[1606] Soviet Era “Rack Locks”

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[@dedewhite1514]

You can't just tease us about picking with a carrot and then not try it out...

[@BozesanVlad]

He already picked it, but was fast and we didn't seen it.

[@randomwankstain]

he might do it next year as an April Fools video

[@-NGC-6302-]

@@randomwankstain something about putting his carrot in his wife's rack

[@parkerbond9400]

That's for April 1st

[@pavman42]

He just did.

[@TheDiveO]

The Carrot BosnianBill and I made

[@AeroGraphica]

🤣🤣

[@PaulG.x]

grew

[@jamesmisener3006]

😅

[@StreetSurfersAlex]

PLEASE - I beg you - TRY THE CARROT METHOD!

[@KuruGDI]

AMEN BROTHER!

[@TheDriller-Killer]

@@StreetSurfersAlex He'd get banned from KZbin for life if he did that 😂😂😂

[@MarketPlaceRentals]

soft chanting from everyone in the comment section... carrot carrot carrot

[@joshacollins84]

I second this

[@folker009]

My first thought when he said it...gotta see if it works

[@connormcmillan6761]

“Dimitri, get the carrot.”

[@ronrozen2105]

I have only potato, Igor.

[@TheDriller-Killer]

​@@ronrozen2105"Nyet Dimitri, potato for wodka, get carrot" 😂😂😂

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

There were times in the Soviet Union where that would've been a legitimately difficult piece of equipment to locate.

[@pyronical]

"But comrade, I am still sore from last night"

[@TheDriller-Killer]

@@pyronical "Then retrieve parsnip from anus Comrade Dimitri, it will have to do" 😂😂😂

[@ericfeldkamp3788]

After that intro, the next video better feature a carrot.

[@timtechdude4339]

This will definitely be in the next April 1st edition ;)

[@dsrichmond]

@@timtechdude4339Hi folks, this is the lock picking lawyer, I've got something special for you today. For years people have been asking to see my wife's rack. It's a fine rack, holding firm these years. And while many other men might try to use some shoddy tool, Mrs Lockpicking Lawyer prefers... My Carrot. Now let's take a look at a model of this rack and see just why my carrot is PERFECT for the job...

[@olenilsen4660]

3:15 - shoving root veggies into mechanical stuff might just be the most Russian hack I´ve ever heard of ;D

[@tomhorsley6566]

Surely they'd use a potato or beet right?

[@TheDriller-Killer]

@@tomhorsley6566 Nyet Comrade Thomas, potato for wodka, beetroot for borsht 😂😂😂

[@mellocello]

In Soviet Russia, carrots reserved only for Politbureau members.

[@christopherreed4723]

​​@@mellocello Which means there's a thriving black market for carrots catering to the millions of Party members who *aren't* paid in certificate rubles. So...better have some Certificate Rubles or western currency - Deutschmarks were popular -, but be careful because possession of either could land you in prison if you're not that high up. Or you trade something you do have. Cured meats or other vegetables from country relatives' backyard gardens. Moonshine from country relations or friends in the Air Force. Or random stuff the wife picked up and brought home (because Soviet housewives *always* carried a shopping bag in their purse), not because the family actually needed it, but simply because a store had some in stock and it could be traded for something you *did* need. What passed for an economy in the Soviet Union, especially during the Brezhnev era and after, would have most medieval clerks (closest they had to economists back then) tearing their hair. Oh, and don't forget to check the date of manufacture of anything you do get. Beginning of the month is probably OK, but end of the month means the workers are rushing to fill the quota, and have installed screws with hammers and not bothered to hook up internal connections.

[@1112-r1f]

Can verify that the "carrot method" works. My parent's appartment in Russia was robbed 20 years ago. It had a lock with a key like this and according to my mom, there was a carrot sticking out of the lock, when she came home to find the front door open.

