New Primitive Technologies Discussion
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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue
Couldn't agree more. Very sweet lantern find!
So much quality information for free, you're awesome Dave!
Great stuff Dave. Thanks for sharing the old ways.
Very cool video Dave. Thanks for taking the time to share with us. I look forward to all of your videos. You are very well thought of out here. We value you beyond your comprehension. I personally do thank God for you.
Man! What a communicator! I admire all your bush craft skills, common sense, and brains, yes, but your ability to get it said, so clearly and logically and with such ease, is what I consider to be your greatest skill.
These videos may not enjoy the views that your others do, but they are definitely some of my favorites by far. Please continue to share this kind of "sit-down and ponder" content with us. Pleasant nights partner.
I am loving these trips back into history you've been doing lately. Very interesting, thank you for the wonderful videos you bring us. God Bless!
I have a lot of power outages at the farm, where I live, so I keep a kerosene lantern always filled at home, as well as a butane gas lantern.
But I still prefer the kerosene in that it is the most versalite of them all. If you run out of kerosene, just pour Diesel from the tractor (or my pickup) in, or kitchen oil, or bacon oil, or whatever, and ir will burn.
By the way, remember to control the wick so as not to let ir smoke, or you'll have a black glass casing, and no light at all. Thanks, Dave!
Nice, mellow, informative video, Dave! Thanks man!
Dave, I enjoy the history lessons you share along with the bushcraft/survival and self reliance gear you share. Also I appreciate how they are viable options should we need them if we know of them and how to use them.
dave, you really need to do a series on these fantastic tools from our past. thanks again for another great video. :)
Great video - I really like seeing the somewhat recent expansion of your videos into long term self-reliance, homesteading or whatever one may want to call it. Also appreciate the historical context being added - very interesting info - thanks!
Great finds Dave. Really like how you cover multiple time periods and there uses in modern day life. Thanks again for sharing, I learn something every time I watch your videos
I enjoy all the pathfinder instructor videos, but your videos are by far the most informative and interesting. Thanks
Very nice video dave, i love all your videos. Thankyou so much for what you do for your subscribers. Regardless of past issues, i have the upmost respect for you and your skills. Thanks, and i hope to see many more videos from you. Cheers, Jack
Thank you Dave! Keep the good work coming. I love the carbide lamp demo. My grand father worked in a mine and used a carbide light for his work light. The discovery channel lost my interest when you were taken off dual survivor. Your work with the pathfinder school I believe is vital to mankind's existence. I have been a fan since your first appearance on you tube. I love the 5&10 c's. Keep up the good work!
Thats facinating,love these types of vid's Mr.C!!that head lamps simply amazing,old ways were so practical and made to last,thanks
Excellent information on the pieces of early American eguipment. Dave, your wealth of knowledge is PRICELESS!
Great vid!
Great video, I could not agree more. We have generations who have lost the skills of their grandparents and yet much of what their grandparents used is laying around in the form of decorative antiques and in antique stores. Much needed skills for true self reliance.
Those are some amazing finds, brother! Blessings!
The wisdom of your insight on history and historical technologies is so needed and welcomed by the people who were raised with this same technology. I was born in 1941 and used so many different examples of technology that is no longer necessary to modern folk! The examples you showed today were both used by my father and I for decades. I thought it was high tech, at the time.
Whelen Lean, Golden Age of Camping Gear, Traditional Camping...Right up my alley lately. Ravenswood, West Virginia (just over the bridge from 33) has a slew of nice antique & thrift stores that I think you might find interesting Dave. I think that axe is an incredible find and definitely a score.
Excellent points Dave. Before this video I just saw a lamp. Now I see a piece of working history.
Just cleaned out my Grandmothers garage and found an old dietz lantern. I've always wanted one. When I got up to it I found that some one had converted it to an electric light. My heart sank till I seen that the wire was only ran through the fuel cap. I purchase a new burner wicks and fuel cap. Man am I happy. Thanks Grandma for being a hoarder and never throwing anything away.
