Monday, October 10, 2016

Giant Paper Cutter....

You all know how much I love vintage things.  Well, today I wanted to share a video I made of our vintage paper cutter in action.  This isn't like anything you've ever seen....this is a HUGE paper cutter...an industrial one that was originally manufactured for cutting paper and book board for the printing industry (maybe newspapers too - not sure on that).

It is a 1928 Chandler & Price Guillotine Cutter and weights over 2 tons.  The company that had previously owned it was bought out and the new owners were going to have it hauled off to the junk yard.  It wasn't something we HAD to have for our business but we couldn't let this unique piece of history be hauled off and melted down for the steel.  Dh bought it and we now use it to cut cardboard and industrial tissue paper (we use to package our screen printed items).  It still works like a charm and no more than we use it should last another 100 years.



I hope you enjoyed taking a look into the past as much as I enjoyed sharing it!

Oh and before I forget, the first operator was my DH - Eric and the second one was our youngest son Bob who also works for us.
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  1. AnonymousOctober 10, 2016 at 6:32 AM

    Very interesting. Thanks for sharing

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  2. Caroline D.October 10, 2016 at 11:41 AM

    Wow, what an amazing machine! It's wonderful your family "saved" it.

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  3. Ruby WilkesOctober 10, 2016 at 12:25 PM

    WOW!! very interesting, no problem cutting through book board for you. Enjoy your new machine

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  4. AnneThompsonOctober 10, 2016 at 10:16 PM

    Makes my paper cutter look like a toy! This is a serious machine!!! So nice to rescue a piece of history that still is usable. Thanks for sharing the video.

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  5. KarenladdOctober 11, 2016 at 3:08 AM

    So cool, and I love that wheel that they spin every time they feed paper through it!

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  6. CarlavdMOctober 11, 2016 at 3:10 AM

    Wonderfull to see that such an old machine is still working and how awesome that you saved it.

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  7. MelanieOctober 11, 2016 at 8:02 AM

    Thanks for the look at history in action and your family! Very cool machine (and handsome men)!

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  8. Mary HolshouserOctober 11, 2016 at 10:38 AM

    Good to see things that are no longer considered
    necessary being saved.
    take care.

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  9. UnknownOctober 11, 2016 at 5:37 PM

    What a beauty!

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  10. paddyOctober 11, 2016 at 11:34 PM

    That's pretty cool!

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  11. paddyOctober 11, 2016 at 11:34 PM

    That's pretty cool!

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  12. Louise FoxOctober 12, 2016 at 1:08 PM

    Really enjoyed this! Thanks for thinking of us.

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