New South Mill / Stone Dressing / Metcalf Mills V296

[@paddyosborne99]

An experienced man with lots of patience at work. Very interesting. All the best from Paddy in Ireland.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey Paddy, hope you are well. I appreciate your compliments. Best to you from across the blue..

[@lloydfortner1663]

I like watching a master of his trade at work. You can tell by watching somebody how knowledgeable they are. I think your kids are blessed being raised like they are.

[@metcalfmills5679]

I appreciate you brother. I am thankful

[@scottjones7279]

Artists

[@mccrack77]

Lots of work and a LOT of patience required, not to mention experience and skill. "I've never seen a girl that fights roosters with an umbrella." haha You go, Charlotte.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Ha ha! Thank you for your compliments

[@0Hillbilly]

Umbrella wielding rooster fighting kid, one day she'll know just how amazing her childhood has been. God bless y'all.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, I hope so. and God bless you as well

[@debbiewilson6527]

💘, great work Justin.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you! ❤️

[@rickyb2200]

Another nice mill , thanks for Sharing it with us.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed Ricky

[@jimharris4740]

God bless you and your family. You're a great man. Your children will do well in life being raised by you

[@metcalfmills5679]

I appreciate you Jim. God bless you too brother

[@tpaw6908]

Wow I rewatched so much work. You have a very special art to that I couldn't sit that long. Have a great day looking forward to part 2. ❤🙏

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, Love uns🙏🏻❤️

[@sandrahouse9322]

Something real relaxing about watching you dress the stones. It's also amazing to see such workmanship in the things made in the past and how well they last not like today's plastic throw aways. Oh and missed the Sunday singing video.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed. Yes me too. I am working on that, I need to remember songs that I have forgot. I have a play list in the mean time🙂🙏🏻❤️

[@sandrareaves]

Enjoyed watching the progress of getting the millstones in order! Thanks for sharing the details of the mills, too!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed Sandra. Hope you are doing well..

[@sandrareaves]

@@metcalfmills5679 All is well here. The cold weather is holding back planting, though. I’m chomping at the bit to get Hickory King and Jimmy Red seed in the ground.

[@metcalfmills5679]

I understand, I hope that they do good for you!

[@PawPawMountain]

Very Interesting Work! Justro, You do great work! Hang in there buddy! Tell Charolette to keep an eye out for those roosters! Lol

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed! Will do it! 😆

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

You are the best 30 min of my day !!!! Blessings

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for this. I am humbled to share what I do with you wonderful people. Bless you as well

[@williamwadephul2941]

like to see you in the shop and showing how the people live and work today and in the past from Wisconsin good luck ..

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you!!

[@vincenttuccitto2407]

I enjoyed this so much. Thanks for the lesson. Great content and so well filmed edited and put together

[@metcalfmills5679]

I appreciate your compliments and thank you for watching

[@nancygould6789]

I thought that your job was tough. It's obvious to anyone that this high quality work should be respected. Thanks for showing us your skills. Your doing a great job with your children.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Nancy. I appreciate your compliments.

[@lonnien.clifton1113]

THE STONE IS GETTING TRUE.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Yes

[@beverlywalling1417]

Love watching you work….smooth and steady to getter done..thanks for showing us the arts of old..💛

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Beverly❤️

[@mikeherren5604]

And seeing the girls too. Mine call me pop too

[@metcalfmills5679]

Oh really, thanks Mike

[@rickcooper6817]

Looking good Justro, that's going to be nice stones when you finish. The problem with our fast paced world today is that folks don't realize this kind of work doesn't happen with the push of a button.

[@metcalfmills5679]

That is a good point. I hope to hep with that. Thanks Rick!

[@uncledanny7]

I enjoy watching your videos. I’d love to come spend the day with you sometime and get to watch it live

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Danny. That may be a possibility eventually

[@Skashoon]

Good seeing you again. Praying all is well.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, all good. Hope you are too

[@milknhoneyheritagefarms4706]

Nice to see you! Bear is a hard worker. The stain/red paint is such a great idea to figure out what to work on next. Thank you Justro for your craftsmanship

[@metcalfmills5679]

I use red food coloring, it works great. He sure is! Thank you 🙂

[@milknhoneyheritagefarms4706]

Okay it didn’t click until you said it! Food coloring when used with food! Ha ❤️

[@jerryhuntjj2885]

Very good video. Lots of hard work thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Jerry, glad you enjoyed

[@steveruby2120]

Very interesting Justro, I like watching someone like you do top notch work. And the cameo appearances of Bear and the Little Rooster Fighter was nice too. God bless you and the girls.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Steve. I am glad you enjoyed it. God bless you as well brother

[@LouY778]

Keep on chipping!😁💛

[@metcalfmills5679]

Yes 🙂

[@MiddleTennesseeLiving]

Beautiful work!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you so much

[@gerrymarmee3054]

So interesting!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@timburris3758]

Awesome Job Brother!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Tim !

[@mikeherren5604]

Always enjoy hearing from you Justin

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Mike

[@tammy5590]

watching you thread that rod took me back to when I had to do that. I couldn't do it now if I had too. We used to own our own machine shop and I would work sometimes until midnight. With 4 kids. Jim now is part owner in a big shop here where we live. It's very interesting watch you do this.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing Tammy. Very interesting.

