Do you know any old skool "Life Hacks" that were handed down from your great grandparents that I could put to the test? Let me know...also if you have any tips on oil lanterns🕯️🔥😆
I have a modern hack for ya, instead of using stinky kero in the lamp stick some cheap baby oil in it and it has the bonus of lubing the cap and not evaporating.. baby oil is just paraffin oil with fragrance added
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Something to consider--Barns have flammables all over the place, hay, straw, dried wood, so having the lantern suspended in the center of the barn not touching any of these materials could be a hand benefit.
This is absolutely the case. On a secure fixture, it really isn't that much of a danger. However, that danger is really only as low as you keep it. Periodically checking to make sure the fixture remains secure and the wood isn't rotting, are the two biggest safety checks. Others are more enviromental, such as windy days. No matter how battened down doors or windows are, I wouldn't hang it on those days.
Well I’m sure if you had to do chores in the barn in the dark, then these lanterns were pretty handy. Also the cable sliding hack was probably pretty handy if the specific chore was milking. You could slide the lantern from stall to stall and not have it kicked over when Bessie lashes out because your hands are cold.
Late last night, when we were all in bed Mrs O’Leary lit a lantern in her shed When the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said “Gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight” Fire, fire, fire!! Pour the water, pour the water! Save the children, save the children! Jump lady, jump!
@@jonhunt5408 I’m sure you figured it out by now but for those that don’t know, there’s a theory that the Great Chicago Fire (a fire that razed 1/3 of the entire city in the 1870’s and led to rewritten fire standards and made the country rethink population growth throughout the country) was lit by “Mrs. O’Leary” when a cow kicked over a lit lantern in her barn. This is believed to be a myth as she stated her entire family were asleep (corroborated by others) and newspapers immediately jumped on the idea that she started it intentionally since she was on welfare and the fire was “payback” for cutting her benefits…. Which is kinda insane. Another man claimed to have started the fire while gambling in Mrs Oleary’s barn and yet another theory is that a comet started the fire, and other throughout the Midwest that evening… So take your pick on the real cause, it was kind of a blessing in disguise anyway as it allowed Chicago to build back and build better.
Technology Connections made a video on these lamps, they’d found the fact that only a few years ago more Kerosene was used for these lamps than for USA internal flights!
Still have those lanterns for camping. The top should move freely. Yours are rusty and sticking so it doesn't close onto the glass when lowering the locking handle. You started the lantern and extinguished it properly when you had it hung up. Trimming the wick is for when the wick burns unevenly and one side is high and smokes and the other is low.
Preppers still use this type of lanterns, despite nowadays rechargeable batteries + solar cells do the job with less fire risk (at least unless there are damaged lithium cells involved).
@@cyberyogicowindler2448 Both modern, battery powered lights and old kerosene/white gas lanterns have their advantages. Modern lanterns have a much lower risk of fire (unless the lithium battery gets punctured). Old liquid fueled lanterns can provide a fair amount of heat inside a tent or a small room - of course, you do need to make sure you have adequate ventilation to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.
@@TheCoffeehound Yes, using it as a small heater makes sense. I wondered if anybody ever invented a combination of fire operated lantern and camping cooker, that guides the light from the flame effectively in one direction (kind of prism and metal mirrors) while using the heat of it to heat a small cooking pot or frying pan.
These “life hacks” from 100 years ago were ways to get now ordinary activities done (when the plethora of consumer and commercial goods we enjoy today by merely using the internet to get same-day delivery) were not available to the average person at their nearest hardware store, which might mean he/she used half a day or more to make the ride/drive just to find out the store did not have it, but could get it mailed to the store in 1-2 weeks. Add to that the factor that few people with barns had ready cash to make such casual purchases; also, credit cards did not exist. I’m not even close to a century old, but had relatives in the rural USA who did not get their houses electrified until the 1930s, never had indoor plumbing during my youth, and mined their own coal from the coal stripping tailings to keep their kitchen stove and furnace lit. Every nickel and dime was counted thrice before being spent. So, saying that a simple pulley wheel is so easy to buy is true only during this brief period of history and not true for most of it.
I'm not even 40 yet and I remember a time at my great grandma's house in Corbin KY where we had to use the outhouse and pump water because she didn't have running water when I was a kid, so I could only imagine 60-70 years before me, my dad's side has always been as you said, count every penny and nickel thrice before spending as well
We used these lanterns till 1999, the German designs. Which are sturdy and there mechanism is little bit different and a lot simple. Huge respect to centuries old pioneers.
@@sithinstructor Kerosene is far cheaper than batteries for the amount of light delivered. And batteries seldom, if ever, get recycled. I actually use these lanterns outside, at night, a lot. They are a LOT easier to lug than a generator, when I need 4 lights most of the night. Mind, LED lanterns are starting to look good.
"Oh, cool, OG life hacks!" *Watches a grown man trying to blow out a hurricane lantern for 15 minutes* "That's brilliant!" (But then again, I knew it would be. Thanks, mate!)
@@TS_Mind_Swept Me too. *Technology Connections ua-cam.com/video/tURHTuKHBZs/v-deo.html But what impresses me is that he got that heap of rust to actually work. 👍
With the oil lantern, the only thing you did wrong is you wanna run that flame pretty low. Remember, the fire department didn't exist back then, burning your house down meant you might be doomed depending on where you lived lol
You did the file pipe wrench upside down initially which is why it didn't work. The bend needs to be on the trailing file, pointing against the direction of rotation (i.e. the bottom file in your test). The reason being, the top file will tend to roll on the pipe as you try to wrench it (which was easy to see in the video), causing it to want to move forward (i.e. away from you) as you rotating your side down. The bottom file will do the opposite (i.e. it will want to move back toward you). If you have the hook on the bottom file in this scenario - as illustrated in the diagram from the book - it will pull the washer back, preventing the top file from being able to wander forward, forcing the pipe to turn with it, rather than rolling around the pipe. However because you had the hook on the top file, the bottom file just wants to pull out of the washer as the top file moves forward. If *both* files were hooked, it wouldn't matter, but with only one hook, it's important that the trailing file (the one on the bottom in your test) is hooked. If you note all the instances where the hack worked at all, it was when you had the hook in the correct orientation.
Yeah this guy wouldn't even be able to use a pipe wrench if he owned one, he'd always be twisting the wrong way, lol! And then he switched to a smaller washer, which gave significantly less leverage, I guess people don't learn simple physics and you realize why the world is both so advanced and its inhabitants so backwards (and why EVERYTHING has a dozen safety manuals, like why yes I was going to put this sharp object in my eye, thanks for telling me not too!).
@@jakegarrett8109 G'day, My first Car was a 1960 FB Holden, and the Owner's Manual told me how to set the Valve Clearances. The Owner's Manual for my 2000 Subaru Forester warns not to drink the Battery Acid. This halfwit would appear to need to read the bit about the Battery Acid about 5 times - judging by what a Fool he made of himself with that Hurricane Light. Generation DumbFcuk..., Apparentarily. Such is life, Have a good one. Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
In all fairness, those files are more rust than grip. Just be patient and allow the wick to "wick" the oil into itself - lift to light and lift to blow out - barn is full of hay - do not want to put fire on bails of hay - the idea is to provide general light for working with at night, like moving hay, getting animals in and out, etc.
You need to look into getting a copy of “The Boy Mechanic”, it was originally published in 1900. It is full of turn of the century tips and tricks, its a great book.
