I've got a hand-forged sword, and the smith gave me a jar of that stuff to care of the sword. I can testify it works wonders.
I have not seen one of these since I was young and growing up on the farm. It was used every summer to lift hay into the lofts in the barn. Brings back a lot of memories. Great channel by the way.
Excellent job! You are the exact reason I do what I do for a living...I resell vintage tools...there is plenty of life left in old tools, even the ones that need extensive repairs like in some of your other videos. Thank you for sharing, thank you for giving these tools another 100 years of use...I’m so impressed...if I wasn’t so busy selling them, I might try restoring some myself, but my background is in refinishing more so than tool repair. Oh, yeah, nice use of your third hand at the beginning of this video...nice maneuver...LOL
Perfect video! Thank you so much! I actually bought this exact hay trolley this week to restore and wasn't sure even where to begin. This shows me everything! Time to get started! Thanks again!
It was in great shape. I do like the soaking. I'm going to have to do that to a few of my tools. In that period they would have used "blacking" which in itself was some kind of black art. But the look is good. I think the danish oil should provide a few years of rust proofing so the next lucky person won't have a mess to complain about! Nice video, well done.
Despite the free turning carriage bolts, they were original (if you look at yours, you can even see the square pattern chewed in the neck of the hole in most of the frame), it's that the size is incorrect. Someone's been through this with a butt finger and replaced them. There's a nearly identical, untouched, unmolested one in the collection of a friend. It was new-old stock, the domed heads are rough in look and larger too, and the square nuts aren't in any way shape or form contoured and spit polished like the ones on yours.
Specifically? Impossible to tell, but going by the fact that the carriage bolts on yours are flat to the surface (they don't have that lip all modern ones have) it's probably before the 80's or at least the bolts are. If we go by how much dirt was on it, then it's certainly nothing done "yesterday". I will try to convince my friend to allow me to take a bolt off for a picture, but no promises, he's pretty anal about his stuff. I only know because one of the bolts on the "grabber" flippers was slightly loose, and i saw the much larger square "gripper" that matches the notches on yours, which means yours had them too when new.
I would have had a cherry one, but the barn it was in got blown down by some winds and in my grandfather's infinite wisdom he decided to set the ruins of the barn that had been there longer than he had, on fire. I still have the trolley, but its all cracked now.
You're genius! And really enjoy your humor because it is genuine with nudges. Some of your projects seem very difficult, and it is amazing how you can keep cool under pressure -- there are snips of you holding it all together while being frustrated. Remember to stamp your finished projects with a positive thought/prayer, and it will reach it's best destination/usage. God bless you, dude. :D
His videos have me wanting one of those adjustable wrenches, in the worst way ! Wish I knew more about it, cause I’m going to start looking for one. - We’ll, I just found his “Restore 1800s Adjustable Wrench” video. Looks like he just made a new copy. Nice !
J Ballew -- '' aeromatic penetrants '' . - I guess an airplane would qualify as that . LOL ! -- I hate to be a ''nitpicker'' , BUT , ''aero'' refers to aircraft , while ''aro'' ( NO ''e'' ) refers to an aroma . -- Just thought I'd help straighten things out .
I like pure iron with all it's scares and without paiting. Only steel brushing, that's really enough.In this sense phantastic job👍👍👍! Greetings from Göttingen🇩🇪!
0:20 and *this* is the main reason why I love HTR!! The videos are very interesting, with a bit of humor and without those royalty free music that literally _everyone_ uses! Keep it up!
I have a set of hay forks that will work on your hay trolly, I used to unload the hay bails from the wagons back in the 50s when I was raised on a farm in Iowa. After a days work on the forks I was ready for a good nights sleep. The forks are hanging in my barn. I like to tell the story about the hay forks.
