Frontier Repairs & Fixes
Repairs and fixes in the Old West.
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My Father was born in 1915, watching my Father repair things was quite interesting, and I'd safely say in today day and age, being crafty and reusing old hardware to fix something is a dying art. I've never seen a Man reuse a common nail as many times as I have with him. Back in the Great depression era, if he didn't have something he needed, he'd make it, and if he couldn't make it, He didn't need it...lol
That is so cool!!!
I reuse old nails and screws. Saves money!
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For sure!
True
So, that's where "this old house " by Bob Villa got its start! 😁
LOL!
Back then it was simply called "This House".
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This old house once knew my children this old house once new my wife?
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HAHAHA! Thanks, Richard.
I've seen repaired stuff in Museums. Broken ceramics or wood bowls were sewn with wire. Or the gaps were filled with molten tin. They also didn't throw things out like we do. Every little scrap was saved to use it again. Think only of the wonderful quilts they made! Recycling was a big thing then. I myself repair lots of things. It safes me a lot of money and helps to reduce thrash.
It does. You can see it in historic gunleather and tools as well. Wire-wrapped. Great stuff.
This video was kind of like the Western version of macgyver. Pretty cool. Also I like that test pattern for the paws I remember that as a kid that was actually on the black and white TV until TV shows would come on probably like 5 or 6:00 in the morning you would have that. So even that is interesting on this channel. Thanks auntie for all the videos you make and for all the nice people that are on there and take time out of their schedules what a great group. 👍🌵🤠
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Rex in a native head dress had me rollin
I thought he looked right dapper.
I think this is my favorite You Tube channel, lots of good info, a little light humor.
Much appreciated.
Yeah, I buy those rawhide doggy chews a lot...... and I don't have a dog ! 😊 If you start cutting one in a spiral around and around you can get some good strips for tie strings ! Purty handy stuff ! One of the best sayings " Necessity is the mother of invention " ! Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
@Cindy Klenk I buy beef hearts at a grocery chain called Ingles here in the Southeast . There's a few ounces of tallow on each heart that I render and put aside . Old fashioned french fries were fried in oil containing tallow , but the vegetarians and vegans got the fast food chains to get rid of the tallow . Fies aren't as tasty as they used to be . Tallow is also good for making skin cream , lip balm , and waterproofing leather .
Mister, your entire channel is a trip. Keep it up
Thank you!
"Not recommended for wagon unloading." Glad you added that in there...I was just about to run out side and give it a go!
See, this is why I'm glad I put those in there. If not, Tyler woulda ruined a wagon.
The Romans had plywood two thousand years ago. Good video.
Yep, and America didn't until 1865! Wild, right?
That rawhide with firearms was amazing to learn!
Thank you!
A fix I know about, is the possebility of making a button from leather.
Good one!!!!
@@ArizonaGhostriders also chicken bones can be used as needles or fish hooks, and you can make a cooking pot from birch bark for example.
@@dreadnought8363 Great additions. I knew people would chime in. Thank you!
Had no idea plywood and corrugated metal sheets were around back then.... thanks Professor Santee.
I was thinking the same thing about the plywood. I was like it went that far back... I had no idea.
@@ryanmedina5090 Me either.
I learned that too.
Great video, that part about the glue sticks made from boiled rawhide actually gave me an idea for a future bushcraft video I'm gonna do.
The one I showed is a modern one, so it's a great idea. They said you could just lick it to get it activated.
Yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I dont know what type of glue stick it is that you can lick to activate . I'll have to look into that. It must be a hide based glue . I know how to make a primitive hot glue stick . Its made of pine tar , powdered charcoal and ground up rabbit droppings . I don't reccomend licking that or using it to fix your broken mug . Ha !
I have several older firearms with in the field repair. The oldest is an original HAWKINS from the 1830's, my most recent repair is on my model 70 Winchester 30.06 from the late 1950's, my moose gun. Keep 'em in service.
Very nice collectibles.
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Human ability to improvise has always amazed me. Get it done has always part of living. Santee, metal cups were important as crockery was fragile.Thanks for the great videos.
Thank you!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Can you do a video on blacksmiths and smithing?
I remember the joys of fixin barbed (boned) wire fences, and the blood and scars. Never could do anything with gloves on.
Ouch!
Hi Santee! You know you can always use those shards of broken pottery or glass to embellish homemade flower pots made from quick drying cement.
Good idea!
Well I must declare not only the host is sporting the AGR logo (quite nicely) but then it drives away in ugly green auto, but re shows itself on a rather green auto, then low and behold in a wavy tin spot, 3 times by my count? Very kewl and very much liked. Thumbs up!!!
I had to make up for its absence in the last two videos.
Nice one today. Gotta love all the old school technology. Still works.