[@Satellite_09]

They're not so forgotten in my experience - i've spent all my childhood in Russia, st. Petersburg. 2 out of 4 flats on parent's story had rack locks, including parent's door! Few facts about these locks usage: - Those "bolts" you've unscrewed at 0:53 tend to screw themselves in - and required manual adjustment (slight unscrewing) from time to time (few weeks) - otherwise locking mechanism were tightening up, making unlocking the door way too hard - key itself was uncomfortably large for a key, but doubled down as an improvised wood saw :DD I remember sabotaging my teacher's chair leg by rasping it almost in half while she was away for a break - closing/locking the door from inside meant that you pull springed lock rods, close the door almost to the end, release rods and then proceed to fully close the door - at which moment rods LOUDLY springed back into slots, making it the loudest locking mechanism i know

[@gatisozols]

My garage door has one :) It has a nice quirk - it is spring loaded, so it is very entertaining when in the winter time the key gets flicked out of the door into a pile of snow after opening the door..

[@mithril1584]

I really want to see the carrot method tried without any prior testing off camera. It's so silly.

[@resevsh]

as a person in Ukrаinе, i can say that we use this locks almost exclusively with regular locks. the ratchet one is more like internal heavy-duty latch that is shielded from weather and has at least *some* pick resistance. and the regular lock on top can be much smaller because only the ratchet lock holds the weight of a door

[@DarthTUK]

Next Valentine's day/April fool's day video: LPL: "Look at me shove my carrot into Mrs. LPL's lock"

[@klopferator]

In her rack.

[@AGenericMoron]

"Showing KZbin My Wife's Frankly Unbeatable Rack"

[@philsharp758]

Don't give LPL ideas. :-)

[@nvrndingsmmr]

I hope this stays at 69 likes

[@creeper6530]

​@@philsharp758 *DO give him ideas. This idea rocks

[@wooyd]

My grandfather had one of these on his garage, during Soviet times. Typically they were not store-bought, but made by some local handyman with access to machine tools, for private sale or, more commonly, exchange for requisite amount of booze.

[@s.s.1810]

Lockpick ❌️ Carrot ✅️

[@robertl426]

You must have thousands of locks, I'd love to see the full collection someday. I got into lock picking thanks to your channel, and it certainly is a fun and rewarding hobby, thank you LPL.

[@henrysalayne]

I absolutely want to see a carrot opening one of these! 😅

[@william_mac]

You're going to shove a carrot up it? Well I can't miss that episode.

[@creeper6530]

He will shove the carrot into miss LPL's keyhole on 1st April

[@alexeysolovtcov5160]

I lived in Russia and around 20 years ago my grandparents apartment indeed had such a lock.

[@jackhemsworth7515]

Probably because if the lock is cut too precisely it would freeze and be inoperable

[@liliya_aseeva]

My acquaintance from Sevastopol had the one he unscrewed on video on his one-bedroom flat somewhere in a poorer portion of a city.

[@MrDands]

"Required nothing in the way of precision" Absolutely love that, 100% true.

[@455buick6]

He's going to be selling a line of precision carrots shortly 🥕🥕🥕

[@LucyWoIf]

tell that to a soviet official durin cccp times and you were immediately hired

[@nowster]

Eeh... What's up, Lock?

[@johnlucas6683]

Hehehehe

[@WH250398]

....Lockey Tunes?

[@AndyG-_-]

LOL

[@STEVE_C_1369]

LOL..Good one 🤣

[@bmw328igearhead]

Best comment, right here folks. **applause**

[@Francois_L_7933]

That Ukrainian lock does show some potential. All that would be needed is some shroud over the button and it would be more secure than any Masterlock product you've shown here.

[@PaulG.x]

Just remove the button and have a pin on a chain that fits into a hole in the bolt for manual opening. Almost as convenient and a snare type device has nothing to catch onto.

[@christopherreed4723]

That's not a very high bar you're setting. Ants could cheerfully limbo underneath it without any problems.

[@TheYrthenarc]

Looking forward to watching you try the carrot method...

