The light was common on roadside billboards, there would be six to eight of them per sign, The disappeared in the late sixties, with the conversion to other types of lighting

That lamp looks like the size/type they used on billboard. My dad had a Wriggleys gum ad on his body shop roof billboard. He rented space on his roof to United Roadside advertising. Lamps hung either above or lit up from below. Can't remember how many but at least 9-10 per sign. Thanks for memories of sneaking up onto Dad's roof to see NYC skyline.

Silas, the mushrooms are cool, but since I collect light bulbs and fixtures, that porcelain enameled unit is what interested me! Us collectors call these style reflectors “Scoopers”. They are part of the RLM industrial reflectors family, which is NOT a brand but a TYPE. These RLM units its are ubiquitous and were very common. This style is an angle reflector meant to be mounted vertically like you held it, to project light over an area, like a yard, etc. These were popular on forecourts of gas stations and could be incandescent or mercury vapor using a separate remote ballast. Also, fluorescent industrial fixtures were part of the RLM line if they had the inverted trough style reflectors, either with open or closed ends, as well as a “bathtub” version. The most common style ones for incandescent of mercury vapor lamps mount pendant on a down tube which is rigid conduit and a round open deep or shallow reflector, white inside, commonly green outside, but white, red, blue, black, etc. can be found as well, but less common. Smaller ones will have standard Edison or medium regulay bulb sockets, larger ones use the big mogul sockets, especially 300, 500, 750, 1000, and 1500 watt incandescent and typically 400 or 1000 watt if mercury vapor bulbs. Cheers! 😋

Might be a good idea to keep rain barrels or put some kind of water tank on wheels, old truck frame.....and keep this area hydrated, and start your own private mushroom farm...

Silas, my great aunt was a mushroom hunting fool. Always got the biggest to. But she always put them in a potato sack that were mash. She said that way its seeds can drop to the ground. She would give you heck if you were to put in a plastic bag. Saying the spours get caught in the bag and not the ground reseeding the ground. At 98 years young I believe her cause she's still getting the biggest and most 😊

I’ve heard before that there’s a false morel that has a solid stem instead of being hollow. Those are the ones to be careful of…that’s a cool light you found. You won’t have any trouble selling it…..

Great that you can really enjoy the little things in life, like finding mushrooms in nature, and beautiful landscapes. I respect that. I really do. Many people want more and more and more, and nothing is good enough anymore. Great video again, Silas. Looking forward to the next one again.

Dear Mr. Silas 👍👌👏 Congratulations! 🎉 I also like the lampshade, not only the mushrooms. It was nice to see you so happy. Best regards, luck and health in particular.

NIIIIICE!! It's great to see you finally found some. My best friend is insane with finding them every year. He's like you, he can spot them from almost any distance. He's always out hunting or fishing and has learned all the good spots over the years. I helped him pick some one year a long time ago, but I wasn't happy about being blindfolded on the way to the spot. He was trying to be secretive about the location because of competitors. I knew where we were, I'm very familiar with the area. More than he was, but he didn't want to believe me. When I showed him 2 more spots, he started to believe me. I eventually led him to the land owner's house and he started freaking out. I walked on up to the door and knocked. An old lady answered the door and we talked for a minute and I walked away waving and saying THANK YOU. I knew he was trespassing, the land belonged to a family member of mine. I gave him a lifetime pass to what he calls THE MOTHERLOAD OF MORELS, just by knocking on the door and asking permission from my Aunt Mary. lol She passed away several years ago, but her family still owns the land and we help maintain it regularly. Her family comes to visit once every Summer for one week of camping and that's it. The rest of the year belongs to just us. Hunting, fishing and camping. And once a year, he goes nuts over hunting for shrooms. lol

Just as well pick em all because they release their spores as soon as they emerge and they won’t get any bigger just old and moldy. I have found the “mother load” in the past about 1987 in a creek bottom amongst hundreds of live silver maple saplings, I’m talking twenty one pounds and that’s only happened once in my lifetime, man , what a sight to behold when you cross the creek and on the way up the bank and your eyes are at ground level and you lock on to the first few then all you can see is white morels as far as you can see and only about an hour of daylight left, it’s like hauling a 61/2 pound bass out of a farm pond in March, you’ll never forget it.

Mushroom Hunting and I can see a Fantastic Fry Up later on - Yum-Yum ! You are soooooo Lucky that they also grow on Your Property ! Many Cheers from Australia !!!!

Hope u did not mess ur pants finding mushrooms on u place lol that light is cool excellent silas cheers 🥂 😊

Also for this channel a small contribution as a token of appreciation. I enjoy your videos. And I think many ppl with me. 🙂👍

Nice find, When I was building my house years ago my back yard became full of morels. I blamed it on cutting and dragging elm tree tops around the back yard (woods) so try that behind a mower or atv in the fall I read it spreads the spores? I was young and afraid to eat them so my neighbor picked them by the ice cream bucket full! Good video.

