Hobo Brush! [ 1916 Skills! ]
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- Discover the timeless utility of the Hobo Brush, a versatile DIY project from 1916, perfect for everything from painting barns to scrubbing dishes. With simple tools and easily sourced materials from any farm or homestead, learn how to create this classic brush that combines functionality with a rustic charm. Ideal for entrepreneurs, this easy-to-make Hobo Brush is not only useful for cleaning and whitewashing but also offers a fantastic opportunity to craft and sell for extra income.
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As far as I'm concerned, you could keep doing this hobo series as long as you want to. You always seem to have something that helps me understand that era of history a little better. If it were not for the information you have shared here in your videos, I would have thought the word "hobo" means "bum."
Thanks so much! I am enjoying the series but I don't want to wear people out with repetitive content.
I know , this is awesome information. I thought hobo meant bum also
@@WayPointSurvival You're not wearing me out. I love it. I cried the last video bc how lonely they had to be. And how brave and strong minded they had to be. I have a great respect for Hobos now. Thank you Brother 😊❤️
I'm with them - this series provides unique crafts and information. Good quality stuff, and your presentations are well done.
@@WayPointSurvivalYou NEVER repeat stuff, James!
If you made nothing but Hobo and vintage gear videos, I'd watch every one.
Thanks so much!
Personally, I am enjoying the hobo series and keep up the great videos James.
Thanks, will do!
My friend, I live along the Platte River in Denver Colorado and my dog and I hike the regular and unseen trails around the river. There are railways along the river and UP & BNSF have a few trainyards along the river, too. I see and interact with "hobos", homeless and rail-riders at times during our walks. I live in my grandmother's old neighborhood and both she and my mother told stories of how my grandmother would feed and give chores to the hobos for money with never a problem of trouble. I appreciate your hobo series very much. Thank you, James, and God's Good Blessing's always be upon you 🙏
Thank you so very much for watching the videos and for the input and may God bless you as well!
@@WayPointSurvival Amen 🙏
I was jumping freight cars all thru Colorado in '75 and '76 ,was up on the Platte River connection,spent a couple days,waiting for a southern run.Met a man who bought me dinner,just for the "New York" conversation.Good people up that way.
@@user-ln1nx9dq4u An experience to remember, for sure! It would seem that you're doing okay, now, and wishing you all the best 🙏
@@anthonychihuahua Anthony,It was a wonderful experience I started out hitchhiking cross country-N.Y to L.A.-and in L.A. I had heard of some bad things happening to hitchhikers,so my Dad convinced me to get a freight train back to N.Y.-I went everywhere,saw the USA as no else ever has,some rough stuff,some great stuff.Colorado was great,thanks.
This hobo series is CZcams gold... haven't enjoy stuff like this in a while. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Dude, don’t stop researching this type of information. This is why I’m here.
Thanks!
Me, 50 years a hobo. Ingenious . A half step up was corn/wheat straw brooms. We had Amish not too awful far from where I grew up. They would made the traditional "round" brooms by using wheat shafts after harvest or stripping corn stalks and tying a small "bundle" around a wooden shaft. I dinged a bit using wild grass " shafts" tied around a stick to sweep out a dirty boxcar just to kill time. For hobos, or anybody in general, knots of various type are worth their weight in gold. An old WW2 sailor told me about learning 64 types of knots while aboard ships.
Very cool! Thanks so much and I'm glad that you liked it! It means a lot coming from someone of your experience.
This channel really combines my love of outdoors and history. Reminds me of the “Townsends” channel but focused on a different time period
I also enjoy Townsends with the 18th century theme. It started out as 18th century cooking & has expanded to be about all things 18th century.
Thanks so much! That's a really great compliment!
@@WayPointSurvivalkeep on with the modern history that wasn't really taught or talked of in schools, the folks who raised me were preppers or survivalists just from being born a hundred years ago, I learnt bushcraft type stuff as normal life even in a city, please keep spreading knowledge, amen.
This is shaping up to be a really cool series...
Thanks so much!
Nothing wrong with the HOBO stuff. I find it really interesting.
Thanks!