[@Zaubr]

I love these kinds of locks! Saw a couple at the British museum, very interesting

[@bimich7339]

Do you know which country had them originaly

[@lukemeck]

LPL inserts carrot.... "Little click out of 1 ... 2 is binding"

[@andriyyushin6322]

I am from Ukraine and I had a Ukrainian version of the lock on my garage that you showed, but in it you had to turn the key 90 degrees twice and insert it deeper each time. Only after the second deepening of the key did it gain access to the lock

[@JohnnyDee62]

Yes, please; more of these simple, Soviet-era locks!! 💙💙💙

[@Guit3l_]

Everyone carrying a carrot was a suspicious individual in those days

[@philsharp758]

Comrade. You have fresh a vegetable. Unless you produce a Politburo card , it is off to the Gulag with you.

[@chuck6290]

Russians: Enjoy our pick-proof rack locks, comrade. Bugs Bunny: Hold my beer.

[@heavystalin2419]

The carrot method is a tall tale. You simply insert a flat screwdriver, rack the bolt while swearing at those who designed this PoS lock and it's open. Source: the 90s.

[@Genda1ph]

As someone who saw these in use they were called "riegel" locks. They were mounted to the door on the inside and installed exclusively on the pull side. Also you often had to pull the door a bit to make it easier to open the lock.

[@JosephsDesign]

I saw Makers Muse 3d print one of these a while ago. They are from cold places and still work for low security applications even when it’s really cold.

[@gunn0624]

Yeah seem decent enough to keep children or animals out of something

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

Probably same applications as warded locks while being much more secure (than warded locks)

[@boam2943]

If that Ukrainian lock had a protective ring around the bolt and a pyramid shaped bolt (instead of a cylindrical one), it would be a lot harder for someone to open with a wire.

[@sniperblast]

After all the methods used throughout the years, LPL draws the line at using a carrot? Oh no you don't, off to the grocer with you sir!

[@Saltovka_Scientist]

Hello from Ukraine. I have had a brass lock and it server many years before we installed a modern door and then I sent it to scrap. Locks were made during 199x years because of economic problems factories and also maybe jails produced this instead of whatever they have produced before just to survive. People were payed by what they have produced and there was no online boards to sell that, some "entrepreneurs" collected the goods that people was payed with and selled them somewhere with some profit. Some stuff was produced unofficially

[@saucegrgrfin2720]

The lack of a title is so ominous. LPL is in his scary era now I guess

[@babilon6097]

I guess the term "rack" was qualified by youtube as inappropriate as sexual/derogatory to women.

[@jayme3181]

@@babilon6097 "I heard if you stick your carrot into the rack forcefully enough..." FLAG

[@lockpickinglawyer]

Something strange happened… title didn’t save, or at least it took a few minutes to appear. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@babilon6097]

@@lockpickinglawyer Their server racks were afraid you are picking them up.

[@eamonahern7495]

Well it is nearly Halloween after all

[@krutoyinfo]

These locks are very hard to open with key, but very simple to open without keys. We had some of them in 90's on our storages in russia ))

[@dandare1001]

How did you open them without a key?

[@mikekolb1]

Hoping he tries the carrot!

[@michaelc9217]

That's a great rack. What does Mrs Lock Picking Lawyer think of you playing with those racks?

[@TheDriller-Killer]

In Soviet Russia, you do not open rack lock, rack lock opens you 😂😂😂

[@davidp2888]

Next video: LPL picks a rack lock with a carrot.

[@conspirccy6118]

Please pick it using a carrot

[@DmitryOlyenyov]

My grandparents' garage in Kazakhstan had this kind of lock!

[@TheDriller-Killer]

@@DmitryOlyenyov "Is very nice......high five!!!" 😂😂😂 (Sorry I just couldn't resist the temptation!!!)

[@masessum1]

Bugs Bunny's lock of choice

[@greggdilligaffshelly]

As always thank you LPL

[@vguyver2]

The Ukrainian lock has some real potential if it were modified a bit.

