Very nice - The machines that made the machines that make the machines that we use today.

About 78 years ago I grew up in a shop like this one my dad was the forman of it it was all power by steam it was huge ..... Thank takes me back !

we ran across this place two years ago while traveling from upstate NY to texas. i was peering in the windows, wanting inside. we found anumber, called the guy and he came down and opened it up for me and the wife to tour. even ran some machines that day. very cool place.

Believe it or not, this is just like the first machine shop I worked in as a kid. We did repair work for the textile and construction industries, making many parts which were no longer obtainable. Shop dated from 1919.

Man, that organization has really grown. Fantastic place, I'm moving this one to the top of my bucket list trips. Maybe a one way ticket. Thanks for the tour...nice music...Dave

19:40... I love when older people tell us how old stuff works! So much knowledge 👍

I love the mechanical movements of old machines. They are a thing of beauty and elegance.

That was brilliant Adam loved the great explanation by the steam engine guy thanks both

Adam is like an 8 year old in a candy store with his arm's tied on the back. 😂 Love your enthusiasm, it's contagious.

Remember the aroma of wood,oil,machining and the shop talks to ones senses.

If walls could talk... Epic video man. You outdid yourself.

Very cool. I bet you were feeling very proud of American know how when you see all that. I watched this vid with my 75 yo dad. He ran The Hugh Lennon agricultural tool works in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 from his apprenticeship right thru to them closing down in the 60s. The shop was much the same. Overhead shafting with a large steam boiler then converted to electric drive. Massive lathes and presses, shearing machines and drills. They even had a huge drive shaft from a ship always in storage as they had their own rail siding. The ship had a built in fault that caused the shaft to be shagged after a short period of time. Always had a change over ready to go. Shaft was so heavy they had to continually turn it over a bit to stop it bending under its own weight. Abom sized must be lol. Thanks Adam. My dad really enjoyed that vid. Made his day. Was a shame in the end, apparently most of the machines got broken up for scrap because they were quality grey cast iron. I still have a bandsaw from there, and dad has one pedestal drill. Rockford brand. Couldn’t take everything home unfortunately.

You fooled me with your intro and exit music. I had to double check that I wasn’t rewatching David Richards today’s video.

When I was a kid in the 60's my grandfather owned a shop that made parts for the Philadelphia Navy yard and for Sun Ship. His machines were all still run by belts running on an overhead shaft. It looked alot like this shop in the video. I unfortunately was not old enough when he passes away to save any of the machines, I do still own his toolboxes and many measuring tools.

Nice little bit of history in American manufacturing. Very nice. Thank you for sharing!

Thats such a cool place. I'm speechless. It's cool people have save history like this. 👍

Love those disks dancing along the shafts, keeping things clean. Used to see small leather straps on bicycle wheels doing the same thing, they were almost like little watch straps rather than these disks.

I finally made a bit of time to watch this. Kicked my feet up, poured a scotch and hit play and I wasn't disappointed. My dad and our old barber always teased that I was born 100 years too late. They aren't kidding. This was pure heaven for me. Thank you Adam and Abby, this was a wonderful video. I could damn near smell that shop it was so real. Love it. Need to see about getting down there are visiting that place myself.

Excellent tour of the machine shop & foundry. I too just love these kind of places. What makes it much better is when you have a partner that enjoys it just the same. My wife is an engineer so she loves these tours as much as I do. Its great to do these things together. We spend a lot of the summer months going to steam shows and displaying our collections for the public to see and get a feel of bygone years. Thanks for sharing Adam & Abby. One of your best tours yet. regards from the UK

That gentleman dropping the knowledge and stories, I could have listened to him all day.

Really enjoyed the old machines and hear your appreciation of it all. Great to see Abby enjoyed it too!

"Yessssss" as he walks through the door😄 What a fantastic place!!

It's so great to see these machines preserved and maintained by what I would guess is a small but dedicated staff. Thanks for sharing Adam.

Love the old timer giving the in depth tour. You can tell he has a genuine love for those engines and your interest and knowledge made his day. Keep up the awesome work Adam.

I'M so glad to see they have done this and made a museum out of this building I traveled MS in the 80's and 90's and this was just and old vacant building in need of repair. This is awesome. I had heard they were trying to put a non profit together to do this glad to see they got it done. Thanks for sharing Adam and Abby. Have a great weekend!!!

What a wonderful piece of history preserved. Thanks for sharing the tour! Adam, you are so lucky to have someone like Abby who shares your joy of seeing old machinery!

Great video. Loved the gentleman upstairs with the blue tie. Very knowledgeable and had a passion for these engines. Awesome. Thank you.

