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The reason old engines always want to run is because there's no computer telling them they can't.

It warms my heart to see young folks that truly appreciate and maintain the legacy of these old machines from a bygone era. I remember going to the fair as a kid of maybe 10, 55 years ago, and being fascinated with these old engines and the big steam tractors. I'd get yelled at by mom for hanging around there for hours listening to the old guy stories, the ones that actually used them, which they were more than happy to tell. And I had a very good idea about how each and every one of them worked, or as much as you can at that age. That payed off in retiring from a wonderful career since then, in a somewhat related field. Thanks you guys. Please pass it on once again.

In France we had the water pump manufacturer Julien & Mege : those were more powerful than spec, and almost silent, a lot of people have then still running.... ( those are 3 phase pumps ) The company went broke because pumps were too reliable and once everyone was equipped, sales went down. Today no one makes parts to refurbish those. The modern pumps are noisy, and last 2 to 3 years max. AAAAND you have to spec up in order for a pump to make that water go up the spec. EVERYTHING made today is worse than yesterday because it is made to be replaced soon, and difficult to repair. Each time my "modern" pup starts, I can't help but hear and feel that it goes closer to be broken, the moise the vibration tells everything.

Is it just me , or does anyone else feel like these beautiful things are alive,with all the snorting and breathing noises that they make ? Fills me with a sense of joy just to hear them , and to see them in action.

I believe that industry worldwide in general looked around some 50-years ago and said to themselves. "We make things that last forever, and therefore have fewer and fewer new sales each year". And with that most makers of goods, but not all have reworked their designs with "Built-In Obsolesace" in mind. Meaning thing are by design made to wear out and fail in a given amount of time and not be easily rebuilt, if at all. This in turn leads to new sales and the growing consumer mentality of being a throwaway society.

Proof positive that a well engineered and maintained piece of equipment is a joy forever. My dad told me stories of a agricultural pump run by a hit-n-miss that ran night and day for years! Oil it, grease it and you'll get old before it wears out. Thanks for the memories, guys.

Lovely. About 30 years ago I met a couple who owned a 1918 Maytag truck. I admired it and I asked where they found parts for it to maintain it. They told me that they never needed parts because they never needed to replace any parts.

These machines are always going to do their job, & that's why I became a machinist so I can help keep everything operational.

That old hit and miss is a rare find. From what I've been told you could find them up until WW2. They started going when farmers had electric from local power plants. You could run just about run any stationary machine Generator, water pump, rock crusher. The old tech is reliable a 1916 engine still works. That's 106 years old.

In 1964 I went with my Great uncle out to tend to some oil wells in SE Kansas and the wells were powered by some hit and miss engines, We filled the grease cups and some had big old jars filled with really heavy oil in them that would drip a drop oil every 15 mins. on some moving parts to keep them lubed up. My father said that those were some of the last engines like that ,and when those were needing repairs they were going to be replaced with electric motors. My father told me of when he went with him as a kid to help him, He went twice a day to service them 7 days a week until his death.

My friend, who is a car mechanic, always tells me: "what isn't on it, can't break". This is such a pure example. Everything on this engine is so simple, yet marvelously engineered. Way more impressive than those computer-runned engines of today.

This has been a deliberate part of manufacturing and industry for at least 50 years. It's called planned obsolescence. Everything from your refrigerator to the light bulbs you buy are made to fail after a certain, pre-planned amount of time, so that you are compelled to buy a new one and replace it.

My old mechanic neighbor found a 1890ish Nova farm engine that looked like a big ball of rust and two weeks later looking better than new I thought it couldn't get any prettier. But your old girl is at another level.

Beautifull . I used to go out to shearing sheds with my dad in the 60's and 70's. was always amazed at the simple old motors that ran all the gear on farms and out stations. old oil burner single pot engines with 3-4 sometimes 5 different belts running something. Running on diesel, kerosene and later, even vegetable cooking oils and old sump oil in a pinch. Later, (late 70's & 80's)working as a stockman on outback stations (Aussie ranches) most of our stationary motors were similar. Any oil changes were filtered and went into drums to run the simplest of engines. Old hit and miss engines turning generators or water pumps to power the place and pump water up from the river into overhead tanks for showers, gardens and drinking water. Summertime they were essential. No aircon in summer temps up near 50c were brutal. We had a grass house to sleep in. walls were 2 layers of wire mesh 12 inches apart stuffed with spinifex (spiky desert grass clumps), Sprinkler heads along the roof lines that sprayed water down the walls. As the breeze came through the grass it cooled inside. Often there was no breeze, so a couple of old 40 inch workshop fans saved the day. Without those old motors running pumps etc, life would have been a lot more uncomfortable. History that many never experienced and many more will never see.