Mine is still hanging in the top of the barn. I am 63 and those were before my time. Square bales then went to the big round bales in 1977. Guess I’ll get the trolly when the barn falls down. :)
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Brings back memories. I worked on a crew using one of those. I'm guessing not many of your viewers will even know how they were used. The track was extended out of the loft under a roof bonnet on a old side rack barn. Team lifted the stack off of wagon with the fork/tongs up to the rail/trolley where it was pulled back into the loft then tripped. It was a very hot dusty job. Mind you I was shirtless, barefoot and wearing short britches. My task was baling well water and carrying the water bucket from the house to the barn for the men at my grandfather's farm. Payment was supper. Only worked on the fork crew a couple of years then my uncle bought a wire tie hay baler. Dang it was still hot & dusty and I was still carrying that water bucket. By the time I was big enough to handle hay we had a twine baler. When I moved from home daddy started round baling. Duh. Daddy's 96, mother's 87, they still live on the farm and lease out the grazing rights.
Wow! Would have love to see this in action in real life.
Been there done that. I also was there the day the big rope broke, the farmer went next door got the older farmer and he sat on a bale of hay and used a single edged razor blade cut and undo the braids of the rope and braided it back together, good to go. Still usable 50 years later. These were fist used for loose hay and some farmers used them for round bales from the Alice Chalmers Roto-baler. the small square bales from other balers would fall apart when dropped from the top of the inside of the barn. this was used when the farmer did not have an elevator to get the bales from the wagon up into the hay loft
Gerard Johnson I don't have a clue exactly how they were used. It's very intriguing however.
I know how they were used. I was born & grew up on a New Hampshire dairy farm in the 1940's. That pulley system (maybe bigger) hung from the hay loft with hay hooks and block & tackle. To me it was a miraculous, fascinating, device. I wish I had salvaged it, but the farm is gone.
My dad just turned 80 and they used this system with both loose hay and bales. With horses and later a tractor. Grandpa had a dairy. And here in California, the barns didn't have a hay loft. The entire center of the barn, from ground to rafters was filled with hay. Along the length of the barn were mangers on each side with locking stanchions. With the loose hay, a hay say was used to saw down a section to be fed off leaving a ledge to stand on. Unfortunately, in the early 1990s one of the original barns burned down due to a lightbulb resting on the hay. The trolley system was still in there at the time. It was really a day. Luckily they were able to save all of the calves.
There is something extremely satisfying about seeing old equipment getting restored to working order. Thanks for the videos HTR!
Your videos are wonderful my friend. Truly wonderful. They are an oasis in a world of hatred and depression. They hold no political ties, no opinions, not malice, not anger; they merely exist within a space of occupancy and shine brightly. Thank you for this moments rest.
Thank you very much!
Whoever invented this hay trolley had all corners covered,very elaborate and eye appealing.Love the Danish oil finish over paint.Great job!!
As a citizen of Milwaukee, I approve of this tool rescue. Well done!! Some day I hope for a Hand Tool Rescue/This Old Tony collaboration. It would cause much rejoicing
I hope so too.
I had an old barn I played in, from about 6-18 years old. Was even a good place to get away when I had to move home in my 20s. They tore it down, and burnt it recently. Not much was left, even the glass had melted.
The trolly is fully intact though...and I plan on hanging it in my kitchen one day , repurposed as a light fixture.
From the bottom of my heart, thanks for this video.
I enjoy watching you work because the attention you pay to every little detail ! You also can throw in a little humor without ever saying a word .
My dad used to bale hay in the summer. My mom used to play in the hay loft. Apparently she swung from one of these once and got injured. This video has brought up all the memories in this house. Like a shot of pure nostalgia.
Awesome. I've seen them lift people up before.
EvapoRust needs to get on the ball and send you a 55 gallon drum of their product. Make it easier for the bigger pieces.
I've wanted one for a long time!
And a year later, he's got one!
Great work and Thank You for showing up close the enamel marker. I see others use that exact same colour but you are the first to show the brand. Again. Great work as always.
Love the finish on this one! Looking forward to those wrenches going on sale.
Thank you, me too! I am hoping to have them ready for sale in April. SO CLOSE.
Are they for sale now? I would really like to order some...Thank you.
Nice look. Probably a lot of farmers back in the day just loved that invention. What a time saver it must have been for them. Thanks for the video.
I love the air filter idea to catch all the dust from wire brushing
It works surprisingly well.