Ahh the great times before a virus so deadly you need a test to know if you have it. Can’t wait for more of theses videos

Great video. It reminded me of an old factory I worked at as a welder in Bridgeport CT. A lot of windows oil soaked oak floors . An old line shaft factory that kept up with the times. Sadly they closed in 1987. I worked with some of the best machinist , millwrights , and engineers . When they auctioned their equipment I ended up with an old worn out Bridgeport mill that was built a few miles away. I even worked with the machinist that used that mill for many years. Regrettably I sold it some time ago as it needed so much work. I learned so much there and I am so glad I was able to see that part on America’s industrial history. Thanks for posting this video. While I was watching .I could smell the oil hear the sounds . Bathe in the light from all of those windows. And warm myself on those cold winter days by the steam pipes and radiators that ran throughout the factory .

Thank you Adam A terrific video Your enthusiasm was just bubbling out of the screen matched only by the guy explaining the steam engines Well done !

Thanks for sharing this with us,and great photos as well Abby...

Man that is a doll. That is a keeper for life. She has "good attitude" like a morning in May at 7:00 am.

A real marvel, please keep finding these places. Thanks Adam

This is awesome. So cool to see all that old equipment. Thanks for taking us along on the tour.

Wow! Thanks man! That was way cool. I love the way you listened politely and understood it all, without being a know it all machinist. Good job!

Thank you for sharing this beautiful old shop! Really enjoyed this one.

Thank you for allowing us to experience this tour with you. Love your work!

Abom’s magic kingdom.

Gday Adam and Abby, thanks for taking the time to show all this fantastic machinery, lots and lots of history right there and if only them walls could talk, I’m really looking forward to part 2, thanks again mate, Cheers Matty

Glad to see that you found THE curator. That dude sounds like he knew what he was talking about. Great video. Looking forward to your other videos from your trip.

About three blocks from childhood home was machine shop that was all belt driven. My dad used to go in there for something or other now and then. I always thought it was pretty cool. That was back in the late 50's, early 60's. The building is still there, I don't know about what's inside. The local paper mill was once run completely belt driven. Half of the machines were still belt driven till the mill closed and was tore down a few years back. You brought back old memories. Very cool, thanks for sharing

Thanks for an awesome video, I love these old shops and tools!!!

Used to work with an old railroad machinist. He'd yell, "Flat belts 'n' cone pulleys forever!" in moments of excitement. When he was an an apprentice just after WW I, one of his first year chores was to come in early and help the engineer fire the boiler, start the line shaft engine, and go round the line shafting and tend the oilers. It was an important job. Neglect one lineshaft bearing and its failure could halt all work on the equipment served by that shaft. I should have paid more attention to his yarns. He was a great story teller whose career bridged line shaft technology and stand-alone electric powered machinery. Fred Colvin in his autobiography "Sixty Years With Men and Machines" devoted early chapters to his experiences in a line shaft machine shop. I have it in my library somewhere; I should track it down and re-read it. Love old machine shops. Same ambience as an old battle field but without the tragedy and ultimate futility.

Awesome tour Adam, thanks for sharing it with us.

Wonderfull tour, Adam, Thank you.

An era of pride, determination, good work ethics, love of God, Country and family. Gone but not forgotten. U.S.A.

adam thank you for sharing something so cool saved for young and old alike observe and learn from .when so much history is just destroyed keep up the great work ,scott England

Happy (belated) birthday Abby!

Amazing how far we have come !!

Wow !!! It's incredible that they hire riggers and move all that cool old equipment in and get it all set up and working. I wish there were many more places like this to show young folks how it used to be done, and even though it's an older technique, it still works today. Excellent video Bud

lol, that looks familiar. Im usually at soule working making sand molds for the guys pouring iron, but had to skip this year. I wonder if the alabama art casting guys came in on saturday, they missed it last year. Clarke (windy hill foundry) is usually theredoing his iron castings too out of the crucible furnace too, so lots of iron being poured usually, lol. There's lots more to see there than is in the video, and usually they have the full machine shop up and running with the planers, lathes, everything slicing off metal, lol. Also, you missed one of the coolest things up in the assembly room that was up there, that hit and miss engine and that whole assembly in the boxes with it was used out in the field to line bore the engine cylinders so they didnt even need to take it off of the engine to take it back to the factory, they were done out in the field using that line boring fixture and run off of the hit and miss engine that was sitting in the floor to the right of the engine that was running.

Epic. Thank you for capturing and sharing your visit. I gotta check this place out someday.

Thank you Adam and Abby for wonderful vid of all the old machinery of olden days we here in Australia have some museums of these but few run the machines they are usually static so well done and keep them coming.

Awesome place! Big peace of history! Thanks for sharing Adam!

Man, I want one too! I can't blame you Adam for wanting a shop like that. I could see myself right at home in this place. It's so wonderful to see an old shop like this generating some interest by many folks. Sounds like you'll have competition for space if you ever have a shop like this one! Thanks Adam for making these shop tour videos!

Prit-T-cool.. :) Would love to have a few of those old machines in the shop running.

