BUYING MY DREAM YORK PLATES *SUPER RARE FIND*

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Komentáře • 421

  • @kennynakawaki
    @kennynakawaki Před 4 měsíci +280

    The guys who sell these antique weights are so chill. You can tell they know their stuff and history.

    • @evita.2900
      @evita.2900 Před 4 měsíci +31

      my dad is the one who sold the weights to mr shaw!! tysm :)

    • @ok9105
      @ok9105 Před 4 měsíci +1

      😂

    • @thegamercave5160
      @thegamercave5160 Před 4 měsíci

      @@evita.2900really? Nice

    • @DisDatK9
      @DisDatK9 Před 4 měsíci +3

      ​@@evita.2900he definitely seemed the type that he would absolutely deny someone buying those weights if he didn't deem them worthy to honor the plates. Your dad seems like a super cool dude

    • @MikeYork-bn1mt
      @MikeYork-bn1mt Před 4 měsíci +1

      I love all of my White brothers and sisters.
      May God bless us all.

  • @leo99991
    @leo99991 Před 4 měsíci +198

    That gentleman really seemed passionate about these plates ,when talking with Brian. Real student of lifting history.

    • @evita.2900
      @evita.2900 Před 4 měsíci +13

      that’s my dad who he sold too!!

    • @ok9105
      @ok9105 Před 4 měsíci

      Black iron is tangible history.

    • @MikeYork-bn1mt
      @MikeYork-bn1mt Před 4 měsíci +1

      I love all of my White brothers and sisters.

  • @FuriosoDrummer
    @FuriosoDrummer Před 4 měsíci +73

    Okay can we talk about how that guy described himself and you as '"Stewards of the Black Iron," what a badass title.

    • @Mirriam02
      @Mirriam02 Před 4 měsíci +4

      It's a distinguished honor:)

    • @ok9105
      @ok9105 Před 4 měsíci +1

      The black iron will outlast us all if we maintain it properly.

    • @turkishdelight6032
      @turkishdelight6032 Před měsícem

      You really have to be an enthusiast to look for these rare finds. A very small handful of people actively search for these, or have some collecting dust in their basement without even knowing about their history

  • @mattdean1541
    @mattdean1541 Před 4 měsíci +19

    I have a pair of 50lb York dumbbells that look old old old. They were bought from the Seattle Seahawks training facility, they bought them in 1976.

  • @midias12
    @midias12 Před 4 měsíci +120

    Brian's going to have to open a strength training museum

    • @joshuawatson6113
      @joshuawatson6113 Před 4 měsíci +7

      Dudeee frr 😂

    • @Trolhammarenn
      @Trolhammarenn Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@joshuawatson6113 "frr"? you are 12?

    • @Zepherian
      @Zepherian Před 4 měsíci +3

      Actual good idea and a potential source of revenue for the big man, I heard he eats a bit.

    • @bgmike420
      @bgmike420 Před 4 měsíci +7

      ​@@Trolhammarennfr? you are 12?🤓

    • @joshuawatson6113
      @joshuawatson6113 Před 4 měsíci +6

      @@Trolhammarenn oh wow here we go a keyboard warrior… are you that bored you have to comment on how I type things ? Get a life bro

  • @mgrowbee
    @mgrowbee Před 4 měsíci +66

    A real student of the sport. Cool to see a guy who has been at the top for so long still get excited. True ambassador of strength and fitness.

  • @1milliondogs
    @1milliondogs Před 4 měsíci +84

    Brian is slowly becoming the crazy cat lady of weight lifting equipment 😂

    • @Xphinity
      @Xphinity Před 4 měsíci +10

      Honestly, one of the few people that should lol He's got a real sense of passion and desire for it! I hope he makes a nice museum one day

    • @greggoode3450
      @greggoode3450 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Lol, it's all about the stewardship and history.

    • @1milliondogs
      @1milliondogs Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@Xphinity Agreed. If I was selling something like that with historical value, I couldn't think of a better keeper than Brian.

