Thanks. Cody did a great job!! You might enjoy three other similar videos linked from this page on our website: weatherwool.com/pages/video-performance The more people know about wool, the more popular it will become! --- THANK YOU -- Ralph

THANKS CARL!! -- Ralph

Thanks Carl

THANKS for always supporting us, Spook!! --- Ralph

@@WeatherWool I greatly appreciate you and always will 🙏❤️

THANK YOU and wear in great health!! --- Ralph

PS --- Yes ... you are right ... I had not thought about this exercise as a valuable preparation, but Trustin is absolutely right. If you do fall out of a canoe in a winter river, it's really good to have done something like this before!! -- Ralph

BIG THANKS! --- The Black Hooded Jackets are coming around end of March, I hope ... and ShirtJacs within a few days. We really appreciate your support! -- Ralph

Knowing you and how amazingly meticulous and careful you are, that means a LOT! --- Thanks Chris!! --- Ralph

Ralph, so i am beginning to think that your product is very good. That reminded me of The Eternal Good One. 1 John 4:10,11 says this, "This is the definition of love. It is not that we loved God, but, God Loved us and Sent His Son, Jesus, to Take upon Himself The Righteous Anger of God that we deserved, deserve and will always deserve for disobeying His Wise, Good, Protective, Loving Law. If God So Loved us, we ought to love our neighbor. Blessings to you my friend. Please, clothe yourself in His Righteousness/Beauty if you have not yet done so...spiritually speaking of course.

YEAH ... We all think Trustin did a great job on the video. But also, just seeing what he did and hearing about how he felt afterward. All the lab tests in the world are worthless without real-world testing out in the weather (or the river)!! --- THANK YOU --- Ralph

We are grateful for your choice of WeatherWool and for the kind words! -- Ralph

THANK YOU and keep making those vids. We need more family-content! -- Ralph

@@WeatherWool thank you for the outstanding product. Keep up the great quality and I’ll keep marking family content😀.

THANK YOU ... We appreciate you choosing WeatherWool and we really look forward to making Pants ... but we have so much to do!! --- Ralph

Looking forward to hearing how it goes for you!! Just be sure to do it under controlled conditions unless you are already accustomed to frigid water. Also, the design of the Poncho is such that maneuvering in water might be an issue!! From a much more normal, everyday perspective, wool really shines in HUMID COLD weather. As humid cold air pushes into the garment, the wool will pull water from the air, capturing it internally, drying the air inside the garment and creating heat as it does so. THANKS ... enjoy the summer ... COLD will be back to the Northern Hemisphere soon enough! --- Ralph

Me too ... I don't think I want to do it again either ... THANKS! --- Ralph

Thanks, these gloves are just army surplus.

A few years ago, I tested my old original All-Around Jacket to see how long it would take to be fully soaked. I don't know if this correlates or not, but I placed it in the water (I was NOT wearing it) and it took over an hour for the Jacket to sink. I am guessing "sinking" indicates "completely soaked/saturated", but that's just my guess. I'm pretty sure a typical person would not survive half that long in near-freezing water. Wool resists soaking up liquid water (it repels liquid water but absorbs/adsorbs water vapor) and this is a big part of the explanation of why wool keeps you warm when wet ... that is, wool gets wet on the inside of the fiber while the outside of the fiber stays dry. I want to do another vid where we talk about that, but in the meantime, our website presents a lot of info: weatherwool.com/pages/wool-and-water ........ Back to your question about a longer test ... This link has four winter-dunk tests: weatherwool.com/pages/video-performance THANK YOU --- Ralph

@@WeatherWool Thank you Ralph for the two links: The first one is an excellent article about wool and water, complete with a very detailed description and illustration on the structure of wool fiber.

