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I'm a retired compressor mechanic and have worked on a variety of other industrial machines, that would now be considered antiques. There is a great sense of satisfaction in watching the old mechanism work, even if it is for nothing more than nostalgia.
Can relate... theres something uniquely soothing and captivating you only find on those old machines running slow and healthy. Almost trascendental, or probably indeed so.
Now THIS is how all videos should be made. No music, no begging for likes or subscribers, and no endless blabbing before getting to the damn point. Well done!
owh mai gawd gaiz i have this merch (which is just a shirt with my shitty logo on it) if yoo wike and subskwibe so i dont have to get a jawb thatd be sho great this is so cool its like a foghorn and stuff wow its so louad how kewl!!!
I saw the title and figured this will be boring. A guy will flip a switch, the compressor will start, and when there’s enough pressure, pull a rope and the horn blows, simple. I had no idea it was a cool setup like this. I’m glad I watched. Very cool!
LOOL that was literally the first quote that came to my head! Then right as I scrolled your comment was the first to come up lmfao! Fell deeds awake....
My great uncle was a merchant navy man from Hartlepool. He remembers the foghorn from the Heugh lighthouse and can tell the difference between the sounds from different foghorns up and down the coast from Sunderland to Hull and beyond.
“What about island? 3 Miles East!” “No, it’s 2 miles, Sir!” “1- 1 mile, Sir!” “... It’s getting closer!” “How the hell can it be getting closer?!” .... “... Kaiju....”
Came here after reading Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Foghorn," and I'm reminded of this passage in particular: "One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shore and said, 'We need a voice to call across the water, to warn ships; I'll make one. I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was; I'll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying south, crying, and a sound like November wind and the sea on the hard, cold shore. I'll make a sound that's so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearts will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns. I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life'."...
0:20 He is lubricating the high pressure air compressor to prevent overheating. While also adjusting some of its equipment. 0:41 Turns on the high pressure air compressor. (Equipment used to compress air to a higher psi, so when the foghorn is sounded the air is trying to escape the horn faster than low psi air) 1:08 Opens the air bank valve (the high pressure air compressor stores high pressure air here for later use. By opening this valve he is most likely opening 2 pathways: 1 from the compressor to the bank, 2 from the bank to the foghorn) 1:33 Most likely a crude timer for the foghorn. Most countries use a time base for how frequent they sound their foghorns. U.S. is roughly every 2 minutes.
The port of LA sounds the angels gate twice every 60 seconds when it’s foggy due to the high traffic in and out of the port of la.. sadly it’s more of an electronic beep than a horn.. lot’s of fish around the rocks below the little light house building though
From the U.S. Hoo-Ray for Brian. This is a work of art. The sound has the true character of a fog horn. Not like the cheap new electronic weak kneed fog horns, no comparison. This should be preserved forever.
I just wanted to say I periodically revisit this video because I love it so much. The simplicity, the sounds, the masterful editing. It always gives me goosebumps.
Hi, so wat was the horns purpose ? Was it to aware the the passing by ships ? Like land is near or take precautions as its foggy or something..?? Just curious :)
@@mikaeluhl some ppl prefer noise for sleeping, its a habit from childhoods, i used to fall asleep while the hoover was on n now as an adult the sound of hoovers makes me tired and calm
“Sir sound the alarm!!!!” *15 minutes later, and halfway through the start-up process* “Sir the ship has smashed into the rocks and everyone is dead...”
I hear that! LOVE the close-ups of the different parts operating and setting up for the blast. There's definitely something to be said for old-fashioned machinery. Modern electronics just can't improve on some forms of perfection!
Stunning machinery. The horn blast was secondary to the magnificent build quality and precision of the machinery that went into making that blast for me.
Lol its pretty simple actually. You should of seen the bombing alert horns the brits used. They were powered by v8 American motors lol. That horn uses the best tech avail at the time.
@@andrew1898 Not sure how common the Chrysler V8 were in Britain, the more common sirens were rotary, for example the Gents' Syren, Castle Castings Siren and the Carter Siren
Several years back I owned a 1976 HONDA Gold Wing motorcycle. EVERY system on the bike ( fuel pump, carburetors, etc.) was mechanical, and it was a joy to work on it. Hard to find non-digital stuff any more.
The cinematography in this video is just excellent. Great editing and direction as well. Thank you for uploading to this site a video that actually makes good use of proper filmic conventions. I find that I keep coming back to this video just to...well, _watch_ it!
@@lowlightevangelist9431 All the planes from the 50s are typically owned by private citizens, they aren't used by anyone doing serious things for the most part. What are you talking about 'automobiles'. And 'old sewing machines' used by some hobbyist doesn't count and you know it.
@@accountname9506 We have a groundwater pump in our basement. Roundabout 80 years old. We had an O-ring replaced when I was a kid, and that is about it. What is there "better" to replace it with?
I appreciate how this transports me back to a time when things were simpler than today - no internet, no social media, no power-crazed world leaders. It's actually quite calming. Thank you.
I literally finished watching that 2 hours ago, what a masterpiece! Randomly saw this and clicked because that sounds was fresh in my mind and was interested
@@OEGOD can i get your opinion on why is it a fantastic movie? I watched it and I felt like i wasted 2 hours, staring at a wall would be more entertaining, i just didn't get it.