  • @walkerdumontj
    @walkerdumontj Před 4 měsíci +52

    I always get chills when I hear Brian talk about these old plates and implements and you hear the genuine caring and reverence in his voice. It's humbling and a testament to what it means to be a brother in iron.

    • @calebcochrane
      @calebcochrane Před 4 měsíci +2

      Stewards of the black iron, so sick. I love hearing the history of old plates and dumbbells, just like Brian said, to think of the people that have trained with them over the years and the history kept in the weights.

  • @michaelmottice8455
    @michaelmottice8455 Před 25 dny +2

    Can we appreciate the suspension of the truck. Carrying all those plates and Brian

  • @jdog7797
    @jdog7797 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Love Brian's passion. He treats the weights like an ancient warrior going back to his training grounds of when he was a youth... with honor and respect, because they helped mould him into the great man he has become.

  • @derekreever33
    @derekreever33 Před 4 měsíci +36

    I live in York, PA and growing up I never knew how famous this place was for weightlifting and training and all. Now being a strongman myself, I'm finding more and more miraculous things about the history

    • @jgruv9876
      @jgruv9876 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Same here and im from york pa also. Dover specifically

    • @user-hh8eh4kk2e
      @user-hh8eh4kk2e Před 4 měsíci

      Same here

    • @Mathis218337
      @Mathis218337 Před 4 měsíci

      born and raised - you should go check out the musuem with the big guy lifting over it

    • @littleceasar9351
      @littleceasar9351 Před 4 měsíci

      Pfalzgraf as well.

    • @ok9105
      @ok9105 Před 4 měsíci +1

      York , PA = Muscletown USA!

  • @johnknouse6984
    @johnknouse6984 Před 4 měsíci +9

    Brian, I am so glad you are collecting this stuff. I used to work out in places that had York and Weider plates back in the late 80s and early 90s. Glad you are maintaining and honoring the history of strength. You are a great man.

    • @ok9105
      @ok9105 Před 4 měsíci

      A lot of guys will say "weight is weight." It's not. Black iron is history too, tangible history.

  • @caley_saige
    @caley_saige Před 4 měsíci +32

    How AMAZING is this!? Not only is this a great find, but Brian is learning more about the history of these plates and steel. How freaking cool!

    • @Agnes135
      @Agnes135 Před 4 měsíci

      Some great material for sure

  • @GottYourHome
    @GottYourHome Před 4 měsíci +4

    Dibs on “Stewards of the Black Iron” for a band or gym!
    Also loved the point Brian made about all the people that improved themselves by touching these weights!

  • @Roadglide08
    @Roadglide08 Před 4 měsíci +3

    My hometown high school, where I now help coach the lifting program, is full of the old York stuff. It’s a school that unfortunately doesn’t want to spend money on the lifting program, so the plates and bars the kids use now, have been there for decades.

  • @SRJmetalhead
    @SRJmetalhead Před 4 měsíci +613

    Brian Shaw helped me stay sober! Day 79 of sobriety! I followed what he said before about winning today and keeping momentum and making tomorrow better today! Also he obviously helped keep me in a lifting mindset! Can't thankyou enough!

    • @alexdavis9324
      @alexdavis9324 Před 4 měsíci +20

      Keep it up! You got this!

    • @ladsbois7302
      @ladsbois7302 Před 4 měsíci +30

      It's no one else but you, man. They helped, but you're the pushing yourself for results. Be confident, and stay relentless!

    • @SRJmetalhead
      @SRJmetalhead Před 4 měsíci

      yeah man more ppl need to look up to strongmen and the knowledge they've proven works@@RelaxingGhost

    • @SRJmetalhead
      @SRJmetalhead Před 4 měsíci

      thanks man! yeah relearning how to be myself again and get after it is on me! you're right! @@ladsbois7302

    • @mmac3353
      @mmac3353 Před 4 měsíci +18

      Wow. Day 79 is no joke. Congrats and keep it up! 👍💪

  • @jeremiahgriffin9428
    @jeremiahgriffin9428 Před 4 měsíci +10

    I love these videos when you accrue all this history. Are you working on a museum type walk through for fans to check it all out? I think that would be a cool addition to the shaw classic!

