Long Machine Tool Company

Andrew took us over to Long Machine Tool, a machine tool dealer in Ferris Texas. He's got a warehouse full of machines and machine tooling! It's a great place to explore and purchase some tooling from. I really enjoyed walking around and seeing everything he's got there.

[@ta420nk5]

this is the stuff that helped build this country.. i could easily spend hours just looking at all the things. i even love the smell of places like this. you cant save everything but i really do appreciate the guy for trying

[@m3chanist]

What a wonderland, could spend some quality time just looking and thinking. You are just having so much fun in there, like a kid in a candy shop. I'd love to visit that place.

[@bowtiefinn7223]

I have purchased many, many machines from Long Machine! Ray Long, the owner is a standup/honest guy - who is real easy to deal with ! 5-Star business :)

[@Abom79]

Awesome! 👍🏻

[@pauljoseph8338]

Can’t find a website. Is there one showing inventory? ...prob just got to go pick, though...

[@bowtiefinn7223]

Paul Draine he doesn’t have a website all word of mouth - he does have a KZbin channel under “Ray Long” You can google long machine for his number !

[@Stopes.]

Yeah dude needs to hire an assistant to catalogue everything, photograph, and run an online inventory. Quadruple his sales. And then, he needs to hire a camera guy to record his job for a KZbin channel. He probably sees a lot of rare stuff. When he buys, transports, etc. Extra income stream. Just show him somebody like Adam’s KZbin channel and what it brings in monthly and that’s enough motivation just to have a camera around.

[@tabcreedence6553]

That old steel has such a history behind it, the thousands of hours of work done on them and all the parts they made. Fascinating stuff.

[@eiserntorsphantomoftheoper2154]

Warner Swasey Saddle Turret lathes are pretty massive. Ran a 2A. Also ran 3 big Radial Drills. They usually sit dormant more than any other machine. Ran a huge American engine lathe that had leather belts with splice going click, click, click. Cincinnati Mill, Burgmaster, Orbital Grinder. Favorite lathe: South Bend 17" Tornado. Had everything, taper attachment, DoAll grinder, B & L digital readout, steady and follower rest, 3 & 4 jaw chucks, loved it. Made lots of parts, Ever make left hand double pitch square thread lead screws with matching bronze nuts ? I have. They go from too tight to loose and sloppy with a .002 pass. Takes lots of patience. Good times. Those machines had quirks that gave them character. Most conform to orders of the war production board. (WWII). Also they love to work. Once you know them, feel them, hear their rhythm, and learn to love and respect them, they will respond. Shaft turning 3/4 chips shaped like the number six, .020 thick, popping like corn. Plunge cutting v-groove pully sheaves with 4" or more of profile tool surface, huge coolant hoses burning 50 gallons a shift. Hard, hot, grimy, humid, noisy work.....

[@seansysig]

Adam in the candy shop is bad for the wallet. Your content brings back good memories. In the 70's & 80's I worked in a Refuse Derived High Pressure Superheated Steam Plant as a steam plant engineer. Our boilers were 3 stories high burning trash & #6 oil. Our repair shop had a lot of these big machines as some of our shafts were 3-4" diameter. We repaired & fabricated new turbine impellers, Induced Draft fans, and belt driven conveyor shafts and gears. Spray welding damaged shafts, maching key ways, broaching & balancing 16" diameter impellers were frequent jobs we did in house.

[@miketabback2635]

This place is unbelievable but the fact that you called everything out is amazing. Keep them coming.

[@davemanley8700]

I ran a radial drill 6 foot arm back in the 80’s a Colman and a Bickford a very versatile machine, and a Burgmaster. In fact I ran just about everything in this video at one time or another in my 45 years as a machinist

[@cannon440]

I am so glad people, like this owner exist, It's a shame when these OLD tools go to scrap. Thank you Adam for showing us this tool wonderland.

[@Muttlydog45]

Wow... All those goodies.... Better than any Sweet Shop... Happy New Year Adam... Thanks for Sharing..

