1890s' Most Unnecessarily Complicated Apple Peeler [Restoration]
Some say, it's necessarily complicated. Some, not me, but some. This restoration was on an 1891 patented apple peeler. These were made by the Goodell Co. in Antrim, New Hampshire beginning in the 1890s. I do not know when they halted production of this apple parer, so a more exact age of this specific peeler is unknown. Later models even had a spiral slicer attachment. Personally, I love tools with tons of moving parts that all work synchronistically.
You can see the patent document here: patents.google.com/patent/US4...
You can see a 1918 advertisement here: i.imgur.com/EfGZlJZ.jpg
This specific tool was previously repainted and so I decided to leave the metal parts completely bare after paint removal. I really do like the "raw steel" look for a type of restoration where you still want the tool to look "old".
I ended up only replacing the brass bushings on this unit and the rest of the restoration focused on making sure the peeler looked great and was safe to use.
It would be fun to remake the parts that touch the apple out of stainless steel, so that you didn't have to oil everything again after you cleaned the metal parts.
Finding more complicated apple peelers is definitely moving up on my list!
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10:59 the original advert says this was a lacquered finish. So over-engineered, but back then things were designed to last forever.
"Jeez, why on earth would anyone go to all this trouble when..." *sees machine peel and core an apple in 0.4 of a second* "Oh. Okay then."
100%!
Honestly, I've got a $10 plastic one with a third as many parts that is just as fast and a forth the size. Most apple peelers are cool. This one is cool, but also a nightmare of parts and adjusting screws to keep tight.
@@bvcxzgt5451 someone has to keep the mechanics busy^^
@@bvcxzgt5451 i think this one might predate plastic injection molding somehow
This maybe is not the greatest invention ever made, but one of the most visually interesting to be conceptualized...
I did not expect how fast that machine was gonna clean the apple. Like literally one turn lol. that thing is for a factory kitchen
Probably was! :D I live in NH, the state in which it was manufactured, and we grow A LOT of apples! This was probably used for commercially producing apple butter or pies. We have much smaller and more simple "apple peeler-corers" that many of us New England home cooks use to process our fall harvests. I can definitely see a machine like that being used to preserve TONS of apple butter or a similar product.
3 turns of the hand wheel total, first two peels and cores, third ejects the Apple and core and returns to the start. With the sequence ordered by the cam pin tracks on the wheel in the back.
I like apple
Me neither. Clearly this is for someone who needs a peeled apple and only has 3 seconds to spare.
@@jaredm450 My grandmother had one of these. She used it for baking, because it was easier to peel and core apples like this than with a knife, especially when she was making several pies.
Kids, when granddaddy says “they don’t make em like they used to”, this is what he’s talking about.
So he means unnecessarily complicated, heavy, overly big, and a wasteful utilization of material resources?
@@xarcaz no, what means is an overly complicated but incredibly precise and efficient mechanical engineering marvel.
@@xarcaz dont forget built to last and can be handed down for generations and marvled at unlike today's garbage that breaks in a month and one part to repair it is more costly than an entire new unit. Nothing you said was accurate 🖕
@@maggs131 Give your mum my condolences, mate. It must've been hard to raise a wee tard.
@@xarcaz hahaha its funny becouse its a complicated machine criticized by someone who barely knows how to turn a screw
Can we have like an hour-long video of this majestic machine peeling apples? It is so satisfying to watch!
Machines like this one is proof that engineers will go through, literally, any amount of work not to have to do any work.
...they were used extensively by restaurants and catering companies many years ago. These were actually a thing once upon a time. They were very common.
@@NorthernChev " I quit boss !" " I have a new job, I am beginning a brilliant and rewarding future as an apple coring and peeling machine service technician. "
the engineer's paradox
Yup, sounds reasonable to me. 😁
That is sooo accurate
I thought 'why would you make a machine like this?' until I saw the end demonstration. Seriously impressive
radeakins no kidding
think steampunk interrogation device.
Kind of blew me away.
Army kitchens, hospitals, railroads, hotels, bakeries making apple pies in the city would probably go through bushels of apples a day.
