TUBALCAIN WENT SHOPPING yet again #3 mrpete222

[@joebroomhead]

My wife and I spent the last half hour hanging on every word. The delivery, the love of life all comes through. I could watch life through mrpete222 for hours. Great guy!!! Great videos. Thanks so much for taking the time to share this with us!

[@watong9232]

Most enjoyable! Thanks for taking the time to have us along.

[@exilfromsanity]

Mr. Pete, I'm about your age and was raised in Kankakee. I have been away from that part of the world for several decades and it was great to see the sights and landscape of northern Illinois again. Thanks for the memories!

[@scheppach69]

Really enjoyed your video mrpete, it's good to see peoples workshops but it's also nice to see the area in which they live. I am sure that you had your tongue firmly in your cheek when you mentioned "heavy traffic" ;-) It sure is sad to see all the small businesses folding up, these were the ones that built our countries up just to let the huge monopolies bring us down with their greed. Great video!

[@CarterWHern]

Loved your video. More road trips. Your commentary is especially appreciated. By the way, here in Georgia our roads are so smooth you can fall asleep driving.

[@MrThisIsMeToo]

Wonderful trip MrPete. Thanks for taking us along.

[@joemccarthywascorrect6240]

We are heading back to those gas prices, sadly. . .

[@mikeneubauer7034]

Thanks for the trip through northern Illinois. I moved from Peoria area to Connecticut nearly two years ago, and I miss seeing the horizon. Out here it is all trees and rocks. It is rare that I see the horizon here. Thanks for all your videos. I am learning a lot.

[@grizzlydan8]

Tubalcain, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed riding to the machine shop with you. I appreciate the excellent narrative. We both remember so many things from "the good old days". It is hard for me to see machine shops close and family farming become agrabuisiness. I am not a machinist, but was a mechanic and enjoy many of your videos. Thank you very much.

[@jimmilne19]

Thanks for the great ride together. We live in a city from which there are no roads whatsoever leaving the town. There are no roads connecting towns in our country and ours, the largest city in Greenland, has a grand total of 17 miles of road, period. So, you can believe that I enjoyed the long trip and the "visit". I felt like I was with you all the way. Thanks. Let's do it again!

[@jnathan155]

You are an absolute poet. Thanks for sharing this wonderful trip.

[@roberthorner8494]

I ENJOYED YOUR ROAD TRIP. THANKS FOR HAVING ME ALONG.

[@TexasDellDude]

The Milton driveway signal brings back SO MANY memories! Thank you so very much, Tubalcain. Keep the videos coming. I wish I could grab some of that steel rod too.

[@fordsure]

You should definitely take us on some more tours of your countryside! Some impressive machines preparing and planting I bet. I have been to Salina KS through the Great Plains factory before and loved seeing that

[@jbt68]

Thanks for the ride-along in this one. Being from the Midwest myself, it is great to see scenes from the neighborhood, as I have lived elsewhere for several years... Thanks!

[@AngelM158]

wondeful road trip. reminded me of my trips with my mom. thank for your all your wisdom and knowledge.

[@specialks1953]

Great trip! Thanks for taking us along and thanks for all the great commentary on the trip as well as everything else. I watch all of your videos.

[@19441978]

One of your best videos yet. Thanks.

[@susanflanagan8357]

Boy do I envy your neck of the woods. I grew up in NW Missouri, saw lots of fence, sairy cattle, corn cribs, and chickens. Now living in south central Texas, sure do miss all those farms and similar wonderful black earth! Enjoyed the trip to the machine shop. Stay warm! Jack

[@NormFasey]

Thank you for the road trip. You go ahead and talk as much as you like.

[@jix177]

Great video, very interesting to see the countryside + surroundings. Thanks.

[@donfoster1832]

An excellent virtual visit to the heartland. Living in the Seattle area, I got a kick out of your idea of "busy" traffic! My mom, however, was from Kansas and your trip reminded me of of her. Thank you.

[@blueskymut]

Good morning, TC. I just stumbled on to you this morning and must say, I thoroughly enjoyed the ride into town with you while having my morning coffee. Thanks for letting us tag along, looking forward to more.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching.