All that could be replaced with smaller more efficient devices today . So glad they kept that wonderful piece of machinery that still works so well. I love old technology like that ,especially when so well maintained.
I never would have thought I would love a video of preparing and sounding a foghorn so much... Kudos to ones who made this, the content, story, touching upon all the steps involved, the no nonsense actor, the cinematography, the sound editing, the suspense all culminating into an ominous warning sign hurled into the mist... Wow!!
Mad respect for the editing skills. I was on the top deck of a cruise ship a few years ago, horn went off as were ready to depart. Unreal how loud it was. I swear it rattled me so hard that even my ankle bones were buzzing
I used to work in a ship yard. One day some wise-guys stayed late and hooked up a ships horn underneath our table... Compressor air feed lines through the wall to the other room and all. At 06:30 we came in for our shift and sat down for coffee. It was like the room exploded!! Best prank they ever pulled on us.
@@jjjamieson4740 firstly, THANKS for re - igniting my dormant passion for lighthouses, life got in the way ya know. The car's a 1972 MGB/GT ... we all know the reputation of Brit cars lol, but I got a good one. What a trooper it is 👍, just completed a 3000 mi. round trip Florida - N. Carolina. More to tell you if you like, just ask! 🙂
This is the coolest damn thing ever. That one shot where it was zooming in on a bit of the clock/timer looked like it was in a movie, and it should be.
Radar and GPS spelled the end of the foghorn, no need for them now that vessels can see in zero visibility. It's a shame because they have such an amazing sound, I still get chills during the intro of the Hunt for Red October when you see the Red October leaving the Polyarny inlet with foghorns sounding in the background.
Ships actually do still use fog horns regularly. Radar and GPS are extremely useful, but they go out far more often than you might think. Especially in high traffic areas near ports, even if all instruments are working right, many captains will still instruct that the foghorn be sounded regularly. You never know when a ship around you is going to have an instrument failure.
What Kosh Naranek said. The radar and the gps in particular are very useful tools for the officer on watch, but they should not become the navigators of the ship. Electronic devices can malfunction or display faulty information, foghorns and navigtional lights never lie.
SchoolTerrorist Ive rarely seen/heard fog horns from lighthouses, but the lights are still in use. Also lighthouses have a radar beacon that shows up as a morse letter on the radar screen which can be compred to the letter on the chart, so its impossible to miss it. We still use the lights from lighthouses though, along with large structures on land that when lined up show that you are in the middle of the fairway. Buoys are more like guidlines that should not be relied on as these can move due to ice, low tide + current or break free completely.
It’s not only the sound of the horn that is authentic here. I am an Operating Engineer and what fascinated me most is the sound created by the man and his machine (air compressor) in order to produce the air that will blow the horn. From the prepping (lubing and priming of the moving parts etc.), starting, engaging, valving (line-up), and setting up what looks like a timer but a device to sequentially line up the reservoir connections to the horn. Everything was done manually and it was all like mechanical music in my ears. I was already in nostalgic cloud 9 even before the horn farted it’s glory. PERFECTION!
quantomlink456 • It’s extremely foggy, you’re about to run into battle alongside your hundreds and hundreds of allies. You all prep yourselves to run through the fog blind, knowing that your enemy lay on the other side, waiting to hear your war cries to ensue in a bloody battle to the death. That’s when through the blindness of the mist, far on the other side you hear the horn. You all freeze in place and you hear the captain say “By my by.. they have the gods themselves on their side..” You look up in complete fear, the blaring horn piercing your very sanity as this time it was the opposing side who’s war cries filled the air while your allies quiver in place, a solid portion of them dropping their arms and backing up before the fight had even started. This was the beginning of the end and you knew it.. then you poop inside your armor.
@@evilsharkey8954 Yeah. We have one of those damn things in the neighborhood several times a day, followed by the announcement to stay at homes because of COVID-19. Pretty startling sometimes.
Superb engineering i love these old stationary engines slow but reliable like Swiss clocks!! I always wanted the job as a keeper sadly now all automatic :(((
The whole video was simply a pleasure to watch. The beautiful view, then the maintenance, starting up the machine. Finally, the fog horn. Quality cinematography in action. Definitely saving this one as an example of GOOD editing and filmmaking. Thank you, my good sir.
The diesel-powered compressor is *SO* steampunk! ;-) But the horn's voice... reminds me of the old story about a prehistoric creatures coming up from the depths of the ocean, because it thinks it hears the mating call of one of its kind... and destroys the lighthouse building in its ardor...
Actually, it was a dinosaur, which had been awakened by nuclea weapons testing in the Arctic - the original story was written by Ray Bradbury en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_Horn
I get so happy when I see the old good stationary engines used for their original tasks, the old engines have soul. They just need a little oil and fuel to last a hundred years, I've been involved in overhauling them. Incredibly little wear, no replacements but only gasket replacement when we put them back together after fifty years of daily use.
Indeed, old machinery has a beauty about it that today's electronic chips don't. What looks better, highly polished brass control levers or a black plastic keyboard?
Some of my earliest memories are of listening to the Fog Horns on the San Francisco Bay at night. They are two-tone. The first one is high and the last one is low. Kind of like "Waaaaaa-Ohooooo". On a quiet night you could even hear the buoy bells.
