Impressed, entertained and informed by that nice little film. Great job.

Love this video. I enjoyed you show us all theses Lanterns and torches. I have always had a fascinating for lights. I have never camped out anywhere but would love to try it some day. Thanks for this video Simon.

Pressure lamps are a labor of love..

Love them old Tilly lamps, I used to work on British Rail back in the day and remember whole night shifts illuminated by rows of them all hissing away...👍

My childhood imagination for night campaign tools ,, you have awesome collection

Thanks a lot. This was exactly what I needed to prepare for the eventually of a black out....

I have always enjoyed those beautiful paintings by Thomas Kincaid and his use of light. Light conveys so much good!

The second example of lanterns is a very old style, and it was originally made to burn K-1 kerosene, also known as white kerosene. However, you will get a cleaner burn if you use lamp oil, as it is a more refined paraffin product, and so emits less smoke and smell. Having sold and serviced kerosene heaters I can assure you this; always bring along a spare wick in a zip-tight bag. If a wick gets wet it will not work, and humidity tends to accumulate in the wick and in the tank. When storing for long periods they should be emptied, left open and have the wick removed and discarded.

Beautiful video!! Really like the vintage lamps and lanterns...

Never loose your connection to the cave.. Just wanted to put that out there.Stay positive and thrive.

This was a very illuminating video.

@jamesellsworth9673

5 жыл бұрын

Gasp!...Cough...Cough!

@andykjohnsonjohnson7622

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@simonablokeinthewoods

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you have shown you the light and hopefully brightened your day! 😂😁

@hermit6208

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, I see what you did there. 😉

@FfblastBlogspot

5 жыл бұрын

Badum tsss

My kind of video like 👍 flashlight 🔦 great options to use thank you so much 😀🎈🎈🎈🎆 bushcraft is great enjoyment to do.

Hello from the us. Nice video of the style of lamps you use. Coleman and Dietz are the ones I use. Enjoy your time in the woods 😉

Loved this my favourites are the hurricane lights bring back happy memories of camps in North Wales too long ago to admit !!! Love your channel keep up the excellent work ....

Great summary, I really ‘ get ‘ the appeal of the lanterns, I’ve recently bought some and looking forward to testing them out. Cheers

Great vidio. Really nice collection

Maggie is a cute dog

I used to work for a communications carrier, we were all issued with a pair of the wick-type kero lamps for their heating capacity. Hung beneath an opened section of lead-sheathed paper-insulated telephone cable, they would emit enough heat to keep the paper insulation dry preventing moisture buildup after the sheathes were plumbed shut with a tin/copper solder stick ot three.

Dear Simon, thanks for showing all your different and usefull camp lights. The introducing of these Paraffin lantern made by Feuerhand (Foyer-hunt), makes me remembering times in the early 80ties. My dad had used two of them in red, standing on little pedestrials just on the wall, beside the garden bench. Stay healthy and "Good path" from the Lower Mountain Range the Eifel. Alex

@simonablokeinthewoods

5 жыл бұрын

They’re great aren’t they! Thanks for the pointer on pronouncing Feuerhand too! The German language isn’t my strong point!! 😂😁👍 cheers Alex!

@johnlorraine4978

Жыл бұрын

Grüß aus Düren :))

Good to see you're a fellow sufferer of paraffinitis Simon. I'm a lover of lamps, stoves, Lavvus and canoes etc too. Nice video...nothing like a lamp tree. I used all this stuff as a kid so they are a great memory trigger of when the world was simpler. Brilliant channel by the way...hooked.

29 years ago I bought a Coleman kerosene pressure lamp which proved to be light & more compact than similar LPG lamps because it didn't need the bulk & weight of a gas bottle. I had to replace the "O"ring in the pump because it had perished, a $2 pack of 50 assorted sizes of rings provided the necessary item. Before mains electricity arrived in the 1950s in our rural area, my late father's parents had a dual-mantle shellite pressure lantern in the kitchen which apparently supplied a similar illumination level to a 120 watt incandescent bulb. Shellite burns cleaner & brighter than kerosene in a home environment.