Thank you!
Raw hide! Darn. My father was a saddle maker in Taos when I was 6 yo. He passed away in the early 90's and left me his leather tools and a lot (I mean a lot) of rawhide. I need to look into using it. I also have a lot of leather he used for making harnesses, saddles, etc. He told me he never broke even on a saddle. He did make a lot of belts, purses which he traded for Navajo rugs and silver jewelry. Still have some. Made in the mid, late forties. He closed up shop when he was called back into the Army for Korea. Served in Korea as an officer and later retired as Dept of Army GS12. During his retirement in the Tucson area he repaired harness and tack for ranches until a year or so before he passed away. A real old time Texan.
I bet you could do his memory proud by making some leather stuff!
@@ArizonaGhostriders On my bucket list.
It's amazing what you can use to do repairs in a pinch. Necessity is the mother of all repair invention.
Yes!
I remember a western movie where the Black lead character taught about the yucca needle and thread. Also about the root for shampoo. It's hazy and I probably am wrong but I think it may have been Buck and the Preacher. It may have been in Dingus Magee but I don't think so. I'll get back to y'all on this. And now back to the show I've strung wire. Posthole digging gave me my first blisters.
Hmmm.....I'll look into it.
Love your stuff, Santee ! You keep me connected to the subject I love. Thanks to you and the Arizona Ghostriders.
Awesome! Thank you!
I love the dinosaur at beginning the plant very useful ,1865 pinewood was used, love the history so much thank you for the video🙏
Thanks Sakuna!!
Like the frontier time period :) Keep it up. I used rawhide for alot of projects. Think of it as Kydex. Put something in it while its wet, a knife for example. And it will mold the shape and shrink while it dries :)
Yup, 1880s Kydex!
I-HAWL! Hahaha!! I love it!! Great as always, Santee!
Thank you!
Native American T-Rex goes hard!!
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Well, THANKS Santee!!!!!!!! I've been looking for repair stuff like that for a WHILE! Have you're self and the rest of good o'll Tucson a FINE day!!
You're welcome!
I have a big piece of rawhide to use on a quick draw holster....if I ever get around to it. Another great video Santee!
Yeah, I've been wanting to do that very thing!
I didn't know about the yucca thread and needle or rawhide to repair a rifle stock. I had no idea plywood or corrugated sheet metal existed that far back. Good information Santee. Maybe ceramic repairs in the next video. You might need that.
LOL!!!
I unload ALL my wagons by tossing it off a cliff. Maybe this is why I lost that job with old west Amazon......
I wonder if that’s how the postal service got the idea of bending, folding and mutilating their parcels?
That would do it. They don't like breaking their equipment.
"Now, why in the world did the wagon explode into flames after it rolled down the cliff?"
@@BogeyTheBear Dang Hollywood!
2:25 them glue-sticks are pretty handy, and often they'd be made with pine pitch, in fact the shape and black color of the one in the picture suggests it. pine pitch is gap filling and was only activated by melting it over a fire. which made it waterproof (unlike hide glue). for a modern version try carrying around a hot glue stick and a lighter.
So I've heard!
Nice video arizona ghostrider . something every home owner should know self repair
Thank you!
Outstanding Santee. Thanks
Another great episode Santee! Your rawhide repair reminds me of the fix I did for my broken forearm on my coach gun at this years CA State Championship match. Happy Holidays my friend! - Jed 🤠
Yours is definitely prettier.
Yeah rawhide is some good stuff maybe you can fix your mug with it😂
I'll have to get a couple more dog chews.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Wow..... i never knew that a Rawhide chew could be used like glue. thanks for showing us how :) and just like yourself, i too have to buy some dog chews. ones that i will not give to the dog.
Another powerful and inspirational video, Santee! I really felt that when I saw that rope around the wheel! Them pioneers had a real struggle! I'll try to hold back my tears of joy.😢💖 But thank you so much again, Santee! Hat tipped to you dear sir! 🤠🥃
You're welcome! Much appreciated.
Another fine episode. Got lots that need fixen sending them your way Thxs
AAARRGH!
Another awesome video, the rawhide repair looks really good! Thanks and keep up the great work!
Thank you!
I'm from Tucson so I understand this stuff. Keep up the good work.
Welcome to the channel, Tucsonan! What part of town you hail from?
Another great and informative video! Keep em coming.
Thank you!
awesome vid cheese, thanks so much !!! Love the repair on the shotgun stock with rawhide... Jedi fixed his hand guard with a leather wrap, which turned out pretty cool too !
Thanks Joe!
Here I thought they used chewing gum and baling wire to fix everything! That's what my grandpa said. Rawhide makes sense, though. Thanks for the great video!
You're welcome!