CO Jones yeah, definitely not a tool for a home gamer.
Dang! As nice as the restoration is, I'm even more impressed by how they are able to keep track of all those parts and put it back together correctly!
Well, he video'd himself taking it apart, so that's a pretty good record.
I've been thinking this with every unique item he restores.... some of us might get this thing going (Without looking all nice and new like he gets them), but 3 screws and one widget would be left over EVERY DANG TIME, without any idea why
@@DonKelleyMusic Step1: take it apart again and put it back together Step 2: repeat step 1 Step 3: infinite screws
@@RenTheWren Yeah, I imagine that's how this channel got started. He has this hobby, and started videoing the disassembly so he'd be able to reassemble easily, then somebody said, "You should start a KZhead channel, people will watch this stuff."
@@Dick_Gozinya he has said on here that is how it got started
The 90s sitcom intro never gets old
I was trying to figure out where that style came from, thank you.
Today on a very special episode of Hand Tool Rescue; Guy learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of getting 'hooked on the sauce'.
Wife: "Could you peal this apple?" Engineer: "One moment, honey, need to build something..."
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😂
That's not "Unnecessarily Complicated", that's a Gosh-darned Wonder of Engineering right there...
It is unnecessarily complicated... I agree that it looks cool but for something to be well engineered it needs to do what it's designed to be doing while being as simple and easy to manufacture as it can possibly be
The had no auto cad to design it, all hand drawn blueprints
@@MR5er1 I'm curious. While keeping the same durability, speed, and ease of operation, how could this machine be simplified?
@@PBryanMcMillin like the modern crap apple cutters you can buy nowadays, way way simpler, and slower and won't even cut during its MTBF what this vintage cutter can do in an hour.
Honestly I can’t sleep for crap these days. But thankfully the asmr of metal tapping metal mixed with the knowledge grime and rust are being blasted into the next life are enough to put my mind at ease enough for sleeping. Bless you HTR. You’re doing God’s work.
I don't want to miss HTR jokes so for sleepstuff i go to Baumgartner Restoration
As odd as it sounds this seems to be the only thing that is so interesting yet puts me to sleep even if I’m not tired at all. So I often fall asleep and have to watch the second half later
Same here 🥹. Except when he drops something or there's a loud bang and I wake up 🤣🤣
Que buena maquina jamas la habia visto en verdad eres un muy buen restaurador con amplios conocimientos felicitaciones ..genio total desde lyon francia
Imagine how many doctors you could keep away with that thing!!!
Apple pie, apple sauce, candy apples, apple with apple. Doctors be warned!
Trump has one on his desk.
LMAO
Probably 10/10 doctors
"@Eli's Kelley 1 year ago Imagine how many doctors you could keep away with that thing!!!" Not many. It should be better known that there is more nutrition in the peel of fruit than the rest of it. Apples, kiwis, bananas, oranges etc. Mind you, organic non-GM.
"The last apple peeler you, your children or their children will ever need"
Said a salesman 89 years ago 😂
"Yep. Real beauty, ain’t she. Yes sir. Right smart purchase, this vessel. I’ll tell you what, you buy this APPLE PEELER, treat her proper, she’ll be with you for the rest of your life. {but Mal’s attention is on another vessel} Son? Hey, son! You hear a word I been sayin’?"
That's surprisingly very good. I mean, the as seen on tv garbage doesn't even come close to how well this works.
On tv? TV???
This may be true, but a $5 peeler from IKEA works just as well as both of them.
I've used a "modern" peeler/corer to do a bushel or so of apples and let me tell you, this thing is a BEAST and I wish I'd had it to do those apples!
@@mehere8299 Sure and a shovel works just as well as a snowblower or a backhoe huh?