@simonablokeinthewoods

4 жыл бұрын

Those old lamps were built well and built to last! I love it when we have a power outage and I can light up kerosene lamps in the house (the only time my wife will allow it!! 😂)

Exactly one year late in viewing - I am not very far from done watching them all☺🙂 - I too love the pressurized lamps - mine was the Coleman growing up. I just had to pump it up and then light that mantle - which when I was a kid I seem to remember watching it crumble a few times when Dad would let me light it. He never got upset but always had a couple extra to tie on. Of course, as I got older I had figured out how to do it without even thinking about it. Then I would sit and read by the lantern and swat bugs who were attracted to the light. I remember swatting June bugs out of the air as they flew toward the lantern and listening to them smack the table, ground, or trees in the surrounding darkness. Too long a comment I know - my excuse - great memories have you brought to this old man with the hissing lanterns on a night of camping. cheers - and thanks once again

@simonablokeinthewoods

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ken - nostalgic things they are! The smell of those kerosene lamps brings back floods of memories! 👍🔥

Someone who shares my passion for flashlights and lanterns subbed.

Very interesting! My favorite is the green paraffin lantern I agree...the sound of the pressure lanterns is comforting. 👍😎

I did some dodgy maths & figured that a litre of paraffin is about £2.50 & could output 60hrs of light in a Feuerhand. a UCO candle is £3 if you're lucky & provides 9 hours of light. The feuerhand delivers light at 4p per hour whilst a UCO is going to be 33p per hour, over 8x more expensive than paraffin. I love my Feuerhand baby special 276.

Sir, your's are the first videos I have ever commented on. Thank you for being real, engaging, entertaining, and educating.

@simonablokeinthewoods

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Quentin. 👍👍👍

Airy's family reunion!

The ol' Feuerhand is really a favourite. Makes me really nostalgic about my time with the boy scouts. We're talking back in the days... Cheers!

@frankconley6321

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, turned low a good one would last all night at the outhouse (Boy Scouts)

If you hold down the bug light button for 20 seconds, it will reset the programming to give you high, low, and blink. You have to do it each time you change the battery. Handy little lights. I have a few. Cheers!

Great collection, thank you for sharing ,I'm kind of old school myself ,but I have a lot of solar powered, have a blessed day🚦🖒🇺🇸

I love that little Limo light! Never seen that before? At least not in my local gear shops. Your time is greatly appreciated Simon. Thanks so much for sharing friend.

@johnpotter4750

4 жыл бұрын

I like the Lumo, ideal. But coin batteries and 5hours, no !

Wow I like antique thinks love from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

A man after my own heart with a light fetish. Ive got all the same ones. Nice to see them all used together. Your right about the pressure lanterns. The light, the warmth and the gentle hiss, very hypnotic, actually i think i'll go off to light one now. Cheers Simon

Wonderful to see you shed some Light on these old lampa. You really brightened my day!

@simonablokeinthewoods

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 cheers Daniel!

I Dont Understand . . . How Can N E Body Dislike Such An Informative Educational Video . . . Great Video . . . Cheers . . .

Their is a LED adapter bulb for minimag and maglites ! And does improve light output as well as durability. I was forever dropping the lite and breaking bulbs, Still clumsy but havent needed to fix lite since.

Very nice warm light that those lanterns put out. Thank you for sharing.

Hi Simon, another great video. Whilst serving in the army years ago we relied upon the pressurised lamps a great deal (HPP lamps), but we never had access to two fuels, we would pre-heat by placing a lump of hexi-block inside and lighting it, always worked a treat!

Another good vid Simon. Thank you.

I remember the 6 D cell batterie mag light

Great video! Love lights!

I use an empty white opaque pill bottle and put it over the end of my Mini Maglite. It fits snug over the head so it doesn't fall off and hung from the inside of a tent gives a nice light to illuminate the whole tent with a soft white light. It works well as an anchor light for a boat as well.