Many people have already said it here but its worth repeating: Both the shots and editing in this video were perfect. Nothing life changing but you absolutely hit the nail on the head as far as providing a quick thorough satisfying piece of content. Everything you want to see and not a hair extra I love the internet!
All the stuff down below is the air compressor to pressurize the two large, red tanks outside. The clockwork in the top is the timer for when the horn sounds, which is VERY important because the time interval between blasts is how mariners can tell which horn is sounding and use that to navigate safely.
@@HyouMix It's a fog horn. It was used in the days before GPS to warn ships that there were rocks here that would sink them. They also used it to navigate in the fog. These days it's more of a backup to GPS.
The tired, overworked technician’s hand @ 0:40 ties the whole thing together. It twitches with anxiety even though this is routine for him. Beautiful and profound without an utterance of dialogue.
Awesome editing!
Get back to breaking smart phones buddy.
Now I wonder why I got this into my recommendation.
JerryRigEverything cool to see you here
Thought you would get more likes
Nice seeing you here man. 😀
The buildup to the horn blowing was rather intense, especially the clicking gears. Pretty cool.
Just like Taco Bell
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@@stephenlafleur9028 was gonna say the same thing!
Wtf
Brother
Who ever made this video I like your style. Short to the point, and showed how it works and how it sounds.
Hey guys it's me your favorite youtuber, today I'll show you a big ass fog horn but before we get into that make sure to absolutely smash that subscribe button and subscribe to my channel, now before we move I wanted to thank our sponsor of today's video, ....
Poop in your own pants for a change
@@dickJohnsonpeter y
@@AshikJonathan looks like someone doesn't have their own pants
@@donovanholm eeeeeeeeeeee
I don’t know why I find this so cool. I love the way it was filmed. Someone has a knack for cinematography. Aces man.
Thanks Bob, I appreciate it!
JJ Jamieson : you did a great job. 👍👍🇨🇦
I find it really cool to lol 😂
bruuh the suspense gived me anxiety
I personally never seen a fog horn so I love the way it was filmed and it helps me know how they work, really cool
I'm a retired compressor mechanic and have worked on a variety of other industrial machines, that would now be considered antiques. There is a great sense of satisfaction in watching the old mechanism work, even if it is for nothing more than nostalgia.
Can relate... theres something uniquely soothing and captivating you only find on those old machines running slow and healthy. Almost trascendental, or probably indeed so.
What powers it?
Man this thing takes a while to set up!
"Oi Dave, fogs here mate"
"Yeah alright let me set up the Foghorn"
"Fogs gone Dave"
Poor dave 🤣
Dave be like: bruh
no why they exist there purpose is to help sailors find dock
But they would run as long as there was fuel in the tank: weeks, if necessary.
Idk why but i read this in scottish accent
"Gondor calls for aid!"
- "And Rohan will answer!"
I never thought I’d die fighting side by side with an elf.
Legolas: How about side by side with a friend?
Gimli: Aye. I could do that.
"Muster the Rohirrim !"
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Dude that was great!
I see you’re also a man of DEEEEEEEAAAAATTH
Hey
My name is Rohan
Now THIS is how all videos should be made. No music, no begging for likes or subscribers, and no endless blabbing before getting to the damn point. Well done!
Joey Landerno ikr
owh mai gawd gaiz i have this merch (which is just a shirt with my shitty logo on it) if yoo wike and subskwibe so i dont have to get a jawb thatd be sho great this is so cool its like a foghorn and stuff wow its so louad how kewl!!!
Joey Landerno well said
Amen brother! Amen!
Music all of its own. In fact all of it would make a great start to a song.
Unintentionally the best example of building ambience and tension with editing on youtube.
Thanks Space 107, that's much appreciated!
It was very intentional
Steampunk atmosphere!
The enemy is being reinforced by a Dreadnought
LMAO Bf1
Spanish Inquisition 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🏼
This got me 😂😂😂
Nice
Foul heretics!
"Foghorn Technician" is the greatest job title I've ever heard
Foghorn Technicians Apprentice
Thank you ;)
Ikr
Being a technician of anything is pretty cool. If you love your work then you don't work a day in your life.
Can't imagine this is something that would catch on tho.. Everything is becoming simpler, and look at this stuff? It's quite complicated..
"Quick Bob sound the horn that ship is gonna crash!"
**45mins later, still carefully squirting oil**
Dammit Bob
You had one job Bob!
@@capt_noo You had one Bob job!
😅😅😅
Bro, lubrication is always important. *ALWAYS*
His name is Brian
I saw the title and figured this will be boring. A guy will flip a switch, the compressor will start, and when there’s enough pressure, pull a rope and the horn blows, simple. I had no idea it was a cool setup like this. I’m glad I watched. Very cool!
I'm glad you watched it too, thanks!!
The sound of that horn with the misty, empty road is sobering and mournful.
Anywhere North of the cairngorms is like that at least once in the summer.
Light stations are the coolest!!
ozone8714 it’s weird to think I live here and there is 4mil views on this, idk, it just surprises me
how poetic
Did you watch the lighthouse?
That’s the sound a dad makes blowing his nose into a hankie.
