I mow my big lawn on Memorial Day weekend and then let it go until 4th of July. This lets the clover take over the lawn. The bees then have easy access to 1/2 acre of clover. There is only about 10% of the number of bees now compared to 20 years ago. There does seem to be more than 3 years ago. It was very tough in the Great Depression. Look at now, many chains of stores are closing down mst or all of their stores. That means a lot more unemployment. Back in the 1970s, I Blue Coral waxed cars. It was a full day job: wash, compound, polish wax, and wax again. Nice video. Good Luck, Rick
Great job upstate John we do a lot for the bees down here in New Zealand 🇳🇿 We can’t do without them can’t wait to see how it turns out the book was a Slice of history for me mothers smell is one of the best god bless take care 47🇮🇱🇺🇸🇳🇿🦅🗽🪖🦔/FJB🤬
Beautiful property I'm glad to see your not mowing all of it. That catalog is great I could smell it as you turned the pages there's just something about the smell of old books that I like. I had no idea that drills cost that much back then. Great show much appreciated
Great info about the various types of wax and their use. Good choice about the upstate property. Without bees, there is no pollination, and that leads to no fruits & vegetables. Plus, it saves you time and fuel. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Thanks for your service. 🇺🇲🇺🇲
We have a passionfruit vine in our small garden and for the past 3 years had very few fruits, maybe about 4-5. However last summer I delayed a couple of times on mowing the grass and the daisys and dandelionsb were everywhere and then I noticed the passionfruit vine was full of fruit, about a hundred or so. And I also saw the bees and bumblebees whizzing about to different flowers. So, I think it is a good thing to let the grass grow up and seed the ground anew and encourage pollination.🐞
Thanks for helping the bees. If wildflowers don't come back on their own, you can get great seed mixes the wildlife will like. Thanks for the tutorial on waxes. Nice consumer info.
I will be interested to see how your property looks after a few weeks. Hopefully you will see some wildflowers growing. The book was great and I wish some of those tools were available today. Thanks for sharing this and the cleaner/wax did a great job on the fire extinguisher top.
Great informational video today. I’m sure you will attract wild life in the tall grass upstate. When you go back and the grass is rather long just be careful because snakes like long grasses. The compounding and waxing info was very informative. When I first started driving 60 some odd years ago ago all the guys used to compound and wax their cars every Spring.
Thanks for showing the brush hook in action. Going to pick one up for my rural property to clear the branches that are encroaching on my walking trails. Might also leave some grass areas to grow out for the bees. Like always....you have a great channel. Enjoy the long weekend. But if you are retired...all weekends are long.😊
Those dry cell batteries brought back some memories from the 70's...I worked alone every day installing floor coverings in new tract homes. Listened to my transistor radio every day. Took 4 c size batteries, and they would only run that radio for 2 or 3 days max. Expensive and a PIA. So I soldered 2 wires to the batteries contacts in the back of the radio, built a wooden caddy, with space in the back for a large 6 volt dry cell with screw terminals...that thing would run for a month or more with no problem! Pretty soon all the floor layers I worked with had modified their radios as well.
Hey !John j'aime particulièrement les vieux catalogues et les vieux livres sur les outils. Les catalogues sont intéressants pour voir le design qu'il y avait dans le temps, et ils étaient super bien fait. Un véritable plaisir de les feuilleté. ❤
Hi John, Beautiful vast plot of land you have..a real slice of heaven.. be interesting to see what wild flowers you get 👍 it also got me thinking.. I wonder if you’d fit all your subscribers on there 😉😆 catering might be a bit much though 🤣 have a great weekend, cheers Rob 👍
I think it's a good idea what you are doing. It will give food for a number of species; places where insects can over winter; ability for native plants to take hold. You may be able to get the state to provide a grant to fund wild flowers that you can spread over the area or maybe they have a source of plants that they would provide. Good luck. The worst you would have to do in the future is to come out with a brush cutter and clear it out again if you decide an a use.
John, like you I built lots of electrical projects using tin, scrap wire, and dry-cell batteries. I was probably around 11-13 years old. A buzzer, a door bell, crystal radio, and ultimately a homemade electric motor. That was fun, wasn’t it!
@@ScoutCrafter Indeed! My parents and grandparents gave me subscriptions to Boy’s Life, Popular Science, and Popular Mechanics - read them cover-to-cover including the adds for building crated Army surplus Jeeps, homemade hovercraft, and of course my fantasy of a Rotoway helicopter. Probably like a great many other guys following this channel.
ScoutCrafter, Great show. I envy your lot. I can't believe you're not living full-time away from the city. There are in general three types of devices for stopping a flame; flame screen, flame arrestor, and detonation arrestor. What you have in a gas can is a flame screen. Flame screens are wire mesh intended to keep a flame from propagating into a container. The wire mesh will have layers of mesh and are meant to keep a flame at the screen. Flame arrestors are much larger than flame screens. They are end-of-line devices that can stop a flame from propagating down a pipe. They are designed to stop a flame burning outside from igniting vapors on the inside by removing the heat. A common design uses a coil of corrugated metal and sheet metal wound tightly in a circle. The coils are similar to a wafer cookie. A detonation arrestor is an in-line device that is capable of stopping a detonation that is traveling, as I recall at the speed of sound. I witnessed the testing of detonation arrestors with designs that were based on strengthened flame arrestors. Some detonation arrestors utilize ceramic balls that interrupt the flame path. There are also detonation arrestors that rely on detecting a flame moving at the speed of sound and closing a gate valve downstream before the flame arrives at the valve. I witnessed the initial testing of the valve system. The testing involved filling a long (~100m) pipe with an explosive gas mixture and lighting it at one end with a spark plug. The valve was at the other end. The end of the pipe was covered with a plastic bag fill with gas. The test was successful if the plastic bag remained intact. Bob
Awe cutting grass, I’ll finish my pasture tomorrow. Cut the one acre of lawn yesterday. No fun anymore just work. The catalog is a great reference for yesterdays items. The closest thing I have to it is an old hardware book. My father had an old can of Johnson’s wax. I believe he used it on some wood working equipment. I had a car alarm that had a bell similar to yours. Your shows bring back a lot of memories of the old days. Thank You
What a great catalog. I grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and my dad's family was from Minneapolis. Letting some of your land uncut will help the pollinators (bees, etc). Without the bees, a lot of our food crops wouldn't produce.
