During this lockdown I have been watching some Youtubers - some pretty entertaining history stuff, The Tank Museum, Lindybeige, also that mental bottom bracket guy Hambini.
Then I found that Paul Harrell American gun nut guy. It's crazy and some of the comments are brilliant. He is very entertaining mind.
Any other recommendations?
Numberphile
Colin Furze
Smarter Every Day (especially the space/NASA ones)
Joe Scott
Alec Steele
Should keep you going for a bit...
Not exactly history stuff but great shows all the same..
Project binky! Now’s the time to binge watch 6 years of joy & bask in the knowledge that if Nicks been locked in with the car, it might be finished (yeah right)
More tanks.. the chieftain, or the chieftains hatch
Cars.. Mighty car Mods, (& by default...the skid factory & Benny custom auto)
Mustie1, MartyT & Geoffrey Croker for some backyard mechanics
If you like aviation, engineering and bush planes then Mike Patey is good. I also follow Trent Palmer for back country flying.
The Draco buikd/flying at High Sierra series is pretty cool
I must admit to following casey neistat as well.
Yanks are just so different to us...
Fall of Civilizations podcast (the one on Easter Island was really sad and quite the eyeopener)
Inside the Chieftains Hatch (6ft something ex us tanker in confined spaces and talking about track tension)
Hand Tool Rescue (old machinery restoration with humour and adjustable wrenches)
Drachinifel (battleships, battleships and more battleships)
PBS Space Time (just wow after wow after wow damn that science)
Anton Petrov (just for someone to troll all the lastest space related scientific papers that are released so you don't have to)
Forgotten Weapons (a yank shooting vintage weaponry)
Dark Docs (history, odd incidents, that sort of thing)
Curious Droid (science, aviation and space)
Camping with Steve (just a man camping. In various locations with various constraints)
A suitably interesting and soporific mix there! Colin Furze is excellent.
Not strictly Youtube, but the RedBull channel has some excellent docs on. The heli rescue series set around the Matterhorn is very good.
Bald and bankrupt.
Bald fella in odd bits of the old Soviet Union.
depends what you're interested in
I'm not watching 1hr+ hambini rants about a BB
for me...
Numberphile
Standupmaths
Periodic Videos
Harry's Farm
plus a handful of hiking/biking channels for inspiration when lockdown ends (mainly ones hiking the national trails etc.)
I would have said Project Binky (actually the Escargot), but at the rate they release they'll only manage 1 vid during the entire lockdown, and there'll probably be another pandemic before they get to the end of the series
Some of the less well known bike and food channels:
Backyard Trail Builds, Vancan, RunBikeMike, The Crashing Dad, Dusty Betty, Gee Milner
FrenchGuyCooking, Donal Skeehan, Bavette-Gastronomia, John Kirkwood
Chris Packham - doing a daily show with his stepdaughter, birdwatching, and other wildlife, and a variety of guests
Peter Millard - woodworking, tools, nice and relaxing
All the Stations - railway stuff, they've done a couple of pub quiz chat things recently
Morten Hilmer - wildlife photography and bit of bushcraft
I like:-
SOUP classic motoring
Ratarossa
Harry's garage and Harry's farm
Tyrells Classic Workshop - he's rebuilding a Lambo v12 engine for Harry and set up his own channel which is quite interesting going into the history of alot of these classic cars. Very knowledgable chap.
Restore it is quite good. A young lad doing up classic BMW's.
Quite fascinated with flat earth debunking channels: SciMan Dan, Conspiracy Catz etc. Just find it bonkers that there are people around who seriously believe this stuff.
Dustin Klein for gravel riding adventres
Trail POV for analysis of mountain bike suspension systems
For some strange reasons I'm finding channels on narrowboats and narrow boating quite interesting/therapeutic in particular Robbie Cumming who did the series on BBC.
Also a couple of channels on bike packing and wild camping/camper vaning.
Following Project Binky but its just getting frustrating now. You wait months for a video and when one finally comes out it probably 45 minutes of watching a bracket being fabricated. Was interesting initially but getting a tad tedious now. Just want to see the damn thing finished and up and running. Escargot is good but release rate of material is tediously slow.