[@Riyame]

A friend got a Lucan lock (predecessor to the Manolex padlock) at a locksmith expo in the US in the 70s IIRC. Late 70s or early 80s the Manolex padlock was being sold in ads in Popular Mechanics magazine etc.

[@OctaHeart]

The Titleless LPL video...

[@zzstoner]

I doubt I'm the first one, but at 2:30, I just now noticed his Padlock Bypass tool looks like a mini Golf iron club, or maybe the pitching wedge. 🤔

[@goncalo33]

I've noticed that too in the past, yeah. A baby Iron club. Thank you, Tiger Woods videogames for that knowledge! :)

[@Volkaer]

I remember these from my childhood - they were quite common in the 80s Soviet Union. Some variations also had a sort of a pin or a lever at the back of the bolt on the inside of the door, that prevented the bolt from sliding back and thus making it impossible to open via key or any non destructive methods from the outside altogether since the bolt wouldn't move at all. Some also had a plate that could be rotated or slid over the backside of the keyhole, preventing the key from going all the way through and thus preventing the bolt from moving all the way across - which functionally prevented the door being opened from the outside (via key or otherwise). The most common usage was in tandem with other locks on a door - it was pretty much standard practice to see at least two locks on apartment doors, often you would see three (two deadbolts and one of these). Not sure of it's pick resistance, as we were very young kids at the time and weren't interested in that - but it wasn't uncommon to know someone in your school whose key could open your door (or vice versa). Likewise, it was also common for kids to try disable the thing permanently while trying to open it with a friends key (or sometimes their own key) and having it stuck half way in. Come to think of it, I think that was the most common way the lock stopped someone getting in - they would try to open it with a makeshift key or something similar, and it would get permanently jammed in it. Don't think I heard of anyone using a carrot though (but again, I was very young at the time).

[@nvrndingsmmr]

Fascinating!! I love this kind of stuff! Looking forward to seeing more obscure stuff like this :D

[@Nexus7fm]

Many garages in Russia was locked by this type of custom locks with additional padlocks and key hole protectors.

[@bondarenkodf]

Well, I just bought one of those locks to send to you 😂😂

[@Stukov961]

LPL method: padlock bypass tool McNally method: carrot

[@lanzer22]

Time for an episode of the Lock Picking Carrot.

[@creeper6530]

It has to be on 1st April. "Now I will shove my carrot into miss LPL's keyhole"

[@creeper6530]

It has to be on 1st April. "Now I will shove my carrot into miss LPL's keyhole"

[@tomhorsley6566]

I have strong doubts about a carrot surviving that small slit you'd have to shove it through.

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Great video LPL!

[@Tbehartoo]

Those look really cool! I'm so glad I stumbled into your videos

[@zeelax]

A bigger version of these was used for garage doors/gates. My grandpa has one, and I still remember how heavy that key was, especially put in a bag together with all the other keys to his garage :)

[@simonnilsson8375]

A carrot to open a lock? You got me

[@KuruGDI]

To be fair, opening a lock with a carrot sounds like something LPL could do (even though you would probably expect this to open a MasterLock Lock)

[@miglespigles2025]

Those seem awesome! So simple!

[@trelina]

I used one of these in St. Petersburg when I went there for the world cup in 2018. They're definitely still around.

[@CaedmonOS]

Once you explained how the lock worked, my immediate thought was just tensioned by pulling the door handle, and then just slide it to the side, and then you immediately proved me right.

[@amateurshooter6054]

Thanks LPL

[@azrobbins01]

I would love to have a glimpse of how large your collection is someday!

[@dudlesstheking]

Can't wait for next video! 😅

[@CitEnthusiast]

Love seeing videos about unique and unusual locks, thanks for this one, pretty cool!

[@geoffreypiltz271]

Interesting design. So simple in terms of moving parts and manufacture.

[@nismo2070]

Very cool! I lived in Berlin during the cold war and I do remember seeing keys like this.

[@willbedeadsoon]

My late grandmother used to have this type of lock in her appartment. I completely forget it but remembered just as I see the picture.