We have many customers in AK. And actually filming for TV documentary in AK is underway now, but I don't think I am at liberty to provide details. However, regarding performance in AK, please read this review from a backwoods Alaskan, Alex Javor: weatherwool.com/pages/reviews-from-alex-javor ---- Best Regards --- Ralph

I can't say that I really understand it ... even after lots of reading and research. The wool doesn't absorb liquid water ... and it actually repels liquid water. So you get relatively dry very quickly. There is very little liquid water present, once you've been out of the river for a couple of minutes. The wool DOES absorb/adsorb water vapor, and THAT causes the wool to release heat, which is really crazy ... people who have not done this will find it hard to believe, I know!! -- Ralph

Hi Erik, and THANKS for choosing a Peacoat. We have found Lynx Pattern to be the MOST resistant to soiling, at least from the visual perspective. The pattern conceals everything!! What has been your experience! Best Regards and THANKS AGAIN! -- Ralph

First round they were waxed canvas. Second time I did it with WeatherWool pants and it was a world of difference. - TT

We have a long coat (North Maine Double Coat) nearing production. It's incredible. Hang in there. - TT (edited by Ralph, appropriately, I hope!)

@@WeatherWool OK that's great to hear. I will be looking forward to seeing it. Thanks man.

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We understand it's expensive. But Ralph and Debby the owners set out to make the best wool they could possible make. No one was doing it because it is so expensive to produce. But Ralph, having been in the industry for a long time really wanted to see how the best would preform and they invested a lot into making it possible. WeatherWool profit margins are probably much lower then most brands. No corners were cut to reduce costs. They simply set out to make the best they could possible figure out how to make. We understand it's not for everyone but we do rent and sell used items and factory seconds on our website under the lending library if you just want it for a specific trip. Hope that helps answer your question -Cody

@@WeatherWool Hello and thank you for the response! Totally appreciate it. I'll checkout out the factory seconds and see if I can find a anorak I can afford. If not I'll just sell one of my organs so I can pick one up. Lol! I'm kidding I really do appreciate the response and I'll just have to save up to get one. Happy Thanksgiving! 😊

We have customers all over the world. For Canadians, there is no additional cost ... that is, no import duty, and shipping is free. For other countries, shipping is usually about $30, but other governments (EU for example) will frequently impose various duties and VAT. Best Regards -- Ralph

A month or two back, I was speaking with a customer talking about what is happening, invisibly, while we simply wear the wool. I was carrying on for a bit, and the gent cut me off. He said, "GOD KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING!" ...... Can't argue that point!! --- Thank You --- Ralph

@@WeatherWool Thank you Ralph for creating a company with integrity, providing a product that excels in quality and design. Yahuah Bless you friend

I think God would appreciate a better name than Yahuah. Just saying . . . ( hell, Sunshine or Butterfly sound better...) And yes, we see, YahuaH spelled backwards is the same ( kinda like Dog and God ). ☆

I love Woolrich. But i would not have founded WeatherWool if i didn't think anything I'd ever seen from Woolrich could be improved upon (a lot). --- Ralph

@WeatherWool not sure how you're going to improve my old pa tuxedo. I'm always warm as could be and dry even when it's been steady raining. Only way you could make it better is if the coat aimed and killed the deer for me too. That and for the pants and coat my old woolrich didn't cost a weeks pay. Nowhere close.

@@87gunsnroses Is it scratchy? Is it pure wool? Does it have cotton in the fabric? Is it sewn with cotton? How much does it weigh? How bulky is it? I also had a Pennsylvania Tuxedo (the Jacket was stolen from my car in 1977 and that HURT!) and loved it, or, at least, the jacket. Never liked the Pants much. But my Jacket was lined with cotton flannel, and was the wool ever scratchy! It was very bulky and heavy. Couldn't move very much in it. The PA Tuxedo is time-honored but it's role is/was quite limited. Wonder what a new one would cost today, if they were still made.