I’m not really a car person but I find the drift works YouTube channel entertaining www.youtube.com/user/DriftworksLtd
If watching someone restore old tools sounds interesting check out mymechanics www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrMVIBtqFW6O0-MWq26gqw
These two guys make amazing models and dioramas:
Luke Towan boulder creek railroad www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRkUtHQ774mTg1vrQ6uA5A
Plasmo plastic models
www.youtube.com/user/idaemon
I have absolutely - zero - interest in computer games. But have watched hours and hours of
Lets Game it Out
In its early incarnation it was two presenters exploring weird, cheap and unfinished games for lolz and heir report is jus very entertaining - but more recently one of the guys has gone solo and sort of pushes games to weird extremes - in this example turning a theme-park simulator into a massive Rube Goldberg Machine.
- motorbikes and general shed / garage projects
- lockdown songs from this moto-vlogger (find them really chilled!)
Scott Manley has lots of space related stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg
Also, as said, Harry's Farm is always informative and good to look at, as is his garage.
If you like short snipets of history The History GUY is very good
Johnnysvintagemotorcycle is good for Classic Kawasaki restorations,maintly Z1's
Mongrel Dog Productions has some excellent stuff about off road trips in Oz
I couldn't watch 1 hour of that Hambini bloke ranting.
1.HAMBINI
2,GCN
3,THE PROPER PEOPLE, urbex exploration
4,28 Days Later, urbex exploration,
5,Supermarionation , history of Thunderbirds with original cast and crew,
6,Dan Coffey, train cab ride videos uk.
Maily engineering, welding and stuff - some woodwork;
This Old Tony
Ca Lem
Lignum
Abom79
I’m not watching 1hr+ hambini rants about a BB
that guy desperately needs to edit. You could actually build a respectable Youtube channel, with income, just ripping his videos, cutting them down to 10-15minutes and re-uploading them. But I wouldn't spend an hour listening to his unedited thoughts without invoicing him at the end 🙂
Haha just discovered Hambini by accident last night. Had to laugh at his take on a Canyon carbon frameset 😳
OP try Omeleto? Lots (and lots) of short films
If you are interested in 60’s Alfa’s, try Jethro Bronner
A lot of the Kermit Weeks videos are good, both the flying and the restoration series, although it is frustrating to see so many interesting aircraft rebuilt, flown once or twice and then left to deteriorate again
Haha just discovered Hambini by accident last night. Had to laugh at his take on a Canyon carbon frameset
I don't think Canyon like him much.
It's quite an interesting how much out of spec that frame was. The only frame brands that don't slated are Time and Look.
On The Big Walks channel a film called Hooks. A guy sets out one spring on foot from his house in the south of England to walk to pretty near every UK bothy and then back home in the autumn. I watched this one with my 90 year old dad after he was housebound in his last few months and not getting out to the wild places any more. He was still bothying in his 80s so he had a good run.
Hooks? He screwed a brass hook on the wall of every bothy.
sampson boat company, tally ho rebuild
reg coates
august hunicke
buckin billy ray smith
samurai carpenter
john rogers
acorn to arabella
Some of mine that haven’t already been mentioned
Athena Mellor - Nice outdoorsy vids
Beardyman - unbelievable what he can do with his voice
Ed Pratt - unicycling the world
Periodic Videos - Love the Prof
Richard Herring - His podcasts
Scotland’s Mountains - Walking in Scotland’s mountains, nice bloke, stunning scenery
Smith and Sniff - Two blokes sat in a car talking crap
TA Outdoors - outdoorsy bushcrafty stuff
Taskmaster - Lock down tasks
Tom Pemberton Farm life - farm stuff
I used to work for the same company as Hambini but never directly with him.people used to say they were perplexed at watching his channel as he was nothing like that in person but also loved to slag management off behind there back.i know he's had uncomfortable issues at work with lawyer's mail getting delivered to the CEO but I think that was more scare mongering that a serious threat .
I personally can't watch his channel it's all a bit over the top done for the cameras in a very unprofessional way,if he was to be a little more professional I'm sure he'd be watchable and who knows could even get a better paid job out of it.
He uses his autism as an excuse for ignorance.
I enjoy
Martin zeros YouTube channel
I'd watch more bkxc but his constant fake laugh wears thin
Jeff Kendal weed when hes out riding is superb
I’m not watching 1hr+ hambini rants about a BB
It's an amazing co-incidence and tremendously convenient that he can sell you a replacement BB from his own shop...
As well as pissing off bike companies, I see he's got himself into hot water over sexist comments about a magazine editor now
Most have already been mentioned, but a couple more-
Rick Beato - music commentary from a sound engineer (I think) easy to understand explanations of technical stuff for non musicians.
Shaw strength - Insight into strongman training and competitions from 4 time world strongest man, who is surprisingly easy to like.