  • @cliffdoggchc4244
    @cliffdoggchc4244 Před 4 měsíci +1

    It's great to see his love of history and all the people who came before him. I'm 59 and my 2 sons lift with weights that were their great-grandfather's that he passed onto me, and now them, some original York and a mix of others. 4th generation lifting with the same plates, pretty special. I recall making a "pilgrimage" to York Barbell when I was about 12 years old with my grandfather (we life in PA).

  • @JeffOfTheMountains
    @JeffOfTheMountains Před 4 měsíci +17

    Just when we think Brian has the best gym equipment, he says "Hold my plates" and uploads a video of him getting better gym equipment.

  • @G3N3515DM
    @G3N3515DM Před 4 měsíci +6

    these gym find videos have become some of my favorite episodes, retired brian is just as awesome as competing brian!

  • @jtf2dan
    @jtf2dan Před 4 měsíci +3

    On of the first gyms I worked out in in 1979 (base gym at CFB St Hubert, Quebec)had the York deep dish plates and the ship wheel collars, although they did have a piece broken off on each of the collars. they also had long leather covered incline benches that you stood up in, they had pedals where your feet went to keep you from sliding down. And they also had metal dumbells up to 50 pounds a piece that were round balls at each end. The equipment would have all been purchased after WW2 in the 40s and 50s.

  • @ORagnar
    @ORagnar Před 4 měsíci +5

    That guy really valued those plates and putting them in Brian's hands was about the best thing he could have done to preserve them. 1

  • @michaeljohnson254
    @michaeljohnson254 Před 2 měsíci

    dude seeing him smile when he lifted those plates in the cellar...genuine happyness glad i could enjoy it with you via video haha id never be able too do it but too see you so happy doing thats truely somthing special keep being good dude brian

  • @ZenithAngel
    @ZenithAngel Před 4 měsíci +8

    Love the enthusiasm Brian has for strength history

  • @majkiboy86
    @majkiboy86 Před 4 měsíci +2

    So nice to see these are getting into the hands of someone like you who has so much respect for the sport and the history of it.
    Hope you can get more to the collection.
    The guy with the cane is a really cool fella.

  • @anothorestes
    @anothorestes Před 4 měsíci +2

    I love these videos about historical equipment. It's something so few people know about, relics of weightlifting culture

  • @greypoint8
    @greypoint8 Před 4 měsíci +14

    I have never thought about the history of the equipment before. Thinking about how many others have improved themselves with the same plates I have used is very eye opening on how others see collections

    • @ok9105
      @ok9105 Před 4 měsíci

      The black iron should be used, not just collected, but collectors preserve the black iron and that's a good thing.

  • @CamS-de4zs
    @CamS-de4zs Před 4 měsíci +12

    Brian could open up a strongman training center with a normal gym and have a museum attached to it.

  • @paulthompson2147
    @paulthompson2147 Před 4 měsíci

    Love these road trip/gym equipment videos.

  • @andrewBwinter
    @andrewBwinter Před 4 měsíci +2

    We used these back in the 1990's with the spin collars at a gym called Energy Fitness in Burlington ON. Cool find.

  • @TheHighlander3
    @TheHighlander3 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Man I love seeing the history of this sport. Great video

  • @joshuahearn3555
    @joshuahearn3555 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Yorks are 🔥. I have a full set of JACKSON deep dish plates which I absolutely love, had em for years

  • @greggoode3450
    @greggoode3450 Před 2 měsíci

    Great haul for Brian! I used to go to a gym in the mid-1970's that had these deep-dish York plates and ship's-wheel collars. I haven't seen them for decades!

  • @JohnDoe-vj9wn
    @JohnDoe-vj9wn Před 4 měsíci +5

    I know of Jedd Johnson who did a double pinch lift of two sets of these Yorks and im pretty sure Brian can do it also.