I'd like to thank you for showing thees videos. Not only do you restore the past but you show how they are used
Hey HTR. Have you ever thought of doing a live restoration? It can be something small and you could give us your thought process on how you take down these old tools. I think it’ll be a cool livestream to watch. Thanks for the great videos!
I really should do that!
I’m a small farmer in south central Indiana, and I was finding these everywhere in barns I had purchased and couldnt figure out what they were. Now that I know, I’ve been trying to clean them, and I’m putting them back into my barns as I repair the roofs.
That intro was hilarious.
William Figueroa Jr. I merely thought it was humorous until he uncapped one of the bottles, at which point I thought he was going to show he'd run out, but when he then sprayed into the spray bottle I died cackling!
Ikr. He just make his channel interesting.
My workshop is even more flammable now.
Hand Tool Rescue LOL. Any plans on making a video of a shop tour? Just from what I’ve seen in videos I love it. I’ve always wanted my own shop.
Those teeth are far too nice to be biting steel
LOL, brings back old memories when I set a hay fork to bring in loose hay up to the hay loft. Our job, as kids, was to set the fork and trip the rope when the guys in the mow wanted the load dropped. Team of horses, on the opposite end of the barn, pulled up the load and we pulled it back to the end of the track and the fork would drop for another load. The team had to back up when we were pulling back. Those trollies were a wonderful invention and every barn had one. Hudson made them also. ( Hudson sprayers)
Nice restore,
Cheers, Lee
Grandpa had them for loose hay and peanuts.....pitchfork loose hay peanuts off
the ground onto a wide hay frame on a two horse wagon and headed for the
barn.....all his implements were horse powered; sickle bar, rake, plows, wagon,
sled. Hay and peanuts were lifted to second floor and through winter loose hay
and peanuts were pitch forked to first floor hay feeders.
Remember seeing a bird fly off the ground in front of the sickle bar and losing
most of it's wings....it was sitting on a nest...I struggled with the event.
Hey, HTR, Want a life hack to have bigger parts?
Get a big drum. Put a thick bag in it. Pour evapo rust in it. Put parts in. Pour water in the drum OUTSIDE the bag. The water will squeeze the bag into the part, and raise the evaporust level.
: )
This would actually work! hmmmm
Until one of your parts pokes a hole in the bag....
As I said, Thick bag.
The only *real* problem you could have is if the bag sticks "too" well to the parts and prevents the rust remover from accessing those surfaces. So some stirring may be required.
Hey, HTR, I got a lot of cool tips. Just name a problem or nuisance, I'll engineer a solution for it. Really, don't be shy. :U
Alucard Pawpad - blunt the ends of a tomato cage and put it in the bag first.
You could just use a second bag with a layer of polyfill or similar so the second bag would stay intact even if the inner one failed.
You could also use a vacuum cleaner to pull the bag around the parts and keep the rust remover in contact. Sort of like vacuum marinating them.
I just bought an old hay lift. I have seen "restorations" where they painted the hay lift, and they look like crap. I like this restoration. Doesn't destroy the originality of it
He's like the Bob Ross of restorations
Omar Jones ‘just remove these happy little nuts’ -the nut releaser
Omar Jones - Yeah... Until you are watching one of his videos almost asleep and he adds in bomb range alarm sounds because "delicate parts".
I swear it took a year off my life!
Hahaha. I also really love reading how I scared people with that alarm.
Dont get me wrong, I really like the hand tool rescue channel. But Musite 1 is the Bob Ross of all things rusty.
LOL I remember that one.
Yes, loved the humor in the intro. These vintage videos take me back to a whole different life that my grandparents lived through. I used to love going into my grandfathers garage. It was a treasure trove of old tools.
Drop Everything!! Another Hand Tool Rescue VIDEO!!!😲😲😲😎
A beer, a video, a nice evening! Thx! Weiter so!
Я. B babies are over rated
Malleable iron was a good choice in the day, but it's always been expensive to produce. Nowadays, it would certainly be made of aluminum alloy.
Ох бля зубами! Это жестоко.