[@tomeyssen9674]

I'm overwhelmed by all of the quality machines down there...just amazing. Wish I had the space for just a few...😊. Thanks also to Abby. -Tom

[@craigmonteforte1478]

Very cool Video ! They have a lot of stuff crammed into that warehouse ! Well that train going by explains the Track Anvils ! A lot of times if you can find where the railroad workers enter and exit the tracks to work on them you can find cut offs of tracks laying around I worked for over 25 years in a Shop that had tracks running right next to it and we used to check those areas often to see what. Kind of goodies the guys left behind whenever they were out doing the repairs

[@jtthill5475]

Your eyes are bigger than your shop can hold. You really need a bigger shop. Time to buy a 20 acre farm and put in a 60x80 shop. Then you can get all the machines you want. Put in a bridge crane like Brian's and you would be all set. Great tour to make everyone envious. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas.

[@Abom79]

That’s the plan, but shop will be 50x100 and “expandable” 👌🏻

[@mumblbeebee6546]

Abom79 ...and in a couple of decades someone else does an immersive video tour of this 50x150 shed crammed full of old machining stuff 😂

[@dougankrum3328]

60 X 80....you're talking a bridge crane...and...plenty of them for sale. Only thing to look out for, buy the crane, then build the building....

[@ryanb1874]

Yea Adam, Abom ,Booth. Hot damn. Big everything, big work, Trump will support ya...

[@homerdokes8578]

The unfortunate thing is that's not quite how it works. I have two buildings now.... the first is 51' x 450' and the other 51' x 300'..... The 1st one is filled up already (complete prototyping shop from welding to automation) and the 2nd is full of the stuff I need to maintain the 1st. :) And at the moment it's just my playground!!!! SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!!

[@chrissargent2603]

Saw the surface grinder use on Keith from vintage machinery when he was working on the straight edge. How cool is that!

[@melcoats9696]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Abby. Looking forward to watching your expert machining and watching projects grow in the coming year. Thank you for sharing!

[@texasj49]

What an amazing place! Glad you walked away with something from there. Get more on the next visit!! ~Jeff

[@nashguy207]

Thanks for taking us with you and Abby. I could spend days in a place like that. Tool heaven. Merry Christmas to and Abby and your Families!!!

[@makingitmyway9888]

Speaking of large arbors, I was at a machine tool auction a month or two back and there was a Sellers Horizontal Boring Mill that had an arbor for it that was about 10ft long and 6" in diameter. It was incredible!

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

Those big boys would be used mostly in shipyards.

[@independentliberty9628]

America's industrial potential sitting around waiting for someone willing to work. Old school, but timeless.

[@ronmiller7181]

Hi Adam i have been watching you since you started this channel . I have learned a lot watching you . Thank You for the videos and Merry Christmas

[@tweed532]

Quote from my wife while watching this on the laptop, here in the UK:- Wife 'Looks just like your junk filled garage' Me 'got to accumulate to speculate dear..' Have a good Xmas and New Year.....

[@mdvener]

Merry Christmas n a Happy NewYear to you both. That was a walk thrust a time capsule. Can't thank you enough for all you share with us. Thanks to AvE for letting me know about your channel. As an electrician, I find your channel entertaining, and knowledgeable. Thank you.

[@designsquared9372]

The tools that built Murica. Awesome to see that they are being preserved. Adam is a giant kid in a giant candy store.

[@neilwoodward7336]

God. I'd be in heaven there! I'm 33 years into my Engineering career. From age 16. I'm lucky enough to love the job. I didn't choose the trade, it chose me. I'm from England, my grandfather worked for Colchester lathe company (I didn't realise Engineering was in my blood until he'd already died). He would have been proud if we'd connected years ago. That warehouse, I could willingly spend 2 weeks holiday in there. Brilliant 👍😀!

[@charlesharrison2248]

Love the styling on the American pacemaker lathe,the headstock and tail stock are sculpted ,pure 50s style,like the automobiles of the era,not a square corner or straight line in sight, pure industrial art.

[@clintbonnett3449]

I'm not a machinist or metalworker at all and I was excited by all the machinery there lol

[@RutherfordRyan1]

Adam, you needed a 5 ton shopping trolley in that Machinery Mall. Thanks for another great year. All the best for Season and Happy 2020

[@ericrichards5862]

Thanks for the look Adam. I think those wide grinding wheels are for a center-less grinder

[@JlerchTampa]

I don't believe I have previously seen Mr. Booth overwhelmed by the quantity of machines and the sheer number of interesting items to look at everywhere the camera points! Awesome stock pile of goodies!

