TOUR High School WELD SHOP Tips 659 tubalcain

[@SteveSummers]

Really like the video Lyle, that's a nice welding shop. Nice pictures at the end😁

[@mrpete222]

Glad you liked at Steve

[@joemccarthywascorrect6240]

Props to Mr. Taylor - thanks for keeping practical skills alive and well!

[@rwallace9848]

Mr Pete, thanks for sharing. Im 50 years old and just last week took my first welding class, and Im hooked! So cool.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@miketabback2635]

This has to be my all-time favorite mrpete222 video. It brought back so many good memories. I am almost 70 years old and it made me think of all my old high school friends. Thanks so much, Mike T from NJ

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@johnquinn3899]

Nice tour Mr Pete. Reminiscent and respectful for new additions and changes. Thanks to Mr Taylor

[@RickRose]

I'm glad Mr. Taylor picked up the torch when you retired. He appears to be a fantastic shop teacher. We didn't have anything like that program when I was in high school. Thanks to both of you for the tour!

[@artszabo1015]

I graduated from Crestview High School Ashland Co Ohio in 1969. My shop teacher was Kent Knaus. He and my Dad were my heroes. Today Mr. Pete is my hero. Anybody else want to chime in? Art

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@irisheye100]

Brings back memories of when I taught welding in southern Maryland in the 90,s Thank you

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@machinistmikethetinkerer4827]

I hope the kiddies know how fortunate they are to have a shop at all, let alone a sweet one like that and a good instructor who cares. Love the shop.

[@mrpete222]

They are very fortunate. But It is not the nature of a child to appreciate anything. It will take him a long time to appreciate great parents.

[@machinistmikethetinkerer4827]

@@mrpete222 amen to that. A-men. Here here.

[@jasonhahn4470]

Glad to see a school board put up a fight for young girls and boys in their community to gain a skill. Also surprised a bunch of Kens and Karen's from the Culdesac didn't squash that idea afraid Johnny might burn his pinky or hear a curse word god forbid

[@FoxMacLeod2501]

After hearing stories about your former place of employ, it's honestly exciting and very satisfying to finally see the place I've been slowly drawing in my mind. In addition, it's just nice to see something like this in a high school. As time marches forward, we seem to teach our children less useful knowledge and fewer useful skills. When they enter the job market, it quickly becomes apparent how successful our parental and scholastic methods have become... at utterly crippling the first-job--seeking youth. No one is "stealing" blue-collar American jobs. Those jobs being unscrupulously given to people who will outperform our under-educated young adults, and as a bonus, they will often do so for less than the legally mandated minimum wage the unskilled kid would have to command. I could keep going, but I just remembered my point. Fantastic video, as always I enjoyed and appreciate it. Thanks for putting in the work, sharing your knowledge, and helping to take up the educational slack I mentioned above.

[@simprote]

Wow, that's a high school! Amazing. Thank you for the tour Mr. Pete

[@chrissargent2603]

Awesome to see high schools with these types of programs still available. A few of my uncles learned their trades in Tech in Omaha. One became a barber, another was printer.

[@paulmarcoux2728]

Wow that's a fantastic high school metal shop. Those kids are mighty lucky.

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@sallybrokaw6124]

I learned to weld in Vo-ag. That was 1978. We had 3 225 ac Lincolns and 1 ancient hand crank 180 amp Lincoln that I used most of the time. Also had 1 torch rig. I spent almost 30 years as a welder fabricator. Loved every minute of it Pete!

[@afriedli]

Great to see a school still giving due attention to vocational training programs. If anyone doubts the continued importance and relevance of these skills, they need only look at what's going on in Boca Chica, Texas, where they can observe welding, forming, riveting, and every kind of metal fabrication technique being used to build vehicles destined for Mars!

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@robertmccracken72]

Nice Shop. It is good to see some vocational education is still happening. If our young adults would follow that path we wouldn't have so many defaulting on student loans!!!

[@toolbox-gua]

Its so nice to be able to still see ypur old schoole, as teacher or student. I was in 12th grade (our equivalent) when the 1976 earthquake left our school badly damaged and it was demolished for good. But we kept the momories.

[@lathammarx1458]

Lol, you build the machine lift in 1976, when I was born Tubalcain, and I am no spring chicken. Great tour, its good to see such a nice HS shop. Tell Mr. Taylor, thank you.

[@mrpete222]

Will do

[@danielabbey7726]

Thanks for the tour! Those kids are really lucky to have such a great teacher and a well-equipped shop.