Scepter (Canadian company) makes a robust jerry-can made of HDPE. They are the company that make water cans and fuel cans for the US Military. They also have an optional 1" fast flow military fuel flow spout. They are hard to find in the US but available from Canada or on Ebay.
John, I don't understand when you say you went a little bit too long. This is not possible. I really enjoy your content. Top quality and I appreciate that you are not trying to push products because they give you free stuff.
Very nice to see you're letting the grass grow a bit up there John. Not only does it save you time, but more importantly the birds and other wildlife will thank you. When we do that (we're on a small 15-acre farmstead) we end up getting wild turkeys laying eggs in the 3-4ft tall grass, quail, grouse, deer, etc. You'll love the changes. Just make sure you cut it back each winter otherwise shrubs will start sprouting up and they'll take over your property. Did you see the price on those anvils at the 9:47 mark btw? Holy cow! Just $0.10 a pound!! $15 for a 150 lb'r - c'mon, what kind of maniac would pass that up.. Granted, it's cast, not forged, but still - lol. Great episode.
Great show. Thanks so much for all that wonderful information. I so appreciate you doing the experimenting so that I don’t have to. Thanks again and have a great weekend.
SIMONIZ! I always thought for the longest time in the Movie (The Christmas Story) the old man was telling his son, "It's a cannon Syemon Eyes". Little did I know, after watching it a million times he received as a gift, a Can of SIMONIZ...... always think of that when SIMONIZ is mentioned, lol.
Looking forward to seeing what the upstate property is going turn out like, I am currently developing a wild life habitat in my back yard using the broken limbs and branches and shrubs to build a brush piles. Like the catalog walk thru, always enjoy old catalogs, they’re like history books. Wax demo, I will be looking for the min wax brand, my Johnson wax is about gone. Thanks for the video, enjoyed it.
Thanks for the Wax update, if I ever run out of my Johnson wax I'll have an idea of what to get. I usually only use the Johnson on wood and use Maguires on metal. I never thought to use Johnson on metal, I guess that comes from when I was a kid and my mom used it on the hardwood floors.
I use Johnson's wax on my table saw top because Johnson's doesn't have silicone in it which can ruin wood finishes when you apply them. Maguires is no good because it has silicone in it. That makes finishes fisheye.
Great idea with your property, many of us here down under allow our traditional lawn areas to turn into wild flower areas, even road verges, re the catalog, how amazing are the illustrations, people were so talented back then
That way of doing a lawn is definitely the best way, it caters both to humans and insects and other wildlife. If you like it you could just get some logs or stone and frame the wild areas, there's a place here that has done that with tarred logs and it's beautiful.
So many cool things to comment about in this video... The part about waxes brought back some old memories of being in the military and spit shining our shoes.... Well I tried using Johnson's Glo coat floor wax on my shoes.. i used a cotton ball to apply it... When it dried it looked like a sheet of glass they were so shiny... It also only took a few minutes as compared to spit shining... That catalog was amazing. S.C. thx for another great video....
If you are just going to let things grow you might want to look at a wildflower seed mix for your area. Here they just ask us not to mow in May so the bumble bees can start feeding on dandlions. I can't let it go this year because I could mow every four days besides I have flowers that they can feed on. I am not to thrilled about feeding bumble bees as then they want to nest where I need to work. You could also plant sunflowers so that there is food for the bees and birds.
Your property looks great John. I really like the way you mowed the strips - it looks very nice. I'm looking forward to seeing the property as the growth occurs.
Great video 👍 Great video of your property upstate. Hopefully leaving some of your property to grow wild will help with those bees 🐝 . I like how you section the property with paths, that looks fantastic 👍. Also great demonstration of that 🪓 brush axe . It went trough those limbs like butter 🧈,great tool to have for your property. That gas can you did turned out great, ❤️those types of cans. I can’t stand those nozzles on those new plastic gas cans. I do like that push button style one you showed us and I will have to see about getting one. What a great condition 1932 Iron Store Company catalog . That catalog is awesome to see the descriptive information of there tools 🛠 and detailed pictures to go with what they were selling at that time,again what a awesome book 👍. That automotive tool section was awesome to see, again very detailed which I think is fantastic to see. That Maguiar’s cleaner wax looks like it is a shiny gloss look when applied. Also I think the Johnsons paste wax looks more shinier then the Minwax paste wax. Have you tried the Turtle Wax hard shell paste wax?,I wonder if it would do the same as the Maguiar’s? Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on 🇺🇸🪖Monday. Hope you have a great weekend. 😄👍👍🇺🇸
i am on a horse 🐎 farm and we keep around the house trimmed and we grow hay but we do the same thing and we cut paths around the property looks great john 👍🛠🇨🇦🐎👌 great tool you have there
I have a property in Maine where there was a huge variety of wildflowers growing in an unmowed field when I bought it. After a few years of mowing it I decided to not mow a big square to get those flowers back. I did this last summer and very few flowers returned. Maybe it takes a while to build up seeds, I don't know. A neighbor told me that if I rototilled it the wildflowers would come back sooner, but that's for another day.
Years ago I planted a bed of wildflowers, I had a patch of soft dirt that I sprinkled the seeds on then covered the seeds with an inch of dirts so the birds wouldn’t eat them. The patch was lovely and the flowers looked great. However like you it was a one year thing. 😃👍
A 1933 dollar is equivalent to about $24 today. The $94.00 heavy duty drill you pointed out at 13:36 would cost $2,256 in today's dollars. I searched for a 5/8" heavy duty drill similar to the one in the catalog. Amazon has it for $89.97!
