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Spanish moss caused the first automotive recall
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- When Henry Ford used Spanish moss as a cheap way to fill his Model T seat cushions, he did not expect that this would be the cause of the first automotive recall.
They had to debug the cars
Good one 😂
The first recall, & naturally it was Ford, who else could it be.
John Dodge once wrote, around 1915/'16 or so.
"Someday, people who own a Ford, are going to want an Automobile"
This was funny because the Dodge Brothers owned a substantial shareholding in Ford at the time & received a dividend on every new Ford car sold, plus a profit margin on every new Dodge Brothers car sold.
Henry was pi$$ed.
@@KB10GL too bad Dodge completely forgot how to build cars... 😂
@@chrismehl1607 Well I have no more than a passing interest in anything made in recent times, however I have noticed that the Gen 3 Hemicars still rule the roost, so I'm not too sure about the "forgot how to build cars" bit. It's just sad that these awesome engines have been discontinued in manufacture.
Three of the most awesome engines in the last seventy years
1. Chrysler 392 Hemi. [1957/'58]
2. Dodge /Plymouth 426 Hemi [1964/71]
3. Dodge Gen 3 Hemi. All of them.
Ford tried with their 427 SOHC engine, & a brilliant effort it was, & still is, but it didn't quite make the grade when they couldn't afford to put it in a production car that we could buy. [Nascar ruling]
Chrysler was also well advanced in development of a DOHC Hemi, but discontinued it at the testing phase when Ford faltered at the production car hurdle with their Cammer. The pushrod 426 Hemi was more than good enough.
I think, overall, that Dodge was holding up fairly well, remembering that Stelantis is steering the ship these days.
Win
You might say that mistake bit him in the a$$!
My Chiggas.
😏
That's our word
Richmond Hill Ga is where he tried to harvest the moss. There maybe other places.
Henry built the town. Had a plantation for collecting and growing the moss. Lots of forgotten history.
He replaced the moss with horse hair.
True Story !!
Tack rag! - The Furniture Guys
I have a 46 plymouth with original interior....it has horse hair and hemp rope stuffing in the seats and wool upholstery on top. The switches and controls are made of lucite as plastic wasn't even a thing in those days. Post ww2 vehicles are literally built like a tank!!! The auto manufacturers had a stockpile of engines and other such parts built for military use and they started popping them down in the autos that first started rolling off the lines!!! I love old cars and their history!!!
@@Bennytheplymouth
Your story of your Plymouth, is very cool !!
@@BennytheplymouthI always tell people that first decade after WW2 was the peak of build quality for just about everything and it went downhill slowly after that. Then you get past the 90s and it fell off a cliff. I have 52, 79, and 99 Dodge half ton pickups so it’s easy to tell the differences
Over 100 years later and still having multiple recalls to this day 😑
Yes, because they actually do them. There are other brands that only do them when forced to.
It's a tradition!
I've been an old Ford and model T fan for over 60 years and never heard this story, I certainly didn't expect it to end about a recall! 😂👍
1st model had bugs they needed to work out
How did they not catch this in production?
Chiggers are very very small. Can't hardly see them
@jeffmawhinney1709 but you sure can feel them.
@@trespasserswill7052the guy that implements the assembly line is not concerned with your rash, he's concerned with pumping out cars
@@mikephillips2984 He needs to do a better job. I've been chigger free for decades.
Im just wondering how nobody considered chiggers before using spanish moss in production.
Its not like they were unheard of at the time.
Great story!
as a kid, climbing trees I can assure you that they can be infected in the trees also..😢
"Where did Henry Ford go wrong?"
Ohhhh BOY, where to start?
😂😂😂she said chiggers
😳..... 😂
Thats what they're are called....
Woah, watch the hard r on that
Yes we have this crap everywhere.
This made the chigger bites on my ankles start itching again.
Used as shipping buffer, then reused it for the seats .. sold the wood excess to his son in law for charcoal….❤
Henry also ordered bolts and nuts in wood boxes cut to a certain length so he could reuse the wood for flooring
@@user-ti7yt9vj2f nice, I didn’t know that one. Thank you 🙏
@user-ti7yt9vj2f ...hey WOW man, like maybe that's how they got the name "floorboard"...😊
It’s also my go to fire starter, I always carry a small ziplock of it if I’m camping overnight. Exactly what you need in cushions etc.
Grazie per questa buona informazione.👏🏻🍾🥂👊🏻
It's funny that ford used to cut corners in the beginning, ain't nothing changed.
Well I just got a recall on my 1923 model t touring last week about the seats
That is only half the story. The real reason Ford wanted the "spanish moss" because he really wanted the wood that the Louisiana used to ship the moss in, that wood was call cypress which is water and rot resistant. Because buying the wood put right was more expensive, but having it used a a shipping container was cheaper.
Cypress at the time was in high demand for use in naval ships for their decks up until after WW2 before steel decks and non slip surfaces were commonly implemented. Mainly due to its rot resistance.
My hometown area in south Florida was heavily logged for cypress way back then, spent a lot of time out on the historical logging/tram roads.
I had no idea. Now, THAT is an interesting fact.
Henry Ford, a great, great, great man
...yeah, but he had some issues...😅
Maybe THAT Is Where They Got The Term Of "Working Out The Bugs" In A New Introduced Car, Or, "Getting The BUGS Out Of It". 😂😂😂😂😂...
Red bug are not nice. They itch so bad. I was fishing and sat on a stump and got them up my back. It was horrible.
And since that time, because of an insect, model "t" cars where known as chuggers!
The moss he got was from Richmond Hill ,Ga . It's right outside of Savannah, Georgia
It's cousin to the pineapple!!!!!
They should have tried vatting it in preservatives to kill bugs and make the plant material last.
...was thinking the same, like a bed bug kit for cars...