The hobo series has been brilliant, we have learned so much. My family are farmers here in the UK, my elderly aunt tells stories of the travelling farm workers that used to travel around the country following the harvests. She remembers one time a man coming to the front door with frost and ice in his beard asking for a cup of hot water for his morning tea, he'd spent the night under a hedge, he didn't want for food, he was just happy and grateful for some hot water for his tea.
What a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it!
This hobo series takes me back to my childhood we occasionally had hobos show up dad all ways fed them we never had any trouble. I am learning a lot of useful skills
Thanks, glad you like them!
I’m loving the Hobo series you have going on, you’re a awesome teacher.👍🇨🇦🇺🇸
Thanks so much!
Dude the hobo series literally gives me LIFE 😅👍💪
Glad you are enjoying it!
My great grandfather made so many things from old coffee can metal, scrap pieces of wood and rope. From kid’s swings, dustpans (to go with your fiber brush), boxes to store nuts & bolts, and all sorts of things. I’ve really enjoyed your exploration of hobo skills and mindset. Thanks so much!
You're very welcome!
The stuff my uncle would make after coming out of jail /prison was crazy. U remember the door mats made out of beer lids 😮 got the mud off your boot's. That was alot of beer cap's. My uncle was a good guy but just add alcohol, instant asshole
We love hobo stuff. But we'll be here because,, your so great of a human being and fun hearted which is far between,,, these days. Take care. Cause we'll be here. 👽
Thanks so very much, I truly appreciate it!
Hobos were smart good people. Who would have known.😊❤
Indeed!
Enjoy watching hobo series.
Thanks!
My oldest boy liked to go visit hobos and learn things from them
Excellent! They had much to teach!
All through the video I kept thinking: that would make a great cast iron skillet scrubber - then you mentioned that on your own! I have some sturdy hemp rope and WILL try this out! --- These hobo videos are more than history lessons; the skills translate nicely into family camping / scouting skills too! Both are much appreciated. THANKS!
You're very welcome!
Personally I like what you are doing. Hobo stuff, survival stuff, you make it interesting. Thanks for the video. Take care my friend.
Thanks, will do!
What a neat idea. You could even make a shaving brush that way.
True!
8:25 In Bob Ross voice: "Just beat the devil out of it..."
Right? Lol!
Bill Alexander: " Now you take it and give it an almighty beating, so devil-happy."
LOL 😂 Bob Ross definitely beat the devil out of his brushes. 🤣 Loved his show.
That was the voice behind Bob - William Alexander, the teacher.. be "devil-happy" and "fire the almighty colors in there". Bill Alexander. And if you follow along, you can do it too. In one lesson you can produce a decent, a really decent painting.
Excellent little project for us adults and for children. Great skill to learn.
Indeed, my friend!
Keep up the hobo projects! When I was a kid our parents always used to scare us by telling us the hobo were mean and would hurt us . Wish I would have talked to them a little more.thanks keep ‘em coming!!
Thank you! Will do!
Oh yes what a nice Monday Night surprise!
Thanks!
I want to tell you that I watched you put the fishing. It's not a fishing pole but it is a fishing apparatus out of the Irwin chalk line while I bought one and I took it apart and I put all the line on it. But I have yet to get the sinkers, the hooks and the leaders and the little tube that it goes in. Plus a little fingernail clippers yet but I've got it and it was so awesome. So now I have a fishing apparatus to go fishing with. I just don't have it all complete yet, but I loved it. Thanks for sharing some of your unique things with us. It doesn't get old watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you so much for watching the video and I'm glad that you liked it!
The hobo series is a great series to fall asleep to! That's actually a compliment, James. It means that you're capturing history, and have learned story telling of a particular way, that's calming to people. Many Americans need this kind of content right now... With a lack of sources we can trust, I think people are looking for content that is simple, down to earth, and a bit of an escape from the times we live in... Also, a little preparation for the hard times that are likely in store for us, collectively, is a good thing for all. Thank you for the trustworthy content, James!
Thank you so very much for all the kind words! I really appreciate it and thanks so much for watching the videos!
Love the simple hobo life.
Absolutely!
I enjoy watching the hobo stuff.
Thanks!
This is something that my grandfather would've known how to do. Love this brush. I may have to use it.