@@reeceguisse17 +1
I've had my hands on one of those. When I was a kid, I volunteered at a victorian museum which had all manner of antique tools and equipment in the kitchen and workshop, and since I seemed to have a knack for tools and finding things in a library, I wound up doing a bunch of historicl interpretation - at the age of 16! The apple peeler they had looked and worked identically to this one, although I can't say whether it was the same brand or a knockoff. Now how many kitchen appliances of today will still be working 100 years from now. There is something to be said for cast iron clunkiness. ^_^
Great work! It’s actually missing a part - there is an attachment which spiral slices the apple at the same time. It’s amazing.
There’s at least a dozen jokes in this wordless video. This guy has an amazing sense of humor and his instincts for editing are spot on. There’s a lot of ‘restoration’ channels on KZhead but HTR takes the medium to a whole new level of entertainment.
I just had this exact conversation with my girlfriend!
HTR was the first restoration-specific channel I saw. Was he the first or does anyone know of others who have been around longer?
That’s because all those other channels are copy cats HTR did it first and now there are a bunch of them now some are good I recommend Geoffrey cocker and restore it
Love the soothing commentary! 🤐
1992djg I suspected that because no other channels popped up in my recommends for a long time, now there's a bunch but this is still the best.
I couldn’t stop laughing at the panning shot of the long screwdriver. Made my day hahaha
Loooong screwdriver is long..
I didn't even blink and was like WTF!.
I was eating breakfast at the time - my cat ended up covered in milk and Coco pops...... he hasn't come near me since.
LMAO it reminded me of the scene in the first Batman where the Joker takes out the revolver with the 5 foot barrel! It just kept goin..
😂
This thing is best described as mechanical poetry. It's high art to those that appreciate it
That is simply an amazing trifecta! Machine engineering, machine speed, and an all out beautiful restoration. Fantastic! I was blown away by this video, with jaw actually gaping open at the end. Absolutely brilliant all around!
KZhead needs a 24hr loop of this thing peeling apples.
I'd watch it.
Dude, are you trying to make people addicted to obscure videos or something?
That was an entirely astonishing demonstration. I was expecting a Goldburg monstrosity, but that looks exactly as complicated as it needs to be. I have been astonished by an apple. Well played, sir.
I didn't think this machine would work so smoothly and quickly. It works really perfectly.
To see that in action back in the day would be amazing...modern technology. The cam-action is beautiful. Thank-you for restoring!
"This adjusts the speed of my snowblower" laughing out loud in public at this
I had just woke up and was watching this with my morning coffee. It's a good thing I was inbetween sips! The coffee would have spewed everywhere when I laughed!
I was waiting this in the toilet at work. Now everyone wants to know why I was laughing.
@@abnurtharn2927 jeeze! How long does it take for you to take a dump? I'd go see a doctor if I were you 🤣🤣
@@abnurtharn2927 Eat more apples; the additional fiber in your diet will help to move things along. :-)
Now this is a classic Apple product. Back when they produced quality stuff
Like asbestos
This is the Apple I-Peel.
Unnecessarily complicated and overenginered and absolutely stunning to see it work. Love it.
At last! Someone who knows how to use split pins properly instead of making steel sculptures with them! :)
I made that same comment in my head. Just wide enough not to fall out. that's all
Opps .. I've always bent them all the way back - I'll be sure not to do that any more!
@@danielbryars1if you're installing a link in a forklift chain that is the proper way to do it.
I love this sort of elaborate technology developed for a very specific purpose. I just keep thinking about all the prototyping and testing the people must have gone through before coming up with the final product.
I can't help but feel like every one of those depth and blade adjustments started with a lost finger, or at least more blood than was healthy to lose.
I laughed unnecessarily loud at "this adjusts the speed of my snowblower." For not saying a word, you are always so damn funny. Love every single video.
I was laughing at him slapping the thing with the spring when he was taking it apart. He is pretty funny.
That was good 👍
@@kericue2065 hahaha! That part was awesome too!
It may have 100 unnecessary parts, but you can’t argue with how it works! That must have been used in orchards or in factories. That’s way more machine than any home apple peeler I’ve ever seen. You did a wonderful job restoring it!🐝🤗❤️
Man, i really like watching your restorations.....and the most excellent 80's tv sitcom intro. Keep up the good work
The snowblower part had me dying and I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂 also that’s a hell of a Apple peeler but it does an amazing job
I am impressed that it actually works so well.