Files actually make decent flat springs, so you probably won't break them. Watching the way it moved as you twisted back and forth, your slippage was the tangs moving through the washer. When you got it so the hooked tang of the one file and the shoulder of the other were both against the washer, that's when it turned. It'll only work in one direction unless you hook both tangs. Still not as good as a real wrench, but for an emergency tool it would work decently once you figured out its quirks. "Seems dumb when you can buy it for a couple of bucks" -- You can *now*. Building things out of scrap used to be a lot more lucrative. And rivet instead of bolt because a rivet meant an old nail. Turning around and knocking over a lantern was a significant hazard in a barn full of dry hay. Hanging it up was best, but then you needed places to hang it. And yes, they did have variants with reflectors on top to better illuminate the floor. The one you have there was designed primarily to be carried.
Pretty much. For that lantern hanger, I'd have just an s hook to hang the lantern on the wire. Nice to have it up and out of the way. I imagine it'd be good in the main walkway in between the stalls.
@@jonathanfairchild that's a couple of bucks still in your pocket, plus the 20 miles to town and back in gas and I have to interact with people third you might learn something about mechanical engineering. It all depends on your perspective. As a blacksmith I can do ONE thing a machinist can't do with his hundreds of thousands of dollars of machines. I can put the end of a 1 inch sq. Bar thru a 1 inch sq. hole in the side of a 1 inch sq. bar. Actually I can shorten or lengthen a steel bar slightly if it is too long or too short, with out cutting. Too much to explain here, google black bear forge he has videos on both subjects. Just make sure the anvils horn is pointing towards magnetic north, it was installed in the light of a full moon and anointed with Unicorn tears. JK, the part about the actual moving of metal is true
@user-kw2rl8df2s Back in the day machinists were expected to be partial blacksmiths themselves. Cold chisels, scrapers, basic cutters, etc all started life from raw stock. Heat, hammer, file, and grinder did the rest. Then heat treat and quench. Had to do most everything with plain carbon steel of standardless quality.
In 1910 pipe wrenches, nuts, bolts, and pre-made pulleys were a fair bit more expensive than they are today. Threaded fasteners (machine screws specifically) were mostly proprietary before the 1930's, which played a large role in their relatively high cost, and the reduced chance that the local hardware store would keep much of a stock.
Having grown up with my mom collecting and using these types of lanterns often...I found it difficult to watch you struggle to figure it out. I had to remind my self that not many people today have much experience with them. Funny shit though. Sorry about the OZ.
The lantern you're using is a "Hurricane Lantern" or "Storm Lantern". Mainly because with the glove (the glass) down it's near impossible to blow out. There were extra pieces that could be had, such as a side shield to reflect light towards one direction or have it closer to a wall without risking as much of it catching wood on fire. There was also a wider white enamel bottomed shade that could be fitted at the top to reflect light down. The larger one you have would have likely been more popular for rail road workers since: Bigger and brighter. Those could also be fitted with colored glass globes in either red or green, even half red and clear for inspection of the train at night. Sometimes, to make expedient red signals with a clear one would be to wrap the globe in a red signal flag or kerchief so the light would shine through casting a red glow. While not super valuable, they are super handy to have in emergency situations where you need light and heat.
I love watching you getting all giddy up by a standard lantern I learnt to use when I was 10, and what is still standard military equipment most men learn to use here when they turn 18 and do their service. So many nights were spent in a tent under a lantern, listening to 16 snoring men, maintaining a fire in the stove when the outside temperature was -20 and the tent was like a goddamn sauna.
I like the idea of the rope and trolly. I have a collection of old tubular lanterns, from many decades, 1880s-1940s. There's hoods or, reflectors available through the W.T. Kirkman website, and they make a variety of shades/reflectors to focus the light down, below the lantern. The fount or fuel tank is a big light blocker as you found out. Also, to best extinguish the flame, turn the wick counter clockwise, till the wick is below the burner, and it will peter out. Much easier and safer. These tubular lanterns are actually safe, when used properly, in fact, they will self snuff if tipped over. The patent for the "safety lantern" goes back to the late 1870s. Sorry for all the pointless info, I do vids on antique lighting, it's my thing. LoL I may try and construct one of those trollies in my garage!
I own several hurricane lamps that are 2000s vintage. I also own an old dinner table lamp that's over 100 years old. I keep it out and ready to go in case I need it. Originally it used to have whale oil as the fuel. Today it has contemporary lamp oil. When the clear oil is poured into the old container it turns it a slight brown color. The way to put the lamp out is to move the wick into the base. Don't worry, it won't catch on fire. No references to stray cats? LOL.
I tried one of these old hacks some years ago, found in a 1950s mag. Glue sand to the soles of your shoes to increase grip on all surfaces, and make your soles last longer. Brilliant idea. Let's give it a go. Turned out to be the perfect way to grind sand into your carpet.
Use of reflectors was common, a piece of polished metal fixed in a circle/ shallow cone like a lamp shade fixed to the handle above the glass. That would reflect light down and reduce the tank shadow. Side reflectors were also used to direct all the light into one direction, great for walking at night without blinding yourself.
Cheers Mate. It was fun...and I actually learnt things I didn't expect🤔. I actually shot another one but thought the video was too long. I just got too intrigued, over analysing if they were for real or not hehe.
Brilliant! I almost spit my lunch out from laughing. I wonder what the people of 2121 will think of today's "life hacks" which solve problems that don't exist (see ua-cam.com/video/HMbDPgINfto/v-deo.html) (just the 1st link I've found). If there will still be @Turnah81s out there, some very funny re-creations is my guess.
Here's an old life hack. If the outside spigot freezes and busts, you can use a broom handle to temporarily plug the leak in a pinch. Simply cut off a small piece of the broom handle, widdel down one end to fit in the pipe, remove the spigot from the pipe, and hammer the broom handle into place. If a small leak persists, don't worry. The wood will absorb the water, expand, and seal itself. This will give you time to buy a new spigot once the hardware store opens without having to leave the water off to your whole house.
@@heneedsomemilk2877 i think it's an amazing idea, i mean, thinks may not freeze there but still any pipe could break. You made me laugh 🤣 here, have a like!
You literally just turn the water off to outside spigots in the winter where it would get that cold. This is stupid and requires not only a wooden broom but, a huge lack of common sense and experience.
@@mattmarzula hmm, you must be retarded. Let me set the scene for you. It's 10pm, you live in a small rural town, the only water shut-off valve is to entire house, and the spigot just broke. Do you just shut-off the entire house all winter? If you've never been in a house that doesn't have a shut-off for only the outside water, it must be nice to live that privileged. Talk about inexperienced...
I would like to see you turn a quadcopter into a food pickup drone. Like, it has a basket, goes from your house to a restaurant where you have a takeout, then flys back. You can't leave your house, it has to use navigate with the camera system, pick up the takeout, and fly back to you.
Asbestos wicks will revolutionize home cooking! Also, my godparents used to have a setup like that barnlight running from their porch to the outhouse, and I still remember when they upgraded from a kerosene lamp to an electric inspection lamp, which wasn't nearly as easy to use, with the electric cable trailing behind it on the ground. After realizing what a hazard it was in a thunderstorm-prone area, they went back to kerosene.
