Wonderful shop! I love the traditional line shadt setup, its mesmerizing watching the shafts and belts spin, and all of the machines running it. I'd like to build my own machine shop like that. It's also so I can run the shop without an electrical power source of course 😆⚙️

Very cool shop. I am beginning construction of my new shop. It has both shaft power as well as electric power. Like that red lathe.

Nice start on your shop looking forward to more videos. The steam engine will be a big project.

Intuition is the key to being able to fabricate and share that knowledge. In todays world it is almost a lost art. Thank you for sharing. I will pass your channel on.

I like it. I have a 20" camel back drill like that, and a 1920 14x6 Hendey conehead lathe. I've considered a lineshaft in the shop a few times.

Enjoyed the tour. It definitely has that 1920's vibe.

There is Miss Mama Cat 😺. Woohoo. She is a great assistant.

Very interesting. My Grandpa had a blacksmith shop. I can remember turning the crank on the forge.

Hello Sir, Today I found your channel,I alsof are building a lineshaft driven machineshop/ blacksmith shop. I am a follower of Dave Richard. I wish you lots of succes in building your shop and I am looking forward to see the progres. Greetings from Friesland in the Netherlands

Three of us retired railroaders love your shop. Victor/Los Angeles.

Very interesting and good to see. Where i worked ones, the shaft with the pullies was still hanging in the metal workshop. The town Ijmuiden was founded in 1875 or so and some building survived ww2. The building next to it, "Hera", is even way more authentic and used for a movie as a decor. In my Belgium stables, i found the wooden tree piece where the anvil was and it still has the small metal pieces you can put in an anvils holes to shape metal. Also the small blacksmith table with the tiny coals is still standing there. I was a metal worker, welder and weld inspector when i still lived in the Netherlands. I am Dutch. Keep it up. Regards from the Belgium Ardennes.

This is beautiful ........great job .I'm doing the same thing

Very nice shop friend 😁

I watched it twice 🤩 I really love it. I'm also busy with a lineshaft shop, a bit smaller. I like to see more of your shop, I'm also learning on the way.

I'm hooked.

Super cool, thanks for sharing! I think Adrian should come for a visit the first time you run your steam engine!

Great video! Cool, cool workshop, so impressed. Looking forward to more videos.

That's a super exciting shop you have - looking forward to the steam engine and slotter refurbishment! :D

Super cool. You are definitely an inspiration. I am in the process of transitioning from a chemical engineer to 1920's blacksmith machine shop operator. I wanton be able to make anything I need to repair pre war race cars...1930's

Very cool setup...I wonder if that residue from producing wood gas has any decent lubrication for your machines...if so, you could make wood gas for fuel and the oily residue could be used for lubrication...it seems to be fairly thick, so some sort of thinning agent to make it more viscus...if that was feasible then you could more or less be 100% self sufficient!... Cheers!

I really like this! Great seeing your shop and all that you get up to in it - keep it up! Dave Richards' channel sure is amazing too. I'm always eagerly awaiting his next video. Now, the same goes for you! Best wishes from Sweden

I’m jealous 👍👍👍

What a great life you lead there. How lucky you are to have all that 'stuff' at your disposal. Excellent video, I'm a new sub, so will be checking out more of your videos. Thanks and take care 🙂

if i remember right i might be wrong but i do believe that some animal fats and plants can be rendered to machine oil for cutting lubrication and so on

I like

Thanks for sharing. That is some great work. Your channel reminds me of another young Canadian guy but I can't find his channel at the moment. If I do, I will post it.

Are you looking to add more machines?

Really like the shop. I plan on adding a line shaft into my small Blacksmith Shop to run an antique grinder. I'm having a hard time hearing your videos when you speak.

Very nice lathe. How do get it running true on a gravel floor?

amazing shop ! . where are you located in Ontario ? im in amherstburg Ontario and im in the meddle of doing the same thing as you , got myself a 1920s rockford lathe and two camel back drills waiting to be restored and hooked up to the lines shaft im setting up , got sevral anvils and making a power hammer for my sword making business . if your close buy i would love to hang and talk ideas and machines. also i noticed your hand crank drill press doesn't have a table on it . i have a extra one i can ship to you

For the oil issue you should do somthing from lard then you whould be completly self suficent😉

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