Keep doing what your do, sir. Thank you.
Thank you! Will do!
It's not about the bushcraft vs Hobo stuff but about the nature skills and projects with the perk of understanding where they came from.
I agree, my friend!
Please never stop the hobo series. I constantly look forward to a notification from your channel about a "hobo related" vid. Great job as always
Thanks so much!
Awesome. Please do Hobo stuff forever!
Thanks so much!
Really like this series, I have 8 kids and we are going camping soon was looking for homemade projects and your channel is packed full of info. We are having alot of fun with it. Please keep em coming
Awesome! Thank you and will do!
I like these hobo videos
Thanks!
Hi James,
I enjoy all the content you put out. The hobo series, the pioneer series (finding a homestead in the Ohio), the old school camping, the more modern bushcraft...
You just keep doing what you enjoy, and we'll keep watching.
Kind regards
Alain
Thanks so much!
This series on the historical aspects of the hobo life continues to provide great insight into the ingenuity of the people who did the best that they could with what they had. Times were hard during the height of the hobo period. These men were able to adapt and make do. James goes to great lengths to not only share his knowledge, but to also demonstrate how the innovations of these hobos made their life better during hard times. I greatly appreciate this series. - Tennessee Smoky
Thanks so much, my friend!
the hobo style is glorious James!! maybe it gets old after a while but there is so much to learn! beware the man who drinks from all rivers, for his guts are iron
Indeed! Thank you for watching!
Loving the hobo series and half way through the 1790’s series. Keep up the good work, Nick from 🇬🇧
Thanks! Will do and I'm glad that you are enjoying the 1790 series!
Aint enough folks doin good quality hobo teachin on here...
I appreciate what yall do way point survival. 👍
Thanks so much!
I know, I understand, you have done knots. I get it. Please do a simple video. Two Hobo Knots. You are a great teacher. Please. Simple and concise.
Thanks! That's why I did the simple knot last week on the hobo hammock and the simple knot this week for the hobo brush.
Awesome idea! Thanks for sharing .
You are so welcome!
I really enjoy the Hobo series. I like to tinker around in my garage and made some of the Hobo items you showed. Actually, I’m going to make this brush to clean off my work bench.
That is awesome!
Another SOLID GOLD production, love it.
Much appreciated!
It’s the hobo Fuller brush man!
Want to buy a brush?
Good evening!!
Good evening!
The Hobo brush this is a very useful project. Here's an idea make a slightly smaller one with the short handle. Use it as a shaving brush not exactly badger hair but it'll do.
Absolutely! Great idea!
Amazing how we can get by with so little. Please continue this series!😊
Thanks, we do hope to produce more of them in the future!
I love learning the stuff my uncle talked about
Thanks so much!
You know I LOVE the Hobo projects series! ❤😊
Thanks so much!
Lots of info to learn from this series. I’m sure there is lots more to learn from these folks. Great job!
Thanks for watching!
A pretty cool little project, keep those Hobo projects coming each week
Thanks! Will do!
I love all these old time diy projects. I regularly make my own things from whatever i have laying around instead of buying new. I made a very effective whisk broom from grape vines. ❤
That's a great idea!
Haa ha haa, how cool is that! BRAVO!👍
Thank you so very much, my friend!
Perfect timing. We ride ATVs and we have a toy hauler. After riding we load them back up and of course they're dirty. I was just telling my wife for the day and I needed some kind of a little bench brush to brush the tires off before loading. I think this project will be perfect.
That is awesome!
I soo love this Hobo series! Keep them coming!
Thanks!
Very cool even if you're not HOBOing. Thanks
You're welcome!
I am enjoying the hobo series of your CZcams videos. Some good stuff. Makes me think that the next series you should do is on the homeless. Not the drugs or their problems and crime. But seriously there is some useful stuff there.
Thanks for watching and for the suggestion! I'm glad that you are enjoying the series!
This was very good informative information thank you. I won't take a strand of this stuff for granted anymore if I see some I will get it and make one of these
Excellent! Glad you enjoyed it!
I appreciate the creative nature of your hobo series. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like them!
My family is really enjoying this channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!.....Carla H.