The reason these old engines are still around today is that most of them haven't run or pulled a load in 80 years or more. Anything will last forever if it isn't used.

The lack of safety around that flywheel that would literally rip you in half is astounding.

love to see these old machines, still doing their thing today! nothing made since about the mid-70s will ever outlast these durable machines

That's a big beast! I want to hear the story how you found it. I have 9 and 12 horse Hercules built Economy and Champion engines. They don't have the compression release, so I start them by holding the exhaust valve open with the governor latch using my left hand on the pushrod ; while I spin the flywheels with the right hand. Love that sound!

No pen pusher will appreciate this! The old people were not stupid, my wife has got a 100% working 1928 singer sewing machine that still uses a treadle, the mind of the old folks were sharp! Love this !!!🇿🇦

Love that these old bits of kit are kept 'alive' to teach younger generations. Love also the skills and 'nous' to keep them going!. Nice one!.

Very cool! I love seeing old tech still working. I love tech that you can actually figure out by looking at its parts and watching it work.

I have a Fairbanks Morse model Z 3hp. not a hit and miss but from near the same era. I am like a little kid every I time I fire it up. It starts at 6 below and at 100 degrees. These are just amazing pieces of history from our past. I will never part with it. What a beautiful machine!

This fantastic machine exemplifies everything that is wrong with modern junk, this old gal will still be chugging away for hundreds of years with just a little maintenance, while modern garbage will be rotting in landfill for hundreds of years. Great video,thanks for sharing!👌

Well, considering in the 1950s, you were lucky to get your car to 100k without some rather significant repairs, I don't know that I would say that all things were more reliable and long lasting. Heck, an automobile from 1950 required meticulously religious oil checks within a very narrow window. You failed to change your oil by a certain time and you'd probably done some damage to the engine... Getting an automobile to 200k-300k like a lot of Toyotas can today was almost impossible on a mid 20th century car without a complete overhaul.

When I was 13 to 16 I used to work in my dads scrapyard. We often got farm clean out jobs, old factory clean out jobs . . . scrapped lots of stuff from the turn of the century . . . 1900 I am talking. One complete 1880 generator set we kept for a few years, had a coal fired steam engine and a generator, made DC current and a LOT of it. It had been in a factory from before that part of the city had reticulated electricity. The company was a family business and the grand father had them keep it as backup power. It had been perfectly maintained, and we ran it a couple of times just for the interests sake. Imagine what it would be worth now. Eventually it went out to the steel-mill, and was scrapped.

I'm so glad you still have this video and was able to post it on your new channel. Thanks.👍👍

Very well maintained..... Most beautiful thing in the world is to see these century old engines running.... 👍👍

We had to watch safety videos in agriscience class that warned of PTOs ripping your junk off and other things. I always wondered how. After watching him lay on that clutch I get it now, lol.

Beautiful engine! Had a friend who was a member of the Florida Flywheelers for a long time, so I got to go to various meets and see a bunch of these things. Wonderful.

Whoever engineered these galloways were GENIUS!

My Great Grandfather drilled oil wells in Butler County, PA and used the natural gas from the well heads to power hit and miss engines to pump the oil. One of them did backfire while he was standing on the flywheel footpeg and throw him through the roof of the shack. Each engine had a different barker so they could tell from a distance if one stopped.

I can see why you love that old girl so much. She's a living, breathing work of art and built to last.

Reminds me of starting an old B John Deere I used to use in the hayfield sometimes, except the Deere had 2 compression relief valves, one on each cylinder. That thing was awesome!

Cool to see such a remarkable piece of machinery. Appreciate your uploading the video.

Thanks for sharing your work with me and my family! Awesome thanks. I seen a 1922 Fordson tractor today at my friend's house! I was awe struck to see it sitting as yard art. Wish it was being worked on.

The machine shop, gearbox repair business where I work had a machine that sharpens blades that make worm gears. It was 86 years old when it needed its first repair. The need? A thicker spacer. The engineering on the machine was so intelligent.

Absolutely Brilliant, I love those old hit n miss motors. Looked after it would last for a thousand years!!!!

Very cool to see one of these engines run. They were used in saw mills and in farming and industry. What a sweet simple means of solid horsepower. Obviously these guys were made to last.

There are quite a few Hit and Miss engines on YT. but this is one of nicer ones that I've seen.

That is a sweet picture to see in great condition!! And running that easy and quick is priceless.

This was so cool to see it run unreal built to last. Sweat! Great job!!

I expect the torque is amazing. I remember we had a tug of war between a steam traction engine with I expect low horsepower and probably 50 people. Nobody won as the near two inch inch thick rope broke and sent us all flying. This was of course a long time ago before the days of elf and safety.

I have a 1912 IHC Victor. Absolutely love to see someone else who appreciates and loves these one lunger's.