4dshow thank you I had a good laugh
4dshow can confirm
😂
Disturbingly accurate
Ok zoomer.
"The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep... one last time."
Robin you deserve more likes
And horn sound from rohan
Now to wrath, now to ruin.
If I heard that I would think that was a Tripod out at sea and I would be GTFO.
LOOL that was literally the first quote that came to my head! Then right as I scrolled your comment was the first to come up lmfao!
Fell deeds awake....
My great uncle was a merchant navy man from Hartlepool. He remembers the foghorn from the Heugh lighthouse and can tell the difference between the sounds from different foghorns up and down the coast from Sunderland to Hull and beyond.
Can't explain why, but this video is so satisfying.
Shots are great, sound is perfect... It just make me feel warm inside.
Great job!
Probably because there's no stupid, so-called, atmospheric music. It is what it is and nothing more; super stuff.
It's called ASMR
I get chills every time. I couldnt agree more
You must be an engineer or at least one of us who loves engineering.
@@ZilogBob Well, yeah. On road to become one :)
Imagine you hear this Horn and a few secounds later you see the Silhouette of Cthulhu in the Fog far away
I know many people won't get it 😉 👾
impending doom approaches
Plot twist: that’s exactly why they made this horn. They just don’t want anyone knowing until it’s time to prepare.
or godzilla
@@elcretin0605 yea but to be fair. Godzilla kinda accepted humans as far as i know.. Cthulhu on the other hand would mean Death and absolute madness
Guy: starts the horn
The island: *starts moving*
Did you mean to say 'mooing'?
Lol
RUN, ITS COMING!
“What about island? 3 Miles East!”
“No, it’s 2 miles, Sir!”
“1- 1 mile, Sir!”
“... It’s getting closer!”
“How the hell can it be getting closer?!”
....
“... Kaiju....”
the whole island starts going in circles in the water....
Came here after reading Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Foghorn," and I'm reminded of this passage in particular:
"One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shore and said, 'We need a voice to call across the water, to warn ships; I'll make one. I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was; I'll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying south, crying, and a sound like November wind and the sea on the hard, cold shore. I'll make a sound that's so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearts will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns. I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life'."...
Wow
That was beautiful
Outstanding
Dang that is deep
Thank you for that treat.
0:20 He is lubricating the high pressure air compressor to prevent overheating. While also adjusting some of its equipment.
0:41 Turns on the high pressure air compressor. (Equipment used to compress air to a higher psi, so when the foghorn is sounded the air is trying to escape the horn faster than low psi air)
1:08 Opens the air bank valve (the high pressure air compressor stores high pressure air here for later use. By opening this valve he is most likely opening 2 pathways: 1 from the compressor to the bank, 2 from the bank to the foghorn)
1:33 Most likely a crude timer for the foghorn. Most countries use a time base for how frequent they sound their foghorns. U.S. is roughly every 2 minutes.
@Mathew Ross You would think right?
Thank you.
The port of LA sounds the angels gate twice every 60 seconds when it’s foggy due to the high traffic in and out of the port of la.. sadly it’s more of an electronic beep than a horn.. lot’s of fish around the rocks below the little light house building though
Great explanation 👌
Thank you so much for the explanation on what I watched, I was beyond clueless.
Me:* has exam next day
My brain: Wonder how a Sumburgh Foghorn sounds like
UA-cam recommendation:
"You wonder what this foghorn sounds like"
CP facts
Are you live in Indonesia?
Been there
@@WantedbyDev nope bro
I can imagine that sound would be freaking terrifying in a dark night...
Yes it would be, if you can't see the shore. Best thing to do drop your anchor and wait till daylight to enter the harbor.
But very comforting on a vessel out in fog before electronic aids made knowing your position at sea a trivial matter!
SpicyRaider not as terrifying as the sound of the hull splitting open on some rocks you’ve just smashed into
But in the 1800s, you could call batman with it.
@@imbhulu you're thinking of a lighthouse
This video is shot and cut so beautifully I haven’t even heard the horn and I’m still enthralled
Thankyou, that's really kind of you to say so!
the horn isnt real, theres actually a massive cow that lives on the island
Is that a "your mom" joke?
Sanglierification shutup
Ok sorry
The your mom joke was pretty funny
It’s Cowzilla
How to _really_ piss off your neighbors in 319 easy steps.
Well that's alot of steps
@@XNos2018 but they're easy
Nah, this is professional level. You can just build a air raid siren from a bench grinder and some scrap wood.
Perfect number of likes
The communit say 319 steps
well you 319 likes
So good
I feel like i’m watching a wes anderson film
Gleppy Gloop yes!
Gleppy Gloop I was thinking that exact same thing
Lol true though
I appreciate this comment.
Yessss
From the U.S. Hoo-Ray for Brian. This is a work of art. The sound has the true character of a fog horn. Not like the cheap new electronic weak kneed fog horns, no comparison. This should be preserved forever.
Thanks Harry, I'll pass that onto Brian, he'll be delighted!
@@jjjamieson4740 Thanks JJ. Both of you might like to see and hear my 500 pound Type "F", Diaphone fog horn on my you tube posting, Real Foghorns.
