****CIRCA 1967. LIVED WITH MY GRANDAD ABOVE LOCH CRINOVAT IN HIS LITTLE COTTAGE..ALCHOHOLISM WAS RIFE IN SHAWBOST AS MOST MEN WOULD BUY A HALF BOTTLE OF BELLS WHISKY AND MET IN SHAWBOST VILLAGE HALL ON A SATURDAY EVEING.....THE COTTAGE IS NOW A RUIN..REMMEMBER THE OLD MOBILE SHOP CIRCA 1950. ERA WOULD STOP ON THE HILL .PUT IN REVERSE GEAR AS THE HANDBRAKE DIDN'T WORK .THE DRIVER WAS ONLY 14YEARS OLD..HE SOLD STRIPPY BOILER SWEETS OF ALL MAKES AND FLAVOURS.CANDY BALLS, MINT BALLS TOFFEE BALLS STRAWBERRY BALLS, RASPBERRY BALLS..ECT ECT ..MY MUM BOUGHT 50 SILVER DARLINGS, HERRING. TO FEED THE FOLKS WHO LOADED MY GRANDAD ALEXANDER MACLEANS.. PEATS. SERVER WITH BOILED TATTIES WITH LASHINGS. OF. BUTTER..THE MEAL WAS DELIGHTFUL. TO SAY THE LEAST.. CIRCA. 1966 TO 1967..HAZY SUMMER DAYS..OF DREAMY 🔥HOT, SUMMER DAYS..I WAS BITTEN BY HORSE FLYS, HUGE BLOOD SUCKERS WHICH LEFT A BIG UGLY BOIL, ON ONE'S SKIN...WE VISITED THE BLONDE HAIRED, TWINS AND MUM AND DAD WHO LIVED IN ONE OF THE LAST BLACKHOUSES IN NORTH SHAWBOST ..THE COWS, were KEPT.IN THE BYRE IN THE BLACK HOUSE WHICH WAS.ALSO THE TOILET. ONE. JUST POOPED IN THE BYRE..CHANGED DAYS NOW IN 2024 JULY. WHERE MEN ARE WOMAN. AND FEMALES ARE MEN . WE ARE LOOSING OUR. FREEDOM OF SPEECH..NOW CALLED HATE SPEECH IF WE DISSAGREE WITN LGBT..OR, ISLAM AND SHARIA LAW..GREAT BRITAIN WAS BUILT.ON THE SLAVE AND OPIUM TRADE..BRITAIN TURNED MILLIONS OF CHINESE I TO OPIUM, ADDICTES..truth is NOT AL!WAYS. ROSIE ..U.K. IS IN ITS DEATH THROES..WW2 COST MANY VETERANS LIVES WHO FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH NOW IT'S BEEN REMOVED BRICK BY BRICK***HAPPY DAYS. .SAD, STATE OF U.K.

****FIRST PERSON TO TALK, IS DONALD MITCHELL RETIRED ROYAL NAVY ENGINEER, MARRIED MY SISTER. JANET WHO MADE THE MARFIAGE A LIVING NITEMARE FOR DONALD AS SHE LOVED TO CAUSE TROUBLE WITH HER WICKED, TONGNE.., THEY HAD TWO SONS, DONALD AND NEIL WHO IS A PLUMBER AND CERTIFIED. ALCHOHOLIC..POOR LAD.. MY NAME IS IAIN MACLEOD- MACLEAN..DONALD WAS MY BROTHER IN LAW..CIRCA +1967..FIND MEMORIES OF GEORGE MITCHELL WHO WOULD START, THERE OLD GREY FERGIE TRACTOR WITH A CLOTH SOAKED IN DIESEL UP THE AIR INTAKE, HA HA. WE WOULD DRIVE DOWN TO THE BEACH , IN THOSE DAYS ANY UNWANTED PUPPYS WERE DROWNED. IN THE SEA LOCH AT THE BEACH , SAD MEMORIES OF THE PUPPYS IN AN.OLD PILLOW CASE.. CHUCKED INTO THE LOCH. AND KILLED..BUT I WAS ONLY ALLOWED TO KEEP ONE . I PULLED HIM FROM THE BAG AND TOOK HIM HOME TO DOLLY MITCHELLS, HOUSE WHERE I LIVED..DURING THE SUMMER..MY MUM WOULD NOT LET ME TAKE MY DOG HOME TO DUNDEE. WENT I WENT BACK NEXT SUMMER MY DOG HAD BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOTGUN..THE TRUTH IS NEVER SMELLING OF ROSES..*******

****ALL THE FOLKS I KNEW IN SHAWBOST CIRCA 1967 ARE PASSED AWAY NOW .I'M 70 YEARS OLD NOW . I WAS SEVEN WHEN I LIVED WITH DOLLY MITCHELL ,AND HUBBY, AND GEORGE MITCHELL WHO WORKED THE LOOM. I DID BOBBINS FOR HIM ..MY SISTER MARRIED DONALD MITCHELL RETIRED ROYAL NAVY ENGINEER,.. WHO IS PASSED ON NOW..??

