I like to imagine a burglar going to the lockpickinglawyer's house. He finds a safe hidden somewhere in the home then picks the lock only to find a bunch of locks inside.
@Siedler Joe Vaulter: "OK John, how do we fix the water chip?" Me: "Well, you see there was this thing called VSauce and ..." From behind everybody: "MICHAEL HERE!!! " From the vents: "Water chips are fixable." From the water chip: "Or are they?"
Oh but it does work, just not on expensive thick shackles, a smaller cheaper padlock won't stand a chance, and yes, I've done it on several locks myself.
Using and applying knowledge you already know can do several things for you: 1. It will eliminate that method as an option to achieve your end result. Most of the time you don't know what will and won't work, especially as every *similar* situation is just that. Similar. It's not 100% the same 2. It can help you realise what could work instead. Either by trying a new method or using one that you know could also work, which links back to point 1. Of eliminating the methods 3.It allows you to learn for the future. Similarity comes on a scale. You can have A and B. They can share 1 thing in common or 5 things. So if they share 5 things and method 1 works on A to achieve the end result. Use method 1 on B because it has a higher chance of working than something which failed on A.
If you're using a wrench or any tool and putting most of your strength into it, (or many repeated times, like a shovel) without gloves, you're asking for blood or blisters, or at least painful bruising. This is really just basic tool experience. New people get lazy about the gloves, those with experience learn to protect their hands. (Yes, usually _after_ the blood, blisters and bruises, lol)
I think the gloves are to reduce harm from pinching. When he's squeezing the wrenches together, if it suddenly gave and pinched the meat of his hand, that could cause injury.
Most home intruders actually don't care about making noise just like there isn't any point for them to _hide_ that an intrusion has occurred after they ransacked the master bedroom. Noise from tools is expected in residential areas. Every day someone is mowing the lawn, working on their car, or repairing their home. Most people I know like to keep their garage or workshop open while working, even at night. Which most career burglars make a point to break in while you are away rather than sleeping. The best defense to protecting your home is being close to your neighbors so that they make an attempt to contact you if they see suspicious activity.
"Robot arm!?" Are adjustable wrenches illegal in some places? Here, it's prolly hard to find some one who's unfamiliar with those. If that looks big, there are even bigger ones called "monkey wrenches" which can dwarf hatchets, but to be fair it's likely that a lot of people with internet access can go their whole lives without needing to use a monkey wrench.
I’ve been watching your videos religiously for the last couple years, and although I don’t have any intention of becoming a locksmith in the future, the knowledge gained from this video actually did help me. At work, the lock on someone’s toolbox became seized up and unable to move anymore. Although the lock was a cheaper one, the shackle was nothing to sneeze at. Of course I saw somebody try using the original double wrench method, with little to no effect. ahowever due to the fact that I had watched this video, and remembered the knowledge gained from this video, I was able to open it within a matter of seconds. Now, I’m not exactly what you would call strong, but what took someone like myself mere seconds to complete with the new method, Couldn’t even be completed by somebody with far greater strength than I with the old method. It’s for reasons like this that I continue to watch your videos. Keep up the great content and great work.
Just discovered your channel, so kind of late to the game. That being said, neither of these methods are what we used in the Army when we lost keys. We would put the wrench size that fits on the bottom of the lock, and then the largest wrench you could fit in the shackle. Both wrenches would be side by side and squeeze them together. The force broke the shackle rather than pull it out of the body. Worked like a charm on the American 5200 series we used. Excellent content by the way
Since I’ve found this channel I’ve bought and made sets of lock picks, practices with security pins on a bunch of different kinds of lock, got padlock shims, learned destructive entry methods and now finally... It’s primetime for crime time.
5:45 "we as consumers of security products" Uhhh yeaah, that's definitely me, totally not just watching this for entertainment and have no knowledge of security equipment
Wtf is security equipm-?!... yyyyeaaa totally eat that stuff up. Had a sale at the security store a few weeks ago, I was in heaven... got me a couple blue ones
@@chucklebutt4470 but the green ones are like $0.37 cents more, I feel much more secure knowing they can be replaced easily... its not like anyone has access to these "wrenches" or whatever they are anyway.
Harbor Freight/Pittsburgh. They're very shiny but the metal is somewhat soft and they'll break. The Pittsburgh Pro line Made in Taiwan is better quality.
I've used the "new" method for years. Amazing what a pair of 1 inch wrenches can accomplish when someone loses their keys. The laminated lock didn't surprise me, it's the most common one I usually bust open.
dude those are nothing. could easily buy inch and a half and below from home depot, biggest he had was 1inch. i use much much bigger at work way too often
@@JohnnyBurns my dad has a 2 inch (I think it's 2 in) and it's big af. Ever since I found it, all I've thought about was how great it would be in a zombie apocalypse 😂😂
Just use a larger, non thin line wrench. Note that I have used both methods on similar locks (people loose or forget keys on construction sites). With a large enough (long enough) wrench either method works. I've had hardened shackles snap (rather than bend) with enough leverage. Instead of wrenches pinch bars work well also. This isn't since I'm unusually strong but because I learned decades ago that old Greek guy was pretty smart and definitely my friend.
@Russell Chapman One takeaway for people who want to try this, on most locks you'll see around, if you are able to rest the lock on a solid platform, one wrench will work; Simply lay the lock on it's side, place the wrench in and stomp down on one end, it'll rip the shackle up and to the side. Oh and smaller locks, say for bags, lockers etc, anything like that, using a small wrench, pliers, metal rod etc, and simply placing it through and squeezing it and the lock body together will achieve the same thing. For legal reasons this is a joke, and I certainly have never done this.