HOLD IT! HE'S UPLOADED!!!
I have four hay trollys waiting for restoration. I may try the patina look on at least one. Great video!
I like this restoration, the look you went for looks nice, and now you finally have that cat hoist you always wanted.
Bravo Sir. Either my Grand Father was too cheap to install one of these or just didn't know where to get one (I'm voting for the prior), tossing bales of hay from the wagon to the barn loft sure did put a hitch in your get-a-long after a full day of it, this would have been much appreciated.
I bet!
Another beautiful restoration. Glad that the cat was safely transported in style.
Funny thing, a few days ago I was looking at the one I have under my workbench waiting for a restore, and here you go and restore one. Mine doesn't have that double pulley at the bottom, single pulley. Also it's missing the center pulley that locks in and drops down. Looking on ebay for a similar style center pulley. Plan to do the same, hang it above the dining table on steel tracks with vintage style lights hanging from ropes. Excellent job.
Time for Evapo-Rust to send you a drum. Just think of what you could fit in that.
Yes please!
Bigger tools, a body, some more tools
This is the only channel I watch that can make me drowsy. Not in a bad or boring way, but in a calm and soothing one. The clanking and odd noises relaxes the heck outta me. Another great job as usual.
Thanks!
The new wrench looks great, love the demo. Really great quality.
It worked well for everything on this tool, which is exactly the real-world test result I was hoping for! I do still want to see what the maximum capabilities are though. AvE has offered to max one out on his wrench tester.
Send one to AvE for a stress test. These seem to have a better grip on nuts and bolts than adjustable wrenches do. Also, they look cooler.
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Nice restoration for a deserving piece of farm history and some humor to top it off, thank you.
Those bits in the beginning really had me rolling! ha ha. Good video!
rolling in the hay...trolley
Did you have somewhere nice to roll around?
Great! I sort-of understood how that was going to work in practice but the trip release was a bonus. Very nice!
If there’d been computers and 3D printers in those days I wonder what machines would you have been taking apart and restoring. Makes you wonder. Regards.
A local (rural) antique store had a table full of 'misc. barn iron' for a dollar apiece. Amongst the bits & bobs on the table were several trips for different hay trolleys. They are indeed hard to find -- until one day they are not 😉 -- now you need a set of forks to go with your awesome trolley!
I really like your vids. You should REALLY be wearing chem resistant gloves when you use Toluene. I'd like to see more vids down the road... but that stuff will absorb thru the skin & causes permanent organ & nerve damage.
I know this isn’t a hand tool but the *Heidelberg windmill* printing press is an interesting piece of 1930’s technology. The machine is intricately designed and has lots of interesting gizmos. Restoring one of those would make an awesome set of videos!
That thing looks incredible!
Kudos for not have annoying music!!!
And an extra 7 thumbs up for this comment. I am also glad for the lack of stupid background music...
No yapping as well. I watched a vidyo earlier that was supposed to show the making of a bench. 45 minutes of yapping and no bench was made. Lesson: Be very leery of vidyos that have a part 2.
I'm always so amazed to see how you remember how to to reassemble things and remember where all the tiniest of shit goes. Your the patient mind we all thrive to have
It does help that he looks up the patents...and makes a video of the whole process 😂💖 Not sarcasm, it SERIOUSLY must help when he's trying to remember where everything fits!
It is fortuitous that there isn't Closed Captioning for what the cat had to say. LOL
Liked the Danish Oil part. I've got a hand-forged sword, and the smith gave me a jar of that stuff to care of the sword. I can testify it works wonders.
HA! Best intro ever! Any update on the HTR adjustable wrenches?
April!
Asking for the lazy guys without Instagram 😁
Like me.😉
I have not seen one of these since I was young and growing up on the farm. It was used every summer to lift hay into the lofts in the barn. Brings back a lot of memories. Great channel by the way.
No cats or other animals were harmed during the filming of these events.