Hey don't even joke about putting petrol (gasoline) without WARNING about this! NEVER put gasoline in a lantern or kerosene heater! Gasoline and many other fuels have explosive, flammable fumes and you'll have a huge out-of-control fire on your hands in moments if not instantly. For lanterns and heaters, only certain fuels can be used- some oils, kerosene, parafin, etc. If you aren't 1000% positive about the fuel, do not attempt it. If you're wrong, you'll have an instant fire you can't put out. It's hard to believe there's a generation that is unfamiliar with these lanterns, but here we are. They are charming and fun, but not very effective, dangerous and unhealthy. LED battery lanterns are fantastic by comparison. These oil lanterns are still quite popular with sailboaters, who hang them inside the boats at night. They have large brass coated reflectors above. I come from a sailing family and I've accumulated many of them. They're beautiful. But you can't leave these lanterns unattended, I wouldn't even go to sleep on board a boat while one is lighted .
Some mantle based kerosene lamps can run on straight gasoline, but they have to be specifically designed for it. They are usually labeled "Flex Fuel" or similar.
@@trevorhaddox6884 "coleman white gas"... naptha... basically petrol without lead and other aromatics... only issue with petrol is they do stink... and its not a nice stink... had a multifuel one never liked diesel much, needed another half turn on the vaporiser...
Needing multiple lanterns for X/Y axis, but only being fixed to those axes? Eh, no. String two wires across at either edge of the X range you want, then string a wire on horizontal pulleys between those two lines, hang the lanter on a pully on that wire that has pullies one either end, and now you have unconstrained access to the full X,Y coordinate range, compounding risk of fire. Yay life hacks! ;)
How high do you put/hold a lantern As my father used to say "High enough so the monsters can see that you have a lantern, so that you can see them, before they get you" We had an outhouse on the farm before electricity arrived, Gee it was fun going after dark.
Finally! Thank you! An explaination why old files at auctions have an oddly bent tangs. For 50 years I have bought these bent tangs and forged them into tools. Great to know the reason.
This is really interesting. Do you really reckon that is why? 🤔 I may have noticed this too in old files thinking about it, but assumed maybe just used a prying tool?
This is a great source for content, build a 1900s life hack and update it for 2020's. If that is where you are going it is brilliant. Glad to have you back, hope are all happy and well!
You wind the wick down and starve it to put it out. Dad had these as a collector's thing when I was a kid. If electricity ever disappears, I'm raiding his collection.
These exact lanterns are still sold at walmart. I just used a couple for Halloween props this year. They are better than candles when the power goes out.
Hah! I was using hurricane lanterns in a shed about 10 years ago (no power in there). I just had nails in the joists here and there to mount them to - didn't realise that was the poor mans option. Now I use a battery lamp on a canvas strap, so I guess I've reached the 20th C. 👍
They resist strong winds with the lid on. To blow them out you just need to lower the wick, lift the glass and then blow the smaller flame 😃 Don't move the wick too far down or it will slip out of the roller. It's intended to be put out by blowing.
No. You blow it out as he did. If you lower the wick too much the teeth on the adjustment will no longer engage the wick or the wick will fall inside the fuel tank. He was having a problem with the top not closing on the glass because of the rust. It is spring loaded and should move up and down freely. But trimming the wick is for when the wick burns unevenly and one side of the wick will burn high and create smoke.
@@mass4552 I guess so , grandma had one of those fancy glass kerosene lamps she didn't like the smoke so she turned down the wick. Turna81 had a rail man's lamp. Cheers
@@jamesparker4471 There is still a nostalgic feel when you sit in a power outage and read by lamps. One of my friends were over when I had a power outage years back and I used a naphtha lantern in the room. He had never seen one before even though he grew up on a farm and was the same age as me.
Talking mustaches, one of my horses had the PERFECT mustache. You could even twist it at the ends :) . And, no, I would never be tempted to "barn him down" with one of those new fangled slidey lamps!
If you'd have turned the pipe into a fitting as far as you could by hand, and then seen how much farther the files would have turned it, you'd have had a better indication as to they're usefulness.
I once went to an Amish work shop where they sold some black smithing metal work, and they had suspended in the air old oil lamps. But they hand made some reflective shields that went over top the lantern to reflect more light down and get rid of that shadow so they could actually see what they were doing
I was laughing at how hard you made it look to use a lantern. I had much less trouble figuring out one when I had to use one, though the one I was using was not so rusty.
Dangerous Life Hack. A lantern????? I still use those in the shed and at the fishing camp for the last 40+ years. And No, You turn it down FIRST and wonder about the cover and anything else after. It's just common sense.
Good job for having never using a storm lantern before. And great concept for a video series. A life hack I'd like to see is, the silver dollar in a milk can to keep it fresh without refrigeration :)
6:39 _"I don't know what fuel it used. I guess we'll just put petrol in there."_ Bruh. It's a paraffin lamp. A.k.a. kerosine lamp. As for it not being used since the fifties, maybe not. People commonly used them up until at least halogen bulb torches/flashlights in the mid to late 80s. Probably even until white LEDs came out in the early 1990s. I know we did but perhaps we were a bit weird. As a child of the eighties, in the early eighties maybe about one in four people had these for camping and for the odd electrical blackouts, which certainly happened but I feel were a little bit rarer then than now. We certainly made great use of these hurricane lamps. Both in my family and when at cubs, scouts, airforce cadets, then called the Air Training Corps (pronounced "core"), now called the Australian Airforce Cadets, and finally even used them occasionally in the Army Reserves in the early 1990s. We used candles as well for blackouts but not for camping really. We always kept them in the same place with a box of matches so we could find them easily despite the house usually being extremely messy. Usually several boxes of matches and usually at least one box of waterproof Greenlight brand matches. Just in case. They used to come in a wooden box. And matches were actually good back then. They went to crap in the early 90s when they started to make them in South East Asia instead of Sweden. The "Greenlights" waterproof matches we used to buy and also get in the army ration packs went from being able to be lit no problem dripping wet after long immersion in water to a little damp turning the entire thing box and all into paste! They wouldn't even light properly when dry and we called them fireproof matches. Even the nonsmokers started to have to carry weatherproof lighters. I don't think people today appreciate just how dim torches/flashlights were back then. Certainly a hurricane lamp like this produced as much or more usable light than a torch for lighting up a room or tent. They could easily run all night too if needed without needing to refill them. Torches were not only dim they were quite inefficient just using an incandescent bulb. So they didn't have the longest life requiring you to take replacement batteries if you were going to use them for more than a few hours. Lithium batteries only were available in non rechargeable and lightweight efficient converting between two voltages didn't exist so you had the choice of regular 1.5V batteries; non rechargeable 1.5V alkaline batteries, a bit better but more expensive and would leak corrosive shite after even six months storage sometimes, wrecking your device; or the rechargeable but otherwise awful 1.2V Nickel Cadmium batteries. Which had to be completely discharged before recharging otherwise the fuckers would remember and lose capacity. They were also heavy, held less charge than even a regular 1.5V and ran things at 1.2V meaning lights were a bit dimmer and some things wouldn't even run with them. But still a torch was far better for directional applications like going for a walk or searching on the ground for something. And we mostly used NiCads regardless. We also used gas lamps with a mantle and they are quite bright, brighter even than a light bulb you'd have in your house, but often they'd have the gas bottle and fittings on the bottom and so there wasn't as much usable light because if even if you had one you could hang up to spread the light further there'd be little point as that would put the area you were trying to illuminate in the shadow of the gas tank. The same thing happened with hurricane lamps but usually the fuel tank wasn't quite so big as a gas bottle. Mantle lamps were also very gas hungry, put out a lot of heat, not very nice on a hot Australian summer night, and were quite noisy. So mainly we used them for the evening meal or for the lantern stalk game. Which is where you try to sneak up to the lantern with a couple of adults around the lantern maybe 5 or 10 metres/yards away. The trick apart from being quiet, moving slowly and good at camoflauge is to not look at the lamp to preserve your night vision. Such good fun! If you have kids I highly recommend it. We also tried to generally not use any artificial light as much as possible so as not to ruin our night vision. Even use purposefully weak red flashlights to preserve night vision when we had to. Obviously it's required when being in the field with the army. But it's quite amazing just how much you can see if you wait twenty minutes in the dark for your eyes to get accustomed. Also you can actually see the stars, especially out there in the sticks.