I learned a rule similar to that but it's not as inspirational; with enough force something will always give. If you give me a square peg to put in a round hole, I'll be getting a larger hammer. When in doubt, brute force will figure it out
Was your teacher related to Archimedes (the old-time Greek math guy)? He said something to the effect: "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
It is very important to share this kind of information to help everybody understand how locks can be attacked and what you can do against these approaches. If you watch until the end he gives a really good advice: Pick the right lock for the right purpose. When you have the right padlock it ideally fits tight and flat so that it can't be moved around, nothing fits between anything and you have to approach the keyhole in an uncomfortable way. The less of the lock is exposed the better.
i like the part where he just yeets the keys to the SECURITY lock off to the side like "well these are going to be totally useless here in about 10 seconds"
Im a machinist by trade, but Hardening steel does add cost to manufacturing, not directly because of having to harden the materials, but because most companies that are working on stream lining their production rely on speed and efficiency to make a bonus from their customer, taking the time to switch the machines over to CRS, changing tools, changing DoC and some of the speeds and feeds, it would take a lot more money to do that than to just produce the same material the machines are setup to. And on the topic of the machines hardening the material, that is false, you would have to running the machine above the recommended speed of the material dependent on the tooling, which would then make the finish come out burred or even out of flush, to add on top of that the material around the effected area machined would be brittle and easy to chipping and cracking.
It would still shatter. Upgrade pawls to the point they are not the failure point and the lamination would give out. Upgrade lamination and the (hard but brittle) shackle would snap.
@@MoraFermi I think something like S2 or S7 tool steel would survive all the abuse you could dish out. These are hard but extremely tough steels, high quality Allen wrenches are often made from S2. They certainly would fair in compression like the brass did in this application. (another machinist)
To be fair he only had to use 3 wrenches at a time during that one point because he didn't have a big (and also small) enough wrench to fit and he only used that adjusting wrench that one time because it didn't just break off like the other lock
When i was in the navy, we opened master lock combo padlocks with the original two wrench method. occasionally someone would leave the ship and not take their lock, or forget a combination, or whatever. bolt cutters were a controlled item, so we would grab a couple wrenches and go at it. usually took a few tries to find the right size, but we always managed to break a lock by spreading the shackle apart enough that the locking lug broke or was yanked out. that said, i wish someone had thought of this, those locks were cheap and probably would have been much easier with this method.
Honestly, at this point I am watching LPL to research which lock I should use for which situation, given the general skill and time to steal something in my neighborhood. And it hasn't let me down. Literally whenever LPL needs a minute or two, chances are no one will be able to break or pick it before it's noticed over here.
Pretty sure he didn't want to ruin the progress he made; if he finished breaking the lock with the original method, then you possibly wouldn't be able to tell what originally allowed it to open.
@@straightwhiteman755 , sure you would. You could see that it was open, but in need of some extra bending, and the original method is great for just that.
You should listen to one of Deviant Ollam's talks. He gives a very good explanation why physical security matters. Basically if you can pick open the server room and start playing with cables you can do a lot of things with very basic hacking skills.
More like match the security and cost of the lock to the application. I have a garden shed that due to settling, needs a long shackle in order to pass through what it needs to in order to effectively lock the door. It's a shed though, there are old gardening tools, some sprinkler repair parts, and weedkiller in there. The most expensive thing in the whole shed is the toolbox, and even it was a yardsale find. I lock the shed to keep the weather from forcing the door open and to keep curious kids out more than to protect the contents. I have pinned the lock to resist picking by novices to defeat kids watching youtube videos on picking locks, but I have no doubt that a professional locksmith or a skilled enthusiast could pick their way in. And this doesn't bother me because for what's inside it doesn't matter.
I once got locked out of my garage and the builder, who was doing some work on my house, was able to open the padlock by a downward blow, on the top surface, by a cold chisel, hit with a heavy mallet. It was a mid range padlock similar to the second one you demonstrated. I was surprised that the hasp and staple didn't break first. It was screwed into the wooden door and the wood wasn't particularly thick.
hardened steel is very easy to machine and manufacture, since it starts off as regular steel, is machined and manufactured, then heat treated after. it adds to the cost, yes, but people who don't really care about securing things will keep buying master locks either way, so...
The problem isn't with the materials, it's with the geometry. Wrenches are incredibly effective at transmitting massive forces as that is their sole reason for existing.
Oh dear, padlock makers of the world - cry in your beer! "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Archimedes.
Archimedes was using metaphor: www.dictionary.com/browse/metaphor Whilst the Ancient Greeks got some stuff wrong, they did quite well on astronomy: www.ancient.eu/Greek_Astronomy/
@@RealHankShill It's not bullshit at all, it's an accurate explanation of physics. The point is there's no limit to the amount of mass that a human can shift, provided you have enough leverage. In a hypothetical environment where a mass the size of the Earth was placed on a flat ground plane long enough to accommodate a lever with enough leverage to shift it, then the strength of a human would be enough to move it. Not very much of course, but some distance nonetheless. The lever, the fulcrum, and the Earth sized mass would all need to be positioned with absolute precision - a level of precision of placement which would defy conventional means of setting up an experiment like that (not that an experiment like that could ever be called conventional, but you just can't expect to achieve 0.000000(etc)1% precision of placement on objects of that size), the lever itself would have the mass of a planet, and all three would need to be formed of a material more durable than anything that exists in reality, but if all those preconditions were in place, you could move that lever with your hands alone, and the Earth would move. Another version of the experiment with more realistic materials (that actually exist) and more realistic precision of placement (that could actually be achieved) could succeed with the help of a large system of gears at the point of the lever that would be moved, and that's just another demonstration of the same principle, so it's true enough to the spirit of the claim.
thats why me a 13-year-old teen is learning how to pick locks and I'm great at it I always pick my way into my house and this skill will be helpful in SHTF i always thought it was hard until I watched one of his vids than a 2nd 3rd... so I bought a lockpicking training kit from amazon and hear I'm a good not pro lockpicker
@AlI Yo You're one of the smart young ones. Better to prepare and not need it than to need it and not be prepared. As the great philosopher Spiderman said though "With great power, comes great responsibility."
@@ArmoredCricket @ArmoredCricket in Islam we have 2 celebrations in each celebration i get a minimum of 70$ and a max of 150$ i got 200 this year and spent it all on training to pick locks carrieng a pen spy cam with me all time if i go on a holiday i check the hotel with my hidden cam detector i test it it works and rigged my home with hidden recorders
Ive been watching LPL 2weeks and already managed to pick open 2 padlocks, other is like the one here saying "hardened". Going to practise more. Thanks for videos and a new hobby. And yes, everything is about being legal.