Did you watch the vid? Contrary to what experience? --- Ralph

@@WeatherWool Ralph, I love Weatherwool and I admire you greatly for your passion, your vision, and your exemplary determination in the face of many setbacks caused by the pandemic. But I have never in my life been warmer in wet clothes than in dry clothes, no matter what the clothes were made of. As wet clothes dry, heat is being used to supply the energy necessary to make water change its phase from liquid to gas-so anyone wearing the drying clothes will experience cooling, not warming. Where is that energy coming from if not from the person wearing the wet clothes? As you know, the energy must come from somewhere. If it was being drawn from the water, or the wool itself, those things would get cooler, not warmer. I propose a different experiment: take two tubs of water at room temperature. Have a temperature probe in each tub. Then add some wool fabric to one of the tubs. If your theory is right, the tub with the wool should warm up. I don’t think it will.

​@@themotiondoctor I appreciate the kind words ... but it still seems like you may not have watched the vid, or the followup vid that helps to address skepticism. This reply is long, and may be interesting to others, so I'm going to reproduce it on the WeatherWool website. I won't use your KZfaq handle, tho, to help preserve your anonymity. First, your points: POINT ONE: "As wet clothes dry, heat is being used to supply the energy necessary to make water change its phase from liquid to gas-so anyone wearing the drying clothes will experience cooling, not warming. Where is that energy coming from if not from the person wearing the wet clothes? As you know, the energy must come from somewhere. If it was being drawn from the water, or the wool itself, those things would get cooler, not warmer.” RESPONSE TO POINT ONE: I don't understand why you bring up "wet clothes drying". That's irrelevant to the experiment. But I will point out the wool can obviously pick up heat from external sources. I'll also point out that the rate at which the wool might (eventually) draw heat from the wearer would seem critical. But the subject is clothing. And so what counts is the subjective experience. Many times I’ve been out in cool and cold weather, wearing wool that had been exposed to water, and never have I felt the wool chilling me. This drew me to wool as a youngster. Something else … biological systems are full of conditionals and feedback loops. For example, hemoglobin is well known to release oxygen where it is needed. If you don’t mind, I’ll toss out a thought for which I have seen no scientific investigation. I would not be surprised if wool somehow “knows” when it’s time to dry. Perhaps the wool fiber squelches evaporation until appropriately triggered. POINT TWO: “I propose a different experiment: take two tubs of water at room temperature. Have a temperature probe in each tub. Then add some wool fabric to one of the tubs. If your theory is right, the tub with the wool should warm up. I don’t think it will.” RESPONSE TO POINT TWO: I thought the wool would warm the water in the tub, and it did. But this is also irrelevant because we don’t wear wool for swimming. Neither do sheep, as far as I know. Wool serves sheep, and us, by shedding liquid water (the exocuticle is hydrophobic) and by absorbing and adsorbing water vapor (hydrophilic internals). The heat generated by wool, in a natural setting, warms and dries the air around the wearer, and quickly sheds the liquid water from a dunking. Wool is not designed to warm a tub of water, which has a far higher specific heat than air. Because your channel seems to be anonymous, I don't know if you've ever actually had any of our wool. And of course I don't know what your above-referenced clothes have been made of. One of the reasons I started WeatherWool was my dissatisfaction with other woolens. Here’s what I think/believe, and I could be wrong. What matters is subjective experience. (Repeated for emphasis.) Wear some serious wool, jump in a river on a cold day, and see for yourself. Or, not so intense, go out in cold rain for a while. But do it in serious wool (see below). Here is some more info as I understand it. And I think the wool industry ought to be all over this!! A great many of the "woolens" on the market aren't even truly wool, in my book. Most woolen garments have liner fabrics. So, they don't count. Also, very frequently, "wool" fabric has a significant amount of cotton. Anything made with cotton doesn't count. Also frequently, woolens are superwashed, and they don't count either. [Our Fabric is made with superwashed warp (FullWeight has about 10% -- by weight - superwashed, and MidWeight about 30%.), but never superwashed weft. I'm hoping to eliminate all superwashed with our upcoming Batch 9.] I studied a lot of science in school. Although I was a very poor student, I learned a few extremely valuable lessons: • Nature doesn't care what people think. Whether or not people think something "makes sense" is immaterial. If Nature seems “nonsensical”, the observer doesn’t understand • Biology (I studied mostly bio) is complex in the extreme. Such complexity might seem nonsensical, except it works, and it seems Nature’s designs are actually as simple as possible. The complexity within every cell in our bodies makes our cell phones look like child’s play. • Biological designs are exquisitely sophisticated and complex, but always for a reason. And this is proved by testing that is both remorseless and relentless. Those concepts, plus lifelong experience with woolens, guide my approach to observing and trying to understand wool. So, here’s some stuff I have learned from experience in wool, and from reading some of the research (but I haven’t found much). Also, talking with hundreds of people about wool, I’ve learned about the general public’s knowledge and perspective. Most people don't understand what it means for wool to be "wet". I think it’s because people don’t wear much wool anymore, and because most of the wool we do wear is not what I would consider serious wool. We tend to relate our experiences to fabrics made of other materials, but the behavior of wool is different. People wear a lot of cotton. Nature made cotton to disperse seeds -- a purpose completely unrelated to protecting a mammal from the weather. People also wear a lot of synthetics. But as mentioned, our top-end technology is trivial compared to Nature. And so my point of view is that Nature’s solutions, if we can borrow them, will outperform happenstance (cotton) or human invention (poly- blah-blah, microfleece, etc., etc.) The outer layer of wool fiber is hydrophobic ... it is very well known to REPEL liquid water. But interestingly, the same fiber has small (SMALL!!!) openings that will admit water vapor. And the internals of a wool fiber are hydrophilic. Wool internally bonds the water molecules, releasing heat as it does so. The literature also says that INSIDE the fiber, water vapor can condense back into liquid, releasing a LOT more heat. Our factories can’t make anything like that, as far as I know. But also, here’s the “wet” part … it’s easy to find references that claim wool can hold 30% of its weight in water before it is saturated. But the saturation occurs internally, and the water is kept off the skin of the wearer. So … wool can be completely saturated and still be dry to the touch. And because it is dry to the touch, there is no water contacting the body. Water will chill a person dozens of times more quickly than air. So, even saturated wool does not chill the wearer. That might seem nonsensical double-talk to people who don’t know wool. So, again, get out in some serious wool and see for yourself. Best Regards and glad for the opportunity to address skepticism. --- Ralph

