Baling Wire Intro, Hammer Fix and E-Z Hose Clamp Tool.

The older I get the more I appreciate Baling wire!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Happy Veterans Day!!! 😃👍

[@ivanivanych8212]

Scout we have in Russia, too, such do. look at this kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpnHiXSKlqZljK8

[@tombob671]

Happy Veterans Day Gyrene, Semper Fi ( Sister Mary Numchuck sends her best too)

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Right. Happy US day!

[@jimmac1185]

Happy Marine Corps birthday too! 1st Bn 25th Marines 4th MARDIV 2002-2010. 🇺🇸

[@wayneo7307]

Hi Scout , I Hope you had A Great Veterans Day Too !

[@glengrossnickle4985]

Always had bailing wire around when I was a kid. My dad was a old farm boy so he used it for everything. You made me wonder were he got it. We lived in town. He always loved auctions or he had a lot of friends that were still farmers so maybe both. It held up a lot of exhaust pipe on my cars when I was a teenager. Thanks for your service.

[@scottschucker4820]

"When people use to park in my driveway, I use to take their antenna." LOL.

[@literoadie3502]

I loved it! That story about salvaging copper from the dump genuinely made me punch the air here watching the video! I love that kind of thing! As a kid I loved digging though any kind of scrap pile/dump for bits of metal to play with, I’ve liked heavy metal stuff for as long as I can remember. I remember taking rebar drops (from the shear) from construction sites around where I lived, and using them to dig holes when I was a kid. It made some of the other kids with their plastic shovels quite jealous, because my steel tools (scrap metal) didn’t break like their toys😆

[@ScoutCrafter]

I always liked rebar! It was super tough and heavy for the size! =)

[@literoadie3502]

ScoutCrafter It would always rust like crazy!

[@jacobb.]

My wife buys picture hanging kits and there is always a length of steel braided wire we never use. I use that wire for my old wooden file handles to fix or reinforce. Mr. Pete had something similar a few weeks ago, very cool to make your own tool. Happy Veterans Day everyone.

[@leebrewer1190]

Saw these tools awhile ago and wanted to build one. Admittedly I like the one piece design that is available better (like at the start of your video), but the design you made is just so simple and easy to do. Amazing also how you keep all that random stuff so organized! Thanks for another educational video! 👏👏👏

[@Discover-Bible-Prophecy]

I salute all the men and women who have served and are serving in the military. I raise my hand to salute you... thanks for your service. ...Art

[@ScoutCrafter]

Thanks Art!!!

[@nikki13t]

Great job on the hammer. Learned something new today...Your videos are more valuable that going to college for four years. This is something you can use in real life.

[@ScoutCrafter]

LOL! You are so right, I read somewhere that today it takes at least 20 years to recover from a College education! =)

[@805ROADKING]

Thoroughly enjoyed that!! "Make sure you open that crack up good"!! Happy Veterans Day Mate!!☺

[@ScoutCrafter]

805ROADKING 😂😂😂

[@TheCar1ter]

Scout you amaze me with the knowledge and the things you know. Your like the handyman encyclopedia. Great job on the hammer. And one service man to another. Thank you for your service my friend!!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Thanks so much Thomas!!!!

[@Doco72]

That hose clamp is a great idea, people's ingenuity amazes me sometimes. Great video!

[@waynemiracle8928]

I really appreciate this video. My favorite carpenter hammer is a 16oz Plumb with a red wooden handle. I bought it over 40 years ago. Over the years of use it developed a crack in the handle just like your ball peen hammer. I’ve been wondering how I was going to fix it? You just solved my problem! Thanks ScoutCrafter! It well worth watching your videos! I really enjoy each of them!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Wayne, Years ago the old timers always tried to fix before replace... =) Sometimes fixed tools work better!

[@jamesmcdonough4402]

Awsome vid!!! Ive seen tools wrapped in wire but never done it.as far as the wire clamp, INGENIOUS!!!