[@MaDeuce80]

I must have just missed you. I went to the screw shop this past Thursday. Quite the shop, sad that it's closing. I bought a lot of stuff and plan on going back. I mentioned your name, they said they would take care of you the next time you come back. Thanks again for sharing. Maybe we'll run into each other at the shop.

[@mrpete222]

Maybe they will give me a finders fee lol. Neat shop--neat owners.

[@EdOfTheNorth]

I enjoyed the ride along immensely. Thanks.

[@KoHokCheung]

I enjoyed the ride and see where you live. Thanks for your videos I have learned so much with you.

[@skiburnr]

You are an interesting fellow. Thanks for the tour and for all the other stuff you have been teaching me.

[@ckvasnic1]

Mr. Pete, The Milton service station bell brings back memories for me. I was one of those young men in uniform. "Can I check your oil?" While cleaning the windows. Thank. Chuck.

[@FredMiller]

The bell when in use almost always rang twice once for the front set of tires then again for the rear set. I remember exactly the pitch of that bell even before you rang it.. Ahhh the good old days of SERVICE stations! Free dishes, glasses, silverware etc...

[@belgrademachine]

I too have great nostalgia for the sound of that bell ... and most people paid cash for fuel! I distinctly remember the giant pile of cash they would flip out :)

[@ScottHenion]

Yes, I remember those as a kid. One of the best scenes in the Back To The Future was seeing the gas station and a car pull up and THREE guys come running out. I also remember stomping on the hose to annoy the guy in a garage ;)

[@steveweidner8311]

Scott Henion Would love to have one of those bells to let me know when the wife is backing into the driveway - she usually sees everything but me if I'm wokring on something in the driveway.

[@mike97525]

thank you very much tublacain I thoroughly enjoyed this vid.

[@pfflyer1963]

I could watch you drive and listen to you talk all day.

[@mrpete222]

😄😄😄

[@MrHevyshevy]

Loved the video..my wife did too...she broke out laughing when you talked about taking your wife's blouse...

[@dictare]

That signal brings back memories. So does the sound of the mechanical flasher in your truck. I remember every car seemed to have a different sound flasher when i was a kid.

[@Fierofreak01]

Thanks ever so much for sharing, what a fun trip! And a pretty good haul, I especially love the bell. -Jason

[@Palastanga]

So interesting, I felt like I was driving along the road right there with you. The suspense nearly killed me, so excited to see what the destination would be like. Wow we were not disappointed! Brilliant, one of my favourites. Thanks, from Manchester, UK.

[@6611788]

Mr. Pete, I am Ken, Mr. Eplin's friend. I cannot believe I have known you both for so long and have never made the connection until today. Dave has talked for years about helping a guy lower a mill downstairs with a tractor. Love your stuff and keep it up.

[@dougrundell947]

I remember those bells well. I worked at a Gulf station and we had a 10 second clock so customers could count down how long it took for us to get out to the pumps and rotate the air in their tires.

[@renbooth4147]

That was a good video tour you put on and to see around your country side. We never seem to have enough tools we just want more and more. like your work thank you mrpete. ren from down under.

[@barrycass2820]

What a beautiful old town. I bet a lot of history around all those town’s out there

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@rahoulzerohl]

Wow. That Driveway Signal takes me back. Great purchase!

[@nortonted1]

Liked the trip, and the guided tour. What a bunch of tooling in that shop, must have been there for years Sad to see places like that close up.

[@dynotec1]

Great! Really enjoyed the drive through the corn fields, not at all like Calif. I really need to find myself one of those gas station bells. Reminded me of cruising into the gas station in the back of my parents station wagon with no seat belt on. :)

[@JohnPatrick58]

Very interesting both your work shop films and the road trip, so different from where I live in Devon UK, Thank you JP

[@Hardturnin]

Mr. Pete, I enjoyed very much your video. I love learning about what the Farmers in your area are up to and how they make a living. I really like the fact that they value the John Deere equipment as they are said to be fantastic. I am sad that the hogs and cattle are not prevalent. Glad you got your steel.

[@billmoran3812]

Good road trip! Thanks. I'm New England born, and have lived here most of my life, but did spend several years in the Midwest. Been all over northern Illinois. I like your comments about the heavy traffic. Have to get some video of traffic in Boston. Just a bit more congested!!