There is a type of lock that is disc shaped with a half moon shaped hole to put the chain links in. The bar retracts completely from the half shaped moon by rotating together with the key. The bar is slightly more than a third of an inch and makes it so that even if you try a double wrench, it will always make you use the old method, breaking the lock where it's strong. On top of that, because it's circular, it spreads the stress over a larger area. On top of that, there will not be enough room to put 2 wrenches in anyway xD
This video was made in answer to all the complainers in the comments section of the original video saying this method won't work in the real world due to chain links (or some other such interference), being in the way.
I believe it's also to show that it would work against more than a masterlock. So many comments were about this method only being able to work on shitty masterlocks.
@@thedunceguy8530 via Quorra: "I saw some You Tube videos from the Lock Picking Lawyer, he successfully picks both Mul-T-Lok and Medeco locks. He does it quite quickly, and it’s very impressive. However, the higher security versions of the Mul-T-Lock and Medeco, are actually not picked by the LPL. He picks the lower security version, and locks that were put on the market over twenty years ago. These locks have undergone substantial improvements since they were first introduced……twenty years ago ago."
Dude I feel like I could just use your videos as a study guide to get hired at any locksmith. Literally just watch your videos for fun and could re-watch them from #1
Single wrench method also works great, large adjustable placed on lock body, twist. As long as the material the lock is attached to can withstand the twist, the lock will break. This is how we used to get into our tanks if we lost the keys. Yep. Our tanks are locked with padlocks.
The Navy uses brass locks for everything,I have broken a huge amount of locks in the Navy this way for people that have lost keys or left them at home.
Could be heat as well, as during hot weather, steel will expand and contract when cooled, and this may actually lead to it seizing inside the lock. Maybe.
Thank you for this, I was in a pinch. I needed my boots out of my locker and my combo lock wouldn’t open. This has it open less than 30 seconds. You’re a lifesaver bud. ❤
Wrenches are specifically made to leverage huge forces to the fasteners they are used on. It is no surprise that a tool which is so optimized that it has undergone almost no change in a century is able to overpower locks. He is correct - choose your locks wisely. The simpler tool will always be stronger than the more complicated device so be sure it cannot be used in an efficient manner on your lock.
Ok this is wrong in some ways. Its still a matter of material strength. In the original video, the lock failed because the person could leverage the strength of the wrench against the strength of the shackle and those combined leveraged against the lesser strength of the pot metal body of the lock he was using. This time that leverage attack didnt work, because he was not able to use his strength through the wrenches agaisnt the shackle to break the much stronger steel body of the padlock. Instead he attacked inside of the lock by puttinf leverage on the locking mechanism itself which is a softer weaker metal than the steel. Try this on a seargant and greeleaf environmental lock and see if you can do it. Thats a much more complicated device than a wrench. Comparable in concept to these locks but made of material thats similar or greater than the wrenches and it would likely not fail unless you were using a powered leverage device ot really long wrenches. Bofa dees locks can likely be opened with just a hammer striking firmly downward on the body under the shackle while its held in a hasp. The laminate lock can likely be lightly rapped open with opposing strikes from two hammers the same time. The round body lock could almost certainly be pounded open with a sledge with a small number of blows. The environmental would likely not open easily to pounding and not at all to rapping. It really boils down to material strength.
@@metamorphicorder if it's a matter of material strength, ok. The lock is high quality, usually ppl do not think of the hasp, this same method can be used to defeat it as well. Also to defeat the screws holding the hasp to the door, or to rip the screws from the door itself, and in my experience the person who installed the hasp, used the completely wrong fastener.(like the wood screws included in the package. Into a metal door). Anyways I think this is a very viable method for almost any situation, and I think that's the point LPL is trying to make... if, you put the leverage in the right spot.
As a chic who can’t find keys to locks on trailer with husband & sons motorcycles in it (I think I locked them inside ooops) this is only channel where solution seemed possible. Wish me luck !!!
We left the key to our jetski trailer at home, so we just busted off the padlock with an adjustable wrench and a 3/4 wrench. My dad didn't think it would work, but guess who was right. Thanks LPL.
I use to own a padlock-busting tool that used this same method to open locks. It used two 3/16 harden steal gear plates with two three-foot-long arms that allowed me to adjust it to all shackle sizes. It worked great on Harden steel high-security locks. Especially the ones that were so hard most bolt cutters would not work on them. Because the extra hard steel shackles were so brittle they broke in the padlocks by the locking notches. Today I can't find this popping tool on the internet. It use to be a common Locksmithing tool 15 years ago. If you can find it please let me know.
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I like to imagine a burglar going to the lockpickinglawyer's house. He finds a safe hidden somewhere in the home then picks the lock only to find a bunch of locks inside.
😂... that’s actually not far off.
@@lockpickinglawyer a safe within a safe containing locks?
+LockPickingLawyer can a shutter lock be opened by force
hahaha fk yeah bro
@@dempsey9554 Anything can be opened by force if you use enough
I feel like the algorithm is slowly turning me into a library of random information.
start a private window, seed the tube with something specific by watching videos about it.
Starts the story whith
HAY VCAUSE MICHEAL HERE
Or are we?????
You see.....
a sextula is the sixth part of an uncia, the seventy-second part of an as
My dad used to call it his
Vast knowledge of useless shit
@Siedler Joe Vaulter: "OK John, how do we fix the water chip?"
Me: "Well, you see there was this thing called VSauce and ..."
From behind everybody: "MICHAEL HERE!!! "
From the vents: "Water chips are fixable."
From the water chip: "Or are they?"
I like that he knows that the old method won't work but he's still clearly giving it his best shot.
I do too. The scientific method.
Oh but it does work, just not on expensive thick shackles, a smaller cheaper padlock won't stand a chance, and yes, I've done it on several locks myself.
@@KoVurt yes, which was the point of both the original video and this one
Thomas The Offroad Train shit went from 100 to 10000 real quick
Using and applying knowledge you already know can do several things for you:
1. It will eliminate that method as an option to achieve your end result. Most of the time you don't know what will and won't work, especially as every *similar* situation is just that. Similar. It's not 100% the same
2. It can help you realise what could work instead. Either by trying a new method or using one that you know could also work, which links back to point 1. Of eliminating the methods
3.It allows you to learn for the future.
