Sounding the Sumburgh Foghorn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2017
- The Sumburgh foghorn was used as part of the foghorn sound for Robert Eggers "The Lighthouse". Read more here - www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/...
A foghorn or fog signal is a device that uses sound to warn vehicles of navigational hazards like rocky coastlines, or boats of the presence of other vessels, in foggy conditions.
Out of use since 1987, the foghorn was painstakingly restored by Brian Johnson. Shown in the video is the annual Foghorn sounding at Sumburgh Lighthouse, Shetland, Scotland.
Brian starts up the 1951Kelvin K-Series Diesel 44hp Engines. The engines power the Alley and MacLellan compressors, which in turn, power the foghorn.
Just so you know, the horn was originally much louder at the end, but TH-cam's audio algorithm turned the volume down. I tried several versions but it wasn't having it.
Awesome editing!
Get back to breaking smart phones buddy.
Now I wonder why I got this into my recommendation.
JerryRigEverything cool to see you here
Thought you would get more likes
Nice seeing you here man. 😀
The enemy is being reinforced by a Dreadnought
LMAO Bf1
Spanish Inquisition 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🏼
This got me 😂😂😂
Nice
Foul heretics!
How to _really_ piss off your neighbors in 319 easy steps.
Well that's alot of steps
@@XNos2018 but they're easy
Nah, this is professional level. You can just build a air raid siren from a bench grinder and some scrap wood.
Perfect number of likes
The communit say 319 steps
well you 319 likes
So good
Unintentionally the best example of building ambience and tension with editing on youtube.
Thanks Space 107, that's much appreciated!
It was very intentional
Steampunk atmosphere!
I'm a retired compressor mechanic and have worked on a variety of other industrial machines, that would now be considered antiques. There is a great sense of satisfaction in watching the old mechanism work, even if it is for nothing more than nostalgia.
Can relate... theres something uniquely soothing and captivating you only find on those old machines running slow and healthy. Almost trascendental, or probably indeed so.
The buildup to the horn blowing was rather intense, especially the clicking gears. Pretty cool.
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@@stephenlafleur9028 was gonna say the same thing!
Wtf
Brother
the horn isnt real, theres actually a massive cow that lives on the island
Is that a "your mom" joke?
Sanglierification shutup
Ok sorry
The your mom joke was pretty funny
It’s Cowzilla
I saw the title and figured this will be boring. A guy will flip a switch, the compressor will start, and when there’s enough pressure, pull a rope and the horn blows, simple. I had no idea it was a cool setup like this. I’m glad I watched. Very cool!
I'm glad you watched it too, thanks!!
What a haunting sound, love it just a shame we have lost them in general use around the UK coast 🙁
I agree, living in south west Cornwall on the coast in Mounts Bay….. don’t hear them, wish I did!
I live in Guernsey and we get foghorns but not as cool sounding as this one
Really?! Weird 😬
Yeah, satellite and computing technology have done that.
foghorns in the San Francisco Bay Area still sound like these lucky for us!
"Gondor calls for aid!"
- "And Rohan will answer!"
I never thought I’d die fighting side by side with an elf.
Legolas: How about side by side with a friend?
Gimli: Aye. I could do that.
"Muster the Rohirrim !"
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Dude that was great!
I see you’re also a man of DEEEEEEEAAAAATTH
Hey
My name is Rohan
That’s the sound a dad makes blowing his nose into a hankie.
4dshow thank you I had a good laugh
4dshow can confirm
😂
Disturbingly accurate
Ok zoomer.
This video is shot and cut so beautifully I haven’t even heard the horn and I’m still enthralled
Thankyou, that's really kind of you to say so!
My great uncle was a merchant navy man from Hartlepool. He remembers the foghorn from the Heugh lighthouse and can tell the difference between the sounds from different foghorns up and down the coast from Sunderland to Hull and beyond.
"Foghorn Technician" is the greatest job title I've ever heard
Foghorn Technicians Apprentice
Thank you ;)
Ikr
Being a technician of anything is pretty cool. If you love your work then you don't work a day in your life.