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

Ohhh, I'd love to spend days sorting all the stuff. I don't know why, I find it pleasing to sort stuff.

[@ÁREAJ27]

Hola amigo,eu também não me importaria de passar uns dias classificando as coisas neste armazém,muita coisa boa de mais!

[@mumblbeebee6546]

If that really floats your boat, you cold become a traveling shop sorter - a bit like Bus Grease Monkey. I took down your details, need to acquire a shop before I can hire you though ;)

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

@@mumblbeebee6546 Hahaha, yeah, I'd relish an option to sort through a warehouse full of random machines.

[@TorneariadoSidney]

The paradise of the mechanical lathe

[@helicopterjohns]

You reminded me of a kid in a candy store!!!!!! Thanks for sharing. John

[@mumblbeebee6546]

Kids in candy stores have been known to lift a few goodies in their trouser pockets - easier to stay honest with a Bridgeport ;)

[@donaldnaymon3270]

Awesome place. So many tools. Wow!!! Would love to visit this place. Great video. Merry Christmas to you and Abby. Thank you

[@techman2553]

Imagine having a restoration business for old equipment like that. Walk in, pick the biggest gnarliest piece of specialty equipment in that place, truck it back to your workshop, and do a complete tear down and restoration of the machine while creating a series of KZbin videos showing every step. Clean it, repair broken parts, fabricate replacements, strip and repaint the housings, replace the bearings, scrape the ways, tram and align everything, replace the wiring, replace or restore the motors and oilers, add DROs, and run it through full calibration and certification. Auction it off, then come back here and get the next one.

[@WS-ij1fu]

Its a labour of love for hobbyists to restore these old machines, you'd be bankrupt in a short time with that as a business plan.They are not Ferraris.

[@tsw199756]

Sounds like a pipe dream

[@colmornane5684]

Hi Abby and Adam, It is Christmas day here in Aus, I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year, look forward to loads more great videos. A Fan from Aus.

[@grntitan1]

Two huge places like this near me. I can’t go in either place without coming out several hundred $$ lighter. And that’s a light day. 🤣

[@innovacraft]

Where?

[@chrispalombo6394]

I loved this. This is something I fully loved.

[@ianrobinson2184]

At 7:06 there is a Graziano SAG 22. These are little known, but excellent machines. Hopefully Adam or someone similar can pick it up cheap. Maybe not up there with a Monarch, but way better than a colchester clausing or Southbend, not to mention many others. They are brilliantly thought through and very rugged.

[@stemer1149]

Amazing, you can probably measure a gravity anomaly there, with all that old iron concentrated in a single location.

[@erichoff7926]

Lol

[@Br-sy9vi]

Haha

[@MacCekko]

Hahahahahaha, yeah, it's very .likely!!!! 🤣

[@RickRose]

The proverbial candy shop. Was surprised to hear Adam giving props to Atlas/Craftsman. We home-gamers thank you!

[@PrometheanBlade]

So much great stuff in there... an amazing trove, but Lordy that Pacemaker! From the start of the video I could feel it lurking there somewhere... oh man with the deco styling and blue paint even... and just the right size! Very hard to find those up in Washington state.

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Unreal I am speechless...what a treasure house...Thanks for bringing us along. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..to You and Abby...

[@clivewood2148]

Thanks for the tour of Mr Petes basement! Merry Christmas to you and thanks for another year of great video's🤓👍

[@notyou1877]

I got chills just by looking at it.

[@Poksutin]

seeing all those lathe chucks made me cry...so jealous. im running old worn 3jaw on my ol sheldon lathe :( im finland we just dont have places like those :S

[@thunderstruck1078]

Fascinating place. Kinda sad too. Our industrial graveyard. Merry Christmas to Abby and you.

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

That is an Aladdin's cave for machinists and engineers. Have a wonderful Holiday season.

[@angelramos-2005]

Amazing.Thank you.

[@1ttanker]

Defiantly not the place to visit if you are an impulse buyer.... LOL Have a great Holiday Season

[@jlucasound]

In a place like that, we all are! :-)

[@Kinghauler2012]

So lets say a guy decides to buy a lathe thats all tucked away in amongst the sea of equipment. I cant imagine the time and effort required to get such large heavy items out of there! Rolling gantry crane perhaps?