Blast from the past every time I stumble across this channel. Thanks for teaching me how to weld.

The thing, or the information, concerning this engine, and like many others, is: If there had been a cam that opened that intake valve, much more HP would have been created. That was the secret of that time.

its always amazing to see art in motion such as this engine here

What a beautiful machine. And it gots the perfect owner who cares about it so it will last many more years. I'm very impressed how easy it starts up. Love those hit-and-miss engines. Many greetings from Germany.

The Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine has a old steam engine with a 18 foot flywheel on it. Impressive museum with some awesome antique machines.

Grease is still cheaper then building new parts. Excellent video information.

Loved this video. This guy is freakishly knowledgeable about the engine and able to quickly and entertainingly explain the intricate nature of the beast to us laymen sittin' on our couches enjoying the video.. Bravo! Bravo! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for saving her and sharing her with us. Also if you ever want to sell it keep Jay Leno in mind, he would love it!

Awesome! I can see Jay Leno finding out you have this and coming by to make you an offer.

I knew an old man who had one of these set up with an ice cream maker that could make five gallons at a time of extremely good icecream!!! 🤠👍🍦

Love it. I go to shows all year round that have these kind of working engines, steam, classic, military, agricultural, commercial vehicles. My passion is motorcycles. A slightly different story. When I was at college studying engineering, we used to do tests on a single cylinder 1100 cc diesel donkey engine. Brake dyno torque measurements mostly. One of my student peers complained that there was blowing from the engine and pointed to a 3 inch pipe. I told him it was the inlet stack. To disprove me, he put his workbook in the vicinity of the stack. Naturally, it sucked a 3 inch hole in his book and then consumed the rest. His whole year's worth of notes came out of the exhaust stack in tiny pieces.

This is really cool and i love seeing these ancient machines run its so good to see these things still running. However that doesnt mean your title is true... it isnt better but it is a great example of the legacy of piston engines

Get out of town, this thing is amazing! Had similar engine, diesel powered 1 piston Aran from Croatia, and it had same principle, together with passive cooling system. It used to power corn stripper and selector and it was amazing.

Nice! I have the 5 HP version of that engine. It hasn't run in years. Moves by hand, and seams to be in great shape. Where did you get your springs? Most of mine are missing.

What a beast. My dad used to work on things like that many many years ago. He could repair and indeed build so many bits of machinery, vitually out of nothing. I t had to be out of nothing because they couldn't get much out in the country with no money. No money but a very clever self taught brain and skill set. A lost art.

I knew a gentleman in Carterville, Mo. who has a 1909 Model T Touring. The engine has never been opened up much less overhauled and it still runs.

beautiful engine and that looks like a really fascinating building inside.

I've always known older is better. I'm still driving a 1981 Chevy C10. Less than $9K in it. Had it for almost 30 years. Wouldn't trade it for anything. MAINTENANCE, people... MAINTENANCE! Learn how to work on what you drive. Can save you tens of thousands.

what an awesome piece of equipment! glad yall have taken such good care of her!

Thank you for making this vid good men. I so love this part of our inventive, “ bootstraps” culture that seems to have wasted away. Hit or miss engines just completely “tickle my fancy!” 😊😊

That is as BEAUTIFUL as it is INCREDIBLE!!! I WISH I COULD SEE IT IN PERSON!! Imagine the simplicity!!! Technology that was INTENTIONALLY discarded so someone could line their pockets with more cash. Also look at how efficient it is... TOTALLY INCREDIBLE. I've ALWAYS loved old creations because they were invented to do EXACTLY what was needed at that particular time, coining the term "getting what you paid for". Also, in a sense-the older technology was just better-actually making it NEW technology! The tech of today is backwards because it's more harmful to the enviornment and costs way more to operate. These days there's all kinds of extra stuff in new technology because it's COST driven. With the old tech, it was VERY cheap to actually USE the equipment & it made for a greener planet. Documentaries come on all the time talking about how pre-civilizations DESTROYED themselves through their technology-which is EXACTLY what society is doing today. Keep it simple & it could possibly last forever in a sense. I see why this fella appreciates/is crazy about this piece. I would be too...

We used to have a dozen or more hit-skip engines and steam tractors show up at our local fair each year, all beautiful machines. If I ever have the resources I want to build one to replace my generator for emergency power, so much more reliable over time lol.

Chucky you're BACK! I thought you were gone forever! Thanks for doing more videos.

What a beautiful piece of machinery this is. It’s as if it comes to life when it starts up. Simply fascinating.

Over 100 year old Gear: *Still runs perfectly* 5 year old Gear: *either already breaking or already broken*

Neat machine great restoration-- sounds like it has asthma!!

Great to see these preserved engines. Steve, Nottingham, England

This guy has an absolute passion for this engine! Well done!