Can't imagine this is something that would catch on tho.. Everything is becoming simpler, and look at this stuff? It's quite complicated..
"The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep... one last time."
Robin you deserve more likes
And horn sound from rohan
Now to wrath, now to ruin.
If I heard that I would think that was a Tripod out at sea and I would be GTFO.
LOOL that was literally the first quote that came to my head! Then right as I scrolled your comment was the first to come up lmfao!
Fell deeds awake....
Came here after reading Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Foghorn," and I'm reminded of this passage in particular:
"One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shore and said, 'We need a voice to call across the water, to warn ships; I'll make one. I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was; I'll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying south, crying, and a sound like November wind and the sea on the hard, cold shore. I'll make a sound that's so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearts will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns. I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life'."...
Wow
That was beautiful
Outstanding
Dang that is deep
Thank you for that treat.
From the U.S. Hoo-Ray for Brian. This is a work of art. The sound has the true character of a fog horn. Not like the cheap new electronic weak kneed fog horns, no comparison. This should be preserved forever.
Thanks Harry, I'll pass that onto Brian, he'll be delighted!
@@jjjamieson4740 Thanks JJ. Both of you might like to see and hear my 500 pound Type "F", Diaphone fog horn on my you tube posting, Real Foghorns.
2:02 when you push your desk across the floor
Surreal Boy lol. Heavy wood screech xD
Surreal Boy
*Let me Move this Over heeeerrreeeee*
Floor, "Let me sing you the song of my people"...
xd
thats why u lift it and dont push it.
Imagine you hear this Horn and a few secounds later you see the Silhouette of Cthulhu in the Fog far away
I know many people won't get it 😉 👾
impending doom approaches
Plot twist: that’s exactly why they made this horn. They just don’t want anyone knowing until it’s time to prepare.
or godzilla
@@elcretin0605 yea but to be fair. Godzilla kinda accepted humans as far as i know.. Cthulhu on the other hand would mean Death and absolute madness
Love the old and beautifully maintained mechanical equipment.
I just wanted to say I periodically revisit this video because I love it so much. The simplicity, the sounds, the masterful editing. It always gives me goosebumps.
That's made my day Thankyou!
Who ever made this video I like your style. Short to the point, and showed how it works and how it sounds.
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@@dickJohnsonpeter y
@@AshikJonathan looks like someone doesn't have their own pants
@@donovanholm eeeeeeeeeeee
Guy: starts the horn
The island: *starts moving*
Did you mean to say 'mooing'?
Lol
RUN, ITS COMING!
“What about island? 3 Miles East!”
“No, it’s 2 miles, Sir!”
“1- 1 mile, Sir!”
“... It’s getting closer!”
“How the hell can it be getting closer?!”
....
“... Kaiju....”
I grew up in Duluth MN, I always loved to hear the fog horn on days like this.
It’s amazing to see how much goes into sounding one of those foghorns!
"Quick Bob sound the horn that ship is gonna crash!"
**45mins later, still carefully squirting oil**
Dammit Bob
You had one job Bob!
@@captain_noo You had one Bob job!
😅😅😅
Bro, lubrication is always important. *ALWAYS*
His name is Brian
I don’t know why I find this so cool. I love the way it was filmed. Someone has a knack for cinematography. Aces man.
Thanks Bob, I appreciate it!
JJ Jamieson : you did a great job. 👍👍🇨🇦
I find it really cool to lol 😂
bruuh the suspense gived me anxiety
I personally never seen a fog horn so I love the way it was filmed and it helps me know how they work, really cool
This man is an angel, guiding the souls of many sailors.
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Bystanders- ''That ship is about to hit the Coast!!!"
Lighthouse guy- "Give me like 15 bro. "
The loneliest sound in the world.
The Paranoid Blues Man and the most depressed sound of the world
The Paranoid Blues Man More sounds like a Godzilla fart
So true
LOL Currently there is 404 likes on this comment.