При такой сложности, на выходе, должен быть сидр! А чуть дороботки.., и огнестрел.
Градусов 60! :)
УбИИлЬ:) А я смотрю и слова подбираю ,тут уже все написано:)))
кому-что, кому-то мирный яблочный нож, а кому-то подавай огнестрел. лишь бы убивать.
@@muhtarmukash7268 Убивает не оружие, а тот, кто его использует. Вообще, это была шутка...
так оно и было. там сундучок с аксессуарами прилагался
This thing is freaking awesome! I would have this in my house and actually use it. It peeks and cores at the the same time.
🔵 4-seconds to peel & core an apple (without taking a ridiculous amount of the FRUIT along with the PEEL!! .......GREAT-Restoration! From one machine-renovator to another, I appreciate and respect your skill, meticulousness and above all, your dedication, It really is a treat to watch someone do such righteous-work. I know it's certainly goes a lot faster if you don't have to catalog everything on video as you've done, so "Thanx" for all the time and effort you put into sharing this.
People: "How can a restoration video of an ancient tool possibly be funny?" Hand Tool Rescue with a 3 foot Flathead screwdriver: *shrugs*
You know, I saw the notification for this comment, but it was about at 4:45 am and I misread it as "thank you". Now that I'm awake I see that that was indeed not the message. However, I still appreciate the fact that someone took time out of their day to respond to a joke I made
@@varkboys9999 nice stick-handling
@@zhenyasokur2734 what the hell. you need to learn to be quiet...
he just wants to fuck..
Nothing old or " ancient "!
Благородные формы чугуниевого литья, почти скульптура, энергонезависимость и автоматизация процесса. Шикарная вещь!
не то что китайские суррогаты
Никакого силумина
Робот-Фёдор тоже умеет чистить яблоки! :)
Чугунное литьё, а не чугуниевое..
@@4elabaka это нежная любовь к технике. "А кто откажется грузить алюминтий, тот будет грузить чугунтий!" Армейский фольклор. А ещё сварщики электроды с основным покрытием ласково называют "уониевые", хотя они "УОНИ". Техника любит ласку, а женщина - смазку... Ой, наоборот. Ну, вы поняли )))
Wow! This machine is absolutly amazing, as well as the restoration. Good work chap!
I have been throughly dissappointed with my cheap apple peeler. I would always get a cut from the machine, but this one looks like a work of art!
Обожаю Всякие старинные механизмы =) В них есть душа !
В 1980году у нас в цеху сделали станок для изготовления цепочки. Достали старые чертежи может за 1890год, так как сконструировать такой никто бы не смог. На него вешалась бухта латунной проволоки и он изготовлял бесконечную фасонную цепочку, конечно когда метров 10 наделает откусывали. Если бы наши конструкторы разрабатывали сами, то это затянулось на долгие годы, а сейчас вообще ни кто не способен. Это же надо какое литьё, я просто восхищен. Люди в то время были специалисты гораздо выше нас по мастерству, а инженеры были просто гении. Мне приходилось встречать в 70годах инженеров старой школы, они пользовлись для расчётов логарифмической линейкой и помнили наизусть все константы- типа сопротивление на разрыв для стали марки ст3 итд. А нынешние, я ещё работаю, полнейший отстой.
Андрей Третьяк Полностью с вами согласен! Сам работал на многих станках допотопного времени, не имея на то корочек, а инженера с дипломами были тупые, как валенки! То, что изготовлялось 150-300 и более лет назад, не поддаётся объяснению! Деградируют и тупеют специалисты, как и всё человечество.
@@sergejussabaliauskas1807 kzhead.info/sun/n9tvkcZ6gqlsrWg/bejne.html
Sure thing
Этот станок выглядет так будто достался нам от более разумной цивилизации, но к сожалению давно исчезнувшей
Система капитализма она очень продуктивна в реформировании образования в сторону ниже плинтуса, а ныне егешникам, даже просто выговорить сложно будет "логорифметическая линейка " и беда в том, что они в этом не виноваты, но в парадигме современной модели общества, эти егешники так или иначе станут за станки, за штурвалы кораблей, самолётов и за хирургические столы и вот тут" алес"!