Similarity comes on a scale. You can have A and B. They can share 1 thing in common or 5 things. So if they share 5 things and method 1 works on A to achieve the end result. Use method 1 on B because it has a higher chance of working than something which failed on A.
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ”
― Archimedes
shut up history teacher
@@stickmanunited4061 shut up dropout
@@ekothesilent9456 You didn't have to do him like that
@@MrThunk but he did get do’d like that
@@ekothesilent9456 Gotta give as good as you get brother, well played
I'm surprised. The only thing i've ever managed to break using Pittsburgh wrenches is a Pittsburgh wrench.
To be fair, rather the wrench fails than the bolt.
It's to keep the wrong people from using them. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
i used to work for the company that makes those and omfg everything they make sucks ass
Nothing wrong with harbor freight tools for the average dude. Use them for their intended purpose and they perform just fine.
@@probegt75false, i have broken multiple tools through normal use, hft tools are very low quality compared to other brands
Let me get a S L I G H T L Y larger wrench
An adjustable Wrench or a Crescent Wrench works every time Brother.
Lmao
say that wouldn't work
I read this before finishing the video and waited for what I assumed was a line in the video. Made it so much funnier.
*pulls out a freaking mastodon of a wrench*
I know what he's doing, he's creating potential robbers so he can have potential clients. Now it makes sense
@Makailann Goodall he's an actual lawyer so he might get clients from the robberies
Big brain
Business is booming baby!
free market
Stonks
This dude is so aware of leaving any evidence that he even wears gloves to pick his own locks!
Probably just to reduce roughing up his hands from the force applied, or adding some friction.
If you're using a wrench or any tool and putting most of your strength into it, (or many repeated times, like a shovel) without gloves, you're asking for blood or blisters, or at least painful bruising. This is really just basic tool experience. New people get lazy about the gloves, those with experience learn to protect their hands. (Yes, usually _after_ the blood, blisters and bruises, lol)
I think the gloves are to reduce harm from pinching. When he's squeezing the wrenches together, if it suddenly gave and pinched the meat of his hand, that could cause injury.
@@iamdave84Exactly. You're using all the strength you have to smash your knuckles together!
Like he said, he likes to use rubber for his own protection.
Everything's so shiny and clean. This isn't like trying to break into my neighbours shed at all
You don't have to worry about making noise either.
Lol
My immersion is broken
Most home intruders actually don't care about making noise just like there isn't any point for them to _hide_ that an intrusion has occurred after they ransacked the master bedroom. Noise from tools is expected in residential areas. Every day someone is mowing the lawn, working on their car, or repairing their home. Most people I know like to keep their garage or workshop open while working, even at night. Which most career burglars make a point to break in while you are away rather than sleeping. The best defense to protecting your home is being close to your neighbors so that they make an attempt to contact you if they see suspicious activity.
Braedon Olsen well I see the home intruder.
2:35 "I'm not getting any flex at all" Bro you flexed on us the whole video
i sweep your profile pic
@@rezandi7553 **laughs in dark mode**
LMFAOOOOO😂😂😂
How true can this comment be 😂😂😂
The third double wrench method involves wrenches turning the valves on an oxy-acetylene torch
Me after watching a few LPL videos: Why even bother locking anything.
Because most thieves are lazy and/or stupid and don't put in the work to learn the proper methods.
Locks only help honest people stay honest...
@@XV250 original excuse, try harder.
Well, you don't need an unbreakable lock. You just need a lock that's tougher then your neighbor's one.
the note next door to me when I was younger said "Nothing in here is worth your life" and no he never locked his door, and no one ever broke in lol
Police: "why are you carrying around a bunch of different sized wrenches"
Me: no reason
I'm a mechanic...
@@afriendofafriend5766 let me see you license.
I mean, wrenches do often come in sets of several sizes.
@@DzinkyDzink apprentice
@@ingram10 Now may I see your ID, officer?
Officer: I'm an apprentice too
"A slightly larger wrench" brings out a robot arm
Yeah, that thing looked like it could just crush the whole lock! lol
"Robot arm!?" Are adjustable wrenches illegal in some places? Here, it's prolly hard to find some one who's unfamiliar with those. If that looks big, there are even bigger ones called "monkey wrenches" which can dwarf hatchets, but to be fair it's likely that a lot of people with internet access can go their whole lives without needing to use a monkey wrench.
@@rainbowsprinkles4234
Nicolas Cage: "You don't say?"
uhhh that's a normal wrench
Bwahaha i came to the comments to poke fun at that part of the clip and you beat me to it lol
4:20
LPL:"let me get a slightly larger wrench"
Lock:"Why do i hear boss music?"
I’ve been watching your videos religiously for the last couple years, and although I don’t have any intention of becoming a locksmith in the future, the knowledge gained from this video actually did help me. At work, the lock on someone’s toolbox became seized up and unable to move anymore. Although the lock was a cheaper one, the shackle was nothing to sneeze at. Of course I saw somebody try using the original double wrench method, with little to no effect. ahowever due to the fact that I had watched this video, and remembered the knowledge gained from this video, I was able to open it within a matter of seconds. Now, I’m not exactly what you would call strong, but what took someone like myself mere seconds to complete with the new method, Couldn’t even be completed by somebody with far greater strength than I with the old method. It’s for reasons like this that I continue to watch your videos. Keep up the great content and great work.
REAL double wrench method: Use 3 wrenches.
"Slightly bigger" produces a monster.
He actually uses 4 wrenches.
Then it would be a Triple Wrench Method.
But then what's the *REAL* Triple Wrench Method?
He could have used the chain links as shim.
"This is the lockpicking lawyer, and today things are about to get personal."
*Busts out mega wrench*
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Never count out the B.F.W
He stole Ratchet's OmniWrench!
“Locks stop worries, not burglars”
-CGP GREY
Locks stop people with no arms
@@mewmew8932Which is why we have the second amendment 😎
Yes, that was a pun
@@mewmew8932False. A creeper still blew up my house in Minecraft
does minecraft have locks?@@meowis526
"Let me get a slightly larger wrench..."