Ima Tumo
Poor kitty
Excellent job! You are the exact reason I do what I do for a living...I resell vintage tools...there is plenty of life left in old tools, even the ones that need extensive repairs like in some of your other videos. Thank you for sharing, thank you for giving these tools another 100 years of use...I’m so impressed...if I wasn’t so busy selling them, I might try restoring some myself, but my background is in refinishing more so than tool repair. Oh, yeah, nice use of your third hand at the beginning of this video...nice maneuver...LOL
Glad you liked! Let me know if ever come across something that you think would make a good video.
4:37 onwards - i Laughed so hard. i needed to watch that a few times.
10/10
Whenever doing stuff, you think "I need a third hand". ;)
Perfect video! Thank you so much! I actually bought this exact hay trolley this week to restore and wasn't sure even where to begin.
This shows me everything! Time to get started! Thanks again!
Exactly why I make these videos!
I love the humor
One of the most entertaining episodes yet, all because of the little things. Good job HTR!
That intro got me.. Brilliant
It was in great shape. I do like the soaking. I'm going to have to do that to a few of my tools. In that period they would have used "blacking" which in itself was some kind of black art. But the look is good. I think the danish oil should provide a few years of rust proofing so the next lucky person won't have a mess to complain about! Nice video, well done.
Thanks!
Nah, *NUT RELEASER* is wack, i think *NUT BUSTER* sounds way cooler 😂
Thanks for the vids dude!
Hello from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for sharing your great video’s please keep them coming.
Despite the free turning carriage bolts, they were original (if you look at yours, you can even see the square pattern chewed in the neck of the hole in most of the frame), it's that the size is incorrect. Someone's been through this with a butt finger and replaced them. There's a nearly identical, untouched, unmolested one in the collection of a friend. It was new-old stock, the domed heads are rough in look and larger too, and the square nuts aren't in any way shape or form contoured and spit polished like the ones on yours.
INTERESTING! I wonder when that was done?
Specifically? Impossible to tell, but going by the fact that the carriage bolts on yours are flat to the surface (they don't have that lip all modern ones have) it's probably before the 80's or at least the bolts are. If we go by how much dirt was on it, then it's certainly nothing done "yesterday". I will try to convince my friend to allow me to take a bolt off for a picture, but no promises, he's pretty anal about his stuff. I only know because one of the bolts on the "grabber" flippers was slightly loose, and i saw the much larger square "gripper" that matches the notches on yours, which means yours had them too when new.
I would have had a cherry one, but the barn it was in got blown down by some winds and in my grandfather's infinite wisdom he decided to set the ruins of the barn that had been there longer than he had, on fire. I still have the trolley, but its all cracked now.
and now the bolts are polished completely smooth, so the next guy who tries to take this thing apart 100 years from now is completely screwed.
Somehow missed this on till now. Great intro. Security torx screws have *nothing* on carriage bolts.
Finally a "paintlees" one! (can we call them "stripper rescues"?)
That wire brushing method is great Trolley keep that old look 😍
hay trolley, how are you?
Pretty decent, you?
How u doin?
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You're genius! And really enjoy your humor because it is genuine with nudges. Some of your projects seem very difficult, and it is amazing how you can keep cool under pressure -- there are snips of you holding it all together while being frustrated.
Remember to stamp your finished projects with a positive thought/prayer, and it will reach it's best destination/usage.
God bless you, dude. :D
24:20 what was that liquid? was it aging elixir?
Love all your videos, I let them play in the background at work. The sped up sounds gives me a smile, All I can picture are frantic mice.
bahahahaha, the intro with the oil!!!!!!
Mmmmmm.
The new finish looks brilliant
" I am the *NUT RELEASER* "
Wait until you see me in Avengers: Infinity War.
You had some "hot nuts' there for a minute before you got your nuts off ;-)
Twisted NUT RELEASER
Hand Tool Rescue hahaha XD
I'm gayyy
Bricoleur jusqu'au bout des dents. Encore une magnifique vidéo... Chapeau bas l'artiste !!!
Merci!
I wonder what type of chemical reactions are going on inside that wooden table of your lol.
I don't want to know!