As they say, "do one thing and do it well". I never would have thought that a hand-cranked machine that can peel and core an apple so fast would exist, but here it is, and it's a pretty impressive sight. (And while it was almost certainly made for large-scale jobs, I can't help imagining some little old granny using this thing to crank out a hundred apple pies in an afternoon.)
With restoration videos, I always pause a moment out of respect for the manufacturing family tree. You restored a quality machine that exists thanks to a machinist, thanks to a foundry worker, thanks to a cast mold maker, thanks to a draftsman, etc. Keep America Making.
You're right; that natural finish is appealing! :/
Yeah I like it much more than what it was before.
a peeling, also :-D
Is it protective in any way?
The soviet version came with a diesel engine attached.
I Don't for a second doubt it.
And gulags.
Ты прав.
This one machine will peel apples for many families. When was the last time any of you comrades have seen an apple? Hmm... maybe it can peel Soviet potatoes.
@@Azathoth43 и резервации коренных народов Америки.
OMG!!! That thing is a wickedly scary apple peeler/corer! I'd be afraid to get anywhere near it. It's an absolute work of genius! Great job restoring it too! You're nothing short of spectacular! Love watching your videos. You never fail to impress.
I just found you. The Apple machine was amazing. Wonderful work. Thank you. Stay safe!
“This adjusts the speed of my snowblower” hahahahaha I’m dyin ova heeya!!!🤪
Me: I wouldn’t touch that thing with a 10 foot pole. Hand Tool Rescue: *uses 11 foot screwdriver*.
69 thumbs up. Nice Is the long ass screwdriver a "mines bigger" with TysyTube who used a pointlessly long one in the Jolly Chef restoration video
I agree the look of the machine when you hit the high spots with the small wore brush make it look really good.
This mechanical marvel had no rival in it's day, and given how things are made in this day and age, it would still have few rivals that could out do it today. Truly impressive.
Thank you, for producing such a wonderful show. I especially like when you start sandblasting and bump your head onto the cabinet. Was never much for slapstick, but you have elevated the genre.
This is still one of my favorite channels. Top work as always!
if I saw this in a video game i would accuse the devs of being too over-the-top with the aesthetic
I just recently discovered your channel and I'm really enjoying your clever sense of humor and your skill. It's really interesting to see these pieces of gear and your adventures giving them new life.
I am actually astounded by how quickly and effectively that thing works, despite how overengineered it is
*It looks like a full-auto weapon that fires apples.*
That was my first thought. When it first pulled the apple back, I equated that to the machine being loaded and ready to be fired.
I grew up with one of these. I've been searching for one for years. Nice work!
WOW omg this was so soothing and satisfying to watch. You have my dream job!! what a beautiful machine!
Охренеть просто... Человек который это придумал, гений своего времени и он по ходу, ну очень любил яблоки... Респект за восстановление, очень классно.
Однозначно - гений, но яблоки чистить вручную не любил )))
Зачем их вообще чистить
Гениальность в простоте,а тут целый станок делающий простую функцию.
@@Rozhdennyj_v_SSSR зачем для отжима сока чистить яблоки? Очень много отходов будет.
А потом родился оптимизатор и сделал это: kzhead.info/sun/n9tvkcZ6gqlsrWg/bejne.html
That is outstandingly over engineered, i can only imagine just how much Opium the engineer was taking when they designed this.
over engineered made by Apple
People on Opium don't have enough brainpower to actively think
@@snowmcsnow4732 I beg to differ
just hemp is needed!and voila!.
now imagine boss of apple juice factory who saves thousands on wages, thanks to this machine
Gorgeous antique machine!
Wow. loved the restoration as always. The machine is awesome. I would love to own one of these. That was so fast. Amazing machine. Thanks for sharing such restorations and videos. So cool to watch them all.