[@tonylenge424]

Happy Veterans Day to you and all . Love that wire clamp tool. Will need to make one. Thanks

[@57WillysCJ]

Good old baling wire. As far as I know hay bale hooks were designed because of baling wire. I worked a few loads of small round bales baled on the old Allis Chalmers Roto Baler. They were heavy and the wire ripped up your hands quickly especially a kid with uncalloused hands. Baling wire is where the term haywire came from. Rebar wire is handy. Glad you built the clamp rapper.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Philip- You are so right, wire can easily expose tender skin!!!! =)

[@lotsabirds]

Thank You For Your Service, John!

[@38Chev572]

Very cool hammer resto, and the best/simple/easiest hose clamping tool on YT.

[@haroldsimon3707]

Liked your talk on bailing wire. Another use that was used when working on airplanes was safety wiring mount connections for electronic devices. I was in electronics and we used both twenty thousands or 32 thousands wire on all radio mounts to prevent loosening because of vibration. We had a wire twisting tool to twist the wire between the mounting wing nut and the mount itself. As you know you have to position the wire so the mounting nut cannot loosen. There is a backward way to safety wire something. Mostly used safety wire for securing cannon plugs on radio/radar equipment.

[@stuartlockwood9645]

Hi Scout, first of all thank you for your service. Wire is great stuff ,before duck tape that's what most of us used to bind things together for a temporary /permanent fix , we have a saying, quote, ( it's held together whith spit and baling wire ) meaning a sketchy fix lol. Nice fix on the hammer, I've done the same type of thing whith twine whipping, then soak it all in superglue, it sets like concrete. Best wishes Scout.regards Stuart uk.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Stuart! I learned to tie flys in the scouts, after that I was wrapping all sorts of stuff with thread and twine! =D

[@davidcoats1037]

Bailing wire for the win! I always keep that stuff around. I want to make one of those wire clamp things. That hammer handle turned out great. Happy Veterans Day John and thank you for your service. Take care.

[@tfknauss]

Awesome video, really nice clamp idea. The hammer turned out really nice,, I'm going to find an old hammer now to do that. Love the look. Happy Veterans day, thanks for your service pal, SF.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hello Todd! I was thinking of you while making this video! I thought "I bet Todd has some awesome Bailing wire stories and tips" I'm a city boy but the farmers really know all the tricks! =) Thanks!!!!!!

[@tfknauss]

@@ScoutCrafter Dad and I would use the wire a lot during trapping season too! 70s and 80s furs were going for great prices. Always had "fenceing" wire pieces in the tractor's tool boxes... they were the quick and poor guys cotter pins in a crunch (wagon hitch pins) too.

[@bigmikeh5827]

Hey Devil Dog, hope you had a great day. From one vet to another thanks for your service.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Thanks Mike! This is always a great holiday because they show great movies on TV! =D

[@alexstools]

Great video, I learned quite a lot, I'm going to try out that clamp someday soon I hope. I hat it when people enter my driveway too, it gave me the best laugh of the day when you showed the antenna's. You are so right about the weekend going fast, so many odd jobs and obligations in those two days. I'm going to keep my head up (with a little help from your videos) the next four days and it will soon be weekend again! :) Thanks a lot John!

[@yrtuag]

Cool😎 love the Sears branded hammer. For most of my life, I've been a Craftsman tools guy and also liked the Sears branded tools when they were made here. I sure do miss the Sears of yesterday 🙁 Great show as usual. 👍😎🤠

[@ScoutCrafter]

Me too Jim! Their Sear line was still decent quality but without the lifetime warranty and a much lower price! They made some great stuff! =)

[@frankg3072]

Excellent video. It’s ingenious some of the things you come up with and God bless you, you save everything!!! My father was in the construction industry and he always had cracked wooden handles on his hammers and he used good old black tape. He would have loved watching your videos!! I’ll bet you brought your copper wire to Labretti brothers.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Frank! Black tape is a fine fix for those splits! A few wraps around and the hammer is as good as new! There definitely is a design flaw with that split always happening right there! =)

[@EVILDR235]

I have using heavy string to do the same type of handle repairs. After wrapping the string around the handle, I paint the string to bond it all together. That way if the string gets damaged, it does not unwind. That winding tool is neat, I need to make one also.