Oh, and I forgot. Everyone even then runs kerosine lamps with too much wick out. That knob isn't a brightness control! It's to replace the burnt wick and get it at an optimal length. Which is far less than you'd think or what Hollywood movies might have you think. Having too much definitely makes a bigger and brighter flame. But that quickly darkens the glass with soot. Which drastically cuts the light output. It shouldn't need cleaning more than once a week _of continuous use!_
Yeah, when he said that I instinctively shouted "NO!", without realizing it. The wife poked her head in from the next room wanting to know what was wrong. I told her what was going on, her response; "I think you can only do that one time."
tbf on the lanter, electric lights were probably not in most peoples barns and flashlights were kind of pricy. Basically imagine someone made a zipline for a modern lantern or idk a flashlight wall mount so its always in a fixed place.
I used to live in a town where the power and phone lines went down in almost every storm. We had our wood stove for heat, plenty of propane for my kitchen stove, a roon dedicated to books and are supplies. We lit the place withbunch of Deitz lanterns. We didn't have to carry lanterns around because we already had them hanging in every room. I had my own business and worked long hours seven days a week. I was a bit if a workaholic. I loved being snowed in with my woman and my dog in our cozy forest cottage. We could read, prepare gourmet meals, do artwork or frolic. It was a nice change from my usual backbreaking work. A really heavy snowstorm was the only thing that would prevent me from going to my business. Those lanterns made forced downtime quite pleasant.
As somebody who grew up using this style of lantern all the time and not thinking of it as something most people have never used before, it was wildly interesting to watch somebody try to figure out how they work for the first time. Still my go-to if the power gets shut off.
Fir that lantern you dont want the glass open like that to light it. You just pull the lever so you can access the lantern's wick with a match or lighter. And to put it out you just do that lever bit again and blow it out. Losering the wic until its snuffed is not a good idea for safety reasons. The globe (glass bit) hinger out for cleaning and replacing the wick. Ive got one of these for poweroutages. Theyre nice.
Do you know any old skool "Life Hacks" that were handed down from your great grandparents that I could put to the test? Let me know...also if you have any tips on oil lanterns🕯️🔥😆
I have a modern hack for ya, instead of using stinky kero in the lamp stick some cheap baby oil in it and it has the bonus of lubing the cap and not evaporating.. baby oil is just paraffin oil with fragrance added
Yeh those hosepipes and sprays work great for that lantern
Was gonna comment on the t-shirt, I'm jealous. Didn't get one myself but I donated all I could..
Great video as always
Don't eat the yellow snow.
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Something to consider--Barns have flammables all over the place, hay, straw, dried wood, so having the lantern suspended in the center of the barn not touching any of these materials could be a hand benefit.
less likely to trip over with it i think
This is absolutely the case. On a secure fixture, it really isn't that much of a danger. However, that danger is really only as low as you keep it. Periodically checking to make sure the fixture remains secure and the wood isn't rotting, are the two biggest safety checks. Others are more enviromental, such as windy days. No matter how battened down doors or windows are, I wouldn't hang it on those days.
well yeah but they should have used LEDs like normale people... stupid 1910 ppl ;)
if you didnt know if you flip that lantern over, it will self extinguish, and not light everything up like in movies
How much light do you need to shovel horse $h#* anyway?
Well I’m sure if you had to do chores in the barn in the dark, then these lanterns were pretty handy. Also the cable sliding hack was probably pretty handy if the specific chore was milking. You could slide the lantern from stall to stall and not have it kicked over when Bessie lashes out because your hands are cold.
Could've saved Chicago
@@Compgeek86 beat me by 1 seco-…
2 years…
Late last night, when we were all in bed
Mrs O’Leary lit a lantern in her shed
When the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said
“Gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight”
Fire, fire, fire!!
Pour the water, pour the water!
Save the children, save the children!
Jump lady, jump!
@@mistressofuniversesI had to look this up, because I couldn’t fathom what this comment was about.
@@jonhunt5408 I’m sure you figured it out by now but for those that don’t know, there’s a theory that the Great Chicago Fire (a fire that razed 1/3 of the entire city in the 1870’s and led to rewritten fire standards and made the country rethink population growth throughout the country) was lit by “Mrs. O’Leary” when a cow kicked over a lit lantern in her barn.
This is believed to be a myth as she stated her entire family were asleep (corroborated by others) and newspapers immediately jumped on the idea that she started it intentionally since she was on welfare and the fire was “payback” for cutting her benefits…. Which is kinda insane.
Another man claimed to have started the fire while gambling in Mrs Oleary’s barn and yet another theory is that a comet started the fire, and other throughout the Midwest that evening…
So take your pick on the real cause, it was kind of a blessing in disguise anyway as it allowed Chicago to build back and build better.
Technology Connections made a video on these lamps, they’d found the fact that only a few years ago more Kerosene was used for these lamps than for USA internal flights!
I highly doubt that considering how airplanes guzzle kerosene.
Obviously a dietz... Dietz nu.........
@@mmdirtyworkz Look up the barrels of Kerosene used by country and you’ll be surprised
Yup, i was expecting some coments referencing the Technolgy Connections video
That's because a lot of places that don't have electric lighting still depend on lanterns like these.
As an old dungeon master, I've heard of just about every crazy way to accidentally set a horse on fire...
Until now.
Death by flying fox cable oil lantern
@@Turnah81 that's definitely gonna be a unique headstone "He died doing what he knew.
Fox cable lanterns."
Two kinds of Dungeon Master came to mind. Not going to lie the one not normally involving dice came to mind first.
@Tera_Hai in that case three came to mind for me and the dice one was last 😅
Why cant my horse carry flint and wood? I see no possible problem
Still have those lanterns for camping. The top should move freely. Yours are rusty and sticking so it doesn't close onto the glass when lowering the locking handle. You started the lantern and extinguished it properly when you had it hung up. Trimming the wick is for when the wick burns unevenly and one side is high and smokes and the other is low.
CRC is your friend.
Preppers still use this type of lanterns, despite nowadays rechargeable batteries + solar cells do the job with less fire risk (at least unless there are damaged lithium cells involved).
@@cyberyogicowindler2448 Both modern, battery powered lights and old kerosene/white gas lanterns have their advantages. Modern lanterns have a much lower risk of fire (unless the lithium battery gets punctured). Old liquid fueled lanterns can provide a fair amount of heat inside a tent or a small room - of course, you do need to make sure you have adequate ventilation to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.
@@TheCoffeehound Yes, using it as a small heater makes sense. I wondered if anybody ever invented a combination of fire operated lantern and camping cooker, that guides the light from the flame effectively in one direction (kind of prism and metal mirrors) while using the heat of it to heat a small cooking pot or frying pan.
@@cyberyogicowindler2448 A lot of stainless steel mini-stoves are pretty bright before they get sooty.
