interesting video on making augers

[brightspark]

 

[brightspark]

i used one of those as an apprentice augering all the wooden beams for putting cables in , was horse work for a 15 year old kid with that and steel conduit threading had arms and muscles like popye

 

[Welderpaul]

I watched this a while back, you can loose hours on this sort of stuff
Love the old ways, fashions and workforces. All tells a tale of the time

 

[brightspark]

years ago tools were very expensive to produce and labor was cheap now modern production methods tools and machines are cheaper and labour costs more expensive

 

[bourbon]

Ken Hawley was the collector of the saw collection at Kelham Isle museum (amongst all of the other stuff he collected and filmed.