Locally restored rare woodworking machine headed to Smithsonian affiliated museum
Kalispell's Steve Williams has spent the last three years researching and restoring his 1910 Greenlee Variety Woodworking Machine. The three-ton machine will begin its trip to the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Tuesday. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
The fully restored 1910 Greenlee Variety Woodworking Machine sits in Steve Williams shop Tuesday, awaiting transport to the National Industrial History Museum. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
The variety woodworking machine just moments after being exposed to the light of day for the first time in nearly 40 years in 2018. (Steve Williams photo)
Wooden gear production guides produced using the Greenlee Variety Woodworking Machine sit in the pattern shop of the Anaconda Copper Company. (Montana State Historical Society photo)
For nearly 40 years it sat collecting dust in a field outside of Chester on Montana’s Hi-Line.
Now, with the help of Kalispell collector and restoration expert Steve Williams, the only remaining Greenlee Variety Woodworker in the world soon will have a home in a Smithsonian affiliated museum...
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