_grabs a fricking leviathan crescent wrench_
We call them "shifters"
All those people in video 753 saying "there's no room for a chain so it won't work"... How wrong they were
LPL: "Im having a tough time with this one, but i got it"
Lock maker: Stock prices soar
Business is boomin’
PLUNGE
Just discovered your channel, so kind of late to the game. That being said, neither of these methods are what we used in the Army when we lost keys. We would put the wrench size that fits on the bottom of the lock, and then the largest wrench you could fit in the shackle. Both wrenches would be side by side and squeeze them together. The force broke the shackle rather than pull it out of the body. Worked like a charm on the American 5200 series we used. Excellent content by the way
Since I’ve found this channel I’ve bought and made sets of lock picks, practices with security pins on a bunch of different kinds of lock, got padlock shims, learned destructive entry methods and now finally...
It’s primetime for crime time.
5:45 "we as consumers of security products" Uhhh yeaah, that's definitely me, totally not just watching this for entertainment and have no knowledge of security equipment
Wtf is security equipm-?!... yyyyeaaa totally eat that stuff up. Had a sale at the security store a few weeks ago, I was in heaven... got me a couple blue ones
@@Fetidaf dude the blue ones can be opened using two wrenches. you want the greens.
@@chucklebutt4470 but the green ones are like $0.37 cents more, I feel much more secure knowing they can be replaced easily... its not like anyone has access to these "wrenches" or whatever they are anyway.
I think calling LPL a "consumer" of security products to be rather understated.
true, I thought it was kind of funny to word it like that though
that is the shiniest wrench I've ever seen
Harbor Freight!
Because they don't get used and abused.
Harbor Freight/Pittsburgh. They're very shiny but the metal is somewhat soft and they'll break. The Pittsburgh Pro line Made in Taiwan is better quality.
Use black colored wrenches you dont want to get spotted
He's a lawyer! Keeps his hands clean!
“We’ll start with this laminated steel padlock” unlocks then throws away the key.
God damn you’re confident in your ability to open that back up.
This "security" branded padlock looks like a lock where keys would only slow him down anyway xD
I've used the "new" method for years. Amazing what a pair of 1 inch wrenches can accomplish when someone loses their keys.
The laminated lock didn't surprise me, it's the most common one I usually bust open.
@@guldcat1619 it was usually Officers asking for a lock to be busted. Just not Police Officers 😂
get a slightly larger wrench...
*Pulls out a wrench almost as big as his hand*
dude those are nothing. could easily buy inch and a half and below from home depot, biggest he had was 1inch. i use much much bigger at work way too often
I have 2 inch ones they would be great in a zombie apocalypse
@@JohnnyBurns my dad has a 2 inch (I think it's 2 in) and it's big af. Ever since I found it, all I've thought about was how great it would be in a zombie apocalypse 😂😂
@@aaronray9295 without context that could be bad
Went to an estate sale and there were HUGE truck wrenches as in a long as your elbow to forearm.
The REAL double wrench method...beat the guy that has the key with 2 wrenchs.
𝔻 𝕌 𝔸 𝕃 𝕎 𝕀 𝔼 𝕃 𝔻 𝕀 ℕ 𝔾
@@Hextator lmao
Rageful problems require Rageful solutions.
Is that plan c?
Hextator TWO HANDED 100
just a thought, instead of using multiple wrenches stacked on top of each other just rest one wrench on top of the chain link to shim it up.
Just use a larger, non thin line wrench.
Note that I have used both methods on similar locks (people loose or forget keys on construction sites). With a large enough (long enough) wrench either method works. I've had hardened shackles snap (rather than bend) with enough leverage. Instead of wrenches pinch bars work well also.
This isn't since I'm unusually strong but because I learned decades ago that old Greek guy was pretty smart and definitely my friend.
I was thinking the same thing the whole time!!!
@Russell Chapman One takeaway for people who want to try this, on most locks you'll see around, if you are able to rest the lock on a solid platform, one wrench will work;
Simply lay the lock on it's side, place the wrench in and stomp down on one end, it'll rip the shackle up and to the side.
Oh and smaller locks, say for bags, lockers etc, anything like that, using a small wrench, pliers, metal rod etc, and simply placing it through and squeezing it and the lock body together will achieve the same thing.
For legal reasons this is a joke, and I certainly have never done this.
Finally!! Someone who shows how to do this when the lock is actually locking something. Thank you!
My Dad told me when he was a kid , His teacher told him "With a big enough lever , You can move the world" . I agree.
I learned a rule similar to that but it's not as inspirational; with enough force something will always give. If you give me a square peg to put in a round hole, I'll be getting a larger hammer. When in doubt, brute force will figure it out
Your dad told you that when he was a kid?
That's very impressive.
Was your teacher related to Archimedes (the old-time Greek math guy)? He said something to the effect: "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
My friend's dad told me that with enough force you can break your finger off in your own ass... he still had 10 fingers so I'm calling metaphor
My father tried to twist my ears off my head. repeatedly.
That wrench is brighter than my future.
Naw, bro, you have a future... Just gotta look harder! :)
sawed off He was joking using sarcasm dude
@@manuel14ism let him be wholesome ;(
Every wrench is brighter than your and my future.
- said the moon
The way he tosses the key with such conviction and abandon. Confidence.
It is very important to share this kind of information to help everybody understand how locks can be attacked and what you can do against these approaches. If you watch until the end he gives a really good advice: Pick the right lock for the right purpose. When you have the right padlock it ideally fits tight and flat so that it can't be moved around, nothing fits between anything and you have to approach the keyhole in an uncomfortable way. The less of the lock is exposed the better.
Can’t beat the laws of physics
Mechanical advantage is one of the most powerful tools we have in the world
“Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I can move the world.”
@@glytchmeister9856 always wondered where he was going to put the fulcrum.
Besides the mind 🧠.
@@MattJasa Still working on my Telekenesis.
@@datsuntoyy Well you can't fail if you don't give up.
Me: I need to sleep more
Me at 4am: why am I watching this? I have no reason to know how to force open a lock
Yet.
This is definitely useful information for me! If I somehow lose the keys to my locks I'll know how open them.