Don’t think anyone mentioned but this is oddly compelling
(Man decides to walk across Wales in a mostly dead-straight line)
And talking of ‘odd’ - check out the odd tinkering channel if you like seeing odd old stuff genuinely restored to bonkers levels.
Uri Tuchman, craftsman extrodinaire. And quite amusing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsqqRjziUaMwZgQZHw-n1w
This be his most popular vid.
Laura Kampf.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRix1GJvSBNDpEFY561eSzw
Really random channel
Don’t think anyone mentioned but this is oddly compelling
(Man decides to walk across Wales in a mostly dead-straight line)
Seconding this. For such a simple premise it's really engaging and the guy is really funny. Check out his other series on the same channel called How not to travel Europe. It's not a straight line mission, more of hitchhiking on lots of different forms of transport but it's just as good!
Mike Farrington does some brilliant woodwork and stuff and has a really comforting narration voice. Very easy to listen to.
Allen Millyard is a genius of a man in a shed engineer. Weighted towards motorcycles of which he has built some incredible machines.
In this video he's making a standard inline-4 Kawasaki Z1 engine into an inline-6! He goes through fabricating the engine block and cuts the blocks up with a crappy old hacksaw! 😂 Amazing.
a really comforting narration voice.
Of course the king of all comforting narration is the Crafsman
For some strange reasons I’m finding channels on narrowboats and narrow boating quite interesting/therapeutic in particular Robbie Cumming who did the series on BBC.
That series was excellent and hope he returns, shall look out for his vids.
(Man decides to walk across Wales in a mostly dead-straight line)
There's a thread on here about him, he is just brilliant. He's also travelled across Europe and done a mini series where he's blindfolded and put in a car then dropped off, blindfold removed then has to find out where he is. Funniest one finds him in a town that's been mentioned on the Forum a good few times over the years, won't say any more!!
If fixing/restoring small engined things (mowers, generators, motorbikes) and a bit of beetle repairing then Mustie1.
For work and lifestyle I find Casey Neistat very watchable.... his video production is really excellent.
Of course the king of all comforting narration is the Crafsman
I'll raise you...
not a YouTube channel per se but New Yankee Workshop reminds me of....
Old chewin the fat clips although some may need help with certain words
Northern Scavenger - big canoe trips.. Currently heading across Labrador...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXiOT--R-IJgCbUJ1gKEhJQ
Strangely addictive at times, Millennial Farmer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp0rRUsMDlJ1meYAQ6_37Dw
Smarter Every Day - space stuff particularly.
https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2
Hubnut. Old Citroen's and other shite cars a go-go. Complete with sandals.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfxlBQnvNXX6o-2KbCMszWQ
Glad you mentioned HubNut matt, Ian's channel has kept me amused for a few years.
His road trip to Croatia (in a very non straight line) in his 2CV was brilliant.
Tiny Desk Concerts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4eYXhJI4-7wSWc8UNRwD4A
AgentJayZ. An unhealthy interest in orenda turbines.
that guy desperately needs to edit. You could actually build a respectable Youtube channel, with income, just ripping his videos, cutting them down to 10-15minutes
+1
It's why I really struggle with YouTube stuff, the amateur levels of presentation, constant umm, ahh, err pauses as they think of what to say next or babble on incessantly. Hambini is a classic example; as you say you could actually make some decent 10-min videos if you cut out the waffle and swearing and self-preening.
I like GCN and there's a lot of woodwork/epoxy ones crop up on my FB which I find quite relaxing and artistic. WOOD Presents! is a good one.
rapping Dr Seuss genius
hooks was good , cheers for that.
foresty forest is a good one , long distance fatbike tours and van life. quite a character.
Not read so may be repeats but:
- Adam Savages One Day Builds
- Felix Immler (Victorinox SAK hacks)
- Old Shovel (retro MTB builds etc)
- Jamal_AKA_Jamal (one of the millions of music reactions/requests/oldass music but he chills me out)
- fullychargedshow (electric transport and supply)
- CarPervert (and I don’t like cars much, yet enjoy this. Sounds dodgy eh)
- Geowizard
- Odd Tinkering (restorations)
- Mary’s Test Kitchen (recipes)
- Saucestache (meatless-‘meat‘ tech/recipes)
- James Gurney (plein air painting)
- KEXP (live music, good bands (IMO), sublime sound-engineering etc)
Seths bike hacks bike related stuff along with Berm creek the spin of channel
Mcq bushcraft early stuff is all bushcrafty things along with some fishing and shooting nowdays the content is all set in sweden
Shiey this guy roams around europe mainly blagging free travel by train hopping and exploring eastern european industrial areas. He does do some pretty dumb stuff at times like climbing chimneys etc but hes at that age.