****DOES. LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH?WATCH THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE BELOW AND FIND OUT.? WATCH THE FAILED SUICIDE ATTEMPT BY GUN OF TAMARA LAROUX SUPERNATURAL VISIT TO HEAVEN AND HELL.DOES LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH?WATCH THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING STORY AND FIND OUT.*****

***THANKU GOOD VID. INDEED MAY THERE BE MANY MORE..**********

****JESUS. IS. MY. LORD AND SAVIOUR FROM HELL ETERNAL FIRES...THANKS JESUS..*********

****WATCH THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE OF IAN MACORMACK STUNG BY BOX JELLYFISH WHILE SPEAR FISHING 🐟AT NITE IN MAURITIUS PRONOUNCED DEAD AND AWOKE IN THE MORGUE AFTER A VISIT TO HEAVEN AND HELL.DOES LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH?WATCH THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING STORY AND FIND OUT.*****

****WATCH THE FAILED SUICIDE ATTEMPT BY GUN OF TAMARA LAROUX SUPERNATURAL VISIT TO HEAVEN AND HELL.DOES LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH?WATCH THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING STORY AND FIND OUT.***JESUS. IS. MY. LORD AND SAVIOUR...******

****WATCH 23MINUTES IN HELL BY BILL WEISS SUPERNATURAL NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE.DOES LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH?WATCH THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING STORY AND FIND OUT.*****

*** I..LIVED. WITH DOLLY MITCHELL IN 1962 NOT 1967 AS I'VE SAID. BELOW..****

**** " I LIVED WITH DOLLY MITCHELL IN 1967 DURING A LOVELY SUMMER, I HELPED GEORGE MITCHELL BY SPINNINIG BOBBIINS FOR HIS LOOM..HIS LOO M, WAS IN THE OLD BLACK HOUSE.PREVIOUSLY WHERE THE FAMILY LIVED BEFORE THERE HOUSE WAS BUILT..MY SISTER MARRIED GEORGE'S AND KENNY AND DINAS BROTHER DONALD .MITCHELL.DINA WAS HEADMISTRESS OF SHAWBOST PRIMARY SCHOOL..THE SCHOOL I ATTENDED WHEN I LIVED IN DOLLY S. WHO WAS THE MUM OF DONALD , AND HIS BROTHERS. ..FOND, MEMORIES OF THE. PEATS, AND THE SHEEP. SHANK WHEN THE WOOL WAS CUT FROM THE SHEEP..MY .GRANDAD W AS. SANDY. MACLEAN .WHO LIVED ABOVE LOCH CRINOVAT..REMMEMBE R. THE VILLAGE HALL FOR FILM NITE ,AND. SATURDAY NITE WHEN THE YOUNG TEENS WOULD GATHER IN THE VILLAGE HALL ON SATURDAY .NITE WITH A UBIQUE, half. Bottle of bells whiskey in there inside jacket POCKET .... Circa. 1962/ 1963//!! MY..NAME IS IAN MARTIN AKA MACLEOD-MACLEAN..I. WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD. MY BROTHER WENT TO, THE SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SHAWBOST ONLY TO BE BEATEN UP,, BY. PLUM WHO LOOKED LIKE THE BEANO CHARACTER .. ONE LOOK FROM HIM WOULD BE VERY SCAREY..PLUM DROWNED, in a foreign. Harbour WHILE DRUNK... ..

***VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS***FIRST PERSON TO REMINISCE . WAS, my brother IN law ,DONALD MITCHELL, oldest BROTHER OFKENNY AND GEORGE, my name IS iain Martin AKA MACLEOD-MACLEAN.. Think Donald has. Passed away now to ETERNAL LIFE.above or BELOW. ? Only GOD, KNOWS..he married my sister a marriage made in GLASGOW...Donald , GEORGE and Kenny Mitchell were fine, young men I knew them , I seen them in the village hall SIABOST , on a Saturday NIGHT. With a ubique half bottle of bells whiskey in inside jacket POCKET.. Went to a movie in village hall on Wednesday NITE. Could have been Friday not SURE...I would read the BIBLE in bed in dolly Mitchell's house ,GEORGE would come In, .I was AGE, 7 , LIVED WITH DOLLY MITCHELL AND HUBBY OVER THE SUMMER MONTHS ., GEORGE would come into my room about 10-30 MINS, TAKE A POUND NOTE, OUT his wallet wave it at me and put it back in his wallet AGAIN. I did Bobbie for his LOOM. But never got paid ..came close to it ONCE,

