Top video buddy well done

HI! My comment here is off-topic. I've been thinking about advices regarding lighters. I've concluded that the bic lighter is well-complemented by the partially used dollar store lighter that produces a low and more controllable flame that the bic doesn't readily produce. Thanks!

and the mostly used up dollar store lighter can have that small flame burning when even very low on fuel, by lighting it with the bic.

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It's just great videos to explain what happens on the trail.

Wonderful! Those were the days!

​@@WayPointSurvival Amen !

My uncle said you didn't waste a match with a perfectly good fire around.

I have a knife just like that one.

Love this. Hobo saw it all. Some people looked down on him. But I always thought he was a survivor and blessed somehow?

Indeed! There's nothing like it!

What did you hate

@@Matt-to1bi I guess having to always sleep with one eye open.

​@@paulworgan6599spent time on the streets and in the woods living this is the absolute worst for sure. Its not even wild animals that could be scary it's other humans

@@KennyHache Totally agree

You're very welcome! Thanks so much for sharing this bit of history! It's good that someone still remembers their names and their stories!

You and your family were an excellent family and great Americans!

Thank You for sharing🦋

You have a good family background 😊 your Mum obviously held these memories dear.

And weren't you surprised when your mother told you, "Son, it's time you learned that TopHat is your real father. Well either Roy or Top Hat"?

Thanks so much!

Don't let ignorance nor ego blind you. There's much you'll never know!

Now it's like a Horror movie out there.

very inspiring comments... reminds me the very recent movie.. Perfect days where the need of modern people desperately seeking freedom and liberty from inside.

So very cool!

Wow!!!!!!😯

There were still "jungles" (hobo camps) in the early '80's in B.C. in Canada when i was riding the rails.

Now they are scrounge homeless camps all of trash

Where supplies left in them like this video depicts ?

Thanks so very much!

That's an unfortunate and sad story. That scene has been repeated many times over the years in different hobo jungles and camps. It seems like the authorities can't just leave people alone. Thanks for watching!

Absolutely! My faith is very important to me!

@lauriemclean1131 - Amen. It's something I miss these days - even in myself.

@@WayPointSurvival one of the reasons I sub.

@@randy-9842 He is always waiting for us to return . he is always there

@@steveww1507 Thanks, Steve. I absolutely believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and have for about 60 years. I know I must depend upon His grace, forgiveness and salvation. My lament is that my personal testimony is poor and that my sanctification still has so much further to go. I'll never be perfect in the "here and now" but one day, in the not to distant future, He'll call me home and I very much long for that. Maranatha!

Wow, thanks!

I agree

Agreed!

Thanks so much! It is indeed a World War I canteen. There's something special about camping under an old canvas tarp tent that you don't get in the modern nylon ones. God bless you and happy birthday!

Can you offer a word about how hobos handled things such as mail and Identification?

By the way, one of my beloved grandfathers (with whom we lived during WWII) served our country in World War I. Thanks for the birthday greeting.@@WayPointSurvival

Happy birthday old timer

I was deemed a weirdo when backpacking in Australia for picking up a stray car mirror for shaving. Travellers these days don't know what it is about

Thanks! I Really appreciate it!

That's very cool! Thanks so much for watching and for your service to our country! May God bless you and yours as well!

You're very welcome and thanks so much for sharing a bit of the family history with us!

I did do one on a hobo shower. I will think about incorporating other ones in future videos.

You dig a little pit, like with the toe of your shoe, or even by hand, do your business, then bury it. Like a cat does in their litter box. It's even a kosher law described in the Old Testament. Cleaning ones body is also described there. Bath in running water, like a stream, use sand and leaves rather than soap as not to pollute. Or a "spit bath" in a helmet or sink etc. Carry a sock with a bar of soap to wash with as well as a "sap" if need be. Many hobos were farm boys and knew about a "sink hole" for drinking water. That's a hole dug in a river bank. Water would seep into the hole from underground minus most of the slit. Collect the "clean" water into a can. Hobos always seem to be drinking coffee and boiling the "clean" river water helped make sure you didn't get sick. Most old timers carried an empty bleach bottle for storing water. The bleach residue would help purify the water as well as add that "city water" taste. It's fairly easy and quick to wash socks, and underwear in a sink. Even a T-shirt. Wring them out and put them back on. A short stroll in the outdoors plus body heat dries them and removes most wrinkles from the hand wash. Socks you baby pin to your pack tho.

Millbanks bag for prefiltering, filters are cheap as is bleach and there's always boiling. Soap and washrag for bathroom, although paper and wetwipes are better. Avoid running any type of oil or tannic tinted water through your filters, it'll ruin them quick.

A coffee filter or sock will work in a pinch. I made do a number of times with a sock. Old farm boys usually know about "sinkholes". You dig a hole in a riverbank and the water forces it's way up filtering much of the silt etc. Boil afterward of coarse. @@dananorth895

i hv 2 of the DVDs & know it word for word 👍,,, don't even hv to turn the volume on 🙃

Thanks so much for watching the video! I'm glad I can provide a little bit of nostalgic recall!

I used to watch Emperor of the North with my grandpa & dad. Grandpa used to ride the rails during the depression. He would tell us stories about all the old times growing up in north central Mo. He found grandma & settled down in St Louis. Mom would tell how grandma would feed hobos on the back porch step. Grandpa was away working for Phone Company in the southwest. It was a better friendlier time.

Thanks! Those were the days!

@artfulcoyote - my sister's kids would run out to their backyard and wave at the engineer every time they heard him approaching and he'd always wave back. It got to the point that he'd give a little toot on his horn whenever he was getting close. Simple pleasures!

Thanks for watching and I'm glad that you are enjoying the series!

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Absolutely!!