  • @brian4544
    @brian4544 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Brian, for a guy of your age and having the old school strongman interest that you have, that really is a great find.
    I have some of the old York equipment from back in the day and like you, it has great sentimental value considering I was using York equipment as early as the mid to late 70's.
    York equipment was pretty much all we used back then, other than a Universal Machine.
    You understand the historic value and it is cool to see.

  • @HarashindenTwitch
    @HarashindenTwitch Před 4 měsíci +1

    How brian talks and obsesses over plates is just like a Car guy talking about their golden finds... the passion and love for the history of it is inspiring... if everyone had a passion like that in their life the would be a little cooler!

  • @TheGripGrandBaby
    @TheGripGrandBaby Před 4 měsíci +2

    Loving the Shaw CZcams lately! Dinger after Dinger!!!

  • @tjboylan20
    @tjboylan20 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Man, my first ever weight lifting experience was my high school weight room that had York Deep dish plates that they bought from the original dealer in the 80’s

  • @MrRaider772
    @MrRaider772 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Merry Christmas Brain.💪🏻🎄

  • @GorillaStrengthEquipment
    @GorillaStrengthEquipment Před 4 měsíci

    Love seeing your grip lifts!!

  • @unspunnewz
    @unspunnewz Před 4 měsíci +1

    Brian you make geeking out on vintage weights fun and interesting to watch.

  • @joerodgers5147
    @joerodgers5147 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you for the video Brian

  • @Vegathlete
    @Vegathlete Před 6 dny

    The provenance associated with this find is exceptional.
    Good to see you became steward to it all for all posterity.

  • @Jeffro5564
    @Jeffro5564 Před 4 měsíci

    Love hearing stories of history lessons it’s wonderful

  • @MovieMuscle
    @MovieMuscle Před 4 měsíci +1

    York Barbell has a plant in Oakville Ontario Canada. Those plates were in a lot of the gyms up here. Gold's in Mississauga Ontario had all those plates. I have a single 35lb plate here at home and use to have a whole bunch, 4x45's, 2x35's, 2x25's, 2x10's. 2x5's. 2x2.5's. Gave them to my old training partner a few years ago. maybe i should go source some out after seeing this.

  • @loveengineering1031
    @loveengineering1031 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Love to see you and eddie, plzz make videos with himm🥰🥰

  • @lewisjones85
    @lewisjones85 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Loved the video! You should do a road trip round the country meet the other guys he said about

  • @whelan317
    @whelan317 Před 4 měsíci +4

    You just know Brian chalks up before putting up the Christmas tree 🎄

  • @PLeonard71
    @PLeonard71 Před 4 měsíci

    Great content about preserving the rich history of the iron game. I always love when you find more treasures for your gym, which now is becoming museum quality.

  • @ThomasAlan47
    @ThomasAlan47 Před 4 měsíci

    Living in York, PA I can agree, it’s fun to go to york barbell to buy weights

  • @roccobierman4985
    @roccobierman4985 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Brian seems like such a thoughtful individual. Completely counter to the "big dumb brute" stereotype.

  • @inktownbitch21
    @inktownbitch21 Před 4 měsíci +18

    You can tell you take this really serious that's why you were so great. I bet you 99 out of 100 strong man don't even know about this and the history that goes along with it.

  • @terrybressler4654
    @terrybressler4654 Před 4 měsíci +2

    The smile on your face says it all.

  • @MichaelTheDenfender
    @MichaelTheDenfender Před 4 měsíci +1

    It's so cool to see him as happy as a kid in a toy store. Congratulations, Brian, on getting your York plates.

  • @randybutler4772
    @randybutler4772 Před 4 měsíci

    Great find. Thank you for sharing.

  • @pinkyellowblue007
    @pinkyellowblue007 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I love vintage weights and the old Nautilus machines, you will have the coolest gym

  • @BartoniGaming
    @BartoniGaming Před 4 měsíci +2

    Brian is definitely the right person to get these stunning weights 💪

  • @tonylawton6513
    @tonylawton6513 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I have a pair of dumbells that Bertil Fox did curls with back in the day, they mean nothing to everybody but to me they are full of memories.....