[@bigviper64]

Awesome! Thanks, loved your spirit and ingenuity…

[@michaelpugh4894]

Saw bailing wire as a kid. Never saw it since. Nice demo on the wire clamp.

[@Traderjoe]

Interesting thing is, my wife and I care for my in-laws chickens and rabbits and they go through bales of hay every month or two and the new hay is wrapped with a heavy nylon cord and we save that cord too and repurpose it as well and I find it lasts many years, even exposed to the elements and never breaks. It’s heavier than the cord you see at the Home Depot that they give to people to tie things to their cars. But even that cord is great too. I always grab dozens of feet of it and even keep hanks of it in my trunk in case I need to tie something down. On KZbin there’s a guy named Vinnys Day Off and he uses it for bushcraft purposes and dragging materials around and it’s very lightweight and durable.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Joe- I bought the box of twine just recently! The same white nylon twine that Home Depot gives away they also sell by the 6000 ft box! =D

[@warrencraig6948]

the hose clamp was a great idea but i would've liked to of seen how you did the hammer

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Warren, Sorry I was running a bit long... I'll have to show it on another tool! =-D

[@larryborkstrom3580]

Happy veterans day and happy birthday to the USMC yesterday thanks for the tips on bail wire

[@Resto-Rob]

Awesome! Will have to try the hose clamp. Looks like it works well. 👍 I have always liked the ballpeen hammers. 🔨

[@ScoutCrafter]

Me too! Ball Peen are always fun to use!

[@timeflysintheshop]

Good practical repair on the hammer with the wire. I suspect you could have used the 17 fence wire more easily (fewer wraps). I have a spool of stainless steel lock wire I use for random things like this. I have had it since I was a kid. I don't remember where I got it, but there is still about half left. Among other uses, I have used it to "sew" broken plastic things back together like a go-cart body, dirt bike fenders, things like that. I bet it would work great for the wire hose clamp set-up. My father has always been involved with aviation, and I think the lock wire is used on special fasteners (like castle nuts) on things that can not come apart in the air. Fun quote: There are OLD pilots. There are BOLD pilots. But there are no OLD, BOLD pilots!

[@ScoutCrafter]

James, The wire I used wrapped on the handle like string, very easy. The 17 Ga. is very hard to wrap easily and requires a lot of pulling force to lay flat on the handle... Kevlar is a great alternative!!!!

[@1lupus]

Hmm Hose Clamp maker. OK you convinced me. Special Tool # 659 will be on the workbench this afternoon.

[@steph2211]

Nice fix Sout looks good, those hose clamp tool are handy to have will get you out of trouble. To all are veterans thank you Merci R22eR.

[@mercoid]

Happy Veterans Day! It’s just amazing that almost every video you put out lately has to do with some obscure thing that I recently had experience with! When I moved into my house there was a huge bundle of bailing wire in the garage. I use it often for many things. Last week I used some to secure sash chains to the weights for some windows I repaired. And just a few vids ago....you showed a whole mess of sash chain you bought...lol

[@ScoutCrafter]

I'm hoping to show the younger generation all the great stuff so often forgotten! =D

[@highdownmartin]

One my best finds ever is a blue cable drum of galvanised soft iron wire. 18 gauge? It's on permanent standby in the garage and I use short lengths all the time for everything. Hanging a painted item to dry, tying nuts and washers back on to whatever they came off. A decent skein of it in the car to tie up an exhaust if needed etc etc. Been there 25 years now still got about a mile left! And you dead right about that little split in most small shafts

[@ScoutCrafter]

Got to take that if you move!!! =)

[@jusb1066]

Finally something I beat you to! I made the type of tool with the thread and you turn the end to tighten, gets you more working room but more fiddly, great for airline hoses as you handle them at the join, better than jubilee type clamps

[@ScoutCrafter]

I think the preferred wire for these clamps is Stainless Steel... They do work very well!