[@fredohnemus7685]

I can hear Bob Hope's Thanks for the memories in my head. 👍

[@kennethdodds2323]

Looks like a very well-managed welding shop.

[@danbreyfogle8486]

I paid $1.94 yesterday (December 15, 2020) and had a reward points that took another 10 cents a gallon off for a maximum of 20 gallons. Thanks for another great field trip Mr. Pete, I loved seeing the old high school where you worked. I got especially excited when you turned the corner and I thought we were stopping for ice cream. And then quickly became dejected that it was a gas station!! Again, great video and the walk down memory lane.

[@19672701]

Good to see industrial arts is still alive, I can tell from the short time he was on David is a fantastic teacher, takes a great teacher to bring enthusiasm to make learning fun. I could hardly wait to get to my shop classes. Good to see Streator has had great industrial arts educators, and looks like the future is in good hands.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

Sure glad to see shop class still available. I remember Jim Bolinger stating a year or so ago that college education is great, but we also need people who can build stuff. We are paying $2.04 per gallon here in Huachuca City, AZ

[@sierraspecialtyauto7049]

Great fun joining you on this tour, Mr. Pete. Good to see a surviving strong vocational arts program.

[@davidhaywood9071]

Mr. Pete, was 222 an old room number. I enjoyed your tour of the school where you taught.

[@mrpete222]

Nope, that would be 36

[@ronaldkearn3322]

I LOVED this video! Like to more of them. I LOVED seeing where our internet shop teacher worked. :-)

[@mrpete222]

👍

[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

Thanks for the tour and the memories.

[@nickrohlfs796]

I wish more school shops were as nice as that one.

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@TheTarrMan]

Must be kinda nice to see to see the old work place.

[@yt66228]

Nice tour. Love it. I wish my high school was as well equipped as this one is.

[@ellieprice3396]

I wonder if Mr. Taylor might have cleaned that shop up a little before Mr. Pete came to visit? In the shops where I worked we always had emergency cleanups when important visitors were expected.

[@JamesP_TheShedShop]

Such a wonderful shop and program. Very rare nowadays. I hope the youth appreciate it.. Thank you for the video.

[@tjofmaine1]

Thanks for taking us along Mr. Pete.

[@doodlebug2121]

Gas in Southern California, Nov. 2020 is $3.35 per gallon. Thanks for the tour Mr. Pete, it brought back good memories of my school days.

[@mrpete222]

Thank you

[@scottbenauer1189]

Looks like there is some hope for our youth. They have a similar setup at the high school in my area.Thanks for taking us along down memory lane

[@jameslezak8179]

Great video Mr Pete! Brought bushels of memories back. Sr. 1968!

[@garthbutton699]

I graduated in 1966 and whitnessed the closing of the foundry followed by the metal welding/Fab shops,the only shop we had was the wood shop that was converted to bacic electricity,the wood shop teacher taught us but sadly enough through no fault of his own was only a page or so ahead of that class.

[@paulhatch7759]

Most schools don't have vocational programs due to safety / liability issues. Very nice. My highschool didn't have it. I was fortunate that my gradeschool had a good industrial arts program. I learned a lot that helped me in my career as a mechanical engineer. You must have the patients of a saint. We were all ornrey little bastards.

[@ohmbug10]

That was an excellent tour Mr. Pete. What a nice weld shop.

[@kurtarmbrust]

Industrial arts was my favorite part of going to school. Got paid by my highschool to work during the summer printing class schedules for the next semester. Gave me a feeling of accomplishment and worth at a young age. Glad to see your old program is still running. We need people with those skills. Not everyone can be a computer programmer.

[@phillipyannone3195]

Nice to see your old stomping grounds. Amazing to see so many things you did still around. A testament to vision.

[@Unrivaledanime]

Thank You Mr Taylor..... Thank God for Shop Teachers......

[@llapmsp]

Really enjoyed the tour. More kids need to learn skills like these, even if they don't use them, it expands their horizons to what is available in the real world. By the way we are paying $2.12 for 10% ethanol blend.

[@hscott3417]

Shop teachers are the unsung hero’s of modern America. No one realizes it.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@edp9743]

Bitter sweet for me seeing the industrial arts shops, my high school I A was dismantled and turned into a computer lab, The school were I retired from the shop equipment all top notch was sold for pennies on the dollar and replaced in the new building with Craftsman junk. Now we are going full circle and the trades are being promoted in the schools again.