Gunna hate me for this but 667
Meanwhile people in a country nearby recording noises that they can't explain 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha :D Mystery solved
People in Belfast: HORNS IN THE SKY THE LORD RETURNS, REPENT YOU HEATHENS!
This is the best comment 😂😂
Hahahaha I thought of the same thing.
Norwegians pure shitting themselves like
I could listen to that all day. Magnificent.
One of a good few videos I will always rewatch.
I can imagine that sound would be freaking terrifying in a dark night...
Yes it would be, if you can't see the shore. Best thing to do drop your anchor and wait till daylight to enter the harbor.
But very comforting on a vessel out in fog before electronic aids made knowing your position at sea a trivial matter!
SpicyRaider not as terrifying as the sound of the hull splitting open on some rocks you’ve just smashed into
But in the 1800s, you could call batman with it.
@@imbhulu you're thinking of a lighthouse
2:00 you can hear Chewbacca stepping on a Lego
The fucking "lol" ruined it
@@2inturbo327 I will edit it
topkek m8s
Lmao
😂
Beautiful. How could you have kept it in pristine condition like a classic masterpiece? Magnifique!
This is so soothing and also scary as hell at the same time! Impressive machinery!
“So what’s all the machinery for?”
“Big toot”
big fart
BIG TOOT
I feel like i’m watching a wes anderson film
Gleppy Gloop yes!
Gleppy Gloop I was thinking that exact same thing
Lol true though
I appreciate this comment.
Yessss
Something about this is so majestic yet haunting
This is truly a masterpiece.
To us contemporary navigators, fog signals are obsolete as electronic nav instruments give us a continuous and accurate position in almost every circumstances.
However, even today they remain spooky and hit our imagination as by definition they indicate dangers: Hearing this in the distance without knowing where you are must have felt like wolves howling to a moose.
What kind of shitty navigator can't tell where the sound is coming from?
TH-cam: *recommended* “fog horn sound”
Me at 2am: 😳
5am 😂
The accuracy at reading this comment. Exactly at 2:00 am
Bruh it's actually exactly 2 am now 😂
3am 😂
3am
Man this thing takes a while to set up!
"Oi Dave, fogs here mate"
"Yeah alright let me set up the Foghorn"
"Fogs gone Dave"
Poor dave 🤣
Dave be like: bruh
no why they exist there purpose is to help sailors find dock
But they would run as long as there was fuel in the tank: weeks, if necessary.
Idk why but i read this in scottish accent
Wow! I love seeing old pumps and machines in such great shape! People these days don't appreciate stuffing that! Good job guys!
This is the most fascinating video, thank you! I love all the old technology still serving a very real purpose.
Thanks Michael, I appreciate that!
@@jjjamieson4740yes thanks for this! I own a 52 yr old British car that still serves it's purpose, built to last 🇬🇧
@@forestghost7 Awesome! What model is the car?
@@jjjamieson4740 firstly, THANKS for re - igniting my dormant passion for lighthouses, life got in the way ya know. The car's a 1972 MGB/GT ... we all know the reputation of Brit cars lol, but I got a good one. What a trooper it is 👍, just completed a 3000 mi. round trip Florida - N. Carolina. More to tell you if you like, just ask! 🙂
@@forestghost7 Beautiful car! Soft or hard top?
“Sir sound the alarm!!!!”
*15 minutes later, and halfway through the start-up process*
“Sir the ship has smashed into the rocks and everyone is dead...”
Josh King sounds about right
The sound of that horn with the misty, empty road is sobering and mournful.
Anywhere North of the cairngorms is like that at least once in the summer.
Light stations are the coolest!!
ozone8714 it’s weird to think I live here and there is 4mil views on this, idk, it just surprises me
how poetic
Did you watch the lighthouse?
All that could be replaced with smaller more efficient devices today . So glad they kept that wonderful piece of machinery that still works so well. I love old technology like that ,especially when so well maintained.
That played like good short film! Absolutely beautiful.
Now THIS is how all videos should be made. No music, no begging for likes or subscribers, and no endless blabbing before getting to the damn point. Well done!
