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I think the carbide technology needs to be explored again. My dad worked on a ranch in California in the 1950's,they still used this technology. You are right Robert, we can learn from history.

I love watching you document and preserve what you find on your property. I am ordering a Bully stick for searching my property. I have a sink hole that happened with the spring thaw. I can see in the hole a cement block, straight wall and I think it is a foundation of something from a long time ago. I need to figure out how big it is and then we want to see what is maybe buried in the old foundation before we start the process of fixing the hole. Wouldn’t be awesome if it is like a privy and filled with wonderful old stuff? We will see. My summer project.

I’m so glad you are preserving all of its history. Everything you discover and research, shows the way life was. I applaud you for all the hard work, but am sure you are enjoying every step. I look forward to your next video. From Texas The Lone Star State 🌟

My great grandparents hit a natural gas vein when they tried to dig a well. Their Victorian home had gas lights and a gas stove from the gas pocket they hit. Worked well except when there was a strong NW wind which dimmed the lights and stove. Great grandma showed me the pipe in the kitchen in 1954. Free gas until electricity came in northern Illinois.

If you watch Cole the Cornstar you would see the soil probe used to check for graves. His family digs graves for several local cemeteries and they don't want to dig a new grave where there is already a grave. They are, of course, very respectful doing the grave digging.

What a good idea, making a well house around that thing. Most people have probably never heard of such a thing, let alone have the opportunity to see one.

Fascinating video about gas lighting, always wondered how the lights worked way back then. I love ❤️ these videos ... Have a great day, everyone. Remember to smile and be Kind to Everyone. God bless 🙌

Amazing how advanced they were then. Thank you for showing and explaining this.

I love history! To know how gas was brought to homes before electricity is fascinating!

Enjoy your videos, anyway you should take the period bricks to make a pad around the ring of the generator as a floor for your well house. Think about it.

What ever you do, Robert, don't bend down too close to those revengeful Wisteria roots .

carbide for home lighting started around 1904 as a kid several rural neighbors of ours still had it. car and motorcycle head lights were originally carbide too!

Those birds Crack me up. Good video.

Well house will display the carbide generator nicely. Love the look of well houses. By the way, excellent plaid shirt. Looks great.

I just love the way you persevere our history ❣️❣️❣️❣️

That was interesting. Good job Robert. 👏

Great video Robert 👍. I had to laugh, every time you started to talk so did the birds. Then when you stopped they did too 😂 😂.

Absolutely nothing to be sorry about Robert, you have educated many people (including me) about the carbide acetylene generator, I'm a 65 yo city boy who never heard of that technology, thanks.

Very interesting facts of gas lighting back then and the ingenuity behind it. A well house over it will look nice as well. Preserving history! 👏🤗🌸👍🏠

Thank you for preserving historical homes and other things!

Hi Robert 👋 👋 👋 a good job preservation for the old Byrd farm house 🏠 it's all part of the history of the place all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 🇬🇧

Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on just be careful

Thank you for sharing your work with us. God bless.

Enjoy your channels. Wow you are such a hard worker. Thanks

Thats really awesome....hugs

Darn wisteria! Darn rain! Interesting video today, Robert. Thanks for taking the time to film.

Enjoyed the video , great finds and very historical keep up the good work its looking good

Love the history you're bringing up. My great grandparents bought a farm in Eastern Washington State in 1908. There was a huge barn there in the yard. They had to tear it down some time around 1975 because it was in a low spot and moisture had taken its toll on the bottom sills of the structure. I think it would've taken $5,000 or more to repair and make a proper foundation for it but sentimental as that side of the family was, they didn't want to spend that much. It was alot of money back then. I was just 3 years old and only barely remember the outside of the barn. My dad said there were huge hand hewn timbers inside and it think he said there were mortice and tenon joints in the timbers. He also said there were carbide lights inside that he thought could still work. I know my great grandfather had dairy cows. Just not sure when he stopped that but he retired in 1946 or 48. My grandma used to tell me that even though it was mainly wheat and barley farm, the dairy cows got them through the Great Depression, delivering milk to Medical Lake, WA.

When I was in charge of the grounds at our local resort hotel I had a soil probe like that, to look for irrigation pipes and other related things. As for the Guinea Foul in one of the county parks in Ocean County (NJ) they brought in a bunch of Guinea Foul specifically to eat ticks in the woods. Oh, and on your previous video, I forgot that I wanted to comment on your mystery plant. It looked like a yucca, though I don't often see them with a tall stem. I usually see them with the leaves coming out at or just above ground level. As for that tank for the acetylene generator, in the mean time before the well house gets built you could put a trash can lid over it to keep the rain out.