2:02 when you push your desk across the floor
Surreal Boy lol. Heavy wood screech xD
Surreal Boy
*Let me Move this Over heeeerrreeeee*
Floor, "Let me sing you the song of my people"...
xd
thats why u lift it and dont push it.
“So what’s all the machinery for?”
“Big toot”
big fart
BIG TOOT
big toot?.. is that big foot with a bad case of gas?
I guess I didn’t realize there was so much involved sounding the horn!
Its really just 2 big old air compressors storage tanks and a timer
Ben Smith Still more than I thought. I assumed it was some guy blowing a trombone into a PA system.
@@andrew5184 PA system with such old technology? 😂
BlastForward I mean, I was kind of making a joke, but PA systems aren’t exactly new technology. And trombones predate both!
@@bensmith4563 that's the fart of a thousand beans
I just wanted to say I periodically revisit this video because I love it so much. The simplicity, the sounds, the masterful editing. It always gives me goosebumps.
That's made my day Thankyou!
UA-cam: *recommended* “fog horn sound”
Me at 2am: 😳
5am 😂
The accuracy at reading this comment. Exactly at 2:00 am
Bruh it's actually exactly 2 am now 😂
3am 😂
3am
I feel like i can conquer the world with that horn on my side
All we have to do is find a huge bro who has enouth lungs to use this shit. Just imagine how it will blew away towwns...
@@Crazylom Yess😂😂😂
Cortana AI first you need to learn to conquer your spelling tests before you conquer the world
@@rjles_ 😂😂true true
Lived next to the river forth as a child and I will never forget the fog horn , I loved it especially when going to sleep.
MMC 33 are u being sarcastic
Hi, so wat was the horns purpose ?
Was it to aware the the passing by ships ?
Like land is near or take precautions as its foggy or something..??
Just curious :)
@@RaghabPanigrahi its to warn passing ships that land is near at difficult weather conditions
Im also curious if thats a joke or not 😂
@@mikaeluhl some ppl prefer noise for sleeping, its a habit from childhoods, i used to fall asleep while the hoover was on n now as an adult the sound of hoovers makes me tired and calm
“Sir sound the alarm!!!!”
*15 minutes later, and halfway through the start-up process*
“Sir the ship has smashed into the rocks and everyone is dead...”
Josh King sounds about right
Meanwhile people in a country nearby recording noises that they can't explain 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha :D Mystery solved
People in Belfast: HORNS IN THE SKY THE LORD RETURNS, REPENT YOU HEATHENS!
This is the best comment 😂😂
Hahahaha I thought of the same thing.
Norwegians pure shitting themselves like
I feel like everything in this video is so clean and peaceful.
Tröööööööööööööö Trööööööööööööööö
Exactly. It's like mechanics asmr
Quiet, peaceful, serene. That is, until Bert Racoon wakes up!
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 Oh. My. God. I forgot about that show! Thank you for that.
Along with the vintage charm of the old machinery in the engine room, and the pendulum clock timer.
Just 😌👌
2:00 you can hear Chewbacca stepping on a Lego
The fucking "lol" ruined it
@@2inTurboo I will edit it
topkek m8s
Lmao
😂
Such beautiful suspense throughout. Well made.
I hear that! LOVE the close-ups of the different parts operating and setting up for the blast. There's definitely something to be said for old-fashioned machinery. Modern electronics just can't improve on some forms of perfection!
yeah. the sound of a desk moving on the floor is truly amazing.
Sorry I can’t take you seriously when I look at your profile picture
Zappa👍👍👍
Stunning machinery. The horn blast was secondary to the magnificent build quality and precision of the machinery that went into making that blast for me.
Imagine his job description: "I tend to toot my horn a lot"
So interesting!
engineers: how complicated should the horn be?
everyone in the discussion:
"Yes"
@@WillyJunior me
Lol its pretty simple actually. You should of seen the bombing alert horns the brits used. They were powered by v8 American motors lol. That horn uses the best tech avail at the time.
@@andrew1898 Not sure how common the Chrysler V8 were in Britain, the more common sirens were rotary, for example the Gents' Syren, Castle Castings Siren and the Carter Siren
It's a pretty basic design actually basically looks like some compressors like on a ship hooked up to a mechanical timer
Not funny. Be quiet.
I loved the wordless documentary storytelling! :)
Jimmy Lostigen .
Agree
Yeah
Everything I wanted to know delivered within my attention span it would of taken channel 5 an hour to do that
Any suggestion link of video or channel on youtube of that?
"Show, don't tell." Often speaks greater volumes.
Several years back I owned a 1976 HONDA Gold Wing motorcycle. EVERY system on the bike ( fuel pump, carburetors, etc.) was mechanical, and it was a joy to work on it. Hard to find non-digital stuff any more.
Imagine hearing that at night all alone in the fog.
Ayrton Coetzee imagine hearing the chicago tornado siren alone in the fog that is the end of the world siren
Imagine that is my truck horn to get mother fuckers out of my way
Siren Head? Holy fucking shit
@@blitzkrieg7353 I guess I couldn't describe how much I would shit myself if that would ever happen
Hard a starboard
The loneliest sound in the world.
The Paranoid Blues Man and the most depressed sound of the world
The Paranoid Blues Man More sounds like a Godzilla fart
So true
LOL Currently there is 404 likes on this comment.