[@johnbrown9988]

Enjoyed that video

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad to hear it

[@nelseshaver2679]

The video is really good Justin! We look forward to watching your content. The video quality continues to get better and you have the best music. I would like to ask that you consider keeping the music volume at the same level as the voice volume or a little lower. I appreciate that you don't have music playing while you are talking. Other content creators do that and it becomes difficult to understand what is being said. We hope you are all doing well. The spring time is full of excitement and of course many chores. God bless you all.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey Nelse, thank you for this feedback. I just started with adding music and I appreciate any helpful suggestions. We are doing good! Hope y’all are as well. God bless you too

[@deborahstrickland9845]

Nice. Interesting as usual. This obviously takes a lot of experience and persistence to get right.❤️👏

[@metcalfmills5679]

For sure, thanks Deborah

[@midwayfarms]

I've got an old mill in The Corn Crib with my great-grandfather used I'm going to have to get it out and see if it's still usable

[@metcalfmills5679]

Yes, let me know if I can help in any way, answer questions or whatever. I am glad to hear this

[@tommyblanchard4465]

Interesting work you do. And very rewarding. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Tommy! Glad you enjoy

[@sherrygtn63]

Wow Justro , that is an intense labor of love work that you do . When you build your mills , do you have to totally cut & dress each individual blank round of stone ?

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Sherry. Yes from a blank. But I have air and electric tools so that all the work does not require being done with a hammer.

[@danschram4052]

I really liked this video, it tells alot. With regular use of a mill, how often does it require dressing? Could you use something like a pneumatic needle scaler to save your hands a bit? Thanks again for the video Justro

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoy. It depends on a lot of variables, once a month, once a year. It is important to remember it takes much longer to touch up stones than to correct them when they have been neglected. You can use a pneumatic dressing hammer for some of the rough work, more on that later. Thank you!

[@donp5774]

The seed catalogs ads are following me on you tube, they know what time of year it is :D Whew that rubbing is a hard sound to hear :D Thanks for taking us along Justro, I'm learning with every episode. I've got you on one screen and old1920's Meadows and Woods manuals open on the other while watching. It's great to see what I'm reading. Thank you! Mine was freshly dressed when I got it, but I know I'll have to learn dressing. You might want to show the hammer faces in the next video and hopefully into the furrows. Is there a reason to use the hammer vs the air tool? I was told one thing to use is concentrated kool aid for the red since it is food grade, what are you using? I've made more progress on the "Have grits will travel" truck. Then brakes on the truck and a visit to the health department for their blessing, that'll be a big one. Hopefully in time to make the farmers markets this year. Keep up the good work! Oh, roosters. I knew it was his time when my wife appeared with a trash can lid for a shield, handed me an Old Hickory and said "He's gotta go" :D

[@metcalfmills5679]

To me the hammer is more accurate and can do more precise work. Some people use air tools to finish but I don’t. They are good for roughing out. I use food coloring. Hope all goes well with your project, thank you!

[@robertlusnia506]

Another awesome video, was wondering how long does it take to dress a stone

[@metcalfmills5679]

It can take a while. Thank you

[@DaveHorne-su9fu]

Requires a lot of patience. I was wondering if I would be able to dress my stones if they need to be done with carpel tunnel? I do a lot of woodworking and repetitive hand sanding, and even holding and painting with a brush for 10 min or so and my fingers are numb.

[@metcalfmills5679]

We will talk about it. Thank you

[@walterlang151]

Fascinating to watch your process! I understand that you are knocking off the high points, but I'm puzzled as to why the wheels don't grind each other flat, knocking off the high points, as they spin? (Along the lines of how the red is knocked off of the high points) Are some areas of the two stones harder or denser than others?

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey Walter, hope you are doing well. The dress allows the stones to be as close together as possible without touching, to get the finest grind possible. They are never supposed to touch when milling grain. Thanks Walter

[@walterlang151]

@@metcalfmills5679 Thanks, that helped me understand. I think that also likely explains why the threaded portion of the bolts was short when you began .... the stones had worn down and were not as thick as when the mill was new. The wider (unworn) original stones would not have needed as much thread on the bolts to draw the two stones closer together.

[@jamiepeeler9660]

How many bushels between dressings? I was wondering about the old water powered mills with large stones how did they check the contact (test run)?

[@metcalfmills5679]

It depends on many variables. There will be more on that as we go. They used a proof and paint staff, I will have more on that later as well. Thank you for the good questions

[@DustySplinters]

Justin, do you think the wood dried out a bit making the threads too short?

[@metcalfmills5679]

Could be but it was only a little over a nuts worth of threads…unless they bradded the wrong end..

[@suewhitaker2598]

Need fan for 22 new south

[@metcalfmills5679]

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[@miker258]

Why not just put washers on the back side to pull the bolts back some?

[@miker258]

Never mind, I just saw where it didn’t look like the bolts would’ve been long enough

[@metcalfmills5679]

I do believe that is correct

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for the suggestion kindly

[@robertmccarthy1256]

First😊

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you!

[@rickyb2200]

Another nice mill , thanks for Sharing it with us.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Ricky