American Construction Worker Reacts "How Britain Worked - Episode 2 - The Mill | Guy Martin Proper"

[@stevestibbons1789]

My boys, you are only just scratching the surface on Guy Martin , the man is brilliant, I really hope you 2 continue to watch as much as possible, especially his Speed series’s. Keep up the great work 🍻🍻👍🏼

[@dantastic6262]

Speed is an epic series and puts Guy Martin into Evel Knievel territory 😂

[@waynelowe3329]

Regarding bicycles Raleigh in Nottingham was the largest bicycle manufacturing company in the world by 1913.

[@pauldurkee4764]

What a wonderful series, highlighting the creative design genius of ordinary British people who made a massive contribution to the world.

[@tatankha1]

A repair for 50p, about half a dollar, in 127 years damn thaat's amazing. We have machines that are scrap after only a few years nowadays.

[@dantastic6262]

“You get these folks from down south that sell a phone box and then come and by summat like this”😂😂😂

[@brianpoole4369]

apprentices WERE paid....a fraction of a full workers wage...but i can confirm they were paid a weekly salary....

[@gohumberto]

Guy is Fred Dibnah's spiritual successor. They had the gift of natural enthusiasm, technical skill, and a way to convey relatively mundane subjects in an interesting way. You ended up being as excited about a Cotton Loom, Cartwheel, Ornamental brickwork, as they were..

[@73whitezz]

I'm a weaver, I have an old Hattersley mk1 loom, which is over 100 years old & it runs smooth as the day it was built. It's a fantastic machine. They made stuff to last back then!

[@joshua.910]

I massively recommend his 'Speed with Guy Martin' show. Its just epic.

[@johngardiner6800]

This was way before Thomas and Steam. Thank god they saved this wonderful piece of our history. The narrator called the tool Guy was using on the wheel spoke a rounding tool, it's proper name is a spoke shave as that was it's purpose and was originally made of wood with a metal blade.

[@ethelmini]

The steam plough wasn't first - the plough itself could well be, but in a much earlier time. If there's a single invention that kicked off the industrial revolution, it's the seed drill, invented by the same bloke who invented prog rock - Jethro Tull. Not that much of a labour saver, but a huge leap in efficiency, that gave every seed an even chance & increased crop yields of the same fields big time. A turbine isn't a water wheel, but I expect Guy will get around to explaining that in a bit.

[@pieeaterwigan1]

Guy martin explain things that a normal guy can understand. I hope you do more of these, as your reactions are great to watch - From another UK northern Lad..lol

[@zee2012]

Guy Martin is a legend he also holds the following records.. Fastest speed on a gravity powered snow sled, Guinness World Record 134.368 km/h (83.49 mph) Fastest speed in a soapbox, Guinness World Record 137.78 km/h (85.61 mph) Highest speed on a Wall of Death, Guinness World Record 125.77 km/h (78.15 mph) Fastest hovercraft, British record 121.04 km/h (75.21 mph) Fastest tractor, Guinness World Record 217.568 km/h (135.191 mph)

[@maxmoore9955]

Manchester was also described as Hell on Earth .

[@stellablyde3731]

If you like this series, watch a British show called “The Repair Shop”….they all work on antiques, broken or torn art, and see how amazing the items look when finished.

[@taylor8199]

I think I've watched all of Guy's series and programs and more than once, But it's such fun watching them again with you two. I so hope you do them all. Every single one is pure gold.

[@Murvelhund]

Maybe I'm hardened by growing up in the country because that dogs shit stuff didn't even make me flinch. But also we did have to scoop up our own crap from the three-chamber well ( we used are own shit as manure for the fields).

[@SeanSenior-f8b]

My son went on a apperteship at 16 as an engineer for 2 years. Now aged 26. He has his own house, a ford focus STI car. He is doing right well.

[@PCLpropertymanagement]

Guy has also had podium finishes in tt racing including the Isle of Man tt The guy is a legend

[@dirtyjamster]

Great you guys have found Guy Martin! Speed and Wall of Death are great too, in fact all of his stuff is ace. Brilliant fella

[@christophercarr3755]

Keep them coming boys there's a whole series on this with Guy, where he looks into alot of industrial machines, this series you've started watching there's alot more to it.