[@KD-lq1sr]

It would be real easy to spend a day there. Looks like a lot of good stuff. Wish I had place like that near me.

[@MikeBramm]

Thanks for taking us on a tour of this treasure trove. Man, I would love to spend a day going through that place. I'd probably end up leaving with a semi trailer full of stuff though.

[@janetizzy6741]

Where are the 3 ton and 6 ton capacity shopping carts?

[@ÁREAJ27]

kk...Acho que em este armazém já na entrada deveria ter uma empilhadeira para cada um dos visitantes!

[@janetizzy6741]

@@ÁREAJ27 Maybe a fork lift with a large basket instead of a shopping cart?

[@ÁREAJ27]

@@janetizzy6741 Concordo amiga uma cesta grande numa empilhadeira iria ajudar muito!

[@AffordBindEquipment]

LOL!

[@toolbox-gua]

Thank You for the year. Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year 2020!

[@bcbloc02]

That arbor must have been for an HBM. I have never seen a plain horizontal with a table that wide. Lots of good stuff in there. That SIP jig bore deserves a good home.

[@tjofmaine1]

thanks for taking us on your shopping trip. merry Christmas to you and yours.

[@mpetersen6]

When sets the Jacobs Collet Chuck on the floor and you get that old abandoned warehouse sound

[@shadowbanned69]

🥺🙁😭 Wow that first south bend brings back old memories of dad fixing rifle barrels.... Man I wish I had room for one..

[@frankhott179]

I am surprised I didn’t see the Ark of the Covenant in there somewhere!

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

That was my first thought on the long view of the warehouse.....

[@chrispalombo6394]

@@TheAyrCaveShop HAHAAHAHAA!!!!

[@jlucasound]

The Ark is in that "other" warehouse. The one where everything is in wood crates. Santa Monica California, I think. ;-)

[@MMAKingRay]

That whole building IS the Ark....

[@jamesdstallard8743]

Just restored a Burgmaster 1D Turret Drill, love these older machines

[@phillipchambers8487]

The next time I'm in Texas, I am definitely gonna have to stop by this place.

[@erichahn6450]

Keep your diamonds keep your gold your silver, big houses, fancy cars, give me iron and steel I WANT IT ALL great video.

[@brooks3racing1]

I need that front mounted x axis table handle off that series 2. I realized pretty quick how nice that option would be to have using mine for a while. Those parts are hard to come by in Canada.

[@cyberhornthedragon]

kudos to your wife for seriously wanting to help you find things shes a KEEPER merry christmas

[@Birender100]

Mr.Adam, you have been to a mind-blowing goldmine of yesteryear full of exquisite machines. Upon seeing them I too am mouthwatering! Happy exploring the Mecca of Machines. Merry Christmas to you and Ms.Abby (if I spelled her right). Thanks for the eyeopener. Birender Singh Rawat, New Delhi, India

[@zachaliles]

Loving this content! Awesome stuff!

[@royreyes74]

Wow now thats a cool toy store!

[@wallfly0131]

Only machine nerds like us are drooling over this stuff on Christmas Eve. Lol.

[@DanSheldon48]

Merry Christmas Adam, thanks for all the content you produce this year and look forward to 2020! Thanks ABomb!

[@jwingfield01]

Ray is a good guy! I bought that Clausing you see at 7:15 earlier this month.

[@Abom79]

Nice! 👍🏻

[@kwasg3]

Hi, can you give me a sense of what it went for, been looking for one here just like that but no luck, and dallas isn't that far away for me. Get any tooling with it? Thanks! Merry Xmas

[@Craneman4100w]

I liked the Clausing too. Could you tell us what you paid, please.

[@jerrycoleman2610]

Adam & Abby and Andrew, Huge iron candy Mall you spend a week and still not find everything thanks for sharing.!.!.!.

[@rodneywroten2994]

Adam you have a great memory to call out all the tools of the trade.

[@virgilpayne2804]

Wow nice find! Abom better bring a Abom size truck and trailer next time you visit this place! Unbelievable tools. I loved the huge arbor and cutters.