Joey Landerno ikr
owh mai gawd gaiz i have this merch (which is just a shirt with my shitty logo on it) if yoo wike and subskwibe so i dont have to get a jawb thatd be sho great this is so cool its like a foghorn and stuff wow its so louad how kewl!!!
Joey Landerno well said
Amen brother! Amen!
Music all of its own. In fact all of it would make a great start to a song.
When engines were made to last centuries...
That is the only true way to measure quality. Low hours, low power output. consistent operating environment... yup that is quality.
It looks like a Lister diesel
@@MrJimbaloid Thanks for the info!
I mean what's the point in that? Even if it's static, you'll be getting it replaced in 2-3 decades at the most because things just get better.
@@accountname9506We have planes from the 50s and trains over 100 and automobiles and some old sewing machines too, America.
Now sure how I ended up here for the second time in a year watching a foghorn video. Still incredible.
Cheers Ryan, hopefully see you again next year!
When we moved to Buchan in Scotland in th 60s we lived a few hundred yards from the lighthouse and for the first 7 days we had the foghorn going continuously. Always sounds like home to me
Me:* has exam next day
My brain: Wonder how a Sumburgh Foghorn sounds like
TH-cam recommendation:
"You wonder what this foghorn sounds like"
CP facts
Are you live in Indonesia?
Been there
@@WantedbyDev nope bro
engineers: how complicated should the horn be?
everyone in the discussion:
"Yes"
@@WillyJunior me
Lol its pretty simple actually. You should of seen the bombing alert horns the brits used. They were powered by v8 American motors lol. That horn uses the best tech avail at the time.
@@andrew1898 Not sure how common the Chrysler V8 were in Britain, the more common sirens were rotary, for example the Gents' Syren, Castle Castings Siren and the Carter Siren
It's a pretty basic design actually basically looks like some compressors like on a ship hooked up to a mechanical timer
Not funny. Be quiet.
I'm high relaxed after this. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, thankyou!
WOW! That's just awesome! Like a Hitchcock movie or something! Feeling ominous, heavy anxiety and thrilled simultaneously!
I guess I didn’t realize there was so much involved sounding the horn!
Its really just 2 big old air compressors storage tanks and a timer
Ben Smith Still more than I thought. I assumed it was some guy blowing a trombone into a PA system.
@@andrew5184 PA system with such old technology? 😂
BlastForward I mean, I was kind of making a joke, but PA systems aren’t exactly new technology. And trombones predate both!
@@bensmith4563 that's the fart of a thousand beans
Imagine his job description: "I tend to toot my horn a lot"
So interesting!
What a simple yet beautifully put together video. Thank you for sharing this!
Thankyou, I'm glad you enjoyed it! JJ
OMG!!!!!!! This is beautiful! I appreciate this video greatly as a retired power plant operator who operated old school belt driven air compressors back in the day as well as maintained the city I live in air compressors and equipment that sounded the city's fire alarm system Gamewell Diaphone horns to alert the volunteer fire department to an alarm of fire
Thankyou, I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. I'd love to have heard the Diaphone horns
I feel like i can conquer the world with that horn on my side
All we have to do is find a huge bro who has enouth lungs to use this shit. Just imagine how it will blew away towwns...
@@Crazylom Yess😂😂😂
Cortana AI first you need to learn to conquer your spelling tests before you conquer the world
@@erswrld335 😂😂true true
Imagine hearing that at night all alone in the fog.
Ayrton Coetzee imagine hearing the chicago tornado siren alone in the fog that is the end of the world siren
Imagine that is my truck horn to get mother fuckers out of my way
Siren Head? Holy fucking shit
@@blitzkrieg7353 I guess I couldn't describe how much I would shit myself if that would ever happen
Hard a starboard
This is proably the most reassuring sound when you live in a place like this after a heavy storm.
I love to listen to this once in a while.
Has a very satisfying but suspenseful build-up.
Leads to a wonderful pay-of when the hauntingly beautiful horn blasts over the waves.
