CL find, Old Blacksmiths Post Drill Press

[1SlowFormula]

I was looking through CL like I randomly do and saw this. My first thorugh would be a great gift for my FIL's shop, but my wife said we already got him something for Christmas, so I figured I would post the ad up here in case anyone was looking for a cool antique piece for their shop.

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/tls/4229260376.html

For sale a very nice Old Post Drill Press has a newer chuck this is a large Drill- a great piece of equipment or a great display call Matt at 503-824-2681 to view

 

[Farmall450]

That IS neat, but probably a real pain to use!

 

[Murphy4570]

I guess it is belt driven, with a leather belt wrapping six feet away to a hit-or-miss engine to power the thing?

 

[1SlowFormula]

no, they were hand operated...

 

[KEH]

Hand operated. I have one I picked up at the junk yard many years ago and have never used. It has a flat pulley someone put on to make it motor driven.

KEH

 

[oldldh]

Restore it, polish the polishable bits, and presto!!!

Really cool garage art...albeit, not very usable for the poking of holes...

 

[Rust]

Thats actually pretty nice.
Bummer about the cracked table support.

Must be neat to use.
I imagine the handwheel would turn with its own kinetic energy.
Imagine how slow you could drill with it. VERY usefull for drilling metal...
I would never put a motor on that.

 

[sasquatch12]

Any name on the drill?
Some of those old drills were pretty strong at drilling large holes in steel plate.

 

[Outlawmws]

Yep hand operated and broken. A shame; decent price if it wasn't broken.

 

[jabberwoki]

Damn it that is cool just to have on the wall as vintage art.

 

[zkling]

Thats actually pretty nice.
Bummer about the cracked table support.

Must be neat to use.
I imagine the handwheel would turn with its own kinetic energy.
Imagine how slow you could drill with it. VERY usefull for drilling metal...
I would never put a motor on that.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[kenburkholz]

Two of my uncles had post drills like this,but I never knew they could look this nice. Repair the broken piece, and install it in your shop. Ken.

 

[drivesitfar]

anybody have a picture of somebody using that in his shop? i'm guessing it weighs about 600 pounds because that cart looks like maybe a 3 x 3 footer?

I for one would like to see the man cave able to hold that up on the wall and watch a video of the guys mounting it.

 

[Fordman7795]

I have one that is very similar that is belt or hand operated