[@mrpete222]

Yes, I have seen this happen in many schools. Then they make a token attempt at replacing the shops with Chinese junk tools.

[@robertwatsonbath]

Thanks for the tour Mr Pete. Petrol (gasoline) is around £1.14/litre in UK. So with roughly 3.8 litres to 1 US gallon and £1 being about $1.34 right now, that makes it about $5.80 a US gallon.

[@dannywilsher4165]

Thanks for the memory tour!!! I thoroughly loved and enjoyed it!!!!!!!

[@larryskeeper1197]

Great welding and machine shops. Nothing like that at my high school in the day until I went to trade school in my apprenticeship. Great opportunity...

[@AdrianPardini]

Thanks for the trip, that was a very nice way of starting our day here. Depends on the exchange ratio but a gallon of fuel can be bought from 1.8 to 3 dollars

[@blazemaster83]

Wow, I would have killed to have a shop like that at my highschool. I went to the largest high school in Oregon in the late 90's and we basically had a few benches, some mig welders and a few grinders. Sadly they have phased out all shop classes there now. So glad to see this is still going on, if we can ever get the kids back into the building...

[@trialnterror]

Thanks Mr. Pete for the morning material while I drink my coffee before starting work!

[@jimoffenbecher2040]

Great video... Gas here in N Alabama was $1.85 yesterday, but was surprised when I filled up wife's Mini (requires premium) that the hi-test was over $2.40. Brings back the good old days when stations had a very obsolete philosophy of "gas wars". Remember filling up at a Gulf station in 1967 for $0.16 a gallon (Ann Arbor, MI)!!

[@mrpete222]

I paid 18 or $.19 per gallon when I was going to college. The gas war lasted for years in Bloomington. That was the mid 60s

[@Farm_fab]

I routinely donate machinable plastics to trade schools in my area. These are all cutoffs for the most part. I have gotten full sheet goods only a couple of times. This saves them money as they can prototype in plastic, and then if it works out, they can make it from metal. They made storage boxes from black UHMW, and lined it with velvet for putting calipers in. On one occasion, I was told I could get in the open-top dumpster and got several hundred dollars worth of sheet and round/square stock. They used to buy plastic for prototyping, but the costs kept rising, so they discontinued purchasing these items. Some materials are also used by other trades like electrical and plumbing shops.

[@mrpete222]

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[@paulhunt598]

Thank you for the tour. Shop class at the high school looks like it is now mostly welding. I didn't take any shop classes while in high school. Shop class could have benefitted my career. I taught some adult education through a local high school during a lull in my regular industrial maintenance employment. Last year I taught 17 home school boys fundamentals of electricity. We used my dining room for our classroom. We used my shop for labs that were not appropriate for the dining room tables. I really got a kick out of the boys. My student ages ranged from 7-17. Keeping subject material appropriate for my age range was challenging. My students included all of my grandsons in that age range. Today is a big day for me. Excavation for my new home shop building (85' x 60') is to begin. Concrete short walls and floor should be completed by the end of the year. We plan to erect the building in the spring.

[@mrpete222]

I wish I would’ve taught some shop classes to my grandson’s homeschool group.

[@andrewevans1658]

Great video! Both of you are wonderful teachers!

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@jeremyc9229]

Thanks for the video! It reminded me of my schools shop. I graduated in 1988, and was in the metal/ welding shop every year of high school. Now it is gone, as well as the wood and auto shop.

[@russellmcclenning9607]

Thank you Lyle . I’ll say it again wish I could of had you for a teacher . Great video of the school shop

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@aerogfs]

Loved the hoist, I may build a similar one. Those are nice shops, thanks for another tour! Seatbelt warning beeps... In here, it's about 3 US dollars/gal, about $0.85/litre, when it's cheap. Most places are close to $4/gal.

[@santerresongarage7486]

Thanks for the tour. I spent my highschool in the mechanic, machine and welding shop. We had beautiful programs back then, graduated 2001. Now most of shops are now closed. too bad, I'm afraid in a near future we won't have any manual labour workers. Price of gas here Ontario Canada, $4.895/ gallon, disgusting!!!