The old flying fox Molotov cocktail life hack
haha yep, guided accuracy. You just need to say to the recipient of the cocktail "Hold this cable please"
@@Turnah81 I like the Life Hack of the "Reverse Molotov Cocktail" pretty cool.
These “life hacks” from 100 years ago were ways to get now ordinary activities done (when the plethora of consumer and commercial goods we enjoy today by merely using the internet to get same-day delivery) were not available to the average person at their nearest hardware store, which might mean he/she used half a day or more to make the ride/drive just to find out the store did not have it, but could get it mailed to the store in 1-2 weeks. Add to that the factor that few people with barns had ready cash to make such casual purchases; also, credit cards did not exist. I’m not even close to a century old, but had relatives in the rural USA who did not get their houses electrified until the 1930s, never had indoor plumbing during my youth, and mined their own coal from the coal stripping tailings to keep their kitchen stove and furnace lit. Every nickel and dime was counted thrice before being spent. So, saying that a simple pulley wheel is so easy to buy is true only during this brief period of history and not true for most of it.
I'm not even 40 yet and I remember a time at my great grandma's house in Corbin KY where we had to use the outhouse and pump water because she didn't have running water when I was a kid, so I could only imagine 60-70 years before me, my dad's side has always been as you said, count every penny and nickel thrice before spending as well
We used these lanterns till 1999, the German designs. Which are sturdy and there mechanism is little bit different and a lot simple. Huge respect to centuries old pioneers.
In india we still use these😆
Curious who is "we"?
Here, we've had flashlights since the 1920's.
@@sithinstructor Remote areas in Jazan, Saudi Arabia ;). I still feel the burning kerosene smell. Nostalgic
@@sithinstructor Kerosene is far cheaper than batteries for the amount of light delivered. And batteries seldom, if ever, get recycled.
I actually use these lanterns outside, at night, a lot. They are a LOT easier to lug than a generator, when I need 4 lights most of the night.
Mind, LED lanterns are starting to look good.
I still use these types of lanterns while out camping.
"Oh, cool, OG life hacks!"
*Watches a grown man trying to blow out a hurricane lantern for 15 minutes*
"That's brilliant!"
(But then again, I knew it would be. Thanks, mate!)
😆 Haha Pretty much. This comment got Kristen loling too.
I'll never forget the video Connecting Technologies on those :p
@@TS_Mind_Swept Me too. *Technology Connections ua-cam.com/video/tURHTuKHBZs/v-deo.html
But what impresses me is that he got that heap of rust to actually work. 👍
Just turn the wick down until the flame goes out.
With the oil lantern, the only thing you did wrong is you wanna run that flame pretty low. Remember, the fire department didn't exist back then, burning your house down meant you might be doomed depending on where you lived lol
Lanterns are not that unsafe, they use a fuel that can't even catch fire at room temperature....kerosene.
You did the file pipe wrench upside down initially which is why it didn't work. The bend needs to be on the trailing file, pointing against the direction of rotation (i.e. the bottom file in your test). The reason being, the top file will tend to roll on the pipe as you try to wrench it (which was easy to see in the video), causing it to want to move forward (i.e. away from you) as you rotating your side down. The bottom file will do the opposite (i.e. it will want to move back toward you). If you have the hook on the bottom file in this scenario - as illustrated in the diagram from the book - it will pull the washer back, preventing the top file from being able to wander forward, forcing the pipe to turn with it, rather than rolling around the pipe. However because you had the hook on the top file, the bottom file just wants to pull out of the washer as the top file moves forward.
If *both* files were hooked, it wouldn't matter, but with only one hook, it's important that the trailing file (the one on the bottom in your test) is hooked.
If you note all the instances where the hack worked at all, it was when you had the hook in the correct orientation.
Yeah this guy wouldn't even be able to use a pipe wrench if he owned one, he'd always be twisting the wrong way, lol!
And then he switched to a smaller washer, which gave significantly less leverage, I guess people don't learn simple physics and you realize why the world is both so advanced and its inhabitants so backwards (and why EVERYTHING has a dozen safety manuals, like why yes I was going to put this sharp object in my eye, thanks for telling me not too!).
@@jakegarrett8109
G'day,
My first Car was a 1960 FB Holden, and the Owner's Manual told me how to set the Valve Clearances.
The Owner's Manual for my 2000 Subaru Forester warns not to drink the Battery Acid.
This halfwit would appear to need to read the bit about the Battery Acid about 5 times - judging by what a Fool he made of himself with that Hurricane Light.
Generation
DumbFcuk...,
Apparentarily.
Such is life,
Have a good one.
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
"The manner of using the device is obvious."
And the pipe is coated, and the files are rusty, probably very dull.
It’s a waste of two files, mental!
Rumor has it that he is still trying to blow out the lantern to this day...
I would add a like, but it has been 2 years, and 69 likes. ^.-.^
In all fairness, those files are more rust than grip.
Just be patient and allow the wick to "wick" the oil into itself - lift to light and lift to blow out - barn is full of hay - do not want to put fire on bails of hay - the idea is to provide general light for working with at night, like moving hay, getting animals in and out, etc.
I'm just glad you made it through the video without major injuries.
You need to look into getting a copy of “The Boy Mechanic”, it was originally published in 1900. It is full of turn of the century tips and tricks, its a great book.
Files actually make decent flat springs, so you probably won't break them. Watching the way it moved as you twisted back and forth, your slippage was the tangs moving through the washer. When you got it so the hooked tang of the one file and the shoulder of the other were both against the washer, that's when it turned. It'll only work in one direction unless you hook both tangs. Still not as good as a real wrench, but for an emergency tool it would work decently once you figured out its quirks.
"Seems dumb when you can buy it for a couple of bucks" -- You can *now*. Building things out of scrap used to be a lot more lucrative. And rivet instead of bolt because a rivet meant an old nail. Turning around and knocking over a lantern was a significant hazard in a barn full of dry hay. Hanging it up was best, but then you needed places to hang it. And yes, they did have variants with reflectors on top to better illuminate the floor. The one you have there was designed primarily to be carried.
It's surreal watching a man who has, runs, & utilizes a workshop struggle to work a common lamp.
It might shock you to know, but lamps these days mostly use electricity. You just push a button in the wall. Crazy right?
Max Headroom from the TV hijack. Nice pic.
To turn it off rotate the key till the wick is back inside the tank it will go off or barely light and you can blow on it t hen.
I did start to worry when he mused that petrol might be a good fuel idea.
@@markkusallinen3469 That will work well for you when a storm (or other disaster) knocks out your power for a few weeks. Even EMP's won't stop these.
"Which seems dumb when you can buy it for a couple of bucks." That is life hacks in one sentance.
I'm not sure it was a couple of bucks 100 years ago.
Pretty much. For that lantern hanger, I'd have just an s hook to hang the lantern on the wire. Nice to have it up and out of the way. I imagine it'd be good in the main walkway in between the stalls.
@@jonathanfairchild that's a couple of bucks still in your pocket, plus the 20 miles to town and back in gas and I have to interact with people third you might learn something about mechanical engineering. It all depends on your perspective. As a blacksmith I can do ONE thing a machinist can't do with his hundreds of thousands of dollars of machines. I can put the end of a 1 inch sq. Bar thru a 1 inch sq. hole in the side of a 1 inch sq. bar. Actually I can shorten or lengthen a steel bar slightly if it is too long or too short, with out cutting. Too much to explain here, google black bear forge he has videos on both subjects. Just make sure the anvils horn is pointing towards magnetic north, it was installed in the light of a full moon and anointed with Unicorn tears. JK, the part about the actual moving of metal is true
Not having everything easily purchased nearby would make logistics a pain.