Amazing, and i will come back to this video again for sure.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
Hello from Shetland, thankyou for your lovely comment, I appreciate it!
Can't explain why, but this video is so satisfying.
Shots are great, sound is perfect... It just make me feel warm inside.
Great job!
Probably because there's no stupid, so-called, atmospheric music. It is what it is and nothing more; super stuff.
It's called ASMR
I get chills every time. I couldnt agree more
You must be an engineer or at least one of us who loves engineering.
@@ZilogBob Well, yeah. On road to become one :)
I feel like everything in this video is so clean and peaceful.
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Exactly. It's like mechanics asmr
Quiet, peaceful, serene. That is, until Bert Racoon wakes up!
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 Oh. My. God. I forgot about that show! Thank you for that.
Along with the vintage charm of the old machinery in the engine room, and the pendulum clock timer.
Just 😌👌
You can't beat old engineering.. absolutely amazing... 👍
Omg I'm obsessed with the satisfying clicks of the gears
Lets be honest you didn’t actually search for this
Same, didn't search for this.
TH-cam knows what I like
Lets be honest you’re not actually original for commenting that
I did six months ago but today I didn't
Thank god i found it though
I don't know why this was recommended to me, but it was beautiful
koenigscat same but I love getting there’s
same
This is the best example of "show not tell" ive ever seen... Hollywood better be taking notes.
Honestly one of the best pieces of media I've seen in a while
Lived next to the river forth as a child and I will never forget the fog horn , I loved it especially when going to sleep.
MMC 33 are u being sarcastic
Hi, so wat was the horns purpose ?
Was it to aware the the passing by ships ?
Like land is near or take precautions as its foggy or something..??
Just curious :)
@@RaghabPanigrahi its to warn passing ships that land is near at difficult weather conditions
Im also curious if thats a joke or not 😂
@@mikaeluhl some ppl prefer noise for sleeping, its a habit from childhoods, i used to fall asleep while the hoover was on n now as an adult the sound of hoovers makes me tired and calm
I was expecting to be dissapointed and hearing an MLG horn
Instead
I was not ready for this beauty
AHA yeah, I was expecting ear rape Smashmouth or Big Smoke going "AwwwWWWWW!, and the seagulls to drop dead out of the sky.
Beautifully filmed.
goldmine of sound design
0:20 He is lubricating the high pressure air compressor to prevent overheating. While also adjusting some of its equipment.
0:41 Turns on the high pressure air compressor. (Equipment used to compress air to a higher psi, so when the foghorn is sounded the air is trying to escape the horn faster than low psi air)
1:08 Opens the air bank valve (the high pressure air compressor stores high pressure air here for later use. By opening this valve he is most likely opening 2 pathways: 1 from the compressor to the bank, 2 from the bank to the foghorn)
1:33 Most likely a crude timer for the foghorn. Most countries use a time base for how frequent they sound their foghorns. U.S. is roughly every 2 minutes.
@Mathew Ross You would think right?
Thank you.
The port of LA sounds the angels gate twice every 60 seconds when it’s foggy due to the high traffic in and out of the port of la.. sadly it’s more of an electronic beep than a horn.. lot’s of fish around the rocks below the little light house building though
Great explanation 👌
Thank you so much for the explanation on what I watched, I was beyond clueless.
it's like he is arming a doomsday device
And this is how those Eerie Trumpet Sounds came from.
ACTIVATE THE DEVICE!
feel same
hes preventing doomsday for some sailors and their families.
The anticipation built into the cinematography of this piece certainly felt like something significant was going to take place. The thought of a pneumatically powered doomsday device, with riveted pressure vessels, and a low precision coder mechanism, really tickles my fancy.
i was rivetted watching this short video. Beautiful mechanics. The foghorn sound is incredibly soulful like the sound of crickets at night
Thanks Zella, glad you enjoyed it!
That was superb-the tension-building was very well done!
Thanks, I appreciate that
I loved the wordless documentary storytelling! :)
Jimmy Lostigen .