ScoutCrafter - "The men in my family don't live long, I'm moving to the country". Yet there you are in the City collecting Social Security. Let's get this move in gear Pops. 🐝🐞🦋 🌲🌳🌻 Someone's gotta push you so it might as well be me. 😛 BTW I have about 2 miles of trails in the back of our farm, prairie and meadows are super full of life both above ground and below, healthy bacteria in the ground has all kinds of benefits from actually creating a sense of well being in people to processing methane that seeps thru.
I have a 5.5 acre property in northern PA, 2/3rds wooded, and I let the whole thing go wild. Because it's mountain land, side-hill, and very difficult to access (strictly 4-wheel drive), you could kill yourself trying to keep up with any mowing. It has extremely old big stonewalls running in various directions, and it was once homesteaded (most probably by Cro Magnons), but now it's a nature preserve like every other property around it.
@@ScoutCrafter In close proximity to one of the walls (on the wooded side) is what I believe is a family cemetery. I counted what I think are roughly 12 ancient, primitive, graves.
My dad was a GM trained mechanic and before he opened his own business, he worked at Cadillac dealerships. I remember stopping by work on the way home from school on my self-propelled bicycle, meaning the bike was propelled by myself... But I digress. Anywho, they the dealership employed one gentleman who washed and waxed the Cadillacs. He used Blue Coral car wax exclusively, and that wax was so tough, he used cornstarch to buff it. Cornstarch is softer than paint and harder than wax.
I picked on of those gas buddy a year or so ago.. it's like 14 gallons.. I love it! Your upstate property is looking good.. I do my pasture like that and yard especially where clover grows...I have seen the bee pop around my place grow...and with it...all Mt flowers👍 Have a safe Memorial Day Weekend Mr. John! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Old catalog ... great memories. I was a kid in the 50s/60s - early 70s now. I remember seeing a ratchet for the first time. A fascination that has lasted a lifetime. (Not a fascination with the mechanics of a ratchet, although there was that. It was a fascination with their rarity at the time and the inventiveness.) Only professional mechanics owned ratchets. Mere mortals like my father (an engineer out of Carnegie Tech) used pliers, adjustable (Crescent) wrenches, and water pump pliers - along with some excessively colorful language!! Ratchet/socket sets were EXPENSIVE! Today, they are common, cheap, and still great! My fascination persists - 1/4" drive - new, old - long handle/short handle/stubby - deep well/medium/short - anything 1/4" drive. Despite MANY modern frustrations, the availability of good tools is not one of them.
Amazing video. I agree with the 2 gallon can. The mini 'jerry' cans are pretty good. We get them in 5L here. The new plastic ones are awful. In the UK we don't have those fancy despenser caps, instead we have some flimsy plastic screw on pipe that always seems to either leak or glug fuel and cause a mess.. I'm looking forward to see what kind of meadow flowers you get at your plot. It would be cool to set up a trail camera to see what / who you have visiting your new 'wild' lawn!
Great to see you trying that out upstate, bet it'll look great and do wonders for the wildlife. That catalogue was fantastic, funny you should point out the Weed tyre chains as last year I found a pair of Weed tyre chain pliers at a boot fair on this side of the pond 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇬🇧✌️
This was an awesome video, John! unfortunately I need to explain to my wife why I kept saying, "Don't forget to smell it" right before you said you had to smell it and then she heard us both disappointed. I can't wait to see how the grass works out upstate. I love the idea and I bet you keep it that way because I'm sure the wildlife will be beautiful. Have a great weekend.
Great video and your property looks awesome in the mowing pattern you came up with, should help a lot. Those old catalogs are so fun to look through. Have you ever seen Sweets Architectural catalog? I have a 1920's edition, 3 volume set with residential and commercial building products, incredible! Good stuff on the wax too.
Nice job on your property, maybe next spring you could overseed the uncut areas with native flower and grass seeds. I plan on doing the that to about a half acre along a creek on my my property. The catalog was awesome, one of the gas cans had a price of $29, that's over $500 in today's money.
@@jeffreykindron7162 when he was talking about the batteries I noticed they weighed 57 pounds. So I paused it and read the ad and it was for a case of 24.
John, we had a flood at our cabin and huge cottonwoods fell down{actually tipped over} and we left alot of our grass unmowed and the poison ivy just seemed to creep in very quickly. I am highly allergic to the crap and hate it. So be careful.Did you see how cheap an Anvil was in your catalog? I know at 25 cents an hour with an anvil costing 15 dollars is alot but too bad we cant live that way today.
Great to hear about the upstate property. It's going to look like a neat wild garden!! I have a hate/hate relationship with gas cans. Just before the pandemic I bought two Justrite 5 Gallon with the plastic funnel. Terrible to wrestle around, and slow to dispense through the funnel. Even bought the bolt-on flexible metal funnel, which was still a huge pain, and you could still pour faster than the funnel could flow. Eventually got a Wavian and a NATO style flexible metal spout which has worked well.
I don’t believe safety cans are as good at dispersing as non safety cans. That push button 1.25 gallon container is really nice. It will ease your mind over the pain in the a$$ cans. 😂👍
I think I may need to find a brush ax because that thing does look handy. Keep an eye out for more ticks with the high grass. I have been letting one of the fields at my house grow and I took a walk through about 1000’ of 18” grass and had about a dozen on my pants since they have been worse early this year.