[@alanjackson4397]

I wish I had this kind of set up when I was in school

[@andyrobinson450]

Nice to see your old haunts :-) Where I am in Fife, Scotland the prices are 111.9 pence per litre (£1.12 - yes they round it up) for petrol, diesel is 116.9 pence per litre (£1.17)

[@robertcostello8935]

Thanks for the shop tour MrPete. I found your channel a while back because I was searching for patternmaking and casting. I was in a patternmaking school here in Minnesota for a while in the mid 80’s. We had to square up all our stock from rough sawn wood with a hand plane. I dropped out of that school and went into electrical engineering since the economy and technology was changing so quickly. I hope you do some videos on patternmaking cores. I never got to that in my schooling but I am still interested in it. I recently watched a video of your tour of the Vaughn hammer factory. It was another really good video. If you ever come to St Paul MN you should tour the James J Hill house. Hill as you probably know was the founder of the Great Northern railroad which now known as BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe). His house was built on a massive scale. He also was instrumental in helping build the Cathedral of Saint Paul which is right across the street. The cathedral was built entirely by hand with massive blocks of granite that were hauled by ox cart from the same quarry that Starrett/TruStone use to make granite surface plates for machinists. Take care and God bless.

[@mrpete222]

Thank you for that comment You're and I would love to see that mansion. Yes, I know who Mr. hill was, I read the history on the great northern . He must have been quite a guy

[@jerrydemas2020]

Mr. Pete, I can hear and sense your melancholy. I get the same way when I use Google Earth to visit my Air Force bases that are shut down.I feel the years that have past.

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@stevoreno45]

The cleanest safest shop you'll ever work at is the metals lab at school! I wonder where one goes to train for a Walmart job?

[@bstevermer9293]

HF has really cleaned up their act the last 5 years, I use many of there tools daily for work, Zero issues. Went by my old school for my 20th, the metal and wood shop gone. I don’t have a good explanation but it’s a shame. We use to pour molten aluminum into are sand cast molds.

[@mrpete222]

Yes 😂

[@normsweet1710]

How do you home school welding class ? The way I did, learn by your Dads critique and showing you how, burn & learn he said ....... glad to see vocational shop being taught on campus.

[@mrpete222]

👍

[@edl5074]

Wow that brings back fond memories .I remember making a brass cannon the second year clases were making them we were just steps and threads. I fondly remember making a cannon I was not supposed to be yet .and I had almost finished and I felt this feeling looked over my shoulder .and my shop teacher caught me i will never forget that he did let me keep it after class .sorry had to share hope you don't mind long stories .thanks again for all you have done in your teaching carer And utube one .can we see a video of the ball cannon ?

[@mrpete222]

😀😀

[@bearsrodshop7067]

Loved the tours, having my 50th reunion this coming May, hope my old shoe teacher left some of his memories hanging in the shop. We have regular 87 here in Boyd 76023 zip for $185 ( was $1.69 last WK) and diesel @ $1.85. Merry and Happy Holidays to you and your viewers, and family.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@railfan439]

Lyle, December 16, Ventura County California, discount gas is $3.199/gallon. Thanks for the video. Jon

[@MoondyneJoe]

I bet the shop walk through Lyle brought back some fond MEMORIES ? You asked for fuel prices where I am December 17th 2020 Diesel near me in Western Australia is $1.22 CENTS PER LITRE or $5.46 a gallon you Americans have it cheap And I have a 100 litre fuel tank in my Toyota Hi-ace Van. Another enjoyable video Lyle, thanks mate (: Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺

[@gofastwclass]

That was a nicely maintained shop, thanks for the tour Mr. Pete!

[@dangle_berriestwo5676]

in vic bc, canukada, we are currently paying 119.9/ltr.

[@MoondyneJoe]

Pretty close to what I am paying in Western Australia per litre! (I spent 3 months in Comox back in 96 and loved it dearly)

[@ellieprice3396]

Mr. Joseph Rebman was the machine shop teacher at the trade school in Columbia, S.C. where I learned the trade in 1955. When I left his class for my first job at Wilson Machinery in Charlotte, he said, "Just tell Mr. Wilson an old Dutchman taught you,"

[@mrpete222]

lol

[@fredmorton1631]

Mr Pete, I wish fuel was that price here in the UK. at the moment we are paying £1.13 per LITRE ! or converted to US $6.95 per gallon. Too bad you can't email us a few gallons. Great tour, I liked the large Lincoln electrode oven there too, Nice shop.

[@secretsix6]

i remember a mate of mine putting a pipe wrench on the threads of a wood lathe headstock an turning it on for a laugh it went clear across the room an stuck into a tool cupboard we all had detention that day

[@leeroyholloway4277]

Nice to see... our High School shops were turned into computer labs in the late 80s. That's nice of Harbor Freight to support the program, but I got a bad flash from one of their helmets and have been scared to use another one. Thanks for the tour.

