Old Maytag gas washer

[PlausableApple4]

And it still works. Amazing.

[AbuAvital]

one of the great inventions of the 20th century

[68knative]

Where is the gas tank located?

[9020powrmax]

@68knative In the base of the engine.. Holds approx 1/3 gallon of gas/oil mix 16:1 ratio

[68knative]

Wow, thats amazing. Thanks for sharing!

[Larsky1010]

Whee! We used to have one of these back in the mid '40s!

[ench35]

great we had one when I was a kid and I stil have the scar on toop of my foot just behind my toes from the exhaust tube ours was the one piece tub and was used from the mid thirties up until the mid fifties or so.

[9020powrmax]

I'm going to go back to this setup because i'm tired of all the china junk washers going bad (Mine just went kablooey)

[trucker765]

ive been looking for a good video on the Maytag washers, i have a 1925 maytag engine and i have always wondered what it looked like with the washer.

[AweSomo84]

Not much better :P.

Peace

[peugteobike]

my great uncle has one of these.and it still runs to this day

[keyboardartist]

It's really interesting to see one of these still operating! Thanks for posting this video!

[torchit007]

My friend and I are waiting for that rotted purple pink towel to get sucked up into the engine belt trans...not making a good statement for safety practicea diligently applied in our continental United States!!!!!

[torchit007]

practices..typo error

[AweSomo84]

hhahaa good point or was it filtering the air like they did in 1925 ^^

[ywmpg]

@torchit007

that was funny!

[Summerride]

Congrats to you guys that keep those old machine working instead of static display in museums !!

[moonraiser63]

I've heard some of the old folks in my family talk about these machines, but never have saw one before, thanks!

[appliancejunk]

I have never seen one that runs, cool!