Aug 2, 2025

A Project

Restoring something like this thing is a history lesson.


And the work this guy puts in to pull this off is impressive. But I always have to think about the men who designed it, and engineered it, and machined the parts - and the machinery used to make the tools that people used to make the tools. My brain goes a little crazy.

Then I have to think about the guy who sold it to the guy who would use it to make whatever he was making - the guys who shipped it and installed it - all the pieces and parts - material and intellectual and physical - and my brain just kinda goes whirling off into the ether.

The thing is 75 years old - and it was still working when he got it.

Because Buffalo Forge Company made shit to last.

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