I haven't been here in a while, but I'm sure glad I stopped by and even more so to see y'all are still at it.
Thanks!!
I have found several 19th century rifles with cracked or broken butt-stocks that had been repaired by wrapping tightly with bailing wire, (like the rope was used to repair the wheel spoke in this video). The wire was held in place with a small nail at each end.
I've seen that too on a revolver.
Grubby is so wholesome, I want to be his friend
He'd welcome it.
I had never thought about having to repair a wagon wheel! I imagine there were all kinds of things to repair and some ingenious ideas to deal with it. I would like to see more on this subject.
As we grow I will talk to more people who repair things the old fashioned way and share them with you.
Wow i didnt know that about the raw hide bones thats awesome. Thank you
You're welcome!
Nice one,as always love the movie clips. (Ordering a mug to add to the collection, also one of my collectible items), Thanks 👍🏼🤠
Thank you!
The wrist on my 50 cal Flintlock split (horizontal forward and up but not completely separated). First, I packed it with 10 ton epoxy. Then, I wrapped it in rawhide and tied the edges together through the trigger guard tail. After it dried, I tacked it along side my trigger guard and cut off the area below (where the ties were). That was thirty years or more back. The fix is still holding.
Right? I am so amazed by the hard bond it makes. Waiting for more things to break!
thanks for the tip of how to get rawhide!! i need that fot a viking shield project. and thanks for the video!
Get one of those big 3' bones!
Thank you for teaching me so much of the old west I’ve been trying to keep it alive myself thank you for show me your ways I’ve been subscribed to ArizonaGhost riders five years ago thank you so much
Thank you!
You’re very welcome Keep the spirit the old west to live
Love your videos Santee👍👍
Thank you!
My uncle has his dad's single shot 16ga and it has a cracked stock. My grandad put on a rawhide wrap that looks like it was installed wet and dried in place. This was done in the 1930's because my uncle was born in 1940 and said it was like that as long as he can remember.
Another existing rawhide repair! Love it. Thanks for sharing.
Love the history lessons! 👍🏾😀❤️🇺🇸
Thank you!
Theater on the frontier, I’d like to see what they showed! Also, amazing video. The rawhide repair is a very interesting fact!
I'm gonna do that one. Thanks!
Great episode!
Thank you!
I learn some great information on your channel. Awesome as always! Brilliant!
Thank you!
Excellent episode, my friend.
Thank you!
3 hombres couldn't figure out how to fix their britches with a bandanna. Another great episode. Oh that Ariat link, I guess I could get another set of boots.
Please do! 10% off.
Always learn something new on an extremely interesting channel.
Thank you! Did you swipe me that bottle of Elijah Craig 22 year?
Pine amber, the sap that forms around the cut in the bark on a pine tree, then hardens, can be heated into a liquid that is better than most superglues when applied to most anything that was alive once, doesn't work well with metal or mineral, but you can glue wood, leather, raw hide, or even close a nasty cut that would otherwise need stiches, they say the pine amber also has anti bacterial/staff properties to help minimize the possibility of infections. They would use it to make birch bark canoes too, and it was good for sealing leaks as well.
Great info! Thanks.
Did use it at a bad cut once, healed pretty nice!
Great video thanks!
Thank you!
I enjoyed this video very much. The ending was very funny.
Thank you!
@@ArizonaGhostriders You're welcome, and I'm glad I found your channel. I very much enjoy watching.
Thank you Handy fix Using Rawhide 🤩 Great Video
Much appreciated.
Good morning Santee loved this one.. wow I didnt know those chew bone things could be used for such..learning everyday 🙂,
That's the ticket, pardner! Learn every day.
@@ArizonaGhostriders +best thing about life my friend one always learns new things it's a gift in itself 🙂
Great video Santee
Thanks, Led! You too.
An interesting channel. Living history, harmoniously smeshanaja to today.
Thank you!
Great video, very informative! Have you already made a video about banks in the old west? Maybe cases of historic bank robberies?
It's coming!
This video has given me so many ideas lol
Cool
You could also use leather strapping, soak the leather, bind tightly, as the leather dried it shrinks tightening the repair.
I've seen those repairs, too. Leather can stretch as well, so my money is on rawhide.
OK that rawhide fix was freaking cool. You know as a coffee addict, I get a little stressed at the idea of broken coffee mugs. My daughter recently chipped one of my favorite mugs. Her answer was you own too many coffee mugs dad. maybe I will use some rawhide to fix it. I also think we need a video on how they punished mouthy teenagers in the old west so I can share it with her.
I am the bull in the china shop you've heard about. Mugs, glasses...they don't stand a chance if I'm around.
I need to get one of those t-shirts Santee!! And a mug too!!
Yeehaw!