[@colingregory7464]

The crash from the end of Worlds Fastest Gravity Racer was an absolute classic of excess ambition, my limited experience suggests that you never really know what is TOO FAST until you have been BEYOND and sometimes that ends badly

[@davidbirchall832]

You may have to rewatch Fred's series. You don't have to give Fred a pass as he got just as involved as Guy did. Guy worked on the days they filmed, trying out the job but Fred had a go at every job involved in building his Engine...(one of two he spent decades restoring). Guy is the ideal fella to carry on what Fred started. They both had genuine enthusiasm for the engineering

[@Birko64]

"How Britain worked" was originally made for Channel 4 tv in the UK. Guy is a legend. He made lots of other series as well as this eg "Speed". , and "Last Flight of the Vulcan Bomber" I also liked "Our Guy in China."

[@donmurray3638]

The really big wheel bikes were known as Penny Farthings or High Wheelers. Mike Wolf the antiques guy from American Pickers has a collection of US ones.

[@davewarrender2056]

Guys , the heat and shrink method is still used in engineering, motor vehicles. Etc ,

[@daveloseby-s6j]

Great video guys. Guy Martin is brilliant. He’s such a likeable bloke and he is one of those people who can lend their hand to anything. He always does a brilliant job and make it’s interesting and understandable to all.

[@stevenbarnes3116]

Loving this new series of reactions 🙏✊

[@waynelowe3329]

I live in Nottinghamshire, Nottingham was famous for making lace and the first ever machine for making lace was invented here in the 1760s. You would be surprised what was invented here including Ibuprofen, Tarmac, the Traffic Light, the Video Tape Recorder and the MRI scanner to name a few.

[@MrLukeJohn]

I've been to that Mill in Hawes. The restoration has been superb, That big Saw blade is still there and is still sharpened the same way. PS: Bike is still on show in the museum part.

[@kristybob_toothpaste]

its good seeing mave again aswell

[@leechowning2712]

To your comment... yeah. There were a LOT of guys, and their whole families, who got rendered unemployable within 20 years. That tractor did jobs that would keep families fed over the winter. It did jobs that 5 years before were skilled trades, where people got paid pretty good wages for their day. And it did jobs that had been considered unachievable the years before. Sections of fields where the farmers had given up? Yeah, not anymore. The scary thing? You see them talking about the whole new world opening up? Everyone skips over the fact that of the jobs that existed before that time, only 1 in 10 remained. A single lifetime. Men who watched their dads grow up to do these jobs? Had learned "someday you will do this"? When they held their own kids, they had no such future. 50 years, the previous economy collapsed totally. And there was nothing they, the government, or the businessmen could do to stop it.

[@leechowning2712]

As to the "AI will never replace that one"... the top 10% farms, the big boys? Yeah, there is one man out there. The owner. Watching a GPS programmed tractor run the field. Perfectly, exactly the same way each time. 3-4 mechanical crew, not even his, they work for JD or the other big tractor makers. Truck drivers? Within the next 20 years. Factory work? Think back to last video. "These are 0.005 of an inch... that is robot work nowadays"... and it is true. I do not know exactly what jobs will be available for my son... now 3. But I know they will not resemble my own. I am a history nerd. Videos like these, Worst Jobs in History, and the various "Tudor Farm"/"Victorian Farm" and all? I sleep listening to these. And as the old refrain goes... "history rarely repeats, but it often rymes".

[@patrickholt2270]

Fulling was another smelly job. Anyone named Fuller, that's the origin. That involves treating raw wool with fermented piss to remove the natural oils and dirt and make it fluffy, so it can then be spun into a thread. You can't fault waterpower for sustainability. No pollution, no fossil fuel or emissions, and it'll run as long as the rain falls. Literally natural.

[@johnchristmas7522]

You just got to see more of Guy Martin video's -nothing seems to scare him

[@vaudevillian7]

Can’t wait for more!

[@maxmoore9955]

We had a Tanning Firm in my own Town one of its jobs was making the Leather for the Cricket 🏏 balls used in the Ashes. Played between England and Australia.

[@neilgilbert6798]

Guy Martin is a legend you will enjoy his wheel of death goes round at that fast he could pass out it is madness

[@Relyx]

Wow, only realised today all these years after first watching this, that the narrator is Bernard Hill AKA Theoden from LoTR

[@vikkiruss]

I think you boys will also enjoy guys series, the boat guy built, guy isn’t that proud of the series but it’s what I first saw Guy Martin on and thought he was brilliant

[@Steve-ys1ig]

I am always amazed when I watch these sort of programs. These old engineers made things to last unlike today where it seems things are made ot break after a few years

[@Mark_Bickerton]

What a great video, thanks guys!

[@Andrew-mo9gp]

I love Guy Martin and your reaction to the first one was awesome! IMO Guy deserves a knighthood.