[@vicpetrishak7705]

Your easy to make bailing wire tightening tool is a very simple tool idea that works ! Placing heat shrink tubing over the mechanical wire splice covers any sharp wire ends .

[@jbiz8450]

That is a nice fix on that hammer. I've replaced handles on multiple ballpein hammers for that same reason.

[@2dividedby3equals666]

Happy Veterans Day John!! What a fantastic episode! This is one of the things about your channel, it doesn't matter what the subject is, you're always able to make it interesting. I had heard about these wire clamps before, don't remember how but I've known them for a while, and when I was about to ask if you thought the Kobalt was better than the Craftsman, BANG! You pull one up! I first saw one on Abom79's channel, they look really handy, I'll try to get my hands on one! Take care!!!

[@ScoutCrafter]

My buddy Steve just bought one at the tool show, I told him he will love it! Really a great tool for cutting all types of stuff! =D

[@AtomicReverend]

Scout, Rebar tie wire is pretty much identical to baling wire that you would find on a bale of alfalfa and it's very reasonably priced compared to the shiny "baling" wires that the home improvement stores sell. As for the clamp tool, who ever figured that out is pretty smart.

[@christopherlusk9385]

Happy Veterans Day to you also...enjoyed the hammer repair.

[@OldSneelock]

The hose clamp idea is interesting. Glad we didn't have to do those at the foundry. The place was made of air hose. Having to assemble the wire loops and then thread the wire and fixture to tighten it all while standing over red hot castings would have been miserable. The accountants would have loved it, but the maintenance crew wouldn't. 😆😎

[@RobertBosworth]

Thank you for your service, John.

[@Weztcoastguy]

This is the best channel on KZbin, thanks for all the tips and tricks. How do you store your silicone tubes so they don’t harden after use? I stick a nail in the tube but it still hardens. Cheers 🇨🇦

[@ronsbeerreviewstools4361]

Good video.I have a number of small rolls of metal wire. Thumbs up !

[@blatantmisconception]

Baling twine was a big part of my childhood crafting and woods bumming. It's great stuff, but it's not baling wire. Baling wire was gooooood stuff. The farm I grew up on had transitioned to twine, but there was a new spool of baling wire forgotten under my dad's work bench. Good stuff! I'd come across it in junk heaps and dumps in other farms too, I miss those days.

[@mrbenmall]

Thank you for your service. Happy Veterans Day.

[@joeheilm]

Great episode! That wire tightening tool is great....i gotta make one. Ill have wire wrapped around everything 🤣🤣🤣. Happy Veteran's Day. Cheers

[@markrandall1456]

One of those close quarter wrenches would have made an attractive handle for your tool.

[@elsdp-4560]

THANK YOU...for sharing. Watched and enjoyed.

[@smoxen]

Really enjoyed this !...

[@tomdale1313]

wish i could of see the footage of the hammer fix/wire spooling...good stuff

[@ScoutCrafter]

Will Do Tom!

[@jayhiz3514]

Looks great and thanks for the lesson. Oh and happy vetrans day!

[@condensermike]

Ha! I fixed my neighbor's mower throttle with a little wire. Good stuff!