The black bugs are now called KIA boys.😂
Aussie here. We call them "Merlin's beard"
Or old mans beard.
Cheers from WDC USA Mates 😊.
I immediately knew what she was about to say.
I lived in Florida when I was in first grade.
Picture it’s Christmas time. I’m clowning around pretending to be Santa Claus and grab a big wad of Spanish Moss and wrap it around my neck to form a fake beard, mustache included. Let’s just say that you will only do that once.
Thanks for showing me the Chiggers.
I had read about Chiggerosis causing Scrub Typhus in Med school but I had never seen a specimen.
You never know what you might learn from literally anyone.
Thanks
Spanish moss is related to pineapples. Go figure.
The first case of Ford biting their customers on the ass!
So it wasn't the Spanish Moss so much as it was those damned chiggers. Spanish Moss isn't the only habitat for chiggers. They prefer grassy or wooded areas near water.
It's called Oldmans beard in Australia.
2 complete different plants.
@@rossbrumby1957 grows the same,looks the same . could be from the same family.looks the same to me though
This is an amazing dad fact i will use
Little red bugs called Chiggers...? Those look like bed bugs to me!
Clearly you have never walked through a batch hanging from a tree to find a 100 chiggers crawling on your head and face.
You can't see chiggers. red bugs are not chiggers.
Wow who of thunk that a company with the most recalls would have had the first recalls
It's related to bromeliads (pineapple is a bromeliad)!
Henry Ford also owned the lumber operations to build the car bodies and frames. If he had just cooked that Spanish moss in a kiln for half an hour that wouldn't have been a problem. js
Red bugs or crabs recall
I can speak first hand on the bitting bugs, when camping we thought it would work good for bedding, Big mistake, had to take bleach baths for days to get rid of them
The first use of the phrase,
"It's not a bug, it's a feature "
"And Fords tradition of being cheap to the point it causes problems continues to this day!"
And now the soy in the wiring is a delicacy for rodents.
Ford and their "Better Ideas"😮😂😂😂😂
Air plant?
Im gonna be completely honest im just now learning that chiggers are those little red spiders i remember squashing as a kid
Dudley Do-Right
Lmaoo you got me to sub with your hilarious and new to me content. I listen to youtube 24 hours a day as background noise for my anxiety. Most creators reuse the same facts from 1 to another. I love that you're out here finding your own facts. I also love that you were able to make me laugh with just a short clip. ❤❤
Without government intervention
That's our word
The whistling of your S's are like nails on a chalkboard.
FYI... even when the chit is in the trees it can have chiggers in it
Ford doesn't always have better ideas.
And now Ford just about recalls everything
No seeums. Cannot see them, but they can bite you.
You can see them. They're just very hard to spot.
After I watch this video every dog within 400 miles was at my house barking😢
Chiggers are interesting not just cause it feels dangerous to say the name but until I was a late teen I had never met another person who I knew could see them since at least the ones I was finding were so small. One day I mentioned them to my older brother and he was like "WAIT YOU SEE THEM TOO?", apparently he had given up some time prior.
Love it!
First recall is a Ford no surprise there
...the biggest mistake Ford can make is when they try to be like GM...(features no one needs)
I don't think it has to be on the ground to have chiggers
Please adjust your microphone so we don’t hear it peak and your voice whistling
That's pretty cool
Well Ford is keeping up the recalls and even having many more. 🤣
Ford actually took responsibility for something…?
Old mans beard.
I've heard the word chiggers before but just thought it was some slang term. Well, slap me silly and call me Harry, it's an insect after all.😂
They SUUUUUCK too!!!
I have a feeling this is where bed bugs came from 🤢 so it was probably a chiggers and a flea that fell in love one day an old mattress with a dog on it (just my opinion) 😅
Old mans beard (Tillandsia usneoides)
You better be good or Pere Malfait will get you!
Bed bugs for cars...so sad😢
IT IS NOT REAL SURPRISING THAT FORD HAD THE FIRST CAR RECALL❤
Well yeah. First car company first car recall. Though to be fair the recall was a good will gesture. He totally could have just been an ass and not address the issue. It was still the era of Buyer beware.
@@martymcfly8535first car company? Carl Benz made the first car in 1886 and Australias general motors division; Holden was a saddlery founded in 1856, but the first automobile company was probably panhard founded in 1889. Ford is by far NOT the first automobile company
@@user-ik4in3pq2f1st American car company. keep up.
@@daltongarrett7117 he said 1st car company. Never mentioned America in his comment
Of course it was ford.
Later leaded gas in cars nearly cleaned out the south of Spanish moss. Once leaded gas was banned, it made a comeback.
I don't know Henry Ford has the stupid ideas and bugs in your seat or one of them
I’m sorry off topic here but I love your “s” pronunciation 🤔
They're also a home for chiggers, don't just grab some off of trees unless you want a bunch of tiny red bugs all over you.
I think they were restuffed with horse hair
Lara croft..😂
Wow wicked awesome 😂
Okay
So they put arsenic in it😂 (nicotine also works but yeah)
Or in the South...no seems.🤪
I did not.
Neither spanish nor hamas.....
😂 ok 👌
That's disgusting stop it 😂😂😂🎉
Y r things named inaccurately wth
Just proves Fords were junk from the beginning 🤣
Why did you exaggerate the "Ch" sound in chiggers so much?😂😂
What that's not cool 😂
What's with the acoustics? Did you record your voice over in the bathroom? Fix this silly mistake next video. You are hot enough to get a golden play button AND this content was interesting.
You managed to provide good feedback while being a total condescending prick at the same time. Congratulations. 🎉
Go outside for once in your life
The first car ever from Daimler didn’t have a recall. German quality😁
It also makes good fire starter
100 years and they still can't get it right 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