Ralph, we’re in agreement on everything you said, especially about the complexity of biological systems. I wore my AAJ, my favorite jacket ever, this cool Chicago morning. I gave up my down comforter ten years ago in favor of a wool comforter. I’m convinced about all you said. Except. Warming and cooling (and the behavior of hemoglobin) rigorously follow the 1st and 3d laws of thermodynamics. Wool also must do so. The title of this video is Wool + Water = Heat. That cannot be true. Whatever adsorption, absorption, hydrogen bonding, hydrophilic attraction or repellence, phase change up or phase change down, energy in equals energy out. Otherwise you’re talking about a perpetual motion machine. Neither sheep nor humans will ever do that. None of this is to say that wool isn’t your best bet for staying alive in the case of getting soaked in winter weather. I don’t doubt that it’s better than any laboratory made insulation. I’m convinced about the performance and comfort of the highest grade of woolens such as Weatherwool. In my dealings with you I came to believe you would not ever make an intentionally false statement. So I just thought there’s no reason to “gild the lily” with an improbable claim.

Brain fade: I meant 2d law, not 3d. Sorry.

We had a feeling some people would think it was our body heat. Heck, even I couldn't believe it and I was the one in the water. So we did this test to prove it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtWdhqeXzbuteKs.html -Cody

Hi Alexander! Please I would like to know your reason for writing "It’s literally physically impossible for wool to generate heat on its own." If you do some web-searching you'll see it's quite well-established that wool will generate heat when it picks up water vapor. Best Regards -- Ralph