You're very welcome and I'm glad that you are all enjoying the channel!
James You really need to hook up with Hobo Shoestring and start riding the rails, You already have all the Hobo Gear. 🙂👍 Thanks for all the entertaining videos You share with us. God Bless You Brother 🙏🕊
That will be a lot of fun! Thanks so much for watching the videos and God bless you too!
Proven life skills are always welcome. Great series! God bless you and yours.
Thanks, you too!
I remember being taught how to 'whip rope' and slice rope etc when I was young. So many of these skills are just being lost.
Thank you for doing these videos.Often (IMHO) some of these 'tools' are actually better then cheap commercial stuff and more environmentally friendly.
That's very true! Thanks for watching!
Save the trimmings from the end, put it with your fire starting kit maybe your frying pan or pot. These rope strands are good for starting a fire maybe when the wood is damp or you need to start a quick fire and conserve matches. You can use one match and light some of the trimmings to catch the wood faster.
Good point!
Enjoying the hobo videos. Even if you go back to other videos I wouldn’t mind seeing a hobo video here and there. I do enjoy all the videos you have done for different eras, the series in the 1790s has to be my favorite journey to watch, the 1800s, even the limited series that was shtf on the electric bike, I was hoping there would be more of that one but if not it was good as it was. Keep up the good work, sir, you share awesome info and are very comforting to watch.
Awesome, thank you!
Many Thanks James !!!
You're welcome!
If you dip the loose ends in boiling water they straighten out....loving these hobo videos..👍
Good tip!
Thank you! Always enjoy watching your channel.
Thanks!
Ok ok you have hit a homerun with me on this one. I can see so many direction that this can be taken. Once again thank you. 👍👍👍😁
You are so welcome!
I love this series! Great job, I really appreciate it!
Thanks so much!
I thank the patrons too
Thanks for watching!
you could make a kitchen broom by doing this then adding a handle....I think tomorrow I'm going to experiment with this great hobo brush
Great idea!
Thanks for vid. This could also be a fun “worktivity” for parents to teach kids while camping…
That's a great idea!
Brilliant project, I hope the hobo series keeps on coming!
To me the short stiff brush looks like it would work great for shaving... I have to try it!
Sounds good to me!
I like the knowledge you are sharing on this hobo series. I don’t believe anyone else is doing it. And everything you are mentioning does pertain to what is going on right now. How to live off very little. Plus, the materials they used back then, wool for example, is actually a healthy material to wear.
As for the brush, if you looked up how to make a broom, that stitch could offer another video. Making the brush you just made more flat, and potentially more useful.
Living off very little, this knowledge is going to be very valuable in the near future.
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I really appreciate this period of history you are covering, a period that is not the most documented on CZcams compared to the 18th century or earlier or later living history. The historical documentation available on CZcams for this period and after veers into WW2, WW1, FBI profiling for psychopathy, Alien abduction, etc.
Thank you so very much! I do hope to continue delving into this period and the hobo community and lifestyle along with their inventions.
You could keep all those loose fibers for tinder so everything is used. Thank you for showing this useful skill.
You're welcome!
Accidentally found this channel and fall in love with the hobo series.
Keep it up.
Best wishes from India.
Thank you so very much and I'm glad that you are enjoying the channel!
Great series as stated numerous times. Thank you again. Cool project.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@WayPointSurvival what do you think those could sell for today ? Compared to what do you think a Hobo of the time would have sold for ?
Probably back in the day a hobo could get a nickel for it maybe. Today, you could probably sell them for five bucks a piece.
Never thought of this. We are always learning.
Thank you.🙏
You're welcome!
Thanks for your great videos
You're welcome!
we love the Hobo skills, keep them coming.
Thanks, will do!
Slick brush, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Another interesting one from the Dapper Dan of Drifters, from 1916. Fun stuff.
Thanks so much!
interesting content, my parents knew a "hobo" back in the day and when he would make his way back thru my area, they would feed him and put him up for a night or two. always a friendly guy, never took a thing as a matter of fact the last time thru he left his pocket watch for my dad as payment for all he did for him, my parents are gone now but i still have the watch. which still keeps time great. Kind of a side note,, my parents did find his grave and took care of it i don't know where he's buried at just that it's somewhere around the Pittsburgh pa area.