Thanks for the brush axe demo. I ordered one after seeing your earlier video. I am in the process of getting in usable shape. I worked as a parts man in the 1970's and 80's. We used to order from the Baum Iron Catalog. They were located in Omaha, NE. Wonderful catalog with a lot of good information in it. I looked and found an old catalog on EBay and ordered it. I might have to stop watching your videos. You are costing me money!! LOL Thanks
No, never too long John, lots of great content as usual ! It was great to see what you're doing upstate, we haven't visited in a while, it's looking really beautiful, it will be interesting to see how things develop in the set-aside areas - it's a big thing here in the UK, we've got to look after them bees, we rely on them for so much of our food ! Thanks also for showing us the brush hook in action ! Excellent overview on the waxes and polishes, really useful information, could you possibly explain in practical terms what you do wax wise to protect polished steel and it's limitations, and when you use shellac ?
Andy- The only time I use shellac or clear coat on a tool is if it will be stored in a non-climate controlled environment if it’s indoors polish and wax are usually sufficient to keep it rust free in my area. 😃👍
2:08 You should place a few signs that say, "Wild Flowers Do Not Mow". If you like Monarch Butterflies, plant some Milkweed. They lay eggs on the plants. The caterpillars eat the leaves and become toxic, so that predators won't eat them. The Monarch Butterflies start in Canada and travel to Mexico, and visa versa!
I love my 1.5 gallon push button gas can! I wished all the new ones worked like that. I find the Minwax to leave kind of a sticky finish on my wood projects (mainly old planes and furniture for old Stanley Bailey metal ones). I tried to find a can of Johnson's but very pricey!
Good stuff as always John, looking forward to updates about the upstate property / wildlife conservation. Surely that made a nice segway into a piece on beeswax 😜 The Minwax Paste Wax is currently 27 usd per tin here in the UK so a non-starter for me. I'd welcome any alternatives from UK Scoutcrafter followers, is Briwax a decent choice?
Steven- I think the majority of furniture waxes with high ratings (4.5 or higher on Amazon) are good. Briwax has a lot of waxes that have stain in it so make certain your wax is clear or neutral. 😃👍
Depends what you want it for, but I like the Micro-chrystaline wax form Axminster tools, I also use Briwax but mainly on wood, Liberon & Colton have some good products too !
@@stevenedan3501 The Axminster should be good alll rounder, everyone rates the Renaissance wax which is great ( used by conservators in museums ) but it is expensive per unit, in theory this is the same !
great video....as usual. Tell me I have a 5 year old can of rubbing compound.....think Dupont that has gotten dry....any suggestions on how to revive it ? Thanks
I don't understand why Johnson's would stop making paste wax. Weren't we buying enough of it? I mean why would they stop making it? Does it cause cancer or something? What is the reason they took it off the market.
@@ScoutCrafter the only thing I can think is something about making it must cost more than they can make a profit off of? Like the price of something went way up. Either that or they're just plain evil and they want to cause us all pain. Because I will feel the loss of not having Johnson's paste wax. I can tell you that. It's something i do use.
I mow my big lawn on Memorial Day weekend and then let it go until 4th of July. This lets the clover take over the lawn. The bees then have easy access to 1/2 acre of clover. There is only about 10% of the number of bees now compared to 20 years ago. There does seem to be more than 3 years ago. It was very tough in the Great Depression. Look at now, many chains of stores are closing down mst or all of their stores. That means a lot more unemployment. Back in the 1970s, I Blue Coral waxed cars. It was a full day job: wash, compound, polish wax, and wax again. Nice video. Good Luck, Rick
Rick- Clover is such a beautiful plant. 😃👍
Great job upstate John we do a lot for the bees down here in New Zealand 🇳🇿
We can’t do without them can’t wait to see how it turns out the book was a
Slice of history for me mothers smell is one of the best god bless take care 47🇮🇱🇺🇸🇳🇿🦅🗽🪖🦔/FJB🤬
Beautiful property I'm glad to see your not mowing all of it.
That catalog is great I could smell it as you turned the pages there's just something about the smell of old books that I like. I had no idea that drills cost that much back then. Great show much appreciated
Thank you for helping the bees, and also for showing us an alternative to Johnsons paste wax.
Great info about the various types of wax and their use.
Good choice about the upstate property. Without bees, there is no pollination, and that leads to no fruits & vegetables. Plus, it saves you time and fuel. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Thanks for your service. 🇺🇲🇺🇲
We have a passionfruit vine in our small garden and for the past 3 years had very few fruits, maybe about 4-5. However last summer I delayed a couple of times on mowing the grass and the daisys and dandelionsb were everywhere and then I noticed the passionfruit vine was full of fruit, about a hundred or so. And I also saw the bees and bumblebees whizzing about to different flowers. So, I think it is a good thing to let the grass grow up and seed the ground anew and encourage pollination.🐞
Thanks for helping the bees. If wildflowers don't come back on their own, you can get great seed mixes the wildlife will like. Thanks for the tutorial on waxes. Nice consumer info.
I will be interested to see how your property looks after a few weeks. Hopefully you will see some wildflowers growing. The book was great and I wish some of those tools were available today. Thanks for sharing this and the cleaner/wax did a great job on the fire extinguisher top.
Great informational video today. I’m sure you will attract wild life in the tall grass upstate. When you go back and the grass is rather long just be careful because snakes like long grasses.
The compounding and waxing info was very informative. When I first started driving 60 some odd years ago ago all the guys used to compound and wax their cars every Spring.
Frank- The good days, getting your car all ready for a date and having her sit next to you in that beautiful front bench seat. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!
Thanks for showing the brush hook in action. Going to pick one up for my rural property to clear the branches that are encroaching on my walking trails. Might also leave some grass areas to grow out for the bees. Like always....you have a great channel. Enjoy the long weekend. But if you are retired...all weekends are long.😊
Those dry cell batteries brought back some memories from the 70's...I worked alone every day installing floor coverings in new tract homes. Listened to my transistor radio every day. Took 4 c size batteries, and they would only run that radio for 2 or 3 days max. Expensive and a PIA. So I soldered 2 wires to the batteries contacts in the back of the radio, built a wooden caddy, with space in the back for a large 6 volt dry cell with screw terminals...that thing would run for a month or more with no problem! Pretty soon all the floor layers I worked with had modified their radios as well.