  • @richardlawton1023
    @richardlawton1023 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Those collars are great. Ive used them for a long time. Great find. Merry Christmas.

  • @SSTEVB
    @SSTEVB Před 4 měsíci +2

    Wow very cool. Never knew they’re rare but I have a set of the old York ship wheel collars

  • @mk1cortinatony395
    @mk1cortinatony395 Před 4 měsíci +1

    This York kit couldnt be in better hands. Great find!

  • @HypertrophyByDesign
    @HypertrophyByDesign Před 4 měsíci

    Good find! Thanks for sharing with us!

  • @billylocke9633
    @billylocke9633 Před 4 měsíci +8

    Your excitement is contagious, sir!! Love the content. As a collector of random things I love this!

  • @jaredgalloway3642
    @jaredgalloway3642 Před 4 měsíci +2

    A gym I use to train at overseas had one random set of deep dish York plates... I would literally wait until no one was using them and use them all... For some reason benching with these plates just make you feel good

  • @supporterofsanity
    @supporterofsanity Před 4 měsíci

    You are the biggest gym nerd, and it's awesome!!

  • @rcheezy7501
    @rcheezy7501 Před 4 měsíci

    I love how passionate and respectful you were handling those weights. To most people they’re just hunks of iron. To you and that man you got them from they’re prized possessions. I know those weren’t cheap, I hope you get to enjoy those.

  • @terminator9099
    @terminator9099 Před 4 měsíci

    You could really feel the genuine happiness

  • @Ironhistory1138
    @Ironhistory1138 Před 4 měsíci +1

    So great the attention you’re bringing to Iron History

  • @jayhouston1614
    @jayhouston1614 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Those were the first plates I learned to workout with! We would call the 45s "wheels". There were also these 5 pound iron locks that had a vice type lock that screwed down tight. Brings back a lot of memories!! Thanks for sharing!💪🏽💯

  • @seancanyon59
    @seancanyon59 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Awesome looking plates for sure. I have a few York dumbbells that were my dad's. I also have some Challenge, and Hercules barbells that aren't olympic...not sure how special those are though.

  • @stevenkelly6602
    @stevenkelly6602 Před 4 měsíci

    Good for you bro! keep it up.

  • @coryboyd7958
    @coryboyd7958 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Brian, my dad and Bob Hoffman were friends. At a minimum 60+ years ago my dad bought standard size weights from including a power rack from Hoffmann barbell. Unfortunately i dont have them. I remember very well watching my dad workout with them in the basement laundry room.

  • @impaledface7694
    @impaledface7694 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I have picked up a fair amount of vintage standard(1in) plates. less loved, but the history of them is awesome and it's nice to have 50lb plates since they aren't that common. I also like that the math is simpler since everything is 1.25,2.5,5,10,25,50lbs. Happy to see these going to a nice home just like the nautilus equipment.

  • @Curiosity_Cars
    @Curiosity_Cars Před 3 měsíci

    i use to work out in a old gym that was built in the 50s in the UK. They had some really nice old york plates like that. They still use them daily! :)

  • @wheelchairmanjon
    @wheelchairmanjon Před 4 měsíci +4

    Great great stuff nice to know even though you’re retired you’re passion for lifting is not going anywhere

  • @ramtron1775
    @ramtron1775 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Love this content

  • @chrisarp4111
    @chrisarp4111 Před 4 měsíci +1

    You want to find old deep dish Yorks? Go to high school weight rooms that are not renovated. I was a strength coach for 30 years. We had many deep dish Yorks from many years before I became strength coach. I never got rid of any weights. We also had a set of blob York Dumbbells.

  • @taylor121212121212
    @taylor121212121212 Před 4 měsíci +3

    the smile on your face said it all, like a kid at chrismas 😬😬😬🥳🥳💪👍👍

  • @Senick
    @Senick Před 4 měsíci

    Those ship wheel collars are a nice find too.