[@BigMjolnir]

Thanks for the look at your area. I remember those pre-self serve signals. They always rang twice as the front and back wheels went over the hoses. I couldn't see that traffic you were talking about though...just a few cars and trucks on the road. Around here (DC area) you don't see traffic that light until after 2am...and only for a couple of hours until the morning rush starts. -- Mike

[@JWW922]

Thank you for your time and expertise! I love a good road trip.

[@thiggy1249]

What a great video!! I laughed out loud when you commented on the "heavy traffic". I love driving those straight flat roads in the corn country of your great state. It is such a change from my Alabama hills. I got another chuckle when you showed the Milton Driveway Signal. I hadn't thought about those things in years. I also hate to see the rural farms abandoned and crumbling. There is so much of that here in Alabama and Mississippi.

[@Patroand]

Thanks for this gift, that day was my birthday!. BTW, I really enjoy your website and you are a great Instructor. Your videos are neat and relevant. Lessons are appropriated (!) to all lathe works not only the Atlas. Hope many readers will joint the classroom.

[@Keith1212]

Was watching this video and realized you were the town my wife was born in. I lived there for a year or so. My wife's father helped build the bridge you crossed over on the Illinois river. VERY COOL

[@outbackdigital]

love the outdoor trip.- and your talking is worthy

[@63256325N]

I remember doing the same thing as a kid on my bike running through the filling station, ringing the bell more than once and being chased away, great memory's.

[@joemccarthywascorrect6240]

We had the Morris Canal in NJ - very few vestiges of it remain. Also built well before the Civil War. It used a series on Inclined planes in additions to locks, for some of the more drastic changes in elevation.

[@thatsmethistime]

This is beautiful. Like to see a bit of the farm equipment next time. We live in a similar flat area in the Netherlands, all black soil.

[@k5at]

Thanks for the video! I was very happy to meet you there. I wish I could go back, but way to far, at least for this year. I parted with my wallet $300 lighter. Got some great stuff though.

[@mrpete222]

I spent about the same that day--but mainly for my brother. Will go back again in a few weeks.

[@MrGoosePit]

Thanks for taking us along on your shopping spree. I really enjoyed it. It's about a 70 mile drive from my home.Boy my father-in-law would have loved to stop by that place. He was a machinist for the CTA. Passed away 2 years ago at age 98. Loved seeing that old gas station bell. I too used to ride over the hose on my bike with friends. I hope your wife doesn't find out you tore up her blouse. Guess we'll find out if you have it stuffed down your throat in the next vid! lol

[@baconsoda]

Brilliant video! I set the video on full widescreen and it was like sitting beside you in the truck. Please do more like this because this Irishman really enjoyed his trip through Illinois. Gas is $8.51 per US gallon here. Best Wishes, Brendan.

[@timberwolfabc1]

I have watched this video twice, and enjoyed it so much that I will probably watch it again!!!!!

[@mrpete222]

timberwolfabc1 Thanks for watching.

[@Redhawk454casull]

Love the video, your channel is by far my favorite I look forward to a new video every time I'm on KZbin. I'm an almond and walnut farmer in California, and we share the same world view and interests. I love the tractor videos. Please, keep them coming.

[@mrpete222]

THANKS YOU!

[@Rachel801]

Thank you so much for this video, I really enjoyed seeing the scenery. I had to chuckle about the "heavy" traffic, even at night here in Salt Lake City we have so many more cars on the road. It was a bit sad when you talked of how the old family farms are going away, but at least they become corn fields. The old fields and farms of the Salt Lake Valley become subdivisions and businesses instead. Please have more videos like this. Thank you, -Rachel

[@mc_cpu]

I really enjoyed your mini-road trip. Interesting to see the landscape there, sure is different to where I live in central England.

[@billlee5307]

More fun than I have had in a long time! Many thanks! I grew up on the south side of Chicago and a Sunday adventure for my family was a trip to the "county" to buy "farm fresh corn and cream." I'm a bit older than you are, so your trip showed that much has changed.

[@mrpete222]

+William Lee Thanks for watching--Its kind of scary up there!