***FROM LEO MACLEOD - MACLEAN, AKA *MARTIN * WENT TOO SCHOOL IN SHAWBOST, PRIMARY WHEN ARE 7 TO 8/ FOND, MEMORIES of 1962 TO 63/..BROTHER SCOTT WENT TO SECONDARY SCHOOL SHAWBOST ONLY TO BE BEATEN UP BY ONE UGLY MUG CALLED *PLUM* AFTER THE BEANO CHARACTER..HE COULD BEAT U UP JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU..POOR PLUM, joined merchant navy and fell into the harbour when drunk and DROWNED..don't know if he could swim ?? God bless HIM..

*** VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS*** LEO MACLEOD -.MACLEAN ..FOND, MEMORIES OF THE PEATS AND FANK ABOVE LOCH CRINAVAT....MY MOTHER MADE 50 HERRINGS IN OATMEAL WITH TATTIES AND LASHINGS OF BUTTER TO FEED THOSE WHO HELPED MY GRANDAD ALEXANDER MACLEAN TO GET HIS PEATS IN FOR THE YEAR..FOOD WAS DELICIOUS. INDEED..EVERYONE HAD AT LEAST 3 HERRINGS EACH..ABOUT, 12 TO 14 PEOPLE HELPED MY GRANDAD..GET HIS PEATS IN..KENNY MITCHELL DROVE THE TRACTOR TRAILER FOR PEATS..STARTED THE TRACTOR WITH A RAG, SOAKED IN PARRAFIN NEXT TO THE AIR INTAKE OF TRACTOR...****FOND, CHILDHOOD MEMORIES, EVERYONE LEFT THERE DOORS OPEN AND WERE TOLD, NOT TOO KNOCK WHEN VISITING JUST WALK IN . CHANGED DAYS FROM CIRCA 1962

**MY SISTER IN LAW IS * DINA MITCHELL WHO WAS HEAD MISSTRESS OF SHAWBOST PRIMARY SCHOOL..I LIVED WITH HER AND FAMILY CIRCA 1968..FOND MOMORIES. OF THE FAMILY SINGING PRAYERS AT NITE IN GAELIC..I LEARNED TO READ THE BIBLE FROM DOLLY MITCHELL...FROM IAIN MARTIN AKA * LEO MACLEOD- MACLEAN..BROTHER OF SCOTT MARTIN AND SON OF ISLA MARTIN AKA ISLA MACLEOD- MACLEAN..DAUGHTER OF SANDY MACLEAN, WHO LIVED ABOVE LOCH, CRINOVAT..MY GRANDAD WAS SANDY MACLEAN VETERAN WW1...**

VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS 💂. ** I LIVED WITH DOLLY MITCHELL MOTHER OF GEORGE MITCHELL AND KENNY MITCHELL..I HELPED GEORGE BY FILLING, THE BOBBINS FOR WEAVING HARRIS TWEED..! BRAXY LIVED A COUPLE OF HOUSES ALONG.WHEN I WAS 8 YEAR OLD..**1968 circa..ATTENDED SHAWBOST PRIMARY ..REMMEMBER PLUG WHO JUST, LOOKED AT YOU AND HE WAS NAMED AFTER CHARACTER IN THE BEANO COMIC AS HE WAS SO UGLY..HE WAS SCARY INDEED..EVERYONE SPOKE ABOUT THE NICHOLSON ACCADEMY IN STORNOWAY. TO GRADUATE TOO....

VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS 💂. ***I WENT TO SCHOOL PRIMARY IN SHAWBOST...FOND MEMORIES FROM * IAIN MARTIN AND SCOTT MARTIN .DONALD MITCHELL WAS MY BROTHER IN LAW..DONALD MARRIED, MY SISTER JANET MACADAM..AKA, JANET MITCHELL .WHO'S CHILDREN ARE * NEIL MITCHELL AND DONALD MITCHELL JUNIOR..

Cracking watch and brought back some great childhood memories, when I used to visit my nana in Shawbost every summer. Doing the peats, cleaning nets, doing bobbins for the loom..loved it....and Dolly Joan even gave my Uncle Bimbo a shout out ! 🙂

Wow........very interesting!!!!