@user-kw2rl8df2s
Back in the day machinists were expected to be partial blacksmiths themselves. Cold chisels, scrapers, basic cutters, etc all started life from raw stock. Heat, hammer, file, and grinder did the rest. Then heat treat and quench. Had to do most everything with plain carbon steel of standardless quality.
In 1910 pipe wrenches, nuts, bolts, and pre-made pulleys were a fair bit more expensive than they are today. Threaded fasteners (machine screws specifically) were mostly proprietary before the 1930's, which played a large role in their relatively high cost, and the reduced chance that the local hardware store would keep much of a stock.
Heck, nuts & bolts were still expensive until the 80 if you ask me.
If you only require a few nuts and bolts, try a scrapyard!
Having grown up with my mom collecting and using these types of lanterns often...I found it difficult to watch you struggle to figure it out. I had to remind my self that not many people today have much experience with them.
Funny shit though. Sorry about the OZ.
I know, I was cringing at his inability to figure it out 😆 I'm 39 and know how to use one. They still sell the same design for camping etc..
The lantern you're using is a "Hurricane Lantern" or "Storm Lantern". Mainly because with the glove (the glass) down it's near impossible to blow out.
There were extra pieces that could be had, such as a side shield to reflect light towards one direction or have it closer to a wall without risking as much of it catching wood on fire.
There was also a wider white enamel bottomed shade that could be fitted at the top to reflect light down.
The larger one you have would have likely been more popular for rail road workers since: Bigger and brighter. Those could also be fitted with colored glass globes in either red or green, even half red and clear for inspection of the train at night. Sometimes, to make expedient red signals with a clear one would be to wrap the globe in a red signal flag or kerchief so the light would shine through casting a red glow.
While not super valuable, they are super handy to have in emergency situations where you need light and heat.
I love watching you getting all giddy up by a standard lantern I learnt to use when I was 10, and what is still standard military equipment most men learn to use here when they turn 18 and do their service. So many nights were spent in a tent under a lantern, listening to 16 snoring men, maintaining a fire in the stove when the outside temperature was -20 and the tent was like a goddamn sauna.
I like the idea of the rope and trolly. I have a collection of old tubular lanterns, from many decades, 1880s-1940s. There's hoods or, reflectors available through the W.T. Kirkman website, and they make a variety of shades/reflectors to focus the light down, below the lantern. The fount or fuel tank is a big light blocker as you found out. Also, to best extinguish the flame, turn the wick counter clockwise, till the wick is below the burner, and it will peter out. Much easier and safer. These tubular lanterns are actually safe, when used properly, in fact, they will self snuff if tipped over. The patent for the "safety lantern" goes back to the late 1870s.
Sorry for all the pointless info, I do vids on antique lighting, it's my thing. LoL I may try and construct one of those trollies in my garage!
It is not useless info! It is quite interesting to know. Thank you for sharing!
I own several hurricane lamps that are 2000s vintage. I also own an old dinner table lamp that's over 100 years old. I keep it out and ready to go in case I need it. Originally it used to have whale oil as the fuel. Today it has contemporary lamp oil. When the clear oil is poured into the old container it turns it a slight brown color.
The way to put the lamp out is to move the wick into the base. Don't worry, it won't catch on fire.
No references to stray cats? LOL.
Watching you trying to get this hurricane lantern to work after I've watched Technology Connections' video on the same topic is hilariously brilliant.
I probably should have googled how to do it, but it's fun learning on the fly. 😅
I tried one of these old hacks some years ago, found in a 1950s mag.
Glue sand to the soles of your shoes to increase grip on all surfaces, and make your soles last longer. Brilliant idea. Let's give it a go.
Turned out to be the perfect way to grind sand into your carpet.
It would be for outdoor use only, why would you walk inside with that? That idea would work on a pair of slippery boots I got
@@outdoorvideoswithbradI was going to ask the same- why wear that on carpet?
@@bryceanderson4864 i know right? lol
Americans wearing their boots even to bed 😂
some people
Use of reflectors was common, a piece of polished metal fixed in a circle/ shallow cone like a lamp shade fixed to the handle above the glass. That would reflect light down and reduce the tank shadow.
Side reflectors were also used to direct all the light into one direction, great for walking at night without blinding yourself.
I love this guys content so much. The fact that he doesn't make videos to make income, rather makes videos out of passion is very admirable.
Why wouldn't it be admirable if he were to make videos to make income?
He just went full time UA-cam. Lost most of your admiration, probably. 😂
7:00 I once put gasoline in a lantern thinking it would burn all the same but not even five minutes after lighting my lantern decided to blow up. 😆😆
crazy bastard you made a homemade explosive!
Always a pleasure to see your vids man! I for one would love to see some more "Ye Olde Life Haxx"!
Cheers Mate. It was fun...and I actually learnt things I didn't expect🤔. I actually shot another one but thought the video was too long. I just got too intrigued, over analysing if they were for real or not hehe.
Brilliant! I almost spit my lunch out from laughing.
I wonder what the people of 2121 will think of today's "life hacks" which solve problems that don't exist (see ua-cam.com/video/HMbDPgINfto/v-deo.html) (just the 1st link I've found). If there will still be @Turnah81s out there, some very funny re-creations is my guess.
Turnah81 longer videos would be awesome!!
Here's an old life hack. If the outside spigot freezes and busts, you can use a broom handle to temporarily plug the leak in a pinch. Simply cut off a small piece of the broom handle, widdel down one end to fit in the pipe, remove the spigot from the pipe, and hammer the broom handle into place. If a small leak persists, don't worry. The wood will absorb the water, expand, and seal itself. This will give you time to buy a new spigot once the hardware store opens without having to leave the water off to your whole house.
Never heard of something freezing in Australia :D
@@heneedsomemilk2877 i think it's an amazing idea, i mean, thinks may not freeze there but still any pipe could break.
You made me laugh 🤣 here, have a like!
You literally just turn the water off to outside spigots in the winter where it would get that cold. This is stupid and requires not only a wooden broom but, a huge lack of common sense and experience.
@@mattmarzula hmm, you must be retarded. Let me set the scene for you. It's 10pm, you live in a small rural town, the only water shut-off valve is to entire house, and the spigot just broke. Do you just shut-off the entire house all winter? If you've never been in a house that doesn't have a shut-off for only the outside water, it must be nice to live that privileged. Talk about inexperienced...
I would like to see you turn a quadcopter into a food pickup drone. Like, it has a basket, goes from your house to a restaurant where you have a takeout, then flys back. You can't leave your house, it has to use navigate with the camera system, pick up the takeout, and fly back to you.
I was actually thinking this arvo that it'd been a while since I'd seen you. Thought that maybe the cats had got their revenge.
"Protect the tools, just set the horses on fire" LMAO 12:57
4:00 Those kind of gloves are not the ones to protect your hands from cuts...
I’d say it’s cut resistant, it don’t matter how thick it is the fiber will stop penetration
I never thought it would be possible for anyone to fuck up using an oil lantern until I've seen this video.
I thought the same about the pipe wrench.. and then out came groove-joints 🤦🏻♂️
Asbestos wicks will revolutionize home cooking!
Also, my godparents used to have a setup like that barnlight running from their porch to the outhouse, and I still remember when they upgraded from a kerosene lamp to an electric inspection lamp, which wasn't nearly as easy to use, with the electric cable trailing behind it on the ground. After realizing what a hazard it was in a thunderstorm-prone area, they went back to kerosene.