I'm going to the wrong flea markets.
Great vid, awesome lamps. I've owned and used both of those types of lamps, gone caving with carbide lamps and taken draft lamps up into the bush when camping, so seeing them brought a smile to my face. Thanks.
Love the old stuff! Simple, durable and most importantly dependable!
That carbide lamp brought back memories of growing up in a rubber plantation here in Malaysia. Rubber tapping needs to be started very early in the morning and the tappers will don these lamps to see in the dark.
Excellent video Dave...very interesting
Great video as always. Covering some real up to date survival that can be done anywhere and appropriate for anyone in the US. The scavenger is the ultimate survivor.
I picked up an old brass french pigeon lamp at the 2nd hand store for $1.99 last week. I cleaned it up, put in a new wick and kerosene and it works perfect.
Hey Dave, do you think you'll do any more knife videos? New additions, knife making, etc.. Really enjoy them!
I have been curious about carbide lamps. thanks for the video and looking forward to other vids with the carbide lamp.
I really enjoyed learning something new. Thank you.
Love these type vids Dave. Keep 'em coming.
I cant wait to see that Carbide lamp going, That seem as something that would be good in a primitive kit.
Great finds. Thanks for the video.
Knowledge is power. Peace.
I learn a lot watching your videos. Thanks. I'm looking forward to the next video
Great video Dave, I agree wholeheartedly!
Wow, I have searched high and low for a complete carbide lantern in working order. Awesome find, My grandfather worked the coal mines in eastern Kentucky until Black Lung took him in 1964, hard life being a miner.
Those carbide lamps are very interesting. My brother found a nice brass lamp and it can really put out a surprising amount of light. The reflector works very well and most of the lamp doesn't get hot at all.
My grandfather, a collector of oil lamps, would be proud of that lamp. Great find and great video thanks
Good on ya Dave, nice video!
I really liked the carbide old timer... I know you had no calcium carbide to demonstrate the function but I was hoping to see the water drip action using the lever tap.... without having the bottom tank connected.
Always enjoy your videos..
You are a top bloke mate
Love it. Love seeing old tech that can still be used today.
so true Dave we need to preserve some of the old skills not just the primitive but they can work hand in hand great show
I'm still learning from ya Dave.... Can't wait to take some your classes! I'm actually thinking of making a career out of Woodcraft/Bushcrafting one day.
Thanks for the knowledge you share.
LaBaron Barnes
Good job on the lamps Dave . The miners lamp ive never seen how thay work! Ive used the hericain lamps most of my life . After Wilma that was the only light we had for 2 weeks !
Man that Carbide lamp brings back memories of my Grandpa, he used to tell me stories of hunting at night when he was a kid and having to pee in the lamp LOL sounds crazy but I swear he told me that ..he's been dead for years and it brought back good memories! Thanks Dave!
Great Video, Dave! I've got three lanterns like that one in the house that we picked-up at a flea market. In Virginia, every year we get hit by bad weather during hurricane season...even if we don't take a direct hit, we normally go through about a one or two week period with no electricity. It's good to know how to make it without modern conveniences.
Dave, I very much agree with the precepts you are sharing here. In my classes I take it a bit farther. With focus on simple machines,(inclined plane, wheel/ pulleys, lever & fulcrum and axel) Understanding these many people can utilize the resources at hand to accomplish the otherwise unimaginable. From natural resources one can create functional machinery and in turn produce much of the gear one might need. And this can be done on virtually any scale. It's just the time, imagination and creativity one puts into it.
Dave, do you have a video of the carbide lamp working ? I have not been able to find it. I know your busy, but I would love to see it working.
Dave, you ever think about joining Antiques Roadshow? Great video!
That axe is a beauty, I've been looking for something like that myself.
Boy I wish I could find things like those at flea markets .. Nice finds Dave ..