SaMe
Same but it's 5am
Maybe you are going to need a new ... something one day?
Imagine someone trying to break into your house and you hear “Hello guys and this is the Lock Picking Lawyer…
Then you just hear “1 is binding…”
LPL: Let me get a *slightly* larger wrench
*Slightly* Larger Wrench:
LPL is probably just a huge anthropomorphic wrench with two hands
Thank you for teaching me this. Now I have 5 new bikes. +1 sub.
And a two star warrant **
and lost half a brain
What kind of person puts a padlock on a sandwich?
Ohhhh so that's where my Dora the explorer bike went...
@@saudicomedyhomevideosksa8504 ur name is awesome
i like the part where he just yeets the keys to the SECURITY lock off to the side like "well these are going to be totally useless here in about 10 seconds"
those wrenches are shining brighter than my future
I love how he throws the key to the first lock. He knew it would not be needed ever again
How to confuse a criminal, get a master lock then switch all the parts out for hardened steel.
Im a machinist by trade, but Hardening steel does add cost to manufacturing, not directly because of having to harden the materials, but because most companies that are working on stream lining their production rely on speed and efficiency to make a bonus from their customer, taking the time to switch the machines over to CRS, changing tools, changing DoC and some of the speeds and feeds, it would take a lot more money to do that than to just produce the same material the machines are setup to. And on the topic of the machines hardening the material, that is false, you would have to running the machine above the recommended speed of the material dependent on the tooling, which would then make the finish come out burred or even out of flush, to add on top of that the material around the effected area machined would be brittle and easy to chipping and cracking.
It would still shatter. Upgrade pawls to the point they are not the failure point and the lamination would give out. Upgrade lamination and the (hard but brittle) shackle would snap.
@@MoraFermi I think something like S2 or S7 tool steel would survive all the abuse you could dish out. These are hard but extremely tough steels, high quality Allen wrenches are often made from S2. They certainly would fair in compression like the brass did in this application.
(another machinist)
@@drrrrockzo why all these ideas when you just use a Ramset then bada bing bada boom the locky no lockoh
wow guys, I was just joking that ppl must expect master locks to open by coughing loudly
The REAL Double wrench Method
*Proceeds to use 4 wrenches*
IKR! 😂
yeah he used double the wrenchs of the other method
To be fair he only had to use 3 wrenches at a time during that one point because he didn't have a big (and also small) enough wrench to fit and he only used that adjusting wrench that one time because it didn't just break off like the other lock
Double² wrench
its the double double wrench method
or the double suqared wrench method
I'm a locksmith
"Oh?"
Mhm
"Why do you have 80 wrenches...?"
:)
To show thieves how simple it is and at the same time letting us know no locks are secured.
People who have spent years doing that hand exercise squeeze thing will be experts at this
All my wrenches are still locked in my toolbox and idk what to do...
*IT'S BEEN A WEEK HELP*
Have you tried turning your toolbox off and then back on again?
Go and buy some bolt cutters
If it's one of those plastic toolboxes just break the part where the lock is with your hands it's normally pretty easy
John sheppard if it's a lock that came with the toolbox look for numbers and start googling. Mine was Chicago lock company.
1:turn it on and off. 2ask it nicely 3: if all else fails rape it and throw it really hard against a wall
When i was in the navy, we opened master lock combo padlocks with the original two wrench method. occasionally someone would leave the ship and not take their lock, or forget a combination, or whatever. bolt cutters were a controlled item, so we would grab a couple wrenches and go at it. usually took a few tries to find the right size, but we always managed to break a lock by spreading the shackle apart enough that the locking lug broke or was yanked out.
that said, i wish someone had thought of this, those locks were cheap and probably would have been much easier with this method.
If it was one of the cheap af airport locks nothing worked better then a Marlin Spike and a little oomf
combo locks are easy, just run through the combinations. shouldn't take more than 10 minuets. failing that a good lump hammer works well
While a key works best, I find much satisfaction in using a large caliber, high velocity rifle to "open" locks..
Small world! First time I ever saw someone use two wrenches to bust a padlock was also in the Navy.
I was in the Army and in basic the drill sergeant just grabbed a hammer and knocked it down (sudden pressure vs sustained pressure).
The solid steel lock has such a satisfying sound when you open it with the key.
Honestly, at this point I am watching LPL to research which lock I should use for which situation, given the general skill and time to steal something in my neighborhood. And it hasn't let me down. Literally whenever LPL needs a minute or two, chances are no one will be able to break or pick it before it's noticed over here.
Today’s security lesson: This man can rob you no matter what you use
Facts. You're better off welding the door shut and forgetting about whatever you put in there
@@biggusriggus7693 at that point you are either hiding government secrets or you are better off not buying whatever is in there anyways
He's a lawyer. He doesn't need any other method.
Dogs are another good layer of security. I haven't seen LPL take them on, but it wouldn't surprise me if he has.
not if you hide things well
Didn't need the adjustable wrench after shackle rise, only needed to go back to sideways method.
Pretty sure he didn't want to ruin the progress he made; if he finished breaking the lock with the original method, then you possibly wouldn't be able to tell what originally allowed it to open.
@@straightwhiteman755 , sure you would. You could see that it was open, but in need of some extra bending, and the original method is great for just that.
"lets get a slightly bigger wrench here" *pulls out a pipe wrench*
"A slightly larger wrench" LPL moves the largest crescent wrench I've ever seen into the frame
Had to wear sunglasses to watch this. So much shinny.
So shinny, so chrome
A Gaming Channel “shinny”
kek
It is now 2030 and the man has now transitioned to picking digital locks with lvl 100 hacking skills
all he needs is a wrench, or 3..
You should listen to one of Deviant Ollam's talks. He gives a very good explanation why physical security matters. Basically if you can pick open the server room and start playing with cables you can do a lot of things with very basic hacking skills.
By 2055 he'll eventually figure out he can completely ignore the lock by just using the wrench on the chain links.
Does a fingerprint lock count as digital?
@@agentghost1661 Yes, yes it does. I was about to say this. He's literally going digital now
I miss seeing "the garage" often. So many broken things
I must say I find this channel endlessly entertaining and informative and also gets five stars for great presentation.