Kind of rare to see a whole factory more or less intact.That would be a fun place to go have a look at, when there were no people around and turn a part on that Big LeBlond! That tour guide up stairs is a cool dude 👍

I love those oilers on the old equipment! They are a big reminder that oil is needed, and when it is needed!

Wow! I need to see that place. Thanks for the awesome vid. Its so cool how close they let you get to everything. The building alone is incredible!

There was a Shop just like that across the backyard from where I grew up.. When I went to trade school/vocational.. from 1959 to when I moved away from home in 1966, I worked in that shop.. The Main Counter-shaft was driven by a 5 Horse/440 volt Three Phase Motor.. The Lathe was a 24" Swing 8ft Bed I don't know the NAME.. ?? The Horizontal Mill.. I don't know the name.. ?? The secondary Counter-shaft drove a Hacksaw a Drill Press a Hammer there was other machinery.. I was too young to take notice.. AND.. a Forge.. I was Learning to Operate and Work.. OoHh.. The MEMORIES.. Thank You, Adam for posting this Video.. sigh...…… The Peavey Electronics Factory is in Meridian.. I spent a week there at the Factory back in February 1982.. I remember the year.. SO WELL.. It was the year the Drilling Rig, The OCEAN RANGER went Down, off Newfoundland, in a HUGE WINTER STORM.. www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ocean+Ranger&view=detail&mid=DB2451CF97436FE9F370DB2451CF97436FE9F370&FORM=VIRE

Love your knowledge and explaining of this old kool machine shop, thanks so much.

thought i was watching old steam powered machine shop for a minute!

Nice tour Adam. Great collection of some old but very functional iron!

Excellent video. You must get recognised a lot at places like this, full of very like minded people. Love your channel, Rich from the U.K 👍

Happy Thanksgiving to all good people.

That is a awesome place. I'm going to have to stop next time I'm going down to Baton Rouge. Thanks for sharing yours and Abby's adventures.

That shop is so sweet ! Even the building is cool. I can picture a bunch of vintage cars in some movie scene at a place like that !

Great video, Excellent tour, Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family !

It is great that all of this has been saved and running TOO. Where I worked in Michigan has a 44 inch LeBlonde lathe and a big brother to the horizontal press. The press originally was powered from an overhead shaft but was converted to a motor and belt to the pulley. There were two piston pumps; the larger for fast movement and the smaller for high pressure and precise control. The original fluid was water. It was used for pressing rail car wheels off and on axles in the machine shop of the Quincy and Torch Lake RR in upper Michigan. The piston of the ram is about 20 inches in diameter. Nice that you got to see all of this in operation(sort of). Thanks again for coming to Lindale on Nov 17.

Very cool Adam. Thanks for sharing. I hope you, Abby and your families have a great Thanksgiving.

So very cool!! The leather tannery I work at used to have a steam pump to run multiple floors of line shafts to run manufacturing equipment. I would love to visit this place.

you n Abbey are a cool couple abomb. That looked like fun, your enthusiasm for the old school stuff is infectious. Too cool. Thanks for bringing us along! :-)

I love the idea of the old belt driven machines Great video

Fascinating tour!

Thanks for the mid week. Amazing place. :)

Very cool, showing how America was built! I love seeing Abbey in your vids.

That was a awesome tour!!

Cool tour, nice to see some old iron being returned to use and repainted like new. Happy Thanksgiving Adam, Abbi, and all the rest of you folks.

Now that is bad ass old school Thank you!!!

Fantastic video best way to spend the day

Hi from England This is a lovely video you've done here Adam... I like the sentiment at the end with the "Dave Richards" music... 👍

Yah Abbey! Nice to see your smiling face.

Great video Adam. Cheers

Thank you for sharing. Stay blessed.

I worked in a shop with the center shaft making plumbing valves and fixtures on a turret lathe. Worst sweatshop ever as the machine shop was above the foundry. There were salt dispensers all over the place. What a great visit today bud.. This takes me way back before CNC was even thought of. Tape drills were as fancy as they ever got. Old school, , , Oh yea ! Fantastic visit today fella !

One of the only videos I watched twice very very interesting and I love it Thank you so much for posting I really really enjoyed the old school stuff This is a cool Video imma show this to my dad he's been doing it long enough to have used some of those old machines

Very Old School Kool!!! Thanks

Oh man, it's like David Richard's shop on steroids! Really interesting video.

WOW - Thanks for sharing this

Great video happy Thanksgiving to both of you.

I think it will take weeks for Adam to wipe the smile off his face.

Amazing stuff!

AWESOME! Adam

Great video. Like the old stuf.

Love to see the old way of doing things but I am glad of today's tech! We've come a long way!

Niceplace thanks for the video and your time.

Very cool shop of yesterday... would love to check it out someday.

cool tour, interesting place full of history ,,

I'm loving this.

Cool, I have a 20" Cincinnati shaper standard alot like that one. Thanks for a fun video Adam!