Firebox Guy goes hiking in the US in some beautiful countryside with his dogs and sometimes goats.. quite nice to relax too.
Davie504 as long as you like bass.
Essential Craftsman, 'murcan carpenter, listen-to-it-all-day type voice, house build series is up to episode 82 now.
Hoof GP - basically a fella who fixes cows hooves. It's brilliantly fascinating, 1 vid and you'll be hooked.
Robelinda2 - Classic cricket clips
Geoff Marshall - Just a lovely fella with a love of railways
I'm trying to learn Spanish and really enjoy Espanol con Juan
https://www.youtube.com/c/1001reasonstolearnspanishwithus
And love this channel for the scenery some of the exposure on his rides are very scary
https://www.youtube.com/user/The030998
– KEXP (live music, good bands (IMO), sublime sound-engineering etc)
The sound engineering is sublime! My favourite set:
Maybe a bit low brow but watch the Dude Perfect guys with my son. Some of their stuff takes some mind blowing levels of skill and planning.
Just prepared to be jealous at their lifestyle.
Ralfy.com. scotch whisky reviews and general wisdom.
zefrank1’s True Facts
Witty take on wildlife narration. (Seemingly) effortless (and humorous) storytelling along with some stunning wildlife-footage.
I have enjoyed watching both of these - probably only worth opening if you like sailing
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Technology Connections - a delightful chap doing things like analyzing antique toasters or explaining how oldskool twinkling Xmas lights work - covers all sorts of different areas and very clear & engaging.
Wintergatan - or "One man's descent into madness" as it's known in our house! - this musician built a marble driven music machine. Then decided to build V2, bigger, better, to be taken on tour... Watch from the beginning, you can actually see him aging! The sort of thing that makes you want to learn to weld / get a CNC machine.
I quite like the hydraulic press channel, something very satisfying about seeing things crushed...
You don't say what you're into but I can watch some of the UK and USA woodworking and shed stuff, some great projects and tool use.
I'm a dinghy sailor and a lot of the coaching stuff by people like Rooster or the splicing and ropework stuff draws me in.
So I guess a lot of making stuff or fixing stuff features for me. I've found by saving bits I like in playlists I get a fair spread of decent recommendations (same with you tube music).
But after a while I might head for a nice Norwegian crime/murder book and switch YouTube off.
if you like engineering, I would recommend This Old Tony, interesting and funny.
Torbjörn Åhman Swedish blacksmith
Real Engineering
Interesting to learn of Charles Fritt’s first selenium solar cell (shown mounted on a roof in NYC, 1884)
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iohan Gueorguiev has amazing bikepacking vids
Following on from the Alan Milyard links...
And in another corner of the globe...
Beau Miles, guys just brilliant.
Another shout for Soup Classic Motoring.
Very well produced and pleasantly narrated videos with some amazing stop-motion stuff:
I’ve ended up watching a lot of Watch Wes work
Bloke runs a garage in Kansas, fixes trucks, cars tractors etc
And Twinstick Garage
Bloke in Alberta restoring tractor units.
Both are complete escapism for me, I’ve no mechanical skills, can’t drive a hgv or fix one.
I can’t remember if this channel was recommended on here or not, and I’m too lazy to go back and check
https://youtube.com/c/ShawnJamesMySelfReliance
And if you’re into model railway sets
https://youtube.com/c/juiceboxforyoudotcom
Juice box for you, its kinda like dirty sanchez meets top gear, but with strong irish accents. Maybe avoid if youre a lover of spiders.
Bloke gets on bike and just keeps going.
Bizarrely, bloke playing a game called Rust (which I have never played!) with his mates.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4XK-l40KZD7fLi12pJ1YA
Watching a bloke ferreting around in culverts under Manchester
Ben at Crimson Guitars for all round guitar building knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdD1Cqxr8aINzWs1agg3tEQ
And of late the bonkers girl at nerdforge just making fantasy props and doing up a van.
Rachel Atherton the bad and the good of road cycling
https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottyLaughland/videos
Cedric Gracia
https://www.youtube.com/user/cgracingbrigade/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelAtherton1/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/RedBullBike/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMDs_51johk
