New Primitive Technologies Discussion

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school I wanted to have a discussion with you today about some items that I picked up at a flea market but I also want to talk to you a little bit about history and why I think history is important to our self-reliance so let's first look at this axe that I picked up yesterday and this is a hand forged axe you can see the board's weld seam here and here on this axe so it's a high carbon steel and boarded axe with a straight handle it's very good as far as the bit width it has a very wide bit so it's going to be good for splitting it has a narrow profile so it's going to be fairly good for fine carving it also has a nice up sweep here where you can get your hand in there like a carpenter's axe to do fine carving work and have your hand in center profile the blade and I think that's important if you're going to do fine carving work with your acts like a cracking act or something like that so this axe really fits a lot of bill it has a good square bit our square pole on the back of it for pounding nails or steaks things like that it is an act it's not a tomahawk it has a wedge hammered into the handle but this axe would fit the time period anywhere from the seventeen hundred's to the current era obviously blacksmiths are still making access to this day been making them since low before the seventeen hundreds but it is a good example of a hand forged axe that you can pick up fairly cheaply if you keep your eyes open now one of the things that I really find interesting about history and where it relates to self-reliance is when you get into the period of the pre twentieth century to early early twentieth century you're talking about like 1880s to 1920's 1930's

there was a lot of melding of knowledge that went together in that time period where you had things that were still old time but you had technologies that we use even still today we're meshing together at that time and I wanted to talk about a couple examples of things that I picked up at that flea market the first one has this Dietz Hurricane Lantern number 2 blizzard later and you can if you pick up a lantern like this you can if it says me to the USA on the top of it like this one does USA New York you can't look at the cap where you fill and go up here on the side of the frame and it will have stamped in there what date that Lantern was made this one says US patent date 1913 has a couple other numbers in the last numbers s 42 which means it was made at the syracuse plant in New York in 1942

so there's Lander was made in 1942 but the original patent of this Lantern was from like 1911 1913 I can't remember right on my head early nineteen hundred's and this type lighting was used even in the late 1800s they were using draft type lanterns like this not only for lighting their homes but for lighting their camps for lighting their way in and out of mines and things of that nature to gold panning during the gold rush era and understanding how to maintain a lantern like this and how to use a lantern like this can be very important to our long-term suffering lions because lanterns like this are still available today we still use them today they're just as viable today as they weren't 1890s to the 1920s when you buy a lantern like this a couple pieces of advice I would give you is look at the bottom of the lantern to make sure that there's no holes in the bottom of the words rusted out that's generally where they rust out first and they'll leak fluid that you can fix them with j-b weld it's not too bad off but if you can find one that's in good condition you're better on I paid $35 from this Lantern to me $35 in good price for an old lantern that's in good shape and this one works just as good now as it did the day was made and you lift these trap lanterns up and that lifts your draft housing up here and lifts the globe up off of the burner the burner has a wick that goes down into the tank or kerosene these were kerosene burning type lanterns and then it has an adjustment here we can lift the whip up and down to light the lantern so we're going to light this Lantern real quick but that brings us to another piece of technology and that is the match and I picked up this 10 at the same flea market for two dollars this is actually a 10 10 that has been soldered together this is a handmade 10 I'm just going to use this for a tinder match 10 any more traditional type camp and matches something else that was a new technology of the late 1800s Early 1900s but technologies that we still use today and again that new technology was starting to meld with the old this is a strike-anywhere match they also had booked matches in the late 18-hundreds 1889 I believe booked matches were patented and matches were a reliable source of instant flame now today we have things like deck lighters that obviously are better source of insta flame in most cases that a match but the match at that point strike-anywhere match was

the choice in the period we drop this down we can adjust this flame up and down figure of us the desired amount of light level that we need so kerosene lanterns and matches were readily available from the 1880s different types of matches were being manufactured all the way up to the 1900s when they started creating the safety matches strike-anywhere match things of that nature and these lanterns are the same way they were available in the late 1800s still available today and the technology of this Lantern and the way this Lantern works especially for emergency preparedness or for long-term self-reliance is just as viable today as it was that understanding how to maintain lanterns like this is a very important part of self-reliance so the next thing I want to look at with you guys is this Carvajal happen this lamp I picked up for 20 bucks 20 dollars and I have taken it apart and cleaned it very thoroughly and again understanding how to maintain things like this can make them just as viable today as they were when they were manufactured and the guy dropper lamp which was what this was originally called named after the person that invented it and the dropping of water we'll talk about that in just a minute his patent was sold to the universal company Universal lamp company in 1932 so this lamp was probably made after 1932 but these carbide lamps were used very much in mining and things like that all the way up into the 1960s and they're still used today by a lot of caver me precedence of this lamp again is new technology to the time just as viable today but there's a blend of even more technology that we're familiar with today

within this lamp the way this lamp works is it has a chamber here it has a chamber here the technology of the acetylene lambreaux is called the carbide lamp is that you would fill this chamber with calcium carbide you would then put that on the bottom of this chamber screw shut you would fill the upper chamber with water and you had a flow valve on the top that controlled the amount of dripping water that came from here into the calcium carbide when water makes contact with calcium carbide it creates an acetylene gas now two settling gas would rise up through this housing there's a hole in the bottom of this upper housing now acetylene gas would rise up through the housing come out in this port you would control how much gas was released from this lower chamber by the drip of the water into this lower chamber with this lamp you had a new technology because you had a fair cerium striker and what you had was you have a small screw port right here that has spring and a piece of ferrocerium in it just like you have in bic lighters today almost the same size and you had a striking wheel here I don't have a flint in here right now or a piece of ferrocerium in here right now but you strike this as the gas escaped and it would light this torch so you would have a small acetylene torch that became a lantern and had a clip on here to go in the front of a mining helmet so it could be hand-carry or used on the front of the helmet as a lighting device why you are mining the very cool little piece of Americana again just as viable today as it was when it was made calcium carbide I apologize I can't like this up for today I've got the calcium carbide on order I haven't gotten it yet but I have checked the functionality of this lamp to make sure that all the ports are clean that the water drips the way supposed to the Chamber's clean down I have to replace the ferrocerium inside here I'm taking this all apartment lead in so it's ready for that there so I get this thing working I'll definitely show it you guys they're very very cool devices but those type things are very important for us to understand because you can find these type items at sales and flea markets that are just as viable today as they were when they were made and understanding the history of these items and how they work can lead us to be more sufferin lion in the future because again you may find things like this that you might need to use for lighting purposes and if you understand how they operate how to maintain them repair them and function them you're much better on I think that it's important for us to be totally self-reliant that we understand these older technologies I think that a lot of people focus very heavily on what I would call primitive skills and primitive skills meaning primitive as in cord making basket making friction fire and all the things that you can do off the landscape but we also need to understand that we don't live off the landscape in this day and age and there's always going to be that house or that farm or that homestead and these things may be available to us and if we understand how to manufacture things like blacksmithing if we understand how to refurbish things like these old lanterns we understand the general makeup and we can identify how tools have been made and how sturdy they might be for our needs those things are important to us to understand as important if not more then those primitive skills that we practice every day I'm Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining through this video I thank you for everything you do for our school for our family for our business for all of our instructors sponsors affiliates and Friends back the other video since I can thanks guy

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