My wife grew up in Barriere so I do know where it is, chuckle. A thirty year difference.
Hydraulic presses can do much more than simply pressing bearing and gears. With a round bar head and two round bar bed you can bend curves. In a shop they get a surprising amount of use. Stand off to one side, just as you shouldn't stand in front of a loaded gun. One of these days ,I got to build one.
I do have a shaper. I got a lead on some high end wood working chisels so I checked it out. It was a pattern maker's tool chest from an estate sale, with E.A. Berg and Wm. Marple & Sons chisels and in channel gouges. Swedish and English chisels, it simply doesn't get better. After some bargaining, I'll be bargaining with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, we agreed to $275. "Ray what this?" "Oh that's a baby shaper" "A what? " "It removes metal" "OK for $50 more you can have it" "Yeah, I guess so" Another project, I was bursting out with enthusiasm, NOT.
It's a 6" shop built of welded steel. From the 1 5/8" x 3 5/8" 2x4s in the stand, it predates the late '60s. The Tamper brand motor looks very '50ish. I live near Vancouver, at one time Vancouver had more sawmills than any place else in the world. Each one of these mills would have a fairly complete maintenance shop with lathe, mill and forge. The square head bolts used on the stand would suggest sawmill timber construction. Early in my career, in between construction jobs, I worked as a relief millwright in a lot of the ones that remained. I'm not fond of graveyard, so I always turned down steady work. My guess ,it was made in one of those shops.
The specs are 7" or so stroke, three speeds with clutch, gear driven, square ways on the ram.
This is more of a completion than a rebuild.