Yeah, I have to put my hand up, I'm from mining communities and variations on both these lamps were not uncommon when I was a kid and I have never touched either one of them. Definitely something to think about, bang on the money Dave!
I have several of the hurricane lanterns as they are called down here. They work great. And if you fill them with the citronella lamp oil they work great at keeping biting insects away while sitting around the camp.
Love it. So many have forgotten or don't even know about these lanterns. They are very cool pieces of Americana as you said and pieces of history that should e maintained and kept alive so that people can learn more about them , and history. Thank for doing this video.
Cool vid Dave, I have a Feuerhand 276 stormlight and a in house kerosene lamp myself should power go out and also have some kerosene burners for when I have no gas to heat water, cook food and so on. Would be cool to hear your thoughts about those kinds of burners for a base camp. I have 2x Optimus 00, a primus 71 and a svea 121 and an ender 6070 which burns on white gas.
Hey dave, i really love your video's and i really love your style. But one thing is kinda bothering me and that is the sound quality, if you ever come across a microphone on sale or something, please buy it and a dead mole with it, against the wind. Because the wind is really messing it up. And if you do something like hammering, your voice falls away everytime you hit because the camera itself cant handle so much sound. thanks in advance and have a nice day
that axe is primo bro
That carbide lamp is pretty nifty. I've seen them before in movies and documentaries, even knew they were called carbide lamps, but never knew how they worked.
Don't get to see a lot of old mining technology in perfectly flat, near sea-level Texas lol.
Picked up some great bargains there Dave, keep up the great work; cheers.
Thanks Dave. Great vid as always.
For me the definitive point in time is pre-grid. What was used before electric power lines spanned the countryside. Pre-grid, in my case ended in the early 1950's, when REA brought power lines to our farm. Remember well, eating meals with an oil lamp in the center of the table. A clothes washboard & a bar of lye soap is another symbol of pre-grid. As are the old gate-marked pieces of castiron cookware that I enjoy restoring to useful life, today.
Survival, bushcraft, self-reliance, independence are all wrapped up in the term "pre-grid". Many skills span all the years from the dawn of history until the point in time that generations began to rely on switches instead. In the days, I'm remembering, building fires, for example, was a routine everyday happening. Fires in fireplaces, wood cook stoves, tin heaters, under washpots, in flues for curing tobacco -- the list can go on. Many (most?) people in the countryside, learned fire building skills as young children. Just a part of growing up and assuming responsibilities for daily chores.
As was learning to trim lamp wicks, keeping them filled with kerosene. Lighting a lantern and taking it outside, before dawn, for whatever chores needed to be done, at the start of the day. Roughly the same type lantern used by Charles Ingalls for roughly the same chores was used when I was a kid.
A FWIW......... Have modern powered tools in my shop -- cabinet saw, jointer, planer, drill press, etc. Yet, where practical, have many of the pre-grid manually operated equivalents out there, as well. A bow drill, brace, or drill press - they all can put a hole through a piece of wood. Draw knives, hand planes, spoke shaves all have their origins back the annals of history. Yet, are as useful today, as they were untold years ago.
I love this channel. I just wish I had way out of the city. I moved to the city thinking I would like it. Its ok but I miss the wilderness. Is there a pathfinder school anywhere in Oregon? I can't find anything on where its located.
When I was a boy we used carbide lamps with 10 inch lenses to hunt frogs and also for camp lights. We would camp out for days at a time and lived pretty much on frog legs and fish. Every hardware store carried these lamps and carbide. We would also make small cannons and shoot soda cans in the air. This was just after WW2 and we would buy Marine Kabar Kniives for $1.50 and the wide canvas pistol belts for .50 cents at the war surplus store along with canteens, ponchos and all sorts of camping equipment for very cheap prices. When I was 11 or 12 years old my buddiy and me would walk thru the city streets with a handgun and knive on our belts and a shotgun or rifle on our shoullder. Nobody gave us a second glance. Try that now and the swat team would be called out and the whole city would be on lockdown, Those were the days as Archie Bunker would say. I am now 77 years old and still enjoy the great outdoors.