Morning Robert got my tea

This was a good video and knowledge for people who didn’t know anything about this way of lighting old homes before electric.

That carbide generator is very interesting, and goo that you will be putting up a little cover over it, with what it is. also glad that you dug up more of those bloody wisteria vine roots out as well, as long as they are in the ground they have a chance to grow, and NONE of us want that, ever again on that farm!..Watching you every day form here in upper Northwest Illinois, where the temp FINALLY got up in the low 60's today!! Gonna go out and get our old caddie washed🙂

Fascinating!

Wonderful information. This is amazing. I wonder if my grandparents had a setup like this.

Wow learning something new every day. Ground probe. BTW love the shirt.

You could probably have a wonderful veggie garden looking at the color of that soil

When I was a lad, I worked in the offshore oilfields of Louisiana as part of my training as a petroleum engineer. We used acetylene for cutting and welding from carbide generators rather than the modern practice of transporting acetylene tanks from the shore base. That was the summer of 1966, we worked seven days on and seven days off for $600/month as college boys, and we earned our money. The field personnel planned their work schedule so that all of the heavy physical tasks were waiting for us when we showed up. Those were the days my friends, we thought they would never end.

I missed earlier video so thank you for explaining what a acetylene generator is, you are right about lost technology I didn't know they had systems like this for lighting before electricity, and the lit up house must've been a marvel in it's day.

My friend is so excited about her new baby Guinea fowls. I don't think she has any idea how noisy they are. I'm just glad she doesn't live next door. You're doing a great job.

It would be neat to get it working somehow if only to light up the "Wellhouse" so people could see it in action.

I figured you had a plan for saving it. It would be cool to find one that is still being used. And I must add that you look very good in red flannel!

Thank you Sir Robert, for the birds " music" , you could record them and sale their beautiful sound of the country side at the Old Birds Farm. I would buy it. CD or what else there is? I have no idea what is available today. At 78, I stop keeping tract with technology too many changes I don't need anymore. I admire all the work you and all the people who help you beautify that special place. please be safe. God bless you.

Do you have any pictures of the original house in its early days? If so, please indulge us…

I love the time lapse I like to see actual work being done lol

Dawns here ☀️

Once you get all that surface trash picked up you should get searching the yard with a good metal detector. Many have ferrous metal canceling so you could find some treasures, but i would try to dig everything possible to unearth some relics and clean the ground. You never know you may find enough history to piece together more of the properties own history. Keep up the preservation, its looking better all the time.

I hear you fine over the ginnies (sp). They bring back good memories for me. My mother hated them because they belonged to my grandmother but liked to congregate below my mom's window.

Robert, as active as you are, I can't imagine how much you would have gotten accomplished if it hadn't rained for nearly a year straight 😀🤣😂.

Robert do you know how long the wisteria roots stay viable and can still grow? Or will you be fighting this plant the rest of your life?

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I don’t miss a day I love history . Do you feel as will as you did before you had cOVID-19 sometime I can tell you don’t feel good I did pray for you I lost a son about your age with Covid last year keep up the good job 🙏🏼👩🏻🇺🇸

Robert you need to buy some Fiskars Lopper. They will cut though that Wisteria like butter, and save your hand some hurt by using the pruner. Enjoy watching you clip that Wisteria, LOL.

When I think of that kind of gas, I also think of the torches that were fueled by them. I think my grandfather worked with one and my father too.

The old farm house where my husband's great-grandmother used to live had interior gas light fittings with off/on keys and glass shades, but they had not been connected since the house was hooked up to electricity. Most of the larger Victorian houses I've seen were located in cities or towns, where the gas was piped to the property from a municipal source. So weird the things that never occur to us...I've heard "Union Carbide" my whole life and never had a clue what it was. Poor Robert...here I am fussing over my poor wisteria plants, waiting every day for the flowers to bloom, while you're practically smothered by the stuff. (Southern California is dry, and I keep my wisteria in containers). My nemesis is the 80 year-old ivy that's swallowed the old chain link fence out back and keeps growing up the sides of the garage and the trees back there.

Gravediggers will use those to keep from excavating a previously used site.