Gunna hate me for this but 667
The cinematography in this video is just excellent. Great editing and direction as well. Thank you for uploading to this site a video that actually makes good use of proper filmic conventions. I find that I keep coming back to this video just to...well, _watch_ it!
Wow is that you gary oldman?
You're easy to please obviously. 2:23 of my life I'll never get back.
This is proably the most reassuring sound when you live in a place like this after a heavy storm.
I was expecting to be dissapointed and hearing an MLG horn
Instead
I was not ready for this beauty
AHA yeah, I was expecting ear rape Smashmouth or Big Smoke going "AwwwWWWWW!, and the seagulls to drop dead out of the sky.
This is so beautifully made
Thankyou!
Lisa Mena o
i was about to say the same thing, fantastic cinematography. felt like belonged in thriller!
Ikr?
so are you
i love the simplicity of the video and how it covers everything. no crappy music, no voice overs.... just a great video
No demonic people speaking through it and ruining it with their dumb words
Plus we get to see the cool machinery
@@aishamarquez4984 Demonic people?
Beautiful. How could you have kept it in pristine condition like a classic masterpiece? Magnifique!
Interesting video didn’t realise so much went into it.. also was waiting for a Viking longship to come out of the mist at the end
SHIELD WALL!!
Those Vikings were probably wondering if they had been welcomed to Valhalla by Odin himself blowing his horn. Nope... You lads just got lost.
VIKING SHIPS COME OUT OF THE MIST OMINOUS SIGHT!!!!
Why does this keep getting recommended EVERY year or so? This is the third time I'm watching this satisfying video lmao
Google doesn't always take you where you want to go, sometimes it takes you to where you need to be.
@@kg4boj deep
The description says it's an annual thing, maybe this is recommended every time it's played
Every time it's seriously foggy.
Lucky you, I've just seen it once now
When engines were made to last centuries...
That is the only true way to measure quality. Low hours, low power output. consistent operating environment... yup that is quality.
I mean what's the point in that? Even if it's static, you'll be getting it replaced in 2-3 decades at the most because things just get better.
@@accountname9506We have planes from the 50s and trains over 100 and automobiles and some old sewing machines too, America.
@@lowlightevangelist9431 All the planes from the 50s are typically owned by private citizens, they aren't used by anyone doing serious things for the most part. What are you talking about 'automobiles'. And 'old sewing machines' used by some hobbyist doesn't count and you know it.
@@accountname9506 We have a groundwater pump in our basement. Roundabout 80 years old. We had an O-ring replaced when I was a kid, and that is about it. What is there "better" to replace it with?
The preparations to the buildup, are perfect. That short pause before the horn sounds always sends chills down my spine when it does finally sound
I don't know why this was recommended to me, but it was beautiful
koenigscat same but I love getting there’s
same
Me when my parents are still asleep: *tiptoes around, making sure not to make a noise*
My parents when I'm asleep:
stupid phucking idiot STFU
@@rjp801 why you so salty?
@@rjp801 lol relax there, kid
@@auser2045 He's been out at sea for too long...
Dude ur 28 you should move out already...
Legolas -“That Is no orc horn”
men yells - “Open the gates!”
I appreciate how this transports me back to a time when things were simpler than today - no internet, no social media, no power-crazed world leaders. It's actually quite calming. Thank you.
I can agree with you-- power hungry leaders are nothing new though
"The Horn of Helm Hammerhand, will sound in the deep. One last time!"
"Forth all Eorlingas ! Charge !!"
@@UNC030 epic music follows
I can se a movie on my mind, maybe I've watched this too much kkk
Shall*
.........SPEACH!!!
The video, the sounds, the editing, the build-up, everything is incredibly done! Beautiful!
Thankyou!
“Why's it bad luck to kill a gull? “
- “In 'ems the souls of sailors what met their maker.”
I literally finished watching that 2 hours ago, what a masterpiece! Randomly saw this and clicked because that sounds was fresh in my mind and was interested
Fantastic movie. Seen it twice since it's release.
@@OEGOD can i get your opinion on why is it a fantastic movie? I watched it and I felt like i wasted 2 hours, staring at a wall would be more entertaining, i just didn't get it.
@@larrybaken595 what movie?
what movie
All that could be replaced with smaller more efficient devices today . So glad they kept that wonderful piece of machinery that still works so well. I love old technology like that ,especially when so well maintained.
I think this little video is a gem. Beautfully composed, shot, recorded and edited.
When Christopher Nolan makes a movie. And at the beginning there is such a sound you know that the movie will be good.
Imagine someone is paying you for doing this job and letting you live in that horn+light house combo. I burn my master's degree for this
Have you seen "the lighthouse"?
@@G_Moos lol
I didn’t even know “Foghorn Technicians” existed
@@G_Moos I was looking for this comment
and after 18 months, the men with butterfly nets would come to collect you.
This video is a genuine piece of art. I was NOT expecting to see such a beautiful edit this morning. Very cinematic!
Thankyou @wazzuptrey , that's really nice of you to say! Have a great New Year!
Whoever made this video has the soul of a filmmaker, there are very good shots there!
I never would have thought I would love a video of preparing and sounding a foghorn so much... Kudos to ones who made this, the content, story, touching upon all the steps involved, the no nonsense actor, the cinematography, the sound editing, the suspense all culminating into an ominous warning sign hurled into the mist... Wow!!