AWESOME knowledge to have - thanks
At the VFW flea market here in PA today I picked up a nice file handle for a buck which is always good to have. Shoulda pulled the trigger on that broad axe.... Gotta love flea markets though. It's yard sale season, baby!
I always keep some hurricane lamps around for power outages. You can also fuel them with tiki torch oil and it will help keep the mosquitoes away from the camp site or even just the patio (don't use it inside though). No home is complete without a few oil lamps.
You are a national treasure Dave.
Great video. I like this pace better than the risk-dearing-go-getter in "Dual Survival".
So - the next question : How to make bio-fuel ?
Those are nice tools and I have seen an old lamp like the one you have there and some people still keep those old lamps in their homes here for when we lose electricity anytime during the year. The only time I saw one of those mining lamps was in videos and documentaries.
I remember raccoon hunting as a kid, and all the men wearing carbide lamps. The battery powered lamps today just don't have the same feel to them. We lost some of the magic when those old lamps went away.
Dave..Thanks for the tip on dating the lantern. I was given a Dietz D-Lite No2 and have been trying to date it. Under the crud the last number was 52.....I never would have known it was there.
I've just been thinking about adding a carbide lamp to my emergency stuff. Been looking for a usable original one, then found out there lives a guy here in CZ who started making these lamps again, as hobby. Will likely call him and get one.
Slick hat Dave!
I'm a bit skeptical about the long term feasibility of the carbide lamp in a situation where other older technology is more flexible (like the blizzard lamp). The most common way to make CaC2 is through a very high temp reaction, over 2000 celcius. Pretty tough to do without a modern electricity furnace. You would have to have a store of CaC2 to use in the lamp. It's a very cool piece of history and the chemicals and reactions involved are pretty ingenious, but this just wasn't viable until after electricity became common.
The "Prest-O-Lite"! The first headlight on a Harley Davidson! Exact same as that small lamp.
You know what would be awesome, a series on primitive survival for a poor man. None of the gear is too out of range, but for some 30-60+ dollars on each item is hard to buy. Just an idea, I would watch! :-) thanks for all you do brother! Your my hero haha
We had a hurricane down in Alabama a couple of years ago and our power was out for a week, and you would be surprised how useful and handy a lantern is. And also kerosene or some type of lamp oil is just as important, we almost ran out during our power outage.
20 bucks for a Carbide Lamp is a steal! I have been looking for one for a while. I used to work at the Museum in Cincinnati and we had one that we showed visitors at the cave and I loved it. They are hard to find one in decent shape for a good price! Now a days flea markets near me just sell hats and shoes and other things I don't care about.
Really like the old cool stuff.
Another great video.
Great knowledge!
Great finds!
You can always use the lamp to re-solder the tin box if you need to.
i love seeing what treasures you find at fleamarkets :)
Thank you for the history lesson
Good information.
I was shown my my granddad years ago how to make sand and clay moulds for steel work and casting
I was just curious if the ferro piece for the carbide lamp is the same size as what we use in Zippo lighters today or if it is special order also?
great information
Informative video but the wind was a bit annoying.
Hey Dave what do think of Laredo Boots? ( Jacksonville Boot )
Great video
If you had to roll out in a hurry less than 5 minutes what items would you take?
Nice stuff Dave =D
Outstanding
You found a good carbide lamp Dave. AutoLites are prized for their durability and dependability. Score!
What state do you live in Dave? I'd like to know where you're finding all these flea markets that sell awesome stuff. The flea markets around me just sell no good garbage.
He's in ohio.
Some of them sell knives but just cheap junk you'd get off of budk or some other junk site, nothing hand forged or high quality by any means.
Yeah most flea markets around Houston just sell new Chinese and Mexican crap never any old stuff.