Someday that table will come to life and become a supervillain.
frankstrawnation it’s power would be to degrade tools
Don't drop a match on that table
I am disabled but I do enjoy watching your videos they bring back memories keep it up posting videos that is ha-ha
8:53 That's what she said
This looks so much better than many of your painted pieces.
This is the look I give almost all the tools that I restore on the side/not for videos. I really do love that patina look.
Awesome job on this restoration my brother I like it very much good job,Hey I like that little wrench to it's very cool bro later :)
Sometimes I got myself thinking "No way! That guy won't be able to reassemble that thing" And he does! Superb channel!
when all else fails, use your teeth as another hand!
Only logical choice in that scenario...haha
Did you realize after that you could probably have released it with a prybar between the feathers? Most likely how it was designed for manual release.
Hand Tool Rescue love your videos man, keep up the incredible work
Konzetsu Wheres the fun in that?
Biting was just foreplay... later he got to second base. He also got to second base with a bandsaw he and Derista restored.
Your best opening to any video so far, it’s about time you got one right….. Great content brother keep it up.
Wasn't much to look at originally, but now it's more than an "ok" Boomer.
This one is champ in restoration and comedy. good job.
4:40: Respect...
The manliness of that scene went beyond the scale.
His videos have me wanting one of those adjustable wrenches, in the worst way ! Wish I knew more about it, cause I’m going to start looking for one. - We’ll, I just found his “Restore 1800s Adjustable Wrench” video. Looks like he just made a new copy. Nice !
What makes WD-40 smell so good?
I would also like to know that.
God help you if you get a whiff of "Ballistol" Soon you'll have a whole cabinet of aeromatic penetrants..
J Ballew "Aeromatic Penetrants" would be a good name for a band.
J Ballew -- '' aeromatic penetrants '' . - I guess an airplane would qualify as that . LOL ! -- I hate to be a ''nitpicker'' , BUT , ''aero'' refers to aircraft , while ''aro'' ( NO ''e'' ) refers to an aroma . -- Just thought I'd help straighten things out .
PB Blaster smells better and works better
I like pure iron with all it's scares and without paiting. Only steel brushing, that's really enough.In this sense phantastic job👍👍👍!
Greetings from Göttingen🇩🇪!
Hand Tool Rescue > Diresta ( there, I said it )
Egbert Modderman love both, but lately only watch this crazy bastard
0:20 and *this* is the main reason why I love HTR!!
The videos are very interesting, with a bit of humor and without those royalty free music that literally _everyone_ uses!
Keep it up!
Thank you!
It's a pleasure! =D
Hello notification squad. Where you at?
I like your sense of humor. Adds a lot to the video!
I have a set of hay forks that will work on your hay trolly, I used to unload the hay bails from the wagons back in the 50s when I was raised on a farm in Iowa. After a days work on the forks I was ready for a good nights sleep. The forks are hanging in my barn. I like to tell the story about the hay forks.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THESE VIDEOS ARE SO SATISFYING!!!
that's a cool invention. I'll be looking forward to buying one of those adjustable wrenches
Soon!
Love your work. You do know that fancy smancy restaurant's pay top dollar for this sort of gear
That luster came out beautiful.
Very nice job. I like the patina you've acheived. Must try that myself.
You are the reason that I now own Evapo-Rust. Good stuff. Thank you for that :)
Mine is still hanging in the top of the barn. I am 63 and those were before my time. Square bales then went to the big round bales in 1977. Guess I’ll get the trolly when the barn falls down. :)
Good sense of humor. Another beautiful rescue.
That finish looks awesome. Really neat combination of techniques to get there, too.
This trolley is a good example of why I like old machinery. They were designed with style. Not the stamped out sheet metal stuff of today.
I have a bench vice the same age, I'll likely do the exact same thing. Looks awesome!
Very cool, we had one of those in our barn when I was a kid. We just used it as a rope swing lol. Never knew how it worked.
I wonder how much it can carry.
Good job Sir Manwithbeard, I always wonder, how in he world did they design and build old equipment like that, in he good ole days.
Another great video from HTR . I have enjoyed them all, especially when you use your sense of humor.
Man I love that adjustable wrench you use. I'm gonna have my eyes open for one !