[@billlee5307]

+mrpete222 I assume by “up there” you are referring to the “Windy City.” I lived there in two chunks, 0 to 17 and another tour from 39 to 59 years of age. Yes, it could be a very scary place; it also was for me an environment with many good people and great opportunities for the most part. As I watch your videos, which are a treasure IMO, I feel something of a kinship. I attended a very large vocational high school which offered excellent training in a large number of fields. I was fortunate to study woodworking, gas welding, sheet metal, electronics and then major in mechanical drawing. I was taught for the most part by men and women who had either served in the armed forces during WWII or had worked in war production. They knew what they were doing; they were serious about it and were great teachers. Later I got to do some teaching myself. As an instrument maker in a medical school shop I shared the facilities with students, other staff and faculty. That was a little scary at times too! Many thanks for sharing your knowledge, skills, experience and great sense of humor!

[@mrpete222]

+William Lee I only get to Chicago about once per year for the auto show. Sounds like you got a good back ground, keep watching

[@billlee5307]

+mrpete222 You can be assured that I will! Thanks again for all your effort.

[@MrSchoessow]

This was a great road trip! I can understand why you were so excited about going to this shop! I know I would have spent hours and lots of yenom there.

[@stephengent9974]

You can always tell when you cross the state line, the roads are so much better.

[@tracyguilbeau]

pure enjoyment! Keep up the good work... Thank You.

[@HannabalLecter-y5d]

Tucked away on the Isle of Wight in the UK within sound, sight and smell of Victorian steam engines, I am a long way from your world. Thanks to you I have traveled alongside and experienced just a little of your country. Thanks for the trip Pete Cooper'

[@mrpete222]

+pete Cooper sounds like a great place to live

[@LarryDMohr]

Awwwwww you brought back memories of my youth with the filling station bell. I used to sneak up to them and stomp my foot on them just to hear the bell ring.

[@pineconecowboy]

I enjoyed the road trip. Please do more.

[@litefoot900]

Great video loved the road trip, that truck of yours runs real nice. Thank you.

[@princebatswater]

You, Mr. Pete have a dark sense of humour. I like it.

[@JTZshokunin]

Fun trip! I'd love listen and learn from you in person...but you've probably had your fill of teenagers! McMaster-Carr sells 12L14, I think I'll get some and try it out. Really looking forward to the screw machine video.

[@michaelrodriguez-fb8fr]

i second that it would be really great to get to spend some time in the shop with Mr. Pete. i love hearing stories from the old timers. thanks for sharing your road trip Mr. Pete

[@AWDJRforYouTube]

Thanks for the road trip Mr Pete! The great State of ILL looks just like the flat lands of Ohio...I like to "get out of the big city" Cleveland, and hit the farmlands myself...Liked the station bell...remember them well!

[@bulletproofpepper2]

making me home sick, Louisiana is flat also. i'm working over seas. thanks for sharing.

[@not2fast4u2c]

I really enjoyed the road trip in the old truck The countryside is like where I live in NW Iowa Got a kick out of seeing the Gas Station bell When I was a kid they Guys at the Phillips 66 put a tougher hose on theirs to stop us kids from dinging the bell...But I learned how to pop a wheelie and come down on it hard enough with my front tire The good old days when gas was 48 cents a gallon and it cost me 25 cents to get a bike tire tube patched

[@mrpete222]

brown sharpe tap wrench

[@danbreyfogle8486]

Great road trip Mr. Pete. This was seven years ago and the price of gas is hovering at $3.00 a gallon (higher in other places) so we aren't saying we'd love to see the prices on this video. I live in Iowa and the only difference between your route and ours our secondary black tops have a bit more shoulder on them (about 2 feet of gravel instead of less than a foot it appears on yours). April is a month that breaks a guys heart, not yet spring and usually wet and chilly.

[@FG01]

Most enjoyable, thanks for sharing... Regards ..Frank from Oz.....

[@CompEdgeX2013]

Such a scoundrel! I thought you had made off with the new tablecloth... :-) Enjoyed your trip. I'm 48 and remember the gas pump hoses very well....Get a gang of kids together and ride back and forth over the hose...lol Colin

[@exjacobite]

Really loved your video, Mr Petersen. Liked the insight into the farming of your homeland. Being a Farmboy, just amazed by the sheer scale of size of the farming operations. The flatness of the land reminds me of the fenland in East Anglia. Sad to see the abandoned farms. Here in the U.K , rising land prices and demand of tenanted farms are making it difficult for folk like me to persue a career in farming.