Beautifull production, i have a place there, but dont live there, makes me want to go home, thanks!

Went to school at Siabost primary until my family moved to perthshire . Fond memories ! The smell of peat fires ,what a lovely aroma of home , from " leo Macleod-maclean grandson of Sandy maclean who lived next to loch Crinovat the man who owned the mobile shop lived at the top of the hill above sandy maclean ww1 veteran

Does anyone remember " THE SHERIFF " LIVED IN SHAWBOST ACROSS THE ROAD FROM SANDY MACLEAN RETIRED 1ST WW VETERAN AND DUNDEE POLICEMAN ,OR BRAXY ,ARE U OUT THERE BRAXY , ? OR JOHN MACLEAN number ONE CROFT SHAWBOST AND HIS BROTHER ? OR GEORGE MITCHELL ,DINA MITCHELL ,KENNY MITCHELL? ALSO DONALD MITCHELL WHO GAVE THE. COMMENTARY .ALL GREAT CHARACTERS ! HOW TIMES CHANGE .. CHECK OUT TRUE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE ON U TUBE DOCUDRAMA ( IAN MACORMACK BOX JELLYFISH TOXIN ,DIED SENT BACK FROM HEAVEN TO TELL HIS STORY ) remember the peats and fatties and herring in oatmeal for the helpers ,Kenny or George used there old Ferguson tractor to transport the peats . the fank was a time to socialize like the peats!.......

Cant tell you how many times I have watched this as I know some of the participants. Always watch it when I feel homesick ! Many Thanks

I've been there about 18 years ago. Eilean Leodhais, mo ghaoil, tha mise dol ann.

Good stuff, thanks for also including the clips of you using it.

Thanks to everyone for their useful hints, tips and comments. I've taken everything on board - I went to the local DIY store and bought some smaller washers - you can see the result in the link pasted in the comments.

Not balanced at all ! move your weight down by millimeters and you'll be on your way. Shouldn't be moving at all !

A, cool ass video!

Loose the mic accessories because it greatly affects the center of gravity, w/c can differ everytime you use the nano. Also, get some different sized metal washers from your hardware store and mix and match it w/ the weights provided w/ the nano. The weights provided w/ the nano might be too heavy for your cam. Also, w/ the long lens, you might want to back the quick release to the end to get the center of gravity right. Good luck.

When it keeps turning

That means it's too bottom heavy. The mm on the slider counts the most.

How did you get it to stop circling? My flycam nano seems balanced but it keeps turning round and round!

Buy some washers that are lighter than the weights. I was able to get mine almost set with out the weights from the company. This made it lighter but balanced. Just got it today. Will have videos up later next week

I also have a problem with balance. You've already solved the problem, but I see no video - filmed with Flycam. Not using Flycam?

If you believe in your self you will eventually get it!

will be posting up sample footage shortly, i'm seriously impressed with the quality of the footage this gives :-D only thing is its fairly heavy after a bit, but the arm brace should help with that :)

update.. mine arrived this morning, took me about 10 min to balance it.. i started off by removing the top set of plates on both sides, then took out two plates from each side (so in a nutshell, i'm using just 2 plates on each side) .. i then carefully put my camera on top of the platform without the QR plate just to get a feel for where it should be mounted, mounted the plate, slotted in my 600d + battery grip... and adjusted the platform forward/left slightly.. drop test = 2.1 seconds.. done!

ordered mine... have a LED light on top of my 600D and a battery grip :-eeeek!!! not looking forward to balancing lol cheers for the vid

Very nice.... Sad, we don't have snow this year ;)

i live on that road!!

it is good nexts time go to mill it shawbost and then do the howes it crost form mill

Well you wasted your time!!!

@iainpope73 Thanks for your kind comments. Regards Craig

Really enjoyed that. Thank you.

bien fait!

Hi Voohoo, I really appreciate your comments, thanks. I agree with what you say, the there is too much out of focus shots. I've since made a small 'follow focus' gadget which should help with these type of shots. Maybe you could have a look at the SeanD video on my channel to see how things have progressed. Thanks again. Craig

i saw tcidenebtube's video as well and was really impressed by it. you did a pretty awesome job yourself. personally i think the video could have benefit from more focusing. some of the shots were kind of awkwardly out of focus too much. i think you just need to find the right balance and practice focusing manually, which i find myself terrible at myself. don't be offended by this comment, just trying to give some constructive criticism!

awsm buddy :D

Loving the lightning bolts oot the logo by the way!

Hey Craig! That is AWESOME! Loving your work on this. You're a legend!!!!!