What a haunting sound, love it just a shame we have lost them in general use around the UK coast 🙁
I agree, living in south west Cornwall on the coast in Mounts Bay….. don’t hear them, wish I did!
I live in Guernsey and we get foghorns but not as cool sounding as this one
Really?! Weird 😬
Yeah, satellite and computing technology have done that.
foghorns in the San Francisco Bay Area still sound like these lucky for us!
Mad respect for the editing skills. I was on the top deck of a cruise ship a few years ago, horn went off as were ready to depart. Unreal how loud it was. I swear it rattled me so hard that even my ankle bones were buzzing
I used to work in a ship yard.
One day some wise-guys stayed late and hooked up a ships horn underneath our table...
Compressor air feed lines through the wall to the other room and all.
At 06:30 we came in for our shift and sat down for coffee.
It was like the room exploded!!
Best prank they ever pulled on us.
This is the most fascinating video, thank you! I love all the old technology still serving a very real purpose.
Thanks Michael, I appreciate that!
@@jjjamieson4740yes thanks for this! I own a 52 yr old British car that still serves it's purpose, built to last 🇬🇧
@@forestghost7 Awesome! What model is the car?
@@jjjamieson4740 firstly, THANKS for re - igniting my dormant passion for lighthouses, life got in the way ya know. The car's a 1972 MGB/GT ... we all know the reputation of Brit cars lol, but I got a good one. What a trooper it is 👍, just completed a 3000 mi. round trip Florida - N. Carolina. More to tell you if you like, just ask! 🙂
@@forestghost7 Beautiful car! Soft or hard top?
The sound could be heard up to 20 miles away in poor visibility. It was last used in 1987
And how far away can it be heard in good visibility? 😆
what are you on about. they just used it there now.
@@eddherring4972 In all conditions 23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi)
@WE WUZ VIKANGS!!! n shiet. this was clearly filmed recently your logic doesn't hold up.
WE WUZ VIKANGS!!! n shiet. That makes no sense
I hope this comes up on my exam tomorrow!
Cool Dog did it come up in your exam?
Kevin Frank Unfortunately the oligopoly market structure came up this year on the economics exam instead of fog horns.
Cool Dog I have exams tomorrow rip
underrated comment
I have an exams soon
Imagine just hearing that in the distance bruh like that kinda intimidating, very cool video tho
Bruh
Intimidating?...nahhh
Alec’s Stuff I’d be fucking terrified
Oh no way, It's so cool I love that sound. Hell I live in Az and look forward to going to the ocean and hearing that.
i'd shit the bed.
I grew up in Duluth MN, I always loved to hear the fog horn on days like this.
This is the coolest damn thing ever. That one shot where it was zooming in on a bit of the clock/timer looked like it was in a movie, and it should be.
Seagulls: 'THE GODHORNS!!! THE GODHORNS ARE SOUNDED!!!
Also Seagulls: 'A SACRIFICE !!!
A SACRIFICE!!! A SACRIFICE FOR THE HORNS!!!
Lmaoo
- WE NEED A POINTED STICK!!!
- A STICK!! A STICK!! A STICK!! SSSTIICK...STICK, STICK, STICK, STICK,STICK,STICK,STICK!!!!
WE NEED SHELTER SHELTER SHELTER SHELTER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Radar and GPS spelled the end of the foghorn, no need for them now that vessels can see in zero visibility. It's a shame because they have such an amazing sound, I still get chills during the intro of the Hunt for Red October when you see the Red October leaving the Polyarny inlet with foghorns sounding in the background.
It was cold and hard that day.
Ships actually do still use fog horns regularly. Radar and GPS are extremely useful, but they go out far more often than you might think. Especially in high traffic areas near ports, even if all instruments are working right, many captains will still instruct that the foghorn be sounded regularly. You never know when a ship around you is going to have an instrument failure.
What Kosh Naranek said. The radar and the gps in particular are very useful tools for the officer on watch, but they should not become the navigators of the ship. Electronic devices can malfunction or display faulty information, foghorns and navigtional lights never lie.
I recommend watching The Lighthouse. It's an incredible movie, and has an intense, recurring foghorn in it.
SchoolTerrorist Ive rarely seen/heard fog horns from lighthouses, but the lights are still in use. Also lighthouses have a radar beacon that shows up as a morse letter on the radar screen which can be compred to the letter on the chart, so its impossible to miss it.
We still use the lights from lighthouses though, along with large structures on land that when lined up show that you are in the middle of the fairway. Buoys are more like guidlines that should not be relied on as these can move due to ice, low tide + current or break free completely.
It’s not only the sound of the horn that is authentic here. I am an Operating Engineer and what fascinated me most is the sound created by the man and his machine (air compressor) in order to produce the air that will blow the horn. From the prepping (lubing and priming of the moving parts etc.), starting, engaging, valving (line-up), and setting up what looks like a timer but a device to sequentially line up the reservoir connections to the horn. Everything was done manually and it was all like mechanical music in my ears. I was already in nostalgic cloud 9 even before the horn farted it’s glory. PERFECTION!