[@gpalarry521]

looks like some good deal on some good common size mill bits. stuff that will get use and not just sit in corner of shop. I started watching your videos a couple weeks ago and I really enjoy them you explain everything very good

[@LightningFabrication]

$3.599 in Florida. Seems many of us remember the service station bells and just as many would ride our bikes over the hose or stomp on it with our feet. thanks for a wonderful video. You spoke of the old ram, like they say " Mess with the Ram and you'll get the horn".

[@JunkMikesWorld]

I enjoyed your little road trip. The bell was my favorite. My Grandpa had a gas station and bait shop. He had one of those bells. I believe his did not require electricity. I wish I had it now.

[@harperjmichael]

Some of the attendant bells are powered by air. When you drive over the hose it compresses the air in the hose to ring the bell. The one that he showed in the video must have an air/pressure switch to ring the bell.

[@Opinionator52]

Video was much fun, you sound good hyped up... The beautiful dirt looks just like the farm country where I was a child in Michigan so long, long ago... O,

[@shawnmrfixitlee6478]

Good vid .. I sure do remember those gas station bells .. Here in town there is a place that still uses one !!

[@mr16ga]

Nice to see part of the country I have never seen before. Way different from Arizona. Oh the tools were cool as well.

[@LarryMMackey]

Much enjoyed the ride along!

[@Birender100]

A Look at country side off Illinios with a perfect commentary and beautiful corn & soyabean farms. Really enjoyable and need to be appreciated. Thanks Sir. Your remote Student studying Machining.

[@kellysampson5984]

Hi mrpete222, nice trip and thanks for sharing.M.K.S.

[@Tryin2FlyII]

I really like the gas station bell I totally forgot about those until you showed that I knew what it was as soon as I seen it lol Ffrom a time when things seemed so much better

[@Mr26Huffy]

Mr. Pete, Loved the vid. I lived in Illinois most my life and went to SIUC. It was great to see the plains again. I don't miss the roads however - the roads here in Florida are beautiful.

[@ccook64]

Great video!! Plz do more road trips like this. I really enjoyed the scenery. I've never been to Illinois, or anywhere else for that matter. I just stay close to home here in Memphis.

[@3uba296]

Great video, good complement you your other stuff!

[@delandrews2929]

Very interesting. Your commentary is brilliant.

[@PirateofCapeAnn]

Oh God! What a great ride with you through the Illinois farm country! Thank you! I had to laugh when we stopped at the Volkswagen collector's place. My uncle was Ben Ruggles, of Ruggles Machine here in Gloucester. He went on to become Dr. Land's head machinist at Polaroid Corp and many of their patents are his, including the famous SX-70, which is another story. Anyway, Uncle Benny, in his spare time, loved to work on high performance Volkswagens! As you know the VW engine is also the same block as the early Porsche engines. They went like heck, but were too light to make a fast stop!

[@mrpete222]

Your uncle must have been quite a man. I read the bio of Edwin Land. Thanks for watching

[@mikedigirolamo3991]

Gosh Pete, If I lived near you I'd love to have joined you on this trip. I had to laugh about the B&S "gadget" you bought without knowing what it was. I would have done the same thing! Loved that stock you got and the end mills, too. Keep 'em videos coming. Thanks for taking me along for the ride. God bless, Mike, Virginia

[@Dan.Whiteford]

Just loved the all of the video. Heavy traffic - Pah!!

[@justtim9767]

More road trips---please. Great stuff.

[@MrToolsinbox]

Great vid Lyle ! Please do more if you can.

[@newstart49]

"Traffic is picking up now"- (Two cars). Ha Ha. Sounds like me- I live in a small town. Worked at a gas station and yes that dang bell drove us crazy, and when the boss left it got a vise grip on the hose. Then we got caught.......

[@mrpete222]

+newstart49 naughty - naughty!

[@shopdogsam]

,,, enjoyed the road trip,, sawing 12L14 (going to be an easy day in the shop),,,

[@midgoog2]

Loving the ride in the country despite being on the wrong side of the road for us Aussies. The roads over here are a little better I'm told, but we pay a price at the petrol pump for it. When you fill up and curse the $3.70 a gallon, remember over here it would cost you US $5.64 a Gallon. Now back to the video. Cheers Eric