  • @colinmorgan7771
    @colinmorgan7771 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I remember the old episode .. I LOVE BRIANS PASSION ON HISTORY OF STRONG MAN...WHAT AN AMBASSADOR FOR THE SPORT

  • @philipstrongman4633
    @philipstrongman4633 Před 4 měsíci

    You guys need your own show doing this kind of videos

  • @savagepowerTeam
    @savagepowerTeam Před 4 měsíci +2

    My high school gym had these plates with old school benches. I'm talking back in 2004 not sure what they have now.

  • @Jac833
    @Jac833 Před 4 měsíci +1

    That guy needs to come to Brian’s gym, can see the love and passion

  • @wildgrizz2221
    @wildgrizz2221 Před 4 měsíci +1

    brass the collars and use as papper weights, and brassing is fairly easy to learn and do, needs heat a brass wheel ad a drill

  • @Secengineerinthewild
    @Secengineerinthewild Před 4 měsíci +1

    Brain are you gonna do a gym tour video one day and show all of the unique pieces you've picked up?

  • @mattrakhmanov1333
    @mattrakhmanov1333 Před 4 měsíci

    Good find. I used to collect York plates and dumbbells ( globes).

  • @spoonz4lif
    @spoonz4lif Před 4 měsíci

    @shawstrength do you have any of the milo duplex dumbbells or barbells?

  • @hardcorebronco
    @hardcorebronco Před 4 měsíci

    Awesome Brian!!

  • @Mirriam02
    @Mirriam02 Před 4 měsíci +5

    That brick is valuable, I'd get a custom engraved plate for it that states the business & actual address where that brick came from. Maybe someday Brian will get some York "MARS" plates, those are very rare. **Be Great**

    • @matthewarnold2802
      @matthewarnold2802 Před 4 měsíci +2

      The Mars DD were not made by York. It’s still unknown who / where they were made. Plenty of iconic plates out there. Can never go wrong with York DD 💪🏻

  • @jamesd2128
    @jamesd2128 Před 4 měsíci +1

    All those plates and two enormous strongmen, that's a hard working truck !

  • @jobaci
    @jobaci Před 4 měsíci

    So cool, Just finished collecting 5 lbs plates from, Golds gym , York, Dan lurie (Brooklyn )and Weider. They look great hanging on the wall. Reminds me of my dad. Great history.

    • @4by_yotaguy373
      @4by_yotaguy373 Před 3 měsíci +1

      You said, finished 😂😂😂.
      Many of us said that too but somehow I now have 3k++ lbs of vintage iron plates sitting around in my garage. Good luck 👍

  • @MikesManCave
    @MikesManCave Před 4 měsíci

    This is a bit like finding Australian Made 'Samson Barbells' Weight plates, I bought my fist two 50lb plates direct from the Samson Foundry in Sydney in the 80's. I have a completes set now. The foundry was closed down long ago and they started importing the plates from China.

  • @louishoey
    @louishoey Před 3 měsíci +1

    Never seen brian with a hat that i can remember black is his color 👍🏼. Those are very cool weights congrats on getting them 💪🏽.

  • @Echo5-Tango
    @Echo5-Tango Před 3 měsíci

    I want to see this Historic Strongman Gym you are putting together!!!!

  • @MilGrip76
    @MilGrip76 Před 4 měsíci

    You are a worthy ambassador to the sport, and Iron game history Mr. Shaw. Great video.

  • @Joel-McConnell
    @Joel-McConnell Před 4 měsíci +2

    Just moving them is a workout by itself!

  • @ruffianotv
    @ruffianotv Před 4 měsíci

    Pretty awesome. I have a huge collection of 1 inch york plates probably from the 70's.

  • @stringtheory1968
    @stringtheory1968 Před 3 měsíci

    I have the same york weight stands you loaded in your truck. I purchased those over 40 years ago.

  • @javieralvarez9529
    @javieralvarez9529 Před 4 měsíci

    2:50 picked those plates up like they were a 🍪

  • @davidb1975a
    @davidb1975a Před 4 měsíci +1

    Nice find!💪👍