I can understand this... love the hit-N-miss motors!❤️

I'd like to see one of these hooked up to a generator head and powering a modern home!

The amount of hit fire or whatever they're called that my friend and his dad had, tens of thousands of dollars probably more considering that just single ones cost more than that, sitting in their driveway or their garage was insane. Absolutely beautiful machines

It's amazing to see the things that people came up with back when there were no parts stores to get anything from.

Older vehicles didn't need security devices to keep people from stealing them. If you didn't know the code you weren't starting that thing. Pump 3 times hold starter for 5 seconds,wait 60 seconds pump once hold starter for 10 seconds. Don't touch the gas turn the key and it starts. No one could start your car but you.

The key to making something last forever is to make it run with as low-stress as possible. This thing has 16 horsepower. Granted *true* horsepower, but even for that 16 is rather small. It's RPM never went past 200 here. And I don't see the compression on that enormous piston being particularly strong. Especially with the exhaust valve open so much. There is not a lot of heavy banging from high compression & smooth 4 stroke Operations. So the piston rings, piston & cylinder walls have virtually nothing wearing them. There is not much temperature change on the engine with it firing so sparsely. So thermal expansion & contraction wear isn't really an issue. There is not much centrifugal force being put on all the internal components, such as the crankshaft, camshaft & their respective bearings. With such a slow RPM You could probably get _5 years_ out of this thing by running it dry! *DRY!* AS IN WITH NO OIL WHATSOEVER IN IT! These days, you won't get 10 MINUTES out of a dry engine! But put oil and/or grease in it? Once in awhile. That thing'll outlive your grandchildren, and _their_ grandchildren's grandchildren. Just keep the EPA away from it. They have a tendency to make life hard for the average person like you and I.

MAGNIFICENT, AWESOME, MEZMERIZING AND BEAUTIFUL. What a joy and marvel to behold. Thankyou so very much, for sharing your wonderful example, of engineering progress, with us. Be safe, well, content and free. Bob. Australia.

Fantastic ! Great history and infectious enthusiasm. Thanks for the video. Colin UK

Considering that the owner just bid on an anvil, one use for that engine would be great for would be powering a blacksmiths power hammer of about the same vintage or running a small sawmill set up.

That is awesome!! Thanks for sharing

I don't know that I'd go as far as calling it better than modern equipment, but it sure as hell is a whole lot more interesting. All those spinning wheels and moving parts and various and Sundry noises that the thing makes, just like a mechanical Symphony. Just brings a smile to your face.

I have no idea why your video showed up but I’m sure happy it did. I love stuff like this.

That was worth my time. I could make an excuse for owning something like that. Pretty girl!

I firmly agree with the statement made in the title of this video. Used to work for a defense contractor that made various military gear, so it was a sewing factory & when we were building a large, mostly automated piece of equipment, when it came time to select the 3 sewing machines, there we’re basically two options…buy brand new commercial brother sewing machines (great products) for a cheaper price, or 1940’s era refurbished American Standard machines for a decent amount more money, the decision was made to go with the 80 year old machines for more money. Rightly so.

Man I have been looking for your channel. You have taught me a while bunch of stuff . Happy to subscribe again

I love how he warns of the drive shaft, but not the two 500 lb flywheels that he casually strokes.

She is gorgeous gal. Really sounds good. I want to thank you very much for sharing.

I never doubted that. The fact that steam engines, machine tools etc. that were maintained are still running but, modern stuff breaks almost as soon as you buy it.

love good of the land fest! justin is a super nice guy! thanks for posting this !!

My uncle has something similar it was the engine for an old pump jack here in Oklahoma. He spent two years trying to unfreeze the piston before he got it to move. Restored it and used it to power an antique ice cream machine at the local 4th of July celebration.

I don’t care who you are, this is pretty badass! Great video guys!

Built over 100 years ago and it still runs when they made stuff they made it last forever not like today

Work of art only thing would worry me having shroud over those wheels wouldn't wanna tangle with that...TY for sharing that!!

What an incredibly satisfying video! Thanks! I needed a good Kickstart this morning. 👍🏻

Hey it's Salt'n'Peppa, "ahh push it" lol !! If they wanted to, they could design an engine that would never wear out. But where would there be a market for replacement parts?? Thanks for the video.

I'm pretty sure I remember watching this years ago on Chuckee's channel. Didn't this east Texas museum guy quit or either close the museum thing?

They don't make them like that anymore. I think it's cool that this guy knows everything about this motor, inside and out. Thanks for the video! 😎

There needs to be a museum for such creations from history that should never be forgotten. And a virtual museum, so everyone around the world can see these relics without having to stumble upon them randomly as I did. And now, I'd love to see the factory that produced it!