Cool video 👍👍👍
Great idea. Save cost with some assembly required mugs.
Yes!
That outro was pretty funny though. Great topic to cover too.
Thank you!
I can't imagine a world without duct tape haha great episode!
Right?
Nice lesson I've worked with yaka plant never with rawhide didn't even know that makes sense you can use buckskin.
Right on
A old black powder shotgun I have had a stock repaired with thin wire, leaded over, and leather over the top. Works fine.
Good add!
@Cindy Klenk No. Can't find a maker on it. I do have a 1885 L.C. Smith that is. The black powder shotgun I think is older.
Soak a piece of rawhide and wrap it around a cracked gun stock and that's it? That is interesting, for sure. I've been a model builder all of my life and know a bit about glue but I had no idea about that one.
If you think of a piece of rawhide you give to a dog, and how strong it is....that's the bond!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Well all right. All I need is the dog.
I guess you already knew that the ordinary original white glue wasn't much different than hide glue. My buddie warms up glue sticks in his coffee.😁 Was that wagon accident clip from The War Wagon? John Wayne and Kirk Douglas at their best.🤗
Also, fish was used for glue.
Yusss i wanted to build a cva flintlock but a super used and abused trade gun insted of a wall hanger
I get that!
Hi guys. Santee now you got to work out a way to fix that mug 😊 ! You can use rawhide and make glue from it! I didn't new that! Great vid has always by the way. You great fan from Portugal and see you guys down the trail
Thank you!
I'm educated!! Thanks.
You're welcome!
🔫🇺🇸🤠,, SANTEE 👍 NOW THAT IS ONE OF THE BEST,, ACTUALLY TEACHING YOUNG AND OLD, TRICKS, LIKE RAW HIDE FROM DOG CHEWS. KEEP IT UP SANTEE, AND YOUR VIDEOS WILL GROW UP. I'M WATCHIN TO MAKE SURE YOU TEACH THE YOUNGENS RIGHT. NOT REALLY,, JUST LOVE THE COWPOKES AND SALOON GALS. SEE YEA DOWN THE TRAIL. 👍🤠
We try. Much appreciated.
That part about barbed wire brought back bad memories.
Ouch
@Number 1 Western Fan I was stringing a fence using a wire puller. It was old wire and I got a bit tight and as soon as I heard the ting I covered my face with my arms. Luckily I had a denim jacket on and the fencing pliers in my hand. The wire wrapped around me from the chest down. I had to cut my way out, lucked out and only got a few scratches , mostly on my hands. My jacket got quite a few holes in it.
@Number 1 Western Fan I did have to dive through the wood fence at the feed trough, I used to like pissing the bulls off when I was a kid. The bull hit the 2x12 and busted it up. Got in trouble from my grandpa on that one.
Not gonna lie that sawed off percussion rifle is cool.
Yes
I am so going to use the rawhide fix!
cool!
Thanks Santee & Co. for another entertaining and informative video . For millenia the Japanese have been making glue from boiled and mashed up rice due to its high gluten content . Rice glue on strips of silk make an excellent tape . Putting a coat of lacquer on top makes it water resistant . Silk is pound for pound stronger than steel . It's nature's kevlar. As Jackie Chan said , " Wet shirt don't break " . See y'all on down the trail !
Thanks for the extra info from our asian brethren!
On 19th an 18th century antiques I have seen many items fastened with Pine Pitch or repaired with the same
Yes!
The best rawhide to use for these kind of repairs is fresh rawhide. Right of the animal, just the flesh, fat, membranes and hair scraped off but not stretched. That way you can stretch it over the area that needs repairing, and it will shrink around it to get the toughest fix imaginable.
Good info.
Wow this was another great all rounder. I used animal glue back home on glass designs. :) LIKE
Really? Cool!
i want a mustang for christmas, a horse obviously
Well, then go get one. They are considered "rescues" down here and they essentially give them away.
Arizona Ghostriders Ive seen those wild mustangs pretty thin and underfed can see the ribs, but beautiful.
Got an old SG with busted off stock, had an old stock diffrent color, grafted that on , good enough for blanks.
Good!
Yup, the stock I used was from an original double cap lock, I pinned and epoxy it, dont mind the color diff, thats its story,70g blank still goes boom
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I’ve always liked the Native American style of decorating rifles with thumbtacks...has there been an AZ Ghostriders video of that?
Not yet...one day!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Yes yes please do. I want to make my own copy of one of these rifles.
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I had no idea it was just tacks, I might have to add some brass ones to my Henry .22
I actually have a ww2 lee enfield that just has 2 tumb tacks both having stars on the top, one on ethier side and i thought it was an odd millitary marking I'd never seen , but the more i looked into it and learned about the rifle i relised its was probably trench art.