I was thinking the same thing. Even though it’s not luxury and the nights are hard, Just being able to wake up in the morning and have a full day ahead of you with the birds chirping and a bit of food… doing things like this make you grateful for the life we live now, and having been close to death and been around death a lot, it makes you appreciate being alive even if you’ve got a hobo lifestyle.

Absolutely! Thanks so much for watching!

You're welcome!

@@WayPointSurvival to bad shoestring did not participate in your videos, he could of protraryed the hobo life in camps and what to carry stuff like that. he seemed like a very gentle soul, getting rare these days. so many people feel so entitled,

Thank you! You too!

Thanks so much! It really is a lot of work but it is definitely a labor of love. I enjoy bringing things like this to my subscribers and viewers. God bless you too!

@@WayPointSurvivalyes, would like to see a continuing series periodically inserted into your content! Thanks for your efforts!

Thanks so much, that's very kind!

Indeed!

@@WayPointSurvival I watch videos like this, and people traveling around etc to learn if I ever getinto a situation based on what I have been hearing of having no money, could happen if they decide to take social security or reduce the amount at least I know what I should absolutly carry no?

You're very welcome!

I'm glad you are enjoying it!

Thanks, will do!

Thanks so much! You learned how to get by when you didn't have much!

Wonderful!

Ex RE ?

@@GauguinLyon Duke of Lancaster mate 👍🏻

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Thanks so very much!

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much! I did write the script.

So wrere there truncks left at points for other hobos?

More often just a jungle tree with pots, pans, mirrors etc hung from branches. @@pboone1231

Thanks for sharing🦋

What wonderful memories! Thanks so much for watching the video and for sharing!

Fascinating 😊

Very cool! Thanks for watching!

Wow, thank you so much for the great compliment!

Thanks so much!

Absolutely! That's why I pointed out that it would have been better in a pot of beans!

Indeed! Thank you for watching!

Thanks!

@@WayPointSurvival No sir. Thank you.

Thanks for the heads up on that!

Thanks so much! Have you watched any of my 1790s series? There are a total of 16 episodes plus an intro that are filmed in the same way. There's a playlist on my channel.

I will have to give it a look. Thanks for the suggestion@@WayPointSurvival

Well said!

Panhandler bums ARE willing to work. You’re just not willing to give them a job

Definitely what's most important is that you are able to make the best out of what's available to you! Thanks for watching!

Indeed. Those old timers were resourceful for sure!

Wow, thank you! God bless you too!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow, thank you so much for all the kind words! You're very welcome.

They were placed there by the hobos so that they could all use them when needed.

@@WayPointSurvival James, if they're not secret, it would be fun to see some more genuine hobo markings and what they meant / mean.

Not secret at all. Just google Hobo Signs.

A couple of us did that in a remote site we camped at in the ozarks. I left a nice bbq grill, some galvanized buckets and some other things to use each time. Others used the stuff and respectfully cleaned and re-stowed everything. Worked ok for a couple of years then whoever left everything a mess, then the next trip it was all gone. Somebody thoughtfully left all their trash and beer cans in trade for the items

@@randy-9842 I first learned about hobo sign from my dad's copy of "Scouting for boys". Not sure whether the ones I learned are specific to transients here in the UK and hobos in the US used different signs but there are references out there so even if they were secret at the time they are more an open secret these days.

Thank you so very much and God bless you too!

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it!

You're welcome!

Thanks so much!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wonderful! Old relics like that hold a lot of stories if only they could talk!

You're welcome!

Glad you enjoyed it!

They do work very well. Thanks for watching!

They still make "safety razors" avoid the chinese ones trust me on that! They work but are rough and cut easily. Gillete still makes em, just paid $10.00 bucks for a plastic one thats folds open on top. Not as studey as metal but gives a real nice shave! A box of 100 stainless blades is usually 7.00 to 10.00 bucks.

@dananorth895 I haven't had any issues with the one I bought. Had it 2 years now.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Beautiful💜 Thank You for sharing 🦋

What a wonderful story! Thank you so much for sharing it!

What a wonderful grandparents you had 😊

Thank you so very much!

Thanks so much and I'm glad that you enjoy it!

Thanks for watching and God bless you too!

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it!

Great tips!

When I shaved, I used my Great Grandad's Straight Razor....the same one he carried in the Klondike during the gold rush. I'm ugly enough, a beard is better now!

😂​@@MuskratOutdoors

Indeed. Thanks for watching!

Wow, thank you so very much for the compliment!

@@WayPointSurvival Most of my life I was so wrong about hobos

Thanks so much! Have you watched any of my 1790s survival series? It's filmed in the same way with music and commentary. There are a total of 16 episodes plus an introduction that gives background and history to the story. There was a playlist on my channel.

@@WayPointSurvival not yet… but thank you so much for the recommendation!

Thanks so much!

You are very welcome!

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks so very much and God bless you and yours as well!

Thank you so very much!

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it!

You're welcome!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much!

Thank you so much, my brother!

Thanks so much!

Always!

Thanks!

You're welcome!

You're welcome!

You're very welcome!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you like them!

Thanks so much, you're too kind!

Wow, that was an amazing life but sorry that he struggled later on. Thanks for watching the video and for sharing the bit of family history!

I struggle with PTSD, so I can kind of understand your friend. He lived a hard life and I hope and pray he is looking down on us from paradise. Thank you for sharing some of his story. You must be a good person!😊

Thanks so much!

You're welcome!

Glad you enjoy it!

You're welcome!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, glad you liked it! If you like this kind of video then you will like my 16 episode series from the 1790s. There's a playlist on my channel.

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks so much! If you like this kind of video you should check out my 1790s survival series. There's a total of 16 episodes with an intro. There's a playlist on my channel.