Hey !John j'aime particulièrement les vieux catalogues et les vieux livres sur les outils. Les catalogues sont intéressants pour voir le design qu'il y avait dans le temps, et ils étaient super bien fait. Un véritable plaisir de les feuilleté. ❤
Interesting to see what happens upstate and happy memorial day let's all take the time to remember what the holiday is for to remember the fallen
Hi John, Beautiful vast plot of land you have..a real slice of heaven.. be interesting to see what wild flowers you get 👍 it also got me thinking.. I wonder if you’d fit all your subscribers on there 😉😆 catering might be a bit much though 🤣
have a great weekend, cheers Rob 👍
We could bring our own foods pot luck style.
A bring your own picnic ?
I'm looking forward to watching the grass grow... , glad to see you participating with your land.., great idea to help the bee population
Your upstate land will look very intetesting as that grass go wild.
I think it's a good idea what you are doing. It will give food for a number of species; places where insects can over winter; ability for native plants to take hold. You may be able to get the state to provide a grant to fund wild flowers that you can spread over the area or maybe they have a source of plants that they would provide. Good luck. The worst you would have to do in the future is to come out with a brush cutter and clear it out again if you decide an a use.
I’m really interested to see how it grows because there is ample rain up there! 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter The amazing thing is how fast nature takes back over.
Your biggest project yet! Can’t wait to see that project “done”.
Upstate NY is beautiful. Looking forward to seeing the property in the upcoming videos.
John, like you I built lots of electrical projects using tin, scrap wire, and dry-cell batteries. I was probably around 11-13 years old. A buzzer, a door bell, crystal radio, and ultimately a homemade electric motor. That was fun, wasn’t it!
Marc- There were all sorts of plans in popular mechanics, boys life and other magazines on how to make fun projects using a 1.5 volt dry cell. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter Indeed! My parents and grandparents gave me subscriptions to Boy’s Life, Popular Science, and Popular Mechanics - read them cover-to-cover including the adds for building crated Army surplus Jeeps, homemade hovercraft, and of course my fantasy of a Rotoway helicopter. Probably like a great many other guys following this channel.
ScoutCrafter,
Great show. I envy your lot. I can't believe you're not living full-time away from the city.
There are in general three types of devices for stopping a flame; flame screen, flame arrestor, and detonation arrestor.
What you have in a gas can is a flame screen. Flame screens are wire mesh intended to keep a flame from propagating into a container. The wire mesh will have layers of mesh and are meant to keep a flame at the screen.
Flame arrestors are much larger than flame screens. They are end-of-line devices that can stop a flame from propagating down a pipe. They are designed to stop a flame burning outside from igniting vapors on the inside by removing the heat. A common design uses a coil of corrugated metal and sheet metal wound tightly in a circle. The coils are similar to a wafer cookie.
A detonation arrestor is an in-line device that is capable of stopping a detonation that is traveling, as I recall at the speed of sound. I witnessed the testing of detonation arrestors with designs that were based on strengthened flame arrestors. Some detonation arrestors utilize ceramic balls that interrupt the flame path. There are also detonation arrestors that rely on detecting a flame moving at the speed of sound and closing a gate valve downstream before the flame arrives at the valve.
I witnessed the initial testing of the valve system. The testing involved filling a long (~100m) pipe with an explosive gas mixture and lighting it at one end with a spark plug. The valve was at the other end. The end of the pipe was covered with a plastic bag fill with gas. The test was successful if the plastic bag remained intact.
Bob
Bob- Great information! I rarely fill hot equipment or try to add gas to a fire so I haven’t had use for them. 😂👍
Glad to see that you’re letting your meadows grow!
Awe cutting grass, I’ll finish my pasture tomorrow. Cut the one acre of lawn yesterday. No fun anymore just work. The catalog is a great reference for yesterdays items. The closest thing I have to it is an old hardware book. My father had an old can of Johnson’s wax. I believe he used it on some wood working equipment. I had a car alarm that had a bell similar to yours. Your shows bring back a lot of memories of the old days. Thank You
Jess- There was a time in the beginning it was fun, now it’s a chore. 🫣😂👍
What a great catalog. I grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and my dad's family was from Minneapolis.
Letting some of your land uncut will help the pollinators (bees, etc). Without the bees, a lot of our food crops wouldn't produce.
Scepter (Canadian company) makes a robust jerry-can made of HDPE. They are the company that make water cans and fuel cans for the US Military. They also have an optional 1" fast flow military fuel flow spout. They are hard to find in the US but available from Canada or on Ebay.
John, I don't understand when you say you went a little bit too long. This is not possible. I really enjoy your content. Top quality and I appreciate that you are not trying to push products because they give you free stuff.
Very nice to see you're letting the grass grow a bit up there John. Not only does it save you time, but more importantly the birds and other wildlife will thank you. When we do that (we're on a small 15-acre farmstead) we end up getting wild turkeys laying eggs in the 3-4ft tall grass, quail, grouse, deer, etc. You'll love the changes. Just make sure you cut it back each winter otherwise shrubs will start sprouting up and they'll take over your property.
Did you see the price on those anvils at the 9:47 mark btw? Holy cow! Just $0.10 a pound!! $15 for a 150 lb'r - c'mon, what kind of maniac would pass that up.. Granted, it's cast, not forged, but still - lol. Great episode.
$15 in 1933 is $361.79 in today's money. Which would be pretty good for a 150 pound anvil. It's $2.41 a pound.
I like what your doing on your upstate property. It will be more interesting to look at. That catalog would be hard to put down. Thanks for sharing.
