I don’t remember where I saw this, but in a recent woodworking article someone pointed to Laurel and Hardy’s Busy Bodies episode. The comment had something to do with removing glue…
Anyway, I watched through the video, and found it to be absolutely hilarious. I don’t always like older shows like this, but this one was great.
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While I would like to remark about how you wouldn’t – or really shouldn’t – see a woodworking shop run like that these days, one cannot take comedy shows too seriously. They’re meant to be funny, and won’t necessarily depict how things were run in the 1930’s.
If you’re bored, watch the video and count up how many different safety violations or potential hazards you can find. But really, if you’re that bored with nothing else to do, just fire up another Laurel and Hardy episode.
Here it is:
There are embeddable versions of the video clip, as well as a colorized version, but this B&W copy had the best viewing quality. You’ll have to follow the link to YouTube to watch it.
fred says
Classic Laurel & Hardy! Television in the 1950’s often used their shorts as fillers – now you might see one or 2 on TCM.
Interesting that Stan is using a hybrid (often called a transitional) jointer plane. There was an age when planes bodies were made exclusively of wood. As technology changed metal adjusters (instead of wooden wedges) and frogs started to appear, then you started seeing planes like Laurel’s – where the “guts” were made of iron – but the body was still wood. I’ve heard that the big innovation in mass-produced planes came with the Bailey all-metal design – ultimately bought out by Stanley. Vintage plane collecting seems to be alive and well – and wooden infill planes by Norris and others seem to be particularly prized.
http://lumberjocks.com/topics/46543
Joe says
Lol reminded me of a TIFU. It was a two man crew installing hardibacker board in showers. He was cutting and I was behind him nailing. He would mark the beams on the board to avoid the pipes. One day he was not paying attention I guess, he marked right on the path of a pipe…as soon as I hit the nail all the way in, the hissing of water started. Then I ran outside trying to find the main to cut the water. Took me a while to find it… it was his fault ’cause the line was there but what a mess…lol.