Hey don't even joke about putting petrol (gasoline) without WARNING about this! NEVER put gasoline in a lantern or kerosene heater! Gasoline and many other fuels have explosive, flammable fumes and you'll have a huge out-of-control fire on your hands in moments if not instantly. For lanterns and heaters, only certain fuels can be used- some oils, kerosene, parafin, etc. If you aren't 1000% positive about the fuel, do not attempt it. If you're wrong, you'll have an instant fire you can't put out.
It's hard to believe there's a generation that is unfamiliar with these lanterns, but here we are. They are charming and fun, but not very effective, dangerous and unhealthy. LED battery lanterns are fantastic by comparison.
These oil lanterns are still quite popular with sailboaters, who hang them inside the boats at night. They have large brass coated reflectors above. I come from a sailing family and I've accumulated many of them. They're beautiful. But you can't leave these lanterns unattended, I wouldn't even go to sleep on board a boat while one is lighted .
Some mantle based kerosene lamps can run on straight gasoline, but they have to be specifically designed for it. They are usually labeled "Flex Fuel" or similar.
@@trevorhaddox6884 "coleman white gas"... naptha... basically petrol without lead and other aromatics...
only issue with petrol is they do stink... and its not a nice stink...
had a multifuel one never liked diesel much, needed another half turn on the vaporiser...
Needing multiple lanterns for X/Y axis, but only being fixed to those axes?
Eh, no.
String two wires across at either edge of the X range you want, then string a wire on horizontal pulleys between those two lines, hang the lanter on a pully on that wire that has pullies one either end, and now you have unconstrained access to the full X,Y coordinate range, compounding risk of fire. Yay life hacks! ;)
Smarty 👖
You can also add vertical jack screws to the attachment points for your wires, and get X, Y, and Z
It's like a 3D printer, but for fire hazards
The fact that he got that lantern working so quickly just goes to show how much better old timey stuff is
The 1905 moth bit really got me.
😄 I think he is still getting about in the shed
@@Turnah81 Searching for his lost gold.
@@Turnah81 and the sound effect!! xDDD
The figuring out of the lamp was the best part for me! Good to see more vids being uploaded!
“I guess old stuff looked new once too” profound words sir
I'm a thinkah 🧠👨🎓😄
How high do you put/hold a lantern
As my father used to say "High enough so the monsters can see that you have a lantern, so that you can see them, before they get you"
We had an outhouse on the farm before electricity arrived, Gee it was fun going after dark.
Finally! Thank you! An explaination why old files at auctions have an oddly bent tangs. For 50 years I have bought these bent tangs and forged them into tools. Great to know the reason.
This is really interesting. Do you really reckon that is why? 🤔 I may have noticed this too in old files thinking about it, but assumed maybe just used a prying tool?
I've always wundered to.
Growing up in Florida... hurricane lamps and lanterns were items we were taught about. Not these days, but we learned it in the 80s
When you said put petrol in it, I almost shit myself.
😁👍
I was waiting for the very exciting video content.
Same
That hay in your barn looks a lot like a car. Pretty funny watching you light a lantern. Thanks for sharing 👍.
This is a great source for content, build a 1900s life hack and update it for 2020's. If that is where you are going it is brilliant. Glad to have you back, hope are all happy and well!
You wind the wick down and starve it to put it out.
Dad had these as a collector's thing when I was a kid. If electricity ever disappears, I'm raiding his collection.
You can blow it easily when it's winded down, that way the wick doesn't burn too much.
@@Ktulu789 Yeah, I'm sure Craig figured this out but we all like putting our 2 cents in.
That thing at 1:00, I believe that's an early model Westinghouse DC generator
As a kerosene lantern collector the entire lantern part was painful
My grandmother used to try to blow out lamps. I’d never laughed so hard
These exact lanterns are still sold at walmart. I just used a couple for Halloween props this year. They are better than candles when the power goes out.
I don't know if it's the accent or the content. But I love this channel.
Hah! I was using hurricane lanterns in a shed about 10 years ago (no power in there). I just had nails in the joists here and there to mount them to - didn't realise that was the poor mans option. Now I use a battery lamp on a canvas strap, so I guess I've reached the 20th C. 👍
Are they called hurricane lights? Might be why they’re hard to blow out?
They resist strong winds with the lid on. To blow them out you just need to lower the wick, lift the glass and then blow the smaller flame 😃
Don't move the wick too far down or it will slip out of the roller. It's intended to be put out by blowing.
@@Ktulu789 yep I might have been trying to be funny.
@@jamesspinks716 one or two emojis or emoticons might come handy 🤣 xD
Yay a new Turnah81 Vid :) feels like 4 months since the last one
How thick is this bloke , no idea what he is doing. Use decent files and it works brilliant. No words describe him trying to light a hurricane lamp
I like how you immediately tried to bend a large steel pipe when the one illustrated appears to be a small brass one.
Hurricane lamp,I think you lower the wick to extinguish the flame and trim the wick to reduce the smoke.
No. You blow it out as he did. If you lower the wick too much the teeth on the adjustment will no longer engage the wick or the wick will fall inside the fuel tank. He was having a problem with the top not closing on the glass because of the rust. It is spring loaded and should move up and down freely. But trimming the wick is for when the wick burns unevenly and one side of the wick will burn high and create smoke.
@@mass4552 I guess so , grandma had one of those fancy glass kerosene lamps she didn't like the smoke so she turned down the wick. Turna81 had a rail man's lamp. Cheers
@@jamesparker4471 There is still a nostalgic feel when you sit in a power outage and read by lamps. One of my friends were over when I had a power outage years back and I used a naphtha lantern in the room. He had never seen one before even though he grew up on a farm and was the same age as me.
@@mass4552 It was a dark and stormy night by a flickering lamp... Cool
@@jamesparker4471 In the flickering light of the single lantern there was a movement in the shadows...
Yay!!!!!! A new Turnah81 video !!!!!!!
DIY makeshift repairs only works properly when you're not a airhead.
Nah, then it wouldn't be as easy to claim that people a century ago were dumber/crazier/inferior to today.
Talking mustaches, one of my horses had the PERFECT mustache.
You could even twist it at the ends :) .
And, no, I would never be tempted to "barn him down" with one of those new fangled slidey lamps!
Dude, you're a nut-case! Love it! Awesome involvement in childhood cancer effort...
I don't know what the YT algorithm thinks I want to see... but watching an Aussie 'flick his wick' at 7:17 tells me I'm in the right place.
You are right on with the reflector being needed to get more light below the tank kirkman still makes them
Lantern bit was amazing absolutely hilarious
Thank you for another smile Craig, you never disappoint!
If you'd have turned the pipe into a fitting as far as you could by hand, and then seen how much farther the files would have turned it, you'd have had a better indication as to they're usefulness.
Glad to see you back. Nice OzzyMan shirt btw, I have one too. I also have the same vise, very handy tool.
I once went to an Amish work shop where they sold some black smithing metal work, and they had suspended in the air old oil lamps. But they hand made some reflective shields that went over top the lantern to reflect more light down and get rid of that shadow so they could actually see what they were doing
lantern lighting reminds me of the week I didn't have power as a child.
Never seen or heard of you before but your personality is intoxicating!! Subscribed immediately
Hey cheers mate thanks for the sub too.