KZfaq ate my comment. What I said was you've got some mushrooms but you have a bumper crop of EYE 👀 POKERS. I'm glad one of them did not get you.

Dang your making me hungry. All the places I used to hunt mushrooms have all been bulldozed for farming.

Silas brother your one unique human being.... Always got a interesting 🤔 story or journey for Us, like the Metallica song....

The shade on a pole are typical of those used to light up gas station signs...might want to poke around under the leaves there, could be a sign lurking beneath it all.

I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure that lamp is a COOLICON lamp.

Awesome video Silas thank you

Wassup

Good Afternoon There My Good Big Bro Silas Of Adventure Made From Scratch

Fun video and great find on your property. Maybe next year you can help them grow. 👍👍👍👍

Found about two meals here between my house the trail which used to be a railroad tracks and the neighbor's yard

i've never found a mushroom I liked but i'm Glad you found Enjoyment in finding them..

The mushrooms are great. But I think you have a real bumper crop of EYE 👀 pokers! I'M GLAD ONE OF YOUR I pokers did not pick you

Very nice 👍👍👍👍👍🙂

Just a shot but what if you were to water the morels and pick them later? Like I said, just a shot. The light with a long pole like that maybe came from an outdoor sign of a sort. Stayin tuned! 👍🤠

Was wondering about hydration & dehydration excellent silas 😊

Nothing better than fresh found morels for a delicious meal!

Wife is very jealous, I have only seen 3-4 morels over the 16 years where we live here and 3 acres of the 5 are rough woods.

This is great I'm ready for another one of your great videos

Very good Silas

Make sure you cook them mushrooms well.a lady just died in the hospital here in florida.she ate at a restaurant and they didn't cook that same mushroom and she died a painful death.

I have a friend who gathers morels. He made the ultimate best cream of mushroom soup I've ever tasted.

Nice, aome fresh MAMFS!

Totally awesome

Awesome always cool stuff always thanks

Never seen anything like them where we live in the UK.

That is odd how the morel mushrooms don't grow in clusters like other mushroom. Well Silas at least you know they can grow on your property.

Awesome find 😂

My wife found a couple of these mushrooms in our backyard in mo pretty good sized ones I've net had any so I'm excited to try them for the first time

Maybe time for you to set up a sprinkler over your morel find.

Now all you need are some big old bluegill fillets!

There is no way i would ever eat a fungus growing in the woods. To each his own but for me, no friggin way !!

That light fixture may have been round originally but gotten deformed when it hit the ground or got hit by something.

Ive went out in the back yard and without looking found them. But im told down off the mo river banks by richmond mo thats not to far away from me you can find a bunch if you know where to look. Guys keep the spots secret . Look into the coffee grounds

My dad now gone Said he hangs them up in the basement where its dark and let's them dry out, then you crush them up and put them in stews, that way you get 10x the flavor out of one. Yes I've cut them up and fried them in butter. They really don't have a lot of flavor that way. My daughter in laws dad used to pick 50 60lbs of them a year he would come home sit on the porch count and clean them they started growing where he did that. They would drop spores there. Still a tasty fungus. Did you read about the collage kids using used coffee grounds, search youtube for it.

Good eyes

cook em well. I recently heard of a case where fifty people got sick from eating these undercooked, and one woman died. They are delicious though I am now a bit scared to eat them after hearing about that case.

Not stopped raining in uk bit of sun in between and it’s cold 🤣

I her the wash water pored on the leaf s can have them on our spots

I would be watering that area

1lb of Morels are the equivalent of $70 here in the UK 😮

🇺🇲🇵🇷🇲🇽😎 😅 Nice treasure, finds!!

What do you do,with them? SW Desert guy here

Silas I know you said the algorithm tells you to do different videos but Morels?? Where I live there's tons of them. Show me cool car stuff please. Love your channel but it was like going grocery shopping with the wife!

Get oldvfire truck spray ground

Is it possibly to water them?

What Mushroom is your favorite

What time is dinner

Ive never ate one what die they taste like

Get water now

Then you look up where am i

Why don’t you order some mushroom spores and plant some? For the price you quoted per pound sounds like a money maker.or just to eat yourself.

stop that enjoy life they might be poison

My wife found a couple of these mushrooms in our backyard in mo pretty good sized ones I've net had any so I'm excited to try them for the first time

My wife found a couple of these mushrooms in our backyard in mo pretty good sized ones I've net had any so I'm excited to try them for the first time