[@flashpointrecycling]

Adam, what a great place! How were the prices? Every time I find a place like that they want so much that I have to walk out empty handed. I have a pretty good idea what stuff is worth and try never to fall in love. I just can't pay retail plus for machinery and tools that may have a pretty limited market in my area.

[@nineteen-sixty-nine9373]

Adams just walked into heaven!

[@steelcannibal]

Disneyland for manual machinists! Man i wish there were places like that in California!

[@eugenekerr4101]

that was a great place to shop thank you Eugene norther il.

[@drlegendre]

Hey Adam, MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to yourself and Abby! Hope the new year brings you nothing but love, happiness and good health.. not to mention a few choice tools as well! - BL in St Paul, MN

[@Za7a7aZ]

After watching...sometimes binch watching I would like to have a small but quality lathe. One you can put in a spare room and just have some fun with.. Half an hour in still waiting to see adam go crazy at the shaper section..

[@tedmattingly7564]

Couldn't imagine the history there or the money he has wrapped up in that place. I'm in awe just watching. Merry Christmas

[@paweisyn7446]

Hi Abby and Adam :) Nice toys. Greetings from Poland Paul.

[@johneverson354]

All those machine tells me of all the factories that have shut down and all of the jobs that have been lost

[@fouroakfarm]

I mean...maybe...or they just upgraded to newer machines

[@xXkingbeastmodeXx]

Four Oak Farm is right. Manual is not profitable anymore.

[@johnhuslavani]

This is mostly older machine tools probably replaced with newer equipment. I see these types of machines run in Houston almost everyday. They are fantastic at one off, low quantity work. Almost every shop I go to(machine service engineer) is looking for people that can run this stuff. Nothing beats the old iron for taking a chip.

[@mikecabe6127]

Awesome video Adam!!!! Man what a lot of GREAT old IRON. Merry Christmas to you guys.

[@PhotoArtBrussels]

Looks like a theme for a movie; "Indiana Adams and the search for the G&E tool lifter" Merry Christmas to all!! Wishes from Belgium!

[@d.j.9961]

That KR Wilson-Division of Chisholm Press needs to be in my shop along with a Bridgeport! I need ways of manipulating metal & man, You find all of the best tools! Definitely not the plastic junk sold in stores today!!! I need to know where places like these are so that I can start to aquire nice tools!

[@klausuhlig7141]

This sent me down memorie lane

[@chezz565]

This is a insane place

[@drawbar217]

Adam, some day you need to make a video addressing the influence and predominance of City of Cincinnati /Queen City on the Machine industry. There are dozens of manufacturers that were based here and Ohio in general, the list is long....Hudson out.

[@vburke1]

That's like an amusement park for machine tool nuts :)

[@matthewtyler7562]

This video should have had XXX in the title. Man I think I’ll watch it again!!!

[@Tools4Machines]

We gonna have to find a way to get them to let loose of more of that treasure, Adam. Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Gary

[@bearsrodshop7067]

WOE!!! and only 1:20 south of us,,,got'a go check them out. Like to add a LeBlond steady rest to my 17 and save building one. Thx for sharing this tour U-2,,,Bear.

[@quantumss]

Wow, would take a week to really check the place out.

[@TrojanHorse1959]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Abom & Family! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everyone else too!

[@procyonia3654]

That 2nd horizontal boring mill did you catch a maker on that one Adam? Looks exactly like the one my grandfather had on the tail end of his shop.

[@Sigmaqueen_1223]

Is that place open to the public? Idk what half that is but I know I need some of it.

[@ÁREAJ27]

também gostaria de saber se é aberto ao público e s e vende pela internet?Tem muita coisa boa aí que eu preciso!

[@barkleyburker7849]

that is so damn cool..don't have places like that out west here...nice to know there are places to get parts if needed...thanks

[@stephenstrohacker7863]

Oh my. I'd be lost in there for months. And with a whole lot less money.

[@excitedbox5705]

That is what I was thinking. That is my idea of a fun time. Digging through there and discovering hidden treasures.

[@MrSupro]

We have no places like this in Central California anymore, and I am not even sure there are places in LA that have not been machine gentrified yet.

[@dabooge]

I'd definitely be in there all day. I'd go alone because I just don't want to hear "are we done yet"