I was laughing at how hard you made it look to use a lantern. I had much less trouble figuring out one when I had to use one, though the one I was using was not so rusty.
That and he used the files backwards, he'd be using a pipe wrench backwards too if he owned one.
The lantern life hack came about 25 years too late for Mrs. O'Leary.
His fascination with that lantern was great. We use them often up in Wisconsin for camping. Can't say I've got mine on pulleys though...
Watching you figuring out the Lantern was really funny, thanks for that
Dangerous Life Hack. A lantern????? I still use those in the shed and at the fishing camp for the last 40+ years.
And No, You turn it down FIRST and wonder about the cover and anything else after. It's just common sense.
I LOVE YOUR COMEDY. I'm just laughing my head off me and my girlfriend. You are so great please do more of this!!!
Good job for having never using a storm lantern before.
And great concept for a video series.
A life hack I'd like to see is, the silver dollar in a milk can to keep it fresh without refrigeration :)
For some reason I really enjoyed watching the dust come off of those files in the pipe wrench bit
6:39 _"I don't know what fuel it used. I guess we'll just put petrol in there."_ Bruh. It's a paraffin lamp. A.k.a. kerosine lamp.
As for it not being used since the fifties, maybe not. People commonly used them up until at least halogen bulb torches/flashlights in the mid to late 80s. Probably even until white LEDs came out in the early 1990s. I know we did but perhaps we were a bit weird.
As a child of the eighties, in the early eighties maybe about one in four people had these for camping and for the odd electrical blackouts, which certainly happened but I feel were a little bit rarer then than now.
We certainly made great use of these hurricane lamps. Both in my family and when at cubs, scouts, airforce cadets, then called the Air Training Corps (pronounced "core"), now called the Australian Airforce Cadets, and finally even used them occasionally in the Army Reserves in the early 1990s.
We used candles as well for blackouts but not for camping really. We always kept them in the same place with a box of matches so we could find them easily despite the house usually being extremely messy. Usually several boxes of matches and usually at least one box of waterproof Greenlight brand matches. Just in case. They used to come in a wooden box.
And matches were actually good back then. They went to crap in the early 90s when they started to make them in South East Asia instead of Sweden.
The "Greenlights" waterproof matches we used to buy and also get in the army ration packs went from being able to be lit no problem dripping wet after long immersion in water to a little damp turning the entire thing box and all into paste! They wouldn't even light properly when dry and we called them fireproof matches. Even the nonsmokers started to have to carry weatherproof lighters.
I don't think people today appreciate just how dim torches/flashlights were back then. Certainly a hurricane lamp like this produced as much or more usable light than a torch for lighting up a room or tent. They could easily run all night too if needed without needing to refill them.
Torches were not only dim they were quite inefficient just using an incandescent bulb. So they didn't have the longest life requiring you to take replacement batteries if you were going to use them for more than a few hours. Lithium batteries only were available in non rechargeable and lightweight efficient converting between two voltages didn't exist so you had the choice of regular 1.5V batteries; non rechargeable 1.5V alkaline batteries, a bit better but more expensive and would leak corrosive shite after even six months storage sometimes, wrecking your device; or the rechargeable but otherwise awful 1.2V Nickel Cadmium batteries. Which had to be completely discharged before recharging otherwise the fuckers would remember and lose capacity. They were also heavy, held less charge than even a regular 1.5V and ran things at 1.2V meaning lights were a bit dimmer and some things wouldn't even run with them.
But still a torch was far better for directional applications like going for a walk or searching on the ground for something. And we mostly used NiCads regardless.
We also used gas lamps with a mantle and they are quite bright, brighter even than a light bulb you'd have in your house, but often they'd have the gas bottle and fittings on the bottom and so there wasn't as much usable light because if even if you had one you could hang up to spread the light further there'd be little point as that would put the area you were trying to illuminate in the shadow of the gas tank. The same thing happened with hurricane lamps but usually the fuel tank wasn't quite so big as a gas bottle.
Mantle lamps were also very gas hungry, put out a lot of heat, not very nice on a hot Australian summer night, and were quite noisy.
So mainly we used them for the evening meal or for the lantern stalk game.
Which is where you try to sneak up to the lantern with a couple of adults around the lantern maybe 5 or 10 metres/yards away. The trick apart from being quiet, moving slowly and good at camoflauge is to not look at the lamp to preserve your night vision. Such good fun! If you have kids I highly recommend it.
We also tried to generally not use any artificial light as much as possible so as not to ruin our night vision. Even use purposefully weak red flashlights to preserve night vision when we had to. Obviously it's required when being in the field with the army.
But it's quite amazing just how much you can see if you wait twenty minutes in the dark for your eyes to get accustomed. Also you can actually see the stars, especially out there in the sticks.
Oh, and I forgot. Everyone even then runs kerosine lamps with too much wick out. That knob isn't a brightness control! It's to replace the burnt wick and get it at an optimal length. Which is far less than you'd think or what Hollywood movies might have you think.
Having too much definitely makes a bigger and brighter flame. But that quickly darkens the glass with soot. Which drastically cuts the light output. It shouldn't need cleaning more than once a week _of continuous use!_
i love these old style lanterns
Was very worried for a split second wehen you pondered petrol... fun video, thanks a lot, splendid to hear from you.
Yeah, when he said that I instinctively shouted "NO!", without realizing it. The wife poked her head in from the next room wanting to know what was wrong. I told her what was going on, her response; "I think you can only do that one time."
Absolute best quote of the day on UA-cam: @12:57 protect the tools, get the horses on fire. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This shows why very little work was done at night back before electric lighting bulbs.
They did an awful lot of work in underground mining pre electric lighting.
tbf on the lanter, electric lights were probably not in most peoples barns and flashlights were kind of pricy. Basically imagine someone made a zipline for a modern lantern or idk a flashlight wall mount so its always in a fixed place.
Lol, so glad you are putting more videos out.
Getting that Kerosene lantern lit, you were like a little kid in a penny candy shoppe with a fiver.😂😂😂
Welcome back!! It's good to see you're back!
Great video, I really like the "build ol sheit from the time befor, ya?" :)
I used to live in a town where the power and phone lines went down in almost every storm. We had our wood stove for heat, plenty of propane for my kitchen stove, a roon dedicated to books and are supplies. We lit the place withbunch of Deitz lanterns. We didn't have to carry lanterns around because we already had them hanging in every room. I had my own business and worked long hours seven days a week. I was a bit if a workaholic. I loved being snowed in with my woman and my dog in our cozy forest cottage. We could read, prepare gourmet meals, do artwork or frolic. It was a nice change from my usual backbreaking work. A really heavy snowstorm was the only thing that would prevent me from going to my business. Those lanterns made forced downtime quite pleasant.
Yeah, fire and petroleum dangling just over one‘s head. What could possibly go wrong 🤣🤣
As somebody who grew up using this style of lantern all the time and not thinking of it as something most people have never used before, it was wildly interesting to watch somebody try to figure out how they work for the first time. Still my go-to if the power gets shut off.
Lol. The commentary as he figures out how to light the lantern.
Fir that lantern you dont want the glass open like that to light it. You just pull the lever so you can access the lantern's wick with a match or lighter. And to put it out you just do that lever bit again and blow it out. Losering the wic until its snuffed is not a good idea for safety reasons. The globe (glass bit) hinger out for cleaning and replacing the wick. Ive got one of these for poweroutages. Theyre nice.
The cable controlled automatic barn igniter idea is interesting.
😂.
> The file might break
> no safety goggles :D