What an absolute gem. I wonder just how many apples that peeled over the years. Great job on the restore! Thanks for the video.
Ohh,,, it can core a apple !!! That crazy unit peels and cores better than any I've ever seen... Thanks for the great video chef of the future !
I e finally determined what I enjoy about these. I can feel the emotions you have even though you make not obvious indication of what they are aside from the occasional text.
Amazing machine. Though the mechanism is complicated, it does the job clean and fast..
Genuinely impressed at how well that works!
I expected a Tex Avery-esque sign, “long tool, ain’t it?”
Ha! Great minds think alike. 🤣
Was not expecting that efficient of a cut! Complicated but wow for 1890. What an invention!!
I’m new, your intro had me sold. So good.
Holy hell, that is the coolest apple peeler/corer ever.
Hey, Evapo-Rust, this guy sold me on your product. I just bought my first gallon. Keep sponsoring him, please!
Love it. Atrim is the next town over from here. I have been looking for one at yard sales but all I found is the much simpler one which works fine. Apple were serious business back in the day and this actually would save a lot of time and work , if you had twenty trees or more to process.
Some of these old tools are more akin to Rube Goldberg contraptions... Lol Great Job restoring these. I'm continually impressed and entertained
In my opinion that is a brilliant apple corer and I wish I had one!
I like how it lifts the razor sharp blades away from where your hand is going to be when it gets done with each cycle
Rather aggressive disassembly! LOVE IT! 😂😂😂
me: this seems convoluted fro a "peeler", how good could it possibly be? peeler: *peels, cores and cleans apple in a second* me: holy shit!
that made me wow at the end, very impressive
The greatest accomplishment here is putting back together. Outstanding!
What a beautiful machine. Thank you so much for this work and video!!!
Все Ваши видео смотрю!!!И юмор есть,на хорошую работу стоит посмотреть!Удачи Вам и жду новых видео!
Sold for $14 in 1918, that's almost $250 in 2019 cost!
And now they are worth around $1000!
@@HandToolRescue 1000 $ per togliere la buccia ad una mela?? Ah ah ah grande!!!!!
@@bacillo48 a milioni di mele, con una efficienza che le macchine elettroniche se la sognano.
Worth every penny!
Here's a great, unsinkable Dollar. Even 2 world wars did not save him from inflation.
What an amazing machine, thanks for sharing with us.
Wow that is an amazing Apple pealer. And wonderful job making it brand new!! As always!!
Hey, you know what I've notice. You're really good at unscrewing flat heads!
Whoever engineered this: either worked before on sewing machines or in a gun factory. Very early 1900s design...but it works
Was thinking it looks like the work of a gunsmith as well.
That was amazingly fast. Sturdy thing too. I'm impressed, very well made piece of apple peeling engineering. I like it.
Oh hand tool rescue, you’re the best. Restoring old things. Not like those other guys who fill all of the pitting in cast iron with bondo, sand, paint, and remove all of the character. Nice work. Wish I had one of these for my kids.
I haven't seen an apple peeler like that since I was a little boy. Thank you for bringing back some good memories damn good videos keep up the good work!
I blinked and missed the whole apple peeling part 🤣. Should send that off to the slow-mo guys🤣. That was pretty awesome, thanks😁.
that opening alone earned you a sub! I was fully flashing back to 90s!
What a fantastic piece of engineering!!! I’ve never seen anything quite like that.
Awww snap, it's a HTR video first thing in the morning! It's gonna be a good day!
Bahahaha!!! All the opening needs is a chuckle from you!!! Congrats on passing 500k subscribers!!! I’m glad I can say I have been a subscriber basically since the beginning and you always have amazing content!!! Can’t wait to see ya go over 1 million subscribers!!! You deserve it!!!
Are you from Ottawa?
Phillip Taylor I think he's from Saskatchewan.
Splendid idea, no kitchen should be without one.
Guy. Is this all just for an apple? Madness! The designers of that time really had time to spare! Your videos are great! Gave a touch of humor makes everything very cool! Here is from Brazil. I'm a fan of your channel!