Great show. Thanks so much for all that wonderful information. I so appreciate you doing the experimenting so that I don’t have to. Thanks again and have a great weekend.
SIMONIZ! I always thought for the longest time in the Movie (The Christmas Story) the old man was telling his son, "It's a cannon Syemon Eyes". Little did I know, after watching it a million times he received as a gift, a Can of SIMONIZ...... always think of that when SIMONIZ is mentioned, lol.
You have a beautiful place there.
Keep us posted on your grass project. Seems interesting. I liked the wax tutorial.
Great Video! Have a Fantastic weekend! Used to take me hours to polish and wax my Buick
All that safety pump stuff started on the Left Coast..California. Thanks for a great video
I lived in California for a while and can tell you it was the most bizarre state I ever visited.
Looking forward to seeing what the upstate property is going turn out like, I am currently developing a wild life habitat in my back yard using the broken limbs and branches and shrubs to build a brush piles. Like the catalog walk thru, always enjoy old catalogs, they’re like history books. Wax demo, I will be looking for the min wax brand, my Johnson wax is about gone. Thanks for the video, enjoyed it.
Scout, as far as I'm concerned you NEVER go long.
If I had 3 acres in upstate New York I'd abandon the city and build my dream workshop there and a small house. What a beautiful property .
You still have to pay bills.
Thanks for the Wax update, if I ever run out of my Johnson wax I'll have an idea of what to get. I usually only use the Johnson on wood and use Maguires on metal. I never thought to use Johnson on metal, I guess that comes from when I was a kid and my mom used it on the hardwood floors.
I use Johnson's wax on my table saw top because Johnson's doesn't have silicone in it which can ruin wood finishes when you apply them. Maguires is no good because it has silicone in it. That makes finishes fisheye.
Great idea with your property, many of us here down under allow our traditional lawn areas to turn into wild flower areas, even road verges, re the catalog, how amazing are the illustrations, people were so talented back then
Great learning about the different waxes and can’t wait to see how your property upstate turn out 👍
That way of doing a lawn is definitely the best way, it caters both to humans and insects and other wildlife. If you like it you could just get some logs or stone and frame the wild areas, there's a place here that has done that with tarred logs and it's beautiful.
Great episode !!
So many cool things to comment about in this video...
The part about waxes brought back some old memories of being in the military and spit shining our shoes....
Well I tried using Johnson's Glo coat floor wax on my shoes.. i used a cotton ball to apply it... When it dried it looked like a sheet of glass they were so shiny... It also only took a few minutes as compared to spit shining...
That catalog was amazing.
S.C. thx for another great video....
Gary- The liquid floor wax was great as long as you didn’t flex the shoes! 😂👍🇺🇸
Cool property exp.
If you are just going to let things grow you might want to look at a wildflower seed mix for your area. Here they just ask us not to mow in May so the bumble bees can start feeding on dandlions. I can't let it go this year because I could mow every four days besides I have flowers that they can feed on. I am not to thrilled about feeding bumble bees as then they want to nest where I need to work. You could also plant sunflowers so that there is food for the bees and birds.
Your property looks great John. I really like the way you mowed the strips - it looks very nice. I'm looking forward to seeing the property as the growth occurs.
Great video 👍 Great video of your property upstate. Hopefully leaving some of your property to grow wild will help with those bees 🐝 . I like how you section the property with paths, that looks fantastic 👍. Also great demonstration of that 🪓 brush axe . It went trough those limbs like butter 🧈,great tool to have for your property. That gas can you did turned out great, ❤️those types of cans. I can’t stand those nozzles on those new plastic gas cans. I do like that push button style one you showed us and I will have to see about getting one. What a great condition 1932 Iron Store Company catalog . That catalog is awesome to see the descriptive information of there tools 🛠 and detailed pictures to go with what they were selling at that time,again what a awesome book 👍. That automotive tool section was awesome to see, again very detailed which I think is fantastic to see. That Maguiar’s cleaner wax looks like it is a shiny gloss look when applied. Also I think the Johnsons paste wax looks more shinier then the Minwax paste wax. Have you tried the Turtle Wax hard shell paste wax?,I wonder if it would do the same as the Maguiar’s?
Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on 🇺🇸🪖Monday. Hope you have a great weekend.
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Steven- The cleaner wax smells awesome too! 😃👍
i am on a horse 🐎 farm and we keep around the house trimmed and we grow hay but we do the same thing and we cut paths around the property
looks great john
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great tool you have there
I have a property in Maine where there was a huge variety of wildflowers growing in an unmowed field when I bought it. After a few years of mowing it I decided to not mow a big square to get those flowers back. I did this last summer and very few flowers returned. Maybe it takes a while to build up seeds, I don't know. A neighbor told me that if I rototilled it the wildflowers would come back sooner, but that's for another day.
Years ago I planted a bed of wildflowers, I had a patch of soft dirt that I sprinkled the seeds on then covered the seeds with an inch of dirts so the birds wouldn’t eat them. The patch was lovely and the flowers looked great. However like you it was a one year thing. 😃👍
A 1933 dollar is equivalent to about $24 today. The $94.00 heavy duty drill you pointed out at 13:36 would cost $2,256 in today's dollars. I searched for a 5/8" heavy duty drill similar to the one in the catalog. Amazon has it for $89.97!
Rick- I always find it amazing that we think of prices being so low years ago but compared to their salary things weren’t cheap! 😃👍
ScoutCrafter - "The men in my family don't live long, I'm moving to the country".
Yet there you are in the City collecting Social Security.
Let's get this move in gear Pops. 🐝🐞🦋 🌲🌳🌻
Someone's gotta push you so it might as well be me. 😛
BTW I have about 2 miles of trails in the back of our farm, prairie and meadows are super full of life both above ground and below, healthy bacteria in the ground has all kinds of benefits from actually creating a sense of well being in people to processing methane that seeps thru.