The noise is certainly worth it to get rid of ticks1

Robert, why don't you lay a small piece of that tin on top of the acetylene pump to help keep rain water out for now? It's not like you don't have any, right... 😉 LOL. It will also help block it off from anything accidentally falling into it until you get your structure built around it. I love watching the Old Byrd Farm come back to life. You and Aaron have made such a difference out there. I had no idea that wisteria was so invasive. I always wanted to have some but definitely not now. Great job out there!

Growing up on a farm In the early 60s. There was a lot of carbide around old barns. Us boy would take it make bombs with it. Made a good bang.

Better Luck next time!!!!

Absolutely fantastic and fascinating Robert, never heard of a carbide generator, but I have miners lamps run by carbide, was it exclusive to the U.S , as never know of them here in the UK 🤔

My yard used to have a lot of ticks too. I took a broadcast spreader and a few bags of granulated Diazinon and that problem ended rather quickly. About every other year I also spread it around the outside of the house to get rid of ants.

I used to help a lady out around her home sometimes when I lived in Michigan for several years, she was 96 and still lived alone. She still had old Chandelier type lights she could pull down from the ceiling that she called Gas Lights (No Longer In Use). I wonder if they were these type of lights? That was in the mid 1980's, I was a lot younger back then, lol.

Like the the idea of putting up a well like wall around it. It amazed me when I first saw the video of you finding this. It was definitely new to me n educational too. Are you making the sign or having Aaron do it? Take care n stay dry. ♥️😊👍🐶

Wow interesting information Robert .if your house had like a glass front or maybe windows so folks could almost see it and how it was worked what brand ect...

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Here, we (myself, I just say, Cadids (Kay dids). We love to hear them.

Robert, just curious are they any remnants of the gaslights still inside the house on the walls or the ceilings ?

My uncles had free range chickens, and they never had ticks when they were alive! Sadly, both have passed.

Hi Robert, have you heard of Low Tech magazine and No Tech magazine both are on line . Old time solutions to High Tech problems.

A cheap saws all makes cutting roots easy!

You can use epsom salt to breakdown stumps. Will it do same for wisteria?

Are you going to do some preservation on the top & anything else you find... not talking about total restoration, but something to keep parts from decaying further.

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Do youhave a use for the old tin from the roof or is it not salvagable? A mess for sure! Ha! Love your videos! 😜❌❌

And to go on from there… can you restore the carbide generator to work for the Old Byrd Farm in any way?

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I can't legally have any fouls or chickens where I live, so I treat my yard with Triazicide granules 2 X a year to kill all the ground bugs and fleas and ticks. I would advise you to cover that carbide tank with something so that no one ' accidentally" falls in there tho.

I typed in diagram for old aceylatene generator. Amazing the different kinds

Guinea' s will also help with the snake population.

Great video. When will you be removing the falling down additions on the back of the house? That will make a great show! Also all the thing you will find will be something everyone will wont to see.

Hi, when are you going to pick up those thin sheets?

Damned old wisteria is the bane of your existence. I wonder if you'll ever be rid of it

How many times have you hit the top of that tank with the tractor?

Careful, Robert! If Brandon @AdventureArchaeology sees you probin’ & diggin’ like that we’ll find you in one of his bottle dump holes rather than Byrd-ing & Sidestepping!

You are as bad as I am...getting distracted by privet....lol

How big is tank. Noticed when you were probing next to opening you weren't hitting top of tank?

Aloha !

hey was wondering what happen to the other Robert

Interesting. I had never heard of a acetylene generator until you found it the first time. I assume the gasline would run underground to the house? The line goes up the side of the house right? Do you know how long on average, a drum would last? How is the road doing with the drainage since you and Aaron did more grading? Good stuff, I love your history and details videos, always great hosting. ❣️👍👍

Restore the well get it working put a building over it to protect it, and then put a light in there and be able to demonstrate how it works.

I hear Jerry telling the guineas to shut up. lol.

what were the guineas so upset about to be making all the noise?

Wouldn't it help in preserving this to get the water out of it? Looks like the water is causing the piece you pulled out to rust away .

Wow those birds are noisy,where they OK 👍

Why not drain the water out?

Very dangerous! My great granfather was around back then and alot of people burned their houses down

When I was a child about 6-7year old, we had a carbide lamp. It stunk to high heaven. I didn't like it.

Where's Beau, he should be next you digging as well. The birds may good noise makers/watch birds.

It is not likely there will be a pressure tank. Acetylene over 15 psi becomes unstable and can explode.