[@cindiberg7718]

Wow your ceiling is a catch all

[@mercuryrising9174]

Thats was very cool scout. Love the wire clamp tool. Could you demonstrate how a simpler tool could be made with out any kind of milling like with hand tools

[@ScoutCrafter]

The only tools I used to make that tool was a hack saw, belt sander, round file and drill press.. The hardest part of that built is drilling a hole in the middle of 1/4" stock... It's so easy to go crooked! =D

[@mercuryrising9174]

@@ScoutCrafter scout i dont wanna speak out of turn. But ive been looking i to hack knives. And they are listed places ive found as cable sheath splitting knife or sheathing cutter knife also youde think they were easier to find almost everywhere i have looked they are out of stock. I guess its my hang up but i cannot shop on those suspect websits ive been checking tool supply houses. I like to talk to the person once i verify its a legit business .anyway i hope you guys all have a fantastic weekend 😀

[@williamokrasinski9840]

Most don't realize amount of effort wrapping 16' of small wire around anything and yours is neat. Been there done that. I am curious how your anchored the wire ends on the hammer handle fix ? Looks like you poked ends through the wood. If so did you use #40 drill for holes ?

[@grilnam9945]

I vaguely remember my father doing a similar handle repair using waxed cotton cord

[@jusb1066]

Works great even with hemp string as the wood glue can stick to it too

[@jris]

I wanted to revisit this I forgot why you put that mechanics wire on the handle, and mentioned it recently. I love those Vaughan made ball peens with the ribbed heads.

[@jeffreyyeater1780]

On those hammer handles I use JB weld . Amazing stuff . also check out JB epoxy putty .

[@patmadix172]

. Pair of pliers and bailing wire keep ya model T going

[@70carlton]

Scout Crafter has gone haywire!

[@alchemy1]

Can a person use this to secure that rubber boot that seals the drum on Front Load washing machine? The boot is over a foot in diameter and it is held by two clamps.

[@Dardrum]

In the shipyards of old, #9 wire is like duct tape today.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Duck tape is good but doesn't last as long as Baling wire... =D The UV's destroy duct tape after a while... =)

[@drstrangefart]

I can't tell you how many times I've had to use the city boy version of baling wire. Straighten a cheap coat hanger out and you're in business.

[@ScoutCrafter]

I have picked more wire hangers out of the garbage then anyone I know! =D

[@Everythings_Adjustable]

Thanks, I need to make one of those wire clamp tools 👍

[@willyqueen4066]

Thanks great video and old # 9 wire is a little hard to bend.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Yes! But it really holds stuff great! =)

[@blatantmisconception]

Harbor Freight sells a 1lb coil of stainless wire at a fair price. Comes in a cool blue dispenser too.

[@miketownsend6108]

awesome ; i do the same in the floor joints as you do . we might be brothers was your dad a mail man LOL

[@ScoutCrafter]

LOL- I have so much stuff up there! =)

[@Traderjoe]

Thanks for your service, John! How did you wrap the hammer wire? It looked like a different method than the hose clamp apparatus.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Joe! Yes! I just wrapped it very close and tight... Single wrap then coated it with epoxy and hit it with the heat gun so the epoxy would not show... =)

[@virginiagonzalez1138]

Hello John. Would you trust that wire fix on a hatchet? Or just replace the handle?

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Virginia, It's funny you ask, I have about 30 hatchets- (different from Axes) and the danger is almost always not to the user but the person standing in front of the user! I wouldn't worry about my personal hatchet but couldn't trust a crack for the Scouts, in fact I used to add lanyards to some scout hand axes! =)

[@ronb1071]

Screen wire unraveled is a good replacement for malable bailing wire.

[@grilnam9945]

And for us Remembrance Day.

[@electrabob]

I've had a Handi-Cut since they first hit the market.

[@furia58]

You need to show the placement of the wire in the hammer

[@stewartew]

Scoutcrafter, take a scrap of wood, pound two nails forming a "vee", place your wire in the vee and pull the wire it will remove the outside of the wire fast and easy.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Ernie- It doesn't bunch up?

[@ke6bnl]

I made the same design you made and one just like the ones sold and on that works like a backward pliers that open when you squeeze to stretch the wire that is loop around the tube twice then one twist and remove from the pliers. l use Harbor Freights stainless wire about .032 wire very malleable.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Ed! I think the Stainless wire is a much better choice for the hose clamps! I will have to hit HF and get some! Thanks!!!!!!!!