Methane- It’s all over! 😂
I have a 5.5 acre property in northern PA, 2/3rds wooded, and I let the whole thing go wild. Because it's mountain land, side-hill, and very difficult to access (strictly 4-wheel drive), you could kill yourself trying to keep up with any mowing. It has extremely old big stonewalls running in various directions, and it was once homesteaded (most probably by Cro Magnons), but now it's a nature preserve like every other property around it.
I love stone walls…
@@ScoutCrafter In close proximity to one of the walls (on the wooded side) is what I believe is a family cemetery. I counted what I think are roughly 12 ancient, primitive, graves.
My dad was a GM trained mechanic and before he opened his own business, he worked at Cadillac dealerships. I remember stopping by work on the way home from school on my self-propelled bicycle, meaning the bike was propelled by myself... But I digress. Anywho, they the dealership employed one gentleman who washed and waxed the Cadillacs. He used Blue Coral car wax exclusively, and that wax was so tough, he used cornstarch to buff it. Cornstarch is softer than paint and harder than wax.
Cornstarch was old school swirl remover! Blue Coral alway had nice graphics on their cans. Remember Liquid Glass? 😃👍
I picked on of those gas buddy a year or so ago.. it's like 14 gallons.. I love it! Your upstate property is looking good.. I do my pasture like that and yard especially where clover grows...I have seen the bee pop around my place grow...and with it...all Mt flowers👍 Have a safe Memorial Day Weekend Mr. John! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Thanks 👍
You should hook that bell up to your doorbell!
😂😂 That thing would make me jump! 😂
Old catalog ... great memories. I was a kid in the 50s/60s - early 70s now. I remember seeing a ratchet for the first time. A fascination that has lasted a lifetime. (Not a fascination with the mechanics of a ratchet, although there was that. It was a fascination with their rarity at the time and the inventiveness.) Only professional mechanics owned ratchets. Mere mortals like my father (an engineer out of Carnegie Tech) used pliers, adjustable (Crescent) wrenches, and water pump pliers - along with some excessively colorful language!! Ratchet/socket sets were EXPENSIVE! Today, they are common, cheap, and still great! My fascination persists - 1/4" drive - new, old - long handle/short handle/stubby - deep well/medium/short - anything 1/4" drive. Despite MANY modern frustrations, the availability of good tools is not one of them.
2:34 I got a hankering for some hamburger helper all of a sudden. lol.
"Snoop" abides, Pipes cameo...thxs for sharing
I also use one of those no-spill plastic gas cans for my lawn mower and I love it.
Daniel- It’s the only can that gives me satisfaction to use. The small size and push button nozzle works so well. 😃👍
Hey John, you should put a call out to name Stanley's turtle friend. I vote 'Utica'.
Exited to see the results of the grass growing and what plants/animals will thrive there!
Amazing video. I agree with the 2 gallon can. The mini 'jerry' cans are pretty good. We get them in 5L here. The new plastic ones are awful. In the UK we don't have those fancy despenser caps, instead we have some flimsy plastic screw on pipe that always seems to either leak or glug fuel and cause a mess..
I'm looking forward to see what kind of meadow flowers you get at your plot. It would be cool to set up a trail camera to see what / who you have visiting your new 'wild' lawn!
Great to see you trying that out upstate, bet it'll look great and do wonders for the wildlife. That catalogue was fantastic, funny you should point out the Weed tyre chains as last year I found a pair of Weed tyre chain pliers at a boot fair on this side of the pond 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇬🇧✌️
Nice video. Thank you.
I found a can of the Minwax in a free pile. It seems to dry a little harder than the Johnsons.
Definitely harder but no cleaners and just a protective coating. Sadly no smell. 😭😂👍
Ive let my garden grass grow long but grass is such a dominant plant, very few wildflowers can compete.
If you want a field of wildflowers you have to till the grass and plant wildflower seed. I would like to try a small area.
Hi John, great catalog 👍
This was an awesome video, John! unfortunately I need to explain to my wife why I kept saying, "Don't forget to smell it" right before you said you had to smell it and then she heard us both disappointed. I can't wait to see how the grass works out upstate. I love the idea and I bet you keep it that way because I'm sure the wildlife will be beautiful. Have a great weekend.
Brian- Honestly I was a bit disappointed with the lack of any smell. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter Ditto.
I love those old catalogs. Everything we ever needed to know about wax! Can’t wait to see your English garden style pollinator sanctuary.
I would be tempted to use a few different packets of wild-flower seeds to paint a colourful pattern to the field.
Gotcha 👍👍
Now you’ve got that book it’s great fun finding searching and finding one of the items out of the book. I bet it smells lovely
Great video and your property looks awesome in the mowing pattern you came up with, should help a lot. Those old catalogs are so fun to look through. Have you ever seen Sweets Architectural catalog? I have a 1920's edition, 3 volume set with residential and commercial building products, incredible! Good stuff on the wax too.
Nice job on your property, maybe next spring you could overseed the uncut areas with native flower and grass seeds. I plan on doing the that to about a half acre along a creek on my my property. The catalog was awesome, one of the gas cans had a price of $29, that's over $500 in today's money.
Some of those prices were for cases of products. So multiple items.
@@1pcfred I didn't notice that, thanks for pointing that out
@@jeffreykindron7162 when he was talking about the batteries I noticed they weighed 57 pounds. So I paused it and read the ad and it was for a case of 24.
John, we had a flood at our cabin and huge cottonwoods fell down{actually tipped over} and we left alot of our grass unmowed and the poison ivy just seemed to creep in very quickly. I am highly allergic to the crap and hate it. So be careful.Did you see how cheap an Anvil was in your catalog? I know at 25 cents an hour with an anvil costing 15 dollars is alot but too bad we cant live that way today.
I’m highly allergic to poison ivy also! 🫣😂👍
How about a test on wood for those waxes? Not everybody uses wax on metal or paint.
