cool home made tool box

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/981124931271250

a home made forklift!

 

Half scale built for the grandkids built from old mower parts and scrap metal, 10 feet long, 4 feet tall and about 850 pounds. 22 HP engine and hydrostatic transaxle.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/413414438697407/permalink/26587486744196819

seen while grabbing lunch today... look at this over the top back bumper

WWI toys being made entirely from tin cans.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/495/

rescued and restored

 

and that rear rim, was decently garage made

it's not perfect, but it's hand made in Pakistan by someone that REALLY wants a Shelby GT 500, but could only find a Toyota

respect the work even if you aren't thrilled with the outcome

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=389818320318794&set=a.182243761076252

the Makita cordless leaf blower is so powerful, people are using it to power rc airplanes

https://www.tumblr.com/periperico59/730897569170980864?source=share  for a better one. 

These images show the better one in the video at the above link

1950s home made fruit-crate scooter

looks like a 2x4, roller skate wheels, and the crate. 

https://www.wliw.org/brooklyn-best/your-stories/jim-pantaleno/

inspired by the Hefling Special, the Krypt Kickers Farmpunk facebook page guy is making a tank into a model version of the race car, and it's pretty cool to see the step by step progress

not completed, but I got frustrated and decided to post about this now. It's pretty cool to see 

https://www.facebook.com/KryptKickersFarmpunk

hand crafted a wood car for his son, in the garage!

change the play speed to at least 1.5..... it's already time lapsed, but not fast enough

may be, probably is, the coolest thing I've seen this month from a "maker" and family point of view, a 1/2 scale McCormick Deering tractor a dad made for his daughter, at the Symco Union Thresheree

thanks to my sister for noticing this and sharing it with us!

McCormick-Deering 15-30, 1924-26 with the Pomona Vortox model 118 oil-bath air-cleaner

https://www.symcoutc.com/

To see a few others, look up Pat Prom, from Eden Prairie, Minn. Prom previously built three different half-scale Deere models - including an 830 Deere - that were featured in Farm Show magazine (Vol. 22, No. 3).  https://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=12351

and Bud Hengstler, Richard Etzkorn, and Bob Zink, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, using their full-size tractors as models.

https://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/minis.jpg

1907, a car built by a blacksmith

https://www.manitowoccountyhistory.org/stories/cars

Raygun Gothic Rocketship at Burning Man 2009, now currently at Rocket Ice Cream in Denver, next to the Wings over the Rockies air museum.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221887144987891&set=gm.3078940605679306

The Phillips Brothers Mill, near Oak Run, California, the last fully steam powered mill in America and is still operated by the family, all mill machinery is powered by stationary steam engines, little changed since it was first constructed. Probably has existed longer than any of the companies that made the equipment

and this is the scratch built truck that moves the saw dust 

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91D812D3A6AB9D8A

in 1897, when he was twenty-five, Ed Phillips bought the iron head plates from the dismantled Myers Mill for twenty-five dollars apiece to make the log carriage for the sawmill he was building on North Cow Creek. These same head plates have been used in each progressive stage of the Phillips Mill -- from Muley wheel (overshot water wheel) -- to Pelton wheel and penstock -- to steam power -- a span of 106 years.

The first board was cut May 4, 1898. This mill was run on day and night shifts by Ed and one of his brothers, Frank Phillips. Old kerosene lanterns hung on beams and brackets furnished light. Frank cut by night and Ed sorted and stacked by day.

Fire destroyed their first mill on May 3, 1913. At this time the partnership was dissolved between Ed and Frank, and Frank eventually moved to Chico. The following year the mill was rebuilt as a portable mill when Dan, another brother, became a partner. 

They shipped a 1910 Best tractor from Chico to Bella Vista and Dan drove it from there to the mill site on Cow Creek. This steam tractor, built in San Leandro, California, was used at the Phillips mills from 1914 until 1938 when it was replaced by a caterpillar tractor. Even so, it was occasionally used for demonstrations and odd jobs until 1957. This steam tractor made a complete changeover in logging by eliminating entirely the "horse logging". 

The first little logging truck, which had been built in 1905, was now supplemented by a larger truck to haul tandem loads. This truck, like the first, was constructed by hand of native black oak in Ed's blacksmith shop. Wheels were cross sections of Ponderosa pine forty-two inches in diameter, fifteen inches thick at the hub and curved with a spokeshave to ten-inch rims. Handmade squared and sharpened pegs of red fir ten inches long were driven closely into the wheels to strengthen them.

 Axles were made of iron shafting purchased at the Bella Vista Box Factory and the hubs were cast by the Redding Iron Works.

https://phillipsbrothersmill.com/3/miscellaneous1.htm

1906 Best traction engine and a 1909 Case