[@billysmith3841]

I live just down the road from this mill it’s a fantastic thing to see saved for future generations

[@petermicklethwaite6281]

That hill is very very steep. I have driven down it, walked down it and up it.

[@susanrichards7291]

Love Guy Martin he is a one off

[@fulviozottola5012]

The Bike you were referring to Spencer, is called a Penny Farthing. The Back wheel was always larger than the front wheel. The Bike was regularly in use in the 17-1800s.

[@dirtbikerman1000]

It was the front wheel that was the big wheel

[@fulviozottola5012]

@@dirtbikerman1000 You are absolutely right. Sincere apologies for my error. Thank you for correcting me. I knew I'd get it the wrong way around.

[@grahamstubbs4962]

@@dirtbikerman1000 Oh crap, I've been riding it backwards.

[@seanmc1351]

Thats exactly what i did when i left school in 1980 wood machinest, It was a 5 year apprentiship, we did get paid, wages started low and increased every year, as you got more trained, Then about the 1990's started the computerised era,

[@electricbloke]

I live in Yorkshire, and when I left school I got a job in the local textiles mill, it was the 1980s, I was 15yo. It was mostly run by women, and they were always threatening to drag me into the women's toilets to grease my balls, I started wearing a padlock on my jeans at work.

[@adrianmcdonald84]

Yes!! Guy martin. Check his record breaking attempts.

[@Mark_Bickerton]

When they lost their jobs, many/most also lost their homes too. It was not the time to be a farm labourer!

[@gregorybiestek3431]

Then to add insult to injury, they were forced to move to big cities where they were crowded into tiny, filthy disease-ridden apartments with no medical or safety equipment. The former skilled farm laborers were forced to live in conditions they would have never allowed their animals to exist in.

[@davidclarke7122]

You two have some real treats in store with this, including restoring a mk 1 Spitfire, Lancaster bomber and many more, stick with it guys......

[@krpkrp3033]

next episode the town with the pier and trams is where I live. You guys will enjoy it.

[@leew6091]

There is a video on YT of Guy going to the Orange Bikes 'factory' in Halifax, and making his own mountain bike. Orange Bikes are some of the best in the world...and can cost as much as a small car. They are quality bikes though, I had one many years ago.

[@maxmoore9955]

There's a TV show where he got the world down hill speed record on a Cycle.

[@anoldgeezer1]

Guy Martin proper man doesn't mind getting his hands dirty 💪

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Guy is an OG

[@ianchantrey8868]

I was an apprentice mechanical fitter in 1968, my father had to countersign my apprenticeship indentures to say I would complete my training at the company I worked for which lasted from 15 years old to 21 years old. It was literally handing me over to the company, however I learned my trade and really enjoyed it although the pay was poor. It was in reality cheap labour.

[@jolloyd1247]

You need to watch Guy riding in Isle of man TT races.

[@dangerpainter]

Awesome vid lads!!! 👌🫡

[@brucewilliams4152]

You should Watch his programmes on the Lancaster bomber and the Spitfire

[@petersheppard6085]

Every thing he does is always competitive

[@simonmiller2337]

hey guys if you like guy martin you must watch his series on land speed records it’s a must watch 👍🏻

[@davecleggett9371]

The 'Bike' you are referring to as 'abnormally large wheel and a small wheel' is called a 'Penny Farthing'. It relates to the size of an English penny (pence, old English currency, and English farthing, English currency equalling a quarter of a penny). the size difference would be the same as your American dollar coin and a dime - so to extrapolate the American version could be called 'a Dollar Dime' bike.

[@philipbillington2314]

Trouble at Mill lad well known Monty Python sketch /phrase

[@jeznotman]

Please guys if you like guys programs watch the episode where he works on and takes a British Vulcan nuclear bomber Down a runway on a test take off! It’s breath taking!

[@TheNosnets]

first thing I'd be making as a tanner is one long pair of leather gloves and I would make very close friends with whoever sews the best.

[@buckyohare9993]

Guy Martin is amazing - if memory serves he learnt to fly to be able to have a go in a WW2 fighter (I wanna say Hurricane…)

[@larryfroot]

It was a hurricane.

[@davewarrender2056]

Guys , not all business owners were scum , some built houses , schools , churches for their own workforces , shops where the could spend the money the earned. Yes the business owner got money back , but compared to the standard of living in UK at the time , these people were extremely lucky.

[@KevPage-Witkicker]

Apprentices were paid, not full wages but enough to cover their time and keep them turning up.