Great to hear about the upstate property. It's going to look like a neat wild garden!! I have a hate/hate relationship with gas cans. Just before the pandemic I bought two Justrite 5 Gallon with the plastic funnel. Terrible to wrestle around, and slow to dispense through the funnel. Even bought the bolt-on flexible metal funnel, which was still a huge pain, and you could still pour faster than the funnel could flow. Eventually got a Wavian and a NATO style flexible metal spout which has worked well.
I don’t believe safety cans are as good at dispersing as non safety cans. That push button 1.25 gallon container is really nice. It will ease your mind over the pain in the a$$ cans. 😂👍
cool
Thanks for being a good steward with your land!
I think I may need to find a brush ax because that thing does look handy. Keep an eye out for more ticks with the high grass. I have been letting one of the fields at my house grow and I took a walk through about 1000’ of 18” grass and had about a dozen on my pants since they have been worse early this year.
Thanks for the brush axe demo. I ordered one after seeing your earlier video. I am in the process of getting in usable shape.
I worked as a parts man in the 1970's and 80's. We used to order from the Baum Iron Catalog. They were located in Omaha, NE. Wonderful catalog with a lot of good information in it. I looked and found an old catalog on EBay and ordered it.
I might have to stop watching your videos. You are costing me money!! LOL
Thanks
Mike- money well spent! 😃👍
No, never too long John, lots of great content as usual !
It was great to see what you're doing upstate, we haven't visited in a while, it's looking really beautiful, it will be interesting to see how things develop in the set-aside areas - it's a big thing here in the UK, we've got to look after them bees, we rely on them for so much of our food ! Thanks also for showing us the brush hook in action !
Excellent overview on the waxes and polishes, really useful information, could you possibly explain in practical terms what you do wax wise to protect polished steel and it's limitations, and when you use shellac ?
Andy- The only time I use shellac or clear coat on a tool is if it will be stored in a non-climate controlled environment if it’s indoors polish and wax are usually sufficient to keep it rust free in my area. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter Thanks for that John, good to know !
2:08 You should place a few signs that say, "Wild Flowers Do Not Mow". If you like Monarch Butterflies, plant some Milkweed. They lay eggs on the plants. The caterpillars eat the leaves and become toxic, so that predators won't eat them. The Monarch Butterflies start in Canada and travel to Mexico, and visa versa!
Never fear the long video! We appreciate them believe me! Great video man thanks again
I love my 1.5 gallon push button gas can! I wished all the new ones worked like that. I find the Minwax to leave kind of a sticky finish on my wood projects (mainly old planes and furniture for old Stanley Bailey metal ones). I tried to find a can of Johnson's but very pricey!
Excellent, maybe a bit of mineral oil added to the wax would help? Home brew! 😃👍
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I will try that. Thanks for the suggestion, sir.
Note that the minwax comes in different colors. The can you have is neutral the can I have is dark and makes wood darker.
Boom 😂😂😂
Maybe get a few packets of Wildflower seeds to scatter in your 'No Mow'zones.
I tried that one time unfortunately for the wildflower seeds to grow you have to till the soil. You can’t just sprinkle them in the grass. 😃👍
Johnson's paste wax was made in Racine Wi.
It was very soft and easy to apply I think that’s why it was popular.
Great plan for your property upstate. I think you'll enjoy it. The second turtle in the pont must probably have the name: Livingston. Right?
I’m hoping it’s a female and they have offspring! 😃👍
Great Video! What's the best way to clean the inside of the old safety cans? Thanks
If the inside is rusty get a few feet of old window sash chain and add some kerosene put the chain and swoosh it around until clean! Works great!
I have a can of Johnson's wax that is about half full. When I have used it all, in about 50 years, I'll buy a can of the Minwax. 🤣
😂. It lasts a long time!
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Good stuff as always John, looking forward to updates about the upstate property / wildlife conservation. Surely that made a nice segway into a piece on beeswax 😜 The Minwax Paste Wax is currently 27 usd per tin here in the UK so a non-starter for me. I'd welcome any alternatives from UK Scoutcrafter followers, is Briwax a decent choice?
Steven- I think the majority of furniture waxes with high ratings (4.5 or higher on Amazon) are good. Briwax has a lot of waxes that have stain in it so make certain your wax is clear or neutral. 😃👍
Depends what you want it for, but I like the Micro-chrystaline wax form Axminster tools, I also use Briwax but mainly on wood, Liberon & Colton have some good products too !
@@andyc972 Thanks, I'm looking for an all purpose wax (if such a thing exists) to put a protective layer over a shellac finish on wood and metal.
@@stevenedan3501 The Axminster should be good alll rounder, everyone rates the Renaissance wax which is great ( used by conservators in museums ) but it is expensive per unit, in theory this is the same !
great video....as usual. Tell me I have a 5 year old can of rubbing compound.....think Dupont that has gotten dry....any suggestions on how to revive it ? Thanks
I added some water to mine and it came back. Usually that’s what evaporates. You have to mix it up good! 😃👍
thanks....something told me you would know@@ScoutCrafter
I like cleaner wax
Me too- Mothers Carnauba cleaner wax!
I don't understand why Johnson's would stop making paste wax. Weren't we buying enough of it? I mean why would they stop making it? Does it cause cancer or something? What is the reason they took it off the market.
I agree, why now after all this time?
@@ScoutCrafter the only thing I can think is something about making it must cost more than they can make a profit off of? Like the price of something went way up. Either that or they're just plain evil and they want to cause us all pain. Because I will feel the loss of not having Johnson's paste wax. I can tell you that. It's something i do use.
Do you have a dwelling on the property or do you camp it out?
I have two 10x14 sheds. One is like a shop and the other for hanging out. 😃
john deere for ever
Hi John are you ever gonna live there get away from the city
I won’t build but I’m always looking for a place that suits me.
Johnsons = gold dust!