I'm really glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Just imagine taking this to medieval times for war. Scare the shit out of the enemy
Lol foghorns aren’t for war tho
Dakota Williams that’s not the point he’s getting at
They'd think its judgement day
quantomlink456 • It’s extremely foggy, you’re about to run into battle alongside your hundreds and hundreds of allies. You all prep yourselves to run through the fog blind, knowing that your enemy lay on the other side, waiting to hear your war cries to ensue in a bloody battle to the death. That’s when through the blindness of the mist, far on the other side you hear the horn. You all freeze in place and you hear the captain say “By my by.. they have the gods themselves on their side..” You look up in complete fear, the blaring horn piercing your very sanity as this time it was the opposing side who’s war cries filled the air while your allies quiver in place, a solid portion of them dropping their arms and backing up before the fight had even started. This was the beginning of the end and you knew it.. then you poop inside your armor.
@@steamyninja8881 That was dopee
Silent hill veterans : *Ahhh shit. Here we go again*
Stalkuru, I thought Silent Hill had an air raid siren.
@@evilsharkey8954 Yeah. We have one of those damn things in the neighborhood several times a day, followed by the announcement to stay at homes because of COVID-19. Pretty startling sometimes.
[Big Smoke] ALL HAVE TO DO WAS BLOW THE HORN, CJ!!!!!
Having eargasms right now!😅 The sound of the machinery without music over the top is just🤌🏼🤤🫠
Superb engineering i love these old stationary engines slow but reliable like Swiss clocks!! I always wanted the job as a keeper sadly now all automatic :(((
Loco Krazy Yep me too. A perfect job for me an introvert. :(
Swiss clocks are slow? 😄
Loco Krazy old Victoria era machinery. I have no proof it's Victorian but it sure looks old.
A job you might like, fellow introvert, is a freight train conductor.
Days traveling in nature.
The whole video was simply a pleasure to watch. The beautiful view, then the maintenance, starting up the machine. Finally, the fog horn. Quality cinematography in action. Definitely saving this one as an example of GOOD editing and filmmaking. Thank you, my good sir.
Thankyou! I'm really glad you enjoyed it
Still not louder than dads sneezing
¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯
The fillings in my teeth keep falling out.
@@yottaforce hi Dad!
🐉✔
@@Pacific0_ ✌🏼 bro give me a mention in the post on Instagram. Its alpha_hunter21
Translesbian Helicopter hi dad, I’m dad
The diesel-powered compressor is *SO* steampunk! ;-)
But the horn's voice... reminds me of the old story about a prehistoric creatures coming up from the depths of the ocean, because it thinks it hears the mating call of one of its kind... and destroys the lighthouse building in its ardor...
The giant dragonite?
Actually, it was a dinosaur, which had been awakened by nuclea weapons testing in the Arctic - the original story was written by Ray Bradbury en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_Horn
It was Sunn O)))
What are you smoking
It was a short story by science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, with the title "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (eventually re-titled "The Lighthouse").
Absolutely fantastic micro-documentary. What a find here! :-)
That was superb-the tension-building was very well done!
Thanks, I appreciate that
I get so happy when I see the old good stationary engines used for their original tasks, the old engines have soul. They just need a little oil and fuel to last a hundred years, I've been involved in overhauling them. Incredibly little wear, no replacements but only gasket replacement when we put them back together after fifty years of daily use.
Yeah I am honestly more fascinated by the engines in this than anything else
gone are the days when things were built to last
@@yorkshirelad3133 - Yes, unfortunately.
Indeed, old machinery has a beauty about it that today's electronic chips don't. What looks better, highly polished brass control levers or a black plastic keyboard?
Don’t have to replace / lap Babbitt bearings on these dinosaurs?
Some of my earliest memories are of listening to the Fog Horns on the San Francisco Bay at night. They are two-tone. The first one is high and the last one is low. Kind of like "Waaaaaa-Ohooooo". On a quiet night you could even hear the buoy bells.
Many people have already said it here but its worth repeating:
Both the shots and editing in this video were perfect. Nothing life changing but you absolutely hit the nail on the head as far as providing a quick thorough satisfying piece of content. Everything you want to see and not a hair extra
I love the internet!
Love the old and beautifully maintained mechanical equipment.
that's what my hot dates say to me 😁
That's very cool. I didn't know it took all that work to sound a foghorn.
All the stuff down below is the air compressor to pressurize the two large, red tanks outside. The clockwork in the top is the timer for when the horn sounds, which is VERY important because the time interval between blasts is how mariners can tell which horn is sounding and use that to navigate safely.
What the hell is this horn supposed to be?
@@HyouMix To warn navigators of a presence of a vessel or obstacle or shore. It best works during fogs or poor visibility.
@@HyouMix It's a fog horn. It was used in the days before GPS to warn ships that there were rocks here that would sink them. They also used it to navigate in the fog. These days it's more of a backup to GPS.
Gerald Hall same, kinda gutted there isn’t some red faced guy on the verge of passing out on the inside 😂
I loved this!! I love how well maintained the components are, the cleanliness, the tradition, thankyou very much
The tired, overworked technician’s hand @ 0:40 ties the whole thing together.
It twitches with anxiety even though this is routine for him. Beautiful and profound without an utterance of dialogue.
This is so soothing and also scary as hell at the same time! Impressive machinery!