@simonablokeinthewoods

3 жыл бұрын

Genius idea! Thank you. 👍👍

@martyharless5097

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonablokeinthewoods it may sound like a genius idea to you but it took me decades to even think about it. I've had maglites for decades now and I've been camping for decades and I just thought about it only less than a year ago. I'm a little bit slow. I think what made me think about it was an anchor light for my boat which uses an opaque white lens and then seeing my pill bottles in the cabinet and one of them happened to fit just perfectly over the head of a Maglite nice and snug. A little bit of kerosene or lamp oil or charcoal fluid will remove labels very nicely. Take a paper towel or napkin and wrap it around the bottle and squirt a little bit of the fuel on it and let it sit for a while. After maybe a couple of hours or so you can peel the label right off and then clean up all of the adhesive goo with the same paper towel. Thanks for uploading your videos. If it were not for people doing that they would be left to coming up with ideas on their own which can be few and far between.

I've always kept a uco in every vehicle no matter how cold it gets a candle can help keep a truck cab warm enough to survive a blizzard. There are candle molds out there now for their candles. I've also carried a minimag for decades. Have a 2-AAA model in my headboard all the time. Have many LED lights but they just are going backwards. The advantage of LEDs was originally the power consumption. Now they keep making them brighter and brighter so now ya end up with a light with 30 minute battery life. I have a petzl headlamp that has been hardcore abused, completely underwater and sprayed down with hoses it is bullet proof and lives on my hardhat. It is about 20 yrs old has the spot and flood lens with the turbo, and uses 3 AAA lasts about 6 months. With me being an electrician and spending 8+ hrs a day in the dark that is saying something. My olight that is a EDC atm may be swapped out for one of the military type streamlights. Streamlight 10 tap was my EDC for quite awhile work and otherwise. It just plain didnt survive abuse day in and day out after about 1.5 yrs. I am starting to think though for ease of use Luci solar lanterns are the best for camping, especially the 2.0 model. I prefer the lamp oil wick type for the porch filled with citronella oil. Used the pump white gas type for years on the AT.

I really enjoyed this video.

Hi Simon, Love the old lanterns. :)) Kind of a nostalgic person myself. Maglite i still have for sentimental reasons (Army Nato Exercise), headlamp with a glowbulb i gave to the guy from the energycompany back in the day, i felt sorry for him.. :) Brought a stormlantern with me once, leaked af. Never again. I do however bring old gravelights with me sometimes. Get them at graveyards from dumpsters, i get my water there too. (Long distance cycling treks) Ps i do own a Coleman Powerhouse. and tried it today for the first time but i have to replace the pumpseal.

Very helpful comparison. That Olight is amazing! Thanks, Simon!

Nice collection 👍

After playing Red Dead Redemption 2, I like the look of the Feuerhand lanterns. I'll have to get one sometime.

Good video, thank you. I have some paraffin lamps, "hurricane lamps" or "kerosene lanterns" in the US parlance. One element of the Fuerehand lantern you omitted is that it's the only lantern being made in Germany still. There are no US manufacturers any more. Deitz is made in China. Fuerehand is also one of the few (only?) to use silicon-boron glass in the globe. The US trade name for this was Pyrex. This not only makes it tougher, but it's the only globe that can be hot from being lit, and then go out into the rain and not shatter. They're about 2x the price of the next-nicest (WT Kirkman, in the US), but if you camp in inclement weather, it may be worth while. For whatever reason, I decided one day that I needed to know what the difference was between no-name Chinese lanterns, low-level name brands, and then some of the premium brands. So I have lanterns ranging in price from a couple dollars to $45. The short version is that the really cheap ones have globes with poor clarity and quality. You get a noticeably better light from a Deitz and WT Kirkman lantern, and it's really due to the quality of the globe. The Fuerehand light isn't any better than these last two, but it is German-made, and has the shatterproof glass, if that matters. And, I prefer the silence of the kerosene lamps to the hiss. We all get our choices!

