Old Stuff You Still Use ?

1963 Datejust. Non-quick set.

The truck is a 95 with about 230,000mi on it and is my daily driver.
The Simplicity Yeoman tractor is a 1970 and is still used to mow the lawn,
and the Simplicity SnoAway snowblower is a 71 or 72 and is still used when we get enough to warrant it.

Made in the 1890's. Still use it all the time.



I can't find a picture of it, but my Lincoln stick welder is a mid 50s model. It actually welds better than the new ones do.

Sure....

1823 here....

But I'm on the east coast.. so that is kind of cheating....

that's a hell of a use for some tiger maple....

I was wondering about that myself....

The computer that I'm using to type this message is a damn antique, relatively speaking. Slow as hell but it still works to browse web and send e-mails.

Later,
M

And me too but sure beats the heck out of using it as firewood.:eek1 Had to point that out to a friend a few years back.Birdseye too.... Way too late for use once split...!

No patent date on my best wood clamps, looks like rock maple and couldn't pass at $30.00 back then. May have to use them soon, my 1898 rocking chair is loosening up a little and then I also get to use the very old (1910-20) Canadian made Stanley "Yankee" screwdriver, if just for the kick of using them fine old tools.

Oooops.....that modern tool is out of place there.But it is hanging off something much older.

Here's an old Prentiss vise I still use. It was made around 1903 or late 1890's. I haven't been able to pin it down exactly. I love this old stuff but I hate to say that some of the "old stuff" that I have... I bought brand new.

And one more cool old thing.

Man, that Jumbo made me go out to the garage and check mine: it says Giant, No 7. Newer than yours, I think, but looks virtually identical. I inherited mine from my late father, who had been a carpenter/construction worker for over 40 years. He retired about '67 and I've had it since probably '87 or so.

Those Ithacas were nice guns; my late brother had one in 16 gauge that he swore by for partridge. I think his eldest son still uses it.

I've got an 84 year old Winchester model 1890.

I have a 96 year old model 1912, Just enough math to make my head hurt.

1951 russian sks. Just an internet pic but the same as mine. and my cooey model 75 .22 from the 1940's maybe?

I live in a 113 year old house.

I'm nearly done with the restoration/remodel.

Pretty much my whole existence falls into the category of "old stuff". It's fun seeing all the pictures in the thread, particularly of stuff I have an example of (Winchester, tools, Schwinns, old house, etc.) Notably I still use this regularly, the same age that I am and source of my screen name thanks to other ADV inmates:

I looked into dating my "tube fed" Cooey, not easy as they don't have serial numbers and very little on the net on Cooeys. Canadian guns so...

I hope it shoots as nice and straight as mine. Just like when Grandpa bought it in the late 50's, that is a few years before they were bought by Winchester.

Husqvarna chainsaw bought with my first paycheck out of high school

just cut down a tree with it last weekend.

it needed a butterfly valve about 15 years ago.

just won't quit.

mendo

grandma's cast iron pan still in service...from the 40's