Lesson of today : buy a lock that guards the shackle
More like match the security and cost of the lock to the application. I have a garden shed that due to settling, needs a long shackle in order to pass through what it needs to in order to effectively lock the door. It's a shed though, there are old gardening tools, some sprinkler repair parts, and weedkiller in there. The most expensive thing in the whole shed is the toolbox, and even it was a yardsale find. I lock the shed to keep the weather from forcing the door open and to keep curious kids out more than to protect the contents.
I have pinned the lock to resist picking by novices to defeat kids watching youtube videos on picking locks, but I have no doubt that a professional locksmith or a skilled enthusiast could pick their way in. And this doesn't bother me because for what's inside it doesn't matter.
LPL needs good security to protect his lock and pick collection.
The lesson I learned is take your back bike tire and rim with you after you lock your bike up
Do you mean front tire? It's a lot easier to remove.
@@GarthGoldberg they are also a lot easier and cheaper to replace. Always take the back, more hassle is more of a deterrent.
0:47 Literally locking it and throwing away the key.
I once got locked out of my garage and the builder, who was doing some work on my house, was able to open the padlock by a downward blow, on the top surface, by a cold chisel, hit with a heavy mallet. It was a mid range padlock similar to the second one you demonstrated. I was surprised that the hasp and staple didn't break first. It was screwed into the wooden door and the wood wasn't particularly thick.
“We can see this lock wasn’t up to the task”.
Well, sir, when you come across a lock that was up to the task of defeating the LPL, let me know. 🤣
Any Bowley lock
LPL's garage is built with the tears of dead padlocks.
Are you fond of the California quail?
Very simple, replace the brass parts with hardened steel.
Fantastic idea! Hardened steel is very easy to machine and manufacture so I'm sure it wouldn't add any cost
Could you try that again but in English? Thanks.
How to spot a german fella: nouns with first letter capital
hardened steel is very easy to machine and manufacture, since it starts off as regular steel, is machined and manufactured, then heat treated after. it adds to the cost, yes, but people who don't really care about securing things will keep buying master locks either way, so...
The problem isn't with the materials, it's with the geometry. Wrenches are incredibly effective at transmitting massive forces as that is their sole reason for existing.
I started watching this channel an honest citizen. Now I’m a burglar.
LPL: "Let me get a slightly larger wrench..."
Lock: "Why do I hear boss music"
I"ll settle for a slightly larger wench.
Oh dear, padlock makers of the world - cry in your beer! "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Archimedes.
That's the 2nd time I heard that saying today. Within an hour. On RUclips. I've never heard it before. 😆
That saying is bullshit. The world is already moving. Remember the whole gravity and space and orbits things?
Archimedes was using metaphor: www.dictionary.com/browse/metaphor Whilst the Ancient Greeks got some stuff wrong, they did quite well on astronomy: www.ancient.eu/Greek_Astronomy/
@@RealHankShill It's not bullshit at all, it's an accurate explanation of physics. The point is there's no limit to the amount of mass that a human can shift, provided you have enough leverage. In a hypothetical environment where a mass the size of the Earth was placed on a flat ground plane long enough to accommodate a lever with enough leverage to shift it, then the strength of a human would be enough to move it. Not very much of course, but some distance nonetheless.
The lever, the fulcrum, and the Earth sized mass would all need to be positioned with absolute precision - a level of precision of placement which would defy conventional means of setting up an experiment like that (not that an experiment like that could ever be called conventional, but you just can't expect to achieve 0.000000(etc)1% precision of placement on objects of that size), the lever itself would have the mass of a planet, and all three would need to be formed of a material more durable than anything that exists in reality, but if all those preconditions were in place, you could move that lever with your hands alone, and the Earth would move.
Another version of the experiment with more realistic materials (that actually exist) and more realistic precision of placement (that could actually be achieved) could succeed with the help of a large system of gears at the point of the lever that would be moved, and that's just another demonstration of the same principle, so it's true enough to the spirit of the claim.
@@RealHankShillIt's hypothetical.
In the middle of a quarantine.
RUclips recommendations: This will come in handy.
thats why me a 13-year-old teen is learning how to pick locks and I'm great at it I always pick my way into my house and this skill will be helpful in SHTF i always thought it was hard until I watched one of his vids than a 2nd 3rd... so I bought a lockpicking training kit from amazon and hear I'm a good not pro lockpicker
How the fuck did you write this before quarantine?
@Wilbert Wilbert I'm in Colorado man. We've been on lockdown since March.
@AlI Yo You're one of the smart young ones. Better to prepare and not need it than to need it and not be prepared. As the great philosopher Spiderman said though "With great power, comes great responsibility."
@@ArmoredCricket @ArmoredCricket in Islam we have 2 celebrations in each celebration i get a minimum of 70$ and a max of 150$ i got 200 this year and spent it all on training to pick locks carrieng a pen spy cam with me all time if i go on a holiday i check the hotel with my hidden cam detector i test it it works and rigged my home with hidden recorders
I’m more amazed by that crescent wrench being set to the perfect size
*Next Video: How to open a vault using nothing more than a little bit of rust, aluminum powder*
Thermite huh
Ive been watching LPL 2weeks and already managed to pick open 2 padlocks, other is like the one here saying "hardened". Going to practise more. Thanks for videos and a new hobby. And yes, everything is about being legal.
There is a type of lock that is disc shaped with a half moon shaped hole to put the chain links in. The bar retracts completely from the half shaped moon by rotating together with the key. The bar is slightly more than a third of an inch and makes it so that even if you try a double wrench, it will always make you use the old method, breaking the lock where it's strong. On top of that, because it's circular, it spreads the stress over a larger area. On top of that, there will not be enough room to put 2 wrenches in anyway xD
This afternoon,my co worker forgot his keys to his tools padlock and seek for my help and i remember this method.i feel like a hacker man now😂
ws the padlock electronic??
I like how a wrench is like the most common tool in a work shop or at home and it’s now being used to break locks
Thanks for showing some locks that the wrenches don't work on! Extremely helpful vid for consumer protection 👏
This video was made in answer to all the complainers in the comments section of the original video saying this method won't work in the real world due to chain links (or some other such interference), being in the way.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
Steak dinner.