Agree
Yeah
Everything I wanted to know delivered within my attention span it would of taken channel 5 an hour to do that
Any suggestion link of video or channel on youtube of that?
"Show, don't tell." Often speaks greater volumes.
Why does this keep getting recommended EVERY year or so? This is the third time I'm watching this satisfying video lmao
Google doesn't always take you where you want to go, sometimes it takes you to where you need to be.
@@kg4boj deep
The description says it's an annual thing, maybe this is recommended every time it's played
Every time it's seriously foggy.
Lucky you, I've just seen it once now
Just another Tuesday in Scotland. It's honest work.
Thank you for your quality filmmaking.
Thanks Adam K, I'm glad you appreciated it!
My 10 mother old grandson and I watch over and over!
Thanks Susan, I'm really glad you guys enjoy it!
“Why's it bad luck to kill a gull? “
- “In 'ems the souls of sailors what met their maker.”
I literally finished watching that 2 hours ago, what a masterpiece! Randomly saw this and clicked because that sounds was fresh in my mind and was interested
Fantastic movie. Seen it twice since it's release.
@@OEGOD can i get your opinion on why is it a fantastic movie? I watched it and I felt like i wasted 2 hours, staring at a wall would be more entertaining, i just didn't get it.
@@larrybaken595 what movie?
what movie
This is so beautifully made
Thankyou!
Lisa Mena o
i was about to say the same thing, fantastic cinematography. felt like belonged in thriller!
Ikr?
so are you
Tention builds up, while satisfyingly spiffy machinery ticking, and it culminates with cinematic and magnificent foghorn. a masterpiece.
Thank you Brian for such a great restoration.
Me when my parents are still asleep: *tiptoes around, making sure not to make a noise*
My parents when I'm asleep:
stupid phucking idiot STFU
@@rjp801 why you so salty?
@@rjp801 lol relax there, kid
@@auser2045 He's been out at sea for too long...
Dude ur 28 you should move out already...
The cinematography in this video is just excellent. Great editing and direction as well. Thank you for uploading to this site a video that actually makes good use of proper filmic conventions. I find that I keep coming back to this video just to...well, _watch_ it!
Wow is that you gary oldman?
You're easy to please obviously. 2:23 of my life I'll never get back.
I appreciate how this transports me back to a time when things were simpler than today - no internet, no social media, no power-crazed world leaders. It's actually quite calming. Thank you.
I can agree with you-- power hungry leaders are nothing new though
The filming was on a hole other level for what it was filming. Good job.
Such beautiful suspense throughout. Well made.
I hear that! LOVE the close-ups of the different parts operating and setting up for the blast. There's definitely something to be said for old-fashioned machinery. Modern electronics just can't improve on some forms of perfection!
yeah. the sound of a desk moving on the floor is truly amazing.
Sorry I can’t take you seriously when I look at your profile picture
Zappa👍👍👍
This is just so good. Love your edit and use of sound. Amazing work.
Audio technician, I love you, super great and clean sounds. Also the video is lovely, would love to live there
Interesting video didn’t realise so much went into it.. also was waiting for a Viking longship to come out of the mist at the end
SHIELD WALL!!
Those Vikings were probably wondering if they had been welcomed to Valhalla by Odin himself blowing his horn. Nope... You lads just got lost.
VIKING SHIPS COME OUT OF THE MIST OMINOUS SIGHT!!!!
The sound could be heard up to 20 miles away in poor visibility. It was last used in 1987
And how far away can it be heard in good visibility? 😆
what are you on about. they just used it there now.
@@eddherring4972 In all conditions 23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi)
@WE WUZ VIKANGS!!! n shiet. this was clearly filmed recently your logic doesn't hold up.
WE WUZ VIKANGS!!! n shiet. That makes no sense
Wow! I've never seen anything like this! The steps and machinery involved! I hear these as I live on Canada's east coast, so I have a new appreciation for the haunting yet beautiful sounds and how they are made!
I remember those old oil cans ! I used to have quite a collection. Lost them all in hurricanes. Nice fog horn !!