That's amazing! What a wonderful story and thank you for sharing it with us!
I love the Hobo series. I love all of your content.
Thanks so much!
This is great!!! I'm always looking for ideas for 4-H projects for my teenage grandsons!!! God bless!
Excellent! God bless you too!
I like all your HOBO series. I've had an interest in Hobos since I read about their Code signs that they marked on things to help each other. I read It in a Childcraft Encyclopedia when I was in between the 5th and 6th grade that summer. I pretended to be a Hobo. In a renewed interest O read online about the Hobo Code signs online and true stories and about Woody Guthrie and such and somewhere I came across your videos and then you started doing the Hobo series. It has a lot of meaning for me because my Grandfather who owned a rather large farm for the time, had several avenues that he and 10 Children and my Grandmother were involved in from farming cotton and grain crops, an orchard, raising Angora Goats and shaving them for Mohair, Molasses Mill, Saw Mill, Hewing cross ties, making illegal corn whiskey, raising and canning garden vegetables, raising mules, hogs, cattle during free range, slaughtering their own hogs and smoking the meat in their smokehouse. However with all these avenues he still hopped trains to go work places. He once fell and broke his leg while trying to hop a train. While laid up with his broken leg he taught himself how to play the violin and would later play and call square dances down on Black River in Southeast Missouri. He also carried a hawkbill knife similar to yours but its handle was biggeraround at the base and had only one blade. My cousin has it n, my Uncle Tom gave me something else and gave her the knife. I really like the two blade hawkbill with the extra grafting blade. That's a full setup in one knife for grafting trees. Thats another thing Grandpa did. I wish I were closer and in better health to where I could take some of your classes. Thanks so much for your videos. I lost my left leg below the knee 3 years ago and I have lots of time on my hands and watching your programs are interesting and comforting because I know your a Christian. Again many thanks. God Bless you and your family.
Thank you so much for all the interesting family history! I'm glad that you are enjoying the videos and God bless you too!
Very Cool James
Very cool. My dad, who is 93, used to have a collection of gray card stock cards that included a lot of the same types of projects you describe in your hobo videos. He got them when he was a kid in the 30s and I think they came with either a book or magazine subscription. I'll have to see if he still has them.
That's very cool! If you still have them, I would love to have copies or pictures of them. You can contact me through my website at www.waypointsurvival.com.
Really enjoy all these Really neat hobo history segments. Very interesting how they lived and survived.
Thanks so much!
@@WayPointSurvival I remember seeing them walking along the highway as a kid, with the little bag on the stick, sometimes they'd come to our house asking for water, something to eat.
Times were so different In early 60s. 🙋♂️🙏🇺🇲
Maybe you could use the same principle to make a hobo shaving brush. That would be cool.
Good idea!
I have been a long time subscriber as well as a long time viewer. A few years at this point. I can always rely on your videos to not only be educational but also so wholesome. I know whenever I am having a rough day and having bad panic attacks I can just put your videos on and it instantly calms me down. I just want to say thank you so much for not only making awesome videos but for also being an awesome person! It's such a shame you do not have millions of subscribers (yet) because you deserve so many more viewers and subscribers than you have. I subscribed when you had under 75k subs and it's so awesome to see you approaching 300k. Hopefully the next time I look you are at 3 million subs. Again, thank you for all your videos. I also watch them to help me fall asleep. Not that you are boring or anything but because it calms my soul and helps me drift to sleep. I can rewatch and rewatch and rewatch all your videos. They never get boring!!! Thanks again! I look forward to many more amazing videos!
Thank you so very much! That may be one of the best compliments I have ever received. May the Lord bless you and continue to give you rest and peace!
I enjoy this series as well as alot of your other videos. You did a good job on the Ohio journey, also.
Awesome, thank you!
This is really great. I look forward to these hobo videos. Thanks God Bless 🙏🏼
Glad you like them and God bless you too!
Every one just perfect 🏴
Thanks!
Another great video. I totally agree great knowledge to pick up especially these days every bit helps for maybe tomorrow. It's not if but when
Absolutely!