[@garyb7280]

Apprentices were indentured and paid a wage whilst learning a trade

[@maxmoore9955]

Look! Work .

[@paultaylor781]

Guys usual comment is go big or go home, and him riding down the hill is a perfect example

[@freebornjohn2687]

Lovely see craftsmen using the old skills. We need to have more engineers and less people wanting to be useless celebs.

[@Forestfalcon1]

Imagine running a business with no energy costs?? That's a major cost of any business..

[@gregorybiestek3431]

However, these were totally useless in coal-fired, steam-driven economy or in today's electricity driven world. The cost of energy in a small fraction of what workers cost, or the cost of transport. The UK has only a couple of hundred sites where water-power is feasible. They were scattered in remote locations with transport & population problems. They were ALL abandoned because capitalists could build huge factories grouped together, powered by coal and linked by railroads where large numbers of workers & their families could be concentrated. That is why these water-powered sites were abandoned & left to rot while centers like Manchester & Birmingham were built.

[@petermicklethwaite6281]

Watch Guy Martin Wall of Death. He's mad.

[@LoneRanger100]

Guy Martin pikes peak hill climb in the u.s 👍

[@glenthompson8353]

Them wheels made then wheels America

[@johnhickman2033]

I believe apprentices were paid a small salary.

[@walrus7084]

You want to watch the guy martin one where he builds a bike and races it at pikes peak and wins even tho his his is broke. And the he build a ford transit van in a average speed race

[@maxmoore9955]

But you'd got men building the Tracktion Engines men digging the coal and water ways .the Cable makers .

[@tonic8945]

Guy pedalled a bike to over 100 Mph a while back

[@neilglenn807]

Guy has a lovely Rolls Royce aeroplane engine on a trolley that he takes out of his workshop and starts up now and again. I think it's a Spitfire engine but not 100%. .

[@matthewjamison]

They would still get paid doing the apprenticeship. They wouldn't be able to survive otherwise. They just wouldn't get paid as much as a fully trained up professional.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

It's hard to believe that water turbines like this aren't still built to drive electricity generators. They take up next to no space.

[@patrickholt2270]

It depends how many fast enough rivers you have, the cost of building the mills, including using riverside land that can be very fashionable for rich people to buy country homes vs the electricity output from the power companies' viewpoint. It ought to be more likely if and when we renationalise electricity and remove the profit motive to be miserly with investment and to hold down supply to drive up prices, but it will also need local campaigning and the support of county councils.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

@@patrickholt2270 er, yeah.

[@artsandcraftsideasshowinga5121]

Doh you think they don’t. What the hell they doing on dams.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

@@artsandcraftsideasshowinga5121 Can you translate that for me.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@patrickholt2270 However, the down side to building hydro electric power plants is they often destroy the fish spawning ecosystem. That is why in some parts of the USA some hydro plants have been closed & torn down with the old river bed restored. it has cost electric companies millions to get rid of them.

[@whitecompany18]

The next episode is where I live 👍

[@andrewmason7207]

apprentices got paid . it went up every year they pass.

[@andrewmason7207]

unions fought for it

[@dirtbikerman1000]

AI Will take over farming with automated robot gps tractors. Im sure tractors have some of this technology already

[@gregorybiestek3431]

They do in the USA where there is industrial farming. Although so far, the tractors & other farm equipment still need a real person to ride and monitor what is happening and to take over in the event of a problem.

[@perryedwards4746]

Thomas the tank engine?? the children's program? Do you mean the age of steam?

[@petermicklethwaite6281]

You lads won't get this on American TV.

[@maryhook9478]

Not the river the mill race

[@fade.2.black.ffd8ff]

Think it's not just dog faeces, strongly suspect back in ancient times hides may have fallen into cesspits

[@WijaLE]

You guys seen the thick of it?

[@pv-mm2or]

Try living on a farm you can have all the sh*t you'll ever want!! As for A.I it will run its own KZbin, get ready to find another venture if there are any left!

[@andrewoleary9704]

Guys….. can I ask you if you do the reactions thing as a living or have you got a real job ??? 🇬🇧

[@steelpanther9568]

Are you going to want to try on a pair of old leather boots or shoes, after watching this:- 44:22, 🇬🇧🥾 🦮💩

[@MORTEMANIMAuk]

Ew bring the beard back

[@DigitalRageInc]

AI has replaced and doing these jobs , most farm machinary is done by satelite and computer , The Netherlands is a major force on this front , from the greenhouse to the machines all done with AI