Which means that this video SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST VIDEO.
If only we could get everything perfect the first time to satisfy people who don't know what they are talking about.
I believe it's also to show that it would work against more than a masterlock. So many comments were about this method only being able to work on shitty masterlocks.
2:30 the only time he’s ever struggled with a lock.
theres been looks he cant open
Rixxalight where are the videos I need to buy those locks
@@thedunceguy8530 I can't remember the numbers
@@thedunceguy8530 via Quorra:
"I saw some You Tube videos from the Lock Picking Lawyer, he successfully picks both Mul-T-Lok and Medeco locks. He does it quite quickly, and it’s very impressive.
However, the higher security versions of the Mul-T-Lock and Medeco, are actually not picked by the LPL. He picks the lower security version, and locks that were put on the market over twenty years ago. These locks have undergone substantial improvements since they were first introduced……twenty years ago ago."
@@thedunceguy8530 653 and 636 are two that I know of, both are from Bowley and are hard to pick due to their unusual key shapes
Dude I feel like I could just use your videos as a study guide to get hired at any locksmith. Literally just watch your videos for fun and could re-watch them from #1
Single wrench method also works great, large adjustable placed on lock body, twist. As long as the material the lock is attached to can withstand the twist, the lock will break. This is how we used to get into our tanks if we lost the keys. Yep. Our tanks are locked with padlocks.
People always think of this guy where he would have good security but I think of him as a guy who can break into anything you have
"I'm not getting any flex at all."
*Phil Swift would like to know your location*
The fact that he knows that thing is called a brass actuator tells me to trust whatever he says about locks.
I ABUSED a 3/4th wrench today taking out an air over hydraulic suspension system off of a fueler, and seeing wrenches used this way warms my heart. :)
note to self: bring 4 wrenches to brute force open a solid metal lock
The Navy uses brass locks for everything,I have broken a huge amount of locks in the Navy this way for people that have lost keys or left them at home.
"let me get a slighley larger wrench"
**gets giant wrench**
Thank you. I will keep your suggestion in mind when purchasing locks in the future.
The real question here: Why are the internals made of brass and not steel?
Rust prevention?
Could be heat as well, as during hot weather, steel will expand and contract when cooled, and this may actually lead to it seizing inside the lock. Maybe.
ownerfate no in this case the scale of the objects is way too small to let heat have an impact
Price, seizing, speed of production, ease of locksmiths being able to open, weatherproofing, etc. Lots of reasons.
Rob C did not know that cool
The "U.S. General" padlock is so shiny, so chromed...
Is that a mad max reference? Cuz i witness you.
@@zico1994 Witness me!!!
“With the right amount of leverage and the proper application of strength, the door will lift free!”
Ok Billiam Turner
Thank you for this, I was in a pinch. I needed my boots out of my locker and my combo lock wouldn’t open. This has it open less than 30 seconds. You’re a lifesaver bud. ❤
Wrenches are specifically made to leverage huge forces to the fasteners they are used on. It is no surprise that a tool which is so optimized that it has undergone almost no change in a century is able to overpower locks. He is correct - choose your locks wisely. The simpler tool will always be stronger than the more complicated device so be sure it cannot be used in an efficient manner on your lock.
Ok this is wrong in some ways. Its still a matter of material strength. In the original video, the lock failed because the person could leverage the strength of the wrench against the strength of the shackle and those combined leveraged against the lesser strength of the pot metal body of the lock he was using.
This time that leverage attack didnt work, because he was not able to use his strength through the wrenches agaisnt the shackle to break the much stronger steel body of the padlock. Instead he attacked inside of the lock by puttinf leverage on the locking mechanism itself which is a softer weaker metal than the steel. Try this on a seargant and greeleaf environmental lock and see if you can do it. Thats a much more complicated device than a wrench. Comparable in concept to these locks but made of material thats similar or greater than the wrenches and it would likely not fail unless you were using a powered leverage device ot really long wrenches.
Bofa dees locks can likely be opened with just a hammer striking firmly downward on the body under the shackle while its held in a hasp. The laminate lock can likely be lightly rapped open with opposing strikes from two hammers the same time. The round body lock could almost certainly be pounded open with a sledge with a small number of blows. The environmental would likely not open easily to pounding and not at all to rapping.
It really boils down to material strength.
I wouldn't try this on a SGL lock. I'd just try the default combination :D
When are we getting more videos?
@@metamorphicorder if it's a matter of material strength, ok. The lock is high quality, usually ppl do not think of the hasp, this same method can be used to defeat it as well. Also to defeat the screws holding the hasp to the door, or to rip the screws from the door itself, and in my experience the person who installed the hasp, used the completely wrong fastener.(like the wood screws included in the package. Into a metal door). Anyways I think this is a very viable method for almost any situation, and I think that's the point LPL is trying to make... if, you put the leverage in the right spot.
This trick has saved my ass on the job multiple times like when someone lost the key or broke it in the lock, break the lock and slap a new one on it.
As a chic who can’t find keys to locks on trailer with husband & sons motorcycles in it (I think I locked them inside ooops) this is only channel where solution seemed possible. Wish me luck !!!
We left the key to our jetski trailer at home, so we just busted off the padlock with an adjustable wrench and a 3/4 wrench. My dad didn't think it would work, but guess who was right. Thanks LPL.
Hehehe... opens the lock with the key then throws it contemptuously away... 'Wont be needing that anymore'...
Really like the way you numerize your videos. Keep up the good work!
I use to own a padlock-busting tool that used this same method to open locks. It used two 3/16 harden steal gear plates with two three-foot-long arms that allowed me to adjust it to all shackle sizes. It worked great on Harden steel high-security locks. Especially the ones that were so hard most bolt cutters would not work on them. Because the extra hard steel shackles were so brittle they broke in the padlocks by the locking notches. Today I can't find this popping tool on the internet. It use to be a common Locksmithing tool 15 years ago. If you can find it please let me know.
So.. the lesson we all need to learn is that locks are made to keep honest people honest. Except that, anything goes. So keep on going, folks.