[@Tee643]

Mrs. Lockpicking Lawyer 's carrot patch is finally getting put to good use.

[@SwearMY]

What a fascinating design.

[@GreyhoundPicking]

Very neat locks!

[@nikonyrh]

What a cool design, this looks like something I could try building at home.

[@IamKavot]

I own one of this. You undereestimate the ruffness and rugidness of most doors (mostly garage doors) closed by this locks in post-soviet space. I imagine it would be really hard to work the bolt and keep the door secure in one place to open it like this, especially in winter. Sorry for bad English. Like your videos.

[@mrkultra1655]

Thanks

[@nolansykinsley3734]

Oh wow! I have seen GIFs and videos about these and been able to find almost no information on them at all. It is wild to see so many of them in one place. I saw someone "pick" one of these locks with a carrot! lol, you mentioned the carrot just after I edited my comment....

[@lavuy6744]

interesting love seeing the different ways locks were made and thought about

[@Hansengineering]

That's a very cool and fast design!

[@xlerb2286]

Execs at Masterlock scurrying around in a panic - "We need a carrot, right now!"

[@rorkycorky]

The Lock Picking Grocer.

[@SomeRandomGerman]

[1606] thats the title apparently

[@majoralexlouisarmstrong3175]

@@SomeRandomGerman it’s all u need

[@mwwoggy]

Oh please, please, please try the carrot thing!!

[@КарлШлегер]

These were popular/produced during the 90s in the post-soviet conuntries and primerally used on apartment building entrerance. So having no security isn't really a problem if the major application is to prevent drunks from pissing on the stairs/hallways/elevators. First time I see padlocks with this construction though o_0. Ukrainian "reverse-rack lock" somewhat reminds me of another popular lock from the 80s-90s that was primerally used on garages (which were build as metal boxes near apartments or as long rows of brick/concrete garages with the shared walls). These were so called "falling key" locks (замок с падающим ключом). Key had a swinging part that were "falling" inside a lock when you fully inserted the key. They also had very simple construction.

[@krisdeluxe4417]

Very simple title, I like it

[@majoralexlouisarmstrong3175]

@@krisdeluxe4417 it’s all you need

[@FokkerBoombass]

Man I was hoping you'd cover these one day! Being Polish, I remember that the block of flats I used to live in as a kid had these small storage rooms on each floor and my family had one of them, it had a key like this. The building was made in early 90's juuust after the communist rule in Poland ended. I bet these locks are still there in most of those rooms.

[@noc8076]

Oh, a missed opportunity not waiting until April 1'st.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

NGL, using a carrot for self-impressioning attack sounds even funnier than the BIC pen attack.

[@Aquatic0534]

I love it when LPL talks about his rack 🫢

[@Ckpe4]

Hello from Ukraine. I have a similar lock at main entrance. So i measured the key with calipers, and just 3d printed a copy. These locks aren't secure, but they are almost indestructible, so are quite popular, especially in basements

[@macfanguy]

Fascinating!

[@csn583]

In a pinch the key serves as a glass breaker!

[@BouncingZeus]

I was like wait this is not April first. Maybe we will get lucky with a different rack lock for a joke that day.

[@KoScosss]

Had a variation of this lock with key being a metal rod around 3 millimeters in diameter cut in similar manner to the center. With a wooden handle on one end for ease of use. The lock was cut into the door.

[@Luminousplayer]

granted the sliding lock mechanic is really cool and elegant

[@stallord8796]

Carrot is hands down the absolute funniest lock weakness I've ever heard of > w

[@cesariojpn]

Early enough to see the [####] title.

[@mykhailoparovyi]

найсс, чекаємо наступний відос, цікаво)

[@soldieroftruth77]

Please name your custom tool “The Carrot”

[@Jutulind]

As a guy from ex soviet respublic - those are still used as garage locks sometimes here. Usually "homemade". But no one uses them as the only lock here anymore as they are actually quite easy to pick if you know what you are dealing with.