[@StageRightvideo]

Our Gas prices here in the UK are currently £1.12 per litre for petrol and £1.17 per litre for diesel. To get the price per gallon you need to multiply those by 4.5. So the price for petrol would be £5.04 for a gallon. Not dollars, but UK pounds, and that's at a supermarket petrol station where the prices are a bit lower. I can remember being a kid in 1971 when the UK changed over to decimal currency and a whole gallon was just 40 pence. When I fill a truck fuel tank nowadays I can easily pay over £200 so I always try to go to a supermarket filling station where I can collect points on a loyalty card. Oh, and not so very long ago the fuel prices were higher too.

[@altonriggs2352]

A good welder always has work. Boys, take heed.

[@mrpete222]

You got that right

[@binbashbuddy]

I paid $1.79 / gal when I filled up Sunday. Enjoyed the video.

[@badgerbob2226]

Very nice tour, thank you very much,

[@roddersauify]

Hi Lyle...as of December 17th, we are paying $1.49 AUD per litre in Melbourne Australia... so that is about $1.13 USD per litre... and there's 3.785 litres in a gallon ... S o 91 octane unleaded is $4.24 USD per gallon....my Toyota 4.0 Ltd V6 takes 160 litres to fill from empty.... Cheers Rodney in Melbourne

[@andyZ3500s]

Enjoyed the tour. Gas in central California $2.85.

[@one4stevo]

$1.35 L in Australia Great Tour

[@jodydoakes8754]

.......or 3.60 US$ per US gallon.

[@123232ism]

OMG how this reminds me of my HS Industrial Education Classes.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@stxrynn]

Down here in south Texas, today's fuel cost was $1.899 18.4 cents of that to Uncle Sugar, and 20 cents to Sam Houston. And I home school machine shop, welding, home ec, chemistry, phsyics and a host of other subjects most every day!!

[@jamesdrake2378]

great holiday video thank you we hope you are well from the NJ Bayshore

[@MrDfbwa]

Here where I live, 30 miles SE of Seattle, gas is $2.659 at our 2 big chain grocery stores. I don't even pay attention to what Chevron, Shell or the other big name oil companies charge, but it is more than that. I believe our local Costco sells for $2.499 or so.

[@nasty509ss]

Oh how I wish they offered this when I was in school,would have paid much more attention.

[@24jh42]

"How do you home school welding?" you asked. That actually exist in corona closed Denmark. Students can put on a VR (virtual reality) helmet and test weld online to get a "feel" for how to weld.

[@stephensmith8756]

However, the textbook theory and the VR imaging will soon reach its limits. The only progress the student can achieve from there, sooner or later, is actual hands-on work, with an instructor watching.

[@200932me]

Our gas back in November was in the $1.50 range. South of Houston.

[@mrpete222]

Cheap

[@jodydoakes8754]

Thanks. Enjoyed the tour. I would like to go see some of the places I worked 50 years ago. Would be fun.

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@elsdp-4560]

THANK YOU...for sharing. Enjoyed.

[@28gwdavies]

Great video Mr Pete, It's such a shame that some industries are shutting down and people don't seem to realise how far-reaching these closures are, like the pipe manufacturer in this video. As I'm in England I love these field trips, they give me an insight into American life, it's like England in the '70s when everybody working for a living was the norm instead of unemployable non-English speaking people in groups on street corners. Sorry for the rant, I'm passionate about our dying industrial heritage. Keep safe from the Chinese flu Mr Pete.

[@mrpete222]

Great minds think alike

[@WilliamTNixon]

Very interesting. I had ag shop in the early 50’s

[@markcnc]

Nice tour, as expected your guide was a true machining gent. Paid $2.15 per gal yesterday, up from about $2.09 just 2 weeks ago.

[@mikenixon9164]

The good old days! Good video.

[@Daledavispratt]

I have one of those HF auto-darkening helmets and 7 years later it still works perfectly. Those old wooden doors should be a great source of kick plates if you can get them before the scrappers do. :-)

[@mrpete222]

I still have several kick plates

[@johnapel2856]

Neat tour. Thanks!

[@jordanbell620]

Great looking around the shop! In western Tn gasoline ranges from $1.85 to $2.05. I usually go for the 93 octane premium though, so that always costs a king's ransom.