[@adude7050]

Lee Valley sells those tools I was going to send you one.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Abe I'm still going thru your last batch of great stuff!!!!!! =D

[@stephenkent8903]

Very cool.

[@chrisseats]

I love the antenna collection! LOL Just a little something to remind people not to illegally park next time! HAPPY VETERANS DAY!

[@cronesfelicion3758]

Aww not fair , you should have shown us your wrapping technique

[@ScoutCrafter]

Definitely will do!

[@tooladdict7463]

Hi John great video is always have you ever found a use for the antennas other than satisfaction 😉

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Ben! Actually yes! They are usually high grade stainless steel rod and have come in quite handy for many projects!!!! =D I will have to explain my driveway situation... =D

[@minicowman]

@@ScoutCrafter I'm a ham radio guy (KN2Z).. They often work great to make a 2 meter or 70 cm yagi .. I've heard.. ;)

[@mortkebab2849]

You didn't show putting the wire on the hammer!

[@Esuper1]

Yeah, remember when you said it would only take a couple of feet of wire? I've done that.

[@cindiberg7718]

How old is that ball peen hammer to have the Sears name on it?

[@ScoutCrafter]

I know! I don't think I have seen another... I like the forging on the head it looks quality. Sears made lots of great entry level tools that were good but didn't carry the Craftsman warranty... =)

[@coburnlowman]

This is what GM should have been given in their "Bale"' Out. Or let them use their own bale wire used to hold together the garbage cars they sell. I use to do tool making for all auto makers. GM would have us to alter their gauges to fit the parts coming off our tooling just to get the vehicles out on the market.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Phil- I was a big fan of American cars prior to 1970... Now I am a fan of Japanese cars.. They do take pride in their vehicles.

[@wot_hog]

Never showed us how he wrapped and stretched the wire on the hammer. :-(

[@pdloder]

Your repair would have been fine without grinding all that wood off. - by doing that it's probably now as weak as it was before your repair. The wire is running in the right direction to hold the split together, but it's not adding anything to the strength of the handle that you've just weakened.

[@HardKnocksForge]

I knew you were a classy guy... No hos laying around your place. Maybe one of these days I'll up my standards and get rid of my old hos also. 😉

[@ScoutCrafter]

LOL- Now I will need to buy a new hose before the spring! LOL

[@jschmied73]

You park in my driveway uninvited and I take your schrader valve core.

[@ScoutCrafter]

LOL!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!!

[@kywildcats6476]

Everybody's got a tool how you do it without

[@djaekley]

Crack in ball peen hammer happens when you miss the target you are attempting to strike

[@ronb1071]

Screen wire is even more malable and hard to break.

[@70carlton]

breaking a hammer handle that way is an expensive way to figure out you used too small of a hammer! so you were hitting with too much force trying to make up for the light hammer

[@ScoutCrafter]

It's funny how it always seems to be the Ball Peen hammers that develop this crack!

[@70carlton]

just take my word for it,...time picks up speed when you're over the hill! I think someone sold me defective calendars,...the pages keep flying off!

[@tonylenge424]

That’s funny and you are so right!

[@ScoutCrafter]

70carlton You are so right! 😃👍

[@wayneo7307]

What Happens is You're Over the Hill , So You're Going Down the Other Side !

[@Dominic.Minischetti]

My dad always had some bailing wire in the garage! I can’t even count how many times I’ve used it. I have a roll at all times! It’s like duct tape!

[@vincentwesolowski459]

Boy, are you going to have a fun time packing up all of your stuff when you move to your new home.

[@ScoutCrafter]

LOL I dread it everyday!

[@carver3419]

When I was young, baling wire was suggestive of a quick and dirty repair job. It seems today that duct tape has filled that need. I remember the phrase: "Held together by spit and baling wire".

[@ScoutCrafter]

Yes! Somewhere in there I think was chewing gum too! LOL