@simonablokeinthewoods

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You’ve certainly done your research! Good to know, cheers! 👍

Wau.... nice and knowledgeable video so i like it and appreciate you

Maybe 10 years ago we were on holiday in Denmark. We stopped at a garage sale and I spotted two brand new Coleman paraffin lamps. 100 danish corner each. Say about 10 pounds a pcs. I did not really need them an decided not to buy them. A decision I regret to this day..... Very nice the review. THe paraffin lamps with a wick are very useful. I find transport to be a bit of a problem. You need to keep them upright, even weh6you empty the tank.

Excellent review!

Thanks Simon.

Excellent review, showing everything from candles to led lights ...each has there place although I lean old school but do have an led headlight that I can't seem to live with out....thanks

Another great video Simon. Keep up the good work!!

Love the lanterns and the music Simon , nice to see the collection

Great video Simon, thanks for putting the effort in to making it - very enjoyable to watch

Simon , thanks for sharing

As always Great Video Simon thanks for Sharing 👍🍻 Cheers

Just amazing!!!

Always enjoy your videos , some reel innovative lights and torches.

These gear possibilities videos are so useful, for outdoor newbies such as myself. Please keep doing them, for your different kit elements.

Great collection of lanterns, Bro.

Thank you Simon fantastic video on different lights, top man Padraig in Tipperary

Hey Simon... Great Vid... Thank you

Great video Simon nice collection there :)

Gas lamps make a great sound when it’s silent at night, I use one for night fishing. Love it 😊

Past winter the power was out for 16 days. Used a deitz lantern to heat the bedroom and give light the entire time. One day id like to install a wood burning stove in the basement.

One can put the Mini Maglite rear part into its reflector (candle use), which then works as a base. Thanks, Simon... as I feel a lot less lonely about stoves and lights 😁

Another great vlog .love the pressurised parafin lamps ☺️

Maggie’s light is so cool!

Just brilliant :-) Thank you so much for taking the time to share* I have now subscribed

Good review. Enjoy seeing many of the same lights that I use as well. Cheers

Awesome vid , very informative thanks for the effort

great review Simon

Good video Simon

Brilliant video of your Lanterns , Lamps and Lights they were all great , I like the hissing of the paraffin Lanterns when I go camp, take care Simon

Love your video

I love all alluminating lights and the mood it creates.

Excellent and very helpful, as always thank you Simon 👍😁

Great video mate, 👍

Excellent video Simon great collection of lights you have got.Thanks for sharing!!

Belter Simon thank you.

Love this channel.

Lovely. informative video Simon.......... I really enjoyed it! Lynn XOX

Nice little pieces of history you have there good sir.

Great video

great video

Thanks for all the effort you put into this video. Very nice. :)

Well Simon its great to know iam not the only one who likes lamps and cookers and knives great video ATB

Love the old school paraffin wick one aswell and the led lights but each to their own 👍

Hi Simon great video as always very enlightening excuse the pun .... The old paraffin lights look great nice to see something so lovingly restored.. 👍👍Keep up the good work looking forward to your next one 👍👍👍

Cool video Simon cheers...

Excellent video Simon. . and really appreciate the links. That was very helpful of you chap.

Thank you Simon for a enlightening video. Nice collection.

@simonablokeinthewoods

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Great video Thanks for sharing! I love the old air pressure lanterns, I have several of the Coleman brand lanterns

After a crappy day at work this video Brightens my day. Yes I know that was lame. Cool video 💡💡💡💡

@simonablokeinthewoods

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Cheers buddy! 👍

@Gegs12

3 жыл бұрын

Remember Lame is only one letter away from Lamp . So I guess your joke is brighter than you thought.

*Hello, myfriend, Good jobs. Great videos. Happy holidays camping trips.*

Great video Simon 👍, I luv my lanterns. There way better than , battery power. Plus you get warmth from them, if you need it. 😜

Great job! Been researching lately and this helped a lot!